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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is Jasmine Crockett about to have her candidacy take off
like a rocket? We are going to ask our friend
Shermichael Signalton about that and much more. Wethfree dot Com
is his network. His site very involved in the two
A second Amendment community, guns all that good stuff. It's
also a CNN commentator, mister Shermichael. Pleasure to have you back, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What's up man? Good to see you, brother, Thanks for
having me.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So tell me this if you would. What do you
think about this?
Speaker 3 (00:52):
For?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
First of all, is Jasmine Crockett? You talked about this
on CNN right on that on the Abby Phillips Show,
where you, unlike some of my other friends, have not
yet been banned. So congratulations on that. Uh, how do
you how do you see this? Is she? Is she
just building her own brand? Could she actually pull off
a win here? What are you thing? So?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I think her argument for the race is predicated upon
the fact that she probably believes that Kim Paxson's going
to become the nominee and right now, that's very possible.
I mean John corn is behind Ken Paxon, who's leading
the pack on our side, followed by Wesley Hunt. That's
the congressman I'm sure your audience is familiar with. And
then it's John Cornyn, who, to a surprise, is struggling
(01:35):
to catch up. Now I will say he has decreased
Paxton's lead. After Paxson's wife came out about the divorce.
A Corner and Pack supporting corner have been running a
lot of aggressive ads going after Packston. So you've seen
Paxson's numbers come down, but Cornyn is still behind. So
I'm willing to bet that Jasmine Crockett, her team, maybe
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with some Democrats in Texas and nationally, are looking at
the fact that they're hoping Paxston wins because he's a
very controversial figure, and they're probably betting if it is Packson,
she might have a realistic chance of winning. And I
gotta be honest with you, buy I'm not necessarily against
that line of argument.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
How do you think she plays in Texas? Like, what
are the strengths that she has? Obviously she's very good
at getting it here. We are talking about her right,
very good at getting media attention, says some pretty Uh.
I don't know if we could even say inflammatory in
the current era we're in people, But like, I mean,
Trump says everything's Trump says wild stuff. You could say
it's a flammatory I love it personally. You know, he
(02:36):
shouted shut up piggy or whatever to a quiet piggy
to a journalist like a week ago, like a week ago.
So like, I can't pretend like Trump is not doing
this stuff right, But uh, you know, she gets she
she gets attention for herself, and I think she has
a constituency. I think the Democrat left embraces her.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, I think so. So people don't realize this.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Texas has the largest number of disengaged black voters of
any state in the country. So I'm not talking about
black voters who are probably going to vote for her
in general. I'm talking about black voters who don't typically vote,
or low propensity black voters. I'm willing to bet as
a strategist, if I were advising.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Her, I'm going to look at all the major precints.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Number one, I'm going to look at all the sort
of middle sized precincts and all the smaller preseats, And
I'm going to try to go in and figure out
who those low perpensily and disengage black voters are. You're
going to target them, like hell. Then you got to
look at Hispanic voters. Now, President Trump got about forty
six percent of those in November. When you look at
national polling, the data suggests that we as a party
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have lost that support by some pretty significant margins.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
So she's probably going to focus on those voters.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Then you get your Democratic white voters, you're sort of
Democratic leaning white voters, and then you sort of build
a pretty compelling mathematical path to her being a competitive
candidate against Paxon. And then on the negative side, you're
probably going to run a bunch of ads of his
wife coming out. You're going to probably run a bunch
of ads of some of the stuff that she was
(04:04):
saying about Packson cheating on her, breaking up the family,
and if you're Republicans. But I'm hoping like hell that
Ken Paxson's wife doesn't decide to come out in the
middle of the race to say he is not an evangelical,
he's not a Christian, he's not the right person to
lead Texas. That would be a nuclear bond that we
just cannot afford at all if he does become the nominee,
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which is why a lot of people are kind of
nervous about where this race might go.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
How do you think we're looking for the midterms?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Hell man, Look, I was nervous about the Texas thing
when the federal judge, the Trump appointed a federal judge, said, look,
you can't draw these lines before midterm. Obviously the Supreme
Court came and said, no, yes you can. That's going
to help us a little bit. Obviously, California levels that out.
You got North Carolina that just recently did some stuff
about two or three months ago.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So it's going to be very very close.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
If we lose midterms, it will be because of one reason,
and one reason only.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Affordability and cost of living. Man. We have got to
address this as a party.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
The American people handed the keys to President Trump on
our side because they we're pissed off about what they
saw four years from Biden and Kamala Harris. They saw
an economy that just was not working for them. They
saw a border that was uncontrolled. We've handled the border.
