September 17, 2025 • 36 mins
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Brandon Waltens, is a Senior Editor at Texas Scorecard. He is the host of the essential, Daily Headlines at Texas Scorecard.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, I'm you happy people.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Neil Smith and Old Buck Buddy. Are you hearing Neil?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Neil? I miss you, man, Donnes, I have a question
respect for me.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Down by breaking a major story, Chris, congratulations, scour podcast
(00:43):
because I'm recording this, folks. The unthinkable has happened. A
political assassination has just occurred. Charlie Kirk, the founder of
Turning Point USA, a man who showed up to college
campuses and debated the left wing orthodoxy on most college campuses,
has been shot and killed by one assassin's bullet. As
(01:07):
I'm talking to you right now. The authorities have not
caught the individual, which is leading a lot of people
in my line of work to ask some serious questions
about the skill that it took to hit Charlie Kirk.
According to authorities, two hundred yards away. There's video out
(01:28):
there showing a figure atop one of these buildings shooting
down at Charlie Kirk from two hundred yards away, And
how someone was in the crowd who, by some evaluation
I've been hearing from law enforcement former law enforcement individuals,
somebody in the crowd who was planted there to say
(01:52):
something along the lines of don't shoot me, don't shoot me,
or shoot me or something along those lines, a distraction
for police to take into custody. And then it was
determined he wasn't the individual. Then somebody else was in
custody was determined he wasn't the individual. So, as I'm
talking to you right now, folks, the shooter is at large.
(02:16):
The reaction from my conservative brethren is coming in fast
and furiously. A lot of things are being said, like,
for example, by Scott Jennings over at CNN. Have at
listened to what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I sat in this room last summer the night they
shot the president, and now they shot Charlie, and I'm
not sure it's safe to be an outspoken conservative walking
around in America right now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Wow, It's true. It isn't safe to be an outspoken
conservative right now because the left wing thinks the debate
is over, and the left wing has been under taking
law fair. They've been undertaking all manner of ways, deplatforming us,
trying to silence our voices. And we don't know who
(03:08):
this shooter was, but we do know who he killed.
A very in your face conservative, a conservative who not
only came to the table of the debate with facts
and was able to persuade a lot of left wingers
(03:29):
maybe not to be so left wing, and maybe even
won some converts out there, and it made him dangerous
to somebody. Somebody thought he was dangerous, and his primary
opponent was left wing orthodoxy.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So you do the math, and there's a lot of
people out there who are in absolute shock and are
horrified by this. And I don't know what's going to
happen other than to tell you that this nation is
in desperate need of prayer and some kind of an intervention,
(04:04):
because when you can't, I mean, what was Charlie doing
making a speech, engaging in rhetoric, having a debate. That's
the bedrock of our nation. And now you can't go
out in public and engage in speech. It's the opposite
of violence. Speech is the opposite.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It is we speak to one another, we debate with
one another, so we don't end up shooting at one another.
But there are those among us who don't want to
talk anymore, who are tired of talking, because I would
rationalize to you, with the election of President Trump and
the America First Coalition, they're losing the debate. So in
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their little pea brained minds. The debate is over and
somebody is responsible for this who doesn't like what conservatives
have to say, or that conservatives are operating from a
fact base, or the fact that conservatives can make persuasive
arguments where the left can no longer do so. MSNBS
(05:13):
was taking to the airwaves as this assassination was going on,
and here is what MSNBS is Matthew Dowd. To be
fair to him, he uttered this before we found out
that Charlie Kirk had died, But this is what mister
Dowd had to say.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Listen, He's been one of the most divisive, especially devisive
younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing
this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
At certain groups.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to
hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I
think that's the environment we're in that people just you
can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have
and then saying these awful words and not expect awful
actions to take place.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, awful words that Matthew Dowd suggesting that Charlie Kirk
deserved to be killed because he was divisive? When did
being divisive become a death sentence in the United States
of America, where we're supposed to have the right of
free speech? Did when did that divisiveness become a death sentence?
(06:24):
Because if that's the new metric, mister Dowd, you are
quite the divisive figure yourself, sir, And you say many
things like you just said about Charlie Kirk that can
be interpreted as wicked things, as terrible things. And are
you suggesting that you, too, mister Dowd, should be up
for an assassination because you say divisive things as a
(06:48):
devoted member of the left. Then there was an inspirational speech,
folks from the governor of Utah. It was it was
spot on in me anyways, and not only because I
want you to hear it, but maybe it could be
something for posterity, as this podcast Praise God will live forever,
(07:09):
and maybe future generations can actually can actually look back
on this event, which is sure to be a turning point,
pun intended a turning point for our country. Here's what
the governor of Utah had to say.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
This is a dark day for our state. It's a
tragic day for our nation, and I want to be
very clear that this is a political assassination. We are
celebrating two hundred and fifty years of the founding of
this great nation, that founding document, the Declaration of Independence,
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That this great experiment on which we embark together two
hundred and fifty years ago, that we are endowed by
our creator with certain an alien rights. The first one
of those is life, and today a life was taken.
Charlie Kirk was first and foremost a husband and a
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dad to young children.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Spencer Cox fighting back obviously tears, as we all were
when we were reporting this. The fact that Charlie Kirk
left behind two small children who will see the horrific
video of his assassination, all their lives, and a wife,
a devoted wife, and his so called crime was speaking
(08:45):
out against the left.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
He was also very much politically involved, and that's why
he was here on campus.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, politically involved. Remember the days when an Americans were
encouraged to get involved in their politics, when Americans were
encouraged to take an active role in their government. That
is what self government's about. After all.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Charlie believed in the power of free speech and debate,
to shape ideas and to persuade people. Historically, our university
campuses in this nation and here in the state of
Utah have been the place where truth and ideas are
formulated and debated. And that's what he does. He comes
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on college campuses and he debates its foundational to the
formation of our country, to our most basic constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is. But those in the political left now disagree
with that. Those in the political left who I have
been making the case, they no longer wish to be Americans.
