弗洛雷斯称塔拉rico在性别外科手术问题上的立场反转以及“上帝非二元性”言论，证明民主党没有执政记录可供竞选依托
2026年9月16日 美国东部时间12:42 / 福克斯新闻
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在南得克萨斯州参选的共和党国会候选人埃里克·弗洛雷斯预测，以詹姆斯·塔拉rico为候选人代表的民主党将在该州引发“红色浪潮”。
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尽管外界普遍预测民主党将在今年11月的选举中取得重大胜利，但在孤星州参选的共和党候选人埃里克·弗洛雷斯却预测，备受争议的民主党联邦参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉rico作为全州最知名的民主党候选人，将让共和党在该州掀起“红色浪潮”。
弗洛雷斯曾是美国陆军退伍军人，目前在得克萨斯州第34国会选区参选，他批评塔拉rico近期在一些最具争议的立场上“反复无常”，包括称上帝为“非二元性别”以及声称人类有六种性别。他认为，塔拉rico收回这些言论的举动证明，他和该州其他民主党人“没有执政记录可供竞选依托”。
在上周接受福克斯新闻采访时，塔拉rico表示他支持禁止为未成年人进行性别外科手术，并反对跨性别身份男性参与女子体育赛事。他还就自己颇具争议的“上帝是非二元性别”言论回应称：“我发表那番话是为了引发讨论，我明白这一点。”“我真正想表达的是，你无法用人类的分类来定义上帝，这在神学上并不具有争议性。事实上，已故的查理·柯克和已故的教皇本笃十六世都表达过同样的观点。”
对此，弗洛雷斯反驳道：“这些言论并非为了引发讨论，而是有意为之，这恰恰暴露了他的真实面目。”
塔拉rico承认自己“没说对”，就争议性觉醒言论改口
共和党国会候选人埃里克·弗洛雷斯（左）预测得克萨斯州将出现“红色浪潮”，民主党联邦参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉rico（右）作为该州选票上最知名的民主党人将成为众矢之的。（凯文·迪施/盖蒂图片社；比尔·克拉克/CQ滚球公司 via 盖蒂图片社）
弗洛雷斯在一个竞争激烈的选区参选，该选区西班牙裔人口占比极高，长期以来一直是民主党票仓。该席位目前由民主党众议员文森特·冈萨雷斯持有。尽管该选区长期被认为是坚定的蓝营选区，但唐纳德·特朗普总统在2024年赢得了该选区。在过去几次选举周期中，共和党也一直在缩小民主党在该选区的优势。弗洛雷斯认为，随着塔拉rico成为得克萨斯州全州范围内参选的最知名民主党人，今年共和党将最终拿下该选区。
“他们说会有蓝色浪潮。好吧，我要告诉大家，红色浪潮即将到来，因为我们将赶走像我的对手那样的不合格民主党人，”他说。
他将共和党在该选区胜算上升归因于南得克萨斯州民众对民主党信任度的下降。他表示：“选民终于开始提出南得克萨斯州理应被解答的问题。”
“我在得克萨斯州第34选区听到的诉求很简单，选民们都在考虑自己的钱包；他们在担忧通货膨胀和生活成本，”他解释道。
弗洛雷斯打破民主党长期掌控南得克萨斯州的竞选主张是“这不是一场基于竞选纲领的选举，而是一场对比鲜明的选举”。
“这意味着什么？这意味着常识，也就是共和党，与共产主义和像我的对手那样的不合格民主党人形成对比，我的对手有80%到85%的投票立场与奥卡西奥-科特兹一致，”他说。
2026年西班牙裔选民态度未定，忽视该群体的候选人将落选
2021年6月16日，在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦举行的新闻发布会上，得克萨斯州民主党众议员文森特·冈萨雷斯（左二）与时任众议院议长、加利福尼亚州民主党众议员南希·佩洛西（左三）、纽约州民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科特兹（右二）及其他民主党人一同出席。（摄影：亚历克斯·王/盖蒂图片社）
对此，冈萨雷斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“埃里克·弗洛雷斯是一个只会照搬他人观点的思想浅薄者，无法独立思考。他将继续支持对伊朗开战的政策，这些政策只会提高辛勤工作的南得克萨斯州民众的生活成本。与此同时，他还无耻地将所有政治广告中的‘特朗普背书’字样撤下，并发送筹款信息，呼吁捐赠者帮助他偿还个人初选竞选债务，而不是努力赢得选举。”
“这显然对民主党毫无信心可言，”冈萨雷斯补充道，“相信我，他蒙骗不了民主党人，也蒙骗不了共和党人。用不了多久，他就会回到南得克萨斯州为儿童性骚扰者辩护。”
福克斯新闻数字频道未发现任何证据表明弗洛雷斯在担任私人执业律师或美国助理检察官期间曾为儿童性骚扰者辩护。
福克斯新闻数字频道也联系了纽约州民主党众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科特兹请其置评。
针对塔拉rico的福克斯新闻采访，弗洛雷斯表示：“记者们问他，你真的认为有六种性别吗？你真的支持为未成年人进行这些性别外科手术吗？塔拉rico和我的对手一样，当被质疑时，他们只能反复改口，因为除了极左翼的觉醒多元化、公平性和包容性议程之外，他们根本没有执政记录可供竞选依托。”
塔拉rico竞选团队的一位发言人将福克斯新闻数字频道的提问引回了塔拉rico上周采访中发表的言论。福克斯新闻周二在达拉斯的一次食品募捐竞选活动中采访了塔拉rico。塔拉rico的活动举行之际，首届共和党中期选举大会就在几英里外的达拉斯市中心开幕。
当被问及如果当选联邦参议员，是否会投票支持全国性禁止为未成年人进行性别外科手术时，塔拉rico回答：“当然会。”
他表示：“我在这个问题上的立场始终一致。”他解释自己反对得克萨斯州一项禁止未成年人跨性别外科手术的法案时称，该法案“过于宽泛”。
“如果你回顾一下，我曾投票支持一项重要修正案，将法案范围限定为禁止为未成年人进行手术，”他说，“作为立法者，我的工作是仔细审视法案的每一项内容。有时法案中包含一些确实有害的内容，我别无选择，只能整体反对该法案。”
