2026-10-12T22:37:00-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
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得州联邦参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉rico的竞选团队向CBS新闻提供了监控录像，录像似乎显示塔拉rico在本月头8天都待在他位于得州的家中——这一回应驳斥了有关塔拉rico隐瞒自己缺席原因的说法。
塔拉rico有近两周时间未出现在竞选活动中，他称自己患上了严重流感。此次缺席遭到了共和党对手肯·帕克斯顿的批评和猜测。
但周一，塔拉rico的竞选团队公布了一组监控照片，他们称这些照片显示这位州议员、民主党候选人在10月1日至10月8日期间每天都待在得州的家中，而塔拉rico首次公开露面是在10月9日。
这8张带时间戳的照片带有家庭安防摄像头公司SimpliSafe的水印，似乎是从塔拉rico位于州首府奥斯汀的住宅后院的摄像头拍摄的。CBS新闻将照片里的后院特征与塔拉rico住址的最新卫星图像进行了比对。尽管分辨率较低，但照片显示一名棕发男性在一天中的不同时段现身，且身着不同服装。
这些照片最早由《纽约时报》报道。
此前阴谋论的核心焦点——位于俄亥俄州梅森的林德纳希望心理健康中心也在社交媒体上发文称，塔拉rico“从未在该中心接受过治疗”。
塔拉rico的竞选发言人J.T.恩尼斯在一份声明中表示，有关塔拉rico身处其他地方的说法是“为了推销拙劣阴谋论而编造的谎言”。
“上周詹姆斯·塔拉rico待在得州奥斯汀的家中养病，”恩尼斯说道。
时间线：我们所了解的詹姆斯·塔拉rico行踪情况
塔拉rico有近两周时间未在公开场合露面，从9月下旬到周五晚些时候。
他最后一次已知的线下公开活动是9月26日周六在达拉斯郊区卡罗尔顿举行的。两天后，他在纽约市参加了一系列筹款活动，其中包括由罗伯特·德尼罗主办的、与俄亥俄州联邦参议院民主党候选人谢罗德·布朗共同出席的筹款活动。
9月30日，塔拉rico取消了与美国西班牙裔商业委员会主席哈维尔·帕洛马雷斯的线下会谈，转而参加了一场虚拟问答活动。
“几天前我就开始感觉不舒服了，”塔拉rico对观众说道，并为无法线下到场致歉。“昨晚情况变得更严重，我去了达拉斯的急诊室，被诊断出患有流感。所以我现在在发烧，而且传染性最强。”（他后来告诉一名记者，他其实是去看了自己的全科医生。）
据该组织负责人埃辛·伊塔透露，10月1日，塔拉rico的竞选团队致电取消了原定于下周举行的中得州非裔美国人公民参与研讨会的出席活动。伊塔告诉CBS新闻，塔拉rico的工作人员拒绝重新安排活动时间，并表示他们已经取消了截至10月5日的其他所有活动。
接下来的一周，特朗普总统前往圣安东尼奥为帕克斯顿助选。总统和州检察长帕克斯顿都提及了塔拉rico的缺席。
“我听说这家伙消失了——没人知道他在哪。你知道他在哪吗？他是因为政治原因被迫吃肉才生病的，现在吐得到处都是，”特朗普先生说道，暗指塔拉rico此前关于减少肉类消费的言论。（塔拉rico已否认自己是素食主义者。）
在集会早些时候，帕克斯顿说道：“我今天来到这里时，已经是詹姆斯·塔拉rico连续11天不公开露面、取消所有公开活动了。你觉得他们把那个小社会主义者藏在哪了？”随后他让观众齐声呼喊“詹姆斯·塔拉rico在哪？”
10月9日周五，塔拉rico本月首次公开露面，一名竞选发言人发布了他在奥斯汀城市极限音乐节上与音乐节观众打招呼的视频。
同一天，塔拉rico通过短信告诉CBS新闻：“感觉好多了。重返竞选活动了！”
周末期间，塔拉rico还参加了多场公开活动：周六在圣安东尼奥观看了凯西·马斯格雷夫斯的演唱会，周日接受了NBC达拉斯-沃斯堡分台和《达拉斯晨报》编辑委员会的采访。
“其实就是重感冒，情况没那么糟糕。我当时卧床休息，喝了很多水。遗憾的是，竞选团队让我居家办公，所以我连完整的休息日都没过上，”他告诉当地NBC记者，并表示自己不想传染给其他人。
帕克斯顿暗示其中另有隐情，称塔拉rico“欠得州民众一个交代”。
“詹姆斯·塔拉rico称自己消失了13天是因为得了流感，”帕克斯顿在周末的X平台帖子中写道。“真有人相信这种话吗？”
几乎与此同时，社交媒体用户开始在没有证据的情况下猜测塔拉rico飞往俄亥俄州接受心理健康治疗。
随后在周日，保守派社交媒体人士分享了一段未经证实的录音，录音中有人似乎致电俄亥俄州的林德纳希望心理健康中心，询问塔拉rico是否已入院。该心理健康中心的一名工作人员表面上称他已经出院。
CBS新闻既无法证实也无法驳斥这段通话的真实性。林德纳希望心理健康中心公开表示，塔拉rico并未在该中心接受治疗。
当地NBC电视台就这些谣言询问了塔拉rico。他否认了相关说法，并表示：“这正好提醒大家，不能相信网上读到的所有内容。”
Talarico was at home in Texas during campaign trail absence, photos appear to show
2026-10-12T22:37:00-0400 / CBS News
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Updated on: October 12, 2026 / 10:56 PM EDT / CBS News
Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s campaign shared security camera footage with CBS News that appears to show Talarico at his home in Texas for the first eight days of this month — pushing back on claims that Talarico was hiding the reasons for his disappearance.
