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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Very Show is on the air. I was on the
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eve of going to eve.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Him.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Michael, Hi Eve.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I just wanted to let you know that what you
name my middle name Ellen Eve?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Ellen? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The hell?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How does it even work? It becomes a.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Twin name, Amy Amy May? Wait what I have a
twin sister named Amy May?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
How old are you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Sixty four?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Sixty four?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, okay, you sound younger than sixty four.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I am now just I just help all my grandkids.
I was in marketing and sales, you know, pretty much
my whole life. And I've worked as a volunteer for
Harris County for twenty five years, working for candidates.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh okay, what you got, my dear.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So what I wanted to say is that so I was,
I was helping stand stand Art, and I just wanted
to give just a kudos to you and to stand
and to our opponents. Your name was mentioned all the time,
but I just wanted to let you know that sand
stand Art was out there every single day from seven
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to seven and he never sat down and spoke to
every voter that he could and it was just a
really kind race. But it amazes me that the person
that we're now running against in a runoff, I really
rarely saw her stand up. I rarely saw her hold
her card up, where a stand in a suit and
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guy standing up every day is in a runoff. It's
just shocking to me. But we all got along.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know. I didn't support Stan, right.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I know, I know Polly was your choice and what
an amazing Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't have anything against Stan. I've known stand alone
time not well. I do think that if I were
to if I were to say, the person who has
the closest approximation to the captain kangaroo mustache, that would
be Stan. Or if I were looking for a Sam
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Malone stand in for a tribute band for Samulon, he
looks a lot like Sam Alone. Samulon I think stands
a wonderful person. I think he's perfectly lovely. I think
he's a great guy. Unfortunately, sometimes there is a race
where I feel a candidate that I like a particular
candidate or what they stand for or the job they'll do,
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and so yeah, but I've I've never spoken ill of Stan,
and I don't have an intention to start. Now, thank
you for saying that. Very nice.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, I just want to let you know that the
guys just stand up your choice. She never she never
sat down. I've never brought a chair to any polling location.
I've always stood seven to seven, whether it's two weeks,
three weeks, and I just really, well, yes, Pauli's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How do you not like someone has a named Polly, right?
I mean, that's just a browback name.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And you should you should meet his her son. This
guy was my biggest competitor I've had in twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Good for you. I'm glad you do that. So you
got to run off to work now, yep, all right,
good luck our seal on the black line. What you got, ma, man, I.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Was kind of considered with the whole situation with with
He kind of angered me a little bit that he
got in the race, and I figured it would kind
of end up this way. But in your opinion, do
you believe that he sincerely thought that he could win
or somebody convinced him to get in the race from
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GOP operatives in Texas may have paid him, or maybe
some Democrats to try to bring out this type of
result or runoff or lost with the vaxine.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, let'll put you on hope for just a second
because I'm getting a little feedback on your line. I
will come back to you. Ston't hang up. It's a
fair question. I get this question a fair amount. Let
me answer it fully because obviously it's on the minds
of a lot of people. First of all, I have
known Wesley Hunt since before he began running for in
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the first race. I supported him very hard to Beatie
Lizzie Fletcher. Lizzie Fletcher is a dangerous Democrat because she
is the most deadly combination of She is whip smart,
I mean whip smart. She is a very analytical, sharp mind.
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I had a judge tell me, an appellate court judge
tell me that in his years on the bench, the
best presentation he ever saw delivered in his courtroom was
from a young lawyer, long before she was in Congress,
long before her political views were known, named Lizzie Fletcher.
And I respect this particular judges judgment discernment to a
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great degree. I have had other people tell me that
and she is that, and she is her politics are awful,
and that she is ruthless politically and she's dangerous. So
I supported Wesley Hunt. Wesley was introduced to me as
a guy that had some support to run for that seat,
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and I desperately wanted to beat Lizzie Fletcher, and so
that was my original intention. I liked he looked good
on paper, it's a smart guy, and we became very close.
When I get involved in a race, I will talk
to a candidate thirty times in a day. We will
be texting till two o'clock in the morning, We'll be
texting the next morning at six fifteen. I will be
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sending data points, quotes, ideas. I will be introducing people
back and forth. I get very very involved when I
want to win a race, and so in that process
we tend to develop very close friendships. And so Wesley
became a good friend when he lost that race, which
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was a hell of a well run race. That was
an attempt to take back they said at the congressional district,
which which was which was the old George Bush and
Bill Archer district that was always kind of a country
club Republican district, and there was always the fear that
the right demo and then they redistricted that thing and
Lizzie won it, and Wesley ran one hell of a
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race the next day. I knew he was devastated. I
knew he thought his political career was over. And I
started texting him while we were on the show, and
he didn't answer for about an hour, and I said,
pick the GD phone up now, and he did, and
he was clearly devastated. And I said, I will meet
you at noon at El Tempo on West Timer. This
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reason for this story. I'll meet you at noon at
L Tempo on West Timer, and you will be there.
And he started into the mimiument and I said you
will be there, and he did. And we sat there
until I had to leave it probably for and we
wore some nachos out and we solved the world's problems.
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And at four when we left, we hugged and I
knew he was going to be fine, and he was.
And the thirty eighth came up and he ran and
he won, and we have remained very good friends. But
the question that deserves to be asked was did he
run with the intention to win? Or was he put
there as this woller? And I will answer that question
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thoroughly coming up. I just want you to understand before
I answer how much I liked the guy. So I
answered to the question about Wesley Hunt. I think it's
important to understand where I stand with people before I
give you my opinion of them, so that if you
want to question whether I am biased or not, you
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have the full bit of information, because it wouldn't be
fair otherwise. So I like Wesley Hunt. I consider him
a friend. My son, my old son, Michael T, interned
for him last summer in Washington, d C. Which was
pretty cool because the Big Beautiful Bill was making its
way through Congress. So I went and stayed in d
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C and just broadcast from a hotel room there. I
think maybe five of you noticed that I wasn't in studio,
which is good. So I spent almost all of the
summer in d C broadcasting from a hotel room there,
and Crockett interned for Morgan Latrelle, and Michael T's girlfriend
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intern for Randy Weber, and so I was probably a
little more engaged in the internal workings of The Big
Beautiful Bill than I would have been otherwise, just because
at dinner every night I made him tell me, you know,
what are you learning? What are you what are your thoughts?
