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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show, March 4th, 2026.
00:04:34.000Ken Paxton keeps winning and winning by a sizable majority.
00:04:38.000Now, I'm not saying that if you put Cornyn up against Talrico, that Cornyn wouldn't get maybe a percentage point more or a percentage point and a half.
00:04:46.000But then you get this senator that's good for nothing in the U.S. Senate.
00:04:52.000He's proven he can win statewide again and again and again.
00:04:55.000They always throw the same attack lines at him.
00:04:57.000He's absolutely capable of winning the general against.
00:05:02.000Well, that is the more important thing because the candidate on the Democrat side, I think we were all hoping we would get to go against Jasmine Crockett.
00:05:11.000We all have found her highly entertaining.
00:05:13.000She's given us a lot of enjoyment over the years.
00:05:17.000But Jasmine Crockett's somewhat long shot primary bid where she opened with a video of President Trump calling her an idiot while sitting there has fallen.
00:05:29.000We should bid farewell for her with one final video, I think, which is her coming out and saying that the primary was rigged by the Republicans.
00:05:37.000We will note primaries in Texas are just run by the parties themselves.
00:05:42.000So I guess the Republicans infiltrated the Democrat Party and just set it all up.
00:05:47.000We will bid her farewell with one last cry of racism for 71.
00:05:55.000We encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient.
00:05:59.000We cannot allow this type of behavior to be rewarded because so long as they know that they can win, even if it means cheating, then they will continue to do it.
00:07:57.000When we know, because he tells you himself, he embraces all of the worst, most radical policies of the Democratic Party.
00:08:05.000Like we have Gavin Newsom coming out and sort of signaling, we should maybe chill out on the transgender stuff, guys, when this guy is going out and saying stuff like this, $4.95.
00:08:16.000God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.
00:09:19.000I believe Christianity points to the truth.
00:09:21.000I also think other religions of love point to the same truth.
00:09:24.000I think of different religious traditions as different languages.
00:09:27.000So you and I could sit here and debate what to call this cup.
00:09:30.000And you could call it a cup in English.
00:09:32.000You'd call it something else in Spanish and French.
00:09:35.000But we are all talking about the same reality.
00:09:37.000I believe Jesus Christ reveals that reality to us, but I also think that other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways with their own symbol structures.
00:09:45.000And I've learned more about my tradition by learning more about Buddhism and Hinduism and Islam and Judaism.
00:09:52.000And so I see these beautiful faith traditions as circling the same truth about the universe, about the cosmos.
00:09:58.000And that truth is inherently a mystery.
00:10:34.000Left-wing Christianity is an extraordinary intellectual exercise because you can see there, James Talrico is twisting himself into ideological and intellectual knots, trying to carve a way out for a progressive to relate to what he's saying so that they don't think he's a bigot, you know, not like all us MAGA Bible thumpers.
00:10:57.000And it's designed, progressive Christianity, to blot out all the aspects of the faith that don't align with the Democrat Party platform.
00:11:06.000Said another way, they put their own ideologies, their own wants, their own appetites ahead of the commandments of God in scripture.
00:11:16.000And that's why it's completely unrecognizable to your average Christian, to your average evangelical, to your average Catholic, to your average Orthodox.
00:11:24.000And this is a verse for James Talrico.
00:11:30.000For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
00:11:44.000And that's what you're seeing with progressive Christians like James Talrico.
00:11:48.000I feel like we're going to need a sustained investigation to find out how many coexist bumper stickers James Tallarigo has bustered on his car, on his computers, on various paraphernalia throughout his life.
00:12:05.000Well, and listen, to make a further point, this is how James Tallrico uses scripture in his Christian faith and going to seminary, of course.
00:12:14.000Because no, seminaries are progressive, of course.
00:12:24.000Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too.
00:12:30.000Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol.
00:12:35.000And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that too.
00:12:38.000So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchy.
00:13:11.000He preaches that Christ is the Savior and the only, you know, is the way the truth, you know, the way and the truth of life, and that God is the only God.
00:13:18.000And for that, he is executed according to Christian tradition.
00:13:59.000Well, when you water down scripture and when you put your own intellect and your own ideologies and your own political platform ahead of what scripture says, well, that's false teaching and it's extremely dangerous.
