December 4, 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, Neil Smith and old Buck Buddy.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Are you hearing Neil?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Neil?
Speaker 4 (00:09):
I miss you, man.
Speaker 5 (00:11):
I have a question we respect for.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Me down breaking a major story. Chris, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Listen to a single score podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Well, I was away on vacation something.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm not going to celebrate over anybody's death, but I
will say that Dick Cheney died, and Dick Cheney and
his progeny have been unrelenting pains in the rear end
of the America First movement for quite some time now.
So I whereas I'm not going to celebrate the man's death,
(01:08):
I'm not going to all of a sudden because he's dead,
start heaping praise on a guy who has been really
one of the obstacles of returning prosperity, security, and an
America First posture back to our government. I'm not going
to celebrate that. I mean, Dick Cheney was not that
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Liz Cheney is not that I can on a human level.
I can feel for the loss of the Cheney patriarch,
but that's about all. I am not going to salute
quote service to the country when I believe his service
was a disservice in many, many ways. But I wasn't
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the only one talking about the funeral. First said Dick Cheney.
I think I think the funeral for Dick Cheney kind
of informs you as to why I couldn't be in
a celebratory mood for his life. Here's Scott Jennings, who
(02:12):
is the only conservative to my knowledge, over at CNN.
Here's what he had to say about it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Well, the thing that jumped out at me was seeing
Rachel Maddow at this funeral. I mean, when I first
saw your staff, thought, am I living on earth? To
Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral. I mean, remember
what they called Dick Cheney before they called Donald Trump hitler.
They were calling Dick Cheney hitler, war criminal, needs to
be in jail, and so on. All he had to
do was one thing to get Rachel Maddow there. He
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voted against Trump in twenty twenty four. I mean, that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
They hated, hated, hated, hated.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh you voted against Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Now we love you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
And so to me, the transparency of this is sort
of disgusting. Look, this is establishment Washington. They all knew
each other for years. You got to remember, Cheney was
the youngest White House Chief of staff under Ford.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, you know, that's what it takes to make Democrats
love you is you've got to hate Trump. You know
that this is this is so just seedy and unseemly
in my mind, Rachel Maddow. Leftists showing up to honor
Dick Cheney. They called the guy Darth Vader. They called
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the guy, as Scott Jennings points out, a war criminal.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
They did everything, they despaired. They called Bush a monkey,
they disparaged Bush. But hey, they're great Republicans, now, why
because they turned on an America first president. They turned
on America first principles because they didn't like they didn't
like Donald Trump. They didn't like that he didn't owe
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them anything. I think Jennings is onto something here.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
He was in the House, he was in the House leadership,
he was Secretary of Defense, he was vice president for
two terms. I mean he's been working with these guys,
you know, for his entire life and by the way,
pretty effective bureaucratic operator.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean, he got things done.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
And let me just tell me, Look, I work for
these guys, okay, worked in the Bush Cheney White House
worked on both campaigns.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'll tell you one thing about Dick Cheney.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
The man hated radical Islamic terrorists more than anything in
this world. And that's pretty much what he dedicated himself
to doing, killing them and stopping them from hurting Americans.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And so I don't think you can ever criticize that.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, wait a minute, how's that working out for us?
We've got Sharia law courts springing up in Texas of
all places. Right, You've got radical Islamis that have taken
over Minnesota, taken over Michigan, taken over konclaves all over
this country with the expressed purpose of replacing Americans, getting
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rid of Christianity. There is a genocide of Christians in
the Middle East. I'm sorry, But the fact that that
Dick Cheney maybe recognized the threat of radical Islam, what
lasting impacted he make that wasn't undone by Barack Hussein,
Obama and Beijing Biden.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
But this is official Washington, and the divide is did
you stand against Trump or did you go with Trump?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Now?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Interestingly, even though Cheney was against him in twenty four
when a lot of Republicans weren't with Trump in sixteen,
Cheney actually stepped up and said, no, I'm for Trump.
I'm voting for Trump, And it was kind of a
shot in the arm for Trump back in the sixteen campaign.
In fact, I think Cheney actually went to the Republican
National Convention to show his support and Bush did not,
So he went on a little bit of a roller tie.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
He voted for him and endorsed him in sixteen.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yes, sir, and I'll tell you this, I don't you know.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Look, his daughter, Liz Cheney became the biggest anti Trump person.
I don't begrudge a man for supporting his daughter. It
doesn't surprise me would be shocked if he did otherwise.
But what I find sort of just disgusting is, you know,
this guy spent his entire life as a Republican, as
a conservative. He goes against Trump one time, and all
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of a sudden, you got Rachel matt Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But you know it wasn't just Rachel Maddow, you know,
I mean, there are a lot of left leaning individuals there,
whether they call themselves Republicans or not. Like I said, folks,
I am not going to speak ill of the dead.
But I don't have to throw them a party either,
and I'm going to. I guess it's what they say.
There's an expression in show business, folks, and to an
(06:27):
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as good as your last show. And frankly, the last
show for Dick Cheney was being vehemently opposed to the
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Speaker 1 (10:19):
All right, folks, it's talk to Brandon Walton, senior editor
there at the Texas Scorecard. My man, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Hey, always good to be on, Chris.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You and I were talking earlier today and we were
discussing about what we'd be talking about on this podcast,
and you know, with you and me and a couple
of other folks over at Scorecard, I think it's just
kind of beneficial for us to wrap because, you know,
some of my sources may not be yours. Some of
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interests you, and vice versa. And we can make a
(10:46):
pretty good podcast by just you know, quizzing each other.
But I'm going to start, you know, it's the Sousador
Storm podcast. I'm gonna start with you. What is on
your radar screen? Well, you've been following here lately in
Texas politics.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, this is an interesting, you know time year obviously,
is where we're headed towards the end of the year here.
We've we've got a lot of things on the horizon
for twenty twenty six and i'd say the biggest one,
the most immediate one, of course, is these upcoming elections.
