Dem Senate candidate in the hot seat after anti-meat comment resurfaces: 'This will haunt him'

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. ‘The Five’ discusses the Democratic and Republican candidates running for U.S. Senate in Texas. Senate candidate James Talarico, D-Texas, has been facing an intense online firestorm after a resurfaced video showed him calling on Texans to ditch meat to fight climate change. Republicans and conservative influencers have widely panned the remark as a potentially fatal blow to his Senate bid and suggested his anti-meat stance could dog him on the campaign trail. "Democrats are trying to fool Texans into believing James Talarico isn’t some whacked out lib, but the clips keep coming," Andrew Kolvet, Turning Point USA spokesman, wrote on X. "In 2022, Talarico, wearing a mask, scolded Texans about going meat-free (!!) to stop climate change. This is TEXAS. This will haunt him in the general." "That just isn’t poor taste, it’s political poison," Lawrence Jon