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all across america we are red eye radio he is eric harley and i'm gary mcnamara welcome and good morning uh we'll uh we'll get to some analysis of the uh texas primary uh here in just a moment all right but uh i i saw this one because this all relates it it all relates just how radical is the left all right yeah now this is something new that i didn't know about yeah and thank you alan for finding this all right uh oregon initiative petition 28 unofficially reached the signature threshold last week to be on the november 2026 ballot all right uh on um february 15 2026 the petition's official name became the people for the elimination of animal cruelty exemptions. As KATU-TV explained, IP28, quote, would make it illegal to injure or kill animals and would effectively ban hunting, fishing, and the breeding of animals, end of quote.

And the breeding of animals.

And the breeding of animals.

All right.

So there you go. I just thought we would start with that's really going to be interesting to see how that well, because, you know, let me put it this way. I guess not that, you know, we tend not to to make absolute predictions, but I I think that that I'm not going out on a limb by saying, what is it? The 13 counties in Oregon that wish to secede and become part of Idaho.

Yeah, they were going to call themselves Greater Idaho.

Yes. I believe that in those 13 counties, this proposition will be defeated. They're all rural areas. I'm guessing.

There you go. No fishing allowed. No hunting allowed. Hey, Oregon, good luck with the disease. Yeah. You don't control the population of wildlife, you're in for it. Then they won't be able to find anybody to hunt after that. Yeah, good luck with that. And no breeding of pets. No more breeding of dogs. All right. Yeah. So you'd have to go somewhere else to get your dog.

or you just have to move now don't not for cats you know and i got a cat it wouldn't bother me because i just i always find mutts yeah you know so well and cats and i know mutts you know really are supposed to be dogs but mutts can be just whatever i have a mutt cat yeah and and cats

tend to be more cats tend to be feral than dogs so that's a good point and they're lawless feral cats are lawless they'll tell you we're outlaws oh yeah yeah and so we're going to do what we're going to do and you're not going to stop us with some stupid law right they're going to reproduce yeah they're cats you can't tell them what to do everybody knows that we we cannot get to the point

that we got to yesterday what's that in the second hour yeah whatever whatever i think it was second or first hour i thought it was the second hour when we got where we got uh just uh yeah oh yeah

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well i'll just say this you we all know you can't tell a cat what to do no so if a cat wants to mate with another cat they're going to do it regardless of the law so i just i i i saw that that's as far as i'm going with that bit by the way okay yeah because

the control room's sweating so thanks alan for that story i did not know that that was going on yeah uh in uh in in Oregon well I guess that you know the big political news and I guess it's not really shocking because when you when you live here in the state of Texas you know that Republicans have not viewed uh Cornyn uh uh as even though for the majority of the time he has voted uh you know with Trump the things that he voted against. trump with uh just you know doomed him right a long time ago so it's no right uh it's no real surprise that uh that ken paxton uh defeated incumbent uh uh john cornyn and you know the the media is just there are two things that the left leftist media went bonkers on yesterday first off it's that you know this means that tallarico is going to win no it doesn't no uh

No.

And the other thing yesterday was, and we'll get to this here in a little bit, is, well, Trump's to the doctor again. He's to the doctor again. Can you believe he's to the—the left went bonkers over that. Stop. You can't sell that.

Yeah.

You can't sell that. Well, you know something? He's been to the hospital, you know, three times in the last 13 months. Well.

Biden went to the restroom three times an hour.

By the way, so have I. Yeah. So have I. Yeah. And so when you get to be 80 years old and you're president of the United States. Or when you get to be 80 years old and you're retired. Sometimes you go to the doctor quite a bit. Exactly. But it's just, I mean, they were going, they were just all going bonkers on CNN and MSNBC. It was just, it was just like, guys, you're not, you can't sell this.

No.

And I think it was, I think it was Chuck Todd. Well, he's very loud. So people believe that he's always busy, but it's just that he's loud and, and you see him a lot, but, but he's not very, he's not really busy.

And it's just like, Donald Trump isn't busy and Kamala Harris will be stronger on the border. these are two things they're trying they have tried to sell in the past yeah i i mean i just

i i was just like i was laughing all day yesterday it was just like whoa right uh but uh ken paxton winning oh by the way when i because i voted yesterday oh man uh i had a bad ballot did you It took me, like, I, well, you know, because I voted, then I put the little sheet in, and just like our printer, the printer went on the fritz, you know, it went in sideways, they couldn't do it, so they had to, they had to reinsert the same, we, you know, had reset it, but then inserted it again, and it printed over the barcode, which then you couldn't submit it. So I had a spoiled ballot, so I had to vote all over again. That happened to me a few months ago. And then I had to take that ballot, and there's a whole process of you being there where you've got to take the barcode, the actual sheet, which shows what it is. i had to sign off on a couple of sign off on a couple of things and i had to as the voter take the you know put it in the envelope myself i had to do it yeah and then i had to you know moisten moisten it and lock up the envelope yeah and then did you lick it or did you lick your

finger and then yeah because i i don't look strange but i don't i don't like strange envelopes

I licked it. It didn't matter. At your age, you know what? Yeah, my age, right. You've had a good life. And I need extra, you know, immunity built in, so I need exposure to germs.