That's one side of it.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Though.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
We got to fix the economy. We got to figure
out a way to bring down housing costs, and I
got some interesting ways I think Republicans could do that
that would really put us at an advantageous part of
our place.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Come November, let's get into that next actually to talk
to me about solutions in a second year. But first,
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Paradigm Press. All right, ture, Michael, how do we fix affordability?
No big deal, right, no big boo?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah yeah, no big deal right? No.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I think in Q one of twenty six, the House,
led by Speaker Mike Johnson, needs to prioritize two major
economic pieces of legislation, the first one being the housing costs.
You can't address affordability without tackling housing. Now, removing some immigrants,
that's going to levy up some of the available homes. Right,
(06:56):
You got to figure out a way to address this issue.
With companies like Blackrock and big banks and financial institutions
buying up all the darn houses across the country.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
That's gonna help. But the biggest.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Problem also, we have a supply issue, and so I
think you got to build more houses. President Trump could say, look,
we're going to mandate a national housing shortage as an emergency.
We're gonna redirect some funds and focus on their public
private sector coming together to build these houses.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
And you know who should build them, Our young.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Men, buck who are yearning for recognition, yearning for a
sense of purpose and direction. You're gonna pay them good money.
They're gonna earn skills that are going to keep them employed.
No matter what happens with AI, They'll still be able
to fix those houses.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
They'll be able to plump plumbing, electricity, etc.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
So I think you address housing, you also put young
men back to work, which, by the way, our young
men have a relatively high unemployment rate, higher than the
national average.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Right now, that's the first thing we could do.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
The second thing, man, we've got to figure out a
way to employ more people h one b Visas. I'm
completely against that. This notion coming from Silicon Valley that
we don't have enough quote unquote smart Americans to do
these technical jobs is a farce. We have to start
prioritizing training our own people for the next evolution of
American superiority, that being technology. You need two pieces of
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legislation to do that. That'll get people back to work.
Over the next three years, America will boom, The American people.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Will be happy.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
And guess what that positions us in a position of
strength going into twenty twenty eight, where I would like
for us to retain the White House, to senate and
obvious leave the House.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
How are we doing? I know you're very involved you
like guns and shooting as do I. We might even
go shooting together soon.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I got some behind me, that's right?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Is that? Is that a staccato behind you? What do
we have?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It's two staccados, man, I got the staccato excel and
the staccato P limited with the Dawson Precision twisted on comp.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh, that's very nice. I have a stacado C two
in this room with me here somewhere, but I don't
have it in the shot. That's that's a much cooler
way to do it. How are we doing? I feel
like there were times when because the Democrats, especial, especially
when they're in charge, there are a bunch of gun grabbers,
they try to abrogate or try to just nullify the
Second Amendment. How's the administration doing with guns?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I'm not happy about how the administration is doing with
the Second Amendment.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I'm going to be very honest with you.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Pam BONDI, with all due respect to the President's appointment
of her, and I respect the President's decision, she has
done a horrible job. And you will find a lot
of activists, a lot of groups from Gun Owners of America,
Second Amendment Foundation Firearms Policy Institute National Rifle Association that
have been very very critical of some of the positions
(09:36):
at the administration Visa VI. The DOJ have taken on
a plethora of judicial cases that have surprised a lot
of us. We thought the administration was going to be
very very pro Second Amendment, trying to roll back as
much stuff as possible, not being on the side of
the NFA, the National Firearms Act that that registry them
(09:57):
essentially saying like, hey, we actually kind of need this.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
We thought they would say, no, this should go away.
It is a violation of the Second Amendment. They haven't
taken any of those positions.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Now, granted you have had a heart Meat Dillon came
out recently that they're going to have a second Amendment
of civil Rights Office. A lot of us in the
two A space are very skeptical about that. It's promising,
but we'll see. But this is a big missed opportunity
because a lot of gun owners turned out to vote
for President Trump last November, and it was hard to
(10:27):
do so, man, because remember you had the bumpstock band
came out of the Trump administration the first time that
pissed off a lot of gun people. It took groups
like Gunns of America a lot of work and a
lot of darn money to convince those people to turn
out and vote for President Trump. And now here we are,
almost a year into the first term, people saying, wait
a minute here, this is not what you promised, Joe,
(10:49):
this is not what you promised. Sure, Michael Singleton when
you were advocating on CNN for gun folks to go
out and vote for Republicans from the top of the
ticket down. Now we're seeing that our rights are not
being put a front and center like you all promised
that they would. And so it's going to be very
challenging for us buck to try to convince those folks
to turn out next November if the problems has made
(11:10):
are not kept. And so far has been a very
very mixed and dicey bag. So I'm not very happy
about that.
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thanks for hanging out, man, good to see you.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Thank you Buck. I'll see you soon. Brother,