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The Morning After | Episode 20 · The Augarius Williams Show

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Speaker 2: Have a great show planned for you today.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go out on a limb and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to say that this may be the greatest episode
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Speaker 1: up to this point of the Agarius Williams show that
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Speaker 1: you're going to hear. This is episode 20. It's entitled
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Speaker 1: The Morning After. And for those of you, even if
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Speaker 1: you're not someone that's 100% locked in on politics, you'll
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Speaker 1: know exactly why I titled today's episode The Morning After.
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Speaker 1: Because here we are on a Wednesday, November the 4th, 2026,
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Speaker 1: on The Morning After. at least at the time I'm
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Speaker 1: recording this episode, the morning after the midterm elections. Before
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Speaker 1: we dive into it, as I like to do at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of each and every episode, I like to
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Speaker 1: remind you guys that I am neither a Republican nor
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Speaker 1: a Democrat. I'm someone who is currently, and potentially for
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Speaker 1: the rest of my life, politically homeless. I think both
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Speaker 1: political parties have done things that have put us in
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Speaker 1: the positions that we find ourselves in currently i don't
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Speaker 1: think that either political party really has the best interest
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Speaker 1: of the american people at heart and so with that
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Speaker 1: in mind i challenge anybody out there that's currently on
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Speaker 1: the fence about this current political system to come join
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Speaker 1: the rest of us that are politically homeless those of
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Speaker 1: us who understand that the way that this country is
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Speaker 1: set up, a government has to be in existence, but
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Speaker 1: also feels as though it wouldn't hurt if our current
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Speaker 1: system of government is torn down and rebuilt. So that
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Speaker 1: way we can get all the blatant corruption and other
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Speaker 1: nefarious things out of it. Now listen, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to come off as someone who is trying to lecture
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Speaker 1: people about why they're bad for being either a Democrat
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Speaker 1: or a Republican. What I'm here to do simply is
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Speaker 1: to call balls and strikes. I'm here to remind people
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Speaker 1: that our fight should not be with our next door
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Speaker 1: neighbor if they are of a different political stripe than
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Speaker 1: we are.
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Speaker 2: We should all.
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Speaker 1: Come together as everyday Americans and understand that our fight
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Speaker 1: should be collectively against those in Washington and those in
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Speaker 1: power who pull the puppet strings of those in Washington,
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Speaker 1: we should come together and fight them.
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Speaker 2: Because it's more of us than it is them.
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Speaker 1: And if we understood that basic fact, I think we
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Speaker 1: could find ourselves in a much better position as people.
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Speaker 1: But until that comes, here we are, continuing to squabble
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Speaker 1: over red versus blue so that's just something that for
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Speaker 1: those of you that are new i like to begin
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Speaker 1: each and every episode by discussing why it is that
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Speaker 1: i've found myself on the outside looking in when it
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Speaker 1: comes to the political party dynamic and why i think
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be such a bad idea for you to
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Speaker 1: come join us once again if you are on the fringe.
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Speaker 2: So the morning after.
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Speaker 1: Folks, let's just go ahead and be honest about what
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Speaker 1: we saw play out last night. Last night was a
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Speaker 1: utter repudiation of the first two years of the second
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Speaker 1: Trump administration. Not only did we see a blue wave
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Speaker 1: take place last night, you could almost go out on
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Speaker 1: a limb and say we saw a blue tsunami take
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Speaker 1: place throughout the country. There were races that Republicans thought
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Speaker 1: they had in the bag that ultimately went to Democrats.
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Speaker 1: There were races that Democrats thought, maybe we got a
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Speaker 1: chance to win.
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Speaker 2: And not only did they win, they won convincingly.
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Speaker 1: Now, I may be the only podcast that's willing to
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Speaker 1: look at what happened last night objectively without any Democrat
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Speaker 1: or Republican leaning. Last night was not a glowing endorsement
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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. Last night was a nation that
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Speaker 1: was frustrated with how Donald Trump has governed and pretty
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Speaker 1: much said, you know what, we're going to make it
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Speaker 1: to where there has to be this thing called checks
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Speaker 1: and balances that's been around ever since the founders put
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Speaker 1: this nation together. They wanted to make sure that no
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Speaker 1: one branch of government got too much power than the others.
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Speaker 1: Didn't grow bigger than the others. And so people looked
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Speaker 1: at what had happened over the first two years of
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Speaker 1: Trump's second term, and they said, you know what, we
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Speaker 1: really need to balance this thing out a bit. We
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Speaker 1: can't help that the Republicans currently occupy the White House.
