James Talarico Takes Aim At War In Iran: 'Always Enough Money To Bomb People On The Other Side Of The World'

Texas State Rep. James Talarico took aim at the ongoing war in Iran, questioning the amount of money spent in the conflict instead of investing it at home.

Speaking on CBS News, Talarico said he "saw how military disasters like the Iraq war robbed this nation of young lives, billions of dollars, and our moral standing in the world," adding that he worries "that our current leaders are repeating those same mistakes."

He went on to say he visited a community in Texas that doesn't have running water, any basic sewer infrastructure," and highlighted that "every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is a dollar we're not spending in our communities at home."

"We're always told we don't have money for schools or healthcare or veterans. But there's always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world. We can support the democracy movement in Iran, prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, all without bombing innocent schoolchildren and sending our American troops off to die on the other side of the world," he concluded.

Now the Democratic candidate to the U.S. Senate for Texas, Talarico has been weighing in on matters dominating the national conversation. He has also been making headlines himself considering he could get Democrats a national seat in the state for the first time in decades.

A new poll showed he is currently beating both Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn in hypothetical matchups.

Conducted by Public Policy Polling, it showed the Democratic candidate beating Paxton by 2 percentage points (47%-45%) and Cornyn by 1 (44%-43%), although there is a larger amount of people who are not sure who they would support in the latter race.

The survey was conducted between March 4 and 5 and were 30% Democrat, 41% Republican and 30% independent, Yahoo News noted.

Talarico has taken aim at both candidates, saying last week that they are "extraordinarily weak." "Paxton and Cornyn, they're different. Paxton was guilty of illegal corruption. That's why my colleagues and I impeached him in the Texas House. But Cornyn is guilty of legalized corruption. He was the deciding vote on the Big, Ugly, Bill which kicked millions of Texas off their health care, took food out of the mouths of hungry Texas kids all to give tax breaks to his donors," he claimed.