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M and M Extra May 27 2026 - Ken Paxton Wins in a Landslide in the Texas Primary for US Senate · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to a meeting of the minds crafted from decades
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  Speaker 1: and a good good morning everybody. On this May twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: not today, See Mike. Mike is on vacation, and so
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  Speaker 1: and listen, Mike maybe on vacation, but that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: he can't needle me from fourteen time zones away about
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  Speaker 1: last night's Texas results, which we will get to here
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  Speaker 1: in just a moment, trust me. But we just we
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to miss any days. We really, really we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: to do. So in laying this out, it was already
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  Speaker 1: established that this week Mike would be gone, and he's
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  Speaker 1: have you learned? And now that he's not here, can
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  Speaker 1: we talk? Mike is a funny cat. Have you come
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  Speaker 1: to understand that? And I know I am too in
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  Speaker 1: my own inimitable way. But there was this one episode
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  Speaker 1: where he had said, he said, like, let's draw a
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  Speaker 1: circle on the map. It's a twelve hour flight. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to tell anybody where we are. And as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he said I'm not going to tell anybody
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  Speaker 1: where we're going, I a little dang. In ten minutes,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's going to know where he is. He just can't
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  Speaker 1: stop himself. Mike is in Japan, sent me sent me
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  Speaker 1: a text of him standing at the bullet train station.
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  Speaker 1: There's a trip I got to make. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a fan of the for the across the Ocean. I
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  Speaker 1: like going across the Atlantic. I like Europe. You know,
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  Speaker 1: up to a point. My wife and I are huge
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  Speaker 1: fans of Italy. Can't stop going to Italy. Haven't been
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  Speaker 1: anywhere for like six years. Got I think I gotta
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  Speaker 1: bust it and make the Japan trip number one functioning society,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm told. And I'm also a kind of a
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  Speaker 1: transportation dorc, I do not. I have zero need.
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  Speaker 2: For a lot of high well for rail and trains.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I like Amtrak. There's something romantic about it.
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  Speaker 2: But they've been trying to do it in Texas. We
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  Speaker 2: don't want it. The thing in California is the train
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  Speaker 2: to know where, that's just stupid. But that two hundred
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  Speaker 2: miles an hour thing from from Tokyo to Kyoto something else.
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  Speaker 2: So any So, Mike's in Japan and nonetheless where it
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  Speaker 2: is now, it's eleven oh five in morning Central Time here,
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  Speaker 2: meaning it's like one o'clock in the morning. I'm surprised
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  Speaker 2: he's not taunting me even now the jet lag has it.
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  Speaker 2: He's up at like five o'clock every morning. But he said,
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  Speaker 2: when are you going to start listening to me? I said,
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  Speaker 2: I listened to you every day.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I told you Paxton was going to win. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I knew Paxston was going to win. I told you
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  Speaker 2: it was going to be a landslide that he did.
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  Speaker 2: That he did, and some other folks did too. One
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  Speaker 2: of them was my good friend's state representative, Mitch Little,
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  Speaker 2: who's just been who worked with Ken, has been a
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  Speaker 2: big Ken fan. A big Kn's supporter, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd have him on talking about legislative stuff and
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  Speaker 2: he would say, he said, yeah, Ken's going to win.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a landslide, and I'd kind of go, understand,
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  Speaker 2: it's what a friend is supposed to say. Absolutely good
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  Speaker 2: for you for being a staunch supporter. I like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a genius. Took a look at this and said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to beat an incumbent. It's hard. It's hard.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it's hard. Maybe not so much this year
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  Speaker 2: Bill Cassidy, Thomas Massey and now John Cornyn. But because
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  Speaker 2: this was an absolute stomping. This was a beatdown. This
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  Speaker 2: was twenty eight points. Who saw that coming. There was
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  Speaker 2: a poll. The polls were like four five eight. I said, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that sounds about right, even at Real Clear Politics, which
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  Speaker 2: is kind of an aggregate of what all the polls
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  Speaker 2: are saying. Then there was one there's like ten or twelve.