You know, it's gonna be really interesting, Chris. Normally we're
talking about a lot of Texas legislative races, especially this
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last cycle, and there's certainly some of those. You've seen
some retirements in the Texas House for example, and you know,
you certainly have some candidates there. But I'd say what
differentiates this election more than say two or four years ago,
is the sheer number of contested races, open races that
we're going to see on the congressional level, So not
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only in Congress, but of course you know the Senate
race that that's taking. You know, a lot of attention
here with the John Cornyn's two challengers, Wesley Hunt and
Ken Paxton. You know that one's been been really interesting,
Chris Ian. You've seen some of these polls that have
come out. I don't think we've seen a time we've
seen an incumbent senator in any state whole as poorly
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against primary challengers as John Cornan has.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, and you know, I was talking about that on
the radio show. And I don't know if you remember
how much you listened to the Rush Limbaughs show, but
Rush was very pointed about describing why Trump was so
effective and why he why he was able to maintain
support among his voters. And it was an observation that
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Rush made saying, look, Trump developed this bond with his
voters that only Trump can break. Right. The media didn't
create Trump. He and his voters have this Bond. I
think it's the same way with Ken Paxton. A lot
of Texas voters recognize that he's been there trying to
defend them and their families from left wing kooks, freaks
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and nuts, and John Cornyan is just the opposite. They
know that he's the one been selling us out to
those aforementioned Kooch's freaks and nuts. And that's why I
think he's performing so badly is that Texas was really
harmed by Democrats, and you know, John Cornyan has defined
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his career about enabling and getting along with the very
same people that have hurt so many Texans in the
Democrats Socialist Party. That's my read. What do you think?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I think you're exactly right, and I think that that
shows in this polling. I mean we've had, now, just
in recent weeks, multiple polls that have shown John Cornan
in third place, not in second place, but in third
place behind Ken Paxton and Congressman Wesley Hunt. That's I mean,
that's honestly the kind of position where if you're an
incumbent senator, you know a lot of people would be
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looking at maybe I should just bow out at this race. Now,
John Cornan, has you know said that, no, he's pressing forward.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
This is expected to cost a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Of money for the establishment, right Senate leadership fund those
sorts of groups that come in and back incumbent senators.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
This is gonna be a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And frankly, I mean a lot of people are looking
at and say, this is money that might be better
used trying to increase the Republican majority in Congress and
in the Senate. But instead it looks like, you know,
this this race is we're gonna see millions and millions
of dollars pour in for John Cornyan. Now, whether or
not that actually has an effect, we'll see. There was
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one particularly interesting poll that shows that even if President
Donald Trump endorsed John Cornyan, which he hasn't done so
far this.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Cycle, he did six years ago and he won't.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But even if he does, right, which is you know,
I think the Cornin campus is sort of pinning that
as their you know, sort of hope that maybe, you know,
if Trump decides to endorse him for one razon or another,
maybe they can make it across. This pulling shows that
even with a Trump endorsement, Cornyn still lags and loses
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against Paxton and hunt and so that's you know, that's
a really uh that's a really bad position for uh,
for any incumbent to be in, and really just shows
I think, how how tired a lot of a lot
of Texans, a lot of voters are of you know,
the uh, the politicians that have been there for you know,
for so long.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Uh and it delivered so little.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, and failed so much, you know. And about the
Republican Senatorial Committee, I hope they go bankrupt. I hope,
I hope they throw tens tens of millions of more
dollars at John Cornyn and a and he gets he
gets tarred and feathered and swamped. And then I hope
somebody in the Republican Party says, who was the dumbass
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who made the decision to to throw tens of millions
of dollars at a loser like John Cornan who many
people live in debate, that he's a real Republican, right,
And then I hope somebody loses their job and is
never regarded. And frankly, I hope the Republican Senatorial Committee
is bankrupted because as a Texan, I I have to
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be honest with you. I resent the hell out of
these people trying to impose this panty waste on us.
I find John cornan offensive. I find John Cornyan to
be a betrayer and an enabler of those who have
done so much damage to our state, the Democrats, Socialist Party,
and I resent. I resent that I'm trying to keep
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it clean. There's several things I want to say about
these people in the National Republican Senatorial Committee, but let's
just just just leave it there. I resent them for
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, a lot of people certainly feel that way. I
think that's going to be motivating a lot of people.
Remember that race is going to be at the top
of the ballot, So when people do vote in the
primary in March, that one's going to be the number
one yep, and right behind it, depending on where people live,
are going to be a ton of races.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
For the US House.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So, of course, with the redistricting fight, and we expect,
you know, Supreme Court, we'll uphold that with these new
congressional maps that create potentially five new Republican leaning districts,
well that's five open races where uh, you know, Republican
candidates are going to be are going to be vying
to be the Republican candidate Republican nominee on those ballots.
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Add that to the fact that we actually have six
openings of people that are Republicans that are leaving Congress. Now.
Some of them, like Wesley Hunt right, are leaving because
they're running for another office. Chip Roy of course running
for Attorney General. H But then you've got others Michael McCall,
Troy Nells just recently announced he's not running for real
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action twin.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
His twin, Trevor Nells, is announcing he's gonna run for
that seat.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Right yeah, his his brother, Right, it's you know, kind
of announced, and so you know, we'll see if they're
able to carry it on.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I know that, you know, just from.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Knowing folks who live in that area down there kind
of in the in the Houston area, that both of
the Nells are are are pretty well liked among a
lot of the voters there, and so we'll see if
there might just be a new Nell's moving in.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
But you know, he's got the name ID going for him, right.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, exactly exactly. And so you've got at least, you know,
eleven competitive congressional races just on the fact that they
are open seats alone, and so you know that'll be
really interesting to see, is what does the makeup of
this look like, and what does this look like as
we head into November, into these midterms. You know, the
questions are how many of these of these new newly
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created seats will ultimately go Republican?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Right, And you know about all us talk about the
elections congressional or otherwise, I would be remiss if I
didn't point out what's been going on with the Secretary
of State Jane Nelson. Look, there is nothing that prevents
Jane Nelson from looking at the opinion issued by the
Attorney General of Texas which says that allowing Democrats to
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weigh into Republican primary contests is a violation of the
ability to freely associate with whom you want to associate. Again,
it's government imposing onto two private organizations, the Republican Party
and the Democrat Party, UH forced association with the other side.
