某德克萨斯州中部公民团体表示，竞选团队给他们造成了“无法挽回的经济损失”，且未重新安排活动日期
2026年10月16日 美国东部时间12:13 / 福克斯新闻
作者：莱奥·布里塞尼奥、查尔斯·克莱茨
在民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科已近两周未出席竞选活动后，特朗普总统和德克萨斯州共和党参议员候选人肯·帕克斯顿纷纷对其行踪提出质疑。
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德克萨斯州联邦参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科因取消原定于10月5日与某黑人公民服务团体合办的活动，正面临其本土政治阵营内部的持续不满。
德克萨斯州中部非洲裔美国人公民参与研讨会（CT-AACES）在发给塔拉里科竞选团队的邮件中表达了强烈不满，该邮件被福克斯新闻数字频道获取。此次活动原本已有325名确认报名者，而塔拉里科因生病缺席竞选活动的两周期间，竞选团队取消了这场活动。
CT-AACES表示，此次活动取消给他们造成了“无法挽回的经济损失”，且塔拉里科的竞选团队并未尝试重新安排活动日期。
“虽然我们理解塔拉里科议员的健康需要优先考量，但我们对竞选团队直接宣布取消活动、而非承诺重新安排日期的决定深感失望，”邮件中写道。“这是塔拉里科议员错失的一次机会，他本可以直接回应社区的质疑，展现出他对德克萨斯州中部非洲裔美国人承诺的诚意。”
此次活动取消是塔拉里科竞选团队与黑人社区紧张关系的最新一例，也让人质疑其价值2500万美元的黑人选民动员宣传承诺是否真正落地——该宣传旨在接触黑人选民，但其宣传效果存疑。
塔拉里科的缺席令民主党志愿者担忧，特朗普发问：‘到底发生了什么？’
2025年9月9日，在得克萨斯州奥斯汀，州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科在启动竞选现任参议员约翰·康yn席位的活动后，在其竞选总部拍摄肖像。（卡兰·奥黑尔 为《华盛顿邮报》通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
这种不满并非仅来自CT-AACES。
至少一位曾与塔拉里科直接会面的奥斯汀地区民主党工作人员告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，她对塔拉里科在接触黑人选民及更次级选举候选人方面表现出的前后不一的跟进态度感到沮丧。
“黑人选民并非铁板一块，”该消息人士告诫道，驳斥了“德克萨斯州黑人 outright 不信任塔拉里科”的一概而论说法。“我认为有部分选民确实不信任他，有部分选民完全信任，还有部分选民持观望态度。”
这位工作人员对这位候选人以及奥斯汀地区的民主党组织格局非常了解。
当被问及2500万美元用于黑人选区挨家挨户拉票、举办线下社区活动以及与黑人教堂接触的投入时，该消息人士表示，这些投资尚未兑现。
“我们还没拿到这笔钱，但被告知款项很快就会到账，”她谈到自己从基层听到的说法时表示。“我们只拿到了被告知总额的1%到2%，之后就再也没有音讯了。”
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2026年7月22日，美国参议院民主党候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科在得克萨斯州奥斯汀的凯悦中心国会大道酒店举行的新闻发布会上发言。此次讨论之际，数据中心已成为德克萨斯州的一个主要政治议题，州长格雷格·雅培呼吁加强对数据中心扩张的监管。（盖蒂图片社）
这番言论此前，塔拉里科上周参加了一个黑人选民联盟的Zoom会议，在简短发言提及“投入资金……时间……和努力以赢得选举”后，他的画面 reportedly 从会议中消失，且未开展公开问答环节。在7月休斯顿的一场市政厅活动中，塔拉里科宣布了2500万美元的投入承诺，活动接近尾声时，护士坎迪斯·韦伯伯上前质问他，要求他留下回答问题。据《德克萨斯论坛报》报道，坎迪斯·韦伯伯说道：“黑人就是因为这个原因不信任你。”
“没有我们你赢不了选举，所以你留在这里回答我们的问题，否则你会承担后果，”韦伯伯说道。
在初选期间，塔拉里科还因一则言论在黑人选民中引发争议，有报道称他将竞争对手、前NFL线卫科林·奥尔雷德形容为一个“平庸的黑人”。奥尔雷德在X平台发布的视频回应中说道：“他竟然厚颜无耻地对一位黑人女性说，他参选是为了对抗一个平庸的黑人。”
“我们应该说‘谢谢’。谢谢你撕下伪装，谢谢你告诉我们你的真实面目和真实想法……还有，拜托别提我的名字。”
塔拉里科方面则称这番话被歪曲了，他表示自己“只是形容奥尔雷德议员的竞选方式平庸”，并且“绝不会基于种族攻击他”。
塔拉里科还因竞选广告中将对手、得克萨斯州民主党众议员贾斯敏·克罗克特的肤色加深，遭到其批评。克罗克特是参议院初选中的对手。
“有人几次问过我这件事。作为一名民权律师，我特别关注此事，我看到他们发布的广告加深了我的肤色，我当时就在想，我懂这是什么意思，对吧？”克罗克特在一场新闻发布会上说道。
这位工作人员表示，她曾在6月的一次会议上亲自敦促塔拉里科为次级选举的民主党候选人提供更多背书和支持，因为她从各竞选团队处得知，捐赠者已经为他的参议院竞选耗尽了政治捐款额度，并询问他是否已为这些次级选举候选人背书。
“他态度非常友好，表示理解，”她告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“我之后多次联系了他的团队，但直到今天都没有得到任何回复，这真的让我很沮丧。”
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福克斯新闻数字频道已联系塔拉里科的竞选团队，要求其对这些指控和评论作出回应。
莱奥·布里塞尼奥是福克斯新闻数字频道国会组的政治记者，此前曾供职于《世界杂志》。
Black civic group blasts Talarico campaign over canceled event: ‘Deeply disappointed’
A Central Texas civic group says the campaign left them with ‘irrecoverable financial loss’ and no rescheduled date
October 16, 2026 12:13pm EDT / Fox News
By Leo Briceno , Charles Creitz
President Trump and Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton are raising questions about Democratic challenger James Talarico’s whereabouts after the candidate has spent nearly two weeks away from the campaign trail.