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  Speaker 2: I went, okay, all right, everybody cool your jets. And
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  Speaker 2: then there was one poll literally a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: ago that showed like a Paxton twenty point win. I
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  Speaker 2: think I mocked it might that mean not like mah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I said, I'm like, okay, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: all right, it's it's not going to be a twenty
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  Speaker 2: point win. And of course it wasn't. It was nearly
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  Speaker 2: a thirty point win. What in the actual world, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm here to answer that question. So and in so doing,
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  Speaker 2: I will play a little bit of get a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of lip action. It's it's funny because Mike talks
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  Speaker 2: to Eric and Tracy and Yasmin every day, which means
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  Speaker 2: that I get to in this environment. So here I
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  Speaker 2: am sitting here in Texas and they're splayed out in
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  Speaker 2: their various locations. So I may or may not have
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  Speaker 2: explained myself. Well. Tracy sent me a big list of cuts.
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  Speaker 2: The first one she sent me, which is Ken speaking
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  Speaker 2: graciously about Cornyn, which was very nice and very important.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first one I'm going to go to, and
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  Speaker 2: then the remaining five or so are the ones that
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  Speaker 2: I sent thereafter. Does that make sense, We'll see how
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  Speaker 2: this all works. So those are all coming in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment. So what happened? Splain this to me, Lucy.
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  Speaker 2: Here's here's the here's the explanation. What everybody should be
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  Speaker 2: able to see, and that is a Republican desire for
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  Speaker 2: cooperative warriors, for people who are going to take a
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  Speaker 2: look at this Trump second term and say, look, this
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  Speaker 2: is all we got. I mean it looks I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's going. There will there will be no third Trump term,
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  Speaker 2: Steve Bannon or anybody else. And we face the pleasant
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  Speaker 2: prospect of a president JD. Vans the president, Marco Rubio,
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  Speaker 2: the bench, the bench, Ron de Santis going I still exist,
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  Speaker 2: which he does. So we've got unlike Democrats, we have
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  Speaker 2: really solid bench strength. I feel good for us post
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, I really do. But as for Trump
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  Speaker 2: his own self in the actual presidency, Colock's ticking, and
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  Speaker 2: anybody at time for this h these troublemakers and you know,
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  Speaker 2: free thinkers and rogues and all those that listen. Those
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  Speaker 2: those are lovely attributes to have in life and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: even in politics. But get with the program. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: let's go. You know, Trump term number one was filled
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  Speaker 2: with enough troublemakers, enough naysayers, enough malcontents. I think we're
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  Speaker 2: I think we're good with that. Now it's time for good,
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  Speaker 2: reliable soldiers. And they don't have to be constant yes
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  Speaker 2: men or yes women or sycophant followers who are never
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  Speaker 2: raising a syllable of consternation, not at all, but man
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  Speaker 2: enough of the performative, self absorbed, establishment centric passions of
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  Speaker 2: the past, that that ship has sailed, since it has
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  Speaker 2: and since the corn and the era has come to
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  Speaker 2: such an inglorious end. He said some very good things
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  Speaker 2: last night. I can't imagine his pain and his people
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  Speaker 2: who have been there forever, which was kind of the problem.
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  Speaker 2: It sucks to lose. Who's I talking to about this today?
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  Speaker 2: Patrick's Vtec, a great reporter used to work for Texas Tribune,
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  Speaker 2: now works CNN. They did well to hire him. That
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  Speaker 2: if you, you know, win a World Series or a
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  Speaker 2: Super Bowl, or win the World Cup and all that
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  Speaker 2: good stuff that's coming, that's you know, sports victories are great,
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  Speaker 2: it's you, your achievement, and you did amazing things against competition.
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  Speaker 2: When you win in politics, when you become a mayor,
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  Speaker 2: when you become a governor, when you become a president,
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  Speaker 2: when you become a senator, that's intoxicating stuff. That is thousands,
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  Speaker 2: maybe millions of people who say, you know what I
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  Speaker 2: want you for this lofty, honorable post, and I will
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  Speaker 2: get in my car and I will drive, maybe i
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  Speaker 2: will raise money, maybe I'll work a phone bank, maybe
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  Speaker 2: I'll walk a block, maybe I'll you know, to be
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  Speaker 2: the recipient, to be the repository of that much, that
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  Speaker 2: kind of goodwill. It is an amazing thing to win
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  Speaker 2: in politics has just got to be one of the
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  Speaker 2: highest highs. Now, you're not supposed to make it all
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  Speaker 2: about you. You're supposed to have a heart for service.
