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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That time, time, time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatola Amine is dead. This wretched
and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even
thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for
the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across
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many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of
the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in
the streets when his death was announced. I call upon
all Iranian patriots.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Who yearn for freedom to seize this moment to be brave,
be bold, be.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Heroic, and take back your country.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
America is with you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I made a promise to you, and I fulfill that promise.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The rest will be up to you, but will be
there to help.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's an incredible dissonance that they had to choose war
over regime, but they were willing to do it. Thank you,
Donald Trump, Thank you Benjamin Netya who, Thank you America.
It's not death to America after they killed the leader.
The Americans and the Israelis did it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's not death to Israel and death to America. It's
thank you it's a.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
New day dawning, but very early days, very very early days.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So we'll have to see what comes.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But it's the Iranian people that have been telling me
over and over and over again, we want this. We're
not regimas, we're not Islamic. I don't even say oh
my God to my Iranian friends because they don't want
God to be any.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Part of this.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's about national security. This is about what is possible
in the Middle East. This is about being a good name,
good partner to the Gulf States and what their aspirations are.
This is about supporting the people of Venezuela. This is
about this memory, our relationship with or not dismembering, but
resetting our relationship with China. Right now, fifty five percent
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of the oil production that Uran produces goes to China
despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine,
you want to end that war, you have to. There
is no getting around dismembering this Islamic republic. It is
non negotiable. It is not a want to have, It
is a have to have. And it's not just for
the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the
Iranian people. We know this government better than anyone else.
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When you dismember and decapitate this regime, you are going
to see a change of them attle least in Venezuela,
in China, in Ukraine. And I think, quite frankly, their
ideology has really it's caused a lot of problems for
US worldwide.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We need to take it seriously, and.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I think at this point we have a tremendous opportunity.
This will be like ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall.
This is a transferformational moment for humankind.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
An incredibly eventful weekend as the United States, along with Israel,
bombed Iran and continues the on onslaught and of course
Iran with a response. Then you have in Austin, Texas,
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a nasty mass murder event where an individual who the
FBI now says is a terrorist attack, a Muslim from
senem living in Flugerville, which is outside of Austin, wearing
a sweatshirt that says property of Allah, would massacre people
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at a late night bar on Austin's popular Sixth Street,
including the first one killed a young student from Texas Tech,
probably visiting his buddies. I know he was visiting his buddies,
because my kids, my oldest son is at ut and
it's not hard. The connections are not hard to track down.
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And there he was enjoying college life with his buddies
that were at the University of Texas, which is in Austin,
and having a good time on a Saturday night and.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Gets murdered.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
By a terrorist acting in the name of Islam. And
Tomorrow is the first day of the primaries for the
midterm elections, which will determine will Republicans continue to control
the House, will Republicans continue to control the Senate? And
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you'll have state houses in play house, Senate, governors, courts,
all sorts of positions across the country. Tomorrow is the
first day March third in the primary season. It's the
first primaries of this year. Will be Texas, Who's Arkansas?
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In North Carolina? Will all be Tomorrow. We will speak
to Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton, the two challengers to
four term, long term unpopular Senator John Cornyan, who is
running unsuccessfully for re election without the support of the President.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We'll talk to both of those.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Candidates about that race and tomorrow's election day, we'll know
a lot more Tomorrow night. I'll talk a little bit
about some of what's going on in Texas, including with
the Democrats, and there are some interesting Bellweather cases, Bellweather
themes that we're going to see playing out in the
primaries over the next few months that will go all
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the way I think. I think somebody has an August
somebody may even have a September primary. I just looked
last night, But some of the primaries go all the
way to August. So unlike the presidential years every four years,
where where you know Iowa wants to start their caucus
in January so they can have the most influence and
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then by March the race, the primaries are over for
all intensive purposes.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, the opposite is true, so New Hampshire is late.
I think New Hampshire is August this year.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
So you know, in a presidential election, it's the Iowa
caucus and then New Hampshire and then you go down
to South Carolina. That is not what the primaries look
like during the off seasons the midterm. So what happens
tomorrow is going to be a question as to how
do primary voters feel about what's going on in Washington,
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d C. How important will the Trump endorsement be a
lot will be at play tomorrow. We'll get to that
in a moment, but first we're going to talk about Iran.
We're going to talk about what's happening here domestically. I
am not going to go through a lot of what
has happened. I'm going to assume you already know that,
talk about why I think it's important, and raise some
questions that I think will be answering over the coming
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days and months coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Michael Barry shows.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Friends will often reach out and ask for my reaction
over a weekend like this past one, and I never
give it because I find that at moments like this,
having a passionate reaction and talking before you have every
bit of information possible to glean is a position of weakness,
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not strength. It is interesting to see the voices that
emerge quickly because those are usually not organic. There are
people in place at moments like this who are on
the payroll of someone with a vested interest in being
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the first to market with an opinion. There is a reason,
for instance, the Irani military pushes out using their media,
an immediate reaction that downplays the damage done, attempts to
sage any concerns as to what's happening in Iran and
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promise vengeance for Allah and the people of Iran, even
if it's not true. The reason is to get out
in front and because confusion and fear will paralyze you,
so the idea is to reassure. But it's also the
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case in the United States that there are a lot
of people. The United States is a big audience to
the battles of the world because we have all the
money and all the military power. So you have a
lot of interest seeking to sway the American electorate, especially
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in an election year, where people are really paying attention
in the way they wouldn't politicians are really paying attention
to the way they wouldn't otherwise. So you see the
Israeli perspective comes out, and that's Nettan Yahoo. And then
you see people who are sort of surrogates for the
Israeli perspective, and some of those are very very well
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placed individuals. And then you have something that didn't always happen.
