James Talarico’s campaign isn’t bothering with the long version of Ken Paxton’s Uvalde comments. It’s going with the blunt one: that Texas’s attorney general looked at the slaughter of 19 kids and two teachers and called it God’s plan. Pair that with a photo of Paxton and footage-style images from Robb Elementary, and you’ve got a Senate ad in tweet form.
Albeit a disgusting, low-down, nasty, dirty, shameful Senate ad in tweet form.
Ken Paxton said the Uvalde shooting was part of a “plan” by “God.”
— Team Talarico (@TeamTalaricoHQ) August 2, 2026
21 elementary school children and teachers were murdered in the shooting. pic.twitter.com/e31fHxzNFb
What’s missing is the rest of what Paxton actually said in 2022 — that the shooting was senseless, that he couldn’t pretend to explain it, and that he was talking about faith as comfort, not a divine green light for murder.
That Talarico would go this low says a lot about him as a person, just not a candidate or his campaign. This is ugliness in its purest and most obvious form.
You’re disgusting.
— The🎃FOO (@PolitiBunny) September 28, 2026
Going this low, this dirty, exploiting dead kids to deliberately misquote your opponent should absolutely reflect Talarico and his nasty campaign.
Shame on you all. https://t.co/8QKCV3gOsS
Byron York was good enough to post the whole quote in a simple yet effective fact-check:
Today's political discourse. This is what Paxton actually said: https://t.co/5uvGL10StW pic.twitter.com/yrWRb2d4C5
— Byron York (@ByronYork) September 28, 2026
Look at that.
When you see the whole quote it resonates.
You'd think a candidate like Talarico who is desperate to play the, 'I'm a Christian' card, would feel ashamed over a deliberate misquote like that one.
Having distorted basic Christian theology to fit his worldview, Talarico is now distorting Paxton’s statement, which is actually much more sensible and a (if not “the”) mainstream view in Christianity.
— Legal Phil (@Legal_Fil) September 28, 2026
And I say this as an agnostic who is no fan of Paxton. https://t.co/Zx6wjwOKer
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That is a blatant lie and you know it! He didn't suggest God planned Uvalde. How can you become a Senator if you represent what other people say in the most vicious way possible. This take is disgusting.
— Sir Walter (@EmryRaleigh) September 28, 2026
Disgusting is putting it nicely.
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