
WarRoom Battleground EP 959: Lead Up To The Texas Primaries ...
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Stephen K. Bannon
Islamic jihadis are plotting against you. Why in the hell you think they're in Houston?
Mike Lindell
In the north of Dallas.
Stephen K. Bannon
They are working together to overthrow Western
Austin Police Spokesperson
civilization, Sharia compounds which are areas governed by religious rules.
Stephen K. Bannon
We know who you are, we know what you are and we know what you're trying to accomplish. And it is not going to happen. In the jewel of the crown of the union of this republic, we purge
News Reporter
any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas.
Stephen K. Bannon
They are not coming. They are already here. You are not here properly and you're going to leave. On 3 March, Sharia law goes on the ballot in the state of Texas. The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally with one another. We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it. Islam will never dominate the United States and by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas. As Texas goes, so goes the nation. As the nation goes, so goes the world. Are you prepared to fight for this state? Are you prepared to fight for your country? War Room Texas.
David Nino Rodriguez
Your host, Stephen K. Bannon starts right now.
Stephen K. Bannon
Okay, I want to thank everybody that's been participant in the show and supported us. We're on the eve of game day. Tomorrow's election day and just for some logistics, we will be doing War Room Texas tomorrow, kind of a pre game for watching the vote count. We will do that Eastern standard Time in our traditional 6 to 7 slot after the afternoon edition of the War Room. Then on Real America's Voice, what's going to happen is Studio 6B, what comes on at 8 o'.
Mike Lindell
Clock.
Stephen K. Bannon
They're going to do the first half hour of our coverage and then Grant Stinchfield from Dallas and here from our studio up north of Dallas are going to come in and co host the coverage tomorrow night. We're going to cover obviously North Carolina also, but principally Texas, where all the action is right now, if we work at all the logistics. Ben Burqam will also be at Ken Paxton headquarters. So we have a full night ahead of us. In a moment, I'm gonna go to Richard Barris who's gonna break down some numbers for us. The Secretary of State has put out the results of early voting. And remember, there's a huge amount of Texans, particularly people that support guys like Doc Chambers who's running for governor. The grassroots, the hardcore grassroots here do not believe in early voting and do not early vote. So there's always that tension when you look at these early voting numbers. But something's happening big in Texas. Many, many people have talked about the national media. We knew this, this is why we came down here. Barrison being in a moment. And then David Nino Rodriguez, which has one of the biggest podcasts in the state of Texas from El Paso. He was on top of this story in Austin about this is radical Islamic, let's call it what it is, a terrorist mass casualty event in Austin the other night. He actually understood this and knew exactly kind of what was going on and thinking it through, something he's warned people about a lot Saturday night. And he's going to join us here in a moment. We got to finish. So, Mike Lindell, we had Brian Kennedy on today. Brian Kennedy wrote an amazing piece over at Glenn Beck's the Blaze, which was up this morning, about this executive order that Kurt Olson and other, you know Kurt Olson very well. He's now the president special assistant for elections. People are quite concerned about the security of the 2026 election. There's Peter Tickton and others. Peter is Tina Peters, lawyer. And the president just put up on Truth Social a few minutes ago between updates on the war. He said, free Tina Peters. A lot of people, particularly the war of posse, are very, very concerned. There's not enough folks in this. We have things going on in Georgia. You're about to have things going on in Maricopa County. John Solomon's breaking all kind of news. But this executive order, because I tell you the Save America Act I don't believe is really going to get a hearing in the Senate. I think it's a lot of happy talk by Thune and these guys. The House has passed it. So therefore we have to go to other alternatives. What can you update us about, sir?
Mike Lindell
Well, I can give you a couple updates. One is the executive order that the Washington Post came out about. I don't believe Kurt's involved in that. There's a couple different ones that are going to end up on the president's desk. But I did want to get on here because I heard Brian this morning saying, you know, boy, this would be a huge undertaking and almost, you know, to the point where this could be impossible. Well, I'm here to tell everybody I'm going to tie this together. You know, the genesis of the electronic voting machines goes back to Venezuela. Well, Venezuela and Chavez and back then, and they came with Fidel Castro was even involved. Where they go, hey, rather than do military coups to take countries, let's do it. Let's take it one, you know, by their elections. And this is where they started taking all the countries in South America. Now you guys, we have information that, that Maduro invited. Are you ready for this? This probably for you even to hear this invited the Iranian foreign minister in 2020 to watch our stolen election. So I mean this was in Iran. So you guys think about this. This is all getting stopped now. I mean this is so where.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hold on, where are invited the Iranians to actually watch
Mike Lindell
anything I'm putting out. You guys, you're going to, you need to go to lindellplan.com it's my election crime bureau. We've been working on this stuff for five years. It's all posted there. So I made it easy for you. Go to lindellplan.com you can see all of this, all the information we have there. I've had teams of tens of thousands on the ground but we've had teams of cyber guys and journalists, everything for the last five years putting all this together. And this is the stuff we keep turning into the administration. But you guys can check this out. And we've got four different plans to replace all these machines. So even if we end up with just partial the machines here for the 2026 primary and by the way in Texas right now, Steve, there's at least three counties that are going our three precincts or counties, I can't remember which one but they're doing paper ballots hand counting. So these things we're five years ahead of where we if we wouldn't be in this position now. There's no way you could just, you know, hey, we're going to switch overnight and get. Because the China parts are all in these machines and they've been deemed critical infrastructure by Obama and in Italian so they take over South America. We all know it can be done because in 2022 Argentina, one judge said hey, we've got to get rid of these voting machines and go to paper ballots and count it. They did it in four months. They beat the Netherlands by a month and it can be done and free their country. So I just want to encourage everybody and you can get the information we've got even if we're caught with part and say we have to keep the tabulators we've got. We've been doing. We did it in the 2024 election. My teams did in California. We've already done it in the election. That's a whole new process. It's almost like having another camera on the election. But we need to hang on.