What are you know? I think it was a great experience.
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It was a really interesting time to intern. Wesley was
the first call I made when Michael t said he
wanted to intern in DC because of our friendship. When
Wesley said to me he wanted to get into the
Senate race, I told him not to. I said, bad idea.
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Paxton is going to win. You don't have a chance,
and I really want to see corn defeated. Do not run.
Terrible idea. I don't know who is filling your head,
but don't do it. But I was sympathetic because I've
been a candidate myself. When I got elected to city council,
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I was the first Republican elected citywide. I was a
white guy. I don't know if y'all noticed in what
was considered a black seat.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I was.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I was, and this will surprise some of you, but
I was very high on me because I think I'm
the best. And so when I went to run a
lot of people who had supported me for city council
did not support me for mayor. And interestingly, Orlando Sanchez,
who was in the runoff for County judge. It was
Orlando sanchest Bill White and Sylvester Turner, and Sylvester ended
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up in fourth in that race. I went back at
the last minute on filing day and went back into
another city council seat, and that was Sheila Jackson Lee's seat,
which was considered the black seats. Actually the first seat
I was in was not the black seat. The second
seat was. But I had won all the black precincts.
I had raised more money than had ever been raised
in a city council race, and it was for a newcomer,
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and I just thought I was great, and you could
not talk me into not running. And so I believe,
and I had never failed at anything I had put
my mind to. I'd never failed anything I ever wanted
that I focused on. I went after. I mean, I'm
not saying I batted seven fifty baseball, but I whatever
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I put my mind to, I always did. So I
didn't believe I could fail, and I pretty much don't now.
But anyway, that can be a dangerous but necessary trait
for people running for office that the average person cannot understand.
You cannot understand that you are not a good judge
of You're not a good handicapper. You believe in yourself.
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And when people tell you not to do something, you
don't perceive it as they love me, they care about me,
they wish the best for me, they have good discernment.
You view it as I'll show you and you'll come around,
and you have to do that right. Tom Brady never
gave up on himself when nobody else believed in himself,
in him, Okay, but when Wesley got into the race
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and they're shot. And see, here's the thing, A lot
of people, if you study elections the way I do,
and you've been around them, and you've been in them,
and you've studied I watch a goofy I watch YouTube
channels more than one on elections, and you study how
John Ossoff won his race in Georgia. There was no
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way he was going to run that race to win
that race, No way, when you study how races are won.
A friend of mine ran the another cut race against
sitting Speaker of the House Tom Foley, the first time
Speaker of the House had been defeated in his own
congressional seat in like eighty years. It just never happens.
And Matt Bracy from Texas went up there and ran
that race and won you can win races that people
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think you can't win, and then when you win the race,
everybody says, yeah, well of course, I mean that's what
you know. You just know. You don't know that, you
don't know what will happen. So the question people would
ask was, well, why would he give up a congressional seat.
This is going to come as a shock, serve me
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in Congress is not very glamorous congressman. Get I saw
Ted Poe one time at the air work and he's
carrying his bags both hands, and he's not a young man.
And I didn't know but he was ill. I didn't
know this. He had a cancer, I believe, some condition.
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And he looked tired and he looked terrible. And I
always called him Judge, and I said, Judge, how are you?
He's Michael, I'm tired and beat. This is rough. And
he was flying back and forth because it was important
to him sleep in his bed in Houston and to
be in the district every week, which most people don't do.
So being a congressman, I think Wesley Hunt had figured
out was not something. He's not a guy that is
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going to hang around like a Tom Delay and just
work his way up and serve on committees and grind.
There are very few people who are going to do that.
AOC is not one of those people either. There are
very few people who are going to do that. Crenshaw
wasn't one of those people. You got to be a grinder,
you got to be patient, and Wesley wasn't that. So
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giving up one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars, which
is a lot of money, Wesley will make that in
the corporate world. If he lost, he could still win
because he was going to put on a good showing.
But if you asked me, did he believe he was
going to win? He believes he had a fighter's chance. Absolutely,
he did not run that race. Now, the one thing
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that I will assure you is he did not get
in that race as a spoiler. Did not He got
in the race to win. And I will tell you this,
and this is not a criticism of Trump. I will
tell you this. Both Paxton and Wesley believed that Trump
was going to endorse them, and they both whether they
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admitted or not. There's a lot of private conversations I've had,
and I wish I will put my credibility on the
line when I tell you, they both genuinely believed that
Trump was going to endorse one or the other of them,
and that it was going to happen early enough that
it could sway the race. They both believed that would
not have entered the race if he thought Trump would
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not endorse all the way till the very end. I
will tell you that with absolutely one hundred percent of
my credibility that I may or may not have with you,
but whatever eun's the credibility I have with you, trust me.
He got into that race believing. Now you could say
that was unreasonable for him to believe that you don't
know what he knew, and you don't know what I knew.
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So when he got into that race, he got into
that race to win. I will assure you that you
can be mad at a lot of things. You can
claim he's the reason for the run off. Theres this race,
and I want to talk about this race. This race
is a lot more complicated than people realize. I'd never
met Trump before he ran for president in twenty sixteen,
but I had studied his career closely. I knew most
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everything there was to know about him that was in
any way a bit of public information, and I believed
that he was running as a lark, as a way
to build his brand and enjoy the attention, because he
had done things like that before, in the same way
that William F. Buckley ran for mayor of New York
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or Teddy Roosevelt ran for mayor of New York. It
was kind of ego play, a vanity play. Nobody believed
that he could win. Nobody nobody believed he would last
till January, when Jeff Sessions came out and endorsed him.
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He was the first Senator to do so, which is
why he ended up as Attorney General and ended up
that that that appointment was what was a disaster that
unraveled for several years after if you remember Sessions stepping anyway,
let me not golfing that nobody believed Trump was serious,
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Nobody believed he would hang around all of those things.
