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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load. Michael
vari Show is on the air because actor dawn.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On October seventh, these Hamas militants wearing body cameras, took
off from Gaza on motorcycles loaded with weapons. Their target
the small Israeli community of Sufa, home to around fifty families.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
What people are starting to see, at least in the
occupation of Palestine is just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
The shocking events of early on Saturday morning. You can
see people.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Dancing at the no the music festival with no inkling
of the horror that's about to unfold.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Two weeks ago or so, we celebrated or just it
took a moment I think in our country to remember
the Holocaust, and there's, you know, there's a kind of
a calming feeling. I always tell folks when I think
of the Holocaust and a tragy of Holocaust.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
And while Israel's military is not releasing the clips because
they're so graphic, they allowed us to describe what we saw,
including a terrorist throwing a grenade into a bomb shelter
where an Israeli father is shielding his two young sons.
The blast kills the father and wounds the little boys.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
One of them.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Howls, why am I alive and tells his brother, I
think we're going to die. A Hamas gunman stands over them,
drinking coke from their fridge. It's not clear what happens
to the boys.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
You said that Israel hypnotized the world. You said Israel
is an apartheid regime, that politicians with pro Israel stancer
stances were all about the Benjamins, which you very notably
apologized for. That you support the BDS movement, which a
lot of people think is rooted in anti Semitism.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Compared the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
I want to give you a chance to respond to
all of that, which they say is a clear path.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
I might have Nunis at the time that I didn't
understand word trafficking in antism equism.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
October seventh.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
A date that every Israeli will remember for the rest
of their lives. Those are date that's set off a
series of conflicts in the region that the United States
that has taken a lot a lot of energy and
resources from the United States. Whether one approves of those
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or not. President Trump has brought to bear a great
deal of capital to bring that to an end. The
Canadian Prime Minister visiting the White House today. It's a
very very odd relationship with our second largest trading partner.
Donald Trump is not out to make friends. He's out
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to make a difference. And in order to get other
people to do what you want, often at the expense
of their own popularity or pride in their own market,
you have to play hardball. And he is not afraid
to do that, and that is exactly what I want
to see from him. We have been talking yesterday on
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last Evening Show about the Senate race in the state
of Texas, and I made the point that what we're
seeing in Texas with the longtime senator, four term Senator
John Cornyn, who's a swamp rap, who has worked against Trump,
who last year called for the Republican Party to move
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on past Trump and not have Trump as the nominee,
and now he's running for reelection on the Donald Trump
and I we're the best of friends. And it's downright offensive.
And it's also a little bit scary because if enough
money can be poured into that ad, you worry, can
we get to every person and explain to every person
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that this is all lies, because many people don't believe
that they could be lied to to this extent, to
this degree, certainly not from someone who is a supposed Republican,
and that's very frustrating.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So we're going to talk today about.
Speaker 9 (04:20):
The Senate seat in Texas, but also how that relates
to other states. You've got a case in Louisiana where
you've got Bill Cassidy who is apparently, for all intents
and purposes, John Wayne mccornyn. We call John Cornyn John
Wayne mccornyn if you're new to the show, because every
six years, John Wayne mccornyn or John Cornyn transforms into
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John Wayne mccornyn.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I'm just like you. I do things just like you.
I live near you, I walk my dog near you.
I grocerate the same place as you do. I'm just
like you. You see flag pin right here.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
I love America everything you love, and I don't like
everything you don't like, and whatever that is, just let
me know and I'll tell you, because it's not true anyway.
And he transforms into the everyman, and we find that
to be very very offensive. On today's program, we will
talk for the next three segments with Wesley Hunt, who
is currently a United States Congressman representing the thirty eighth
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Congressional district, which is on the north side of Houston,
a district that was arguably created for him. He has
been endorsed by Donald Trump in the past and has
a great relationship personal relationship with Trump, and he is
challenging the US Senator John Corny, who's up for reelection,
and the attorney general who also has a great relationship
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with Donald Trump, and that is Ken Paxton, and Paxton
is perceived as a Trump in Texas as the attorney General.
This is a very interesting race, and a number of
people immediately perceived that Wesley Hunt jumping into the race
is hurt Ken Paxton and Paxton was the anti Cornyn,
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But in fact I don't think that's what's going to happen.
I think that Hunt is going to draw votes away
from the incumbent John Cornyn, and I think that will
eventually anew here to the benefit of Ken Paxton. But
we shall see. It's a six month election. Our primary
is March third in Texas. But a number of you
are going through cases like this where you've got an
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incumbent who is serving as a Republican, but he's not
doing the job of representing you. He's voting to impeach Trump, which,
as I understand, I haven't checked yet. I'd understood that
Cassidy had voted to impeach Trump, I believe the second time.
I don't know that that's true, but a number of
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folks told me that it was. But with that in mind,
we have some fun with our John Wayne mccornyn ads
as he tries to be someone he's not.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And here's a new one.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
John Wayne mccornyn one of us, just a regular guy.
He's not some DC elite that just rolls into Texas
to campaign. He'll know he's got a house in a
normal subdivision that he picks because that had good schools,
and that three bedroom, two bath house has a wreath
on its front door.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
That says it's fall y'all just like you.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
And John Wayne mccornyan is more than a husband and father.
He's also an uncle. He's the most unkly uncle ever.
When the nieces and nephews were little, they called him
Uncle thunder Fart because his three most famous words were
pull my finger and as they grew Uncle thunder Fart
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turned into the cool uncle.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
In high school.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
Who do you think the nephews went to to buy
a case of Keystone Light? If you guessed John Wayne mccornyan,
you guessed right. So vote for someone just like you.
Vote for Uncle thunder Fart. Vote for John Wayne mccornan.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
And the information that I get from the show that
I don't seem to get from other places.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
The Michael Barry Shows Hunters.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I guess welcome pro Nunderson.
Speaker 12 (08:32):
What are you doing? Michael?
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Thank you for having me on, brother Sir, I'm going
to give you two minutes to give your bio and
then let's get into the questions. Why don't you take
two minutes if someone doesn't know who you are to
tell us well.
Speaker 13 (08:46):
Michael, thank you so much again for having me on.
Brother really appreciate it. My name is Wesley Hunt. I'm
running for United States Senate here in the Great State
of Texas.
Speaker 12 (08:54):
I'm a Texan, I'm born and raised here. I was
born here.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
My three children, my six, four and two year old,
were all born here. And by God, I'm going to
die in the Great State of Texas, and it's my
job to leave this place better than I found it.
I come from a military family. My dad's a retired
lieutenant colonel in the Army. My sister is a west
Point grad class of ninety three. I'm a west Point grad.
My brother is also a west Point grad. There are
sixty years worth of military service.
Speaker 12 (09:19):
Just in my immediate family, and I am most proud
of that because we are.
