1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Welcome back to a numbers Game with Ryan Grotski. Thank 2 00:00:02,240 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: you guys for being here. I am so excited for 3 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: this episode because there are so many media narratives coming 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 1: out of the primary election in Texas that are truly 5 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: driving me nuts. Ladies and gentlemen, and for those questioning themselves, 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: if you've listened to the show over last year, I 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 1: am very much a straight shooter. I have very little 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: tolerance for nonsense. And what you're hearing about James Tella 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: Rico and the chances the Democrats have that he is 10 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: some white knight who will turn Texas blue are well overindulged. Right. 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: He is the white knight for Crazytown, USA, and the 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: population of that town is the American media. But let's 13 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:44,880 Speaker 1: start with the top lines, and let's start specifically on 14 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: the Republican side of the aisle. Incumbent center John Cornyn 15 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 1: had a very impressive showing, winning forty two percent of 16 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: the vote against Attorney General Ken Paxson's forty one percent 17 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: of the vote. Cornyn spent about seventy million dollars in 18 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,280 Speaker 1: his primary challenge, the most expensive for an incumbent in 19 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,039 Speaker 1: a primary in US history. Dwarfing Paxton's like five million dollars. 20 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: It might be a little more outside help, but it's 21 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: about five million to seventy million. Well, and why I 22 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: say it's impressive despite him spending twelve fourteen times as 23 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,639 Speaker 1: much money as Paxton is is that Paxton was leading 24 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: in every single poll going to the selection. Most polls 25 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: didn't even have Corning getting to thirty five percent. So 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: the fact that not only he got well over thirty 27 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 1: five percent but came in first place really shows how 28 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: weak Paxton's campaign was. Because Paxton said over and over 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: again that not only was he the MAGA candidate, but 30 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 1: the grassroots candidate, the conservative candidate, and turnout for somebody 31 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,639 Speaker 1: who is an incumbent with that kind of reputation among 32 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: the grassroots is very weak. It's not great. Paxton received 33 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: fewer primary votes this year than Cornyn did in two 34 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: thousand and eight. Think about how many more people live 35 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: in Texas today than in two thousand and eight. And 36 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: I talked to one of my buddies in Texas. I'm 37 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: very smart in the Texas politicool circle, and he said, 38 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: you don't understand Paxton is not a strong candidate. He's 39 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:16,919 Speaker 1: probably one of the overly talked about campaigners or overly 40 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: promoted campaigners in the countries, a pretty weak campaigner when 41 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 1: it comes down to it. And almost immediately after the 42 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: polls closed and the numbers started coming in, I was 43 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: hearing from consultant friends that Trump was going to push 44 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: for an endorsement of Cornyn because Cornyn's numbers out of 45 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: Dallas and the Dallas suburbs were gigantic. He even I 46 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,720 Speaker 1: think won the Houston area, in the Houston suburbs. And 47 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: that's also now what the Atlantic's reporting, is what Politico 48 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: is reporting, and Trump said on truth socially, he's going 49 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: to endorse one of the candidates. Do I like that. 50 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Republicans don't want to spend two hundred 51 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: million dollars if they don't have to on Texas primary race. 52 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: And I get it, corn And sucks he does on 53 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: the issues. I don't know. Corn and Corton's awful. He's 54 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: absolutely awful, and there should have been a better alternative. 55 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: But I give him credit in one thing. This was 56 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: the fight for his life, and I have to hand 57 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: it to the old guy. He won that fight. Had 58 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,519 Speaker 1: had Paxton performed you know, forty eight percent and was 59 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: going to run off. I don't think there would be 60 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: a question of should Trump endorse corn I think he should. 61 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: I think that he wouldn't have. But the fact that 62 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: Paxton was leading all the polls, underperformed, couldn't raise money, 63 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: didn't campaign particularly well. Do you remember seeing a Paxston 64 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 1: speech that went viral or alternative media coverage or free 65 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: media coverage. I didn't see anything. I didn't even see 66 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:51,440 Speaker 1: him make the case against Cornan. I think that he 67 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: should have. That he that I would have really hammering 68 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: Cornn's moderation and that corn have betrayed Texas conserves. He 69 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:04,119 Speaker 1: was able to execute it, so it seems obvious then 70 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: Trump would go with the safer pick, given that the 71 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: quote unquote populist candidate, the maga cann at, the conservative candidate, 72 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: really couldn't do it, and Paxton, hearing that Trump was 73 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: going to call him to step down, probably there were 74 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: some whispers or some private conversations, has said that he 75 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: would exit the race only on one condition, if the 76 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: Senate passes the save back, basically putting the ball back 77 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 1: in the court of moderns in the Senate. I guess 78 