00:02:20.260Today, voters in six states will cast their ballots in primary elections, most notably in Kentucky, where the president is actively campaigning against the GOP incumbent Thomas Massey.
00:02:30.460And in Georgia, where the president has yet to back any of the GOP candidates who hope to unseat Democratic incumbent John Ossoff.
00:02:38.560This endorsement is, is it tricky? Is it risky for the president to endorse Ken Paxton, the controversial lieutenant governor out there?
00:02:50.260I'm sorry, the Texas AG out there. Or is John Cornyn not as popular as he once was?
00:02:57.160Well, I think both could be true, Katie, at the same time, to be honest with you.
00:03:02.060It is tricky because, you know, their public polling has been all over the place in this race.
00:03:07.300Most polls have it as a, you know, two or three point race between Cornyn and Paxton.
00:03:12.460And furthermore, the real concern is that Paxton, who is scandal-plagued, Katie, I mean, we don't have to go through all of the things that are in Ken Paxton's past.
00:03:41.940Greg could talk about Georgia, which is has turned the corner, is no longer a reliably red state.
00:03:49.220Texas has been reliably red for a very long time. It is getting blue or potentially it is not purple.
00:03:56.360It is red. So the Republicans should still win.
00:03:59.560Now, the bigger issue here is that the entire Senate Republican political operation has been oriented toward attacking dead backs for the last several months.
00:04:08.840So now they're going to have to turn on a dime and spend hundreds of millions of dollars boosting Ken Paxton or not.
00:04:16.060Or maybe just say we're not going to win the seat.
00:04:18.920But I don't think that's going to happen.
00:04:20.060I think they're going to have to spend the money.
00:04:21.460And the real hope is from Republicans that Donald Trump's political operations, all of his various super PACs and organizations that are in his control or ostensibly in his control, will spend three to five hundred million dollars.
00:04:36.400part of that to boost Paxton in this race. And Paxton's going to need it because, again,
00:04:42.360Tallarico has a lot of money. Democrats have a lot of money, too. And there's no doubt that
00:04:47.740John Cornyn is not as popular as he once was. He likes to point out he's been a reliable vote for
00:04:53.340Trump. He's voted with Trump 99 percent of the time. All of that is true. But he's been in office
00:04:58.520for a long time. His work on gun legislation did hurt him with some elements of the Republican base.
00:05:06.400And and I think people are ready for something new. I think the polls and the primary showed that.
00:05:10.940So, yes, it's risky, but also this is this is the direction Republicans are going and they're going to have to try to make it work for them in what's expected to be a bad year for the GOP.
00:05:21.400Cornyn getting the snub. What is it going to mean for Texas?
00:05:26.220Yeah. So, Katie, this is something that has been an ongoing drama for several months now on what the president was going to do when it came to this race.
00:05:35.500He's obviously much more naturally aligned with Ken Paxton.
00:05:39.140Donald Trump is the reason that Ken Paxton actually was not convicted in his impeachment trial in Texas a few years ago.
00:05:46.600Trump convinced members to vote against that.
00:05:49.240But what this means is that Senate Republicans could very well have to spend $100, maybe $200 million to ensure that they keep control of Texas against Democrat James Tallarico.
00:06:05.700And that is something that is absolutely terrifying to Republicans, especially as their map is only growing and trying to keep hold of the Senate.
00:06:17.320So, Mark, when you're looking at the money spent in Texas, if you're not looking at Texas turning blue, which is, I guess, always, you know, the white whale, what other races are you looking at in terms of being endangered by this big spend in Texas?
00:06:32.500Well, if I could comment on Texas for just a second, Katie.
00:06:35.900I mean, the point's well taken here is that even under the best case scenario, the reality is that Republicans are going to have to spend $100 million, $200 million, $300 million more than they would have had to spend otherwise.
00:06:49.140This should be a safe seat for Republicans.
00:06:51.740And John Cornyn is a very safe senator.
00:06:55.440And they've got a very, very talented Democratic nominee on the Democratic side.
00:07:00.600So Tallarico is really good. Cornyn would have been probably taking the race and may still. He wins the race.