Well, and you don't get a chance to lick things. Exactly. No, no, no. We're not going to. Just go for it. Yeah, exactly. It's a Tuesday. Just party your butt off, you know?

And then that envelope went into another.

Start licking things.

Then this envelope went into a bigger envelope.

Yeah.

That I had to sit there and watch as they, you know, they basically locked this thing in an envelope.

Right.

So my envelope was in a bigger and looked like a much more secure, you know, envelope and close it.

Right.

And I'm like, wow. And it took like, you know, 15, 20 minutes to get the whole thing done. Now, while I was in there, and it was interesting because I saw earlier on, you know, this is when I woke up. So this is a couple of hours ago. I don't know whether this is still the case. Well, it is a case for early voting. Early voting just blew the numbers off of previous runoffs like this. And so, by the way, it's a runoff. I said primary, but technically it's the runoff election. You know, this is the fourth time I voted this year.

Yeah.

Four times.

Yeah.

I was like, what? Well, I voted twice today alone. So I went in, I suggested a drive in. But when I was in there, because I went and voted, so it's probably five minutes and everything went to X. was probably 25 minutes not one other person came in i think everybody early

voted not one democrat came in and i live in a democrat uh precinct not one democrat was in there and not one republican i was the only one in 25 minutes yeah and that was about 10 o'clock in the

morning uh we were about half full on each side when i went on yesterday so it was but you know why that ballot thing happened because i had a botched ballot thing happened a few months ago you know why that happened to both of us don't you jade helm 15 ah well the funny thing is

when they said okay because after i completed the voting they said okay you've got to come back here and we've got to have you sign stuff and you've got to make sure that you know you've got to put this in the envelope and everything and watch us seal it and everything else and i walked and said are there any hanging chads and one of the election workers the poll workers went i knew

you were going to say that did it uh did it kind of shred it or something did it no it it it deformed the corner okay yeah it deformed the corner mine was just a misread i didn't have to do the envelope thing yeah yeah so they just gave me a new ballot yeah the ballot i just signed something showing that the old ballot was you know and they destroyed the old ballot in front of me so the so the ballot

was or did something with it yeah the the ballot itself was destroyed yeah so yeah uh because then because when i put it in again i put it in again and it actually had printed part of it but hadn't and part of the barcode than the then it printed over that barcode but it wasn't exactly lined up which completely messed it up right yeah but and so then i realized that you know the when you first go and vote if you do it that way is we i've done it's been years you know you go in and you you know vote on the little computer and you and you put in a little sheet that doesn't register anything nothing registers until you go over and take that ballot and put it in right the actual

counter then it the longest it took me ever to vote was when i'm standing and it's in the this little small church which happens to be right near city hall where i live and you're standing in there and it was a primary and all of a sudden all of the machines just went off they didn't lose power to the building they just turned off they were the only things in the room that turned off so they had to get officials to reset the machines and i i was there about 35 40 minutes

oh waiting just waiting my longest was 90 minutes yeah yeah the uh 2020 election yeah yeah i went to the the it was early voting went to the school the the line was out the door around the corner i mean it was the the line probably was when i got in the line it probably was three or four hundred people in a straight line yeah yeah well in a line that zigzagged all over the place down

the longest line i i i ever uh waited in was uh 2008 that was it and it wasn't anywhere near well

the thing is too because i monitored it if i would have waited till election day i mean where were your votes right around the corner from my house i mean it's a it's probably a two-minute walk and it's right you know it's just on the next block and uh i actually when i think i talked about it on the air i said i've got to go by and see what it is when i would normally vote there was nobody in line on election day everybody early voted that year yeah yeah and so but uh but here in the you know the the the media look tallarico's got major problems let me play this this part of ken paxton's uh victory speech and talking about tallarico all right here we go my opponent is the

most extreme radical the Democrats have ever nominated. He's even running a vegan campaign, whatever that is. He goes by a few names that you may all have heard of. Some people know him as Tofu Tallarico. Some people call him Six Gender Jimmy. I've even heard some people call him James Tallarico. And others refer to him simply as Low-T Tallarico.

All right, and that was the commercial that we played last night. Look, when that pack came out, the pro Paxton pack yesterday, I went, oh, okay, their internals are showing he's got this thing lined up.

Yeah.