You have other people who are sort of a counterbalance
to that. So whereas you have a Barry Weiss at
CBS or Mark Levin doing his show, now you've got
a I think the most prominent would be Tucker Carlson,
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but you got Candice Owen's weighing in, and now Marjorie
Taylor Green weighing in, and then you've got Vin Shapiro
with sort of a very pro Israeli perspective. And wherever
you come down in the middle of that is up
to you. But it's important to recognize that a battle
is being waged for your heart and mind. And the
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average American, I don't think would be as interested in
what's going on halfway around the world unless you're on
Twitter or YouTube or Fox. But whatever tribe to which
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you belong is pushing whatever narrative that tends to be
repeated by the members of the tribe taking orders or
just really influenced. And that's this battle you see playing
out where it's no longer just US Israel, Iran with
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China or Russia or pack stand sniping. It now becomes
Tucker versus Ben Shapiro at tax on Megan Kelly, a
tax on, Candice Owen's attax on Mark Levin.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
And now you've got these very very personal.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Battles being played out. If you don't know about this
whole scene, you don't need to go research it because
of a lot of it is not really about the
the thing that is claimed to be argued over. A
lot of it is about the competition by content creators
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for big money. You've got people who are paid to bash,
who are paid to bash Tucker or support Israel, and
you've got people who are bash paid to bash Israel.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And I do think there is now a.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Greater sophistication by wealthy Middle Eastern countries that you need
to have spokesman in this country who have a viral
following their own tribe, and I do think that they
have learned to play on this stage. And that means
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whether that is trying to compete with Israel for the
voices of the late Charlie Kirk and the successor interest
entity that he has, or Tucker Carlson or Candice Owns
or Megan Kelly or any number of other voices. If
all of this is foreign to you, then that's probably
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a good thing. It is not a mentally healthy place
to be to be in the middle of all of that,
which is why I have steadfastly resisted any entreaties to
join it. Rush stayed pretty clear of all of this,
and he stayed clear of the rivalries, and I think
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side shows that can overtake creative, informative, engaging programming. So
much of the discussion about American foreign policy now, particularly
as it relates to Israel in the Middle East, but
to a lesser extent Ukraine and Russia, revolves around these
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competing fiefdoms with their tribe each trying to burn the
other one. And it's nasty and it's ugly, and there
is an audience for that. It's a younger audience. It's
kind of more of a wrestling audience. They'd like to
see some blows connect and some people knocked out.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And but I say all this to say.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
What's really going to matter is are our boys going
to be sent to the Middle East? And there is
going to be a massive push in Donald Trump's ear
to send American men to die in the Middle East.
There were, by the way, some casualties already, some deaths
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of our young people. Three US service members killed as
of last night, five others seriously wounded. That matters. I've
heard a number of people in public life answer the question, well,
you know, it's just part of doing it. Why don't
you tell every person before they sign up. At some
point you'll just be cannon fodder because that's part of
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what we're doing. Unacceptable. Every American life should be grieved
and honored and remembered because they made the ultimate sacrifice,
and that's important. We're going to talk to these Senate candidates,
Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton in what is the most
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interesting Senate race, in my opinion, in the country, where
you have a four term US Senator who is being
challenged and will likely be defeated, and this is a
real slap in the face to the swamp. Voting tomorrow
on what is known drives me crazy as election day,
after ten days of early voting in the US Senate race,
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we will talk to two of the three, Wesley Hunt
now and Ken Paxton in just a moment. Wesley Hunt,
the day before or the day before election day, and
you have worked your tailoff.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Where do you feel like you stand? How do you feel?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
I feel great about it. I was that's just in Harlington,
down south gude In at about three o'clock in the
morning last night. I want to be in Cyprus tonight.
And again I've been running a campaign. I'm the only
one that's hex You've been running a campaign. I've been
traveling all over Texas to actually get in front of voters,
look at them in their eyes, and tell them exactly
what I wanted to do to keep Texas Texas. And
my whole goal, and his whole thing was to get
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into a runoff. And the way I see it is
is that we still have a puncher shot at this thing.
I do believe that General Paxson will finish in first place,
and my goal was to get in second place to
challenge General Paxson so that the people of Texas could
have an actual choice of a true Conservative for the future.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
It's interesting Paxton has led throughout as most people expected
he would. Your entry into the race was feared by
some folks that I know who are Paston supporters, and
I said, it's not clear which candidate he helps or
hurts the most, but you steadily drew support early on,
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and then the DC swamp came after you, from Tim
Scott to the Thune crowd to the Establishment, all of
Cornyn's cronies, and it takes its toll. I got to
tell you, the one that really got me was them
calling you Washington Wesley when you've been in DC for
a cup of coffee, and John Corny has been there
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for twenty four years. I have to think they had
around that night in the crowd in Washington with Washington
money that live in Washington and control Washington calling you
Washington Wesley.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How do you feel, Washing.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Yeah, I saw that when Washington Wesley and then John
Corny of what people calling me a rhino, I thought
that was absolutely hilarious and all that they would have
spent in upwards of almost fifteen seventeen million dollars over
the course of two weeks. At one point they were
sending a million dollars a day hitting me with Smith
that I was clearly and I am clearly a threat
to the system. And that's the reason why I stayed
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in this race, was to be a threat to the system.
I want to take a sledge effort to this thing
because no, I am not Washington Wesley. No I am
not a rhino. I was the first person in the
country to endorse President Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
As I have said on your show.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Multiple times, I was wunner President Trump's top farrogates. And
you are correct. How can I be Washington Wesley when
I've been around for three years and when I am
running on if I am running on term limits, I
am running on eight two terms. That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Twelve years no more.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
That is all because that's exactly what our founding fathers wanted.
And also, I think we have done with career politicians.
