Texas Senate Candidate Talarico Held Four Bay Area Fundraisers in April

Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area in mid-April and attended at least four fundraisers organized by major Democratic fundraisers linked to the tech industry. The events took place in Palo Alto, the Mission District of San Francisco, Oakland and Marin County.

Attendees included venture capitalists, at least one who advises AI start-ups, wealthy Democratic donors and political staffers, according to invitations obtained by Politico.

Talarico has raised over $40 million, the second-most of any Senate candidate this cycle. The vast majority of that total has come from small-dollar donors. Talarico has vowed not to accept corporate PAC funding, though he has taken money from corporate executives.

He has described the biggest divide in the country as top versus bottom and has accused billionaires of waging war on the rest of the population. Talarico campaign spokesman JT Ennis told Fox News Digital that the candidate is the only one who has outlined a plan to ban super PACs, ban corporate PACs, ban congressional stock trading and tax billionaires.

Ennis said the only way to get big money out of politics is to vote out politicians like Republican nominee Ken Paxton.

Paxton, the state attorney general, is the Texas Republican Senate nominee and has a history of accepting large-dollar donations. One Democratic fundraiser projected that the Texas Senate contest could cost north of half a billion dollars across all sides.