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: trying to make a concessions from people like Senator Curtis 79 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: or Mitch McConnell trying to get an easy pathway for 80 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: John Cornyn. I think that's probably the most he could 81 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,239 Speaker 1: ask for instead of going into this and he probably 82 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: would lose a runoff. I think that he really would, 83 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,359 Speaker 1: and he'd spend a lot of time and money. But 84 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,640 Speaker 1: what no one's mentioning this is the thing I want 85 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: everyone to think about when it comes to Texas politics, 86 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: bigger than just this primary, because this is the real 87 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: story about this election cycle. Talk about this. But this 88 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: is very likely John Cornyn's last run. It's his fourth 89 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 1: and last run. He's turning seventy five at the beginning 90 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: of this term, and he'll be eighty one when the 91 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,200 Speaker 1: term ends. Greg Abbott, the governor who won his primary 92 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: challenge with eighty two percent of the vote, carrying every county, 93 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: just ran for his fourth term and it's likely his 94 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: final term in office. I would be flabbergacid if you 95 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: try to run for a fifth term at seventy three 96 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,799 Speaker 1: years old. Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor who's very popular, 97 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,359 Speaker 1: got eighty five percent of the vote, will likely be 98 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: serving his last term. He'll be eighty when his term ends, 99 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: and there is gossip on the street that allegedly Ted 100 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: Cruz is plotting his run for president in twenty twenty 101 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: eight and if he doesn't win and a Republican does 102 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: and he cannot run in twenty thirty two, that he 103 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: will also be retiring. That is the gossip on the street. 104 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: So Texas being the most important red stone in this 105 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 1: country for many reasons, not just because they have forty 106 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: Electoral College votes and they have this giant economy, and 107 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 1: they have the largest delegation in the House, but they 108 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: are coming into a power vacuum over the next four, 109 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: five and six years. There's going to be a giant 110 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: seed change in the Texas Republican leadership that a lot 111 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,920 Speaker 1: of people in Texas are planning the seeds for. Also, remember, 112 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: by the way, there are six incumbent Republican Congressmen who 113 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: are over the age of seventy. I think one is 114 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: over the age of eighty. And if you are a 115 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: conservative in Texas and you are disappointed that John Cornyn 116 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: is likely coming out of this election, you know the winner. 117 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: If you're disappointed that Greg Abbott won with a landslide, 118 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: I know some people don't like Greg Abbott. The change 119 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: that's going to happen will start today because the main 120 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: players who have been running Texas for the last fifteen 121 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 1: years in some case, twenty years in other cases are 122 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: all looking towards the exit sign that their time has 123 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: come and their time is probably passed. And if you 124 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: want a more conservative Texas, now is your chance. This 125 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 1: is really a prime opportunity over the next four years. 126 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: No one's talked about. It should be talked about. Now, 127 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: let's talk about the other race. That's very fascinating. One 128 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 1: of two primary challenges that I want to talk about. 129 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: One is that Crenshaw. Dan Crenshaw was the only incumbent 130 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,920 Speaker 1: congressman to lose without a runoff. He did not receive 131 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: the Trump endorsement, the only House member in the Texas 132 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: delegation not to receive the Trump endorsement. He outspent his 133 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,080 Speaker 1: primary opponent at nine to one, but lost by fifteen points. 134 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: That's pretty decisive. That's a blowout. People in the media 135 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: are asking why. People who don't understand Republicans are asking why. 136 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: And you have people like Juan Ferraro from the Wall 137 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: Street Journal. He tweeted Dan Crenshaw of Texas as a 138 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: conservative with an independent streak, who questioned Republicans who supported 139 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: Trump's claim that the twenty twenty vote was stolen. No 140 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: place for no place in the party for someone like that, 141 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:06,440 Speaker 1: no one. That was not why Dan Crenshaw lost. Dan 142 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,679 Speaker 1: Crenshaw the election being stolen in twenty twenty, those claims 143 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: and those you know, the fight over that was not 144 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: mentioned during the campaign at all. No one cared about it. 145 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 1: And as far as an independent shriek, dan Crenshaw voted 146 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: with Trump one hundred percent of the time. That's a 147 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: complete You didn't read the room at all. One, You 148 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: didn't read the room at all. People didn't like Dan Crenshaw. 149 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 1: That is the problem. They didn't like him for a 150 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 1: number of reasons. They didn't like him because he was 151 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: a warhawk. He openly defended congressional stock trading, which was 152 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: one of his big issues over the last couple of years. 