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Speaker 1: And for the time being, we can't help the fact
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Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court has a more conservative tilt. But
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Speaker 1: what we can do is make sure that the Congress
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Speaker 1: is willing to impose some checks and balances to make
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Speaker 1: sure that Donald Trump doesn't get too far out of line. Now,
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Speaker 1: going into yesterday, there was this strong belief that the
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Speaker 1: Republican Party would lose the House of Representatives. I think
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Speaker 1: most people knew that that was going to be a
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Speaker 1: foregone conclusion. But what so many people were on the
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Speaker 1: fence about was whether or not the Republican Party would
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Speaker 1: lose control of the Senate. And we saw that come
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Speaker 1: to fruition last night. Currently, as I speak to you guys,
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Speaker 1: 54 seats in the Senate are held by Democrats. 44
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Speaker 1: are held by Republicans. There are two current outstanding seats
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Speaker 1: that have not been decided yet. Alaska, where Mary Patola
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Speaker 1: is currently leading the Republican incumbent.
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Speaker 2: Dan S.
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Speaker 1: Sullivan wanted to make sure that we clarified for Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: if he may be listening, that we are talking about
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Speaker 1: Dan S.
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Speaker 2: And this one.
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Speaker 1: Caught me by surprise, and I'm pretty sure it has
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Speaker 1: caught you guys by surprise as well. The last seat
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Speaker 1: that is up for grabs in the United States Senate
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Speaker 1: is a seat here in my home state of Mississippi.
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Speaker 1: Scott Colon is challenging current Republican incumbent Cindy High Smith.
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Speaker 1: And at the time of this recording, that race is
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Speaker 1: so close. That only one tenth of a percent. Separates
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Speaker 1: Scott Colon and Cindy High Smith. So when you think
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Speaker 1: about what we saw last night. We saw people say,
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Speaker 1: you know what?
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Speaker 2: We've had enough.
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Speaker 1: We don't feel that this country is going anywhere fast.
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Speaker 1: We feel that the war in Iran has been a
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Speaker 1: total disaster, a war we should have never gotten into.
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Speaker 1: We feel as though this administration has single handedly played
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Speaker 1: a role in why gas prices are high, why grocery
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Speaker 1: prices are high. So we're going to go in and
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Speaker 1: we're going to vote for change.
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Speaker 2: Now, let me just go.
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Speaker 1: Ahead and pour some cold water on Democratic expectations. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you saw people last night, once it became known that
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Speaker 1: the Democrats were going to take control of the House
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Speaker 1: and the Senate, you had people celebrating as if their
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Speaker 1: favorite sports team had won a championship. Let me just
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Speaker 1: say this. For some Democrats, their main concern will be
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Speaker 1: the things that they campaigned on when it comes to
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Speaker 1: affordability and when it comes to ending the Iran war.
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Speaker 1: But some Democrats, the only reason why they wanted the
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Speaker 1: power And we talked about this in previous episodes. The
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Speaker 1: reason why some of these Democrats wanted power was to
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Speaker 1: continue to go after Donald Trump. Now, that's not me
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Speaker 1: sitting here saying that they're not going to be concerned
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Speaker 1: with the plight of Americans.
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Speaker 2: But some of these people that are.
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Speaker 1: Going to Congress are only going to want to hitch
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Speaker 1: their wagon to invest Donald Trump, his family, and people
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Speaker 1: in his cabinet. So if two years go by and
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Speaker 1: they spend more time on investigations than actually pushing through
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Speaker 1: legislation to help soothe the financial woes of everyday Americans, you.
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Speaker 2: Can't say I didn't call.
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Speaker 1: Because I always go back to Malcolm X's ballot or
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Speaker 1: the bullet speech in where at the time he was
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Speaker 1: talking about how black voters blindly gave their support to
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. The Democrats take control of the White
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Speaker 1: House and the Congress and they get all the other
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Speaker 1: legislation that they want to get done out of the way.
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Speaker 1: And then once it's time for the elections to come around,
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Speaker 1: then they bring up your situation. We cannot allow. for
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Speaker 1: this upcoming Congress to be so hell-bent on investigating Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump to the point where they forget the sole reason
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Speaker 1: why most people even elected them to begin with, to
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Speaker 1: help bring down costs and to help end the war
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Speaker 1: that the majority of the American people did not want.
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Speaker 1: So that's something we have to keep at the forefront
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Speaker 1: over the course of the next two years. When I
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Speaker 1: look at this map, when I look at this Senate map,
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Speaker 1: There is so much blue to where, once again, what
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Speaker 1: I said to start the show about a blue tsunami
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Speaker 1: is highly credible. Let's start with the race that the
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Speaker 1: Republicans thought they had in the bag.
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Speaker 2: They thought this race was a foregone conclusion. They thought
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Speaker 2: they were going to win this. They were going to
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Speaker 2: keep this state red.
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Speaker 1: If this state failed, the entire country would fall shortly thereafter. And,
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Speaker 1: of course, the race that I'm talking about, was the
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Speaker 1: race in Texas between Attorney General Ken Paxton and State
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Speaker 1: Representative James Tallarico. James Tallarico won the race with 55%
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Speaker 1: of the vote to 43% for Ken Paxton. This should
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Speaker 1: have been the ultimate wake-up call for the Republic. You
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Speaker 1: can't just throw somebody out there and hope that your
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Speaker 1: people vote for him just because they got an R
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Speaker 1: beside their name. Like, Ken Paxton was a very flawed candidate.