Stephen K. Bannon
Let me just go back to what Brian said because I asked him, I said what do you guys are calling for by taking the machines out, when do we hit the tripwire? When that actually has to be promulgated. And he said, look, it should be today, but we could probably get a couple of weeks and maybe even go into the early spring. Do you believe that? My point is, are we already overcome by events on just processes that we couldn't. If we wanted to stop it, we couldn't stop it. Or do you believe if a tough enough executive order came out and Brian walked through all types of legal things that have to happen that you could actually do it today in an executive order where you get hung up in court so much that we physically won't have the time to shift over to a different process?
Mike Lindell
Steve, if we didn't have my teams that have developed four different hand counting systems and all this over the last five years, I would tell you we're already, it's already too late. But it's not too late because even if we, even if we go into April, May, I believe we can switch over the whole country in four months or less because of the can counting systems we already have in place. Some of them we've already used here. This goes back to Osage County, Missouri. We use that one, I believe in 2022. So a lot of the counties now. Do I believe that it should be centralized, our voting? No, I do not believe it should be centralized. I should be what I had help put in which the RNC endorsed, which was a resolution, paper ballots, hand counted, precinct level, voter id. So I think you have to keep it at that level. And I don't think. Steve, I don't know if you're going to have that much pushback out there. Everybody wants secure elections, even, even Democrats, who is like 79%.
Stephen K. Bannon
Mike, are you kidding me? We came to get Republicans 51 votes to pass it in the Senate. What do you mean pushback? The Democrats are 100% against this. We don't have the Republic. Actually. If Thune was actually pressed to get to 51 votes, the 51st vote would be J.D. vance. You might be able to get to 50. What are you talking about? The Democrats business, their business model. They don't want id. They want to have unlimited mail in ballots and they don't want to do voter rolls. Mike, he froze. See, I came back when he's so hard. He froze. I didn't mean to do that to Mike. Go ahead, Mike.
Mike Lindell
This is our politician I'm talking about. The people want it. We all as people. I don't care what party you're in the people want secure election. I mean, the people want secure election. Obviously, our politicians, these uniparty Republicans and the Democrat want secure elections. Steve, we've been fighting them for five years. But I'm telling you, if you're the people out there, if you're watching this show, you guys go to your counties, go. We go to your politics, say, hey, we've got to have secure elections because everybody wants that. When you talk about Amy Klobuchar in my home state, she what did she do? She was 18 and 19 to get rid of the voting machines and go to paper ballot. And I spent $50 million. Amy Do. She takes all this money from the government and brings it into Minnesota and defraudates it all these $25 billion because
Stephen K. Bannon
they know their business model. By the way, we're going to get into Richard Barris. One of the reasons the early voting here is that there's a significant part of the MAGA movement that just will not vote early. They don't trust it. They think their data's stolen. They think the Democrats use the cheat so they won't do it. So there's huge consternation, particularly here in Texas. It's a huge issue. But Mike Lindell, where do people go? You keep talking about the the election Crime Bureau. Where do folks go to get all this information today? Because this is going to have to be a big push even to get these executive orders out.
Mike Lindell
Yeah, you guys, I made it easy. Go to lindellplan.com it brings you to the election crime bureau dot com. Everything's there. Five years of work is there. Everybody. All this stuff that gets keeps getting turned over to administration. But you guys need to see it firsthand. You need to see the solutions. You need to see your county, what's going on. Texas, everything is there. We have this gets fed by the cause of America, too. We have 300,000 people in all 50 states. You guys have been fighting from the ground up for five years now. But everybody needs to know about this. It's lindaleplan.com I'm going to do one more plug. Steve, since I mentioned Amy Klobuchar. Sure. Here's an update, everybody. We're doing great in Minnesota with the in the run for governor there. I can use your help. I'm all in. We have another huge event coming up on Wednesday. I just did one with Royce White. Him and I together, we knocked it out of the park in northern Minnesota. And so Royce and I kind of teamed up here doing these we call them mini rallies, Steve. We got a big one on Wednesday. But you guys can help out there. It's Mike, Mike Lindell gov.com you can learn all about what we're doing there in Minnesota, too, because we're the tip of the spear. Mike Lindell gov.com help my campaign, you guys. We got to win Minnesota. We have to win. We have to win, win, win.
Stephen K. Bannon
What's the first thing you're going to do in Minnesota as governor? What's your first act?
Mike Lindell
First act. Ban Sharia law. I don't even have to hesitate. Ban sharia law. You guys were the Trojan horse for this. And look what has happened in Texas. That's a, that's the easiest thing. And a little bonus. I'm going to bring back the Minnesota flag, which, which ended up being a Somalian flag, bring back the Minnesota flag, ban sharia law and take the satanic statue out of the Capitol that waltz put in there instead. To be fair to the devil.
