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Become a member today and 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.800 you'll get access to our full shows, unedited, ad free, 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.600 and all put together for you every morning in your inbox. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.560 We need your help to build the future of independent 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:29.920 news media and we hope to see you at Breakingpoints 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.879 dot com. 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.120 So there was a pretty highly significant electoral results that 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.520 we wanted to get to. This was in a Texas 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.520 State Senate race. Just go and put this up there 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.479 on the screen. So this is a district that Trump 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:50.720 won by seventeen points back in twenty twenty four. Now 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.480 you have had a more than thirty point shift towards 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:59.880 the Democrats. Democrat Taylor Raymond will defeat Trump, endorse Lee Womsky. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.760 Weird names in this race anyway, and flip this seat. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:09.920 Republicans have carried this district for thirty five years. This 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.520 particular county, it's one of the largest Republican counties in 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.240 the entire country. Soccer can probably tell you more about 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.560 it in terms of the texture in the flavor of 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.639 the area. But Republicans are looking at this and going, 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.080 holy shit, this level of a swing and in this 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.520 particular place is a big, big problem. Let me go 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.160 ahead and put the next one up on the screen, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.880 just to underscore what a big deal this was. Not 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.040 only to Democrats see this thirty point shift in Texas, 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.119 but they did it while being outspent twenty to one, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:45.160 so they were at a massive financial disadvantage and nevertheless romped. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.680 And let's put the next one up on the screen. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:52.559 Key to that victory was something like a fifty point 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:59.480 swing among Latinos towards Democrats over performance over how Harris 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.600 did in twenty twenty four. And this is part of 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.880 the freak out. Texas just did this whole Jared mandering thing. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.200 Assuming they could redraw districts in a way based on 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.880 the percentages they were getting with Latinos in twenty twenty four. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.560 That assumption does not seem very solid at this point, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.400 so they it may end up being just a tremendous 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.040 own goal for them in the way they drew these districts. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.960 All the tape, where did I say, I'll say, you're 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.880 playing a dangerous game here. You're forgetting about the laws 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.880 of thermostatic public opinion. That's exactly what's happened. I don't 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.280 know a ton about Terren County. It's actually it's kind 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.600 of hard for people to understand how big Texas is. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.560 It would be the equivalent of like trying to opine 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.200 on Philly politics from where I live right now, right 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.520 which it's like I haven't spent a ton of time. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.359 I did ask a couple of friends who are from 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:48.960 the DFW area. They did say that this is absolutely 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.760 extraordinary just considering the way things are some of the 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.480 cope inside of Texas gops Texas State Senate district. You know, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.040 it's not people look the text State Senate Texas legislature. 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:00.880 A lot of people don't know that unless you're from there. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.960 They don't actually have a ton of power. They only 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.720 meet every two years so that they don't pass too 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.320 many laws. Not kidding, that's literally written in the consumption. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.440 So that's just the way that the general state is. However, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.640 if you're looking at national trends, this is one to 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:19.000 pay attention to and is always special election over performance 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.239 is one of the number one predictors for midterms. That's why. 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.600 And look, we learned this the hard way in twenty 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.880 twenty two. Right, it's twenty twenty two. We were here 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:32.440 in the same studio and well a little bit lower 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.040 tech studio, and we were looking at the polls, and 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.120 the one thing we would always say is like, yeah, 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.520 but the special elections, so going in expected Republican you know, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:47.240 to ROMP. However, what we saw is that these small 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.800 special elections and random place Main New Hampshire and all 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.440 of that were far more predictive of democratic overperformance this 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:59.000 time around. Polling is capturing, but if anything, it's understating 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.760 democratic overperformance in a lot of these special elections. Midterms 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.600 are already a tough cycle for the party in power. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.840 It's especially tough cycle for the new Trump coalition of 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.960 twenty twenty four, which is low propensity voters, people who 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.440 really only turn out in a presidential election. Midterm are 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.480 already more skewed to white, college educated liberal and then 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.839 add on top of that, people who are pissed off 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:25.520 if you're a Republican. You don't have a ton of 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.159 reasons to be super happy right now. Yeah, but and 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.359 you know, maybe you're still you know, you're still like 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.599 a vote read no matter what. But you're like, should 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.960 I really go out to support Lindsey Graham? Probably not? Ye, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:38.960 you know, something like that. So you could see all 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.400 the ingredients for something to be a blowout. