Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is making an Election Day pitch few voters expected to hear: he says he wants to work with President Donald Trump to deliver parts of the original MAGA promise.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Talarico — a Democrat locked in a high-stakes Texas Senate contest against Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton — now says the populist promise behind MAGA was to make government deliver for Americans who had been ignored and left behind.
And he says there is still time for President Trump to do it.
In a new interview with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO, Talarico said he would “love” to work with Trump to fulfill some of the promise of his political project.
Fox News reports that the interview was released Monday, one day before voting concluded, and that Talarico presented his offer as a concrete governing agenda rather than a generic call for unity. He specifically named expanded healthcare access, accessible childcare and housing as areas where he would cooperate with the president.
On housing, Talarico appealed directly to Trump’s background as a builder and offered to help cut federal red tape so millions of new homes could be constructed. He argued that the original promise of MAGA was to remake government for people who had been forgotten or left behind, and said there was still time for Trump to fulfill that promise.
Talarico also claimed a Democratic victory could act as a wake-up call that pushes the administration to reverse course during the remaining two years of Trump’s term.
It is a striking break from the language Democrats usually use about MAGA — especially on Election Day.
Here is how Talarico framed the larger fight in his own closing message to voters:
The timing matters.
Talarico did not make these comments in a quiet policy forum months from an election. He made them as Texans were deciding whether to send him or Paxton to the United States Senate.
The Washington Examiner independently reported that Talarico proposed direct bipartisan cooperation with Trump despite months of campaign combat between the two men. The report noted that Trump has repeatedly attacked the Texas Democrat and even branded him “Talafreako,” making the new offer especially unusual in the final hours of the race.
Talarico nevertheless said he would welcome the chance to work with the president on the economic promises that drove voters toward MAGA. He framed the pitch as more than a temporary truce: a way to use the final two years of Trump’s term to produce tangible results on costs, homes and family needs.
Talarico then went further, suggesting that Democratic midterm victories could become a “rebirth” for Trump’s presidency by forcing a course correction. That is a remarkable formulation from a candidate who has spent the campaign attacking the president’s agenda.
The White House, however, is not buying the sudden olive branch.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News that she did not believe Talarico’s pitch “for one second.” She argued that he was presenting himself as a moderate while carrying a record that tells voters something very different.
And that skepticism is understandable.
Democrats have spent years treating MAGA as something dangerous, backward and beyond the bounds of respectable politics. Now, with a Texas Senate seat on the line, one of the party’s rising stars is openly borrowing the movement’s core promise and volunteering to help Trump deliver it.
At the same time, Talarico’s strategy appears aimed squarely at Texans who consider themselves conservative but have broken with Paxton.
His campaign highlighted one such voter on Election Day:
The Associated Press described the Texas contest as an unexpected epicenter of the midterms and a race with the power to reshape the final chapter of Trump’s second term. The Senate battle tightened enough to force Republicans to defend a seat they normally expect to hold comfortably.
Talarico used his closing argument to portray Paxton as an especially corrupt product of a broken political system, while Paxton leaned on Trump’s endorsement and the state’s Republican advantage. The report also placed the race inside a broader national fight over Senate control, making every appeal to crossover voters more consequential.
In that context, Talarico’s MAGA language looks calculated to reach Texans who backed Trump but remain uneasy about Paxton — without surrendering the Democrat’s attacks on the administration.
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville has also taken notice, calling Talarico’s effort perhaps the best campaign the country has seen in a long time:
What we are watching is a revealing political calculation.
Talarico clearly believes there is power in the original MAGA promise — a government that serves forgotten working people, lower barriers to building homes, relief from crushing costs and leaders willing to break the failed status quo.
But recognizing the popularity of those promises is not the same thing as sharing President Trump’s agenda.
Leavitt’s response gets to the heart of the question: Is this a sincere offer to cooperate, or is it a last-minute attempt to sound like the president in a state Trump carried?
Texas voters will answer that at the ballot box.
Either way, the fact that a major Democratic Senate candidate now wants to define himself as the man who can help Trump fulfill MAGA promises tells you something important.
The movement’s central appeal is not fading.
It is so potent that Democrats are trying to claim a piece of it for themselves.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
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