00:00:00.000hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us on a beautiful
00:00:06.560day in america thank you so much for spending part of your evening with us here on the great
00:00:11.540america show a true delight and i want to start tonight by apologizing for my absence for the
00:00:16.880last week and a day as i updated you guys about two weeks ago i expressed some concern
00:00:24.120um i was going through with my pup who unfortunately last tuesday lost his battle
00:00:31.660with cancer so um you know i decided it was the right thing to do to take some time off to
00:00:37.320digest and and um you know take a step back i guess from some some reality so i apologize for
00:00:44.260my absence but uh after a week off i thought it was the right thing to do to come back tonight so
00:00:50.220So my little buddy has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge and is now pain-free and up in heaven.
00:00:57.620So I appreciate you guys hanging tight with us here on The Great America Show.
00:01:01.880So over the last week, we missed some big news.
00:01:07.140Primary on Tuesday night, which was, I guess, the last show we did before I took a little break.
00:01:14.180And then last night, once again in Texas.
00:01:17.600And it further has reaffirmed something, folks, that I think you and I have all known.
00:01:26.660And I think for some people has been hard for them to fathom.
00:01:30.980And the fact of the matter is, is that Donald Trump has a grasp on the GOP and a grasp on the Republican Party, unlike no person ever in history.
00:01:41.000So. The mainstream media won't acknowledge it.
00:01:45.680Some Republicans behind closed doors won't acknowledge it.
00:01:50.000But it's something you and I have been talking about now here for the last year plus.
00:01:55.540And I've reiterated whether, you know, you love the man or you hate the man.
00:01:59.980He does have control of the Republican Party and what he says goes.
00:02:04.820So whether they like it or not, they're going to have to deal with it.
00:02:09.520And the truth of the matter is, is Donald Trump is here to stay, whether he's
00:02:14.840The president of the United States, whether he's in some capacity as an advisor after he leaves office, he's here to stay and his endorsement is literal gold.
00:02:27.660And we've seen it time and time again. We've seen it time and time again through the primary process.
00:02:32.800We've seen it time and time again through the general election process.
00:02:35.540And we've seen it time and time again, how well candidates perform with Donald Trump at the top of the ticket.
00:02:42.560But what we've seen this midterm cycle, I think, is unlike anything we've ever seen before.
00:02:48.720For the Senate, he endorsed nine candidates.
00:03:06.340But the latest one, aside from Thomas Massey down in Kentucky, is yesterday with Ken Paxson and John Cornyn.
00:03:17.060And the sentiment you're hearing today and from the Marxist Dems and from the rhinos in the party is that, well, John Cornyn lost.
00:03:26.660So I find myself politically homeless. There's nowhere left for me in this party.0.67
00:03:31.620I don't fit anywhere in this party. They don't support my traditional Republican values. Well, what are those traditional Republican values that these people want to talk about? I'll tell you what they are. They're the good old-fashioned country club Republican values.
00:03:50.320the ones of john mccain the ones of mit romney where you've got to have a certain look
00:03:57.900a certain steez to you your hair has got to be quaffed a certain way
00:04:02.520your facial hair has to be trimmed a certain way if you're allowed to have any at all those days
00:04:08.560are long over and i've said this and i've joked from the beginning folks donald trump does not
00:04:13.040look like a president he doesn't speak like a president and that's why he resonates i believe
00:04:18.720so well with each and every single one of us for years, for years that I've been in this business.
00:04:25.580I'll be 32 years old next week. And I've been in the political business since I was 17, 18 years
00:04:32.420old. From the time that I've gotten in this business, it's always been that way. You got
00:04:38.880to look this way, you have to act this way, and you have to do things this way. And Donald Trump
00:04:43.780never cared about that he never cared about fitting in regardless of what people want to say
00:04:49.660when they told him down in mar-a-lago down in palm beach florida you don't fit in our country club
00:04:55.480what did donald trump go do he went and built mar-a-lago he said yeah you don't want to let
00:05:00.860me in i'll build my own so he's always had this unconventional way of doing things it's
00:05:05.320unconventional way of speaking to people now i often say it all the time and that ted cruz said
00:05:09.940it i think perfectly uh during the uh the 2020 to 2016 campaign donald trump has new york values
00:05:17.900and he got a lot of flack for it and it's one of few things i actually agree with ted cruz on
00:05:23.600being a new yorker it's hard to explain it's like one of those things where you have to
00:05:29.360be there to to understand it new yorkers are brash new yorkers are for the most part unpolished
00:05:37.700We have very little filters. And you know what? Some people love us for it. And I'm sure more
00:05:44.000people hate us for it. I'm sure there's people out there listening to me right now who can't
00:05:47.620stand me because of it. But I think it's just a certain way that we're raised. It's a certain
00:05:51.760way that we go about life. I'd argue New Yorkers have a sense of street smarts
00:05:57.160that you really don't learn in school. You really don't learn unless you grow up here.
