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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, evidently the elephants are driving or walking to the
polls and they're showing up in big numbers, at least
that's the early reports. Abraham George joins US Texas GOP chair.
Welcome to the show, sir, Is that what you're also hearing?
How's the Republican turnout looking at Texas? Texas is looking good?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I mean even in Harris County we're looking at fifty
seven percent Republicans showing up, which is amazing. We've did
a lot of work in that county and it looks
like it's paying off.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What about all those independence I mean, do we don't
really have a system where you have to be registered
yet right here in the state of Texas, one party
or the other.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Then we look at it by who are showed up
to the Republican primary versus Democrat primary.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
That's the only way for us to track.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And also the exit polls, and we're doing some exit
polling in different areas of Texas, so trying to see
and overall we are definitely leading comparing to Democrats and
even the independence. You know, these days, there are very
little number of group of people who are called themselves
independence unfortunately, but it's either Democrats or Republicans, so which
(01:11):
makes it easy for us. Yeah, these days.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
In the past, normally you'd have Democrats showing up in
greater numbers for early voting and then Republicans showing up
in greater numbers for same day voting. I guess the
question would be, is are the Republicans who would normally
vote on election day are they just showing up early?
What kind of a turnout are you expecting an election
day Republican versus Democrat.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Election Day is always on the side of Republicans, and
we're thinking that's going to happen again. These are the
hard hours, which is, you know, who are people who
showed up and they're probably working the polls or working
them as volunteers and talking to their neighbors, so they're
going to show up on election day.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But I think we are also.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Seeing like twenty two percent of the people who showed
up this time haven't voted in like last four cycles.
These are the people who are hit with gas prices
and all the other problems we see in our country.
They're decided they're going to show up and vote this
time and a lot of churches are helping with that,
a lot of groups or different groups are helping with that.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's being reported that more women are voting than men nationally,
ten percent more women. And I thought, well, does that
presuppose that these women are all out there voting Democrat.
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I think more women who are voting these days are
people who are between thirty eight to fifty five, which
is you can look at it and say, all right,
these are the people who will have a daughter in
sports or something like that, and they don't want men,
you know, boys going into.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Their locker room. So those there are some very heavy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Issues on the ballot indirectly, and I think the you know,
even Ted cruz Adz shows Alin Aldbright supporting boys going
into go locker room room, and that makes a lot
of people to get out and cast a ballot saying,
you know, I can't have that in my in my
my kids.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
School or sports team or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So that's that's it's actually a good thing for Republican
this time around.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Does there your exit polling, Abraham show it all how
far down the ballot people are voting. In other words,
Obviously they're going to vote for president, they're going to
vote for the US Senate, but sometimes they don't really
know much about judges or some of the other positions.
They may not vote for some of the more local
positions like school board or or or or judges, those
types of things. Any any feedback on how far the
(03:35):
ballot down the ballot people are voting.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It is a concern.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Most people are showing up, and especially the newer people
who or who didn't cast a ballot for the last
three four cycles. They're they're sticking with the president and
dead Cruise and maybe a couple other races down the ballot.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's it's very concerning because if you do need to
get people out there, people need to be able to
cast it all way out of the ballot. That's the
messaging we have to push.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
As far as problems at polling locations, we heard a
lot about North Texas. Has that worked out? Now? Are
they still having issues in North Texas?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We still have some issues. Most of it has worked out,
some of it was now real. A lot of it
was real. And Toorney General can Packs's office, Governor Abbot's office,
you know, we are, and we're working together with the
Secondary of State to make changes, and you know, they're
sending out advisories to election administrators throughout the state.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So a lot of that worked out.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I mean some of them were like minor issues that
wouldn't have changed any outcome. But there were some issues
like if you cast a ballot for Trump, it will
show up as kamalam and it prints out things like that,
So we couldn't really prove all of those, but we
did send out advisories for people to actually read the
ballot before they put that into the reader, make sure
(05:02):
that whatever they chose is what's printed on the ballot,
things like that. So those were some of the issues,
but most of it is actually fixed.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Okay, good to hear, all right, sir, thank you appreciate it.