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And it's it's completely and I agree with with Ken
Paxton on this, that is completely unconstitutional. And the Secretary
of State, if she wanted to stop Democrats from voting
in Republican primaries, she would have sided with him. But no,
she's decided to side with a law that a lot
of scholars I talk to find it find it is
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completely unconstitutional, and she's gonna she's gonna spend millions of
our tax payer dollars to defend it. So how is
that factoring in a with your coverage? But b how
how is a woman who is largely being regarded now
as a rhino? How how was she impacting the complexion
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of these upcoming primary elections.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, it's a bizarre thing, and I think you framed
it exactly right, which is that, you know, this is
a situation where essentially the state government, in this case
the Secretary of State, who is you know, in charge
of enforcing Texas's election laws, but she's appointed by the
governor and confirmed by the Senate. You have the Secretary
of State out there essentially saying no, Democrats must be
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allowed to vote in the Republican primary election. Never mind
the fact that Republican voters themselves and said they don't
want that. Never mind the fact that the party has
changed its rules as a private, you know, organization, and
said no, they don't want that to happen. And never
mind the fact that so many other states don't have
this right right to at least register as a Republican
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or a Democrat before you can vote in those primaries.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
And it, you know, it just makes.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Sense the fact that you have the Secretary of State
actually on the other side of an issue, as our
Attorney General, Ken Paxton, Right, Attorney General Ki Paxton actually
took the you know, rather unusual unusual step of actually
sighting with the party against the secretary of state. Really
and and so that's not done every day certainly where
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you see the attorney general normally is representing the state
in these matters. It just it just shows you, I think,
what a divide there is between the establishment political class
and in the actual Republican voters. If you're somebody like
you know, tie it back to what we were talking about.
But frankly, if you're somebody like John Cornyon, I mean,
he's somebody who has not really weighed in on this.
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When he did when he was asked about it, he
sort of gave this answer that didn't really say anything.
He said, well, I want everybody who was able to
vote for Donald Trump to be able to vote in
the Republican primary. Well, are you foreclosing them or not.
It wasn't really an answer. And you know, unfortunately, I
think a lot of people look at this and they say, well,
we know the answer, and that's that so many people
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have benefited for so long from this open primary system
where you know, if they can get close enough, if
they can get within striking distance of winning, then they
can have Democrats help pull them over the edge.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
We've seen it in so.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Many races, especially down ballot, right some Texas House races.
But certainly it's something that benefits people up and down
the ballot.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's what it's all about, right there, which you said
about Democrats being able to pull squishy Republicans who are
really Democrats over the finish line. That's what it's about.
Getting enough uninformed Republican voters to side with the guy
who's always been there, whether it be corn In, whether
it be some of these state house races, just allowing
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the Democrats to choose to keep conservatives out and to
choose their preferred weak need Republican who will give the
Democrats a chance at getting some of their policies, ruinous
policy us he's implemented in Texas. That's what it's all about, isn't.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
No. I think that's that's that's exactly right. Yeah, and
the fact too, I mean, I think I think we
need to remember that this is a fight, not that
the party has just picked up all of a sudden.
This is something that has been going on for years
that they've tried to implement in every possible way that's
actually led up to where we are now, which is
where there's a lawsuit and it's in court. And you know,
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this isn't going to be something that's solved before the
primary elections, you know, in twenty twenty six. But now
we're looking at an eye with for with twenty twenty
eight and saying, you know, surely if the if the
legislature is not going to do the right thing and
pass a law that makes this more clear, and if
the Secretary of State's not going to do the right thing,
and then the party really has no other option but
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to turn to the courts.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, well, I'm I really wish they could make a
difference before twenty six, because that's that's this is our year.
This is this is the make or break year, whether
or not we're going to continue to be Texas or
whether or not we're going to we're going to all
backward and and potentially, Uh, there's just a lot at
stake on the national level and in Texas. So what
do you got from me anything?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Well, well, absolutely, I'm interested to hear what you think about.
You know, I think it's been really interesting to see
Governor Governor Abbott lately, uh, sort of sort of leaning
in and taking some different actions against some of these
Muslim organizations, like the Council for American Islamic Relations. They've
been going back and forth and their cares actually uh,
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you know, filed a lawsuit against him because he's of
course named them as a foreign terrorist organization. This is
something that Governor has taken a lot of action on recently.
But but I mean this is something I know you have,
you've covered for for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Sure, you know, and I think this is the governor recognizing, Hey,
I'm I'm in an election year and we have been
seeing these these enclaves of Muslims who have come over
to this country by courtesy of Joe Biden and the Democrats,
Socialists and their non vetting ways. We've had one take
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the life of a National guardsman, guardsman in guardswoman in
the nation's capital just before Thanksgiving took her life. We've
we've got another unvetted one that is threatening us to
plant bombs in Fort Worth, Texas. He sits in a
jail now in Fort Worth, by the way, booked under
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the under the race of White because there are there
are no other selections that allow them to select you know,
Middle Eastern or accurately identify these people, you know. And
you can see Brandon, how that can be weaponized. Uh
and in a lot of ways.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
We talked to Sheriff Bill Waburn about that. He's saying, yeah,
that's got to change.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Anyway, So you've got this dynamic and this here's a
guy running for a historic term fourth term as governor
in in greg Abbott, and he's recognizing that his state
has become the epicenter of some of these enclaves that
haven't been imposing sharia lah. We got two functioning sharia
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law courts at least in North Texas, and it's happened
on his watch. And so that that's why he's coming
out against an unindicted co conspirator of nine to eleven care.
That's why he's coming out against the Muslim Brotherhood, which
is a designated terrorist organization in places like Egypt, in
places like the United States. It's common sense and it's
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low hanging fruit, but it's a way for the governor
to get ahead of the conversation and say I'm doing
something proactive and not having a lot of people focusing
on Wait a minute, it was during your tenure that
all of these enclaves sprung up, right, and so I
think just politically speaking, it was smarter the governor to
get out ahead of this and frame the discussion in
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the way he wants it framed. And he's actually doing
the right thing in calling out some of these groups.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's I think it's been
interesting to see some of the some of the reaction
from this, specifically from care Right, where they've you know,
thrown a lot of a lot of kind of epithets
and whistlers against the governors and you're calling him Israel
first and all this uh kind of I think showing
showing who they are, maybe underscoring exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Why why he why he did what he did right?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Well, again, what are they gonna say?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I mean, it's like, well, yeah, sure, we're unindicted co conspirators,
and we really resent the fact that Governor Grega. Abbot
is getting in the way of our mission, which is
to destroy the West. You know, so what are they
gonna say, Oh, yeah, this is all baseless. Wait a minute,
you're an unindicted co conspirator of nine to eleven. What
do you mean it's baseless. Nobody out there believes that
politically this is safe for Governor Abbott, but it's also
(27:44):
something that needs to happen. So it's it's one of
those rare things in politics where it's safe for it
for politician politically, but it's also the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
One more question too, is we as we look towards
these upcoming elections next year in the midterms. You know,
of course, as the liberty loving Latino, I'm sure you've
seen a lot of reports, granted from a lot of
the left wing outlets that are trying to make the
case that you know, just well, you know, Trump one
Hispanic men, you know, by you know, big numbers in
(28:19):
twenty twenty four, but he's losing them now.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You think there's any truth to that? And what do
we do going forward?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Well, I think there's truth to it in that all
you've seen is negative coverage. All you've seen is people
out there saying that that American citizens are being rounded
up because of the color of the skin. It's all lies,
but you know some people are going to believe that, right.