00:14:53.000As Christians, we have to be especially alert when they put these fake Christians in front of you and they say, oh, you know, he loves Jesus too.
00:15:01.000And when they're preaching something that is really evil, when he is preaching literal child sacrifice in a supposed church, that is honestly far worse and far more sinister than if he was just a non-religious Democrat.
00:17:29.000The whole thing from cradle to grave is just incredible.
00:17:34.000That's the best description I can have: that we had a leader who was finally, after 40 years, willing to take the political risk to stand up to this repressive regime that has been killing our people, attacking our partners in the region, attacking us in cyber and with phonetic activities in Iraq and Yemen.
00:17:57.000Then, the actions of our military, a real testament to the long-term investments, the long-term commitment, the professionalism of our military, and the capability and capacity of our military to come in here in a matter of days and really obliterate their integrated air defense system, their ability to project power.
00:18:24.000And then, most important, as you've noted, the strategy and what this means.
00:18:28.000This changes the geopolitical content of the world as we know it right now.
00:18:34.000We've removed one of the axis of evil that everyone's acknowledged for the last three or four decades.
00:18:41.000So, it's just incredible in every way.
00:18:44.000So, I want to play this clip from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talking about kind of the initial volley and return fire that we saw from Iran.
00:18:54.000He talks about it as a scripted play, like a football team.
00:18:59.000But I liken Iran's predicament to a football team who scripted the first 20 plays of a game.
00:19:06.000The team knew what plays to run because their first few drives were scripted.
00:19:11.000But now that the game has started and the blitz is on, they don't know what plays to call, let alone how to get in the huddle and call those plays.
00:19:24.000The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.
00:19:34.000Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive.
00:19:42.000The Iranian Air Force is no more built for 1996, destroyed in 2026.
00:19:48.000The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
00:19:52.000So, now this, I mean, all of this is amazing.
00:19:55.000And Pete Hegseth basically said that, you know, their air defense is about, we're about to command the skies over Iran in a day or two, less than a week.
00:20:04.000But then the question then, sir, becomes: how long does this take?
00:20:10.000Because we are seeing the concerns, Admiral, about missile stockpiles.
00:20:16.000Does the U.S. have enough for this to go weeks, months on end?
00:20:22.000Can we win that war of attrition with whatever Iran's built up?
00:20:26.000That's a concern I'm seeing a lot of people have.
00:20:28.000And we are seeing, for example, people are betting money on this sort of thing.
00:20:33.000The prediction markets say there's only about a 40% chance that the regime falls by July.
00:20:39.000Can the U.S. sustain this if the fight is going into April, May, the summer?
00:21:33.000As long as they pose no threat and we've defanged them, which we're doing now, and as I said previously, we could will be at that tipping point now.
00:21:42.000We could take all the time in the world to eviscerate the leaders and those people who want to continue to project this ideology of radical Islam being a legitimate form of government to repress its people and threaten others in the region and us and our allies.
00:22:02.000So time becomes irrelevant in that mind.
00:22:05.000So we have plenty of time to sustain that for whatever it takes.
00:22:09.000And I think back to your timeline, June and July, once we've eviscerated that and focused capacity and capability on the IRGC, you're going to see a lot more people turning.
00:22:21.000They're going to have to make that choice.
00:22:23.000Do I want to live and be a part of the future or am I willing to sacrifice my life for losing cause that has been proven to be illegitimate?
00:22:32.000So that's where I think this thing only accelerates.
00:22:35.000So this June and sustainment, I think that's a red herring.
00:22:40.000And so you're also a member of the Iran Policy Project at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
00:22:47.000So one of the things that's striking about this is you've seen, at least in America, but really around the world, you've seen Jews and Iranians celebrating in the streets together, which I think is a really, I mean, you wouldn't necessarily see that or predict to see that.
00:23:55.000And I've been in LA a few months ago where I attended a bar mitzvah.
00:24:00.000There were more Persians and Iranians than there were Jews in that bar mitzvah.
00:24:04.000So this ideology is what's made this whole regime so perverse.
00:24:09.000They flipped that on the head and made him their enemy and a threat as well as us.
00:24:14.000And the Iranian people have come to realize it's all a lie and facade.
00:24:19.000So again, back to this flipping the regime.
00:24:22.000Once we've decimated the ability to project power and can go after using signal intelligence, human intelligence, space assets, and can track and watch people not only to finish and fix them, but to identify them to the opposition groups so they can be targeted internally.