And let me just see if I can find it here because we had played it yesterday and this ad, which is, again, in his own words. and it's the problem that the tallarico is going to have it's the problem that the democrats are

going to have across the board because of so many radical candidates and because of whatever mandani does makes national news and then what's going on with the california you know governor's race and then uh what's going on with the the mayor's race you think and and people ask you know someone said well these are just mayors of cities i go no no it's indicative of where the party's going on a national scale right yeah you know this is the whole thing where's the party going but here's the ad that paxton's pack ran the day before he won and we played it yesterday and all of this is uh uh in tallarico's uh uh own words what they use against him the democrats have

a weird a weird candidate god is non-binary there are many more than two biological sexes in fact there are six. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption. The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. No need to sit and cry over, you know, your whiteness or your masculinity. They're going to call me a radical leftist. Something that you love that's

not family or friends.

I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind, the trans children.

The Democrats have a weird, a weird candidate.

Low T. Tallarico. Low T. Tallarico.

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We are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Crowley, and I'm Gary McNamara. You know, I found this interesting yesterday. I saw this from a political analyst looking at the voting numbers in the state of Texas. Paxton's margin in El Paso, Hidalgo, Harris, and most of the Rio Grande Valley are outrunning his overall statewide margin Wow. And are highly suggested, suggestive. A MAGA candidate retains high Latino support in line with the trends developing over the past six years.

Well, there you have it. I mean, you saw a lot of those areas vote for Trump and and that's kind of where it goes. I mean, Trump put his name behind Paxton. You see this trend and you see a trend where, especially with those living on the border, they're just absolutely sick and tired of the federal government not only not doing anything during the Biden administration, but creating the problem itself to begin with. And this is why they voted Trump. And it's likely why they're supporting Paxton.

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all right so uh yesterday we were talking yesterday and i think last last week but i I think it was I think it was yesterday. Yeah, man. One show just melds into another, doesn't it? But we were, you know, talking about, you know, the Democrats and, you know, this upcoming race and other races, the Massey race. Well, they're just going along with Trump. And I think the mistake that Democrats make is that they believe that Republicans, especially the Republican primary voter, is tribal. Look, tribalism exists in both parties. You know, we've seen it. But the tribalism is much greater in the Democratic Party, who lives with identity politics across the board. We already know that. Right. And as we have said, the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is the Republicans are still arguing issues. The Democrats haven't changed. they're in complete agreement on all the radical issues that they've been endorsing over the last decade yeah that they've moved to where they are right now right there is no the like somebody like Fetterman you know uh Fetterman look at I saw CNN the other day I think they were saying he's down 108 points he was like plus 68 now he's down negative 40 yeah right it's like sorry you've got to agree with us on everything or you're gone if you're not an absolute radical if you will not admit that a boy can be a woman and a boy should be in a woman's locker room and a boy should compete against a girl and a man can be a woman if the man says so

if you don't agree with that insanity you're out pretty soon they're gonna say you need to attempt to transition remember remember the whole thing where they said well you're a bigot if you say you would never date someone who has transitioned um yes remember that god yes remember that yes yes well we're not that far from them saying okay we all need to transition and if you don't you're

not one of us but scott jenny was on cnn and and brought that up because again they were relating You

to a, I believe, a caller, a Democrat caller here. But it's important to know the difference. And he, in a different way, says basically what we were saying last night. Here we go.

Jack from Detroit asks, why are Republicans not allowed to support their constituents instead of Trump? Why do they allow Trump to bully them into going along with him when they do not agree? Scott, let's have you take that one.

On what issue?

I'll read again. Why are Republicans not allowed to support their constituents instead of Trump? Why do they allow Trump to bully them into going along with him when they do not agree? Obviously, you're talking about who they believe he should endorse and otherwise.

Well, look, the president, as all presidents are, is the political head of his party. And his opinion matters a lot. When Barack Obama was the president, when George W. Bush was the president, when Bill Clinton was the president, all of these people had enormous influence over what the people in the party were going to do top to bottom. Trump, I would argue, of all of those people, is probably the strongest party boss of the modern political era. If he wants you to be the nominee of your party, he can will it into existence. But you have to understand, his agenda is what Republican voters, and especially Republican primary voters, it's what they've endorsed, it's what they voted for, they trust his judgment. And if he says, I think candidate A is better to enact that agenda than candidate B, they follow along, not because it's a personality contest, because they voted for a particular agenda out of this president and they want him to have the best possible team based on his judgment to enact that agenda. It happened in Kentucky with Massey. That was the issue there. They thought he'd gotten off the team. It's what happened in Texas. They believed that Paxton would fight harder for the agenda in corner. That's basically the underlying issue in all these primaries.

