LAST NIGHT WE HAD TEXAS PRIMARIES, JOHN AND I COVERED IT
FOR YOU GUYS AT LENGTH, AND IF YOU DIDN'T HEAR THE NEWS, LET ME
TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT.
WHOA NELLY, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE
TEXAS PRIMARIES.
ON THE UNSURPRISING SIDE WE HAD TED
CRUZ WINNING THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY OF COURSE TO RUN FOR
SENATE AGAIN IN TEXAS, BETO O'ROURKE, A CONGRESSMAN FROM
TEXAS, OBVIOUSLY, RUNNING AGAINST TED CRUZ FOR THE SENATE,
HE WON COMFORTABLY, NO PROBLEM THERE, AND BETO O'ROURKE DOESN'T
TAKE ANY PAC MONEY AND HE'S VERY PROGRESSIVE, THAT'S GOOD AND
INTERESTING NEWS ON THAT FRONT.
BUT THE REAL DRAMA OF THE NIGHT
WAS, ARE THE JUSTICE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES GOING TO WIN?
THESE
ARE THE REALLY PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES, SOME OF THEM THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOT ONLY IS OPPOSED TO BUT ACTIVELY, OPENLY.
LAURA MOSER, THEY DID OPPO RESEARCH ON AND RELEASED IT
PUBLICLY.
THE CIVIL WAR WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAD
COMMENCED LAST NIGHT, SO WHO'S GOING TO WIN?
THE ESTABLISHMENT
GUYS OR THE JUSTICE DEMOCRATS WHO RUN WITH NO CORPORATE PAC
MONEY AND SIGN ON TO A PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM?
A LITTLE
BIT OF MIXED RESULTS, BUT PLENTY OF DRAMA, AND OVERALL I THINK
VERY GOOD RESULTS.
BUT LET ME GIVE YOU THE GOOD NEWS, THE BAD
NEWS, AND THE UGLY NEWS.
FIRST I WILL TIP OUR 40 TO OUR FALLEN
COMRADES, THERE WERE SEVEN JUSTICE DEMOCRATS UP LAST NIGHT,
IN TEXAS'S 7TH DISTRICT WE HAD J. DARNELL JONES, IF YOU MAKE IT
TO SECOND PLACE IN THE FIRST PLACE PERSON DOESN'T HAVE 50% IN
TEXAS YOU HAVE A RUNOFF, NOW JONES DID GET SECOND PLACE BUT
UNFORTUNATELY THE PERSON IN FIRST SQUEAKED OUT THE MAJORITY
THERE AT 52.8% SO THERE WILL BE NO RUNOFF, TODD LITTON IS THE
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN THE SECOND DISTRICT, SO DARNELL
JONES LOST.
FAN FAVORITE DERRICK CROW HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN
PROGRESSIVE POLITICS FOR A LONG TIME, HE WAS IN THE 21ST
DISTRICT, AND THERE WE HAD A CROWDED PRIMARY WITH A LOT OF
VOTE GETTERS, A LOT OF TIMES IT'S JUST FIRST AND SECOND BUT
IN THIS CASE IT WAS SPREAD OUT, AND IN THAT DISTRICT HE HAD A
GOOD SHOWING, 23 POINT, BUT UNFORTUNATELY CAME IN THIRD, SO
HE WON'T MAKE THE RUNOFF.
SO THOSE TWO JUSTICE DEMOCRATS
LOST.
NOW LET ME GO TO SOME OF THE WINNERS.
FIRST WE GO TO THE
MOST OBVIOUS ONE, THE FIRST JUSTICE DEMOCRAT TO WIN A
PRIMARY IN THE COUNTRY, IN HISTORY, IN FACT.
I BELIEVE THE
JUSTICE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS WILL BE AN INCREDIBLY STRONG,
UNCORRUPTED PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS INSIDE THE HOUSE AND SENATE AND
THE PERSON WHO STARTED IT WHEN THEY LOOK BACK IN HISTORY WILL
BE VANESSA ADIA, IN TEXAS SHE WAS IN THE 12TH DISTRICT.
