Dr. Robin Armstrong - RNC National Committeeman Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Looks like it's getting stopped before it ever started. Elon
Musk and his Political Party five fifty two now here
in Houston's Warning News. We're joined by doctor Robin Armstrong
R and C. Committee Man. Good morning to you, sir.
I'm trying to think of the last successful brand new party,
and I want to say it was probably the Republican Party.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Absolutely absolutely led by Abraham Lincoln, yep, you know, led
by with the goal of ending slavery. Abolishing slavery, that's
how the party was started in the state of Texas
and all sort of America. And absolutely so it's just
not going to be successful any longer. We have a
two party system, a strong two party system. The way
that Elon Musk could have a significant impact is to

(00:43):
work within the Republican Party. Has differences with anything that's
going on. So it's exciting that Donald Trump's winning. Republican
Party is winning partially because the Democrat Party is self destructing,
and so we're doing great things in the Republican Party
and we're excited.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, let me let me ask you this, why is
it that we can't have more than two parties? Why
why have we become a two party system. Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Because you know, I look at European countries where they
have multiple political parties and they have divided government and
they have to build coalitions in order to have anybody
in charge of anything. Is that the biggest problem with
having a multi party system.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, no, I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
I mean, I think in that parliamentary system where they
have the different parties coalesced to form the prime minister,
they elect the prime minister as the leader. I think here,
because we elect the president by a popular vote with
an electoral college, I think it makes it very difficult.
And it's just American tradition. You know that that we

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have a two party system, you know, back when when
it was first started, when Thomas Jefferson was fighting with
Alexander Hamilton and and and and those guys John Adams,
and so I think it just started as a two
party system and traditionally it's held that way. It's been
very hard for another person to break through. And I
think it's just tradition. And I think it's also just
kind of how we have allied aligned ourselves over time,

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and so I don't think that's going to be changing
anytime soon. I think it's a good system. It works well,
you know, I think there are certainly parties. The last
time we had one that had an impact with Ross Perrot,
and we ended up with many years of Bill Clinton
and Hillary Clinton after that. So the result of that
was bad, and so I think extra parties, know, let's

(02:27):
stay away from that, work within the Republican or Democrat party,
preferably the Republican Party, and try to change the system
that way.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Okay, before I let you go, i'd like to get
your thoughts on the whole redistricting thing. Governor Gavin Newsom
estate managed to ran through his proposal to claw back
five seats, five additional Democrat seats in California to offset
what we did here in Texas. Do you see, of course,
we don't know if the voters of California are going
to prove it, but assuming that they do, do you

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see the possibility of a redistricting war? And if so,
it looks like the Republicans would win one if they
can get the governors from these red states to go
along with redistricting.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Absolutely, we have a sizable advantage. In fact, that happened
to be at an RNC meeting now on the East
coast in Atlanta, and we are actually Ohio is going
to redistrict, Missouri is going to redistrict. There's some other
states looking at it as well, so we have a
sizeable advantage if there is a redistricting war. I don't
believe that California is going to be able to do
if they have to change their constitution. I don't believe

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they're going to get the numbers of votes that they need.
In fact, there is an organization that helped form a
Democrat who helped form the Independent Commission, who is putting
millions of dollars against this effort, and so I don't
believe they're going to be able to get past the
finish line. I think this is a ploy in its
theater for Gavin Newsom running for president. That's all he's doing.
I don't think they're going to get this through. I

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don't think they're even going to be able to redistrict
because of their constitution in California. And so I think
we're going to be okay. I think Texas is doing
a great thing. We're leading the country in this and
I'm excited. I did that Galveston County had a lot
to do with that, and so there's certainly a long
backstory to that as well, and so so yeah, we
had a lot to do with redistricting what's going on,

(04:08):
and so we're happy to be leading Texas and actually
leading the Texas is leading in the country in that effort.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh Maybell, I'll get you on our afternoon show on KPRC,
get into that backstory where we have a little more time.
Thank you, sir. Doctor Robin Armstrong, r NC National Committee, Man,
it's five fifty seven