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:42.839 Yeah, No, there's no doubt about it. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.719 I mean, Trump is deeply unpopular, and yet he still 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.360 is probably one of the more popular figures in the 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.039 Republican Party, certainly inspires the most enthusiasm of anyone in 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.920 the Republican Party. He's always had an issue translating that 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.200 into mid term success for any or success for any 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.159 other Republican and really that would be on the ballot. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:06.280 And so not only do Republicans now have their like 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.680 low propensity voter midterm issue, but now you also have 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.880 these demographics that were much celebrated in twenty twenty four 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.760 as like part of the new Republican coalition. 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.160 You have them running in the other direction. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.400 And the two that are most significant are Latinos and 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.280 young men in particular, young people in general, but specifically 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.120 young men where there has been a massive shift with 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.719 those two demographic groups. Those are the largest shifts away 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.640 from Trump that we've seen. So not only do you 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.039 have you know, that low propensity as you also have 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.000 key parts of that base that they kind of were 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.000 taking for granted, like all these people are just ours now. Yeah, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.760 as the Obama ask us about the Obama coalition and 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.640 how these you will never learn that, you know, especially, 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.320 I feel like Latinos and Asians in particular are kind 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.040 of like the new swing demographics. They you know, most 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:59.120 people strong and young people, but strongly with you know, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.960 Democrats for you then they were starting to shift towards 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.320 the Republicans. Now they shifted back towards the Democrats, and 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.400 so you just you can't take the people for granted 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:07.599 like that. 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.599 Yeah, I need to see what percent of Latinos voted 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.360 for w. Bush in two thousand, because it was actually 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.000 pretty hard like maybe the forties, and it was one 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.479 of the last times the Republicans had seen Yeah, about 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.000 one third, thirty five percent. Again, actually pretty good compared 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.960 to Romney or compared to McCain. Now, the issue, as 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.440 we always see in politics, is I mean I even 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.640 talked a lot about this. During the whole Trump high, 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.760 I was like, gosh, thermostatic public opinion is undefeated almost always, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.839 the party in power seems like they're riding high, and 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.640 then about a year or so two in, it turns 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:42.960 out that many of the people who you thought you 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.120 could count on forever start to shift against you. It's 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.680 part of the reason why actually doing the stuff you're 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.400 supposed to do in the first year of office is 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.040 like the single most important thing. Then if you don't 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.480 do that, you will lose all of those people, as 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.760 Biden did, as Trump is now doing. It's a huge problem. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.520 I mean, Trump is basically having to bank on either 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.120 trying to pressure the Federal Reserve into lowering interest rates 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:07.239 and trying to boost the economy, which is theoretically possible 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.960 but takes a long time. You need a long runway 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.000 for something like that, or you need a Row versus 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.600 Wade style event to just randomly come out and save you. 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.800 Off the top of my head, I really can't think 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.960 of a single one. If anything, the Dems have their 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.040 Row versus Weight event with Ice. It's like all they 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.840 can talk about. It's literally, I mean, it's blm on 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:31.000 Instagram these days, like every random white woman Instagram profile 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.320 is Ice Ice Ice Ice Ice, and it's like, all right, 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:36.360 I mean we know where this goes, Like this is 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.560 not good for Republican chances, and it's like a social 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:43.040 media campaign. You can see. We were just talking about substack. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.320 The forty eight out of the top fifty substackers are 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.880 all liberal. You can see on YouTube, I mean right 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.120 wing channels compared to a year ago, they're not even 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.800 remotely close to where they were. Liberal content is exploding 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.120 right Midas touched, Brian Tyler Cohen. All these guys are 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.640 blown up and like. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.400 So many creators I don't even know right people who I'm. 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.280 Like, who the fuck is this? And but which is not? 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:08.960 It's a good thing. Actually, I can show you how 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.880 quickly something can happen. But the point is what does 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.080 that remind you of? What does it remind me of? Trump? 