WEBVTT - It's a Numbers Game: The Numbers Behind Texas Going Blue in 2026: Cornyn’s Poll Slide, Paxton Factor & GOP Turnout Alert 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:03.200 Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan ger Duski. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.920 Thank you guys for being here. Will Texas go blue 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:08.880 in twenty twenty six? That's the question I'm asking today 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.000 in today's episode. But before we talk about that, I 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.480 need to talk a little bit about race and identity 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:15.760 on the American left. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:16.400 Now. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.520 I know we're a country that seems to never stop 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.000 talking about race and identity. It's more of a lecture 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.520 than a conversation. That's the best thing. The media always says, 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.239 So let's have a conversation, and then they do a 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.760 one sided argument. They yell at you the entire time. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:34.400 But some that's going on among attention seeking progressives who 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.360 are both influencers and politicians, where they're talking about white 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.360 Americans in a dehumanizing way. They're othering white Americans, making 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.839 sure their followers understand that their time, that white Americans 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.240 time has come and gone, and that whites are oppressors 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.480 who must suffer for the sins of their fathers. They're 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.400 doing all of this again. First, let me go to 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.120 a clip that happened last year, but it's been circling 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.440 over social media actually over the weekend. This is from 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.800 the Democrat minority leader in the Texas State House of 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.319 Representatives named Jean Wu. He's an immigrant from China, liked 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.120 it to the state Texas State Representatives to play clip one. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.240 I think you've hit exactly the right points. And it's 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.360 not just Latinos, it's not just Asians, it's not just 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.280 African Americans, it's everybody. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:20.560 Right. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.000 We are country, and the forces that be, the powers 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:29.240 that be, have spent tremendous time, effort, and money to 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.880 make sure that those groups are never united, that they 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.360 always see each other as enemies and as. 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:43.320 Competitors, without ever realizing that they share one thing in common, 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:48.720 that their oppressors all are the same. Right, the oppression 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:49.840 comes from one place. 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:54.560 And I always tell people, the day it's the Latino, African, American, 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:59.760 Asian and other communities realize that they are that they 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.720 are the same oppressor, is the day we start winning. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.800 Because we are the majority in this country. Now we 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.360 have the ability to take over this country and to 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.600 do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.120 But the thumb is our communities are divided. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.079 So we spoke to the Houston Chronicle over the weekend 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.720 and he gave some context, and he said, of course, 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.400 he wasn't speaking about white people, even though very clear 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.160 dog whistle that you could hear from a million miles away. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:31.960 Now he was talking about Republicans being the pressers. Well, 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.280 if that's true, why didn't he mentioned working class whites 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.320 in West Texas who earn a lot less than wealthy 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.480 Asians in the suburbs of Dallas and Austin, who have 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.919 shorter life expectancy and who work very tough jobs in 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.880 the Texas heat. It's so obvious on his face he's 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.680 not talking about Republicans. He's talking about white people, no 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.120 matter what he says, because there are loads of minorities 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:56.440 in Texas that but Republican South Texas is very supportive 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.040 of Donald Trump, and you've brought into the whole nation. 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.400 There are there are groups everywhere except for Black Americans, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:07.000 that support Republican, that vote majority Republican. So he's not 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.359 talking about minority talking about minorities being oppressed by Republicans 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.360 because minorities are voting for Republicans in large pockets of 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.200 this country. Now he's talking about white people. And the 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.640 Houston Chronicle, by the way, bent over backwards. I was 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.800 in a Twitter spat with the editor there they were talking, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.280 bending over backwards, talking about how he you know, the 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:32.360 criticism wasn't fair because he was really not talking about 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.920 white people. He wasn't trying to hint hint, wink, wink, 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.640 dog whistle about white genocide and taking over the country. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.880 They didn't They really didn't have a problem with that 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.880 as much as they should have, and they should have 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.400 set there and held his feet to the fire. Now 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.240 I know, we didn't say that white people were the oppressors. 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.960 He's leaving up to the imagination of every person who 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.120 listens to that video, including his supporters. He was on 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.120 the podcast, by the way of a former illegal immigrant 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.200 whose story frankly never made any sense to me because 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:01.480 I think there were big holes in it. But he 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.360 was on a conversation with immigrant who's made identity and 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.760 race his entire personality and talked about at every given moment. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.120 So whose audience are you talking to? What are you 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:15.680 talking about? The Houston Chronicles said it couldn't have been 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:19.080 talking about white people because he didn't name them, as 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.120 if The only standard we have for judging politicians on 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.960 what they say when it comes to inflammatory speech is 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.680 explicitly what they say. President Trump has been accused of 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:33.760 racism every second for the last ten years for things 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.120 he did not say, because that is what the left heard. 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.200 And yet this man who's talking about minorities taking over 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.440 the country in a very explicit way, we're supposed to 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.600 hear something completely different. Now, let's go to a progressive 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.000 talking head was shat Ali. He late last year told 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.400 white people that they that their nation was over, and 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.200 that they and that, by the way, their nation is 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.479 over because they've been too generous to immigrants. That's what 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.880 he says. They're and says and then the entire history 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:03.559 of Western civilization sucks. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.359 Let's go to a club too. You have lost, you lost. 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.960 The mistake that you made is you let us in 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.920 the first place. That's the thing with brown people. And 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.640 I'm going to say this is a brown person. There's 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.800 a lot of us, like a lot. There's like one 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.320 point two billion in India that's born than two hundred 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.120 million in Pakistan. There's like one hundred and seventy million 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.080 in vagualadation. Those are just the people there. I'm even 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.800 talking about the folks who are expats or immigrants. There's 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.200 a bunch of us, and we breed. We're a breeding people. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.240 And the problem is is you let us in an 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:32.720 nineteen sixty five, there was a few, There were a 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.040 few of us before. But once you let one of 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.360 us in, you know what happens with brown folks. Our 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.400 grandmother comes, our grandfather comes, our uncle comes, our aunt comes, 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.920 our cousin comes, our second cousin comes, our third cousin comes. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.480 Then we have kids, a bunch of kids. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:45.360 And then guess what. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.000 Some white women, you know, the Western civilization women, the 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.240 pure women, the American women, quot unquote, the Ross Belt women, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.360 the real women. They like some of us brown folks, 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:53.239 we don't take them. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:54.159 They come to us. 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.080 So we're embedded. We are everywhere. We are everywhere I 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:58.799 have traveled this country. I almost speak as a brown person. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.680 Brown people are every There will be a Patel motel, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.200 or there will be a Daisy restaurant everywhere. I want 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.400 you to realize this. You have lost. Your story is 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:11.279 a shitty story, filled with misery. It's filled with bland chicken. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.839 It's filled with terrible, terrible, dry assed meat. Your music 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:19.280 sucks all, your culture sucks nobody. That's why the kids 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:20.960 like listening to black people and their music. That's why 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.000 the kids love Latinos. Your parties suck because they're monochromatic. 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.680 Our parties have better food, better music, better looking women. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:34.160 Right, It's the reason why constantly brown people like Bajade's 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.960 family decided to move to a majority white country. Because 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.839 it's so terrible, because our narratives are so bad, and 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.080 because our history is so bad. For those of you 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:44.960 who don't know who he is, once, you're better off. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.880 Before listenings podcast Bajada all these parents immigrated from Pakistan 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.800 in the nineteen eighties, and he says he's been scarred 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.839 by America because his parents were arrested and convicted of 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.760 over thirty counts of conspiracy, male fraud, wire fraud, and 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.640 money laundering. While A Lei has repeatedly said in his 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.840 book and other events that anti Muslim sentiments after nine 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.200 to eleven were the reasons for the convictions his parents 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.640 pled guilty along with two white guys. Two white guys 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:17.120 were also co conspirators who were pled guilty, and maybe 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:21.120 European surnames. So I don't know how anti Islamic feelings 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.720 after nine to eleven would possibly be the reasoning that 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.760 these two white guys also face jail time and why 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:32.400 they pled guilty. The victimhood is cultural currency, and this 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.000 man knows that. That's how he plays into the white 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.560 guilt for his white liberal audience and his other audience 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:40.200 and trying to embold them. And he promotes narratives that 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.400 aren't true, but they feel good or they make someone 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.320 feel bad. That's that's the greatest irony. I mean, his 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.600 numbers as statistics that they put out there on birth 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.960 rates are completely incorrect. His statistics on what kind of 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.600 preferred music as popular is incorrect. You know that's but 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.280 that doesn't matter. The numbers don't matter. The facts don't matter. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.480 The narrative matters. And if you want to see a 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.560 hilarious clip of him, watch the I mentioned this episode 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.800 before because it's just so good than Mary Trump podcast. 