The Erick Erickson ShowAugust 6, 202637m

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And the senator goes into an elevator without answering. The other second senator, the junior senator from Ohio, has come out in the last few minutes. John Husted or Husted and said that Max Miller needs to get out of Congress. That is now both Ohio Republican senators say that Max Miller needs to quit the race. Miller says he's going nowhere that Donald Trump in 2016. stood his ground and fought back in one, and therefore he's going to do the same thing. He is an idiot because the history has shown repeatedly that the public gave Donald Trump a pass and gives no one else a pass on those sorts of things. And this situation continues to escalate for the guy who keeps digging his own political grave every time he goes on TV, he says more absurd things. Like, for example, the bunny. The bunny. His daughter, his two-year-old daughter has a stuffed animal. It is a bunny. And he refused to give the bunny to his father-in-law, Bernie Moreno, the other senator from Ohio, when Bernie Moreno picked up the two-year-old from a police station. Why did Bernie Moreno pick up the child from a police station? Because Max Miller is so unstable, the family did not feel safe picking the child up directly from him, so they had to meet at a police station. And Max Miller refused to hand over the rabbit. And then he tried to defend himself by claiming that there is a court-mediated family mediator. and he would give the rabbit to that woman, but that woman wasn't available, so someone else was suggested, but that guy wasn't on the list. And so he didn't want to give it to that guy. Even though the court said you can give it to this guy, he wasn't on the formal list. So Max Miller wouldn't do it. And also Max Miller's daughter broker collarbone. And he wouldn't take the daughter to the hospital despite a broken collarbone. And now he claims that he didn't take the daughter to the collarbone or take the daughter to take the daughter to take the daughter.

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Or some such, this is getting bizarre. He didn't take his daughter with a broken bone to the hospital to get the bone fixed because it wasn't on the specific list of places he could take his daughter under court supervised visitation. So he, I guess, could have taken her to McDonald's. with a broken bone, but not to that. He was also, by the way, accused of child abuse because of the situation. What a weirdo. And clearly not a good father. Listen, if I was, if I had a list of places that I could take my kid in the hospital wasn't on it and my kid broke a bone, I would take my kid to the hospital. I don't care what the list said. I'll fight it out in court later, but he wouldn't take his kid with a broken bone to the hospital to get help for his kid and his excuse as well, it wasn't on the list of places that I was told I could take her. Are you that stupid? This is Scott Jennings on CNN last night. Well, I think Speaker Johnson is an institutionalist, and that's the way the institution works. There's an ethics committee, and by the way, it does issue findings. Not quickly. No, but those findings do result in consequences quite often. Look what happened to Edwards today, as was noted. So he's not wrong about that. It's just in this particular case, there's a truncated... timeline for dealing with this in Ohio. So I don't fault him for supporting the levers of his institution that he leads. That shouldn't stop other Republicans. from saying what we all know to be true right now, which is at a personal level, if you have children and you're watching this unfold, you know what the right thing to do is. And then there are some political operatives out there saying, what's also obvious, as a political matter, this puts a relatively Republican seat at risk. But the real issue here is I just keep watching this thinking about the child, the mother, and look, I know Bernie Moreno. He is a good man and he cares so deeply about his daughter and that grandchild and you can tell how broken their family is. All politics aside, they ought to listen to Bernie. He knows what's going on and he knows what's right to do here. Why is it just Senator Katie Britt then coming out so far among Republicans who seem if they're in town and I know the House really isn't, but to be treating this as some sort of trick question and I'm not sure it is. Well, it's not a trick question, although none of those people individually are at the top of the party. They're members of the party, and I think their opinions matter. And certainly even President Trump, who is at the top of the party, has expressed at least privately to Miller his opinion about this. But certainly not publicly. Not publicly yet. Might be time to do it.

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To be honest, and maybe he will. And there's still a few days to go here, and we'll see how this unfolds. I know he remains defiant, but it was hard to, sort of hard to look at the details and hard to watch that interview with Jake and walk away from that going, yeah, everything's going to turn out fine. I think any reasonable person watching that knows that's not the case. Scott is right. And it's now time for Max Miller to leave the race. Those of you who are constituents of Max Miller, and I know I'm on the radio in his congressional district, you're a plus five district. You're an R plus five district, which should be comfortably Republican, but the generic ballot for the Democrats right now is D plus eight. That gives the Democrats an opportunity to pick up your district. You now have both Republican senators from Ohio saying he needs to leave the race. This is why it matters, and I made this point yesterday on CNN with Jake Tapper. I made this point on my radio show yesterday.

