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As announced, she will run for the United States Senate on the Democrat side. The seat occupied by John Cornyn on behalf of the swamp, but he will not win the upcoming primary. Despite the fact that they will burn through $100 million, it could have been used to win other races against actual Democrats. Why is it so important that they pick their Republican? A Republican who's running third in the polls. Why is it so important that D.C. pick a Republican that is not popular in the state he is supposed to be representing after 20 years in office. Well, you know the reason. But on the Democrat side, Jasmine Crockett has jumped into the race. Dana Bash did a big glowing profile. We'll get into this this evening. The media loves this for the same reason we love it. It's an absolute train wreck. We love it because this shows what happens in the Democrat Party. This is the logical conclusion. You start with your Bill Clinton's, full of emotion, empathy, sweetness. Policy solutions roll up our sleeves and work hard and solve the problems. You start there. You end up in gulags under the control of Jasmine Crockett. You end up in the worst possible situation. You end up in a place where your grandma or grandpa cannot have a funeral when they died alone in the hospital because you weren't allowed to visit. At the very time they had three for St. George Floyd. This is the logical conclusion. I couldn't be happier. Because this forces Republicans next November to get out and vote. Because this shows the actual consequences. A Democrat who can hide what they're really intending to do and what they're willing to do when pressed by their party is dangerous. A Beto O'Rourke or Gavin Newsom who can smile and, oh, we're all just here together. James Talarico yesterday. You know, here's this guy, white liberal, who was the toast of the liberal establishment. And then a loud mouth, Mark Carney B, black woman comes sashaying in, just mouthing off, spouting off the crazier or the better. And she knows this. It's not who she was before. But she's figured out at work, just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did. And they go, oh, this thing fires. Let me try this again. Well, now they've all abandoned him for her. Welcome to the party, James Talarico. This is what happens. White liberals are only useful for so long. Because if we're going to scream racism, vote for the Democrat because everybody else is racist. We'd rather have a black woman doing it than you. Right? So now James Talarico's out there wondering why the entirety of the national media is covering her as if she's the only candidate running. Look at me. I'm over here. Everybody has a vested interest in Jasmine Crockett. The media loves it because they love a train wreck because it's great for ratings.

The Democrats love it because this is how you get black voters engaged. This is why they propped up Stacey Abrams, which was no small matter. That's a big girl. That's why they do these sorts of things. Because they're looking at their slate and they're saying, for us to win the midterms, we've got to have some polarizing black candidates. who can just screech racism, racism, racism, black girl power. And if we don't have that, then we may not be able to turn out the black voters. And that's what happened in 2024. People thought Kamala Harris could turn out black voters. She couldn't. Blacks didn't like her. She has a likability problem. Jasmine Crockett, when she started on the scene, we'll be playing audio of this in the coming months. She was attempting to speak in an educated manner. Because I have a law degree, you see, and I am a black woman who is a strong, smart black woman who can represent in D.C. She got there and she figured out, Sassy Black Mark Carney B. That's loud mouth, filthy mouth. That's what people want more of. That's what she morphed into being. Once that persona took hold, this is a woman who proposed more bills in her first term as congressman than any other congressman. Now, not one of them was passed, but she did propose more bills. Sheila Jackson Lee used to do that. There's a Houston press story about it. She would just keep throwing bills out there. And then... She would send out press releases. She's filed more bills than anyone else. Anybody can file a bill. Doesn't mean it's just walking outside and screaming. Doesn't mean anybody's actually doing anything about it. But this will become, and I would argue it'll be good for the Republicans, this will become the media moment over the next several months until the March primary. And you know that the CNNs and MSNows and they're going to get behind this as a historic moment. It's going to be a movie blockbuster. The Sheila Jackson Lee Wants to Be Mark Carney B. Jasmine Crockett. This election season, Texas has a problem. Her name, Jasmine Crockett. They call me the hood rat congressman from Texas. But baby, I'm about to be a hood rat center. From the hood to the halls of power, the queen of crass will add her unique flair to the lone star state. I put some hood in your neighborhood, sugar. You see her on the evening news, and you mistake her for an eyewitness to a Waffle House brawl. In reality, she's polling at 100% among dead people. Democracy's riding with me today. Okay. From the creators of the Leaning Tower of Weaver and Revenge of the Isle Hawn comes. Jasmine Crockett, Hood to the Hill, in theaters this election season, rated Oh No She Dead.