153 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,320 Speaker 1: Of the number one thing you knew about Dan Crenshaw 154 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: was he loved trading stocks and he made no friends 155 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: members of I met I'm not in Texas very often, 156 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: but I met donors who were like, I'll fund anybody 157 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 1: who runs against him. There was also conservative media personalities 158 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: who couldn't stand him. The President didn't like him, his 159 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: colleagues didn't like him. He just, I mean, he pissed 160 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: everyone off. There's nobody to say it, and finally caught 161 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:08,080 Speaker 1: up to him. He's an abrasive person who's not likable. 162 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: And look, I get I'm abrasive. I get like three 163 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: Christmas cards a year. I get it. I mean, I'm 164 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: not for everybody, but I'm not running for Congress. So 165 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: I mean that was really basically it. He was just 166 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:24,400 Speaker 1: too unlikable to run for reelection and it ultimately caught 167 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: up with him, and that was that, and so his 168 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: career has finally come to an end. For his House seat, 169 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: the last seat that I want to talk to you 170 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: about is the only dad who's trumpendorse Canada who's likely 171 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 1: to lose, and that is Tony Gonzalez from twenty third 172 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: District of Texas. You've heard me talk about him before 173 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: on the show A Lot for those who need a 174 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: very brief refresher, he represents the district on the Texas 175 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: Mexico border. Allegedly call Republicans behind closed doors during the 176 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: Biden migration crisis, a bunch of racists for wanting to 177 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,400 Speaker 1: stop the invasion, and he had an affair with a 178 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: staffer that he aggressively pursued after she told him no, 179 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: and allegedly allegedly offered her promotions and raises and projects 180 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: that she really wanted to be part of. Before the 181 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: affair happened, she left her family for him and only, 182 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: and allegedly she he ghosted her, and then she lit 183 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 1: herself on fire in front of her mother and killed herself. 184 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's horrific to even say out loud. 185 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: It's why had to pause. I'm like, how A'm I 186 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: gonna say this? This is it's a horrific story. He 187 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: denied the entire thing until the text messages between the 188 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: two came into public life. Then he admitted that he 189 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: had cheated on his wife, the mother of his six children, 190 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: and they added quote lapse of judgment, sir ordering taco 191 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: bell at two am as a lapse of judgment. This 192 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: is much worse. He came in second place in the 193 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: primary election. In the runoff, he'll have a runoff with 194 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: Brandon Herrera. He received forty two percent to Herrera's forty 195 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: three percent. He actually received fewer votes in this election 196 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,040 Speaker 1: than the first round of the twenty twenty four primary, 197 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,319 Speaker 1: which was a presidential election. So I mean that says 198 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: something when you're getting the last votes and you did 199 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: during the presidential election and Herrera is getting more. Gonzales 200 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: went on the Joe Paggs Show right after the primary 201 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: to talk about it. His face was lifeless, is the 202 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: way I could describe it. If you're not watching, He said, 203 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,719 Speaker 1: God forgave him for the affair. So anyway, by the way, 204 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: if you are looking to deal with something with morality, 205 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,480 Speaker 1: you don't need to see a priest or a pass 206 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 1: or you can just go to Tony Gonzalez. He's had 207 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 1: a one way conversation with God. But then hegan talking 208 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: about how it was weird that his dead mistress's husband 209 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 1: called his congressional office and asked about her death benefits 210 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: the day after she passed away. He changed his story. 211 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: At first he said it was a few hours after 212 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: she passed away, and then said it was the day 213 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,040 Speaker 1: after she passed away he asked about her death benefits. 214 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:00,880 Speaker 1: He also claimed that the deaf husband's day defense attorney 215 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 1: threatened to blackmail him for three hundred thousand dollars saying, 216 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: this whole little controversy was about money, Sir, Congressman, It 217 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: wasn't about money. This is not about money. Nobody cares 218 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: about this blackmail story. This is because you had an 219 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: affair with your employee. Your staffers are leaking to the 220 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: media that you caused her mental distress and she killed herself, 221 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: but in a brutal way in front of her mom. 222 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: This is not about money, and you are not a victim. 