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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time.
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The Michael Very Show is on the air. You'll get
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I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing, but
I just gotta.
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That's the true. It's neither drinking a drug and stood.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Just I dare say, the most eventful weekend we've had
in quite some time.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Shine, Do we ever have a lot to talk about.
Among the things we have to talk about are.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran,
which occurred overnight Friday night into Saturday morning, and the
Irani response, how that has been handled and what this means.
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I'd like to spend some time talking about the domestic
reaction to these strikes, and the various coalitions that have
whether they are friendly with each other or not, the
split of opinions in this country based on some very
odd bedfellows on the left and on the right. The
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issue of Israel has that effect on a lot of
people nowadays, young and old voters. But we turn also
from Iran to what happened most likely as a result
of that and that was a mass shooting in Austin,
And in that case, a Senegaluese individual who came to
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this country overstayed his visa but managed to get it
is believed in GOO assistance to stay here, who had
been radicalized whatever that means, and walked along Sixth Street
and shocked the place up, killing, among others, a Texas
tech student who was there visiting with some friends when
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he died. Probably some families in our listening audience, well
I know there are because I've been contacted by some,
but probably more families who were directly affected an impact
direct to you or a family member being a son, grandson, nephew,
niece who was on Sixth Street when all of this happened.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Pretty traumatic stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Then you have.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The reaction, Well, I'll get to that in the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And then you have the primaries that are occurring tomorrow
in the state of Texas as well as North Carolina
and Arkansas. It will be the first round of primaries
for twenty twenty six. And just like the state Senate
seat a few weeks ago where Republicans lost a Republican
seat to a Democrat, I think this could potentially be
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a wake up call for what's going to need to
be done in November. Is it a wake up call
or does it represent a shift in public opinion along
the along the middle and a lack of motivation among
the base, which I think is also the case.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let's talk about that first.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And we'll come to Iran in just a moment, and
I'll focus on the state of Texas elections. In the primary,
we have seen greater turnout vote thus far among the
Democrats than among Republicans. By last I checked in on
my number in front of me, a couple one hundred
thousand votes. It was significant. But what is very significant
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is that Democrats are bringing new voters to the polls
and Republicans are not. I think it was a four
to one number. I've managed to leave my print out,
probably at home. I'll go buy memory. I have a
pretty good idea. But we have some interesting themes at
play in the election that we will see tomorrow. Let
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me first say that by recent historical numbers, I would
estimate that between about forty and forty five percent of
the votes that will be cast in this primary will
be cast tomorrow, which absolutely blows my mind. When there
were ten days to vote, early, and then people will
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vote at the last possible minute. Although I did hear
from people that this was the first time they were
voting on quote unquote election day. I wish we'd stop
using that term. But what it's going to mean, well,
let's talk about what. And on Friday. At the end
of early voting on Friday, over five hundred thousand people
voted on Friday alone. Out of the ten days, that
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was over twenty percent of the votes all on one day.
For those of you who voted, you went from hearing
early in the runoff, in the early voting period that
it was breezy and just walk right in, cast your
vote and leave. If you voted on Friday, you sat
in the in line at the poll for over an hour.
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I hope that if you are planning to vote tomorrow,
that you will plan to vote earlier in the day.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Rather than waiting until the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I am not a person who spends a lot of
energy begging people to vote in the primary. And I'll
tell you why that is because the people who don't
understand the importance of primary voting, people who don't go
out to vote in a primary are buying large John
Cornyn Republicans. They're Bush Romney McCain Republicans, their Republican brand,
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their country Club Republicans. They're voters who just they're not
very passionate. They think the Democrats are not very good ortho.
They wouldn't dare say that in public, and Democrats shouldn't
be in charge.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So we'll vote for the Republicans.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That's not the kind of people you want voting in
a primary when you're trying to kick out the incumbents
who you have to dig deep to understand why they're problematic.
That would be John Cornyn, that would be Cringy Crenshaw,
that would be Greg Abbott, and so in order to
do that, I'm just as happy if those people don't vote.
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It's not going to affect whether we beat the Republicans,
whether we beat the Democrats in November with the best Republican.
We want the best Republican. We're not going to lose
to Democrats tomorrow. You may lose to the establishment if
you don't show up and vote. So that's why I
don't spend a lot of time pushing people to vote.
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Passionate voters who are issue driven voters will show up
and vote in a primary, and if that's all that votes,
I'm perfectly fine with that. I want to win these
elections with candidates for November. And I've been around campaigns
long enough because you hear this area to understand that
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you can drive people to vote come November that you
couldn't get to vote in a primary. You can drive
people to vote because things happen between now and November.
What happened in Iran and then what happened in Austin
is going to affect the primaries tomorrow. We just don't
know how. But that's that those two things that you
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never could have predicted will affect turn out and vote tomorrow,
among other things. Before we get to the monument the
new cycle of the weekend, we must note that today,
March second, marks the anniversary of the eighteen thirty six
adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence. On this day,
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fifty nine delegates formally declared Texas free from Mexican rule,
creating the Republic of Texas. This marks the one hundred
and ninety year anniversary since the declaration at Washington on
the Brass, which of course was a pivotal moment in
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the Texas Revolution. It is a state holiday, it is
not a federal holiday. A lot of government offices and
schools may remain open. Some will celebrate, Sadly, many will not.
Those who do not remember their history are a broken
and sad culture. I hope you find a way, if
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nothing else, to talk about the Texas Revolution with fewer children.
It's the sort of thing that defines who and what
we are as a culture. Before we get to Iran
and Austin, the retaliatory shooting by the terrorists in Austin.
A couple of developments in the Texas primary that I
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want to bring up. First, President Trump arrived in Corpus
Christi on Friday. That was apparently a last minute trip.
