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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. The Michael
Berry Show is on the air. Hello, buddy, this is MILET.
Hamilton Astros w again and a good morning to the TZAR.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning Michael Berry. I'm all jaked up on Mountain dew.
Good morning, Michael Berry. It's Seanton Connery. You had a
little radio show. Pity, I wash it in find it.
Good morning Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are
you there? Good morning Michael. This is Dan Crenshaw, Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good listen to.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Good morning Texas, Carnes Strong. We're happy about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We're not wearing.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Good morning, good morning, text, good morning, weake, that's your god.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Damn good morning. Let me start by saying that a
democratic republic is a difficult thing to operate because it
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requires you to do a lot of work very often. So,
if you are a person, and the odds are you're
listening right now, you are. You are the people who vote.
You are the people who study the candidates, ask the questions,
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study their votes, Listen to what they say, Listen to
what is reported, look at the official records, talk, engage,
block walk, call post, and you are the reason that
we get a pulse of the people, especially at the
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primary level. Your vote is an exponential multiplier of the
will of the people. And so the celebrations last night,
the names in the headlines, the reports that are published
won't include your name. But for every single one of
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you and all the hard work you do, thank you, bravo.
Well done. Whether you won or not last night, most
people choose not to engage, and especially if you are
a person that doesn't get paid. This is a game
for a lot of people. The Cornin operatives out of Washington,
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DC were making some very ominous statements last night, threats
of what they're going to do to Savage Ken Paxton,
not not physically. This is a game for them, it
really is. So I thought, well, let me just see
how people react to that online. And what was interesting
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to me is how many people don't realize that fact,
because they would say, how.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Can you say that, how can you talk like that?
How can well, let me tell you how those people
don't care about the results as it relates to the
future of our country. This is a game no different
than baseball, football, basketball.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is a game to them, and that's how you
end up with bad government. That's how you end up
with self dealing elected officials. That's how you end up
with incumbents that typically cannot be beaten and so much
cash that they just drown the opposition, in fact, in
most cases scaring off the opposition. So thank you that
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you do that. If you are a person who ran yesterday,
whether for the highest profile positions like Ken Paxton, to
have the worst things said about you, and they will
get much worse. Trust me, they will accuse him, they
will drag him. Anything they can do to keep you
from looking at John Cornyn's record as a United States Senator,
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they will do, and many people, many people will fall
prey to it. It'll be a challenge, but they will
do that all the way down to the precinct chairman level.
If you ran, whether you won or not, your willingness
to get in there, your willingness to have people say
horrible things about you on social media, at town halls,
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over the back fences and the clothes lines and the
phone calls. If you didn't do this, process wouldn't work,
So thank you. Let me first go through a quick
list of how our ballot did while we won almost
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every race, and I say one that being me and
every one of you who voted alongside me. I'm not
saying you voted because I voted that way. I'm just
saying that we happened to share the same vote. I
don't endorse with the intention of winning. Very often. Sometimes
I will endorse in a race where there may be
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two challengers to an incumbent. I will endorse because I
think maybe that could slightly help that person get over
the hump. But by and large, when I endorse against
Greg Abbott, I don't expect that will beat him. I
know what kind of cash he's sitting on. I know
what kind of name i'de he's sitting.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I know that Pete Doc Chambers was a first time candidate,
didn't have any money. I'm okay with that. What I
want to do is send a message. I want the
elected officials to always wonder should I go that far,
because I can't take some people for granted. And that's
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me and you. In the Harris County Party chairman's race,
the incumbent, Cindy Siegel, we endorsed Don Hooper, her challenger,
and Hooper made it into a runoff, so there will
be a runoff. Let me speak to that. That runoff
this is going to make some of you cringe. Will
be ten weeks from now, May twenty sixth, I believe,
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is the date there will be early voting May eighteenth
through the twenty second. I know what you're thinking. Oh,
dear God, I'm war slap out. I say, Okay, a
lot of people think you start campaigning today and that
you start pounding people over the head at I don't
think people are going to be listening. Even insiders I
don't believe are going to be listening. I'm not for
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a week. I won't pay attention to it unless there's
some big story, you know, somebody gets somebody drops out,
or whatever that may be. There could be some levels
of breaking news. In fact, there's some I expect, but
by and large, people want some time off. This was
the most expensive primary in American history period. More money
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was spent on John corn And than has ever been
spent on a Republican primary candidate, non presidential candidate. So, yes,
you got beat over the head with a lot of spots,
whether that be radio, TV, mail, or text. All of
those things are true. But by large, it was a successful,
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very successful night for the base over the establishment, for
the Davids versus the Eliath and that's you show thank you,
without in the direction as to what we would want
those calls to be. If it is on your heart
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to call the show, you are welcome. Seven one three,
one thousand. This is the results in the races on
my ballot that I mentioned, Don Hooper challenging the incumbent
county chairman. That race goes to a runoff. That's a
victory for a challenger to push an incumbent into a runoff.
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Don Hooper in that runoff, and as I mentioned, that
will be May twenty sixth so ten weeks away, nine
weeks from now, there will be a it'll only be
a week of early voting in the runoff. So but
we'll talk about that week. We've got plenty of time
to talk about that, obviously. In the US Senate race,
Ken Paxton making the runoff against John Cornyn. Wesley Hunt's
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position in that race and how that affected that race,
we'll talk about because it's worthy of a segment. But
Ken Paxton will be in the runoff against corn More
money was spent on Cornyn than has ever been spent
on a primary candidate in American history. Why do you
think that is. Why do you think that is? You
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think he's such a great senator that DC says the
government can't function without John Cornyan. I think that's the case.
