James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett adopt contrasting strategies as party hopes to tap into Trump backlash in reliably red state<\/p>\n
At a packed town hall meeting last month in Laredo for James Talarico, the 36-year-old Democrat vying for a US Senate seat in Texas, Cristina Rodriguez took the microphone. Rodriguez, a 16-year Marine Corps veteran, said she had never cast a ballot. She didn\u2019t identify as either a Democrat nor a Republican, and to her it didn\u2019t matter. Regardless of what party the president belonged to, she had to obey orders.<\/p>\n
Her attitude changed after the re-election of Donald Trump, whom she viewed as spiteful and divisive. In Talarico, a state representative from the Austin suburb of Round Rock, she found the exact opposite \u2013 a former middle school teacher and current seminary student who speaks in measured tones and preaches mutual respect.<\/p>\n
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