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WarRoom Battleground EP 962: Holding Polis Accountable For Tina Peters; Victory For The Grassroots
WarRoom Battleground EP 962: Holding Polis Accountable For Tina Peters; Victory For The Grassroots ...
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Matt Boyle
Foreign.
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Steve Bannon
Islamic Jihadis are plotting against you.
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Unknown Caller/Caller
Why in the hell you think they're
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Steve Bannon
in Houston and the north of Dallas? They are working together to overthrow Western
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Caroline Wren
civilization, Sharia compounds which are areas governed by religious rules.
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Unknown Caller/Caller
We know who you are, we know what you are, and we know what you're trying to accomplish.
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Steve Bannon
And it is not going to happen.
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Unknown Caller/Caller
In the jewel of the crown of the union of this republic, we purge
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Steve Bannon
any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas. They are not coming. They are already here.
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Unknown Caller/Caller
You are not here properly and you're going to leave. On 3 March, Sharia law goes on
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Steve Bannon
the ballot in the state of Texas. The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally at odds with one another.
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Unknown Caller/Caller
We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it.
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Kim
Islam will never dominate the United States, and by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas.
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Unknown Caller/Caller
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?
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Steve Bannon
War Room Texas. Your host, Stephen K. Bannon starts right now. It's Thursday the 5th of March in the year of lower 2026. We're going to start this is a show tonight about the grassroots. That's how we had this overwhelming victory for Proposition 10, the Sharia law proposition that will prohibit Sharia law in the state of Texas. Almost 2 million votes. I think roughly 100,000 no's, 95% approval. Just overwhelming. I want to thank all the grassroots groups. Once again, it's your victory and the folks that came out and voted was just incredible. We're going to start in Colorado and talk about a champion of the grassroots, Tina Peters. We're then going to pivot. We've got Matt Boyle and Caroline Wren, two of the smartest political minds in our country. And guess what? We're going to talk about the grassroots in Texas, and then we're going to end up in Montgomery County, Texas. You were able to meet a week or so ago some of the grassroots leaders there that Karl Rove and others decided to, how do I say this? Terminate their political careers. Well, guess what? They won with 65% of the vote on Tuesday. And Wendy and Kim are gonna be back with us. I wanna start with Peter Tickton. Peter, you've done an extraordinary job. You're Tina Peters, federal lawyer. You got the pardon from President Trump. I know you've been working nonstop with Tina's team. Is there any update close to really getting freedom for Tina Peters?
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Peter Tickton
Sir, we're this Close. Oh, absolutely. I'm expecting it. I'm hoping for tomorrow. You know, the fact is that first Governor Polis realized and made it public that he realized that her sentence was too harsh. I mean, duh, I mean a white collar situation where that's really one event and everything is consecutive. You know, when you're sentenced in to do time and you have, let's say somebody goes around and robs 10 different gas stations, well then they get sentenced for each one and it runs consecutively. So first you spend your sentence for the first one, then you have the time for the next one, then you have the next, next one. That's what consecutive sentencing are. And, and because of that, it adds up to a lot of time. In Tina Peters case, it was like one person robbing one gas station. But because they said, aha, they went over the pumps and they went over to the store and they went here and there and made different charges for each thing. And then they made that which is always run concurrently into consecutive sentences. Plus the court of appeals was really clear that they really did something wrong in that they sentenced her on a felony when she was only convicted on a misdemeanor. They made it into a felony. They did everything in the book that they could possibly do wrong in regards to.
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Steve Bannon
So hang on, this is her 500, I think 18th day. Polis the other day put up a woman that had kind of the various situation with Tina. It wasn't exactly the same, but she had gotten I think probation and community service. And Polis actually said we have his tweet up how Tina Peters got nine years plus three years probation. He actually said that. But aren't we beyond the justice of it? Because as soon as he put it up on a national basis, he got lit up from everybody, including people in his own administration who are running for higher office. Right. The Secretary of State being one of them, but people from all over the nation. Cuz Tina is a political prisoner and she's become kind of this symbol of the suppression of the Trump movement and the MAGA movement, sir.