How last minute is debatable, but pretty last minute. Why
he did that is open for some discussion. But he
did a couple of things that are noteworthy, and this
is part of what is worth watching when we do
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the post mortem on the Tuesday election. He made some
endorsements in statewide races that conflict with Greg Abbott. He
has been deferential to Abbot in the state of Texas,
Abbot being the governor, but Trump, he has his own
relationships and I'm certain that Trump understands that Abbot's politics
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are not his politics in many cases, For example, the
President coming out to endorse the sitting Agriculture Commissioner Sid
Miller greg Abbott had endorsed Nate Sheets. What's interesting there
is that Miller has been very imbattled. He has had
some pretty serious legal questions. If anybody is willing to
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overlook legal challenges to a sitting incumbent Republican, it is
Donald Trump. And I think he's more today than ever
before willing to look past that for an individual if
he likes them and thinks they're doing good things. Him
coming out and supporting Sid Miller at the last minutes,
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at the last minute against Nate Sheets, who Greg Abbott
had endorsed, was a very very interesting and it has
set up a lot of chatter in Austin as to
what's going on between the White House and Greg Abbot,
and that race will be interesting to watch. Sid Miller
has been popular but embattled since his time in public office.
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I don't have a good sense on what's going to
happen there. Sid Miller has a had a sort of
cult like following among the base. He seemed to have
drifted away and lost his focus. But he's sort of
come back to a very strong personality, good campaigner, takes
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on the right kinds of issues. But now he's made
a number of enemies of folks who were his friends.
I just don't know what happens there. President Trump also
endorsing Don Huffines for Comptroller. Greg Abbott put Kelly Hancock
in that position.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Again. I know this is probably not a very sexy
race for you to hear me talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I can tell you that these are races that are
worth watching for a number of different reasons. Kelly Hancock
was the state senator. Abbott put him into the Comptroller's
office so that he could run as the incumbent. He
could do a couple of things just before the election
and look like the incumbent. Remember Glenn Hager left the
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Comptroller's office and went to lead Texas A and M University.
That occasioned an empty spot. Kelly Hancock, state senator, wanted
to be the comptroller. Abbot put him in that seat,
but he could not make him comptroller because he could
not get Senate approval, which is required. So that's why
Kelly Hancock is the acting comptroller. Abbott's machine opened up
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the swamp, poured a bunch of money into Kelly Hancock.
Kelly Hancock was hand chosen for that's the way these
deals work, and he's supposed to win. He's never built
any momentum. Don Huffines had run against Greg Abbott, and
Abbot is very, very sore over that. Huffines had a
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self funded campaign against Abbot in twenty twenty two and
he got a little traction and Abbott is butt hurt
over it. So you've got Huffines who pulled out to
an early lead. He's got personal wealth, he's willing to
spend it. He is good with the base. We've endorsed him,
or we're supporting him. I don't endorse people, but we
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are supporting Don Huffines. He managed to get most everybody
I know who was endorsing endorsed Huffines.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And most of them pretty early on Ted Cruz among them.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But when he got the Trump endorsement there at the end,
it opened a lot of eyes as to huh, there
does seem to be a Trump Abbot split, And there
are some personalities involved. Huffins has his own relationships with
a lot of people. So the Huffines Handcot race is
going to be interesting to watch, and I suspect Greg
Abbott is going to get his little bump squadded on
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that one, because I don't think Hancocks stands a chance,
and Abbot has been campaigning very.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Very aggressively for him.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That's going to set up the unique and I think
necessary situation where you have Don Huffines as Comptroller in
a position to cause problems for Greg Abbot by bringing
up how money is spent and where money is spent
and how taxes are raised, and Abbot does not want that.
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Abbot only survives in the state of Texas Republican majority
when there is nobody to the right of him asking questions.
People can believe Abbot he wants to close the border,
he wants to help Trump. Well, why did he take
over a million dollars from Colony Ridge right here in
Houston in multiple payments? How many people are forgotten Colony
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Ridge owns Greg Abban. How about his Muslim problem? If
you look at the number of Muslims in the highest
positions Texas medical born, some of whom are still on
contract with Pakistani, this entity show Abbot's got a Muslim proms.
A question of whether people will know this or not.
Final voting tomorrow on what is known drives me crazy.
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As election day, after ten days of early voting in
the US Senate race, we will talk to two of
the three, Wesley.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Hunt now and Ken Paxton, in just a moment. Wesley
Hunt the day.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Before or the day before election day, and you have
worked your tailoff.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Where do you feel like you stand? How do you feel?
I feel great about it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I was actually in Harlington down south, got in at
about one o'clock in the morning last night. I'm going
to be in Cyprus tonight. And again, I've been running
a campaign. I'm the only one that's he He've been
running a campaign. I've been traveling all over Texas to
actually get in the front of voters, look at them
in their eyes, and tell them exactly what I wanted
to do to keep Texas Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And my whole goal, and this whole thing was to
get into a runoff.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And the way I see it is that we still
have a puncher shot at this thing. I do believe
that General Paxson will finish in the first place, and
my goal was to get in second place to challenge
General Paxston so that the people of Texas could have
an actual choice of a true conservative.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
For the future.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
It's interesting Paxton has led throughout as most people expected
he would. Your entry into the race was feared by
some folks that I know who are paston supporters, and
I said, it's not clear which candidate he helps or
hurts the most, but have you steadily drew support early on?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And then the DC.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Swamp came after you, from Tim Scott to the Thoon
crowd to the establishment, all of Cornyn's cronies, and it
takes its toll. I got to tell you, the one
that really got me was them calling you Washington Wesley.
When you've been in DC for a cup of coffee
and John Corny's been there for twenty four years. I
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have to think they had around that night in the
crowd in Washington with Washington money that live in Washington
and control Washington calling you Washington Wesley.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
How do you feel when you'll see that?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, I saw that one Washington Wesley and then John
corn of all people calling me a rhino. I thought
that was absolutely hilarious. And all in they would have
spent in upwards of almost fifteen seventeen million dollars over
the course of two weeks. At one point they were
spending a million dollars a day hitting me, which said
that I was clearly and am clearly a threat to
the system. And that's the reason why I stayed this race,
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was to be a threat.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
To the system.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I want to take a sledge effort to this thing,
because no, I am not Washington Wesley. No I am
not a rhino. I was the first person in the
country to endorse President Trump. As I have said on
your show multiple times, I was under President Trump's topets.
