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down at.
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What's wrong with me? I met you?
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Comment on a fuzzy tree A friend, say man, and
why is a book?
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I'm in love?
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count of jail as a man stand again the win
man's jumping down the jump again to swing.
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Hadn't love that jail and sings? Well, say.
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Only fool.
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But falling.
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And if I can dream of a son where hole
keep shining.
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Hold him for me.
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Want tell me, why, oh, why oh.
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Wan that son? Want to cold ingray Chicago morning.
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A poor little baby child.
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Is born in the gitle week again.
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Missus, and we.
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As be raining for him.
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And about in the town walking.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I releve this fool, I did.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Elvis has left the building. I've told you absolutely straight
up to this point. You know that he has left
the building.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He left the stage and went out the back with
the policeman.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And he is now gone from the building.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
It's Elvis's ninetieth birthday, and we want to talk about
that for a moment. First coming up in our next segment,
we talked to Professor Josh Blackman about two issues related
to President Trump and the Supreme Court. Won The President
has appealed to the Supreme Court to prevent the January tenth,
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that would be this Friday sentencing of him, saying that
that should be delayed. We'll talk about the strength of
his case, what he's trying to accomplish in the likelihood
that he'll be successful, as well as a case before
the Supreme Court that the President is involved with related
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to TikTok in whether TikTok as it's currently constituted as
a Chinese entity, will continue both.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think very interesting issues.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
After that, we'll talk to Sergio Sanchez, who is the
program director and top talk host on a station in
South Texas in what is known as the Rio Grand
Valley the RGV, an area that has historically for well
over one hundred years been dominated by the Democrats. But
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Sergio has been a leader in the movement to register
and motivate Hispanics, Latinos, Mexican Americans, whatever you want to
call them in that area to show up and vote Republican.
Trump carried the region. Monica de la Cruz won Congress
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two years ago as a Republican. Maia Florides shocking win
in a special election in a congressional rate race two
years ago. The full Thirteenth Court of Appeals, which is
the appellate court for state courts in Texas, is now Republican,
something we never expected.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
We had a Republican.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Adam Henajosa defeated a Democrat or a state Senate.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
See.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I don't normally get into local elections. I don't live there.
It's five and a half hours south of where I
live in Houston, on a national show. But what we're
seeing is that our message is residing with voters who
were as blue as blue could be. And if we
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can win the Rio Grand Valley, we can win California.
We can win other places with people that were long
standing Democrats who share our values. White liberals don't share
our values, but Hispanics do, and way more blacks do
than people realize. We'll get to all that on the
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celebration of Elvis's ninetieth birthday. Some of you might not
know that Donald Trump is a massive Elvis fan, as
am I. In fact, he won't say that he looks
like Elvis. He will say that people have told him
it looks like Elvis. And if you've never seen a
picture of Elvis at thirty and Donald Trump at thirty
side by side, you will be shocked at the resemblance.
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I'll tell you a quick story. We were staying at
Marlago last January. I guess it was last January?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Was it two years ago?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Last year?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Might have been two years ago? And we're sitting two
tables away.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
I'm with Eddie Martini, who's my boss, and his wife
lives in my way, and the president's two tables away.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a small little.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Dining rooms and outdoor dining room, and the president has
dinner there every night that he's in attendance. And he
has an iPad and he's playing with it and he's
running the music up loud the way I would he's getting.
He starts a song and it's mostly Elvis, a little
bit of Freddie Mercury, a little bit of David Bowie,
and a little bit of Ave Maria, and he's kind
of rotating those things. And he has two ladies with him,
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and since I have to tell his story fast, I'll
leave it at this. My wife goes to the restroom
and this lady. We don't know who the two ladies
are because they have their back to us, but the
president is very President Trump is very focused on them.
This lady tells my wife that my wife's dress is stunning,
and it was. My wife comes out and we come out,
and I ask the bartender, because I still have Ha's interface,
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who's the lady having President with who's having dinner with
President Trump?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Priscilla Presley.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
She comes around the corner and that's her, and it
is her Lisa Marie Presley would die the next day,
so she was with President Trump the day before she
passed in Florida. She was at an art exhibit. It's
just it's as close as I ever got to Elvis,
who died long before I had the chance to meet him.
But it's his ninetieth birthday, and for a big part
of our audience like me, it's an important date, an
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important part person for Americana in our lives.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
We're on a short time frame here because he's at
the airport in between meetings.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So I'm going to make this quick.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Professor Josh Blackman, Supreme Court expert, is our guest.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Two quick questions.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Number One, President Trump is appealing to the Supreme Court
to stay the punishment phase in Mershawan's Court. Professor, can
you catch us up on what exactly is happening here,
what you expect to happen before the Supreme Court and
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start assuming people know nothing about the case.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Sure, So this was the case in helping Michael Cohen.
If you remember that he had these hush money payments
to Stormy Danielty, adult actress. He was convicted by a
jury in New York of the summer some fairly, you know,
technical offense of not reporting money to the government have
some pretty pretty weak stuff. But in the meantime, the
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US Supreme Court said that there's this thing called immunity.
Immunity means that a president usually can't be prosecuted for
things he does if they're within this scope of his duties.
So after the Supreme Court decided the case, with back.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
To Jefe Marcchan in New York and.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Judge Murchan said, well, you know, nothing's really changed. I
can still go ahead and sentence him. And he scheduled
the sentencing for January tenth, that is this Friday. That's
ten days for the inauguration. So the Trump lawyer said, hey,
wait a minute, put this on hold. Why are we
doing this now? We have to be inaugurated, and once
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he's inaugurated, you can't send it to the guy. Judge
Rochan said, no, I'm not going to do it. So
now Trump has gone for you, as Supreme Court said, hey.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Sprew courts, put this on.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Hold, and your courts can't be trusted their parties and
this is law fair stop this, so let me get
inaugurated and then you know, we'll deal with this in
four years if ever. And so that's where the case
is right now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
So Professor Blackman, let me ask you this if okay,
so Marshawn has signaled that he's not going to send
Trump to prison. You know, as you as you modeled
us out, what if Trump were to say, let's go
ahead and get the sentencing done and be done with it.