Congressional district to a district that changed a little bit
with some of the redistricting, but was primarily an incumbent
running for reelection, which was Dan Crenshaw Steve Toath, constitutionalist
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TEA Party MAGA state representative winning that race. Congressional District eight.
We supported Jessica Hart Steinmann or Nick Tran, a US veteran.
Tran didn't have much of a chance, but he's a
good guy. I think he stands for the right things.
He's got a good heart, and he's got good people
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behind him. Steinman won that outright. We did not. We
split the baby on that with two choices Steinman or Tran.
Steinman winning Congressional District nine Alex Mieler. That is the
new congressional district with redistricting that goes across eastern Harris
County into Liberty County. I have not had a chance
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to drill down and see what Liberty can he did.
I am very interested to see how Liberty County did.
That was against Briscoe Caine. Briscoe Cain endorsed by Greg Abbott,
Alex Miheler endorsed by Donald Trump. Meeler leading going into
that runoff. But now, just like a playoff game, your
record during the season doesn't matter. I expect Meeler to
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win that runoff. District twenty two, which is Troy Nell's
old district, his brother Trevor Nell's winning. I'm telling you
who we who I supported my ballot and whether they
want or not. District thirty six Brian Babin and Brian Babbin.
Doctor Brian Babin won District thirty eight John Bunk. Bunk
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almost won without a runoff. Shelley da Zavallo's challenging him
in an open seat. That's the seat that Wesley Hunt.
My mind is fried. Look at it numbers all night.
That is the seat that le Wesley Hunt vacated in
order to run for the Senate. John bk running a
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well funded, well organized, well executed campaign. Shelley Desavallos has
pretty strong support. I don't believe I thought Bank might
win that without a runoff early in the evening, but
that will be a runoff. May twenty six for Governor
Doc Chambers. Obviously Greg Abbott won. He won big, but
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he won less than he would have that's for sure.
Attorney General Aaron Wrights, I knew Rights would have trouble.
He came in fourth out of four. He just didn't
have the money or the name. I d he was
Ken Paxton's choice. He would be a very good attorney general.
He's not a great campaigner. He is a very very
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well respected lawyer. His legal acumen, Unfortunately, that's not always
the most important thing when you're running. There were four
strong candidates in that race. You had Chip Roy, who
has very strong name.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I D.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Ted Cruz came out strong for him him early, and
Chip has very strong name id from being on Fox.
Chip also has a lot of baggage for attacking Trump
and MAGA. That's a mistake. He has criticized people. After
January sixth, he pulled a list Chainey and it cost him.
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And it's important that these individuals. One thing you need
to understand is that if all you count is wins
and losses, you're going to miss what the process sees.
The process, the people in the process are always watching
and when they see how you will rise up as
with an underdog candidate, underfunded, trailing in the polls, and
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you will bust your ass to beat them. The others
are watching, and they go, how about I dial it back.
When they are told by a lobbyist or a consultant,
or a member of the media or anyone else to
do this or that, that is a poke in your eye,
they're going to say, wait a second, look what happened
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to so and so. I don't want that to happen
to me. The Attorney general's race will go to a runoff.
As I said, there were four very strong candidates. That
was like the twenty sixteenth Republican presidential primary. Any four
of them could do the job. Aaron Wrights, I think
was probably the most talented. Joan Huffman, estate senator from
this area, very smart, lady, tough criminal court judge for
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a number of years. She was not as well funded
as I expected her to be. I only saw one
ad that her campaign ran, and I only saw it twice,
and that is surprising. The only TV that I have watched,
people send me the spots, so I tend to see
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just the spots, so I don't see them in context.
But the only TV I have watched, and I watch
it every Tuesday and Thursday night is my Jeopardy, my
recorded Jeopardy shows. And I will tell you I only
ever saw one there. I saw Washington, Wesley Hunt, Cornyn
hit ads on on Wesley Hunt constantly. In the attorney
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General's race, you have chip Roy and you have May's Middleton.
When I first saw the ad running that referred to
Maga May's Middleton, I thought, that is the cheesiest damn
thing I have ever seen in my life. And it's
going to work. Partly because Mays was going to spend
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the money. He had originally said he would spend ten
million dollars in that race, and I think he probably did,
and that would be of his own money. I think
he probably did. I don't know how much he raised
outside of that, but May's Middleton actually lead it over
chip Roy. I expect President Trump to endorse Mace Middleton
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as early as today possible. That attorney general race is
going to be an interesting development. As I said, there
were four very very strong candidates as individuals and as candidates.
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Aaron Wrights, who I supported, is a hell of a
good lawyer and would make a hell of a good
attorney General. I told him the day I let him
know I was supporting him. I didn't think he could win,
but I think he should win. And that's our process.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Sometimes an elected official running for a position to give
speeches Congress, the state House, that's one thing. But some things,
we elect you to do a job, and it's an
administrative job, and it requires proficiency at what you do,
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and it's a much more technical position. In the attorney
General's is exactly that. But the people who are not
themselves lawyers and in many cases don't really know what
goes into that race are not looking at that, and
they're not digging deep into that, and frankly, nor should they.
People have a lot going on. Rights came in fourth there.
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Joan Huffman came in third. Again, she's a state senator.
She's been elected by over three percent of Texans already,
which is also true of Middleton. You've got you've got
a base to start with, because those people know your name.
Other people know your name, they've seen you on a ballot.
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Then you've got chip Roy, who had ted Cruz's support
very early on, very publicly. He came out hard for him,
and chip Roy had big name ID, a lot of fans,
a lot of enemies, and then you had May's Middleton
and Middleton started that race somewhere around third or fourth
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and did two things, traveled the state. I saw him
in a different city every single day for the last
forty five fifty days and maybe longer than that. I
heard from listeners all over the state. Lubbock and then Lufkin, Beaumont, Brownsville.
