Latest / The M&M Experience / The Texas Republican Race for Senate Takes a Turn

Transcript

The Texas Republican Race for Senate Takes a Turn · The M&M Experience

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The other brother GiB which is what BG's of course
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: stands for, Barry Robin Morris, their little brother Andy in
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. I just want to be hear everything.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Andy Gibb would have been sixty eight today, died way
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: back in eighty eight, so talented. And you know who
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: he dated for a while. No, oh, well do you
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: That would be Victoria Principle Pam of Dallas Faith, Dallas. Yeah, sweet,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: all right, all right, so how are we doing? Do
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: you go I feel? Do you feel we've been trolled?
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: This story went away? Will it resurface and make our
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: lives a nightmare? The Trump endorsement story, Well trolled by who? Trump? Well,
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not like he's never done this before.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: Sort of throw something out there, see how it's reacted to.
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: I tried him. You don't think he's going to do it.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: Which is, you don't think he You don't you think
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: he made it up when he said on truth Social
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going to endure. I'm gonna pick one person and
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: the two of them and that in that way, the
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: other person needs to step down. Paxton said he ain't
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: going anywhere, which I of course, of course, well.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Well, of course, Mike Iah. Do you think that Ken
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: Paxton after months of promising Texans a relief from from
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: what he perceives as the scourge of John Cornyn's inconsistent conservatism.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: That's the Paxton view that just because Trump says I
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: want the other guy, that Paxton's gonna go. Okay, I'm out.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Are you high? I'm not, I'm not.
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: I'm really torn on this. I don't think I'm high,
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: but I but I, first of all, I'm not as
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: confident as you are that either one of them can
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: easily beat taller Rico.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: Easily to take out easily. And I'm completely confident, and
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: I'll stipulate that Cornyan might beat him by eight, well,
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: Paxton might beat him by four, but either way that
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Baxton would lose, is well, or of course, or.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: Of course Cornon can beat him by four and Paxton
• 2:04
  Speaker 2: could lose by four. I mean, the convention at all,
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: the conventional wisdom is that from the establishment. And believe me,
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: I say that with a great deal of cynicism. So
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: I believe you know me, You and I we ain't
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: exactly establishment types. But the but the conventional wisdom for
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: those keeping score at home is that Cornan has a
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: much better chance of beating taller Rico than Paxton does.
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Paxton doesn't. And I don't buy that at all. Much better,
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, define much. I don't know. I'm going to
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: tell you one thing that's changed in me over the
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: last I don't know, a few weeks, the home stretch
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: of this, and then then the promise of twelve more
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: weeks of these guys bludgeoning each other. There is there
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: is no reason on God's earth why tall Rico should win.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: The unmasking of him is underwaye his self loathing, white
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: boy accountenance. You know, Mary could have aborted Jesus. Uh,
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: God requires open bar. It's just insane. There is zero
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: reason he is bad. He's bad, and I gotta tell
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: you I'm sticking with this. He offends Jasmine Crockett offends
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: me less, maybe substantially less. But here's here's the change
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: in me, and that is my confidence is mitigated. Not
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: because I think Texas is less conservative or Tallarico's all that,
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: not at all. I am concerned about the bad blood.
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: I'm concerned about both sides, about disgruntled corning people, or
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: disgruntled Paxton people failing to unite, failing to show up,
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: failing to dust themselves off, get over themselves and unite
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: to beat Tallarico. I am concerned in either direction that
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: some people might stay home.
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: So I've got a friend who's pretty sharp elbowed, and
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: he's a real red meat conservative in North Texas. Love
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: the guy, he pointed, and he knows Texas politics pretty
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: well too, he said. Paxton voters will never vote for Corn, period,
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: and there aren't enough independents to make up for the
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: Paxton voters staying home. So the question is, are Paxton
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: voters if they're not going to vote for Corn? And
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: would Corn voters vote vote for Paxton.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: I think that those are broad generalizations, but I think
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: that touches on sort of what I was referring to.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: I think I think that's a real danger. I think
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: after a few months, they listen, the morning of May
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: twenty seventh, this will be over. And then we got
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: all of June, all of July, all of August, September,
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: and October. That's a long time during which I think
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: people can get over it. I think people can get
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: over themselves. I think people can lick their wounds and
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: do what they know they have to do. But will
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: there be a faction if Cornin is the victor and
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: the standard bear. Will there be a portion of Paxton
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: Land that just can't do it? Even after months of
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: me badgering them and telling them, Okay, I understand your
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: guy lost, I totally get it. Does that make Senator
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Talarico okay with you? Kind of like that?