That's all you see, the steady drum beat from the
biased press that you know, a Maryland father is being deported,
(28:47):
not the fact that he's a terrorist, not the fact
that he's a gang member. But that's how it's being
phrased out there. So I think that there's there's going
to be individuals who may easily forget about what the
Biden regime did to their communities by unleashing rampant, uncontrolled
illegal immigration. But I think, you know, President Trump is
(29:08):
in the position now of governing, and what I think
the greater danger is is that some of these some
of these America First policies that are being implemented through
the executives, the executive orders, and through the executive power
have not been codified by the Republican Party in Congress,
and they run the risk of being seen by conservative
(29:32):
voters as a bunch of do nothings who are just
trying to run out the clock and hand over control
of the Congress to the Democrats so they can stop
Trump because it's it's really impacting their bottom line, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Which would be business as usual unfortunately from for a
lot of the people in Congress.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Unfortunately unfortunately. What else have we got out there that
we haven't covered that we're going to be looking at
in the pages of the Texas Scorecard and on your
fine program too.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Uh yeah, well, you know, in addition, you know, addition
of course to the elections, and you know this, uh,
this recent these recent actions against some of these Islamic
foreign terrorist organizations that that we've.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Been writing about.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
We we continue, of course to see uh you know,
big changes or at least calls for big changes in reform,
uh to a lot of our colleges and universities. I
know you've of course spoken with Robert Montoya about some
of the work they've done on this. But yeah, I
got to tell you, Chris, it's it's it's wild to
see there is a shift happening, if only for the
fact that I think people are starting to pay a
(30:36):
lot more attention to what's happening on public university campuses
because Ultimately these are It's one thing if it's a
private university, you can kind of you know, roll your eyes,
I guess added to a certain extent.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
But this case isn't send your kids there.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
In this case, it's okay, you cannot send your kids
to to some of these public universities, but your tax
dollars are still going there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, you know what, and on that vein, I don't
know if you caught what Brian Harrison just did. Uh
you know he was one of the leading uh uh
saber rattlers and calling for change at Texas A and
M after all of their woke bs and nonsense. Right, Well,
you know, Brian Harrison has turned into a one man
(31:22):
diversity inclusion equity welcome wrecking ball. I mean, d I
E die the die program being implemented. Brian Harrison found
out from the Texas Controller enforcing that that that diversity
inclusion equity hiring practices were still being implemented by the
state of Texas. If you were going to be hired here,
(31:44):
he went through the steps Brandon of actually referring Kelly
Hancock at the Comptroller's office to the Trump Department of
Justice for because he was he was implementing these policies
which were unlawful, not in Texas but on the federal
level as well. And when Kelly Hancock he couldn't call
Scott Braddock fast enough. When when Kelly Hancock got word
(32:09):
that he was going to be referred to the Trump
Justice Department for enabling diversity, inclusion, equity, cultural Marxism, basically,
he didn't about face and and canceled and canceled those
requirements on the Comptroller's page. It was done quietly, but
it happened.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It was a huge Well, that just shows you how
entrenched these programs are, right, I mean, right, you know,
Kelly Hancock is he's in campaign season, right, He's up
for election.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
He's sort of he's.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
At the helmet of the Comptroller's office now, but he
wants to be elected to a term and he's running
for that. The last thing he wants is this to
become a campaign issue. And so you know, it just
it just shows you that even in a place like
the Comptroller's office at a time where there's been such
a movement to get rid of DEI, out of publicans addicitions, oh,
(33:01):
you'll still find it if you look hard enough, right, what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And Brian Harrison makes the point that our tax I
get back to your original point about taxpayer dollars flowing
to these universities, our taxpayer dollars are using being used
to implement these diversity inclusion, equity hiring practices across Texas
government against our will, against the law, you know, and
(33:24):
it's being implemented. So I mean, kudos to Brian Harrison.
I know that, Uh, there are some people who don't
who don't like his theatrics, but you know what, give
the man some credit for knowing which pressure points to push. He,
like you said, Hancocks, trying to trying to contextans into
electing him to be comptroller, which I think would be
(33:44):
an unmitigated disaster, but that's what he's trying to do,
so he doesn't want the negative pub and so we
actually were able to affect change. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, and that's uh, and that's that's a positive thing
when we when this can happen, and certainly U certainly
every he has has.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
A role to play.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
And that was you know man, as far as exposing
some of the DEI, I think Representative Harrison has done
a great job there.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Let's talk really quickly before I'll let you go. Essential
daily headlines that you put on. Tell the folks how that,
how often you drop that, where it drops and and
it's it's fun stuff because of what you cover there
a Texas scorecard.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Go ahead, Yeah, essentially, Yeah, just some of the big,
big headlines. We run through some of the big stories
from the day on. We put that out on x
on YouTube if you prefer to listen, We've got that
on podcast platforms. But you know, it's about about five
minutes every day, just to get you caught up before
before you you know, take off and uh and that's
(34:46):
of course all available at texascorecard dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, no, excuse not to be informed. I mean it's
only five minutes. And by the way, kudos to you
for understanding the nature of of the of the news
cycle and and how the information technology age is really
shortening our attention span. You're cramming everything into five minutes,
by the way. It correct me if I'm wrong. Last
I saw the numbers on your daily visits are just
(35:12):
skyrocketing because people are like, yeah, it's my information on
the go, I love it, right.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah, I think any people like you know, like being
able to get their news how they want to get it,
and so that's why we have so many different podcasts, videos, articles.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Basically we just try to make the information available to
anyone who wants it.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Great job out there, man, Thank you very much. Brandon
Walton's everybody senior editor at Texas Scorecard. The Daily Headlines
at Texas Scorecard makes sure you go their texascorecard dot
com and you can catch be informed, know what's going
on in the state in which you reside. Brandon's one
of the go to guys to do that.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Appreciate it, buddy always. Thanks Chris, that's going to do it.