You're correct. How can I be Washington Wesley when I've
been around for three years and what I am running
on is I am running on term limits. I am
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running on a two terms. That's it, twelve years no more.
That is all because that's exactly what our founding fathers wanted.
And also, I think we are done with career politicians.
I think that's the problem with John Corny is that
he's been around for so long that he forgot about
what Texas really stood for. And that's why he did
this position as a twenty four year coubby with a
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war chest of a numbers of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You know better than most people why you ran. If
John Cornyn was doing a good job, you wouldn't have run.
People couldn't believe you were willing to scale that heel.
You've never been afraid of anything before. But what about Cornyn?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Do people need to know? Because if Cornyn was doing
a good job, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
If Cornyn was doing a good job, and if Cornyn
wasn't a Bush era Lincoln Project Republican.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And we all know it. We have now known it
for years.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
We knew it six years ago when he ran, We
knew it a couple of years ago at the Texas
Convention when he got booed off the stage. Everyone knows this.
And how you spend that kind of money and you
are still pulling in the high twenties and thirties, it's
absolutely beyond me.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He should have retired.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We all know that his homies are Tillis and McConnell
and Cassidy and Collins, that these are the people that
won't look the filibuster. These are the people that won't
push the America First agenda forward like the mandate that
was given the President Trump and let me tell you something.
He would be in lockstep with all of them today
if this worked an election year, and if he wasn't
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being challenged by General Paxson and myself. We all know
what he is and a leper cannot change those spots.
And so the fact that he's in this kind of
trouble at the begger out for this long that should
never happen to an incumbent if they're doing their job.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
It's noteworthy, you know, as far as endorsements go, that
President Trump notably did not endorse Grenshaw and did not
endorse Cornyn. And I think it's embarrassing to Cornyn and
he knows it, and that was the rabbit he thought
he'd pull out of a hat. But nobody ever believed
that he would support corn President Trump has had to
delicately walk this balance without endorsing him throughout and fearing
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that he might need Cornyan for a vote at any
given moment. It's been fascinating to watch how the President
has handled this. But that should tell every big Trump
supporter a lot. Why doesn't Trump endorse the incumbent? That
should tell you you need change. Weren't anything else if
you're a big Trump supporter.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He is one of two Republican and tumments that he
has not endorsed. That Fay of Texas John Cornan is
one of two Republican and combents at the senatorial level,
and the retire touch of that he has not endorsed,
and is he and Collins. That should tell you all
you need to know. And like I said, I'm the
guy that never I never put words in a president's mouth.
I don't speak for President Trump, not one bit, but
it does speak volumes that he is one of two
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and combents that he has not endorsed.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Wesley Hunt, candidate for US current United States Congressman. I
went digging this weekend and I came across something called
the Luger Center in DC, a longtime Republican squish, Senator
Richard Luger, who was a big believer in bipartisanship, by
which he meant the swamp, the establishment doing what DC wants,
not what the state of Texas wants. And the Luger
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Center gives a score on the most bipartisan senators. Susan
Collins is number one. Susan Collins acts as a Democrat
even though she gets elected as a Republican or independent.
Lisa Murkowski is number seven, and we all know that
Lisa Murkowski is no friend to any of our causes
of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
John Cornyn ranked number five on that list.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If I had the time to explain to people what
that means that you would have such a high ranking,
that is as disturbing as anything you could ever know
about this man who's been in office since nineteen eighty five.
He is a swamp creature.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yes, that's unbelievable. And that's also why you want to
talk about liberty scores as well. You know his liberty
score and this tenty five was exactly what you just said.
And that's just not where Texas is today. You know,
there was a time when that was acceptable and those
times are over. And if you are a Republican, a
Bush Arab Republican from the two thousands, back when I
first graduated from West Point, actually the first time that
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John Corner was elected, when he became a judge, I
was eleven months old. By the time you get to
this point in your career, it's time to push it
aside and it's time to do something else. And at
the end of the day, I realized something a long
time ago. No matter what come January, John Corny is
not going to be a senator anymore. And it cost
a party an arm and a leg to show the
exact same thing in the end.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, when Tim Scott felt the need to come out
and attack you, that's when I knew they were in trouble.
When they started round the clock attacks on you, that's
when I knew they knew how bad a trouble they're in.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Burning the cash.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
As as their donors have said, Leslie Hunt, you'd never
quit on the football field, and never quit as a
warrior in the United States Army, and you won't quit here.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Good luck to you, my friend, God blessed think you
for having me on as always, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And here we are the day before election day s
Congressman Wesley Hunt and Attorney General Ken Paxton vying to
unseat twenty four year forty one years in elected office
John Cornyan as swampy, a swamp preacher, as you will find.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
We'll talk to Ken Paxton coming up. Its cleans key,
it claims key. It's done for a girl and the boy.
