Discussing Primary Results In and Out of State with Jeff Poor - 8-12-26

Dale Jackson here with you. Thank you for being here. Jeff Bores back with us. He's been out gallivanting around the country and has finally decided to return home. We appreciate him coming back and talking with us. He is with FM Talk 1065 out of Mobile. He is with Breitbart. He is with 1819 news. And the guy is busy. So let's start here in the state of Alabama. He joins us on the Alabama A&M $350 million Bulldog Hotline. Jeff, help me out here. Anything surprising for you anywhere in the state of Alabama yesterday besides the fact that anyone was able to find their polling place because, man, super confusing that there was an election yesterday. So anything besides that, that was surprising to you? weren't most of the polling places i don't i don't my polling place was the same as it always did sorry jeff the people are stupid they were all very confused i was told so the thing like no uh but uh otherwise everything went as expected i think the uh the uh all the uh congressional special elections I think you could have had an even higher turnout and you still would have had the same outcome. So this is a good depiction of the public and where it is. Yes. Now, I think that's a fair way to put it. I think everything is where it was probably going to land regardless. You now have Shamari figures and Rhett Marcus. running against each other. He's a state representative, and he is running in that race. Shamari Figures is, I'm guessing, the sacrificial lamb for the legislature to draw the seat. They wanted in order to send 6-1 back to D.C., and I'm sure people will tell me, well, no, it was just meant to make the district more competitive. Yeah, whatever, fine. But... The fact is that's the battle. A.L.com says this is going to be the most watched battle in the country. I don't know if that's necessarily true. What should we expect out of that race? Is Shamari figure is going to be able to raise a ton of money? I mean, by being an incumbent, he could walk to the mailbox, raise at least half a million dollars, just because that's the way D.C. works. So he will be a Democrat. Unlike any other Democrat outside of Terry Siller, Doug Jay Jones, with some resources to at least use. Now, how they will be applied? Will they be used to pay off Joe Reed or something? I don't know if that's the most productive use. But he will be as an incumbent. He will have some money in the bank. Is that race in doubt at all? Or is it a foregone conclusion? I was kind of holding judgment on that until we saw what we would be at last night's outcome. I, you know, 50% is probably about where Rett Marcus needed to be to, to, to feel safe for him to feel safe in a crowded field. I still think he's a weak candidate. And here's the thing, when I say weak candidates, it's not about necessarily about him personally. He's a guy from the wiregrass, a very rural part of the district.

Shamar figures is going to have the population centers. He's from Montgomery. And this is sort of like what happened with Bobby Bright and Jay Love in 2006 when Bobby Bright, the Democrat rode Obama's coattails or no, it was 2008, rode Obama's coattails and won that seat. So there's a, there's a template there that could be used. That's 20 years old. And I don't know if it's still applicable. But when the legislature drew AL2. They were trying to pass muster with the federal court at the time to lower court and selling that as an opportunity district. I don't know if there's enough African-American voters in the district now to really carry it for the Democrat. But I don't think it's a foregone conclusion. It's not going to be like up your way with Dale Strong or Jerry Carl or any of these other guys of Gary Palmer. This is going to be a little more competitive than the rest of the state. And, you know, they're going to have to do, they're going to have to continue the work here to win that seat. Okay. So, Marcus is in a pretty good position. Remember, the last Republican to win from that district in the way it was currently constituted was Barry Moore from Enterprise. But it wasn't. It wasn't constituted that way. The district's different. How different is it? How different? Okay, tell me how different it is. They've included more of Montgomery. They've included more of the black belt. There's more Democrat votes. They were trying Dale to to make this a quote, unquote, opportunity district. in the eyes when they were taking it to court. The legislature was really trying to change the lines. Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff. That was an opportunity. It's not the same district. No, I understand. I understand. But when we say opportunity districts, it's opportunity, wink, wink district, right? Yeah, yeah. And the courts said no. And then they went and just did it themselves. And we know how that ended. But it's not, it's not the same as the Barry Moore district. You know, it's maybe five, five, 10 percent variance there. Okay. Is Terri Sewell in any danger? I can't imagine she actually is. No, I don't think so. But I'll say this. The Republican candidates, that district's going to change. And I think they run now. They get some name ID. Amy Aiken runs. She runs again in two or four years, whatever they changed the lines. I figured that's what that was about. All right, moving on. Let's talk nationally. I think yesterday was very good for Democrats. You have a couple of places where I think there was going to be maybe some opportunity for pickup. Francesca Hong. who I am predisposed to like for many reasons. She has found herself into being crazy and Republicans just torpedoed her, much like they torpedoed Graham Platner, even though he made it through the primary. And then they're left with a stronger candidate. What impact that has down the ticket in Wisconsin? It has some impact, I'm sure, but it further solidifies that state probably is a blue state moving forward. In Minnesota...

