Talarico’s Suspiciously High Texas Numbers Have Critics Talking Vote Fraud

It’s said that “everything is bigger in Texas.”

Does this include the vote fraud?

Critics are thus wondering after Democrat James Talarico flipped a Texas Senate seat “blue” on Tuesday in a landslide.

Oh, it’s not just that Talarico outperformed the RealClear Politics polling average by almost 10 points. (Historically it’s Republicans who under-poll, not Democrats.)

It’s not just that he won despite having held radical-left views (there are “six sexes,” “transitioning” kids is good, etc.)

It’s also that Talarico got more Texas votes than Democratic presidential nominees Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden.

It’s that even if not one person supported Talarico on Election Day, he still would have won. (I.e., he got more early and mail-in votes than his opponent, Ken Paxton, received in total.)

And it’s that Texas processed almost three million “new valid voter registrations” between 2022 and 2024 without proof of citizenship. (Texas only requires people to “attest” that they’re U.S. citizens under penalty of perjury.)

None of this alone establishes proof of vote fraud, of course. But it is, well, curious.

Now, before proceeding, I must address the standard legacy-media and Democrat scoffing. It’s ridiculous thinking significant fraud occurred, they’ll say; it’s tin-foil-hat lunatic talk. Except that there’s this:

Democrats themselves have admitted that serious vote fraud is a problem.

Democrats themselves have been caught cheating each other egregiously enough to have judges invalidate elections.

And a Democrat operative admitted in 2020 that mail-in vote fraud was extensive enough to “flip states.”

These are facts — not opinions. I just illustrated them yesterday, too, in the video below.

Also note that the above video presents just the tip of the evidence iceberg.

Not Your Grandpappy’s Lone Star State

Now, it’s not as if a Texas blue shift hasn’t long been predicted. In 2012 I wrote the piece, “Does the GOP’s Demographic Death Spiral End in a Texas Graveyard?” Addressing the midterms in August, I warned that this graveyard may be “drawing near.” The point?

Demographics is destiny.

Around 2004, Texas became majority-minority (non-Hispanic whites fell below 50 percent of the population). In 2022, Hispanics became the largest single demographic group in the state. This is significant because while whites typically vote Republican, Hispanics and other minorities strongly support Democrats.

This held true in Texas this cycle, too. Fifty-six to 59 percent of whites went for the GOP. But 65-68 percent of Hispanics, that larger voting bloc, cast ballots for the Democrats.

What’s more, Texas has been attracting transplants from other states as well; hence its rapidly growing population. Many of these people are liberals, too, from places such as California.

Also apropos here, and as commentator Andrea Widburg notes, the Lone Star State has positioned itself as “the new Silicon Valley.” It thus has attracted troves of college-educated young Americans, another left-wing demographic. In fact, unlike whites in general, a majority (51 percent) of white college grads supported Democrats in Texas.

But do these changes completely explain Talarico’s resounding win?

An Odd Win, by the Numbers

The aforementioned Widburg wonders about that. She mentions that Talarico shattered Texas’ “red wall” for the first time since 1988. In this, he captured more Lone Star State votes than has every Democratic presidential nominee since 2016. He also outperformed Democrat Colin Allred, who tried to unseat Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in 2024. Widburg then writes:

According to Decision Desk HQ, the latest reported figures as of [November 5] show Talarico receiving 5,445,185 votes. Compared to previous Democratic presidential candidates, he got 40.4% more votes than Hillary in 2016, 12.6% more than Kamala in 2024, and 3.5% more than Biden did in 2020, a year of record turnout.

It’s rational to attribute this to Texas’ population growth, states the commentator. The state has, after all, tried attracting people (yuppie types) who are “progressive.” Widburg then provides relevant stats:

According to Census Bureau population estimates, Texas’s population increased from approximately 27.9 million in 2016 to 29.2 million in 2020 and 31.3 million in 2024. That represents approximately 12.2% growth over eight years. By July 2025, the total population had reached approximately 31.7 million. Those are big changes.

Yet while a partial explanation, this growth doesn’t entirely explicate Talarico’s shocking performance. As Widburg explains:

First, the 12.2% population increase occurred between 2016 and 2024. You can’t logically use that entire eight-year increase to explain Talarico’s 12.6% advantage over Harris, who ran just two years earlier[,] because much of that population growth had already occurred before Harris appeared on the ballot.

Second, it wasn’t just leftists who moved in. We all know conservative businesses and individuals who abandoned California, New York, Illinois, and other economically hostile Democrat-run states for Texas. They’d add to the Republican vote total.

Moreover, many new residents are children, legal and illegal non-citizens, third-party-partial Independents, and those too apathetic to vote, states Widburg. So even if an inordinate percentage of Texas’ new residents lean Democrat, not all would’ve or could’ve voted for Talarico.

The commentator then contrasts Talarico’s performance with that of 2024 senatorial nominee Allred:

In 2024, Allred received 5,031,249 votes in his unsuccessful race against Ted Cruz. Just two years later, Talarico received 413,936 more votes, an 8.2% increase. However, between July 2024 and July 2025, Texas’s population grew by only about 1.3%. Although complete 2026 population estimates are not yet available, the available figures indicate that population growth was substantially slower than the increase in Democrat Senate votes.

Turnout is also something one needs to consider. In 2024, approximately 11.29 million Texans voted in the Senate race. In 2026, approximately 9.89 million votes had been counted as of November 5 — roughly 1.4 million fewer votes, a 12.5% decline.

Thus, Talarico received more votes for a Democrat in an election in which substantially fewer Texans voted overall.

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, Ken Paxton saw a 29% decrease in Republican votes, or about 1.74 million votes, compared to Ted Cruz just two years earlier. That, too, is inconsistent with population growth, although there are semi-plausible explanations.

The Final Analysis

Among these explanations is Republican discontent. Many rank and file are angry at the GOP, and some might’ve voted Democratic or stayed home in protest. Also, while Paxton is ideologically palatable, he was a poor candidate. He has precious little charm, a tragic defect in politics, where charisma is king. He also was plagued by talk of scandal (whether real or imaginary).

In contrast, and as I warned (and some conservatives dismissed this), Talarico benefits from the Luciferian beauty factor. He’s an über-smooth talker who can charm chicken off the bone.

This said, Widburg and many others still don’t think this entirely explains Talarico’s lapping-the-field victory. As mentioned earlier, too, suspicion is warranted. Just consider those millions of new 2022-’24 registrations (tweet below).

In fairness, this doesn’t mean there were three million new voters; the net increase was about 952,000. But lack of citizenship verification is alarming. Note here that featured in my vote-fraud video is a Texas poll worker admitting that “tons of” non-citizens (DACA) vote. It also shows Democrat Alan Schulkin, then New York City’s election commissioner, saying in 2015, “I think there’s a lot of voter fraud. … [T]hey bus people around to vote.”

In the final analysis, demographic change, turnout, the charisma factor, and anger at the GOP all contributed to Talarico’s victory. But anyone who supposes there wasn’t significant vote fraud is in emperor’s-new-clothes-level denial. It’s rampant everywhere — especially with mail-in and early voting — and it threatens to help unravel our Republic.