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  Speaker 2: And I know we get very cynical about politics, and
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  Speaker 2: lord knows I do too, But I'm gonna say most
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  Speaker 2: of the folks that I know, I mean, really know,
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  Speaker 2: really do have that heart for service. And it's not
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  Speaker 2: about them. It's about Yeah, I won, and everybody came
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  Speaker 2: and voted for me and donated to me and worked
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  Speaker 2: like the Dickens for me. But now that I've won,
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  Speaker 2: I turned that back around in service to you for
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  Speaker 2: a better Texas, a better whatever state you live in,
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  Speaker 2: a better America. And they do that. Here's the flip
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  Speaker 2: side of that coin. Losing, Oh gosh, to lose, that's
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of people saying we're done with you, we
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  Speaker 2: don't want you. It is quite literally a rejection maybe
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  Speaker 2: as vast Listen, we've all been dumped by a girl.
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  Speaker 2: Right in our life, we've all been you know, do
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  Speaker 2: well you ladies these days? Who knows? We've all been
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  Speaker 2: dumped by whomever. We've been rejected by a business partner,
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  Speaker 2: or are there a part we didn't get in the
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  Speaker 2: school play, or you know, blah blah. But to have
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  Speaker 2: thousands and millions of whatever people who they use, they
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  Speaker 2: used to love me, They used to love me, says
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  Speaker 2: the losing politician. What happened?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: What? What did I do?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: In this particular case, it's what did you not do?
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just the Save America Act? But man,
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of it. Man, that's a lot of it,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it. If Senator Cornyn had somehow gotten
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  Speaker 2: with his buddy John Thune and dragged that Save America
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  Speaker 2: Act across the finish line, we're probably talking about him
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  Speaker 2: pulling it out in the end. I mean, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I've less than twenty eight points. Maybe it was just
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  Speaker 2: time for just time. Sometimes time for folks to go.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just time. And we talked about the Trump endorsement. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: how many points was the Trump endorsement worth? I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: five ten, I don't think it was twenty two or
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  Speaker 2: a number. If Trump had endorsed corn it Paxton still
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  Speaker 2: would have won, and one decisively. It was just time,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and that will occasionally happen. So on this
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  Speaker 2: admittedly really painful day for Senator Cornyn and his people
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  Speaker 2: and his voters, I want to say just a word
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  Speaker 2: about the graciousness and the friendship and the partnership that
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  Speaker 2: this man has shown to me on the show that
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  Speaker 2: I've done. I came back to my native Texas in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four and John Cornyn was Attorney General and
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  Speaker 2: then was on the Supreme Court, and you know, before
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  Speaker 2: he ever became senator in two thousand and two, there's
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  Speaker 2: never been a better guy in terms of just being
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  Speaker 2: on the show and being available to us. And I
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  Speaker 2: have nothing nothing but good things to say about him
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  Speaker 2: on the way out. Now that said, don't screw it up,
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  Speaker 2: because I also said today that he will that he'll
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  Speaker 2: be he'll be a good guy. On the way out,
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to see any cassidy massy mischief from
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  Speaker 2: Senator Cornyn. Please let me be right about that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is this ought to be the first one Tracy
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  Speaker 2: sent me This is a speed of graciousness. If there's
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  Speaker 2: anybody who was nice to hear being gracious about John Cornyn,
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  Speaker 2: it was Ken Paxton last night.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight. We just sent a texasise message to Washington. I
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  Speaker 4: said it in March and I'll say it again now
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  Speaker 4: today change was on the ballot, and change one. Let
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  Speaker 4: me be clear, this is not just my win.
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  Speaker 1: This is your win.
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  Speaker 4: We just proved that this Senate seat doesn't belong to Washington.
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  Speaker 4: It belongs to you, the hard working men and women
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  Speaker 4: of this state. We went up against one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: fifty million dollars in all the attacks in the world,
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  Speaker 4: and you know what happened. The voters declared loud and
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  Speaker 4: clear a simple truth that we know in our hearts
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  Speaker 4: and in our souls. Texas is not for sale. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I want to take a minute to say something about
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  Speaker 4: Senator Cornyn. I want to thank Senator Corny for his
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  Speaker 4: service to this state. John has dedicated much of his
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  Speaker 4: life to serving Texas. He's worked diligently for years to
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  Speaker 4: help Texas and for that spirit of service to the
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  Speaker 4: Lone Star state and our nation. I'm very grateful. Thank you, John.
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  Speaker 4: So no matter who you supported, in this race, whether
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  Speaker 4: it was me, Senator Cornyn, or you vote for someone
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  Speaker 4: different in Mars. I want to thank every single Texans
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  Speaker 4: and I want to let them know that I want
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  Speaker 4: to earn your support. Tonight is not the end of
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  Speaker 4: a campaign. Tonight is the beginning of the fight to
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  Speaker 4: preserve every value we hold dear. The future of Texas
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  Speaker 4: and the future of America is on the line, and
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  Speaker 4: I intend to do everything I can to expand our movement.
