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Appreciate that. Joining me now to discuss GOP political strategist and insider Gene Valentino is with us. Great to have you, Gene. He’s also joined uh
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by the way, he’s the host of the Grassroots Truth Cast podcast. Wanted to slide that in for you. Also with us this morning, author and senior editor at the
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American Spectator, Scott McCay. Scott, always great to have you. Uh let’s start with the numbers. James was just reporting saying, you know, it’s not going to have much of an impact, but a
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strong indication um on the economy, which is, you know, all the talk is pocketbook issues and the economy. Um let’s start with you on that, Scott.
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Well, I just go back to 1983. Um when Ronald Reagan was uh was president in his first term, he took a bath in the
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midterms because the economy was struggling. Um, and then the next year, I think we grew at 7% and uh, you know,
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that was when the Reagan uh, recovery took off. Um, I think we may have some of that here with uh, with President
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Trump in this uh, second term. I I don’t think it helps him in the midterms at this point. I think people are voting on uh, the economy, but they’re voting on
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the perception of the economy that they’ve had over the last three or four months.
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Yeah, Jean, I mean, to appreciate the numbers, you’ll have to feel it as I mentioned in the weeks, months, maybe years ahead. Yes.
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Oh, yes. Yes. I agree with Scott’s premise. Although, there’s one distinction I think in this this is unprecedented. Donald Trump stepping up.
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He’s not on the ballot, but he is on the ballot and he’s putting forward such a momentum. You cannot help but believe
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the economic impacts are pending. Not to mention um maybe a mystery notice to the newsroom in the next few days on Iran.
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But economically with a Scottbesscent superstar in place, how do you not steer
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an economy to a better horizon uh unlike uh the history that preceded us?
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Yeah, it’s just tough on the trail at the moment when you’re staring down constituents with real pocketbook issues uh having trouble making ends meet in
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the month. So that is the task for the candidates as they take their their you know their cases to the voters right now. The president’s on the trail today.
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He’ll be in Texas. Two stops in that great state. Several polls are showing.
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Let’s talk the Senate race there. Ken Paxton tightening that Senate race in the last even couple days here trailing James Terico by less than three points.
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A lot of polls starting to coalesce here on this according to the Federal Election Commission. Meanwhile, looking at this screen, Terico has raised $130
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million. That’s that’s seven Scott times more than Paxton. So, does it surprise you that the race is still this this
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tight and Torico, frankly, isn’t just running away with it?
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Uh, well, it’s Texas and so there’s a a certain amount of the vote there that a Democrat just can’t get. Um, they’ve
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made a big thing out of how Ken Paxton is a bad candidate. Uh, very few people talk about how bad a candidate John
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Cornin was. Um, and that I think is more of a dynamic in Texas than actually James Terico is. uh is this sort of
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internal fight within the GOP. I don’t expect Haler Rico to win that race. I think that uh you’ve had a lot of smoke and mirrors in Texas. I think this guy
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is really really hard to sell in that state. Um and you know, Paxton’s been a great attorney general in Texas and he’s
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also been a great vote getter in Texas, too. I mean, he’s been, you know, in a lot of close polls in races that he’s won big and my guess is that’s what
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you’re going to see a week from now. Um, but yeah, the money that I mean the blood’s in the water because of, you know, the way that the establishment
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Republicans, the Bush crowd in Texas has treated Paxton, the Democrats think they can win and that accounts for that $140 million. They will bring money into
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Texas. They just don’t bring a whole lot of votes traditionally.
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Absolutely. The Terico campaign is is scrapping. They’re um really outraged by a campaign ad. They’re they’re saying
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it’s an attack ad that’s running against them. Listen to this. Do you keep seeing these attack ads against James [music] Terico? Look a little closer. The same
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super PACs are paying for nearly all of them. Texas Pack, America Pack, Lonear Liberty Pack. But who’s funding these
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Stark money groups? Elon Musk. This summer, Elon made some of the largest political donations in [music] American
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history. So, Jean, you know, Telerico has taken millions from billionaires outside of the state of Texas. He’s he’s
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spent a lot of time on the trail in other states like California and New York raising money. Elon Musk is actually a resident of the state of Texas. Your thoughts?
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Yeah, Elon Musk has done more for this nation than most could imagine. Uh the polls themselves
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are are dubious at best. I ran for office a few years ago for Congress and I wish I could trust the polls.
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Fundamentally, there’s basically a problem with the polls. I don’t believe them. They didn’t they don’t reflect
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necessarily reality. Oh, yes, you could argue some good polls are out there, but um I I I if if history repeats itself
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and Donald Trump’s presence in this campaign proves true, then this neckand-neck 5149
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4849 split between Democrat and Republican yields a fif a four to five point gain
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for Republicans in most areas around the nation. That’s my prediction.
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I want to play another clip of a campaign ad. This out of the state of Michigan. Uh Democratic Senate candidate Abdul Al sayed, he’s trying to distance
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himself from from this ad. Uh it is endorsing him. Um take a peek and I’ll get you on the other side.
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But honey, what?
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You’re going to have to put those eggs back. They don’t like [music] eggs anymore.
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No, they like eggs. But we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.
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What I mean, don’t we give Israel $4 billion a year anyways?
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Yeah. And now we’re giving them another $26 billion. Do you know how much that is per American taxpayer? No.
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It’s like $161 per person. Apparently, it’s costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.
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All right, your reaction, Jean. I can tell you’re waiting to jump in.
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as compared to $1 something billion dollars Obama left on the tarmac in Iran. Uh I don’t want to hear about it
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with our best ally in the world who stood shoulder and shoulder with us during difficult times overseas to
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defend Americans const America’s constitutional republic and the democracy. The least we could do is be
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helping uh Israel uh with with armament and supplies necessary for them to
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defend themselves. It’s ridiculous for us not to do so. Scott, quick final thoughts.
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I I think Somali pirates are probably a more of a reason those people can’t afford those eggs than anything having to do with Israel.
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