2023年，作为得克萨斯州众议院议员，塔拉rico投票反对参议院第14号法案，该法案禁止为未成年人进行特定性别外科手术、青春期阻断剂治疗和特定激素治疗。民主党人共提出18项修正案，塔拉rico全部支持，但最终全部未获通过。
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美国陆军退伍军人、前联邦检察官埃里克·弗洛雷斯在得克萨斯州第34国会选区启动国会竞选。（埃里克·弗洛雷斯竞选团队供图）
“这就是为什么我尝试通过修正案来缩小法案的聚焦范围，使其 exactly 达到我们的预期目标，”他继续说道，“我在那项立法中也是这么做的，不幸的是，我支持的修正案没有获得成功。”
塔拉rico还告诉福克斯新闻：“我支持那些将此类决策权力下放给地方社区的修正案，”他补充道，“就像保守派过去所坚信的那样，我相信地方自治。”
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在同一场采访中，塔拉rico承认，男子参与女子体育赛事是得克萨斯州的一个重大议题。他说：“如果跨性别运动员参赛会危及安全或公平性，我反对她们参与女子体育赛事。”
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“每项体育运动都必须确保安全和公平。作为一名前公立学校教师，我非常关心我们的学生运动员，也非常关心我们的学生。因此，如果跨性别运动员参赛会危及安全或公平性，我会反对她们参与女子体育赛事，”他说。
塔拉rico将自己与共和党对手、得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿进行对比，称：“我为自己为得克萨斯州民众取得的立法政绩感到自豪。我促成两党合作通过了60项两党法案，降低民众生活成本，推动经济重回正轨。我随时都可以拿出我的政绩与肯·帕克斯顿的政绩一较高下。”
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Prominent Dem’s fatal error prompts Republican to predict ‘red tidal wave’ in blue stronghold
Flores calls Talarico’s reversal on gender surgery and ‘God is non-binary’ comments proof Democrats lack a record to run on
September 16, 2026 12:42pm EDT / Fox News
By Peter Pinedo
Republican congressional candidate Eric Flores, running in South Texas, is predicting a “red tidal wave” with James Talarico at the top of the ticket.
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Despite widespread predictions of major Democratic electoral victories this November, South Texas GOP candidate Eric Flores is predicting a “red tidal wave” in the Lone Star State, with controversial Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico as the most prominent Democrat at the top of the ticket.
Flores, a U.S. Army veteran running in Texas’ 34th Congressional District, called out Talarico for his recent “flip-flop” on some of his most controversial stances, including calling God “nonbinary” and saying there are six sexes. He argued that Talarico’s decision to walk back those statements is proof that he and other Democrats in the state “don’t have a record to run on.”
In an interview with Fox News last week, Talarico said he supports banning gender surgery for minors and opposed transgender-identifying men competing in women’s sports. He also addressed his controversial “God is non-binary” comment, saying, “I was being provocative with that statement. I get that,” and “what I was trying to say is that you can’t use human categories to define God, and that’s not controversial theologically. In fact, the late Charlie Kirk, the late Pope Benedict, all said the same thing.”
In response, Flores shot back, “Those aren’t provocative statements; those were statements that were made with intention, and that’s showing who he truly is.”