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: That's the part I never That's the part I never get.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: I neither never get people. You know, we got a
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: lot of keyboard warriors who are like they're melting down
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: right now over Trump's post. Oh I got to Tom
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: Traddap texted me middle of the night last night. Thank goodness,
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: I had the phone on silent. He said, he said,
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: if if if, uh, let me let me read this.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: If Trump endorses this rhino idiot John Cornyn, I'm done
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: with him forever. He'll be dead. To me, it's a
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: game changer. How would you calm down? Drama queen? Would
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: you knock it up? But that's what they do. They
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: get all hysterical and they act like they know. And
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: here's what I know. They don't know. Nobody knows. Nobody
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: knows how this is going to play out. The more
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: I learned about Tallarico. Did you see the Steve Toth
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: interview that he gave to UH to Andrew Covid'.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: He's in a car talking about having served with Tallerigo
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: in the legislature for years.
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: Good year, he said, he goes this guy. This guy
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: is a dark and wicked soul. He is a wicked
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen some of these clips. Now I
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: want to speak to the taller ye go clips because
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: I played one yesterday. Let me pull the curtain back
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: on my dear friend, Mark Davis. When's the last time
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: you've apologized for getting something wrong on your show?
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty three? No, I don't know. If something happens
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: on the fly where there's something that I misstate because
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: something was infron of me wrong or I screwed it up,
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: I will sometimes come back in the next segment and
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: go whoops. And usually it's just some little, some little
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: detail of something rather than a large misrepresentation of something.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: If I ever did that, of course I'll all make
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: that right.
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to make it good today.
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: In fact, I'm gonna apologize every hour to make sure
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: that it sticks because I played a clip yesterday that
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: I pulled off of social media. How do you, guys,
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: what's the workflow at the Mark Davis Show. Does ron
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: to play pull all your clips in advance or.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: Do you It's a completely collaborative effort. At when as
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: night is falling, she has sent me a library full
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: of clips she has found. Done the same, and wake
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: up the following morning, and then we both find other
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: things and it all goes into a big happy basket
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: of Slushy has found stuff I have found, and then
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: we just.
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: And then you have it ready to go.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: So in our case, I'm Benito Mussolini. Okay, I pull everything,
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: but there's no collaboration here, you know. I've just got
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: a great team and I pull everything. So and it
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: starts the night before like you, I'll be watching stuff
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: on social media before I go to bed, eight, nine,
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: ten o'clock. I'll send the team some clips. Then in
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: the morning, I'm up at six am and I start
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: going through the library.
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: I go through.
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: We have a service called Grabian. I go, I go
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: to X, I go to Media Eye, I go, I
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: go to hot Air, I go to all, I go
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: to Salem NewsChannel and I start pulling clips and I
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: send them to the team. There's a clip yesterday of
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: Tall Rico and the clip is the now famous or
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: I should say infamous clip of Tall Rico saying that
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: the southern border should be a giant front poor with
• 8:00
  Speaker 2: a welcome Matt there. Well, I didn't know there was more.
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: And when I played the clip and it literally said
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: him stand it was only eight seconds. And I got
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: it off of and I got it off another social
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: media account I know. Well they clipped it, they edited
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: it and they left out the part where he said
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: and a lock on the front door. Yes, well it
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: was weird because I got these. I started getting these
• 8:26
  Speaker 2: text messages. And look to the audience, to the Eminem
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: experienced fans, who, by the way, are going to get
• 8:32
  Speaker 2: be in for a real treat because we're going to
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: Eminem Eminem Extra. If you like what we do, we're
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: going to do a podcast exclusive only Mark and Mark
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: and Mike, maybe as early as next week.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: We'll imagine anyways, imagine us with no clock ticking, oh
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: my lord.
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: And no filters and and and guess what, and no
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: FCC restrictions is because I'm I I know that you
• 8:53
  Speaker 2: cussed like a like a like a sailor.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: Only I'm kidding.
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: I'm kidding, I'm teasing. So anyway, I pull this clip,
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: and I got these texts yesterday, and I played it
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: a lot yesterday. I plopped. I probably played that clip
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: twenty times, which makes it even worse, because I'm like, look,
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: how bad this guy is. He thinks the southern border
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: should be a giant front porch with a welcome act.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: What's right? How good?
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: Blah blah?