That's Abraham George, Texas GOP chair at seven twenty six
Well, evidently the elephants are driving or walking to the
polls and they're showing up in big numbers, at least
that's the early reports. Abraham George joins US Texas GOP chair.
Welcome to the show, sir, Is that what you're also hearing?
How's the Republican turnout looking at Texas? Texas is looking good?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I mean even in Harris County we're looking at fifty
seven percent Republicans showing up, which is amazing. We've did
a lot of work in that county and it looks
like it's paying off.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah, it's really good.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What about all those independence I mean, do we don't
really have a system where you have to be registered
yet right here in the state of Texas, one party
or the other.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
No, we don't.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Then we look at it by who are showed up
to the Republican primary versus Democrat primary.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
That's the only way for us to track.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And also the exit polls, and we're doing some exit
polling in different areas of Texas, so trying to see
and overall we are definitely leading comparing to Democrats and
even the independence. You know, these days, there are very
little number of group of people who are called themselves
independence unfortunately, but it's either Democrats or Republicans, so which
(01:11):
makes it easy for us. Yeah, these days.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
In the past, normally you'd have Democrats showing up in
greater numbers for early voting and then Republicans showing up
in greater numbers for same day voting. I guess the
question would be, is are the Republicans who would normally
vote on election day are they just showing up early?
What kind of a turnout are you expecting an election
day Republican versus Democrat.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Election Day is always on the side of Republicans, and
we're thinking that's going to happen again. These are the
hard hours, which is, you know, who are people who
showed up and they're probably working the polls or working
them as volunteers and talking to their neighbors, so they're
going to show up on election day.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But I think we are also.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Seeing like twenty two percent of the people who showed
up this time haven't voted in like last four cycles.
These are the people who are hit with gas prices
and all the other problems we see in our country.
They're decided they're going to show up and vote this
time and a lot of churches are helping with that,
a lot of groups or different groups are helping with that.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's being reported that more women are voting than men nationally,
ten percent more women. And I thought, well, does that
presuppose that these women are all out there voting Democrat.
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I don't think so either.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I think more women who are voting these days are
people who are between thirty eight to fifty five, which
is you can look at it and say, all right,
these are the people who will have a daughter in
sports or something like that, and they don't want men,
you know, boys going into.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Their locker room. So those there are some very heavy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Issues on the ballot indirectly, and I think the you know,
even Ted cruz Adz shows Alin Aldbright supporting boys going
into go locker room room, and that makes a lot
of people to get out and cast a ballot saying,
you know, I can't have that in my in my
my kids.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
School or sports team or whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
So that's that's it's actually a good thing for Republican
this time around.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Does there your exit polling, Abraham show it all how
far down the ballot people are voting. In other words,
Obviously they're going to vote for president, they're going to
vote for the US Senate, but sometimes they don't really
know much about judges or some of the other positions.
They may not vote for some of the more local
positions like school board or or or or judges, those
types of things. Any any feedback on how far the
(03:35):
ballot down the ballot people are voting.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It is a concern.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Most people are showing up, and especially the newer people
who or who didn't cast a ballot for the last
three four cycles. They're they're sticking with the president and
dead Cruise and maybe a couple other races down the ballot.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's it's very concerning because if you do need to
get people out there, people need to be able to
cast it all way out of the ballot. That's the
messaging we have to push.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
As far as problems at polling locations, we heard a
lot about North Texas. Has that worked out? Now? Are
they still having issues in North Texas?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
We still have some issues. Most of it has worked out,
some of it was now real. A lot of it
was real. And Toorney General can Packs's office, Governor Abbot's office,
you know, we are, and we're working together with the
Secondary of State to make changes, and you know, they're
sending out advisories to election administrators throughout the state.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So a lot of that worked out.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I mean some of them were like minor issues that
wouldn't have changed any outcome. But there were some issues
like if you cast a ballot for Trump, it will
show up as kamalam and it prints out things like that,
So we couldn't really prove all of those, but we
did send out advisories for people to actually read the
ballot before they put that into the reader, make sure
(05:02):
that whatever they chose is what's printed on the ballot,
things like that. So those were some of the issues,
but most of it is actually fixed.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Okay, good to hear, all right, sir, thank you appreciate it.
That's Abraham George, Texas GOP chair at seven twenty six
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