2026年5月27日 美国东部时间下午6:20 / 福克斯新闻
共和党全国委员会发言人称塔拉里科“希望非法外国人参与我们的选举”
作者：利奥·布里塞尼奥，福克斯新闻
詹姆斯·塔拉里科表示，他必须以比“在完全自由公平的选举中”更高的优势获胜。（图片来源：杰米·克恩·利马 via YouTube – 2026年5月26日）
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得克萨斯州民主党联邦参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科称，他认为州级法律对他不利，他有望成为自1994年以来首位赢得全州公职的民主党人。
“这意味着我们可能需要以比在完全自由公平的选举中更高的优势获胜，”塔拉里科在最近的一次播客采访中说道。
塔拉里科对德州选举法的态度反映了民主党人的普遍观点：即共和党在孤星州的执政优势源于选举安保措施导致的低投票率，而非该州的保守派倾向——这一理论持续推动着长期以来将德州政坛“翻转”的尝试。
尽管截至3月已筹集了令人瞩目的4000万美元资金，塔拉里科仍面临着对阵共和党候选人肯·帕克斯顿的艰难竞选。帕克斯顿是现任得克萨斯州总检察长，拥有广泛的知名度。
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“我们必须克服这一障碍。如果我们想要获胜，就必须在组织动员、辛勤付出和积极奔走方面胜过这场选民压制行动，”塔拉里科说道。
在新冠疫情之后，德州通过了一系列选举安保法案。
最引人注目的是州议会通过的SB1法案，该法案要求选民在投票和登记时提供特定的身份证明号码：得克萨斯州驾照、选举身份证明证书，或社会安全号码的最后四位数字。
该法案还禁止了免下车投票和主动邮寄选票申请。
塔拉里科作为州议员时曾反对该法案的通过。
“我想说，德州已经存在大量选民压制现象。它已融入我们的法律体系。当这些法案在州议会审议时，我曾激烈反对其中许多条款，”塔拉里科说道。
“因此，德州是全国范围内投票难度最大的州之一。这也是为什么我们州的投票率与其他州相比如此之低，”塔拉里科说道。
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尽管德州的投票率确实位列全美倒数五名，但根据美国选举项目的数据，上次总统大选的投票率为56.6%，高于2016年、2012年和2004年的水平。同样，2022年中期选举41.8%的参与率也超过了2014年、2010年、2006年和2002年的水平。
塔拉里科的竞选团队未回应福克斯新闻数字频道的置评请求。
在至少一名共和党战略师看来，塔拉里科对投票率的担忧是以牺牲其对选举安保的重视为代价的。
“詹姆斯·塔拉里科希望非法外国人参与我们的选举，”共和党全国委员会发言人扎克·克拉夫特告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“当塔拉里科将非法移民放在首位时，肯·帕克斯顿将继续将德州民众放在首位，他将与特朗普总统合作，推动《拯救美国法案》签署成为法律，并确保外国公民永远不会在美国选举中投票，”克拉夫特说道，他指的是国会共和党人支持的全国选民诚信法案。
值得注意的是，作为州议员，塔拉里科还曾投票反对一项将德州境内非法外国人投票的刑罚从A级轻罪提升至二级重罪的法案。
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尽管对德州的选举法持悲观看法，塔拉里科仍鼓励观众从其他看似无望的竞选活动中汲取信心，比如民权运动和劳工组织者的行动。
“他们都曾对抗一个被操纵的体系。所以，如果他们能做到，我们当然也能对抗这个不公平的局面，”塔拉里科说道。
利奥·布里塞尼奥是福克斯新闻数字频道国会团队的政治记者，此前曾在《世界杂志》担任记者。
Talarico makes stunning claim about why he thinks Texas elections aren’t ‘free and fair’
May 27, 2026 6:20pm EDT / Fox News
A RNC spox says Talarico ‘wants illegal aliens to vote in our elections’
By Leo Briceno, Fox News
James Talarico says he’s going to have to win by more than he would have to ‘in a completely free and fair election.’ (Credit: Jamie Kern Lima via Youtube – May 26, 2026)
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Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico said he believes state laws have stacked the deck against him as he looks to become the first Democrat to win statewide office since 1994.
“Means you’re probably going to have to win by a little more than we would have to in a completely free and fair election,” Talarico said in a recent podcast interview.
Talarico’s posture towards Texas voting laws reflects a broader Democratic belief that Republican dominance in the Lone Star State is due to low turnout brought on by election security measures rather than the state’s conservative leanings — a theory that continues to drive long-running attempts to flip the state.
Despite having raised an impressive $40 million as of March, Talarico faces an uphill campaign against Republican candidate Ken Paxton, the current Texas attorney general, who has widespread name recognition.
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James Talarico, a Democrat from Texas and US Senate candidate, speaks at a campaign event in Round Rock, Texas, U.S., on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.(Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“We’re going to have to overcome that. We’re going to have to out-organize, out-work, out-hustle that voter suppression if we’re going to win,” Talarico said.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas passed a flurry of election-security bills.
Most notably, the legislature passed SB1, a bill that requires voters to provide specific identification numbers to vote and to register to vote: either a Texas driver’s license, an election identification certificate or the last four digits of a Social Security number.
It also banned drive-through voting and unsolicited mailing of ballot applications.
Talarico said he opposed its passage as a state legislator.
“I will say that we already have a lot of voter suppression in Texas. It’s baked into our laws. I’ve fought fiercely against many of those laws when they were coming through the legislature,” Talarico said.
“Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the country as a result. It’s why we see such low voter turnout in our state compared to other states,” Talarico said.
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Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico speaks during a campaign launch rally in Round Rock, Texas, on Sept. 9, 2025.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Although it’s true that Texas ranks in the bottom five states for voter turnout, the 56.6% of voters that cast a ballot in the last presidential election was greater than turnout in 2016, 2012 and 2004, according to data from the United States Election Project. Similarly, the 41.8% participation in the 2022 midterms exceeded levels from 2014, 2010, 2006 and 2002.
Talarico’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
To at least one GOP strategist, Talarico’s concern over turnout comes at the expense of his prioritization of election security.
“James Talarico wants illegal aliens to vote in our elections,” Zach Kraft, a Republican National Committee spokesperson, told Fox News Digital.
“While Talarico puts illegals first, Ken Paxton will continue to put Texans first by working with President Trump to get the SAVE America Act signed into law and ensure foreign citizens never vote in American elections,” Kraft said, referring to the national voter integrity bill championed by Republicans in Congress.
Notably, as a state legislator, Talarico also voted against a bill that increased state penalties for illegal aliens voting in Texas elections from a Class A misdemeanor to a second-degree felony.
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Texas Senate candidate James Talarico urged voters to reduce meat consumption in a 2022 clip that went viral on Tuesday.(Mark Felix/Getty Images)
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Despite his pessimistic outlook on Texas’s voting laws, Talarico urged viewers to draw confidence from other long-shot campaigns, such as civil rights movements and labor organizers.
“They were all up against a rigged system. So, if they can do that, we can certainly do that against this stacked deck,” Talarico said.
Leo Briceno is a politics reporter for the congressional team at Fox News Digital. He was previously a reporter with World Magazine.
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