Possibly confirmed, though denied:
[UPDATE] Audio Appears to Confirm Talarico’s Stay at Mental Health Facility; Campaign Denies Ithttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/10/11/bombshell-audio-confirms-talaricos-stay-at-mental-health-facility-here-are-the-details-n4958210Original article
An Ohio mental health facility discharged Texas State Rep. James Talarico (D-50th District), the Democrat Party's nominee for U.S. Senate, earlier this week, according to bombshell audio that independent journalist Nick Sortor released on Sunday.
The recording answers a question that has hung over the Texas Senate race for days. Talarico went two weeks without an in-person campaign event in the state, with the general election less than a month away. His campaign claimed he was recovering from the flu, an explanation that never held up. Talarico has diabetes, which can complicate the flu, but the campaign never disclosed that as an explanation.
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On the call, Amacher asks a woman who answers the phone at the Lindner Center of Hope whether the facility has anything for James Talarico.
"It looks like he was just discharged this evening," the employee says after a long pause. "That's why I don't have it."
Amacher then asked to confirm he had the correct place, and the employee did in fact confirm he was speaking to the Lindner Center of Hope in Mason, Ohio.
(Update at the top of the article)
UPDATE: 5:40 p.m. ET Talarico campaign spokesman JT Ennis has denied the claim that the candidate stayed at a mental hospital, responding to the audio.
My emphasis. The campaign claims that Talarico was in Austin, recovering from the flu. I have a hard time believing that he was recovering from the flu for 2-3 weeks.
BTW, if the recording is real and not a fake, the woman employee carelessly violated HIPAA (a real violation, not some
Karen's How-Dare-You-Ask-That screech). Under HIPAA, employees of a healthcare facility or organization cannot even confirm, without patient permission, that a person is a patient of that facility or organization. Saying that Talarico had been discharged went beyond that, assuming this was not some sort of fake.