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Me down breaking a major story. Chris, congratulations.
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Well, I was away on vacation something.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm not going to celebrate over anybody's death, but I
will say that Dick Cheney died, and Dick Cheney and
his progeny have been unrelenting pains in the rear end
of the America First movement for quite some time now.
So I whereas I'm not going to celebrate the man's death,
(01:08):
I'm not going to all of a sudden because he's dead,
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Liz Cheney is not that I can on a human level.
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but that's about all. I am not going to salute
quote service to the country when I believe his service
was a disservice in many, many ways. But I wasn't
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the only one talking about the funeral. First said Dick Cheney.
I think I think the funeral for Dick Cheney kind
of informs you as to why I couldn't be in
a celebratory mood for his life. Here's Scott Jennings, who
(02:12):
is the only conservative to my knowledge, over at CNN.
Here's what he had to say about it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Listen to this.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Well, the thing that jumped out at me was seeing
Rachel Maddow at this funeral. I mean, when I first
saw your staff, thought, am I living on earth? To
Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral. I mean, remember
what they called Dick Cheney before they called Donald Trump hitler.
They were calling Dick Cheney hitler, war criminal, needs to
be in jail, and so on. All he had to
do was one thing to get Rachel Maddow there. He
(02:40):
voted against Trump in twenty twenty four. I mean, that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
They hated, hated, hated, hated.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Oh you voted against Trump.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Now we love you.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's it.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
And so to me, the transparency of this is sort
of disgusting. Look, this is establishment Washington. They all knew
each other for years. You got to remember, Cheney was
the youngest White House Chief of staff under Ford.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah, you know, that's what it takes to make Democrats
love you is you've got to hate Trump. You know
that this is this is so just seedy and unseemly
in my mind, Rachel Maddow. Leftists showing up to honor
Dick Cheney. They called the guy Darth Vader. They called
(03:24):
the guy, as Scott Jennings points out, a war criminal.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
They did everything, they despaired. They called Bush a monkey,
they disparaged Bush. But hey, they're great Republicans, now, why
because they turned on an America first president. They turned
on America first principles because they didn't like they didn't
like Donald Trump. They didn't like that he didn't owe
(03:49):
them anything. I think Jennings is onto something here.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
He was in the House, he was in the House leadership,
he was Secretary of Defense, he was vice president for
two terms. I mean he's been working with these guys,
you know, for his entire life and by the way,
pretty effective bureaucratic operator.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I mean, he got things done.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
And let me just tell me, Look, I work for
these guys, okay, worked in the Bush Cheney White House
worked on both campaigns.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'll tell you one thing about Dick Cheney.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
The man hated radical Islamic terrorists more than anything in
this world. And that's pretty much what he dedicated himself
to doing, killing them and stopping them from hurting Americans.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And so I don't think you can ever criticize that.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Well, wait a minute, how's that working out for us?
We've got Sharia law courts springing up in Texas of
all places. Right, You've got radical Islamis that have taken
over Minnesota, taken over Michigan, taken over konclaves all over
this country with the expressed purpose of replacing Americans, getting
(04:45):
rid of Christianity. There is a genocide of Christians in
the Middle East. I'm sorry, But the fact that that
Dick Cheney maybe recognized the threat of radical Islam, what
lasting impacted he make that wasn't undone by Barack Hussein,
Obama and Beijing Biden.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
But this is official Washington, and the divide is did
you stand against Trump or did you go with Trump?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Now?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Interestingly, even though Cheney was against him in twenty four
when a lot of Republicans weren't with Trump in sixteen,
Cheney actually stepped up and said, no, I'm for Trump.
I'm voting for Trump, And it was kind of a
shot in the arm for Trump back in the sixteen campaign.
In fact, I think Cheney actually went to the Republican
National Convention to show his support and Bush did not,
So he went on a little bit of a roller tie.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
He voted for him and endorsed him in sixteen.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yes, sir, and I'll tell you this, I don't you know.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Look, his daughter, Liz Cheney became the biggest anti Trump person.
I don't begrudge a man for supporting his daughter. It
doesn't surprise me would be shocked if he did otherwise.
But what I find sort of just disgusting is, you know,
this guy spent his entire life as a Republican, as
a conservative. He goes against Trump one time, and all
(05:59):
of a sudden, you got Rachel matt Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But you know it wasn't just Rachel Maddow, you know,
I mean, there are a lot of left leaning individuals there,
whether they call themselves Republicans or not. Like I said, folks,
I am not going to speak ill of the dead.
But I don't have to throw them a party either,
and I'm going to. I guess it's what they say.
There's an expression in show business, folks, and to an
(06:27):
extent what I do on television and radio, You're only
as good as your last show. And frankly, the last
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Speaker 1 (10:19):
All right, folks, it's talk to Brandon Walton, senior editor
there at the Texas Scorecard. My man, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Hey, always good to be on, Chris.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
You and I were talking earlier today and we were
discussing about what we'd be talking about on this podcast,
and you know, with you and me and a couple
of other folks over at Scorecard, I think it's just
kind of beneficial for us to wrap because, you know,
some of my sources may not be yours. Some of
the stories that interested me, it may not be what
interests you, and vice versa. And we can make a
(10:46):
pretty good podcast by just you know, quizzing each other.
But I'm going to start, you know, it's the Sousador
Storm podcast. I'm gonna start with you. What is on
your radar screen? Well, you've been following here lately in
Texas politics.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, this is an interesting, you know time year obviously,
is where we're headed towards the end of the year here.
We've we've got a lot of things on the horizon
for twenty twenty six and i'd say the biggest one,
the most immediate one, of course, is these upcoming elections.
