德克萨斯州民主党参议员提名人詹姆斯·塔拉里科正面临来自其政治后院内部的持续挫折，原因是原定于10月5日举行、由一个黑人公民服务团体组织的活动被取消。
Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico is facing lingering frustration from inside his own political backyard over the cancellation of an event that was supposed to take place on Oct. 5 with a Black civic-service group.
得克萨斯州中部非裔美国人公民参与研讨会（CT-AACES）在一封电子邮件中表达了深深的挫败感，该邮件发送给塔拉里科竞选团队，并被福克斯新闻数字版获取。邮件指出，由于塔拉里科因病在竞选道路上缺席两周，竞选团队取消了原定的活动——该活动已有325人确认报名。
The Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium (CT-AACES) expressed deep frustration in an email, sent to the Talarico campaign and obtained by Fox News Digital, after the campaign cancelled an event – which had 325 confirmed registrants – during Talarico's two-week absence from the campaign trail due to illness.
CT-AACES表示，取消导致他们遭受“无法挽回的经济损失”，并且塔拉里科的竞选团队未进行重新安排的努力。邮件中写道：“虽然我们理解塔拉里科众议员的健康需要优先考虑，但我们对竞选团队直接宣布取消而非承诺重新安排日期的决定深感失望。” “这是塔拉里科众议员直接回应社区质疑、展示他对中部得克萨斯州非裔美国人承诺诚意的错失机会。”
CT-AACES said the cancellation left them with "irrecoverable financial loss," and that Talarico's campaign had not engaged in rescheduling efforts "While we understand Representative Talarico’s health required priority, we are deeply disappointed by the campaign’s decision to issue a flat cancellation rather than committing to a rescheduled date," the email reads. "It was a missed opportunity for Representative Talarico to directly address community skepticism and demonstrate the sincerity of his commitment to Central Texas African Americans."
此次取消是塔拉里科竞选团队与黑人社区之间紧张关系的最新例证。它也对其通过2500万美元外联承诺以动员黑人选民的努力效果提出质疑，该承诺是否真的深入基层仍存疑。
The cancellation is the most recent instance of the tensions that Talarico's campaign has faced with the Black community. It also casts doubt on the effectiveness of his efforts to reach Black voteBlack voters through a $25 million outreach pledge aimed at mobilizing black voters is fully reaching the ground.
塔拉里科的失踪让民主党志愿者担忧，特朗普也在追问：“到底发生了什么？” 这种挫败感并非仅限于CT-AACES。
The frustration isn’t isolated to CT-AACES.
至少一位曾直接与塔拉里科会面的奥斯汀地区民主党工作者告诉福克斯新闻数字版，她对他在向黑人民主党人和下 ballot 候选人进行外联时的跟进不均感到沮丧。
At least one Austin-area Democratic operative who has met directly with Talarico told Fox News Digital that she remains frustrated by what she described as uneven follow-through on outreach to Black Democrats and candidates further down the ballot.
“黑人选民不是一个整体，”消息来源警告说，驳斥了对德州黑人普遍不信任塔拉里科的绝对化断言。”我认为确实存在一些人持这种看法。也有一些人不持这种看法。还有另一些人真的拿不定主意，”她说。
"Black voters aren't a monolith," the source cautioned, rejecting any blanket assertion that Black Texans distrust Talarico outright. "I think that there are pockets that do. There's a pocket that doesn’t. And then there's the pocket that's really unsure," she said.
这位曾为塔拉里科之前的州众议院席位参选、并接受福克斯新闻数字版采访的内部人士，对这位提名人以及奥斯汀地区的民主党组织格局尤为熟悉。
The operative, who previously ran for Talarico's prior state House seat and spoke to Fox News Digital, is particularly familiar with the nominee and the Democratic organizing landscape in the Austin region.
当被问及一项用于在黑人社区开展挨家挨户敲门活动、举办线下社区活动以及与黑人教会互动的2500万美元投资时，消息来源表示这些投资尚未落地。
Asked about a $25 million investment to focus on door-knocking in Black neighborhoods, in-person community events and engagement with Black churches, the source said those investments haven’t manifested yet.
“我们还没有收到这笔钱，但被告知它即将到位，”她谈到自己从基层听到的一些情况时说。“我们实际上只收到了被告知将获得的资金的1%或2%。之后就一直没有音讯了，”她说。
"We haven't received the money, but we're being told it's coming," she said of some accounts she has heard from the ground. "We received, you know, one or 2% of what we were told we were going to get. And then it's been silence since," she said.
