The Culture War - Tim Pool - March 04, 2026


Democrats GLOAT Over Cheating Primary To OUST Far Left Jasmine Crockett And BOOST James Talarico


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Jasmine Crockett lost to Democrat James Tallarico in the Democratic primary race in the Texas Senate primary, and she s mad about it. She claims that the Democrats rigged the primary and locked her out of the race. I break down exactly what happened.

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00:00:30.000 Last night in Texas, Jasmine Crockett, a rising star for the Democratic Party,
00:00:35.980 lost her Senate primary race to James Tallarico, and something dark was at play.
00:00:42.820 Indeed, cheating did happen.
00:00:46.760 Now, Jasmine Crockett is upset. 1.00
00:00:49.740 She is saying that there was cheating, and if they can cheat, it's what they're going to do.
00:00:53.960 The question is, who cheated, how did they cheat, and who should she be mad at?
00:00:59.120 The truth is, many prominent Democrat personalities, I should say Democrat-aligned, not necessarily politicians,
00:01:05.580 liberals are gloating over their manipulation and hoax campaign to cheat the Democrat Senate primary in Texas.
00:01:15.060 Now, I am going to break down for you exactly how the Democrats cheated, violating FCC rules with a hoax campaign to lock out Jasmine Crockett.
00:01:27.880 And then I'm going to explain how Jasmine Crockett is basically blaming Republicans for all of this because they can't just be honest. 1.00
00:01:35.520 Jasmine Crockett knows that she can't actually come out and accuse the establishment machine, the Democratic Party, from locking her out because Democrats want to hear why Republicans are bad.
00:01:48.600 And thus, my friends, I have for you this video to kick it all off.
00:01:53.280 Let's take a listen.
00:01:56.300 Let's start with the volume.
00:01:58.880 So that's my news, is that we're not going to have election results tonight, in my opinion, based upon what specifically is taking place in Dallas County.
00:02:10.640 Unfortunately, this is what Republicans like to do.
00:02:19.200 And so they specifically targeted Dallas County, and I think we all know why.
00:02:26.340 So I want you to enjoy yourselves, but I won't be back tonight because I have no idea of when we're going to get results, and I fully anticipate it won't be until tomorrow.
00:02:39.720 So, I love you all, too.
00:02:45.560 Thank you so very much for being here.
00:02:49.400 Indeed, that's what Republicans do when she loses to a Democrat in a Democrat primary who is saying he won and deserved to win.
00:03:01.120 My friends, Jasmine Crockett is claiming election meddling took place. 0.91
00:03:05.440 There's more videos to play and break down the actual cheating for which prominent Democrat-aligned media are gloating that they shut out Jasmine Crockett. 1.00
00:03:16.320 And I would only say this to Jasmine.
00:03:19.060 Just call them out for it.
00:03:21.280 Now, that being said, shout out to Brandon Herrera, who is going to a runoff, defeating.
00:03:27.420 He beat him.
00:03:28.380 He beat Tony Gonzalez in the vote count, but they're going to get a runoff, so we'll see if he gets through.
00:03:32.740 The expectation is that he is going to.
00:03:34.520 And Dan Crenshaw has been primaried.
00:03:36.600 He's out.
00:03:37.820 And as far as I can tell, he's not claiming that there was election meddling or cheating from the Democrats.
00:03:42.060 But let's break this down.
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00:04:12.220 But let's start right here, my friends.
00:04:14.140 The New York Post.
00:04:15.440 Complaining Rep. Jasmine Crockett leaves own Texas Senate primary watch party, accuses GOP of election meddling. 0.93
00:04:22.740 I want to just stop real quick and ask this question of each and every one of you.
00:04:26.680 Here's the debate.
00:04:27.600 Comment below.
00:04:30.140 I need to understand this, okay?
00:04:32.740 What did the Republican Party do so that Democrat Tallarico would beat Jasmine Crockett? 0.84
00:04:42.940 But what did the Republican Party do?
00:04:45.160 Where did the Republican Party hurt you?
00:04:47.420 Because it doesn't quite make sense.
00:04:49.480 In fact, Republicans favored Crockett as the candidate because she's less likely to win the general. 0.97
00:04:56.060 There are concerns that James Tallarico, who presents himself as a moderate Democrat Christian, could actually convince moderates to vote for him.
00:05:03.400 And thus, flipping the state and taking this at its seat for the Democratic Party.
