Claim Check · Elections
“James Talarico has been missing for 12 days and put out a statement that he has the flu.”
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Donald Trump accurately claimed that James Talarico was absent from the campaign trail for 12 days due to a reported flu diagnosis.
A headline from CNN notes James Talarico's '12-day absence from trail' became political fodder during the Texas Senate race. Additionally, The Independent reports that Trump attacked Talarico for being 'MISSING IN ACTION,' while noting that Talarico's absence from the campaign trail was indeed due to a flu diagnosis. Although the excerpts do not explicitly reproduce the exact text of Talarico's statement, they confirm both the 12-day absence and the flu explanation.
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