Stephen K. Bannon
Unbelievable. Thank you, Mike Lindell. Look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Election integrity. Top of mind, Richard Barris. Let's just go through. So by the way, just logistics for tomorrow. We're going to do a worm Texas as a pregame right after the 5 o' clock show from 6 to 7 and then starting at 8, Studio 6B will pick up and start reviewing because that's when the polls close, 8pm Eastern time. We'll start the first 30 minutes of our Texas coverage and then Grant Stinchfield and ourselves as soon as we get organized. We'll join at 8:30 and we'll take it from there. And Ben Berkwam right now is scheduled to be in Paxton headquarters. Richard, talk to me about, because this is the two things that have gotten national attention are the early vote totals for Republicans and Democrats. I want you to break it down. Then I'll talk about the Democrat and the Republican Senate races because this also has people's hair on fire. First off, knowing that traditionally there's a ton of Republicans here, particularly a lot of, specifically a lot of the war room posse in the MAGA base that are just do not trust early voting. They don't trust the machines. They don't trust anything to do with any of this. So their game day voters in tomorrow's game day, what's your assessment and what's been the national media's assessment of how the early vote has turned out?
Richard Barris
Yeah, that's what I want to lead off with, Steve, which will give you an idea of what I think When I look at this early vote, I'm going to lead off with this. You have to go vote tomorrow, Republicans because if you don't, you're going to give Harry Anton and CNN and the national media a huge PR win for Democrats. And the reason why is because early vote is or at least primary participation in total, which I think is more accurate to say is definitely predictive of general election outcome. All right, so if it turns out that Republicans don't show up on game day tomorrow and Republicans have all of these talking points that they look like they're going to get from the early vote, we're going to get enthon clip after ending clip about how the Republican seat in Texas is going to be gone. You have got to go and vote tomorrow. The the totals right now I'm just got look, they're abysmal to me. Republicans need to learn how to vote in person. If they don't like to vote by mail, that's fine because what we have been seeing in 25 and even in the short time in 26 is that if there was a change in Republican behavior in 2024, meaning if there was a change from, you know, usually them voting on election day to them warming up and taking to early vote, then that pattern continued in 25. So if they didn't show up and the early vote was weak, then it turned out the election day vote was also rather weak. Texas, you have to prove this. You have to break that trend tomorrow. It's not good enough what I'm seeing right now. And if you don't break it, it's going to spell, it's going to foreshadow. Well first off, a bad November you
Stephen K. Bannon
have got by the way, it's what, 200,000, 2, 25, something like that. And Republicans aren't bad for a midterm cycle normal. But what we've seen is the Democrat normal. What's it seem the Democrats are coming in with a presidential cycle type number. Sir.
Richard Barris
Yeah. Ken, can I chose Starr county for two reasons. One, because it does show this right now Republican, I mean Democrats are about at 240% of their 2022 total at the end of early vote and they're even outperforming 2024. So they're at like 250. So the problem is Republicans are doing well as well. They're at 120. But that's not good enough. Here's which I think is important to highlight. This is the Democratic total right now for early vote in Starr County. Why did I pick this. It's heavily Hispanic. Hillary Clinton won it by 33 points in 16. Trump shifted it all the way to Biden plus 5 in 2020, and then he won it by 16 flat, a 21 point swing from 2020. It's heavily Hispanic. And these were, I mean, this was, this was the county on election night, Steve, where I was looking when you, I and John Solomon were talking about the magic of the Trump co and new maga, how it's more diverse, it's non white, it's younger, it's the future. It could govern for 30 years. This is what scares me. That's already more votes than Kamala Harris got in the entire election. And, and this compared to right there, you can see that's the Republican early vote total. It's pathetic. Donald Trump won by about a thousand more votes total in that county than Democrats have already cast. All right, so understand they're, they're already almost 2000 votes more than Kamala Harris got in the entire general election in 2024. What does that matter to me? Because I am seeing a magma malaise. We talk about this a lot, you and I. There's a lot of depressed MAGA voters. Time to snap out of it. I'm not saying you have a good reason to vote. I'm telling you, you have to vote. You know, I mean, it's really that simple. Those Hispanic voters can only be voting in those rates. Steve, if many of them are Trump supporters who are now voting in the Democratic primary. That's. The numbers don't make sense any other way. We have seen this slippage with Hispanics.