Speaker 13 (09:22):
The family that decided to raise our hands in de
fin this country against all enemies, both foreign and domestic,
and yet got to have a pretty conservative home in
order to do that, to have three west Pointers in
one house, and those conservative values are exactly what I
want to bring to the halls of the Senate. I've
had the honor of serving in the thirty eighth Congressional
district here in Houston, Texas. The area that I was
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born and raised in the northern part of my district
is Spring and Kline.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
The southern part of my district is Saint.
Speaker 13 (09:48):
John's High School, where I attended, and God had a
plan in my life that that would be the district
that I have the honor of representing. It is a
white majority district. It is the district that President Trump
would have one by twenty points, and I won by
twenty seven points. And the fine people of Houston put
me in office as a conservative because they are not
judging me, not by the color of my skin, by
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the content of my character. And that is Texas, and
I want to bring Texas to DC, not the other
way around. We need strong conservative leadership that's willing to
stand by President Trump. And as the first person in
the country to endorse President Trump, I have stood by him.
I have campaigned with him. I have never waivered, I
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have never faltered. And that is the kind of leadership
that I intend to bring when I'm red next.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Senator Conors Fan Wesley Hunt is our guest.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
If I were upholster looking at this race and two
way race between the twenty four year four term US
Senator John Cornyn and the challenger, the Attorney General Ken Passion,
that was already going to be a battle. Let's say
hypothetically that race was fifty to fifty the day before
you got in. Who loses more, who spent a more
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sleepless night last night in Passion or John Cornyn?
Speaker 13 (11:06):
Well, given the reaction of of John Cornyn, given the
reaction of the DC swamp, given the reaction of.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
The nrsc attacking me.
Speaker 13 (11:14):
They clearly view me as an outsider, and they clearly
view me as somebody who was truly a conservative warrior
that is not going to bend to the will.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
Of the swamp.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
So obviously the corner camp is very upset because again
they called this for me a quote unquote vanity project.
They said that Westley Hunt is a legend in his
own mind, and this is somebody that spent time in
and a patche helicopter getting shot at for a living
for eight years. This is a West Point grad that's
wanting to defend this country and put his life on
the line. And they have the audacity to call this
a vanity project or to say.
Speaker 12 (11:46):
That I am a legend in my own mind.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
I'm in my early forties, I'm given the best years
of my life to this great nation.
Speaker 12 (11:52):
This is not a vanity project. This is about.
Speaker 13 (11:54):
Defending Texas, defending her values and actually getting a conservative
in the Hall of the Senate, and we have not
had that for twenty plus years.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I agree.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
And a number of Paxton folks reach out yesterday and
they were angry with you that you were a cornyan
plant or in some way or another hurt Paxton, and
I said, I disagree with that. I think this is
bad news for John Cornyn. I think your entry into
the race. It's a long race six months. Minds will change,
votes will change. But I think this is a much
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bigger blow to John Cornyan than it is for Ken Paxton.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Why run against the incumbent.
Speaker 13 (12:36):
Because it's very, very simple. This is a man that
a couple of years ago said that it was time
to move on from President Trump. He didn't endorse President
Trump until after President Trump got shot, and at that
point it was in.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
Vogue for him to do so.
Speaker 13 (12:49):
I want you to know that I was the first
person in the country look it up to endorse President
Trump when he ran in this last round. John Cornyn
offered gun control legislation with car and already and was
praised by Joe Biden in the Rose Garden for his
efforts to restrict our Second Amendment rights.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
That's absurd.
Speaker 13 (13:09):
John Cornyn is responsible for saying that the border wall
is artane, that the border wall is basically stupid, and
that we don't need it. This guy has a fifty
four percent liberty score. Jux supposed to me and Senator
cruizes ninety nine percent liberty score. I'm one of the
most conservative congressmen in the entire state of Texas. And again,
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this is where the party is. This is an America First,
Trump led party. I have been there from day one,
and those are the differences that you're going to see
between me and John Cornyn.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
Look at the end of the day, this is about policy.
Speaker 13 (13:45):
This is not about a blood feud between John Cornyn
and Ken Paxton. This is about giving the people of
Texas an alternative to vote for someone who is going
to put Texas first. I'm going to talk about the issues.
I'm going to talk about the border. I'm going to
talk about the importance of the oil and gas industry.
I'm going to talk about keeping you safe. I'm not
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going to talk about people's personal lives. I want to
stick to the fact and stick to what Texans want
to see and they're representative.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Not a blood feud. That's exactly what this is about.
That's why I gotten this race.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Brother Congress from Wesley Hunt is our guest. There was rumors,
I don't know where they begin, that President Trump that
you had hoped President Trump would endorse you, that would
be the moment you entered the race.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Obviously there's no love loss.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Between him and John Wayne mccornyan, but he has supported
Ken Paxton in a big way in the past.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Do you think Donald Trump will endorse you in this race?
Speaker 13 (14:45):
President Trump has supported Ken Paxton and myself keeping my
President Trump has endorsed has endorsed me the last three
times that I have run.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
For a public office. And so again the.
Speaker 13 (14:55):
President has chosen to stay out of this race for now.
He has not mad promises to me. I don't know
how that rumor started, and I understand that I'm relatively
close to the President. I had the opportunity to fly
with him on Air Force One a couple of months ago.
I campaigned all over the country with him. I went
to Iowa a leven times on his behalf, flew with
him to Chicago, to Nevada, to Coachella, to Pennsylvania on
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the campaign trail. And it was my honor to do
just that to get what I see is probably the
greatest president that we have seen in my lifetime into office.
But again, we're not banking on President Trump's endorsement. No
one should be, because he hasn't endorsed anyone in this race.
Of course, we all want President Trump's endorsement because it
weighs very, very heavy in a race like this. But
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let me tell you something, brother, I want to earn
his endorsement. I want to do the work.
Speaker 12 (15:45):
And should he choose.
Speaker 13 (15:46):
To endorse someone in this race, I want him to
pick the best person. And if he does not choose
to endorse someone in this race, I still want the Texas.
I still want the Texans to choose the best person
to represent them in the hall, in the halls.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
Of the Senate. And I'll end with this.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
The United States Senate is not a retirement community. This
is not a place where where this constitutional Republic goes
to die. This is a place that young men need
to step up right now for their country. Give your
best years to this country, to make this country a
better place for our children and our children's children. That's
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what this is about. It's not about me being a
career politician. I've got a six, four and two year old.
It's time to understand that we cannot have these career
politicians that have sold us out for decades.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
For just a moment.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
Congressman Wesley Hunt is our guest we'll continue our conversation
with him coming up. Congressman Wesley Hunt entered the US
Senate race.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
To represent Texas yesterday.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Challenging the incumbent John Cornyn and his top challenger Ken
Paston making this away race. Wesley Hunt, let's start with
I don't know, six months ago or so, I started
seeing spots popping up that said, Wesley Hunt's a great guy,
he's a patriot, he's a congressman.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
He fights for his country.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
And I said, he's running for a statewide seat because
you don't spend that kind of money. I think the
estimate is six and a half million. You can tell
me Cornying, of course, spending four times that during the
same period of time, because he's got a lot of
DC money. What has been the result of that spend
across the state? You represent one thirty eighth of the state,
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so it's a big state. You got a lot of
new hands to shake.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
Of course, thank you for asking that. That's why we
started this project a while back ago, because we saw.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
That that John Corner was in trouble.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
He was losing mightily in this primary to return General Paxton,
and we realized that the biggest issue for United States
congressman or run state side is the state wide is
the fact that you know, we don't have you big
with his name ID.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
I have not been on a state wide ballot.