Duh. Yeah. Well, I think it's, again, the attempt from Democrats is to say people are just, it's blind loyalty to Trump. well that the issues don't matter when the reason that the republican party back in 2016 was so attractive to trump because as we pointed out you know it started with illegal immigration right and then it moved on to other areas but if there were ever was ever a candidate that convinced a political party on specific issues that the public was looking at and saying you're not nobody i don't care who you are whether you're a republican or democrat nobody is trying to solve the illegal immigration problem we believe it can be solved trump said he's going to do it it's something that he has held as a passionate opinion for a half a century yes and so this isn't like he's waffling on on on that and that's how he got in and then the economic issues And then looking at, you know, the you know, the the the the working guy, you know, deregulation of so many things that we've talked about, the deregulation of the federal government, the a smaller federal government, as we're seeing that he's actually done. These are issues. But I think what they're attempting to do, because when they say the guy said bully, nobody's bullied, nobody's bullied. They're not one Republican who went to the poll yesterday and said, well, I was going to vote for Cornyn, but I've been bullied by the president. I mean, it's a stupid question, but that's how they think. They think that Trump's just a figurehead of a person, and there's no issues that surround him.

And look how bullying is working for them. The mob rules, just what we said a moment ago. if you're not on board 100 as a radical you don't belong right we'll come after you the mob will come after you silence this violence tell me where the bullying is here's what i'd say you're absolutely right gary it's not about uh this loyalty to trump but it is about a support of trump's agenda right blind loyalty right blind loyalty it is about the support for the agenda If you want to call it, I don't know, loyalty to the agenda, but it is about the support for him getting his things done, which is different than the blind loyalty that you have on the left, which definitely is bullied. People are bullied into voting. How dare you? Remember Obama in 24, scolding black men who were going to vote for Trump. You know, you can't do that. This is, you know, say what you will about what Trump posts and, you know, the whole Democrats and all this ever, you know, over the last couple of days and everything that he posts. The support by the rank and file, what we pointed out with people in in these areas of Texas where where Paxton is outperforming the rest of Texas, where he.

you know where he's running and it shows that there is great support for president trump especially when it comes to the border there is great support for trump's agenda and that's the way it works nobody's being bullied into anything how could you be bullied when nobody who knows who you actually vote for exactly no idea yeah but when it comes to the left i believe there are people who feel like they've got to go along with well you know i'm definitely not going to vote for you know someone on the right i'm not going to vote for but that started to change in 2020 and 2024 it started it changed in a big way in 2024 as we mentioned with some of those border counties was it all but one border county i think in in texas i can't that voted

for trump and that's huge well when you when you look at it i use fetterman as the example if the election were held today fetterman would get smoked in pennsylvania because yeah the negatives of of of of democrats right you know and and so uh when you and that's why i said a year before if he wants to run again i'm now becoming a republican he may have a better chance oh maybe but when you look at fetterman what is really the issue i know when he looked at you know when he looked at the the last election and you know he probably looks at it and says you know democrats were ridiculous as he said democrats were ridiculous to say that the the you know the uh the uh the the border is uh is secure you know it's stupid don't lie to the public they're not stupid but really the thing that destroyed fetterman with democrats is he's not a jew hater right think about it he's not a jew hater right he doesn't hate jews he thinks that we should support a western democracy over a terrorist radical islamic terrorist regime theocracy in iran yep that's too radical for the democrats yes and so you talk about bullying what the democrats are saying is if you're not an anti-semite if you don't cheerlead for the radical islamic theocracy terrorist exporting country of iran over a western democracy of israel you cannot be in this party right period here yeah we're not talking about well we don't believe cornyn was because if you look at it you know one of the things that's that's really ticked off you know uh uh you know a lot of people is the uh the save act again yeah you can't get to 60 you know we understand all the arguments back and forth about getting rid of the filibuster and what would happen in in that but it's also the tone and the attitude that you have towards actually you know fighting democrats and we've talked about this before you know when i look at at at cornyn one of the problems i always had with him is he was one of the democrats that really didn't go after the heart of the democrat narrative every single day right right You know, he didn't go and say, look, this is what they're doing, and this is wrong. This is so evil. He didn't pound on it. He was viewed, and I know he voted with Trump the vast majority of the times. Oh, by the way, is 287 still going to change to Interstate 47? That's a recording came out. By the way, I think that actually hurt him with law.

Because remember, primary voters are different than just regular Republicans that don't vote in primaries.

Right, right, right.

You think that hurt him with primary voters? Because it was such a silly idea or over attempt over a kiss posterior attempt. Yes.

Over it. He was he was. Yeah. He was trying too hard.

There's there's this there's this highway that's near me. It's it goes but it goes from goes all the way up to like Wyoming or something, doesn't it?

Yeah. Where does 287 go to go to all the way to Wyoming? I think it does because it goes, I know it goes through, it goes into Colorado, I think it does, Colorado, Wyoming.

Where it passes, how far is it from me, about five miles from me, it's a highway at that point. Yeah. It's actually, you know, you go on it, it looks like an interstate, but it's not.

Yeah, my grandfather died on that highway at 287, September 1st, 1956.

