Hey, let’s talk about the mayor’s race, shall we?
It is
a lot going on in that race.
Let’s talk about that. Congresswoman. Sheila Jackson, Lee jumped in. This is after
John Whitmire was already in and
Amanda Edwards was in and
Gilbert
Garcia is in and manually. Okay? It goes
handicapped this for me.
Well,
she’ll Jackson leaves and tree was a bucket of cold water
over every candidate. Not named Whitmire,
their hope had been that they were gonna be able to compete among themselves.
Selves and get the second spot in the runoff and then go head-to-head
with Senator Whitmire. In December,
with Sheila Jackson, Lee. And during the race,
she’s
a heavy favorite to
be in the first round along with Whitmire and both go to the runoff.
What is your sense of what’s going on in that race? You think that that’s about the same
scenario or? But yeah, I think that
that complicated, a lot of the strategies that several candidates
had
and obviously, we’re going to see how, you know, the different demographics
in India.
City are going to be supporting one way or the other and obviously, you
know it’s going to be a battle between what
would say, you know, Progressive Democrats versus
more moderate Democrats and also you know we’re
going to have a middle-of-the-road Republicans so
it’s going to be an interesting mix. But I assume that we’re
going to have a very interesting Runner of eventually.
And this quote nonpartisan race is obviously
going to see a lot of dollars coming.
And I probably
it’s going to be really from both sides of the coin your thing. No, definitely,
this is
for the Houston mirror position. It’s a strong mirror position. The mayor
runs everything in Houston.
They’ll be there for four years, potentially eight years. So you’re
going to see a lot of money spent Desire with people wanting influence
and access to the Future mayor.
Let’s talk about the state of the country.
Treasury secretary. Janet Yellen is said that the United States
may be in danger of default. If its bills are not paid
and this is because Congress really hasn’t worked to raise
it.
Debt limit
and the debt limit. As I understand it is all about raising the debt limit to pay
the bills that the country has already incurred.
Republicans have said, yeah, we’re not going to do that until you cut things out of
the budget. And my understanding is that one doesn’t have anything to do with the other.
However
it’s the problem
because there’s an impasse and Americans are going to be in that
path
of difficulty that
who’s going to get the blame for this if it doesn’t go right. Well,
I think both,
I think the White House and Congress are going to get the bang because
if we don’t pass a that sin that has been done
before
doing the Trump Administration, Democrats voted three times
to increase it that limit and now
Republicans are saying well we’re not going to do it until you do
X, Y, or Z.
But the problem here is that it would only not have consequences
for us in terms of what would happen to the US economy.
It would have devastating consequences for
the
global economy. We would enter into economic
Mayhem.
If these does not happen,
people are saying that he’s not going to happen but it will certainly happen.
Markets are going to react in such a way
that is going to be very detrimental to every single
person in this world so whether or not they do it or not it gets close enough to the
time that the time limit then the market is going to react, right?
The markets are already reacting to it because we’re a month away.
And the Republicans and Democrats are playing a dangerous game of
chicken
and they’re really saying who’s going to Blink first and effectively
give in will Republicans
Give in on their demands, for the spending cuts or obiden, get
it, give in and allow the spending cuts
right now, it’s the damage is already done, but the damage
can get worse, especially if we get to the point where
we’ve hit the ceiling in the u.s. effectively defaults. It’s a messaging
thing too. Is it not? And because the president’s have always kind of said, they’d give
me a clean.
Debt ceiling raised,
without all of this stuff. And now, it’s different. Of course,
Republicans have been kind of different as a party
over the last number of years. Anyways, but this is probably par for the course,
right?
That’s Biden’s position is one has nothing to do with the other but
Republicans want to get.
You have Kevin McCarthy trying to keep together a very narrow majority
and this is something they can agree on trying to extort
spending cuts in exchange for their support for increasing the debt ceiling.
Let’s talk about the run for president, President Biden running for re-election
and
so is former President Trump or either. One of you surprised that
mr. Trump is still the favorite in GOP, even with his alleged involvement
in January 6, their
files, the
being found at Mar-A-Lago,
the
Still votes in Georgia, allegedly
criminal indictment in New York and also this
Civil Trial going on accusing him of rape right now.
Was it thinking about how we still the early GOP leader?
Well that mean
we haven’t God so far,
you know, a
close Contender that has declare their intentions
of running.
Obviously, we have Nikki Haley, that is running but
perhaps
not to the right of
President Trump or not
you know, leading what would be the soup.
Successor of the Maga movement and obviously, is
the question of Rhonda Santa’s is going to run or
not.
So
that’s has kept President Trump on top
of the,
you know,
voting trenches in the primary election.
Isn’t that the true though that
a few years ago, someone who came in with that kind of bags will be dead
on arrival
in the past. Yes, but
Trump has a very set of loyal supporters. Remember here that
he doesn’t need to win the
election in November, he just needs.
To win the Republican primary. And he still has very strong support
among Republican primary voters
and that’s going to be a challenge for all other Republicans who actually
want to win in November of 2024, because if
Trump is their nominee in 2024,
the most likely scenario is he loses to Joe Biden. Where is it? If it’s somebody
like Ron De Santos,
he has a much better Prospect of defeating the president,
even though right now,
people who look at what’s going on with the DeSantis pre-campaign
would say. Yeah, it’s not going really well.
What
people see right now.
Well, I mean
run, this ends has waited a lot of time
when he got his book out, there was the expectation
that,
you know, within a couple of days he was going to announce
his intentions but he hasn’t done. So
so that has taken a lot of steam out of his
political Machinery.
While President Trump has increased little by
little that perhaps Gap. That
you
know, Risa descent is was
Eating away slowly. So
we got a lot of time to think about it. A lot of time for you guys to come back and
talk about it. You know. You would you accept my invitation? All right.
Oh yeah, we’re
always. So we can eat up the rest of the next 24 hours. We’re going to do.
Thank
you so much, dr. Mark, Jones gerónimo, kirti Cortina. Thank you.
As always, thank you.