1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael 2 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:24,119 Speaker 1: Very Show is on the air. I was on the 3 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: eve of going to eve. 4 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 2: Him. 5 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 1: Michael, Hi Eve. 6 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 2: I just wanted to let you know that what you 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 2: name my middle name Ellen Eve? 8 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: Ellen? Yes? 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 3: The hell? 10 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 1: How does it even work? It becomes a. 11 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,479 Speaker 2: Twin name, Amy Amy May? Wait what I have a 12 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: twin sister named Amy May? 13 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 1: How old are you. 14 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:53,320 Speaker 2: Sixty four? 15 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 1: Sixty four? 16 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:55,560 Speaker 2: Yes? 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 1: Well, okay, you sound younger than sixty four. 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:00:59,279 Speaker 2: Thank you. 19 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: What do you do for a living? 20 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 2: I am now just I just help all my grandkids. 21 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 2: I was in marketing and sales, you know, pretty much 22 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: my whole life. And I've worked as a volunteer for 23 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 2: Harris County for twenty five years, working for candidates. 24 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: Oh okay, what you got, my dear. 25 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 2: So what I wanted to say is that so I was, 26 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: I was helping stand stand Art, and I just wanted 27 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 2: to give just a kudos to you and to stand 28 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 2: and to our opponents. Your name was mentioned all the time, 29 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:37,559 Speaker 2: but I just wanted to let you know that sand 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 2: stand Art was out there every single day from seven 31 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: to seven and he never sat down and spoke to 32 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 2: every voter that he could and it was just a 33 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: really kind race. But it amazes me that the person 34 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: that we're now running against in a runoff, I really 35 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 2: rarely saw her stand up. I rarely saw her hold 36 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 2: her card up, where a stand in a suit and 37 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,480 Speaker 2: guy standing up every day is in a runoff. It's 38 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 2: just shocking to me. But we all got along. 39 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:12,359 Speaker 1: You know. I didn't support Stan, right. 40 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 2: I know, I know Polly was your choice and what 41 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,839 Speaker 2: an amazing Yeah. 42 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: I don't have anything against Stan. I've known stand alone 43 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: time not well. I do think that if I were 44 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: to if I were to say, the person who has 45 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: the closest approximation to the captain kangaroo mustache, that would 46 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 1: be Stan. Or if I were looking for a Sam 47 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: Malone stand in for a tribute band for Samulon, he 48 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: looks a lot like Sam Alone. Samulon I think stands 49 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 1: a wonderful person. I think he's perfectly lovely. I think 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: he's a great guy. Unfortunately, sometimes there is a race 51 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: where I feel a candidate that I like a particular 52 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: candidate or what they stand for or the job they'll do, 53 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: and so yeah, but I've I've never spoken ill of Stan, 54 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 1: and I don't have an intention to start. Now, thank 55 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:07,240 Speaker 1: you for saying that. Very nice. 56 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to let you know that the 57 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: guys just stand up your choice. She never she never 58 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 2: sat down. I've never brought a chair to any polling location. 59 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,280 Speaker 2: I've always stood seven to seven, whether it's two weeks, 60 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 2: three weeks, and I just really, well, yes, Pauli's amazing. 61 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: How do you not like someone has a named Polly, right? 62 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: I mean, that's just a browback name. 63 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: And you should you should meet his her son. This 64 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 2: guy was my biggest competitor I've had in twenty five years. 65 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: Good for you. I'm glad you do that. So you 66 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: got to run off to work now, yep, all right, 67 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: good luck our seal on the black line. What you got, ma, man, I. 68 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 3: Was kind of considered with the whole situation with with 69 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 3: He kind of angered me a little bit that he 70 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 3: got in the race, and I figured it would kind 71 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: of end up this way. But in your opinion, do 72 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 3: you believe that he sincerely thought that he could win 73 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 3: or somebody convinced him to get in the race from 74 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: GOP operatives in Texas may have paid him, or maybe 75 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 3: some Democrats to try to bring out this type of 76 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 3: result or runoff or lost with the vaxine. 