Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 951： Breakdown Of The Texas Attorney General Debate

00:00:00.000 Islamic Jihadis are plotting against you. 0.96

00:00:11.180 Why in the hell do you think they're in Houston and in the north of Dallas? 0.98

00:00:14.220 They are working together to overthrow Western civilization.

00:00:18.500 Sharia compounds, which are areas governed by religious rules.

00:00:22.400 We know who you are, we know what you are, and we know what you're trying to accomplish,

00:00:27.360 and it is not going to happen in the jewel of the crown of the union of this republic.

00:00:33.140 We purge any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas.

00:00:36.500 They are not coming. They are already here.

00:00:39.280 You are not here properly, and you're going to leave.

00:00:44.520 On the 3rd of March, Sharia law goes on the ballot in the state of Texas.

00:00:50.420 The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally at odds with one another. 0.99

00:00:54.580 We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it. 1.00

00:01:00.060 Islam will never dominate the United States, and by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas. 1.00

00:01:07.000 As Texas goes, so goes the nation. As the nation goes, so goes the world.

00:01:12.780 Are you prepared to fight for this state? Are you prepared to fight for your country?

00:01:17.720 War Room Texas, where your host, Stephen K. Bannon, starts right now.

00:01:27.600 Okay, welcome to War Room Texas. It's Wednesday, 18 February, in the year of the Lord, 2026.

00:01:34.300 Last night was the only debate in this entire race, in the primary at least, for the Texas Attorney General.

00:01:42.460 Remember, the Attorney General in Texas, you being part of the War Room Posse, Ken Paxton, is absolutely essential to the fight to get President Trump back into the presidency, as you all remember.

00:01:57.040 As Attorney General of Texas, he was our first guest on the afternoon show of 20 January, 2021.

00:02:04.940 President Trump left the tarmac from Andrews Air Force Base on Air Force One.

00:02:09.980 We had that very dramatic show in the morning that ended at noon, right when Biden was going to take the oath of office.

00:02:16.380 President Trump kind of went into exile for a while down in Mar-a-Lago.

00:02:21.500 And what we did in the afternoon, the very first guest we had was Ken Paxton of Texas, the Attorney General.

00:02:27.580 And why we had Paxton, we knew that the Attorney Generals, the State Attorney Generals, are going to be so important.

00:02:32.560 And Texas is the jewel of the crown, so Texas would be the most important.

00:02:36.780 Now, tonight, we're going to break down the debate that we live-streamed last night.

00:02:41.640 The central figures are Aaron Reitz, who is endorsed by Ken Paxton, former Justice Department guy, Marine Corps, former Marine officer.

00:02:50.240 Chip Roy, who we've had on for years, part of the Tea Party Chief of Staff at Ted Cruz.

00:02:55.440 Chip is also part of the Freedom Caucus, been one of the fighters in the Congress.

00:03:01.180 And, of course, Mays Middleton, more, I think, of kind of a Bush guy.

00:03:05.920 He is Abbott's.

00:03:07.300 He's endorsed by Abbott.

00:03:09.160 Cruz has endorsed Chip Roy.

00:03:12.500 Attorney General Paxton has endorsed our one and only Aaron Reitz.

00:03:18.180 This is really the throne haymakers, what I was really impressed and really proud of.

00:03:21.900 I think the first question out of the box was on Islam.

00:03:25.800 But the questions you're going to see tonight, they're going to make introductory remarks.

00:03:28.800 You're going to see some very tough questions.

00:03:30.520 Our friend Chris Kobach from the great state of Kansas will also join.

00:03:34.780 They had a bunch of attorney generals there last night from some of the more MAGA red states.

00:03:39.780 So we're going to break this in pieces.

00:03:41.580 I'll be back in closer to the break at the bottom to give you an assessment.

00:03:46.000 But the gloves come off.

00:03:47.760 I think you see the measure of each man.

00:03:49.540 You got Mays Middleton, Chip Roy, and, of course, Aaron Reitz.

00:03:55.400 So let's go ahead and check it out.

00:03:57.060 This is last night.

00:03:58.000 We streamed it live.

00:03:59.480 The one and the only attorney general's debate live from north of Dallas.

00:04:08.400 I guess they call it the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.

00:04:13.640 Let's take it.

00:04:14.200 I'll be back in a moment.

00:04:15.440 Good evening.

00:04:15.900 Eight years ago, I ran for Congress because I wanted to save America for our kids and grandkids.

00:04:20.820 Something I've been trying to do my entire life.

00:04:22.880 And I've been at the center of the conservative fight for over two decades.

00:04:26.260 In 2005, as a lawyer on the Senate Judiciary Committee, I fought to get Sam Alito on the Supreme Court.

00:04:31.640 In 2006 and 2007, I was at the center of the fight to stop amnesty in the swamp.

00:04:36.080 In 2010 and 2012, I fought to make sure that it was Marco Rubio and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate.

00:04:42.200 And then I was proud to be Ted Cruz's chief of staff, and I'm proud to have his endorsement.

00:04:46.620 I served as the chief of staff when we fought to try to stop Obamacare implementation in 2013.

00:04:52.040 And in 2015, I came back to Texas as the first assistant attorney general, where we sued President Obama on deferred action.

00:05:00.240 We sued on the Clean Power Plan.

00:05:02.120 We sued about Syrian refugees to fight to defend Texas.

00:05:05.700 That's my track record before Congress.

00:05:07.520 And in Congress, when I got there, I led.

00:05:10.840 I led by introducing legislation to ban Chinese communists from owning our land, to designate cartels as terrorist organizations. 0.84

00:05:18.820 And guess what?

00:05:19.740 President Trump used that as the model for the executive order he signed this last year to designate cartels as terrorist organizations.

00:05:26.500 I worked alongside President Trump to draft and move forward through the House, the Save America Act, and we're going to get it through the Senate.