Stephen K. Bannon
I don't know if it's, I don't know if it's disgruntled that voted before. I think what they're seeing is what this controversy about closed primaries. They're seeing people that have voted in Republican primaries, these Democrats, to try to get RINO candidates now go home because they've got, number one, Trump derangement syndrome. They want to put up huge numbers. Also, they've got this hotly contested U.S. senate race. So I think that's, by the way, the two things on the, on the Trump side. I think, number one, there are a significant amount of people that think, hey, President Trump's in. He's getting everything done. I want him to get done. He's, you got the House and the Senate. This is just not important. Maybe I'll come in in November. But this is, and we've seen this in these special elections. The other is that there's not an insignificant portion of his people are saying, hey, this is not what I voted for. This Iranian situation being part of that. So you got a double whammy here. Yeah, it is the thing I worry about because some people said, well look, it's just a primary and they're two, they're 2.4 times up, right? 240%. Their, their energy is like the kind of mandami, what I call dsa working family party with tons of dark money in back of it that are funding this. If you have Harry Enton on Tuesday night that are spiking the football because he win, you're going to have a billion dollars of outside money pour into here like people, it's going to be a tsunami. And why? Because their plan to take over Texas, which was a five or ten year plan and remember they already put $400 million of sources money in it and Trump won by 14 points in 24. So it thwarted them. But they have gotten this DSA and I gotta tell you, this is one of the reasons we have the Sharia law proposition on the ballot. They do have energy, they have urgency and they're kind of taking the Trump playbook. It's door to door. It's getting low propensity, low information voters. They have the universities because all the universities are incubators for this. If they put these numbers up through if election day, tomorrow night, if it's this bad, you're going to just have CNN and msnbc. Rachel Maddow is going to say, hey, Texas is in the gun sites. We can do this. You can stop Trump. You can stop President Trump and impeach him. And that's why he went to Corpus Christi. Because South Texas, as you said, the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas could be where the fight, particularly Virginia, we lose this referendum, it goes 10 to 1. I think the control of the House of Representatives could come down to a handful of these new seats in South Texas.
Richard Barris
Richard Barris, Yeah, you just nailed it. I mean the donors, they'll say this is our year, we're gonna do it. It's an extra, it's an extra seat that we can get to vote to convict and remove. Folks, I mean, wake up. To remove Donald Trump. Not just, you know, do it for show. If they get Texas, if they, if they get this primary vote, this disproportionate primary vote when it's a PR victory, they're gonna open up their checkbooks and they're gonna ridiculous amount of money that frankly Republicans can't afford to spend. Defending Texas. Michael Watley's down in North Carolina. They got a lot of work to do in that race. I mean, we can just go all over the map. People have to vote because they will do it. I guarantee you. That clip, that ending clip that you were. You were just saying. I guarantee you that comes before end of day on Wednesday. It will be out there. It'll be cut, and it'll be circulated in all the Democrat literature and all the Democrat memos and all Democrat social media. It will be a bad PR loss for Republicans.
Stephen K. Bannon
What is your. What's your thinking right now? Because one of the concerns is the amount of money spent in this Republican primary. And having been down here for four or five weeks and curating all the news, I have never seen a more vicious campaign against an individual as Cornyn's negative ad campaign against Ken Paxton, who, as you know, is a hero to the grassroots and a hero to the MAGA base. Right now, that looks like Paxton's up, but there's a lot of questions of whether any of them. Because Hunt joined the race. Anybody can get to 50% plus one vote. So you therefore might have to go into a runoff that would take place at least through the middle of May and cost another. They've already spent, I think, overall, almost $100 million. I think Cornyn, with the outside groups is almost $80 million, virtually all of it in negative ads to destroy a combat helicopter pilot in West Point grad Wesley Hunt, and of course, the legendary Ken Paxton. Your thoughts on that?
Richard Barris
Yeah. All of that money to save a loser incumbent who wouldn't be in trouble if he actually represented his coalition, if he actually represented his constituency. This is what Republicans do to themselves. It's beyond shooting themselves in the foot. And listen, Wesley Hunt, nice guy, he's not going to win. All right, you have. I'm not telling people how to vote, but the sooner you put this away, the better. Paxton. If it doesn't go to 50%, Paxton will be a heavy favorite into the runoff anyway. All right, so there is looking at the polling, and not just public polling, but our own. There is a path for Ken Paxton to get to 50%. There's enough undecideds and enough election day votes on the table. The one issue is that Republicans have been having this for, you know, since. Since the special election season started. They're not getting out Paxton's, like, core vote, which is a non college, you know, white, non college, Hispanics.
Stephen K. Bannon
But you're also telling want to. In the time. You're also Telling me, hey, if Paxton can't get to 50% and put this way, now there's a magic number and you say it may be 8% if he has an 8 point spread.
Mike Lindell
Yes.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, I'm not saying it's going to happen, but he had an eight point spread that might get the Senate Leadership fund and others to say, look, Cornyn's, we're going to spend too much money destroying Ken Paxton. We'll destroy him for the general election particularly was against Talarico. And so we don't want to do that. Is there a number tomorrow that you think is the magic number? If Paxton can't, can't win outright, what kind of spread does he have to have to have the Senate Leadership Fund? Just tell Cornyn we're not going to pour more money into this to destroy Ken Paxton anymore.
Richard Barris
Yeah, I think it's more of a level than a spread. I mean, he hits 42%, just call it a day. It's just so statistically unlikely that you'll get the rest of the hunt voters to break for corn and at a level that can keep Paxton from gaining eight points in a two way race. That's, that's crazy. The Bushes did this, if you remember. And when Louie Gohmert as well, Judge Gohmert was running and that primary for Attorney General, they, the Bushies threw their candidate on there. It was ridiculous. Paxton was at 40, 42%. There was never any chance. I mean that is a huge mountain to climb, guys. To keep someone who's at 40, 42% from getting to 50. That's a, it's massive. It's the amount of money. Again, it's a waste. I mean, you got to at least get them to the point where. And I think that's around 42%, give or take a little bit. Even 40, Steve, it's crazy. I mean, if Wesley hunt gets around 13% and Paxton's at 40, it's put it away, this thing's over. You're going to waste tens of millions more dollars on a race that is should again. You really can't afford to waste that money defending a seat. All because, look, the incumbent wouldn't be in trouble, Steve, if he was popular. And here's another number I want to throw at you from our own polling. Almost 30% of the Republican primary electorate is telling us they won't show up for John Cornyn in November if he's the nominee. Look, Magus pissed right there telling us the same thing with Lindsey Graham.