00:24:44.000And a few of those start occurring, you're going to watch these guys turn very quickly or leave the country if they can.
00:24:52.000So I think when you've got a nation of 90 million people where they've spoken very loudly, they've been on the streets protesting and were murdered, they're ready to hold these people accountable and act against them.
00:25:05.000And so again, I think that timeline can move much quicker than people realize.
00:25:10.000And do we have, have we, you know, I'm looking here at Iranininternational.com, and there's a note here that I logged.
00:25:19.000It says the IRGC is also reportedly deeply concerned that once daylight breaks on Sunday, people across various parts of the country may take to the streets, potentially triggering a new wave of gatherings and protests.
00:25:30.000Have you heard anything on your end about a potential new wave of protests, people taking to the streets, or is it too early to tell?
00:25:57.000You'd have to be a blind man not to see it coming.
00:26:00.000The day of reckoning for this regime and those who stood with it, willing to murder the people of Iran is coming much quicker than people realize.
00:26:10.000So this tipping point can occur almost any day now.
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00:28:43.000But we hope and pray for the safety of our troops, for the success of our troops, and that this will ultimately prove to be a good thing for the world.
00:28:50.000Now, you may have disagreed with this going on.
00:28:53.000By the way, Blake, Blake is going to pull emails.
00:29:03.000I feel like we've done our best on this show to talk about how we think Charlie would have reacted to the buildup to this war and the outbreak of it.
00:29:10.000And I feel a sign that we're hopefully getting it right is we have competing emails that say we are betraying Charlie by being too supportive of the president.
00:29:21.000And we are betraying Charlie by being too critical of the lead up to the war and that we are skeptical of it.
00:29:28.000So do you think that's about the position you're doing?
00:29:31.000Yeah, that was exactly Charlie's experience when it came to these things.
00:29:35.000But a couple cool things have happened, actually, just and cool in the sense that, like, listen, I love our military.
00:29:42.000There's nothing that is going to make me not love the military.
00:30:49.000Yeah, the first time for decades they've trained for this, and they're finally going into action.
00:30:56.000And listen, that is a huge, huge deal.
00:30:59.000Taking out the naval capabilities of the Iranians frees up the Strait of Hormuz.
00:31:04.000So just to reiterate, about 20% of the world's energy flows through the Strait, and 14 to 15% of all world trade flows through the strait.
00:31:12.000Part of President Trump was saying what his specific objectives are with this conflict, and it was remove the Supreme Leader, remove their nuclear program, and sink their Navy.
00:31:21.000These are explicit objectives he has stated.
00:31:24.000So it takes us closer to achieving those objectives that this happened.
00:31:31.000We want consistently from this administration, we want to see signs that they know what their objectives are and are working towards them.
00:31:39.000And what you want to avoid are signs of a conflict becoming open-ended, becoming unclear, just we will fight until victory without saying what that is.
00:31:48.000This is a story that we need to get to here.
00:31:51.000And so CNN yesterday was reporting that the CIA is working to arm Kurdish forces.
00:31:58.000This was reported, the lead reporter on this was Natasha Bertrand, who you will know from the 50 former Intel officials believe that Hunter's laptop laptop is disinformation.
00:32:16.000Natasha Bertrand is notorious for basically publishing press releases from deep state intel operatives.
00:32:24.000This was a story that was leaked, meaning that, in my opinion, the people that leaked it are trying to harm the president.
00:32:32.000So here's CNN trying to explain this 470.
00:32:36.000We spent some time this evening with a senior Iranian Kurdish politician who basically told us that he the expectation among Iraqi, sorry,
00:32:49.000Kurdish-Iranian opposition forces is that they will be going into western Iran as part of some kind of a ground operation over the course or at some point during the next few days that they will have support from the U.S. and from Israel, though he would not be drawn as to what exactly that support will look like.
00:33:13.000He also told us that President Trump himself had called the leader of the KDPI, which is one of these Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, today and that they had what he categorized as a characterized, I should say, as a positive constitution.
00:34:15.000We encouraged them to launch an uprising against Saddam Hussein.
00:34:20.000And they were gassed by Saddam Hussein before the Gulf War.
00:34:25.000After the Gulf War, we encouraged both Kurds and Shia Muslims in Iraq to rise up against Saddam.