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I'm doing the literative thing ramon Waco and Waksahatchie, yep
Odessa and Orange. I'll stop, I'll stop, Texas, Cana and
Tyler same area. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
I was making a point. That's making the one El
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Paso and uh Larreto. I don't know l Paso and
Eagle Pass shut up. So uh anyway, that's gonna be
a very interesting race. I expect Donald Trump to endorse
Mays Middleton a couple of reasons. He likes Mays. Part
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of the reason he didn't endorse before is he also
likes Aaron Wrights a lot. Aaron Rights came and worked
for his administration last year. Paxton supported Aaron Rights. So
I think that Trump didn't get involved because it was
a four person race, and he didn't want to do
that to Rights and to a lesser extent, to Paxton.
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Now you've got Mays Middleton versus Hip Roy. There has
been a lot made of the President's big speech last week,
which I found out was the longest State of the
Union ever. Did you realize that I did not know
that that hasn't been a criticism because it wasn't you
know Bill Clinton's nineteen eighty eight Democrat convention speech where
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he just droned on and people thought his political career
was over. It was a very very good speech. It
was a great effort to mobilize the American people for
his agenda. So now, but but chip Roy got close
enough to he pulled to Sheila Jackson Lee, and he
thought he'd do one of those you know, get some
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good footage of him and the president, and then use that,
I think a bit deceptively to appear that the President
liked him. A lot of people did that this election
cycle that weren't endorsed, including John Cornick. The President was
very clear in his body language that he would not
be shaking his hand. He does not like chip Roy
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at all. Now, the argument that Ted Cruz and chip
Roy will make is that chip Roy supports the president's agenda,
that chip Roy works hard on the President's agenda. We
can we can argue over whether he does and the
times that he has broken. But when you were in
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the Liz Cheney King imp uh, that's going that's not
going to be forgotten. I think a lot of us
that that is an unforgivable crime. And I think that's
going to cost chip Roy terribly. I think that uh,
Mays Middleton is going to outspend him, outwork him. I
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think the President's going to get involved. I would not
be surprised if the President gets more than a little
bit involved for May's Middleton, who's running as Maga May's Middleton,
which I think is probably a very smart move. It's
not inconsistent with his background and what he has done
as a state senator. I think that and and Middleton
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is from the This is a factor that I think
could could be important. Mays is from the greater Houston area.
Nobody doesn't like Mays. You may not love him for
people that don't know him or whatever, but nobody Krenshaw
had the problem. A lot of people don't like him.
Chip Roy has the problem that a lot of people
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don't like him. You see individuals who have burned a
lot of bridges. I've never met anybody who doesn't like
Mace Milton, so there's a basically positive perception. His name
ID will be above Chip Roy by the time this
is all done. He's going to outspend him. And I
think the President gets involved in this race because the
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attorney general in the state of Texas has been a
very important position for the Trump administration, and I think
that they want to keep a very very friendly Chip
Roy can go off half cocked, he can wander off
the reservation. I don't think they want Chip Roy in
that seat, and I think you will see some things
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they do behind the scenes to make a difference there.
I'm not saying the president can sway every election. He cannot.
Doctor Oz would be a senator if he could, and
Feederman wouldn't, but he can in certain places have some
level of influence both he and his team. So I
think May's Middleton's going to put up a very very
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strong race, and at this point I think that it's
that he can win that race. We'll see. So I
went with Aaron Wright's obviously, who did not win for comptroller.
Interesting thing happened. Greg Abbott got big behind Kelly Hancock.
Greg Abbott put Kelly Hancock from the state Senate into
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the comptroller's position, except he couldn't because he couldn't get approval.
So Kelly Hancock had to be called the acting comptroller.
He couldn't be the comptroller. Now, most people outside the
insiders don't notice things like that, but a lot of
insiders did. It also opened up Kelly Hancock's State Senate seat,
which Democrats won. If you remember a couple of months ago,
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that was a big deal. Abbott got very big behind
Kelly Hancock, and Abbot got his ass kicked. So there's
the value of his endorsement in that race. They poured
a bunch of cash into it. Don Haffind's one and
one big. They tried to tie him to Jeffrey Epstein
because he bought a property that Epstein was in the
chain of title of I got news for you. If
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you buy a Chevy Silverado that used to be owned
by Charlie Manson, nobody's wondering if you stabbed Sharon Tate
or killed the lobby off, because that's just silliness, and
I think the Abbot crew and the handcock crew should
be ashamed of themselves. To your ears. This is a
very show. Did you watch that movie The Forever in
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Blue Jeans or whatever? It was so disappointing, Oh, so
darn disappointing. I thought it was a documentary on Neil Diamond.
It's a it's just some sort of after school special
kind of quality of a guy who's a in a
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in a tribute band as Neil Diamond and and he's
a broken soul. I won't ruin it for you. If
those of you, I mean, they do at least play
Neil Diamond music throughout the movie. That's the only thing
that but you just it's just saccering. It's kind of
one of those movies that you watch on a long
flight and you can tolerate it. But that's about all
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that's about all. Election day is a is a big
day for me. I get weird, and everybody knows around
me knows I get weird, and so I get I
get antsy for election returns, and you're not going to
start getting any till almost seven. And so the middle
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of the afternoon. I had planned last night we would
talk Iran without much political talk and uh, which which
is kind of what we did. So in the early afternoon,
I thought, well, I've been wanting to see the new
Elvis movie the Imax, and I had it all planned out.