They don't revere debate, they don't revere the Constitution, they
don't revere our rights. And someone took Charlie Kirk very
(10:11):
very seriously, and the fact that he was persuading young minds. Now.
I don't know what the background of this individual is
yet as I'm speaking to you today, but if the
pattern holds, we are likely to find out that it
was someone on the left who no longer wanted to
debate Charlie Kirk. They wanted to shut him up. The
(10:33):
same type of individual that shot Steve Scalise, a crazed
Bernie Sanders supporter, the same types of individuals who rampage
through our streets in the ANTIFA and BLM riots that
they burned, they beat, they looked, they killed during the
George Floyd riots, using that George Floyd individual as an excuse.
(10:56):
Just like the man who stabbed that young girl on
a Charlotte, North Carolina Light Transit rail train stabbed her
for no reason, and video indicates that somebody on that
car was saying, I got that white girl. We don't
know if it was the accused killer yet, but I'm
(11:22):
sure that through forensic evidence and a trial, that information
will come out to folks. As Scott Jennings said, it's
no longer safe in the United States of America for
us who are conservatives, those who believe and traditional Americanism,
the constitution and the rule of law. And we have
(11:45):
to talk frankly, speak frankly about why we are no
longer safe. And I will play a SoundBite for you
that tells you why that the rhetoric that feeds into
all of this coming from Democrats, they call us Nazis,
they call the president a dictator why because he's enforcing
(12:07):
the law. They say that we're maga, that we're evil,
that we have to be stopped at all cost. And
then these same Democrats act shocked. Shocked, I tell you
when somebody takes a rifle and acts out against conservatives,
and will that stop their hate filled rhetoric like this?
Speaker 8 (12:28):
But Donald Trump obviously believes that this city is his
personal playground. He has deployed the US military to hit
its streets because he wants to feel powerful, because he
is a dictator.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And someone has already taken one shot at President Trump
and planned another two assassination attempts and miss and sorry
here congresswoman and sorry, who also says that illegal aliens
criminal illegal aliens are on a level playing field with
American citizens. She shows no signs of letting up on
(13:07):
the rhetoric that is leading to political assassinations in the country,
and neither are any of her ilk And I think
the American people should start to wake up when it's violence,
when it's anti americanism. There's one source in America, Democrats
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Always good to be on, Chris, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Good to have you here, sir. And look, for those
of you who are hearing this podcasts probably about a
six day delay between when we record these things five
to six days and when you hear them. And on
the day that Brandon and I are having our conversation
is the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I'm just
(17:33):
learning that they finally finally caught the guy, according to
Kash Patel, who allegedly shot him and killed him in
one of the most gruesome political assassinations that in recent memory. Brandon,
your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, I mean it's hard. I mean, like you said,
this just happened a few hours ago as we're recording
this right now, and it's just how absolutely shocking I mean,
you know, you see something like this and of course
your mind goes back to what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania,
what could have happened with President Donald Trump last year,
And now we see this happening again, in this time
successful in taking down Charlie Kirk. I think, you know,
(18:16):
I take I think we all take some comfort in
looking at, you know, some of his last social media posts,
some of the last statements he made where he was
you know, talking about his love for Christ and his
faith and ultimately reminding us all of what really matters.
But it's just absolutely tragic.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It is. And of course you and I are recording
this on the day before nine to eleven, and a
couple of people have approached me today saying, can you
believe that here we are twenty four years later and
we're still suffering terrorist attacks on our people.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Oh exactly. I mean, especially it's just on you know,
sort of different grounds. But yeah, this is definitely this
is definitely one of those events that I think is
shaking people up right now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Indeed, and I talked with Joe Degeneva and Victoria Tunsing
on the NEWSMAC Show just a few minutes ago from
yours and my vantage point. And they said they were
discussing and openly worried about what this means about what
it means for the country, about about the left taking
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conservatives in such a way. And the assumption is this
man was somebody from the left certainly not a Charlie
Kirk fan, we can definitely say that. And Charlie Kirk
was a staunch, reasoned conservative. So what worries a lot
of people is what this means for the country moving forward.
(19:53):
What about you?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, absolutely, I mean, especially when you think of, you know,
the the amount of young peop people in particular right
Turning Point USA has over nine hundred chapters on colleges
and universities across the country. There's a lot of people
who had brought into conservative not just conservative politics. That
almost makes it seem too small, but really, you know,
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sort of being brought into appreciating America and appreciating the family,
and appreciating faith and a lot of the things that
the Turning Point and Charlie Kirk in particular have espoused.
And so you know, it is certainly, I think a
very shaking moment for a lot of those people who
were you know, brought in, It brought into the movement
that way.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah. I talked to Christy Clark who said she wouldn't
be on my show. She wouldn't have become such an
advocate for conservatism if it weren't for Charlie Kirk. Sage
Steele said her kids were inspired by Charlie Kirk to
seek a different, an alternative view inside of their left
wing college institutions, saying that there is another way, and
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he was the one that challenge him to discover that
there is a debate, there is something else going on
out there. I don't want to and I don't want
to bore you with MSNBC and they're suggesting, Matthew Dowd
suggesting that Charlie Kirk deserved to be assassinated for his
divisive rhetoric. If divisive rhetoric is now a death sentence,
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I don't think that's the America most of us want
to live in.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No. I mean, I saw that clip, and I have
to say, I mean, there's not a lot that MSNBC
could say that would surprise me anymore, But geez, even that,
I mean, I don't even know that he was even
pronounced dead yet at that point, and they were already
doing that. It's just it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, well, you and I were scheduled to talk about
something that was well, actually, if you think about it,
tangentially tangentially related, because we're trying to undergo an effort
here the Republican Party of Texas is any way to
close primaries, to not give the left wing any say
in what we do in electoral politics, meaning they should
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not be able to put their thumbs on the scale
and choose the Republicans of their choice on the Democrat side.