00:05:08.600 It is entirely possible.
00:05:10.040 In which case, Republicans would have very much preferred Jasmine Crockett, which is exactly why the Democrats cheated this primary. 0.79
00:05:18.300 And I'm going to show you they did.
00:05:20.320 I want to stress.
00:05:21.340 I want to stress.
00:05:22.560 I say Democrat aligned, meaning organizations, media, institutions, and people who want the Democrats to win, staged this campaign with James Tallarico, mind you, who played into it all the same.
00:05:38.240 And I think that is evil.
00:05:42.040 I think it's evil, evil stuff.
00:05:43.840 Now, we've got more videos for you, my friends.
00:05:47.080 We've got this from Jasmine Crockett.
00:05:49.380 And let's play the tape.
00:05:50.480 Red has already stated.
00:05:52.860 Red has already stated.
00:05:55.340 We encourage each and every one of you to remain resilient.
00:06:00.040 We 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.
00:06:11.420 So I am asking you, I am begging you to make sure that you go ahead and figure out where it is that you are supposed to vote, stand in line, wait in line.
00:06:23.860 Cheat?
00:06:24.980 Who is cheating?
00:06:27.240 Honest question, Jasmine.
00:06:29.140 The New York Post says,
00:06:31.520 Jasmine Crockett told supporters she was going to leave her own watch party after votes in Dallas County were delayed.
00:06:36.760 We need to see the Dallas County votes to see where they are.
00:06:39.220 But I won't be back tonight, so we did play this video.
00:06:41.700 You get it.
00:06:42.600 NBC News' Steve Kornacki said in his live stream earlier, even if the rest of the vote of the Dallas County came in, she would still be well short here of that margin that Tallarico has built.
00:06:52.660 The next Supreme Court ruled earlier Tuesday that ballots cast after 7 p.m. Central needed to be separated from previous votes.
00:06:58.920 After a lower court ordered polling locations for Democrats in Dallas County to stay open two hours longer due to voter confusion.
00:07:07.200 So is that the cheating?
00:07:08.480 That Dallas County helped the location stay open longer?
00:07:13.760 Now I want to see if I can find this post.
00:07:19.240 There's a post on X from James Tallarico, which I think is going to be particularly important.
00:07:24.400 Oh, it's, come on.
00:07:26.960 They want to give me nothing but the, here we go.
00:07:28.920 Indeed, one of the most important posts that I believe proves, proves the Democrats cheated.
00:07:36.700 Now you may be asking me, Tim, how did the Democrats cheat?
00:07:40.200 And we'll start here with 270 to win.
00:07:42.740 James Tallarico secured 52.8% of the vote to Jasmine Crockett's 45.9.
00:07:48.560 If Tallarico did not hit that 50% threshold, they would be going to a runoff, much like many others.
00:07:55.240 In the Republican primary, John Cornyn at 41.8 and Ken Paxton at 40.7, they're going to be going to a runoff.
00:08:01.540 And if Wesley Hunt's supporters get behind Paxton, it is going to be an easy victory for Paxton.
00:08:07.420 Guys, Ken Paxton is wildly popular.
00:08:10.360 He's a huge fan favorite.
00:08:12.760 So it's looking pretty good for him.
00:08:14.380 As for Crockett, hmm, what happened there?
00:08:18.180 Well, my friends, it all starts with this video.
00:08:23.060 Why CBS didn't broadcast Stephen Colbert's interview with James Tallarico?
00:08:28.360 Well, why didn't they?
00:08:30.180 What happened?
00:08:31.600 4.2 million views.
00:08:33.820 Stephen Colbert explains to his broadcast audience that a new directive from Brendan Carr's FCC
00:08:41.140 makes it next to impossible for CBS to air his interview with Texas State Rep James Tallarico on CBS.
00:08:48.520 Now, why is that?
00:08:50.520 NBC News reports Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview out of fear of FCC.
00:08:55.840 Trump's Republican FCC interfering in the Democrat primary?
00:08:59.820 Tell me more.
00:09:00.620 However, Colbert kicked off Monday's episode of The Late Show by saying—and I want to pause real quick.
00:09:05.620 This is from February 17th—saying the network's lawyers told him he could not have James Tallarico on his broadcast.
00:09:11.520 They say, quote,
00:09:14.520 He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly that we could not have him on the broadcast.
00:09:22.500 Then, then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on.
