An undercover video obtained by The Daily Wire has blown a hole in Texas Democrat James Talarico’s latest campaign makeover.
Rev. Babs Miller, the “Minister to the Parish” at Talarico’s longtime Austin congregation, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, was recorded telling an undercover journalist that the Senate candidate’s new talking points on transgender ideology are political theater, and that the old Talarico will be back the minute the votes are counted.
“I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he’ll change his tune back to where he was,” Miller said.
That is not a Republican talking point. That is Talarico’s own minister.
Miller did not stop there. When the journalist noted that Republicans were hammering Talarico over his infamous “God is non-binary” line, she answered, “Duh.” She then complained that Talarico is “getting some advice that I don’t think he should be following.”
“That’s what his campaign has convinced him of,” Miller said. “The Democratic Party is backing off on their stances on trans and all of this, and so his staff is encouraging him to kind of do the same thing, just for the next 50 weeks, whatever days.”
Then the tell: “I think it’s bad advice personally, but if it helps him win, okay…”
In other words: hold the radical line in private, sell a milder version in public, and snap back after Election Day.
Miller has been part of St. Andrew’s since the mid-1990s and was ordained there in 2014 as an “out” lesbian chaplain. She retired just before COVID and came back in 2022. Talarico has preached from that same pulpit, including a sermon declaring “God is not a Christian.”
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Exclusive: Undercover Video Catches James Talarico’s Minister Admitting His Political Makeover Is A Lie
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The Daily Wire recently obtained additional undercover footage in which Texas Democratic Party organizer Jennifer Miranda described Talarico’s shift as a misleading campaign to flip disgruntled conservative Texans not thrilled about Paxton at the top of the ticket.
“I would say right now he’s trying to target a wider net, which unfortunately means being more palatable to Republicans here in Texas,” Miranda, a manager with Texas Together and the Texas Democratic Party, said. “He really needs to win those Texans over.”
The footage was published after Talarico appeared on FOX News to whitewash his most extreme past positions as Republicans flood the airwaves with attacks seeking to define him as a radical in a culturally conservative state.
Talarico is running against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate and has spent recent weeks trying to sand off the edges of a record that Texas voters have already seen.
On Fox News, he suddenly said he would “absolutely” support a national ban on gender-transition surgeries for minors and would oppose males in girls’ sports if it threatens “safety or fairness.” That is a long way from the lawmaker who voted against Texas bills to keep boys out of girls’ sports and to restrict sex-change procedures on children.
Gateway Pundit readers have watched this act before.
As The Gateway Pundit reported in June, Talarico once described himself as “a Christian who hates Christianity” on a podcast hosted by a self-described “TransQueer” activist theologian. The same candidate has said God is “non-binary” and that there are six biological sexes.
As The Gateway Pundit later reported, he even credited Islamic mystics and the poet Rumi with shaping his faith as much as Christian writers.
This is also the candidate who, without hesitation, named Alyssa Edwards, a drag performer who has described himself as working with children, as his favorite drag queen in Texas.
And this is the candidate who campaigned alongside a surgeon who previously performed so-called “top” surgeries on minors, even after claiming he opposed those procedures.