77 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: Well, let'll put you on hope for just a second 78 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: because I'm getting a little feedback on your line. I 79 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 1: will come back to you. Ston't hang up. It's a 80 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: fair question. I get this question a fair amount. Let 81 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 1: me answer it fully because obviously it's on the minds 82 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: of a lot of people. First of all, I have 83 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: known Wesley Hunt since before he began running for in 84 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: the first race. I supported him very hard to Beatie 85 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: Lizzie Fletcher. Lizzie Fletcher is a dangerous Democrat because she 86 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: is the most deadly combination of She is whip smart, 87 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: I mean whip smart. She is a very analytical, sharp mind. 88 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: I had a judge tell me, an appellate court judge 89 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 1: tell me that in his years on the bench, the 90 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: best presentation he ever saw delivered in his courtroom was 91 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: from a young lawyer, long before she was in Congress, 92 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: long before her political views were known, named Lizzie Fletcher. 93 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: And I respect this particular judges judgment discernment to a 94 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: great degree. I have had other people tell me that 95 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: and she is that, and she is her politics are awful, 96 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: and that she is ruthless politically and she's dangerous. So 97 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,440 Speaker 1: I supported Wesley Hunt. Wesley was introduced to me as 98 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: a guy that had some support to run for that seat, 99 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: and I desperately wanted to beat Lizzie Fletcher, and so 100 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: that was my original intention. I liked he looked good 101 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: on paper, it's a smart guy, and we became very close. 102 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 1: When I get involved in a race, I will talk 103 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: to a candidate thirty times in a day. We will 104 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: be texting till two o'clock in the morning, We'll be 105 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: texting the next morning at six fifteen. I will be 106 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: sending data points, quotes, ideas. I will be introducing people 107 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: back and forth. I get very very involved when I 108 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 1: want to win a race, and so in that process 109 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: we tend to develop very close friendships. And so Wesley 110 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 1: became a good friend when he lost that race, which 111 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: was a hell of a well run race. That was 112 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: an attempt to take back they said at the congressional district, 113 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: which which was which was the old George Bush and 114 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: Bill Archer district that was always kind of a country 115 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: club Republican district, and there was always the fear that 116 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 1: the right demo and then they redistricted that thing and 117 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: Lizzie won it, and Wesley ran one hell of a 118 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: race the next day. I knew he was devastated. I 119 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: knew he thought his political career was over. And I 120 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: started texting him while we were on the show, and 121 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: he didn't answer for about an hour, and I said, 122 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: pick the GD phone up now, and he did, and 123 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,440 Speaker 1: he was clearly devastated. And I said, I will meet 124 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 1: you at noon at El Tempo on West Timer. This 125 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: reason for this story. I'll meet you at noon at 126 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 1: L Tempo on West Timer, and you will be there. 127 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 1: And he started into the mimiument and I said you 128 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: will be there, and he did. And we sat there 129 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: until I had to leave it probably for and we 130 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: wore some nachos out and we solved the world's problems. 131 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 1: And at four when we left, we hugged and I 132 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: knew he was going to be fine, and he was. 133 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: And the thirty eighth came up and he ran and 134 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,200 Speaker 1: he won, and we have remained very good friends. But 135 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: the question that deserves to be asked was did he 136 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: run with the intention to win? Or was he put 137 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: there as this woller? And I will answer that question 138 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,679 Speaker 1: thoroughly coming up. I just want you to understand before 139 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: I answer how much I liked the guy. So I 140 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 1: answered to the question about Wesley Hunt. I think it's 141 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 1: important to understand where I stand with people before I 142 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,600 Speaker 1: give you my opinion of them, so that if you 143 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: want to question whether I am biased or not, you 144 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: have the full bit of information, because it wouldn't be 145 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: fair otherwise. So I like Wesley Hunt. I consider him 146 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: a friend. My son, my old son, Michael T, interned 147 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 1: for him last summer in Washington, d C. Which was 148 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: pretty cool because the Big Beautiful Bill was making its 149 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: way through Congress. So I went and stayed in d 150 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: C and just broadcast from a hotel room there. I 151 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: think maybe five of you noticed that I wasn't in studio, 152 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: which is good. So I spent almost all of the 153 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 1: summer in d C broadcasting from a hotel room there, 154 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: and Crockett interned for Morgan Latrelle, and Michael T's girlfriend 155 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,719 Speaker 1: intern for Randy Weber, and so I was probably a 156 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: little more engaged in the internal workings of The Big 157 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill than I would have been otherwise, just because 158 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: at dinner every night I made him tell me, you know, 159 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: what are you learning? What are you what are your thoughts? 