And so to that end, because because the legislation was
not validated in the last legislative session, it is now
going the root of a lawsuit. But let's start there.
Why the legislation didn't move inside the legislature from fake
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Republicans like Matt Shaheen who refused to allow the bill
to come up for a hearing.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, so to sort of back up a little bit,
you know, Texas has open primaries, and the way that
these primary election work, you know, they differ state to state.
Some states have open primaries, some states have close primaries,
some states have a weird combination of both. But in
Texas we have had open primaries, which means in effect
that anybody can come up to the polls on primary
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election date. We're not talking about the general election in November, right,
We're talking about the primary elections where the parties are
selecting their candidates and they can say, you know what,
I want to vote on a Republican ballot today. It
doesn't matter if they're you know whereing, if they're you know,
big Bernie Sanders liberals, it doesn't matter that they voted
in every Democrat primary prior. There's absolutely no burden. They
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can show up and they can vote in the Republican primary.
And what this has meant practically is that in many races,
specifically down ballot. Right you look at some of the
Texas House races in particular, we have seen case after
case where Democrat voters who live in Republican leaning areas,
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areas that are drawn such that the Republican candidates going
to win the general election, they've decided that they have
more power by just voting in the Republican primary and
voting for the most liberal candidate on the ballot. We
saw this happen. I think the biggest example of this
was what happened with House Speaker Dade Feeland during the
election last cycle. He was pushed into a runoff. He
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narrowly escaped defeat by about three hundred votes. And yet
if you look at the election history and the election
voting history of those who elected there, you had thousands
of voters with Democrat voting histories. So it doesn't really
take a genius to put together that. Okay, well, it
was because Democrats helped push him over the edge. There
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There's been other cases of this as well. The party says,
for example, Representative Gary van Deaver, somebody who also narrowly
escaped a run off during the last cycle, had helped
from Democrats. And so that's how open primaries have worked,
and that's why Conservatives and the Republicans in general have
been moving to close the primary saying that no, instead
of doing that, you should be a registered Republican in
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order to vote. And that's exactly what delegates at the
convention for the Republican Party of Texas decided to do
last year.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Right and again. And this brings us to where we started.
The legislation that was supposed to be a priority for
the alleged Republican run Texas Legislature was supposed to be
codifying in law the closing of Texas primaries. Republicans can
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vote in Democrat primaries, Democrats can vote in Republican primaries,
and the legislation through court. I believe, and you know how,
you and I both know how things work in the
Texas House through coordination from fake Republican leadership, that the
Matt Shaheen did his duty, not for his constituents, not
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for the Republican Party, not for the state of Texas,
but it is duty to his fake Republican overlords and
said that doesn't get a hearing, that's not going to
take place. And that's precisely what happened.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No, well, yea and yes, and that would have been
the easy route, right. So the party has maintained that
if they want to close the primaries, the party is
a private organization and just like any other private organization,
it should have the right to determine who affiliates with it,
meaning that you know, people don't have a constitutional right
to go select who the Republican nominees are going to be.
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It's it's different, like I said, it's different from from
like a general election. Remember we're talking about the primaries,
and so the party has maintained that that's the case
either way. And yet it would be much easier, right,
I mean, the path of police resistance would be that
bill gets filed and the legislature moves through, gets signed
by the governor to really put that into law. That's
the easiest route. Unfortunately, despite legislation being filed in both
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the House and the Senate this last session, didn't get
a committee hearing in either chamber, didn't get any movement
at all. And so the party then turned and said, okay,
well the Secretary of State, Secretary of State in Texas
runs elections, he's in charge of that. They said, okay,
Secretary of State, we need we need you to implement this,
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because again we're a private party. We want to we
want only registered Republicans to vote. Will you implement this?
And the Secretary of State, Jane Nelson in her office,
had not moved at all on that, right, And so
that's where we are today, where now you have the
Republican Party of Texas filing a lawsuit. Certainly not their
first choice. I mean, nobody wants to sue the state.
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Nobody wants to drag these things into court. But I
think that you can kind of see that they really
had exhausted every option up to this point and just
for one simple thing, which is just the simple concept
that Republicans should be the ones choosing who the Republican
nominees are going to be.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And isn't it telling now, Look, Jane Nelson, we can
have that discussion a different day. But the fact that
those who we elect as quote unquote Republicans made sure
that the initiative to make sure that only Republicans were
choosing Republican candidates, that that process was still open to Democrats,
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there is really no excuse for that for that to
be There was no excuse for Matt Shaheen to not
to basically stop that legislation again at the behest of
his quote unquote leadership, to stop that. There is no
excuse for that.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Correct, No, I mean it's quite literally something that again
the party and party activists and and and it's been
pulled too. I think this was on, you know, as
one of the ballot propositions on the Republican ballot not
too long ago, where you had a vast majority of
Republican voters saying no, we want to close our primaries.
This makes no sense. Texas would not be the first.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
To do this.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Let's let's be clear about the rights they would join
states like Florida in New York, right, I mean, I
think you know, there's a lot of states where people
talk about, oh, I'm a registered Republican or I'm a
registered Democrat. That's what they're talking about. We're just talking about, Hey,
just you simply need to register. When you register to vote,
you need to register with the party. And that way
we don't have people just deciding on the day of
that they want to vote in whatever parties prime mary
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that they decide they want to influence that day.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, folks are trying to talking to Brandon Walton's he
is the senior editor at Texas Scorecard. And well, then
let's go to the lawsuit. This is going to be expensive.
It's going to money. We shouldn't be spending on something
that's so elementary, something that's common sense. We shouldn't be
spending money on it. But we're forced to because of
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fake Republicans and their reliance on Democrat votes to win elections.
So we're going to have to go this lawsuit route.