这些言论是在塔拉里科上周参加一个黑人选民联盟Zoom会议之后出现的。他在会上简短地谈到了“投入资金……时间……和精力以取得胜利”，随后他的画面据称在没有公开问答环节的情况下从通话中消失。在塔拉里科于7月休斯顿市政厅会议上宣布2500万美元承诺时，护士坎迪斯·韦伯在活动即将结束时质问他，要求他留下来回答问题。
The comments come after Talarico appeared on a Black voter coalition Zoom last week, delivering brief remarks about "put[ting] in the money … time … and effort to win" before his feed disappeared from the call reportedly without a public question-and-answer session. At the July Houston town hall where Talarico announced the $25 million pledge, nurse Kandice Webber confronted him as the event approached its scheduled end and demanded that he remain to answer questions.
“黑人之所以不信任你，是因为这个原因，”她据《得州论坛报》报道如此说道。“而且没有我们的支持，你就赢不了，所以你留在这里回答我们的问题，否则你将承担后果，”韦伯说。
"Black people don’t trust you for this reason," she said, according to the Texas Tribune "And you cannot win without us, so you stay here and you answer our questions, or you suffer the consequences," Webber said.
在初选期间，塔拉里科还因黑人选票问题陷入争议，当时有报道称他将对手候选人、前NFL线卫科林·奥尔雷德描述为“平庸的黑人男子”。“他竟然对一个黑人女性说，他报名参选是为了对抗一个平庸的黑人男子，”奥尔雷德在发布到社交媒体的视频回应中说道。“我们应该说‘谢谢’。谢谢你摘下面具。谢谢你告诉我们你到底是谁、你到底在想什么……顺便请你闭上嘴，别提我的名字。”
During his primary, Talarico also encountered controversy over the black vote when reports surfaced the he had characterized rival candidate and former NFL linebacker Collin Allred as a "mediocre Black man." "He had the audacity to say to a Black woman that he had signed up to run against a mediocre black man," Allred said in a video response posted to "We should say ‘thank you.’Thank you for taking off the mask. Thank you for telling us who you really are and what you really think… keep my name out of your mouth while you’re at it."
塔拉里科方面则表示，该表述是对他言论的曲解，他指出自己只是说“奥尔雷德众议员的竞选方式很平庸”，并强调他“永远不会基于种族攻击他”。塔拉里科还得到了德克萨斯州民主党众议员贾斯敏·克罗克特的批评——她是他在参议院初选中的对手——因为她指责他在竞选广告中故意使她的肤色变深。
Talarico, for his part, described the wording as a mischaracterization, stating that he "described Congressman Allred’s method of campaigning as mediocre" and that he would "never attack him on the basis of race." Talarico also received criticism from Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas his primary opponent in the Senate primary, after she accused him of darkening her skin in campaign ads against her.
“你知道，我被问了好几次这件事。你知道，我作为一名民权律师，特别关注这一点。我看他们发布广告时，故意把我的肤色变深。我就像，我知道这是在干什么，对吧？”克罗克特在新闻发布会上说道。
"And you know, I've been asked a couple of times about it. And you know, I look at this specifically as a civil rights lawyer, and I see when they're sending out ads and they're darkening my skin. And I'm just like, I know what this is, right?" Crockett said at a press conference.
该负责人表示，她曾在6月的一次会议上亲自敦促塔拉里科做更多事情来背书和支持下-ballot民主党候选人，因为她从各竞选团队那里得知，捐款人已经在他的参议院竞选中用尽了政治捐款，并开始询问他是否已经背书支持那些候选人。
The operative said she personally pressed Talarico during a June meeting to do more to endorse and support down-ballot Democrats after hearing from campaigns that donors had already exhausted their political giving on his Senate bid and were asking whether he had endorsed those candidates.
福克斯新闻民意调查：塔拉里科与帕克斯顿展开得州参议院孤星对决“他非常有礼貌。他说他理解，”她对福克斯新闻数字版说道。“我多次跟进他的团队，但直到今天仍未收到任何回应，这让我非常沮丧。”福克斯新闻数字版已联系塔拉里科竞选团队，就上述表述和评论寻求回应。
"He was very gracious. He said he understood," she told Fox News Digital. "I followed up with his staff multiple times and to this day have still not heard anything, which has been really frustrating to me." Fox News Digital reached out to the Talarico campaign for a response to the characterizations and comments.