On today's show, Glenn and Stu are joined by Dan Crenshaw, who is running for a U.S. House seat in Texas, to talk about his campaign and why he's running for re-election. They also discuss why a Blue Wave is unlikely to happen and why they think there's a better chance of a Republican taking control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
00:02:22.800I'm the designated driver, if that tells you a little bit about our election coverage.
00:02:28.220And it could get worse and worse as the night goes on.
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00:02:59.080Let's talk about home title lock, though.
00:03:00.180Yeah, let me talk about home title lock.
00:03:02.740I had a retired FBI agent in here a few months ago, and they demonstrated exactly how easy it is to steal your home.
00:03:12.920And I mean steal your home in a way that is phenomenal.
00:03:17.200All somebody has to do is get the right information, which is easy to do, fill out the right form, fake your signature, get a notary to authorize it,
00:03:26.400and your home is gone, and people can take out loans against it.
00:03:31.740I mean, this has ended up with homeowners being taken out with a SWAT team in Oregon.
00:04:14.440I mean, the hyperbole that is being fueled right now, the panic that is just pouring into the engine and igniting over President Trump is out.
00:04:28.400The left sees tomorrow's election as a lifeline.
00:04:32.500And so they have gone on and on and on how this is the most important election in the history of elections.
00:04:36.400And let me say this, it is, it is, but not because of President Trump, not because of anything other than we are in such a precarious position that we have to decide,
00:04:53.100are we going to be Democratic socialists or are we going to be a constitutional Republican that's a republic that still believes in capitalism?
00:14:10.800And I think that's actually a great goal, but we're not preparing for it.
00:14:15.000We're thinking in two different directions.
00:14:17.280You know, we're thinking, hey, I'm going to bring the jobs back while somebody in Silicon Valley, in fact, their whole goal is 100% unemployment.
00:14:25.900We just have to decide if that's a good thing or not a good thing.
00:14:29.020Capitalism is, again, the invisible hand of the market, and that invisible hand will give you exactly what you want.
00:14:37.500So you have to be careful on what you want, what you're asking for.
00:14:41.840It could, you know, it can smother you or choke you to death, or it could lift people up.
00:14:47.280It just depends on what the society is.
00:14:51.060So that's why I was saying that we have to be a better society.
00:14:53.880We have to be a more informed society, and we have to be a part of all of these decisions that are going on.
00:15:01.040Well, at the end there, you did make us both, quote, unquote, think.
00:16:00.660So give us 30 days and you'll go dead inside.
00:16:03.920We say welcome to Mr. Pat Gray from the Pat Gray Radio Roundup that you can hear prior to this, prior to this program on the Blaze Radio Network.
00:16:14.640How many days do we need to go numb on your program, Pat?
00:21:23.780There is no way to creative edit something where they are saying, yeah, he is only saying these things because he's trying to get the conservatives.
00:21:35.880So he's only doing these things and keeping quiet on this because of X, Y, Z.
00:21:41.820Unless, unless the sentence before is, what you're saying and accusing us of is completely dishonest.
00:21:53.260It would be like us coming out and saying.
00:26:36.520He doesn't care, and they can't destroy him.
00:26:40.100And on the outside, it looks like he's the easiest guy to destroy.
00:26:46.540But here they have all this fear, and it's worked for so long.
00:26:50.280If he teaches people not to care, they're in real trouble.
00:26:55.540The obsession part of this, I think, is odd, just that it overwhelms other individuals, right?
00:26:59.780Like, you know, if you really dislike Donald Trump, but you're in Arizona, and you're, let's say, in the middle, you can't possibly think that Sinema is a good candidate to be your senator.
00:27:11.620She is a freaking Code Pink-level activist.
00:27:15.520She's a person who said that Arizona is the meth lab of democracy.
00:27:19.920She's a person who's called people in Arizona dumb over and over and over again.
00:27:25.540But wait, isn't that the same thing that people like me were saying to evangelicals?
00:27:31.660How can you possibly vote for this person when he said he's never asked for forgiveness?
00:30:07.860So we go into this election with Republicans having a 19-seat advantage in the Senate.
00:30:14.480It's just a matter of fleshing out the rest.
00:30:16.640Problem is a lot of these races are going to go to the Democrats that are undecided.