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: So then I get I get these texts. I'm like, well, Mike,
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: you're taking him out of context. You're not playing the
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: full clip. And I thought, all these are tallar Rico supporters.
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: Go away, knock it off, right? Why get home? Last night,
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: I fly back from New York, I settle in and
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: I watch your buddy Will Caine. Will Caine plays a
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: brief clip too. He just happened to put it in context,
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: and he concluded, when I saw and a lock on
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: the front door, I fell off the couch. I thought,
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: oh my lord, I have played and I didn't mean it.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't, but this people have to understand this stuff
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: means something to us. The part gig is getting stuff
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: right and being complete and because we always go after
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: people for how sloppy and slovenly they are, and sometimes
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: it's intentional. But but but.
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: Just so, well, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, and I
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: and I and look, it's a great teaching moment if
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: this is a teachable thing about when you pull stuff
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: off social media makes sure and now we always have
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: to already have to deal with AI exactly, this.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: Is before you even get to AI. Look, I found
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 10:26
  Speaker 2: Marilyn Manson, but but I'm but I'm kicking myself because
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: I and I promise we'll do better and I actual
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: thank you. We're gonna set the record straight on the
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: show today. By the way, our buddy Tom track.
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: Before you that before you leave, that Tallerco is an
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: open border's weasel. I mean, you're right on the detail
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: of this. He absolutely is, and well open borders accolytes.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, I'm not. I'm not sure adding the
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: and a lock on the door makes it much better.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, because the imagery of our border being an
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: open front porch with a welcome mated. He is suggesting
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: that it's a welcoming attitude with a lock on the door.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: What the hell does that mean. It means that he
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: wants to give a key to every living, breathing soul
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: that wants to get my house has a lock on
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: the door, which meaningless if the entire world has a key.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Thank you. By the way, our friend Tom Tradup is
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: really backing down a little bit off of his position
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: with John Corny. He said, I would let me let
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: me see what you said. I would write in the
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: I would write in the Tourette's guy from the bath
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: To Awards rather than vote for John Cornyan.
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: So Tom's holding back. He's hold people are everybody? Everybody
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: rush Trump? It'll be rushed trus Trump. What does that mean?
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: Of course we do. But what does that mean?
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: Well, get ready. He's probably about to endorse John Cornyan.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: I just want everybody to be ready for that. And
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: guess what if if he endorses John Cornyan, then go
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: with John Cornyan, go with Trush.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Try And I'm not even speaking necessarily for me. No, yes,
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: because number one, number one, it's not going to happen.
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: I will tell you what much going to happen. That
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: that waves of Paxton supporters will go, oh, my leader
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: has said I must change, I must vote for Cornyn.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: That is so stupid. You know what he's wait. I
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: think it will backfid Mark, mister President. We love Mark,
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: well not Mark.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: We haven't even gotten to the hole in the weeds
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: thing about the palace intrigue. You want to know why
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: Corny might be the guy for Trump the Save Act?
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Corny crazy. He's a powerful influential senators and there's a rumor,
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: and there's a rumor that there's a backroom deal going
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: on the corner is going to help secure the passage
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: of the Save Act.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: If Cornon won't do this anyway just because it's the
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: right thing to do, he's a snake. And if John
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: fun is floating this, it's like, well, I'll get more
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: excited about the Save Act if you'll just endorse my boy.
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: Then John fun is a snake. This notion. We're supposed
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: to feel better about this because we got the Save Act.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: We should have had the flipping Save Act.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: By now I know, and and and all the whole
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: election could hinge on this. But look, they he may
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: they may be snakes, but there are snakes, and you're
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: gonna have to live with them. You gotta deal with them.
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: And mean, there's this is the problem. Cornyan is an incumber.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: It is hard to beat an incumbent. Mark is ask
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: South Carolina. They've been belly aching about Lindsey Graham for
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: one hundred years. Of course he ain't going anywhere. So
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: guess what. Cornan may not be going anywhere either. And
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to get you ready for it that
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: you may have to go ready.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: But if you're right about that, and you may be,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: then let the marketplace have it. Say. If Cornyn's you know,
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: the greatest things in sliced bread, he's going to win.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Why is it.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: I'm following my dear leader. I'm following our fearless leader.
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: I will do what Donald Trump.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Tells me to do.
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: I will vote for John Carnan. No, well, let's see.
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: Let the game come to us. As a spartsman always says, thank.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: You, it is the Thursday Mike Gallagher Show. He is
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: ready to roll ten o'clock soon as we're done. Ready
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: on six sixty am, he answered,