{"id":2605097,"date":"2026-05-20T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-talarico-cant-be-elected-because-hes-a-vegan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:57:30","slug":"trump-says-talarico-cant-be-elected-because-hes-a-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-talarico-cant-be-elected-because-hes-a-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Talarico can&#8217;t be elected because &#8216;he&#8217;s a vegan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-talarico-cant-be-elected-because-hes-a-vegan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2605097&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a Wednesday press gaggle, President donald Trump attacked Texas Democratic state Rep. James talarico, accusing him-falsely, according to the report-of being vegan and saying that \u201cyou can\u2019t get elected as a vegan in Texas.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>The remarks followed Trump\u2019s endorsement of texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the GOP U.S. Senate seat.Paxton is set to face Republican Sen. John Cornyn in a May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jasmine-crockett-backs-christian-menefee-over-al-green\/\" title=\"Jasmine Crockett backs Christian Menefee over Al Green\">26 primary runoff<\/a>, and Talarico secured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-newest-political-crush-is-privileged-harvard-grad-who-pointed-gun-at-unarmed-black-man\/\" title=\"Democrats\u2019 Newest Political Crush Is \u2018Privileged\u2019 Harvard Grad Who Pointed Gun at Unarmed Black Man\">democratic nomination<\/a> in March after defeating Rep. Jasmine Crockett.  <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s criticism is also tied to prior controversy over food comments: he mocked Talarico for ordering a \u201cmeatless\u201d taco that included egg (so it wasn\u2019t vegan) and said Talarico had previously claimed he is not vegan. Trump further suggested Paxton will beat Talarico, criticizing him for positions Trump described as extreme (including references to \u201csix genders\u201d and attacks on Jesus) and for wearing a mask. A 2022 video cited in the article shows Talarico wearing a mask while promoting a \u201cnon-meat campaign,\u201d which Trump used to bolster his argument.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> slammed Democratic <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/texas\/\">Texas<\/a> state Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/james-talarico\/\">James Talarico<\/a> during a press gaggle on Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-woman-gets-21-months-in-prison-for-false-accusation-of-rape-attempt-to-extort-victim\/\" title=\"Wyoming Woman Gets 21 Months In Prison For False Accusation of Rape, Attempt To Extort Victim\">falsely accusing<\/a> him of being <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vegan\/\">vegan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a vegan in Texas. You can\u2019t get elected as a vegan in Texas,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4576360\/speaker-mike-johnson-celebrates-thomas-massie-loss\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Mike Johnson celebrates Thomas Massie\u2019s primary loss<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4576115\/trump-total-control-republicans-paxton-byron-york\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump obsessed with \u2018absolute total control\u2019 of Republicans: Byron York<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4575736\/four-pennsylvania-democrats-could-flip-control-of-house\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Meet the four Pennsylvania Democrats who could flip control of the House<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The comments come a day after the president <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4574393\/trump-endorses-ken-paxton-ahead-texas-senate-primary-runoff\/\">endorsed<\/a> Texas Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ken-paxton\/\">Ken Paxton<\/a> (R) for the U.S. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/senate\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/senate\/\">Senate<\/a> seat in Texas.\u00a0Paxton will face Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-cornyn\/\">John Cornyn<\/a> (R-TX) in a primary runoff for the Republican nomination on May 26. Talarico secured his nomination in March after defeating Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX).\u00a0An <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4545790\/poll-james-talarico-pulls-ahead-john-cornyn-ken-paxton-fueling-democrats-hopes\/\">April poll<\/a> showed Talarico narrowly leading Paxton and Cornyn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Talarico came under fire after Trump trashed him for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/15\/politics\/video\/ebof-tom-foreman-trump-james-talarico-vegan-texas-senate\">ordering a meatless taco<\/a>. The taco contained egg, so it would not be considered vegan. Talarico previously noted that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dem-senate-candidate-hot-seat-after-anti-meat-comment-resurfaces-this-will-haunt-him\">he is not vegan<\/a>, posting a photo of himself <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4496377\/james-talarico-campaign-vegan-meat-texas\/\">with a turkey leg<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official statement from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamestalarico?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JamesTalarico<\/a> on vegan accusations <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pLwtlknBYj\">pic.twitter.com\/pLwtlknBYj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JT Ennis (@jt_ennis) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jt_ennis\/status\/2034320270694011071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump talked about Paxton at the gaggle and said he believes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue &quot;Substantial Allegations&quot; of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">attorney general<\/a> will outdo Talarico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019ll win. Probably he\u2019ll win very substantially. And I think he\u2019ll go on to defeat a very defective candidate, a candidate that believes in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4480098\/james-talarico-six-sexes-opposing-ban-men-women-sports\/\">six genders<\/a>, and he takes hits at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jesus\/\">Jesus Christ, <\/a>and he\u2019s wearing a mask,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4575443\/texas-mess-chuck-schumer-democrats-better-shape-flip-state\/\"><strong>\u2018TEXAS IS A HUGE MESS\u2019: CHUCK SCHUMER SAYS DEMOCRATS ARE IN BETTER SHAPE TO FLIP STATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A video from 2022 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SB1Q3jYzxZ4&#038;list=LL&#038;index=4\">showed Talarico wearing a mask<\/a> while speaking at an event against animal abuse, and said he is running a \u201cnon-meat campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said anyone wearing a mask \u201cdoesn\u2019t get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump wrongly claimed Texas Democrat James Talarico is vegan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4226,"featured_media":2605098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-collage-9zeeuox9m-1779295295620-e1779296247807.jpg?1779283389&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3728,5894,68501,3634,9336],"class_list":["post-2605097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-election","tag-politics","tag-talarico","tag-trump","tag-vegan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-collage-9zeeuox9m-1779295295620-e1779296247807.jpg?1779283389&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605101,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2605097\/revisions\/2605101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2605097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2605097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}