Speaker 13 (18:02):
So we started raising money and started running ads throughout
the retirecity of Texas to get our name ID up.
And that's exactly what's made us very competitive in this race.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
And I have the pulling to prove it.
Speaker 13 (18:14):
I'm I'll also point out you're right, John Cornet has
spent over twenty million dollars. Over twenty million dollars, Michael,
twenty million dollars is nineteen million dollars more than one
million dollars.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
That's a lot of scratch.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
And you're spending that money a month before the filing
deadline in the summer. That's how you know that you're
in trouble. And guess what, you're still not winning the race.
This man should be in the sixties or seventies as
a twenty four year incumbent, but instead he is still
trailing impacts after spending twenty million dollars. We have spent
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six million dollars a fraction of that over a very
long period of time, through a lot of hard work, grit,
determination to get our name ID to where it is,
to make us competitive, and imagine if you continue that
work moving forward. And that's why I say this is
the young man's game. You have to work for this,
you have.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
To earn it.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
You have to get up every single day and work
your tail off. You have to have grit and tenacity,
and that's how we got here in the first place.
I don't want it to be given to us. I
don't want.
Speaker 12 (19:19):
DC to pick Texas leadership.
Speaker 13 (19:21):
I want the people of Texas to pick Texas leadership.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Come and take it. Is one of my mottos. Don't
mess with Texas, that's my second motto.
Speaker 13 (19:31):
And right now DC is trying to mess with Texas
by pushing Don Cornyan and shoehorning him into this role.
And what I have seen, the people of Texas don't
want it, and this is why we are giving them
another option.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Twenty twenty, you ran against Lizzie Fletcher in the old
seventh congressional district that George H. W. Bush once held,
and then of course Archer and then Culberson in a
close race.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
You lost.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
People feel the thirty eighth Congressional district was created for you.
They were folks that really wanted to send you to
Congress the newest district.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You won that handily.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
One of the questions you'll get on the stump, and
you know it, is why leave a safe seat that
then has to be picked up by somebody else to
enter this race?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Why not season a while? Why not build some time?
Speaker 12 (20:25):
Michael?
Speaker 13 (20:25):
The time is now for young leadership to step up
and brother, as you know.
Speaker 12 (20:29):
Scared money, don't make no money.
Speaker 13 (20:32):
Our current vice president is forty one years old. Our
secretary of State is in his early fifties. Our secretary
of War is forty five years old. He in mind,
our founding fathers were in their twenties and thirties when
they changed the entiroscope of this whole world by creating
this great nation. The idea is not being complacent. The
idea is moving. When you are called by God and
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the people of Texas to do the right thing. Am
I taking a risk? Of course, I'm taking a risk.
Life is about taking a risk.
Speaker 12 (21:01):
I tell you what.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
When I'm founding fathers founded this country, they took a
massive risk, even if it took their lives in order
to create this constitutional republic. So again, this is not
about what's convenient for me. It would be very easy
for me to sit here and run and be a
slow preacher for the next ten twenty thirty years in
this seat. But my job is not to stay here forever.
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My job is to term it to myself, stow up
through the best I can, and then leave this place
better I better than I found it, and then hand
it off to the next person.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Brother, I'm a Wwe god. Growing up, I.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
Used to love stone Cold Steve Austin, and he had
a shirt that said stow up, raintel leave. That has
got to be our mandate in order to save this republic.
So again, this is not about me being inconvenient. This
is not about me sitting back and making the easy play.
This is about giving the people of Texas the best
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often to represent them, to continue to carry the America
First banner, not just for the next six years, but
the ones after this. And by the way, if John
Corner were to get re elected, I understand he's taking
pictures in front of Trump Burger and find his best
and cozy up to the president. But at the end
of the day, if you were to get re elected,
he would then after President Trump is gone. We revert
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right back to that fifty four percent liberty score, and
we can't have that in Texas.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Should I take it personally? You went on Will Kane's
show last night before mine.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
And I want everybody to listen to something you talk
about that Lizzie Fletcher race. I want every listener to
understand this. Michael Barry is the first person that called
me after that race and got me up, and you
treated me to a burger and a beer. And you
are a large part of the reason why I'm here
today because you said there's going to be an opportunity
for you in the future. Don't get down, stay in
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the fight. So of course you can't be offended. I
happen to be in Dallas, Michael and I have a day.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
You know I love you. You know I love you.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
This is a big state. It's hard to campaign statewide.
You're the only of the three who has not had
to be on the ballot. You've only been an elected
office for four years. I think that Bill Maher. I
think probably nothing did more or your platform building than
the Bill Maher appearance. Oddly enough, but that made its
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way around.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It was viral.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I think it came off very strong. What do you
estimate the budget of what you have to raise statewide
to win this race? Because it is tough to run
statewide in Texas.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
You know, we have an idea what that number is.
But my answer toute to your question is, Michael, whatever
it takes, whatever it takes, we have a number, We
have an idea. If it takes less than that, great,
If it takes more than that, we're going to accomplish
the goal. We're going to accomplish the mission. I view
this as a deployment, and I'm somebody that's been deployed.
I've been shot at fifty five their emissions in Apache.
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If I can do that, the least I could do
is travel statewide and work my tail off to earn
not given, to earn the vote of my fellow Texas
to represent them.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
In fact, this is going to be a fun ride.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
I cannot wait to travel my great stake and to
make this pitch to those people that really want to
see a young freedom fighter, regardless of your race, religion,
color of creed, a combat veteran and America First patriot.
A conservative soubiety that actually believes in the values that
Texas has been founded on and what we must continue
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for the future. Again, this is the state of Named
Bowie and David Krock and Sam Houston. We need dudes
like that, and so whatever it takes for us to get.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
This job done, We're going to do it.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Carsman Wesley Hunt is our guest. Can you hold with
me for one more segment?
Speaker 12 (24:56):
I'm most certainly cam brother.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I'm going to ask you, you know, look, when you
when you run in.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
A race like this, you run against names that are
very well established connections that are in many cases long standing.
For you to win, you have to pro loose voters.
I'm just going to give you an opportunity to talk
about how you do that, because it's always a race
against someone when you're a challenger like that.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Congressman Wesley Hunt coming up.
Speaker 12 (25:25):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Leslie Hunt is our guest. Congressman. Let's talk about.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Areas where you and John Cornyan, the current incumbent, are
different because at the end of the day, nothing else matters.