You know, it's gonna be really interesting, Chris. Normally we're
talking about a lot of Texas legislative races, especially this
(11:19):
last cycle, and there's certainly some of those. You've seen
some retirements in the Texas House for example, and you know,
you certainly have some candidates there. But I'd say what
differentiates this election more than say two or four years ago,
is the sheer number of contested races, open races that
we're going to see on the congressional level, So not
(11:40):
only in Congress, but of course you know the Senate
race that that's taking. You know, a lot of attention
here with the John Cornyn's two challengers, Wesley Hunt and
Ken Paxton. You know that one's been been really interesting,
Chris Ian. You've seen some of these polls that have
come out. I don't think we've seen a time we've
seen an incumbent senator in any state whole as poorly
(12:03):
against primary challengers as John Cornan has.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, and you know, I was talking about that on
the radio show. And I don't know if you remember
how much you listened to the Rush Limbaughs show, but
Rush was very pointed about describing why Trump was so
effective and why he why he was able to maintain
support among his voters. And it was an observation that
(12:28):
Rush made saying, look, Trump developed this bond with his
voters that only Trump can break. Right. The media didn't
create Trump. He and his voters have this Bond. I
think it's the same way with Ken Paxton. A lot
of Texas voters recognize that he's been there trying to
defend them and their families from left wing kooks, freaks
(12:51):
and nuts, and John Cornyan is just the opposite. They
know that he's the one been selling us out to
those aforementioned Kooch's freaks and nuts. And that's why I
think he's performing so badly is that Texas was really
harmed by Democrats, and you know, John Cornyan has defined
(13:13):
his career about enabling and getting along with the very
same people that have hurt so many Texans in the
Democrats Socialist Party. That's my read. What do you think?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
I think you're exactly right, and I think that that
shows in this polling. I mean we've had, now, just
in recent weeks, multiple polls that have shown John Cornan
in third place, not in second place, but in third
place behind Ken Paxton and Congressman Wesley Hunt. That's I mean,
that's honestly the kind of position where if you're an
incumbent senator, you know a lot of people would be
(13:45):
looking at maybe I should just bow out at this race. Now,
John Cornan, has you know said that, no, he's pressing forward.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
This is expected to cost a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Of money for the establishment, right Senate leadership fund those
sorts of groups that come in and back incumbent senators.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
This is gonna be a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
And frankly, I mean a lot of people are looking
at and say, this is money that might be better
used trying to increase the Republican majority in Congress and
in the Senate. But instead it looks like, you know,
this this race is we're gonna see millions and millions
of dollars pour in for John Cornyan. Now, whether or
not that actually has an effect, we'll see. There was
(14:23):
one particularly interesting poll that shows that even if President
Donald Trump endorsed John Cornyan, which he hasn't done so
far this.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Cycle, he did six years ago and he won't.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
But even if he does, right, which is you know,
I think the Cornin campus is sort of pinning that
as their you know, sort of hope that maybe, you know,
if Trump decides to endorse him for one razon or another,
maybe they can make it across. This pulling shows that
even with a Trump endorsement, Cornyn still lags and loses
(14:56):
against Paxton and hunt and so that's you know, that's
a really uh that's a really bad position for uh,
for any incumbent to be in, and really just shows
I think, how how tired a lot of a lot
of Texans, a lot of voters are of you know,
the uh, the politicians that have been there for you know,
for so long.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Uh and it delivered so little.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, and failed so much, you know. And about the
Republican Senatorial Committee, I hope they go bankrupt. I hope,
I hope they throw tens tens of millions of more
dollars at John Cornyn and a and he gets he
gets tarred and feathered and swamped. And then I hope
somebody in the Republican Party says, who was the dumbass
(15:39):
who made the decision to to throw tens of millions
of dollars at a loser like John Cornan who many
people live in debate, that he's a real Republican, right,
And then I hope somebody loses their job and is
never regarded. And frankly, I hope the Republican Senatorial Committee
is bankrupted because as a Texan, I I have to
(16:00):
be honest with you. I resent the hell out of
these people trying to impose this panty waste on us.
I find John cornan offensive. I find John Cornyan to
be a betrayer and an enabler of those who have
done so much damage to our state, the Democrats, Socialist Party,
and I resent. I resent that I'm trying to keep
(16:20):
it clean. There's several things I want to say about
these people in the National Republican Senatorial Committee, but let's
just just just leave it there. I resent them for
what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, a lot of people certainly feel that way. I
think that's going to be motivating a lot of people.
Remember that race is going to be at the top
of the ballot, So when people do vote in the
primary in March, that one's going to be the number
one yep, and right behind it, depending on where people live,
are going to be a ton of races.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
For the US House.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
So, of course, with the redistricting fight, and we expect,
you know, Supreme Court, we'll uphold that with these new
congressional maps that create potentially five new Republican leaning districts,
well that's five open races where uh, you know, Republican
candidates are going to be are going to be vying
to be the Republican candidate Republican nominee on those ballots.
(17:13):
Add that to the fact that we actually have six
openings of people that are Republicans that are leaving Congress. Now.
Some of them, like Wesley Hunt right, are leaving because
they're running for another office. Chip Roy of course running
for Attorney General. H But then you've got others Michael McCall,
Troy Nells just recently announced he's not running for real
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action twin.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
His twin, Trevor Nells, is announcing he's gonna run for
that seat.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Right yeah, his his brother, Right, it's you know, kind
of announced, and so you know, we'll see if they're
able to carry it on.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I know that, you know, just from.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Knowing folks who live in that area down there kind
of in the in the Houston area, that both of
the Nells are are are pretty well liked among a
lot of the voters there, and so we'll see if
there might just be a new Nell's moving in.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
But you know, he's got the name ID going for him, right.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, exactly exactly. And so you've got at least, you know,
eleven competitive congressional races just on the fact that they
are open seats alone, and so you know that'll be
really interesting to see, is what does the makeup of
this look like, and what does this look like as
we head into November, into these midterms. You know, the
questions are how many of these of these new newly
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created seats will ultimately go Republican?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Right, And you know about all us talk about the
elections congressional or otherwise, I would be remiss if I
didn't point out what's been going on with the Secretary
of State Jane Nelson. Look, there is nothing that prevents
Jane Nelson from looking at the opinion issued by the
Attorney General of Texas which says that allowing Democrats to
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weigh into Republican primary contests is a violation of the
ability to freely associate with whom you want to associate. Again,
it's government imposing onto two private organizations, the Republican Party
and the Democrat Party, UH forced association with the other side.