I like like a berry show. We just heard from
Congressman Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Now we speak to Attorney General Ken Paxton, challenging twenty
four year old twenty four year incumbent John Cornyan. John
Cornyan is scared he's losing in the polls, and he
was booed at the state Republican convention. He's counting on
Democrats coming over and voting in the primary to help
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him win because he cannot win Republicans.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It got so bad that he made this statement.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
He's not talking about suicide bombers he's talking about not
talking about Irani Mulas. He's talking about Republican voters that
don't vote for him. Listening to this one more time.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
General Paxton, are these Republicans showing up to vote that
we need in November? That are voting for you? Are
these radicals?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
First of all, have the Independence Day texts in Dependence
Day vs. Yeah. I think it's intellig you the mindset
of John Cornyn what he considers Republican voters radicals. That's
why when he was booed by what ten twelve thousand
Republican delegates we're talking about the base of the party
three years ago because he sided with Joe Biden restricting
second amenemic rights. That's why he dismissed it as these
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people don't matter. So he views a very large segment
of the Republican Party is not mattering because guess what,
they don't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
To him at all.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
And that says it all for him to suggest he
knows he's going to lose in the first round, there's
a chance you win without a runoff. But if he
does go to the runoff, that is the theme that
DC has given him to run on, is that the
only people who don't like him are radicals. And I
think it's important for every Republican in state of Texas,
for every Texan to understand what he is saying, that
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people who care deeply about our core issues that these
candidates have been running on are being called radicals.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
When we use a term radical with regard to Islam,
it has meaning.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
When we use a term radical to talk about our neighbors,
that's disturbing to me.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Jimmy texton, It's disturbing to me too, because it's a
disdain for the Republicans and the vote. Most Republicans would
be considered in his view, radical because they adhere to
the Constitution, they adhere to conservative fiscal and social values,
and so if you do that, in his mind, you're
a radical, which tells you everything you need to know
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and why he should not be representing this anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I was researching over the weekend and I ended up
on the site of something called a lub Center, named
for a long time Senate squish, Richard Lueger from Indiana.
And they give a bipartisanship score, which is kind of
they're out of DC, which is kind of a squish score.
And it turned out that John Cornyn ranked number five,
Susan Collins number one, Lisa Murkowski at seven. You're more
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quote unquote bipartisan than Lisa Murkowski.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The Luger Center.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Luger was a gun control guy, a global warming guy,
dreamat guy, amnesty guy and a huge Trump critic, all
while supposedly a Republican.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We don't need his type. It says everything that the
Luger Center.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Thinks the world of John Cornan's voting record, and every
Republican primary who I guess is a radical is where
he's having problems today.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And interesting enough, Richard Lueger, I think was the last
Republican to lose in a primary as a US senator,
so he is. He definitely set the trend for John Cornyn,
and John Cornans was.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Walking right down that path well, knowing that they're losing,
and knowing that about seventy five percent of Republican voters
who've been pulled consistently throughout this process do not want
the seventy four year old four term senator to go
back for number five and attack Trump and work with
Fune and refuse to pass the Save Act. But their
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argument now has turned not to whether he would get
anything done and is a good guy or anything related
to his record. He has none to run on that's
positive among the base because he's upset I guess the radicals.
But now they say, well, Ken Paxton can't win in November.
Vote for me now, even though you don't want to,
don't vote for the guy you want, because nobody will
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vote for him in November.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
What do you say to that.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
It's a pretty pathetic argument. First of all, it's unsubstantiated,
just made up, just like every position he now holds,
you know, saying he's sports Trump when he hated Trump
for the whole time, just like saying he's for the
border wall, but he never was. So this idea that
I can't want to I can't want to get a Democrat.
I had three state wider recordllections that I did very well,
and I want I'm three for three. And also if
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you look at the polling, I actually do as well
or better than him when you look at the polling
against whatever Democrat ends up being there. So it's just unsubstantiated,
made up. But that's what he's doing the whole the
whole campaign made up about him being a different guy
than he really is, and it made up about me.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What is the campaign strategy? It's a distance down the road.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
We don't know who comes out of Democrat primary, Crocketer
or Tallerrico Tellerrico's claiming that they have the lead now,
but what is the message statewide to Texans once you
if you win the primary, what is the message that
unites us in November to win.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I think there's a lot of issues in the United
I mean, every American should care about the budget, every budget.
Every American should care about fair and free elections. Every
American should care about with the threat of China. Every
American should care about their taxes, and every American should
care about the bet healthcare we're getting from Obamacare. So
there's lots of issues I believe that affects every single
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Texan and that I think would make sense that the
Independence and some Democrats.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's an interesting phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
We're at an interesting time where you're sitting US senator
is saying to the base of his own party that
if they don't vote for him, they're radical, and every
one of those positions that he would claim makes them
quote unquote radical, or positions that he's campaigning on but
has no credibility.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I think that says everything.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It says everything. So the very things that those people
care about he's running on right now for the first
time in his life because he feels like he has to,
but he doesn't believe them, and he will call you
a name, calls me a name for actually believing in
some of the things that he thinks are radical.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's very disturbing. If you would take a minute and
a half and remind voters before they vote tomorrow morning,
about forty percent still will be out to vote.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Who is Ken Paxson?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Why should folks vote for you in the Senate primary? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
I think for me, the difference between me and him
is he talks a lot of rhetoric. It's just not true.
I have a record of conservative values and fighting for Texas,
whether I you know, whether it was my fights against Obama,
the twenty seven lawsuits against him in two years, the
fight against FIDEN one hundred and seven lawsuits, or whether
it was fighting against big tech or big food, big pharma,
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all of it. Well say, I've tiken on everybody, and
it's been at a cost to me.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But that's why I'm here. I'm here to fight for
Texas and.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Happy in Texas Independence Day to you as well, Ken Paxton,
Good luck to you Bath. You know, folks, I've been
around politics as a pure observer.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Going back into the eighties. I've always been interested in it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I got myself engrossed in it when I came to
Houston in eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I have followed the.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Players, I've followed the process. I followed the elections and
the governance that comes after it. This is a good time, folks,
This is a good time that we have a real
choice for us Senate. We have a real choice whoever
you vote for. We have a real choice to say
to Washington, DC that Texas will pick our senator. And
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if we don't pick who you want, and you call
Republicans radicals, there's the pitched battle between you. Wonder why
DC fails. You can't blame it all on the Democrats.
It's because of nonsense like that.