What does it entail well.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
The lawsuits filed the Northern District of Texas to federal
lawsuit essentially is urging the Secretary of State in particular
to implement what their party has called for in running
their elections, which is just simply making a process for
voters to register with the party before they do that. Now, ideally,
in an ideal world, this would be adjudicated and put
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in place of the you know, twenty twenty six primaries,
which are you know, just just several months away. Now,
I think a more realistic timeline in you know, the
party has has sort of said this as well, is
looking forward towards twenty twenty eight as a more likely
timeline as to when these can actually be implemented. But
either way, the work has to start now. The legislature
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could have done something. They could, I suppose, do something
next session when they meet in twenty twenty seven, but
the party is not going to wait around again. They've
they've done what they're supposed to do there, and now
they're taking it to court conceivably.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I mean, this, this is what we're going to see
play out. We're going to see in this I believe
this was the strategy all along from Dusty the Democrat Burroughs,
and from Matt Shaheen and the thirty five who are
remaining fake Republicans. They wanted to have one more legislative session.
Maybe they can wait out the Conservatives. Maybe they can
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pull off a couple of legislative victories, they and their
Democrat voevoters, and maybe they can keep the Texas House
from being in Republican hands for just for just one
more session, so they can do some more damage and
stop all these Republican slash conservative efforts from being undertaken
in the legislature.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'm just wondering.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I mean, have you talked to anybody interviewing anybody that
says what is their endgame and and what is their
rationale for saying, Hey, we Republicans believe the Democrats ought
to be able to vote for us in our primaries.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Well, if you you know, if you try to listen
to any of the members that publicly oppose this, By
the way, most members want publicly oppose this. They just
behind the scenes will work for killing right right. But
but are the ones that do try to come up
with the rationale. They'll say something like, oh, well, we
want to we want to be welcoming. You know, we've
got Democrats and moving over to the Republican Party. We
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want to be welcoming to them. And look, I get it. Hey,
the more the merrier, right we want. Republican Party is
growing in Texas. I think that's great. That's a very
different thing than a primary election. Right, this is uh,
this is uh not exactly you know, entry level for
for people. This isn't exactly what we want to welcome
(32:13):
Democrats in to go vote in our primaries.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So and they could if they were so devoted to
Republicans brand. And let's let's be clear, the voters could
switch their party affiliation.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
They could register. It's not a it's not even a
big hurdle what we're talking about, right, it's just simply registering,
you know, and not you know, deciding on the day up.
I mean, uh, currently your voter registration you have to
be registered a month before the election. You know, it's
not a ton of time. And I think it's it's
(32:43):
pretty reasonable to have people do that. I think that
stops a lot of what we see, especially in these
runoff elections where they turnout is so low and you
have you know, Democrats being pushed Democrats who may not
even voted in the primary election, but Democrat that's being
pushed to go out and vote in the run offsin
That's what we've seen happen in some of these legislative races.
(33:04):
And that's I think why you have so many members
who might benefit from this or have friends in the
legislature who benefit from it, why they've been so opposed.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
And let's not forget. Same day voter registration was again
implemented by none other than Match Shaheen, who snuck that
in in the dead of night, and again with a
recognition that he gets elected out of left wing kook
votes and that he will, and that he wanted to
make sure that he continues to be elected not by conservatives,
(33:35):
because he's doing some pretty naughty things as far as
conservatives are concerned, but they get that he gets elected
by Democrats in a Republican primary. To me, man, this
was a very well coordinated effort by fake Republicans to
basically hide the fact that they are there to serve
(33:55):
the left and not not Republicans.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I think you're exactly right. I mean, I think that
this is this is one of those issues where you
really do see the divide between you know, the UNI
Party whatever you want to call it, in Austin and
in the voters themselves. And so hopefully as this lawsuit
moves forward, hopefully it gets traction. Hopefully you know this,
this wrong is able to be able to be corrected.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I hope you're right. And has is it a FATA
complead that it's not going to be in time for
the twenty twenty sixth election? Is that what the party
is telling you? Was there a possibility it could be expedited?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
The party sort of acknowledges in the lawsuit that it's
unlikely to be in effect in twenty twenty six and
even from a from a practical perspective, right at this point,
to get all Republican voters registered and all that with
this short of notice probably difficult. Now, the party has
made the point that they have been pushing for this
(34:54):
now for over a year, specifically since the party rules
were changed, and they were told to wait on legislature,
and then they were told to wait on the Secretary
of State, and so they're saying, we don't want to
wait anymore, and so let's at least lay out the groundwork.
So that we can get this done by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
And maybe could You and I are not lawyers, but
I'm wondering if there could be any injunctive relief. Where
the courts told us to wait for the for the legislature,
we were told to wait for the Secretary of State,
We waited, we waited, and now the eminent harm is
coming by allowing Democrats to vote in our primaries, the
(35:30):
eminent harm is coming. Could we use this as an
impetus for an expedited hearing. I'm just talking, I'm just throwing,
I'm spit bowling out there.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Maybe yeah, you know, I'm not a lawyer either, but
it sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Well, I'll be after I get off this podcast with you,
I'm going to be calling Abraham George and I'm going
to be putting that out to him, saying, yeah, maybe
we can evince some judge somewhere to say, look, you
need to expedite this because the imminent harm is coming,
and we're calling at the twenty twenty six primary. Brandon waltons,
if folks want to check out what you're all about
work and they go.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
We're at texascorecard dot com or I'm on X at
b Walton's all.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right, buddy, always appreciate the conversation, and especially coming on
a day like this where a lot of conservatives have
some pretty heavy hearts.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Thank you man, Absolutely you as well.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
That there's going to put a wrap on this Salcedo
Storm podcast. Maybe this is one you archive, folks, because
I have a sense it's going to be one that
is going to be significant that perhaps on this day
this podcast was recorded, will go down as a turning
point in our country that so many conservatives have observed
(36:39):
and will until we visit again. My friends, remember this.
