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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer never sleeps The Kooner Report weekend edition on

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Speaker 2: Joining us now as she always does at this time.

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Speaker 2: She is the co founder, CEO, and president of Kelly

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Speaker 2: Kelly Kelly, How.

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Speaker 3: Are you good morning, Jeff, I am good. You know

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Speaker 3: Kelly at Kellyfinancial dot org. Jeff. I'll continue this conversation

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Speaker 3: rewind Jeff, have a wonderful weekend. My best of Grace

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Speaker 3: and the kiddos.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Kelly, all the best to you and everyone

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Speaker 2: or you can actually email Kelly herself personally Kelly at

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Speaker 2: Kellyfinancial dot org. That's Kelly at Kelly Financial dot org. Okay,

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Speaker 2: my friends, So I just want to read a couple

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Speaker 2: of messages and then go right back to the phone

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Speaker 2: lines because I think they make a very interesting point.

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Speaker 2: This is from Charles Jeff on messenger. Jeff, say what

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Speaker 2: you will about Christine Holmes's husband, but honestly, I have

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Speaker 2: a lot of respect for him. Most would have left

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Speaker 2: a long time ago. He meant it when he said

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Speaker 2: I do to her for better or for worse, and

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Speaker 2: that's you doesn't happen in our country anymore. Charles in Florida, Charles,

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Speaker 2: that is very true. That is that I have to say,

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Speaker 2: that is very true. Okay, this is from the text

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Speaker 2: line seven eight to one, Jeff. Something that you're not

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Speaker 2: mentioning that needs to be said. There is a double

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Speaker 2: standard in our society when it comes to spouse's cheating.

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Speaker 2: When a man cheats on his wife, it is considered

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Speaker 2: more acceptable than when a woman cheats on her husband.

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Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons why Christy Nome was

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Speaker 2: forced out. It's okay if a man does it, but

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Speaker 2: it's not okay if a woman does it. Interesting. Interesting anyway,

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Speaker 2: six one, seven two, six, six, sixty eight sixty eight

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Speaker 2: is the number. Okay. Someone mentioned Ken Paxton the Save Act.

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Speaker 2: So this huge, huge developing story. As you know, there

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Speaker 2: were elections this week and in these primaries, one of

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Speaker 2: the biggest was in Texas where they had three candidates

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Speaker 2: vying to three candidates too, vying to challenge sitting US

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Speaker 2: Senator John Cornyn. He is John Thune's right hand man.

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Speaker 2: He is a Rhino through and through. As I've pointed

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Speaker 2: out on X he has been an enemy of Trump's

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Speaker 2: He has tried to block Trump's appointees. He is pro amnesty.

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Speaker 2: He has tried to undermine the president again and again

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Speaker 2: and again. But he is the sitting Republican US Senator

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Speaker 2: Ken Paxton. By the way, Cornin spent nearly one hundred

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Speaker 2: million dollars in his primary campaign. Ken Paxton barely spent

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Speaker 2: four million. He is the former state attorney general. He

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Speaker 2: is a tough, pit bull MAGA candidate all the way.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's hardcore Maga. Cornyn barely beat Paxton forty

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Speaker 2: one percent to forty percent. The other candidate, Wesley Hunt,

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Speaker 2: was a distant third. Now why is this important? In Texas?

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Speaker 2: You have to win by fifty you have to have

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Speaker 2: fifty percent plus one. So this is now triggered a

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Speaker 2: runoff between the top two candidates. The election is going

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Speaker 2: to be held, what is it next month? So what's

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Speaker 2: going to happen? Ken Paxton actually primary and defeat John Cornyn.

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Speaker 2: The polls right now show Paxton would beat Cornyn. It

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Speaker 2: would be very close, very tight, but pack would beat

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Speaker 2: Cornyn thereby knocking off a rhino, and we would have

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Speaker 2: a full throated MAGA candidate who most likely would win

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Speaker 2: in November. Texas is a red state. The Democrats have

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Speaker 2: put up a very weak Democrat candidate, so Ken Paxton

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Speaker 2: could very easily be the next Senator from Texas, and

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Speaker 2: he would truly be one of ours. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: a Trump Maga guy all the way. Trump now has

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Speaker 2: come out and said he's going to make a decision.

