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James Talarico OppScore Rating: -1.22

James Talarico is a Democrat U.S. Senator representative for Texas and holds an OppScore of -1.22. OppScore is a nonpartisan political rating system that scores politicians from -5.00 to +5.00 across the Five Points of Opportunity, using published voting records and public disclosures.

James Talarico is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. An eighth-generation Texan born in Round Rock in 1989, he taught sixth-grade language arts in San Antonio after earning a government degree from UT Austin and a master's in education policy from Harvard. His record in the Texas House centers on public education funding and bipartisan reforms to lower prescription drug costs.

James Talarico rating summary

• Party: Democrat
• Office: U.S. Senator
• State: Texas
• OppScore: -1.22 on a -5.00 to +5.00 scale
• Score basis: Record based, documented on 38 of 44 scored questions

What is on this profile

• Five Points of Opportunity score breakdown
• Voting record and legislative history
• Campaign finance and donor disclosures
• Dirt Alerts and accountability reporting
• Score trend over time

Primary sources

• Ballotpedia profile

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