00:34:32.000But we didn't support them directly, so they were suppressed.
00:34:36.000And they've also been heavily involved in the Syrian civil war.
00:34:39.000So I would find it pretty plausible if we were in communication with them to have some sort of on-the-ground presence in Iran because President Trump, we know, doesn't want U.S. troops there.
00:34:50.000But I would voice a note of concern here, which is once you're kind of bringing in these ethnic militias, we have seen how that can end, which is you're turning a conflict into an ethnic civil war.
00:35:15.000So, these are part of the unintended consequences of regime change that we have talked about.
00:35:22.000We don't want our message, we don't want it to be possible for the Iranian regime to say President Trump is trying to dismember Iran as a country.
00:35:32.000That will make it so the Iran, you know, the Iranians themselves, the Persians, who are the main ethnic group there, would be more likely to rally around the regime if it's going to say they're going to break apart our country.
00:35:43.000Yeah, the hope is that within Iran itself, if you start seeing these street protests take action, if you start seeing command and control breakdown within the IRGC and the Quds force, and obviously the naval apparatus has been dismantled, you want to see a natural sort of takeover.
00:36:01.000The question is: what is it going to take?
00:36:03.000I think it would be helpful if the admin probably said overtly, we promise to not take apart Iran.
00:36:09.000That they're not going to be able to do it.
00:36:31.000Charlie believed in finding good people and connecting them with other good people that he cared about.
00:36:35.000When someone truly took care of him, Charlie would never hesitate to recommend them.
00:36:39.000Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakin were two of those people.
00:36:42.000They personally helped Charlie and Erica with their mortgage needs, and Charlie trusted them completely.
00:36:46.000Whether it was a home buyer trying to qualify or someone needing to consolidate debt or see if they could get a lower rate and payments, these were the guys Charlie sent people to.
00:39:06.000Are you seeing people gathering in the square, in the quad?
00:39:11.000What kind of activities are you seeing this manifest in?
00:39:14.000I'm mostly seeing things through online platforms, people on Instagram or Twitter just, you know, really going in at President Trump and being upset that gas prices might go up and forever war.
00:39:31.000Like people really, really do not want boots on the ground in this circumstance.
00:39:35.000Are you seeing that even from people that you know voted for Trump in 2024?
00:39:40.000Or is it more, is it still mostly from people you know would be left-wing regardless?
00:39:45.000I think the idea of starting a new foreign war is really, even for Trump voters, really deterring people from wanting to align with the administration and their actions.
00:39:57.000I can't speak for everyone, but I've definitely seen those opinions on campus.
00:40:21.000And I mean, listen, you know, we've gotten a lot of emails from our audience that are upset that we're not, I guess, more full-throated in our support of the war.
00:40:30.000And this is a big reason why is because, you know, Charlie was very in tune with Gen Z.
00:40:36.000He visited college campuses at turning point.
00:40:39.000That's all we do is work with students.
00:40:40.000And I can tell you that the vibe on college campuses, even on high school campuses, that young people do not want to go to war.
00:40:48.000They want to focus here on domestic issues, affordability, college, that sort of thing.
00:41:00.000So that's a big reason why we're always a little reticent when we see this penchant for starting wars in the Middle East.
00:41:08.000could end up being the absolute right decision from a national security perspective, but it does come with political costs and we need to be honest about those.
00:41:16.000Thank you guys for being honest about those.
00:42:23.000I think that a lot of students these days go into college with the expectation that the degree is the objective when, you know, college is really supposed to be for finding your life's work.
00:42:34.000And a lot of people are not going in directionally or thinking ahead of their career.
00:42:40.000So they're letting college really scam them instead of taking accountability for their classes and outside learning.
00:42:47.000And I don't think college, even with all of the social sciences and maybe like DEI classes and what we could call brainwashing, I think that just, you know, taking that accountability, really understanding the investment that you're making and going in with a purpose could really help with that statistic and letting kids know that when they go into college, it's not just a four-year vacation,
00:43:14.000that it's purposeful and academia has a purpose in that exactly.
00:43:19.000And Charlie would, you know, we like, we emphasize the college scam because Charlie called it the college scam, but he would always make that important point that you make the scam less of one if you know what you're, if you're studying something useful, if you're making the most of it, if you're not going on autopilot, going in with no plan, going in spending too much money and taking too long.
