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It's a Numbers Game: The Numbers Behind Texas’ Wild Primary: Cornyn vs. Paxton, Crenshaw’s Loss & Democrats’ New Star
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Welcome back to a numbers Game with Ryan Grusi. Thank you guys for being here. I am so excited for this episode because there are so many media narratives coming out of the primary election in Texas that are truly driving me nuts, ladies and gentlemen. And for those questioning themselves, if you've listened to the show over last year, I am very much a straight shooter. I have very little time tolerance for nonsense. And what you're hearing about James Telo and the chances the Democrats have that he is some white knight who will turn Texas blue are well overindulged. Right. He is the white knight for Crazy Town usa and the population of that town is the American media. But let's start with the top lines and let's start specifically on the Republican side of the aisle. Incumbent Senator John Cornyn had a very impressive showing, winning 42% of the vote against Attorney General Ken Paxton's 41% of the vote. Cornyn spent about $70 million in his primary challenge, the most expensive for an incumbent in a primary in US history, dwarfing Paxton's like $5 million. It might be a little more with outside help, but it's about 5 million to 70 million. Well, and why I say it's impressive despite him spending 12, 14 times as much money as Paxton is, is that Paxton was leading in every single poll going to this election. Most polls didn't even have corning getting to 35%. So the fact that not only he got well over 35%, but came in first place really shows how weak Paxton's campaign was. Because Paxton said over and over again that not only was he the MAGA candidate, but the grassroots candidate, the conservative candidate. And turnout for somebody who is an incumbent with that kind of reputation among the grassroots is very weak. It's not great. Paxton received fewer primary votes this year than Cornyn did in 2008. Think about how many more people live in Texas today than in 2008. And I talked to one of my buddies in Texas, someone very smart in the Texas political circle, and he said, you don't understand. Paxton is not a strong candidate. He's probably one of the overly talked about campaigners or overly promoted campaigners in the country. He's a pretty weak campaigner when it comes down to it. And almost immediately after the polls closed and the numbers started coming in, I was hearing from consultant friends that Trump was going to push for an endorsement of Cornyn because Cornyn's numbers out of Dallas and the Dallas suburbs were gigantic. He even I think won the Houston area, in the Houston suburbs. And that's also now what the Atlantic is reporting. It's what Politico is reporting. And Trump said on Truth socially, he's going to endorse one of the candidates. Do I like that? Here's the thing. Republicans don't want to spend $200 million that they don't have to on a Texas primary race. And I get it. Cornyn sucks. He does. On the issues, I don't agree with corn. And corn is awful. He's absolutely awful. And there should have been a better alternative. But I give him credit in one thing. This was the fight for his life. And I have to hand it to the old guy. He won that fight. Had had Paxton performed, you know, at 47%, 48%, it was going to run off. I don't think there would be a question of. Of should Trump endorse corn. I think he should. I think that he wouldn't have. But the fact that Paxton was leading all the polls underperformed, couldn't raise money, didn't campaign particularly well. Do you remember seeing a Paxton speech that went viral or alternative media coverage or free media coverage? I didn't see anything. I didn't even see him make the case against Cornyn. I think that he should have that he. That I would have really hammering Cornyn's moderation and that Cornyn have betrayed Texas conservatives. He wasn't able to execute it. So it seems obvious then Trump would go with the safer pick given that the quote unquote populist candidate, the MAGA candidate, the conservative candidate, really couldn't do it. And Paxton hearing that Trump was going to call him to step down, probably there were some whispers or some private conversations, has said that he is would exit the race only on one condition. If the Senate passes the SAVE act, basically putting the ball back in the court of moderates in the Senate, I guess trying to make a concessions from people like Senator Curtis or Mitch McConnell, trying to get an easy pathway for John Cornyn. I think that's probably the most he could ask for instead of going into this. And he probably would lose a runoff. I think that he really would and spend a lot of time and money. But what no one's mentioning. This is the thing I want everyone to think about when it comes to Texas politics. Bigger than just this primary because this is the real story about this election cycle. No one has talked about this, but this is very likely John Cornyn's last run. It's his fourth and last run. He's turning 75 at the beginning of this term and he'll be 81 when the term ends. Greg Abbott, the governor who won his primary challenge with 82% of the vote, carrying every county, just ran for his fourth term and it's likely his final term in office. I would be flabbergasted if he tried to run for a fifth term at 73 years old. Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor, who's very popular, got 85% of the vote, will likely be serving his last term. He'll be 80 when his term ends. And there is gossip on the street that allegedly Ted Cruz is plotting his run for president in 2028. And if he doesn't win and a Republican does and he cannot run in 2032, that he will also be retiring. That is the gossip on the street. So Texas being the most important red state in this country for many reasons, not just because they have 40 electoral college votes and they have this giant economy and they have the largest delegation in the House, but they are coming into a power, that vacuum over the next four, five and six years, there's going to be a giant sea change in the Texas Republican leadership that a lot of people in Texas are planting the seeds for. Also remember, by the way, there are six incumbent Republican congressmen who are over the age of 70. I think one's over the age of 80. And if you are a conservative in Texas and you are disappointed that John Cornyn is likely coming out of this election, you know the winner. If you're disappointed that Greg Abbott won with a landslide, I know some people don't like Greg Abbott. The change that's going to happen will start today because the main players who have been running Texas for the last 15 years, in some case 20 years, in other cases, are all looking towards the exit sign that their time has come and their time has probably passed. And if you want a more conservative Texas, now is your chance. This is really a prime opportunity over the next four years. No one's talked about it should be talked about. Now let's talk about the other race. That's very fascinating. One of two primary challenges that I want to talk about. One is that Crenshaw, Dan Crenshaw, was the only incumbent congressman to lose without a runoff. He did not receive the Trump endorsement. The only House member in the Texas delegation not to receive the Trump endorsement. He outspent his primary opponent 9 to 1, but lost by 315 points. That's pretty decisive. That's a blowout. People in the media are asking why People who don't understand Republicans are asking why. And you have people like Juan Ferraro from the Wall Street Journal. He tweeted, dan Crenshaw of Texas is a conservative with an independent streak who questioned Republicans who supported Trump's claim that the 2020 vote was stolen. No place for. And so no place in the party for someone like that. No one. That was not why Dan Crenshaw lost. Dan Crenshaw, the election being stolen in 2020. Those claims and those, you know, the fight over that was not mentioned during the campaign at all. No one cared about it. And as far as an independent streak, Dan Crenshaw voted with Trump 100% of the time. That's a complete. You. You didn't read the room at all, Juan. You didn't read the room at all. People didn't like Dan Crenshaw. That is the problem. They didn't like him for a number of reasons. They didn't like him because he was a warhawk. He openly defended congressional stock trading, which was one of his big issues over the last couple years. The number one thing you knew about Dan Crenshaw was he loved trading stocks and he made no friends. Members of. I, I met. I'm not in Texas very often, but I met donors who were like, I'll fund anybody who runs against him. There was also conservative media personalities who couldn't stand him. The President didn't like him. His colleagues didn't like him. He just, I mean, he pissed everyone off. There's no other way to say it. And it finally caught up to him. He's an abrasive person who's not likable. And look, I get it. I'm abrasive. I get like three Christmas cards a year. I get it. I mean, I'm not for everybody, but I'm not running for Congress. So, I mean, that was really basically it. He was just too unlikable to run for reelection, and it ultimately caught up with him, and that was that. And so his career is finally coming to an end for his House seat. The last seat that I want to talk to you about is the only candidate who's Trump endorse Canada, who's likely to lose, and that is Tony Gonzalez from 23rd district of Texas. You've heard me talk about him before on the show a lot. For those who need a very brief refresher, he represents the district on the Texas Mexico border, allegedly called Republicans behind closed doors during the Biden migration crisis a bunch of racists for wanting to stop the invasion. And he had an affair with a staffer that he aggressively pursued after she told him no and allegedly, allegedly offered her promotions and raises and projects that she really wanted to be part of before the affair happened. She left her family for him and only. And, and allegedly she. He ghosted her. And then she lit herself on fire in front of her mother and killed herself. I mean, that's, it's horrific to even say it aloud. So I had to pause. I'm like, how am I going to say this? This is, that's. It's a horrific story. He denied the entire thing until the text messages between the two came into public life. Then he admitted that he had cheated on his wife, the mother of his six children. And they added, quote, lapse of judgment. Sir, ordering Taco Bell at 2am is a lapse of judgment. This is much worse. He came in second place in the primary election in the runoff. He'll have a runoff with Brandon Herrera. He received 42% to Herrera's 43%. He actually received fewer votes in this election than the first round of the 2024 primary, which was a presidential election. So that, I mean, that says something when you're getting less votes than you did during the presidential election and Herrera was getting more. Gonzalez went on the Joe Pags show right after the primary to talk about it. His face was lifeless. Is the only I could describe it if you're not watching. He said God forgave him for the affair. So anyway, by the way, if you are looking to deal with something with morality, you