What would it look like, how would it be different
if you were the United States Senator from Texas instead
of John Cornyn.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
Well, well, the first is the legislation that I would
pass is to repeal the gun legislation that he wrote
with Colin all Right, as I said earlier that he
was praised for by Joe Biden and the Rose Garden
a couple of years ago. Again, that Second Amendment, our
first and second Amendment rights specifically a second member rights
shall not be infringed. And as you a senator, I
will repeal that immediately.
Speaker 12 (26:18):
I'll also tell you.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
This, Like I said, I was the first person in
the country to endorse President Trump during this last run.
And John Corny sat on the sideline and actually at
a rally watched me speak before the president while he
sat in the front row in the battle. Because I
was very supportive of him from day one. We have
not seen that from John Cornyn. I'll also say this,
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my liberty score will not be fifty four percent. And
you could talk about but what President Trump nine to
nine percent of the time all you want. It's not
about what President Trump is around, because I know you're
scared of him and you're going to do whatever he
tells you to do.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
This is need a support At this point.
Speaker 13 (26:56):
I am talking about what are you going to do
when President Trump is no longer the president in two years,
are you going to cowtow to the left and to
the swamp or are you going to continue to represent
Texas as Senator Cruz has done for the past decade
or so. So again, this is going to be very
start differences in the way that we approach this. And
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again I told this before, brother, the United States Senate
is not a retirement community. By the time I get
to his age, I am going to be taking care
of my grandchildren and I'm want to leave this behind
for somebody else. That's what Texans want. That's what I
hear on the trail. That is the reason why I
got in this race.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
You know, it's frightening to think we have a Republican
majority and we're needing jd Vance to break ties because
McConnell goes from being the majority leader to out of
power and voting with the Democrats. You've got Murkowski and
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Collins who are now reliably Democrat, meaning that the President's
having a very difficult time passing his judge uh his
agenda for which he has a big, big mandate, And
I think most Americans find that very frustrating.
Speaker 13 (28:16):
And it will be even more frustrated because if it
was not an election year, John Cordon would be voting.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
Right with him. And this is what President Trump has
truth about this guy for years. He has not been
with the America First agenda. Ever, the only reason why
it's not Tillis and Murkowski.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
And McConnell and Connell and Corton because he's been with
them for the past few decades, is because he's realized
he has a problem in this primary. And then now
he has to cot house and cosplay as if he
is a model warrior.
Speaker 12 (28:54):
But we all know better.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
And thank god for the social media era, and thank
god for people like you. And the picture that you
posted yesterday of me Ken Patson and running against John
McCain could not have been more perfect. You nailed it, brother,
you nailed it. And that is exactly where its representative
of this primary voter.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
I do not want.
Speaker 13 (29:18):
Jd Vance to be the tie breaking vote over the
course of the next few years in the second half
of President Trump's presidency. I want him to be able
to operate autonomously.
Speaker 12 (29:29):
And know that he has the back of the Senate.
Speaker 13 (29:31):
We're going to continue to keep the House, We're going
to have the presidency and then God willingly elect jd
Vance have another four year run. That's the whole point
of this construct. And let me tell you some brother,
you are not going to have to worry about my
vote aligning with the value of Texas.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Carson Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Obviously, when you enter a race, as I said, folks
may have already been with John Corny's been around for
twenty four years. They're going to ask you questions. I've
tried to lay those questions out. I'm going to give
you all the time you want for the rest of
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this segment to answer any question that might be lingering.
I think it's better to address those upfront because you
don't always get a chance to do that, and whisper
campaigns can be a rough thing. So I'm going to
give you the remaining three and a half minutes to
say whatever you'd like to say to address folks in
This will be the first the last conversation we have
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before the election. But as you introduce yourself to some
and remind others who you are and why you're running,
it is yours.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Take it away.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
One thing that I've watched it I've heard John Corny
attacking me on is miss votes in my voting record,
and I kind of want to explain that I've missed
some votes because when I first got into office, if
you recall, my little boy was in the nick you
when he was born. During my first year, when I
was in Congress, I was flying back and forth for
the first for the for the first few months, and.
Speaker 12 (31:07):
Thank god, he had made it. He made it, and
he is striving and doing well. Last year, the last
two years.
Speaker 13 (31:13):
Actually, I've traveled a lot with the president to ensure.
Speaker 12 (31:15):
That we got him elected. Uh, and so I missed
some votes because.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Of that as well, campaigning with the president.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
It's something that I am very proud of.
Speaker 13 (31:23):
But again, I think the people of Texas and the
primary voter is less concerned with the votes that I
missed and more concerned with the votes that I have taken.
John Cornyn has not seen a Ukrainian bill that he
didn't love. I have never voted to support more Ukraine aid.
I have back to president again from day one. Again,
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My liberty store is ninety nine percent. These are the
kinds of issues that the people want to hear and
that they want to see. It ain't about miss votes.
It's about the votes that should take and so they
can attack me on that all day. I'm ready lease
bring it on. But again, the whole point is putting
the values of Texas first. I said in the beginning,
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and I'll tell you again, this race is not about
a blood feud between Ken Paxton and John Corny. This
race is about the people of Texas and understanding what
our priorities are and having good, strong conservative leadership in
a state the President Trump just won last year by
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over fifteen points. That is exactly what we want to see.
We want to see a Trump plus fifteen type of
leader and the halls of the Senate and that ain't
John Corny.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Well, I will say this, thank you for making yourself available,
thanks for answering our questions. I will say this that
John Cornyn sitting on a pile of cash. He's sitting
on some big resources from the DC swamp. He's got
twenty four years to have built his name. It's hard
to dislodge an incumbent. I think our state and our
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country needs that. I hope that you will keep your
artillery very very carefully aimed at the primary charge, which
is getting him out of office before the other of
you two battle and that seems to be the case
with your entry. It's Cornyn who's come out very very
ugly against you, which means that he is very scared.
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Wesley Hunt, thank you, my man, appreciate you.
Speaker 12 (33:28):
Thank you. Brother. God bless you, Michael, thank you, have
a great day. Brother. Thank you.
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and Load. Michael
vari Show is on the air because actor dawn.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
On October seventh, these Hamas militants wearing body cameras, took
off from Gaza on motorcycles loaded with weapons. Their target
the small Israeli community of Sufa, home to around fifty families.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
What people are starting to see, at least in the
occupation of Palestine is just an increasing crisis of humanitarian condition.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
The shocking events of early on Saturday morning. You can
see people.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Dancing at the no the music festival with no inkling
of the horror that's about to unfold.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Two weeks ago or so, we celebrated or just it
took a moment I think in our country to remember
the Holocaust, and there's, you know, there's a kind of
a calming feeling. I always tell folks when I think
of the Holocaust and a tragy of Holocaust.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
And while Israel's military is not releasing the clips because
they're so graphic, they allowed us to describe what we saw,
including a terrorist throwing a grenade into a bomb shelter
where an Israeli father is shielding his two young sons.
