Fox’s Brooke Taylor ambushed Texas Senate candidate James Talarico outside his polling place in Austin, TX, this Friday. Thankfully, Talarico wasn’t taking the bait.
#NEW: As Talarico arrived to cast his ballot in Austin, I asked him about the deadlock race, his message to voters who believe his positions are too liberal for Texas, and his criticism of billionaires backing Paxton, despite billionaire donors also pouring millions into a super PAC supporting his own candidacy. He didn’t answer any.
— Brooke Taylor (@Brooketaylortv) October 23, 2026
Harris Faulkner and Taylor tried to play this off as some gotcha’ moment for Talarico, knowing full well electioneering is illegal around polling places. The segment showed the rest of the press lined up to take questions from Talarico after he finished voting, but Taylor decided to track him down on his way into the building and shove a microphone in his face. Here’s how Faulkner responded after the ambush failed.
FAULKNER: All right, we’re watching. Brooke, you’re doing a great job shouting those questions. I hear his media team around him saying, we’re going to go vote and then we’re going to talk.
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