00:09:30.140 And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this.
00:09:34.260 The Late Show published the unaired interview with Tallarico on YouTube.
00:09:38.920 In the interview, Colbert and Tallarico, who was running for the Senate, discussed the FCC crackdown, including opening a probe in ABC's The View After Tallarico appeared on the show.
00:09:48.100 Quote,
00:09:48.440 Tellarico accused the Trump administration of selling out the First Amendment to curry favor with corrupt politicians.
00:10:10.540 In fact, here is a post from James Tallarico himself on X.
00:10:14.120 This is the interview Donald Trump didn't want you to see.
00:10:19.760 His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
00:10:24.480 Trump is worried we're about to flip taxes. 0.93
00:10:27.140 Hold on there a gosh darn minute.
00:10:31.700 CBS says it didn't kill Stephen Colbert's interview with Senate Hopeful. 0.75
00:10:35.500 Who's lying?
00:10:36.800 Or is it a case where both versions of the events are technically true?
00:10:40.300 The network and the host offer dueling stories of what happened to a Texas state representative's appearance due to new FCC equal time rules.
00:10:48.380 Indeed, my friends, most of you are aware of the story.
00:10:50.840 But those that aren't familiar, I suggest share this with people so you can understand how they cheated and why they did.
00:10:56.640 James Tallarico clearly in on it.
00:10:59.120 And I think that's apparent by his posts.
00:11:01.740 The truth is CBS said they didn't shut down the interview.
00:11:05.020 And additionally, why would Trump personally want to interfere in a Democrat primary?
00:11:12.620 The truth is this.
00:11:14.120 Jasmine Crockett is a wild card.
00:11:16.700 She's a progressive and she's not going to play well in Texas. 1.00
00:11:20.500 So, I mean, look, I know that she's she got a lot of votes.
00:11:22.720 It's true.
00:11:23.300 Democrat primary.
00:11:24.540 But she's not winning a Senate seat in Texas. 1.00
00:11:26.760 It's purple but leans right.
00:11:28.320 But she is not going to do well in Texas in a Senate race, especially if you're up against Ken Paxton.
00:11:35.920 I honestly don't think Tallarico is going to be Paxton either, but we'll see.
00:11:40.000 So hold on there a minute.
00:11:41.680 It's beneficial for the Republicans if the race is going to be Cornyn or Paxton versus Jasmine Crockett. 0.59
00:11:48.720 Because Crockett is abrasive, brash, far left.
00:11:52.240 She's going to she's going to lose some points from that. 0.99
00:11:54.400 The Democrat strategy with Tallarico is that he's a moderate Democrat, self-purported Christian, in which case it is bad for Trump that Tallarico actually wins.
00:12:06.800 So hold on.
00:12:08.500 Hold on.
00:12:09.480 The primary, I would say.
00:12:10.920 The argument then would be Trump was trying to prevent Tallarico from appearing on Colbert because it would benefit him.
00:12:18.340 But it would spike Jasmine Crockett at the same time. 0.90
00:12:21.840 In fact, there's no real incentive one way or the other.
00:12:26.480 If anything, the Trump administration would want Tallarico to do the interview because it would also give equal opportunity to Jasmine Crockett, who the Republicans would probably prefer. 0.99
00:12:37.880 Either way.
00:12:39.600 Why would the Republicans be just interfering?
00:12:42.580 It's a it's it's it's an unknown.
00:12:45.320 Maybe Jasmine Crockett would win. 1.00
00:12:47.420 Here's what ends up happening.
00:12:49.360 They're saying it outright.
00:12:51.840 The Colbert bump.
00:12:54.100 James Tallarico wins.
00:12:56.480 Democratic primary.
00:12:57.660 Hold on there. 0.97
00:12:58.400 A gosh darn minute.
00:12:59.820 Jasmine Crockett is claiming Republicans cheated by blocking her to put in place the guy who's more likely to beat a Republican. 0.82
00:13:09.600 That makes no sense.
00:13:10.680 And here's the problem I have with all of this is that I what I see with Jasmine Crockett is that she can't come out and say the Democrats cheated because her base only wants to hear why Orange Man is bad.
00:13:23.720 In which case she's going to say Orange Man is bad.
00:13:28.360 Trump cheated.
00:13:29.180 The Republicans meddled.
00:13:30.120 You were beat by a Democrat who was propped up by Democrats who lied about why they couldn't have a show on.