160 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 1: What are you know? I think it was a great experience. 161 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: It was a really interesting time to intern. Wesley was 162 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: the first call I made when Michael t said he 163 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: wanted to intern in DC because of our friendship. When 164 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,400 Speaker 1: Wesley said to me he wanted to get into the 165 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: Senate race, I told him not to. I said, bad idea. 166 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: Paxton is going to win. You don't have a chance, 167 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: and I really want to see corn defeated. Do not run. 168 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: Terrible idea. I don't know who is filling your head, 169 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: but don't do it. But I was sympathetic because I've 170 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: been a candidate myself. When I got elected to city council, 171 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: I was the first Republican elected citywide. I was a 172 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: white guy. I don't know if y'all noticed in what 173 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:51,439 Speaker 1: was considered a black seat. 174 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 3: I was. 175 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,320 Speaker 1: I was, and this will surprise some of you, but 176 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 1: I was very high on me because I think I'm 177 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: the best. And so when I went to run a 178 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: lot of people who had supported me for city council 179 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: did not support me for mayor. And interestingly, Orlando Sanchez, 180 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:15,680 Speaker 1: who was in the runoff for County judge. It was 181 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: Orlando sanchest Bill White and Sylvester Turner, and Sylvester ended 182 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: up in fourth in that race. I went back at 183 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 1: the last minute on filing day and went back into 184 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: another city council seat, and that was Sheila Jackson Lee's seat, 185 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: which was considered the black seats. Actually the first seat 186 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 1: I was in was not the black seat. The second 187 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: seat was. But I had won all the black precincts. 188 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: I had raised more money than had ever been raised 189 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,479 Speaker 1: in a city council race, and it was for a newcomer, 190 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 1: and I just thought I was great, and you could 191 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: not talk me into not running. And so I believe, 192 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: and I had never failed at anything I had put 193 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 1: my mind to. I'd never failed anything I ever wanted 194 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: that I focused on. I went after. I mean, I'm 195 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: not saying I batted seven fifty baseball, but I whatever 196 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: I put my mind to, I always did. So I 197 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 1: didn't believe I could fail, and I pretty much don't now. 198 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: But anyway, that can be a dangerous but necessary trait 199 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: for people running for office that the average person cannot understand. 200 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: You cannot understand that you are not a good judge 201 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,120 Speaker 1: of You're not a good handicapper. You believe in yourself. 202 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: And when people tell you not to do something, you 203 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: don't perceive it as they love me, they care about me, 204 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:32,959 Speaker 1: they wish the best for me, they have good discernment. 205 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:36,439 Speaker 1: You view it as I'll show you and you'll come around, 206 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 1: and you have to do that right. Tom Brady never 207 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,959 Speaker 1: gave up on himself when nobody else believed in himself, 208 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: in him, Okay, but when Wesley got into the race 209 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: and they're shot. And see, here's the thing, A lot 210 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 1: of people, if you study elections the way I do, 211 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: and you've been around them, and you've been in them, 212 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,320 Speaker 1: and you've studied I watch a goofy I watch YouTube 213 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: channels more than one on elections, and you study how 214 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: John Ossoff won his race in Georgia. There was no 215 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:10,320 Speaker 1: way he was going to run that race to win 216 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 1: that race, No way, when you study how races are won. 217 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: A friend of mine ran the another cut race against 218 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: sitting Speaker of the House Tom Foley, the first time 219 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:21,600 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House had been defeated in his own 220 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: congressional seat in like eighty years. It just never happens. 