Talarico was absent from the campaign trail for almost two weeks, saying he caught a bad case of the flu. The disappearance drew criticism and speculation from his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton.
But on Monday, Talarico’s campaign shared a set of security camera images that they say show the state lawmaker and Democratic candidate at his home in Texas every day from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8, one day before Talarico made a public appearance.
The eight timestamped images — which include watermarks from home security camera company SimpliSafe — appeared to have been taken from a camera in the backyard of Talarico’s house in the state capital of Austin. CBS News matched features in the backyard to recent satellite imagery of Talarico’s address. Though low resolution, the photos show a male figure with brown hair at various times of day and wearing different outfits.
The images were first reported by The New York Times.
The mental health facility at the center of the conspiracy theories, Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio, also wrote on social media that Talarico “has never received treatment” there.
Talarico campaign spokesman J.T. Ennis said in a statement that claims Talarico was elsewhere were “a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory.”
“Last week James Talarico was home in Austin, Texas recovering from the flu,” Ennis said.
Timeline: What we know about James Talarico’s whereabouts
Talarico was not seen in public for just under two weeks, from late September to late Friday.
His last known in-person event in Texas took place on Saturday, Sept. 26, in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton. Two days later, he was in New York City for a series of fundraisers, including a joint fundraiser with Ohio Democratic Senate nominee Sherrod Brown hosted by Robert De Niro.
On Sept. 30, Talarico pulled out of an in-person conversation with Javier Palomarez, president of the United States Hispanic Business Council. He instead appeared for a virtual Q&A.
“I was starting to feel under the weather a few days ago,” Talarico told the audience, apologizing for not appearing in person. “And last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas and I was diagnosed with the flu. So I’m running a fever and I’m at my most contagious right now.” (He later told a reporter he went to his primary care physician.)
A day later, on Oct. 1, Talarico’s campaign called to cancel an appearance at the Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium scheduled for the upcoming week, according to Essien Ita, the group’s leader. Ita told CBS News that Talarico’s staff declined to reschedule the appearance, and said they had canceled other events through Oct. 5.
The following week, President Trump traveled to San Antonio to campaign with Paxton. The president and Paxton, the state attorney general, both referenced Talarico’s absence.
“I hear the guy has disappeared – nobody knows. You know where he is? He’s sick because he’s forced to eat meat for political reasons and he’s throwing up all over the place,” Mr. Trump said, referencing Talarico’s past comments on trying to reduce meat consumption. (Talarico has denied that he is a vegan.)
Earlier in the rally, Paxton said: “When I came in here today, we were on day 11 of James Talarico not showing up in public and canceling all public appearances. Where do you think they hid that little socialist?” He then had the audience yell “Where Is James Talarico?” in unison.
Talarico was seen in public for the first time this month on Friday, Oct. 9, when a campaign spokesperson posted a video of him greeting festivalgoers at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
On the same day, Talarico told CBS News in a text: “Feeling much better. Back on the trail!”
Talarico had several other public appearances over the weekend, attending a Kasey Musgraves concert in San Antonio on Saturday and giving interviews on Sunday to NBC’s Dallas-Fort Worth station and The Dallas Morning News’ editorial board.
“It wasn’t anything worse than a nasty case of the flu. And so I was in bed and, you know, drinking lots of liquids. Unfortunately, the campaign made me work from home, so I didn’t even get full days off,” he told a local NBC reporter, saying he didn’t want to get anyone else sick.
Paxton suggested something was amiss, saying Talarico “owes Texans answers.”
“James Talarico claims he was missing for 13 days because he had the flu,” Paxton wrote in a post on X over the weekend. “Who actually believes that?”
At around the same time, social media users began speculating — without evidence — that Talarico had flown to Ohio for mental health treatment.
Then, on Sunday, conservative social media personalities shared an unverified recording in which somebody appeared to call Ohio’s Lindner Center of Hope to ask whether Talarico was checked in. A staff member at the mental health center ostensibly said he had been discharged.
CBS News could neither authenticate nor debunk the veracity of the call. The Lindner Center of Hope said publicly that Talarico did not receive treatment at the mental health facility.
The local NBC station asked Talarico about the rumors. He denied them and said: “It’s a good reminder that you can’t believe everything you read on the internet.”
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