A Texas Democrat made headlines on Friday after defending left wing Senate candidate James Talarico with one of the most bizarre statements yet to come out of the Lone Star State’s Democrat convention.

Ben Flores, the party’s nominee for Land Commissioner, took the stage in Corpus Christi and proudly declared, “Next time they say that James is trans, we’re all trans.”

Apparently, the party of identity politics has taken its groupthink to new heights.

Flores, who seemed eager to out-woke the competition, went on to add, “When they say that James is a gay, tofu-eating vegan, we’re all gay tofu-eating vegans. And when they say James is going to hell, we’ll say we’re all going to hell.”

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The crowd cheered as if he had proclaimed some grand moral principle instead of an incoherent rallying cry for social media points.

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The comment comes as voters prepare for the November elections, which are shaping up to be a defining moment for Texas.

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At the top of the Democrat ticket stands Talarico, a self-described “Christian who hates Christianity,” running for U.S. Senate against the state’s Republican Attorney General, Ken Paxton.

If that introduction alone sounds like a campaign doomed to fail in Texas, that is because it likely is.

Talarico has built his campaign around a cocktail of radical social ideas, environmental virtue signaling, and activist language that feels more suited for a university campus than a statewide race in Texas.

His campaign once proudly displayed references to “trans kids” he claimed to love, though those mentions mysteriously disappeared from his website after media coverage started exposing the statements.

Even liberal strategists have quietly admitted it was a political misstep.

Paxton, on the other hand, is running on a message of traditional Texas values, individual liberty, and standing up to federal overreach.

He recently told the “Alex Marlow Show” that Talarico’s radicalism is so extreme he “would have a hard time winning California, let alone Texas.”

That observation has started to resonate with voters who are growing increasingly uneasy with Democrats trying to turn Texas into a mirror image of the West Coast.

Talarico’s platform would nearly write itself as a parody if it were not real.

On environmental issues, the Democrat candidate said, “It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to respect animals in all aspects of society. I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign.”

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In other words, Texans are being asked to elect a senator who refuses to eat brisket while preaching climate alarmism. Good luck with that.

Beyond diet regulation, Talarico has made waves for claiming that “God is non-binary” and describing women as “neighbors with a uterus.”

These comments did not exactly help him connect with Texans who value faith, family, and common sense over social media-driven language experiments.

The performance by Flores at the Democrat convention only reinforced the party’s problem in Texas.

Rather than focusing on economic issues, border security, or energy independence, Democrats are busy applauding speeches about gender identity and tofu.

The entire weekend felt more like a woke festival than a political conference for serious contenders.

Many Republican strategists believe these kinds of statements will likely cement Democrat losses across the state in November.

Two recent Senate polls show Ken Paxton maintaining a small but steady lead over Talarico.

One poll has Paxton up two points, and another shows the race shifting from an earlier Talarico advantage to a narrow Republican edge.

The trend points to Texans waking up to the fact that the Democrat Party no longer shares their values.

Meanwhile, Flores and Talarico seem perfectly content to offend Christians, mock traditional families, and redefine everything from faith to biology in the name of progress.

Their rhetoric paints a picture of a party far more concerned with virtue signaling than governing.

It also makes life easier for Republicans who can simply stand back and let Democrats reveal just how removed from reality they have become.

Paxton’s team has already begun highlighting these outrageous comments in campaign ads, painting his opponent as an elitist academic trying to impose California values on Texas soil.

For years, Democrats have promised to turn Texas blue.

Instead, every election cycle exposes just how alien their message sounds to the average Texan.

The idea that Texans should take moral or political cues from candidates who reject meat, faith, and common sense is laughable in a state built by ranchers, churchgoers, and people with practical grit.

Perhaps the most telling moment of the whole spectacle was the applause Flores received for proclaiming “we’re all going to hell.”

That may be the one statement of his that most Texans can agree on, though not for the reasons he thinks.

The Democrat strategy in Texas appears to be trading issues that matter for attention-grabbing sound bites designed to appeal to activists far outside the state.

That approach might get cheers at their convention, but it is unlikely to win votes anywhere beyond Austin city limits.

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