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Speaker 2: Is Jasmine Crockett about to have her candidacy take off
Speaker 2: like a rocket? We are going to ask our friend
Speaker 2: Shermichael Signalton about that and much more. Wethfree dot Com
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Speaker 2: A second Amendment community, guns all that good stuff. It's
Speaker 2: also a CNN commentator, mister Shermichael. Pleasure to have you back, sir.
Speaker 3: What's up man? Good to see you, brother, Thanks for
Speaker 3: having me.
Speaker 2: So tell me this if you would. What do you
Speaker 2: think about this?
Speaker 3: For?
Speaker 2: First of all, is Jasmine Crockett? You talked about this
Speaker 2: on CNN right on that on the Abby Phillips Show,
Speaker 2: where you, unlike some of my other friends, have not
Speaker 2: yet been banned. So congratulations on that. Uh, how do
Speaker 2: you how do you see this? Is she? Is she
Speaker 2: just building her own brand? Could she actually pull off
Speaker 2: a win here? What are you thing? So?
Speaker 1: I think her argument for the race is predicated upon
Speaker 1: the fact that she probably believes that Kim Paxson's going
Speaker 1: to become the nominee and right now, that's very possible.
Speaker 1: I mean John corn is behind Ken Paxon, who's leading
Speaker 1: the pack on our side, followed by Wesley Hunt. That's
Speaker 1: the congressman I'm sure your audience is familiar with. And
Speaker 1: then it's John Cornyn, who, to a surprise, is struggling
Speaker 1: to catch up. Now I will say he has decreased
Speaker 1: Paxton's lead. After Paxson's wife came out about the divorce.
Speaker 1: A Corner and Pack supporting corner have been running a
Speaker 1: lot of aggressive ads going after Packston. So you've seen
Speaker 1: Paxson's numbers come down, but Cornyn is still behind. So
Speaker 1: I'm willing to bet that Jasmine Crockett, her team, maybe
Speaker 1: with some Democrats in Texas and nationally, are looking at
Speaker 1: the fact that they're hoping Paxston wins because he's a
Speaker 1: very controversial figure, and they're probably betting if it is Packson,
Speaker 1: she might have a realistic chance of winning. And I
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, buy I'm not necessarily against
Speaker 1: that line of argument.
Speaker 2: How do you think she plays in Texas? Like, what
Speaker 2: are the strengths that she has? Obviously she's very good
Speaker 2: at getting it here. We are talking about her right,
Speaker 2: very good at getting media attention, says some pretty Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we could even say inflammatory in
Speaker 2: the current era we're in people, But like, I mean,
Speaker 2: Trump says everything's Trump says wild stuff. You could say
Speaker 2: it's a flammatory I love it personally. You know, he
Speaker 2: shouted shut up piggy or whatever to a quiet piggy
Speaker 2: to a journalist like a week ago, like a week ago.
Speaker 2: So like, I can't pretend like Trump is not doing
Speaker 2: this stuff right, But uh, you know, she gets she
Speaker 2: she gets attention for herself, and I think she has
Speaker 2: a constituency. I think the Democrat left embraces her.
Speaker 3: No, I think so. So people don't realize this.
Speaker 1: Texas has the largest number of disengaged black voters of
Speaker 1: any state in the country. So I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: black voters who are probably going to vote for her
Speaker 1: in general. I'm talking about black voters who don't typically vote,
Speaker 1: or low propensity black voters. I'm willing to bet as
Speaker 1: a strategist, if I were advising.
Speaker 3: Her, I'm going to look at all the major precints.
Speaker 1: Number one, I'm going to look at all the sort
Speaker 1: of middle sized precincts and all the smaller preseats, And
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to go in and figure out
Speaker 1: who those low perpensily and disengage black voters are. You're
Speaker 1: going to target them, like hell. Then you got to
Speaker 1: look at Hispanic voters. Now, President Trump got about forty
Speaker 1: six percent of those in November. When you look at
Speaker 1: national polling, the data suggests that we as a party
Speaker 1: have lost that support by some pretty significant margins.
Speaker 3: So she's probably going to focus on those voters.