00:05:33.480 And I'm fighting to make sure every day that we deliver for the people of Texas.

00:05:37.680 As attorney general, I'll be one of one instead of one of 435 fighting for you, the people of Texas, and I'm asking for your vote.

00:05:45.940 I'm running for attorney general because I believe that we're in a battle for the soul of our state and our nation.

00:05:51.960 And I know from long-fought personal experience that the primary arena in which we fight the dark forces of the left is the justice system.

00:05:59.860 President Trump understands this better than anyone, and as one of his very first orders of business in his new administration was to elevate me to the senior ranks of his Justice Department.

00:06:10.260 And when he did, he said Aaron Reitz is a true MAGA attorney and a warrior for the Constitution.

00:06:16.100 Why?

00:06:16.700 Because of my battle-tested record leading legal troops into legal combat to deliver legal victories for Texas and for Texans.

00:06:25.200 Attorney General Paxson has served our state effectively and faithfully for over a decade, but now the time has come to choose a new chief legal officer.

00:06:36.480 Remember, under the Texas Constitution, this is a legal, law enforcement, executive branch job, not a legislative job.

00:06:44.280 So while my opponents may spend tonight talking about their legislative record or bills that they've worked on, you'll see a glaring absence of any real legal record.

00:06:53.260 That might be fine if you're running for re-election to the House or Senate, but it's wholly inadequate to the task of attorney general.

00:06:59.860 In contrast, my record, litigating, investigating, suing, defending, and appealing on all the major issues that we Republicans care about throughout the justice system sets me apart.

00:07:09.960 It's that record that led Attorney General Paxson to endorse me to succeed him, and it's that record that can give Texans the confidence that I'm ready to lead the fight in court.

00:07:19.880 It's great to be here tonight. I'm excited about the opportunity to introduce myself to you.

00:07:25.180 I'm Joan Huffman. I started my career in 1981 as a secretary at the Harris County District Attorney's Office and put myself through law school at night.

00:07:33.900 Once I graduated, I was hired as a prosecutor where I served Harris County for over 15 years, tried over 100 jury trials, including death penalty cases, was chief gang prosecutor, chief of the organized crime narcotics task force,

00:07:47.840 and then I ran for criminal district court judge where I was twice elected, served two terms.

00:07:53.380 In 2008, I ran for the state senate where I've served ever since.

00:07:57.620 In those years, I have served as chairwoman of the major committees in the senate, state affairs, jurisprudence, redistricting.

00:08:06.660 I'm currently the chair of finance and have been for the last four years where I write the state's $340 billion budget.

00:08:15.500 During that time period, I've led on major conservative fights.

00:08:19.400 I passed the first voter ID bill that passed court muster in Texas.

00:08:24.420 I passed the first Sharia law bill when people weren't paying attention.

00:08:29.120 I passed campus free speech and have led the funding, led the fight with President Trump on border security as chair of the committees and the finance committee that focus on all the border security.

00:08:43.340 I have the qualifications, the will, and the work ethic to be your next attorney general and be the fighter that you need and you want as your attorney general.

00:08:53.700 Really, all you need to know about me in this race is I'm the only one that's been protested at the Texas Capitol during this campaign.

00:09:04.380 They had these big, ugly green signs with my face on it and they called me the bathroom bigot.

00:09:11.340 Why? Because I don't want men in my little girl's restroom or locker room or shower. 1.00

00:09:16.140 And this is a calling for me.

00:09:18.900 This is not a job.

00:09:20.760 Like our president, I don't take the salary.

00:09:22.900 I don't take the pension.

00:09:24.060 I don't take the health care.

00:09:25.200 I don't take the state license plate.

00:09:27.060 I'm only here to serve and fight for the conservative values that we believe in.

00:09:32.240 And that's what I've done since day one in office.

00:09:35.360 I've always been ranked as the top one or two most conservative members in the House.

00:09:39.460 Now the Senate, I was chairman of the Texas House Freedom Caucus and President Trump called me a MAGA champion and my conservative record second to none.

00:09:49.180 And this is a show me, don't tell me business.

00:09:52.060 And I can show you the results.

00:09:53.520 I took on the woke left's gender ideology, won, stopped men from playing women's sports, kicked perverted men out of women's private spaces like restrooms and locker rooms, defeated the atheists and put prayer and the Ten Commandments back into our public schools, and took on our foreign adversaries in Austin, stopped China from buying our land, designated cartels as terrorists, tripled border security,

00:10:17.880 and I'm now taking on our most growing threat, which is Sharia law and Islamification. 1.00

00:10:24.160 I am defeating the left already.

00:10:27.760 Should Texas adopt a closed primary system?

00:10:30.700 And what role should the Attorney General play in that process, Congressman?

00:10:35.540 Yes, and enforce the law.

00:10:38.080 Well, I think the legislature needs to write that law so the Attorney General would know what to enforce and how to enforce it.

00:10:45.420 And they have not to this point.

00:10:47.440 So I think we'll wait and see what the legislature does.

00:10:51.240 But I would enforce any law that the legislature passed.

00:10:53.800 Well, I'm one of only two people that have filed the closed primary bill.

00:10:58.420 Look, this is important to me.

00:10:59.680 My first election in 2018, I'll never forget.

00:11:02.420 Knocking on a door in Lamarck, Texas.

00:11:05.120 This is in the General, November.

00:11:06.780 This is my list, who's voted in the Republican primary.

00:11:09.520 And I knock on the door and say, oh, I'm not a Republican.

00:11:11.580 I don't vote Republican.

00:11:12.700 Well, you did this March.

00:11:14.440 Oh, yeah, they paid me to vote for your opponent in the primary.

00:11:19.020 They're doing that to get more liberals elected.

00:11:22.160 And this is why this issue is so near and dear to my heart.

00:11:26.900 We've got to make sure that only conservatives are voting.