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His district, Max Miller's district, has 789,000 people. It's got 3,400,000 registered voters. A majority of those people, let's say 175,000 to 200,000 Republican voters. If you go back to 2024, Mike Rogers lost to Elissa Slotkin in Michigan by about 30,000 votes. In Georgia in 2020, Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden by 11,400 votes. You can say it was stolen. I'm not going to relitigate that one. Let's just for purposes here, he lost by 11,400 votes in Michigan two years ago. Mike Rogers lost by about 30,000 votes. If Max Miller loses that race in Ohio 7th Congressional District because Republicans decide to stay home, That could cost Vivek Ramaswamy, the governor's race in Ohio, and that could cost John Husted his reelection, which is why I think he's come out. He's run the numbers now. And he knows if Republicans sit out the 7th Congressional District in Ohio and don't come vote for him, he loses to Sherrod Brown. So Max Miller costs Ohio Republicans not just his race, but cost them the governor's mansion and cost them their Senate seat. That's the stakes in this race with Max Miller State in the race. And he can double down and insist. that he stayed in the race. He can double down and say Donald Trump didn't get out in 2016. I'm not getting out in 2026. But if Donald Trump called him today and said, Max, I'm going to bring you into the administration. I'm going to give you a cushy position without a congressional confirmation hearing. And I need you to get out of this race because the party's got to win in November. Max Miller would do it for him. Max Miller would do it. Donald Trump comes in and says, look, you're either going to lose in November, and you and I both know it, or I'm going to keep you in Washington in the administration at least two more years, and you can work on rehabilitating yourself there and save this seat in Ohio. But if you don't get out, you're going to cost us your seat, the governor's seat, the Senate seat. I need you out of the race. Max Miller would do it. Do it in a heartbeat. This requires presidential leadership, though. The Democrats forced Graham Platner out of his race. The president has every opportunity to push Max Miller out of his race. The president should push Max Miller out of this race if the president wants to win in November. And there are days I go, does he want to? Does he just want the Democrats to be a foil? This is the statement from the other senator. Of Ohio, Senator John Houston, this has now been posted. It was posted at 1.44 p.m. Anyone who commits domestic violence is not fit to serve in Congress. The House Ethics Committee should thoroughly investigate any credible allegations and any member found who have committed domestic violence should resign from Congress immediately. I know both Max Miller and Emily Marino as well as their families. I'm deeply saddened that their personal lives here become such a public matter, especially as it relates to their daughter Ruthie.

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One thing they both seem to agree on is that Ruthie's best interests should come first. Those interests will not be served by litigating these matters in public, but by addressing them privately. Given everything they're facing, I do not see how a campaign for Congress benefits any of them. I believe Max would be making the right decision to step aside as a candidate and resign from Congress to focus on what is in the best interest of his daughter. Years from now, I believe he will look back and know it was the right choice for her. I hope this decision leads to a more constructive conversation about Ruthie's future and gives Max and Emily the opportunity as private citizens to do as is in the best interest of their daughter. My prayers are with them and their families. Big deal for the second U.S. Senator to do this. Think now about the commercials the Democrat running against Max Miller is going to run. The Democrat now has Bernie Moreno saying Max Miller has mental issues, is abusive, and needs to go get help, not run for Congress. And the Democrat now has the other Republican senator saying Max Miller needs to get out of the race and take care of his family issues. And the Democrat is going to run a campaign that says, hi, I'm the Democrat. I know this district is majority Republican, and I probably will only have two years in Congress. But I think we all agree that Max Miller has serious mental health issues and needs help. And you're not helping him by sending him back to Congress and just put up with me for two years so that Max Miller can go get the help he needs and take care of his daughter. And by the way, Here's his father-in-law saying he's a mental basket case. And here's the other Senator of Ohio saying he needs to get out of the race. You may disagree with me, but do you disagree with these Republicans? The other thing that this does is it helps Vivek Ramaswamy should come out as well and say it and put some distance behind him so that Vivek Ramaswamy and Houston can both go to people in the South congressional district and say, hey, we need you to turn out. We give you permission to not vote for Max Miller, but don't stay home. Come out, leave that line blank if you don't want to vote Democrat and vote for us. We need your help. Miller being on the ballot is a drag on the ballot at this point, and it's a drag on the Republicans' chances of holding the House and the Senate and the Governor's Mansion in Ohio. The President of the United States, it's time for him to get involved in this. I know the President doesn't like to get involved in these sorts of things. It's time for him to get involved in these sorts of things to save this House seat, Senate seat, and Governor's Mansion in Ohio. And if you're in Max Miller's District, the Ohio 7th Congressional District, you should be calling his office nonstop telling him to get out of the race. Follow Eric on X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Rumble. Search E.W. Erickson.