It's that time.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Michael Very Show is on the air. You'll get
into Mico. We gotta feed a beard.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I don't plan to shave, and it's good thing, but
I just gotta.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
See I'm doing it all right? Will got make me
supts beating?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
That's the true. It's neither drinking a drug and stood.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Just I dare say, the most eventful weekend we've had
in quite some time.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Shine, Do we ever have a lot to talk about.
Among the things we have to talk about are.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran,
which occurred overnight Friday night into Saturday morning, and the
Irani response, how that has been handled and what this means.
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I'd like to spend some time talking about the domestic
reaction to these strikes, and the various coalitions that have
whether they are friendly with each other or not, the
split of opinions in this country based on some very
odd bedfellows on the left and on the right. The
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issue of Israel has that effect on a lot of
people nowadays, young and old voters. But we turn also
from Iran to what happened most likely as a result
of that and that was a mass shooting in Austin,
And in that case, a Senegaluese individual who came to
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this country overstayed his visa but managed to get it
is believed in GOO assistance to stay here, who had
been radicalized whatever that means, and walked along Sixth Street
and shocked the place up, killing, among others, a Texas
tech student who was there visiting with some friends when
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he died. Probably some families in our listening audience, well
I know there are because I've been contacted by some,
but probably more families who were directly affected an impact
direct to you or a family member being a son, grandson, nephew,
niece who was on Sixth Street when all of this happened.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Pretty traumatic stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Then you have.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
The reaction, Well, I'll get to that in the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And then you have the primaries that are occurring tomorrow
in the state of Texas as well as North Carolina
and Arkansas. It will be the first round of primaries
for twenty twenty six. And just like the state Senate
seat a few weeks ago where Republicans lost a Republican
seat to a Democrat, I think this could potentially be
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a wake up call for what's going to need to
be done in November. Is it a wake up call
or does it represent a shift in public opinion along
the along the middle and a lack of motivation among
the base, which I think is also the case.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Let's talk about that first.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And we'll come to Iran in just a moment, and
I'll focus on the state of Texas elections. In the primary,
we have seen greater turnout vote thus far among the
Democrats than among Republicans. By last I checked in on
my number in front of me, a couple one hundred
thousand votes. It was significant. But what is very significant
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is that Democrats are bringing new voters to the polls
and Republicans are not. I think it was a four
to one number. I've managed to leave my print out,
probably at home. I'll go buy memory. I have a
pretty good idea. But we have some interesting themes at
play in the election that we will see tomorrow. Let
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me first say that by recent historical numbers, I would
estimate that between about forty and forty five percent of
the votes that will be cast in this primary will
be cast tomorrow, which absolutely blows my mind. When there
were ten days to vote, early, and then people will
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vote at the last possible minute. Although I did hear
from people that this was the first time they were
voting on quote unquote election day. I wish we'd stop
using that term. But what it's going to mean, well,
let's talk about what. And on Friday. At the end
of early voting on Friday, over five hundred thousand people
voted on Friday alone. Out of the ten days, that
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was over twenty percent of the votes all on one day.
For those of you who voted, you went from hearing
early in the runoff, in the early voting period that
it was breezy and just walk right in, cast your
vote and leave. If you voted on Friday, you sat
in the in line at the poll for over an hour.
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I hope that if you are planning to vote tomorrow,
that you will plan to vote earlier in the day.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Rather than waiting until the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I am not a person who spends a lot of
energy begging people to vote in the primary. And I'll
tell you why that is because the people who don't
understand the importance of primary voting, people who don't go
out to vote in a primary are buying large John
Cornyn Republicans. They're Bush Romney McCain Republicans, their Republican brand,
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their country Club Republicans. They're voters who just they're not
very passionate. They think the Democrats are not very good ortho.
They wouldn't dare say that in public, and Democrats shouldn't
be in charge.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
So we'll vote for the Republicans.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That's not the kind of people you want voting in
a primary when you're trying to kick out the incumbents
who you have to dig deep to understand why they're problematic.
That would be John Cornyn, that would be Cringy Crenshaw,
that would be Greg Abbott, and so in order to
do that, I'm just as happy if those people don't vote.
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It's not going to affect whether we beat the Republicans,
whether we beat the Democrats in November with the best Republican.
We want the best Republican. We're not going to lose
to Democrats tomorrow. You may lose to the establishment if
you don't show up and vote. So that's why I
don't spend a lot of time pushing people to vote.
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Passionate voters who are issue driven voters will show up
and vote in a primary, and if that's all that votes,
I'm perfectly fine with that. I want to win these
elections with candidates for November. And I've been around campaigns
long enough because you hear this area to understand that
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you can drive people to vote come November that you
couldn't get to vote in a primary. You can drive
people to vote because things happen between now and November.
What happened in Iran and then what happened in Austin
is going to affect the primaries tomorrow. We just don't
know how. But that's that those two things that you
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never could have predicted will affect turn out and vote tomorrow,
among other things. Before we get to the monument the
new cycle of the weekend, we must note that today,
March second, marks the anniversary of the eighteen thirty six
adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence. On this day,
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fifty nine delegates formally declared Texas free from Mexican rule,
creating the Republic of Texas. This marks the one hundred
and ninety year anniversary since the declaration at Washington on
the Brass, which of course was a pivotal moment in
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the Texas Revolution. It is a state holiday, it is
not a federal holiday. A lot of government offices and
schools may remain open. Some will celebrate, Sadly, many will not.
Those who do not remember their history are a broken
and sad culture. I hope you find a way, if
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nothing else, to talk about the Texas Revolution with fewer children.
It's the sort of thing that defines who and what
we are as a culture. Before we get to Iran
and Austin, the retaliatory shooting by the terrorists in Austin.
A couple of developments in the Texas primary that I
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want to bring up. First, President Trump arrived in Corpus
Christi on Friday. That was apparently a last minute trip.