00:11:29.620 Why are we giving Democrats the opportunity to vote in our primary?

00:11:33.500 This doesn't make sense.

00:11:35.740 100% close the primaries.

00:11:38.320 Republican primaries should be for Republicans.

00:11:41.140 Not for liberals.

00:11:42.240 Not for Democrats.

00:11:43.600 Not for people who are coming into our party business to try and screw around with our elections

00:11:48.920 to choose our best Republicans.

00:11:51.620 That's our business.

00:11:52.600 I'm proud of the fact that Attorney General Paxson filed litigation in defense of the Republican

00:11:58.520 Party of Texas and against the Secretary of State in her defense of a facially unconstitutional 0.92

00:12:05.820 provision in the Texas Election Code that these two senators, well, maybe just one senator,

00:12:10.760 because I'll give May some credit here for trying to fix that. 1.00

00:12:13.720 But this is a First Amendment freedom of association issue.

00:12:17.500 This is not just quibbling over the words in a statute.

00:12:22.240 Our party has the right to freely associate with whomever we want.

00:12:26.340 It's a First Amendment issue.

00:12:28.440 And while I did a moment ago give May some credit for attempting to pass that law, even

00:12:34.580 if he had got it through, what no one on this stage has ever done is successfully litigate

00:12:40.920 First Amendment appeals or litigation at the district court or up to the U.S. or Texas Supreme

00:12:46.860 Court.

00:12:47.520 That's the issue.

00:12:48.780 Have you litigated First Amendment issues?

00:12:50.940 On this stage, I'm the only one, once again, the only one who has successfully done it.

00:12:56.240 And I'll continue to keep my foot on the gas in the same direction as Ken Paxton.

00:13:00.420 As Texas Attorney General, what will you do to push back against blue state overreach

00:13:05.360 and help protect carbon-based fuels like oil, gas, and coal to ensure that America leads

00:13:11.380 the world in energy production and that Americans have access to reliable and affordable energy?

00:13:17.020 Yeah, so defeating the Green New Scam has always been one of my top priorities because 1.00

00:13:22.180 that's really what it is.

00:13:23.440 This is about Texas' energy dominance.

00:13:26.060 What is keeping the lights on here tonight?

00:13:27.920 What kept the lights on during the freeze a few weeks ago?

00:13:31.340 It was oil and gas, hydrocarbons.

00:13:34.000 Energy density matters.

00:13:36.200 We don't need to be importing Chinese-made solar panels and Chinese-made wind turbines.

00:13:41.660 I've already fought the Green New Scam and won and passed a law this session to stop 1.00

00:13:47.680 wind farms up and down the Texas Gulf Coast.

00:13:51.280 And I'll add this as well.

00:13:52.400 You know, people always ask, what are we going to do with all the turbine blades that we're

00:13:56.260 not using right now?

00:13:57.700 Well, why don't we make them, send them down to the border and use them to finish the wall?

00:14:01.620 It'll be the first time the left has ever opposed recycling.

00:14:04.460 I promise you that.

00:14:05.780 But we've got to make sure we think outside the box here because this is our lifeblood.

00:14:10.140 It's what funds our schools, either through severance taxes, mineral tax, appraisals.

00:14:14.820 It's how the state has its surplus.

00:14:17.680 This is jobs.

00:14:18.500 It's millions of jobs.

00:14:19.660 It's opportunity.

00:14:20.660 And I teach my kids every single time I see a tanker go out the ship channel low in the

00:14:25.940 water.

00:14:26.500 That's America taking money from countries that hate us. 0.93

00:14:29.920 In 2015, as the first assistant attorney general, we were proud to work with West Virginia to

00:14:36.700 challenge the so-called Clean Power Plan.

00:14:40.420 And that was impressive and important litigation that was built upon the team that you develop

00:14:45.660 when you work together among attorneys general across multiple states.

00:14:49.580 And that's one of the important things that is so great about this organization.

00:14:52.780 The second thing that I think is important to know is you've got to be willing to stand

00:14:56.260 up and fight when it counts.

00:14:57.420 Last May, when the big, beautiful bill was moving forward, the Green News scam subsidies that

00:15:04.380 we were going to repeal and undo were being put back in by a handful of senators and members

00:15:10.980 of Congress.

00:15:12.200 Four of us in the budget committee stood up and said no.

00:15:15.620 And the entire world, all of the eyes were on us from the White House to the Speaker's office.

00:15:22.100 And we said no.

00:15:23.380 And we were able to get those Green News scam subsidy repeals put back in that bill.

00:15:28.740 You need someone who will stand up and fight when it counts, regardless of the arrows being

00:15:33.420 tossed at them.

00:15:34.100 I've been at the very cutting edge throughout the justice system, fighting against blue state 0.90

00:15:40.420 overreach and environmentalist activists.

00:15:43.080 When I was Attorney General Paxson's deputy, leading 46 lawsuits against the 46th president

00:15:49.140 and winning 85 percent of those lawsuits, a quarter of those lawsuits were on environmental

00:15:55.000 regulations, on what the Biden administration was trying to cram down on Texas to destroy our

00:16:01.060 oil and gas economy, to push the Green News scam on us, to push subsidies on us.

00:16:06.700 I know how to fight against these forces and win.

00:16:10.560 Not only did I do it as Paxson's deputy, but I also did it when I was a senior executive

00:16:16.100 at the Justice Department, when one of President Trump's very first executive orders was to roll

00:16:23.040 back the Biden-era environmental litigation that was oppressing oil and gas

00:16:30.900 exploration and production.

00:16:32.700 And as the head of the Office of Legal Policy, I worked with the Environment and Natural Resources

00:16:36.640 Division at DOJ to roll it back.

00:16:38.660 And as the next Attorney General, we are also going to turn our attention to the local environmentalists

00:16:44.520 that want to obscure local ordinances to stop exploration and production.