00:06:04.460So back when Ted Cruz said that, you know, there are people who took offense to it.
00:06:08.240And I said, no, he's absolutely right.
00:06:10.120Donald Trump does have New York values and they're different than the rest of the world.
00:06:13.800It's something that you gain here growing up.
00:06:18.560And I think the general sentiment of it, actually, I don't think, I know, just based on his three elections,
00:06:29.780the numbers went from small medium to large 2016 2020 and 2024 the most votes in the history
00:06:40.300of this country so i don't think i know it's what the american people want i know it's what
00:06:48.260the american people are starving for we want people that we can relate to we want politicians
00:06:56.420that we'd love to go out and have a beer with,
00:06:58.260have a glass of wine with, smoke a cigar with.
00:07:01.740We don't want these people who go out in front of the camera one day,
00:07:06.160say one thing, and then run behind closed doors and it's another.
00:07:10.340And you know, that was the biggest issue I took with Thomas Massey.
00:07:14.000I know there's people out there who are abhorrent that Thomas Massey lost.
00:07:18.480But I got to know Thomas Massey over the years,
00:07:21.580friends who have worked closely with him.
00:07:23.860And from everything I heard about Thomas Massey0.75
00:07:25.560was the guy is a fraud. He says one thing to you in front of your face and the other thing is
00:07:30.520behind the scenes. Constantly grandstanding. And I said this last week on last Tuesday's show.
00:07:37.980Nobody wants to deal with that crap. Nobody wants to deal with someone who needs to be0.99
00:07:43.020thanked and praised every single time they do the right thing. That's not how the real world works,
00:07:49.260folks you and i both know it you don't go to work every single day and and expect whether you work
00:07:55.900at walmart stocking the shelves whether you work at a bank as a ceo you don't go to work every day
00:08:00.480expecting that someone's going to be there with pom-poms for you every single time you stock the
00:08:05.900shelves straight or every single time you make a good deal as a ceo and and i say this all the
00:08:11.880time it goes across the board whatever your job is whatever it doesn't matter and that's who thomas
00:08:18.320mass he was. And it was the same thing that we saw with John Cornyn, who was a total rhino.
00:08:27.600Grandstanding, grandstanding. And then when push came to shove and he realized
00:08:31.300the writing was on the wall and he was S-O-L, he wanted to post pictures of him on Twitter,0.99
00:08:39.780reading Donald Trump's book, kissing his rear end. Now, as a grown man,0.99
00:08:44.540you've got to have some self-respect at some point the old saying you made your bed now lay
00:08:50.180in it i think resonates perhaps now better than more now than ever you can't go one day bashing0.99
00:08:57.000the man you can't stand them you hate them to when you realize you're sol kissing his rear end0.75
00:09:04.020you've got to have some self-respect as a human being and i hate to say it but i think a lot of0.98
00:09:11.260Politicians don't. And they'll do and they'll say whatever they have to in order to win their next primary, in order to win their next election, in order to get their next endorsement.
00:09:23.020I think those days, folks, are slowly starting to wean.
00:09:28.480As President Trump made some unconventional endorsements.
00:09:33.440Over the course of this last year for these midterm elections, folks, I want to take a quick break.
00:09:38.640We're live tonight for the Great America Show.
00:09:40.120So if you're tuned in, let us know where you're tuned in from.