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Welcome back. It's Eric Urickson here. 8779373425. Should you wish to be on the program, I would be very happy to have you. I got to talk about these moderate Democrats now deciding it's time to prepare for war with the left. They, you know, what they see happening and you can agree to disagree. I don't care how you look at it, but you just got to understand this. moderate Democrats look at the Trump takeover of the GOP and see something bad and they look at the Democratic Socialists trying to take over the Democratic Party and see the Trumpification of the party for lack of a better term. Now, I don't mean Democratic Socialists or Trump. I just mean that the moderates see what's playing out of the Democratic Party and they look at it and see that it looks like what happened to the Republican Party and they want to stop it. A moderate group says they're planning a $15 million effort to try to stop democratic socialism. It might be a little too late for them. Part of the problem you've got to understand on the Democratic side is what happened to the Republican Party side. The Republican establishment kept making promises to the base they never had an intention of keeping. Remember after Mitt Romney lost in 2012 the Republicans did an autopsy report? And what did the report say? The report said they need to abandon opposition to immigration reform. They need to do amnesty, all these sorts of things, all the things that Donald Trump rejected. And Donald Trump won rejecting the things that the establishment did. It was always kind of funny that autopsy report. It basically said if you, if you. rubes of the Republican Party which let us do things we think we need to do, we would win. And what the establishment wanted to do was to be Democratic light when it came to a lot of these policies. Trump gets on the escalator and gets off the escalator and says, nope, we need to round up the rapists and the criminals and send them back to Mexico. And the media would, oh, you're calling Mexicans rapists? No, that's not what he said. You mischaracterize him. And people got defensive on his behalf because they knew that's not what he said. And then he started saying that we need to do the deportations and we don't need amnesty. We need deportations. And we need to make America great again, and we need to not compromise with the Democrats. We need to beat the Democrats. People are like, that's our guy. The Democratic socialists have come along and said the Democrats have been playing too nice with the Republicans. They've been compromising too much with the Republicans. They've been lying, and they're too moderate. And you've got members of the Democratic base who have gotten super progressive, and they're like, yep, you know what? Our Democratic Party is too moderate. What's really wild is how far to the left these people are. And here's the thing, if you live in a big college town and you're a white lib, you probably think they're pretty moderate. That's kind of the crazy part of this, is that the progressives actually don't think they're that far left.

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They think that moderates are right-wingers. I mean, this is why they hate Elon Musk. Elon Musk is not a conservative like you or me. He's a much more moderate, socially liberal person. And yet, because he's not a hyper-progressive and he gets along with Donald Trump. The left has written him out of their side, and so he's never changed and suddenly finds himself on the right because that's how far left the left has shifted. They've gone insane. And even moderate Democrats are now sounding the alarm that we've got to stop the Democratic Progressive takeover the Democratic Party. I wish them luck, but I don't think they're going to be able to stop them. Now, I want you to stop looking for a bank and go to Old Glory Bank. Look, they share your values. Let's just start there. There are a lot of major banks in this country who they force their employees to go to their pride rallies and put their pronouns in their signature bios. And God forbid your conservative organization, they really don't want to bank with you. And you can kind of feel it when you go in the door. Old Glory Bank's conservative. They share your values. They are pro-America. They're not ashamed of being American. They're not woke by any stretch of the imagination. And they would love to do banking with people who agree with their values. And that's you and me. And they'll protect you and your right to bank, whether you're a business or an individual, a veteran, active, military, first responder. Go to Old GloryBank.com slash Eric today and sign up with them. OldGlorybank.com slash Eric. Member FDIC, Equal Housing, Linder, Terms, and conditions apply. my bank they could be your bank to old glory bank.com slash eric so um let's let's be grownups here i say that because i whenever i talk about these things i know how things um go In my first hour, I mentioned a piece by Mike Bloomberg about the Jay Jones Act and how the data shows the waiver of the Jay Jones Act has actually brought prices down in the United States. And somebody from down in Florida emailed and said, if I've got to quote, Mike Bloomberg, I'm losing the argument. Now, the argument may be from Mike Bloomberg, but... it's not only legitimate, we've got the data to show it that we got rid of the Jay Jones Act and prices went down. If you don't know what the Jay Jones Act is, I spent time on the first hour, you can go back and listen to the podcast, text Eric to 33777, listen to the first or the beginning of the second hour, and I explain what the Jay Jones Act is. But occasionally you cite sources in conservative talk radio. And those are liberal sources, and you have members of the audience say, well, it can't be true because of the source. Or what is most likely to happen is I tell you something I know to be true.