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Or do you think it's important to him that he
be president when the sentence come down comes down because
that gives him powers that he doesn't have ten days
before he's sworn in.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Is that the logic here?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think it's actually both.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I think Trump doesn't want to be sentenced because that
sort of makes it real. Right, once you're sentenced, you
are a fellon. That makes a conviction final in theory,
at least if an appeal is taken. Now, unless the
Supreme Court says that the chargers are bogus.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
He's never been a felon.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
But once he gets sentenced, that's kind of when the
h that's when this sort of felony status kicks in.
But I think what Trump really wants to happen is
once get to January tenth. This must put hope for
four years, and who the heck knows what happens in
four years. You know, maybe that we have parted from
the governor, who knows. So the idea is kind of delayed, delayed, delay,
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hope doesn't go forward, but just putting everything else aside.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Michael, he's a busy guy right now. He's having press.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Conferences, Readama, Golf of Mexico, and there's lots of things
we got to do now.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And I think you're saying.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Leave me alone. We don't need to do this now,
so that ships no jail. This is just a mess.
It is a mess. It is an absolute mess. What
do you expect to happen?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
I think in an objective world of the Supreme Court probably
say this is lunacy to let Trump get sentenced, you know,
a couple of days before he goes into office. But
I think a couple of the justices might be very
sensitive on this issue, and they might.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Say, well, we already give Trump community.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
We don't look like we're trying to help them out more,
and we might just get three or two of the justices,
maybe Thomas Alito, maybe Gorsas, probably not cool object. And
then look, maybe Trump will go there on Friday to
the New York Court and say, you know, twelve New
york Er set them guilty. But you know, tens of
millions of Americans senatree President and deal with it.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Unprecedented Everything is unprecedented. As we said that so often
that it starts we forget even what the meaning of
that word is.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, let's turn to the TikTok case.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
President Trump has engaged in the TikTok case in a
way that most people would not have expected.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Can you catch us up on that?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Right?
Speaker 7 (13:18):
This is this is kind of a weird situation. So
Congress passed a bill and Biden signed it saying that
that TikTok, which is basically a Chinese company, must divest
that it can't be owned by China. If they don't
make a deal to divest TikTok by January nineteenth, which
is in about you know, twelve days or so, then
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TikTok can't exist in the United States. TikTok has not
made that deal yet. They've brought a very big sort
of First Amendment challenge to this law, states of violation
of free speech of the lower court in a pretty
strong opinion. He said, no, no, no, this is about protecting
American assets from foreign addressary if we don't want millions
of Americans having a Chinese app on their phone, which
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is kind of insane. And so this is this is valid.
So enter Trump. Trump puts a brief in the Supreme
Court saying, wait a minute, we got to make a
deal here. And it's obvious Biden can't make a deal
because you know, he's not.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Really here anymore.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
So he tells Spreme Court put this on hold for
another you know, a week or two, and let me
sort of work my magic can see what I can do,
see that I can make a deal. So that's pending
for the court right now. The pre courl here argument
on Friday. Everything's on Friday, Michael, everything comes If the
universe converges on the tenth, it's just weird cosmic day.
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On the tenth, everything comes together. We'll see what the
court does. But look at the court listens to Trump
and say, look, this is a very complex case. We
can't decide this and say have two weeks. Let's just
enter what's holding injunction. Just put the law on hold
for you know, uh, you know, some period of time.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now, look, maybe Trump can make it. You'll find suppose
to buy TikTok, so they don't have to get rid
of it.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
But it's just it's a I think what this shows
again is Trump doesn't play a boy other people's rules
and sort of infuriates people, make them very angry. They
don't have to deal with that. You're not playing by
the usual playbook.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And and elite say, oh, we can't do that.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
But look, I think there's a dynamic. Things are different
now than they were a couple of years ago, and
maybe the court will start, you know, recognizing that there's
a different sort of playbook in town.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
So do you think TikTok will exist in America in
its current form or any form two years from now?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I think that once the sort of rubber meets the road,
TikTok will sort of divest itself. But it's possible that
Chinese may not want to. They don't give up the
algorithms and their technology. And so maybe people have different
social media apps. I mean, it's not like you're saying
you can't use social media. It's just one particular app
owned by a foreign actressor. I don't think it's that's
that crazy?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is TikTok?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
I quit Twitter, I quit Facebook and as any of
the garbage.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Wow, very interesting, terrible, Sir josh Ad in a Supreme
Court extract.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
From the South Texas College of Law. Appreciate your time, sir,
hop on your flight.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
They remain scared to death of you, and they remain
scared to death of Trump. Michael Arrishow, You're not going
anywhere even if Trump does.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Happened to be very proud Texan.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
I happen to think the world begins and ends in Texas,
and so whether it's El Paso or Amarillo or Orange
where I'm from, or Corsicana or Dallas or Austin or
or where Uvaldi. I love every aspect of Texas in
the history. But I think there's something going on in
Texas of national importance, and it's a story that has
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to be told. It's a very important story. It's a
two ways. It needs to be told to the rest
of Texas and the rest of America. But we also
need to turn around and tell the people in this
community how important what they're doing is, because it needs
to continue and expand. Our new station is KURV and
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the Rio Grand Valley, the Rio Grand River, of course,
being the border separator. The Rio Grand Valley, known in
the area as the RGV, is an almost one hundred
percent Hispanic. Let they know, whatever word you want to
call it a Mexican American community, and it was long
a Democrat stronghold. And something has changed in this election.
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We saw that Trump brought victory to Republicans in places
we've never seen. We're starting to see Republicans being elected,
not just Republicans doing better, Republicans actually being elected from
these communities to serve in local and federal government. And
in the midst of all that, we're seeing the values
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reflected by the Republican Party in the people of this
community and vice versa. And it turns on its head
everything that consultants, operatives, talking heads, and the media have said,
and that is that Latinos. In this case, I'm going
to use the term Mexican American. I don't like hyphenated
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any more than you do, but it's important that you understand,
whether you use Hispanic or Latino or whatever other words,
that a Cuban American living in Miami is very Puerto
Rican American living in New York or Dominican American living
in New York is very very different than the people
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of the Rio, Grand Valley and Texans of Mexican descent.
