Dan Pfeiffer

Because when people see James Tallarico, they like him.

He is... He has real appeal with this segment of...

people who would have voted for John Cornyn over a Democrat, but might vote for a Democrat over Ken Paxton.

But you got to be in front of them and you got to do be, there is no, you cannot waste one minute, every single minute of every single day has to be out there communicating.

And I think he ran his primary campaign like that.

He's run his sort of career like that.

So I think that that's what they're going to do.

But like, if you think you're being aggressive, you're probably not being, you should be more aggressive than that and keep going.

These things, these right wing people are saying is so fucking stupid, because if the a literal meaning of the scripture was why these people voted the way they vote, these evangelical Christians voted the way they voted, they wouldn't vote for Donald Trump.

I'm going to take an even hackier view than you.

I agree with you, obviously, the way he talks about things from a moral framework is refreshing.

The fact that he talks about his faith

It's authentic to him, which is incredibly important, but it's also a massive signifier that he is different than your typical Democrat.

And if he wants to win in Texas, he has to be different than a typical Democrat.

That's why it's important.

It is not because he's going to get into a theological debate with a three-time Trump-voting evangelical minister and persuade them to his side.

It's that he...

can communicate with people.

He can relate to people whose faith is important to him or their, their faith community is important to them because that is a, that is a touchstone to begin a larger conversation about where Texas goes, where the country goes.

Like it is a way in with a group of voters.