00:43:42.000Let's play Charlie on why he thought college was a scam.
00:43:56.000And the vast majority of kids are studying things that humanities, sociology, or gender studies.
00:44:01.000There is, of course, a role for some people to go to college that requires some technical proficiency.
00:44:06.000But what happened, Brian, is that the entire value proposition was turned on its head.
00:44:11.000Whether it be the $200,000 plus of cost that it occurs for over four years, the bad ideas, the woke ideology, we're really playing with some very dangerous elements here.
00:44:22.000And so I encourage young people to think twice before going to college.
00:44:26.000And not everyone needs to go to college to succeed in America.
00:44:35.000There is quite a lot of indoctrination going on in our college campuses.
00:44:40.000We're forced to take these liberal woke classes that are supposed to are in quotes kind of supposed to help us, but in reality, they're just ripping us off and making us more woke.
00:44:55.000Yeah, and you have to pay for that credit by credit, right?
00:45:07.000You know, Rutgers University, by the way, Blake, was the, we had Dr. Antifa was at Rutgers.
00:45:13.000That was a guy that wrote the Antifa handbook and then fled to Spain when it got hot because he was advocating that politics should, we should be preemptively, liberals should be preemptively attacking fascists.
00:45:26.000So, and then when he got a little criticism for that, he tucked tail and ran to Spain.
00:45:31.000All right, Megan, you keep saying talking about this, these courses you have to take, these indoctrination courses you have to take, but it sounds like maybe you're not there yet.
00:45:40.000You're not, juniors and seniors have to take these courses, which is ironic, right?
00:45:44.000So before you send them out into the world, then it just says in our summary, there's apparently literal and Antifa classes.
00:46:38.000I think there are certain classes that focus on critical theory and Marxism.
00:46:45.000But a lot of teachers and professors, I think, try and express their opinions on that.
00:46:51.000A lot of them are very much pro-leftist, and some of them do do a great job of, you know, actually engaging students in real education.
00:47:00.000What's troubling to me is students not wanting to break outside of their own thought circles and completely disregarding other or conservative ideas.
00:47:09.000So I think it's really like a student issue that professors, you know, put forward as well.
00:47:17.000So what is it like, you know, in the aftermath of Charlie's assassination for you at Turning Point a member tabling on campus?
00:47:29.000What's the reaction for other students at Appalachia State?
00:47:33.000Since Charlie has passed, we've gained about 200 students.
00:47:37.000We started our chapter this semester with about 30 and now we're up to, I think, 213.
00:47:42.000So it's been really great community building.
00:47:46.000We've had really helpful communication with staff and administration, putting on events and we had a cow on campus the other day.
00:47:57.000But students are very much anti-turning point and I don't think that they truly want to engage with us as much if they're in those leftist circles.
00:48:08.000And that's something that I want to work on is just overall campus communication.
00:48:44.000Yeah, the vibe with Turning Point being on campus is quite negative.
00:48:50.000I remember when we did our tabling and students often want to engage with us, but they don't, they really want to engage in a negative way.
00:48:59.000We've had students that mock Charlie Kirk's stuff.
00:49:04.000We have students that openly insult us for our conservative and traditional beliefs.
00:49:09.000And it really just shows how divided we are, not only as a country, but in campuses as well.
00:49:18.000We should have open debate and open discussion, which is definitely something that colleges need to work on.
00:49:24.000Yeah, Danny's telling us, he said, at Ohio State, the college Democrats would threaten their members and people if they interacted with the chapter, the turning point chapter there.
00:49:48.000There was stuff where, you know, you had more freedom to be conservative on campus and the left was cowed a bit, but they're charging back.
00:50:04.000It's, it's, do you guys feel that they're the level of antagonism, the aggressiveness of left, the progressive culture on campus has escalated in recent months?
00:50:18.000We have had a few cases after Charlie Kirk's assassination and the ICE raids in Michigan that people, you know, write very nasty things on campus, like shoot your local ICE agent.
00:50:32.000And we've we've had to communicate that with our staff.
00:50:38.000And so it's sort of disheartening that people are taking these lines and protesting against our federal government.
00:50:47.000It's an interesting time to be on campus for sure.
00:50:50.000Yeah, Megan, have you seen the energy from the left ramp up in recent months?