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Peter Tickton
Oh, thank you so much for saying that. Because that's the absolute truth. That's exactly what she is. You know, sometimes you hear rhetoric that somebody's a political prisoner, but that's really what Tina Peters is. She's in prison for three reasons. Number one is to shut her up. They don't want her talking about the election fraud because we have a serious election emergency going on right now that has to be dealt with. But they don't want her voice in there because they don't want the public to know what's happening. Number two, they want to shut her up because Jenna Griswold, the Secretary of State that you mentioned, she is using Tina Peters as a scapegoat. Basically, as long as she's in jail, somebody is taking the blame for whatever. And so they're not blaming her. But Janet Griswold is clearly a criminal. She is the one who wiped out and then rewrote on the hard drives of all the dominion machines in 62 of the counties. That was done. First of all, when you wipe it, you can still get information, but when you rewrite over it, you can't get at it again. It's gone forever. So all the data from the 2020 election was wiped out by Jenna Griswold. She could do a year in prison for each one of those 62 different counties where she wiped it out, and those would be consecutive. So we're talking about a real criminal who was one of the loudest voices to keep Tina Peters in prison. And then the third and most important reason that they kept, that they went after Tina Peters is to teach every other clerk in the whole country to make sure that they don't get brave, make sure you don't, you know, preserve evidence, make sure you don't. Make sure that the truth is preserved. That's what that's all about. That's the biggest and most important of all the reasons. So, yes, she's a political prisoner. And you know, the judge was even clear when she asked for bail pending appeal, when she qualified for it by the laws of the state of Colorado. And he said no, because she's more dangerous than a violent criminal because of what she would say. So in other words, we don't have freedom of speech in Colorado anymore. You stay in prison because of what you may say. And that is a pathetic situation in the state of affairs.
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Steve Bannon
This is a very dangerous prison. You guys have done an amazing job of trying to protect her. It's a very dangerous prison. She's 70 years old, plus she's had cancer. She's a gold star mother. Peter, we gotta bounce. Where do people go to keep up with you tonight and we'll have you back on tomorrow. And where do they go to support your guys cause because you and John Case have put a tremendous amount of time in this, in defending Peter, Tina Peters and getting this to the thing we may be on the eve of her release. We don't know, we don't want to over promise people but there's clearly you guys have somehow gotten to the governor and have the governor actually thinking this through. So where do people go to keep up with the information overnight and tomorrow and where they go to support you guys?
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Peter Tickton
Okay, so for Tina Peters, it's tinapeters us. Very simple. Tinapeters us. And for me, it's legalbrains.com but I want to say that there's also Patrick McSweeney and Bob Sincar and Stephanie Lambert, who's also there with John Case and me. And also one of the biggest people, one of the most important is Donald Trump. Thank God for Donald Trump because he has been very effective in helping this whole situation come about.
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Steve Bannon
Well, no, I think. And also McSweeney, his mom, they were neighbors. His mom is probably my late mom's best friend. Pat McSweeney is a legend. But what you guys have done, given everything President Trump has on his plate, to be able to concise and boil it down. And when you are with him or using the time, it's so effective. You've done a. It's obviously he's our leader and hero in this, but just the use of time with everything going on, the world wars, invasion of the country. For you guys to be able to use his time best on this case, I tell you, is heroic because I hear that from everybody. You do not waste his time. And for that, everybody appreciates it, particularly Tina Peters. So, Peter Tickner, I'll talk to you after the show and then tomorrow morning, any more developments, we want to have you on first.
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Peter Tickton
Perfect. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
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Steve Bannon
You got a federal pardon from President Trump. That is pretty extra. That's not easy in this situation. So we're on tenterhooks about Tina. We did the show the 500 Days of Tina Peters and rolling through that. Okay, let's do a reset because there is a massive issue in the great state of Texas, and that is about the Senate rate. Matt Boyle, I've got you and Ren, two of the smartest out there. I want to start with you. You put up. And if Denver can put up the tweet. So you put up a tweet earlier this afternoon. I want to put it up and I want to have you walk the audience through exactly what in the hell is going on in this situation with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn. Sir, Do we have. Is Matt off of mute? Do we have him off of mute? Matt, do you hear me now?
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Matt Boyle
I can hear you, Steve.
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Steve Bannon
I couldn't hear you before.
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Matt Boyle
We're Having tech issues.
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Steve Bannon
Okay, we got you your tweet. Can you put the tweet up? And I want you to walk through it, because this thing kind of exploded today. It went viral. I'd like to have you explain what you're talking about and how this relates to Ken Paxton.