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Speaker 1: But instead of focusing on his flaws, you guys decided
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Speaker 1: to make James Tallarico your sole focus.
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Speaker 2: James Tallarico, he believes in all this different stuff.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, it didn't bother the people of Texas to go
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Speaker 1: out and vote for him. Because they said, hey, look,
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Speaker 1: we know James Tallarico has said some wacky stuff. But
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Speaker 1: what we also know as well is that Ken Paxton
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Speaker 1: has done some very nefarious stuff. So would you rather
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Speaker 1: have a guy representing you in the Senate that has
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Speaker 1: said wacky stuff? Or do you want a guy representing
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Speaker 1: you in the Senate that's done nefarious stuff? And I
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Speaker 1: think the people of Texas looked at it and they said,
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Speaker 1: all right, we'll take the guy that said some wacky stuff.
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Speaker 2: Now, this was in Texas.
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Speaker 1: A race that was very similar to the presidential race
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Speaker 1: in 2024. It was basically the voters having to decide
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Speaker 1: between the lesser of two evils. I don't think James
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Speaker 1: Tallarico is really going to go in there and really
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Speaker 1: affect change the way that some of those Texas voters
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Speaker 1: believe that he is. And I don't believe that Ken
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Speaker 1: Paxton would have went in there and been as independent
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Speaker 1: as he claimed.
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Speaker 2: He was going to be. We all knew he was
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Speaker 2: going to kiss Donald Trump's ass.
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Speaker 1: Just like now in the aftermath of him losing, Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump is essentially telling him to kiss his ass, right?
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Speaker 1: Because that's what he does with any candidate that he
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Speaker 1: endorses that doesn't win. Donald Trump acts like they never existed.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of acting like a candidate has never existed,
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Speaker 1: there was also another big race that came out of
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Speaker 1: Texas last night, the race for governor. Greg Abbott was
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Speaker 1: unseated by Gina Holzberg. If I'm saying that wrong, charge
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Speaker 1: it to my head, not my heart. She unseated Greg
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Speaker 1: Abbott with 52% of the vote. He only garnered 45%.
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Speaker 2: And it's very funny.
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Speaker 1: Earlier in the morning yesterday, Donald Trump was talking about
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Speaker 1: how great of a governor Greg Abbott was and how
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Speaker 1: he was doing all these things to make sure that
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Speaker 1: Texans enjoyed living in the state but the very minute
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Speaker 1: that he saw that greg abbott had lost donald trump
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Speaker 1: changed his tune immediately calling greg abbott a rhino saying
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Speaker 1: that if he had not spent the last six months
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Speaker 1: of his political career being a rhino he may have
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Speaker 1: won very funny how that changes right when he when
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Speaker 1: he still has a chance to win oh he's this
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Speaker 1: great patriot that's fighting for the trump agenda in texas
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Speaker 1: but the minute that he loses he shouldn't have became
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Speaker 1: a rhino And speaking of rhinos, a lot of Republicans
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Speaker 1: nationwide are upset with whom they believe to be a
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Speaker 1: rhino in John Cornyn because they feel as though he
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Speaker 1: didn't do enough to help Ken Paxton win the race.
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Speaker 1: Do you blame John Cornyn? Like, let's just have this conversation, Republicans.
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Speaker 1: Do you really blame John Cornyn for not wanting to
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Speaker 1: go out and campaign for Ken Paxton. Because if I
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Speaker 1: were in his position, I would have done the same thing.
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Speaker 1: You guys spent all that time during the Republican primary
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Speaker 1: calling me a rhino, saying that I was worthless, saying
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Speaker 1: that I should have been kicked out of office. And
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Speaker 1: then when you guys unseat me in the primary, you
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Speaker 1: want me to put on my big boy pants and
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Speaker 1: go out there and campaign for somebody else. that you
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Speaker 1: guys claim are better than me. If he was so
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Speaker 1: much better than me, why do you need me to
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Speaker 1: go campaign for him? I don't blame John Cornyn for
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Speaker 1: being petty. And I know that's going to ruffle some feathers,
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Speaker 1: but I stand by that. I do not blame John
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Speaker 1: Cornyn one bit for being petty. You guys wanted me
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Speaker 1: out so bad, you got your wish. And you got
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Speaker 1: a candidate who is more flawed than me, so live
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Speaker 1: with it. So what does this flip in Texas mean?
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Speaker 1: It means that Texas has gone from being a solid
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Speaker 1: red state to being a purple state. What does this
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Speaker 1: mean for Texas's other senator, Ted Cruz? It means that
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Speaker 1: he's on borrowed time. It means that in 2028, he's
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Speaker 1: going to have to make a decision. Does he run
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Speaker 1: for president, which some people believe that he will do?
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Speaker 1: Or does he try to tough it out in Texas
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Speaker 1: and hope that once his next election comes around, the
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Speaker 1: people of Texas will put him back in there?
