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Dem strategist on Texas midterm chances Less blue wave, 'more like a red sinkhole' · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: So many of our Latino neighbors across Texas supported the
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  Speaker 1: president in 2024 because they thought he was going to
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  Speaker 1: lower prices. They thought he was going to end the
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  Speaker 1: forever wars. They thought he was going to drain the
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  Speaker 1: swamp and release the Epstein files. Those are all things
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  Speaker 1: that I support, too. A year into this administration, we've
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  Speaker 1: seen the president do the exact opposite. So I'm extending
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  Speaker 1: an open hand to all of our Latino neighbors who
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  Speaker 1: supported the president.
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  Speaker 2: We are a hardworking people as Texans. And it should
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  Speaker 2: be that if you work hard, you can have a
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  Speaker 2: good life, right?
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  Speaker 3: Work should mean something.
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  Speaker 2: And it is harder to make it in Texas than
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  Speaker 2: it was 12 years ago before Greg Abbott. We need
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  Speaker 2: a governor who prioritizes Texans, not the moneyed interests, not
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  Speaker 2: the corporate interests, but Texans.
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  Speaker 4: Joining me now, Tori Gavito, co-founder and president of Way
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  Speaker 4: to Win and Sawyer Hackett is still with me. What
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  Speaker 4: is more Texas, Tori, than football on a Friday night?
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  Speaker 4: What a pleasure to get to speak to Ina Hossa
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  Speaker 4: at that game. This reporting about, you know, supposedly ICE.
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  Speaker 4: Because instead of helping us, the Spaniards have hurt us
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  Speaker 4: a lot.
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  Speaker 5: They hurt our community.
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  Speaker 3: How much of an opening is that giving Democrats, Tori?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's a huge opening. There's a line that you
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  Speaker 5: just had Ina Hossa say about this idea that work
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  Speaker 5: should matter, that Latinos work hard. All of our research
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  Speaker 5: is pointing to the fact that Latinos are saying that
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  Speaker 5: promise is broken. The promise of working hard in exchange
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  Speaker 5: for some sort of American dream is gone. People know it.
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  Speaker 5: It's a broken promise. They want their time back. Everything
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  Speaker 5: Trump has done since the election has been insult to injury,
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  Speaker 5: where they gave him a little bit of time to
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  Speaker 5: figure out how he was going to fix the economy,
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  Speaker 5: and he has only made things worse. So it is
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  Speaker 5: a massive opening. People are talking about a blue wave
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  Speaker 5: coming to Texas, and I think it's more like a
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  Speaker 5: red sinkhole, to be honest.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I've not heard that one yet, Tori. Sawyer, I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: you saw the Texas cattle feeders put out a statement,
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  Speaker 4: along with two other states, about what immigration enforcement has meant,
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  Speaker 4: disrupting their workforce, making it more expensive to ship cattle,
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  Speaker 4: and a real concern on their part that the cost
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  Speaker 4: of beef could go up even further as a result.
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  Speaker 4: I want you to take a listen. I asked Tallarico
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  Speaker 4: about what ICE enforcement has meant for businesses in his state.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard from so many of our farmers and ranchers,
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  Speaker 1: so many of our business owners who thought that ICE
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  Speaker 1: was going to go after violent criminals. But instead, they're
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  Speaker 1: going after some of the hardest working members of our community,
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  Speaker 1: immigrants who are contributing to this economy every day, who
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  Speaker 1: are keeping prices low. One of the ways that this
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  Speaker 1: administration is raising costs is by deporting some of the
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  Speaker 1: best workers in our state and in our country. And
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  Speaker 1: so we need some sanity back in our immigration policy.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, at the same time, you have the Texas
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  Speaker 4: Farm Bureau endorsing Ken Paxton, which I did ask Tallarico about.
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  Speaker 4: He said, listen, I'm not as concerned with the bigwigs
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  Speaker 4: as I am from what I'm hearing from ranchers and cattlemen.
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  Speaker 4: We talk about immigration very often in terms of the individuals,
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  Speaker 4: but there's been a real price for businesses in the.
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  Speaker 3: State, Sawyer.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, one of the biggest lies that this
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  Speaker 6: administration and this president has told us is that they're
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  Speaker 6: going to go after the worst of the worst. They're
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  Speaker 6: going to prioritize the criminals, the gang members, the people
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  Speaker 6: with criminal records. And it's just a total lie. It's
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  Speaker 6: the exact opposite. I mean, they're essentially, you know, they
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  Speaker 6: deployed an army of masked thugs to terrorize our communities
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  Speaker 6: and abduct people. But they're doing it at places like
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  Speaker 6: churches and places like ICE check-ins. They're doing it to
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  Speaker 6: people who are here, who are following the steps to
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  Speaker 6: do this legally, who are here legally, who are on
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  Speaker 6: TPS or different parole programs, who have work visas, who
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  Speaker 6: are essential parts of critical industries like farming in places
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  Speaker 6: like Texas, but also places like Kansas and Nebraska and Iowa.