TALARICO SAYS HE ‘MISSED THE MARK’ AS HE BACKTRACKS ON CONTROVERSIAL WOKE STATEMENTS
Republican congressional candidate Eric Flores, left, is predicting a “red tidal wave” in Texas, with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, right, as the state’s most prominent Democrat on the ballot.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Flores is running in a competitive race for a heavily Hispanic district that has long been a Democratic stronghold. The seat is currently held by Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas. Despite long being considered a solidly blue district, President Donald Trump won it in 2024. Republicans have also narrowed Democrats’ advantage in the district over the past several election cycles. Flores argued that, with Talarico as the most prominent Democrat running statewide in Texas, this will be the year the GOP finally seals the deal.
“They’re saying that there’s a blue wave. Well, I got news for folks, there’s a red tidal wave coming because we’re going to be getting rid of the wrong type of Democrats like my opponent,” he said.
He credits the GOP’s rising chances in the district to eroding trust in Democrats in South Texas. He said, “the voters are finally asking the questions that South Texas deserves to hear.”
“Everything that I hear throughout Texas 34 is simple, and they are thinking about their pocketbook; they’re thinking about inflation and the cost of living,” he explained.
Flores’ pitch to try to break through the Democrats’ longtime hold on South Texas is “that this isn’t a contract election, it’s a contrast election.”
“What does that mean? That it’s common sense, which is the Republican Party, against communism and fake and the wrong type of Democrats like my opponent who are voting 80 to 85% of the time with AOC,” he said.
THE HISPANIC VOTE IS UP FOR GRABS IN 2026. CANDIDATES WHO IGNORE IT WILL LOSE
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, second from left, stands alongside then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., third from left, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., second from right, and other Democrats during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 16, 2021, in Washington, D.C.(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
In response, Gonzalez told Fox News Digital that “Eric Flores is a rubber-stamp intellectual lightweight that can’t think for himself. He will continue to support the Iran war and policies that raise the cost of living for hardworking South Texans. All while shamelessly taking his ‘Trump Endorsement’ language off all his political ads and sending fundraising messages asking for donors to help him pay back his personal primary campaign debt instead of trying to win his race.”
“That should certainly feel like an air of confidence to the party,” Gonzalez continued, adding, “Trust me, he’s not fooling Democrats or Republicans for that matter. And it won’t be long before he’s back representing child molesters in South Texas.”
Fox News Digital is not aware of any evidence that Flores represented child molesters in his capacity as either a private practice attorney or assistant U.S. attorney.
Fox News Digital also reached out to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for comment.
Regarding Talarico’s Fox interview, Flores said, “They’re asking him, do you really think that there are six genders? Do you really support these gender surgeries against minors? That’s the same thing with Talarico and my opponent, when they get questioned, all they can do is flip-flop because they actually don’t have a record to run on other than this far-left woke DEI agenda.”
A spokesperson for Talarico’s campaign directed Fox News Digital back to comments he made during his interview last week. Fox News spoke with Talarico at a food drive campaign event in Dallas on Tuesday. Talarico’s event took place as the first-ever GOP midterm convention kicked off just miles away in downtown Dallas.
Asked whether he would vote as a U.S. senator in favor of a national ban on gender surgery for minors, Talarico answered, “Absolutely.”
He said, “I’ve been consistent on this issue,” explaining his opposition to a Texas bill to ban transgender surgeries on minors by saying the measure “was overly broad.”
“If you go back and check, I voted for a major amendment to limit the bill to banning surgeries for minors,” he said. “As a lawmaker, my job is to try to sift through everything the bill does. And sometimes there’s stuff in it that’s really harmful, and I have no choice but to oppose the bill as a whole.”
In 2023, as a member of the Texas House of Representatives, Talarico voted against Senate Bill 14, which prohibited certain gender surgeries, puberty blockers and certain hormone treatments for minors. Democrats proposed 18 amendments to the bill, all of which Talarico supported and all of which ultimately failed.
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Republican Eric Flores, a U.S. Army veteran and former federal prosecutor, launched his campaign for Congress in Texas’ 34th Congressional District.(Eric Flores campaign)
“It’s why I try to use amendments, to narrow the focus of the bill so that it does exactly what we intend it to do,” he continued. “It’s what I tried to do with that piece of legislation, and unfortunately, the amendment I supported was unsuccessful.”
Talarico also told Fox News, “I supported amendments that would have given the power to make these decisions to local communities,” adding, “like conservatives used to believe, I believe in local control.”
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In the same interview, Talarico acknowledged that men in women’s sports is a significant issue in Texas. He said, “I oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it endangers safety or fairness.”
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“Every sport has to be safe and fair. As a former public school teacher, I care a lot about our student athletes. I care a lot about our students. And so, I will oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it risks safety or fairness,” he said.
Comparing himself to his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Talarico said, “I am proud of my legislative track record delivering for Texans. I brought Democrats and Republicans together to pass 60 bipartisan bills that lower people’s costs and get the economy back on track. I’ll put my record up against Ken Paxton’s every day of the week and twice on Sunday.”
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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