223 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 1: That is what Gonzalez is doing. He's saying, look at me, 224 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,680 Speaker 1: I'm the victim of this black Sir. You are not 225 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: the victim. You are not the victim. This is so 226 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: nonsensical to even spin it that way. PAGs, to his credit, asked, 227 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: do you think your response for her suicide? That's clip 228 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: one I want to go to that. It's a little 229 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: long of a clip that listen to that us. 230 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 2: Any and every headline that we see about this story 231 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 2: makes the assertion. They're not out not saying it, but 232 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: they make the assertion that she committed suicide because of you. 233 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 2: You don't think you had anything whatsoever to do with it. 234 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 3: Absolutely nothing to do with it. And you know what 235 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 3: they do this intentionally, Pegs, I mean you cannot hate 236 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 3: the media enough. There's a reason why I'm coming on 237 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 3: your show. 238 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: Is the reason why I reached out to you. 239 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,480 Speaker 3: And this, you know this, this alternative way of getting 240 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 3: real information out is this was all very coordinated attack 241 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 3: towards me. For one thing, to get me to not vote, 242 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 3: prime example, to get me to not vote for the 243 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:37,959 Speaker 3: DHS package tomorrow. 244 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: Buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, media trump, DHS border deflect, distract, distract, 245 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: what a narcissistic sociopath this woman is dead? And then 246 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: for a definitive proof that he said he is not 247 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: responsible at all for her suicide. He reads from the 248 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: part of the Evalde police or ort from my first responder. 249 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: Go to clip two. 250 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 3: It is pages upon pages, but I will share just 251 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 3: this one thing. One of the things that was relayed 252 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 3: was you know, what was miss Santos's last words, and 253 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 3: they tried to make it all dramatic in. 254 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: The police report. 255 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,119 Speaker 3: This is specifically from the police report. The female subject 256 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 3: with burn injuries then stated her husband is gay and 257 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 3: having an affair with her best friend. I wonder if 258 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 3: that had something to do with her tragic passing. 259 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: According to her mother, who was present. Her last words 260 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: were I don't want to die, which to you is 261 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: more believable her claim that the Evalde police, who if 262 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: you remember the shooting for a couple of years, have 263 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: many issues to them. That she said my husband is 264 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: gay as her final words, or I don't want to die. 265 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 1: This politician with his very very large soapbox is saying, no, 266 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,200 Speaker 1: it wasn't me. I wasn't responsible. I'm actually the victim 267 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: who's responsible her quote unquote gay husband who is now 268 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: blackmailing me. It's really just that this man is really 269 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: creating circles and taking down a proud congressman. What a 270 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: piece of human debris. There is no accountability on his side. 271 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: He is lifeless. The only time he's showing any passion 272 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: is when he's calling for his own defense. If he 273 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: did care about this woman, which he says that she 274 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: was an amazing worker and she did so much community. 275 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: If he really cared, what he'd be trying to do 276 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: right now is raise money for the child who doesn't 277 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: have a mom anymore, not running re election campaigns and 278 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: claim it you're the victim of some giant conspiracy between 279 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: a widower allegedly and his gay love affair, and you're 280 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 1: a deceased employee. This is ridiculous. House leadership under Speaker 281 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:09,800 Speaker 1: Johnson finally finally came out with the statement demanding his withdrawal. 282 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: Gonzalez's withdrawal from the reelection, especially as the Ethics Committee 283 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: has announced an investigation into his conduct. The House is 284 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: a very strict rule about affairs when it comes to staffers. 285 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: It's not the same as just regular affairs or affairs 286 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: with other colleagues. That's not the same thing with staffers. 287 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: It's pretty strict. The runoff in Texas is May twenty six. 288 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: I don't think Tony Gonzalez is going to survive. I 289 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 1: would expect, honestly at this point that Trump is going 290 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: to withdraw his endorsement at some point. How he's behaving 291 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: in this race is so disgraceful. It is disgraceful. This 292 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: man is willing to embarrass himself, his wife, his children, 293 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 1: the deceased woman's children. I mean, he's a disgrace. Okay, 294 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: that's the Republican side. That's my annalysis of the Republican side. 295 00:17:05,440 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: That's why this election is interesting and important. Let's go 296 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:11,640 Speaker 1: to the Democrat side of the election, the Democratic primary 297 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: that's coming up next. So James tela Rico, state representative, 298 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: just thirty six years old, defeated Congressman Jasmine Crockett in 299 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: the Democratic primary, a woman who I have often called 300 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: the dime store CARDI b who developed a black scent 301 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: sometime in her late thirties to early forties. Jasmine's a 302 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: beautiful I'm not making a joke. She's a gorgeous looking 303 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: woman who was very eloquent speaker until she became a 304 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: member of Congress and all of a sudden her entire 305 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 1: voice change somehow to turn it in this election. The 306 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: Democratic primary was massive the city of Austin and the 307 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,440 Speaker 1: surrounding suburbs where tel Rico is the stay representative. That 308 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: gave him the large margin of victory. He did very 309 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,040 Speaker 1: well with Latinos as well, winning their vote. The black 310 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 1: vote was very one sided towards Jasmine Rocket the white 311 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,119 Speaker 1: vote was even more one side or as one sided 312 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 1: for James tell Rico, as was the case, by the way, 313 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: with the Republican primary. Tela Rico outspent his opponent, though 314 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 1: not as much as Corn and out spent Paxston, but 315 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 1: he outspent her about five to one. For almost two decades, 316 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,640 Speaker 1: the media has been trying to recreate what they did 317 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: with Obama, basically create this political sensation out of whole cloth. 