And you can tell me if you disagree with this at the end. In Minnesota, Amy Klobuchar, someone who's won multiple terms of the United States Senate, is the gubernatorial nominee against Michelle Tofoya, formerly of ESPN. And I saw a funny picture online today with Tommy Tuberville and Michelle Tofoya doing an interview during a game. And it's like, oh, my God, it's the senator for governor's candidate in Alabama. And governor's candidate, or she's running for Senate. She's running for Senate, excuse me, in Minnesota. But. Peggy Flanagan, for those who don't know, defeated a more moderate, allegedly, Democrat candidate there in Minnesota. So you got kind of a radical, progressive running for U.S. Senate in Minnesota and try to hold that seat. But Amy Klobuchar probably offers a bit of a buffer. Because of those two things. I think yesterday was a pretty consequential day for 2026. And you move Francesca Hong off the board. You stop talking about her crazy nonsense. You go right back to talking about Saeed, Al Saeed. But it's harder when you don't have a lot of them running around. Am I overplaying this? I would look at this. I think you're right. I think that you get to more electable candidate, and that's good for these states. And then you just look at the raw vote totals. You know, the, the Republicans had about 400,000 show up in their primary, almost 700,000 showed up in the Democratic primary in Minnesota. That's 6040, right? Yeah. And then the same thing with the Democrat. Now, you had way more interest in the Democrat race in Wisconsin with Hong and Crawley. But that was about $8,000, $7,000 and then $488,000 on the Republican side. And a non-competitive race, granted, but still, that's 300,000 votes. This is, this looks more wave-like to me in these swing states than we're letting on on the Republican side. Correct. That's it right there. There is a huge, Republicans have a problem. They've got an issue. They've got an issue here. And that issue is called Iran. It's called gas prices. And it's called a wave. And they've got all three. And those things are not going to work out in their favor. And it looks like we are probably dealing with something that a lot of people don't want to acknowledge. But the truth of the matter is Republicans are in bad shape moving forward. Yeah, I think these blue wall states are particularly important. Just raw vote totals going into November and Wisconsin is one of those states. There's no other way around. Like I said, maybe there's more competition. There's more intrigue. There's more voter participation. But right now you got to look at me. I don't know Tom Tiffany has a path. It's just not a Republican cycle. Yeah, exactly right. And again, the more crazies, the crazier they get, the better. And I just don't understand the Republicans' insistence of moving these chess pieces off the board before the elections. I mean, they should have stopped talking about Graham Platner. They should have shut up about Francesca Hong, let her go crazy. And then as soon as she is the nominee, just eviscerate. And that's as simple as it is. I mean, my guess is watch Michigan and see how El-Saii does.