It's a very different set of values. They are also
much like Cubans, very pro family, very pro education, very Catholic,
very socially conservative. And yet Democrats had the lock on
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their votes. That has changed, and it didn't change at
the party level. It didn't change from marketing or billboards,
didn't even change from get out the vote efforts, although
those help the hearts and minds of the people were
reflected in them understanding. Much as my dad, a labor
Democrat his entire life said, I didn't leave the Democrat Party.
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The Democrat Party left me. Our guest is Sergio Sanchez.
He is the program director a Grand Poohbah wears every hat,
he says, he's everything from janitor to the guy that
puts the shows on the air, and he hosts a
talk show and he's politically active in the Grand Valley.
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And it is an honor to be on your station, sir,
to begin with, and secondly, I am grateful for your
efforts because it's made a difference. I mean, what we've
seen in the Rio Grand Valley of South Texas that
Trump ushered in that I think is much broader than
Trump is very exciting for the future of this country. So,
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first of all, welcome to the programs are Yille.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Thanks Michael, and happy to your brother. It's for me.
It's an honor to speak with my kindred radio soul
as I describe you to my producer Freddy there.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, you're very.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Let's talk about the Rio Grand Valley and let's start
with what just happened in November which shocked people who
follow politics and have for a long time. Let's start
with President Trump's success in the Rio Grand Valley that
in one hundred and twenty years we've never seen anything
like this.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, let's take let's go back to twenty sixteen. And
by the way, you mentioned my political advocacy at work,
and I'm grateful that at one time the ownership group
of previous ownership group okay, you are v allowed me
to run for chairman in Ellettle County and I'm so
thankful to all the volunteers and the precinct Terris and
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all the new preconteers.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Of young people and the women's gripts.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I worked so hard to set up a permanent HQ
back in twenty fourteen, the first year that I was chairman,
and my employer back then, my boss has allowed me
to go and do it because I said, look this
great research opportunity for me.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Look at all the context I'm going to make.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And so I was able to do that for about
four years. But things are different now. I couldn't do that,
but I still wail away and say my opinions as
is back in twenty fourteen. In fact, I'll take it
back to twenty ten the Tea Party revolution, because we
have thousands of people who rose up from Brownsville all
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the way here to McCallen. It's a market that's about
a mill and a half people. And the Conservatives rose up.
They did not want universal healthcare, government paid for, government
managed healthcare, and the Tea Party rose up back in
twenty ten. And in twenty ten here in Ivalul County,
Javitavi A Lobos became the new chairman of the Evaluel
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County Republican Party. If that name sounds from ether too,
Attorney Kavitavi A Lobos back in twenty ten became the
new chairman and fought hard over a couple of years
with the establishment group that was there. They didn't surrender
the keys, they didn't surrender the.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Bank accounts, all that stuff. It was just back and.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Forth from the old guard with a new guard, the
Tea Party guard back in twenty ten. There were some valiant,
courageous volunteers that just kept added.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Hvita A.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Loos is the McCollen mayor, and he's the mayor of McCallen,
and everybody puts a Republican label on him. And he
went through all those and that became the Mayor of
account twenty fourteen, when Hobby didn't want to he didn't
want the post anymore. As chairman, I was blessed to
have an employee allowed him to do that. So what's
happened on permanent XQ with the obxecutive to win, to
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grow and to win, to train and to win, to
find candidates and win. So the what's happened in the
past in this past election is a culmination of like
ten years of training of fighting a voter registration, phone banking,
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fighting new volunteers to be the precinct chairs, going to
those condiventials, doing all that work in both.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hold on just a moment based RV seventeen.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Rio Grand Valley in the south on the Mexican border
of Texas is our guest.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
More coming up here?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Can I just done? Michael Barry in the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Sergio Sanchez is our guest.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
He is the program director of ku r V seven
to ten am radio in the Rio Grand.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Valley of Texas.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
And I can only explain that to you folks as
if you want to talk about voting patterns. This is
like statewide in California. This is like Vermont, this is
like Minnesota. This is an area that has long been
a Democrat stronghold. When you would watch State of Texas
returns come in, one of the areas you would worry
about most was the Real Grand Valley because there were
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going to be a lot of Democrat votes coming in
at the last minute. And now these folks have turned
and are voting Republican. Sergio, in your professional opinion, as
a broadcaster, as a former party leader, as a longtime resident,
and as a smart guide that follows these things, how
much of this Republican's success is Trump? And how much
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post Trump residual will we have because people realize they're
not part of the crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Left any longer.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
We can credit Donald Trump for pretty much all of
this nineteen twenty sixteen. You remember how crazy the primary was.
Back in twenty six everybody in their grandma running. We
had Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, we had Donald Trump, had
whole bunch of people running. And man, I don't even
remember who won the primary. Technico it might have been
Ted Cruz, I just don't remember. But Donald Trump was
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way up there. And all I do remember twenty sixteen
in the primary is that I saw almost a ten
thousand vote shift. We know who's Democrat, we know who's Republican.
And because local Republicans didn't run anybody for the longest.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Time down here, ran very few people.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
All the Republicans went to the Democrat site to choose
a more conservative county chidge or precinct director, whatever district done.
So we had a bunch of Republics that ran to
the Democrat primary. Well because of Donald Trump and everybody
else running for for president. Twenty sixteen, I saw a
ten thousand I would credit Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I saw ten thousand vote swing.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
From the Democrats who were running Hillary. They had no
excitement on that side, so we had Democrats crossed back
over to Republicans. I saw that in the primary. That
was just the beginning a more crossovers and to the
Republican side, and we just kept building on that. For
previous Chairman Adrian Pingeguards, as she kept pushing, kept training,
kept volunteering voter registration, she saw more of a ship
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towards the Republican back in twenty twenty during the COVID election.