318 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: And now they're especially focused on doing it with a 319 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: white man. See, they know that white men, especially working 320 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: class white men and evangelical white men, are the backbone 321 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,040 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party. The Republican Party cannot win without 322 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 1: white men, and if they peel off a few of them, 323 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 1: then they can win every big election they try to do, 324 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: as with Tim Waltz, the communist version of Fred Mertz, 325 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: until it was revealed that he was certifiably insane, giving 326 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: out awards to refugees that defrauded people in the systems, 327 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: dealing two hundred and fifty million dollars that that we're 328 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,400 Speaker 1: using to feed hungry children. That's what they do all 329 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,680 Speaker 1: the time. They're trying to more and more frequently. They 330 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,679 Speaker 1: try with Beto O'Rourke, the man who wanted to tow the 331 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: line between being Irish and Latino, so he instead of 332 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: going by his real name, Francis O'Rourke, he went by 333 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: Beto to really mix it up a little bit. And 334 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 1: the far left is also trying to be a man 335 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: named Graham Platner up in Maine. I'm going to have 336 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 1: an entire episode of dedicated to him soon. I'm going 337 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,320 Speaker 1: to expose the truth about him, and it's going to 338 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: be fantastic. He is crazier than a pistachio farm in California. 339 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,520 Speaker 1: But then there's James Tula Rico. He is the Left's 340 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,760 Speaker 1: new wonder kid. This keybler elf, according to the media, 341 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:43,879 Speaker 1: is the Left's answer to Evangelicalism, Christian nationalism. He's a 342 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:48,159 Speaker 1: seminarian who really understands what working class white people believe, 343 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:52,080 Speaker 1: and economic populist, and he's deeply rooting his Christian faith 344 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: and he reads the Bible. He carries the Bible with 345 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 1: them practically ever he goes. The only problem is for 346 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 1: the Democrats that Trico. In tell Rico's version of Christianity, 347 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ has the same opinions on polities that Christian 348 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: jillibrandt and Corey Booker have. Here's just a short highlight 349 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:13,400 Speaker 1: reel of some of the supposed things as moderate believes 350 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: in when it comes to Christianity and politics. Credit to 351 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: Colin rig who pulled this. Go to the next Clook. 352 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 4: When I was a teacher on the West side of 353 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 4: San Antonio, I taught a lot of students who were undocumented, 354 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 4: and I don't want a stereotype, but those students tended 355 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 4: to be the most patriotic, the hardest working students that 356 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 4: I had in the classroom. And again I haven't stated 357 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 4: this enough to say this definitively, but there are interpretations 358 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 4: of certain passages from the Torah where some folks will 359 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:50,560 Speaker 4: even say that there is some subtle instructions for how 360 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 4: to perform an abortion in the ancient world, certain things 361 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 4: to drink, things like that. 362 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 5: Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our 363 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 5: trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texas is 364 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,199 Speaker 5: something we have to do every day at the state capital, 365 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 5: and you better believe I'll be getting sermons on that too. 366 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 5: I want us all to be aware of is that 367 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 5: modern science obviously recognized as that there are many more 368 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 5: than two biological sexes. 369 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: In fact, there are six. 370 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 4: Is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. 371 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 5: God is non binary. 372 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 4: So this idea that to be a Christian means you 373 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 4: have to be anti gay and anti abortion, there really 374 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 4: is no historical theological biblical basis for that opinion. 375 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: During one of his addresses in a church, Tyla Rico said, 376 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: after abortion was banned that neighbors with a uterus are 377 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 1: second class citizen and citizens go to the next collipse. 378 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:55,399 Speaker 5: This summer, more than half our population became second class citizens. 