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A Democratic candidate for a Texas local government post who touted his connections to the Biden administration has been charged with faking racist messages that he used in his campaign. Taral Patel, who is running for Fort Bend County Precinct 3 commissioner, faces a third-degree felony charge for online impersonation and a Class A misdemeanor charge for misrepresentation of identity, according to KTRK-TV in Houston. Patel allegedly set up social media accounts to send him posts that called him a variety of names and then used the messages he sent himself as fodder for a news release in which…

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