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Speaker 2: Or not?
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Speaker 1: I mean, let's just think about the past few times
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Speaker 1: that Ted Cruz has ran for Senate against Colin Allred
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Speaker 1: and against Beto O'Rourke. Those races were closer than people anticipated.
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Speaker 1: And you're starting to see this flip of Democrats. leaving
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Speaker 1: other states to go to Texas, and they're filling up
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Speaker 1: those populated areas in the state, like Dallas, like Fort Worth,
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Speaker 1: like Houston, like Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi.
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Speaker 2: They're filling those places up. El Paso, right on the border.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't tell you the amount of people
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Speaker 1: that I've heard here in Mississippi talk about how they
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Speaker 1: want to move to Texas. So you have Democrats that
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Speaker 1: are leaving places like Mississippi heading over to Texas and
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Speaker 1: you're starting to see that they're making an impact. And
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Speaker 1: let's just be honest. I'm just going to say this.
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Speaker 1: With all the baggage that Ken Paxton had, you know,
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Speaker 1: Why even give him that chance to be your senator?
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Speaker 1: So now he's going to go into oblivion.
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Speaker 2: And he may have a political career four years from now.
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Speaker 2: He may not. Who knows? Just something to think about.
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Speaker 1: What about another race that Republicans thought they had in
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Speaker 1: the bag? The race in South Carolina. Now let's get this.
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Speaker 1: Let's get this situated correctly. South Carolina is still a
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Speaker 1: red state. Alan Wilson won the governorship. He's a Republican.
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Speaker 1: You have Tim Scott there, who's a Republican. But Darlene Graham,
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Speaker 1: the sister of Lindsey Graham, could not hold on to
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Speaker 1: her brother's seat. Annie Andrews beat Darlene Graham last night,
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Speaker 1: 51% to 46%. Remember how Republicans were so against DEI
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Speaker 1: and how if you didn't earn through hard work despite
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Speaker 1: that you were in, you shouldn't get it? Notice how
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Speaker 1: all that went out the window when Darlene Graham assumed
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Speaker 1: this seat. And Donald Trump, every time you look around,
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Speaker 1: he's flying to South Carolina to endorse Darlene Graham. The
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Speaker 1: people of South Carolina saw right through Darlene Graham. They
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Speaker 1: saw that she was nothing but a robot. parroting the
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Speaker 1: talking points put to her by the people held over
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Speaker 1: in Lindsey Graham's Senate staff.
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Speaker 2: That's all she was.
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Speaker 1: And so the people of South Carolina, they started rightfully
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Speaker 1: wondering out loud, do we have a senator that represents us,
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Speaker 1: or do we have a senator who's just willing to
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Speaker 1: get up there and say anything to stay in the
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Speaker 1: good graces of the Republican Party? Now notice, every time
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Speaker 1: you hear her talk, She'll always tell you over and
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Speaker 1: over and over again, I'm doing this for Lindsay.
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Speaker 2: Well, you lost for Lindsay last night.
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Speaker 1: And now you can spend all your time going back
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Speaker 1: to what it is that you claim you were doing
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Speaker 1: before you got the job. Taking care of your family
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Speaker 1: and clipping coupons. Because the people of South Carolina say,
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Speaker 1: you know what? You're not for us. Because we see
21:07
Speaker 1: right through your schtick. None of your ideas are your own.
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Speaker 1: Your ideas have been given to you by those who
21:17
Speaker 1: want to pull your purse strings. Let's move one state
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Speaker 1: up to North Carolina. The former governor of the state,
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Speaker 1: Roy Cooper, defeated former Republican national chairman Michael Watley 58%
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Speaker 1: to 39%.
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Speaker 2: I think we all knew.
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Speaker 1: That Roy Cooper was going to win that race because
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Speaker 1: of something that I said in a previous episode. If
21:45
Speaker 1: you think about some of these candidates that the Republicans
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Speaker 1: trotted out, they lacked individual appeal. Michael Watley was one
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Speaker 1: of those people. Darlene Graham was one of those people.
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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton was one of those people. I mean, you,
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Speaker 1: did not have any of these prominent Democrats that had
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Speaker 1: an identity outside of just being under Donald Trump. It's
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Speaker 1: almost like in school, when you get one popular kid
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Speaker 1: by themselves, they really lack an identity outside of that group.
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Speaker 1: Because so much of their identity is tied to the
22:23
Speaker 1: people in that group to where when you get them
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Speaker 1: by themselves, they come crashing back down the earth. If
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Speaker 1: they're not the most popular person in that group. And
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Speaker 1: so Roy Cooper did what most people expected Roy Cooper
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Speaker 1: to do. It got to a point where Republicans knew
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Speaker 1: without a shadow of a doubt that they weren't going
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Speaker 1: to win this seat to the point where they just
22:46
Speaker 1: started pulling funding. They said, you know what, let's divert
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Speaker 1: money to other races that we think we have a
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Speaker 1: shot of winning because we know North Carolina is a
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Speaker 1: lost cause.