379 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 5: Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the 380 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 5: pretty of the state. And nothing, nothing is more Unchristian 381 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 5: than that. 382 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: I am so old that back in my day they 383 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: call those people women on God being non binary. Now, 384 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: he didn't say this is his current defense that God 385 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: is greater than gender, but he doesn't say things like 386 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: God created man and woman in his likeness an image 387 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: he uses a specifically uses a woke terminology that God 388 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,399 Speaker 1: is non binary. That is, for boys that like to 389 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,360 Speaker 1: wear skirts and pretend they're cats and girls who think 390 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: are thinking about having their breast lobbed off. He said 391 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist, as if 392 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: he was sitting in the temple reading Betty for Dan. 393 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: He also said that Jesus has helped him reckon with 394 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: his own whiteness. Now, for those of you who aren't 395 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: familiar with the teachings of Jesus or Christianity. Jesus calls 396 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,439 Speaker 1: on us to reckon with our sin full nature. But 397 00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: to James Telarco, being white and committing a sin is 398 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 1: the same exact thing. Go to the next clip. 399 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 4: For me, Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon 400 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,960 Speaker 4: with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, 401 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 4: my own ego. It's a never ending process, and it's 402 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,440 Speaker 4: a painful process. 403 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: Being a white man is a painful process. To James Telrigo, 404 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,520 Speaker 1: the moderate Democratic candidate from Texas. Some of his other 405 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: moderate positions are that prisons are violence and we should 406 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 1: imagine a world and work for a world without them. 407 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: Is the next clip. 408 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 5: Poverty is violence, pollution is violence, and yes, prison is violence. 409 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 5: Dismantle the system of violence. 410 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 4: Build something new, something better, something rooted in love. 411 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 5: It's hard to imagine a world without prison, but was 412 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 5: also hard to imagine a world without telegrams. 413 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:00,800 Speaker 1: And cassette face. 414 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 5: Just because it's hard to imagine, it doesn't be is should. 415 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: The hits keep coming? He posed the picture of several 416 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,439 Speaker 1: black men who have been killed by police, including Michael Brown. 417 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: Michael Brown for those who forgot he was in Ferguson, Missouri. 418 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 1: He charged up police trying to grab one of their 419 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: guns and was killed. This is where the hands up, 420 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: don't shoot lie comes from. In his tweet, Tullarico says 421 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: Ahmud Albert Arbery, who was actually legitimately killed for not 422 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: for police. He was killed actually for a highfile for 423 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 1: racial profiling, he said, is the latest American kill from 424 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: the virus of racism. The virus kills our black neighbors 425 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: if they are jogging, playing music, sitting in church, selling CDs, 426 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 1: or carrying a bag of skittles. White skin gives me 427 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 1: and every white American immunity from this virus, but we 428 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: spread it wherever we go through the world through our words, 429 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,680 Speaker 1: our actions, our systems. We don't have to be showing 430 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 1: some like a white hood or a Confederate flag to 431 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: be racist. We're just virus carriers us white people. Michael 432 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: Brown wasn't killed because of racism. He was killed because 433 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,959 Speaker 1: he tried to take an officer's gun and he violently 434 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: confronted the police. During a different post, he referred to 435 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: illegal aliens as undocumented Americans. In twenty thirteen, he video 436 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: of a certain pro life video brings back memories of 437 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: being the only teenage boy at planned Parentho marches in 438 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and four. For anyone who has ever seen 439 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: a picture, or watched a video or heard him speak, 440 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 1: I can promise you James tell Arco at no point 441 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: in his life needed to worry about an unplanned pregnancy. 442 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: But he cares a lot about abortion, so much so 443 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: that he said, we need abortion access for our trans community. 444 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,160 Speaker 1: We need abortion access for anyone, because if you don't, 445 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,879 Speaker 1: you are a ward of the state. You're basically a slave. 446 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: He actively worked speaking of trans this is like an 447 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: insane thing. He actually worked when he was in the 448 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: state legislator from stopping trans women who are men from 449 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: being in female spaces and being playing on female sports team. 450 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: He took the twenty twenty percent side of an eighty 451 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 1: twenty issue in twenty twenty two. This is after Robi 452 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: Way was overturned. He called on Joe Biden to use 453 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: federal buildings to provide abortion care for women in red states. 454 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Can you imagine Christmas time you're going 455 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 1: to the post office to go male packages to relatives 456 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: and loved ones across the country. You're humming some Christmas 457 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: carols to yourself, and you get to the post office 458 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: and lo and behold, a woman is getting an abortion 459 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: near the po boxes. This man is insane. This man 460 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:58,040 Speaker 1: is e thing sick. In twenty twenty, he also claimed 461 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: that he had gone viral in Brazil because his last 462 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: name in Portuguese. He said, his last name in Brazilian, 463 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 1: but he's two stupids know that it's Portuguese, not Brazilian. 