I want to go back to why these women are cheap. Mr. Michael Barry. I think that there might be. Oh, because I got nothing going on down there, probably. Shortly before Jasmine McCrackett appeared on stage, a so-called rapper named Cameron McLeod performed his horrible rap song about her. which included the line, they only trying to scare her out of running because they think she'd win. That's it. The Jasmine Crockett campaign was so proud of this rap song, they posted a recorded version of it with Jasmine Crockett sitting next to him. Okay, I mean, I... I guess that appeals to a certain demographic. Would you like to hear it? Would you like to hear the rapper at her announcement that they were so proud of that they then re-recorded it or recorded it and posted it? Well, here you go. And we're going to see how this go. All right, so all right? Let's get into it. Okay. She ain't never scared if she ain't never been. Who is willing to go toe to toe against the president? I can't wrap my head around someone who votes Republican. She advocate for feeding kids. They protect folks touching them. Trump and baiting his own country with our army. What a joke. We remember Pearl Harbor by illegally bombing votes, but y'all thought we wasn't going to do nothing, buddy think again. They only trying to scare out of running because they think she'll win. Listen, thought I told y'all we ain't never scared. Now look who name on the docket. Two words for every race is bigot. Jasmine Crockett. Yeah, that might be true. But in all the history, I know. I hear the words. So I wish I would choose. To me, I hope my money goes. Society isn't trying to say affordability's a hope. She's stand on business, Austin Toast. Texas dope. Don't need no more bad bill. Bleach, blonde, bush bodies moving forward.

So some of the words must up. When I posted on Instagram tonight, y'all just go listen to y'all hear the words. Amen. Y'all going to hear it. You're going to hear it. You're going to hear it. Y'all going to hear it. Y'all going to hear it when I post it. But y'all, y'all going to hear it. This rap, hot. Y'all going to feel this one. They're going to feel this all the way to D.C. I'm done. They're going to feel this. They're going to feel Jasmine Crockett. Boy, I'm done. So Colin Allred, who was the frontrunner for the Senate seat, got out of the race because Jasmine Crockett wields more power than he does. And so Colin Allred, who liked to be Mr. Tough guy before all this, has had to admit that, well, If Jasmine Crockett tells me to get out, I have to get out. Here he is on CNN talking about why it is he left the race because Jasmine Crockett called and told him to. Can you tell me about the conversation that you had with your friend Jasmine Crockett, how that went down and how you made the decision to let her take the wheel? I assume that's the way that you view this. Well, I wouldn't say that I view that way. It was a professional friendly conversation. And what I took from that was that, you know, I needed to try and decide what I thought would be best for the state, for the party, in a time and in a year where there is so much at stake. And, you know, this is not a normal time, Dan, and your last segment, you know, covering, you know, three or four things that in any previous presidency would have been, you know, the biggest scandals of that entire presidency. This is not a normal time. And there are so many people who have met who are so afraid. And in Texas, we are bearing the brunt of so many of this president's policies, from the tariffs to the immigration, you know, impacts in so many different communities. And there are so many people who place their faith and their trust in me. There's literally nobody who places their trust in you, Colin. There are so many people out there. And they're just, they're just counting on me. Who are you again? Colin Allred. And I'm all they've got. You know, I'm, I'm it. And they're like, please protect us from Trump. There's something these people do. They're not very smart. Colin Allred's not very smart. Actually, Jasmine Crockett is 5X, the intelligence of Colin Allred. That's the fact. Colin Allred's not a very smart guy. He's kind of like John Kerry for the Democrats. He looks good on paper. He's a ball player, but no one knew him as a ball player, not like he was a star. This isn't Tony Dorset or Roger Stalbock, Earl Campbell. And he's very, very willing and eager to say and do whatever he needs to do. In that sense, he's a real good boy. You know, when you tell your dog, he's a real good boy. That's what he does what he's told. He sits when he's told to sit, stays when he's told to stay. And that's what Colin Allred was. He was a useful idiot for the Democrat Party. And it turns out he was more idiot than useful. And that's why he was cast aside. Colin Allred, I remember.