221 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: And Matt Bracy from Texas went up there and ran 222 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: that race and won you can win races that people 223 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: think you can't win, and then when you win the race, 224 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: everybody says, yeah, well of course, I mean that's what 225 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: you know. You just know. You don't know that, you 226 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: don't know what will happen. So the question people would 227 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 1: ask was, well, why would he give up a congressional seat. 228 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: This is going to come as a shock, serve me 229 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: in Congress is not very glamorous congressman. Get I saw 230 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 1: Ted Poe one time at the air work and he's 231 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: carrying his bags both hands, and he's not a young man. 232 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,720 Speaker 1: And I didn't know but he was ill. I didn't 233 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: know this. He had a cancer, I believe, some condition. 234 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: And he looked tired and he looked terrible. And I 235 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: always called him Judge, and I said, Judge, how are you? 236 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: He's Michael, I'm tired and beat. This is rough. And 237 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: he was flying back and forth because it was important 238 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 1: to him sleep in his bed in Houston and to 239 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: be in the district every week, which most people don't do. 240 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,240 Speaker 1: So being a congressman, I think Wesley Hunt had figured 241 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: out was not something. He's not a guy that is 242 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: going to hang around like a Tom Delay and just 243 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: work his way up and serve on committees and grind. 244 00:14:43,160 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: There are very few people who are going to do that. 245 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: AOC is not one of those people either. There are 246 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: very few people who are going to do that. Crenshaw 247 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: wasn't one of those people. You got to be a grinder, 248 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: you got to be patient, and Wesley wasn't that. So 249 00:14:57,720 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: giving up one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars, which 250 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: is a lot of money, Wesley will make that in 251 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: the corporate world. If he lost, he could still win 252 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: because he was going to put on a good showing. 253 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: But if you asked me, did he believe he was 254 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: going to win? He believes he had a fighter's chance. Absolutely, 255 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: he did not run that race. Now, the one thing 256 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: that I will assure you is he did not get 257 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: in that race as a spoiler. Did not He got 258 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: in the race to win. And I will tell you this, 259 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: and this is not a criticism of Trump. I will 260 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: tell you this. Both Paxton and Wesley believed that Trump 261 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: was going to endorse them, and they both whether they 262 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: admitted or not. There's a lot of private conversations I've had, 263 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: and I wish I will put my credibility on the 264 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 1: line when I tell you, they both genuinely believed that 265 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: Trump was going to endorse one or the other of them, 266 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 1: and that it was going to happen early enough that 267 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: it could sway the race. They both believed that would 268 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: not have entered the race if he thought Trump would 269 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: not endorse all the way till the very end. I 270 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: will tell you that with absolutely one hundred percent of 271 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: my credibility that I may or may not have with you, 272 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: but whatever eun's the credibility I have with you, trust me. 273 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: He got into that race believing. Now you could say 274 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 1: that was unreasonable for him to believe that you don't 275 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: know what he knew, and you don't know what I knew. 276 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: So when he got into that race, he got into 277 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: that race to win. I will assure you that you 278 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 1: can be mad at a lot of things. You can 279 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: claim he's the reason for the run off. Theres this race, 280 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 1: and I want to talk about this race. This race 281 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: is a lot more complicated than people realize. I'd never 282 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: met Trump before he ran for president in twenty sixteen, 283 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: but I had studied his career closely. I knew most 284 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: everything there was to know about him that was in 285 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: any way a bit of public information, and I believed 286 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: that he was running as a lark, as a way 287 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:07,280 Speaker 1: to build his brand and enjoy the attention, because he 288 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:10,920 Speaker 1: had done things like that before, in the same way 289 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 1: that William F. Buckley ran for mayor of New York 290 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: or Teddy Roosevelt ran for mayor of New York. It 291 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: was kind of ego play, a vanity play. Nobody believed 292 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: that he could win. Nobody nobody believed he would last 293 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: till January, when Jeff Sessions came out and endorsed him. 294 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 1: He was the first Senator to do so, which is 295 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,280 Speaker 1: why he ended up as Attorney General and ended up 296 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: that that that appointment was what was a disaster that 297 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: unraveled for several years after if you remember Sessions stepping anyway, 298 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 1: let me not golfing that nobody believed Trump was serious, 299 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: Nobody believed he would hang around all of those things. 