00:50:56.000Yeah, it has definitely ramped up, especially after Charlie Kirk died.
00:51:00.000And, you know, with Rutgers turning point being involved with the petition to remove Mark Bray, it has definitely made Turning Point quite a target on campus.
00:51:12.000Like I said before, we have seen major acts of aggression towards me, other leaders at Turning Point.
00:51:24.000I've been openly insulted to my face when I'm doing a tabling at Turning in my college campus.
00:51:33.000And, you know, with my involvement in the Antifa petition, not only have I been doxxed, I've been, my personal identity has just been thrown into the internet for everyone to see.
00:53:58.000What's so funny is that Dan Crenshaw spent $3 million teaching everybody how to pronounce my name.
00:54:05.000And Tyler, the reality is that 99.9% of all people that have ever met me the very first time say talk, they don't know how to pronounce it.
00:54:14.000The funny thing is in the parking lot, for two weeks of early voting, people kept coming up to me saying, Steve Toth, I'm voting for you.
00:54:21.000I'm like, man, I'm so grateful for Dan Crenshaw and all the negative ads that he's put out there that people finally know how to pronounce my name.
00:54:34.000I know so many great, yeah, great Texans that are just so relieved is, I guess, I guess, the best word to have somebody that they know they can trust representing them in Congress.
00:54:46.000So tell us about what kind of the feedback was.
00:54:49.000I'm sure it was an emotional night last night for you.
00:55:33.000And so it was just, we were just overjoyed last night to see it finally nine months later come to fruition.
00:55:38.000Well, I have family in the North Houston area, and they are so thrilled.
00:55:43.000And just in general, just about, I mean, it's just been, It feels like for the many years since about 2020, it's just been a lot of back and forth shenanigans with people.
00:55:56.000And people are just done with that in Congress.
00:55:57.000They want people who are going to go, you know, be who they are, represent them well, communicate well with the people.
00:56:04.000I mean, what is some of your primary goals that you're looking to achieve, you know, kind of stepping into that and helping rebuild some trust maybe for Texas and again, that Houston metropolitan area where some people kind of had felt like they were being ignored for many, many years by kind of the Hollywood levels type stuff that was going on.
00:56:29.000So Congressional District 2 in Texas is a tale of two communities.
00:56:34.000It's the western, it's Montgomery County portion of Congressional District 2 and the Harris County portion of Congressional District 2, which the eastern portion of this in Harris County has been really, by and large, overlooked.
00:56:46.000It's the red-headed stepchild, if you will, of the city of Houston.
00:57:05.000And since that time, millions has been brought back.
00:57:09.000I mean, I was on the appropriations committee and I appropriated $1.6 billion for flood mitigation efforts in the state of Texas.
00:57:18.000And yet none of it, really, none of it has found its way to this area.
00:57:24.000And so here we are 10 years later, and we're every susceptibility as susceptible to a flood as we were back then.
00:57:31.000And I want to fight for these guys and really help them realize that you can live in a place, beautiful place like this and not have to worry about your home being washed off its foundation in the middle of the night.
00:57:42.000So we've got a lot of work to do, and I've got a lot of work to do to really impress upon them that I'm serious about this.
00:59:05.000They must be a little bit, you know, almost like a Lynn Baines-Johnson kind of demonstrate.
00:59:11.000Now, those guys are Lynn Baines, Johnson, Democrats, are all gone.
00:59:14.000They're as far loony as you can possibly imagine.
00:59:18.000And so, we're going to have our hands, our work cut out for us, and we're going to work hard and we're going to win this.
00:59:25.000I'm just looking at an old James Tallarico tweet one of our staff just sent us where he, I guess, must be reacting to someone saying something right of center.
00:59:35.000And he goes, There, but for the grace of God, go I. As a white man, I'm susceptible to radicalization.
00:59:41.000Thankfully, I was exposed to diversity at a young age and explicitly taught the values of equality, inclusion, and justice.
00:59:49.000But not every young white boy is so lucky.
00:59:52.000We've got some loopy people coming out of Texas, unfortunately, Steve.
00:59:58.000And we need a very strong GOP to push back on it.
01:00:02.000And maybe that's, you know, we could talk about that.
01:00:04.000There's been a lot of frustrations, I think, with turnout, and just with the Texas GOP generally.