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Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is facing lingering frustration from inside his own political backyard over the cancellation of an event that was supposed to take place on Oct. 5 with a Black civic-service group.
The Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium (CT-AACES) expressed deep frustration in an email, sent to the Talarico campaign and obtained by Fox News Digital, after the campaign cancelled an event – which had 325 confirmed registrants – during Talarico’s two-week absence from the campaign trail due to illness.
CT-AACES said the cancellation left them with “irrecoverable financial loss,” and that Talarico’s campaign had not engaged in rescheduling efforts
“While we understand Representative Talarico’s health required priority, we are deeply disappointed by the campaign’s decision to issue a flat cancellation rather than committing to a rescheduled date,” the email reads. “It was a missed opportunity for Representative Talarico to directly address community skepticism and demonstrate the sincerity of his commitment to Central Texas African Americans.”
The cancellation is the most recent instance of the tensions that Talarico’s campaign has faced with the Black community. It also casts doubt on the effectiveness of his efforts to reach Black voteBlack voters through a $25 million outreach pledge aimed at mobilizing black voters is fully reaching the ground.
TALARICO DISAPPEARANCE HAS DEM VOLUNTEERS WORRYING AND TRUMP ASKING, ‘WHAT IS GOING ON?’
State Representative James Talarico poses for a portrait at his campaign headquarters after launching his campaign for the seat currently held by Senator John Cornyn in Austin, Texas on Sept. 9, 2025.(Callaghan O’Hare for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The frustration isn’t isolated to CT-AACES.
At least one Austin-area Democratic operative who has met directly with Talarico told Fox News Digital that she remains frustrated by what she described as uneven follow-through on outreach to Black Democrats and candidates further down the ballot.
“Black voters aren’t a monolith,” the source cautioned, rejecting any blanket assertion that Black Texans distrust Talarico outright. “I think that there are pockets that do. There’s a pocket that doesn’t. And then there’s the pocket that’s really unsure,” she said.
The operative is particularly familiar with the nominee and the Democratic organizing landscape in the Austin region.
Asked about a $25 million investment to focus on door-knocking in Black neighborhoods, in-person community events and engagement with Black churches, the source said those investments haven’t manifested yet.
“We haven’t received the money, but we’re being told it’s coming,” she said of some accounts she has heard from the ground. “We received, you know, one or 2% of what we were told we were going to get. And then it’s been silence since,” she said.
DAVID MARCUS: HOW CROCKETT’S LAST STAND IN TEXAS COULD BRING DOWN TALARICO
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a press conference at the Hyatt Centric Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, on July 22, 2026. The discussion comes as data centers have emerged as a major political issue in Texas, with Gov. Greg Abbott calling for stronger oversight of their expansion.(Getty Images)
The comments come after Talarico appeared on a Black voter coalition Zoom last week, delivering brief remarks about “put[ting] in the money … time … and effort to win” before his feed disappeared from the call reportedly without a public question-and-answer session. At the July Houston town hall where Talarico announced the $25 million pledge, nurse Kandice Webber confronted him as the event approached its scheduled end and demanded that he remain to answer questions. “Black people don’t trust you for this reason,” she said, according to the Texas Tribune .
“And you cannot win without us, so you stay here and you answer our questions, or you suffer the consequences,” Webber said.
During his primary, Talarico also encountered controversy over the black vote when reports surfaced the he had characterized rival candidate and former NFL linebacker Collin Allred as a “mediocre Black man.” “He had the audacity to say to a Black woman that he had signed up to run against a mediocre black man,” Allred said in a video response posted to X.
“We should say ‘thank you.’ Thank you for taking off the mask. Thank you for telling us who you really are and what you really think… keep my name out of your mouth while you’re at it.”
Talarico, for his part, described the wording as a mischaracterization, stating that he “described Congressman Allred’s method of campaigning as mediocre” and that he would “never attack him on the basis of race.”
Talarico also received criticism from Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, his primary opponent in the Senate primary, after she accused him of darkening her skin in campaign ads against her.
“And you know, I’ve been asked a couple of times about it. And you know, I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer, and I see when they’re sending out ads and they’re darkening my skin. And I’m just like, I know what this is, right?” Crockett said at a press conference.
The operative said she personally pressed Talarico during a June meeting to do more to endorse and support down-ballot Democrats after hearing from campaigns that donors had already exhausted their political giving on his Senate bid and were asking whether he had endorsed those candidates.
FOX NEWS POLL: IT’S A LONE STAR SENATE SHOWDOWN BETWEEN TALARICO AND PAXTON
Senate candidate James Talarico waves as he approaches a gas station in Carrollton, Texas, Saturday, September 26, 2026.(Anja Schlein/The Dallas Morning News via Getty Images)
“He was very gracious. He said he understood,” she told Fox News Digital. “I followed up with his staff multiple times and to this day have still not heard anything, which has been really frustrating to me.”
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Talarico campaign for a response to the characterizations and comments.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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