Joseph Ax and Helen Coster | Reuters
New York – As the video opens, Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico appears to stand in front of a Texas flag, beaming.
“Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country,” the U.S. Senate candidate seems to say into the camera. As a voice whispers “white men,” Talarico continues: “So true. So true.”
But Talarico never filmed that video. Instead, the clip is an AI-generated ad from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), the party’s Senate campaign arm, featuring a computer-altered Talarico reciting social media posts he wrote years ago. The words
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