00:09:42.340We're going to get to your shout outs before the end of the show, I promise.0.66
00:09:45.660We're going to go a little bit deeper into this Cornyn race, into this Chip Roy race,
00:09:50.660into the future of the GOP and where it sits and where it's going.
00:09:56.020And is it smooth roads ahead or is it bumpy roads ahead?
00:09:59.560We're going to take all that up and much, much more as long as as well as some updates
00:10:03.580from President Trump's cabinet meeting today with some big news.
00:10:08.420We're coming right back. Don't turn that dial.
00:10:15.940Thanks, everybody, for staying with us here on The Great America Show.
00:10:18.520Like I said, if you're joining us live tonight, please be sure to hit the like, subscribe and follow button.
00:10:22.180And let us know, as always, where you're tuned in from.
00:10:23.780We're going to get to your shout outs, all that good stuff before we wrap up tonight's show.
00:10:27.520But first, I want to get a little bit deeper into these races as it sits right now.
00:10:32.900So according to the Secretary of State's office out of the great state of Texas, 100% of the votes have been returned for all of those races.
00:10:43.960And we're pleased to, as we said, report some of these winners, and one of them being the next attorney general, hopefully, for the great state of Texas, Mays Middleton,
00:10:54.500a self-funded man who spent I think over 15 million dollars of his own money in a race
00:10:59.840against a household name in Chip Roy bidding him 55 to 45 uh 755,000 about 756,000 votes almost
00:11:12.100to 612,000 votes folks that's massive Chip Roy is a household name that everyone knows
00:11:20.720Mace Middleton, if you polled every one of us on the show, we would have never heard of him, I can guarantee almost.
00:11:25.560Unless you're from Texas before this race.
00:12:10.280Why was John Cornyn so rebuffed by the voters?
00:12:18.100And as I was going through my morning reading this morning, I try to give all media outlets the benefit of the doubt that on any given day, they could put out a piece that actually makes sense.
00:12:29.000They could put out something that is halfway decent.
00:12:32.320They could put out something that they're not lying about.
00:12:36.240And I couldn't help as I went through my morning reading this morning.
00:12:41.720Scrolling past this from Politico, the Texas GOP has finally turned on Cornyn.
00:12:48.900The senator was a towering figure in Texas in national politics.
00:12:52.520His law signals the end of an era for Republican establishment.
00:12:57.780The story career of Senator John Cornyn came to a swift and decisive end at the hands of the GOP voters who once propelled him to power.
00:13:04.640The senator was a towering figure both in national and Texas politics, known for his sober temperament,
00:13:09.580his ability to cut deals and roles in shaping the Senate GOP conference during the last four presidencies.
00:13:14.480And just about an hour after the polls closed on Tuesday, Cornyn lost his primary to Ken Paxton, a scandal-plagued MAGA darling who was boosted by President Donald Trump's last-minute endorsement.
00:13:25.700That I disagree with because Ken Paxton was winning with or without the endorsement.
00:13:30.640Cornyn's defeat is rattling the establishment wing of the GOP, who viewed his brutal primary as a battle for the soul of the party.
00:13:36.660In other words, could the rhino establishment hold on for just one more time?
00:13:45.280The problem with the Senate is, folks, is it's six years.
00:13:51.400So if you let one of these snakes slither through, it's not two years.
00:13:58.160It's a six-year term for him to do a lot of damage.
00:14:03.380his supporters mourn his approach and absence in the senate another example of an institutionalist
00:14:09.860who fell victim to the rise of populist right which they see at the end of an era for compassionate
00:14:14.880conservatism i don't even know what that means compassionate conservatism quote it just blows
00:14:22.620my mind anybody can look at john cornyn and somehow call him a secret liberal rhino said
00:14:28.800john schroeder the mayor of georgetown texas and a court and supporter if that guy can't pass a
00:14:34.620conservative litmus test who can and this is what's wrong with the party folks because in just a
00:14:40.800moment i'm going to tell you what's wrong hopefully mr josh schroeder's tuned in tonight
00:14:46.900corny's law stands to further deplete the corpse of senators willing to work across the aisle on
00:14:53.020the thorny policy issues from immigration reform to gun safety potentially contributing further to0.95
00:14:57.480increasing polarization on Capitol Hill. I'm sorry. When did it become a thing that the
00:15:04.920Democrats wanted to work with the Republicans on issues that actually need to be worked on?0.68
00:15:10.860Infrastructure, the SAVE Act. If we can't agree on one fundamental thing with the Democrats,
00:15:17.920there is no ground. Excuse me. There is no ground for working on anything.