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  Speaker 6: These are the down-ballot impacts of the Trump administration's mass
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  Speaker 6: deportation agenda. And I think it's not just that affordability
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  Speaker 6: crisis that's pushing Latino voters away from Trump, who, by
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  Speaker 6: the way, won 55 percent of them in 2024. It's
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  Speaker 6: also this immigration issue, because they were told that this
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  Speaker 6: administration would prioritize the worst of the worst. And in fact,
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  Speaker 6: they've just decided to abduct people randomly on the streets,
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  Speaker 6: people who have brown skin and put a target on
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  Speaker 6: the back of anybody in places like Texas who does
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  Speaker 6: have brown skin. Texans know that Latino voters know that.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that they're going to be a huge
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  Speaker 6: bulwark against the Trump administration and Republicans in November.
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  Speaker 4: So, Tori, admittedly, the area was in Dallas. It's a
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  Speaker 4: really Democratic area. I spoke to a lot of Latino
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  Speaker 4: Democratic voters and they are, as expected, enormously enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 3: Here they are.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think Tallarico is going to take this?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I like him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, Paxson's own lawyer voted for his
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  Speaker 1: vote and supported him.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so, you know, there's a whole lot of Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: That support him.
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  Speaker 5: And Hinojosa? We need a new governor for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope she wins. What do you say to
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  Speaker 4: those who say that Texas is fool's gold?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: I think people want to change.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: It could seem like it's not possible, but I think
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  Speaker 1: if people, you know, come together and try to, like,
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  Speaker 1: push for change.
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  Speaker 5: It could happen.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of our family members, we encourage them to register.
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  Speaker 2: We have three that we're attempting to register before October.
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  Speaker 3: 5th.
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  Speaker 4: That last couple there, the woman who's speaking on camera,
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  Speaker 4: she's a resident. Her wife is a citizen and a voter,
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  Speaker 4: and they were both very fired up. So I spoke
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  Speaker 4: to those folks, Tori, but I want to be honest.
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  Speaker 4: I spoke to a lot of Texans who do not
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  Speaker 4: know that there's an election underway. And it was a
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  Speaker 4: reminder that like we here at MSNOW may have been
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  Speaker 4: talking about this election since January, but there are a
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  Speaker 4: lot of folks in Texas who are going to be
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  Speaker 4: tuning in for the first time. The campaigns will tell
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  Speaker 4: you they know that they're not only making a closing
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  Speaker 4: argument here. They are introducing themselves to a lot of voters.
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  Speaker 4: Talk to me about the work that remains to be
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  Speaker 4: done in the next 30 plus days.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness. 30 plus days. There is a lot
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  Speaker 5: of work to be done. Texas is a massive state,
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  Speaker 5: as everyone knows, 254 counties. That's a lot of ears
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  Speaker 5: to reach in a very short amount of time. And
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you, I was in the battleground state
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  Speaker 5: of Arizona in 2024. And the second I got off
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  Speaker 5: the plane and on every neighborhood I went in door knocking,
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  Speaker 5: I was geo-targeted. I was geo-fenced. I was communicated with.
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  Speaker 5: I saw billboards. I saw signs. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: this is saturation. Texas has yet to hit that sort
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  Speaker 5: of saturation point just because of the massive scale. So
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  Speaker 5: Every single human who is listening to this, who has
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  Speaker 5: a stake in this, who cares about change in Texas,
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  Speaker 5: who is ready to see a new senator, has it
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  Speaker 5: on their shoulders to talk to their friends, talk to
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  Speaker 5: their neighbors, get online, just do. I mean, really and truly,
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  Speaker 5: James Tallarico has run an A-plus race in a modern
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  Speaker 5: media environment where he's talking to podcasters and creators and
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  Speaker 5: media and neighborhoods and pastors, right? Like he's going old
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  Speaker 5: school too. So He's doing the work. Gina has to
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  Speaker 5: continue to do the work. I think she's broken kind
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  Speaker 5: of late. I think for a very long time in
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  Speaker 5: this particular race, it was a little sleepy. It just
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  Speaker 5: sort of seemed inevitable that Greg Abbott would hold on
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  Speaker 5: to that decade plus hold he's had on the governor's mansion.
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  Speaker 5: And she's breaking through. So more is more. They've got
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  Speaker 5: to get out everywhere.
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