Vlad Davidiuk - Political Consultant Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, President Trump, what's it going to be? Cornyan
or Paxton? Lad Davidie who joins this political consultant. I'm guessing,
Glad that President Trump he is going to play this
one out for a while. He's not going to tip
his hand as far as who he supports, not as
long as he has legislation that he needs cooperation from
Senator Cornyan on.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Absolutely right now, both candidates are very eager to receive
President Trump's endorsement. But President Trump understands that with a
very slim majority in the United States Senate, he needs
every ounce of support that he can get from Senator
Cornyan to pass some key legislation and support his agenda.
He depends on Senator Corny, So he he will hold

(00:45):
off on making any kind of an endorsement anytime soon.
It's just not to his advantage at this point.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah, I can't see him doing it either. Did Do
you think do you have an in your mind's eye,
do you think that there's a particular candidate of the
two he would prefer. I would think that Ken Paxton
would be closer politically speaking to President Trump than certainly
John Cornyn is. John Cornyn is about a rhinos you get.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Attorney General Paxton has been a longtime supporter and a
close ally of President Trump. He helped head the Texas
campaign for both for all of President Trump's presidential runs,
and so he's enjoyed a very close relationship with him. Additionally,
President Trump share a very close affinity center with Attorney

(01:36):
General Packson because they've both been attacked and persecuted and
prosecuted by those who really want to take down people
like Paxton and Trump who come up against the establishment.
So there is that element where there's that close association
where they've both been through the same battles, and President

(01:56):
Trump appreciates those hard fighter uh tactics the background like
that has that fighter capability and also that sense of loyalty.
Those are definitely things that Trump values.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
I personally have mixed emotions on this one because I
think that Ken Paxton would probably be a great United
States Senator for US. But by the same token, do
we have somebody standing in the wings to take over
as Attorney general for Ken Paxton who can do the
things that Kim Paxton did, Because Paxston has been pretty
prolific in the Attorney General's office.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Several several high quality candidates have announced their intention to
seek that position. And these are these are people who
are not lightweights. Here are not people who are wallflowers.
You know, certain Senator Huffman has announced she's interested. Possibly
Senator Middleton has announced that he wants to be a candidate.

(02:49):
So you have people who have pretty significant weight in
the Texas Senate Texas politics announcing that they're interested in
pursuing that office.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
When do you think an announcement comes in this, I
mean it's not going to come before the midterm certainly.
How close to the to the end of I'm trying
to remember, is Cornyn is Cornyn? When does he get reelected?
What does that campaign begin?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, this this is going to be a race for
twenty twenty six senator. Senator Cornyn is not really locked
up in terms of what he's planning to do long term.
He's it took him a while to really announce that
he was planning to seek re election, and for a
lot of people thought that maybe this might be his

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last term. But I think the majority, having the majority
in the in the United States Senate, encouraged Senator Cornyn
to move forward. Also, you know, he did rather well
in the leadership contest. Even though he finished third place,
he still holds some respect with his colleagues, so he's
encouraged to stay there. But this is going to be

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a pretty big fight next year, especially with the WEA,
the Republican grassroots, so.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
He's gonna pre President's gonna have to make that choice
before the midterms. All right, Ladd, thank you appreciate it.
Political consultant Vlad davidiac