Speaker 1: Then you get your Democratic white voters, you're sort of
Speaker 1: Democratic leaning white voters, and then you sort of build
Speaker 1: a pretty compelling mathematical path to her being a competitive
Speaker 1: candidate against Paxon. And then on the negative side, you're
Speaker 1: probably going to run a bunch of ads of his
Speaker 1: wife coming out. You're going to probably run a bunch
Speaker 1: of ads of some of the stuff that she was
Speaker 1: saying about Packson cheating on her, breaking up the family,
Speaker 1: and if you're Republicans. But I'm hoping like hell that
Speaker 1: Ken Paxson's wife doesn't decide to come out in the
Speaker 1: middle of the race to say he is not an evangelical,
Speaker 1: he's not a Christian, he's not the right person to
Speaker 1: lead Texas. That would be a nuclear bond that we
Speaker 1: just cannot afford at all if he does become the nominee,
Speaker 1: which is why a lot of people are kind of
Speaker 1: nervous about where this race might go.
Speaker 2: How do you think we're looking for the midterms?
Speaker 1: Hell man, Look, I was nervous about the Texas thing
Speaker 1: when the federal judge, the Trump appointed a federal judge, said, look,
Speaker 1: you can't draw these lines before midterm. Obviously the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court came and said, no, yes you can. That's going
Speaker 1: to help us a little bit. Obviously, California levels that out.
Speaker 1: You got North Carolina that just recently did some stuff
Speaker 1: about two or three months ago.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be very very close.
Speaker 1: If we lose midterms, it will be because of one reason,
Speaker 1: and one reason only.
Speaker 3: Affordability and cost of living. Man. We have got to
Speaker 3: address this as a party.
Speaker 1: The American people handed the keys to President Trump on
Speaker 1: our side because they we're pissed off about what they
Speaker 1: saw four years from Biden and Kamala Harris. They saw
Speaker 1: an economy that just was not working for them. They
Speaker 1: saw a border that was uncontrolled. We've handled the border.
Speaker 1: That's one side of it.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 1: We got to fix the economy. We got to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to bring down housing costs, and I
Speaker 1: got some interesting ways I think Republicans could do that
Speaker 1: that would really put us at an advantageous part of
Speaker 1: our place.
Speaker 2: Come November, let's get into that next actually to talk
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Speaker 2: No big deal, right, no big boo?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, no big deal right? No.
Speaker 1: I think in Q one of twenty six, the House,
Speaker 1: led by Speaker Mike Johnson, needs to prioritize two major
Speaker 1: economic pieces of legislation, the first one being the housing costs.
Speaker 1: You can't address affordability without tackling housing. Now, removing some immigrants,
Speaker 1: that's going to levy up some of the available homes. Right,
Speaker 1: You got to figure out a way to address this issue.
Speaker 1: With companies like Blackrock and big banks and financial institutions
Speaker 1: buying up all the darn houses across the country.
Speaker 3: That's gonna help. But the biggest.
Speaker 1: Problem also, we have a supply issue, and so I
Speaker 1: think you got to build more houses. President Trump could say, look,
Speaker 1: we're going to mandate a national housing shortage as an emergency.
Speaker 1: We're gonna redirect some funds and focus on their public
Speaker 1: private sector coming together to build these houses.
Speaker 3: And you know who should build them, Our young.
Speaker 1: Men, buck who are yearning for recognition, yearning for a
Speaker 1: sense of purpose and direction. You're gonna pay them good money.
Speaker 1: They're gonna earn skills that are going to keep them employed.
Speaker 1: No matter what happens with AI, They'll still be able
Speaker 1: to fix those houses.
Speaker 3: They'll be able to plump plumbing, electricity, etc.
Speaker 1: So I think you address housing, you also put young
Speaker 1: men back to work, which, by the way, our young
Speaker 1: men have a relatively high unemployment rate, higher than the
Speaker 1: national average.
Speaker 3: Right now, that's the first thing we could do.