00:07:09.580But there's no question that Paxson is a much, much more vulnerable candidate to Tallarico.
00:07:15.860So it's just this is it's weird that it came so late, first of all.
00:07:21.580But it's clear that Trump just couldn't help. I'm sure he resisted the advice he got from from smart Republicans and the senators up there because they all wanted corn because they want they don't want that money spent in Texas.
00:07:36.240They need to spend in other places like North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, all these other places.
00:07:42.460So it's just it's going to be a huge drag on the money. And it just it's just a it's a self-inflicted blow that was unnecessary.
00:07:49.120tuesday 19 may year of our lord 2026 what an afternoon uh beyond crazy also just throw it in
00:07:58.060there the judge rescinded his order from this morning they're not going to be any observers
00:08:03.140allowed into the bunker in metropolitan atlanta sally grubbs is going to join us chip uh roy got
00:08:09.400a major infusion from a donor today in that race we get there degrasse is here to talk about that
00:08:13.940john solomon lead off solomon first off uh this was as much about john thune uh not getting with
00:08:21.520the program and president trump loves ken paxton but this is john through i mean the president
00:08:25.460as you know you were up this morning couldn't even go to we did an hour the president at the
00:08:30.360ballroom making his pitch because he gets up and looks at the hill your old newspaper first two
00:08:34.980stories thune and senate republicans look for off-ramp on ballroom second is that personally
00:08:41.020John Thune personally said, we're not going to do the weaponization fund, and we're not going to do, we're not attaching Save America to any bills.
00:08:48.840That's not a way Donald Trump wants to have his morning Diet Coke, right, and seeing that.
00:08:53.880This was a shot across the bow of the United States, and the leader of the Senate to say, I'm not a lame duck, bro.
00:10:42.380A judge gives them – the Georgia Election Board, five members of the Georgia Election Board,1.00
00:10:47.160Sally Grove's going to – to just go be observers since nobody knew about this,1.00
00:10:50.320and it's against the Georgia code, it just gets rescinded an hour ago.
00:10:53.700is Georgia is Kemp running a third world banana republic sir yeah I don't think it's Kemp this
00:11:01.360is all Brad Rassenberger I think Kemp would not pick such a silly fight right I don't think Kemp
00:11:06.440would pick a fight on the voter registration rolls nothing to hide in Georgia is what I think
00:11:11.280Governor Kemp would say remember Governor Kemp came to the rescue of President Trump and got
00:11:15.920released got alongside of President Trump in 2024 patched up the differences this really is a Brad
00:11:20.920Rasenberger thing. Brad Rasenberger is an election nerd. He likes the election bureaucrats.
00:11:26.640And at the end of the day, I think this probably goes to the Georgia Supreme Court,
00:11:30.360probably gets overturned at some point. Well, it won't get overturned tonight.
00:11:34.820Hopefully it gets overturned before November. Your California story, why is that of national
00:11:38.880importance, sir? Well, three weeks ago, we reminded everybody that that perfect election
00:11:43.600we were told to swallow in 2020, the one that was the most secure in election history, wasn't,
00:11:48.780right? We now know that China and Iran and others intruded in foreign and there was also other
00:11:53.520is this the second thing we had to swallow is anytime in the last five years you raised any
00:11:58.980question about election integrity even if you had a factual predicate to do so you were called an
00:12:04.140election denier by the media and by the Democrats and it's kind of funny because most of the people
00:12:10.040that raise these election integrity issues aren't deniers at all they acknowledge elections occur
00:12:14.940they want to make them more secure they want to make them more safe more trustworthy
00:12:18.400Well, over the last couple of years, since the president came back into office, this Justice Department has uncovered dozens of cases of election integrity fraud.
00:12:29.280And it isn't just one non-citizen voting here.
00:12:33.180This in California is going to turn out to be a systemic effort to hijack elections by registering people under false pretenses.
00:12:42.060And when you look at the plea agreement, Steve, there's a mention of the facilitators.
00:12:49.320This is clearly – this plea deal is designed to roll up on larger players in the California liberal and democratic establishment.
00:12:56.800This is a first step to a larger case here.
00:12:58.940And if you prove it went on in the nirvana of liberal dreams of California, you can prove it went on anywhere in the country.