I think that's the problem with John Corny is that
he's been around for so long that he forgot about
what Texas really stood for. And that's why he's in
this position as a twenty four year covent with a
war chest of a numbers of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
You know better than most people why you ran. If
John Cornyn was doing a good job, you wouldn't have run.
People couldn't believe you were willing to scale that. Heell,
you've never been afraid of anything before. But what about Cornyn?
Do people need to know?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because if Cornyn was doing a good job, we wouldn't
be having this conversation.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
If Cornyn was doing a good job, and if Cornyn
wasn't a Bush era Lincoln Project Republican. And we all
know it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
We have now known it for years.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
We knew it six years ago when he ran, We
knew it a couple of years ago at the Texas
Convention when he got the boot off the stage. Everyone
knows this, And how you spend that kind of money
and you are still pulling in the high twenties and thirties,
it's absolutely beyond me. He should have retired. We all
know that his homies are Tillis and McConnell and caffiy
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and Collins, that you are the people that won't look
the filibuster. These are the people that won't push the
America First agenda forward like the mandate that was given
to President Trump. And let me tell you something, he
would be in lockstep with all of them today if
this worked an election year, and if he wasn't being
challenged by General Paxson and myself. We all know what
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he is, and a leper cannot change those spots. And
so the fact that he needs in this kind of
trouble at the big around for this long that should
never happen to an incumbent if they're doing their job.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
It's noteworthy, you know, as far as endorsements go, that
President Trump notably did not endorse Greenshaw and did not
endorse Cornan. And I think it's embarrassing to Cornyn and
he knows it, and that was the rabbit he thought
he pull out of a hat, But nobody ever believed
that he would support cornn President Trump has had to
delicately walk this balance without endorsing him throughout and fearing
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that he might need Corny in for a vote at
any given moment. It's been fascinating to watch how the
President has handled this. But that should tell every big
Trump supporter a lot. Why doesn't Trump endorse the incumbent
that should tell you you need change? Weren't anything else
if you're a big Trump supporter.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He is one of two.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Republican and tumments that he has not endorsed that day
of Texas, John Cornyn is one of two Republican incumbents
at the senatorial level, and the entire touch of that
he has not endorsed is he and Collins. That should
tell you all you need to know. And like I said,
I'm the guy that never I never put words in
a president's mouth. I don't speak for President Trump, not
one bit, but it does speak volumes that he is
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one of two and combents that he has not endorsed.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Wesley Hunt, candidate for US Senate, current United States Congressman
I went digging this weekend and I came across something
called the Luger Center in DC, a longtime Republican squish,
Senator Richard Lueger, who was a big believer in bipartisanship,
by which he meant the swamp the establishment doing what
DC wants, not what the state of Texas wants. And
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the Luger Center gives a score on the most bipartisan senators.
Susan Collins is number one. Susan Collins acts as a
Democrat even though she gets elected as a Republican or
an independent. Lisa Murkowski is number seven, and we all
know that Lisa Murkowski is no friend to any of
our causes of the Republican Party. John Cornyn ranked number
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five on that list. If I had the time to
explain two people what that means that you would have
such a high ranking, that is as disturbing as anything
you could ever know about this man who's been in
office since nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
He is a swamp creature. Yes, believable.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
And that's also why you want to talk about liberty
scores as well. You know, his liberty score is around
fifty percent. And this tenty five was exactly what you
just said, and that's just not where Texas is today.
You know, there was a time when that was acceptable
and those times are over. And if you are a Republican,
a Bush era Republican from the two thousands, back when
I first graduated from West Point, actually the first time
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that John Corner was elected, when he became a judge,
I was eleven months old. By the time you get
to this point in your career, it's time to push
it aside and it's time to do something else. And
at the end of the day, I realized something a
long time ago. No matter what come January, John Corner
is not going to be a senator anymore. And it
cost a party an arm in a lag to show
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the exact same thing.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
In the end, Well, when Tim Scott felt the need
to come out and attack you, that's when I knew
they were in trouble. When they started round the claw
attacks on you, that's when I knew they knew how
bad a trouble they're in.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Burning the cash.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
As as their donors have said, Wesley Hunt, you'd never
quit on the football field, you never quit as a
warrior in the United States Army, and you won't quit here.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Good luck to you, my friend, God bless you think
for having me on as always. Brother, Thank you, and
here we are the day before election day.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Send Congressman Wesley Hunt and Attorney General Ken Paxton, vying
to unseat twenty four year, forty one years in elected
office John Cornyan as swampy, a swamp creature as you
will find.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
We'll talk to Ken Paxton coming up. Exclaims key, It
claims key. It's done for a girl and the boy.
I like land Aberry's show. We just heard from Congressman
Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Now we speak to Attorney General Ken Paxton, challenging twenty
four year old twenty four year incumbent John Cornyn. John
Cornyan is scared he's losing in the polls, and he
was booed at the state Republican convention. He's counting on
Democrats coming over and voting in the primary to help
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him win because he cannot win Republicans.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It got so bad that he made this statement.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
He's not talking about suicide bombers. He's talking about not
talking about Irani Mullah's He's talking about Republican voters that
don't vote for him.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Listen to this one more time.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who to show up. If only
the most radical people show up in the primary, then
I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
General Paxton. Are these Republicans showing up to vote that
we need in November that are voting for you? Are
these radicals, first of all.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Have the Independence Day it takes for in Dependence Day? Yeah,
I think it tells you the mindset of John Cornyn
when he considers Republican voters radicals. That's why when he
was booed by what ten twelve thousand Republican delegates, we're
talking about the base of the party three years ago
because he sided with Joe Biden restricting second Amendment, right,
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That's why he dismissed it as these people don't matter.