When Bob Lanier ran for mayor in nineteen ninety one,
it was shocking because he'd been the Metro chairman, and
he'd been Kathy Whitmyer's Metro chairman. And when he announced
he was running, it was late summer, early fall, and
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he had what was a dream team at the time,
including Dave Walden, and he had some he had Mark Composts,
he had he had some of the really really sharp minds. Now,
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these these guys throw elbows, I know all of them.
But Lanier, Lanier recruited Sylvester into the race against Kathy
Whitmyer once he got him good and in there, so
he so Sylvester could pull the Black vote away. The
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whole time Lanier is plotting behind the scenes for Lanier
to get into that race. And Lanier is going to
get just to the right of Kathy. And when all
the Republican votes, well, how do you get the Republicans
to show up and vote In nineteen ninety one in
a Democrat primary for a guy who was Dick Gepart's
finance chairman. He went to Climber, right, who was a
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right wing activist, and he got Climber to get these
signatures to get a term limits bill put on the ballot.
Nothing gets the base fired up like term limits and
fear of gun control. Those are the issues that people
get really really fired up about. So he got Climber
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to get the Republicans to come out and vote on
that basis. When Lanier got in, I went to as
I always did. I went to the announcement and I
remember talking to a newspaper reporter. I was a student
by president of the University of Houston. I was a
nobody in town, but I went to every gathering where
politics was being talked about, and people were gracious to
let me sit there. I was twenty one years old,
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and it was a joke. Lanier was running for mayor.
This guy lived on River Oaks Boulevard. He had the
most prized rose collection. He was wealthy. He once said
to a reporter who came over to do an interview.
He was out in the back and nobody answered the door,
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or they answered door and said, oh, mister Lanier's out back.
So the reporter went out back and he was sitting
with his back to the reporter, with his boots on,
wealthy developer that he was. And the reporter said, mister Lanier,
what are you doing? And he said, I'm sitting out
here thinking what a rich mfor I am. And that
made its way with mfor as the initials end of
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the pack. This wasn't a guy who was running for real.
He was running for real, and he won and he
became a three term mayor. Why three terms because from
limits passed and it limited how long he could be
in uncity council. We'd go back to the terms. Wesley
believed that Trump would support him, and he had every
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right to believe that. He had every reasonable right to
believe that. If you remember, Wesley was being carried around
the country by Trump on his private plane. There are
multiple occasions where you will see Trump exit exit. Trump
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won when he's not president, but everybody knows he's going
to run for reelection, and right under his armpit is
Wesley Hunt. Every Republican in this country would like to
be in that position, but he had Wesley Hunt there.
He bragged on him. He made Trump does things for
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show when he wants you to know something, and he
made sure everybody saw him in Wesley Hunt. I'm not
trying to tell you Wesley Hunt is a saying or
you should like him. I just want you to understand
he did not get into that race as a spoiler.
Start with that's number one. Number two, I will tell
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you without disclosing. There are things I have to be
careful I don't disclose because when you burn your sources,
then you lose them, and that would affect my ability
to do my job. You can just take note that
Ken Paxton never once criticized Wesley Hunt. Never once, nor
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did Wesley Hunt ever criticize Ken Paxton. From the day
corn and from the day Hunt got into the race,
Cornan was trashing him. I mean very personal, very personal,
and as the Swamp does, just like the Democrat Party,
they have to have a black guy do it. So
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they had Tim Scott from South Carolina up there with
his mister bo Jangles thing. He does. I'm the black
guy here. What y'all need me to do? Y'all let
me in the room, because that's what he does. That's
the role he plays. He plays the token black guy.
He plays it to perfection. It's all he's useful for.
And he knows it. They know it, everybody knows it.
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And so they had to have the black guy from
d C, from the Swamp from the Senate attack Wesley Hunt.
In fact, they attacked him after the election. They they
issued a statement that this was a little vanity game
he played. They're going after him on a very personal level,
and I can assure you it's very personal for him.
If Paxton believed he was a plant, Paxton would have
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attacked him. Paxton's done nothing but say nice things about him. Right,
if he served a purpose for Cornan, then Cornan wouldn't
have attacked him. You could say, well, I'm three d
chessing it here, Michael. What if Cornyn was attacking him
to make it look legit? Cornyan was attacking him so
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badly that he was hurting him from day one? Right?
Did Wesley Hunt? Is Wesley Hunt the reason there was
a runoff? Maybe everybody thinks they know more than they do,
including me, But there are usually dimensions and layers to
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elections that people don't see because everyone lives in an
echo chamber. They think everybody thinks exactly the way they do,
and they see things only in one dimension. People are
more complicated than that. They're way more complicated than that.
I had a group of guys at my house a
couple of weeks ago, and I don't ever comment at
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times like this, I just want to listen. And somebody
said they pulled up to the election site to polling site,
and they voted. This was his life. I voted for
a girl because I saw her sign out in the
parking lot. And she was really cute, and you go, well,
that's shallow. That's people do it. People vote for your
name because it's Hispanic, because they're Hispanic, or against your
name because it's Hispanic. They vote for your name because
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it has an apostrophe and looks black, or they vote
against your name because it hasn't. Everybody does some number,
some percentage of every group does these sorts of things.
The Michael Barry Show, simple man. So, with regard to
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the Senate race, Wesley Hunt bears no blame for there
being a runoff. Let's start there before we get to
Wesley Hunt. Let's just look at this. More money was
spent on John Cornyn than has ever been spent on
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a primary candidate in American history. And you may say, well,
it doesn't matter because everybody hates him. A lot of
people vote in the first round. This is why those
of y'all, we all gotta get out and vote. Everybody
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needs to vote. Just vote, vote, vote, vote. I don't
believe that because you end up with a lot of
people who vote because of some civic duty idea. Let's
do that in November, where we go, everybody vote and
vote Republican. Okay, I don't care why you vote Republican.
I don't care if you recognize the names. I don't
care if you vote blindly. Just hit the R every time.
I don't care if you don't know what the comptroller
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does or the attorney general. Just go in and vote R.
I don't care if you're dead, alive, retarded, mute in
a coma. Just vote Republican. That's it. In November. But
in the primary, all of y'all are we all got?
