Ezra Klein

His wife recently divorced him for what she called were biblical reasons.

There were a number of his ex-staffers who came out with a statement where they talked about –

just how awful he was as a boss and in his public positions.

I've covered Ken Paxton a ton in my journalism career.

You don't hear him talk that much.

This is not a super charismatic guy.

He's got all the baggage and none of the charisma.

It's a weird combination of things, but it's not like there's some amazing magnetism on the other side of it.

So if you were setting up

The worst kind of candidate in this era who's got the kind of all the negatives of sort of high risk attentional strategies and none of the positives.

It kind of is Ken Paxton.

Yes.

But this is where I think there's like just something genuinely interesting about Tallarico because he to me shows there's actually a lot of pathways in Tallarico.

to breaking out intentionally.

It's generally interesting that Tallarico is able to beat Jasmine Crockett, who is also like big MSNBC figure, Jasmine Crockett.

Yes, big on viral video.

And it's not...

super guarded and talky pointsy, you know, and I think that's a good attribute and it, you know, he beat her in that primer.

But it goes to show, I think, that there's probably a lot of different angles that you can play here.

I think one thing that these platforms sniff out, and I don't know why, but podcasting, video, et cetera, I think they sniff out inauthenticity.