James Talarico’s Campaign Shares Footage Proving He Wasn’t in Mental Health Facility

James Talarico‘s campaign took an unprecedented step to prove he didn’t spend the week in a mental health facility in Ohio … by giving the media screenshots of a video that they say show he was at home in Texas.

Here’s the deal … Talarico’s opponent in the Texas Senate race, Ken Paxton, and many conservative social media users have recently been calling BS on Talarico’s claims that he has been stuck in bed with a bad case of the flu after he recently vanished from the campaign trail.

Using tenuous evidence — including an unsubstantiated audio clip and a flight tracker of a private jet flying from Texas to Ohio, which doesn’t seem to have any link to Talarico — rumors swirled that Talarico was actually in a full-blown mental health breakdown in Ohio.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump‘s Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller amplified the claims as well … but now Talarico is pushing back. with the help of a major media outlet.

Talarico’s team finally had enough of the speculation … and handed over screengrabs from Talarico’s home security cameras to the New York Times, which the outlet says show the candidate hanging out at home between October 1 and October 8. NYT reviewed the screengrabs but agreed not to publish them for security reasons. Talarico returned to the campaign trail on October 9.

It’s a bizarre twist in the tense Senate race … with polls looking increasingly good for Talarico. Polling data indicates he’s leading in the race against Paxton — who was previously impeached for alleged misconduct while in the state legislature.

Paxton has still refused to debate Talarico.