Everybody need to vote. No, everybody doesn't need to vote
because you get a lot of people. You don't read
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my emails. Hey, Michael, I'm gonna go vote today. But
I still don't understand what's wrong with Corning. Don't you
not vote if you don't know what's wrong with Cornying? Well,
what do you think is? I don't know? I just
you know, apparently a lot of people don't like him. Okay, Well,
why do y'all want that guy to vote in the primary?
We want that guy to vote in November. I don't
want Hi voting in a primary. There are a lot
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of low information cocktail party Republicans. That's the people who
at the cocktail party or the event that the black
tie event. When it turns to politics, they go, I
tell what, these Democrats have gone crazy. I'm just I'm
worried about what's happening in our country. I'm gonna show
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up and vote. I voted in the primaries. You vot.
I voted in a partmenty. Well, yes, that's all voting
the primary. Well, that lady votes for Corning every damn time.
She votes for Corning because that's the name she knows.
She don't know who all these other people are. So
when you spend that kind of money and you drive
that kind of turnout, there was a whopping turnout. Do
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you know what that means? That means general election voters
turned out in the primary in the first round in
the primary. That means people that don't typically vote in
a primary, they wait till November. They voted in a primary.
Do you know who they vote for? Do you know why?
John Cornyn said two days ago that if he loses,
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it'll because the radicals. You know who the radicals are?
You tea Party America first, MAGA Trump supporter, that's what
you are. Constitutionalist. He knows he can't win you. He's
not trying to win you over that's why he didn't
attack Paxton, he attacked Hunt. He's trying to win over
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the people who just kind of want good government, not
real hardcore, not real doc trinal or orthodox in that sense.
Want to get the voters out. They want to get
a lot of voters out, and they did. They did
get the voters out, and that's why that's why he
did so well, that's the reason. And so it's also
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the case, well, two things are about to happen. I
wish we weren't out of time. Two things are about
to happen. Let's go back to twenty twelve. Cruz was
at two percent. Name I D not support name I D.
People laughed at me when I told him I was
supporting Ted Cruz because they didn't know who he was.
And David Dewhurst was going to win. Dewhurst was very
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wealthy at the time. He's lost it now. He was
the lieutenant governor, which what dan Patrick is now. He
had given money to every Republican women's group across the
country over the years, so he knew he was going
to have them, or believed he was going to have them,
and he had been spending these all this money on
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vanity ads for reelection when he didn't have a reelection,
just to build his name, and he had these great
he had cutting horses in Fredericksburg and so we had
these ads of him working his cutting horse. Good looking guy,
has up, real straight, got good hair, good skin, a
lot of work done, good posture on his horse, works
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his horse well, beautiful horse, multimillion dollar horse, beautiful ranch
and you know, very impressive. So this guy can't be beat, right,
he led going into the runoff. People don't remember that
Cruz came from two percent name I day and we
were pounding that issue daily bam bam bam, and we
didn't have all the affiliates we do now. So we
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had to win in Houston primarily. I think we were
in San Antonio then, but we had Houston in Southeast
Texas where we had to win big and did. And
by the way, they're both from Houston, so we had
to beat Dewhurst where he was from, which was Houston area.
But we had to win big because we didn't have
all the markets we do now. Anyway, did went to
runoff Cruse wins. It tells you a lot about Cruise's
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view of our role in his campaign that when he
ran for president, he had me introduce him in Iowa,
and that introduction level went the powerful congressman from King
from Iowa, then Hannity, Sorry, then Levin, then Hannity, then
a video by Rush than me. That's how important he
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viewed my role in twenty twelve and introduced him when
he won. Well, my role is just you. That's our tribe,
that's who we are. We win races when turnout is low.
We struggle in races when turnout as high. That's I
understand that. You should understand it, and you should understand why.
The reason is what we can't. Our biggest enemy is
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low information Republicans, Republicans who wear the jersey. Let's beat
the Democrats. Republicans are bad, bad, bad bad. In a primary,
we want him in November. We don't want them to
vote in the primary. We don't want them in the primary. Now,
what happens now we go to the second round. Corning
people are in a panic. DC is in a panic. Now,
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if it weren't the case that they own Corning and
that Paxson is so dangerous to them, they would throw
in the towel. Typically, they'd throw in the towel. Everybody
in politics knows this is a standard case. Corning can't
win the runoff, right, that's conventional wisdom. When an incumbent
of twenty four years who has over one hundred million
dollars spent on him, can't win in a general in
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his own party, he can't win the runoff, and he
can't win in November. But that's not what they're gonna
do because they're scared to death of Paxton, because Paxton's
a flamethrower, and they've got to stop Paxton because they've
got to stop you, this burgeoning grassroots effort. They hate you,
so what are they gonna do. They're gonna hit you
where it hurts. They're gonna tell you past is weird.
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They're gonna tell you he had an affair and that's
all that that's true. They'll probably drag his wife out.
They'll probably put someone in her back pocket. Now, I'm
not going to get into everything about his wife and
things she has said that would surprise you. I'm just
going to tell you I want a guy that's going
to go to Washington, d C. And do what I
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want him to do, and Ken Paxton will do that.
In the meantime, they're going to have to have you
convinced that Ken Paxton's coming into your bedroom to have
sex with your son or daughter, or steal your dog
or still your favorite pen, or kill your parents. They
have to because they can't run on Corner's records. You're
about to watch the nastiest campaign you have seen in
Texas history. Mark my words on this. I'm telling you
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before it happens. So when you hear the news story, Hey,
did you hear that Ken Paxton fill in the blank,
You're already prepared. I'm telling you it's coming. They are
going to assassinate figuratively. I hope only Ken Paxton's character
because they know they're going to lose, because if they
don't do that, they're definitely gonna lose. And they have
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too much. They don't they don't just want a Republican
to come up there and and beat the Democrat in November.
They're gonna tell you Paxton can't win, because that that's
one of those things they'll get in your head. This
thing is about to get real nasty, real nasty, and
beating Cornying is my number one priority.
It's that time time time, luck and load. So Michael
Very Show is on the air. I was on the
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eve of going to eve.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Him.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Michael, Hi Eve.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I just wanted to let you know that what you
name my middle name Ellen Eve?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Ellen? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The hell?