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.280 When Donald Trump wins the presidency and he thinks that 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.480 Trump's going to, you know, Kamala Harrison was going to 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.400 sweep this election. It's very very funny. But of course 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.800 he also says that that ran was just simply taken 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.480 out of context. He wasn't sitting there and saying that 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.960 the country is over. He wasn't trying to radicalize young 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.440 white people, and he certainly doesn't understand why young white 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.440 men are so far right wing than they used to be. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.679 It couldn't possibly be because of people like him, No, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.360 it must be someone else, because everything, everything is taken 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.679 out of context. Then there's also a congressman, Representative J. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.720 Powell from Washington State, who has some very interesting opinions 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:45.680 about American history. Play clip three. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:51.520 The majority of Americans across the country, regardless of political party, 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.520 know that immigrants from all over the world Somalia, India, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.959 wherever they're from, Latin America, Africa, that immigrants have built 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.560 to this country and make this country what it is today. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:09.120 Just because an immigrant has a fraudulent daycare system in 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.760 Minnesota does not mean that they built this country. Some 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.840 immigrants did build this country. Some immigrants were very very prosperous, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.360 Some immigrants built fabulous businesses, and some immigrants children built 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.040 fabulous built businesses. That doesn't mean every class of immigrant 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.120 has That doesn't mean that every group of immigrants since 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.280 nineteen sixty five has That doesn't mean that America could 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:35.400 be easily replicated by the different people on different countries. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.520 We don't have magic dirt. No, the American people built 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:42.160 this country. The American people, whose majority of which as 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.200 recently as twenty ten date back to the founding of 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.040 this country. At least one ancestor built this country. Jpal 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.400 also said that once Democrats get in charge, she's going 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.800 to sit there and push to abolish ice and border patrol. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.680 Come one, come all to this Halloween ball. This is 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:02.240 what Jaypow wantsngress on j Powell, and of course it's nothing. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.920 What she says, by the way, is nothing compared to 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:08.360 what Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner said about what they want 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.560 to do with ICE agents. Play clip four. 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:16.240 This is a small bunch of wanna be Nazis, that's 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.640 what they are. In a country of three hundred and 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:24.240 fifty million, we outnumber them. If we have to hunt 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:29.199 you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.679 we will find your identities, we will find you, we 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.320 will achieve justice. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:43.400 This is going to be the left's push that people 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.120 who worked for Trump, and even if they were just 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.160 ICE agents, even if they just work for the Department 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.040 of Home Security, they should be jailed. They are going 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.559 to January sixth, everybody. That's what their goal is. This 0:10:54.600 --> 0:11:00.680 is violent, violent rhetoric. They view these people as others 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.520 and as some of the worst people in human history. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.880 And then there's Bacari Sellers, who I used to be 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.400 on CNN with a few times and who said that 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.640 he liked me. I don't remember when he said that 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.400 on Twitter. I don't remember him ever coming to my 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:16.680 defense when Abby Phillips was attacking me relentlessly. But he's 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.040 a friend of former Vice President Kamala Harris. He was 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.200 a you know, a kind of an advisor to the 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.280 Vice President Kamala Harris. And he said something very interesting 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.240 on Don Lemon's podcast. He said that the country needs 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.199 to be quote fumigated and from maga and it needs 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.360 to be surgically removed from the country. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:38.520 Play Cliff five. You know, Joe Biden was somewhat of 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.800 a bridge. He was supposed to be a bridge or 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:46.280 a palette cleanser, or somebody who morally and ethically was 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.679 antithetical to who Donald Trump was. You know, Uncle Joe 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.600 was the nice guy, older white guy comes in and 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.480 you want to eat ice cream with him? Right, Well, 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.960 I think what that episode in our entry's history showed 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.520 us is that we really need some fumigation, right. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.960 We need an exorcism, for lack of a better term. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.960 We need a more aggressive approach to go in and 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.200 surgically remove the cancer that is the Donald Trump and 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:14.200 Baga movement. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.319 This is not an accident. I want everyone to realize. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.480 I played a lot of clips, more than I usually 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.319 never play clips. But this is not an accident. Any 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.160 of this language is not an accent. Of course, when 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:28.840 they're pressed, they're going to sit there and say it's 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.599 taking out of context. You know, don't worry about what 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.959 your eyes or ears tell you. This is not true. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.160 What you're hearing is not true. We're all just good 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.320 and we're playing around and it's it's light and it's interesting, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.760 but it's not really dangerous speech. And then their friends 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.560 in the mainstream media will have them on the air, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.600 I'm sure, Butkari will be back on CNN much sooner 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.480 than I will be, and he will sit there and 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.760 you know, just just play it off as if it's nothing. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.000 No only even question on it. See Democrats and Progresses, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.760 for the most part, came out of the twenty twenty 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.719 four election cycle and said, wow, we really got a 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.480 little wild out there for a while. Maybe we shouldn't 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.000 have said all the things we said out race and identity. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.360 But it's it's clear this all these all these clips 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.720 were happened since the election. They meant every word of it. 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.360 They meant everything they said during the height of the 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.079 twenty twenty George Floyd riots. They want to erase borders, 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.760 they want to rewrite history. They want to otherwise other 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.080 otherwise white Americans, including Jews. Mind you, I know a 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:28.440 lot of Jews, liberal Jews, not conservatives, but liberal Jews 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.280 who sit there and say, well, I'm not really white, 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:31.800 I'm Jewish, as if that's going to be a get 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.719 at a jail free card. No, you are lumped right 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.720 into the camp of white people, just like Persians are 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.360 in a lot of places, just like Armenians are. We're 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.400 all in the same white whiteness camp. I guess together. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.120 Once they come into power, they want to put in laws. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.520 They want to put forward laws that are discriminatory, racially 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:56.439 discriminatory against whites. And they're not they're not hiding it. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.280 Once they get into power, it's just going slightly unnoticed. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.319 In New York City, Mayor Mandani said during the campaign 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:06.440 tro he wanted a property tax system that punished whites 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.600 more than non whites. Now what he was saying, I 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:11.960 know that that was the headline that got news. What 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.920 he was saying on how propt New York, New Yor 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:19.120 City property tax is conducted currently actually made a tiny 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.760 bit of sense. Older homes or tax at a lower 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.880 price than newer homes are which punt which gives tax 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.640 breaks like build de Blasio. But that's not how he 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:31.240 framed it. That's that's not the conversation he wanted to 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:35.119 have about people, people and wealthy people buying old brownstones 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.000 versus you know, working class, middle class people buying newer 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.200 condos or apartments or houses. No, he talked about it 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:46.800 in the racial context because that was what he cared about. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:52.120 Racial justice was economic justice to him. In Virginia Democrats 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.720 that put forward legislation that discriminates against white men for 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.920 government contracts. The fever dream with a post Floyd radicalis 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.240 hasn't gotten away. It's just gotten a lot quieter. You're 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.800 just not hearing it so often. But every once in 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.520 a while they slip up and they tell you, and 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.920 then when they get into power, they show you and 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.400 while white continued to become a smaller percentage of this 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.120 country because we've had birth rates below replacement level since 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.520 the nineteen seventies, they will continue to be an economic powerhouse. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:26.440 What happens in many countries when there's an economic dominant 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.600 minority is that they're preyed upon, that they're blamed, they're 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:35.200 discriminated against, And the left is setting up this language today. 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.720 I know that it's not where people expect me to 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.600 go to have this podcast. I'm not a doom and 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.320 gloom person. I'm not a fire and brimstone person. But 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.840 jing Wu, I guess set me off a little bit 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:51.680 because it's so clearly obvious. And the fact that the 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.360 Houston Chronicle sat there and said, well, let's really talk 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.280 about how Ted Cruz reacted to it, rather than what 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:03.320 ging Wu actually said shows how pathetic the media is. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:07.080 The fact that Bacari Sellers is back on CNN any 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:08.640 day of the week that he wants to be the 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.640 fact that half of these people are accepted in play company. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.280 Anti white language is going to be filed by anti 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.280 white legislation. Take it to the bank. It already is 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.800 in New York City in Virginia and anywhere else. Democrats 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.760 will sit there and win this November. I know I 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.640 just said sit there, and I always try to stop 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.080 myself to say sit there, but I did it. Anywhere 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.440 Democrats win this November. Let's talk about an election. Let's 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.520 talk about the great state of Texas. This special election 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.440 in Texas has opened up the you know, open up 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.360 the idea that Texas is in play, especially, you know, 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.280 with incumbent Senator John Cornyn down significantly in the polls, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:52.760 especially in a runoff. He's down really badly in a runoff. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.400 A lot of donors already considering cutting him loose. Recent 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.560 polls by the NRSC found that Cornyn only wins against 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.680 Democrats James to Larico by three points. A poll by 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.520 the University of Houston put every potential matchup within the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.399 margin of error. And Republicans are worried if Ken Paxton, 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.040 Attorney General Kim Paxson, who's a controversial figure for many reasons. 