Tension over race and electability in the Democratic primary campaign for U. Senate in Texas burst to the surface this week over a comment attributed to one of the top candidates, James Talarico. The comment, in a private conversation with a onetime supporter, did not focus on his main rival in the Democratic primary, U.

Representative Jasmine Crockett, who is Black.

Talarico, a state representative who is white, was said to have disparaged another Black politician, former Representative Colin Allred, who dropped out of the Senate race in December, though the exact nature of the affront is in dispute.

“James Talarico told me that he signed up to run against a mediocre Black man, not a formidable and intelligent Black woman,” Morgan Thompson, a Dallas-area political content creator, said in a video over the weekend.

Talarico’s remark was then amplified by Mr. Allred, who responded in his own video.

The eruption of anger cracked the veneer of positivity that Democrats have attempted to maintain over the campaign, injecting a raw and politically sensitive debate over identity and race into the final weeks before a March 3 primary.

National Democrats are watching it closely in hopes that the seat of Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, could be in play in November

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