The blast kills the father and wounds the little boys.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
One of them.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Howls, why am I alive and tells his brother, I
think we're going to die. A Hamas gunman stands over them,
drinking coke from their fridge. It's not clear what happens
to the boys.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
You said that Israel hypnotized the world. You said Israel
is an apartheid regime, that politicians with pro Israel stancer
stances were all about the Benjamins, which you very notably
apologized for. That you support the BDS movement, which a
lot of people think is rooted in anti Semitism.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Compared the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
I want to give you a chance to respond to
all of that, which they say is a clear path.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
I might have Nunis at the time that I didn't
understand word trafficking in antism equism.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
October seventh.
Speaker 9 (02:14):
A date that every Israeli will remember for the rest
of their lives. Those are date that's set off a
series of conflicts in the region that the United States
that has taken a lot a lot of energy and
resources from the United States. Whether one approves of those
(02:36):
or not. President Trump has brought to bear a great
deal of capital to bring that to an end. The
Canadian Prime Minister visiting the White House today. It's a
very very odd relationship with our second largest trading partner.
Donald Trump is not out to make friends. He's out
(02:56):
to make a difference. And in order to get other
people to do what you want, often at the expense
of their own popularity or pride in their own market,
you have to play hardball. And he is not afraid
to do that, and that is exactly what I want
to see from him. We have been talking yesterday on
(03:21):
last Evening Show about the Senate race in the state
of Texas, and I made the point that what we're
seeing in Texas with the longtime senator, four term Senator
John Cornyn, who's a swamp rap, who has worked against Trump,
who last year called for the Republican Party to move
(03:41):
on past Trump and not have Trump as the nominee,
and now he's running for reelection on the Donald Trump
and I we're the best of friends. And it's downright offensive.
And it's also a little bit scary because if enough
money can be poured into that ad, you worry, can
we get to every person and explain to every person
(04:03):
that this is all lies, because many people don't believe
that they could be lied to to this extent, to
this degree, certainly not from someone who is a supposed Republican,
and that's very frustrating.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So we're going to talk today about.
Speaker 9 (04:20):
The Senate seat in Texas, but also how that relates
to other states. You've got a case in Louisiana where
you've got Bill Cassidy who is apparently, for all intents
and purposes, John Wayne mccornyn. We call John Cornyn John
Wayne mccornyn if you're new to the show, because every
six years, John Wayne mccornyn or John Cornyn transforms into
(04:45):
John Wayne mccornyn.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I'm just like you. I do things just like you.
I live near you, I walk my dog near you.
I grocerate the same place as you do. I'm just
like you. You see flag pin right here.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
I love America everything you love, and I don't like
everything you don't like, and whatever that is, just let
me know and I'll tell you, because it's not true anyway.
And he transforms into the everyman, and we find that
to be very very offensive. On today's program, we will
talk for the next three segments with Wesley Hunt, who
is currently a United States Congressman representing the thirty eighth
(05:20):
Congressional district, which is on the north side of Houston,
a district that was arguably created for him. He has
been endorsed by Donald Trump in the past and has
a great relationship personal relationship with Trump, and he is
challenging the US Senator John Corny, who's up for reelection,
and the attorney general who also has a great relationship
(05:43):
with Donald Trump, and that is Ken Paxton, and Paxton
is perceived as a Trump in Texas as the attorney General.
This is a very interesting race, and a number of
people immediately perceived that Wesley Hunt jumping into the race
is hurt Ken Paxton and Paxton was the anti Cornyn,
(06:06):
But in fact I don't think that's what's going to happen.
I think that Hunt is going to draw votes away
from the incumbent John Cornyn, and I think that will
eventually anew here to the benefit of Ken Paxton. But
we shall see. It's a six month election. Our primary
is March third in Texas. But a number of you
are going through cases like this where you've got an
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incumbent who is serving as a Republican, but he's not
doing the job of representing you. He's voting to impeach Trump, which,
as I understand, I haven't checked yet. I'd understood that
Cassidy had voted to impeach Trump, I believe the second time.
I don't know that that's true, but a number of
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folks told me that it was. But with that in mind,
we have some fun with our John Wayne mccornyn ads
as he tries to be someone he's not.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And here's a new one.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
John Wayne mccornyn one of us, just a regular guy.
He's not some DC elite that just rolls into Texas
to campaign. He'll know he's got a house in a
normal subdivision that he picks because that had good schools,
and that three bedroom, two bath house has a wreath
on its front door.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
That says it's fall y'all just like you.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
And John Wayne mccornyan is more than a husband and father.
He's also an uncle. He's the most unkly uncle ever.
When the nieces and nephews were little, they called him
Uncle thunder Fart because his three most famous words were
pull my finger and as they grew Uncle thunder Fart
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turned into the cool uncle.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
In high school.
Speaker 10 (07:52):
Who do you think the nephews went to to buy
a case of Keystone Light? If you guessed John Wayne mccornyan,
you guessed right. So vote for someone just like you.
Vote for Uncle thunder Fart. Vote for John Wayne mccornan.
Speaker 11 (08:14):
And the information that I get from the show that
I don't seem to get from other places.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
The Michael Barry Shows Hunters.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I guess welcome pro Nunderson.
Speaker 12 (08:32):
What are you doing? Michael?
Speaker 9 (08:34):
Thank you for having me on, brother Sir, I'm going
to give you two minutes to give your bio and
then let's get into the questions. Why don't you take
two minutes if someone doesn't know who you are to
tell us well.
Speaker 13 (08:46):
Michael, thank you so much again for having me on.
Brother really appreciate it. My name is Wesley Hunt. I'm
running for United States Senate here in the Great State
of Texas.
Speaker 12 (08:54):
I'm a Texan, I'm born and raised here. I was
born here.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
My three children, my six, four and two year old,
were all born here. And by God, I'm going to
die in the Great State of Texas, and it's my
job to leave this place better than I found it.
I come from a military family. My dad's a retired
lieutenant colonel in the Army. My sister is a west
Point grad class of ninety three. I'm a west Point grad.
My brother is also a west Point grad. There are
sixty years worth of military service.
Speaker 12 (09:19):
Just in my immediate family, and I am most proud
of that because we are.
Speaker 13 (09:22):
The family that decided to raise our hands in de
fin this country against all enemies, both foreign and domestic,
and yet got to have a pretty conservative home in
order to do that, to have three west Pointers in
one house, and those conservative values are exactly what I
want to bring to the halls of the Senate. I've
had the honor of serving in the thirty eighth Congressional
district here in Houston, Texas. The area that I was
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born and raised in the northern part of my district
is Spring and Kline.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
The southern part of my district is Saint.
