Just days into his Senate campaign, James Talarico is making his Christian faith a centerpiece of what will be an uphill battle to strip one of Texas’s Senate seats out of the hands of Republicans .

On Tuesday, Talarico launched his bid to challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) with a campaign video that emphasized his Presbyterian background, and in the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he again invoked Christianity as a shared ideal.

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