economists but i mean the demand is going to be down people going back to school the vacation time is over you're going to see that and that's kind of a tangible impact but it's not going to be where it could be that's all point it's still not going to be below where it was at the start of the war they've got to get the national average down to like three bucks a gallon i think to get to that and they're around four right now so yeah the the whole iran situation went from a little stopped them from getting a nuclear weapon to wow we got to figure out a way to keep them from interfering with the straight-over moods and that's very problematic yeah that right there and we've they've they've developed Now, they didn't have it before, but they now have an opportunity to kind of wiggle in there and play a role with international shipping and politics and all these other things. And that's not good. I mean, I don't know how else to put it. It's going to be very hard for them to fight these battles against what's going on here when you have all these politics in play. Last thing. I don't know if you saw this. Why were people in the media, why are people in the media so giddy about Iran trying to kill Donald Trump? I mean, they're giddy about it. Okay, so it's, it is strange that, okay, it was too dangerous for Donald Trump to fly on this plane, but the media and some of these cabinet secretaries were on it. And they were the, they were in the line of fire here with the shoulder fire missile, like. Well, what's the story here? Because I would think if that plane were threatened by an Iranian, then they would have gotten everybody off the plane. So there's some, I mean, I understand it to protect a president, and I'm not questioning that, but media does have, it does raise some suspicion, I think. Well, here's the thing about it. Clinton did the same thing. There's a Clinton story that's very similar on this, where they did the same thing with the media. They had a situation where the media and they split them up and they did it that way in order to protect the president first and foremost. And that's the angle they took on it. Again, I'm with you a little bit. It's like that's kind of a weird look, obviously. But their number one mission is to protect the president. But that doesn't mean you kind of put the other ones at risk there. And I think the media is taking it personally. And that's, you know, these guys are divas, but this is how it's going to go. Yeah, I agree with that. I completely agree. And I think that they also just want to do the thing that they do, which is Donald Trump, man, he's so terrible. I mean, if you go watch, if you haven't seen this, you should probably go watch it. There's a crossover between. Rachel Maddow and what's his name? Anyway, Lawrence O'Donnell. And the crossover they have, they're like, he's not in control. Can you believe this? Isn't this hilarious? And they're like almost laughing at this idea that the president of the United States.

was almost killed and i just i just don't understand that in in the world of the media except just blind hatred which i guess i should be able to understand but that is and i mean i you know they didn't they they had to like they had to like take these people off the air after he was the first assassination attempt right that this is the you know like they're not going to say yay assassination but something tells me deep down they they're not going to be as sad about it as maybe they ought to be Okay, last thing here, Jeff, and we're out of time here, so I'm going to ask it real quick. Data Centers. What's Breitbart World telling us about data centers? What are the Republicans on Breitbart World tell us? Not the employees, the others. Brightbar War is skeptical of big tech in general, and so they're skeptical of data centers. I mean, that's what that's where the mood is. whenever we put up a data center piece it's it's it's it's it's it's it's a strange thing it's like three things it's yeah the environmental aspects not in my backyard it's the you know changing of the landscape and and and but it's also like well they're just got to use it big tech is going to use it to surveil you to get more in your life, to put up more flock cameras or whatever. And that, you know, there's just a general distrust of the data centers. Yeah. The fight, the Tuberville's taking a strange position here. Is it going to, is it going to, how much is that going to hurt him? Not. I mean, he's going to be governor and people are going to like it, but there's no alternative here. Fair enough. Jeff Porr, thank you very much. FM Talk 1065 down in Mobile, Breitbart and 1819 News. Go check him out right there. He joined us on the Alabama A&M $350 million Bulldog Hotline. Stay tuned. It's the Dale Jackson Show. Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. How would you characterize your prowess? I'd say my style is that I just kind of outwork everybody until I get there, because I'm not a quitter. It's just you. It's yourself. Everything else is team-oriented. The motivation, it was a sort of anger at myself for being weak. That ends up being the driving factor. That anger, that pride, that ego, I think it's a muscle. It gets stronger. When you take that voice seriously, you start to change your life. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. Start your day with the morning jolt of Drake Toll. Anywhere in the country. Your home for talking sports. The United States hockey team has four teeth left. What is LeBron James Legacy? Leonel Mess. 906 career goals is stupid. All of it. The Knicks. The Los Angeles Lakers. Aaron Rogers. Georgia football players. The Dolphins. The Mets. As it happened, when it happened. We'll talk all of it. Westwood One Sports Talk. Your home for Drake Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Morning people wake up for peace and quiet.

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