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I was going to finish the morning show and rush
out to the Imax at Katie Mills. There's a location
we're looking at for an RCC type place nearby there.
I would drive back by there. Again, it's like lay
eyes on things a bunch of different times, so you
can see it from different perspectives. Had the whole thing
laid out, but I had looked at the wrong theater
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and it wasn't that theater, and it wasn't even the
right day for the showtime. I think the showtime was
going to be twelve third I can't remember anyway. So
I did not get to see the new Elvis bos
Lerman movie. But my buddy and private investigator and fellow
Elvis Fichonado, Paul Baker, is very upset. I have not
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seen it yet. I will see that very soon. So
for Comptroller, you've got done Huffins, who we supported. It's
going to be an interesting dynamic because this has not
been talked about. But Huffins ran against Abbot four years ago,
and Abbot takes it very personally. And Abbot came out
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and supported Kelly Hancock to try to keep Huffins out
of that seat, and Abbot got spanked badly. I mean badly.
Huffines has some pretty strong support among the Trump crowd.
I'm on the tea party crowd. He's got a lot
of personal money. He he poured a lot of that
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in and there's some bad blood between him and Greg Abbot,
and that's not if you're Greg Abbott, that's not where
you want a guy to be that you have taken
your best shot at and you didn't connect. Because now
the comptroller and the keeper of the accounts is your,
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if not sworn enemy. He's got an ax to grind.
This is going to play out very interesting, and I
think that's healthy for Commissioner of Agriculture. Sid Miller had
been the ag commissioner, and I was a Sid Miller fan.
He was quirky, he's wacky. He does and says some
stuff that makes the media crazy, and sometimes you wonder
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about in a in a Trumpian way, but but I'm
okay with that. You can have some character. You can
you can you can have some fun with it. But
he started doing things that reeked of corruption, and it
got to be it got to the point that I
felt that he almost was sort of like, I can
do whatever I want because I'll just run back and say,
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you know, I'm magga, They're out to get me. Nate
Sheets was not a guy I would have expected to endorse,
but I think we needed to do something there, and
we did support Nate Sheets. Oddly enough, Sheets was Greg
Abbott indorse and Sid Miller was a Trump indoorsea so
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that was the rare case that I wasn't with a
Trump aligned candidate. I was with an Abbot aligned candidate.
But in any case, Nate Sheets has won. Railroad Commissioner
bow French will be in a runoff with Jim Wright.
We are we supported bau French and will again in
his runoff. Courter Criminal Appeals Thomas Smith will be in
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a runoff with Alison Fox. Obviously we supported Smith quarter
Criminal Appeals. John Messenger we supported he won State Senator.
The district attorney for Montgomery County Brett Ligan. Brett Ligan
won State Rep. District sixteen. John Bouchet. That was a
shot at Will Metcalf, who got very involved in the
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the Paxton impeachment. Metcalf ended up winning, But I can
tell you that I can tell you that he will
think twice the next time he does something so stupid,
because it took a pound of flesh out of him.
And that's all I asked for. Dennis Goose Geeseman in
District eighty five. I was told he didn't have a
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prayer in hell to win that race against a candidate
who had more money and name id. But Giesonman did win.
State Rep. District won twenty six. We did not win,
not even close. We supported poll Looper. She came highly
recommended by some people. I trust Stan Standard, who's longtime
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Harris County elected official party insider. And Kelly Peterson will
be in the runoff. So we did not win in
that race, and that's okay. I'm just fine not winning
races one twenty nine Scott Bowen and he won Court
of Appeals place three Zach Gibson. He will go into
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a runoff with Todd Frankton County Judge. We supported Marty
Langton Orlando. He did not win, which is surprising because
he had a lot of money and a lot of
broad support from some big names in town. That race
will be a runoff between Orlando Sanchez and Warren Howell.
Warren Howell kind of a Dwayne Stoveall kind of constitutional outsider,
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maybe not as much money, maybe not the same name
I d but a guy who is very thoughtful, very
tea party constitutionalist. That is going to be an interesting race.
It has not heretofore, engendered much interest from the voters,
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which is why we haven't talked about it. But that
runoff for the Republican nomination in the county judge race
is going to We'll begin now. County Commissioner Precinct two,
we supported Richard Vega, he won. County Clerk, we supported
Linda Sanchez. Mike Wolfe won. I don't have a problem
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with that. Mike's a good man. Propositions one through ten
we supported all and all passed. And the only precinct
chairman race that we had an opinion was my ear
nose and throat doctor slash COVID patience rights crusader Mary
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Tally Boden, and she won. I told her, I hope
you're happy, because you're going to regret it. It ends
up being a lot of work, a lot of inside baseball,
a lot of backbiting and drama. But it's an important
thing to do, and you're about to learn in the
belly of the beast and the bowels of the party,
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the roll up your sleeves and get things done where
the party work gets done. And I'm glad somebody with
her stature would be willing to do it. I am.
It's it's going to be interesting. So all in all
of a fascinating night. Much to get to and of
course the phone lines are over. Mm hmm.
It's that time time time, luck and load. The Michael
Berry Show is on the air. Hello, buddy, this is MILET.
Hamilton Astros w again and a good morning to the TZAR.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Good morning Michael Berry. I'm all jaked up on Mountain dew.
Good morning, Michael Berry. It's Seanton Connery. You had a
little radio show. Pity, I wash it in find it.