Speaker 1 (00:40):
How does it even work? It becomes a.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Twin name, Amy Amy May? Wait what I have a
twin sister named Amy May?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
How old are you.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Sixty four?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Sixty four?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Well, okay, you sound younger than sixty four.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
What do you do for a living?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I am now just I just help all my grandkids.
I was in marketing and sales, you know, pretty much
my whole life. And I've worked as a volunteer for
Harris County for twenty five years, working for candidates.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh okay, what you got, my dear.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
So what I wanted to say is that so I was,
I was helping stand stand Art, and I just wanted
to give just a kudos to you and to stand
and to our opponents. Your name was mentioned all the time,
but I just wanted to let you know that sand
stand Art was out there every single day from seven
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to seven and he never sat down and spoke to
every voter that he could and it was just a
really kind race. But it amazes me that the person
that we're now running against in a runoff, I really
rarely saw her stand up. I rarely saw her hold
her card up, where a stand in a suit and
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guy standing up every day is in a runoff. It's
just shocking to me. But we all got along.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
You know. I didn't support Stan, right.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I know, I know Polly was your choice and what
an amazing Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't have anything against Stan. I've known stand alone
time not well. I do think that if I were
to if I were to say, the person who has
the closest approximation to the captain kangaroo mustache, that would
be Stan. Or if I were looking for a Sam
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Malone stand in for a tribute band for Samulon, he
looks a lot like Sam Alone. Samulon I think stands
a wonderful person. I think he's perfectly lovely. I think
he's a great guy. Unfortunately, sometimes there is a race
where I feel a candidate that I like a particular
candidate or what they stand for or the job they'll do,
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and so yeah, but I've I've never spoken ill of Stan,
and I don't have an intention to start. Now, thank
you for saying that. Very nice.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Yeah, I just want to let you know that the
guys just stand up your choice. She never she never
sat down. I've never brought a chair to any polling location.
I've always stood seven to seven, whether it's two weeks,
three weeks, and I just really, well, yes, Pauli's amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How do you not like someone has a named Polly, right?
I mean, that's just a browback name.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And you should you should meet his her son. This
guy was my biggest competitor I've had in twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Good for you. I'm glad you do that. So you
got to run off to work now, yep, all right,
good luck our seal on the black line. What you got, ma, man, I.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Was kind of considered with the whole situation with with
He kind of angered me a little bit that he
got in the race, and I figured it would kind
of end up this way. But in your opinion, do
you believe that he sincerely thought that he could win
or somebody convinced him to get in the race from
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GOP operatives in Texas may have paid him, or maybe
some Democrats to try to bring out this type of
result or runoff or lost with the vaxine.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Well, let'll put you on hope for just a second
because I'm getting a little feedback on your line. I
will come back to you. Ston't hang up. It's a
fair question. I get this question a fair amount. Let
me answer it fully because obviously it's on the minds
of a lot of people. First of all, I have
known Wesley Hunt since before he began running for in
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the first race. I supported him very hard to Beatie
Lizzie Fletcher. Lizzie Fletcher is a dangerous Democrat because she
is the most deadly combination of She is whip smart,
I mean whip smart. She is a very analytical, sharp mind.
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I had a judge tell me, an appellate court judge
tell me that in his years on the bench, the
best presentation he ever saw delivered in his courtroom was
from a young lawyer, long before she was in Congress,
long before her political views were known, named Lizzie Fletcher.
And I respect this particular judges judgment discernment to a
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great degree. I have had other people tell me that
and she is that, and she is her politics are awful,
and that she is ruthless politically and she's dangerous. So
I supported Wesley Hunt. Wesley was introduced to me as
a guy that had some support to run for that seat,
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and I desperately wanted to beat Lizzie Fletcher, and so
that was my original intention. I liked he looked good
on paper, it's a smart guy, and we became very close.
When I get involved in a race, I will talk
to a candidate thirty times in a day. We will
be texting till two o'clock in the morning, We'll be
texting the next morning at six fifteen. I will be
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sending data points, quotes, ideas. I will be introducing people
back and forth. I get very very involved when I
want to win a race, and so in that process
we tend to develop very close friendships. And so Wesley
became a good friend when he lost that race, which
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was a hell of a well run race. That was
an attempt to take back they said at the congressional district,
which which was which was the old George Bush and
Bill Archer district that was always kind of a country
club Republican district, and there was always the fear that
the right demo and then they redistricted that thing and
Lizzie won it, and Wesley ran one hell of a
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race the next day. I knew he was devastated. I
knew he thought his political career was over. And I
started texting him while we were on the show, and
he didn't answer for about an hour, and I said,
pick the GD phone up now, and he did, and
he was clearly devastated. And I said, I will meet
you at noon at El Tempo on West Timer. This
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reason for this story. I'll meet you at noon at
L Tempo on West Timer, and you will be there.
And he started into the mimiument and I said you
will be there, and he did. And we sat there
until I had to leave it probably for and we
wore some nachos out and we solved the world's problems.
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And at four when we left, we hugged and I
knew he was going to be fine, and he was.
And the thirty eighth came up and he ran and
he won, and we have remained very good friends. But
the question that deserves to be asked was did he
run with the intention to win? Or was he put
there as this woller? And I will answer that question
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thoroughly coming up. I just want you to understand before
I answer how much I liked the guy. So I
answered to the question about Wesley Hunt. I think it's
important to understand where I stand with people before I
give you my opinion of them, so that if you
want to question whether I am biased or not, you
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have the full bit of information, because it wouldn't be
fair otherwise. So I like Wesley Hunt. I consider him
a friend. My son, my old son, Michael T, interned
for him last summer in Washington, d C. Which was
pretty cool because the Big Beautiful Bill was making its
way through Congress. So I went and stayed in d
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C and just broadcast from a hotel room there. I
think maybe five of you noticed that I wasn't in studio,
which is good. So I spent almost all of the
summer in d C broadcasting from a hotel room there,
and Crockett interned for Morgan Latrelle, and Michael T's girlfriend
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intern for Randy Weber, and so I was probably a
little more engaged in the internal workings of The Big
Beautiful Bill than I would have been otherwise, just because
at dinner every night I made him tell me, you know,
what are you learning? What are you what are your thoughts?