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Matt Boyle
Sure. So, yeah, if they want to put it up there on the screen. But the gist here is that Ken Paxton pulled the fast one on the establishment. Look, the establishment has been desperately trying to convince President Trump to endorse John Cornyn, the incumbent senator, in this runoff. Their argument is that it would seal the deal for Cornyn. That's probably right, by the way. I think the president's endorsement is the most powerful political tool in modern history, maybe ever, and we've never seen anything like it. I don't think we'll ever see anything like it ever again. But that being said, so they've been trying to convince Trump to endorse Cornyn, saying, okay, it's gonna save Republicans $100 million and wrap this thing up pretty quickly. Well, Paxton comes back with turn the tables moment. He says, you know, and the president's obviously out there saying that whoever he endorses, he's asking the other one to drop out. And then Paxton originally came out and said that he wouldn't drop out of the race. Now he's saying he would drop out only if the President endorsed Cornyn, but only if the Senate got the Save America act to the President's desk to be signed into law as it is right now. Now, of course, the Senate could do this right now if they wanted to, but John Thune and John Cornyn and all these other old guard guys in the US Senate do not want to change the Senate rules to nuke the filibuster to get, you know, either do the talking filibuster like we've heard Senators Scott and Lee and those guys talk about, or do change the Senate rules to make sure that you get it to the President's desk. Now, they don't want to do that. So, now, when Paxton came out and said this, then we saw a Senate GOP leadership aide come out and say on background to a reporter that they wouldn't be surprised if the Thune throws Cornyn under the bus and doesn't proceed forward with backing him and allows Paxton to get the nomination. In order to not pass the Save America act and do those things that we're talking about in the Senate to make sure that it gets to the President's desk, that's how much reticence there is among establishment Republican senators to doing things with regard to the filibuster and changing the rules to make sure that something this important gets to the President's desk. So I was kind of saying that what this shows is that how fast they would throw Cornyn under the bus to protect their filibuster, right? Like, I mean, that just tells you everything you need to know about, I think, the Senate Republican establishment, that they literally throw the guy they've already spent $70 million on, they intend to spend another hundred million in the runoff on, and another hundred million beyond that in the general election under the bus, who's been a senator for 20 something years in order to do that. Now, I think the move by Paxton was genius because he, Frank, he. He frames the whole thing up as a referenda on the Save America act, right? Like, so, look, the President is right to make this number one priority of his.
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Steve Bannon
He makes it a referendum on John Cornyn not doing anything for 24 years. Now you're gonna see John Cornyn in all his glory, right? I mean, he's boxed in. Cornyn thinks he's so smart, he boxed in Cornyn to Cornyn's core move, which is to basically do nothing and kind of talk being a supporter of President Trump or talk being maga. But when you gotta take action, he's not gonna take anything. The President has already said the Save America act is everything, isn't it, sir?
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Matt Boyle
Yeah. Well, and that's the point, is that the Senate Republicans could get this to President Trump's desk today if they wanted to, for signature into law to protect our elections and to have voter ID to stop illegal aliens from voting and so on and so forth, all the things that are great in the Save America Act. The problem is, is that they won't do anything about the filibuster. They won't do the talking filibuster. You keep hearing thunes saying, oh, well, DHS is shut down, so we don't want to spend the clock time on that. Oh, we don't want to change the Senate rules. Well, I mean, here's the thing, right? Like, the whole nation depends on this, the secure elections. So if they don't, they have all the tools they need to right now in the United States Senate to send this to the President today. But John Thune doesn't want to and John Cornyn doesn't want to. It's important to understand that, right? What they want to do is they want to do a show vote where they all vote on it on a 60 vote threshold, knowing that it will fail because the Democrats will, quote, unquote, filibuster it. Right? So what Paxton did, that was a genius move, as he says. I will literally lay down on the sword for you guys. I will take the sacrifice to make them do this and get it to the President's desk, as we all know they can do, yet they are so resistant to doing. And I'll stand down if that's what it takes to get this super important thing to the President's desk for his signature into law. It's not a show vote. It's a serious effort. And so that's why, I mean, they're kind of cornered here, right? Like, so, look, I don't know what the President's gonna do one way or the other, but I think that it's abundantly clear at this point that if you want the Save America act to pass, Paxton's the choice, not Cornyn. Right. Like, and so Cornyn says he supports the bill and would vote for it, but Cornyn won't do what's necessary to get the bill to the President's desk. Neither will Thune, neither will the rest of these guys that are all trying to convince President Trump right now to endorse Senator Cornyn. And I think that's important to understand here. And again, I'm saying this all just analyzing it for you. I don't have a dog in the fight. I actually like Cornyn. I've got along with him personally over the years. But the point is, is that the guy's not willing to do what it is that's necessary to get the Save America act to the President's desk. And Paxton is. And I think somebody just making that a referenda really changes the game here.
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Steve Bannon
In the 11th hour, somebody jumped the gun. The President was still thinking through issues. You could tell somebody put out a true social day. It was supposedly unauthorized or too early. You can see that President Trump's trying to think this thing through. Something that has, I think, happened over the last 24 hours is so many of the grassroots members throughout the nation, but really particularly here in Texas, are going back and specifically after the 2020 election was stolen by the Biden regime and the Republican establish looked the other way. They were going back and playing the greatest hits of John Cornyn. And I think that's just reinforcing a lot of people of this guy's not only not maga, he's kind of anti maga because the hatred of Cornyn is not about policy and being a rhino. Yes, they don't like him for that. They don't like those policies. They don't like that whole Bush aspect of it. But when you get the vitriol down here, it's because he's gone out of his way to really hate on President Trump and that he spent $80 million trying to destroy Ken Paxton, who is an iconic figure. Those two elements combined, I think, have a certain core of MAGA and the grassroots folks down here that I don't know of any circumstances, including in a general election. I just don't see them voting for John Cornyn. And as you know, Matt, you're gonna need every vote come November. Your thoughts on that before you punch.
