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Paul Manafort 'Talarico is not a candidate for Texas' · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: We have a very good candidate, Ken Paxton, and he's
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  Speaker 1: running against Talarico, they call him, because he is a
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  Speaker 1: little freaky, and that's not a man that represents the.
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  Speaker 2: Value of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: But Talarico is dominating when it comes to the cash raised,
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  Speaker 3: as in $ 72 million compared to Paxton's nearly $ 17 million.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: But does money always translate into winning? No, it does not.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't work in Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed beat Haley Stevens.
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  Speaker 4: She had a huge spending advantage.
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  Speaker 3: Outside political PACs, funded megadonors spent a record-breaking 65 mil
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  Speaker 3: on her. He was like a ninth of that in spending.
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  Speaker 3: But win or lose, the cash machine is not stopping
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  Speaker 3: anytime soon. According to The New York Times, megadonors have
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  Speaker 3: already poured $ 1. 2 billion into the midterms. And one father-son
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  Speaker 3: duo is leading it for the Democrats.
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  Speaker 4: The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to George Soros.
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  Speaker 3: George Soros is back, along with his son Alex, to
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  Speaker 3: elect more anti-police Democrats, more anti-American Democrats, soft-on-crime DAs, of course,
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  Speaker 3: as well, to public office. So far, the Soros family
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  Speaker 3: has spent a total of $ 103 million this election cycle,
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  Speaker 3: with all but $ 1 million of that going to Democratic
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  Speaker 3: super PACs, making them the second most prolific donors in
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  Speaker 3: the country. The top ones, Silicon Valley billionaire Marc Andreessen
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  Speaker 3: and Ben Horowitz.
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  Speaker 4: According to The New York.
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  Speaker 3: Times, they've pumped in more than $ 115 million this cycle,
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  Speaker 3: with the majority of it going to AI development and crypto.
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  Speaker 4: But they did kick $ 12 million to MAGA, Inc. Trump's
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  Speaker 4: own super PAC.
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  Speaker 3: Joining us now is Paul Manafort, former Trump 2016 campaign manager.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Paul, you're an expert in this. You know
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  Speaker 3: how this stuff works. You know how it translates or
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  Speaker 3: does not. Give me your analysis thus far on where
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  Speaker 3: things stand with the donors and how this is going
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  Speaker 3: to translate in the midterms.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Laura. One of the most important developments
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  Speaker 2: over the last several months, of course, was the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court ruling in, I believe it was early June, that
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  Speaker 2: allows Republican Party committees and PACs to take federal funding
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  Speaker 2: and coordinate with campaigns. In the past, that wasn't allowed.
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  Speaker 2: There was a wall that was created. of their ability
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  Speaker 2: to talk to each other and strategize and understand what
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  Speaker 2: needs to be done. That no longer is true. So
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  Speaker 2: an advantage the Democrats have historically had about getting this
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  Speaker 2: left-wing money into grassroots campaigns of left-wing candidates has now
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  Speaker 2: been neutralized in the sense that now Republican money that's
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  Speaker 2: being raised— and we're outraging the Democrats in the super PACs
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  Speaker 2: and committees— at this point in time, we can now
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  Speaker 2: coordinate with campaigns. And so the disadvantage that may appear
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  Speaker 2: on paper between Paxson and Tallarico is not as significant
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  Speaker 2: a disadvantage as before. And in Texas, the last several
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  Speaker 2: elections in Texas, in August, the Democrats were talking about
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  Speaker 2: how they're going to turn the seat. And by the
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  Speaker 2: end of September, it becomes apparent that they're not. James
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  Speaker 2: Tallarico is not a candidate for Texas. And to interrupt— Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Paul, I want to ask you about— can I just ask
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  Speaker 3: you about something real quick? Because we keep hearing that
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  Speaker 3: the Republicans are really going to kick it into high
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  Speaker 3: gear after Labor Day or at the midterm convention.
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  Speaker 4: Is that— that' s kind of an old rule.
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  Speaker 3: You know, back in 1988, the last time Democrats actually
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  Speaker 3: won a Senate seat in Texas, that's kind of the
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  Speaker 3: conventional thinking.
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  Speaker 4: Does that still make sense today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it does, but I would not think that the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are waiting until the convention next month to kickstart
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  Speaker 2: the campaign. James Miller left the White House to go
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  Speaker 2: run the midterm elections several months ago, and he was
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  Speaker 2: the political director of the White House for the two
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  Speaker 2: years he was at the White House. And he moved
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  Speaker 2: over there because as the political director of the White
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  Speaker 2: House and as the political director of the Trump campaign
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  Speaker 2: in 2024— James understands all of the issues in all
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  Speaker 2: of the key states and all of the key congressional districts.
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  Speaker 2: And he's been working very diligently, not just sitting the
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  Speaker 2: last three months, but for the last year, in helping
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  Speaker 2: to prepare the ground. So, yes, the focus of the
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  Speaker 2: electorate becomes more pronounced after Labor Day. But Blair, the
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  Speaker 2: Trump White House, the Republican Party has not been waiting
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  Speaker 2: until Labor Day to kick-start the campaign. And you're going
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  Speaker 2: to see it. I mean, what the convention is going
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  Speaker 2: to do is going to frame the election. Go ahead, Laura.
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  Speaker 3: And, Paul, do you agree that the media will continue
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  Speaker 3: to try to demoralize and suppress Republican voter turnout? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: to me, it's so obvious that, oh, all hope is lost.
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  Speaker 3: Trump's down in approval numbers. Midterm convention is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a flop. I mean, you hear this drumbeat over
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  Speaker 3: and over and over again. I tell people, tune it
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  Speaker 3: all out.
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  Speaker 4: Real quick.
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  Speaker 2: You're exactly right, as always. The point is, midterm elections
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  Speaker 2: are about turnout. We know that. And historically, the party
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  Speaker 2: in the White House doesn't do as well in the
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  Speaker 2: midterms because their people stay home. Well, we know that, too.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we've been working on over the last
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  Speaker 2: several months, actually all year. to focus on turning out
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  Speaker 2: the Trump voters, not just the Republican voters, the Trump voters,
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  Speaker 2: and to create assurances to the independents who voted for
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  Speaker 2: Trump in 2024 that what they voted for is at
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  Speaker 2: risk in 2026 if they let the elections result in
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  Speaker 2: a left-wing Democrat takeover of the House of Representatives or
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  Speaker 2: the Senate, although there's no chance in the Senate, in
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  Speaker 2: my mind.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Paul, we'll have you back as this proceeds.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Great to see you tonight.
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