00:13:05.980And I want to remind people one other story we broke a couple years ago.
00:13:09.160This scheme, this pay-to-play registration scheme, which violates federal law, looks very similar to what the Michigan State Police referred to the FBI back in 2020 when they found a place in Muskegon, Michigan, that was basically a fake ballot farm.
00:13:27.380That case got sent to the FBI, but the Chris Wray FBI killed it.
00:13:35.040And one of the questions I think we're all going to have over the next several weeks is, is there an operation like this in most of the battleground states where either House, Senate or presidential races are at stake?
00:13:46.020And how much more can we learn about it in the next couple of months before 2026 rolls around?
00:13:50.480But election deniers, we are no longer.
00:13:53.900We are actually been validated time and again on serious election integrity issues that the left wants to keep pretending don't exist.
00:14:01.800This Justice Department, Harmeet Dillon, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, not going to let that election denial line go along any longer.
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00:16:56.620Okay, we're going to be in Texas, we're going to be in Georgia, we're going to be everywhere in the next couple hours, so stick around.
00:17:03.700First, we're going to go with Alex deGrasse.
00:17:05.500DeGrasse. One of the smartest and bravest, most courageous political moves ever was was Ken Paxson deciding at the, you know, with just hours ago because they had Cornyn with all the lies and misrepresentations.
00:17:18.240President Trump was going about to endorse him when Caroline Rand came to this concept, said, hey, throw down, make the Save America Act it.
00:17:24.420Tell him you'll step aside if Cornyn, if Cornyn jumps on board and gets it passed.
00:17:30.200Of course, everybody knows Cornyn had no interest in that.
00:17:32.420This is what the leadership is. Ken Paxson did it and literally changed political history.
00:17:37.260It was an incredibly courageous move, but it's been so much more than that.
00:17:40.320The grassroots really gotten back to this one. Alex, your thoughts?
00:17:45.180I think it's great. I think ultimately, Steve, you know, the turnout, the energy is super important across all these races.
00:17:50.460I know you were talking about in the earlier block and, you know, I mean, people are just really fired up about this.
00:17:55.640And of course, it's always complicated, you know, when it's an incumbent senator and you've got votes and the president obviously is weighing all types.
00:18:02.420of things and you know i don't really buy some of the stuff that was in the cold open i mean a lot
00:18:07.720of this stuff has been litigated right the you know the the charges against him in 2022 yes
00:18:12.920you're not feeling you're not you're saying it's not you know it's not gonna be 300 million that's
00:18:16.940all the left just throwing out stuff like that i agree i mean look talarico i think is really
00:18:23.520flawed i mean i think he's he's a freak you know he no no no not flawed he's he's a freak people
00:18:28.300don't know once they start peeling him back it's gonna he's a freak okay this is a guy that's
00:18:33.360still in the seminary he's never had a job he's a freak is this guy's weird so that's that whole
00:18:38.940thing's gonna come they're they're gonna do that they're gonna peel that back like in texas go
00:18:43.600ahead he's got a girlfriend i mean i don't know you know so he's talking about that it's kind of
00:18:47.320out of nowhere i don't i try to look that up um yeah yeah yeah he's got he's got a girlfriend
00:18:53.960yeah okay i want to see i haven't seen the pictures yet i'm not buying that one bring her out on the
00:19:00.100trail and um you know maybe have her speak on your behalf and stuff because i think people would be
00:19:04.360interested in that so anyway all really bizarre stuff and i think you know i think that it's
00:19:09.320really important for ken and he's got to get money so i think people really gotta because
00:19:12.400he's gonna need some money because take it or leave it talarico's a freak and he's gonna have
00:19:16.120a lot of money so in that regards they're right and the left is just obsessed with texas but you
00:19:21.160know we've heard this like the last three cycles and i don't think they've ever even gotten
00:19:24.420closer than 11 how much is this how much is it how much of this is a shot across the bow
00:19:30.540of john thune president wigs a president doesn't go out in the hot sun with serving breakfast on
00:19:36.540the table for his health he cancels meetings he goes because he's doing the ai thing today
00:19:40.740we're going to get to all that he's doing all kind of things he's got the war he's got his
00:19:44.880national security he's out there in the hot sun for an hour extemporaneously just going through