But it was I would say Donald Trump was the driver.
It was the fresh new, non political never even one
dogcatcher dog catcher election.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Donald Trump he was.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I believe he was the driver, the political force that
defines his new political generation of ours. He's the one
that led to all these changes. I mean back then,
I know Willessey County in Star County, which are adjacent
to Cameron in Idol County. Cameron is Browns, McCallan is
Idalgo County next door is well Essye and Star County.
Those are smaller counties. But all four of our counties
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here in South Texas that represent the RGV, all four
counties have chair of people have GP offices at GOP
teams now and this is.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Where we are today.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
We've got people like a Stella McKee, Tony trevinho de
Wie Bell and Brown. They're running offices that are registering
people to vote. Like you said earlier, it's the basis
of baseball. That's what we got to get back to
the basics of political baseball to get the job done.
Because I see and I'm so happy to see what's
happened in the past ten years in the valley. But
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I look to Houston, to Dallas Fort Worth that is
purple these days, San Antonio Military town that is deep blue.
My goodness is it's like Texas is a shiny red
apple at state government, shiny bright red. But inside the
core the cities are deep rotted blue. And I would
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challenge the party chair people in Hugheston Harris County, in
Dallas County, I think.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
I forget is running and ownside.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I'm at both of you, both French and Tarrant County
right both bows in Tack County. Dallas County has a
former state Republican chairman running there.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
We need to get back to basic. We have to
save the city.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
If we're at to save Texas, we have to implement
a basic political game of registering voters, getting more precinct chairs.
Everybody roll in the same direction in the cause of
in the big cities, we save the city. We can
put up that fire's were the Democrats classes.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Having been a candidate myself, I watched the Democrats do
the exes and os, block and intactman.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
They register voters, they push them to the polls. We
tend to.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Our grassroots in the Republican Party has not been supported.
I've seen it in Texas, but I've seen it outside.
I hear from people across the country. Our party and
our donors have kind of withdrawn from the grassroots because
the grassroots are very pro Trump. So the establishment folks
who were at the RNC before Trump came in, those
folks who were not who were with Jeb Bush in
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twenty sixteen, who were not Trump folks, they don't want
to give the resources to the people on the ground
who do the work, which is your precinct chairman, your
Senate district chairman, your block walkers. These people are kind
of overlooked. Trump understands them, but the party itself really hasn't.
Sergio Sanchez k u r V seven to ten am
(29:24):
radio the Powerhouse Rio Grand Valley RGV station in South
Texas on the Mexican border. Let me ask you to
talk about the issues that matter most, because I will
tell you what I hear from Latinos who have changed
from Democrat to Republican. And I hear the transgender stuff.
They don't like, the school stuff they find creepy, The
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converting kids they find creepy.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
The pushing for abortions.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
They don't say necessarily that we need to make pro
life our number one issue, but they're tired of this
sort of bragging that you had an abortion. All the
anti marriage stuff, the over the top race stuff. These
are the things I hear. But but you tell me
what you hear. You host a show there.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah, well, the Latino you know, Mexican rooted generations down here,
American citizens, And may I say something else about this market.
I discovered long ago that despite not having a military
base or naval base, air force base, I think per
capital of the RGV of Texas as more people in
the military generationally, because of Vietnam, Korea, World War two.
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We have patriots down here and they're Democrats. But the Patriots,
and they're Catholic, the Christian there. They have the very
deep rooted family values, a hard work ethic. They do
want smaller responsible government. Yes, the whole thing about wokeness,
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all this lunacy abortion, that is not something that they
tune into. That that is not on their frequency. Give
you an example on taxes and how these Democrats of
these I call them JFK Democrats, old style Democrats here
in South Texas who refused to give up the ghost.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And some have already.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
That's that's why we won Evalu County, Cameron County, Willison,
and Star County because we had enough of them. They
finally crossed over and realized that the Democrat Party left them,
just like Reagan.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Said a long long time ago.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Taxes, there was a group here about a handful of
years ago to try to set up a hospital district
in Indutigo County. First time that they tried it, they
failed by the majority because the undervote there was a
huge undervote people they didn't see what was at the
top of the ticket, bottom and ticket, and none.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
Of people voted to support it.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Second time around, during a midterm election, they tried it
again and the people of the power behind us and
establishing this district and making decisions with this panel that
was going to be incestuous with certain people in the
medical all this stuff and people there's a.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Lot of poverty down there.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I mean, one in five, one in four people in
out of country are still at the poverty level. And
there's a very humble little homes, little wood.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Shack looking places.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Evaluation maybe sixty seventy eighty thousand bucks. That's that's There
are a lot of people, a lot of small community
here in Double County that are there for these Democrats.
The second time around, they crossed over because said, look,
we'll look at all these republics that in fact lend
me Jayson that election where they shot down that hospital
district by a seventh margin. That is the Rosetta stone
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in my opinion. And now I haven't had a chance
to dissect this, but you get like some political consultancy
group that would take a look at everybody who voted,
and that all the poor.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
People who voted, all the people in the poverty line,
with all the property owners who have very little property
book voted down seven to three.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
By it was over seven to three markets I believe
that's the result of some I think that represents a
bunch of addresses and names of coots that need to
be approached by the local Republican Party, the state Republican Party,
and just just pound away
It's that time time time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Walking load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael darry Show is on the air now, ladies
and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Will the find a new place to dwell? Well, it's
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
The end of the long street.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
That's hot, go too.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Well, that's all right, mama, that's all right for you.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
That's a ride, mamat anyway? Do that all right?
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don't you.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
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Speaker 5 (00:53):
Well you can do anything, was the heover my blue
swa shoe. If you can't come wrap off that plite
street is say hello the funk, I don't be cruel
too hard, it's true.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well the bliss of hustle.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
What's wrong with me? I met you?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Comment on a fuzzy tree A friend, say man, and
why is a book?