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Speaker 2: He's going to make an endorsement. And the reason is

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Speaker 2: they're starting to spend so much money on this primary

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Speaker 2: in Texas. It's turning into a bloodbath. And the fear

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Speaker 2: is as Cornyn and Paxton now just you know, go

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Speaker 2: at each other's throats, this is going to eat up

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Speaker 2: a their credibility and their popularity, and they're going to

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Speaker 2: be squandering probably hundreds of millions of dollars. By the

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Speaker 2: time they're done, it could leave an opening for the Democrats.

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Speaker 2: So to prevent this primary blood bath, Trump says, look,

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Speaker 2: we can't have ourselves fighting in Texas. Texas should be

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Speaker 2: an easy hold for us. We've got to try to

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Speaker 2: retain our majority, and that's not by us fighting amongst

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Speaker 2: ourselves in Texas. So President Trump has come out and

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Speaker 2: said he's going to make a decision, and this is

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Speaker 2: the key that whoever he endorses, he wants the other

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Speaker 2: candidate to then drop out of the race. If he

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Speaker 2: picks Paxton, Cornyn should just drop out and it's over.

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Speaker 2: He picks Cornyn, Paxton should drop out, and it's over. Paxton, however,

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Speaker 2: came out and then said, well, hold on, Now, I

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Speaker 2: love Trump, I love his agenda. I want to vote

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Speaker 2: to you know, in act as agenda, but I think

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Speaker 2: it should be up to the people of Texas in

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Speaker 2: particular Conservatives, Republicans, MAGA supporters. Maybe Trump endorses Cornin and

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Speaker 2: the people disagree, so we should hold the primary election

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Speaker 2: no matter what, and whoever wins wins. Trump has seen

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Speaker 2: this now as an act of betrayal by Paxton. He's

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Speaker 2: let it be known he's furious at Paxton. And so

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Speaker 2: what looked likely a couple nights ago, which is that

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Speaker 2: Trump was going to endorse Paxton because Paxton is much

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Speaker 2: more on his Mago wavelength. Now people are saying, for

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Speaker 2: this defiance he may actually get he may actually endorse

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Speaker 2: cornn Here it is Paxton now has come out and

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Speaker 2: said he's willing to fall on his sword. Listen to this. Ken.

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Speaker 2: Paxton has said, I will drop out right now, regardless

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Speaker 2: of who Trump endorses, if, because remember Cornyn is Thune's

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Speaker 2: right hand man. Thune ran to Fox News, he can't

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Speaker 2: pass the Save Act. He doesn't have time for that,

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Speaker 2: but he's got time to advocate and shill for John

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Speaker 2: Cornyan to be the next Senator from Texas to try

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Speaker 2: to save Corn's bacon and so Ken Paxton said, I

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Speaker 2: John Thune and his number two, John Cornyn, publicly say

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Speaker 2: we are going to kill the filibuster, end it, and

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Speaker 2: we are going to pass the Save Act. Doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: if the Democrats oppose, will override their opposition, and no

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Speaker 2: matter what, we will make the Save Act the law

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Speaker 2: of the land to stop democratic voter fraud and to

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Speaker 2: save our country. So the question now is will Cornyn

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Speaker 2: and Thune take the deal. In other words, Boxton is saying,

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Speaker 2: I'll give up any chance of winning the Senate seat.

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Speaker 2: I'll give up my political ambitions in exchange for you

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Speaker 2: guys ending the filibuster and finally passing the Save Act.

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Speaker 2: All eyes now are on Texas. Who will Trump endorse

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Speaker 2: and will soon finally do the right thing and get

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Speaker 2: the Save Act passed.

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