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Talarico makes stunning claim about why he thinks Texas elections aren’t ‘free and fair’
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Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico said he believes state laws have stacked the deck against him as he looks to become the first Democrat to win statewide office since 1994.
«Means you’re probably going to have to win by a little more than we would have to in a completely free and fair election,» Talarico said in a recent podcast interview.
Talarico’s posture towards Texas voting laws reflects a broader Democratic belief that Republican dominance in the Lone Star State is due to low turnout brought on by election security measures rather than the state’s conservative leanings — a theory that continues to drive long-running attempts to flip the state.
Despite having raised an impressive $40 million as of March, Talarico faces an uphill campaign against Republican candidate Ken Paxton, the current Texas attorney general, who has widespread name recognition.
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James Talarico, a Democrat from Texas and US Senate candidate, speaks at a campaign event in Round Rock, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«We’re going to have to overcome that. We’re going to have to out-organize, out-work, out-hustle that voter suppression if we’re going to win,» Talarico said.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas passed a flurry of election-security bills.
Most notably, the legislature passed SB1, a bill that requires voters to provide specific identification numbers to vote and to register to vote: either a Texas driver’s license, an election identification certificate or the last four digits of a Social Security number.
It also banned drive-through voting and unsolicited mailing of ballot applications.
Talarico said he opposed its passage as a state legislator.
«I will say that we already have a lot of voter suppression in Texas. It’s baked into our laws. I’ve fought fiercely against many of those laws when they were coming through the legislature,» Talarico said.
«Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the country as a result. It’s why we see such low voter turnout in our state compared to other states,» Talarico said.
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Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico speaks during a campaign launch rally in Round Rock, Texas, on Sept. 9, 2025. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Although it’s true that Texas ranks in the bottom five states for voter turnout, the 56.6% of voters that cast a ballot in the last presidential election was greater than turnout in 2016, 2012 and 2004, according to data from the United States Election Project. Similarly, the 41.8% participation in the 2022 midterms exceeded levels from 2014, 2010, 2006 and 2002.
Talarico’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
To at least one GOP strategist, Talarico’s concern over turnout comes at the expense of his prioritization of election security.
«James Talarico wants illegal aliens to vote in our elections,» Zach Kraft, a Republican National Committee spokesperson, told Fox News Digital.
«While Talarico puts illegals first, Ken Paxton will continue to put Texans first by working with President Trump to get the SAVE America Act signed into law and ensure foreign citizens never vote in American elections,» Kraft said, referring to the national voter integrity bill championed by Republicans in Congress.
Notably, as a state legislator, Talarico also voted against a bill that increased state penalties for illegal aliens voting in Texas elections from a Class A misdemeanor to a second-degree felony.
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Texas Senate candidate James Talarico urged voters to reduce meat consumption in a 2022 clip that went viral on Tuesday. (Mark Felix/Getty Images)
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Despite his pessimistic outlook on Texas’s voting laws, Talarico urged viewers to draw confidence from other long-shot campaigns, such as civil rights movements and labor organizers.
«They were all up against a rigged system. So, if they can do that, we can certainly do that against this stacked deck,» Talarico said.
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Trump blasts Spain migrant surge as ‘catastrophe,’ warns US could face worse if Democrats regain power
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President Donald Trump said Friday during a Cabinet meeting that scenes of migrants flooding into Spain’s enclave of Ceuta from Morocco looked like a «catastrophe,» but that the U.S. could see worse in the future if Democrats regain power.
«You know, I saw Spain yesterday, and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people. And that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected,» Trump said Friday at Camp David. «Except worse, much bigger, much easier to get into. Despite the fact that we have built thousands of miles of wall, which I said we were going to do. But if we didn’t have that, forget it. But we have the safest border in the world. If we’re not in office, our country will be invaded at levels that made Spain look small time.»
«And when I watched it, I said, boy, I said, ‘I’m going to say it because I knew you were going to be at Camp David.’ And I say, ‘That’s going to be a talking point for the midterms, because when you look at what happened to Spain, they don’t know what to do.’ And it’s happening again today,» the president continued. «They’re coming in by the tens of thousands. It’s just invading the country. And what that is weak law, bad management, but very liberal law. They passed a couple of laws and people read, you know, people are smart. They read from other countries, and they swam that 3-mile swim or however they got in.»
«But nobody’s seen anything like it. That will look good compared to what’s going to happen to the United States,» Trump also said. «The biggest thing, the worst thing that Biden did is allowing 25 million people into our country, because many of those people are criminals. They’re murderers,» Trump also said. «A lot of them are gone now. We got them out. But they allowed people to come into this country that you can’t allow to come into a country.»
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President Donald Trump, center, joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, listens during a Cabinet meeting, on Friday, July 31, 2026, at Camp David. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Trump made similar comments to Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich earlier Friday morning.
«It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,» Trump said.
«If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life,» he warned.
U.S. border security has remained a key plank of the president’s campaign and policy focus throughout his political career.