So he views a very large segment of the Republican
Party is not mattering because guess what, they don't matter?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
To him at all, and that says it all for
him to suggest he knows he's going to lose in
the first round. There's a chance you win without a runoff,
but if he does go to the runoff, that is
the theme that DC has given him to run on,
is that the only people who don't like him are radicals.
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And I think it's important for every Republican in state
of Texas, for every Texan to understand what he is
saying that people who care deeply about our core issues
that these candidates have been running on are being called radicals.
When we use the term radical with regard to Islam,
it has meaning when we use a term radical to
talk about our neighbors, that's disturbing to me.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Jim Paxton, it's disturbing to me too, because it's a
disdain for the Republicans and the vote. Most Republicans would
be considered in his view, radical because they adhere to
the Constitution, they adhere to conservative fiscal and social values,
and so if you do that, in his mind, you're
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a radical, which tells you everything you need to know
and why he should not be represent anymore.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I was researching over the weekend and I ended up
on the site of something called a Luger Center, named
for a long time Senate squish, Richard Luger from Indiana.
And they give a bipartisanship score, which is kind of
they're out of DC, which is kind of a squish score.
And it turned out that John Cornyn ranked number five,
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Susan Collins number one, Lisa Murkowski at seven. You're you're
more quote unquote bipartisan than Lisa Murkowski.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The Luger Center.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Luger was a gun control guy, a global warming guy,
dreamat guy, amnesty guy, and a huge Trump critic, all
while supposedly a Republican.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We don't need his type. It says everything that the Luger.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Center thinks the world of John Cornyan's voting record, and
every Republican primary who I guess is a radical is
where he's having problems today.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And interesting enough, Richard Luger, I think, was the last
Republican to lose in a primary as a US senator.
He is he definitely set the trend for John Cornyn,
and John corn is walking right down that path.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well knowing that they're losing and knowing that about seventy
five percent of Republican voters who've been pulled consistently throughout
this process do not want the seventy four year old
four term senator to go back for number five and
attack Trump and work with Fune and refuse to pass
the Save Act.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
But their argument now has turned not to whether he.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Would get anything done and is a good guy, or
anything related to his record, which he has none to
run on that's positive among the base because he's upset,
I guess the radicals. But now they say, well, Ken
Paxton can't win in November. Vote for me now, even
though you don't want to. Don't vote for the guy
you want because nobody will vote for him in November.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What do you say to that?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's a pretty pathetic argument. First of all, it's unsubstantiated,
just made up, just like every position he now holds,
saying he sports Trump when he hated Trump the whole time,
just like saying he's for the border wall but he
never was. So this idea that I can't want to
I can't want to get a Democrat. I've had three
state Wider recollections that I did very well, and I
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want I'm three for three. And also, if you look
at the polling. I actually do as well or better
than him when you look at the polling against whatever
Democrat ends up being there. So it's unsubstantiated, made up,
But that's what he's doing. The whole campaign is made
up about him being a different guy than he really is,
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and it made up about me.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
What is the campaign strategy, It's it's a distance down
the road. We don't know who comes out of Democrat primary,
Crocketer or tallerco tell Rico's claiming that they have the
lead now, But what is the message statewide to Textans
once you if you win the primary, what is the
message that unites us in November to win?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I think there's a lot of issues in United I
mean every American security, the budget, every budget of every
American should care about fair and free elections. Every American
should care about with the threat of China. Every American
should care about their taxes, and every American should care
about the bad healthcare we're getting from Obamacare. So there's
lots of issues I believe that affects every single Texan
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and that I think would make sense that the Independence
and some Democrats.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I hope it's an interesting phenomenon We're at an interesting
time where you're sitting us senator is saying to the
base of his own party that if they don't vote
for him, they're radical. And every one of those positions
that he would claim makes them quote unquote radical, are
positions that he's campaigning on but has no credibility.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I think that says everything.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It says everything. So the very things that those people
care about he's running on right now for the first
time in his life because he feels like he has to,
but he doesn't believe them, and he will call you
in name, calls me a name for actually believing in
some of the things that he thinks are radical.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's very disturbing.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
If you would take a minute and a half and
remind voters before they vote tomorrow, I thing about forty
percent still will be out to vote.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Who is Kim Paxton?
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Why should folks vote for you in the Senate primary?
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I think for me, the difference between me and him
is he talks a lot of rhetoric. It's just not true.
I have a record of conservative values and fighting for Texas.
Whether I know whether it was my fights against Obama,
the twenty seven lawsuits against him in two years, the
fight against FIDE one hundred and seven lawsuits, or whether
it was fighting against big tech or big food, big pharma,
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all of it. Well, I've tiken on everybody, and it's
been at a cost to me. But that's why I'm here.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
I'm here to fight for Texas and happy in Texas
Independence Day to you as well, Ken Paxton, good luck
to you.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
You know, folks, I've been around politics as a pure observer.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Going back into the eighties. I've always been interested in it.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I got myself engrossed in it when I came to
Houston in eighty nine. I have followed the players, I've
followed the process. I followed the elections and the governments
that comes after it. This is a good time, folks,
This is a good time that we have a real
choice for US Senate.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
We have a real choice whoever you vote for.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
We have a real choice to say to Washington, DC
that Texas will pick our senator. And if we don't
pick who you want, and you call Republicans radicals, there's
the pitched battle between you. Wonder why DC fails. You
can't blame it all on the Democrats. It's because of
nonsense like that.
That time, time, time, time, luck and load. The Michael
Verie Show is.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
On the air.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatola Amine is dead. This wretched
and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even
thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for
the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across
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many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of
the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in
the streets when his death was announced. I call upon
all Iranian patriots.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Who yearn for freedom to seize this moment to be brave,
be bold, be.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Heroic, and take back your country.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
America is with you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I made a promise to you, and I fulfill that promise.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The rest will be up to you, but will be
there to help.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's an incredible dissonance that they had to choose war
over regime, but they were willing to do it. Thank you,
Donald Trump, Thank you Benjamin Netya who, Thank you America.