Good morning Michael Berry. Good morning, Michael. Hello, Hello, are
you there? Good morning Michael. This is Dan Crenshaw, Texas.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Good listen to.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Good morning Texas, Carnes Strong. We're happy about everything.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
We're not wearing.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Good morning, good morning, text, good morning, weake, that's your god.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Damn good morning. Let me start by saying that a
democratic republic is a difficult thing to operate because it
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requires you to do a lot of work very often. So,
if you are a person, and the odds are you're
listening right now, you are. You are the people who vote.
You are the people who study the candidates, ask the questions,
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study their votes, Listen to what they say, Listen to
what is reported, look at the official records, talk, engage,
block walk, call post, and you are the reason that
we get a pulse of the people, especially at the
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primary level. Your vote is an exponential multiplier of the
will of the people. And so the celebrations last night,
the names in the headlines, the reports that are published
won't include your name. But for every single one of
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you and all the hard work you do, thank you, bravo.
Well done. Whether you won or not last night, most
people choose not to engage, and especially if you are
a person that doesn't get paid. This is a game
for a lot of people. The Cornin operatives out of Washington,
(03:23):
DC were making some very ominous statements last night, threats
of what they're going to do to Savage Ken Paxton,
not not physically. This is a game for them, it
really is. So I thought, well, let me just see
how people react to that online. And what was interesting
(03:47):
to me is how many people don't realize that fact,
because they would say, how.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Can you say that, how can you talk like that?
How can well, let me tell you how those people
don't care about the results as it relates to the
future of our country. This is a game no different
than baseball, football, basketball.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
This is a game to them, and that's how you
end up with bad government. That's how you end up
with self dealing elected officials. That's how you end up
with incumbents that typically cannot be beaten and so much
cash that they just drown the opposition, in fact, in
most cases scaring off the opposition. So thank you that
(04:39):
you do that. If you are a person who ran yesterday,
whether for the highest profile positions like Ken Paxton, to
have the worst things said about you, and they will
get much worse. Trust me, they will accuse him, they
will drag him. Anything they can do to keep you
from looking at John Cornyn's record as a United States Senator,
(05:01):
they will do, and many people, many people will fall
prey to it. It'll be a challenge, but they will
do that all the way down to the precinct chairman level.
If you ran, whether you won or not, your willingness
to get in there, your willingness to have people say
horrible things about you on social media, at town halls,
(05:26):
over the back fences and the clothes lines and the
phone calls. If you didn't do this, process wouldn't work,
So thank you. Let me first go through a quick
list of how our ballot did while we won almost
(05:48):
every race, and I say one that being me and
every one of you who voted alongside me. I'm not
saying you voted because I voted that way. I'm just
saying that we happened to share the same vote. I
don't endorse with the intention of winning. Very often. Sometimes
I will endorse in a race where there may be
(06:09):
two challengers to an incumbent. I will endorse because I
think maybe that could slightly help that person get over
the hump. But by and large, when I endorse against
Greg Abbott, I don't expect that will beat him. I
know what kind of cash he's sitting on. I know
what kind of name i'de he's sitting.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I know that Pete Doc Chambers was a first time candidate,
didn't have any money. I'm okay with that. What I
want to do is send a message. I want the
elected officials to always wonder should I go that far,
because I can't take some people for granted. And that's
(06:46):
me and you. In the Harris County Party chairman's race,
the incumbent, Cindy Siegel, we endorsed Don Hooper, her challenger,
and Hooper made it into a runoff, so there will
be a runoff. Let me speak to that. That runoff
this is going to make some of you cringe. Will
be ten weeks from now, May twenty sixth, I believe,
(07:10):
is the date there will be early voting May eighteenth
through the twenty second. I know what you're thinking. Oh,
dear God, I'm war slap out. I say, Okay, a
lot of people think you start campaigning today and that
you start pounding people over the head at I don't
think people are going to be listening. Even insiders I
don't believe are going to be listening. I'm not for
(07:33):
a week. I won't pay attention to it unless there's
some big story, you know, somebody gets somebody drops out,
or whatever that may be. There could be some levels
of breaking news. In fact, there's some I expect, but
by and large, people want some time off. This was
the most expensive primary in American history period. More money
(07:55):
was spent on John corn And than has ever been
spent on a Republican primary candidate, non presidential candidate. So, yes,
you got beat over the head with a lot of spots,
whether that be radio, TV, mail, or text. All of
those things are true. But by large, it was a successful,
(08:17):
very successful night for the base over the establishment, for
the Davids versus the Eliath and that's you show thank you,
without in the direction as to what we would want
those calls to be. If it is on your heart
(08:38):
to call the show, you are welcome. Seven one three,
one thousand. This is the results in the races on
my ballot that I mentioned, Don Hooper challenging the incumbent
county chairman. That race goes to a runoff. That's a
victory for a challenger to push an incumbent into a runoff.
(09:02):
Don Hooper in that runoff, and as I mentioned, that
will be May twenty sixth so ten weeks away, nine
weeks from now, there will be a it'll only be
a week of early voting in the runoff. So but
we'll talk about that week. We've got plenty of time
to talk about that, obviously. In the US Senate race,
Ken Paxton making the runoff against John Cornyn. Wesley Hunt's
(09:29):
position in that race and how that affected that race,
we'll talk about because it's worthy of a segment. But
Ken Paxton will be in the runoff against corn More
money was spent on Cornyn than has ever been spent
on a primary candidate in American history. Why do you
think that is. Why do you think that is? You
(09:50):
think he's such a great senator that DC says the
government can't function without John Cornyan. I think that's the case.
Congressional district to a district that changed a little bit
with some of the redistricting, but was primarily an incumbent
running for reelection, which was Dan Crenshaw Steve Toath, constitutionalist
(10:14):
TEA Party MAGA state representative winning that race. Congressional District eight.