464 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 1: And when there's no language Brazilian, he said that his 465 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: last name means wife stealer, and he said, I'm going 466 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: to steal your girl once again. If you've ever seen 467 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: or heard him, that is not a problem you should 468 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,440 Speaker 1: worry about. But see, he's what the liberal fantasy of 469 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:26,439 Speaker 1: what normal for white men looks like. He is to 470 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: what liberals believe will work to get white evangelicals on 471 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: his side. You know, it means I've read the Bible, 472 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: I've been inside a church outside of a funeral. Therefore 473 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: I got this. It's like when Republicans run a black 474 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: guy with a white wife who lives in an all 475 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: white community and thinks that's gonna, you know, win over 476 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: black voters. It's not going to work. No one believes 477 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: James Tella Rigo sounds like a like a Christian, like 478 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: an average white guy. He's constantly plagued, but the inner 479 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: term was of being a white guy. I mean he 480 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: Rachel Dalzel is more adjusted to being white than James 481 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 1: Tela Rico. James is a mini ni version of every 482 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,600 Speaker 1: far left radical nutbag that the Democratic Party has ever 483 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: turned out, and he's had this enormous successful Latino voters 484 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 1: in this primary election they're counting on to swing him 485 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: the Senate seat, but that's because they didn't get a 486 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars of advis showing that he's just the 487 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,959 Speaker 1: woke billy Graham. He is not a deeply devout Christian. 488 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: He's a heretic. He basterdizes the faith that a majority 489 00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 1: of Texans believe in. So there's a lot going going 490 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: to come out about him past this primary. And the 491 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: biggest irony has Jasmine Crockett not been so utterly woke 492 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 1: And now maybe if she had more money, but if 493 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: she not been so utterly woke and been afraid of 494 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: the online, you know, woke mob, she probably could have 495 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:02,120 Speaker 1: beaten him by addressing these issues to Latinos in Texas 496 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: in the Democratic primary, she could have splintered off a 497 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: lot by talking about his positions on trans people, by 498 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: his positions on prisons, by his positions on crime, by 499 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,600 Speaker 1: his positions on whiteness in the suburbs of Dallas and Houston, 500 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:22,080 Speaker 1: you know, or as James Teleerico referrently calls people Latin 501 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: X people, which infuriates Hispanics. I know that Republicans in 502 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: Washington's are licking their chops and they believe they could 503 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,680 Speaker 1: beat James Celerico. It's always a hard state for them 504 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: to win. But I don't think that they even began 505 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: to skim the surface of just how nuts this man is. 506 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,240 Speaker 1: He is crazy. He is not going to win this election. 507 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: I don't think right now. I will wait to see 508 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: some polls. But when this stuff starts hitting, and it 509 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: will hit the airwaves and non stop, they're going to say, 510 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,640 Speaker 1: this man is a freak. Let's send him back to 511 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 1: the key morel you know, tree, so he can make 512 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: some cookies. Ask Me Anything is coming up next. Welcome 513 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 1: back for the Ask Me Anything segment. If you want 514 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 1: to be part of the Ask Me Anything segment, email 515 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 1: me Ryan at Numbers Game Podcast dot com as Ryan 516 00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,479 Speaker 1: at numbers Plural Numbers Game podcast dot com. This message 517 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,959 Speaker 1: comes from Mike. He says, Ryan, big fan of your 518 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: show and wish you continued success. Thank you, Mike. I 519 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 1: appreciate that, he said. I've been a longtime conservative and 520 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: I believe I have a pretty stable political instincts. That 521 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 1: being said, why do Republicans do to shoot themselves in 522 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 1: the foot? That is an ever green question, Mike. That 523 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: is not fair for me to answer. Ethics acide. Everyone 524 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: had known that in twenty twenty two election was going 525 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 1: to be a blovebetho Republicans because of the abortion ruling. E. 526 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: I don't actually believe that. I don't care what side 527 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: of the aisle you're on on that debate. It's just 528 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: now mainstream battle of winner, and now in twenty twenty six, 529 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: Republicans are again fumbling the football with or messaging on 530 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: ice and going down the pin the tail on the 531 00:30:53,960 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: jew rabbit pull. I don't mean to laugh. Don't mean 532 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: to laugh. That was a very creative way of putting it. Sorry. 533 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 1: I've loved all your coverage and analyse the illegal immigration 534 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: debate and agree with you on your messaging Mike, and 535 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: there was a rant after that, but it went too long. Mike, 536 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: thank you for your compliments. I would say with the 537 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two election, remember that Trump. The Republicans won 538 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: the generic ballad in the twenty twenty two election, right, 539 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 1: so they were more voted for Republicans in the House 540 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 1: then voted for Democrats. The problem was is that Republican 541 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: voters were shifting. They were winning more working class voters, 542 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: more more Latina voters, and they didn't do a good 543 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,560 Speaker 1: enough job in white suburban communities where the voters were 544 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 1: leaving them, and that was part of it. Yes, abortion 545 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 1: and a big part of it, saying the claiming the 546 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 1: twenty twenty election was stolen and the fears of democracy 547 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,959 Speaker 1: played part of it, but the re alignment had a 548 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: big part of it. That was kind of underspoken about 549 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,760 Speaker 1: as well as you know, wee candidates running for statewide 550 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: office and then all being lumped in together as crazy. 