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  Speaker 4: I've won three statewide elections because I know how critical
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  Speaker 4: it is for our party to come together, and that's
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  Speaker 4: what we must do now. Without a shadow of doubt,
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  Speaker 4: I will be the democrats number one target November.
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  Speaker 2: Boy you think you think and having him go through
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  Speaker 2: those things, I'm actually gonna skip a couple. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go to number three. We're gonna we're gonna let's let's
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  Speaker 2: spend a couple of moments on Brother taller Ico. This
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  Speaker 2: is numbers three and four, one of them involving Brother
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  Speaker 2: Tallerico talking. Listen, every time Tallarico talks about Jesus, ken
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  Speaker 2: gets another vote, maybe another thousand or two thousand. It's
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  Speaker 2: let me cover a couple of things that people said
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  Speaker 2: that were not true, that were scare tactics designed to
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  Speaker 2: get you to vote a certain way. It was Senator
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  Speaker 2: Cornyn's job to say, hey, vote for me. It was
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Paxson's job to say, hey, vote for me,
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  Speaker 2: and we see which side worked out better by that metric.
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  Speaker 2: If there were some on the corn In side of
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  Speaker 2: things who said that you absolutely had to vote for
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  Speaker 2: Senator Cornyn because to fail to do so would hand
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  Speaker 2: this seat to James Tallerico, that somehow Ken Paxton would
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  Speaker 2: uniquely require some herculean effort of dragging him across the
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  Speaker 2: finish line, spending hundreds of millions of dollars that we
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  Speaker 2: just wouldn't had to spend. If it's corn and you
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  Speaker 2: elllect Cornyn and it's just done, we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: spend a time. We can spend it all in Michigan
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  Speaker 2: and various other states. What a load of crap. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: everybody was going to face their challenges. If Cornyn had won,
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  Speaker 2: if he had pulled this thing out, if he had
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  Speaker 2: pulled off what clearly now would have been a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: You know what.
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  Speaker 2: The challenge is that he would have faced a very
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  Speaker 2: beaten down underwhelmed, underinspired conservative voter base in Texas, it
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  Speaker 2: would have been like, oh cripes, six more years of
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  Speaker 2: this what? And my job as the Unity captain would
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  Speaker 2: have been to drag everybody along and say, all right, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I know, no, no, but you know, cornyin at his
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  Speaker 2: worst is way better than Tallarico on his best day.
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  Speaker 2: So let's, you know, get with the program. Will will
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  Speaker 2: ken Paxton face some uphill battles, sure he will. He
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  Speaker 2: is going to have a total target on his back,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully only figurative. And and there there's been some Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there was the impeachment, which was a joke, but people
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  Speaker 2: will hear that ninety million times. Yes there's some personal
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  Speaker 2: stuff which is true. And we all hope for redemption
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  Speaker 2: and healing and progress and go forth and sin no more.
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  Speaker 2: And in fact, in fact, a word about that, because
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  Speaker 2: the other thing that from the Corning camp was that
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  Speaker 2: character is on the ballot. We think we think character matters.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, character matters. Of course it does, it does,
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  Speaker 2: and it always will victually on our side, that does it.
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  Speaker 2: We would love, we would all love, the way I
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  Speaker 2: always phrase it, for all of our standard bears to
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  Speaker 2: be wise blemish free philosopher kings who have walked a
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  Speaker 2: perfect evangelical walk. It won't always happen that way. I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you I will not be lectured a lot
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  Speaker 2: about character by people who ever voted for Bill Clinton,
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  Speaker 2: who had actual sex with a person while in the
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  Speaker 2: Oval office while president. So spare me via the finger
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  Speaker 2: wagging from those of you who say that character matters
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  Speaker 2: so much. We do believe in redemption. I believe in progress,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe in people. Listen, we've got to walk
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  Speaker 2: that journey with Trump. Now, his billionaire playboy days are
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: a little further back in the rear view mirror. But
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: as person after person after person told me they will
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: leave Ken's personal stuff to Ken and what they're really
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: looking for and what matters to them, what matters in
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  Speaker 2: my life. People told me they say, you know, listen,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Ken's personal stuff matters not one bit to me. Voter
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: after voter told me, you know what does matter to me?