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but the president or someone says it's not true and you're going to believe the president. You're not going to believe me. The president has a vested interest in what he's saying. My interest is to tell you what's actually happening in the world and what's actually true. I think truth matters most. And I think if Jesus says I'm the way the truth in the life, then the truth is actually a knowable thing, a knowable entity. And I should tell you what's true. I shouldn't tell you the spin of the party line. And some of you will say, no, no, I trust this politician to tell me the truth, not you. So I don't know why you're listening to me to begin with. I'm going to tell you something that's true. And some of you are going to deny that it's true because the president has now rushed to social media to denounce the story and to say it's a lie. But I know it's true. And I know it is true because the president's own staff tell me it's true. Members of the House of Representatives tell me it's true. Members of the Senate tell me it's true. So I have senior members of the Senate, senior members of the House, senior advisors to the president all telling me that, yes, the story is true, and they're very angry about the leak. And I have the president saying it's not true. And I interpret it as the president is trying to tap down on the leak, but the leak is true. What am I talking about? This is from CNBC. The U.S. Army has used up most of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts. The missiles are principally the Army's surface-to-surface weapons known as Army Tactical Missile Systems, A-Tacombs and Precision Strike Missals, PRSM. The U.S. has used virtually all of these weapons, according to two of the sources. The degree to which the military is running out of their army tactical missile systems and precision strike missiles has not been previously reported. The long-range munitions are an important part, the Army's arsenal, allowing accurate strikes from a safe distance. U.S. supplied tactical systems have played a key role in the war in Ukraine, allowing Ukrainian forces to attack targets inside Russia. The precision strike missile is a newer, more advanced generation that will replace the older systems which have a shorter range. The story is true. You may not want to believe the story is true, but the story is true. The story is true, according to people who work in the White House at senior levels, talking to me. The story is true, according to senior members of the Armed Services Committee in the United States Senate, talking to me. This story is true. According to ranking Republicans and the House of Representatives who are talking to me, this story is true. The people in the House and the Senate are not hearing it from the White House. They are hearing it from officers in the military and people within the Pentagon who want them to know what's going on.

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The Washington Post says that Camp David, Pete Hegseth, was confronted by President Trump over the bare weapons stockpile, and Pete Hegseth defended himself and blamed his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, for the shortages and for not ensuring Trump was fully apprised of the situation. People familiar with the situation say, This story is not true, according to people in the White House, that there was a discussion about it, but it was not a heated argument, and Pete Hegseth did not throw Stephen Feinberg under the bus, from what I'm told. The White House has come out forcefully and denied the story. From what I am told, there was a discussion, and the president is alarmed at the lack of missiles, but he is not angry with Pete Hegseth. The White House denied the confrontation with Hague Sith and the president, saying this literally never happened. And we told the Washington Post repeatedly the BS story was shopped in many outlets by someone clearly out to disparage the secretary for whatever reason. Two things can be true. The president and Pete Hegseth did not have a heated argument about this, and Pete Hegseth did not throw Stephen Feinberg under the bus, and also we have the missile shortage. The president has now come out in the last little while on social media and said the whole story is not true. that we do not have a shortage of missiles, and the people who are leaking this will be found and tried for treason or whatnot. Let me see. This is the president's tweet. The fake news, as usual, is spreading false and completely unfounded rumors. I am extremely happy with the job Pete Hegseth is doing. Everything has been extraordinary, including our attack on Venezuela, where the result was accomplished in less than one day, allowing us to bring out one of the worst criminals anywhere in the world, Nicholas Maduro, to justice. Likewise, Iran, where the country has been decimated for the purpose of not allowing it to ever have a nuclear weapon, is going very well. Pete is highly respected within the military and has made tremendous improvements, including get rid of DEI and increasing recruitment to historic levels. This rumor was started by the Washington Compost, one of the worst media outlets in the business, despite our telling them the story is completely false. In actuality, I really believe their fake reporting is treasonous. The president has also suggested they will hunt down the treason, and they will hunt down the leakers, and they will prosecute the leakers. I'm totally fine with them doing this, but also I need you to know that multiple people in the White House are telling me that we are running low on missiles. And they are deeply concerned about this issue, and they are deeply concerned about people inside the Pentagon being unable to get their hands around the issue. We have a shortage.