I must have been in school back then because I remember him coming. Tony Sanchez was running for governor. This must have been 94. And he was a rich oil man from, was it Laredo? Where was Sanchez from? Anyway, he was a rich oil man and he wanted to be governor. About 5'4, a little bitty fellow. And he put together. what was supposed to be the dream team. They got Ron Kirk, who was a black law firm partner, former state, secretary of state. They had a woman, they had a Hispanic, they had a white guy. They had a gay guy, probably, I don't know. But so you had the dream team here. You had the United Colors of Benetton because every group was represented. So that would excite that demographic of voters, except it didn't. Well, that's Colin Allred. He was supposed to be able to draw blacks. He didn't. He didn't fare well with blacks. He didn't excite anybody black to vote. And sports fans. Nobody really knew who he was or cared. It wasn't like this guy had a fan following. And the problem is when you got past the two things that were supposed to be his assets as a candidate, he wasn't very smart. That's not a good... It's not a good, he's not exactly a three-two player there. So now he was going to run again because why not? Nobody else is going to run because a Republican can't win. And then Jasmine tells him to get out and he has to say I wanted to avoid a bruising primary. With the ghetto girl? Seriously? We have all your formal wear needs from morning suits to coordinating accessories.

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And then Pollard lost his way. He started getting court appointments from the judges that were on the bench at the time. I was very involved in party politics at the time. I had a great relationship with Rick Perry. We spoke often. And I had a group of peers that were coming up and I would make calls to the governor or he would call me and ask me about them. And we would talk about folks that would end up getting put on the bench. That, by the way, turned out to be great judges. In fact, one of those judges who was a great judge at the time was Jeff Brown, who was a friend, who was a conservative, who was well respected, he's smart. So Jeff Brown wandering off the reservation on this redistricting case recently was not only disappointing because it threatened the redistricting. It was disappointing because I've known the man for so long. This was very out of character for him to side with the Democrat. And Jerry Smith's scathing dissent in that case laid it all bare. He was not going to allow this to happen without it seeing the lie today. I don't know what happened to Jeff Brown. I'm disappointed. I'm angry because it, look, politics affects other people. But this was an issue that affected the entire country. And for him to do this as some sort of shot at Donald Trump, the man who, by the way, nominated him, was very disappointing. We were putting good judges on the bench, guy named Grant Dorfman, one of the smartest guys I've ever known to take the bench. Brilliant guy. was not a retail politician type, not a not a hellfellow well met, not a guy that was great at showing up at events, just a really smart, truly conservative jurist. A lot of folks go into, a lot of folks end up serving on the bench, especially an elected bench like this, who are not necessarily the sharpest pencil in the pack. But they glad hand well and remember names and raise a little money and hopefully the party wins and they get elected. Yet Ken Wise, again, another true conservative, Texas proud, constitutionalist judge during this time. Also a very smart guy. You had a series of Jennifer Walker Elrod who ended up ending up on the Fifth Circuit, became a federal judge and then fifth circuit. So all of us sort of ran together. And I was very happy at that time to have a little clout with the governor and be able to push their nominations along with a lot of other people. I'm not trying to take complete credit for that. And they were smart people who deserved to be on the bench. And it was a good time. The Harris County bench had some really good judges on it. Brock Thomas on the criminal court judge. Stephen St. James. I mean, there were good people in office. We controlled the district attorney's office. We had four of the five on the county commissioners court. And then Pollard, in my opinion, Pollard lost his way over trying to make some money.

And he started just focusing on getting appointments from the judges that he had helped get on the bench. It was a real conflict and a lot of people were complaining about it. Next in line was Jared Woodful. Well, the Texans for lawsuit reform people were uncomfortable with this because this guy is a plaintiff's attorney. So you went from a defense attorney to a plaintiff's attorney. But again, I think Jared did a pretty good job. And the party was in much better shape. Which brings us to where we are now, and the party is absolutely in shambles. You are listening to the Michael Bari Weiss show. Did I say Pollard? Several people correct me as Pollard. I know. If I said Pollard, Ramon says I did say Pollard. I know it's Gary Pollan. I knew Gary Pollan very well. He still does this little pay-for-play deal where you apparently pay him money and he writes a nice article about you and they mail it out to the base. They tell you, these are the conservative candidates that love Jesus and Texas in America. Sort of odd, but okay. Alan Blakemore used to be associated with pollen. Boy, they thought they had the whole world. But as bad as things were, we were winning the races and holding the bench and commissioner's court. And then it changed. So under Jared Woodful, who, despite being a plaintiff's attorney, which made the... tort reformed people very upset actually did a pretty good job and then paul simpson came in and i don't know what happened i sort of tuned out from the local party paul had been like the treasurer paul always struck me as the nicest guy in the world i later heard from a lot of people who were very critical of his leadership of the organization. It's a volunteer position, but it's a very important position. The party chairman is the one that, among other things, goes out and recruits candidates to fill these seats so that we have candidates for every position. And the one who kind of mediates arguments over who should run for this seat and helps candidates find the right seat for them. so that we get the most folks elected and the right folks in the right positions can be an important position. But then Cindy Siegel ran. I didn't know Cindy Siegel. She had run for Congress and lost. She's in Bel Air. I'd heard she was a nice lady and a very ethical lady. That was all I'd heard. I think my friend Tim Belton was the first person who bring her to bring her to my attention. I met her. She appeared to be a very nice lady. I couldn't say much more than that because I didn't have any deep conversations with her. But I started noticing the cracks. I started noticing, for instance, we weren't filling the judicial seats. If we have benches for which we don't put a Republican candidate up, we can't win that seat.