Stephen K. Bannon
Hold on for one second. I want to, I want to just take a second. We got David, Nino and Rodriguez with it, but I want to hold you for a minute or two. On the other side, we take a short commercial break. Or in Texas, Richard Barrett's about to drop a bomb on us about people that will stay home. This is my day. It's my feeling too, being down here. They really the MAGA base, the war room posse detest John Cornyn because he's been around for 24 years and never done anything. Short commercial break. Back with Richard Barris. David Rodriguez next, If you could make one holiday wish, would you wish to be free from your credit card and other debt? Let's see if we can help you with that. If we could give yourself one gift this holiday season, would it be finally to get some relief from your credit card and other debt? I might have a solution. Here's why. Now's the time to make a move. This time of year, credit card and loan companies close out their books. They clean up past due accounts. 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So if you put $100 million and destroy Ken Paxton and he wins, you're going to have Your polling shows 30% of folks are not going to vote for him.
Richard Barris
Yeah, this is what we do, right? I mean you have pollsters who have, you know, give vote press preference and give top line numbers. That's not even the real hard part about polling. This is what we do. The best turnout. Turnout is key. That's what makes true accuracy in polling. You remember in 2024, the Trumper bus voter, Steve, we were right about that. Thank God Donald Trump was nominated because Nikki Haley would have lost that election, Ron DeSantis would have lost that election. They would not have been able to get these people to the polls. This is what's happening in Texas. It's not the only state. These unpopular incumbents who they come in, they parachute in with tens of millions of dollars to save. They reach an expiration. We're in a very, very volatile year and Republicans cannot afford to see numbers like this. If John Cornyn is nominated, 30% of Republican voters are telling us they will not show up for him. That is a disaster. In 2018, Ted Cruz was barely, barely saved by MAGA at the last minute. John Cornyn is not going to be able to rely on MAGA to come in and save him in November. They're not going to do it.
Stephen K. Bannon
Particularly what they don't understand is the viciousness. He has one ad they runs that you think he's like living in the Lincoln Bedroom. He's so close to Trump, which everybody in D.C. knows is a lie, that he's there for the wall. That's a joke. He actually, after we started the Prop 10 of the prohibiting Sharia law in Texas, he put out a Sharia law ad. He's never done anything in 24 years. And then last week he announced he launched a ban Sharia law bill. In the Senate, which is just the old political thing that worked in the old days when you didn't have social media or shows like War Room Texas to expose the lie. It's just a joke. But the viciousness against Ken Paxton has been so horrible, I think it's turned a lot of people off. Richard, we gotta bounce. You're gonna be with us tomorrow night with our coverage and we appreciate it. Cuz, you're the best. You're the people's pundit. Where do people go to get to your show, all your content? Because you are. You and Mark Mitchell, I think are the two best guys. Intra falgr. I throw all three of you guys in there as you really have your hand on the pulse of the MAGA movement.
Richard Barris
Yeah, we're everywhere, Steve. But the best place is locals. Peoplespundent.locals.com peoplespundent.locals dot com thanks, brother. All the best. Go out and vote.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you.
Richard Barris
Go out and vote.
Stephen K. Bannon
Go out and vote. Folks. Tomorrow, game day, particularly folks didn't do it. Okay, I've got Nino. I'm going to tell you a story about what happened over the weekend, but let's go. We got a cold open for him. We're going to bring him right in.
News Reporter
Well, police here in Austin have identified two of the young victims in early Sunday morning's shooting attack here in Austin. They are Savitha Shawn and Ryder Harrington. They say that more than a dozen others were injured, three of those remaining critical. And the police chief here also says a third person could very well be taken off of life support later today. This is questions are still swirling around the motivation behind this attack. The Suspect is a 53 year old from Senegal who became a permanent resident back in 2006. So the questions about whether or not there's a connection to terrorism is something investigators are still looking at.
Austin Police Spokesperson
We had a call came in that shooting that someone was shooting around the bar, Buford's Bar. We know that a vehicle, a large suv, drove several times around the block in that area. At one point he put his flashers on, rolled down his window and began using a pistol, shooting out of his car windows, striking patrons of the bar that were on the patio and that were in front of the bar. He then proceeds westbound on sixth street, goes to Wood street where he parks his car, gets out once again, starts shooting his gun at some people that are walking by. He then walks east on 6th Street. At that point, everyone knows the amount of resources we use on East 6th Street. A large crowd, a large entertainment area here in Austin, where officers, along with EMS and fire, are staged for the weekend. And so you're talking. When this came out, we were about 55, 56 seconds away, coming from east to West Austin, and that saved multiple lives. As the officers were responding, again, our suspect was coming toward East Austin or East 6th Street. Officers were coming toward him, and at the intersection, he was shot and he was killed.