What are you know? I think it was a great experience.
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It was a really interesting time to intern. Wesley was
the first call I made when Michael t said he
wanted to intern in DC because of our friendship. When
Wesley said to me he wanted to get into the
Senate race, I told him not to. I said, bad idea.
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Paxton is going to win. You don't have a chance,
and I really want to see corn defeated. Do not run.
Terrible idea. I don't know who is filling your head,
but don't do it. But I was sympathetic because I've
been a candidate myself. When I got elected to city council,
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I was the first Republican elected citywide. I was a
white guy. I don't know if y'all noticed in what
was considered a black seat.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I was.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I was, and this will surprise some of you, but
I was very high on me because I think I'm
the best. And so when I went to run a
lot of people who had supported me for city council
did not support me for mayor. And interestingly, Orlando Sanchez,
who was in the runoff for County judge. It was
Orlando sanchest Bill White and Sylvester Turner, and Sylvester ended
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up in fourth in that race. I went back at
the last minute on filing day and went back into
another city council seat, and that was Sheila Jackson Lee's seat,
which was considered the black seats. Actually the first seat
I was in was not the black seat. The second
seat was. But I had won all the black precincts.
I had raised more money than had ever been raised
in a city council race, and it was for a newcomer,
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and I just thought I was great, and you could
not talk me into not running. And so I believe,
and I had never failed at anything I had put
my mind to. I'd never failed anything I ever wanted
that I focused on. I went after. I mean, I'm
not saying I batted seven fifty baseball, but I whatever
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I put my mind to, I always did. So I
didn't believe I could fail, and I pretty much don't now.
But anyway, that can be a dangerous but necessary trait
for people running for office that the average person cannot understand.
You cannot understand that you are not a good judge
of You're not a good handicapper. You believe in yourself.
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And when people tell you not to do something, you
don't perceive it as they love me, they care about me,
they wish the best for me, they have good discernment.
You view it as I'll show you and you'll come around,
and you have to do that right. Tom Brady never
gave up on himself when nobody else believed in himself,
in him, Okay, but when Wesley got into the race
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and they're shot. And see, here's the thing, A lot
of people, if you study elections the way I do,
and you've been around them, and you've been in them,
and you've studied I watch a goofy I watch YouTube
channels more than one on elections, and you study how
John Ossoff won his race in Georgia. There was no
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way he was going to run that race to win
that race, No way, when you study how races are won.
A friend of mine ran the another cut race against
sitting Speaker of the House Tom Foley, the first time
Speaker of the House had been defeated in his own
congressional seat in like eighty years. It just never happens.
And Matt Bracy from Texas went up there and ran
that race and won you can win races that people
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think you can't win, and then when you win the race,
everybody says, yeah, well of course, I mean that's what
you know. You just know. You don't know that, you
don't know what will happen. So the question people would
ask was, well, why would he give up a congressional seat.
This is going to come as a shock, serve me
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in Congress is not very glamorous congressman. Get I saw
Ted Poe one time at the air work and he's
carrying his bags both hands, and he's not a young man.
And I didn't know but he was ill. I didn't
know this. He had a cancer, I believe, some condition.
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And he looked tired and he looked terrible. And I
always called him Judge, and I said, Judge, how are you?
He's Michael, I'm tired and beat. This is rough. And
he was flying back and forth because it was important
to him sleep in his bed in Houston and to
be in the district every week, which most people don't do.
So being a congressman, I think Wesley Hunt had figured
out was not something. He's not a guy that is
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going to hang around like a Tom Delay and just
work his way up and serve on committees and grind.
There are very few people who are going to do that.
AOC is not one of those people either. There are
very few people who are going to do that. Crenshaw
wasn't one of those people. You got to be a grinder,
you got to be patient, and Wesley wasn't that. So
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giving up one hundred and seventy four thousand dollars, which
is a lot of money, Wesley will make that in
the corporate world. If he lost, he could still win
because he was going to put on a good showing.
But if you asked me, did he believe he was
going to win? He believes he had a fighter's chance. Absolutely,
he did not run that race. Now, the one thing
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that I will assure you is he did not get
in that race as a spoiler. Did not He got
in the race to win. And I will tell you this,
and this is not a criticism of Trump. I will
tell you this. Both Paxton and Wesley believed that Trump
was going to endorse them, and they both whether they
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admitted or not. There's a lot of private conversations I've had,
and I wish I will put my credibility on the
line when I tell you, they both genuinely believed that
Trump was going to endorse one or the other of them,
and that it was going to happen early enough that
it could sway the race. They both believed that would
not have entered the race if he thought Trump would
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not endorse all the way till the very end. I
will tell you that with absolutely one hundred percent of
my credibility that I may or may not have with you,
but whatever eun's the credibility I have with you, trust me.
He got into that race believing. Now you could say
that was unreasonable for him to believe that you don't
know what he knew, and you don't know what I knew.
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So when he got into that race, he got into
that race to win. I will assure you that you
can be mad at a lot of things. You can
claim he's the reason for the run off. Theres this race,
and I want to talk about this race. This race
is a lot more complicated than people realize. I'd never
met Trump before he ran for president in twenty sixteen,
but I had studied his career closely. I knew most
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everything there was to know about him that was in
any way a bit of public information, and I believed
that he was running as a lark, as a way
to build his brand and enjoy the attention, because he
had done things like that before, in the same way
that William F. Buckley ran for mayor of New York
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or Teddy Roosevelt ran for mayor of New York. It
was kind of ego play, a vanity play. Nobody believed
that he could win. Nobody nobody believed he would last
till January, when Jeff Sessions came out and endorsed him.
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He was the first Senator to do so, which is
why he ended up as Attorney General and ended up
that that that appointment was what was a disaster that
unraveled for several years after if you remember Sessions stepping anyway,
let me not golfing that nobody believed Trump was serious,
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Nobody believed he would hang around all of those things.
