Paul Bettencourt - Texas State Senator Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, millions of already have voted. As I said, three
million early votes in the US above what it was
in twenty twenty state Texas setting a record and guessing
Harris County had a big turnout too. But let's ask
State Senator Paul Bettencourt, what's the Harris County turnout been
for early voting? Senator.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's been over one point two million, so it's a
huge turnout. And by the way, there's a record amount
of voters registered in Texas at eighteen point six million.
So this whole idea, Jimmy, that there's some type of
voter suppression out there, it's just complete hogwash. It's just
made up political propaganda from the Democrat National Committee because

(00:41):
they've got an old playbook and they don't know what
else to say about the election.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, they want to send their monitors in, particularly to
heavy Democrat in past voter areas, right like Harris County.
So what can they do if they're here, if they're
allowed in, and I'm sure they're allowed in in other states,
what do they do? Do they phrase the vote of
Republicans or what?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Sure, they can't do anything, that's the problem. It's preposterous.
First off, this is you know, Congressman Green Commissioner ellis
calling in the DOJ to the top five counties in Texas. Well,
the top five counties in Texas have either Democrat elected
officials running the elections or Democrat appointed elections administrators. So

(01:26):
who's watching who here and why? It's just a political
stunt to say, oh, the DOJ is coming to try
to fire up the base. That's my opinion, and we're
going to have dueling press conferences about it today. But
you heard it first here.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Does this have anything to do with with with trying
to let's say, the vote count doesn't turn out either
as well for Democrats as they thought it would, or
turns out even better for Democrats than they thought it would.
Is this their way of your saying, see, we came here,
we monitored, everything's on the up and up. You can
believe the results.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
You know. Actually, Jimmy, I think it's more of the
it's more of the reverse. It's to say, you know,
the only way you can have a fair election in
Texas is somehow to bring in the FEDS. Now, first off,
we've we've ripped out the corrupt elections administrator and replaced
that group in Harris County with the two elected officials

(02:24):
who are doing a much better job than the corruption.
In fact, the corruption was so bad they were letting
people vote at the jail two years ago with without
the documentation. They were doing it on purpose. They recently
got got outed on that when they bragged about it
to the Texas Tribune and I outed them. So this

(02:45):
is this is not about doing the right thing by
the laws of the state. It's about doing what a
woke a theory is to try to drive a vote.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Get people enraged, get your base in rage because they're
going to try to keep me from voting.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'm going to go vote.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Maybe they weren't planning on it.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Otherwise the sherry, you get the ringing bell. That's exactly
what it's about. And Jimmy, there is something that will say, well,
if the vote turns out negatively, it's very competitive in
Harris County. You know, it's probably within ten thousand votes.
The Republicans are slightly behind, which is astonishing because there
are a lot more Democrats in this in this county.

(03:24):
But it's never about the reality of running the election correctly.
That's why it's all political propaganda. By bringing in the DOJ.
They cannot go into a poll under Texas law. Period.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Let me let me ask you how you feel the
vote has been going across the state. You know, we've
heard of some problems in Terran County, we've reported those.
Of course, we haven't heard of much of any issues
here in Harris County. Have we had any issues? Have
we had any problems or things pretty much been smooth?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well. Lieutenant Governor Patrick put out a post over the
weekend that ran down every one of the supposled Eyebon
for Trump, but it's flipped to Harris and out of
millions of votes that we've had already, they think maybe
that occurred once, but they're not even sure. So first off,

(04:12):
your vote will count. The machines in Harris County are
hard inner civic. They're the best that you can buy.
And you have paper ballots, so you'll see your ballot
printed and you can read it before you stick it
in the scanner. So I think we're going to have
a good election. Is very competitive in Harris County, So

(04:33):
you know, all these votes do count. And just don't
believe this leftist progress from propaganda that there's voter suppression
going on. I mean, think about it. It's so preposterously
stupid because they're bringing the DOJ to monitor Democrat elected
officials who the state legislature put in charge.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Because we got rid of Coreer said, how fast do
you think the counting will be this time?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
I don't inspect that we'll know what's happening on the
presidential election Tuesday night, and I don't expect that we'll
have the final county figures until the wee hours of
the morning or maybe when you're back on on Wednesday morning.
That the However, probably two thirds of the vote will

(05:20):
be early vote, so we'll have a pretty good idea
of where things stand before before about ten o'clock tonight,
I mean, excuse me, ten o'clock Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Night, all right. Always good to hear from you, Senator,
Thank you. That is Texas State Senator Paul Benncourt