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Neil Smith and Old Buck Buddy. Are you hearing Neil?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Neil? I miss you, man, Donnes, I have a question
respect for me.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Down by breaking a major story, Chris, congratulations, scour podcast
(00:43):
because I'm recording this, folks. The unthinkable has happened. A
political assassination has just occurred. Charlie Kirk, the founder of
Turning Point USA, a man who showed up to college
campuses and debated the left wing orthodoxy on most college campuses,
has been shot and killed by one assassin's bullet. As
(01:07):
I'm talking to you right now. The authorities have not
caught the individual, which is leading a lot of people
in my line of work to ask some serious questions
about the skill that it took to hit Charlie Kirk.
According to authorities, two hundred yards away. There's video out
(01:28):
there showing a figure atop one of these buildings shooting
down at Charlie Kirk from two hundred yards away, And
how someone was in the crowd who, by some evaluation
I've been hearing from law enforcement former law enforcement individuals,
somebody in the crowd who was planted there to say
(01:52):
something along the lines of don't shoot me, don't shoot me,
or shoot me or something along those lines, a distraction
for police to take into custody. And then it was
determined he wasn't the individual. Then somebody else was in
custody was determined he wasn't the individual. So, as I'm
talking to you right now, folks, the shooter is at large.
(02:16):
The reaction from my conservative brethren is coming in fast
and furiously. A lot of things are being said, like,
for example, by Scott Jennings over at CNN. Have at
listened to what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I sat in this room last summer the night they
shot the president, and now they shot Charlie, and I'm
not sure it's safe to be an outspoken conservative walking
around in America right now.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Wow, It's true. It isn't safe to be an outspoken
conservative right now because the left wing thinks the debate
is over, and the left wing has been under taking
law fair. They've been undertaking all manner of ways, deplatforming us,
trying to silence our voices. And we don't know who
(03:08):
this shooter was, but we do know who he killed.
A very in your face conservative, a conservative who not
only came to the table of the debate with facts
and was able to persuade a lot of left wingers
(03:29):
maybe not to be so left wing, and maybe even
won some converts out there, and it made him dangerous
to somebody. Somebody thought he was dangerous, and his primary
opponent was left wing orthodoxy.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
So you do the math, and there's a lot of
people out there who are in absolute shock and are
horrified by this. And I don't know what's going to
happen other than to tell you that this nation is
in desperate need of prayer and some kind of an intervention,
(04:04):
because when you can't, I mean, what was Charlie doing
making a speech, engaging in rhetoric, having a debate. That's
the bedrock of our nation. And now you can't go
out in public and engage in speech. It's the opposite
of violence. Speech is the opposite.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
It is we speak to one another, we debate with
one another, so we don't end up shooting at one another.
But there are those among us who don't want to
talk anymore, who are tired of talking, because I would
rationalize to you, with the election of President Trump and
the America First Coalition, they're losing the debate. So in
(04:48):
their little pea brained minds. The debate is over and
somebody is responsible for this who doesn't like what conservatives
have to say, or that conservatives are operating from a
fact base, or the fact that conservatives can make persuasive
arguments where the left can no longer do so. MSNBS
(05:13):
was taking to the airwaves as this assassination was going on,
and here is what MSNBS is Matthew Dowd. To be
fair to him, he uttered this before we found out
that Charlie Kirk had died, But this is what mister
Dowd had to say.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Listen, He's been one of the most divisive, especially devisive
younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing
this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
At certain groups.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
And I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to
hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I
think that's the environment we're in that people just you
can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have
and then saying these awful words and not expect awful
actions to take place.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah, awful words that Matthew Dowd suggesting that Charlie Kirk
deserved to be killed because he was divisive? When did
being divisive become a death sentence in the United States
of America, where we're supposed to have the right of
free speech? Did when did that divisiveness become a death sentence?
(06:24):
Because if that's the new metric, mister Dowd, you are
quite the divisive figure yourself, sir, And you say many
things like you just said about Charlie Kirk that can
be interpreted as wicked things, as terrible things. And are
you suggesting that you, too, mister Dowd, should be up
for an assassination because you say divisive things as a
(06:48):
devoted member of the left. Then there was an inspirational speech,
folks from the governor of Utah. It was it was
spot on in me anyways, and not only because I
want you to hear it, but maybe it could be
something for posterity, as this podcast Praise God will live forever,
(07:09):
and maybe future generations can actually can actually look back
on this event, which is sure to be a turning point,
pun intended a turning point for our country. Here's what
the governor of Utah had to say.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
This is a dark day for our state. It's a
tragic day for our nation, and I want to be
very clear that this is a political assassination. We are
celebrating two hundred and fifty years of the founding of
this great nation, that founding document, the Declaration of Independence,
(07:52):
That this great experiment on which we embark together two
hundred and fifty years ago, that we are endowed by
our creator with certain an alien rights. The first one
of those is life, and today a life was taken.
Charlie Kirk was first and foremost a husband and a
(08:16):
dad to young children.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Spencer Cox fighting back obviously tears, as we all were
when we were reporting this. The fact that Charlie Kirk
left behind two small children who will see the horrific
video of his assassination, all their lives, and a wife,
a devoted wife, and his so called crime was speaking
(08:45):
out against the left.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
He was also very much politically involved, and that's why
he was here on campus.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, politically involved. Remember the days when an Americans were
encouraged to get involved in their politics, when Americans were
encouraged to take an active role in their government. That
is what self government's about. After all.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Charlie believed in the power of free speech and debate,
to shape ideas and to persuade people. Historically, our university
campuses in this nation and here in the state of
Utah have been the place where truth and ideas are
formulated and debated. And that's what he does. He comes
(09:35):
on college campuses and he debates its foundational to the
formation of our country, to our most basic constitutional rights.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
It is. But those in the political left now disagree
with that. Those in the political left who I have
been making the case, they no longer wish to be Americans.
They don't revere debate, they don't revere the Constitution, they
don't revere our rights. And someone took Charlie Kirk very
(10:11):
very seriously, and the fact that he was persuading young minds. Now.