WE
HAVE TO CONFESS IT WASN'T A SURPRISE SHE WON BECAUSE SHE WAS
RUNNING UNCONTESTED, HENCE -- [STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER.
VANESSA ADIA WON, AND ON OUR LIVE COVERAGE LAST NIGHT SHE
CAME ON AFTERWARDS AND TALKED ABOUT THERE ACTUALLY WAS A
PERSON IN THE RACE, BUT VANESSA'S CANDIDACY WAS SO
STRONG THAT PERSON DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE AND BY THE END SHE
WAS UNOPPOSED.
NOW, ANOTHER HUGE WINNER, AND WE HAD HER ON AS
WELL, ADRIENNE BELL IN TEXAS'S 14TH DISTRICT, SHE WON
OVERWHELMINGLY, ALMOST 80%, THERE WILL BE NO RUNOFF AND SHE
WILL TAKE ON THE REPUBLICAN IN THE 14TH DISTRICT AND THEY
BETTER WATCH OUT.
SHE TOLD A GREAT STORY, SHE'S A SECOND
GRADE TEACHER, A LOT OF THESE FOLKS ARE, VANESSA IS A TEACHER,
ADRIENNE IS A TEACHER, SHE TOLD A STORY ABOUT HER SECOND GRADERS
SENT HER A NOTE SAYING GO, MISS BELL, GO.
AND WE NICKNAMED HER
THE LIBERTY BELL.
SO SHE IS COMING.
THAT 80%, SHE TALKED
ABOUT HOW HER VOLUNTEERS MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE, SO PEOPLE POWER
ACTUALLY WORKING IN A BIT OF A LANDSLIDE IN THAT CASE.
ONE THAT
WAS UP IN THE AIR WAS LINDSEY FAGAN, BASICALLY TWO PEOPLE IN
THAT RACE IN THE 26TH DISTRICT AND IN THAT RACE WE HAD FIRST
LINDSEY LEADING WITH SOME PERCENTAGE OF THE VOTE
REPORTING, THEN HER FALLING INTO SECOND PLACE AND THE PERSON
ABOVE HER ABOUT 50%, BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY JUST TWO PEOPLE,
IT WENT BACK AND FORTH ALL NIGHT LONG, UNTIL LINDSEY FAGAN
DECLARED THE WINNER.
SHE WILL TAKE ON THE REPUBLICAN IN THAT
DISTRICT, THREE WINNERS GOING FORWARD AND NO RUNOFFS IN THOSE.
LET'S GET TO THE LAST TWO, THE LAURA MOSER RACE WAS THE ONE
MOST PEOPLE WORK PAYING ATTENTION TO, THE DCCC ATTACKED
HER IN THE PRIMARY VIOLATING THEIR OWN RULES NOT TO ATTACK
FELLOW DEMOCRATS, THAT WAS UNPRECEDENTED.
SHE WAS IN SIXTH
PLACE JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, COULD SHE MAKE IT IN THE TOP TWO
TO GET TO THE RUNOFF?
SHE DID, SHE CAME IN A PRETTY CLOSE
SECOND, THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THAT RACE, THERE WAS A
FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS BANKER IN THE RACE WHO PEOPLE THOUGHT
WOULD COME IN SECOND BECAUSE OF HIS MONEY, WRONG.
PEOPLE POWER,
LAURA MOSER, JUSTICE DEMOCRAT BACKED BY OUR REVOLUTION, BACKED
BY THE PROGRESSIVE CHANGE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE AS WELL,
GOING TO THE RUNOFF.
AND THEN LAST NIGHT JOHN AND I HAD A LOT
OF FUN TRACKING THE RICK TREVINO RACE, HE'S ANOTHER ONE OF THESE
GUYS, A REAL PERSON, A TEACHER, GOT A BUNCH OF VOLUNTEERS, HE
FOUGHT REAL HARD, HE STARTED IN THIRD PLACE WHICH WOULD HAVE
MEANT HE WASN'T IN THE RUNOFF, IN FACT GINA JONES IN THAT RACE
WAS ABOVE 50% FOR A WHILE MEANING THAT WAS BE NO RUNOFF,
BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN HERE COMES RICK TREVINO.