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Matt Boyle
There's a million people that voted against John Cornyn in this primary. Okay? 800,000 or so or close to that voted for Paxton. Several hundred thousand voted for Wesley Hunt. That's a million people that voted against John Cornyn in the Republican primary in Texas. John Cornyn needs every single one of those votes if he's the Republican nominee to win in the general election. Now, I do think that either one of these candidates would win a general election against James Talarico, who is an extremist psychopath. Right? Like, I mean, look at some of the tweets that this guy sent out over the years. They're terrible. They're insane. I mean, that guy belongs not in the United States Senate, but in an insane asylum without a belt and sneakers, okay? Like, I mean, that's how bad this guy is. And so he's totally psychopathic. So I do think that the Republicans will pull it off. That being said, to your point, yes. It's gonna cost more for Cornyn than it would for Paxton, because people will be excited to vote for Paxton. Yeah, the establishment people will come around because it's very similar to, like, Trump's elections, right? Like, where the establishment people come around and they vote for him in the end, whereas the base, if Cornyn's the guy, they're going to have to really, really pump the money out there to get the base fired up and get them to vote for this guy. Now, to your point also, about Trump and his hatred of Trump over the years, this would be Cornyn's last term in the United States Senate if he wins. Now, if Cornyn did not vote to convict President Trump in either of his first two impeachments, back in Trump's first term or in the aftermath of his first term when Biden was in office and they did that Senate trial then. But remember, there were a whole bunch of establishment Republicans who did. If the Democrats take the House back in November, they fully intend to impeach President Trump a third time if and when there is a Senate trial. I don't know if John Cornyn would vote to convict President Trump or not. I don't know. I think the odds are that he would probably vote to convict President Trump based off of the things that he said about President Trump over the years. President Trump needs to keep that in mind when he makes his decision here. So I don't think the president's made his mind up. And I will say whoever the president decides is probably going to win. Right. Like the president's endorsement is infallible, but that being said, essentially infallible. They can count on one hand the number of times it hasn't worked. Right. And there's usually extreme circumstances. But that being said, I do think that if the President endorses Corny, and I think that a lot of people are gonna regret that in the end.
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Steve Bannon
Matt Boyle, you broke some news here, sir. Where do people go on your Twitter feed? Of course from Matt was we worked together. One of the things we did is Matt took a timeout from Twitter. Andrew was the king of Twitter. Matt was becoming. After Andrew died, passed away, Matt came on board and became a superstar and got in Twitter. But one too many Twitter fights, we decided to take a timeout. But you're on Twitter now. You've got your own show. You're over at Breitbart. Where do people go to get all your writings and all your observations you're putting here? Because this folks, this one is hour by hour. So you got to stay on top of this. Where they go, Matt?
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Matt Boyle
Yeah, just Breitbart.comBoyle1 on X Twitter and ealmatboyle on TrueSocial. So my true social is exploding. I think there's more people that are on True Social than Twitter or any of that thing. Like I have like a million something on there and I think that's because of this show. Whenever I talk about it.
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Steve Bannon
Yeah. No, I gotta tell you, True Social the first it used to be just be President Trump. The shows exploded on their. True Social is on fire right now.
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Wendy
Yeah.
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Steve Bannon
Matt Boyle, thank you, sir. And thank you for breaking news on the War Room on War Room Texas. We appreciate you.
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Matt Boyle
Yeah, you bet.
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Steve Bannon
Caroline ran. I had other way I was going to start it, but I want to start with Boyle just said, hey, I think corner and I don't know if
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Steve Bannon
the court is gonna vote to convict President Trump if he ever comes up for a third impeachment, which if we lose the House, and that may depend upon South Texas. They do your observation on that. I'm gonna hold you through the break, cuz you have spent a lot of time thinking through this issue and how you game this out for Ken Paxton.
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Caroline Wren
Ma', am, I think he is absolutely right. I mean, he did say that, that Cornyn did not vote to impeach President Trump the first two times, but that is probably, and most likely only because he knew he was running for reelection. The point I made on your show two days ago, which is why I think it is so dangerous to have someone like Cornyn is cornyn, that he's 74 years old. If he wins this primary and wins the general election, he will be in his last term, he will be unaccountable and not have to answer to the primary MAGA Republican voters of Texas any longer. And if tales of the past teach us anything, just look at Mitch McConnell, Thom Tillis, these are folks that are not accountable anymore to primary voters. They're not running for reelection. And you see them, look at John McCain. They love, love, love to just buck President Trump, just to really. Because they like the, you know, getting the credit with their best friends in the establishment media and on Wall Street. And so I think that what he said is absolutely right. I do think that the odds are that Cornyn would vote for an impeachment versus against, based off of what we have seen from these retiring RINO senators in the past.