Yeah.

Yeah, driving a truck.

They wish to make it, the plan now is to make it an interstate.

Yeah.

And so, and Cornyn had suggested, you know, that he'd like to call it, you know, interstate 47 after Trump.

Yeah. Right.

Yeah.

Yeah. I think it may have come off as, it's a little too hard.

It was like, it was what, two weeks ago, three weeks ago he did that? Right. Right. We are Red Eye Radio.

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We are on our radio. He is Eric Harley and I'm Gary McNamara. By the way, in the state of Texas, Representative Al Green is gone. He got smoked.

Yeah, thanks to redistricting, it was basically two incumbents going head-to-head. And, yeah, he's out. So Jasmine Crockett is gone.

And Christian Menefee, I mean, he's as radical as Al Green. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he's a younger version. Again, they're looking for someone who can sell the insane ideas, and so they're looking for new faces. Well, and it's exactly what. And you look at an Al Green, who, you know, he's the one that screamed to Trump at the State of the Union address. Yeah. It's like, okay, we need a new face.

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All across America, we are Red Eye Radio, and he is Eric Carley, and I'm Gary McNamara. Welcome and good morning. All right, so just so everybody knows, I mean, probably most of the country doesn't care about the attorney general's race in the state of Texas, but Chip Roy did lose to, and Trump did not endorse anyone in that one. Right. But he did lose to Mega Mays Middleton. Yeah. That was the ad that ran constantly. Yeah. So, here's the thing. Mr. Middleton assumed the MAGA crown. Well, yeah. Mega Mays Middleton.

I'll say this just anecdotal evidence here, though. But early on, I started getting Middleton mailers.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, it seemed like I was getting one per day, but it was probably, more accurately, at least one a week. And I don't recall getting any from Chip Roy's campaign. that's a great maybe if you know it could have been one of the days where my wife got it out of the mail we take the the all the political mailers they go into the my wife actually made the joke that one of the first meddleton uh campaign mailers came out she goes this looks like and i think it was in january she said this looks like a late christ family christmas card but because you know he had a picture of his family and that everything on it so it's like

okay here's what's happened in the past year here's what our family has done

we've gone mega um but it's no that's a i i didn't see one from chip roy personally i do

remember getting one from chip roy yeah and i'm trying to think if i remember a tv commercial from chip i don't that's a good point too i don't remember seeing one but here's the point maybe i did and it's just the fact that it was early on you know we i i agree with you one of The first mailers I got, one of the first commercials that I saw for anybody running, you know, in Texas on the Republican side was the MAGA Mays Middleton ad that was all over the place. Right, yeah. And it was the deep voice. I'm just trying to impersonate the deep voice. Not as deep voice as our deep voice guy. I don't think there is one. But still, it was MAGA Mays Middleton, you know. And it was – you remember that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so – but if you look at it, Chip Roy did better in losing than John Cornyn by almost nine or ten points. Yeah. So – but what does this all come down to? You know, when we look at it now, I mean, California's primary next week. I did see – let me just get very quickly here, just fill you in on the latest polling. Did I save that? Yeah, here it is. Two new, let me see, this is from Yahoo Politics, USA Today Network, this comes from. Two new California gubernatorial polls show a volatile June primary with just one week until Election Day. The Echelon Insights survey released Friday shows Republican Steve Hilton, the poll's sponsor, leading the field with 25 percent of likely voters our lead is growing hilton wrote in a post on x now's the time to come together and deliver the strongest republican finish now you could sit there and say yeah but he did the poll well i mean you would have to believe that echelon insight survey were then bribed to do it in his favor and go ahead i mean we you can you can make that case but in a separate global strategy group's poll sponsored by Tom Steyer's campaign and released the same day Hilton also leads with 22 percent of likely voters uh-huh Steyer and Beshara are close behind tied at 19 percent uh Sheriff Bianco holds 12 12 percent of uh of voters the thing is if hilton is one of the top two that's a good thing overall i mean for for because this is an umbrella statement i'm going to make because we could we'll and i'm sure we'll get into each individual race at some time down the line sure and we're really not going to know