Speaker 13 (09:48):
John's High School, where I attended, and God had a
plan in my life that that would be the district
that I have the honor of representing. It is a
white majority district. It is the district that President Trump
would have one by twenty points, and I won by
twenty seven points. And the fine people of Houston put
me in office as a conservative because they are not
judging me, not by the color of my skin, by
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the content of my character. And that is Texas, and
I want to bring Texas to DC, not the other
way around. We need strong conservative leadership that's willing to
stand by President Trump. And as the first person in
the country to endorse President Trump, I have stood by him.
I have campaigned with him. I have never waivered, I
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have never faltered. And that is the kind of leadership
that I intend to bring when I'm red next.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Senator Conors Fan Wesley Hunt is our guest.
Speaker 9 (10:38):
If I were upholster looking at this race and two
way race between the twenty four year four term US
Senator John Cornyn and the challenger, the Attorney General Ken Passion,
that was already going to be a battle. Let's say
hypothetically that race was fifty to fifty the day before
you got in. Who loses more, who spent a more
(11:01):
sleepless night last night in Passion or John Cornyn?
Speaker 13 (11:06):
Well, given the reaction of of John Cornyn, given the
reaction of the DC swamp, given the reaction of.
Speaker 12 (11:12):
The nrsc attacking me.
Speaker 13 (11:14):
They clearly view me as an outsider, and they clearly
view me as somebody who was truly a conservative warrior
that is not going to bend to the will.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
Of the swamp.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
So obviously the corner camp is very upset because again
they called this for me a quote unquote vanity project.
They said that Westley Hunt is a legend in his
own mind, and this is somebody that spent time in
and a patche helicopter getting shot at for a living
for eight years. This is a West Point grad that's
wanting to defend this country and put his life on
the line. And they have the audacity to call this
a vanity project or to say.
Speaker 12 (11:46):
That I am a legend in my own mind.
Speaker 13 (11:48):
I'm in my early forties, I'm given the best years
of my life to this great nation.
Speaker 12 (11:52):
This is not a vanity project. This is about.
Speaker 13 (11:54):
Defending Texas, defending her values and actually getting a conservative
in the Hall of the Senate, and we have not
had that for twenty plus years.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I agree.
Speaker 9 (12:05):
And a number of Paxton folks reach out yesterday and
they were angry with you that you were a cornyan
plant or in some way or another hurt Paxton, and
I said, I disagree with that. I think this is
bad news for John Cornyn. I think your entry into
the race. It's a long race six months. Minds will change,
votes will change. But I think this is a much
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bigger blow to John Cornyan than it is for Ken Paxton.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Why run against the incumbent.
Speaker 13 (12:36):
Because it's very, very simple. This is a man that
a couple of years ago said that it was time
to move on from President Trump. He didn't endorse President
Trump until after President Trump got shot, and at that
point it was in.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
Vogue for him to do so.
Speaker 13 (12:49):
I want you to know that I was the first
person in the country look it up to endorse President
Trump when he ran in this last round. John Cornyn
offered gun control legislation with car and already and was
praised by Joe Biden in the Rose Garden for his
efforts to restrict our Second Amendment rights.
Speaker 12 (13:07):
That's absurd.
Speaker 13 (13:09):
John Cornyn is responsible for saying that the border wall
is artane, that the border wall is basically stupid, and
that we don't need it. This guy has a fifty
four percent liberty score. Jux supposed to me and Senator
cruizes ninety nine percent liberty score. I'm one of the
most conservative congressmen in the entire state of Texas. And again,
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this is where the party is. This is an America First,
Trump led party. I have been there from day one,
and those are the differences that you're going to see
between me and John Cornyn.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
Look at the end of the day, this is about policy.
Speaker 13 (13:45):
This is not about a blood feud between John Cornyn
and Ken Paxton. This is about giving the people of
Texas an alternative to vote for someone who is going
to put Texas first. I'm going to talk about the issues.
I'm going to talk about the border. I'm going to
talk about the importance of the oil and gas industry.
I'm going to talk about keeping you safe. I'm not
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going to talk about people's personal lives. I want to
stick to the fact and stick to what Texans want
to see and they're representative.
Speaker 12 (14:14):
Not a blood feud. That's exactly what this is about.
That's why I gotten this race.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
Brother Congress from Wesley Hunt is our guest. There was rumors,
I don't know where they begin, that President Trump that
you had hoped President Trump would endorse you, that would
be the moment you entered the race.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Obviously there's no love loss.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Between him and John Wayne mccornyan, but he has supported
Ken Paxton in a big way in the past.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Do you think Donald Trump will endorse you in this race?
Speaker 13 (14:45):
President Trump has supported Ken Paxton and myself keeping my
President Trump has endorsed has endorsed me the last three
times that I have run.
Speaker 12 (14:52):
For a public office. And so again the.
Speaker 13 (14:55):
President has chosen to stay out of this race for now.
He has not mad promises to me. I don't know
how that rumor started, and I understand that I'm relatively
close to the President. I had the opportunity to fly
with him on Air Force One a couple of months ago.
I campaigned all over the country with him. I went
to Iowa a leven times on his behalf, flew with
him to Chicago, to Nevada, to Coachella, to Pennsylvania on
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the campaign trail. And it was my honor to do
just that to get what I see is probably the
greatest president that we have seen in my lifetime into office.
But again, we're not banking on President Trump's endorsement. No
one should be, because he hasn't endorsed anyone in this race.
Of course, we all want President Trump's endorsement because it
weighs very, very heavy in a race like this. But
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let me tell you something, brother, I want to earn
his endorsement. I want to do the work.
Speaker 12 (15:45):
And should he choose.
Speaker 13 (15:46):
To endorse someone in this race, I want him to
pick the best person. And if he does not choose
to endorse someone in this race, I still want the Texas.
I still want the Texans to choose the best person
to represent them in the hall, in the halls.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
Of the Senate. And I'll end with this.
Speaker 13 (16:02):
The United States Senate is not a retirement community. This
is not a place where where this constitutional Republic goes
to die. This is a place that young men need
to step up right now for their country. Give your
best years to this country, to make this country a
better place for our children and our children's children. That's
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what this is about. It's not about me being a
career politician. I've got a six, four and two year old.
It's time to understand that we cannot have these career
politicians that have sold us out for decades.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
For just a moment.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
Congressman Wesley Hunt is our guest we'll continue our conversation
with him coming up. Congressman Wesley Hunt entered the US
Senate race.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
To represent Texas yesterday.
Speaker 9 (16:53):
Challenging the incumbent John Cornyn and his top challenger Ken
Paston making this away race. Wesley Hunt, let's start with
I don't know, six months ago or so, I started
seeing spots popping up that said, Wesley Hunt's a great guy,
he's a patriot, he's a congressman.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
He fights for his country.
Speaker 9 (17:16):
And I said, he's running for a statewide seat because
you don't spend that kind of money. I think the
estimate is six and a half million. You can tell
me Cornying, of course, spending four times that during the
same period of time, because he's got a lot of
DC money. What has been the result of that spend
across the state? You represent one thirty eighth of the state,
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so it's a big state. You got a lot of
new hands to shake.
