Paxton has started placing wanted posters across Texas.
“Missing posters are popping up across Texas as the search continues. LAST SEEN: 12 days ago,” Paxton wrote on X this morning. “Texans everywhere are asking: where is James Talarico?”
🚨 MISSING: James Talarico
Missing posters are popping up across Texas as the search continues.
LAST SEEN: 12 days ago.
Texans everywhere are asking: where is James Talarico? pic.twitter.com/t6SZG92fge
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 8, 2026
In another post, Paxton wrote, “Michael Jordan played through the flu and won an NBA championship, but Low-T Talarico is too fragile to step out of the shadows with a cough.”
Paxton also trolled him with another wanted poster graphic that reads, “Use caution when approaching! Talarico is mentally fragile, easily overwhelmed, and prone to illness.”
“Jimmy appears to be having a full-blown mental Tala-freak-out on the national stage,” the Texas Republican wrote on X. “My campaign has a simple request: proof of life.”
Jimmy appears to be having a full-blown mental Tala-freak-out on the national stage.
My campaign has a simple request: proof of life. pic.twitter.com/pzCXWmpbdN
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 8, 2026
Trump, in a statement, said they’re looking for Talarico in “probably even weirder places than anyone would think possible.” Perhaps he’s still at the Phoenix Bar in New York, the gay bar where he apparently held a September 30 fundraiser last week, right after Talarico’s September 28 fundraiser with TDS-infected actor Robert DeNiro and allies of NYC Mayor Zohran Mandani.
On September 30, Talarico appeared virtually at a United States Hispanic Business Council forum, where he claimed he had a so-called flu diagnosis while broadcasting from a hotel room– somewhere.
” I was starting to feel kind of under the weather a few days ago, and last night it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas,” he said.
“And I was diagnosed with the flu, and so uh I’m running a fever, and I’m my most contagious uh right now.”
WATCH:
More than a week after his “diagnosis” and 12 days since his last in-person sighting in Texas, Trump’s wondering, “What’s going on?”
“12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug,” Trump said.
“We need a Senator that’s a proven Champion like one that has been, without question, the Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas, and one of the Greatest in the U.S.A. His name is Ken Paxton, and he will never let you down!”
TalaFREAKo has been missing for 12 days! Now, after looking for him throughout all of Texas, and beyond, probably even weirder places than anyone would think possible, he put out a statement that he has the “flu.” 12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug. What’s going on? We need a Senator that’s a proven Champion like one that has been, without question, the Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas, and one of the Greatest in the U.S.A. His name is Ken Paxton, and he will never let you down! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Late on Wednesday night, Trump also commented on Talarico’s prolonged absence from the campaign trail, suggesting “bad rumors are coming out” and calling on him to debate Ken Paxton.
Talarico responded, claiming he’s ready to debate and saying to Paxton, “ball’s in your court.”
Trump: “TalaFREAKo is Missing in Action… Bad Rumors Are Coming Out” – Talarico Responds
