I am in the back pew, the only reporter watching this former teacher command a crowd of a few dozen congregants with nary an empty row, shortly after becoming the subject of the kind of national media attention other campaigns would murder for. Stephen Colbert turned Talarico into a household name after alleging CBS was blocking him from airing his interview with the rising Democrat. “Donald Trump is worried that we're about to flip Texas,” Talarico said in the interview, which was posted to YouTube and quickly drew almost 9 million views. The attention helped him rake in $2.5 million in donations in 24 hours and 4,000 new volunteers.