We supported Jessica Hart Steinmann or Nick Tran, a US veteran.
Tran didn't have much of a chance, but he's a
good guy. I think he stands for the right things.
He's got a good heart, and he's got good people
(10:34):
behind him. Steinman won that outright. We did not. We
split the baby on that with two choices Steinman or Tran.
Steinman winning Congressional District nine Alex Mieler. That is the
new congressional district with redistricting that goes across eastern Harris
County into Liberty County. I have not had a chance
(10:58):
to drill down and see what Liberty can he did.
I am very interested to see how Liberty County did.
That was against Briscoe Caine. Briscoe Cain endorsed by Greg Abbott,
Alex Miheler endorsed by Donald Trump. Meeler leading going into
that runoff. But now, just like a playoff game, your
record during the season doesn't matter. I expect Meeler to
(11:19):
win that runoff. District twenty two, which is Troy Nell's
old district, his brother Trevor Nell's winning. I'm telling you
who we who I supported my ballot and whether they
want or not. District thirty six Brian Babin and Brian Babbin.
Doctor Brian Babin won District thirty eight John Bunk. Bunk
(11:41):
almost won without a runoff. Shelley da Zavallo's challenging him
in an open seat. That's the seat that Wesley Hunt.
My mind is fried. Look at it numbers all night.
That is the seat that le Wesley Hunt vacated in
order to run for the Senate. John bk running a
(12:02):
well funded, well organized, well executed campaign. Shelley Desavallos has
pretty strong support. I don't believe I thought Bank might
win that without a runoff early in the evening, but
that will be a runoff. May twenty six for Governor
Doc Chambers. Obviously Greg Abbott won. He won big, but
(12:23):
he won less than he would have that's for sure.
Attorney General Aaron Wrights, I knew Rights would have trouble.
He came in fourth out of four. He just didn't
have the money or the name. I d he was
Ken Paxton's choice. He would be a very good attorney general.
He's not a great campaigner. He is a very very
(12:43):
well respected lawyer. His legal acumen, Unfortunately, that's not always
the most important thing when you're running. There were four
strong candidates in that race. You had Chip Roy, who
has very strong name.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I D.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Ted Cruz came out strong for him him early, and
Chip has very strong name id from being on Fox.
Chip also has a lot of baggage for attacking Trump
and MAGA. That's a mistake. He has criticized people. After
January sixth, he pulled a list Chainey and it cost him.
(13:18):
And it's important that these individuals. One thing you need
to understand is that if all you count is wins
and losses, you're going to miss what the process sees.
The process, the people in the process are always watching
and when they see how you will rise up as
with an underdog candidate, underfunded, trailing in the polls, and
(13:41):
you will bust your ass to beat them. The others
are watching, and they go, how about I dial it back.
When they are told by a lobbyist or a consultant,
or a member of the media or anyone else to
do this or that, that is a poke in your eye,
they're going to say, wait a second, look what happened
(14:03):
to so and so. I don't want that to happen
to me. The Attorney general's race will go to a runoff.
As I said, there were four very strong candidates. That
was like the twenty sixteenth Republican presidential primary. Any four
of them could do the job. Aaron Wrights, I think
was probably the most talented. Joan Huffman, estate senator from
this area, very smart, lady, tough criminal court judge for
(14:27):
a number of years. She was not as well funded
as I expected her to be. I only saw one
ad that her campaign ran, and I only saw it twice,
and that is surprising. The only TV that I have watched,
people send me the spots, so I tend to see
(14:47):
just the spots, so I don't see them in context.
But the only TV I have watched, and I watch
it every Tuesday and Thursday night is my Jeopardy, my
recorded Jeopardy shows. And I will tell you I only
ever saw one there. I saw Washington, Wesley Hunt, Cornyn
hit ads on on Wesley Hunt constantly. In the attorney
(15:09):
General's race, you have chip Roy and you have May's Middleton.
When I first saw the ad running that referred to
Maga May's Middleton, I thought, that is the cheesiest damn
thing I have ever seen in my life. And it's
going to work. Partly because Mays was going to spend
(15:31):
the money. He had originally said he would spend ten
million dollars in that race, and I think he probably did,
and that would be of his own money. I think
he probably did. I don't know how much he raised
outside of that, but May's Middleton actually lead it over
chip Roy. I expect President Trump to endorse Mace Middleton
(15:52):
as early as today possible. That attorney general race is
going to be an interesting development. As I said, there
were four very very strong candidates as individuals and as candidates.
(16:14):
Aaron Wrights, who I supported, is a hell of a
good lawyer and would make a hell of a good
attorney General. I told him the day I let him
know I was supporting him. I didn't think he could win,
but I think he should win. And that's our process.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Sometimes an elected official running for a position to give
speeches Congress, the state House, that's one thing. But some things,
we elect you to do a job, and it's an
administrative job, and it requires proficiency at what you do,
(16:56):
and it's a much more technical position. In the attorney
General's is exactly that. But the people who are not
themselves lawyers and in many cases don't really know what
goes into that race are not looking at that, and
they're not digging deep into that, and frankly, nor should they.
People have a lot going on. Rights came in fourth there.
(17:17):
Joan Huffman came in third. Again, she's a state senator.
She's been elected by over three percent of Texans already,
which is also true of Middleton. You've got you've got
a base to start with, because those people know your name.
Other people know your name, they've seen you on a ballot.