I don't know what the background of this individual is
yet as I'm speaking to you today, but if the
pattern holds, we are likely to find out that it
was someone on the left who no longer wanted to
debate Charlie Kirk. They wanted to shut him up. The
(10:33):
same type of individual that shot Steve Scalise, a crazed
Bernie Sanders supporter, the same types of individuals who rampage
through our streets in the ANTIFA and BLM riots that
they burned, they beat, they looked, they killed during the
George Floyd riots, using that George Floyd individual as an excuse.
(10:56):
Just like the man who stabbed that young girl on
a Charlotte, North Carolina Light Transit rail train stabbed her
for no reason, and video indicates that somebody on that
car was saying, I got that white girl. We don't
know if it was the accused killer yet, but I'm
(11:22):
sure that through forensic evidence and a trial, that information
will come out to folks. As Scott Jennings said, it's
no longer safe in the United States of America for
us who are conservatives, those who believe and traditional Americanism,
the constitution and the rule of law. And we have
(11:45):
to talk frankly, speak frankly about why we are no
longer safe. And I will play a SoundBite for you
that tells you why that the rhetoric that feeds into
all of this coming from Democrats, they call us Nazis,
they call the president a dictator why because he's enforcing
(12:07):
the law. They say that we're maga, that we're evil,
that we have to be stopped at all cost. And
then these same Democrats act shocked. Shocked, I tell you
when somebody takes a rifle and acts out against conservatives,
and will that stop their hate filled rhetoric like this?
Speaker 8 (12:28):
But Donald Trump obviously believes that this city is his
personal playground. He has deployed the US military to hit
its streets because he wants to feel powerful, because he
is a dictator.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
And someone has already taken one shot at President Trump
and planned another two assassination attempts and miss and sorry
here congresswoman and sorry, who also says that illegal aliens
criminal illegal aliens are on a level playing field with
American citizens. She shows no signs of letting up on
(13:07):
the rhetoric that is leading to political assassinations in the country,
and neither are any of her ilk And I think
the American people should start to wake up when it's violence,
when it's anti americanism. There's one source in America, Democrats
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Always good to be on, Chris, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Good to have you here, sir. And look, for those
of you who are hearing this podcasts probably about a
six day delay between when we record these things five
to six days and when you hear them. And on
the day that Brandon and I are having our conversation
is the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I'm just
(17:33):
learning that they finally finally caught the guy, according to
Kash Patel, who allegedly shot him and killed him in
one of the most gruesome political assassinations that in recent memory. Brandon,
your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, I mean it's hard. I mean, like you said,
this just happened a few hours ago as we're recording
this right now, and it's just how absolutely shocking I mean,
you know, you see something like this and of course
your mind goes back to what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania,
what could have happened with President Donald Trump last year,
And now we see this happening again, in this time
successful in taking down Charlie Kirk. I think, you know,
(18:16):
I take I think we all take some comfort in
looking at, you know, some of his last social media posts,
some of the last statements he made where he was
you know, talking about his love for Christ and his
faith and ultimately reminding us all of what really matters.
But it's just absolutely tragic.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
It is. And of course you and I are recording
this on the day before nine to eleven, and a
couple of people have approached me today saying, can you
believe that here we are twenty four years later and
we're still suffering terrorist attacks on our people.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Oh exactly. I mean, especially it's just on you know,
sort of different grounds. But yeah, this is definitely this
is definitely one of those events that I think is
shaking people up right now.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Indeed, and I talked with Joe Degeneva and Victoria Tunsing
on the NEWSMAC Show just a few minutes ago from
yours and my vantage point. And they said they were
discussing and openly worried about what this means about what
it means for the country, about about the left taking
(19:31):
conservatives in such a way. And the assumption is this
man was somebody from the left certainly not a Charlie
Kirk fan, we can definitely say that. And Charlie Kirk
was a staunch, reasoned conservative. So what worries a lot
of people is what this means for the country moving forward.
(19:53):
What about you?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
No, absolutely, I mean, especially when you think of, you know,
the the amount of young peop people in particular right
Turning Point USA has over nine hundred chapters on colleges
and universities across the country. There's a lot of people
who had brought into conservative not just conservative politics. That
almost makes it seem too small, but really, you know,
(20:17):
sort of being brought into appreciating America and appreciating the family,
and appreciating faith and a lot of the things that
the Turning Point and Charlie Kirk in particular have espoused.
And so you know, it is certainly, I think a
very shaking moment for a lot of those people who
were you know, brought in, It brought into the movement
that way.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Yeah. I talked to Christy Clark who said she wouldn't
be on my show. She wouldn't have become such an
advocate for conservatism if it weren't for Charlie Kirk. Sage
Steele said her kids were inspired by Charlie Kirk to
seek a different, an alternative view inside of their left
wing college institutions, saying that there is another way, and
(20:58):
he was the one that challenge him to discover that
there is a debate, there is something else going on
out there. I don't want to and I don't want
to bore you with MSNBC and they're suggesting, Matthew Dowd
suggesting that Charlie Kirk deserved to be assassinated for his
divisive rhetoric. If divisive rhetoric is now a death sentence,
(21:22):
I don't think that's the America most of us want
to live in.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
No. I mean, I saw that clip, and I have
to say, I mean, there's not a lot that MSNBC
could say that would surprise me anymore, But geez, even that,
I mean, I don't even know that he was even
pronounced dead yet at that point, and they were already
doing that. It's just it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Yeah, well, you and I were scheduled to talk about
something that was well, actually, if you think about it,
tangentially tangentially related, because we're trying to undergo an effort
here the Republican Party of Texas is any way to
close primaries, to not give the left wing any say
in what we do in electoral politics, meaning they should
(22:06):
not be able to put their thumbs on the scale
and choose the Republicans of their choice on the Democrat side.
And so to that end, because because the legislation was
not validated in the last legislative session, it is now
going the root of a lawsuit. But let's start there.