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Speaker 2: And speaking of diverting money, going back to Texas, combined, nearly.
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Speaker 1: Half a billion dollars was spent on this Texas Senate race.
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Speaker 1: The most expensive Senate race in American history. And the
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Speaker 1: Republicans have nothing to show for it. The Democrats do,
23:16
Speaker 1: but the Republicans don't. So you got Elon Musk, you
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Speaker 1: got Miriam Adelson, you had all these mega Republican donors
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Speaker 1: donating all that money and it meant nothing. Because you
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Speaker 1: had a flawed candidate in Ken Paxton who you were
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Speaker 1: trying to buy his way over the finish line.
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Speaker 2: And it didn't work.
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Speaker 1: What about Maine? Susan Collins ousted in Maine by Troy Jackson.
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Speaker 1: 53% to 46%. People in Maine say, you know what,
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Speaker 1: Susan Collins, there have been times in the past where
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Speaker 1: we've pushed you over the finish line, but this time
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Speaker 1: we can't do it. The days of you squeaking out
24:04
Speaker 1: these narrow victories are over. We're going to send you
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Speaker 1: a clear message by saying we no longer want your leadership.
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Speaker 2: In the Senate.
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Speaker 1: And the funny thing is, is that you actually have
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Speaker 1: some Republican influences that are upset by the result in Maine,
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Speaker 1: but they were the same ones trying to convince you
24:22
Speaker 1: and I that Susan Collins was nothing but a rhino
24:25
Speaker 1: who was getting in the way of Trump enacting his agenda.
24:29
Speaker 1: So just think about that for a minute. You wanted
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Speaker 1: Susan Collins to win the race. But when she didn't
24:35
Speaker 1: win and Troy Jackson got it, she was a rhino anyway.
24:41
Speaker 2: Good riddance.
24:43
Speaker 1: See how backwards that is? So no Susan Collins anymore,
24:50
Speaker 1: at least for the time being, in Maine. And what
24:55
Speaker 1: about Michigan? Now, we'll talk about Michigan in a minute.
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Speaker 1: What about Ohio? Sherrod Brown goes back to the United
25:02
Speaker 1: States Senate after he unseats John Husted, 50% to 45%.
25:13
Speaker 2: Let's just be honest.
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Speaker 1: Because of his name recognition and because of what happened
25:20
Speaker 1: in Ohio in the governor's race, those two things propelled
25:25
Speaker 1: Sherrod Brown back to the Senate. Now, I'm not trying
25:28
Speaker 1: to say that Sherrod Brown didn't do a good job campaigning.
25:31
Speaker 1: I think that he did. But a lot of the
25:34
Speaker 1: Republican missteps is what ultimately handed that race to Sherrod Brown.
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Speaker 2: If you're John Husted, you sat.
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Speaker 1: Up there and you campaigned alongside Donald Trump and J.D.
25:47
Speaker 2: Vance.
25:47
Speaker 1: You had Trump up there talking about your shoulders being
25:50
Speaker 1: broad and how your ass looked. And none of that
25:53
Speaker 1: stuff mattered when voters went to the polls. They said,
25:57
Speaker 1: you know what? We want something new. Sherrod Brown is
26:02
Speaker 1: somebody we're familiar with. You think about those populated areas, Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: Those were the areas that propelled Sherrod Brown over John Husted.
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Speaker 2: What about Michigan?
26:22
Speaker 1: Abdul Asayed defeated Mike Rogers, 52% to 45%. So much
26:30
Speaker 1: for Haley Stevens jumping sides and wanting to go and
26:33
Speaker 1: endorse Mike Rogers. So much for all the talk about
26:36
Speaker 1: how black voters were swinging towards Mike Rogers in unfathomable
26:41
Speaker 1: numbers for a Republican. All that shit went by the
26:44
Speaker 1: wayside once it became clear to anybody who objectively watched
26:49
Speaker 1: the results last night that it was going to be
26:52
Speaker 1: Abdul Al-Sayed that was going to take that seat. And listen,
26:58
Speaker 1: Once again, I'm not a fan of either one of
26:59
Speaker 1: these political parties. I'm not a fan of Mike Rogers,
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Speaker 1: not a fan of Abdul-Aziz, not a fan of Haley Stevens.
27:06
Speaker 1: But the people of Michigan, they looked at this and
27:09
Speaker 1: they said, man, look. And this is pretty much the
27:12
Speaker 1: mood around the country. Do we want somebody in Congress
27:15
Speaker 1: that's going to continue to do the bidding of Donald Trump?
27:18
Speaker 1: Or do we want somebody in there who's going to
27:20
Speaker 1: be willing to check Donald Trump and say, we're not
27:22
Speaker 1: going to allow you to run roughshod over this government?
27:26
Speaker 1: That's pretty much what we saw time after time after
27:29
Speaker 1: time in these states that Donald Trump won. Think about this.