(19:20):
And it's it's completely and I agree with with Ken
Paxton on this, that is completely unconstitutional. And the Secretary
of State, if she wanted to stop Democrats from voting
in Republican primaries, she would have sided with him. But no,
she's decided to side with a law that a lot
of scholars I talk to find it find it is
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completely unconstitutional, and she's gonna she's gonna spend millions of
our tax payer dollars to defend it. So how is
that factoring in a with your coverage? But b how
how is a woman who is largely being regarded now
as a rhino? How how was she impacting the complexion
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of these upcoming primary elections.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, it's a bizarre thing, and I think you framed
it exactly right, which is that, you know, this is
a situation where essentially the state government, in this case
the Secretary of State, who is you know, in charge
of enforcing Texas's election laws, but she's appointed by the
governor and confirmed by the Senate. You have the Secretary
of State out there essentially saying no, Democrats must be
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allowed to vote in the Republican primary election. Never mind
the fact that Republican voters themselves and said they don't
want that. Never mind the fact that the party has
changed its rules as a private, you know, organization, and
said no, they don't want that to happen. And never
mind the fact that so many other states don't have
this right right to at least register as a Republican
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or a Democrat before you can vote in those primaries.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
And it, you know, it just makes.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Sense the fact that you have the Secretary of State
actually on the other side of an issue, as our
Attorney General, Ken Paxton, Right, Attorney General Ki Paxton actually
took the you know, rather unusual unusual step of actually
sighting with the party against the secretary of state. Really
and and so that's not done every day certainly where
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you see the attorney general normally is representing the state
in these matters. It just it just shows you, I think,
what a divide there is between the establishment political class
and in the actual Republican voters. If you're somebody like
you know, tie it back to what we were talking about.
But frankly, if you're somebody like John Cornyon, I mean,
he's somebody who has not really weighed in on this.
(21:39):
When he did when he was asked about it, he
sort of gave this answer that didn't really say anything.
He said, well, I want everybody who was able to
vote for Donald Trump to be able to vote in
the Republican primary. Well, are you foreclosing them or not.
It wasn't really an answer. And you know, unfortunately, I
think a lot of people look at this and they say, well,
we know the answer, and that's that so many people
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have benefited for so long from this open primary system
where you know, if they can get close enough, if
they can get within striking distance of winning, then they
can have Democrats help pull them over the edge.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
We've seen it in so.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Many races, especially down ballot, right some Texas House races.
But certainly it's something that benefits people up and down
the ballot.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
That's what it's all about, right there, which you said
about Democrats being able to pull squishy Republicans who are
really Democrats over the finish line. That's what it's about.
Getting enough uninformed Republican voters to side with the guy
who's always been there, whether it be corn In, whether
it be some of these state house races, just allowing
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the Democrats to choose to keep conservatives out and to
choose their preferred weak need Republican who will give the
Democrats a chance at getting some of their policies, ruinous
policy us he's implemented in Texas. That's what it's all about, isn't.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
No. I think that's that's that's exactly right. Yeah, and
the fact too, I mean, I think I think we
need to remember that this is a fight, not that
the party has just picked up all of a sudden.
This is something that has been going on for years
that they've tried to implement in every possible way that's
actually led up to where we are now, which is
where there's a lawsuit and it's in court. And you know,
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this isn't going to be something that's solved before the
primary elections, you know, in twenty twenty six. But now
we're looking at an eye with for with twenty twenty
eight and saying, you know, surely if the if the
legislature is not going to do the right thing and
pass a law that makes this more clear, and if
the Secretary of State's not going to do the right thing,
and then the party really has no other option but
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to turn to the courts.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, well, I'm I really wish they could make a
difference before twenty six, because that's that's this is our year.
This is this is the make or break year, whether
or not we're going to continue to be Texas or
whether or not we're going to we're going to all
backward and and potentially, Uh, there's just a lot at
stake on the national level and in Texas. So what
do you got from me anything?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Well, well, absolutely, I'm interested to hear what you think about.
You know, I think it's been really interesting to see
Governor Governor Abbott lately, uh, sort of sort of leaning
in and taking some different actions against some of these
Muslim organizations, like the Council for American Islamic Relations. They've
been going back and forth and their cares actually uh,
(24:33):
you know, filed a lawsuit against him because he's of
course named them as a foreign terrorist organization. This is
something that Governor has taken a lot of action on recently.
But but I mean this is something I know you have,
you've covered for for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Sure, you know, and I think this is the governor recognizing, Hey,
I'm I'm in an election year and we have been
seeing these these enclaves of Muslims who have come over
to this country by courtesy of Joe Biden and the Democrats,
Socialists and their non vetting ways. We've had one take
(25:06):
the life of a National guardsman, guardsman in guardswoman in
the nation's capital just before Thanksgiving took her life. We've
we've got another unvetted one that is threatening us to
plant bombs in Fort Worth, Texas. He sits in a
jail now in Fort Worth, by the way, booked under
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the under the race of White because there are there
are no other selections that allow them to select you know,
Middle Eastern or accurately identify these people, you know. And
you can see Brandon, how that can be weaponized. Uh
and in a lot of ways.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
We talked to Sheriff Bill Waburn about that. He's saying, yeah,
that's got to change.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Anyway, So you've got this dynamic and this here's a
guy running for a historic term fourth term as governor
in in greg Abbott, and he's recognizing that his state
has become the epicenter of some of these enclaves that
haven't been imposing sharia lah. We got two functioning sharia
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law courts at least in North Texas, and it's happened
on his watch. And so that that's why he's coming
out against an unindicted co conspirator of nine to eleven care.
That's why he's coming out against the Muslim Brotherhood, which
is a designated terrorist organization in places like Egypt, in
places like the United States. It's common sense and it's
(26:26):
low hanging fruit, but it's a way for the governor
to get ahead of the conversation and say I'm doing
something proactive and not having a lot of people focusing
on Wait a minute, it was during your tenure that
all of these enclaves sprung up, right, and so I
think just politically speaking, it was smarter the governor to
get out ahead of this and frame the discussion in
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the way he wants it framed. And he's actually doing
the right thing in calling out some of these groups.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's I think it's been
interesting to see some of the some of the reaction
from this, specifically from care Right, where they've you know,
thrown a lot of a lot of kind of epithets
and whistlers against the governors and you're calling him Israel
first and all this uh kind of I think showing
showing who they are, maybe underscoring exactly.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
Why why he why he did what he did right?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Well, again, what are they gonna say?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
I mean, it's like, well, yeah, sure, we're unindicted co conspirators,
and we really resent the fact that Governor Grega. Abbot
is getting in the way of our mission, which is
to destroy the West. You know, so what are they
gonna say, Oh, yeah, this is all baseless. Wait a minute,
you're an unindicted co conspirator of nine to eleven. What
do you mean it's baseless. Nobody out there believes that
politically this is safe for Governor Abbott, but it's also
(27:44):
something that needs to happen. So it's it's one of
those rare things in politics where it's safe for it
for politician politically, but it's also the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
One more question too, is we as we look towards
these upcoming elections next year in the midterms. You know,
of course, as the liberty loving Latino, I'm sure you've
seen a lot of reports, granted from a lot of
the left wing outlets that are trying to make the
case that you know, just well, you know, Trump one
Hispanic men, you know, by you know, big numbers in
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twenty twenty four, but he's losing them now.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
You think there's any truth to that? And what do
we do going forward?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Well, I think there's truth to it in that all
you've seen is negative coverage. All you've seen is people
out there saying that that American citizens are being rounded
up because of the color of the skin. It's all lies,
but you know some people are going to believe that, right.