00:16:50.540 On my watch, we're going to drill baby drill. 0.93

00:16:52.960 Crime is a top concern for many Texans.

00:16:56.160 Would you use the Attorney General's office to investigate or challenge district attorneys

00:17:01.240 if their leniency appears to be contributing to rising violent crime, Mr. Reitz?

00:17:06.360 Totally.

00:17:07.660 Crime is spiking in Texas, in all of our big blue cities and our big blue counties.

00:17:13.700 We're talking right now in Dallas County, where this district attorney is one of the worst

00:17:18.660 in the state, if not the nation.

00:17:20.240 He is part of a network of Soros-funded district attorneys who are intentionally and maliciously

00:17:27.400 not prosecuting crimes, abusing their prosecutorial discretion, turning a blind eye, encouraging

00:17:34.220 light sentences, and our families and our communities are the victims of their malfeasance.

00:17:40.460 That is a violation of their oath.

00:17:42.740 It is a violation of state law.

00:17:44.540 It is a violation of the local ordinances and statutes to which they are bound.

00:17:50.080 As Attorney General, I have committed from day one that within the first month of taking

00:17:55.300 office, I will seek the removal of the Dallas County District Attorney, Travis County District

00:18:00.480 Attorney, and Harris County District Attorney, because I will not allow these awful leftist,

00:18:06.700 insurrectionist, communist, Soros-funded district attorneys turn Texas into something it never

00:18:12.340 was designed to be.

00:18:13.200 I was visiting with Crime Stoppers down in Houston a couple of weeks ago, and they told

00:18:16.680 me a statistic that should turn your head, and that is that there are 222 Houstonians

00:18:22.520 who have been murdered over the last seven years by multiple-time felons who were released

00:18:27.560 and back out on the streets in Houston.

00:18:29.720 That can't happen in Texas.

00:18:32.300 This is Texas.

00:18:34.020 And the fact is, we've got DAs and judges that are allowing it to happen.

00:18:38.180 So, of course, we should enforce the law, and we should make sure that DAs and judges are

00:18:42.400 held to account.

00:18:43.120 I think the legislature ought to give greater authority to the governor, like Governor DeSantis

00:18:46.980 has in Florida, to remove recalcitrant DAs and to have greater flexibility to do that.

00:18:52.400 And we ought to be able to do that to judges.

00:18:54.280 But importantly, I think the governor has been right when he's been talking about a state

00:18:57.660 prosecutorial function.

00:18:58.720 The Office of Attorney General has prosecutors' assistance.

00:19:02.560 But for a state the size of Texas, with the eighth biggest economy in the world with over

00:19:05.940 30 million people, we ought to be able to have a function and not have to rely on Department

00:19:10.080 of Justice as a backstop, but a state function to be able to make sure bad guys are in jail,

00:19:15.480 that gang members are in jail, that cartel members are in jail, and not on our streets

00:19:20.040 harassing the people of Texas. 0.61

00:19:21.480 Well, there's a reason why I've been endorsed by Texas Crime Victims United and all the major

00:19:26.600 law enforcement agencies in the state of Texas.

00:19:29.440 That's because I've been fighting this fight for a very long time, for almost 40 years now.

00:19:34.960 And recently in the Texas Senate, in the legislature, we finally got passed a major bail reform where

00:19:41.560 we can hold those violent offenders from multiple offenders who commit violent crimes without

00:19:47.360 bail.

00:19:47.760 So thank you for bringing that up, Congressman Roy.

00:19:50.860 And we've done other major things, but it's going to take time for all this to go into

00:19:55.600 place.

00:19:56.680 As far as the rogue prosecutors go, I wrote that bill.

00:20:00.040 That was the bill I wrote.

00:20:01.140 And it cannot be done on day one like some claim they're going to do or in the first month.

00:20:05.980 It is a process.

00:20:07.120 It's a constitutional and statutory process.

00:20:10.140 Are there bad DAs?

00:20:11.500 Yes.

00:20:11.860 But I will say the vast majority of the prosecutors in this state are great people who have their

00:20:19.220 constituents, a good will at heart, their best interests at heart.

00:20:24.340 I don't want us to ever forget that.

00:20:26.240 That's why this is so important.

00:20:27.760 Our laws, our constitution, those are not suggestions.

00:20:32.140 And any time a district attorney is treating it that way, which they are, right, they're

00:20:38.080 not prosecuting criminal trespass in Travis County, for example, the list goes on.

00:20:43.720 They have violated their oath of office because they were supposed to put their hand on the

00:20:47.920 Bible to protect and defend all of our laws, all of the constitution.

00:20:52.920 And when they're choosing not to do that, they're choosing to violate their oath and they

00:20:57.780 should be removed from office.

00:20:59.560 It is that simple.

00:21:00.620 They have disqualified themselves.

00:21:03.460 We also have to have that backup power to prosecute, right?

00:21:06.860 Because families are suffering.

00:21:09.060 Communities are suffering.

00:21:11.080 Children are suffering.

00:21:12.940 And I wholly support Governor Abbott's idea for a statewide prosecutor.

00:21:17.280 In addition, I would like to see for the AG be able to prosecute any violation of state

00:21:23.540 law, which would require a change in the legislature.

00:21:27.100 And I've been endorsed by 51 Trump-endorsed legislators.

00:21:30.760 I'm best equipped to make that happen.

00:21:32.860 Thank you.

00:21:33.480 Ali, if I could rebut Senator Huffman.

00:21:35.240 Sure, 30 seconds.

00:21:36.140 So this idea that I'm saying things that can't be done is exactly the sort of loser mentality

00:21:44.880 why Republicans often don't win.

00:21:48.140 I'm the only one on this stage who, in my position at both DOJ and as Paxson's deputy,

00:21:53.440 who has wielded the tools and the weapons of the law in creative ways, don't be fooled

00:22:00.120 by the kind of Republican that says, it can't be done.