It's not death to America after they killed the leader.
The Americans and the Israelis did it.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It's not death to Israel and death to America. It's
thank you it's a.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
New day dawning, but very early days, very very early days.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
So we'll have to see what comes.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
But it's the Iranian people that have been telling me
over and over and over again, we want this. We're
not regimas, we're not Islamic. I don't even say oh
my God to my Iranian friends because they don't want
God to be any.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Part of this.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
It's about national security. This is about what is possible
in the Middle East. This is about being a good name,
good partner to the Gulf States and what their aspirations are.
This is about supporting the people of Venezuela. This is
about this memory, our relationship with or not dismembering, but
resetting our relationship with China. Right now, fifty five percent
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of the oil production that Uran produces goes to China
despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine,
you want to end that war, you have to. There
is no getting around dismembering this Islamic republic. It is
non negotiable. It is not a want to have, It
is a have to have. And it's not just for
the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the
Iranian people. We know this government better than anyone else.
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When you dismember and decapitate this regime, you are going
to see a change of them attle least in Venezuela,
in China, in Ukraine. And I think, quite frankly, their
ideology has really it's caused a lot of problems for
US worldwide.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We need to take it seriously, and.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I think at this point we have a tremendous opportunity.
This will be like ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall.
This is a transferformational moment for humankind.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
An incredibly eventful weekend as the United States, along with Israel,
bombed Iran and continues the on onslaught and of course
Iran with a response. Then you have in Austin, Texas,
(03:12):
a nasty mass murder event where an individual who the
FBI now says is a terrorist attack, a Muslim from
senem living in Flugerville, which is outside of Austin, wearing
a sweatshirt that says property of Allah, would massacre people
(03:37):
at a late night bar on Austin's popular Sixth Street,
including the first one killed a young student from Texas Tech,
probably visiting his buddies. I know he was visiting his buddies,
because my kids, my oldest son is at ut and
it's not hard. The connections are not hard to track down.
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And there he was enjoying college life with his buddies
that were at the University of Texas, which is in Austin,
and having a good time on a Saturday night and.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Gets murdered.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
By a terrorist acting in the name of Islam. And
Tomorrow is the first day of the primaries for the
midterm elections, which will determine will Republicans continue to control
the House, will Republicans continue to control the Senate? And
(04:36):
you'll have state houses in play house, Senate, governors, courts,
all sorts of positions across the country. Tomorrow is the
first day March third in the primary season. It's the
first primaries of this year. Will be Texas, Who's Arkansas?
(05:00):
In North Carolina? Will all be Tomorrow. We will speak
to Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton, the two challengers to
four term, long term unpopular Senator John Cornyan, who is
running unsuccessfully for re election without the support of the President.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
We'll talk to both of those.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Candidates about that race and tomorrow's election day, we'll know
a lot more Tomorrow night. I'll talk a little bit
about some of what's going on in Texas, including with
the Democrats, and there are some interesting Bellweather cases, Bellweather
themes that we're going to see playing out in the
primaries over the next few months that will go all
(05:45):
the way I think. I think somebody has an August
somebody may even have a September primary. I just looked
last night, But some of the primaries go all the
way to August. So unlike the presidential years every four years,
where where you know Iowa wants to start their caucus
in January so they can have the most influence and
(06:06):
then by March the race, the primaries are over for
all intensive purposes.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Well, the opposite is true, so New Hampshire is late.
I think New Hampshire is August this year.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
So you know, in a presidential election, it's the Iowa
caucus and then New Hampshire and then you go down
to South Carolina. That is not what the primaries look
like during the off seasons the midterm. So what happens
tomorrow is going to be a question as to how
do primary voters feel about what's going on in Washington,
(06:43):
d C. How important will the Trump endorsement be a
lot will be at play tomorrow. We'll get to that
in a moment, but first we're going to talk about Iran.
We're going to talk about what's happening here domestically. I
am not going to go through a lot of what
has happened. I'm going to assume you already know that,
talk about why I think it's important, and raise some
questions that I think will be answering over the coming
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days and months coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Michael Barry shows.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Friends will often reach out and ask for my reaction
over a weekend like this past one, and I never
give it because I find that at moments like this,
having a passionate reaction and talking before you have every
bit of information possible to glean is a position of weakness,
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not strength. It is interesting to see the voices that
emerge quickly because those are usually not organic. There are
people in place at moments like this who are on
the payroll of someone with a vested interest in being
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the first to market with an opinion. There is a reason,
for instance, the Irani military pushes out using their media,
an immediate reaction that downplays the damage done, attempts to
sage any concerns as to what's happening in Iran and
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promise vengeance for Allah and the people of Iran, even
if it's not true. The reason is to get out
in front and because confusion and fear will paralyze you,
so the idea is to reassure. But it's also the
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case in the United States that there are a lot
of people. The United States is a big audience to
the battles of the world because we have all the
money and all the military power. So you have a
lot of interest seeking to sway the American electorate, especially
(09:02):
in an election year, where people are really paying attention
in the way they wouldn't politicians are really paying attention
to the way they wouldn't otherwise. So you see the
Israeli perspective comes out, and that's Nettan Yahoo. And then
you see people who are sort of surrogates for the
Israeli perspective, and some of those are very very well
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placed individuals. And then you have something that didn't always happen.