Speaker 5 (01:15):
I'm in love?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I'm all shook up? One through a party in the
count of jail as a man stand again the win
man's jumping down the jump again to swing.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Hadn't love that jail and sings? Well, say.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Only fool.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
But falling.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
And if I can dream of a son where hole
keep shining.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Hold him for me.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Want tell me, why, oh, why oh.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Wan that son? Want to cold ingray Chicago morning.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
A poor little baby child.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is born in the gitle week again.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Missus, and we.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
As be raining for him.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And about in the town walking.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I releve this fool, I did.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
All right.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Elvis has left the building. I've told you absolutely straight
up to this point. You know that he has left
the building.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
He left the stage and went out the back with
the policeman.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And he is now gone from the building.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
It's Elvis's ninetieth birthday, and we want to talk about
that for a moment. First coming up in our next segment,
we talked to Professor Josh Blackman about two issues related
to President Trump and the Supreme Court. Won The President
has appealed to the Supreme Court to prevent the January tenth,
(04:02):
that would be this Friday sentencing of him, saying that
that should be delayed. We'll talk about the strength of
his case, what he's trying to accomplish in the likelihood
that he'll be successful, as well as a case before
the Supreme Court that the President is involved with related
(04:23):
to TikTok in whether TikTok as it's currently constituted as
a Chinese entity, will continue both.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I think very interesting issues.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
After that, we'll talk to Sergio Sanchez, who is the
program director and top talk host on a station in
South Texas in what is known as the Rio Grand
Valley the RGV, an area that has historically for well
over one hundred years been dominated by the Democrats. But
(04:55):
Sergio has been a leader in the movement to register
and motivate Hispanics, Latinos, Mexican Americans, whatever you want to
call them in that area to show up and vote Republican.
Trump carried the region. Monica de la Cruz won Congress
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two years ago as a Republican. Maia Florides shocking win
in a special election in a congressional rate race two
years ago. The full Thirteenth Court of Appeals, which is
the appellate court for state courts in Texas, is now Republican,
something we never expected.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
We had a Republican.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
Adam Henajosa defeated a Democrat or a state Senate.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
See.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
I don't normally get into local elections. I don't live there.
It's five and a half hours south of where I
live in Houston, on a national show. But what we're
seeing is that our message is residing with voters who
were as blue as blue could be. And if we
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can win the Rio Grand Valley, we can win California.
We can win other places with people that were long
standing Democrats who share our values. White liberals don't share
our values, but Hispanics do, and way more blacks do
than people realize. We'll get to all that on the
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celebration of Elvis's ninetieth birthday. Some of you might not
know that Donald Trump is a massive Elvis fan, as
am I. In fact, he won't say that he looks
like Elvis. He will say that people have told him
it looks like Elvis. And if you've never seen a
picture of Elvis at thirty and Donald Trump at thirty
side by side, you will be shocked at the resemblance.
(06:51):
I'll tell you a quick story. We were staying at
Marlago last January. I guess it was last January?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Was it two years ago?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Last year?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Might have been two years ago? And we're sitting two
tables away.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
I'm with Eddie Martini, who's my boss, and his wife
lives in my way, and the president's two tables away.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
It's a small little.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
Dining rooms and outdoor dining room, and the president has
dinner there every night that he's in attendance. And he
has an iPad and he's playing with it and he's
running the music up loud the way I would he's getting.
He starts a song and it's mostly Elvis, a little
bit of Freddie Mercury, a little bit of David Bowie,
and a little bit of Ave Maria, and he's kind
of rotating those things. And he has two ladies with him,
(07:30):
and since I have to tell his story fast, I'll
leave it at this. My wife goes to the restroom
and this lady. We don't know who the two ladies
are because they have their back to us, but the
president is very President Trump is very focused on them.
This lady tells my wife that my wife's dress is stunning,
and it was. My wife comes out and we come out,
and I ask the bartender, because I still have Ha's interface,
(07:51):
who's the lady having President with who's having dinner with
President Trump?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Priscilla Presley.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
She comes around the corner and that's her, and it
is her Lisa Marie Presley would die the next day,
so she was with President Trump the day before she
passed in Florida. She was at an art exhibit. It's
just it's as close as I ever got to Elvis,
who died long before I had the chance to meet him.
But it's his ninetieth birthday, and for a big part
of our audience like me, it's an important date, an
(08:19):
important part person for Americana in our lives.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The Michael Berry Show, Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
We're on a short time frame here because he's at
the airport in between meetings.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So I'm going to make this quick.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Professor Josh Blackman, Supreme Court expert, is our guest.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Two quick questions.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Number One, President Trump is appealing to the Supreme Court
to stay the punishment phase in Mershawan's Court. Professor, can
you catch us up on what exactly is happening here,
what you expect to happen before the Supreme Court and
(09:02):
start assuming people know nothing about the case.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
Sure, So this was the case in helping Michael Cohen.
If you remember that he had these hush money payments
to Stormy Danielty, adult actress. He was convicted by a
jury in New York of the summer some fairly, you know,
technical offense of not reporting money to the government have
some pretty pretty weak stuff. But in the meantime, the
(09:30):
US Supreme Court said that there's this thing called immunity.
Immunity means that a president usually can't be prosecuted for
things he does if they're within this scope of his duties.
So after the Supreme Court decided the case, with back.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
To Jefe Marcchan in New York and.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Judge Murchan said, well, you know, nothing's really changed. I
can still go ahead and sentence him. And he scheduled
the sentencing for January tenth, that is this Friday. That's
ten days for the inauguration. So the Trump lawyer said, hey,
wait a minute, put this on hold. Why are we
doing this now? We have to be inaugurated, and once
(10:07):
he's inaugurated, you can't send it to the guy. Judge
Rochan said, no, I'm not going to do it. So
now Trump has gone for you, as Supreme Court said, hey.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Sprew courts, put this on.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Hold, and your courts can't be trusted their parties and
this is law fair stop this, so let me get
inaugurated and then you know, we'll deal with this in
four years if ever. And so that's where the case
is right now.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
So Professor Blackman, let me ask you this if okay,
so Marshawn has signaled that he's not going to send
Trump to prison. You know, as you as you modeled
us out, what if Trump were to say, let's go
ahead and get the sentencing done and be done with it.