551 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: The thing about that, here's the problem with Republicans with 552 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: the whole pin the pin the tail on the jew 553 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:13,280 Speaker 1: rabbit hole. Republicans in office are not talking about that 554 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 1: is all coming from online media personalities. So how much 555 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: space do you give something do you want I'm thinking 556 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,880 Speaker 1: of it. Think of it like this, if you are 557 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: an elected official, Ted Cruz aside. But if you're an 558 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: elected official, how much time do you want to spend 559 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: in your re election year of battling Tucker Carlson? How 560 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,200 Speaker 1: much do you want to elevate him? How much you 561 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: want to elevate Canis Owens, canus Owens. The show is 562 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: the National Inquirer, it's you know, who killed Charlie Kirk. 563 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: That's the problem. You don't want to elevate people because 564 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: if you do, if you put them on your level, 565 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: you give them much larger credibility. And I get that 566 00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: we're all seeing it. I don't really know how you 567 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,000 Speaker 1: dissuade people from that opinion or from hearing about it. 568 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: But that's that's that. I mean, that's that's really the 569 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: conflict as far as the messaging goes, with immigration a 570 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 1: big thing of it. I think immigration plays less into 571 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 1: it than people think. I think it's really the economy. 572 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 1: I think for young young people, they are dissatisfied with 573 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,600 Speaker 1: the Epstein file stuff. I think it Epstein File stuff 574 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,800 Speaker 1: has gotten way too much converence with young people. Do 575 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: care about it, and I acknowledge that they care about it. 576 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 1: And I think that it's gas prices and energy prices. 577 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: So part of it is the economy and the economy 578 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,000 Speaker 1: not being where people want it to be. Part of 579 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000 Speaker 1: it is thinking that Trump is distracted by too much 580 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,560 Speaker 1: military intervention and not enough focus on domestic policy. And 581 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 1: then the other part of it is I guess these 582 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:53,960 Speaker 1: the greater conservative conversations that are happening that members of 583 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: Congress are not having. And to a certain degree, if 584 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: they spend all their time worrying would talk or Carlson 585 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: or this one or that one, it would look they 586 00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: would make the party really look like a circus. And 587 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 1: you don't want that. So that's my opinion of it. 588 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 1: I think a lot of things being said about Jews 589 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: are despicable and disgusting. And as I said before, I 590 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: don't think that Rubio made a good case for himself 591 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,680 Speaker 1: in that press conference. And Rubio's been doing it normally, 592 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,520 Speaker 1: a fabulous job as Secretary of State. But I do 593 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 1: you think that he fumbled that? So yeah, but that's 594 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: that's how it was. And also, remember one last thing, 595 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: one last thing. Remember it's a midterm of a president 596 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,680 Speaker 1: in power. It is the normal thing for the party 597 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,879 Speaker 1: in power to lose the House. It's just the way 598 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: the American people are. There's really sometimes not a bigger 599 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: lesson to learn from it. Just everyone relax, make sure 600 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,960 Speaker 1: we'll go out and vote, try to win as many 601 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 1: elections as possible, try to reduce the losses in the 602 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,839 Speaker 1: House to you know, single digits. But aside from that, 603 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 1: you know, you've got to just take a breath and 604 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 1: people stop losing their minds over every little thing. Like cool, 605 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: our heads will prevail. Just That's one thing I've noticed 606 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, is like, don't always have to 607 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: set our hair and four we can take a breath. 608 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 1: It is okay to not get set over everything. You 609 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: can't control everything. It gives you ulcers and you know, anyway, 610 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaker 1: that's this episode. Thank you guys so much. We'll be 611 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: back on Monday. We have a special episode with Amazing Polester. 612 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,680 Speaker 1: We're gonna go down and break down Republicans' chances in 613 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,680 Speaker 1: the midterms. We're gonna break down all of the chances 614 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 1: to hold on to the Senate or win more sentence seats, 615 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: or loose the sentence seats. It's gonna be a fantastic show. 616 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: If you like this podcast, please like and subscribe on 617 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or on YouTube wherever you 618 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,040 Speaker 1: get your podcasts, and I will talk to you guys 619 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,560 Speaker 1: on Monday. Have a wonderful weekend.