00:22:03.980 We have to go through a process.

00:22:05.600 If you have the courage to get something done in the justice system, as Paxson has shown

00:22:10.220 us for over a decade, you can get it done.

00:22:12.200 Thank you.

00:22:12.440 And I am going to get it done.

00:22:13.660 Thank you so much.

00:22:14.460 Okay, welcome back.

00:22:16.420 I told you it was going to be good.

00:22:18.160 We're going to take a short break here in a moment.

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00:23:35.600 Why? Because the Texas attorney general, if you looked out the country, federal offices

00:23:40.520 and state offices, it's one of the most important offices in the country.

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00:23:44.900 Because Texas is so important to the MAGA movement.

00:23:47.500 And it's also been such a leader, given Ken Paxson.

00:23:50.060 Remember, Ken Paxson is now in, I think, the toughest and most controversial primary of

00:23:55.040 the, of this season, of this cycle.

00:23:57.600 And that's, he's running for the United States Senate against John Cornyn and Wesley Hunt

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00:24:04.380 One thing to keep in mind, in Texas, the primary rule is you have to get 50% plus one vote.

00:24:09.620 So in a three-way race, or it's actually a four-way race, you've got the, you've got

00:24:14.180 a person from the state Senate who's very prominent.

00:24:17.460 But in a four, three or four-way race, it's quite tough to get above the 50%.

00:24:21.100 That's why this debate was so important.

00:24:22.780 It is the one time that they really get to address the people of Texas.

00:24:27.580 And Texas is a nation unto itself.

00:24:29.540 It's 31 million people.

00:24:31.540 Geographically, it's massive.

00:24:33.080 It's got the eighth largest economy in the world.

00:24:35.460 It's essentially the size of a country.

00:24:38.400 It's not like running in one of the smaller states.

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00:31:39.740 As Texas goes, so goes the nation.

00:31:42.820 As the nation goes, so goes the world.

00:31:45.460 Are you prepared to fight for this state?

00:31:48.200 Are you prepared to fight for your country?

00:31:50.440 Okay, you can tell the intensity of this debate and plus the quality of the people.

00:32:00.900 Aaron Reitz, former Marine Corps officer, and endorsed by Ken Paxton.

00:32:06.180 Chip Roy, the former chief of staff of Ted Cruz, endorsed by Ted Cruz and Mays Middleton.

00:32:12.580 Or he calls himself Maga Mays.

00:32:13.920 He's endorsed by Governor Abbott.

00:32:16.400 You see the three different styles there.

00:32:18.200 Remember, for the folks in Texas, this is one of the most important positions in the country.

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00:32:27.340 The attorney general of the great state of Texas.

00:32:29.920 Think of what Ken Paxton has done.

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00:32:35.020 He'll be great in the United States Senate.

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00:32:48.600 Just given the size of the economy, the folks down here, particularly the intensity, how it's the railhead of the Maga movement.

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00:34:30.740 So, don't be fooled when Chip tells you that he was Paxton's chief deputy and he wants to cite his record there.

00:34:37.460 Remember, he was so ineffective, so bad at serving as Paxton's deputy that Paxton fired him.

00:34:45.600 Now, that's not often covered in the media, but I hope that the media pool does their due diligence because they will realize that even though he wants to cite that experience, it was so bad he shouldn't be running on it today.

00:34:57.160 Congressman, would you like to respond?

00:34:58.640 30 seconds.

00:34:59.120 Well, that's simply not true, but I know someone who both of us work for that's endorsed me, and that's Senator Ted Cruz.

00:35:06.640 And he has put his full confidence in me to serve as the Attorney General of Texas, Ted having served as Solicitor General for this great state.

00:35:17.820 He knows what is necessary in that office, and I'm proud to have his full support and endorsement.

00:35:23.560 So, what specific steps would you take as Texas Attorney General to stop the CCP from infiltrating, to take control over Texas land, and doing other things that might make Texas a foothold for their influence in the United States?

00:35:38.020 Thank you, Attorney General Kobach.

00:35:39.880 Mr. Reitz.

00:35:40.560 While Sharia is the greatest civilizational threat that we're confronting right now, China and its ruling Chinese Communist Party is the greatest geopolitical threat that we're facing right now. 0.98

00:35:54.760 And they are reaching out the tentacles of its red dragon directly into Texas.

00:36:00.580 They want to exploit us.

00:36:02.620 They want to undermine us.

00:36:04.460 They want to demoralize us, and they want to do it at a high dollar value.

00:36:08.800 I'm proud that Texas has banned the incursion of the CCP into land sales, critical infrastructure, and important technologies.

00:36:18.760 I'm also proud of the fact that Attorney General Paxton is already leading the way and showing what it looks like to muster the full weight of the Attorney General's office,

00:36:29.860 to investigate the pushers of CCP spy technologies, and is actively litigating against them.

00:36:36.600 If we want to continue that fight, you need Paxton's endorsed successor to do that.

00:36:43.180 And you need someone who just came from the Justice Department to partner with the federal resources to make it a full frontal assault on the CCP.

00:36:51.920 Thank you.

00:36:52.240 The red dragon's head is getting chopped off on my watch.

00:36:54.280 In 2019, as a freshman member of Congress, I talked to my staff about how ridiculous it was that we weren't stopping the CCP from owning land,

00:37:05.020 and not just within 100 miles of military bases, but generally.

00:37:07.880 So I introduced legislation to ban ownership of lands by the Chinese Communist Party or anybody affiliated with it.

00:37:13.400 Now, everybody at the time said, well, that's awfully aggressive.

00:37:15.740 What are you doing that for?

00:37:16.500 Because we should.

00:37:17.980 And it matters if you leave.

00:37:20.020 It was the first bill that was put out there.

00:37:22.460 It was the first bill to get traction.

00:37:24.600 And then we were able to get some legislation and some of our funding bills, and states took action subsequent to that.