You have other people who are sort of a counterbalance
to that. So whereas you have a Barry Weiss at
CBS or Mark Levin doing his show, now you've got
a I think the most prominent would be Tucker Carlson,
(09:46):
but you got Candice Owen's weighing in, and now Marjorie
Taylor Green weighing in, and then you've got Vin Shapiro
with sort of a very pro Israeli perspective. And wherever
you come down in the middle of that is up
to you. But it's important to recognize that a battle
is being waged for your heart and mind. And the
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average American, I don't think would be as interested in
what's going on halfway around the world unless you're on
Twitter or YouTube or Fox. But whatever tribe to which
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you belong is pushing whatever narrative that tends to be
repeated by the members of the tribe taking orders or
just really influenced. And that's this battle you see playing
out where it's no longer just US Israel, Iran with
(10:57):
China or Russia or pack stand sniping. It now becomes
Tucker versus Ben Shapiro at tax on Megan Kelly, a
tax on, Candice Owen's attax on Mark Levin.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
And now you've got these very very personal.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Battles being played out. If you don't know about this
whole scene, you don't need to go research it because
of a lot of it is not really about the
the thing that is claimed to be argued over. A
lot of it is about the competition by content creators
(11:42):
for big money. You've got people who are paid to bash,
who are paid to bash Tucker or support Israel, and
you've got people who are bash paid to bash Israel.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And I do think there is now a.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Greater sophistication by wealthy Middle Eastern countries that you need
to have spokesman in this country who have a viral
following their own tribe, and I do think that they
have learned to play on this stage. And that means
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whether that is trying to compete with Israel for the
voices of the late Charlie Kirk and the successor interest
entity that he has, or Tucker Carlson or Candice Owns
or Megan Kelly or any number of other voices. If
all of this is foreign to you, then that's probably
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a good thing. It is not a mentally healthy place
to be to be in the middle of all of that,
which is why I have steadfastly resisted any entreaties to
join it. Rush stayed pretty clear of all of this,
and he stayed clear of the rivalries, and I think
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side shows that can overtake creative, informative, engaging programming. So
much of the discussion about American foreign policy now, particularly
as it relates to Israel in the Middle East, but
to a lesser extent Ukraine and Russia, revolves around these
(13:37):
competing fiefdoms with their tribe each trying to burn the
other one. And it's nasty and it's ugly, and there
is an audience for that. It's a younger audience. It's
kind of more of a wrestling audience. They'd like to
see some blows connect and some people knocked out.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And but I say all this to say.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
What's really going to matter is are our boys going
to be sent to the Middle East? And there is
going to be a massive push in Donald Trump's ear
to send American men to die in the Middle East.
There were, by the way, some casualties already, some deaths
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of our young people. Three US service members killed as
of last night, five others seriously wounded. That matters. I've
heard a number of people in public life answer the question, well,
you know, it's just part of doing it. Why don't
you tell every person before they sign up. At some
point you'll just be cannon fodder because that's part of
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what we're doing. Unacceptable. Every American life should be grieved
and honored and remembered because they made the ultimate sacrifice,
and that's important. We're going to talk to these Senate candidates,
Wesley Hunt and Ken Paxton in what is the most
(15:07):
interesting Senate race, in my opinion, in the country, where
you have a four term US Senator who is being
challenged and will likely be defeated, and this is a
real slap in the face to the swamp. Voting tomorrow
on what is known drives me crazy as election day,
after ten days of early voting in the US Senate race,
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we will talk to two of the three, Wesley Hunt
now and Ken Paxton in just a moment. Wesley Hunt,
the day before or the day before election day, and
you have worked your tailoff.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Where do you feel like you stand? How do you feel?
Speaker 7 (15:43):
I feel great about it. I was that's just in Harlington,
down south gude In at about three o'clock in the
morning last night. I want to be in Cyprus tonight.
And again I've been running a campaign. I'm the only
one that's hex You've been running a campaign. I've been
traveling all over Texas to actually get in front of voters,
look at them in their eyes, and tell them exactly
what I wanted to do to keep Texas Texas. And
my whole goal, and his whole thing was to get
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into a runoff. And the way I see it is
is that we still have a puncher shot at this thing.
I do believe that General Paxson will finish in first place,
and my goal was to get in second place to
challenge General Paxson so that the people of Texas could
have an actual choice of a true Conservative for the future.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
It's interesting Paxton has led throughout as most people expected
he would. Your entry into the race was feared by
some folks that I know who are Paston supporters, and
I said, it's not clear which candidate he helps or
hurts the most, but you steadily drew support early on,
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and then the DC swamp came after you, from Tim
Scott to the Thune crowd to the Establishment, all of
Cornyn's cronies, and it takes its toll. I got to
tell you, the one that really got me was them
calling you Washington Wesley when you've been in DC for
a cup of coffee, and John Corny has been there
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for twenty four years. I have to think they had
around that night in the crowd in Washington with Washington
money that live in Washington and control Washington calling you
Washington Wesley.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How do you feel, Washing.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
Yeah, I saw that when Washington Wesley and then John
Corny of what people calling me a rhino, I thought
that was absolutely hilarious and all that they would have
spent in upwards of almost fifteen seventeen million dollars over
the course of two weeks. At one point they were
sending a million dollars a day hitting me with Smith
that I was clearly and I am clearly a threat
to the system. And that's the reason why I stayed
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in this race, was to be a threat to the system.
I want to take a sledge effort to this thing
because no, I am not Washington Wesley. No I am
not a rhino. I was the first person in the
country to endorse President Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
As I have said on your show.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Multiple times, I was wunner President Trump's top farrogates. And
you are correct. How can I be Washington Wesley when
I've been around for three years and when I am
running on if I am running on term limits, I
am running on eight two terms. That's it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Twelve years no more.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
That is all because that's exactly what our founding fathers wanted.
And also, I think we have done with career politicians.