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Steve Bannon
Look, we got about two minutes. I'll hold you through two minutes to break, and then we'll hold you through Tim Miller. And look, Tim is a former RNC comms director. Now, he's gone to the left, the bulwarks, the show, it's on fire. But he watches, he studies MAGA because he used to be a establishment Republican. He's got a bunch of analysis up that says, hey, even President Trump's endorsement, as powerful as that is, he's not sure that puts Cornyn over the top, given the people in Texan know Cornyn well and they know he hates President Trump. Your thoughts, ma'? Am?
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Caroline Wren
You know, I do think he put out some, I think, impressive numbers. And it's what I've always been seeing in this race, which is that actually Ken Paxton is the much stronger candidate in this runoff because people are excited to go vote for Ken Paxton. They're dying to go vote for him. Whereas with Cornyn, I mean, it's unbelievable that you are a four term incumbent United States senator that had to spend $100 million to lose 60% of the primary vote. And especially you have Texas is the most expensive state to run campaigns in in the country. The media market, the state's massive, the amount of voters is massive, the media market's massive. And Ken Paxton, you know, went toe to toe with a four time incumbent senator spending I think only $4 million to John Cornyn's $100 million. That is so astonishing. And so I agree with Matt Boyle that, you know, President Trump's endorsement is and almost always is the deciding factor here. And I'm still holding out that President Trump goes with Ken Paxton and sees this here. But is there still a lane or just stays out?
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Steve Bannon
Hang on, we're taking a short commercial break. I want to hold you through it because you kind of game theory this thing out the other day. And I just want the audience to make sure we understand exactly what's going on here. So Caroline Wren is going to stick with us. She's going to walk through this challenge that Ken Paxton threw down to John Cornyn in the United States Senate. We're also going to go to Montgomery County, Texas. You're going to have a, you're going to love this one. The little guy stood up and punched back on the Karl Rove political operatives and guess what, 65% of the vote and they won. Short commercial break Back in warm Texas in a moment.
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Are you prepared to fight for this state? Are you prepared to fight for your country?
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Steve Bannon
I'm so honored about the grassroots and what they did here on the sharia law, Proposition 10, which had no money in back of it. It's really a grassroots effort to do it. One million what, 981,000 votes for, I think around 100,000 votes against, had the largest spread, 95%. Also, if you combine, if you combine Cornyn and Paxton and Cornyn spent 80 to $100 million. It was bigger than the turnout for both. That was extraordinary. Part of it. And I want to thank all the grassroots efforts and back that and of course, everybody that voted. Caroline Ren and we got two, really a great story in the grassroots. Going to be up from Montgomery County, Texas in a moment. Caroline Wren, walk me through exactly what this whole proposition, what Matt Bowles talking about for the audience to understand what the state of play is. Somebody jumped a gun. One of these staffers around President Trump and put out this tweet the other day that looked like it was kind of negative on Paxson and then they leaked he was about to endorse Cornyn. That turned out not to be right. We understand the president was very upset about that. He wanted to chew on it some more. He did say that he's close to making a decision and he's going to ask the other party to drop out as part of this. And then Ken Paxton, what did Ken Paxton do then?
