Where’s Jimmy?
Where is James Talarico? Twelve days. An empty calendar. Campaigns abhor a vacuum. Ken Paxton put the question to a San Antonio crowd with the president in the building. Where is Talarico? Twelve days. The chant did not need a speechwriter. It needed an empty calendar, and the calendar was empty. A Senate nominee does not get to vanish for two weeks in October and have the silence treated as neutral. Nature abhors a vacuum. Politics abhors one faster. The space fills. It fills with theories, with old footage dressed as news, with a spokesman’s sentence that answers less than it…