27:38
Speaker 1: Donald Trump won Minnesota. No, he won Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
27:49
Speaker 1: Wisconsin didn't have a Senate race last night, but they
27:51
Speaker 1: did have a governor's race. Democrat won that. Democrat governor
27:55
Speaker 1: won in Michigan to succeed Gretchen Whitmer. And you also
28:05
Speaker 1: had a Republican governor in Ohio. Donald Trump won all
28:09
Speaker 1: three of those states. And all three of those states
28:11
Speaker 1: had Senate elections and they were taken by Democrats. This
28:17
Speaker 1: goes to show you the mood of the country right now.
28:20
Speaker 1: Speaking of Minnesota, the night started out good. for Michelle Tafoya,
28:27
Speaker 1: but ultimately it was Lieutenant Governor of Planet Peggy Flanagan
28:32
Speaker 1: that stole the show. Once those more populated areas, Duluth, Minneapolis,
28:41
Speaker 1: and St. Paul, once they started counting their votes, that
28:43
Speaker 1: lead that Michelle Tafoya had went by the race, went
28:47
Speaker 1: by the wayside.
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Speaker 2: Lisa DeMuth, same thing.
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Speaker 1: She was leading that first over Amy Klobuchar in the
28:52
Speaker 1: governor's race, But once those more populated areas started to
28:57
Speaker 1: turn in their votes, that lead subsided and it was
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Speaker 1: Amy Klobuchar who's going to succeed Tim Walz and not
29:05
Speaker 1: Lisa DeMuth.
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Speaker 2: Just look at this map.
29:15
Speaker 1: If you have time today, just go to Google and
29:20
Speaker 1: type in midterm.
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Speaker 2: And just look at this Senate map.
29:25
Speaker 1: This map ultimately shows you why so many people say,
29:28
Speaker 1: you know what?
29:29
Speaker 2: We need a change.
29:31
Speaker 1: Because we can't keep operating the way that we are
29:34
Speaker 1: and expect different results. Hence the reason why is going
29:39
Speaker 1: to be barring something unforeseen happening is going to be
29:42
Speaker 1: chuck schumer that's going to be the senate majority leader
29:47
Speaker 1: and over in the house is going to be high
29:50
Speaker 1: king jeffries that's going to become the speaker because the
29:52
Speaker 1: democrats took control of that as well and the democrats
29:55
Speaker 1: also had a great night when it came to the
29:58
Speaker 1: governor's races.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we talked about Texas.
30:05
Speaker 1: Arizona stayed blue with Katie Hobbs. Same with New Hampshire
30:10
Speaker 1: or same with. Same with New Mexico, California, of course, Nevada.
30:18
Speaker 1: The Republican incumbent lost out there to Aaron Ford. And Georgia,
30:24
Speaker 1: you have Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta,
30:27
Speaker 1: who's going to succeed Brian Kemp. As the governor there
30:31
Speaker 1: because she defeated Rick Jackson. Alabama Tommy Tuberville is going
30:37
Speaker 1: from the Senate to the governor's mansion.
30:39
Speaker 2: He defeated Doug Jones. No surprise there.
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Speaker 1: The map just shows you that this was. This was
30:49
Speaker 1: the blue tsunami. That most of the betting markets predicted
30:54
Speaker 1: that it was going to be.
30:58
Speaker 2: And yet. After all of.
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Speaker 1: This, after everything happened last night, you know who did
31:08
Speaker 1: not take the blame? The man who went out there
31:12
Speaker 1: and told his face to vote like he was on
31:16
Speaker 1: the ballot, Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump called in the
31:21
Speaker 1: Fox News last night, and he said he didn't have
31:24
Speaker 1: no regrets. He said he had no regrets endorsing Ken Paxton.
31:29
Speaker 1: He had no regrets endorsing Darlene Graham. And he pretty
31:34
Speaker 1: much went on True Social and said, hey, I did
31:37
Speaker 1: more for the candidates than they did for themselves. I
31:40
Speaker 1: was the one out there busting my ass trying to
31:43
Speaker 1: get them elected. They didn't do anything, which once again
31:45
Speaker 1: goes back to the point that I made in a
31:47
Speaker 1: previous episode that by none of them having any major
31:51
Speaker 1: individual appeal, they had no choice but to sit back
31:54
Speaker 1: and let Donald Trump steal the show. how they did
31:58
Speaker 1: the midterm convention in September, thinking that that was.
32:00
Speaker 2: Going to draw in people. And it did nothing.
32:06
Speaker 1: Nothing the Republicans did led to them having the electoral
32:11
Speaker 1: victory last night that they thought they were going to have. And,
32:16
Speaker 1: of course, to make them feel better about themselves, some
32:18
Speaker 1: of the Republican influencers, the Nick Sorter, the Benny Johnson,
32:22
Speaker 1: and all of those characters, They're now going on there saying, well,
32:26
Speaker 1: we knew it was going to be a tough stretch,
32:28
Speaker 1: but historically we knew that the incumbent party, they don't necessarily.