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Caroline Wren
So on Tuesday, obviously we had the Texas primary and if you don't get it above 50%, then it goes to a three month runoff. Cornyn and Paxton essentially tied around 40%. And then you had Wesley Hunt and it distant around 16% of the vote. So now we're headed to this runoff and so yesterday there was a flurry of activity, but it started within a post by the Atlantic, which is a non maga outlet, to say the least, saying that they are. Sources are telling them that Donald Trump was going to endorse Cornyn. Well, the base, myself, you, everyone, we all got obviously upset. And then about five minutes later, there's a truth social post from President Trump coming out saying that he was about to make his decision on endorsing in the Texas Senate race and in order to avoid spending, wasting a bunch of money, that he was going to expect that the candidate that he does not endorse, that they need to drop out, and he's going to ask them to do that. Then a few minutes later, you had Alex Eisenstadt with Axios, who's fairly well sourced in the White House, I will say, confirm the Atlantic's reporting that President Trump was intending to endorse Cornyn. And so then later on that day, what we've seen happen is that actually, there's a lot of people that work for President Trump who I like a lot, but they're on the payroll of the Cornyn campaign. So they were clearly. And they were all sourced as sources close to the White House, which is accurate. They are close to the White House, they work for Trump, but they also are paid by Cornyn to go out and spin reporters. So they jumped the gun, I think, and got ahead of what the president intended to do. We don't know what his intended announcement was, but I do think that because that happened, it sort of slowed things down. And so we get to today and we see Ken Paxton come out with, I think one of the. There's two things. It is. It's the most selfless and brilliant thing I've ever seen a politician do. Starting with, number one, why it was selfless. Ken Paxton comes out and says that the only way that I will drop out of this race is that if President Trump can get a commitment from Leader Thune to not only lift the filibuster and bring the Save America act to a vote, but then they have to also pass it. He said, you know what? If you. If these Rhino senators want me out so badly and they do not want Ken Paxton in there, I'm. I haven't. I worked for Carrie Lake and they were apoplectic about her coming in, and Paxton, they are, like, even more terrified. So they. So he comes out and basically says, fine, the only way I will drop out of this race is if you pass this. And first of all, I have Never seen a politician that is truly putting your country first. The Save America act is the most important act that I will ever see come to vote in my lifetime. Ken Paxton clearly recognizes that and says to everyone, I will end my political career to fall on the sword to get this done for you. And you know what? A lot of people were, I guess, who loved Paxton, including myself, they were upset about it, thinking, oh, my gosh, this is him. He's gonna drop out. And I believe that is not at all what Ken Paxton is doing or saying. He is giving Donald Trump, who is the greatest dealmaker in. He is giving President Trump the leverage that he needs to go and get this done. Because why do we need this much leverage? Because we have 53 Republican senators. The typical. You need 60 senators to vote yes to get a bill passed. There's something called the filibuster that if you lift the filibuster, you can actually get something passed with just 51 votes. Now, the Democrats for years have been saying that they are going to lift the filibuster to pass their radical agenda as soon as they take power. It's actually why they forced Kyrsten Sinema out of the Senate. And, you know, when I worked for Kari Lake, I had to watch Ruben Gallego would come on TV and basically say that he will vote to lift the filibuster every single day. Probably he'll lift the filibuster more than he'd lift the toilet seat. And so it is amazing to me that now Republicans are in power. We have the House, the Senate, and the presidency, and we are not going to lift the filibuster to get a vote as important as the Save America act done. Because guess what? If this was a situation was reversed and the Democrats have passed power, they have said over and over again on the record that they would lift the Filibuster to pass HR1, which was their insane election bill, which called for allowing illegal citizens to vote. They would do it to pass radical abortion rights. So this is just, again, it's like the Republicans, we just are playing. I always say this on your show. We're playing, I don't know, like croquet, while the Democrats are playing with knives and just smashing us. And so Paxton recognizes this and he says, okay, President Trump, you're the best dealmaker in history. I'm going to give you the leverage to go back to the caucus and tell them, Thune, if you really, really do not want Kim Paxton in the Senate and you want cordon back, then get this Vote done. And you know what? So if that does happen, that would be incredible. And then, look, Paxton could go into the Cabinet. There are plenty of positions that are going to come open. We saw a DHS shake. Paxton would be incredible at dhs. So worst case scenario is also best case scenario. If this actually happened, something like that could happen. But otherwise, it is amazing to me how much that the Republican Senate establishment is unwilling to bring this to a vote. It is an 8020 issue. It is absolutely insane. But they're never gonna do it.
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Steve Bannon
The reason it's brilliant is that he exposes Thune, he exposes the leadership in the Senate and he particularly exposes Cornyn. Right, he exposes Cornyn as not being able to have this happen. And so what Ken Paxton was saying is that, hey, we don't need to spend $100 million. You don't need to tear anybody else apart. Right? And we'll support you in the general, but you've got to get this done. And the way you do it is you get the standing filibuster. So, you know, Matt said it could be signed this afternoon. It might take a couple of weeks because they will try to filibuster it for a while, but eventually it'll collapse and then you'll have the same America
- [39:08]
Caroline Wren
sit there and talk on the Senate floor and try to just fire. Explain why they want illegal. Illegal aliens to vote in our elections. That's the beauty of the talking filibuster. I would. The greatest thing that we could do for the midterms is have the Democrats go on the floor for two weeks and justify why they're voting against this bill.
- [39:24]
Steve Bannon
It's like that when President Trump froze him at the State of the union. You get two or three weeks of that 24 hours a day. Caroline, Absolutely brilliant. You brought it up the other day. We're gonna follow this beat by beat. Where do people go? Some of your, what you put out on social media is quite revelatory. You said something, reporters keep calling you and they wanna go on background. Something like that said, hey, hey, here's my name, here's a quote up in your face. Because this is hardball right now. Where do folks go to follow you?
- [39:57]
Caroline Wren
Yeah, I just said, I'm so sick of reading these stories. A source close to this person. If you wanna know what I think, I'm gonna put it out in public and put. I'm not a source close to anyone. I am me. These are my thoughts and here they are. And you can find them on X Truth Social and getter at Caroline Wren.