don't need to see a priest or a pastor. You can just go to Tony Gonzalez. He's had a one way conversation with God, but then again talking about how it was weird that his dead mistress's husband called his congressional office and asked about her death benefits the day after she passed away. He changed the story at first he said it was a few hours after she passed away and then said it was the day after she passed away. He asked about her death benefits. He also claimed that the husband's defense attorney threatened to blackmail him for $300,000, saying this whole political controversy was about money. Sir. Congressman, it wasn't about money. This is not about money. Nobody cares about this blackmail story. This is because you had an affair with your employee. Your staffers are leaking to the media that you caused her mental distress and she killed herself in a brutal way in front of her mom. This is not about money and you are not a victim. That is what Gonzalez is doing, right? He's saying, look at Me, I'm the victim of this Black. Sir, you are not the victim. You are not the victim. This is so nonsensical to even spin it that way. Pags, to his credit, asked, do you think you're responsible for her suicide? That's clip one. I want to go to that. It's a little long of a clip, but listen us.
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Any and every headline that we see about this story makes the assertion they're not out not saying it, but they make the assertion that she committed suicide because of you. You don't think you had anything whatsoever to do with it?
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Absolutely nothing to do with it. And you know what? They do this intentionally, Pags. I mean, you cannot hate the media enough. There's a reason why I'm coming on your show. There's a reason why I reached out to you. And this, you know, this, this alternative way of getting real information out is this was all very coordinated attack towards me, for one thing. To get me to not vote. Prime example. To get me to not vote for the DHS package tomorrow.
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Buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, buzzword,. Media trump DHS border. Deflect, deflect, distract, distract. What a narcissistic sociopath. This woman is dead. And then for definitive proof that he said he is not responsible at all for her suicide, he reads from the part of the Ovalde police report. From a first responder. Go to clip 2.
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It is pages upon pages, but I will share just this one thing.
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One of the things that was relayed was, you know, what was, Ms. Santos, his last words. And they tried to make it all dramatic in the police report. This is specifically from the police report. The female subject with burn injuries then stated her husband is gay and having an affair with her best friend. I wonder if that had something to do with her tragic passing.
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According to her mother who was present, her last words were, I don't want to die. Which to you is more believable. Her claim that the Uvalde police, who, if you remember the shooting for a couple of years, have many issues to them that she said, my husband is gay, as her final words, or I don't want to die. This politician with his very, very large soapbox is saying, no, it wasn't me. I wasn't responsible. I'm actually the victim who's responsible. Her quote, unquote, gay husband who is now blackmailing me. It's really just that hit. This man is really creating circles and taking down a proud congressman. What a piece of human debris. There is no accountability on his side, he is lifeless. The only time he's showing any passion is when he's calling for his own defense. If he did care about this woman, which he says she was an amazing worker and she did so much for community. If he really cared, what he'd be trying to do right now is raise money for the child who doesn't have a mom anymore. Not running re election campaigns and claim that you're the victim of some giant conspiracy between a widower, allegedly, and his gay love affair and your deceased employee. This is ridiculous. House leadership under Speaker Johnson finally, finally came out with the statement demanding his withdrawal, Gonzalez's withdrawal from the reelection, especially as the Ethics committee has announced an investigation into his conduct. The House is a very strict rule about affairs when it comes to staffers. It's not the same as just regular affairs or affairs with other colleagues. That's not the same thing with staffers. It's pretty strict. The runoff in Texas is May 26th. I don't think Tony Gonzalez is going to survive. I would expect, honestly at this point that Trump is going to withdraw his endorsement at some point. How he's behaving in this race is so disgraceful. It is disgraceful. This man is willing to embarrass himself, his wife, his children, the deceased woman's children. I mean, he's a disgrace. Okay, that's the Republican side. That's my analysis of the Republican side. That's why this election is interesting and important. Let's go to the Democrat side of the election, the Democratic primary, that's coming up next. So James Hellerico, state representative, just 36 years old, defeated Congressman Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary. A woman who I have often called the dime store Cardi B, who developed a black scent sometime in her late 30s to early 40s. Jasmine's a beautiful and I'm not making a joke, she's a gorgeous looking woman who was very eloquent speaker