When Bob Lanier ran for mayor in nineteen ninety one,
it was shocking because he'd been the Metro chairman, and
he'd been Kathy Whitmyer's Metro chairman. And when he announced
he was running, it was late summer, early fall, and
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he had what was a dream team at the time,
including Dave Walden, and he had some he had Mark Composts,
he had he had some of the really really sharp minds. Now,
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these these guys throw elbows, I know all of them.
But Lanier, Lanier recruited Sylvester into the race against Kathy
Whitmyer once he got him good and in there, so
he so Sylvester could pull the Black vote away. The
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whole time Lanier is plotting behind the scenes for Lanier
to get into that race. And Lanier is going to
get just to the right of Kathy. And when all
the Republican votes, well, how do you get the Republicans
to show up and vote In nineteen ninety one in
a Democrat primary for a guy who was Dick Gepart's
finance chairman. He went to Climber, right, who was a
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right wing activist, and he got Climber to get these
signatures to get a term limits bill put on the ballot.
Nothing gets the base fired up like term limits and
fear of gun control. Those are the issues that people
get really really fired up about. So he got Climber
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to get the Republicans to come out and vote on
that basis. When Lanier got in, I went to as
I always did. I went to the announcement and I
remember talking to a newspaper reporter. I was a student
by president of the University of Houston. I was a
nobody in town, but I went to every gathering where
politics was being talked about, and people were gracious to
let me sit there. I was twenty one years old,
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and it was a joke. Lanier was running for mayor.
This guy lived on River Oaks Boulevard. He had the
most prized rose collection. He was wealthy. He once said
to a reporter who came over to do an interview.
He was out in the back and nobody answered the door,
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or they answered door and said, oh, mister Lanier's out back.
So the reporter went out back and he was sitting
with his back to the reporter, with his boots on,
wealthy developer that he was. And the reporter said, mister Lanier,
what are you doing? And he said, I'm sitting out
here thinking what a rich mfor I am. And that
made its way with mfor as the initials end of
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the pack. This wasn't a guy who was running for real.
He was running for real, and he won and he
became a three term mayor. Why three terms because from
limits passed and it limited how long he could be
in uncity council. We'd go back to the terms. Wesley
believed that Trump would support him, and he had every
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right to believe that. He had every reasonable right to
believe that. If you remember, Wesley was being carried around
the country by Trump on his private plane. There are
multiple occasions where you will see Trump exit exit. Trump
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won when he's not president, but everybody knows he's going
to run for reelection, and right under his armpit is
Wesley Hunt. Every Republican in this country would like to
be in that position, but he had Wesley Hunt there.
He bragged on him. He made Trump does things for
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show when he wants you to know something, and he
made sure everybody saw him in Wesley Hunt. I'm not
trying to tell you Wesley Hunt is a saying or
you should like him. I just want you to understand
he did not get into that race as a spoiler.
Start with that's number one. Number two, I will tell
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you without disclosing. There are things I have to be
careful I don't disclose because when you burn your sources,
then you lose them, and that would affect my ability
to do my job. You can just take note that
Ken Paxton never once criticized Wesley Hunt. Never once, nor
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did Wesley Hunt ever criticize Ken Paxton. From the day
corn and from the day Hunt got into the race,
Cornan was trashing him. I mean very personal, very personal,
and as the Swamp does, just like the Democrat Party,
they have to have a black guy do it. So
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they had Tim Scott from South Carolina up there with
his mister bo Jangles thing. He does. I'm the black
guy here. What y'all need me to do? Y'all let
me in the room, because that's what he does. That's
the role he plays. He plays the token black guy.
He plays it to perfection. It's all he's useful for.
And he knows it. They know it, everybody knows it.
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And so they had to have the black guy from
d C, from the Swamp from the Senate attack Wesley Hunt.
In fact, they attacked him after the election. They they
issued a statement that this was a little vanity game
he played. They're going after him on a very personal level,
and I can assure you it's very personal for him.
If Paxton believed he was a plant, Paxton would have
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attacked him. Paxton's done nothing but say nice things about him. Right,
if he served a purpose for Cornan, then Cornan wouldn't
have attacked him. You could say, well, I'm three d
chessing it here, Michael. What if Cornyn was attacking him
to make it look legit? Cornyan was attacking him so
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badly that he was hurting him from day one? Right?
Did Wesley Hunt? Is Wesley Hunt the reason there was
a runoff? Maybe everybody thinks they know more than they do,
including me, But there are usually dimensions and layers to
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elections that people don't see because everyone lives in an
echo chamber. They think everybody thinks exactly the way they do,
and they see things only in one dimension. People are
more complicated than that. They're way more complicated than that.
I had a group of guys at my house a
couple of weeks ago, and I don't ever comment at
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times like this, I just want to listen. And somebody
said they pulled up to the election site to polling site,
and they voted. This was his life. I voted for
a girl because I saw her sign out in the
parking lot. And she was really cute, and you go, well,
that's shallow. That's people do it. People vote for your
name because it's Hispanic, because they're Hispanic, or against your
name because it's Hispanic. They vote for your name because
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it has an apostrophe and looks black, or they vote
against your name because it hasn't. Everybody does some number,
some percentage of every group does these sorts of things.
The Michael Barry Show, simple man. So, with regard to
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the Senate race, Wesley Hunt bears no blame for there
being a runoff. Let's start there before we get to
Wesley Hunt. Let's just look at this. More money was
spent on John Cornyn than has ever been spent on
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a primary candidate in American history. And you may say, well,
it doesn't matter because everybody hates him. A lot of
people vote in the first round. This is why those
of y'all, we all gotta get out and vote. Everybody
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needs to vote. Just vote, vote, vote, vote. I don't
believe that because you end up with a lot of
people who vote because of some civic duty idea. Let's
do that in November, where we go, everybody vote and
vote Republican. Okay, I don't care why you vote Republican.
I don't care if you recognize the names. I don't
care if you vote blindly. Just hit the R every time.
I don't care if you don't know what the comptroller
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does or the attorney general. Just go in and vote R.
I don't care if you're dead, alive, retarded, mute in
a coma. Just vote Republican. That's it. In November. But
in the primary, all of y'all are we all got?