00:19:49.300talking about all the different things he brings because the hill newspaper has john john thune
00:19:54.260says i'm personally we're not going to do weaponization i don't agree with it we're
00:19:57.580looking for an off-ramp on the ballroom and we're not putting the save or not clipping the save0.95
00:20:02.240america act to the fisa we're not doing anything we're not doing you're a lame duck you've got to0.99
00:20:06.800accept you're a lame duck trump put a shot across his bow that hey lame duck this sir yeah i mean0.99
00:20:14.240look i think that from what i'm reading of course in the press there's obviously a lot of0.99
00:20:18.920you know, contention there. I mean, there's a lot of priorities that the president has in the
00:20:22.760Senate. I think it's just been obviously really frustrating. On one hand, you've got a lot of
00:20:27.080the nominees are through, which I think is a positive thing. And on the other hand, you've
00:20:31.200got, obviously, it seems to be some friction on whether it be the ballroom security,
00:20:35.300Save America, which is obviously the cornerstone of President Trump's agenda. And we have to figure
00:20:40.700out a way to pass that. I mean, to me, even if they need to maybe just scale some of it down,
00:20:46.340maybe take some voter id and you know all of it's obviously key but they have to figure out a way
00:20:51.240forward i think ultimately it's incumbent on the senate to try to provide the president the president
00:20:55.940the president you're not you're not going to call the president up and say hey the parliamentarian
00:20:59.680is saying we can't do your weaponization he doesn't he doesn't roll like that it's not you've
00:21:04.260got to come you're supposed to be a solutions provider you're a leader this guy hasn't led
00:21:07.700anything 27 votes removes him is that correct sir yeah that's right so i think you know i i mean
00:21:16.320i think we really need options on the table to try to move all this stuff forward so you know i
00:21:21.020haven't you know i'm not aware of some of the specifics but you know i think it is a big
00:21:25.800message to folks i mean people are going crazy about this one i mean this one this is a big one
00:21:30.860and i think you know for us steve that were there in the dark periods which i love that
00:21:35.880president trump uh sort of reference because that was a really small list of course ken was there
00:21:41.040and obviously yes there's no such thing as a perfect politician but you know ken was there
00:21:45.540the breach i mean really when that number was very i'm small in terms of i'm gonna read that
00:21:51.340yeah i'm gonna read his true social post 750 words in the second hour it is very moving
00:22:00.040this is a grassroots victory to grass you guys you and caroline just led the fight incredible
00:22:05.460um we got to run through the tape for next tuesday early voting is urgent this is a grassroots
00:22:10.940effort. Of course, Cassidy finishes third. Cornyn has got now a race that looks like very tough for
00:22:18.100him. These incumbents, I mean, it's never happened. And that's why the least story in Politico is how
00:22:22.760furious the Republican senators are at Trump. They're not furious at Cornyn, right, for not
00:22:28.260doing his job. They're furious at President Trump. So this is going to be interesting. DeGrasse,
00:22:31.060where do people get you? In fact, your strategy on this redistricting is what's made the House
00:22:37.860competitive and we're within hollering distance to holding the house i think the senate's if you
00:22:42.700don't remove john thune as leader and get somebody in there like a rick scott that's prepared to put
00:22:48.180some energy into these things and try to pass president trump's agenda i just don't think i
00:22:52.800think george is gone i think north carolina is gone you're just not going to get the grassroots
00:22:56.500grassroots is sitting there i'm not going to do this i'm not knocking on doors for whatley i'm
00:23:00.120not going to you know knock on doors for who is it buddy carter and and collins they're just not
00:23:04.940going to do it. It's just not the fire, you can tell. I think Ohio's in play. I think Alaska's
00:23:09.820in play. I think Maine's in play. And we've got big, big, big worries. Where do people go for you,
00:23:14.260sir? Yeah, I mean, look, I would love to see everyone come together. You know, that's really
00:23:18.340because all this is so important. I mean, you look at what we did in the House, Steve, and I
00:23:21.600just was meeting with all these candidates. So we had a sort of a meet and greet with all the
00:23:24.820frontline candidates. I was giving some donations and helping out. I mean, really, we've got some
00:23:29.080great guys and ladies on the offensive and some of those key seats that President Trump won. So
00:30:39.820Sally Grubbs, you're a member of the five member in the entire state of Georgia.