until she became a member of Congress and all of a sudden her entire voice changed. Somehow. The turnout in this election, the Democratic primary, was massive. The city of Austin and the surrounding suburbs where Telarico is the state representative, that gave him the large margin of victory. He did very well with Latinos as well, winning their vote. The black vote was very one sided towards Jasmine Crockett. The white boat was even more one sided or as one sided for James Talarico, as was the case, by the way, with the Republican primary. Telo outspent his opponent, though not as much as Cornyn outspent Paxton, but he outspent her about 5 to 1. For almost two decades, the media has been trying to recreate what they did with Obama. Basically create this political sensation out of whole cloth. And now they're especially focused on doing it with a white man. See, they know that white men, especially working class white men and evangelical white men are the backbone of the Republican Party. The Republican Party cannot win without white men. And if they peel off a few of them, then they, they can win every big election. They tried to do this with Tim Waltz, the communist version of Fred Mertz, until it was revealed that he was certifiably insane, giving out awards to refugees that defrauded people in the system, stealing $250 million that they said were using to feed hungry children. That's what they do all the time. They're trying to. More and more frequently they try with Beto o', Rourke, the man who wanted to tow the line between being Irish and Latino. So he, instead of going by his real name, Francis Francis o', Rourke, he went by Beto to really mix it up a little bit. The far left is also trying to with a man named Graham Platner up in Maine. I'm going to have an entire episode dedicated to him soon. I'm going to expose the truth about him and it's going to be fantastic. He is crazier than a pistachio farm in California. But then there's James Talico. He is the left's new wonderkin. This Keebler elf, according to the media, is the left's answer to evangelicalism, Christian nationalism. He's a seminarian who really understands the what working class white people believe and economic populace. And he's deeply rooted in his Christian faith. And he reads the Bible. He carries the Bible with him practically everywhere he goes. The only problem is for the Democrats that Rico in Telo's version of Christianity, Jesus Christ has the same opinions on politics that Christian Gillibrand and Cory Booker have. Here's just a short highlight reel of some of the supposed things as moderate believes in when it comes to Christianity and politics. Credit to Colin Rigg, who pulled this. Go to the next clip.
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When I was a teacher on the west side of San Antonio, I taught a lot of students who were undocumented and I don't want to stereotype, but those students tended to be the most patriotic, the hardest working students that I had in the classroom. And again, I haven't stated this enough to say this definitively, but there are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where Some folks will even say that there is a, there is some subtle instructions for how to perform an abortion in the ancient world. Certain things to drink, things like that. Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol. And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that too. I want us all to be aware of is that that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact there are six is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non binary. So this, this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti gay and anti abortion. There really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that opinion.
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During one of his addresses in a church, Talarico said after abortion was banned that neighbors with a uterus are second class citizens. Go to the next clip.
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This summer more than half our population became second class citizens. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state. And nothing, nothing is more unchristian than that.
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I am so old that back in my day they called those people women. On God being non binary. Now he didn't say his, this is his current defense that God is greater than gender. But he doesn't, doesn't say things like God created man and woman in his likeness and image. He uses a, specifically uses a woke terminology that God is non binary. That is for boys that like to wear skirts and pretend they're cats and girls who think are thinking about having their breasts lobbed off. He said that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist as if he was sitting in the temple reading Betty Friedan. He also said that Jesus has helped him reckon with his own whiteness. Now for those of you who aren't familiar with the teachings of Jesus or Christianity, Jesus calls on us to reckon with our sinful nature. But to James Hellerico, being white and committing a sin is the same exact thing. Go to the next clip.
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For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego. It's a never ending process and it's a painful process.
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Being a white man is a painful process. To James Tellarigo, the moderate Democratic candidate from Texas, some of his other moderate positions are that prisons are violence and we should imagine a world and work for a world without them. There's, here's the next clip.
