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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That didn't change the Texas Center race at seven twenty three,
so time here in Houston's parting news, Melissa mackenzie joins
us publisher at The American Spectator. I think that not
that we don't appreciate the money, you know, the state
always appreciates the donation of some sort, especially from the left,
but clearly spending all that money on to Texas Center
races didn't amount to anything for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No it didn't. But I mean, it's kind of exciting
that the money was wasted again, and it's kind of
exciting that Texas is far more read than we imagined
and that the hard work of Republicans in the state
paid off. It felt like it was closer there during
the summer and cruise and the Republicans ran away with it. Actually,
(00:48):
So it's you know, it's a good cycle, you know.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I think that certainly was a surprise to many of
us here in Texas that the Hispanic vote that has
always been read, that we had so many counties, border
counties who came in resoundingly for Donald Trump, including Star County, Texas,
which hasn't voted Republicans since eighteen ninety six. Ninety seven
(01:14):
percent Hispanic and they went for Donald Trump. That means
they also went for Ted Cruz. So that's what's happened
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, Yes, and I think, you know, one of the
mistakes that national Democrats are making about Texas is that
about Hispanics specifically, is that in particular, that they don't
care about the same things that we care about that
everybody cares about. And if you live in Texas and
you're having to worry about the border and illegal immigration,
(01:47):
it's a concern and so and if you don't have
a job, and if inflation's affecting and regulations affecting your business,
I mean, all of those things matter. And of course
the woke insanity just does not work for you know,
conservative people, no matter your color. So I mean a
(02:07):
lot of people are just set up and that worked
to the favor of Republicans in Texas this time, and
no amount of money could overcome it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah. Well, Democrats are certainly sitting down trying to figure
out exactly what went wrong. Do you think they're going
to reach this epiphany or do you think that they
will continue to be ruled by the far left?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, you know, I wrote about this actually a couple
of weeks ago at spectator dot org that the that
the Democrats had a real opportunity to readjust and that
it was actually a gift to them that Kamala Harris
would lose because they would have this time to reflect
and maybe get a Bill Clinton type leader of the
(02:50):
party who could bring the bring their party back to
some level of sanity. But the way everybody's talking right now,
I'm not sure that's going to happen. But this was
a pretty bad loss, and if any if there was
any time for the Democrats to wake up, they would
be now. But I'm not sure that's even possible, So
(03:14):
we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, it doesn't look like the leadership of the House,
the Democrat leadership of the House, has tried to moderate
themselves at all.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I mean, right now, everybody's really really angry, and
the Democrats have got themselves into a situation where they're
having to make sense of something that they just did
not expect, and maybe rationality will settle in now. The
problem really is always the Republicans, who in the House
(03:48):
and the Senate have wanted to make deals and triangulate
against the leadership of their own party. I'm hoping that
that doesn't happen like it's happened in the past. And
you know it was really the Republican who hamstrong Trump,
remember in the first two years of his presidency last time.
And hopefully this wind was powerful enough to make them
(04:11):
even more obedient.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We'll see, let's hope. So Melissa, thanks, appreciate it. Melissa mackenzie,
publisher of The American Spectator.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thanks me listen
That didn't change the Texas Center race at seven twenty three,
so time here in Houston's parting news, Melissa mackenzie joins
us publisher at The American Spectator. I think that not
that we don't appreciate the money, you know, the state
always appreciates the donation of some sort, especially from the left,
but clearly spending all that money on to Texas Center
races didn't amount to anything for Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
No it didn't. But I mean, it's kind of exciting
that the money was wasted again, and it's kind of
exciting that Texas is far more read than we imagined
and that the hard work of Republicans in the state
paid off. It felt like it was closer there during
the summer and cruise and the Republicans ran away with it. Actually,
(00:48):
So it's you know, it's a good cycle, you know.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
I think that certainly was a surprise to many of
us here in Texas that the Hispanic vote that has
always been read, that we had so many counties, border
counties who came in resoundingly for Donald Trump, including Star County, Texas,
which hasn't voted Republicans since eighteen ninety six. Ninety seven
(01:14):
percent Hispanic and they went for Donald Trump. That means
they also went for Ted Cruz. So that's what's happened
in Texas.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well, Yes, and I think, you know, one of the
mistakes that national Democrats are making about Texas is that
about Hispanics specifically, is that in particular, that they don't
care about the same things that we care about that
everybody cares about. And if you live in Texas and
you're having to worry about the border and illegal immigration,
(01:47):
it's a concern and so and if you don't have
a job, and if inflation's affecting and regulations affecting your business,
I mean, all of those things matter. And of course
the woke insanity just does not work for you know,
conservative people, no matter your color. So I mean a
(02:07):
lot of people are just set up and that worked
to the favor of Republicans in Texas this time, and
no amount of money could overcome it.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah. Well, Democrats are certainly sitting down trying to figure
out exactly what went wrong. Do you think they're going
to reach this epiphany or do you think that they
will continue to be ruled by the far left?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, you know, I wrote about this actually a couple
of weeks ago at spectator dot org that the that
the Democrats had a real opportunity to readjust and that
it was actually a gift to them that Kamala Harris
would lose because they would have this time to reflect
and maybe get a Bill Clinton type leader of the
(02:50):
party who could bring the bring their party back to
some level of sanity. But the way everybody's talking right now,
I'm not sure that's going to happen. But this was
a pretty bad loss, and if any if there was
any time for the Democrats to wake up, they would
be now. But I'm not sure that's even possible, So
(03:14):
we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, it doesn't look like the leadership of the House,
the Democrat leadership of the House, has tried to moderate
themselves at all.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well, I mean, right now, everybody's really really angry, and
the Democrats have got themselves into a situation where they're
having to make sense of something that they just did
not expect, and maybe rationality will settle in now. The
problem really is always the Republicans, who in the House
(03:48):
and the Senate have wanted to make deals and triangulate
against the leadership of their own party. I'm hoping that
that doesn't happen like it's happened in the past. And
you know it was really the Republican who hamstrong Trump,
remember in the first two years of his presidency last time.
And hopefully this wind was powerful enough to make them
(04:11):
even more obedient.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We'll see, let's hope. So Melissa, thanks, appreciate it. Melissa mackenzie,
publisher of The American Spectator.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Thanks me listen
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