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.520 Remember in twenty twenty four, I remember looking at our 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.200 YouTube analytics and I was like, man, I think Trump's 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.080 My wife tells a funny story about how we were 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.080 at dinner once is some random guy who was Latino 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.040 bus boy. He looked at me and he was like, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.280 fuck the Democratic Party. Man. He's like hey, you know, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.080 for taking advantage of identity politics. And she was like, 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.000 in that moment, I knew that the Republicans were going 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.400 to win because some random guy who watches our YouTube 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.680 videos and hate loves the way would hate on identity 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.280 politics talked about who's going to vote for Trump? Well, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:44.400 now I can see it the other way, you know, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.280 as somebody who can see all of these little ingredients. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.280 I mean, Andrew Schultz is talking about how the Liberals 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.960 were always right about Trump, right, like all of the 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:56.640 all the ingredients are there for the exact same phenomenon 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.160 to play out in twenty twenty six. And if you 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:00.760 bring this up, by the way, to the White House 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.040 or anybody in that circle, they don't want to hear 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.240 it or Bill acknowledge that it's correct, but you know 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.960 they'll say, oh, well, big thing, the best is yet 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:08.320 to come. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.840 Yeah, Trump got off about it. I'm not gonna bother 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.760 to play this song. Frankly, I'm take a hair in 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.319 this man. But basically it was like, I didn't even 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:15.080 know there was an election. 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.400 You were just tweeting about it. I'm important the electric 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.000 but whatever, He's just such a liar. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:19.680 That was his co. 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.199 Speaking of identity of politics. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.040 Right there is a whole thing unfolding because part of 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.719 why Texas is so important right now and why it's 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.960 important to watch the electoral trends there is they have 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.480 a Senate race and Texas has always been like the 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.200 white whale for Democrats. 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.200 They're always chasing it. They can never get there. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.959 And the whole idea was, especially during the Obama years, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.600 that the demographics Texas is a majority minority state. Surely 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.520 one day Democrats will be able to win there. Obviously, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.400 Betourk is the one who came close to what he 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.840 lost by like three points at Ted Cruz was pretty close, 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.000 but they've never been able to pull it off. Okay, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.480 so now you have this spirited primary between James Talergo 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:05.120 and Jasmin Crockett, and there was a TikTok that sorry, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.080 one more element prior to Crockett getting into the race. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.440 Colin Allred, who was a congressman for Texas, was also 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.960 in that Senate race. Once Jasmin Crockett gets in, he 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.080 sees the writing on the wall, there's no space for me. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.520 I don't have a shot. He drops out, But up 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:19.520 to this point he. 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.720 Had refused to endorse either tall Rigo or Jasmine Crockett. Okay, so, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.400 this woman, who is a fairly prominent influencer on TikTok, 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:34.040 comes out with this video where she accuses Talarico of 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:38.760 describing Colin Allred as a quote mediocre black man. And 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.319 this TikTok apparently takes off. It's being shared on Instagram. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.520 It is going crazy. Let me go ahead and play 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.160 for you a little bit of that original TikTok. 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.719 James Salrico told me that he's signed up to run 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.560 against a mediocre black man, not a formidable and intelligent 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.040 black woman. And I want to explain why this is problematic, 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.120 especially as he shifted his current approach in the Texas 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.680 Center race. Getting into the conversation that led to the 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.160 comment from James, I was angry and concerned after receiving 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.199 an email and a text message from James carvill on 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.680 Tall Rico's behalf for donations. James Carvill' is the Democratic 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.920 strategist that has made comments recently about the need for 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.600 Democrats to drop vote politics, and even wrote an article 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.320 on November for The New York Times saying exactly that, 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.280 and I'm always going to advocate for black people because 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.720 I don't care about how much you talk about affordability, housing, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.480 healthcare or whatever. If wope, politics is not included in 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.319 that which directly impacts black people, then we're left out 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.880 of that conversation and policy. So I made that known 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.160 to the campaign as someone that has the possibility of 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.560 sitting in that seat. Now, up until this comment, the 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.719 conversation was going, Well, that's why it threw me off 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.800 so much to have a white man say this to 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.400 a black woman who was coming to him with concerns 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:44.920 in relation to him. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:46.040 For black people. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:50.000 Okay, so this is her allegation that tall Rico says, 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.320 I signed up drawing against a mediocre a black man, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.520 not this. I can't remember the words like exciting black 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.560 women or impressive black women whatever. Okay, so this thing 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.480 blows up, takes off. I think she posted this, I 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.480 don't know, a number of weeks ago, and so Colin 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.400 Allread decides to jump into the mix and to not 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:11.040 only respond and aggressively go after James Talerico, but uses 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.800 this as a reason to actually back and endorse Jasman Crockett. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.200 Let's take a listen to a little bit of Congressman 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:17.800 already here. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.840 First, of all, let me just give you some free advice, James. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.679 If you want to compliment black women, just do it. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.160 Just do it. Don't do it while also tearing down 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.959 a black man. Okay, we've seen that play before. We're 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.880 sick and tired of it. We're tired of folks using 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.040 praise for black women to mask criticism for black men. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.600 That's not good for our community. It's not good. It 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.959 just doesn't work. And we know what you're doing. Okay, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.600 So next time you want to praise with black women, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.440 just do that. Leave black men out of it. Just 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:48.360 leave a lot of things out of it. Second of all, 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.839 did you ever have a coach or somebody you know, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:52.959 a leader in your life tell you that when you 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.080 make an accusation you often have a bit of confession 0:12:55.080 --> 0:13:00.360 in it. Maybe use the word mediocre because there's something 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:05.319 creeping into your mind about yourself, because I know you're 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.480 not talking about somebody who's been better at three things 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.480 than you've ever been at one. You are not saving 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.800 religion for the Democratic Party over the left. We already 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:17.600 had Senator Reverend doctor Rafael Warnock for that. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.200 We don't need you. 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.800 You're not saying anything unique. You're just saying it looking 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.319 like you do. With that being said, go vote for 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.480 Jasmine Crockett. This man just should not be our nomineef 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.760 the United States Senate. I wasn't gonna get involved in 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.520 this race, but listen, don't come for me unless I 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.240 send for you, Okay, James, and keep my name out 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.200 of your mouth while you're at it. 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.559 So I was pretty surprised by that because I've been 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.600 following already a little bit. I'm not like an expert 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.880 or whatever, but he is pretty like mild mannered. He's 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.400 like positions himself as like a centrist, moderate type. So 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:51.080 he comes out and goes hard on this allegation that 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:52.520 you know, doesn't have any video or works. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.480 Lady has no proof. Where the fuck are we doing here? 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.439 Losing my mind? Like what is going on? 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.520 Jasmin Crockett puts out a statement, not backing up whether 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.120 or not the allegation is true, but just basically thanking 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.320 Colin Allread for his endorsement. And finally, yesterday we got 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.640 James Tallerico's statement, and you got to imagine that he's 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.840 like sweating bullets, because what do you do if you're him? Right, 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:17.880 You're this little white guy you know, are you going 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.000 to say this didn't happen, in which case you're calling 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:21.880 a black woman and a black man a liar. 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.080 So what and gives a shit about that? Rage? This 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.440 is what I mean. So then you you're a fucking liar. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.920 Move on, you know, And there's a large you know, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.520 the electorate in Texas, especially in a Democratic primary, is 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:37.360 very diverse. So he needs to win some margins with 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.080 black veters who currently are going overwhelmingly for Jasmin Crockett. 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.560 So this is the statement that tallery Go puts out, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.520 which I think is frankly extremely lame. He says, this 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.480 is a mischaracterization of a private conversation. In my praise 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.440 of Congressman Crockett, I describe Congressman Alread's method of campaigning 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.960 as mediocre, but his life and service are not. I 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.600 would never attack him on the basis of of race. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.160 As a black man in America, Congressman Alread has had 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:04.760 to work twice as hard to get where he is. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.080 I understand how my critique of the Congressman's campaign could 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.680 be interpreted given this country's painful legacy of racism. I 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.480 care deeply about the impact my words have on others. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.040 I have always said that despite our disagreements, I deeply 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:17.320 respect Congressman allread. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.160 We're all on the same team. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.760 And Saray, you know what this reminds me of so 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:25.400 much is the whole Elizabeth Warren Bernie thing where she 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:29.360 accused him. She like planted this in the press that 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:32.400 he had said she couldn't win because she's a woman, 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.200 and framed him as like a secret sexist. And the 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.760 only people who were really in that conversation were Elizabeth 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.600 Warren and Bernie Sanders. So it he said she said, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.720 Bernie's put in an impossible position of like, again, if 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.520 he says I didn't say that, then you're, you know, 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.280 calling a woman a liar. The media totally backed up 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.080 her side of the story and just went with it 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.600 must be that, And I sort of feel like this 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.480 is the same like Colin Alright got completely played. The 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.640 woman who posted this TikTok. She is in you know, 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.720 she supports Jasmine Crockett. So this all worked out very 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.560 well for Jasmine Crockett in the end, and it's just 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.200 a kind of a wild situation. The last thing I'll 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.440 say is that it is also a good reminder because 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.720 none of these people are really like on the left right, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:15.480 none of them are. It is a good reminder that 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:20.920 the most egregious wielders of identity politics and the originators 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.880 of this direction of politics was always the centrist. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.520 It was always liberal aggressional office. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:30.360 Is they're attacking Garham Plattner for going after Hakeem Jeff, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.440 Oh my god, you see what I'm saying. And this 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.120 is why I like, I'm sorry, I'm not even going 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.720 to entertain this bullshit like, oh, a black who nobody 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.720 cares about your rate? The only person cares about your 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.360 race is you, by the way, who reminds everybody all 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.600 day long. And then oh my god, Talla Rico, what 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.840 a little bitch. You can't come out and say I 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.640 never said it. You're literally a liar. This is made 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:54.040 up influencer. This woman had like one hundred thousand followers. Sorry, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.360 you're nobody whenever it comes to like Texas democratic politics. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.680 And then somebody is not yeah now because she made 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.720 it into some way, And then even allread. The response 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.399 to Allread is why are you acting? Somebody tweeted this. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.720 They're like a sixteen year old teenager trying to stand 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:15.600 Sabrina Carpenter, like, you are humiliating yourself by making this 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:19.639 into a serious thing. Tall Rico also humiliating himself, and like, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.399 oh my god, I understood the power of my words. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.159 Jasmine Crockett, I mean, who I've always thought was a 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.080 complete joke, She says. My theory of the case is this, 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.200 if you believe we're gonna lose anyway, what difference does 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.800 it make if it's me or anybody else. If you 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.199 think it's a losing cause, then who cares? Wow inspiring 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.399 whenever for a bitch that you have. So look, I 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.200 think this is a total joke. This is the problem 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.919 for the Democratic Party, The biggest one that they have 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.080 right now is I don't know why somebody cannot just 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.919 tell these people to go fuck yourself, like I just 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.359 it's even like even with the Congressional Black Caucus thing. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.479 Somebody needs to just look them straight in the eye 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.359 and be like, we are not going to fall for 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.000 your bs anymore. You don't just got the cry race 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.879 every single time somebody criticized somebody who happens to be black, 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.160 which is apparently your entire mo and same thing here 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.359 with you know, I mean, I'm just humiliated it's my 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:18.120 own home state. I can't believe that these people are 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.800 conducting themselves this way. Especially, Look, I don't think they 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.320 have a shot like period, even with a great candidate Beto, 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.520 I think is as close as it will ever get. 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.359 But you could, at the very least like try and 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.600 do something serious like mount in argument. The argument for 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.040 Texas is never you're gonna win this year. It's all 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.959 about like building building block like this, and there's a 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.280 case to be made around the suburban you know, women 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.200 and all of that, and a lot of these new 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:46.560 California transplants. Especially if you've got what I'm forgetting is 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.359 a Paxton who's running, right, you've got something like the 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.400 ingredients are there for a shock race. It could happen. Yeah, 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.280 but yeah, with this nonsense like oh man, I just 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.240 I don't know. This is a cancer. It is an 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.000 absolute cancer within the Democrats, and they just they won't 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:01.560 do anything about it. It's just shocking. 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.440 I actually think this state Senate race has convinced me 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.440 Democrats may have a shot here, and so. 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:09.200 You know, the fact wouldn't take it. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.080 And the other thing I would say is that as 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:15.080 as much of a mess as this is, and I 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.520 think it's personally. I think it's very embarrassing ultimately for 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.199 Tallarico because this response is just so weak. And this 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.600 is the problem with Democrats is they just like give 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:28.000