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Can he pass the Save America Act? You know it
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: does matter to me. Will he be with Trump on
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: the key issues that matter to Trump and that I
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: voted for when I voted for Trump? You know what
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: matters to me? Gender sanity, no, what matters to me.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Strong borders, no, what matters to me? Second Amendment? And
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: if you're with me on those things, that is the
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: character I'm looking for. That is the kind of thing
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: we're looking for. That is why we voted the way
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: we did. So if you're having a tough time figuring
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: out how yesterday happened, maybe that is of some help.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: And if you're wondering how November is going to go,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Woke Opie. My good friend Chris Putnam runs an outfit
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: called Dallas Express. I think he coined that woke Opie
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: just the best for taller Eco. This is cut three.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: I think this is the one. Yeah, what you're going
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: to see is he is. You'll hear him. It is
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: in Austin, in our great state capitol and a legislative hearing.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And let's see, let's see. I think this is taller
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Eco on the.
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  Speaker 1: Sea.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure which one. There's this roll number three
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  Speaker 2: and whatever it is, I'll tell you about it afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon
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  Speaker 3: with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty,
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  Speaker 3: my own ego. It's a never ending process, and it's
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: a painful process.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: It's that one. Okay, it was the other way, so
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: we'll get to it with the legs that one. I'm
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: glad to lead with that one first. Jesus has helped
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: me deal with my own whiteness and with my own masculinity.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I knowed insert your own joke here. Oh, by the way,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I was on I've been quite a bit. I've been
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: like the you know, popular girl at the dance. I
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: was on Cuomo yesterday. I was on Will Caine yesterday.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: It was very, very alms. I almost Anderson Cooper's people
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: called it CNN. So well, we'll see if that ever.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: We'll see, if that ever happens. I will go on
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: these networks that hate me. Well, here's the funny wame.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: They don't hate me. They hate everything I stand for.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: But if they'll have me on to say things that
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: are in my head, in my heart, knock yourself out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm there for you anyway, though, Brother Cuomo, who's once,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: he's just always just been so great to me. His
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: people are great. I'll go on that show anytime. They
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: played the low T Tallarico ad James low T tallar
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Rico too weak for Texas, and Cuomo says, is that
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: is that the way you're going to play. Why not
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: talk about actual issues, because that is an actual issue.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: He's crazy. And listen, we'll talk about affordability, and we'll
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: talk about gas prices, talk about meat prices, talk about borders.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Will will we will? You know it was before the
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Paxton landslide was made evident I said, whoever our nominee is,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: is going to talk about those things willfully all day,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: every day. But if James Tallerico himself is going to
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: say that he needed Jesus to usher him through crises
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  Speaker 2: involving his whiteness and his masculinity, We're going to hang
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: those words around him like the albatross. They deserve to
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: be so police. So speaking of the speaking of the
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: of the gender part, Yeah, here's that. This is in
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  Speaker 2: a hearing, so you will not see him, oh, but
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: you'll hear him, and you will hear this often. Number four.
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  Speaker 5: I want us all to be aware of is that
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  Speaker 5: that modern science obviously recognized as that there are many
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: which honestly represented Breth Heffner surprised me surprised me too,
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: because I am, you know, am not well versed in
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: this this issue area. I'm not a scientist. I'm a politician,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: a lot worse than a scientist.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, uh yeah, six genders, six genders now having
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: skewered him properly, so on things that he will be
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: skewered on. I mean, it's not going to bat for him.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I believe in truth telling. Okay. So he brings Obama
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: to Texas and they make a taco truck trip, just
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: trying to achieve something approaching authenticity, and he got a potato, potato,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: egg and cheese. Potato, egg and cheese. What's missing on
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: a potato, egg and cheese taco? Come on, say it?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Say it? The answer is meat. And everybody went, oh,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: he's a vegan. Okay, he's not a vegan. I think
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: at one point he said we're ordering vegan food for
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: the campaign for a while, so's he's vegan adjacent. He
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: may not leak like meat as much as other I know,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: insert your own joke there too. But but and here's
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: the thing. Potato, for those of you not in Texas, potato,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: egg and cheese is a thoroughly valid taco. I will
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: consume a potato, egg and cheese taco. Now I'm gonna
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: follow it with triple chorizo. But but so enough on that. Okay,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: this is cut five, the last one we'll do, and
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: then I'll tie a big bow around this for you
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: on this, on this special episode of m and the
