Texas Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico saw a boost in campaign cash and had his profile skyrocket amid a war of words between Stephen Colbert, CBS and the Trump administration over his spiked The Late Show interview.
Colbert said that the network’s lawyers told him that Talarico, a state legislator from Austin, could not appear on the show.
This comes as early voting for the Senate primaries in Texas began on Tuesday.
As of Wednesday morning, the taped-but-never-aired interview that Colbert’s show posted on YouTube had garnered 5.2 million views.
Talarico’s campaign, which also posted it, announced that he had raised $2.5 million in the past 24 hours off the controversy.
open image in gallery Stephen Colbert said that CBS News banned him from broadcasting his interview with Texas State Representative James Talarico ( The Late Show with Stephen Colbert/YouTube ).
Colbert for his part does not seem deterred from the tussle with CBS. »