I think that's the problem with John Corny is that
he's been around for so long that he forgot about
what Texas really stood for. And that's why he's in
this position as a twenty four year covent with a
war chest of a numbers of one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
You know better than most people why you ran. If
John Cornyn was doing a good job, you wouldn't have run.
People couldn't believe you were willing to scale that. Heell,
you've never been afraid of anything before. But what about Cornyn?
Do people need to know?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because if Cornyn was doing a good job, we wouldn't
be having this conversation.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
If Cornyn was doing a good job, and if Cornyn
wasn't a Bush era Lincoln Project Republican. And we all
know it.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
We have now known it for years.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
We knew it six years ago when he ran, We
knew it a couple of years ago at the Texas
Convention when he got the boot off the stage. Everyone
knows this, And how you spend that kind of money
and you are still pulling in the high twenties and thirties,
it's absolutely beyond me. He should have retired. We all
know that his homies are Tillis and McConnell and caffiy
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and Collins, that you are the people that won't look
the filibuster. These are the people that won't push the
America First agenda forward like the mandate that was given
to President Trump. And let me tell you something, he
would be in lockstep with all of them today if
this worked an election year, and if he wasn't being
challenged by General Paxson and myself. We all know what
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he is, and a leper cannot change those spots. And
so the fact that he needs in this kind of
trouble at the big around for this long that should
never happen to an incumbent if they're doing their job.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
It's noteworthy, you know, as far as endorsements go, that
President Trump notably did not endorse Greenshaw and did not
endorse Cornan. And I think it's embarrassing to Cornyn and
he knows it, and that was the rabbit he thought
he pull out of a hat, But nobody ever believed
that he would support cornn President Trump has had to
delicately walk this balance without endorsing him throughout and fearing
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that he might need Corny in for a vote at
any given moment. It's been fascinating to watch how the
President has handled this. But that should tell every big
Trump supporter a lot. Why doesn't Trump endorse the incumbent
that should tell you you need change? Weren't anything else
if you're a big Trump supporter.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
He is one of two.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Republican and tumments that he has not endorsed that day
of Texas, John Cornyn is one of two Republican incumbents
at the senatorial level, and the entire touch of that
he has not endorsed is he and Collins. That should
tell you all you need to know. And like I said,
I'm the guy that never I never put words in
a president's mouth. I don't speak for President Trump, not
one bit, but it does speak volumes that he is
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one of two and combents that he has not endorsed.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Wesley Hunt, candidate for US Senate, current United States Congressman
I went digging this weekend and I came across something
called the Luger Center in DC, a longtime Republican squish,
Senator Richard Lueger, who was a big believer in bipartisanship,
by which he meant the swamp the establishment doing what
DC wants, not what the state of Texas wants. And
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the Luger Center gives a score on the most bipartisan senators.
Susan Collins is number one. Susan Collins acts as a
Democrat even though she gets elected as a Republican or
an independent. Lisa Murkowski is number seven, and we all
know that Lisa Murkowski is no friend to any of
our causes of the Republican Party. John Cornyn ranked number
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five on that list. If I had the time to
explain two people what that means that you would have
such a high ranking, that is as disturbing as anything
you could ever know about this man who's been in
office since nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
He is a swamp creature. Yes, believable.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
And that's also why you want to talk about liberty
scores as well. You know, his liberty score is around
fifty percent. And this tenty five was exactly what you
just said, and that's just not where Texas is today.
You know, there was a time when that was acceptable
and those times are over. And if you are a Republican,
a Bush era Republican from the two thousands, back when
I first graduated from West Point, actually the first time
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that John Corner was elected, when he became a judge,
I was eleven months old. By the time you get
to this point in your career, it's time to push
it aside and it's time to do something else. And
at the end of the day, I realized something a
long time ago. No matter what come January, John Corner
is not going to be a senator anymore. And it
cost a party an arm in a lag to show
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the exact same thing.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
In the end, Well, when Tim Scott felt the need
to come out and attack you, that's when I knew
they were in trouble. When they started round the claw
attacks on you, that's when I knew they knew how
bad a trouble they're in.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Burning the cash.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
As as their donors have said, Wesley Hunt, you'd never
quit on the football field, you never quit as a
warrior in the United States Army, and you won't quit here.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Good luck to you, my friend, God bless you think
for having me on as always. Brother, Thank you, and
here we are the day before election day.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Send Congressman Wesley Hunt and Attorney General Ken Paxton, vying
to unseat twenty four year, forty one years in elected
office John Cornyan as swampy, a swamp creature as you
will find.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
We'll talk to Ken Paxton coming up. Exclaims key, It
claims key. It's done for a girl and the boy.
I like land Aberry's show. We just heard from Congressman
Wesley Hunt.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Now we speak to Attorney General Ken Paxton, challenging twenty
four year old twenty four year incumbent John Cornyn. John
Cornyan is scared he's losing in the polls, and he
was booed at the state Republican convention. He's counting on
Democrats coming over and voting in the primary to help
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him win because he cannot win Republicans.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
It got so bad that he made this statement.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who bothers to show up. If
only the most radical people show up in the primary,
then I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
He's not talking about suicide bombers. He's talking about not
talking about Irani Mullah's He's talking about Republican voters that
don't vote for him.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Listen to this one more time.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
I know Republicans voters, and as I said earlier, really
it's a question of who to show up. If only
the most radical people show up in the primary, then
I think that's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
General Paxton. Are these Republicans showing up to vote that
we need in November that are voting for you? Are
these radicals, first of all.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Have the Independence Day it takes for in Dependence Day? Yeah,
I think it tells you the mindset of John Cornyn
when he considers Republican voters radicals. That's why when he
was booed by what ten twelve thousand Republican delegates, we're
talking about the base of the party three years ago
because he sided with Joe Biden restricting second Amendment, right,
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That's why he dismissed it as these people don't matter.