That's all you see, the steady drum beat from the
biased press that you know, a Maryland father is being deported,
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not the fact that he's a terrorist, not the fact
that he's a gang member. But that's how it's being
phrased out there. So I think that there's there's going
to be individuals who may easily forget about what the
Biden regime did to their communities by unleashing rampant, uncontrolled
illegal immigration. But I think, you know, President Trump is
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in the position now of governing, and what I think
the greater danger is is that some of these some
of these America First policies that are being implemented through
the executives, the executive orders, and through the executive power
have not been codified by the Republican Party in Congress,
and they run the risk of being seen by conservative
(29:32):
voters as a bunch of do nothings who are just
trying to run out the clock and hand over control
of the Congress to the Democrats so they can stop
Trump because it's it's really impacting their bottom line, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Which would be business as usual unfortunately from for a
lot of the people in Congress.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Unfortunately unfortunately. What else have we got out there that
we haven't covered that we're going to be looking at
in the pages of the Texas Scorecard and on your
fine program too.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Uh yeah, well, you know, in addition, you know, addition
of course to the elections, and you know this, uh,
this recent these recent actions against some of these Islamic
foreign terrorist organizations that that we've.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Been writing about.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
We we continue, of course to see uh you know,
big changes or at least calls for big changes in reform,
uh to a lot of our colleges and universities. I
know you've of course spoken with Robert Montoya about some
of the work they've done on this. But yeah, I
got to tell you, Chris, it's it's it's wild to
see there is a shift happening, if only for the
fact that I think people are starting to pay a
(30:36):
lot more attention to what's happening on public university campuses
because Ultimately these are It's one thing if it's a
private university, you can kind of you know, roll your eyes,
I guess added to a certain extent.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
But this case isn't send your kids there.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
In this case, it's okay, you cannot send your kids
to to some of these public universities, but your tax
dollars are still going there.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Well, you know what, and on that vein, I don't
know if you caught what Brian Harrison just did. Uh
you know he was one of the leading uh uh
saber rattlers and calling for change at Texas A and
M after all of their woke bs and nonsense. Right, Well,
you know, Brian Harrison has turned into a one man
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diversity inclusion equity welcome wrecking ball. I mean, d I
E die the die program being implemented. Brian Harrison found
out from the Texas Controller enforcing that that that diversity
inclusion equity hiring practices were still being implemented by the
state of Texas. If you were going to be hired here,
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he went through the steps Brandon of actually referring Kelly
Hancock at the Comptroller's office to the Trump Department of
Justice for because he was he was implementing these policies
which were unlawful, not in Texas but on the federal
level as well. And when Kelly Hancock he couldn't call
Scott Braddock fast enough. When when Kelly Hancock got word
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that he was going to be referred to the Trump
Justice Department for enabling diversity, inclusion, equity, cultural Marxism, basically,
he didn't about face and and canceled and canceled those
requirements on the Comptroller's page. It was done quietly, but
it happened.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
It was a huge Well, that just shows you how
entrenched these programs are, right, I mean, right, you know,
Kelly Hancock is he's in campaign season, right, He's up
for election.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
He's sort of he's.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
At the helmet of the Comptroller's office now, but he
wants to be elected to a term and he's running
for that. The last thing he wants is this to
become a campaign issue. And so you know, it just
it just shows you that even in a place like
the Comptroller's office at a time where there's been such
a movement to get rid of DEI, out of publicans addicitions, oh,
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you'll still find it if you look hard enough, right, what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
And Brian Harrison makes the point that our tax I
get back to your original point about taxpayer dollars flowing
to these universities, our taxpayer dollars are using being used
to implement these diversity inclusion, equity hiring practices across Texas
government against our will, against the law, you know, and
(33:24):
it's being implemented. So I mean, kudos to Brian Harrison.
I know that, Uh, there are some people who don't
who don't like his theatrics, but you know what, give
the man some credit for knowing which pressure points to push. He,
like you said, Hancocks, trying to trying to contextans into
electing him to be comptroller, which I think would be
(33:44):
an unmitigated disaster, but that's what he's trying to do,
so he doesn't want the negative pub and so we
actually were able to affect change. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah, and that's uh, and that's that's a positive thing
when we when this can happen, and certainly U certainly
every he has has.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
A role to play.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
And that was you know man, as far as exposing
some of the DEI, I think Representative Harrison has done
a great job there.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Let's talk really quickly before I'll let you go. Essential
daily headlines that you put on. Tell the folks how that,
how often you drop that, where it drops and and
it's it's fun stuff because of what you cover there
a Texas scorecard.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Go ahead, Yeah, essentially, Yeah, just some of the big,
big headlines. We run through some of the big stories
from the day on. We put that out on x
on YouTube if you prefer to listen, We've got that
on podcast platforms. But you know, it's about about five
minutes every day, just to get you caught up before
before you you know, take off and uh and that's
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of course all available at texascorecard dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, no, excuse not to be informed. I mean it's
only five minutes. And by the way, kudos to you
for understanding the nature of of the of the news
cycle and and how the information technology age is really
shortening our attention span. You're cramming everything into five minutes,
by the way. It correct me if I'm wrong. Last
I saw the numbers on your daily visits are just
(35:12):
skyrocketing because people are like, yeah, it's my information on
the go, I love it, right.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Yeah, I think any people like you know, like being
able to get their news how they want to get it,
and so that's why we have so many different podcasts, videos, articles.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Basically we just try to make the information available to
anyone who wants it.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Great job out there, man, Thank you very much. Brandon
Walton's everybody senior editor at Texas Scorecard. The Daily Headlines
at Texas Scorecard makes sure you go their texascorecard dot
com and you can catch be informed, know what's going
on in the state in which you reside. Brandon's one
of the go to guys to do that.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
Appreciate it, buddy always. Thanks Chris, that's going to do it.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
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