Ezra Klein

But he ran an attack ad about you, and I want to play it here.

Okay.

James Tallarico is talking about the bill that would ban biological men from playing in women's sports.

Remember this ad?

The same ads will be played by Ken Paxton.

The result will be U.S.

Senator Ken Paxton.

James Tallarico owes it to us to tell us how he's going to answer these attack ads.

So how are you going to answer those attack ads?

Man, the music was real scary.

Yeah, your voice sounds disordered to me there a little bit.

It didn't quite sound like you.

Yeah.

But those are clips of things you said and the idea is to say you are out of step.

You can talk about love all you want.

Sure.

But the idea is to say you're out of step with Texans and they are not going to feel loved by someone they feel doesn't agree with them.

You're also a politician in a border state.

And I think immigration, and particularly illegal immigration, presents one of the hardest tests of how to match these values to a nation's needs.

I don't think there's anything clearer in either the Old Testament or the New Testament than the love and generosity you're supposed to have for the stranger, for the migrant.