32:33
Speaker 2: Have good turnout.
32:33
Speaker 1: But you guys said Trump was going to be different.
32:37
Speaker 1: You guys were the ones saying Trump is going to
32:40
Speaker 1: turn history upside down. He's going to break the trend
32:45
Speaker 1: of the incumbent party not being able to have good
32:49
Speaker 1: returns in the midterms. You guys were the ones that
32:51
Speaker 1: said that crap. And it didn't happen. You had other
32:59
Speaker 1: influences out there. Trump cared more about winning the midterms
33:02
Speaker 1: than the candidates. Trump was the reason why the candidates
33:06
Speaker 1: did not perform as well as they should have.
33:10
Speaker 2: It's not rocket science.
33:12
Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that I hated last
33:14
Speaker 1: night when I was watching the returns, especially on Fox News.
33:19
Speaker 1: They were sitting around the table and You know, they
33:21
Speaker 1: were all trying, well, not all of them, but some
33:24
Speaker 1: of them were trying to figure out, why is the
33:25
Speaker 1: results not coming back the way we thought they were?
33:28
Speaker 1: Because people aren't happy with the direction of the country.
33:31
Speaker 1: God damn, it's not that hard. The fuck have y'all
33:36
Speaker 1: been looking at the.
33:37
Speaker 2: Past two years? I just.
33:44
Speaker 1: I don't understand why so many people are having a
33:47
Speaker 1: hard time understanding why last night turned out the way
33:51
Speaker 1: that it did. I mean, when people go to the
33:55
Speaker 1: gas pump, it affected how they voted. When people pay
33:59
Speaker 1: their energy bills, it affected how they voted.
34:03
Speaker 2: When people go to the grocery store, it affected how
34:06
Speaker 2: they voted.
34:10
Speaker 1: Now, is this me sitting behind this microphone trying to
34:13
Speaker 1: suggest that the Democrats are going to do a better job?
34:15
Speaker 2: No.
34:19
Speaker 1: But you have to, and this is how a lot
34:22
Speaker 1: of people went into their polling places yesterday.
34:24
Speaker 2: This is how they thought.
34:25
Speaker 1: A lot of people went in there saying, we got
34:27
Speaker 1: to hold Donald Trump's feet to the fire. We're not
34:31
Speaker 1: voting Democrat because we think that they're going to do
34:34
Speaker 1: a better job, but we're voting Democrat so that way
34:36
Speaker 1: we can show Donald Trump that we are dissatisfied with
34:39
Speaker 1: With the way his first two years have gone.
34:43
Speaker 2: And then now.
34:44
Speaker 1: You have a lot of those Republican influencers saying. Well
34:47
Speaker 1: this is a great thing. Donald Trump has veto power.
34:49
Speaker 1: So that way he can veto their radical agenda. He
34:52
Speaker 1: would have never had to have done any of that.
34:55
Speaker 1: If his agenda. Wasn't so piss poor. The first two years.
35:01
Speaker 1: Starting a war with Iran. Not getting Russia Ukraine solved. Not. Not.
35:08
Speaker 2: Doing anything about the mass deportation.
35:12
Speaker 1: And instead of him being focusing on governing, the only
35:15
Speaker 1: thing he was doing was just going around trying to
35:16
Speaker 1: find stuff he could name after himself. Nobody gives a
35:21
Speaker 1: damn about Donald Trump wanting to build an arch in D.C.
35:24
Speaker 1: Nobody gives a damn about Donald Trump putting the helipad
35:27
Speaker 1: on the White House lawn.
35:28
Speaker 2: Nobody cares about that damn ballroom.
35:30
Speaker 1: Nobody cares about all that gold in the Oval Office
35:33
Speaker 1: and the presidential walk of fame. Nobody gives a damn
35:35
Speaker 1: about that shit when they can't afford to live. It's
35:42
Speaker 1: a fucking narcissist. So fucking self-centered, man. And this is
35:50
Speaker 1: the same person that people claim he cares about everyday
35:55
Speaker 1: hardworking Americans.
35:55
Speaker 2: No, he doesn't. None of these politicians do. None of them.
36:04
Speaker 2: They care about their own interests.
36:07
Speaker 1: And if you just so happen to align with their
36:11
Speaker 1: own desired interests, then they may fit you in. But
36:15
Speaker 1: it won't be too often. I just don't understand. And
36:28
Speaker 1: you still have some of these Republican influences.
36:31
Speaker 2: They're at a loss for words.
36:35
Speaker 1: And then they have the nerve to use their platform
36:37
Speaker 1: and say, well, I hope you guys enjoy socialism. I
36:41
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoy America about to be turned into California. Right.