How last minute is debatable, but pretty last minute. Why
he did that is open for some discussion. But he
did a couple of things that are noteworthy, and this
is part of what is worth watching when we do
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the post mortem on the Tuesday election. He made some
endorsements in statewide races that conflict with Greg Abbott. He
has been deferential to Abbot in the state of Texas,
Abbot being the governor, but Trump, he has his own
relationships and I'm certain that Trump understands that Abbot's politics
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are not his politics in many cases, For example, the
President coming out to endorse the sitting Agriculture Commissioner Sid
Miller greg Abbott had endorsed Nate Sheets. What's interesting there
is that Miller has been very imbattled. He has had
some pretty serious legal questions. If anybody is willing to
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overlook legal challenges to a sitting incumbent Republican, it is
Donald Trump. And I think he's more today than ever
before willing to look past that for an individual if
he likes them and thinks they're doing good things. Him
coming out and supporting Sid Miller at the last minutes,
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at the last minute against Nate Sheets, who Greg Abbott
had endorsed, was a very very interesting and it has
set up a lot of chatter in Austin as to
what's going on between the White House and Greg Abbot,
and that race will be interesting to watch. Sid Miller
has been popular but embattled since his time in public office.
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I don't have a good sense on what's going to
happen there. Sid Miller has a had a sort of
cult like following among the base. He seemed to have
drifted away and lost his focus. But he's sort of
come back to a very strong personality, good campaigner, takes
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on the right kinds of issues. But now he's made
a number of enemies of folks who were his friends.
I just don't know what happens there. President Trump also
endorsing Don Huffines for Comptroller. Greg Abbott put Kelly Hancock
in that position.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Again. I know this is probably not a very sexy
race for you to hear me talk about.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I can tell you that these are races that are
worth watching for a number of different reasons. Kelly Hancock
was the state senator. Abbott put him into the Comptroller's
office so that he could run as the incumbent. He
could do a couple of things just before the election
and look like the incumbent. Remember Glenn Hager left the
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Comptroller's office and went to lead Texas A and M University.
That occasioned an empty spot. Kelly Hancock, state senator, wanted
to be the comptroller. Abbot put him in that seat,
but he could not make him comptroller because he could
not get Senate approval, which is required. So that's why
Kelly Hancock is the acting comptroller. Abbott's machine opened up
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the swamp, poured a bunch of money into Kelly Hancock.
Kelly Hancock was hand chosen for that's the way these
deals work, and he's supposed to win. He's never built
any momentum. Don Huffines had run against Greg Abbott, and
Abbot is very, very sore over that. Huffines had a
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self funded campaign against Abbot in twenty twenty two and
he got a little traction and Abbott is butt hurt
over it. So you've got Huffines who pulled out to
an early lead. He's got personal wealth, he's willing to
spend it. He is good with the base. We've endorsed him,
or we're supporting him. I don't endorse people, but we
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are supporting Don Huffines. He managed to get most everybody
I know who was endorsing endorsed Huffines.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
And most of them pretty early on Ted Cruz among them.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
But when he got the Trump endorsement there at the end,
it opened a lot of eyes as to huh, there
does seem to be a Trump Abbot split, And there
are some personalities involved. Huffins has his own relationships with
a lot of people. So the Huffines Handcot race is
going to be interesting to watch, and I suspect Greg
Abbott is going to get his little bump squadded on
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that one, because I don't think Hancocks stands a chance,
and Abbot has been campaigning very.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Very aggressively for him.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
That's going to set up the unique and I think
necessary situation where you have Don Huffines as Comptroller in
a position to cause problems for Greg Abbot by bringing
up how money is spent and where money is spent
and how taxes are raised, and Abbot does not want that.
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Abbot only survives in the state of Texas Republican majority
when there is nobody to the right of him asking questions.
People can believe Abbot he wants to close the border,
he wants to help Trump. Well, why did he take
over a million dollars from Colony Ridge right here in
Houston in multiple payments? How many people are forgotten Colony
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Ridge owns Greg Abban. How about his Muslim problem? If
you look at the number of Muslims in the highest
positions Texas medical born, some of whom are still on
contract with Pakistani, this entity show Abbot's got a Muslim proms.
A question of whether people will know this or not.
Final voting tomorrow on what is known drives me crazy.
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As election day, after ten days of early voting in
the US Senate race, we will talk to two of
the three, Wesley.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Hunt now and Ken Paxton, in just a moment. Wesley
Hunt the day.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Before or the day before election day, and you have
worked your tailoff.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Where do you feel like you stand? How do you feel?
I feel great about it.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I was actually in Harlington down south, got in at
about one o'clock in the morning last night. I'm going
to be in Cyprus tonight. And again, I've been running
a campaign. I'm the only one that's he He've been
running a campaign. I've been traveling all over Texas to
actually get in the front of voters, look at them
in their eyes, and tell them exactly what I wanted
to do to keep Texas Texas.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And my whole goal, and this whole thing was to
get into a runoff.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And the way I see it is that we still
have a puncher shot at this thing. I do believe
that General Paxson will finish in the first place, and
my goal was to get in second place to challenge
General Paxston so that the people of Texas could have
an actual choice of a true conservative.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
For the future.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
It's interesting Paxton has led throughout as most people expected
he would. Your entry into the race was feared by
some folks that I know who are paston supporters, and
I said, it's not clear which candidate he helps or
hurts the most, but have you steadily drew support early on?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And then the DC.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Swamp came after you, from Tim Scott to the Thoon
crowd to the establishment, all of Cornyn's cronies, and it
takes its toll. I got to tell you, the one
that really got me was them calling you Washington Wesley.
When you've been in DC for a cup of coffee
and John Corny's been there for twenty four years. I
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have to think they had around that night in the
crowd in Washington with Washington money that live in Washington
and control Washington calling you Washington Wesley.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
How do you feel when you'll see that?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, I saw that one Washington Wesley and then John
corn of all people calling me a rhino. I thought
that was absolutely hilarious. And all in they would have
spent in upwards of almost fifteen seventeen million dollars over
the course of two weeks. At one point they were
spending a million dollars a day hitting me, which said
that I was clearly and am clearly a threat to
the system. And that's the reason why I stayed this race,
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was to be a threat.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
To the system.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I want to take a sledge effort to this thing,
because no, I am not Washington Wesley. No I am
not a rhino. I was the first person in the
country to endorse President Trump. As I have said on
your show multiple times, I was under President Trump's topets.
