James Talarico

There's always enough money for war.

And there's never enough money for our healthcare, our schools, our veterans, our communities.

And I think people are sick of it.

People voted for Donald Trump to end these forever wars.

And he's, again, done the exact opposite.

So it's just broken promise after broken promise.

And we have to meet people where they're at in their disillusionment and hopefully reinstill a little bit of hope in people that we can have a politics that truly serves our interests.

And I think that's the work we're doing in Texas.

You would think he'd have more important things to focus on.

Yeah.

This is one of the questions I get asked the most on the campaign trail, no matter where I go in Texas.

There's a lot of

understandably, a lot of anxiety and fear around these technologies.

At the same time, I think a lot of people are seeing benefits in their lives, in their jobs, to some of these new technologies.

And so we're gonna have to hold both of these things together at the same time.

I talked earlier about false choices in our politics and in our policymaking.

A lot of people wanna know, do you think AI is gonna be utopia or dystopia?

The answer is probably something in between.

It's probably a mix of both of those things.

And it's going to depend on the decisions that we make together.