Jared Woodfill - Conservative Republicans of Texas (and former Harris County GOP Chair) Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jared Woodfield joins just Conservative Republicans of Texas. So is
a lack of attention or a lack of money or
is this just a hopeless cause at this point?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Jared, Well, I definitely don't think it's a hopeless cause.
In fact, I'm very encouraged by what I'm seeing at
the county level going into this election cycle. Jimmy, and
you go back to twenty twenty four, we won ten
out of sixteen judicial races where we actually had candidates
show up and run, and so one of the problems
we had during that cycle was we didn't recruit enough candidates.

(00:30):
We don't have that problem this time. The local party
has done a good job making sure that every single
Democrat incumbent has a challenger. And so we see what's
happening on the macro level and the great job that
President Trump is doing, we're winning again. That obviously trickles
down and at the local level we're see Democrats imploding.
I mean, almost every single day I'm listening to your

(00:50):
show and I hear something crazy that Lena Hidalgo has done,
or something just outrageous that the Democrat controlled Commissioner's Court
has done. So there's a reason to be encouraged based
on the past results base, what's happening on the national level,
what we're seeing locally from Democrats. I think it's going
to be a great cycle.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well, you know, Jared, that is very good news about
more candidates running. I think the question becomes, though, will
there be the financial resources devoted to those candidates in
order to make it possible for them to win, because
that's another thing that's been lacking in the past. In
some races, we've just kind of conceded the race, feeling
like it's a waste of money to put resources into

(01:28):
the race because there's no way you're going to beat
the income a Democrat.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
That's exactly right. But when folks feel like there's an
opportunity to win, they're willing to invest their money. And
you see Governor Abbott making that commitment to Harris County
right now, which is a wonderful thing. And so it
won't just be Governor abbit but there'll be a whole
lot of other folks who will not only run, but
now the money will follow those candidates because they see
an opportunity for success in Harris County. So it's two ful.

(01:55):
So we had some success in twenty twenty four, we're
obviously having success at the national level right now, and
so everything everyone understands and appreciates that this could be
a wonderful cycle for us, but we got to stick
to the blocking and tackling of politics. We've got to
make sure we're registering folks during a hot Harris County
summer and then we're working to turn him back out

(02:17):
in November. And so right now we're seeing that level
of energy and enthusiasm, but we can't get complacent and
we can't get comfortable. We need to continue to work
as if we're way behind and sprint through the finish line.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You're right about that. Thank you, Jared, appreciate it.