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Other end Mike with you in the magic of tape.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: There is such great stuff coming in these coming days.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Why because I was here, we were taping. We got
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: wonderful stuff coming for you. And then then we'll all
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: have stories when we get Mike back from Japan, I
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: will I will needle Mike about where he is staying.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Just hold on to that. We'll cover that when we
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: cover that. But here, this is, This is number five.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: This is Listen. I could talk about brother Tallerico, but
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: it seems like Paxton should. And here he is.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: This campaign is not about red versus blue. It's about
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: so much more. My opponent is the most extreme radical
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Democrats have ever nominated. He's even running a vegan campaign,
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: whatever that is. He goes by a few names that
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: you may all have heard of. Some people know him
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: as tofu tell Rico. Some people call him sixth Gender Jimmy.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: I've even heard some people call him James Tellerfrico and
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: others refer to him simply as low T tell Rico.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: But no matter what you call him, let me tell you,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: you are listening to the Texas Attorney General.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: Now it's projective.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Break into that. So let's say Caitlin wasn't having any
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: of that. So uh and and this this, this is
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: why any hope that Democrats have. And to go back
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: to last night on Cuomo. If there's anything I love
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: being on when it's just me, that's great, me and
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: the host. But if they have sometimes it'll be me
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: and somebody else. They'll bring on a Democrat. They'll bring
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: on me and a liberal person, which I love. By
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: the way, it's always great. Let the viewers decide who's
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: right and who's full of it. And to some viewers,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I'm sure sometimes it's me. Hard though that may be.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: To imagine this time, my co panelist person was a
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: young man named Kendall Scudder, who is the state chairman
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: of the Texas Democrat Party. Oh bless just bless his heart.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: They have got quite the uphill climb because this is
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: their guy. And I think Honestly, if you hook him
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: up to lie detectors and say, wasn't Jasmine Crockett probably
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: a better candidate that they'd say yes, and listen, I
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: got no dog in the hunt. I mean, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I'll never vote for a Democrat, so I have the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: gift of objectivity. I'm all flat out and tell you
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: she would have lost too. But as much as a congresswoman,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Crockett was a fire hose of material for those of
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: us in conservative media. I mean, she was just a
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: quote machine. There were entire episodes of The Five given
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: over to Hey, here's the next thing Jasmine Crockett's going
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: to say? And I wondered aloud, is that smart? Haven't
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: We kind of made her a rock star? And we
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: kind of did conservative media by telling America four hundred times,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: hey here's the I'm just I'm quick rant. I'm so
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: tired of seeing clips of the view. I go to
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: lengths to avoid consuming the words of Whoopi Goldberg enjoy
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: they are. And now on the shows that I watch,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: it's like, hey, here's Whooping enjoy saying Trump's the Antichrist? Right, Okay?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Thanks anyway though, now, and I guess the key reason
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: there is they don't matter. People in elected office actually
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: kind of matter. So if we've got actual people who
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: are in Congress and you know, high office, and they
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: are saying and doing crazy things, it's it is at
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: least somewhat more meaningful. And she was a constant supply
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: of material. But she was kind of from central casting
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: as a squad style, fairly radical, certainly kind of mouth
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: the Democrat, social media rock star. And she had her
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: fan base, and she she had a certain had a
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: certain style to her. Was I disagreed with everything she
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: ever said. I developed a certain grudging appreciation for her
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: as a message delivery machine. A right Tallarico. Good lord,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: you know, listen, he gets to be liberal one. The
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Democrats are going to give you a leftist candidate. So
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: he's going to be pro abortion, and he's going to
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: be you know, anti borders, and he's going to be
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: all those things. But the problem, especially in Texas, is
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: that he is going to spend time telling you that
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Jesus thinks abortion is great. He is going to spend
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: time telling you that Jesus believes that it's okay to
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: carve up your kid's genitals for demonic transgender surgery, and
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: that is going to be a stone cold deal breaker
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: in my state of Texas. So if Cornant had pulled
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: this out by some miracle, yes he would have beaten Tallerco.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Do not for one minute believe that with this Paxton victory,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: especially by the way examining the margin by which it
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: has happened, Pullice, does this look like? Does my state
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: look like a state that's not ready to go to
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: battle against this guy? Does my state look undermotivated? Does
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: my state look underinspired? We are inspired. We're going in.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: We got five months to take this guy down, and
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: take this guyde down. We will. So all right, I
• 29:52
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• 31:19
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