300 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:04,120 Speaker 1: When Bob Lanier ran for mayor in nineteen ninety one, 301 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,120 Speaker 1: it was shocking because he'd been the Metro chairman, and 302 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: he'd been Kathy Whitmyer's Metro chairman. And when he announced 303 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: he was running, it was late summer, early fall, and 304 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 1: he had what was a dream team at the time, 305 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 1: including Dave Walden, and he had some he had Mark Composts, 306 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: he had he had some of the really really sharp minds. Now, 307 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,640 Speaker 1: these these guys throw elbows, I know all of them. 308 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: But Lanier, Lanier recruited Sylvester into the race against Kathy 309 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: Whitmyer once he got him good and in there, so 310 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: he so Sylvester could pull the Black vote away. The 311 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: whole time Lanier is plotting behind the scenes for Lanier 312 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: to get into that race. And Lanier is going to 313 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:09,960 Speaker 1: get just to the right of Kathy. And when all 314 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: the Republican votes, well, how do you get the Republicans 315 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 1: to show up and vote In nineteen ninety one in 316 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: a Democrat primary for a guy who was Dick Gepart's 317 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: finance chairman. He went to Climber, right, who was a 318 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: right wing activist, and he got Climber to get these 319 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,080 Speaker 1: signatures to get a term limits bill put on the ballot. 320 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: Nothing gets the base fired up like term limits and 321 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: fear of gun control. Those are the issues that people 322 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: get really really fired up about. So he got Climber 323 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,719 Speaker 1: to get the Republicans to come out and vote on 324 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 1: that basis. When Lanier got in, I went to as 325 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,719 Speaker 1: I always did. I went to the announcement and I 326 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 1: remember talking to a newspaper reporter. I was a student 327 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: by president of the University of Houston. I was a 328 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: nobody in town, but I went to every gathering where 329 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 1: politics was being talked about, and people were gracious to 330 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: let me sit there. I was twenty one years old, 331 00:20:06,359 --> 00:20:10,320 Speaker 1: and it was a joke. Lanier was running for mayor. 332 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:14,679 Speaker 1: This guy lived on River Oaks Boulevard. He had the 333 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: most prized rose collection. He was wealthy. He once said 334 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: to a reporter who came over to do an interview. 335 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: He was out in the back and nobody answered the door, 336 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: or they answered door and said, oh, mister Lanier's out back. 337 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: So the reporter went out back and he was sitting 338 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: with his back to the reporter, with his boots on, 339 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 1: wealthy developer that he was. And the reporter said, mister Lanier, 340 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:40,480 Speaker 1: what are you doing? And he said, I'm sitting out 341 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: here thinking what a rich mfor I am. And that 342 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: made its way with mfor as the initials end of 343 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 1: the pack. This wasn't a guy who was running for real. 344 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: He was running for real, and he won and he 345 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: became a three term mayor. Why three terms because from 346 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 1: limits passed and it limited how long he could be 347 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: in uncity council. We'd go back to the terms. Wesley 348 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,920 Speaker 1: believed that Trump would support him, and he had every 349 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,639 Speaker 1: right to believe that. He had every reasonable right to 350 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: believe that. If you remember, Wesley was being carried around 351 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 1: the country by Trump on his private plane. There are 352 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:29,919 Speaker 1: multiple occasions where you will see Trump exit exit. Trump 353 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 1: won when he's not president, but everybody knows he's going 354 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,919 Speaker 1: to run for reelection, and right under his armpit is 355 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt. Every Republican in this country would like to 356 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: be in that position, but he had Wesley Hunt there. 