01:00:11.000I run into conservatives who make that, they'll make the comparison between Texas and Florida a lot.
01:00:35.000And it feels like with Texas, we have these problems.
01:00:37.000We're always hearing, oh, in the Texas legislature, they get, they literally pick their speaker with Democrat support and they put Democrats in senior committee spots.
01:01:51.000There is a darkness to this man's life that if you doubt that there's a wickedness and an evil and a demonic presence in the world, you only have to look at James Tellerico.
01:02:03.000He is an awful, awful person, awful person.
01:02:07.000Well, there's news on that race, by the way.
01:02:11.000President Trump has just announced that he will make an endorsement soon in Texas's GOP Senate primary, and he's asking the candidate that he does not endorse to drop out, which is quite the truth social.
01:02:25.000He has not announced yet, but he says he will soon.
01:02:36.000Well, my hope is, Steve, that your race actually will push the president to, because, I mean, your race was one of the few that the White House.
01:03:01.000I agree with that, but my point is I'm hoping that, you know, and would love to get your thoughts, especially after we get out of the break here, is, you know, maybe this is a new day for Texas because of your race, you winning your race so decisively.
01:03:50.000There's only one person that is higher unfavorables in the state of Texas than John Cornyn, and that was Dan Crenshaw, but it was only by one point.
01:03:58.000And so, yeah, I am hoping that the president considers that in his endorsement because John Cornyn is not going to be the next.
01:04:40.000So, Steve, your race is a bellwether for the state.
01:04:44.000It shows that the grassroots is fed up with the establishment in Texas.
01:04:47.000A lot of what ails us looks like we, there you go.
01:04:50.000A lot of what ails Texas is this sort of Bush hangover, establishment, Republican.
01:04:55.000We experienced this in Arizona, but Tyler knows this better than anybody, this war between the old guard and this new wave of populist conservative energy.
01:05:05.000The early reports suggest that President Trump is going to endorse Cornyn.
01:05:10.000That's what everybody's expecting here.
01:05:13.000Your race could be the key to making sure that doesn't happen.
01:05:17.000What is the energy of the grassroots in the state of Texas?
01:06:11.000They don't want to see people like John Cornyn that have been there, been in office for 40 some odd freaking years and hasn't done anything.
01:07:06.000What are you looking at in terms of the state AG race?
01:07:10.000I think it's going to be a battle, but honestly, I hope the president does not, you know, I just not support Cornyn, but if he does, Ken's going to win at 60-40, maybe 63-37.
01:07:24.000Well, what about Chip Roy, the Texas Attorney General, that race?
01:07:56.000If you go into the runoff, you're going from 1 in 10 to about 1 in 20.
01:08:00.000And it's only the most conservative, committed people that are going to turn out for a runoff, which means that John Cornyn is going to get blown out of the water in this race.
01:08:14.000It doesn't matter who endorses John Cornyn.
01:08:17.000John Corny is going to go down and he's going to go down big.
01:08:20.000All of the polling shows that too, Steve.
01:08:22.000So all the polling has shown a vast majority of the individuals that voted for the third place candidate in the Senate rate and Congressman Wesley Hunt are going towards Paxton.
01:08:35.000That's a turnout question, though, is an interesting aspect of this.
01:08:39.000Exactly what you're saying is what almost everyone from Texas that follows Texas closely is that the runoff has produced a more conservative outcome and almost every single and every single outcome for the past number of times that this has happened.
01:08:55.000You see that not changing is what you're saying this election cycle.
01:08:59.000It's not going to change, although the Karl Rove wing of the party, one of the things that they're really good at, they're going to identify tens of thousands of Democrats that did not vote in the primary.
01:09:13.000And they're going to spend millions of dollars encouraging them to turn out and vote for John Cornyn.
01:09:21.000And so, yeah, there's going to be this really freakish coalition of moderates and Democrats that are going to try and turn out for him.
01:09:30.000But the problem is that probably 30% of the Republicans that voted for John Cornyn are not going to turn out for a runoff.
01:09:40.000Although the vast majority, 90 plus percent of the conservatives will turn out for Kent.
01:09:46.000Well, and that may be the difference maker in this race.
01:09:51.000But you're bringing up something that's super important.
01:09:53.000You know, the Democrats wanted to make sure they didn't have a runoff in the Senate race so that they could try to influence negatively the Republican runoff to that point.
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