Why the legislation didn't move inside the legislature from fake
(22:30):
Republicans like Matt Shaheen who refused to allow the bill
to come up for a hearing.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, so to sort of back up a little bit,
you know, Texas has open primaries, and the way that
these primary election work, you know, they differ state to state.
Some states have open primaries, some states have close primaries,
some states have a weird combination of both. But in
Texas we have had open primaries, which means in effect
that anybody can come up to the polls on primary
(22:59):
election date. We're not talking about the general election in November, right,
We're talking about the primary elections where the parties are
selecting their candidates and they can say, you know what,
I want to vote on a Republican ballot today. It
doesn't matter if they're you know whereing, if they're you know,
big Bernie Sanders liberals, it doesn't matter that they voted
in every Democrat primary prior. There's absolutely no burden. They
(23:21):
can show up and they can vote in the Republican primary.
And what this has meant practically is that in many races,
specifically down ballot. Right you look at some of the
Texas House races in particular, we have seen case after
case where Democrat voters who live in Republican leaning areas,
(23:41):
areas that are drawn such that the Republican candidates going
to win the general election, they've decided that they have
more power by just voting in the Republican primary and
voting for the most liberal candidate on the ballot. We
saw this happen. I think the biggest example of this
was what happened with House Speaker Dade Feeland during the
election last cycle. He was pushed into a runoff. He
(24:04):
narrowly escaped defeat by about three hundred votes. And yet
if you look at the election history and the election
voting history of those who elected there, you had thousands
of voters with Democrat voting histories. So it doesn't really
take a genius to put together that. Okay, well, it
was because Democrats helped push him over the edge. There
(24:25):
There's been other cases of this as well. The party says,
for example, Representative Gary van Deaver, somebody who also narrowly
escaped a run off during the last cycle, had helped
from Democrats. And so that's how open primaries have worked,
and that's why Conservatives and the Republicans in general have
been moving to close the primary saying that no, instead
of doing that, you should be a registered Republican in
(24:49):
order to vote. And that's exactly what delegates at the
convention for the Republican Party of Texas decided to do
last year.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Right and again. And this brings us to where we started.
The legislation that was supposed to be a priority for
the alleged Republican run Texas Legislature was supposed to be
codifying in law the closing of Texas primaries. Republicans can
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vote in Democrat primaries, Democrats can vote in Republican primaries,
and the legislation through court. I believe, and you know how,
you and I both know how things work in the
Texas House through coordination from fake Republican leadership, that the
Matt Shaheen did his duty, not for his constituents, not
(25:37):
for the Republican Party, not for the state of Texas,
but it is duty to his fake Republican overlords and
said that doesn't get a hearing, that's not going to
take place. And that's precisely what happened.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No, well, yea and yes, and that would have been
the easy route, right. So the party has maintained that
if they want to close the primaries, the party is
a private organization and just like any other private organization,
it should have the right to determine who affiliates with it,
meaning that you know, people don't have a constitutional right
to go select who the Republican nominees are going to be.
(26:12):
It's it's different, like I said, it's different from from
like a general election. Remember we're talking about the primaries,
and so the party has maintained that that's the case
either way. And yet it would be much easier, right,
I mean, the path of police resistance would be that
bill gets filed and the legislature moves through, gets signed
by the governor to really put that into law. That's
the easiest route. Unfortunately, despite legislation being filed in both
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the House and the Senate this last session, didn't get
a committee hearing in either chamber, didn't get any movement
at all. And so the party then turned and said, okay,
well the Secretary of State, Secretary of State in Texas
runs elections, he's in charge of that. They said, okay,
Secretary of State, we need we need you to implement this,
(26:56):
because again we're a private party. We want to we
want only registered Republicans to vote. Will you implement this?
And the Secretary of State, Jane Nelson in her office,
had not moved at all on that, right, And so
that's where we are today, where now you have the
Republican Party of Texas filing a lawsuit. Certainly not their
first choice. I mean, nobody wants to sue the state.
(27:19):
Nobody wants to drag these things into court. But I
think that you can kind of see that they really
had exhausted every option up to this point and just
for one simple thing, which is just the simple concept
that Republicans should be the ones choosing who the Republican
nominees are going to be.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And isn't it telling now, Look, Jane Nelson, we can
have that discussion a different day. But the fact that
those who we elect as quote unquote Republicans made sure
that the initiative to make sure that only Republicans were
choosing Republican candidates, that that process was still open to Democrats,
(27:57):
there is really no excuse for that for that to
be There was no excuse for Matt Shaheen to not
to basically stop that legislation again at the behest of
his quote unquote leadership, to stop that. There is no
excuse for that.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Correct, No, I mean it's quite literally something that again
the party and party activists and and and it's been
pulled too. I think this was on, you know, as
one of the ballot propositions on the Republican ballot not
too long ago, where you had a vast majority of
Republican voters saying no, we want to close our primaries.
This makes no sense. Texas would not be the first.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
To do this.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Let's let's be clear about the rights they would join
states like Florida in New York, right, I mean, I
think you know, there's a lot of states where people
talk about, oh, I'm a registered Republican or I'm a
registered Democrat. That's what they're talking about. We're just talking about, Hey,
just you simply need to register. When you register to vote,
you need to register with the party. And that way
we don't have people just deciding on the day of
that they want to vote in whatever parties prime mary
(29:00):
that they decide they want to influence that day.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, folks are trying to talking to Brandon Walton's he
is the senior editor at Texas Scorecard. And well, then
let's go to the lawsuit. This is going to be expensive.
It's going to money. We shouldn't be spending on something
that's so elementary, something that's common sense. We shouldn't be
spending money on it. But we're forced to because of
(29:25):
fake Republicans and their reliance on Democrat votes to win elections.
So we're going to have to go this lawsuit route.