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.560 I'm not going to go into a whole Kenn Paxson 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.520 episode if he is the nominee, that Democrats have a 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.679 chance of winning the state new Remember, I may know 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:24.000 everyone outside Texas like that's so far FROs far fetch 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.600 Trump won Texas by a huge margin, and he did. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.040 But remember in twenty eighteen, in the last midterm, Democrats 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.159 came within two percentage points of beating Ted Cruz. So 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.359 what could happen this year? And the special election in 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:40.680 the Texas State Senate are giving Democrats even more hope. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.959 Polls suggest the worst candidate for the Democrats is Jasmine Crockett. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:46.639 So that's what I've told all my Republican friends to 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.919 go vote for. Because Texas doesn't have strict party registration, 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.480 you can kind of vote for any primary that you want. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.440 But this special election is giving them all hope. So 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.120 will the lone star state go blue? That's what we're 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:05.920 talking about next. Callen Jones is a senior investigator reporter 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.080 at the Dallas Express. He knows a lot about Texas. 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:10.480 Thank you so much for being here, Callen. Thank you 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.320 for having me Ryan. So my first question for you 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.159 is what does this special election in Texas mean for 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.040 Republicans in November. You're of course talking about the SD 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:21.840 nine race. 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:26.720 Yeah, well, I live funny enough in that district. It's 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.760 being interpreted right now as a big upset that mag 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.920 is over this is the sign that Republicans have given 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.959 up on Trump. One thing I would like to point out, 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.040 and I have done in my reporting on this matter, 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.080 is that this was an off year special election runoff, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:48.000 and it happened during January. And what typically does not 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.520 happen during Texas's elections is we don't get snowstorms because 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:55.119 we don't have them in January. And many of the 0:18:55.119 --> 0:19:00.560 polling locations were closed during that election and so disturbed 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.399 to the execution of the election in a way we 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:07.200 haven't seen before. Republicans were discouraged, I think, partly by 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.800 this known partly by some of the political happenings we 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.920 have going on in this district, and Democrats had a 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:17.800 reason to turn out. They were mad, they were fired up, 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.879 and the Democrats ran a competent and likable candidate in 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:22.920 t Would you say. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.199 Though that, would you say that there were things that 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.840 are divorced. Obviously, the national environment's notcher for Republicans, But 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.600 would you say there were things happening in this election 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.159 that were unique to this election. I've heard from people 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:41.440 on the ground that the Republican with a virtually pronounceable 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.000 last name, you know, the fight between her and the 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.520 former mayor of the his or her Republican primary opponent 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.919 turned down support things that don't have implications for a 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.840 state wide election. Certainly, there is a battle of personalities 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:02.280 and of ideology going on in this in the Republican 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:06.160 primary in this race and the former Republican or there 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:06.879 wasn't a primary. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.280 It was three people running against each other. Was wams Goans. 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.480 That's how I say it. Look now I've mispronounced it 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.240 many times. Now it's Wamscons. Lee wams Guns was Republican. 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.560 John John Huffman was the other Republican. He was the 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.359 former mayor of South Lake, and they were running against 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:28.720 Taylor Remmitt, who was the Democrat union boss. And of 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.320 course the Republican vote was split, and the general election 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.359 vote was split three ways, which forced the runoff. It 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.719 cost a lot of money, and there's sort of an 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:43.119 ideological difference coming out of the suburbs. There's the Trump 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.560 base which is with him one hundred percent, and Trump, 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:50.960 of course, at the very end, endorsed Wamscans. And you know, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:54.400 the MAGA people were there, but some of the softer 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:02.640 managerial class moms in the suburbs did not necessarily support 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:07.359 womscons and there were reasons for that, one of which 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:13.520 being the potential split of the school district in Iste. Now, 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.800 I'm actually a graduate of Keller High and this was 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.560 a very controversial issue. From my understanding of the issue, 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.080 womscans and some of the other people that ended up 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:30.480 getting painted with this did not necessarily know about this beforehand. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.439 This kind of spilled out of the Keller isd School 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:38.920 board with no preparation to the public. This was, in 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:43.440 their view, sprung upon them, and the battle was over 0:21:43.600 --> 0:21:47.159 whether to break Keller id into several, possibly two or 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:51.480 more districts, with Keller High kind of anchoring the Keller 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.120 district and then some of the other. 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.119