357 00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:51,800 Speaker 1: He bragged on him. He made Trump does things for 358 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,720 Speaker 1: show when he wants you to know something, and he 359 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,639 Speaker 1: made sure everybody saw him in Wesley Hunt. I'm not 360 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 1: trying to tell you Wesley Hunt is a saying or 361 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: you should like him. I just want you to understand 362 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: he did not get into that race as a spoiler. 363 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: Start with that's number one. Number two, I will tell 364 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: you without disclosing. There are things I have to be 365 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,440 Speaker 1: careful I don't disclose because when you burn your sources, 366 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,879 Speaker 1: then you lose them, and that would affect my ability 367 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: to do my job. You can just take note that 368 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 1: Ken Paxton never once criticized Wesley Hunt. Never once, nor 369 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: did Wesley Hunt ever criticize Ken Paxton. From the day 370 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: corn and from the day Hunt got into the race, 371 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: Cornan was trashing him. I mean very personal, very personal, 372 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 1: and as the Swamp does, just like the Democrat Party, 373 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: they have to have a black guy do it. So 374 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: they had Tim Scott from South Carolina up there with 375 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 1: his mister bo Jangles thing. He does. I'm the black 376 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,719 Speaker 1: guy here. What y'all need me to do? Y'all let 377 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: me in the room, because that's what he does. That's 378 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: the role he plays. He plays the token black guy. 379 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 1: He plays it to perfection. It's all he's useful for. 380 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: And he knows it. They know it, everybody knows it. 381 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: And so they had to have the black guy from 382 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: d C, from the Swamp from the Senate attack Wesley Hunt. 383 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: In fact, they attacked him after the election. They they 384 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: issued a statement that this was a little vanity game 385 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 1: he played. They're going after him on a very personal level, 386 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 1: and I can assure you it's very personal for him. 387 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: If Paxton believed he was a plant, Paxton would have 388 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: attacked him. Paxton's done nothing but say nice things about him. Right, 389 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Speaker 1: if he served a purpose for Cornan, then Cornan wouldn't 390 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: have attacked him. You could say, well, I'm three d 391 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 1: chessing it here, Michael. What if Cornyn was attacking him 392 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,040 Speaker 1: to make it look legit? Cornyan was attacking him so 393 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: badly that he was hurting him from day one? Right? 394 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: Did Wesley Hunt? Is Wesley Hunt the reason there was 395 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: a runoff? Maybe everybody thinks they know more than they do, 396 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: including me, But there are usually dimensions and layers to 397 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: elections that people don't see because everyone lives in an 398 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,719 Speaker 1: echo chamber. They think everybody thinks exactly the way they do, 399 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,159 Speaker 1: and they see things only in one dimension. People are 400 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: more complicated than that. They're way more complicated than that. 401 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 1: I had a group of guys at my house a 402 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:45,280 Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and I don't ever comment at 403 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,240 Speaker 1: times like this, I just want to listen. And somebody 404 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 1: said they pulled up to the election site to polling site, 405 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: and they voted. This was his life. I voted for 406 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: a girl because I saw her sign out in the 407 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 1: parking lot. And she was really cute, and you go, well, 408 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: that's shallow. That's people do it. People vote for your 409 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 1: name because it's Hispanic, because they're Hispanic, or against your 410 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: name because it's Hispanic. They vote for your name because 411 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,720 Speaker 1: it has an apostrophe and looks black, or they vote 412 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 1: against your name because it hasn't. Everybody does some number, 413 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 1: some percentage of every group does these sorts of things. 414 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show, simple man. So, with regard to 415 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: the Senate race, Wesley Hunt bears no blame for there 416 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 1: being a runoff. Let's start there before we get to 417 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt. Let's just look at this. More money was 418 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: spent on John Cornyn than has ever been spent on 419 00:25:52,840 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: a primary candidate in American history. And you may say, well, 420 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because everybody hates him. A lot of 421 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: people vote in the first round. This is why those 422 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,360 Speaker 1: of y'all, we all gotta get out and vote. Everybody 423 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,160 Speaker 1: needs to vote. Just vote, vote, vote, vote. I don't 424 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: believe that because you end up with a lot of 425 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 1: people who vote because of some civic duty idea. Let's 426 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: do that in November, where we go, everybody vote and 427 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: vote Republican. Okay, I don't care why you vote Republican. 