Does a result briefly showing James Talarico with over 91.9% of the votes in the U.S. Senate race in Tarrant County, Texas, during KornackiCam on NBC prove fraud? No, that’s not true: The discrepancy appears to be a data entry error involving a missing digit in Ken Paxton’s vote count that was immediately questioned on air and revised a few minutes later. There’s no evidence that the incorrect numbers were part of any intentional effort to manipulate the election results.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @thealexpkeaton account on the Patriots Win forum on Nov. 5, 2026. It read:
WHEN THE STEAL IS TOO OBVIOUS AND YOU SCRAMBLE TO FIX IT!
This is what the post looked like on Patriots Win at the time of writing:
The accuracy of the screenshot of the post in the Patriots Win forum is confirmed by a video (archived here) of the Election Night coverage by NBC News on YouTube on Nov. 3, 2026, starting around 3:15:00.
The first image appears around the 3:15:19 mark. It’s meant to show the tally from Tarrant County with 49% of the vote. The graphic shows Talarico with 91.9% or 345,834 votes and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton with 6% or 22,403 votes. NBC analyst Steve Kornacki immediately questioned the numbers, saying:
Can we put a pin in this and just get some clarity here? … This seems out of whack. Sometimes that happens … Sometimes there can be sort of data entry errors, these sorts of things.
A few minutes later, Kornacki said they were taking back the Tarrant County number:
That was so crazy… We’re going to revise it. So, forget you ever saw that.
At about 3:18:55, NBC reposted its revised Tarrant County tally, which showed Talarico with the same 345,834 votes, but with 59.8% of the vote. Paxton’s numbers changed by exactly 202,000 votes from the original 22,403, giving him 224,403 or 38.8%…