Speaker 13 (17:41):
Of course, thank you for asking that. That's why we
started this project a while back ago, because we saw.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
That that John Corner was in trouble.
Speaker 13 (17:49):
He was losing mightily in this primary to return General Paxton,
and we realized that the biggest issue for United States
congressman or run state side is the state wide is
the fact that you know, we don't have you big
with his name ID.
Speaker 12 (18:00):
I have not been on a state wide ballot.
Speaker 13 (18:02):
So we started raising money and started running ads throughout
the retirecity of Texas to get our name ID up.
And that's exactly what's made us very competitive in this race.
Speaker 12 (18:12):
And I have the pulling to prove it.
Speaker 13 (18:14):
I'm I'll also point out you're right, John Cornet has
spent over twenty million dollars. Over twenty million dollars, Michael,
twenty million dollars is nineteen million dollars more than one
million dollars.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
That's a lot of scratch.
Speaker 13 (18:30):
And you're spending that money a month before the filing
deadline in the summer. That's how you know that you're
in trouble. And guess what, you're still not winning the race.
This man should be in the sixties or seventies as
a twenty four year incumbent, but instead he is still
trailing impacts after spending twenty million dollars. We have spent
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six million dollars a fraction of that over a very
long period of time, through a lot of hard work, grit,
determination to get our name ID to where it is,
to make us competitive, and imagine if you continue that
work moving forward. And that's why I say this is
the young man's game. You have to work for this,
you have.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
To earn it.
Speaker 13 (19:09):
You have to get up every single day and work
your tail off. You have to have grit and tenacity,
and that's how we got here in the first place.
I don't want it to be given to us. I
don't want.
Speaker 12 (19:19):
DC to pick Texas leadership.
Speaker 13 (19:21):
I want the people of Texas to pick Texas leadership.
Speaker 12 (19:25):
Come and take it. Is one of my mottos. Don't
mess with Texas, that's my second motto.
Speaker 13 (19:31):
And right now DC is trying to mess with Texas
by pushing Don Cornyan and shoehorning him into this role.
And what I have seen, the people of Texas don't
want it, and this is why we are giving them
another option.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
Twenty twenty, you ran against Lizzie Fletcher in the old
seventh congressional district that George H. W. Bush once held,
and then of course Archer and then Culberson in a
close race.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
You lost.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
People feel the thirty eighth Congressional district was created for you.
They were folks that really wanted to send you to
Congress the newest district.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You won that handily.
Speaker 9 (20:09):
One of the questions you'll get on the stump, and
you know it, is why leave a safe seat that
then has to be picked up by somebody else to
enter this race?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Why not season a while? Why not build some time?
Speaker 12 (20:25):
Michael?
Speaker 13 (20:25):
The time is now for young leadership to step up
and brother, as you know.
Speaker 12 (20:29):
Scared money, don't make no money.
Speaker 13 (20:32):
Our current vice president is forty one years old. Our
secretary of State is in his early fifties. Our secretary
of War is forty five years old. He in mind,
our founding fathers were in their twenties and thirties when
they changed the entiroscope of this whole world by creating
this great nation. The idea is not being complacent. The
idea is moving. When you are called by God and
(20:53):
the people of Texas to do the right thing. Am
I taking a risk? Of course, I'm taking a risk.
Life is about taking a risk.
Speaker 12 (21:01):
I tell you what.
Speaker 13 (21:02):
When I'm founding fathers founded this country, they took a
massive risk, even if it took their lives in order
to create this constitutional republic. So again, this is not
about what's convenient for me. It would be very easy
for me to sit here and run and be a
slow preacher for the next ten twenty thirty years in
this seat. But my job is not to stay here forever.
(21:24):
My job is to term it to myself, stow up
through the best I can, and then leave this place
better I better than I found it, and then hand
it off to the next person.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Brother, I'm a Wwe god. Growing up, I.
Speaker 13 (21:35):
Used to love stone Cold Steve Austin, and he had
a shirt that said stow up, raintel leave. That has
got to be our mandate in order to save this republic.
So again, this is not about me being inconvenient. This
is not about me sitting back and making the easy play.
This is about giving the people of Texas the best
(21:57):
often to represent them, to continue to carry the America
First banner, not just for the next six years, but
the ones after this. And by the way, if John
Corner were to get re elected, I understand he's taking
pictures in front of Trump Burger and find his best
and cozy up to the president. But at the end
of the day, if you were to get re elected,
he would then after President Trump is gone. We revert
(22:20):
right back to that fifty four percent liberty score, and
we can't have that in Texas.
Speaker 9 (22:25):
Should I take it personally? You went on Will Kane's
show last night before mine.
Speaker 12 (22:30):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
And I want everybody to listen to something you talk
about that Lizzie Fletcher race. I want every listener to
understand this. Michael Barry is the first person that called
me after that race and got me up, and you
treated me to a burger and a beer. And you
are a large part of the reason why I'm here
today because you said there's going to be an opportunity
for you in the future. Don't get down, stay in
(22:53):
the fight. So of course you can't be offended. I
happen to be in Dallas, Michael and I have a day.
Speaker 12 (23:00):
You know I love you. You know I love you.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
This is a big state. It's hard to campaign statewide.
You're the only of the three who has not had
to be on the ballot. You've only been an elected
office for four years. I think that Bill Maher. I
think probably nothing did more or your platform building than
the Bill Maher appearance. Oddly enough, but that made its
(23:26):
way around.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
It was viral.
Speaker 9 (23:27):
I think it came off very strong. What do you
estimate the budget of what you have to raise statewide
to win this race? Because it is tough to run
statewide in Texas.
Speaker 13 (23:38):
You know, we have an idea what that number is.
But my answer toute to your question is, Michael, whatever
it takes, whatever it takes, we have a number, We
have an idea. If it takes less than that, great,
If it takes more than that, we're going to accomplish
the goal. We're going to accomplish the mission. I view
this as a deployment, and I'm somebody that's been deployed.
I've been shot at fifty five their emissions in Apache.
(24:01):
If I can do that, the least I could do
is travel statewide and work my tail off to earn
not given, to earn the vote of my fellow Texas
to represent them.
Speaker 12 (24:12):
In fact, this is going to be a fun ride.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
I cannot wait to travel my great stake and to
make this pitch to those people that really want to
see a young freedom fighter, regardless of your race, religion,
color of creed, a combat veteran and America First patriot.
A conservative soubiety that actually believes in the values that
Texas has been founded on and what we must continue
(24:37):
for the future. Again, this is the state of Named
Bowie and David Krock and Sam Houston. We need dudes
like that, and so whatever it takes for us to get.
Speaker 12 (24:47):
This job done, We're going to do it.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
Carsman Wesley Hunt is our guest. Can you hold with
me for one more segment?