where all of this is going as we've always said in most of these senate races probably till september or october right that's when people really start paying attention yeah to what's you know what's what's going on right now what you're seeing are the most loyal republicans and the most loyal democrats that have been voting that's what you get in a primary uh but the entire umbrella in the entire umbrella of what's going to happen i want hilton to be running i want there to be news items every day about hilton and besher or steyer whoever you know if you know uh whoever you know whether they come in one or two or two you know whatever order if the top two is hilton or beshera and steyer can only be two of the three right if hilton's in there he's going to be interviewed all the time if there are no if there are no republicans in there is if it's beshera and steyer well you lose a lot of because hilton will be interviewed everywhere yeah he's willing and he's willing to be interviewed everywhere yeah but and so right now it looks like he will be in the top two and so if he is i look at the umbrella of the midterms overall and this is an umbrella i'm including everything all together you know what we know where is the momentum the problem with republicans as we've stated it right now is prices the public blames them for the prices the economic numbers are not good but in almost every single poll i've seen and this is the one thing i think harry enton on cnn is like unbelievable people do not look at the democrats as the answer right and and so and again if if a deal is done, whether it's a good deal or bad, bad deal all right this is not about the the deal we make with the rand that's another topic which i'm sure yeah you know we'll cover that but if gas prices come down drastically that could be a huge that could be a huge boost for the republicans yeah now the problem with the democrats is every other is every issue every issue the public doesn't agree with them On the major issues, and that's why we stated if you take Trump's name out of it or any Republican and just put down the issues, where do you stand on the issues, the Republican Party wins in a landslide.

And so what you have here, again, if the Republicans can articulate their positions, but more importantly, as it seems like, especially with Tallarico in Texas, if you can simply run the ads with them in their own words. and you you you demonize the demonic stand that they that they hold on the issues yeah i'm sorry to say that you demonize the it's oh it's it's okay if you demonize the demonic stands that they have on the issues yeah yeah but when you look at and and i and i can say that because when you look at just the politicians that will be getting all the press of what they're saying in their own words you will be hearing from you know uh let's say steyer or besher and besher is horrible but hilton will be articulating for that governor the the governor's race the la race is going to get plenty of publicity in the senate i can see the democrats putting a general ad my god what the hell's going on a nazi a communist uh and low t tallarico by the way look if you say nazi and communist those labels are great the low t people would ask why is that all you have to do is play him in his own words you play tallarico with his own words over and over and over again on the radical positions that they hold and they really can't deny them because they're going to be doing friendly the problem is with somebody like a tallarico uh or a uh platner in in maine is even the friendlies are going to ask them questions when they say that their long-standing positions that they hold and what the republicans are accusing them of is not true right because the left's going to want to know why you're saying it's not true because we want you to hold those positions right you know you we we want you to say we we just don't want you to say that the bot you know that in my reading of the bible uh abortion is okay you know they want you to come out and say jesus was pro-abortion that's what the left wants yeah right and so if you start backing off as kamala harris that was one of the problems she couldn't do an interview she couldn't do an interview with anybody she could not do a long-form interview with anyone and when you see for example you know we we played the audio of uh steyer in california on with jennifer welch

what a nutcase no she is i'm telling you and you know when he started talking about the radical transgender movement it was horrible it was absolutely horrible and so the republicans have a great chance of i believe holding the senate and maybe even hold holding the house If gas prices come down, remember, prices will moderate because the president's tariffs, and when, July? By July, I think it's mid-June. Is it mid-June? I forgot what the actual day is. It's coming up here. Right. And so even the tariffs that are on now is a lot less being taken out of the economy than was before. Right. And so you get gas prices down, you get prices to moderate, and if the Republicans can successfully, in a truthful way, demonize the radical Democrats and where they are, and it's not hard, they're running a Nazi for Senate. But Gary.

he says he's not a nazi he was he's he's he's not a nazi oh okay he's gone from nazism to communism he's just he's he's a communazi he's he's he's pinballing back am i hitler am i stalin am i hitler am i style am i stalin i mean that by the way i'm i'm i'm having fun with that But in all seriousness, you could use that in a political ad.

Yeah.

This guy can't decide. Okay.

It's July 24th. Okay. So it goes basically at 12.01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on July 24th is when the 150-day Section 122 global tariff expires.

Right.

So if you get, if gas prices moderate, if there is some kind of deal, assuming that the Strait of Hormuz is straightened, then you have a lot of things that would moderate between essentially the beginning of August. you got about 90 days for prices to moderate which would happen if those things are in place

and and so when you look at uh again mamdani is not going it's he's not going to be buried by the election races the public is focused on what he is doing he's all over social media and the one thing is you now have the democrats that believe they've got younger people that can sell the insane ideas and the radical left does not want them to back off during campaign time and that's a problem that they have right that was a problem for kamala harris right she couldn't answer it you know tallarico's already out there saying they're playing quotes for me that they're taking out of context no they're not no no no no they're not not at all nope uh and that's that's the problem well to to give you an example let me just uh i want to find the i got this uh there's so many windows open here uh this is uh john hallman on um uh ms now and this was beginning of march when tallarico beat jasmine crockett this is on the most liberal network okay from a liberal all

right here we go but look i think joe the key thing here is that james tallarico was cast is cat was cast and increasingly is still is cast i would say increasingly but still is cast as a moderate there is nothing he's not a moderate yeah he's a he is a he and jasmine crockett had basically the same positions on almost every issue he's a populist he's a progressive he's pretty far to the left on a lot of issues there you go yeah we know that yep even they they know

it but they can't that's the problem it's very tough for the democrats to pretend to be moderates because the radical left doesn't want it yeah they want you to promote right what you actually

are no this has been a conundrum for them for quite some time and it was weird because when joe dropped out and then kamala is you know basically uh anointed what did she try to do she tried to be more like trump immediately of course she got backlash from her own side how dare you but they believe they have to in order and you do you're going to have to appeal to independence and how do you appeal to independence when you're that radical and you refuse to change in fact you're going you're going further in the radical direction if if you

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That's it. If you're already a moderate, you know, this movement of the party that we have watched in recent years further and further to the left, you're already a moderate. There's no place in the party for me.