(10:53):
Or do you think it's important to him that he
be president when the sentence come down comes down because
that gives him powers that he doesn't have ten days
before he's sworn in.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Is that the logic here?
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think it's actually both.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
I think Trump doesn't want to be sentenced because that
sort of makes it real. Right, once you're sentenced, you
are a fellon. That makes a conviction final in theory,
at least if an appeal is taken. Now, unless the
Supreme Court says that the chargers are bogus.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
He's never been a felon.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
But once he gets sentenced, that's kind of when the
h that's when this sort of felony status kicks in.
But I think what Trump really wants to happen is
once get to January tenth. This must put hope for
four years, and who the heck knows what happens in
four years. You know, maybe that we have parted from
the governor, who knows. So the idea is kind of delayed, delayed, delay,
(11:45):
hope doesn't go forward, but just putting everything else aside.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Michael, he's a busy guy right now. He's having press.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
Conferences, Readama, Golf of Mexico, and there's lots of things
we got to do now.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
And I think you're saying.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Leave me alone. We don't need to do this now,
so that ships no jail. This is just a mess.
It is a mess. It is an absolute mess. What
do you expect to happen?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (12:13):
I think in an objective world of the Supreme Court probably
say this is lunacy to let Trump get sentenced, you know,
a couple of days before he goes into office. But
I think a couple of the justices might be very
sensitive on this issue, and they might.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Say, well, we already give Trump community.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
We don't look like we're trying to help them out more,
and we might just get three or two of the justices,
maybe Thomas Alito, maybe Gorsas, probably not cool object. And
then look, maybe Trump will go there on Friday to
the New York Court and say, you know, twelve New
york Er set them guilty. But you know, tens of
millions of Americans senatree President and deal with it.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Unprecedented Everything is unprecedented. As we said that so often
that it starts we forget even what the meaning of
that word is.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Now, let's turn to the TikTok case.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
President Trump has engaged in the TikTok case in a
way that most people would not have expected.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Can you catch us up on that?
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Right?
Speaker 7 (13:18):
This is this is kind of a weird situation. So
Congress passed a bill and Biden signed it saying that
that TikTok, which is basically a Chinese company, must divest
that it can't be owned by China. If they don't
make a deal to divest TikTok by January nineteenth, which
is in about you know, twelve days or so, then
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TikTok can't exist in the United States. TikTok has not
made that deal yet. They've brought a very big sort
of First Amendment challenge to this law, states of violation
of free speech of the lower court in a pretty
strong opinion. He said, no, no, no, this is about protecting
American assets from foreign addressary if we don't want millions
of Americans having a Chinese app on their phone, which
(14:03):
is kind of insane. And so this is this is valid.
So enter Trump. Trump puts a brief in the Supreme
Court saying, wait a minute, we got to make a
deal here. And it's obvious Biden can't make a deal
because you know, he's not.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Really here anymore.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
So he tells Spreme Court put this on hold for
another you know, a week or two, and let me
sort of work my magic can see what I can do,
see that I can make a deal. So that's pending
for the court right now. The pre courl here argument
on Friday. Everything's on Friday, Michael, everything comes If the
universe converges on the tenth, it's just weird cosmic day.
(14:40):
On the tenth, everything comes together. We'll see what the
court does. But look at the court listens to Trump
and say, look, this is a very complex case. We
can't decide this and say have two weeks. Let's just
enter what's holding injunction. Just put the law on hold
for you know, uh, you know, some period of time.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Now, look, maybe Trump can make it. You'll find suppose
to buy TikTok, so they don't have to get rid
of it.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
But it's just it's a I think what this shows
again is Trump doesn't play a boy other people's rules
and sort of infuriates people, make them very angry. They
don't have to deal with that. You're not playing by
the usual playbook.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And and elite say, oh, we can't do that.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
But look, I think there's a dynamic. Things are different
now than they were a couple of years ago, and
maybe the court will start, you know, recognizing that there's
a different sort of playbook in town.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
So do you think TikTok will exist in America in
its current form or any form two years from now?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I think that once the sort of rubber meets the road,
TikTok will sort of divest itself. But it's possible that
Chinese may not want to. They don't give up the
algorithms and their technology. And so maybe people have different
social media apps. I mean, it's not like you're saying
you can't use social media. It's just one particular app
owned by a foreign actressor. I don't think it's that's
that crazy?
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Is TikTok?
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
I quit Twitter, I quit Facebook and as any of
the garbage.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Wow, very interesting, terrible, Sir josh Ad in a Supreme
Court extract.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
From the South Texas College of Law. Appreciate your time, sir,
hop on your flight.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
They remain scared to death of you, and they remain
scared to death of Trump. Michael Arrishow, You're not going
anywhere even if Trump does.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Happened to be very proud Texan.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
I happen to think the world begins and ends in Texas,
and so whether it's El Paso or Amarillo or Orange
where I'm from, or Corsicana or Dallas or Austin or
or where Uvaldi. I love every aspect of Texas in
the history. But I think there's something going on in
Texas of national importance, and it's a story that has
(16:56):
to be told. It's a very important story. It's a
two ways. It needs to be told to the rest
of Texas and the rest of America. But we also
need to turn around and tell the people in this
community how important what they're doing is, because it needs
to continue and expand. Our new station is KURV and
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the Rio Grand Valley, the Rio Grand River, of course,
being the border separator. The Rio Grand Valley, known in
the area as the RGV, is an almost one hundred
percent Hispanic. Let they know, whatever word you want to
call it a Mexican American community, and it was long
a Democrat stronghold. And something has changed in this election.