What does it entail well.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
The lawsuits filed the Northern District of Texas to federal
lawsuit essentially is urging the Secretary of State in particular
to implement what their party has called for in running
their elections, which is just simply making a process for
voters to register with the party before they do that. Now, ideally,
in an ideal world, this would be adjudicated and put
(29:59):
in place of the you know, twenty twenty six primaries,
which are you know, just just several months away. Now,
I think a more realistic timeline in you know, the
party has has sort of said this as well, is
looking forward towards twenty twenty eight as a more likely
timeline as to when these can actually be implemented. But
either way, the work has to start now. The legislature
(30:21):
could have done something. They could, I suppose, do something
next session when they meet in twenty twenty seven, but
the party is not going to wait around again. They've
they've done what they're supposed to do there, and now
they're taking it to court conceivably.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I mean, this, this is what we're going to see
play out. We're going to see in this I believe
this was the strategy all along from Dusty the Democrat Burroughs,
and from Matt Shaheen and the thirty five who are
remaining fake Republicans. They wanted to have one more legislative session.
Maybe they can wait out the Conservatives. Maybe they can
(30:57):
pull off a couple of legislative victories, they and their
Democrat voevoters, and maybe they can keep the Texas House
from being in Republican hands for just for just one
more session, so they can do some more damage and
stop all these Republican slash conservative efforts from being undertaken
in the legislature.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'm just wondering.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I mean, have you talked to anybody interviewing anybody that
says what is their endgame and and what is their
rationale for saying, Hey, we Republicans believe the Democrats ought
to be able to vote for us in our primaries.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Well, if you you know, if you try to listen
to any of the members that publicly oppose this, By
the way, most members want publicly oppose this. They just
behind the scenes will work for killing right right. But
but are the ones that do try to come up
with the rationale. They'll say something like, oh, well, we
want to we want to be welcoming. You know, we've
got Democrats and moving over to the Republican Party. We
(31:52):
want to be welcoming to them. And look, I get it. Hey,
the more the merrier, right we want. Republican Party is
growing in Texas. I think that's great. That's a very
different thing than a primary election. Right, this is uh,
this is uh not exactly you know, entry level for
for people. This isn't exactly what we want to welcome
(32:13):
Democrats in to go vote in our primaries.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
So and they could if they were so devoted to
Republicans brand. And let's let's be clear, the voters could
switch their party affiliation.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
They could register. It's not a it's not even a
big hurdle what we're talking about, right, it's just simply registering,
you know, and not you know, deciding on the day up.
I mean, uh, currently your voter registration you have to
be registered a month before the election. You know, it's
not a ton of time. And I think it's it's
(32:43):
pretty reasonable to have people do that. I think that
stops a lot of what we see, especially in these
runoff elections where they turnout is so low and you
have you know, Democrats being pushed Democrats who may not
even voted in the primary election, but Democrat that's being
pushed to go out and vote in the run offsin
That's what we've seen happen in some of these legislative races.
(33:04):
And that's I think why you have so many members
who might benefit from this or have friends in the
legislature who benefit from it, why they've been so opposed.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
And let's not forget. Same day voter registration was again
implemented by none other than Match Shaheen, who snuck that
in in the dead of night, and again with a
recognition that he gets elected out of left wing kook
votes and that he will, and that he wanted to
make sure that he continues to be elected not by conservatives,
(33:35):
because he's doing some pretty naughty things as far as
conservatives are concerned, but they get that he gets elected
by Democrats in a Republican primary. To me, man, this
was a very well coordinated effort by fake Republicans to
basically hide the fact that they are there to serve
(33:55):
the left and not not Republicans.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I think you're exactly right. I mean, I think that
this is this is one of those issues where you
really do see the divide between you know, the UNI
Party whatever you want to call it, in Austin and
in the voters themselves. And so hopefully as this lawsuit
moves forward, hopefully it gets traction. Hopefully you know this,
this wrong is able to be able to be corrected.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I hope you're right. And has is it a FATA
complead that it's not going to be in time for
the twenty twenty sixth election? Is that what the party
is telling you? Was there a possibility it could be expedited?
Speaker 3 (34:34):
The party sort of acknowledges in the lawsuit that it's
unlikely to be in effect in twenty twenty six and
even from a from a practical perspective, right at this point,
to get all Republican voters registered and all that with
this short of notice probably difficult. Now, the party has
made the point that they have been pushing for this
(34:54):
now for over a year, specifically since the party rules
were changed, and they were told to wait on legislature,
and then they were told to wait on the Secretary
of State, and so they're saying, we don't want to
wait anymore, and so let's at least lay out the groundwork.
So that we can get this done by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
And maybe could You and I are not lawyers, but
I'm wondering if there could be any injunctive relief. Where
the courts told us to wait for the for the legislature,
we were told to wait for the Secretary of State,
We waited, we waited, and now the eminent harm is
coming by allowing Democrats to vote in our primaries, the
(35:30):
eminent harm is coming. Could we use this as an
impetus for an expedited hearing. I'm just talking, I'm just throwing,
I'm spit bowling out there.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Maybe yeah, you know, I'm not a lawyer either, but
it sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Well, I'll be after I get off this podcast with you,
I'm going to be calling Abraham George and I'm going
to be putting that out to him, saying, yeah, maybe
we can evince some judge somewhere to say, look, you
need to expedite this because the imminent harm is coming,
and we're calling at the twenty twenty six primary. Brandon waltons,
if folks want to check out what you're all about
work and they go.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
We're at texascorecard dot com or I'm on X at
b Walton's all.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Right, buddy, always appreciate the conversation, and especially coming on
a day like this where a lot of conservatives have
some pretty heavy hearts.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Thank you man, Absolutely you as well.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
That there's going to put a wrap on this Salcedo
Storm podcast. Maybe this is one you archive, folks, because
I have a sense it's going to be one that
is going to be significant that perhaps on this day
this podcast was recorded, will go down as a turning
point in our country that so many conservatives have observed
(36:39):
and will until we visit again. My friends, remember this.
A society's worth isn't measured by how much power stolen
by government. A society's worth is measured by how much
power is reserved for you and me, we the people.
You keep fighting for freedom out there, my friends,
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