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{"id":27033,"date":"2026-09-04T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-talarico-is-countering-trumps-midterms-convention\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:18:09","slug":"how-talarico-is-countering-trumps-midterms-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/how-talarico-is-countering-trumps-midterms-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"How Talarico is countering Trump&#8217;s midterms convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>James Talarico is planning to counterprogram President Donald Trump\u2019s GOP midterms convention in Dallas with a focus on affordability.<\/p>\n<p>The idea from the Texas Democratic Senate candidate and seminarian: host a statewide \u201cLove Thy Neighbor\u201d food drive to offer a contrast with Republicans coming to town and highlight the high cost of groceries, according to plans shared first with Blue Light News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext week, billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to clink champagne glasses and toast their own corruption. They\u2019re paying $20,000 for entry to a Billionaire Ball celebrating corrupt tariffs, billionaire tax breaks, and a new forever war that are all driving grocery costs through the roof,\u201d Talarico said in a statement to Blue Light News. \u201cWe\u2019ll be doing something different. We\u2019re bringing Republicans, Democrats, and Independents together to collect groceries for our neighbors who have been screwed over by corrupt politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campaign said it will \u201cmobilize volunteers to collect, sort, and donate groceries for middle class Texans struggling with the high price of groceries.\u201d The event will last from Sunday, Sept. 6 through Wednesday, Sept. 9 \u2014 the same day the GOP convention kicks off.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico is also expected to field media interviews in a large warehouse near the convention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexans across the political spectrum will come together to build community, show up for their neighbors, and take power back for working people,\u201d the campaign said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/texaspublicopinionresearch.substack.com\/p\/new-poll-in-texas-general-election\" target=\"_blank\">recent poll<\/a> conducted by Texas Public Opinion Research poll released last week showed Talarico leading ,his opponent Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, 48 percent to 42 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Trump this week said he would campaign for Paxton soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Talarico is planning to counterprogram President Donald Trump\u2019s GOP midterms convention in Dallas with a focus on affordability. The idea from the Texas Democratic Senate candidate and seminarian: host a statewide \u201cLove Thy Neighbor\u201d food drive to offer a contrast with Republicans coming to town and highlight the high cost of groceries, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}