(17:46):
We saw that Trump brought victory to Republicans in places
we've never seen. We're starting to see Republicans being elected,
not just Republicans doing better, Republicans actually being elected from
these communities to serve in local and federal government. And
in the midst of all that, we're seeing the values
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reflected by the Republican Party in the people of this
community and vice versa. And it turns on its head
everything that consultants, operatives, talking heads, and the media have said,
and that is that Latinos. In this case, I'm going
to use the term Mexican American. I don't like hyphenated
(18:32):
any more than you do, but it's important that you understand,
whether you use Hispanic or Latino or whatever other words,
that a Cuban American living in Miami is very Puerto
Rican American living in New York or Dominican American living
in New York is very very different than the people
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of the Rio, Grand Valley and Texans of Mexican descent.
It's a very different set of values. They are also
much like Cubans, very pro family, very pro education, very Catholic,
very socially conservative. And yet Democrats had the lock on
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their votes. That has changed, and it didn't change at
the party level. It didn't change from marketing or billboards,
didn't even change from get out the vote efforts, although
those help the hearts and minds of the people were
reflected in them understanding. Much as my dad, a labor
Democrat his entire life said, I didn't leave the Democrat Party.
(19:40):
The Democrat Party left me. Our guest is Sergio Sanchez.
He is the program director a Grand Poohbah wears every hat,
he says, he's everything from janitor to the guy that
puts the shows on the air, and he hosts a
talk show and he's politically active in the Grand Valley.
(20:01):
And it is an honor to be on your station, sir,
to begin with, and secondly, I am grateful for your
efforts because it's made a difference. I mean, what we've
seen in the Rio Grand Valley of South Texas that
Trump ushered in that I think is much broader than
Trump is very exciting for the future of this country. So,
(20:21):
first of all, welcome to the programs are Yille.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Thanks Michael, and happy to your brother. It's for me.
It's an honor to speak with my kindred radio soul
as I describe you to my producer Freddy there.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Well, you're very.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Let's talk about the Rio Grand Valley and let's start
with what just happened in November which shocked people who
follow politics and have for a long time. Let's start
with President Trump's success in the Rio Grand Valley that
in one hundred and twenty years we've never seen anything
like this.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, let's take let's go back to twenty sixteen. And
by the way, you mentioned my political advocacy at work,
and I'm grateful that at one time the ownership group
of previous ownership group okay, you are v allowed me
to run for chairman in Ellettle County and I'm so
thankful to all the volunteers and the precinct Terris and
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all the new preconteers.
Speaker 8 (21:24):
Of young people and the women's gripts.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I worked so hard to set up a permanent HQ
back in twenty fourteen, the first year that I was chairman,
and my employer back then, my boss has allowed me
to go and do it because I said, look this
great research opportunity for me.
Speaker 8 (21:39):
Look at all the context I'm going to make.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
And so I was able to do that for about
four years. But things are different now. I couldn't do that,
but I still wail away and say my opinions as
is back in twenty fourteen. In fact, I'll take it
back to twenty ten the Tea Party revolution, because we
have thousands of people who rose up from Brownsville all
(22:04):
the way here to McCallen. It's a market that's about
a mill and a half people. And the Conservatives rose up.
They did not want universal healthcare, government paid for, government
managed healthcare, and the Tea Party rose up back in
twenty ten. And in twenty ten here in Ivalul County,
Javitavi A Lobos became the new chairman of the Evaluel
(22:27):
County Republican Party. If that name sounds from ether too,
Attorney Kavitavi A Lobos back in twenty ten became the
new chairman and fought hard over a couple of years
with the establishment group that was there. They didn't surrender
the keys, they didn't surrender the.
Speaker 8 (22:41):
Bank accounts, all that stuff. It was just back and.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Forth from the old guard with a new guard, the
Tea Party guard back in twenty ten. There were some valiant,
courageous volunteers that just kept added.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Hvita A.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Loos is the McCollen mayor, and he's the mayor of McCallen,
and everybody puts a Republican label on him. And he
went through all those and that became the Mayor of
account twenty fourteen, when Hobby didn't want to he didn't
want the post anymore. As chairman, I was blessed to
have an employee allowed him to do that. So what's
happened on permanent XQ with the obxecutive to win, to
(23:13):
grow and to win, to train and to win, to
find candidates and win. So the what's happened in the
past in this past election is a culmination of like
ten years of training of fighting a voter registration, phone banking,
(23:34):
fighting new volunteers to be the precinct chairs, going to
those condiventials, doing all that work in both.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Hold on just a moment based RV seventeen.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Rio Grand Valley in the south on the Mexican border
of Texas is our guest.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
More coming up here?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Can I just done? Michael Barry in the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Sergio Sanchez is our guest.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
He is the program director of ku r V seven
to ten am radio in the Rio Grand.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Valley of Texas.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
And I can only explain that to you folks as
if you want to talk about voting patterns. This is
like statewide in California. This is like Vermont, this is
like Minnesota. This is an area that has long been
a Democrat stronghold. When you would watch State of Texas
returns come in, one of the areas you would worry
about most was the Real Grand Valley because there were
(24:33):
going to be a lot of Democrat votes coming in
at the last minute. And now these folks have turned
and are voting Republican. Sergio, in your professional opinion, as
a broadcaster, as a former party leader, as a longtime resident,
and as a smart guide that follows these things, how
much of this Republican's success is Trump? And how much
(24:56):
post Trump residual will we have because people realize they're
not part of the crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Left any longer.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
We can credit Donald Trump for pretty much all of
this nineteen twenty sixteen. You remember how crazy the primary was.
Back in twenty six everybody in their grandma running. We
had Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, we had Donald Trump, had
whole bunch of people running. And man, I don't even
remember who won the primary. Technico it might have been
Ted Cruz, I just don't remember. But Donald Trump was
(25:25):
way up there. And all I do remember twenty sixteen
in the primary is that I saw almost a ten
thousand vote shift. We know who's Democrat, we know who's Republican.
And because local Republicans didn't run anybody for the longest.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Time down here, ran very few people.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
All the Republicans went to the Democrat site to choose
a more conservative county chidge or precinct director, whatever district done.