36:50
Speaker 1: The same California that overwhelmingly voted Democrat to put Xavier
36:55
Speaker 1: Bacara in the governor's mansion over Steve Hilton, who you
36:58
Speaker 1: guys thought would be the savior for California, like you
37:01
Speaker 1: thought Spencer Pratt would be the savior for Los Angeles
37:04
Speaker 1: when he ran for mayor. I'm not a big fan
37:14
Speaker 1: of Marjorie Taylor Greene, but she did say something that
37:18
Speaker 1: was interesting. She said if the Republican Party ever wants
37:24
Speaker 1: to win another election, she said at some point or another,
37:28
Speaker 1: the party's going to have to disassociate itself from Donald Trump.
37:33
Speaker 1: Right message just comes from the wrong messenger. Because this
37:37
Speaker 1: is the same Donald Trump that Marjorie Taylor Greene campaigned
37:40
Speaker 1: for religiously. when she was still in his good graces.
37:45
Speaker 1: But the minute that she was no longer there, she
37:48
Speaker 1: started to speak out, right? But you can't.
37:52
Speaker 2: Ignore the messaging.
37:57
Speaker 1: The Republican Party is going to be in for a
37:59
Speaker 1: massive reckoning, but Donald Trump is no longer their standard bearer.
38:05
Speaker 1: Because once he leaves the White House in 2029, January
38:07
Speaker 1: of 2029, If you're the Republican Party, you're going to
38:13
Speaker 1: have to figure out what life after Trump is going
38:15
Speaker 1: to look like. Because you can't continue to hitch your
38:22
Speaker 1: wagon to Donald Trump forever and ever. Because like everybody
38:26
Speaker 1: who's ever existed that's gone on, you're not going to
38:28
Speaker 1: be able to live forever. So you have to figure
38:37
Speaker 1: out what that identity is going to be. Well, the Democrats,
38:42
Speaker 1: they don't have an identity, but the Democrats stayed on message.
38:46
Speaker 2: Affordability.
38:47
Speaker 1: They hammered that message home time and time and time again.
38:50
Speaker 1: The same affordability that Donald Trump said was a hoax.
38:54
Speaker 1: A Democrat hoax. But once he started to see more
38:58
Speaker 1: and more people, especially in his own party, talk about affordability,
39:03
Speaker 1: that's when he decided to want to get serious about
39:05
Speaker 1: the issue. You know things have gotten bad when Reliably
39:11
Speaker 1: Red Iowa flipped. The Senate race and the governor's race
39:16
Speaker 1: last night went to Democrats. And he has nobody to
39:24
Speaker 1: blame but himself. My base didn't turn out. If I
39:30
Speaker 1: would have been on the ballot, we would have won
39:31
Speaker 1: in a landslide. It's funny how he's gone from saying
39:39
Speaker 1: prior to yesterday that people need to get out and
39:42
Speaker 1: vote like he's on the ballot. And then when the
39:43
Speaker 1: results came back and it showed that they weren't going
39:46
Speaker 1: to win, I wasn't on the ballot. So that's why
39:49
Speaker 1: we didn't win. Granted, you had a lot of people
39:57
Speaker 1: that basically sat on their vote. Let's just call it
40:00
Speaker 1: ace and ace and a spade a spade. You had
40:02
Speaker 1: a lot of people that sat on their vote and said,
40:03
Speaker 1: you know what, I am so tired of this political system,
40:05
Speaker 1: I'm not voting at all.
40:07
Speaker 2: Fuck it. And a lot of people did that.
40:13
Speaker 1: And of course, those same Republican influencers are coming out saying.
40:16
Speaker 2: Well, if you didn't vote, you voted for the Democrats.
40:22
Speaker 1: You just have people who are just so disillusioned with
40:25
Speaker 1: this entire political system to where they're saying, doesn't matter
40:28
Speaker 1: who we vote for, nothing's ever going to change. It's
40:34
Speaker 1: just like you still have people here in Mississippi right
40:36
Speaker 1: now believing that Scott Colon is going to break through
40:41
Speaker 1: and beat.
40:42
Speaker 2: Cindy High Smith. And let me ask the question, what
40:44
Speaker 2: is going to change? Nothing.
40:52
Speaker 1: It goes back to what I said. These people only
40:54
Speaker 1: care about their own interests. So to the Republicans, as
41:05
Speaker 1: I often say whenever I'm talking to somebody about sports,
41:10
Speaker 1: this would be a great time for Republicans to get
41:12
Speaker 1: back to the whiteboard, erase everything they thought they knew
41:15
Speaker 1: about themselves, and start from scratch. Because if they don't,
41:19
Speaker 1: 2026 is just going to be the beginning of electoral
41:24
Speaker 1: routes that they may potentially suffer in 28, 30, 32.
41:28
Speaker 2: And beyond.
41:30
Speaker 1: And with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, that'll wrap
41:32
Speaker 1: up today's edition of the Agarius Williams Show. I want
41:35
Speaker 1: to thank you guys, as always, for listening, however and
41:37
Speaker 1: wherever you choose to listen. Until next time, you guys
41:40
Speaker 1: continue to enjoy your day.
41:41
Speaker 2: Stay safe. Take care. God bless. We're out. Peace.