00:37:31.460 But also remember the importance of standing up when it matters, when there's a lot of pressure against you.

00:37:36.560 For example, standing up on TikTok.

00:37:38.580 It mattered that some of us in Congress stood up and said, no, the Chinese Communist Party is not going to be able to comb over all of the information and the data collected on our children and use it by virtue of TikTok.

00:37:53.360 So now we've gotten some reforms in place.

00:37:55.040 And by the way, I think we need to go further.

00:37:56.660 We need to review all that's been happening with the deal making.

00:37:59.120 But it's important that we look at the corporations, the corporate ownership.

00:38:02.420 And by the way, it's not just the Chinese Communist Party.

00:38:04.860 I don't know why any foreign nationals, frankly, are able to own American land. 0.99

00:38:08.720 And we should go further.

00:38:09.980 Senator Huffman.

00:38:11.180 Well, I would agree with you that definitely the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese threat to America, to Texas, and to your state. 1.00

00:38:20.580 And so recently in the Texas legislature, Senator Kulkors, I joint-authored the bill with her,

00:38:25.720 passed one of the strongest bills in the country against disallowing foreign ownership of state land, of land in Texas.

00:38:37.080 And it gave significant authority to the Attorney General to enforce that.

00:38:42.560 And that's great.

00:38:43.540 And I would certainly follow up with that.

00:38:45.220 But I think it's so new to us that we need to dive in.

00:38:49.720 We need to do an assessment of what's out there.

00:38:52.280 Because I don't think we really know, right?

00:38:54.440 It's been going on, to your point, for so long.

00:38:57.040 We need to do work with the land commissioner's office, look through the data, figure out who owns what and where,

00:39:03.560 and do a serious assessment as Texans so that we have that information and then go about the procedures that have been put in place by the legislature to actually enforce this law.

00:39:15.620 Senator Middleton.

00:39:16.840 This is a national security issue.

00:39:19.040 And they mean us harm.

00:39:21.660 That law did not pass in 2023, by the way.

00:39:24.280 And I'll never forget getting phone calls in my office saying, I'm afraid to show up and testify for this bill stopping China from buying our land because of what could happen to our family back in China.

00:39:36.240 Does that not show you we're on the right side of this?

00:39:39.320 But not only that, we found out that WeChat, which is a Beijing-based social media company, was interfering with that law, trying to stop it, organizing the opposition through Gene Wu,

00:39:51.440 who's actually in the Texas House, working with mainland China.

00:39:55.560 They mean us harm, and they interfered with the Texas legislative process.

00:39:59.880 But I was on that conference committee.

00:40:01.680 We got it done this time, and there was something very important I wanted in there.

00:40:05.360 And that was to make sure that the AG has the power to bring an action to force them to divest of this real property, not just land, minerals, water, timbers.

00:40:16.320 The list goes on.

00:40:17.380 And it's an in-rim action that we have to have, and I will enforce, to make sure these enemy entities do not buy Texas out from underneath us.

00:40:27.240 It is that simple.

00:40:29.140 This is Texas First.

00:40:30.280 Crime is a top concern for many Texans.

00:40:33.920 Would you use the Attorney General's office to investigate or challenge district attorneys if their leniency appears to be contributing to rising violent crime?

00:40:42.680 Mr. Reitz.

00:40:43.860 Totally.

00:40:44.300 Crime is spiking in Texas, in all of our big blue cities, and our big blue counties.

00:40:50.640 We're talking right now in Dallas County, where this district attorney is one of the worst in the state, if not the nation.

00:40:57.560 He is part of a network of Soros-funded district attorneys who are intentionally and maliciously not prosecuting crimes, abusing their prosecutorial discretion, turning a blind eye, encouraging light sentences, and our families and our communities are the victims of their malfeasance.

00:41:16.980 That is a violation of their oath.

00:41:20.320 It is a violation of state law.

00:41:23.320 Of the local ordinances and statutes to which they are bound.

00:41:26.660 As Attorney General, I have committed from day one that within the first month of taking office, I will seek the removal of the Dallas County District Attorney, Travis County District Attorney, and Harris County District Attorney.

00:41:39.660 Because I will not allow these awful leftist, insurrectionist, communist Soros-funded district attorneys turn Texas into something it never was designed to be. 0.99

00:41:50.500 I was visiting with Crime Stoppers down in Houston a couple weeks ago, and they told me a statistic that should turn your head, and that is that there are 222 Houstonians who have been murdered over the last seven years by multiple-time felons who were released and back out on the streets in Houston.

00:42:06.960 That can't happen in Texas.

00:42:09.620 This is Texas.

00:42:11.360 And the fact is, we've got DAs and judges that are allowing it to happen.

00:42:15.440 So, of course, we should enforce the law, and we should make sure that DAs and judges are held to account.

00:42:20.240 I think the legislature ought to give greater authority to the governor, like Governor DeSantis has in Florida, to remove recalcitrant DAs and to have greater flexibility to do that.

00:42:29.720 And we ought to be able to do that to judges.

00:42:31.600 But importantly, I think the governor has been right when he's been talking about a state prosecutorial function.

00:42:36.680 The Office of Attorney General has prosecutor's assistance.

00:42:39.780 But for a state the size of Texas, with the eighth biggest economy in the world with over 30 million people, we ought to be able to have a function and not have to rely on Department of Justice as a backstop,

00:42:48.600 but a state function to be able to make sure bad guys are in jail, that gang members are in jail, that cartel members are in jail, and not on our streets harassing the people of Texas.

00:42:59.080 Well, there's a reason why I've been endorsed by Texas Crime Victims United and all the major law enforcement agencies in the state of Texas.

00:43:06.600 That's because I've been fighting this fight for a very long time, for almost 40 years now.