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And our defense industrial base is slow to rebuild. The president is now denying that we have a shortage of missiles. You should understand that. But again, inside the White House, there are plenty of people who say, actually, this is true. And they say that it's a problem. And they say that there's no easy solution. Now, I think there's got to be an easy solution. If you will remember and recall, the president told defense contractors that he is going to limit their CEO and executive salaries if they can't get the ball moving on acquisition, procurement, and development. And I think they need to. What I find most notable is that I'm looking at the rapid response from the White House. team and I am looking at the president's accounts and there's not a great deal of pushback on the munition stuff. The president did put this on social media. He put on the U.S. has massive amounts of munitions, especially of certain types. Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. is needed. Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country's history. The leakers of these treasonous and estates are being hunt down. Long-term jail sentences will be salt, President D.J.T. We have massive amounts of munitions of certain types. That is true. We have large amounts of certain types of munitions. We just don't have large amounts of the surface-to-surface missiles. There's a slight of hand here in the president's response to these stories. Now, what are things we can do? One, if Congress would actually allow the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth to be in charge of procurement and acquisition, we wouldn't have this problem. Part of the problem, you've got to understand this issue. Part of the problem is Congress. And the congressmen and senators I've talked to acknowledge that Congress is part of the problem. The President of the United States wants a particular new type of ship built. People within the Navy don't want the ship built. They don't think it's the type of ship we need built. We need more submarines in particular. We need other sorts of ships built, but the president wants this ship built. And the Defense Department is essentially dragging out the development of the ship until the president is no longer president so that they can rapidly change course once he's gone. But Congress, too, wants defense industries in local districts. They want certain munitions built in certain ways that benefit congressional districts. They dangle the strings on how things are built, and they dangle appropriations to benefit themselves as an employment contract for citizens in their districts as opposed to actually fighting wars.

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Congress has got to get out of the way and let the Pentagon actually build what the Pentagon thinks it needs. The Pentagon right now is developing these new missiles that will replace the short-range missiles. They're longer-range precision-strike missiles that the Army wants, the Army needs, and Congress has dragged its own feet in helping develop these things and dangling and putting strings attached to the appropriations. Y'all, we got a real problem, and the White House is not really denying it. They're playing a three-card Monty saying, look over here, we got plenty of these munitions, and that's not what people are talking about. Yeah, we got plenty of air-to-surface missiles. We got plenty of missile missiles. What we don't have are the missiles that the Army needs, and those are some of the most important missile systems we have, the surface-to-surface missiles that the Army uses. And... They're developing new missiles. The development has been slow. They have the blueprint for them. Congress itself has gotten involved and slowed things down, and we need this process sped up. It's a real problem. China is going to begin a war within the next couple of years, if not the next year, with Taiwan. Xi Jinping has been moving heaven and earth to purge members of the military standing in his way. You know, ironically, one of the arguments made by people who are China observers is that if Xi Jinping went away, the people replacing him are even more extreme.