Stephen K. Bannon
So we heard from a source that there were potentially that they were told that there were explosive explosives under the suspect's car. Can you confirm that?
Austin Police Spokesperson
So once the subject's car was identified, of course, we need to make sure that we're operating safely within that car. There were some things inside the car that gave us concern. So our EOD responded to ensure that there was no, you know, bomb. Bomb material, that type of thing. So that was cleared pretty quickly, that we felt confident that that was not an issue.
Stephen K. Bannon
So there were no.
Austin Police Spokesperson
There were no bombs? No.
Richard Barris
Thank you.
Austin Police Spokesperson
Was he ever in the bar with guns or when did. When did he. He never entered the bar, like I said he was. He drove by. Was firing outside the. Outside the window with a pistol. Once he exited the vehicle after parking on wood, he. He exited with a rifle at that point. Do you have any questions?
David Nino Rodriguez
Can you kind of just describe the general setup of police and EMS presence
Stephen K. Bannon
in this area of town on a
David Nino Rodriguez
typical Saturday and a little more of
Stephen K. Bannon
what happened last time?
Austin Police Spokesperson
Yeah, I think it just goes to show what that coordination is. We know, you know, East 6th street is a large party atmosphere, and streets are closed, they're open. We're mitigating a lot of people in that small space. And so to have ems, to have, you know, ems, fire and APD together working, it is just for things like this. And so, again, we're very fortunate in those partnerships, and we work very well together. Very proud of that.
Stephen K. Bannon
Nino Rodriguez from El Paso, Texas. Two things you've been prescient about, and I want to lay this out there. Number one, you've been giving warnings now for about six months about people, particularly Canadians and American citizens traveling to Mexico to these big resorts, or people just going over and hanging out because you're saying, hey, I've seen these drug cartel wars in the past. I know President Trump and the military are working on something that Sheinbaum is not doing. And just be advised, you don't want to be in the crossfire. And that came, what, last weekend? You've also been someone, and particularly when we had this attack the other day, contacted me right away and said, hey, you watch, you're going to see this start to spread. You're going to see start to spread in places like Texas. Then late Saturday night, I think you and I talked, you had a pretty good feel for what was going on Sunday morning. You essentially had it nailed. We made a decision because we didn't feel we had it enough locked down that we didn't want to go with it. So we didn't do it on our special edition of the Sunday morning show. But everything that's played out with this event in Austin you kind of had a feel for. So walk me through it. What has been, why have you been on this particular topic and why you were the person that was the least surprised when this happened?
David Nino Rodriguez
Well, I've been anticipating this for quite a while, to be quite honest with you. And I knew it was just going to be, it was just going to take an action from Trump to kick it off. Right. So obviously you got to know that Hezbollah, the cartels, Hamas, they all work together, they benefit from working together. And Trump is now taking the fight to them. So they have to fight back to survive. Now what we saw and Austin in my opinion is just the, the one off whack job lunatic that takes matters into his own, sands his own hands and goes up and shoots a bar. By the way, I've been to that bar many times and where the people were sitting, I've sat in those chairs. It's crazy to see it hits home it's own big time. But what I believe is coming is a coordinated event. We're still going to get some of these one offs, you know, wild cards, you know, lunatics that take matters into their own hands. But I think more of a coordinated event is coming most likely probably after the infrastructure. If you look at Greg Abbott, Greg Abbott's deploying the National Guard and DPS to ramp up patrols at energy facilities, ports and the southern border.
Stephen K. Bannon
But he's called, but he's called for, he's called for a statewide kind of emergency, high alert. That's why he's deploying assets right now. Correct.
David Nino Rodriguez
Smart. But it's very, it's eerily quiet, Steve. And I'm telling you, you know, I, I'm, I'm on both sides of the border here. I know people there and here. And I'm just saying that, you know, when families in Mexico are saying I don't think the American, their American relatives should not come visit Mexico, this is what it felt like before it kicked off and see that Juarez and, and what I think is going to happen. And this is just opinion, but I think I'm pretty good at strategy here for being a fighter. I think a coordinated attack is going to come where they try to take out our infrastructure and they'll benefit most at that. Take out our infrastructure, you know, get the police to conglomerate in one area and then take the other part of the city in another with other attacks. So I think that, that if I was thinking like them, you know, that's how I would do it. And that, and that's just the, the most logical way, I think, having these lunatics come off and shoot here, shoot there. There's no real game plan. You got to remember cartels and, and these people are very well organized. They're not just these rogue games, rogue gangs running the streets just mindlessly. They're very coordinated, they're very sophisticated and they have good intel.
Stephen K. Bannon
Talk to me about the Austin police went out of their way. Knowing what we know now, with the, with the sweatshirt and the Quran and everything that was there. They were. In fact, our show started at 10 o' clock and we felt uncomfortable doing because the Austin police were going out of the way to say there's nothing to see here. I think I told him Saturday night of when you have such overwhelming evidence of this, why are they still hesitant to call it what it was, sir?