You're correct. How can I be Washington Wesley when I've
been around for three years and what I am running
on is I am running on term limits. I am
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running on a two terms. That's it, twelve years no more.
That is all because that's exactly what our founding fathers wanted.
And also, I think we are done with career politicians.
I think that's the problem with John Corny is that
he's been around for so long that he forgot about
what Texas really stood for. And that's why he did
this position as a twenty four year coubby with a
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war chest of a numbers of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
You know better than most people why you ran. If
John Cornyn was doing a good job, you wouldn't have run.
People couldn't believe you were willing to scale that heel.
You've never been afraid of anything before. But what about Cornyn?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Do people need to know? Because if Cornyn was doing
a good job, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
If Cornyn was doing a good job, and if Cornyn
wasn't a Bush era Lincoln Project Republican.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
And we all know it. We have now known it
for years.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
We knew it six years ago when he ran, We
knew it a couple of years ago at the Texas
Convention when he got booed off the stage. Everyone knows this.
And how you spend that kind of money and you
are still pulling in the high twenties and thirties, it's
absolutely beyond me.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
He should have retired.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
We all know that his homies are Tillis and McConnell
and Cassidy and Collins, that these are the people that
won't look the filibuster. These are the people that won't
push the America First agenda forward like the mandate that
was given the President Trump and let me tell you something.
He would be in lockstep with all of them today
if this worked an election year, and if he wasn't
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being challenged by General Paxson and myself. We all know
what he is and a leper cannot change those spots.
And so the fact that he's in this kind of
trouble at the begger out for this long that should
never happen to an incumbent if they're doing their job.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
It's noteworthy, you know, as far as endorsements go, that
President Trump notably did not endorse Grenshaw and did not
endorse Cornyn. And I think it's embarrassing to Cornyn and
he knows it, and that was the rabbit he thought
he'd pull out of a hat. But nobody ever believed
that he would support corn President Trump has had to
delicately walk this balance without endorsing him throughout and fearing
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that he might need Cornyan for a vote at any
given moment. It's been fascinating to watch how the President
has handled this. But that should tell every big Trump
supporter a lot. Why doesn't Trump endorse the incumbent? That
should tell you you need change. Weren't anything else if
you're a big Trump supporter.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He is one of two Republican and tumments that he
has not endorsed. That Fay of Texas John Cornan is
one of two Republican and combents at the senatorial level,
and the retire touch of that he has not endorsed,
and is he and Collins. That should tell you all
you need to know. And like I said, I'm the
guy that never I never put words in a president's mouth.
I don't speak for President Trump, not one bit, but
it does speak volumes that he is one of two
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and combents that he has not endorsed.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Wesley Hunt, candidate for US current United States Congressman. I
went digging this weekend and I came across something called
the Luger Center in DC, a longtime Republican squish, Senator
Richard Luger, who was a big believer in bipartisanship, by
which he meant the swamp, the establishment doing what DC wants,
not what the state of Texas wants. And the Luger
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Center gives a score on the most bipartisan senators. Susan
Collins is number one. Susan Collins acts as a Democrat
even though she gets elected as a Republican or independent.
Lisa Murkowski is number seven, and we all know that
Lisa Murkowski is no friend to any of our causes
of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
John Cornyn ranked number five on that list.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
If I had the time to explain to people what
that means that you would have such a high ranking,
that is as disturbing as anything you could ever know
about this man who's been in office since nineteen eighty five.
He is a swamp creature.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Yes, that's unbelievable. And that's also why you want to
talk about liberty scores as well. You know his liberty
score and this tenty five was exactly what you just said.
And that's just not where Texas is today. You know,
there was a time when that was acceptable and those
times are over. And if you are a Republican, a
Bush Arab Republican from the two thousands, back when I
first graduated from West Point, actually the first time that
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John Corner was elected, when he became a judge, I
was eleven months old. By the time you get to
this point in your career, it's time to push it
aside and it's time to do something else. And at
the end of the day, I realized something a long
time ago. No matter what come January, John Corny is
not going to be a senator anymore. And it cost
a party an arm and a leg to show the
exact same thing in the end.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, when Tim Scott felt the need to come out
and attack you, that's when I knew they were in trouble.
When they started round the clock attacks on you, that's
when I knew they knew how bad a trouble they're in.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Burning the cash.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
As as their donors have said, Leslie Hunt, you'd never
quit on the football field, and never quit as a
warrior in the United States Army, and you won't quit here.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Good luck to you, my friend, God blessed think you
for having me on as always, brother, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And here we are the day before election day s
Congressman Wesley Hunt and Attorney General Ken Paxton vying to
unseat twenty four year forty one years in elected office
John Cornyan as swampy, a swamp preacher, as you will find.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
We'll talk to Ken Paxton coming up. Its cleans key,
it claims key. It's done for a girl and the boy.
I like like a berry show. We just heard from
Congressman Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Now we speak to Attorney General Ken Paxton, challenging twenty
four year old twenty four year incumbent John Cornyan. John
Cornyan is scared he's losing in the polls, and he
was booed at the state Republican convention. He's counting on
Democrats coming over and voting in the primary to help
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him win because he cannot win Republicans.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It got so bad that he made this statement.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
He's not talking about suicide bombers he's talking about not
talking about Irani Mulas. He's talking about Republican voters that
don't vote for him. Listening to this one more time.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
General Paxton, are these Republicans showing up to vote that
we need in November? That are voting for you? Are
these radicals?
