{"id":463365,"date":"2026-10-12T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463365\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:40:13","slug":"talarico-campaign-denies-claim-he-was-treated-at-mental-health-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463365\/","title":{"rendered":"Talarico campaign denies claim he was treated at mental health facility"},"content":{"rendered":"

The campaign of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has denied a claim that he was treated at a mental health facility in Ohio. His spokesperson said he was at home recovering from the flu and called the allegation a \u201cpathetic conspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement was released Sunday after conservative influencer Nick Sortor claimed that Talarico had been discharged earlier in the week from the Lindner Center of Hope, a mental health facility near Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a lie designed to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory,\u201d spokesperson J.T. Ennis said in a social media post<\/a>. \u201cLast week James Talarico was home in Austin, Texas, recovering from the flu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sortor said a hospital employee told him and commentator Rhein Amacher that Talarico had been a patient. The post included an audio recording of a woman purportedly working at the facility.<\/p>\n

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Talarico appeared Friday at the Austin City Limits music festival after nine days without a public appearance, according to The Texas Tribune<\/a>. He had said during a September 30 virtual appearance that he had been diagnosed with the flu.<\/p>\n

Talarico, a Democratic state representative from Austin, is facing Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the November 3 election for the U.S. Senate seat held by John Cornyn.<\/p>\n

Polls have shown a close race between the two candidates, with Talarico leading Paxton in some surveys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The campaign of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico has denied a claim that he was treated at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[158038,132,134,133,1492,2135,27,464],"class_list":["post-463365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-2026-u-s-elections","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-featured","tag-james-talarico","tag-texas","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}