So he views a very large segment of the Republican
Party is not mattering because guess what, they don't matter?
Speaker 6 (25:51):
To him at all, and that says it all for
him to suggest he knows he's going to lose in
the first round. There's a chance you win without a runoff,
but if he does go to the runoff, that is
the theme that DC has given him to run on,
is that the only people who don't like him are radicals.
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And I think it's important for every Republican in state
of Texas, for every Texan to understand what he is
saying that people who care deeply about our core issues
that these candidates have been running on are being called radicals.
When we use the term radical with regard to Islam,
it has meaning when we use a term radical to
talk about our neighbors, that's disturbing to me.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Jim Paxton, it's disturbing to me too, because it's a
disdain for the Republicans and the vote. Most Republicans would
be considered in his view, radical because they adhere to
the Constitution, they adhere to conservative fiscal and social values,
and so if you do that, in his mind, you're
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a radical, which tells you everything you need to know
and why he should not be represent anymore.
Speaker 6 (27:01):
I was researching over the weekend and I ended up
on the site of something called a Luger Center, named
for a long time Senate squish, Richard Luger from Indiana.
And they give a bipartisanship score, which is kind of
they're out of DC, which is kind of a squish score.
And it turned out that John Cornyn ranked number five,
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Susan Collins number one, Lisa Murkowski at seven. You're you're
more quote unquote bipartisan than Lisa Murkowski.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
The Luger Center.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Luger was a gun control guy, a global warming guy,
dreamat guy, amnesty guy, and a huge Trump critic, all
while supposedly a Republican.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We don't need his type. It says everything that the Luger.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
Center thinks the world of John Cornyan's voting record, and
every Republican primary who I guess is a radical is
where he's having problems today.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
And interesting enough, Richard Luger, I think, was the last
Republican to lose in a primary as a US senator.
He is he definitely set the trend for John Cornyn,
and John corn is walking right down that path.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well knowing that they're losing and knowing that about seventy
five percent of Republican voters who've been pulled consistently throughout
this process do not want the seventy four year old
four term senator to go back for number five and
attack Trump and work with Fune and refuse to pass
the Save Act.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
But their argument now has turned not to whether he.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Would get anything done and is a good guy, or
anything related to his record, which he has none to
run on that's positive among the base because he's upset,
I guess the radicals. But now they say, well, Ken
Paxton can't win in November. Vote for me now, even
though you don't want to. Don't vote for the guy
you want because nobody will vote for him in November.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
What do you say to that?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
It's a pretty pathetic argument. First of all, it's unsubstantiated,
just made up, just like every position he now holds,
saying he sports Trump when he hated Trump the whole time,
just like saying he's for the border wall but he
never was. So this idea that I can't want to
I can't want to get a Democrat. I've had three
state Wider recollections that I did very well, and I
(29:12):
want I'm three for three. And also, if you look
at the polling. I actually do as well or better
than him when you look at the polling against whatever
Democrat ends up being there. So it's unsubstantiated, made up,
But that's what he's doing. The whole campaign is made
up about him being a different guy than he really is,
(29:33):
and it made up about me.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
What is the campaign strategy, It's it's a distance down
the road. We don't know who comes out of Democrat primary,
Crocketer or tallerco tell Rico's claiming that they have the
lead now, But what is the message statewide to Textans
once you if you win the primary, what is the
message that unites us in November to win?
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I think there's a lot of issues in United I
mean every American security, the budget, every budget of every
American should care about fair and free elections. Every American
should care about with the threat of China. Every American
should care about their taxes, and every American should care
about the bad healthcare we're getting from Obamacare. So there's
lots of issues I believe that affects every single Texan
(30:20):
and that I think would make sense that the Independence
and some Democrats.
Speaker 6 (30:24):
I hope it's an interesting phenomenon We're at an interesting
time where you're sitting us senator is saying to the
base of his own party that if they don't vote
for him, they're radical. And every one of those positions
that he would claim makes them quote unquote radical, are
positions that he's campaigning on but has no credibility.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
I think that says everything.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
It says everything. So the very things that those people
care about he's running on right now for the first
time in his life because he feels like he has to,
but he doesn't believe them, and he will call you
in name, calls me a name for actually believing in
some of the things that he thinks are radical.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It's very disturbing.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
If you would take a minute and a half and
remind voters before they vote tomorrow, I thing about forty
percent still will be out to vote.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Who is Kim Paxton?
Speaker 7 (31:16):
Who are you?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Why should folks vote for you in the Senate primary?
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I think for me, the difference between me and him
is he talks a lot of rhetoric. It's just not true.
I have a record of conservative values and fighting for Texas.
Whether I know whether it was my fights against Obama,
the twenty seven lawsuits against him in two years, the
fight against FIDE one hundred and seven lawsuits, or whether
it was fighting against big tech or big food, big pharma,
(31:42):
all of it. Well, I've tiken on everybody, and it's
been at a cost to me. But that's why I'm here.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
I'm here to fight for Texas and happy in Texas
Independence Day to you as well, Ken Paxton, good luck
to you.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Thanks.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
You know, folks, I've been around politics as a pure observer.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Going back into the eighties. I've always been interested in it.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
I got myself engrossed in it when I came to
Houston in eighty nine. I have followed the players, I've
followed the process. I followed the elections and the governments
that comes after it. This is a good time, folks,
This is a good time that we have a real
choice for US Senate.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
We have a real choice whoever you vote for.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
We have a real choice to say to Washington, DC
that Texas will pick our senator. And if we don't
pick who you want, and you call Republicans radicals, there's
the pitched battle between you. Wonder why DC fails. You
can't blame it all on the Democrats. It's because of
nonsense like that.
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