Talarico: Republican attacks on trans people ‘culture war fights designed to tear us apart’
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said Monday that Republican attacks on transgender people are “culture war fights designed to tear us apart.” “I mean, I don’t think we win by selling people out. And we’re refusing to do that in this campaign. This is a campaign of, by and for all Texans. And I…
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Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said Monday that Republican attacks on transgender people are “culture war fights designed to tear us apart.”
And I think people are really tired of these culture war fights that are designed to tear us apart, designed to get us angry,” Talarico told MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow on her show.
“I mean, there are — there are difficult issues, trying to figure out trans athletes in sports, that’s an issue where we could actually come to a policy solution.
But instead, politicians like Ken Paxton, they use those difficult issues to rile people up, to divide us, to distract us, in order to win power for themselves,” he added.
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