428 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,240 Speaker 1: I don't care if you recognize the names. I don't 429 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 1: care if you vote blindly. Just hit the R every time. 430 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 1: I don't care if you don't know what the comptroller 431 00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 1: does or the attorney general. Just go in and vote R. 432 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 1: I don't care if you're dead, alive, retarded, mute in 433 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:48,560 Speaker 1: a coma. Just vote Republican. That's it. In November. But 434 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: in the primary, all of y'all are we all got? 435 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 1: Everybody need to vote. No, everybody doesn't need to vote 436 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,680 Speaker 1: because you get a lot of people. You don't read 437 00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: my emails. Hey, Michael, I'm gonna go vote today. But 438 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: I still don't understand what's wrong with Corning. Don't you 439 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: not vote if you don't know what's wrong with Cornying? Well, 440 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: what do you think is? I don't know? I just 441 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: you know, apparently a lot of people don't like him. Okay, Well, 442 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 1: why do y'all want that guy to vote in the primary? 443 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 1: We want that guy to vote in November. I don't 444 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: want Hi voting in a primary. There are a lot 445 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 1: of low information cocktail party Republicans. That's the people who 446 00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: at the cocktail party or the event that the black 447 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,040 Speaker 1: tie event. When it turns to politics, they go, I 448 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 1: tell what, these Democrats have gone crazy. I'm just I'm 449 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: worried about what's happening in our country. I'm gonna show 450 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 1: up and vote. I voted in the primaries. You vot. 451 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 1: I voted in a partmenty. Well, yes, that's all voting 452 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: the primary. Well, that lady votes for Corning every damn time. 453 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 1: She votes for Corning because that's the name she knows. 454 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: She don't know who all these other people are. So 455 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: when you spend that kind of money and you drive 456 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: that kind of turnout, there was a whopping turnout. Do 457 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: you know what that means? That means general election voters 458 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,199 Speaker 1: turned out in the primary in the first round in 459 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: the primary. That means people that don't typically vote in 460 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 1: a primary, they wait till November. They voted in a primary. 461 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 1: Do you know who they vote for? Do you know why? 462 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,080 Speaker 1: John Cornyn said two days ago that if he loses, 463 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: it'll because the radicals. You know who the radicals are? 464 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:37,800 Speaker 1: You tea Party America first, MAGA Trump supporter, that's what 465 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: you are. Constitutionalist. He knows he can't win you. He's 466 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: not trying to win you over that's why he didn't 467 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 1: attack Paxton, he attacked Hunt. He's trying to win over 468 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:54,200 Speaker 1: the people who just kind of want good government, not 469 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: real hardcore, not real doc trinal or orthodox in that sense. 470 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: Want to get the voters out. They want to get 471 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: a lot of voters out, and they did. They did 472 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,200 Speaker 1: get the voters out, and that's why that's why he 473 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:17,320 Speaker 1: did so well, that's the reason. And so it's also 474 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: the case, well, two things are about to happen. I 475 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: wish we weren't out of time. Two things are about 476 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:26,240 Speaker 1: to happen. Let's go back to twenty twelve. Cruz was 477 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,720 Speaker 1: at two percent. Name I D not support name I D. 478 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: People laughed at me when I told him I was 479 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 1: supporting Ted Cruz because they didn't know who he was. 480 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 1: And David Dewhurst was going to win. Dewhurst was very 481 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: wealthy at the time. He's lost it now. He was 482 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,040 Speaker 1: the lieutenant governor, which what dan Patrick is now. He 483 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 1: had given money to every Republican women's group across the 484 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: country over the years, so he knew he was going 485 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: to have them, or believed he was going to have them, 486 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: and he had been spending these all this money on 487 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:05,320 Speaker 1: vanity ads for reelection when he didn't have a reelection, 488 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: just to build his name, and he had these great 489 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: he had cutting horses in Fredericksburg and so we had 490 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: these ads of him working his cutting horse. Good looking guy, 491 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: has up, real straight, got good hair, good skin, a 492 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 1: lot of work done, good posture on his horse, works 493 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: his horse well, beautiful horse, multimillion dollar horse, beautiful ranch 494 00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: and you know, very impressive. So this guy can't be beat, right, 495 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: he led going into the runoff. People don't remember that 496 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 