Everybody need to vote. No, everybody doesn't need to vote
because you get a lot of people. You don't read
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my emails. Hey, Michael, I'm gonna go vote today. But
I still don't understand what's wrong with Corning. Don't you
not vote if you don't know what's wrong with Cornying? Well,
what do you think is? I don't know? I just
you know, apparently a lot of people don't like him. Okay, Well,
why do y'all want that guy to vote in the primary?
We want that guy to vote in November. I don't
want Hi voting in a primary. There are a lot
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of low information cocktail party Republicans. That's the people who
at the cocktail party or the event that the black
tie event. When it turns to politics, they go, I
tell what, these Democrats have gone crazy. I'm just I'm
worried about what's happening in our country. I'm gonna show
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up and vote. I voted in the primaries. You vot.
I voted in a partmenty. Well, yes, that's all voting
the primary. Well, that lady votes for Corning every damn time.
She votes for Corning because that's the name she knows.
She don't know who all these other people are. So
when you spend that kind of money and you drive
that kind of turnout, there was a whopping turnout. Do
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you know what that means? That means general election voters
turned out in the primary in the first round in
the primary. That means people that don't typically vote in
a primary, they wait till November. They voted in a primary.
Do you know who they vote for? Do you know why?
John Cornyn said two days ago that if he loses,
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it'll because the radicals. You know who the radicals are?
You tea Party America first, MAGA Trump supporter, that's what
you are. Constitutionalist. He knows he can't win you. He's
not trying to win you over that's why he didn't
attack Paxton, he attacked Hunt. He's trying to win over
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the people who just kind of want good government, not
real hardcore, not real doc trinal or orthodox in that sense.
Want to get the voters out. They want to get
a lot of voters out, and they did. They did
get the voters out, and that's why that's why he
did so well, that's the reason. And so it's also
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the case, well, two things are about to happen. I
wish we weren't out of time. Two things are about
to happen. Let's go back to twenty twelve. Cruz was
at two percent. Name I D not support name I D.
People laughed at me when I told him I was
supporting Ted Cruz because they didn't know who he was.
And David Dewhurst was going to win. Dewhurst was very
(29:38):
wealthy at the time. He's lost it now. He was
the lieutenant governor, which what dan Patrick is now. He
had given money to every Republican women's group across the
country over the years, so he knew he was going
to have them, or believed he was going to have them,
and he had been spending these all this money on
(30:00):
vanity ads for reelection when he didn't have a reelection,
just to build his name, and he had these great
he had cutting horses in Fredericksburg and so we had
these ads of him working his cutting horse. Good looking guy,
has up, real straight, got good hair, good skin, a
lot of work done, good posture on his horse, works
(30:22):
his horse well, beautiful horse, multimillion dollar horse, beautiful ranch
and you know, very impressive. So this guy can't be beat, right,
he led going into the runoff. People don't remember that
Cruz came from two percent name I day and we
were pounding that issue daily bam bam bam, and we
didn't have all the affiliates we do now. So we
(30:43):
had to win in Houston primarily. I think we were
in San Antonio then, but we had Houston in Southeast
Texas where we had to win big and did. And
by the way, they're both from Houston, so we had
to beat Dewhurst where he was from, which was Houston area.
But we had to win big because we didn't have
all the markets we do now. Anyway, did went to
runoff Cruse wins. It tells you a lot about Cruise's
(31:06):
view of our role in his campaign that when he
ran for president, he had me introduce him in Iowa,
and that introduction level went the powerful congressman from King
from Iowa, then Hannity, Sorry, then Levin, then Hannity, then
a video by Rush than me. That's how important he
(31:28):
viewed my role in twenty twelve and introduced him when
he won. Well, my role is just you. That's our tribe,
that's who we are. We win races when turnout is low.
We struggle in races when turnout as high. That's I
understand that. You should understand it, and you should understand why.
The reason is what we can't. Our biggest enemy is
(31:51):
low information Republicans, Republicans who wear the jersey. Let's beat
the Democrats. Republicans are bad, bad, bad bad. In a primary,
we want him in November. We don't want them to
vote in the primary. We don't want them in the primary. Now,
what happens now we go to the second round. Corning
people are in a panic. DC is in a panic. Now,
(32:14):
if it weren't the case that they own Corning and
that Paxson is so dangerous to them, they would throw
in the towel. Typically, they'd throw in the towel. Everybody
in politics knows this is a standard case. Corning can't
win the runoff, right, that's conventional wisdom. When an incumbent
of twenty four years who has over one hundred million
dollars spent on him, can't win in a general in
(32:36):
his own party, he can't win the runoff, and he
can't win in November. But that's not what they're gonna
do because they're scared to death of Paxton, because Paxton's
a flamethrower, and they've got to stop Paxton because they've
got to stop you, this burgeoning grassroots effort. They hate you,
so what are they gonna do. They're gonna hit you
where it hurts. They're gonna tell you past is weird.
(32:57):
They're gonna tell you he had an affair and that's
all that that's true. They'll probably drag his wife out.
They'll probably put someone in her back pocket. Now, I'm
not going to get into everything about his wife and
things she has said that would surprise you. I'm just
going to tell you I want a guy that's going
to go to Washington, d C. And do what I
(33:18):
want him to do, and Ken Paxton will do that.
In the meantime, they're going to have to have you
convinced that Ken Paxton's coming into your bedroom to have
sex with your son or daughter, or steal your dog
or still your favorite pen, or kill your parents. They
have to because they can't run on Corner's records. You're
about to watch the nastiest campaign you have seen in
Texas history. Mark my words on this. I'm telling you
(33:40):
before it happens. So when you hear the news story, Hey,
did you hear that Ken Paxton fill in the blank,
You're already prepared. I'm telling you it's coming. They are
going to assassinate figuratively. I hope only Ken Paxton's character
because they know they're going to lose, because if they
don't do that, they're definitely gonna lose. And they have
(34:00):
too much. They don't they don't just want a Republican
to come up there and and beat the Democrat in November.
They're gonna tell you Paxton can't win, because that that's
one of those things they'll get in your head. This
thing is about to get real nasty, real nasty, and
beating Cornying is my number one priority.
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