00:43:12.280 And recently in the Texas Senate, in the legislature, we finally got passed a major bail reform where we can hold those violent offenders from multiple offenders who commit violent crimes without bail.

00:43:25.220 So thank you for bringing that up, Congressman Roy.

00:43:27.340 And we've done other major things, but it's going to take time for all this to go into place.

00:43:33.960 As far as the rogue prosecutors go, I wrote that bill.

00:43:37.340 That was the bill I wrote.

00:43:38.460 And it cannot be done on day one like some claim they're going to do or in the first month.

00:43:43.280 It is a process.

00:43:44.440 It's a constitutional and statutory process.

00:43:47.380 Are there bad DAs?

00:43:48.660 Yes, but I will say the vast majority of the prosecutors in this state are great people who have their constituents, good will at heart, their best interests at heart.

00:44:01.660 I don't want us to ever forget that.

00:44:03.560 That's why this is so important.

00:44:05.080 Our laws, our constitution, those are not suggestions.

00:44:09.460 And any time a district attorney is treating it that way, which they are, right, they're not prosecuting criminal trespass in Travis County, for example, the list goes on.

00:44:20.600 They have violated their oath of office because they were supposed to put their hand on the Bible to protect and defend all of our laws, all of the constitution.

00:44:30.340 And when they're choosing not to do that, they're choosing to violate their oath and they should be removed from office.

00:44:36.960 It is that simple.

00:44:37.940 They have disqualified themselves.

00:44:40.780 We also have to have that backup power to prosecute, right?

00:44:44.180 Because families are suffering.

00:44:46.380 Communities are suffering.

00:44:48.400 Children are suffering.

00:44:50.260 And I wholly support Governor Abbott's idea for a statewide prosecutor.

00:44:54.600 In addition, I would like to see for the AG be able to prosecute any violation of state law, which would require a change in the legislature.

00:45:04.420 And I've been endorsed by 51 Trump-endorsed legislators.

00:45:08.080 I'm best equipped to make that happen.

00:45:10.180 Thank you.

00:45:10.800 Ali, if I could rebut Senator Huffman.

00:45:12.560 Sure, 30 seconds.

00:45:13.460 So this idea that I'm saying things that can't be done is exactly the sort of loser mentality why Republicans often don't win.

00:45:25.460 I'm the only one on this stage who, in my position at both DOJ and as Paxson's deputy, who has wielded the tools and the weapons of the law in creative ways.

00:45:35.960 Don't be fooled by the kind of Republican that says, it can't be done.

00:45:41.320 We have to go through a process.

00:45:42.920 If you have the courage to get something done in the justice system, as Paxson has shown us for over a decade, you can get it done.

00:45:49.520 Thank you.

00:45:49.720 And I am going to get it done.

00:45:50.980 Thank you so much.

00:45:51.500 Despite her misgivings.

00:45:52.240 Well, thank you for the question.

00:46:20.800 I am proud to have the endorsement of Chloe Cole.

00:46:25.260 Chloe, I got to know when she came to testify about the brutal treatment that was levied against her.

00:46:32.280 It's the first time I've seen significant members of Congress in the dais breaking down in tears on the testimony of someone coming before them.

00:46:40.700 And the fact is, I've sat down with Chloe to understand what we can do.

00:46:44.480 And we need to have aggressive legislation and aggressive defense of our laws in the state of Texas.

00:46:51.540 The state of Texas has taken action.

00:46:54.080 I'm not sure if it's far enough.

00:46:55.840 But I want to address something here.

00:46:57.900 I've been criticized for allegedly not being strong enough on this issue, despite supporting legislation, to remove funding and to stop these terrible procedures.

00:47:06.740 And they're grotesque.

00:47:08.520 I stood up to try to improve legislation in December that is currently dead in the United States Senate.

00:47:14.960 And to make it something that we could pass with a funding string, rather than what my opponents want to criticize me for.

00:47:23.520 The truth matters.

00:47:24.880 And I've stood up alongside those victims.

00:47:26.880 And I will do it as Attorney General.

00:47:28.180 This is child abuse, period.

00:47:29.800 It's that simple.

00:47:30.640 And the left is coming for our kids.

00:47:33.140 That is why I've been fighting my entire career to protect them from this evil practice.

00:47:39.060 And that's what it really is.

00:47:40.300 This is evil.

00:47:41.160 They're mutilating children.

00:47:42.780 And they're fighting to do it.

00:47:44.300 And they're willing to resort to violence, to perpetrate this on our most innocent.

00:47:49.800 And Texas banned child transgender surgeries.

00:47:53.780 And since I was referenced earlier, I will address this.

00:47:56.760 There was a bill in Congress.

00:47:58.460 And it banned it outright.

00:47:59.400 It was a very strong bill.

00:48:00.460 Chip Roy had an amendment that would have allowed it to continue.

00:48:03.560 It would have rewarded the transgender lobby. 0.99

00:48:05.620 It would have rewarded Gavin Newsom and allowed these private transgender surgeries to continue in those blue states. 0.98

00:48:13.740 And it was under a state's rights argument.

00:48:15.420 I'm sorry.

00:48:16.140 There is no right to hurt a child.

00:48:18.400 No right to hurt a child.

00:48:19.840 Additionally, we need to make sure that we ban this completely.

00:48:23.760 And I've been fighting against evil.

00:48:26.660 I'm not just fighting against taxpayer-funded evil.

00:48:29.200 And that's what his amendment would have done.

00:48:31.280 And it's why Terry Schilling, who runs APP, said there was no greater ally to the transgender lobby than Chip Roy.

00:48:37.640 Yeah, I'm glad that the Texas legislature has banned these sorts of monstrous procedures.

00:48:43.420 But that couldn't have happened but for Attorney General Paxton and I providing the legal framework to give the lines within which the legislature colored. 0.94

00:48:55.480 I'm proud of the fact that I was the lead author under Attorney General Ken Paxton's opinion that defined unequivocally these trans procedures as child abuse under the Texas Family Code. 0.95

00:49:08.520 Once we provided the legislature with that guidance, they finally acted.