I don't buy it. Yeah. Don't buy it.

Yeah, it sounds like somebody in Cornyn's camp on the phone whining about something, you know, that they lost.

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And we are Red Eye Radio. He is Eric Carley, and I'm Gary McNamara. You know, we had talked about earlier about how Paxton was doing with Hispanics. New York Times analysis from a few hours ago. Paxton is currently doing better with Hispanics than white voters. Wow. According to New York Times estimates. Wow. Wow. uh paxton was with mostly with white voters plus 26 percent hispanic voters plus 27 wow interesting so yeah we had we had talked about that uh uh earlier yeah but uh i just you know it's again i don't think it's and just so people know in the state of texas you know for example you can be an independent and vote in a primary you can only vote for one side though so you have people that move around that may that you know that may vote in a republican primary democrats could vote in a republican primary it was the whole thing that well paxton got in because the

democrats want him in that's not true yeah i don't i don't see that yeah uh because if if anyone is to think that in texas as a democrat then you underestimate the lack of confidence in john cornyn because that's the only way you can put it if you know thinking that well john cornyn was a you know, a shoe in and and Ken and Ken Paxton is going to have to, you know, work to beat the Democrat. But the fact of the matter is, is that I do believe that the president, his endorsement was helpful, but I think it gets back to who's going to actually get in there and fight. who's actually going to get in there and and do the work and which would be part of the agenda of the president but again the majority of the time cornyn voted for

with the president but the times that he didn't as you mentioned earlier that's what hurt him

uh you know we we had talked about the one new york times writer that said i talked to a you know moderate gop republican in texas who said i can no longer support this party it's either far left or far right there's no room for a moderate republican and we we called uh bs on that one yeah and you as you said he goes must be a disgruntled cornyn person yeah uh you know this goes back and and again i'm i'm uh independent i voted in the republican primary yesterday but uh i've been independent for a significant period of time now uh but uh and so when uh you know anybody has ever called me or you a rhino we've said well if we are if we were a republican in you'd be absolutely right we are a rhino we are way more conservative than the direction of the republican party the republican party is becoming a populist moderate party right and the democratic party is becoming a far left insane radical communist we can now add communist nazi party yeah yeah thank you platter we appreciate that well yeah commune and communazi communazi right he doesn't know am i stalin am i hitler am i stalin uh and the communazi communazi i like that you know it's but uh but so that's that's bs The Republican Party, especially on fiscal issues, in some areas, this Republican Party isn't even recognizable. When it comes to, for example, debt used to be huge for them. They've completely just said, to heck with the debt. I know that in the beginning of the term with Elon Musk and everything else, there was a great big promotion on it. We called them out on it. We were criticized for that, but we ended up being right. They weren't going to take $2 trillion off the budget. They weren't going to take $100 trillion off the budget. In fact, it will be interesting now once the tax refunds, excuse me, the tariff refunds have to be paid with the interest on that, what will be the debt? I heard in the last month it went through the roof, the monthly debt figure. But that's where they are. You know, if you look at it, I mean, how many times have you been a long time listening to the show on certain issues? Did you and I look at one time and remember, I don't even remember what the issue was. And we said, is there a conservative left in Congress? Right. Is there a fiscal conservative left? You know, they seem to have completely disappeared. Now, we understand why the Republican Party has become more of a populist moderate party.

It's because the public has. Yeah. Right. You know, we saw it. I think one of the beginnings, if you want to look at one of the benchmarks, it was when Trump in his first year. So we go all the way back to, you know, 2017 when it was, let's get rid of Obamacare.

Yeah.

And it was like, no, we're not going to get rid of Obamacare. We're just going to get rid of the mandates, the fines. Yeah. Right. But Republicans like Obamacare, they just don't wish to pay for it. And so, boom, we knew at that point that that was, I think, not that it wasn't slowly happening, but to us that was the initial benchmark of the Republicans abandoning fiscal conservatives.

Because it was somewhat of a cliff event when you talk about let's keep the benefits and let's eliminate the payment mechanism. Right. Right. That's that's exactly what Democrats try and do all the time.