00:13:38.400 And here's where it's funny.
00:13:39.380 Here's here's the funny point.
00:13:41.220 James Tallarico and Colbert are pushing the narrative that Donald Trump was trying to block his appearance on Colbert, which is not true.
00:13:49.580 Because they wanted to create the perception that he had already won the point is this they were arguing that Donald Trump blocking Tallarico was so that it would force.
00:14:05.720 Stephen Colbert to have on the Republican.
00:14:09.320 Challenger again.
00:14:11.000 The general perception when this whole thing was going down was that CBS basically said if Tallarico is on, you've got to have the Republican challenger as well.
00:14:21.560 But that was never the case.
00:14:24.500 CBS said if you have on Tallarico FCC equal time rules would require you to have on Jasmine Crockett.
00:14:33.760 So where are we at?
00:14:35.020 Prominent liberal personalities and the Democrat himself lied about what happened to ice out Jasmine Crockett because they want to go up against Donald Trump. 1.00
00:14:49.520 So I guess if anything, the Republicans would have been protecting Jasmine Crockett if they were trying to.
00:14:57.560 No, the reality is simple.
00:15:00.540 Jasmine Crockett's been a rising star in the Democratic Party. 1.00
00:15:02.660 She's effectively lost her congressional seat because of redistricting.
00:15:05.860 So she's she decides to run in the primary for the Senate to keep her political career going.
00:15:10.300 She's prominent, very famous, and she's one of the most famous Democrats likely was going to defeat handily James Tallarico. 0.86
00:15:17.880 Tallarico needed some kind of mass normalization, big brand boost.
00:15:23.560 Well, to Democrats, all that matters is Trump is the bad guy.
00:15:26.780 Imagine if they actually came out and said, Jasmine Crockett's trying to shut down our interview. 1.00
00:15:33.440 People would have been like, huh?
00:15:36.480 Indeed.
00:15:37.760 So where we're currently at, my friends, the Democrats staged a hoax falsely accusing Donald Trump of shutting down an interview.
00:15:46.100 He did not shut down.
00:15:47.860 Lying and claiming CBS shut it down when CBS explicitly said we didn't tell him not to do it.
00:15:53.260 We just said you'd probably have to have on Jasmine Crockett. 0.77
00:15:56.840 Jasmine Crockett, because she lives in Wally World, can't just admit it's the Democratic Party that shut her down. 1.00
00:16:03.460 And thus, my friends, here we are.
00:16:06.640 The Hollywood Reporter says, turns out the Colbert bump is still a thing.
00:16:09.600 On Tuesday, James Tallarico won the Democratic primary for the Texas seat, beating Jasmine Crockett.
00:16:14.700 Tallarico, you may remember, was at the center of a political firestorm after his interview with Stephen Colbert.
00:16:19.060 On the Late Show was blocked by CBS's lawyers from airing due to the FCC's new guidance for political candidates on talk shows.
00:16:25.260 In an unusual move, Colbert devoted an entire segment of his show to the issue, raising not only concerns about the overreach of the FCC, but boosting Tallarico's profile by association.
00:16:34.720 Indeed.
00:16:35.440 And blaming Trump.
00:16:37.680 Because, again, for the average run-of-the-mill dem, the perception in their mind was that Trump was trying to protect the Republican candidate.
00:16:45.240 In fact, the argument makes no sense because he would have been protecting Jasmine Crockett.
00:16:52.040 The fallout from the Tallarico affair then became a multi-day thing in the Late Show and elsewhere, with Colbert discussing his back-and-forth with CBS lawyers and management.
00:16:58.920 In a remarkable piece of television, a clearly exasperated Colbert revealed his tension with his employer, saying,
00:17:03.500 I'm not even mad, I really don't want an adversarial relationship with the network.
00:17:07.740 Adding further spice to the controversy, and again, elevating Tallarico's name recognition, was Colbert's ongoing issue with CBS.
00:17:14.020 With the network canceling the long-running Late Show and his run-of-the-FCC that's become more activist in the second Trump administration, blah, blah, blah.
00:17:22.800 Despite being blocked from airing the Tallarico on broadcast, he wasn't, and a Hollywood reporter wrote it.
00:17:30.460 CBS says it didn't kill his interview.
00:17:32.620 But, of course, they're lying.
00:17:34.560 Colbert put the near-15-minute interview in its entirety on the Late Show YouTube channel.