Speaker 1: The second thing, man, we've got to figure out a
Speaker 1: way to employ more people h one b Visas. I'm
Speaker 1: completely against that. This notion coming from Silicon Valley that
Speaker 1: we don't have enough quote unquote smart Americans to do
Speaker 1: these technical jobs is a farce. We have to start
Speaker 1: prioritizing training our own people for the next evolution of
Speaker 1: American superiority, that being technology. You need two pieces of
Speaker 1: legislation to do that. That'll get people back to work.
Speaker 1: Over the next three years, America will boom, The American people.
Speaker 3: Will be happy.
Speaker 1: And guess what that positions us in a position of
Speaker 1: strength going into twenty twenty eight, where I would like
Speaker 1: for us to retain the White House, to senate and
Speaker 1: obvious leave the House.
Speaker 2: How are we doing? I know you're very involved you
Speaker 2: like guns and shooting as do I. We might even
Speaker 2: go shooting together soon.
Speaker 3: I got some behind me, that's right?
Speaker 2: Is that? Is that a staccato behind you? What do
Speaker 2: we have?
Speaker 1: It's two staccados, man, I got the staccato excel and
Speaker 1: the staccato P limited with the Dawson Precision twisted on comp.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's very nice. I have a stacado C two
Speaker 2: in this room with me here somewhere, but I don't
Speaker 2: have it in the shot. That's that's a much cooler
Speaker 2: way to do it. How are we doing? I feel
Speaker 2: like there were times when because the Democrats, especial, especially
Speaker 2: when they're in charge, there are a bunch of gun grabbers,
Speaker 2: they try to abrogate or try to just nullify the
Speaker 2: Second Amendment. How's the administration doing with guns?
Speaker 1: I'm not happy about how the administration is doing with
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be very honest with you.
Speaker 1: Pam BONDI, with all due respect to the President's appointment
Speaker 1: of her, and I respect the President's decision, she has
Speaker 1: done a horrible job. And you will find a lot
Speaker 1: of activists, a lot of groups from Gun Owners of America,
Speaker 1: Second Amendment Foundation Firearms Policy Institute National Rifle Association that
Speaker 1: have been very very critical of some of the positions
Speaker 1: at the administration Visa VI. The DOJ have taken on
Speaker 1: a plethora of judicial cases that have surprised a lot
Speaker 1: of us. We thought the administration was going to be
Speaker 1: very very pro Second Amendment, trying to roll back as
Speaker 1: much stuff as possible, not being on the side of
Speaker 1: the NFA, the National Firearms Act that that registry them
Speaker 1: essentially saying like, hey, we actually kind of need this.
Speaker 3: We thought they would say, no, this should go away.
Speaker 3: It is a violation of the Second Amendment. They haven't
Speaker 3: taken any of those positions.
Speaker 1: Now, granted you have had a heart Meat Dillon came
Speaker 1: out recently that they're going to have a second Amendment
Speaker 1: of civil Rights Office. A lot of us in the
Speaker 1: two A space are very skeptical about that. It's promising,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. But this is a big missed opportunity
Speaker 1: because a lot of gun owners turned out to vote
Speaker 1: for President Trump last November, and it was hard to
Speaker 1: do so, man, because remember you had the bumpstock band
Speaker 1: came out of the Trump administration the first time that
Speaker 1: pissed off a lot of gun people. It took groups
Speaker 1: like Gunns of America a lot of work and a
Speaker 1: lot of darn money to convince those people to turn
Speaker 1: out and vote for President Trump. And now here we are,
Speaker 1: almost a year into the first term, people saying, wait
Speaker 1: a minute here, this is not what you promised, Joe,
Speaker 1: this is not what you promised. Sure, Michael Singleton when
Speaker 1: you were advocating on CNN for gun folks to go
Speaker 1: out and vote for Republicans from the top of the
Speaker 1: ticket down. Now we're seeing that our rights are not
Speaker 1: being put a front and center like you all promised
Speaker 1: that they would. And so it's going to be very
Speaker 1: challenging for us buck to try to convince those folks
Speaker 1: to turn out next November if the problems has made
Speaker 1: are not kept. And so far has been a very
Speaker 1: very mixed and dicey bag. So I'm not very happy
Speaker 1: about that.
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