An English translation of a Friday Spanish-language post on X from Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, «The Government will guarantee the safety of the residents of Ceuta, intensifying the presence of the Security Forces and Corps on the city’s streets.» The post also included a video of him delivering remarks in Spanish.
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Map depicting Spain, Morocco, and Spain’s Cueta, which borders Morocco. (2026 EarthStar Geographics, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors)
Ceuta, which is located along the northwestern African coast and borders Morocco, is not attached to mainland Spain.
«Additionally, we will deploy a physical containment barrier in the sea to facilitate repatriation at the border, in compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. We will expedite the repatriation files of the migrants who arrived irregularly. And we will maintain cooperation with the Moroccan authorities to continue fighting against the mafias that traffic in human beings,» the prime minister’s post added.
Around 60,000 migrants had ventured from Morocco to Ceuta over the past 24 hours, Cueta President Juan Jesús Vivas said on Friday.
At least 41 migrants lost their lives.
SPAIN DEPLOYS MILITARY AFTER THOUSANDS OF MIGRANTS OVERWHELM BORDER ENCLAVE, AT LEAST 18 DEAD
Spain’s interior ministry issued its own figures not long after Vivas spoke, estimating that some 50,000 individuals came from Morocco since Thursday, adding that half had already gone back to Morocco.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Rúben Amorim admitió errores en el Manchester United y explicó cómo esa etapa marcó su carrera: “Aprendí mucho”
Rúben Amorim reconoció haber cometido “muchos errores” durante su etapa al frente del Manchester United y aseguró haber “aprendido mucho” de aquella experiencia en Old Trafford. El técnico portugués, actualmente al mando del AC Milan, realizó estas declaraciones ante la prensa durante la gira de pretemporada del club rossoneri en Australia, según recogió Sports Illustrated.
El paso de Amorim por el United fue uno de los períodos más turbulentos en la historia reciente del club inglés. Llegó al banco de Old Trafford avalado por dos títulos de la Primeira Liga con el Sporting CP de Lisboa y con la etiqueta de uno de los entrenadores más prometedores del continente.
El United desembolsó hasta 11 millones de libras esterlinas (unos 14,6 millones de dólares) para liberarlo de su contrato con el club portugués. Sin embargo, apenas 14 meses después, el propio club abonó otros 15,9 millones de libras (21,2 millones de dólares) para finiquitar al técnico y a su cuerpo técnico.
El sistema táctico de Amorim, basado en una defensa de tres centrales, nunca encontró el encaje necesario en la Premier League. El United cedía demasiado control del juego a sus rivales y quedaba expuesto a la variabilidad del fútbol inglés. La última vez que un entrenador había logrado consolidar ese esquema en la élite inglesa fue Antonio Conte, cuando ganó la liga con el Chelsea hace una década.
A los problemas sobre el campo se sumó un deterioro progresivo de la relación entre Amorim y la cúpula directiva del club, entre ellos el director deportivo Jason Wilcox. La ruptura se hizo pública de forma explícita tras el empate 1-1 ante el Leeds United en lo que resultó ser su último partido al frente del equipo, cuando el técnico arremetió públicamente contra los responsables del club. En enero de 2026, le rescindieron su contrato.
La llegada de Michael Carrick como su sucesor no hizo sino amplificar el contraste: el rendimiento del equipo bajo las órdenes del excentrocampista inglés contribuyó a agudizar la percepción negativa del legado portugués en Old Trafford.
Desde su nueva etapa en el Milan, Amorim no eludió las preguntas sobre su paso por Manchester. “Lo primero es que ya no importa”, declaró el técnico en rueda de prensa, en declaraciones recogidas por Sports Illustrated. “Esa es la sensación. Hay una historia, luego algo sucede, el contexto cambia y te centras en el siguiente reto”.
No obstante, fue más allá y asumió su cuota de responsabilidad. “Aprendí mucho”, afirmó Amorim. “Sería difícil señalar una sola cosa, pero lo que sé con claridad es que cometí muchos errores. Cuando haces ese tipo de reflexión y entiendes que no era solo culpa de ellos, sino también culpa mía, creo que puedes ser mejor entrenador y mejor persona”, agregó.
El AC Milan le designó como sucesor de Massimiliano Allegri el 15 de junio de 2026, con el encargo de devolverle al club su nivel histórico en la Serie A. Los rossoneri, campeones del Scudetto en la temporada 2021-22, acumulaban dos ejercicios consecutivos por debajo de las expectativas: un octavo y un quinto puesto en las últimas dos temporadas.
El balance del portugués en Old Trafford refleja la magnitud de sus dificultades. Amorim registró los peores índices de cualquier entrenador en la historia del club en tres categorías de la Premier League, de acuerdo con los datos brindados por Sports Illustrated:
- Partidos dirigidos: 63
- Victorias: 25
- Empates: 15
- Derrotas: 23
- Porcentaje de victorias: 39,7% — el más bajo de cualquier entrenador del United en la Premier League (32% en el torneo doméstico)
- Goles encajados por partido: 1,53 — el peor registro en la historia del club
- Porcentaje de porterías a cero: 15% — el más bajo en la historia del club
- Diferencia de goles: +8
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