00:17:38.840 It got a whopping 9 million views.
00:17:40.560 Here's James Tallarico's post, with a whopping 13.4 million views and 43,000 retweets, where he says,
00:17:47.500 This is the interview Donald Trump didn't want you to see.
00:17:50.540 His FCC refused to air my interview, none of which is true.
00:17:55.380 Now, my question is, how is this allowed?
00:17:58.500 The same people that are upset over Citizens United and they say,
00:18:01.600 Powerful billionaires can do whatever they want.
00:18:03.940 Homeboy just lied.
00:18:06.460 He lied and he won.
00:18:08.580 And he stole that election from Jasmine Crockett.
00:18:11.580 I do not like Jasmine Crockett.
00:18:13.200 Stop making me defend Jasmine Crockett. 0.97
00:18:15.260 But this is pure scumbaggery.
00:18:18.680 And sometimes I see this stuff, and I wish. 0.93
00:18:20.920 I really did.
00:18:21.720 There was a philosopher king who would be like, nope, disqualified.
00:18:26.840 You do not get to stage hoaxes and manipulate the public to cheat elections.
00:18:32.440 The election is supposed to be a population of people who hear the arguments and make a decision as to who they think is the better candidate.
00:18:40.780 This is evil stuff. 1.00
00:18:43.900 Colbert is a scumbag. 1.00
00:18:45.480 Tallarico is a scumbag. 1.00
00:18:46.600 And I got to be honest, I think Tallarico is probably going to be a better politician, and I don't like the whack-a-loon far-left stuff from Jasmine Crockett. 0.99
00:18:53.640 Fine.
00:18:54.980 But I do not accept this degree of political snakery. 1.00
00:19:01.420 Just pure evil scumbags. 0.98
00:19:04.140 If Trump said you can't watch this, bro, you were icing out Jasmine Crockett. 0.99
00:19:08.740 Not Ken Paxton or Wesley Hunt or Cornyn, for that matter.
00:19:13.120 The Colbert kerfuffle was also a huge boost to Tallarico's campaign, with the Texas poll revealing that he raised more than $2.5 million in the 24 hours after his appearance.
00:19:26.000 He also became something of a cause celebrae in liberal media, with a flurry of appearances on cable news, including a notable segment on Lawrence O'Donnell's MS Now show that has over a million views on YouTube.
00:19:38.680 And an array of podcasts since the late show spot.
00:19:42.320 Indeed, my friends, the depravity and scumbaggery.
00:19:46.880 And nothing ever gets done about it. 0.86
00:19:49.440 This is not supposed to be the way we run things.
00:19:54.380 But I'm not so naive, my friends.
00:19:55.760 I know that we've had similar things.
00:19:58.140 All is fair in love, war, and politics, as it were. 1.00
00:20:01.340 And thus, all that matters is the end, is that you are willing to be a vile, evil piece of trash like James Tallarico. 0.98
00:20:10.080 You know, guys, I know people say, Tim, if you weren't so abrasive and insulting to a lot of these people, maybe they'd come on your show. 0.99
00:20:15.480 I get it.
00:20:16.560 I just, this boils my blood.
00:20:18.860 It boils my blood.
00:20:21.420 Jasmine Crockett, again, I do not like her politics. 1.00
00:20:23.860 But I at least expect a legitimate conversation on the issues so that the people decide who they want to be. 0.97
00:20:33.660 And Colbert is a deeply amoral and evil man. 0.83
00:20:37.900 And Tallarico is as well. 0.95
00:20:41.120 These people should not be allowed anywhere near the seats of power. 0.95
00:20:45.200 Again, not saying Jasmine Crockett should either, but holy crap, am I just livid over the lies, the lies they push to trick people into giving them power. 0.97
00:20:59.200 There it is, my friends, the nature of American politics. 0.71
00:21:03.220 With the redistricting going on, who knows how the midterm is actually going to turn out.
00:21:06.720 We're expecting at some point soon, actually, maybe even today, ruling from the Supreme Court as to whether or not this will move forward.
00:21:13.920 There already have been some decisions, and people are already losing it, but we'll see.
00:21:20.560 That pisses me off, man.
00:21:21.640 I'm sorry.
00:21:22.420 I just, it just pisses me off.
00:21:23.500 Sorry if I'm just, I get angry about it.
00:21:26.420 You tell me what you think.
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