00:30:20.420So if you go at just things that look like pretty sure things, likely, you know, safe seats and likely seats, you get to about 46 Republicans and about 41 Democrats.
00:30:36.440So they're going to—you know, it's states like, you know, New York are going to go, and Utah is going to go to Republicans.
00:30:41.200And we're assuming all of these things.
00:30:42.900So it's 46-41, and then you get to the closer races.
00:30:46.240In the middle there, you have a couple that look like they're leaning towards Democrats, a couple like they're leaning towards Republicans, and then a bunch in the middle.
00:30:53.660So to get to 50, however, for Democrats, they not only have to win all of their safe races and all of their likely wins, they have to win their leaner races as well.
00:31:20.000It's not impossible if the Republican could win there, but how many times do we have to be fooled by freaking races in New Jersey as Republicans?
00:31:25.860It looks like Menendez is probably going to pull that off.
00:31:28.380There's some polling that shows it close.
00:31:30.140The other one in there in that group is Cruz.
00:31:32.880Now, Cruz has had some polling that has showed him recently up only by three or four points,
00:31:38.760but he is still the favorite in this race in Texas over Beto despite the $9 trillion that Democrats are spending on it.
00:31:46.600So if the Democrats can't get the Cruz seat, they would have to sweep all of the other toss-up races, all of them.
00:40:31.140But I would like him and Saturday Night Live to recognize something, which is that veterans across the country probably don't feel as though their wounds they received in battle.
00:40:42.580should be the subject of a bad punchline for a bad joke.
00:40:46.240And here's the real atrocity of all this.
00:41:19.180So every single one of my Navy SEAL friends wrote to me and said, you have to take this on.
00:41:25.060And I went and I watched it and it, it, you know, it just wasn't funny to make fun of somebody who lost and to take it so flippantly say, I don't know, he lost his eye in a war or whatever.
00:41:36.100Um, I just don't think it's, it's funny to, to do that, um, on either side.
00:41:42.500Um, however, what I was really impressed with is the way you responded.
00:41:48.500How, how come you responded this way when you had every reason to have righteous indignation and use this for your political gain?
00:41:58.600Well, you know, I, I, I, I simply responded the way I actually felt, which was a little exasperated by the whole thing.
00:42:09.840Um, a little annoyed because I have been, I have been watching these shows like, uh, Saturday Night Live and a lot of the late shows really deteriorate into, into simply political platforms as opposed to good comedy.
00:42:22.940And, uh, it's funny, you mentioned your seal friends, you know, uh, seals have pretty thick skin, right?
00:42:29.840And we like to make fun of each other.
00:42:31.380And, um, but, but there's always been sort of a lot of the conversation I always had with my friends.
00:43:03.940I have to think about, I do have to think about all the veterans who are disfigured from war and now feel like they're fair game for just, you know, warring laughter from the crowd.
00:43:15.060I thought that was, I thought that was a little strange.
00:43:17.580And I think a lot of us veterans are just looking at that and thinking, well, why is that funny?
00:43:22.740You know, we, we, we, we, we truly, we just don't, don't see the joke, you know, just, just be funny, be funny, do your job and be funny.
00:43:30.820It's supposed to be an art, you know, but, but they're not.
00:43:34.040And that's, that's the real tragedy here.
00:43:35.580I will tell you that I have, um, a lot of veteran friends who to make others feel comfortable, make fun of their lost limb or whatever, and they go out of their way.
00:43:47.420And it's usually very funny when they're making fun of it.
00:43:51.340Uh, and so it's not a lack of a sense of humor on it.
00:43:54.640It's just an appropriate sense of humor on it.
00:43:58.460And, you know, for instance, we always say in our family, we, you know, we wreck each other hard and it's a sign of love in our family, but we don't wreck people that we don't know.
00:44:09.740It's not like you're coming into our house and we just start wrecking you.
00:44:13.080You have to be kind of part of the family and, and, uh, be loved if we're going to wreck you in that sort of a way.
00:44:20.680Cause we know you'd wreck us just as hard for whatever it is we've got going on in our life.
00:44:26.460Well, I think there's a basic social etiquette that kind of keeps our country together.