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That's actually, I'm led to believe not actually the case. Many of the people that Xi Jinping is replacing are people who think war for Taiwan is foolish. Plenty of them actually think that China needs to give up its expansionist ambitions and play nice with the West. And Xi Jinping is replacing those people. He wants war and we need to be ready for that war. We need to be able to help our allies. It's ironic. Some of the people within the administration are kind of okay with the lack of weapons systems because they think it'll keep us on the sidelines, and they view that as a good thing. The isolationist Congress are the same way. They think it'll keep us on the sidelines, and that's a good thing. It's not a good thing. We need the weapon systems. And I need you to know that the story is not true. The president had a disagreeable encounter with Pete Hegseth, but it is very true that we have weapon shortages. And it is very true that Pete Hegseth himself is concerned about the shortages. And it is very true that our defense manufacturers have not ramped up the development. And part of the reason the defense manufacturers have not ramped up the development is Congress itself is failing to appropriate the money to fund the systems that we need. Congress itself needs to fix the system. Now, you need to fix your sleeping system, and part of that begins with the perfectly snug mattress topper where it can cool you down at night. It's like an air conditioning for your bed. My cozy earth sheets on top of this perfectly snug mattress topper is like perfect. It keeps you cool at night. In fact, the other night, now last night I was warm, and I had to crank up the – and my cozy earth sheets were in the dryer drying, so I went to bed, had different sheets on the bed, and my room was hot. The door had been closed. The air conditioner had been turned off. And I cranked up the perfectly snug match shopper, and I could hear the fans worrying, but they were still pretty quiet. And I could watch the fitted sheet inflate, and it actually cooled down enough. I had to turn the thing off last night, and then woke up in the middle of the night when I went to the bathroom, and I turned it back on. And it's just the thing will turn on. It will adjust automatically the night, and I turned off how it adjusts. But I got such a great night's sleep, and you can too with a perfectly snug match dropper. It really does work. It's like an air conditioner for your bed. It can heat you up. It can cool you down. It's very quiet. You have two zones for your side and your spouse's side, so you can be hot, she can be cold, and vice versa. You go to perfectly snug.com slash Eric. You save $280. Perfectly snug.com slash E-R-I-C-K, save $280. Sleep well at night with perfectly snug mattress hopper. It really does work. You control it with your phone. It can turn off automatically, turn off automatically, adjust through the night. It'll keep you cool, keep you warm, however you need it. Perfectly Snug.com slash Eric. You're at the intersection of politics, news, culture, and current events. It's the Eric Erickson Show.

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Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Delighted to have you guys with me. It's too late to give you the full number. We are, we're running out the clock here, aren't we? Which is fine. Okay, we got to get back into news headlines because the news continues to bubble up. You will notice we do not yet have a Iran deal. We're hoping. We're hoping, but I'm not sure we're going to get one. And that leaves instability in the Middle East. However, Wall Street is convinced there's going to be a deal, and so Wall Street is open. And as a result, we should be seeing the podcast go back down. By the way, we have this weird James Talarico story. After months of denying... that he was engaged in an inappropriate relationship with his chief of staff while he worked for him. James Talarico is now admitting they started dating while he was paying her. He said he had a longtime girlfriend, a rock and best friend. She's a health care lobbyist. Used to work as his chief of staff began when she worked for him. And it's just weird that he is leaking these sorts of stories. But here's the problem. The Paxson campaign is in the polling averages behind. And not just in the polling averages is he behind, but... Donors in Texas, this is growing alarm bells for the Texas GOP. Major donors in Texas on the GOP side are not writing checks to Ken Paxton. They decided to sit on the sidelines. They don't like him, which is wild to see. You know, Ted Cruz never ran behind Beto O'Rourke. They always ran close, but Cruz was never behind, and Texas Republicans are starting to fret this race. Now, I'm in the camp that still thinks Ken Paxton's going to win. Because I think at the end of the day, people are going to do the polls and they're going to say, not this James Talarico guy. He's too far left. But Ken Paxton's campaign is essentially running the whole ad campaign right now on James Talarico is not manly enough to be the senator. Talariko is responding and saying that Paxson is not ethical enough to be a senator. And I think the ethics argument is weighing on people's minds over Paxon. And I'm starting to see the Christian nationalist types on social media say the National Republican Senatorial Committee has to fund the Pakistan campaign. Why should they when they've got all these other races to fund? The whining by people who see the writing of the wall is just extraordinary. We'll see how it plays out. I still think Paxon wins ultimately. Now, I've got to tell you about incogny because my phone doesn't make sounds like your phone makes. The sounds of the telemarketers calling, nonstop, annoying you. They won't leave you alone. They get your phone number from the data brokers. The data brokers sell them all your information. They sell them your voter file. They sell them your...

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