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Steve Bannon
Caroline Wren, thank you so much and thank you for sticking with Ken Paxton as all as. I really appreciate you.
- [40:20]
Caroline Wren
Thank you.
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Steve Bannon
Kim and Wendy from down in Montgomery County. First off, let me ask you, you're kind of symbolic of grassroots leaders in this state. Give me your sense of Ken Paxton versus John Cornyn.
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Wendy
Kim and I have been to events across the state of Texas, and when Ken Paxton walks into a room, he gets a standing ovation. Every room he walks into. And John Cornyn, we have not seen him in years because any room he walks into, he gets booed.
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Kim
That's right. Four years ago at the convention, he got booed off stage. He supplied all the delegates with a lanyard that said Cornyn and everybody was throwing them in the trash. And we saw on Facebook that some people made burn piles out of them. So I know he is not popular in Texas.
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Peter Tickton
Give me.
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Steve Bannon
Just give me. You see Paxton all the time and always gets a standing ovation. You're saying you have not seen Cornyn in years since that convention when he got booed off the stage?
- [41:27]
Wendy
No, have not seen him since.
- [41:31]
Steve Bannon
Are the, Are the grassroots dug? And let me ask you a question. I keep saying the animosity has been so built up that all these people in Washington that think he's a layup in November, I just say, hey, look, you know, I've just spent the last five weeks here, but we've met a ton of grassroots people. And given the negative nature of the campaign and the amount of money, the scale and the. In the vitriol they dropped on Ken Paxton, I said, I think, I don't know, 10%, 20%. There's some percentage of the grassroots MAGA base. They're just not going to vote for John Cornyn. Your thoughts?
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Wendy
John Cornyn is symbolic of the same thing that's happening in Montgomery county. It cost him 100 million against Ken Paxton's 4 million for him to. To be able to compete because he is so unpopular.
- [42:26]
Steve Bannon
Let me ask you, when we last saw you guys. It was before Tuesday. You were in a good old fashioned dogfight down there. They brought in some pretty heavy guns. The Karl Rove group, they had consultants. They had everything. Just get our audience up to speed. What, what was the results on Tuesday night?
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Wendy
Kim and I won our races. We each got 65% of the vote and our opponents got 35% of the vote.
- [42:55]
Kim
Yeah.
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Wendy
So very successful. And we have, we want to say thank you to you for helping expose what was going on. People were Kim and I each got about 30 mailers against us and 50, 15 text messages against us. And the text messages said President Trump wants you to vote for. And then our opponents names. And it had Uncle Sam. It had President Trump's face as Uncle Sam pointing in the text telling our opponents, telling our. Our constituents that President Trump is. And at the polls, they were telling people that President Trump endorsed our opponents.
- [43:38]
Steve Bannon
And I take it that was not true.
- [43:41]
Wendy
No, no. If President Trump endorsed in those races, he would have endorsed America first. Kim and I. Yeah, for sure.
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Steve Bannon
What are Kim and Wendy? What are the issues?
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Steve Bannon
You're a dedicated, hardworking American. You've been with President Trump. You're America first, you're maga. You do all this in volunteer.
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Steve Bannon
You're kind of what. And I tell people you manifest everything in the precinct strategy movement, you manifest everything. In the grassroots movement, you manifest everything. And what President Trump has brought to politics, you represent the best of us. This is what I don't understand. What was the beef of the people that were so viciously coming after you?
- [44:26]
Kim
We provide transparency and accountability in our county executive committee and they wanted to get rid of us. They do not want oversight on the cec. So they spent a lot of money to try and take us out and they failed.
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Wendy
When you told to account for. We are demanding representative government. We are demanding that they make us promises and that they actually fulfill those promises when they get in office. And if they don't, then we are highlighting and exposing them. It's much easier. There's about 30 Rhino precinct chairs in our county executive committee and they play protection racket. They try to stop us in every single way that they can from exposing the fact that our elected are not representing us. They are doing things that benefit themselves or benefit their friends. And they. It would be much easier if we sat down and shut up. Well, if they replaced us with other Rhinos who will sit down and shut up and eat a little bit of the pie and let them get the majority of the pie at the rest of the people's expense, then, you know, they would be extremely happy. We just won't shut up and we won't stop redressing our government and. And so they're want us gone. Yeah.
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Kim
We're fighting for ethical government. And right now in Montgomery county, it is not that way. I don't know if you can see this.
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Steve Bannon
Yeah, we can see it. Hold it, hold it.
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Caroline Wren
Hold it up.
- [46:08]
Steve Bannon
Hold it a little bit higher. Right there. Keep a little bit higher. Yep, right there.