00:49:14.220 Now, I hope that I get a minute in rebuttal to say this too.

00:49:17.540 Mays is exactly right about Chip.

00:49:19.800 Chip did what exactly President Trump described about him, which was to make a mountain out of a molehill, to grandstand, to make nothing out of an issue.

00:49:29.100 Why?

00:49:30.220 Only to concede ground to the trans lobby.

00:49:33.440 That's Chip Roy.

00:49:34.020 Congressman, would you like to respond?

00:49:35.800 30 seconds.

00:49:37.720 So the legislation in question was authored by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was leaving Congress two weeks later and who has since gone on a tirade attacking President Trump. 0.62

00:49:45.700 The fact of the matter is that legislation is dead.

00:49:48.220 It is dead in the United States Senate, and it will not do any of the things that my opponents say it will do because it won't become law.

00:49:54.980 The fact of the matter is, we had an amendment that was supported by a significant number of Republicans that would have stopped these grotesque procedures for being funded with taxpayer funds.

00:50:04.400 And it is amazing to listen to Republican attorneys general candidates standing up saying they want massive federal laws to step over the state of Texas.

00:50:13.600 That is a new frontier.

00:50:14.520 Well, it's been great being here tonight.

00:50:17.140 I think, I hope that everyone's had an opportunity to see a little bit of differences in the candidates.

00:50:23.240 You know my background, ground prosecutor, judge, conservative state senator.

00:50:27.820 But I'll tell you a little bit more personally about me.

00:50:30.200 I'm a woman of faith, and I stand firm in my faith.

00:50:33.380 I'm a happily married woman to the love of my life.

00:50:36.760 I'm the proud mother of a 28-year-old attorney son who is in the active military serving as a lawyer in the JAG.

00:50:48.280 I've worked very hard all my life.

00:50:52.240 Because I've worked hard, because I've been effective, because I have real results, I have strong support from law enforcement, from prosecutors, from the victims' organizations across the state.

00:51:04.620 They know me, they know Joan, they know that I will fight with every breath of my being to make Texas safe and strong.

00:51:14.640 And you can count on me to do that.

00:51:16.380 I ask for your vote.

00:51:17.460 Thank you.

00:51:18.200 I'm in this for one reason, and that's to win for the people of Texas.

00:51:23.720 I'm not a trust fund kid spending my family's money.

00:51:27.600 I didn't get a precious Senate-confirmed slot, spend 70 days in the administration so I could ladder climb back home in Texas.

00:51:38.740 What I did do is survive cancer 15 years ago when I was diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgkin's lymphoma.

00:51:43.920 And when I got through the other side of that, through the faith in God and through the love of my wife and family, I promised my kids, I promised my wife, that I would leave it all on the battlefield to try to save this great state and this great nation.

00:52:00.120 We cannot lose Texas.

00:52:02.580 We cannot lose Texas or we lose America.

00:52:05.100 We need an attorney general who will put it all out there, who has a demonstrated track record of success, who is independent and strong, willing to work with this administration and willing to fight for the people of Texas.

00:52:21.000 That's why I'm asking the people of Texas for their vote.

00:52:23.640 The first time I ever swore an oath to the U.S. Constitution was as a brand new second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.

00:52:30.440 I was 22 years old, my hair sadly fast approaching its current state, and I raised my right hand and I said,

00:52:37.700 I, Aaron Reitz, do solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:52:45.520 The next time that I swore that oath was in the West Wing, with my wife and four kids on my left and the Attorney General of the United States on my right.

00:52:52.720 And I raised my hand and I said the exact same oath.

00:52:55.360 Now, as a younger man, I primarily thought about the foreign threats to our Constitution, and I lived it as somebody who deployed to the Helmand province of Afghanistan. 0.78

00:53:04.560 But I have come to fully appreciate that today the primary threats that we are facing are the domestic enemies of the Constitution,

00:53:12.800 and they are fighting a vicious war against us in the justice system.

00:53:17.600 We need an Attorney General who is battle-tested, who is proven, who's been endorsed by Paxton to succeed him,

00:53:25.420 to wage war and win on behalf of our conservative, Republican, Christian, Texas, and American values.

00:53:32.020 And that's Aaron Reitz for Attorney General.

00:53:33.920 Well, you know what? Let me respond to that.

00:53:35.700 What we don't need is someone as an Attorney General like Chip Roy,

00:53:38.780 that has spent 10 years fighting President Trump, defending Liz Cheney, calling us MAGA-effers,

00:53:45.820 and we could kiss his you-know-what-if we didn't like it.

00:53:48.600 We can't afford that in the AG's office.

00:53:51.620 And look, that's why I'm running here to defend Texas and defeat the left.

00:53:57.780 That's why we showed up tonight.

00:53:59.540 And there's a reason why I'm the only one that's been protested in this AG's race.

00:54:04.260 There's a reason why they've threatened my life and my family's life.

00:54:09.100 There's a reason why the two Democrats that are leading in the AG's race can only talk about me.

00:54:14.440 They keep saying, let's stop this MAGA-Mays guy. 0.52

00:54:17.060 We can't let him win.

00:54:18.640 And not only that, they're saying the number one law that they will not enforce is the Texas Women's Privacy Law.

00:54:25.740 Why are they doing that?

00:54:27.300 Because the left knows who their true enemy is in this race.

00:54:32.080 I am already defeating the left.

00:54:35.420 That is why we're here tonight.

00:54:37.120 And I'm not retreating from Washington, D.C.

00:54:39.400 because I'm never going to Washington, D.C.

00:54:42.440 I have always known that the fight is here.

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Bannon's War Room - February 18, 2026

WarRoom Battleground EP 951： Breakdown Of The Texas Attorney General Debate

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