(17:39):
Then you've got chip Roy, who had ted Cruz's support
very early on, very publicly. He came out hard for him,
and chip Roy had big name ID, a lot of fans,
a lot of enemies, and then you had May's Middleton
and Middleton started that race somewhere around third or fourth
(18:02):
and did two things, traveled the state. I saw him
in a different city every single day for the last
forty five fifty days and maybe longer than that. I
heard from listeners all over the state. Lubbock and then Lufkin, Beaumont, Brownsville.
(18:24):
I'm doing the literative thing ramon Waco and Waksahatchie, yep
Odessa and Orange. I'll stop, I'll stop, Texas, Cana and
Tyler same area. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
I was making a point. That's making the one El
(18:46):
Paso and uh Larreto. I don't know l Paso and
Eagle Pass shut up. So uh anyway, that's gonna be
a very interesting race. I expect Donald Trump to endorse
Mays Middleton a couple of reasons. He likes Mays. Part
(19:09):
of the reason he didn't endorse before is he also
likes Aaron Wrights a lot. Aaron Rights came and worked
for his administration last year. Paxton supported Aaron Rights. So
I think that Trump didn't get involved because it was
a four person race, and he didn't want to do
that to Rights and to a lesser extent, to Paxton.
(19:31):
Now you've got Mays Middleton versus Hip Roy. There has
been a lot made of the President's big speech last week,
which I found out was the longest State of the
Union ever. Did you realize that I did not know
that that hasn't been a criticism because it wasn't you
know Bill Clinton's nineteen eighty eight Democrat convention speech where
(19:53):
he just droned on and people thought his political career
was over. It was a very very good speech. It
was a great effort to mobilize the American people for
his agenda. So now, but but chip Roy got close
enough to he pulled to Sheila Jackson Lee, and he
thought he'd do one of those you know, get some
(20:15):
good footage of him and the president, and then use that,
I think a bit deceptively to appear that the President
liked him. A lot of people did that this election
cycle that weren't endorsed, including John Cornick. The President was
very clear in his body language that he would not
be shaking his hand. He does not like chip Roy
(20:36):
at all. Now, the argument that Ted Cruz and chip
Roy will make is that chip Roy supports the president's agenda,
that chip Roy works hard on the President's agenda. We
can we can argue over whether he does and the
times that he has broken. But when you were in
(20:58):
the Liz Cheney King imp uh, that's going that's not
going to be forgotten. I think a lot of us
that that is an unforgivable crime. And I think that's
going to cost chip Roy terribly. I think that uh,
Mays Middleton is going to outspend him, outwork him. I
(21:20):
think the President's going to get involved. I would not
be surprised if the President gets more than a little
bit involved for May's Middleton, who's running as Maga May's Middleton,
which I think is probably a very smart move. It's
not inconsistent with his background and what he has done
as a state senator. I think that and and Middleton
(21:42):
is from the This is a factor that I think
could could be important. Mays is from the greater Houston area.
Nobody doesn't like Mays. You may not love him for
people that don't know him or whatever, but nobody Krenshaw
had the problem. A lot of people don't like him.
Chip Roy has the problem that a lot of people
(22:03):
don't like him. You see individuals who have burned a
lot of bridges. I've never met anybody who doesn't like
Mace Milton, so there's a basically positive perception. His name
ID will be above Chip Roy by the time this
is all done. He's going to outspend him. And I
think the President gets involved in this race because the
(22:24):
attorney general in the state of Texas has been a
very important position for the Trump administration, and I think
that they want to keep a very very friendly Chip
Roy can go off half cocked, he can wander off
the reservation. I don't think they want Chip Roy in
that seat, and I think you will see some things
(22:47):
they do behind the scenes to make a difference there.
I'm not saying the president can sway every election. He cannot.
Doctor Oz would be a senator if he could, and
Feederman wouldn't, but he can in certain places have some
level of influence both he and his team. So I
think May's Middleton's going to put up a very very
(23:09):
strong race, and at this point I think that it's
that he can win that race. We'll see. So I
went with Aaron Wright's obviously, who did not win for comptroller.
Interesting thing happened. Greg Abbott got big behind Kelly Hancock.
Greg Abbott put Kelly Hancock from the state Senate into
(23:33):
the comptroller's position, except he couldn't because he couldn't get approval.
So Kelly Hancock had to be called the acting comptroller.
He couldn't be the comptroller. Now, most people outside the
insiders don't notice things like that, but a lot of
insiders did. It also opened up Kelly Hancock's State Senate seat,
which Democrats won. If you remember a couple of months ago,
(23:57):
that was a big deal. Abbott got very big behind
Kelly Hancock, and Abbot got his ass kicked. So there's
the value of his endorsement in that race. They poured
a bunch of cash into it. Don Haffind's one and
one big. They tried to tie him to Jeffrey Epstein
because he bought a property that Epstein was in the
chain of title of I got news for you. If
(24:19):
you buy a Chevy Silverado that used to be owned
by Charlie Manson, nobody's wondering if you stabbed Sharon Tate
or killed the lobby off, because that's just silliness, and
I think the Abbot crew and the handcock crew should
be ashamed of themselves. To your ears. This is a
very show. Did you watch that movie The Forever in
(24:45):
Blue Jeans or whatever? It was so disappointing, Oh, so
darn disappointing. I thought it was a documentary on Neil Diamond.
It's a it's just some sort of after school special
kind of quality of a guy who's a in a
(25:05):
in a tribute band as Neil Diamond and and he's
a broken soul. I won't ruin it for you. If
those of you, I mean, they do at least play
Neil Diamond music throughout the movie. That's the only thing
that but you just it's just saccering. It's kind of
one of those movies that you watch on a long
flight and you can tolerate it. But that's about all
(25:26):
that's about all. Election day is a is a big
day for me. I get weird, and everybody knows around
me knows I get weird, and so I get I
get antsy for election returns, and you're not going to
start getting any till almost seven. And so the middle
(25:50):
of the afternoon. I had planned last night we would
talk Iran without much political talk and uh, which which
is kind of what we did. So in the early afternoon,
I thought, well, I've been wanting to see the new
Elvis movie the Imax, and I had it all planned out.