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Poverty is violence, pollution is violence and yes, prison is violence. Dismantle this system of violence Build something new, something better, something rooted in love. It's hard to imagine a world without prisons, but it was also hard to imagine a world without telegrams and cassette tapes. Just because it's hard to imagine doesn't
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mean you shouldn't the hits keep coming. He posted a picture of several black men who have been killed by police, including Michael Brown. Michael Brown, for those who forgot he was in Ferguson, Missouri. He charged up police trying to grab one of their guns and was killed. This is where the hands up, don't shoot lie comes from. In his tweet, Telorico says Amud Albert Arbery, who was actually legitimately killed for not from police. He was killed actually for high profile for racial profiling he said is the latest American kill from the virus of racism. The virus kills our black neighbors if they are jogging, playing music, sitting in Church, selling CDs or carrying a bag of Skittles. White skin gives me and every white American immunity from this virus. But we spread it wherever we go through the world through our words, our actions, our systems. We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white hood or a Confederate Confederate flag to be racist. We're just virus carriers, us white people. Michael Brown wasn't killed because of racism. He he was killed because he tried to take an officer's gun and he violently confronted the police. During a different post, he referred to illegal aliens as undocumented Americans. In 2013, he video a certain pro life video brings back memories of being the only teenage boy at Planned parenthood marches in 2004. For anyone who has ever seen a picture or watched a video or heard him speak, I can promise you James Tico at no point in his life needed to worry about an unplanned pregnancy. But he cares a lot about abortion. So much so that he said we need abortion access for our trans community. We need abortion access for anyone. Because if you don't, you are a ward of the state. You are basically a slave. He actively worked Speaking of trans, this is like an insane thing. He actually worked when he was in the state legislator from stopping trans women who are men from being in female spaces and being playing on female sports team. He took the 20%, 20% side of an 8020 issue in 2022. This is after Roe v. Wade was overturned. He called on Joe Biden to use federal buildings to provide abortion care for women in red states. Can you imagine? Can you imagine Christmas time you're going to the to the post office to go mail packages to relatives and loved ones across the country. You're humming some Christmas carols to yourself and you get to the post office and lo and behold, a woman is getting an abortion near the P.O. boxes. This man is insane. This man is effing sick in 2020. He also claimed that he had gone viral in Brazil because his last name in Portuguese. He said his last name Brazilian, but he's too stupid to know that it's Portuguese, not Brazilian. No one's, there's no language Brazilian. He said that his last name means wife stealer. And he said, I'm going to steal your girl. Once again, if you've ever seen or heard him, that is not a problem he should worry about. But see, he's what the liberal fantasy of, of what normal for white men looks like. He is to what liberals believe will work to get white evangelicals on his side. You know, it means I've read the Bible, I've been inside a church outside of a funeral, therefore I got this. It's like when Republicans run a black guy with a white wife who lives in an all white community and thinks that's going to, you know, win over black voters. It's not going to work. No one believes James Tellarigo sounds like a, like a Christian, like an average white guy. He's constantly leg with the inner turmoil of being a white guy. I mean, he, Rachel Dolezal, is more adjusted to being white than James Telo. James is a mini me version of every far left radical nut bag that the Democratic Party has ever turned out. And he's had this enormous success with Latino voters in, in this primary election they're counting on to swing him the Senate seat. But that's because they didn't get a hundred million dollars of ad buys showing that he's just the woke Billy Graham. He is not a deeply devout Christian. He's a heretic. He bastardizes the faith that a majority of Texans believe in. So there's a lot going, going to come out about him past this primary. And the biggest irony is, has Jasmine Crockett not been so utterly woke, and maybe if she had more money, but if she not been so utterly woke and been afraid of the online, online, you know, woke mob, she probably could have beaten him by addressing these issues to Latinos in Texas in the Democratic primary. She could have splintered off a lot by talking about his positions on trans people, by his positions on prisons, by his positions on crime, by his positions on whiteness in the suburbs of Dallas and Houston, you know, or as James Talarico referringly calls people, Latin X people, which infuriates Hispanics. I know that Republicans in Washington are licking their chops and they believe they could be. James Telarico is always a hard state for them to win. But I don't think that they even began to skim the surface of just how nuts this man is. He is crazy. He is not going to win this election. I don't think right now I will wait to see some polls but when this stuff starts hitting and it will hit the airwaves non stop, they're going to say this man is a freak. Let's send him back to the Keeble Ralph, you know, tree so he can make some cookies. Ask Me Anything is coming up next. Welcome back for the Ask me anything segment. If you want to be part of the ask me anything segment, email me. Ryan numbers game podcast.com that's Ryan numbers plural numbers game podcast.com this message comes from Mike. He says, ryan, big fan of your show and wish you continued success. Thank you Mike. I appreciate that. He said, I've been a longtime conservative and and I believe I have a pretty stable political instincts. That being said, why do Republicans continue to shoot themselves in the foot? That is an evergreen question, Mike. That is not fair for me to answer. Ethics aside, everyone had known that in 2022 election was going to be a bloodbath for Repub because of the abortion ruling. I don't, I don't actually believe that. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on in that debate. It's just now mainstream ballot winner and now in 2026, Republicans are again fumbling the football with poor messaging on ice and going down the pin the tail on the Jew rabbit hole. I don't mean to laugh. I don't mean to laugh. That was a very creative way of putting it. Sorry. I've loved all your coverage and analysis of illegal immigration debate and agree with you on your messaging, Mike. And there was a rant after that but it went too long. Mike, thank you for your compliments. I would say with the 2022 election, remember that Trump, the Republicans won the generic ballot in the 2022 election, right. So there were more people voted for Republicans in the House than voted for Democrats. The problem was is that Republican voters were shifting. They were winning more working class voters, more, more Latino voters and they didn't do a good enough job in white suburban communities where the voters were leaving them. And that was part of it. Yes, abortion had a big part of it. Saying the claiming the 2020 election was stolen and the fears of democracy played part of it. But the realignment had a big part of it that was kind of under spoken about as well as, you know, weak candidates running for statewide office and them all being lumped in together as crazy. The thing about the, here's the problem with Republicans with the whole pin the pin the tail on the Jew rabbit hole. Republicans in office are not talking about that. It's all coming from online media personalities. So how much space do you give? Something do you want? I'm thinking think of it like this. If you are an elected official, Ted Cruz aside, but if you're an elected official, how much time do you want to spend in your reelection year battling Tucker Carlson? How much do you want to elevate him? How much you want to elevate Candace Owens? Candace Owens show is the National Enquirer. It's, you know, who killed Charlie Kirk? That's the problem. You don't want to elevate people because if you do, if you put them on your level, you give them much larger credibility. And I get that we're all seeing it. I don't really know how you dissuade people from that opinion or from hearing about it. But that's, that's, that, I mean, that's, that's really the conflict as far as the messaging goes with immigration a big thing of it. I think immigration plays less into it than people think. I think it's really the economy. I think for young, young people, they are dissatisfied with the Epstein file stuff. I think if Epstein file stuff is gotten way too much coverage. But young people do care about it and I acknowledge that they care about it. And I think that it's gas prices and energy prices. So part of it is the economy and the economy not being where people want it to be. Part of it is thinking that Trump is distracted by too much military intervention and not enough focus on domestic policy. And then the other part of it is, I guess the, the, the greater conservative conversations that are happening that members of Congress are not having. And to a certain degree, if they spent all their time worrying with Tucker Carlson or this one or that one, it would look, they would make the party really look like a circus. And you don't want that. So that's my opinion of it. I think a lot of things being said about Jews are despicable and disgusting. And as I said before, I don't think that Rubio made a good case for himself in that press conference. And Rubio has been doing it normally a Fabulous job as Secretary of State, but I do think that he fumbled that. So. Yeah, but that's. That's how it goes. And also remember one last thing. One last thing. Remember, it's a midterm of a president in power. It is the normal thing for the party in power to lose the House. It's just the way the American people are. There's really sometimes not a bigger lesson to learn from it. Just everyone relax, make sure people go out and vote. Try to win as many elections as possible. Try to reduce the losses in the House to, you know, single digits. But aside from that, you know, you gotta just take a breath and people stop losing their minds over every little thing. Like, cooler heads will prevail. Just. That's one thing I've noticed as I've gotten older is like, don't always have to set our hair on fire. We can take a breath. It is okay to not get upset over everything. You can't control everything. It gives you ulcers. And, you know. Anyway, that's this episode. Thank you guys so much. We'll be back on Monday. We have a special episode with Amazing Pollster. We're gonna go down and break down Republicans chances in the midterms. We're going to break down all of the chances to. To hold on to the Senate or win more Senate seats or lose the Senate seats. It's going to be a fantastic show. If you like this podcast, please like and subscribe. Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or on YouTube wherever you get your podcast. And I will talk to you guys on Monday. Have a wonderful weekend. This is an iHeart podcast. 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