00:15:27.480If they can't agree on election integrity, where our elections are free and fair from cheating, there's nothing to work with them on.
00:20:39.180Cornyn was thrilled to vote to certify Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
00:20:44.440Accepted Biden as president-elect and gently pushed back, gently, on Trump's election fraud claims.
00:20:51.260Including criticizing firing of Chris Krebs.
00:20:55.940Who came out just days after the election and told us that it was the most obscure election we've ever seen.
00:21:00.760Or January 6th, which Cornyn came out against all the January 6thers, expressed both privately and publicly about President Trump's conduct around that time.
00:21:19.040And it said, behind closed doors, he was secretly in favor of impeachment, although he ultimately voted to acquit Trump in his second impeachment trial, publicly.
00:21:30.760How about in 2023 when Corman came in publicly and said, quote, President Trump's time has passed him and suggested the GOP needed to move on before later endorsing Trump in 2024?
00:21:43.760Huh. That goes back to the self-respect thing, to which Corden really doesn't have any.
00:21:50.280or how about some of his social issues when cornyn was so in favor of sponsoring legislation
00:22:00.740to make juneteenth a federal holiday a bit performative and unnecessary
00:22:06.760or cornyn's massive defense of the filibuster as an institutionalist
00:22:13.540didn't want to change the rules had no interest in passing the save america act
00:22:20.100though he later indicated willingness to support changes
00:22:23.940you know it was simple paxton came out and said i'll drop out of the race cornyn you just make
00:22:33.880sure that save act gets fast pretty simple to me cornyn could have got on his hands and knees and
00:22:40.340ran and begged every single rhino in that place it was against it just couldn't bring himself to
00:22:45.380doing it let's go back to 2017 when cornyn was furious that president trump fired fbi director
00:22:52.540james coney and defended figures like robert muller or esper and their attacks on president trump
00:22:59.420or back when he called trump's border wall proposal naive
00:23:06.180that's the john cornyn that people are just sick and tired of
00:23:15.460that's the john cornyn that will no longer be in the senate
00:23:22.540now you can run down ken paxton's record and it speaks for itself quite honestly folks
00:23:29.840paxton's record is absolutely america first
00:23:34.180He has fought from day one, whether it be the COVID mandates, the lockdowns, suing every single institution that needs to be sued, defending the liberties of Americans.
00:23:49.000That's the record that John Cornyn, that Ken Paxton has.
00:23:55.720That Cornyn couldn't possibly shine his shoes if he tried.
00:24:32.660yet he's stuck on going back to congress for the 174 000 a year make that make sense
00:24:39.560make that make sense you know lou dobbs used to always tell me
00:24:43.940politicians are politicians because they're not qualified to do anything else and i said he was
00:24:49.040crazy when he said it but as years went on i started to pick up on it and i said you know
00:24:54.720The old man's right. These people can't separate when they lose. They need to get back in it for the most part. They can't deal with losing and certainly are not qualified to do anything else.
00:25:09.740tells you what you need to know about our political institution let's turn now to some
00:25:17.120massive news folks massive news the justice department this week announcing you want to
00:25:22.700interview some poll workers and ballot counters who participated in the 2020 election in fulton
00:25:27.320county georgia in this brand new effort to dig up any details about ballot processing
00:25:34.280and any funny business that took place.
00:25:39.360A prosecutor working with a grand jury in Fulton County
00:30:53.820And my war on the veterinary industrial complex has only just begun as I went through this process for three weeks, treating him with chemo.0.99
00:31:03.540And actually, while I'm not even dying of the cancer, he died of pneumonia.
00:31:07.900That was just happened in a matter of hours.
00:31:11.140He's actually responding very well to the chemo tumors were going down.
00:31:14.780And, you know, earlier that morning, I was told he probably had about a year to live.
00:31:19.600And just hours later, I had pneumonia and I found myself in the vet to which he died right in front of me.