Speaker 4 (25:02):
First of all, have the Independence Day texts in Dependence
Day vs. Yeah. I think it's intellig you the mindset
of John Cornyn what he considers Republican voters radicals. That's
why when he was booed by what ten twelve thousand
Republican delegates we're talking about the base of the party
three years ago because he sided with Joe Biden restricting
second amenemic rights. That's why he dismissed it as these
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people don't matter. So he views a very large segment
of the Republican Party is not mattering because guess what,
they don't matter.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
To him at all.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
And that says it all for him to suggest he
knows he's going to lose in the first round, there's
a chance you win without a runoff. But if he
does go to the runoff, that is the theme that
DC has given him to run on, is that the
only people who don't like him are radicals. And I
think it's important for every Republican in state of Texas,
for every Texan to understand what he is saying, that
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people who care deeply about our core issues that these
candidates have been running on are being called radicals.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
When we use a term radical with regard to Islam,
it has meaning.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
When we use a term radical to talk about our neighbors,
that's disturbing to me.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Jimmy texton, It's disturbing to me too, because it's a
disdain for the Republicans and the vote. Most Republicans would
be considered in his view, radical because they adhere to
the Constitution, they adhere to conservative fiscal and social values,
and so if you do that, in his mind, you're
a radical, which tells you everything you need to know
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and why he should not be representing this anymore.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
I was researching over the weekend and I ended up
on the site of something called a lub Center, named
for a long time Senate squish, Richard Lueger from Indiana.
And they give a bipartisanship score, which is kind of
they're out of DC, which is kind of a squish score.
And it turned out that John Cornyn ranked number five,
Susan Collins number one, Lisa Murkowski at seven. You're more
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quote unquote bipartisan than Lisa Murkowski.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
The Luger Center.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Luger was a gun control guy, a global warming guy,
dreamat guy, amnesty guy and a huge Trump critic, all
while supposedly a Republican.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
We don't need his type. It says everything that the
Luger Center.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Thinks the world of John Cornan's voting record, and every
Republican primary who I guess is a radical is where
he's having problems today.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
And interesting enough, Richard Lueger, I think was the last
Republican to lose in a primary as a US senator,
so he is. He definitely set the trend for John Cornyn,
and John Cornans was.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Walking right down that path well, knowing that they're losing,
and knowing that about seventy five percent of Republican voters
who've been pulled consistently throughout this process do not want
the seventy four year old four term senator to go
back for number five and attack Trump and work with
Fune and refuse to pass the Save Act. But their
(27:53):
argument now has turned not to whether he would get
anything done and is a good guy or anything related
to his record. He has none to run on that's
positive among the base because he's upset I guess the radicals.
But now they say, well, Ken Paxton can't win in November.
Vote for me now, even though you don't want to,
don't vote for the guy you want, because nobody will
(28:13):
vote for him in November.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
What do you say to that.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
It's a pretty pathetic argument. First of all, it's unsubstantiated,
just made up, just like every position he now holds,
you know, saying he's sports Trump when he hated Trump
for the whole time, just like saying he's for the
border wall, but he never was. So this idea that
I can't want to I can't want to get a Democrat.
I had three state wider recordllections that I did very well,
and I want I'm three for three. And also if
(28:37):
you look at the polling, I actually do as well
or better than him when you look at the polling
against whatever Democrat ends up being there. So it's just unsubstantiated,
made up. But that's what he's doing the whole the
whole campaign made up about him being a different guy
than he really is, and it made up about me.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
What is the campaign strategy? It's a distance down the road.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
We don't know who comes out of Democrat primary, Crocketer
or Tallerrico Tellerrico's claiming that they have the lead now,
but what is the message statewide to Texans once you
if you win the primary, what is the message that
unites us in November to win.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
I think there's a lot of issues in the United
I mean, every American should care about the budget, every budget.
Every American should care about fair and free elections. Every
American should care about with the threat of China. Every
American should care about their taxes, and every American should
care about the bet healthcare we're getting from Obamacare. So
there's lots of issues I believe that affects every single
(29:35):
Texan and that I think would make sense that the
Independence and some Democrats.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
It's an interesting phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
We're at an interesting time where you're sitting US senator
is saying to the base of his own party that
if they don't vote for him, they're radical, and every
one of those positions that he would claim makes them
quote unquote radical, or positions that he's campaigning on but
has no credibility.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
I think that says everything.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It says everything. So the very things that those people
care about he's running on right now for the first
time in his life because he feels like he has to,
but he doesn't believe them, and he will call you
a name, calls me a name for actually believing in
some of the things that he thinks are radical.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
It's very disturbing. If you would take a minute and
a half and remind voters before they vote tomorrow morning,
about forty percent still will be out to vote.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Who is Ken Paxson?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Why should folks vote for you in the Senate primary? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
I think for me, the difference between me and him
is he talks a lot of rhetoric. It's just not true.
I have a record of conservative values and fighting for Texas,
whether I you know, whether it was my fights against Obama,
the twenty seven lawsuits against him in two years, the
fight against FIDEN one hundred and seven lawsuits, or whether
it was fighting against big tech or big food, big pharma,
(30:55):
all of it. Well say, I've tiken on everybody, and
it's been at a cost to me.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
But that's why I'm here. I'm here to fight for
Texas and.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Happy in Texas Independence Day to you as well, Ken Paxton,
Good luck to you Bath. You know, folks, I've been
around politics as a pure observer.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Going back into the eighties. I've always been interested in it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
I got myself engrossed in it when I came to
Houston in eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I have followed the.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Players, I've followed the process. I followed the elections and
the governance that comes after it. This is a good time, folks,
This is a good time that we have a real
choice for us Senate. We have a real choice whoever
you vote for. We have a real choice to say
to Washington, DC that Texas will pick our senator. And
(31:44):
if we don't pick who you want, and you call
Republicans radicals, there's the pitched battle between you. Wonder why
DC fails. You can't blame it all on the Democrats.
It's because of nonsense like that.
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