00:30:45.160There's only five citizens on the state election board.
00:30:49.340It's your fiduciary responsibility to make sure these things run properly according to Georgia Code.
00:30:54.460Georgia Cote specifically says you can't do these things with, you know, without public scrutiny, without the officials being there, et cetera.
00:31:02.760In the bunker, you guys went to court.0.99
00:31:05.740Judge agreed this morning as we left the war room at 12 noon that Sally Grubbs was going to have a ringside seat as an observer.
00:34:30.760Oh, the FBI has the ballots? Well, we want them back. So we're going to spend, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars having Abby Lowell come to get the ballots back. Why? Because they wanted them destroyed. It makes no sense, Steve. It just absolutely makes no sense. It drives you crazy.
00:34:46.660but this i think you and the rest of your team uh and the folks in there stood in this breach
00:34:52.980for six years are american patriots and heroes and when the history of this time is written
00:34:57.480it was the folks like you that stood in and refused to bend is the reason we're celebrating
00:35:02.920250 years of american independence you're exactly like the patriots in 1775 and 1776 so honored to
00:35:10.720have you on here sally since you're not going to be in the since you're not going to be in the
00:35:15.000bunker tonight what's your social media so people can follow you since you will have internet ma'am
00:35:20.240at first vice chair georgia gop but as soon as i leave my office i'm headed to cobb county where
00:35:26.320there's been a dumpster fire all day long with pole pad issues long wait lines there's been
00:35:31.200issues in cherokee county uh and guess what uh fulton county guinnett county to gap county so
00:35:36.420it's time for me to get to the bottom of what's going on there steve georgia unbelievable ma'am
00:35:41.940Such a great state, such great people.
00:36:32.740And the way we're going to do that is by giving every student on the planet
00:36:37.020an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor.
00:36:40.600Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives.
00:36:58.500We're going to give every teacher on the planet an amazing, artificially intelligent teaching assistant.
00:37:04.840Last December, Time magazine selected its person of the year for 2025, and it was this time, it was the architects of artificial intelligence. Interesting.
00:37:19.080One way to say this is that within three to five years, we'll have what is called general intelligence, AGI, which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician, physicist, you know,
00:37:32.940artist writer thinker politician every classroom every hospital every laboratory every person
00:37:41.420and every relationship you have i know what many of you are feeling about that i can hear you
00:47:57.540Just walk me through the process of when does it come out of the House and go to the Senate because we're trying to converge all the energy on that kind of inflection point.
00:48:06.320So the House will be essentially finished with it tonight, second reading, third reading is basically perfunctory.
00:48:11.100It's it's a it's a necessary. There's no speeches, no debates, nothing. It's just a vote tomorrow.
00:48:17.380So the Senate will get it in their hands tomorrow. They have to have a couple of committee meetings to give it the due process.
00:48:24.060Give folks time to interact with the maps and have their have their say.
00:48:28.920And we think it'll have it'll be on the floor of the Senate this Friday.
00:48:33.040And and early voting would start on every other race starts next Tuesday, the Tuesday after Memorial Day.
00:48:41.100So the Senate has got to get this done basically over the weekend for this to actually get into effect and be in place to give South Carolina a shot at having – basically getting rid of Jim Clover and his 34-year reign of terror over the 6th District in South Carolina.
00:49:34.220You've been putting up some great stuff on social media.
00:49:35.780Where do people follow you to stay up to date on all this?
00:49:39.240Yeah, it's at J. Scott Pace is my handle on X, at J. Scott Pace.
00:49:44.140And then the South Carolina Freedom Caucus is trying to put stuff out as fast as we can on our socials, on Facebook and on X, Instagram, everywhere else.
00:49:52.300We're trying to keep folks updated as rapid fire as possible.
00:49:55.780And we'll continue to do that as it moves through the Senate.