So we had a bunch of Republics that ran to
the Democrat primary. Well because of Donald Trump and everybody
else running for for president. Twenty sixteen, I saw a
ten thousand I would credit Donald Trump.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I saw ten thousand vote swing.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
From the Democrats who were running Hillary. They had no
excitement on that side, so we had Democrats crossed back
over to Republicans. I saw that in the primary. That
was just the beginning a more crossovers and to the
Republican side, and we just kept building on that. For
previous Chairman Adrian Pingeguards, as she kept pushing, kept training,
kept volunteering voter registration, she saw more of a ship
(26:22):
towards the Republican back in twenty twenty during the COVID election.
But it was I would say Donald Trump was the driver.
It was the fresh new, non political never even one
dogcatcher dog catcher election.
Speaker 8 (26:37):
Donald Trump he was.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I believe he was the driver, the political force that
defines his new political generation of ours. He's the one
that led to all these changes. I mean back then,
I know Willessey County in Star County, which are adjacent
to Cameron in Idol County. Cameron is Browns, McCallan is
Idalgo County next door is well Essye and Star County.
Those are smaller counties. But all four of our counties
(27:00):
here in South Texas that represent the RGV, all four
counties have chair of people have GP offices at GOP
teams now and this is.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Where we are today.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
We've got people like a Stella McKee, Tony trevinho de
Wie Bell and Brown. They're running offices that are registering
people to vote. Like you said earlier, it's the basis
of baseball. That's what we got to get back to
the basics of political baseball to get the job done.
Because I see and I'm so happy to see what's
happened in the past ten years in the valley. But
(27:30):
I look to Houston, to Dallas Fort Worth that is
purple these days, San Antonio Military town that is deep blue.
My goodness is it's like Texas is a shiny red
apple at state government, shiny bright red. But inside the
core the cities are deep rotted blue. And I would
(27:52):
challenge the party chair people in Hugheston Harris County, in
Dallas County, I think.
Speaker 8 (27:58):
I forget is running and ownside.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
I'm at both of you, both French and Tarrant County
right both bows in Tack County. Dallas County has a
former state Republican chairman running there.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
We need to get back to basic. We have to
save the city.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
If we're at to save Texas, we have to implement
a basic political game of registering voters, getting more precinct chairs.
Everybody roll in the same direction in the cause of
in the big cities, we save the city. We can
put up that fire's were the Democrats classes.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Having been a candidate myself, I watched the Democrats do
the exes and os, block and intactman.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
They register voters, they push them to the polls. We
tend to.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
Our grassroots in the Republican Party has not been supported.
I've seen it in Texas, but I've seen it outside.
I hear from people across the country. Our party and
our donors have kind of withdrawn from the grassroots because
the grassroots are very pro Trump. So the establishment folks
who were at the RNC before Trump came in, those
folks who were not who were with Jeb Bush in
(29:04):
twenty sixteen, who were not Trump folks, they don't want
to give the resources to the people on the ground
who do the work, which is your precinct chairman, your
Senate district chairman, your block walkers. These people are kind
of overlooked. Trump understands them, but the party itself really hasn't.
Sergio Sanchez k u r V seven to ten am
(29:24):
radio the Powerhouse Rio Grand Valley RGV station in South
Texas on the Mexican border. Let me ask you to
talk about the issues that matter most, because I will
tell you what I hear from Latinos who have changed
from Democrat to Republican. And I hear the transgender stuff.
They don't like, the school stuff they find creepy, The
(29:47):
converting kids they find creepy.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
The pushing for abortions.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
They don't say necessarily that we need to make pro
life our number one issue, but they're tired of this
sort of bragging that you had an abortion. All the
anti marriage stuff, the over the top race stuff. These
are the things I hear. But but you tell me
what you hear. You host a show there.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah, well, the Latino you know, Mexican rooted generations down here,
American citizens, And may I say something else about this market.
I discovered long ago that despite not having a military
base or naval base, air force base, I think per
capital of the RGV of Texas as more people in
the military generationally, because of Vietnam, Korea, World War two.
(30:31):
We have patriots down here and they're Democrats. But the Patriots,
and they're Catholic, the Christian there. They have the very
deep rooted family values, a hard work ethic. They do
want smaller responsible government. Yes, the whole thing about wokeness,
(30:52):
all this lunacy abortion, that is not something that they
tune into. That that is not on their frequency. Give
you an example on taxes and how these Democrats of
these I call them JFK Democrats, old style Democrats here
in South Texas who refused to give up the ghost.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
And some have already.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
That's that's why we won Evalu County, Cameron County, Willison,
and Star County because we had enough of them. They
finally crossed over and realized that the Democrat Party left them,
just like Reagan.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Said a long long time ago.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Taxes, there was a group here about a handful of
years ago to try to set up a hospital district
in Indutigo County. First time that they tried it, they
failed by the majority because the undervote there was a
huge undervote people they didn't see what was at the
top of the ticket, bottom and ticket, and none.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
Of people voted to support it.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Second time around, during a midterm election, they tried it
again and the people of the power behind us and
establishing this district and making decisions with this panel that
was going to be incestuous with certain people in the
medical all this stuff and people there's a.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Lot of poverty down there.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
I mean, one in five, one in four people in
out of country are still at the poverty level. And
there's a very humble little homes, little wood.
Speaker 8 (32:02):
Shack looking places.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Evaluation maybe sixty seventy eighty thousand bucks. That's that's There
are a lot of people, a lot of small community
here in Double County that are there for these Democrats.
The second time around, they crossed over because said, look,
we'll look at all these republics that in fact lend
me Jayson that election where they shot down that hospital
district by a seventh margin. That is the Rosetta stone
(32:27):
in my opinion. And now I haven't had a chance
to dissect this, but you get like some political consultancy
group that would take a look at everybody who voted,
and that all the poor.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
People who voted, all the people in the poverty line,
with all the property owners who have very little property
book voted down seven to three.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
By it was over seven to three markets I believe
that's the result of some I think that represents a
bunch of addresses and names of coots that need to
be approached by the local Republican Party, the state Republican Party,
and just just pound away
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