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Kim
These are the elected officials in Montgomery county, they're all rhinos. And they came out and endorsed our opponents and funded and found.
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Wendy
Yeah. Against us. They sent out mailers. These. They sent out mailers like that. Numerous ones asking our. You see, there's two county commissioners, there's two constables, there's two Texas representatives, Cecil Bell and Will Metcalf, both censured. And then our county sheriff, Wesley Doolittle, spent big money to try to unseat Kim and I. And the rest, they were out at
- [46:55]
Kim
the polls actively campaigning against us.
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Steve Bannon
Now, how did you win with 65. 65%. In today's environment, 65% of the vote is a blowout landslide. So with very little to no money, the whole establishment against you. And they had some very sophisticated lawyers down there one time, the whole Rove apparatus. And mailers, people should know mailers are expensive. You had multiple mailers against you. Text messagings expensive. You just don't see that in these type of races. How did you guys then pull off 65, 35 wins?
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Kim
Well, I wrote a letter to my constituents and I put it in a precinct packet with my preferred candidates. And in that letter, I explained exactly what was going on in Montgomery county. And I delivered it to over a thousand homes myself.
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Wendy
So we got the word out.
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Kim
Yeah, block walking is very effective.
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Wendy
And we work the polls. We never leave the polls. I mean, early voting is 10 day period, and then election day is one day period. So during those 11 days, Kim and I are. Are at the polls pretty much if the, if the polls are open. We barely even stopped to eat. We just talked to every voter that we could and expose them. Plus we just screamed as lo as we could on Facebook and Twitter. But your video helped immensely because it went viral in Montgomery County. Everybody was clipping it and sharing pieces of it everywhere. We saw it everywhere. You could barely scroll. Your videos were everywhere. So thank you so much, everybody. They were like, kim and Wendy are on Bannon.
- [48:43]
Kim
The grassroots conservatives love your show.
- [48:46]
Steve Bannon
Well, we love them. We're a platform for you guys. Last thing I've noticed this in Texas as we down here for the last five weeks or so, there is a. And I don't want to cast aspersions of what happened in Montgomery County. We're going to come and spend more time with you guys. But I've noticed this was the Sharia law issue. The halal food, the real estate, the mosque, the epic city, Colony Ridge. There's an awful lot of money that's being made down here by the business Community. There's an awful lot of money being made by establishment people. And it's taken folks like you that want full transparency and full accountability. If you have transparency, Texas is going to reset and things are going to be fine. But as long as you got all this obfuscation and behind closed doors and deals being made, that is the reason Texas is in the shape it's in. It's too many of the business community, the real estate community, these very sophisticated people that want to make big money. And you can see it everywhere up here in North Texas. It's sick. Is that the core? We got about a minute. Is that the core of the problem down there?
- [49:47]
Wendy
Yes. In fact, our county sheriff, Wesley Doolittle, when he was running for office, the. The. I think they're called the Harris brothers, right?
- [49:57]
Kim
Yes.
- [49:58]
Wendy
The. The people you just mentioned, Colony Ridge, the people who. Who started Colony Ridge, they actually worked the polls for.
- [50:10]
Kim
For Wesley Doolittle.
- [50:11]
Wendy
Yeah. To get him elected as our sheriff.
- [50:14]
Steve Bannon
Wow. Okay, guys, we gotta bounce. Can we get Wendy, you first, and then Kim, can we give you your social media? Where do people stay in touch with you? Because you are now officially heroes for standing in the breach and winning big. Where do people go?
- [50:29]
Wendy
Wendy Yockey on Facebook, Wendy Su Yake on Facebook and on Twitter Yaqui, Wendy,
- [50:37]
Kim
Kim, and MCTX, GOP Precinct 97.
- [50:43]
Steve Bannon
You guys are amazing. You've. You've inspired a lot of people because you're the. You're the. You represent the best of us. So thank you very much for joining us here in War Room Texas.
- [50:54]
Kim
Thank you having us.
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Steve Bannon
You know, everywhere we go on the precinct strategy, of course the Republican establishment beats you up. The Republican establishment doesn't want you there. The business community doesn't want you there. But. But you stand in the breach and fight and use your agency. They had their backs against the wall. Think about it. Just getting the word out, using their agency and being tough as boot leather. And don't quit. What did Andy Parchette tell us the other day from Illinois? It's the same everywhere. If you don't quit, you'll win. Now, Wendy, sue and Kim, 65, 35. That's a win. Okay, we're gonna leave you. We're gonna be back at 10am tomorrow morning. The show is gonna be absolutely packed. We're on track all night. The great Tina Peters, is she about to get her freedom? We're gonna talk about that first thing in the morning. We got so much else going on. We'll see you back here in the war. Room 10:00am Eastern Standard Time and I'll be up on getter throughout the evening. Thank you very much for joining us.
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