HE JUMPED INTO
SECOND, GINA JONES FELL OUT OF 50%, SHE BECAME LESS THAN 50%,
AND RICK TREVINO PULLS IT OUT.
HE IS NOW GOING INTO THE RUNOFF.
AND MAN, HE WENT SECOND-PLACE, THIRD-PLACE, SECOND PLACE, IT
WAS INCREDIBLE DRAMA LAST NIGHT, THEY HAVEN'T QUITE GIVEN HIM THE
CHECK YET, THEY WILL PROBABLY CHECK THE VOTES A LITTLE MORE
THOROUGHLY, BUT HE WON OVER 200 VOTES, AND BY THE WAY, GET OUT
AND VOTE IN THE PRIMARIES.
LOOK AT HOW LITTLE RESULTS ARE.
HE
WON ABOUT 200 VOTES.
SO IF YOU'RE IN THE 23RD DISTRICT IN
TEXAS AND YOU WENT AFTER IT AND EITHER VOLUNTEERED FOR RICK OR
DONATED TO HIM OR ACTUALLY WENT OUT AND VOTED FOR HIM YOU MADE
THE DIFFERENCE, HE IS LIKELY GOING TO THE RUNOFF.
BY THE WAY
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SO LET'S DO A TELL YOU HERE, THREE CLEAR WINS GOING
UP AGAINST REPUBLICANS, TWO PEOPLE IN THE RUNOFF, AND BY THE
WAY IN THE RUNOFF ONCE YOU KNOCK OFF A LOT OF THE ESTABLISHMENT
FOLKS, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE PROGRESSIVE OR CLAIM TO BE,
ETC., YOU HAVE ONE ESTABLISHMENT PERSONALLY GETS ONE PROGRESSIVE,
I THINK THOSE ODDS FAVOR IS GREATLY.
WE'LL FIND OUT IF I'M
RIGHT OR WRONG, BUT TWO PEOPLE IN THE RUNOFF AND TWO PEOPLE WHO
LOST.
THREE, TWO, AND TWO, THAT'S NOT BAD FOR THE FIRST
NIGHT OF THE JUSTICE DEMOCRATS.
I THINK THAT'S A VERY STRONG
SHOWING.
REMEMBER, WHEN I ASKED THE EXPERTS WHEN JUSTICE
DEMOCRATS FIRST BEGAN, HOW MANY JUSTICE DEMOCRATS DO YOU THINK
WILL BE IN CONGRESS IN 2019, THE ANSWER I GOT WAS UNIVERSALLY
ZERO OR ONE.
201 THE ANSWER I GOT WAS UNIVERSALLY ZERO OR ONE, THEY
GAVE YOU THE ONE.
SOME SAID I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THERE WILL BE ONE.
OF THESE
FOLKS ARE COMING, IF YOU AREN'T LOOKING OUT FOR THE LIBERTY BELL
YOU ARE MAKING A MISTAKE.
OF COURSE THEY HAVE TO GET PAST THE
RUNOFF AND BEAT THE REPUBLICANS, BUT THESE DISTRICTS ARE
SWINGING, AND TEXAS IS TURNING MORE BLUE EVERYDAY AND THERE IS
A LOT MORE DEMOCRATS SHOWING UP AND A LOT MORE ENERGY.
SO HERE
COME THE JUSTICE DEMOCRATS.
AND WE SAW OBVIOUSLY THERE IS A TON OF ANALYSIS ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED, WE SAW THAT BOTH WITH MANY JUSTICE DEMOCRATS AND ALSO
OUTSIDE OF IT, A LOT OF FEMALE CANDIDATES DOING VERY WELL IN
TEXAS, IT LOOKS LIKE BASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS AND BLAH BLAH
TEXAS IS ABOUT TO HAVE ITS FIRST EVER LATINA CONGRESSWOMAN, IN
FACT IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ABOUT TO HAVE TWO, IT SEEMS CRAZY
DEMOGRAPHICALLY IT HASN'T BEFORE BUT THAT'S ABOUT TO CHANGE
AS WELL, ONE OF MANY GOOD CHANGES COMING TO TEXAS
THANKS TO THIS MOST RECENT ROUND OF PRIMARIES.
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