And I think one of the perfect examples, as we have talked about the the populist moderation of of the the party, I think a perfect example of that, of somebody who is perceived as a conservative and he may be in cultural and particular cultural issues on fiscal economics is almost where the Democrats stood a few years ago. and that would be josh holly yeah and you look at him you see a bit he's a great look look at him up there going after that liberal yeah but he's the one that said that credit card rates should be 10 he's the one that's demonizing industry on a consistent basis right it's it's really become his go-to yeah and and that would be the you know one of the examples that we have the other example and we talked about this last night was how friendly trump has gotten with union leadership and the two

union proposals that the administration has backed that no Republican president would have backed even 10, 12 years ago when it comes to negotiations, when it comes to, in fact, the one bill, as the Wall Street Journal points out, takes away the ability of the union and their workers to approve negotiations and takes it to binding arbitration for new unions at new companies which is just completely and totally unacceptable and so you know you look at you though you know you look at those uh tariffs tariffs used to be the domain of the democrats 15 years ago now it's a solid republican uh belief you you can we can debate it back and forth what's good what's bad we're just telling you where the political party stood on these particular issues just a little while ago so while the republican party has become more populist moderate you have the democratic party that's just gone insane left and as we have said you know if there if there was a if there was a sane libertarian party out there you know we've always talked about the third we need a third party we need a third party well they tried to what was

the name of the what was that party again the no can do party the no labels the no labels party

remember that yeah i mean that was like the that was like the protesters on occupy wall street yeah all right the no conviction party remember remember the remember that that uh when they all sat and said okay uh we need to have a meeting here all right let's bring the meeting to order who are you to say bring the meeting to order you can't bring it how do we get our leaders in there we don't know well how do we figure out how to get our leaders well we need to come up with the plan no if we come up with a plan then it means somebody makes a decision and it's all not all inclusive yeah and and that was that was the no labels party where they said well we really you know we are a party that isn't my god it was the three bears it was the porridge party you know we don't like it too hot we don't like it too cold we like it just in the middle okay fine stop the rhetoric where do you stand on the issues we're not going to tell you where we stand on the issues because if we tell you where we stand on the issues we could alienate some people we just want everybody together and we said this is going to fail big time and as we know it failed

big time well remember how they screamed transparency yet they didn't want to tell anybody where they stood on the issues yeah and they didn't want to reveal anything going on in

their meetings i mean it was a it was a joke and we just said well that's not where the party is you know the people that are feeling lost politically in the united states yeah are really true conservatives yeah yeah but the republican party meets a ton of their needs and wants there were the democratic party doesn't meet any of their needs and that's why conservatives will still stay with the republican party right look we have great concerns with the republican

party yeah you know going back to that whoever commented you know whoever that source was saying well there are no there's no place in texas for a moderate it's far left or far far right well sorry the fact of the matter is the party's become more moderate and there is an effort to bring the party back to the right and for good reason here's here's the thing too where i would question a comment like that man i would have so many questions it wouldn't be just one well tell me what far right is because if you say far right some people you know on the left they'll say extreme all right let's stop that if you're somebody and according to the story it is who has been a republican tell me what too far right is on the issues tell me what too conservative is no that that's a that's a great no no don't say conservative too far right well far right yeah because that's the way they phrase right what is

what is far right who is far right right now when the media if you if you look at it the media would look at it and go the far right commentators like tucker carlson and candace owen right well they're not a part of the republican party anymore no they're not a part of the mainstream of the republican they've been severed they've been set

and a lot of it has to do with their anti-semitism and they're just all around general kookiness yes and it's like no they're not a they're not part of the mainstream so that's a great point who is

the far right of the republican party and if you're a person making that whoever that person is making that comment what is too far right for you on the issues what is too far right in fact because because what you're telling me is that you're you you're not trying to be a moderate republican you're trying to be a moderate because your concern is there are too many issues where the far right doesn't agree with you well what would that be well maybe this is what he's

Maybe this is what he's saying, is that since the Democrats now have a communazi, that, you know, that can be viewed as very, very far right. And so he's saying that the Democrats are going too far right and the Republicans are going too far left. Well, you know, yeah. God, this is fun.

Well.

Oh, geez. We are so doomed.

You know, if you're west of the east side and north of the south side and someone asks you for directions, no, but you make a good point, though. It's like, wait.

Because the far right used to be perceived as, you know, Nazis. You know, Trump's a Nazi, Trump's a fascist. That's far right.

Well, if you were going, like, back in our day, like, you know, when our parents would talk, if you were going to the Far East, that meant you were going to, you know, a certain part of Asia, right? The Far East. At some point, you've gotten too far. You end up back in the West.

I say, now it means Vermont.

It means New York City. Yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, again, how do you define it? How do you define too far right? We are Red Eye Radio.

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You know that's a solid point.

That's a great point.

And there was that. There was a lot of chatter around Paxton from the base. That's a really great point.

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