David Nino Rodriguez
Islamophobia? I don't know. Political correctness? I don't know. You know, this state is still run by, you know, a lot of corrupt politicians, Democratic, especially El Paso. But it's, you know, they, they just, they want to be extra sensitive. You know, they don't want to rile people up and show that maga's right, you know. So like I'm saying, I think this is just beginning now. I know the raids that, that the protesters were, you know, interfering with in Minnesota, places like that. Those raids were the first wave of taking out the coordinators, the jefe's, the patrons, the real heavy violent criminals, the organizers that could structure or plan an attack on the United States. You got to understand, Biden was the one bringing in these millions of. Of immigrants to take down America for such a time as now. Cells would be activated. Cells are going to be activated. It's common sense. Common sense. Cells are going to be activated. That's where we're at right now. We are in a very hot time. This is when they say, you know what? Right about now, folks, let's party. This is about the time they do it. Coordinated attacks. Cells activated.
Stephen K. Bannon
I want to go to the Democrat. We just did the polling right there. You're in, I mean, you're in El Paso. You're one of the the toughest Democratic strongholds with quite frankly, some of the most radical people. I don't think people realize the radical congressman you have and just the whole radical how radical it is down in El Paso and what you have to live with. But the biggest national news story going into tomorrow politically is this massive turnout for the Democrats, particularly driven by the DSA and the Working Family Party in other parts of the state, not the Democratic strongholds, but they've done it all over. What is your sense of what's driven that? Do they think they get they the Trump derangement syndrome? Because there's no, you don't see any political debate. The ads aren't saying, oh, you can do this. It's pure Trump derangement syndrome. But why is it outside money? Are they organized as mondame showing them how to organize this DSA? Because Trump just won by 14 points last November. And it's not that I want to make sure people know. It's not that the Republican numbers are horrible. You're kind of up from a midterm election. It's that the Democrats have a tsunami now. And I keep warning people if they put these numbers up through game day tomorrow, you're going to have Harry Anton, these people on TV tomorrow night, Rachel Maddow and $1 billion of dark outside money by the George sources and others that are even worse than him are going to flood into the state because they think they're going to take a couple of three House seats. They think they're actually going to with Virginia have enough House seats to be able to impeach Trump and they believe that they're going to take this Senate seat. And I think they even think they take the governorship. Your thoughts, sir?
David Nino Rodriguez
Well, I think it's all the above, but also a lot of MAGA or once MAGA people are, you know, or moderates are going over to the Democrats because they're not in line with these wars, that basically they have no understanding of what this really is.
Stephen K. Bannon
Do you think it's the do you think it's moderates going over or a lot of people are saying, saying that because of the open primaries that the great ball because you do have people that have taken Republican ballots in the past and they're taking Democratic ballots. What some people are saying is that this is this whole corruption with the open primary process, that these people actually are Democrats. They've been Voting. And so this is the reason you get so many RINO candidates in the Senate. This is why you got so many guys in the House. This is why you have so many rhinos in the, in at the Texas state level, that this has been the game they've played. And it's quite frankly why the establishment, never, the Republican establishment one didn't want to start. Do you buy that? Or you think it's just people saying it's too much for me and I'm going to vote for the Democrats?
David Nino Rodriguez
I think it's all the above, Steve. I think it's all the above. But I, but I might. But what I'm most concerned with is what is Trump going to do? I know Trump's going to make a move soon. I've heard that an executive orders on his desk for in person paper ballots with real id. I mean, I would imagine, I would have hoped he would have done that before primaries. But if he does that, I think that's going to be a game changer. I just think that's going to be a game changer in our favor.
Stephen K. Bannon
So hold on, hold on. So you're a supporter of what we're talking about, this national emergency? They're working on it right now because we can't get the Save America act passed. This would require voter id. You purge the voter rolls and you have real restrictions of mail in ballots. I mean, in El Paso, Texas, would that change the dynamic down in your neck of the woods?
David Nino Rodriguez
Doesn't matter. I think the military will be patrolling the voting polls. I think the Democrats will got to resort to chaos or some kind of conflict once Trump signs that. I think in a fair election we win every time. So I think this is going to be handled in that way. I think Trump is waiting to do that and then I think that'll make the Trump, that'll push the Democrats to make a move into panic and into some kind of chaos. And I bet you the 2026 midterms get delayed.
Stephen K. Bannon
David Nino Rodriguez, you had to make a call tomorrow of how the turnout's going to be on game day, do you believe? I think it's a 225,000 vote gap right now from early voting. And remember, a huge portion, particularly Doc Chambers, all these really hardcore maga, hardcore grassroots organizations don't believe in early voting at all. And so it's a natural hesitancy there. How do you think it turns out, just given your sense of what's going on? How do you think it turns out tomorrow with turnout? Republican versus Democrat.
David Nino Rodriguez
I think it's going to be a big problem for the, for the Republicans unless we show up last minute. But I don't see that happening, man.
Mike Lindell
I just don't.
Stephen K. Bannon
Last thing. What about Cornyn and Paxton? I've been kind of shocked being here. $80 million has been spent against Paxton. Another couple of million, $10 million dollars. Think against Hunt on just purely negative ads. I've never seen negative ads like this in my life. The volume of them, and they're vicious. What's your sense of how you think this is going to turn out? You think Paxton's got a chance to put this away tomorrow to get to 50 plus one?
Mike Lindell
I hope.
David Nino Rodriguez
I love Paxton. I think they're going to go to a runoff.