1: Cruz came from two percent name I day and we 497 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: were pounding that issue daily bam bam bam, and we 498 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: didn't have all the affiliates we do now. So we 499 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: had to win in Houston primarily. I think we were 500 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: in San Antonio then, but we had Houston in Southeast 501 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: Texas where we had to win big and did. And 502 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,120 Speaker 1: by the way, they're both from Houston, so we had 503 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: to beat Dewhurst where he was from, which was Houston area. 504 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: But we had to win big because we didn't have 505 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: all the markets we do now. Anyway, did went to 506 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: runoff Cruse wins. It tells you a lot about Cruise's 507 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 1: view of our role in his campaign that when he 508 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,760 Speaker 1: ran for president, he had me introduce him in Iowa, 509 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: and that introduction level went the powerful congressman from King 510 00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: from Iowa, then Hannity, Sorry, then Levin, then Hannity, then 511 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: a video by Rush than me. That's how important he 512 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: viewed my role in twenty twelve and introduced him when 513 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 1: he won. Well, my role is just you. That's our tribe, 514 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: that's who we are. We win races when turnout is low. 515 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,239 Speaker 1: We struggle in races when turnout as high. That's I 516 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 1: understand that. You should understand it, and you should understand why. 517 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: The reason is what we can't. Our biggest enemy is 518 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: low information Republicans, Republicans who wear the jersey. Let's beat 519 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 1: the Democrats. Republicans are bad, bad, bad bad. In a primary, 520 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: we want him in November. We don't want them to 521 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: vote in the primary. We don't want them in the primary. Now, 522 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: what happens now we go to the second round. Corning 523 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 1: people are in a panic. DC is in a panic. Now, 524 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:17,360 Speaker 1: if it weren't the case that they own Corning and 525 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,800 Speaker 1: that Paxson is so dangerous to them, they would throw 526 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: in the towel. Typically, they'd throw in the towel. Everybody 527 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: in politics knows this is a standard case. Corning can't 528 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: win the runoff, right, that's conventional wisdom. When an incumbent 529 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: of twenty four years who has over one hundred million 530 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: dollars spent on him, can't win in a general in 531 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: his own party, he can't win the runoff, and he 532 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: can't win in November. But that's not what they're gonna 533 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: do because they're scared to death of Paxton, because Paxton's 534 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: a flamethrower, and they've got to stop Paxton because they've 535 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: got to stop you, this burgeoning grassroots effort. They hate you, 536 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,400 Speaker 1: so what are they gonna do. They're gonna hit you 537 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: where it hurts. They're gonna tell you past is weird. 538 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you he had an affair and that's 539 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: all that that's true. They'll probably drag his wife out. 540 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: They'll probably put someone in her back pocket. Now, I'm 541 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,920 Speaker 1: not going to get into everything about his wife and 542 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 1: things she has said that would surprise you. I'm just 543 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: going to tell you I want a guy that's going 544 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 1: to go to Washington, d C. And do what I 545 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: want him to do, and Ken Paxton will do that. 546 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: In the meantime, they're going to have to have you 547 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: convinced that Ken Paxton's coming into your bedroom to have 548 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: sex with your son or daughter, or steal your dog 549 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 1: or still your favorite pen, or kill your parents. They 550 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: have to because they can't run on Corner's records. You're 551 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,479 Speaker 1: about to watch the nastiest campaign you have seen in 552 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,960 Speaker 1: Texas history. Mark my words on this. I'm telling you 553 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,240 Speaker 1: before it happens. So when you hear the news story, Hey, 554 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 1: did you hear that Ken Paxton fill in the blank, 555 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: You're already prepared. I'm telling you it's coming. They are 556 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 1: going to assassinate figuratively. I hope only Ken Paxton's character 557 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,920 Speaker 1: because they know they're going to lose, because if they 558 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,840 Speaker 1: don't do that, they're definitely gonna lose. And they have 559 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,360 Speaker 1: too much. They don't they don't just want a Republican 560 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: to come up there and and beat the Democrat in November. 561 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: They're gonna tell you Paxton can't win, because that that's 562 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: one of those things they'll get in your head. This 563 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 1: thing is about to get real nasty, real nasty, and 564 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: beating Cornying is my number one priority.