Speaker 12 (24:56):
I'm most certainly cam brother.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
I'm going to ask you, you know, look, when you
when you run in.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
A race like this, you run against names that are
very well established connections that are in many cases long standing.
For you to win, you have to pro loose voters.
I'm just going to give you an opportunity to talk
about how you do that, because it's always a race
against someone when you're a challenger like that.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Congressman Wesley Hunt coming up.
Speaker 12 (25:25):
This is the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Leslie Hunt is our guest. Congressman. Let's talk about.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Areas where you and John Cornyan, the current incumbent, are
different because at the end of the day, nothing else matters.
What would it look like, how would it be different
if you were the United States Senator from Texas instead
of John Cornyn.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
Well, well, the first is the legislation that I would
pass is to repeal the gun legislation that he wrote
with Colin all Right, as I said earlier that he
was praised for by Joe Biden and the Rose Garden
a couple of years ago. Again, that Second Amendment, our
first and second Amendment rights specifically a second member rights
shall not be infringed. And as you a senator, I
will repeal that immediately.
Speaker 12 (26:18):
I'll also tell you.
Speaker 13 (26:18):
This, Like I said, I was the first person in
the country to endorse President Trump during this last run.
And John Corny sat on the sideline and actually at
a rally watched me speak before the president while he
sat in the front row in the battle. Because I
was very supportive of him from day one. We have
not seen that from John Cornyn. I'll also say this,
(26:40):
my liberty score will not be fifty four percent. And
you could talk about but what President Trump nine to
nine percent of the time all you want. It's not
about what President Trump is around, because I know you're
scared of him and you're going to do whatever he
tells you to do.
Speaker 12 (26:54):
This is need a support At this point.
Speaker 13 (26:56):
I am talking about what are you going to do
when President Trump is no longer the president in two years,
are you going to cowtow to the left and to
the swamp or are you going to continue to represent
Texas as Senator Cruz has done for the past decade
or so. So again, this is going to be very
start differences in the way that we approach this. And
(27:16):
again I told this before, brother, the United States Senate
is not a retirement community. By the time I get
to his age, I am going to be taking care
of my grandchildren and I'm want to leave this behind
for somebody else. That's what Texans want. That's what I
hear on the trail. That is the reason why I
got in this race.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
You know, it's frightening to think we have a Republican
majority and we're needing jd Vance to break ties because
McConnell goes from being the majority leader to out of
power and voting with the Democrats. You've got Murkowski and
(27:57):
Collins who are now reliably Democrat, meaning that the President's
having a very difficult time passing his judge uh his
agenda for which he has a big, big mandate, And
I think most Americans find that very frustrating.
Speaker 13 (28:16):
And it will be even more frustrated because if it
was not an election year, John Cordon would be voting.
Speaker 12 (28:23):
Right with him. And this is what President Trump has
truth about this guy for years. He has not been
with the America First agenda. Ever, the only reason why
it's not Tillis and Murkowski.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
And McConnell and Connell and Corton because he's been with
them for the past few decades, is because he's realized
he has a problem in this primary. And then now
he has to cot house and cosplay as if he
is a model warrior.
Speaker 12 (28:54):
But we all know better.
Speaker 13 (28:56):
And thank god for the social media era, and thank
god for people like you. And the picture that you
posted yesterday of me Ken Patson and running against John
McCain could not have been more perfect. You nailed it, brother,
you nailed it. And that is exactly where its representative
of this primary voter.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
I do not want.
Speaker 13 (29:18):
Jd Vance to be the tie breaking vote over the
course of the next few years in the second half
of President Trump's presidency. I want him to be able
to operate autonomously.
Speaker 12 (29:29):
And know that he has the back of the Senate.
Speaker 13 (29:31):
We're going to continue to keep the House, We're going
to have the presidency and then God willingly elect jd
Vance have another four year run. That's the whole point
of this construct. And let me tell you some brother,
you are not going to have to worry about my
vote aligning with the value of Texas.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Carson Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Obviously, when you enter a race, as I said, folks
may have already been with John Corny's been around for
twenty four years. They're going to ask you questions. I've
tried to lay those questions out. I'm going to give
you all the time you want for the rest of
(30:12):
this segment to answer any question that might be lingering.
I think it's better to address those upfront because you
don't always get a chance to do that, and whisper
campaigns can be a rough thing. So I'm going to
give you the remaining three and a half minutes to
say whatever you'd like to say to address folks in
This will be the first the last conversation we have
(30:34):
before the election. But as you introduce yourself to some
and remind others who you are and why you're running,
it is yours.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Take it away.
Speaker 13 (30:45):
One thing that I've watched it I've heard John Corny
attacking me on is miss votes in my voting record,
and I kind of want to explain that I've missed
some votes because when I first got into office, if
you recall, my little boy was in the nick you
when he was born. During my first year, when I
was in Congress, I was flying back and forth for
the first for the for the first few months, and.
Speaker 12 (31:07):
Thank god, he had made it. He made it, and
he is striving and doing well. Last year, the last
two years.
Speaker 13 (31:13):
Actually, I've traveled a lot with the president to ensure.
Speaker 12 (31:15):
That we got him elected. Uh, and so I missed
some votes because.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
Of that as well, campaigning with the president.
Speaker 12 (31:21):
It's something that I am very proud of.
Speaker 13 (31:23):
But again, I think the people of Texas and the
primary voter is less concerned with the votes that I
missed and more concerned with the votes that I have taken.
John Cornyn has not seen a Ukrainian bill that he
didn't love. I have never voted to support more Ukraine aid.
I have back to president again from day one. Again,
(31:44):
My liberty store is ninety nine percent. These are the
kinds of issues that the people want to hear and
that they want to see. It ain't about miss votes.
It's about the votes that should take and so they
can attack me on that all day. I'm ready lease
bring it on. But again, the whole point is putting
the values of Texas first. I said in the beginning,
(32:07):
and I'll tell you again, this race is not about
a blood feud between Ken Paxton and John Corny. This
race is about the people of Texas and understanding what
our priorities are and having good, strong conservative leadership in
a state the President Trump just won last year by
(32:29):
over fifteen points. That is exactly what we want to see.
We want to see a Trump plus fifteen type of
leader and the halls of the Senate and that ain't
John Corny.
Speaker 9 (32:42):
Well, I will say this, thank you for making yourself available,
thanks for answering our questions. I will say this that
John Cornyn sitting on a pile of cash. He's sitting
on some big resources from the DC swamp. He's got
twenty four years to have built his name. It's hard
to dislodge an incumbent. I think our state and our
(33:04):
country needs that. I hope that you will keep your
artillery very very carefully aimed at the primary charge, which
is getting him out of office before the other of
you two battle and that seems to be the case
with your entry. It's Cornyn who's come out very very
ugly against you, which means that he is very scared.
(33:26):
Wesley Hunt, thank you, my man, appreciate you.
Speaker 12 (33:28):
Thank you. Brother. God bless you, Michael, thank you, have
a great day. Brother. Thank you.
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