(26:11):
I was going to finish the morning show and rush
out to the Imax at Katie Mills. There's a location
we're looking at for an RCC type place nearby there.
I would drive back by there. Again, it's like lay
eyes on things a bunch of different times, so you
can see it from different perspectives. Had the whole thing
laid out, but I had looked at the wrong theater
(26:34):
and it wasn't that theater, and it wasn't even the
right day for the showtime. I think the showtime was
going to be twelve third I can't remember anyway. So
I did not get to see the new Elvis bos
Lerman movie. But my buddy and private investigator and fellow
Elvis Fichonado, Paul Baker, is very upset. I have not
(26:55):
seen it yet. I will see that very soon. So
for Comptroller, you've got done Huffins, who we supported. It's
going to be an interesting dynamic because this has not
been talked about. But Huffins ran against Abbot four years ago,
and Abbot takes it very personally. And Abbot came out
(27:18):
and supported Kelly Hancock to try to keep Huffins out
of that seat, and Abbot got spanked badly. I mean badly.
Huffines has some pretty strong support among the Trump crowd.
I'm on the tea party crowd. He's got a lot
of personal money. He he poured a lot of that
(27:42):
in and there's some bad blood between him and Greg Abbot,
and that's not if you're Greg Abbott, that's not where
you want a guy to be that you have taken
your best shot at and you didn't connect. Because now
the comptroller and the keeper of the accounts is your,
(28:04):
if not sworn enemy. He's got an ax to grind.
This is going to play out very interesting, and I
think that's healthy for Commissioner of Agriculture. Sid Miller had
been the ag commissioner, and I was a Sid Miller fan.
He was quirky, he's wacky. He does and says some
stuff that makes the media crazy, and sometimes you wonder
(28:26):
about in a in a Trumpian way, but but I'm
okay with that. You can have some character. You can
you can you can have some fun with it. But
he started doing things that reeked of corruption, and it
got to be it got to the point that I
felt that he almost was sort of like, I can
do whatever I want because I'll just run back and say,
(28:50):
you know, I'm magga, They're out to get me. Nate
Sheets was not a guy I would have expected to endorse,
but I think we needed to do something there, and
we did support Nate Sheets. Oddly enough, Sheets was Greg
Abbott indorse and Sid Miller was a Trump indoorsea so
(29:14):
that was the rare case that I wasn't with a
Trump aligned candidate. I was with an Abbot aligned candidate.
But in any case, Nate Sheets has won. Railroad Commissioner
bow French will be in a runoff with Jim Wright.
We are we supported bau French and will again in
his runoff. Courter Criminal Appeals Thomas Smith will be in
(29:36):
a runoff with Alison Fox. Obviously we supported Smith quarter
Criminal Appeals. John Messenger we supported he won State Senator.
The district attorney for Montgomery County Brett Ligan. Brett Ligan
won State Rep. District sixteen. John Bouchet. That was a
shot at Will Metcalf, who got very involved in the
(30:00):
the Paxton impeachment. Metcalf ended up winning, But I can
tell you that I can tell you that he will
think twice the next time he does something so stupid,
because it took a pound of flesh out of him.
And that's all I asked for. Dennis Goose Geeseman in
District eighty five. I was told he didn't have a
(30:23):
prayer in hell to win that race against a candidate
who had more money and name id. But Giesonman did win.
State Rep. District won twenty six. We did not win,
not even close. We supported poll Looper. She came highly
recommended by some people. I trust Stan Standard, who's longtime
(30:46):
Harris County elected official party insider. And Kelly Peterson will
be in the runoff. So we did not win in
that race, and that's okay. I'm just fine not winning
races one twenty nine Scott Bowen and he won Court
of Appeals place three Zach Gibson. He will go into
(31:08):
a runoff with Todd Frankton County Judge. We supported Marty
Langton Orlando. He did not win, which is surprising because
he had a lot of money and a lot of
broad support from some big names in town. That race
will be a runoff between Orlando Sanchez and Warren Howell.
Warren Howell kind of a Dwayne Stoveall kind of constitutional outsider,
(31:35):
maybe not as much money, maybe not the same name
I d but a guy who is very thoughtful, very
tea party constitutionalist. That is going to be an interesting race.
It has not heretofore, engendered much interest from the voters,
(31:55):
which is why we haven't talked about it. But that
runoff for the Republican nomination in the county judge race
is going to We'll begin now. County Commissioner Precinct two,
we supported Richard Vega, he won. County Clerk, we supported
Linda Sanchez. Mike Wolfe won. I don't have a problem
(32:18):
with that. Mike's a good man. Propositions one through ten
we supported all and all passed. And the only precinct
chairman race that we had an opinion was my ear
nose and throat doctor slash COVID patience rights crusader Mary
(32:39):
Tally Boden, and she won. I told her, I hope
you're happy, because you're going to regret it. It ends
up being a lot of work, a lot of inside baseball,
a lot of backbiting and drama. But it's an important
thing to do, and you're about to learn in the
belly of the beast and the bowels of the party,
(33:00):
the roll up your sleeves and get things done where
the party work gets done. And I'm glad somebody with
her stature would be willing to do it. I am.
It's it's going to be interesting. So all in all
of a fascinating night. Much to get to and of
course the phone lines are over. Mm hmm.
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