00:44:30.960And, you know, we're, we're, we're seeing that fraying quite a bit, that, that social fabric and, and, and, and basic manners and basic etiquette.
00:44:39.020And this is, this is just an example of that.
00:44:41.660Um, can I, can I play, can I play devil's advocate on that?
00:44:45.160What would you say to the, the people at CNN, that, uh, at CNN or SNL that might respond and say, oh, really it's etiquette?
00:44:55.820Oh, I was actually, that was actually where I was going with this point.
00:44:58.980Um, and that, that, that is the counter argument constantly.
00:45:02.520Um, and I'm seeing it all over Twitter.
00:45:04.680Uh, I, I, I'm, I'm seeing that coming from the left.
00:45:07.360They say, oh, well, Trump in my response to that is what on earth does Trump have to do with a conversation between Saturday night live and myself?
00:45:18.300You know, I mean, it's just, it's wholly inappropriate.
00:46:36.900We, you know, politicians get a little bit too wrapped around political talking points and we forget to explain why we believe what we believe.
00:46:45.520You know, we, we, we forget to explain a few layers deep, um, maybe because we think we'll get misquoted or maybe because we think voters can't take it.
00:46:53.060Well, they can't, and they do want to hear it.
00:46:54.500They do want to hear a little bit more deeper reasoning on, on, on why we believe entitlement reform is important or, or how we're going to fix the flood.
00:47:01.900issues in Houston, um, or how we're going to keep our nation safe.
00:47:05.740They appreciate an ability to articulate conservative values in a way that is persuasive and convincing and, and, and we'll, and we'll grow our base as opposed to just talking to ourselves constantly.
00:47:34.080I like to just go find people where, where, where, you know, where their lives are happening, whether they're having a beer or having dinner.
00:47:41.640And, uh, in the end, politics is not all that complicated in the end.
00:47:45.040You just have to connect with people and, um, know inside yourself why you're running and be able to express that to, to voters.
00:47:53.480So why is it, why are you running, Dan?
00:47:56.640What is it, the thing that drives you, uh, what's the, what's the thing that keeps you up at night and says you have to go to Washington to this cesspool because why?
00:48:09.560Well, so, uh, I'll, I'll, I'll give you two kinds of forms of answers to that.
00:48:13.500You know, from a, from a policy perspective for, for the Houston area, it's flooding infrastructure, it's border security, it's economic freedom, it's, it's entitlement reform.
00:48:24.200On a, on a more deeper, maybe philosophical reason, I, I, I have, I have the sense and it's, I think it's backed up by reality that the Republican party is losing the next generation.
00:48:35.560And I don't feel like we're articulating the why about what we believe very well.
00:48:40.780I don't think that we're, that we're articulating how important foundational principles are.
00:48:44.620I don't think that we're articulating that our, our approach to government, this idea of limited government and local control and, and, and responsible and sustainable spending, a sustainable role of federal government.
00:48:57.960You know, those are the ways that we should be explaining, like, this is, this is how, this is the principles behind why this policy makes sense.
00:49:05.220Don't start with the policy, start with those principles.
00:49:07.580It helps people understand where we're coming from.
00:49:09.900It helps the left understand that we're not in fact evil.
00:49:14.820But, but what we actually believe in is a sustainable way to govern.
00:49:18.260And we believe in putting the maximum amount of control at the local level.
00:49:21.680That's what it means to be a Republican.
00:49:23.640And we, and we, and we frame all that within a system of virtue, you know, and, and I'll steal Dennis Prager's line on this and know what a conservative stand for.
00:50:01.380People go to Washington all the time and they lose their soul.
00:50:05.120And I can tell just talking to you that you, you have a pretty firm grip on that.
00:50:10.340May I make a recommendation that you make a, a declaration to yourself that maybe only you and your wife see, and you really think it through before you're sworn in.
00:50:21.780And you check it from time to time because people go to Washington and they start making compromises and excuses.
00:50:29.000And what you just said about our principles and our founding, uh, uh, foundation, everything that we're built on, the constitution, the declaration, and the bill of rights.
00:50:41.740We have a lot of people in Washington that don't actually defend those things now.
00:50:48.000And I don't know if they actually even believe them anymore.
00:50:51.060Please write down what you really believe and check it from some time and, and write on there too.