Stephen K. Bannon
And in the runoff, do you agree with Barris? Do you think it puts up enough numbers that backs off the Senate fund for giving him another. Because they're saying, hey, if Paxton wins, we're going to come in with another 50 to 75 million dollars to back corner. Do you think. Do you think that Paxton can win tomorrow? Not. Not put it away, but win with a big enough spread that the DC power bosses in the Senate say that Cornyn's just too. He's too dead to save?
David Nino Rodriguez
Well, you know, I'm good on my boxing bet, Steve. I could pick a winner of boxing, but this I. I'd be lying to you if I told you I could pick a winner. I'm just going to go for Paxton.
Mike Lindell
Okay.
David Nino Rodriguez
I'm going to go for backstory. But you know, you know firsthand, I'm good on my boxing bets.
Mike Lindell
Right?
Stephen K. Bannon
You're good. You're great at David Nino Rodriguez. Sir, your podcast is on fire. Where do people go for that? And where they go for your social media?
David Nino Rodriguez
Nino's Corner tv and then X is Nino Boxer. N I, N O boxer. Nino's Corner all the way, everywhere else.
Stephen K. Bannon
Thank you, brother. Fantastic. Great and fantastic job on Austin, Texas. A very big concern. Okay. Just the logistics. We're gonna be back at 10am Tomorrow morning, obviously with the worm, the morning show, 10 to noon Eastern standard time in the afternoon. Natalie's gonna join me at five o'. Clock. We've got a lot to go through in this war coverage. Then at 6, we're gonna do a war room Texas to tee everything up. Then at 8:30, Grant Stinchfield and Stephen K. Bennett, Warham, Texas. Special coverage on Real America's Voice all the way through the evening till we can give you some. We can ascertain which way this is going in Texas. Game day is tomorrow. If you haven't voted, make sure you get out and vote. If you're in the great state of Texas and North Carolina and I think also Arkansas, we're going to cover them all tomorrow night with a special emphasis in the jewel of the crown, the great state of Texas. We'll see you Tomorrow morning at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time, where you'll be back in the war room.
David Nino Rodriguez
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Stephen K. Bannon
What makes a man to roam? What makes a manly bed and born and turn his back on hope.
David Nino Rodriguez
Right away,
Stephen K. Bannon
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Date: March 3, 2026
Host: Stephen K. Bannon (WarRoom.org), with Mike Lindell, Richard Barris, and David Nino Rodriguez
This episode focused on the tense political situation in Texas ahead of the 2026 primaries, emphasizing themes of election integrity, rising Democratic turnout, internal strife within the GOP, and fears over security and terrorism, following a recent mass shooting in Austin. The episode featured extensive breakdowns of early voting trends, the power struggle within the Texas GOP between grassroots “MAGA” and establishment Republicans, and deep concern of outside influence (DSA, dark money). The discussion was marked by a combative, urgent tone and frequent rallying cries for action from listeners.
“On 3 March, Sharia law goes on the ballot in the state of Texas. The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally [incompatible] with one another. We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it.” – Stephen K. Bannon (00:46)
“You guys, we have information that, that Maduro invited... the Iranian foreign minister in 2020 to watch our stolen election.” – Mike Lindell (04:33)
“If you don't break it, it's going to foreshadow... a bad November.” – Richard Barris (15:37)
“There were some things inside the car that gave us concern... But, we felt confident that was not an issue.” – Austin Police (37:48)
On Cross-Border and Domestic Threats (40:38–43:31):
“What I believe is coming is a coordinated event...take out our infrastructure, you know, get the police to conglomerate in one area and then take the other part of the city in another with other attacks.” – David Nino Rodriguez (41:43)
On Democratic Turnout (44:38–47:19):
On Executive Order/Paper Ballots (47:19–48:03):
On GOP Turnout Tomorrow (49:03):
Stephen K. Bannon (Sharia Law Crisis):
“Islam will never dominate the United States and by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas.” (00:46)
Mike Lindell (Election Machines):
“The genesis of the electronic voting machines goes back to Venezuela... they started taking all the countries in South America... we've had teams of cyber guys and journalists... for the last five years putting all this together.” (04:33–05:53)
Richard Barris (Voting Trends):
“Republicans... need to learn how to vote in person. If they don't like to vote by mail, that's fine, because what we’ve been seeing... is that if there was a change... to early vote, then that pattern continued. So, if they didn’t show up and the early vote was weak... the election day vote was also rather weak.” (15:00) "Democrats are about at 240% of their 2022 total at the end of early vote and they're even outperforming 2024... That’s already more votes than Kamala Harris got in the entire election." (16:44)
David Nino Rodriguez (Security Threats):
“Hezbollah, the cartels, Hamas, they all work together, they benefit from working together. And Trump is now taking the fight to them. So they have to fight back to survive.” (40:38) “I think a coordinated attack is going to come where they try to take out our infrastructure... That's the most logical way.” (41:43) “Cells would be activated... It's common sense. Cells are going to be activated. That's where we are right now.” (43:31)
Richard Barris (Internal GOP):
“If John Cornyn is nominated, 30% of Republican voters are telling us they will not show up for him. That is a disaster.” (33:12)
This episode, set on the eve of the Texas primaries, was a clarion call for conservative turnout and vigilance against both perceived electoral and security threats, with guests painting Texas as the pivotal battleground for the nation’s political future.