James Talarico gets Colbert bump, with assist from FCC, as voting starts in Texas primary – as it happened
James Talarico gets the Colbert bump, with an assist from the FCC, as voting begins in Texas primaryGoogle Trends data reveals that searches for ‘James Talarico’ have spiked since Stephen Colbert revealed on Monday night that CBS had forced him not to broadcast an interview with the Texas Democrat in response to a threat from the hyper-partisan chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr.
The data shows that Talarico’s name is the third-most searched term in the United States in the past 24 hours, giving the Texas state representative a boost just in time for the start of early voting on Tuesday in the Democratic primary for US Senate, in which he is challenging Jasmine Crocketta better-known congresswoman, for the party’s nomination.
