And this is used to newsmakers extra. I’ve been talking with judge, Ed Emmett
and dr. Michael Adams about the previous election and we’ve
been talking about a lot of different things.
George Abbott,
judge Abbott,
Governor Abbott won handily. No issue there
all the state Republicans won.
What does that mean? We’re going to continue to see a solidification of what’s
been in place, which really
was contentious throughout the last few years? Yeah,
well number one, I think Beto. O’roarke was
kind
of a tired.
Candidate in the voters eyes.
I think somebody more exciting
might have made it a little bit different but the national Trends
tended to take effect at the state level,
not so much at the local level
and so
yeah I think takes his Stila pre-read Republican
state.
What difference is it going to make in terms of way things are going, it’s Governor
Abbott has been pretty
evident that they really really hard on immigration. Those kind
of issues busting people out to different states and step very contentious.
In that regard. We’re
We’ll continue to see more of that. Surely I think I agree with the judge.
That Texas is a rich state. If you look outside of the big cities
or the urban areas,
also, you have to consider what one would call Trifecta government.
And if you look at the governor, the executive branch and you have both
houses of the Texas legislature.
If I were to dims, I would cringe somewhat in terms of some of the legislature
that would go through. And I think the session
upcoming session probably is going to look more like the last one
in terms of the passing of senator
One.
So this time around, will see
critical race Theory, some of those kinds of things.
And I think the governor may push
out
other
what could be described as Draconian, kind of legislative
things,
not in the best interest of Democrats?
Well, we’ve been looking at what’s been going on. I talk about National races and what
it can mean for the rest of the country.
There’s not
a huge wave of Republicans
winning off. As expected
this time around the president’s approval number in the 40s.
The district this was not
There was a
statistic say it’s going to be a way. Now
Kevin McCarthy is saying, I’m going to run for speaker of the house
before this. A lot of rhetoric about a lot of investing investigations against
the by the administration.
Are we headed toward a couple of years of GOP? Payback what do you think?
I
don’t think so. I don’t think the margin is going to be that big,
but
since you opened up, the national can of worms, I’m going to go ahead
and say it.
As long as Donald Trump is still on the stage, Republicans are
going to have trouble.
He is
Is
whether you agreed with his policies or not. I hear that all the time,
but
he’s toxic particularly to young people
and
it affects even local races. You have to
local Republicans had to kind of do this dance of.
I’m a republican. What do you do? You support Trump and they did
very well naive
and it’s a hard thing to deal with because of his personality.
I
mean,
let’s face it, he’s
an obnoxious bully
and
that’s not
Type person that people want to be president.
And so it filters down and
we’ll see what happens
coming forward.
How big of a difference you think that’s going to make nationally? I think it
will.
However,
we had this expectation that that would be this red tsunami
or big wave
that didn’t happen
and if you look at it, the
out party, the party that is not in the White House. Normally, they
do much better
in the midterm elections,
so this is really interesting and I think is
She’s very close,
even if McCarty becomes the speaker of the house,
he’s going to have some issues within the Republican Party, trying to
control
a caucus, for example, very similar to Nancy Pelosi. So
now he has to deal with Margaret, Taylor
green
and share, and that’s going to be really interesting, and it may impact
on his ability or to work with the president in order
to pass legislation or to make compromises
real quickly.
The reason I bring
Donald Trump into it a lot of these
Candidates were his
hand-picked candidates
and they were not acceptable to the general public in a
in districts. That would normally have voted Republican
because it doesn’t take, you know, 45 percent to switch one of them
and we saw that all over the country,
but you have people in place. Now, who may not have been
Trump people, but they have had his influence now. So
those
folks in the house
as you talked about, Kevin McCarthy’s, got to deal with
the
freedom caucus and farther to the right of Freedom caucus
for
We’re going to be a challenge for him.
Right now, we’re looking at a national story. We’ve got in Georgia, where
the the
what’s going to be happening here? A dead heat basically. Although
Reverend
Warren act
had more a percentage, but did the
Georgia rules? Require a runoff
how surprised are you that? We’re even at that point
in Georgia with that senate seat with that Trump selected
candidate.
I’m very surprised as a person who spent time in Georgia
and goes back or you have to
I reflect on Sherman. I
Tecton, people like Herman, Talmadge to see two
black men
up for the Senate,
but it’s about party control. So I think the factor here
if
will this seat make a difference and I think that will drive turnout
on the Republican side.
And you also have to look at that basically Kemp he
he didn’t blow out Stacey Abrams
but it wasn’t, it wasn’t close.
So we’ll
what happened there that they not vote for Herschel Walker.
And will those were two
Republicans return in the runoff election.
And
I know there’s a lot of people who
the former president says, he’s going to declare that he’s going to run for office
again.
And there are a lot of people who are saying, please
don’t do that and especially don’t come to the state of Georgia. Do you think
that what he does is still going to have an influence because
because Herschel Walker his guy? No, no, I mean, it hardcore, his
guy from the back of the New Jersey. Generals days.
Absolutely. It’s going to have an influence. If you go back to the
2020 election cycle,
the same thing if
Former President Trump had been quiet.
Maybe those Georgia races would have ended differently
but he’s down there claiming
the election was stolen and
and Governor camp and others the Secretary of State were saying
no, it wasn’t. We, it was done.
And so I think that’s why I kept one and
and while Stacey Abrams wasn’t a total election denier,
she never conceded the election.
She said there were and I think
that hurt her a lot.
Yeah.
This is going to be interesting, isn’t it? Yes. There you can have a lot to do,
of course. And we have, we haven’t even mentioned Florida and Michigan.
right,
the results are totally opposite. They’re totally opposite and the fact
that Michigan now has
all the cry affected. Also top of a legislator, and
the governor. Yeah, but
as they are solid now in blue territory, Michigan,
Florida is just as solid in the Red Terror, right in the issue of abortion
was on the ballot. There, it was success and even in Kentucky
abortion, so
it’s going to be really interesting leave.
Up to 2024.
Okay? So for the next hour, We’re going to have this. I’m just kidding, we don’t have another
but
I could have this conversation, you know, I could.
But
we’ll come back because I know this is going a lot to be talked about between now
and whenever so thank you guys for coming on and being a part of the
election night coverage as well, we really appreciate it. Thank you.
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