James Talarico

some of these things for the people who are watching me.

And so if there's someone who threatening or praying for your death is an extreme example, but we're constantly in a democracy coming up against people or groups who are either intentionally or unintentionally trying to cause us harm.

How do we deal with those people in a democracy?

How are you supposed to think about and feel about those people?

if democracy is a spiritual practice.

And so that was my best attempt when my well-being was threatened by someone.

I am.

I do.

Vegan was not one of the accusations I thought was going to get thrown around in this campaign, but it has been.

I am.

I am.

Yeah.

You know, I...

I don't get a lot of time off the campaign trail these days.

But when I do, obviously, most of the time is spent with family, spent with friends, spent with loved ones, because that's the best way for me to...

To stay grounded, I recently read Project Hail Mary, which is a sci-fi novel.

It's now a movie.

And sometimes I feel like an astronaut who has been flung off into space.

And being a candidate sometimes can be a lonely experience, even though you're surrounded by people all the time.

Not everybody knows what it feels like to kind of go through something like this with