Washington DC - White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller questioned the gender identity of Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico in a bizarre Fox News appearance.
"All I can say about Talarico is that Texas is not going to elect an individual – I can't call him a man – who knows what gender he is?" Miller commented to Sean Hannity during a Fox News appearance over the weekend.
"They're not going to elect an individual, an entity, who has said the thing he loves most in the whole world is trans children," he said.
Miller was making reference to remarks Talarico made in 2021 in which he said that "God is non-binary" and defended transgender students from being excluded from sporting events because of their gender identity.
The comments, as well as other progressive causes Talarico has championed both before and during his time as a Texas State Representative, have been used relentlessly by far-right pundits and MAGA figures over recent weeks.
Such have attacks have become increasingly common since he clinched the Democratic primary nomination for the US Senate election in Texas, where he'll go up against scandal-ridden MAGA loyalist and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Miller is particularly obsessed with Talarico, writing on X in May that, "The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate."
The Democratic Party's official X account replied to Miller's bizarre attack – Talarico is male, and a practicing Christian – at the time by simply telling him to "Shut up, you ugly f**k."
"He's a weird, strange, bizarre, totally unelectable human who is never, ever, ever going to be the senator from the great state of Texas," Miller told Hannity.