Rodney goes and gets candidates. Rodney is the de facto Democrat Party chair and so much more. But he goes and gets candidates. They might be a real estate agent who's never practiced law, but he makes sure they win. Then I started hearing things from people who said that they had wanted to run for a judicial seat and they were told they weren't qualified. And then they were angry when they found out. That no one filed for that seat. Well, you know you're more qualified than the Democrat who was a real estate agent who was never practiced law to be a judge. Are you kidding me? So I started noticing disgruntled people within the party started sending me, hey, notice how many of these seats didn't have any filings. And then I was told, well, Cindy Siegel's defense. was that she talked to you on your show. And I think at that point we had spoken one time. Nobody told me that it was my job to go recruit all these candidates. Every election season, I'd remind people, this is how you file. Somebody needs to serve. Why wouldn't it be you? But that's not my all-day, everyday job. You've got a budget. You've got staff. You've got headquarters. You've got brand. Get candidates to recruit other candidates. They'll be worse than an absolute bloodbath in the Republican primaries of candidates against each other. It's not having candidates at all. And that's what we've ended up doing. All the while, we've ended up losing Commissioner's Court. Where's the party been? I was talking to Alex Miller daily during that race. Wasn't much coming from the party. I've talked to people about what's going on with the commissioner's court. Where's the party been? The Harris County Judiciary, the civil courts and criminal courts. Where are the candidates? Where's the party? I did speak in an event at Federal American Grill that I don't know if that was coordinated by the party or by the judges. Jessica Cologne reached out. I don't do those things very often. I did agree to do it. And I thought it was a very good event. I think we raised quite a bit of money. It was a tough election season. We did pick off a couple of seats. I'm not angry over that. In fact, I don't take any of it very personally. However, if we're not getting the job done, it's time to make a change. This isn't a social position in a small town. It's a very important tactical and execution position. It's a head coaching job. And it does not appear that Cindy Siegel is the candidate, is a person who can handle that job. The numbers speak for themselves. It's nothing personal. The numbers speak for themselves. Candidates aren't being recruited. I think there are four candidates who are running. I know Rachel Palmer Hooper very well. She's the... General Counsel of the State Republican Party. And she's one of those people who nobody ever knows their name, but they get all the work done. To his credit, Michael Quinn Dan Sullivan at Texas Scorecard does a wonderful job. He gives an award every year. It's a pretty cool award. Give them like a sword. You've seen it? Give him a sword. Mary Talley Bowden won it a couple years ago.

And it's for people who advance advocacy in the name of Texas values or in the name of Liberty. And it's people like Mary Talley Bowden. Well, I had heard that Mary Talley Bowden was going to file for a precinct chair position. I don't know if she did. I hope she did. That'd be a hoot. But anyway, Rachel Hooper's husband, Don, has filed. And that's going to be interesting. Somebody told me there were four candidates who ran in there. I saw a picture of Don that I guess Rachel had put out that was him pointing at his name, but it was a grainy picture. I couldn't tell it. You couldn't read the board. I don't know if that means there were four candidates or what. But I would tell you that the number of people who vote in the primary goes way down, which makes your vote. much more valuable. So I would ask you to begin slowly. You don't have to pick a candidate in every race overnight. First one that you get mail from or the first website you show up on. But we've got to have a great turnout in this primary and we've got to get this right because we've got to win next November. We have got to win next November.

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