Luke Macias - Political Consultant Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Democrats that are breaking point with the American public.
Let's ask Luke Masius, political consultant. I've read all sorts
of stories look about the imminent demise of the Democrat Party.
I think that a little bit that's wishful thinking. What
do you think?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I agree, Jimmy. Ultimately, it is true the Democrats have
to figure out whether they're going to continue with the
establishment controlling their party. Unfortunately, for them, the alternative is
the populist socialistic movement. And so if you hand over
the reins to the second most influential group, what does

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that mean for your electoral chances moving forward? We see
this actually in Texas where we redistricted congressional districts and
Lloyd Doggett and Greg Kassar were put together. Lloyd Doggett is,
you know, decades long serving congressman, definitely represented the establishment,
and Greg Kazar is a known avowed socialists. And ultimately

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Lloyd Doggett opted to not run for reelection because Greg
was probably going to win the primary. That's the conversation
that's happening right now.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
As people look.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
At the shift that's happening, the question is is it
this cycle is it next cycle, is it ten years
from now? Is there going to be a point in
time for Democrats fully turn over to the reins, to
the Bernie AOC wing of their party, since that is
the wing that has the most energy right now.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, it's also the younger portion of the wing, the
older portion of the Chuck Schumers of the world. They're
all getting at or a near retirement age. And if
everybody coming up in the Democrat Party is more coming
from the socialist realm, then that tells you all you
need to know about what the future of the Democrat
Party is.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Right, That's right, And the problem for some Democrats is
they might not one hundred percent agree with everything that
that wing says, claims believes are the policy solutions, but
those of the policy position you have to take. And
that's where I think America needs to wrestle with understanding
the reality of where the Democrat Party is. In the
Republican Party, I think it's a good thing that if

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you don't say your pro life it's very hard to rise.
But in the Democrat Party, it's getting to be the
point where if you don't say you want open borders,
if you don't say that you want democratic socialism in
the United States of America, you can't rise up the ranks,
and that's going to be a difficult issue with how
left their base is getting.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well. Here's the question though, ultimately for any political party's success,
and that is can they bring enough people along with them?
Do we have a younger generation that is it admires
socialism so much or hates capitalism so much that they
would prefer to see how socialism works out, even though
it never works out. It's a great question.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Republicans need to recognize the fact that young people actually
don't want to be part of the establishment wing of
either party. So's the pitch of Republicans is this old
chamber of commerce when it all costs version of the GOP,
then it's not going to be compelling. They actually are
very attracted to a more populist message. In this last

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November election, what JD. Vans and Donald Trump embodied was
a more populois shift in the GOP messaging while the
Democrats were stuck with the establishment messaging of Kamala Harris.
If you switched that and Republicans had a more establishment
Chamber of commerce candidate and Democrats had a populist, you
would see a significant shift in the young vote. One

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of the things that's been talked about a lot with
the death of Charlie Kirk is the fact that young
people voted for Donald Trump with a larger shift towards
the GOP than at any presidential election in modern history.
And the only way we keep that is by understanding
that affordability is an issue. The issues that matter to
young voters. They can't buy a home, they have no

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prospect of being able to provide for their family on
a single income. May be getting married and having somebody
stay home with the kids. These are part of the
American dream that used to be easily accessible by a
working class family that are increasingly getting harder to attain.
And so as long as the GOP can stay focused
on that, we can keep that shift that happened in
the last presidential election in place and maybe continue to

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win more hearts and minds.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right, Look always good to hear from you. Thanks for
your time, Look Busie as political consultant