Trump gets DISASTER NEWS…in TEXAS ELECTION!

I would say the word to describe it for Democrats, tremendous, tremendous turnout. I mean, woof, Texas Democratic Senate primary turnout, the highest ever. It's no wonder Trump is panic posting all hours of the night about Texas. The numbers should scare him. >> Yeah. And I actually think that they're probably even more thin if we s if the um the turnout that was that is coming in is being calculated. Democrats turned out more yesterday than they have since the for the first time turned out more gems than Republicans since 2002. It's an incredible number of Democrats turning out in Texas for a primary. So I think that these numbers and these margins are even closer. And Democrats, if they see that they can win, we'll put the money there and we'll put that seat back in the map because it will take Republican resources out of other states that are also close. So Democrats could have a real chance to take back the Senate. As you >> Democrats are seeing an opportunity in Texas, and Trump is sensing perhaps a loss of a Senate seat. Not only do we have James Telerico winning that sea with a momentum in a hard-fought battle against Jasmine Crockett, but we saw turnout among Democratic voters. Massive turnout. Democrats outvoted the Republicans. In fact, we haven't seen that many Democrats turn out for vote since 2002 in Texas. Now, it's not because there was just a hard-fought battle between two very good Democratic nominees for that primary, although there was a hard-fought battle with two very good Democratic nominees because the Republicans had their own two nominees. They had Ken Paxton, the state's attorney general, and the fourtime incumbent Cornin. They however could not have that same momentum, the same get out the vote among those Republican voters. Republican voters were just that uninterested in which of those two men would ultimately get the nominee compared to the Democrats. That spells trouble come November because at the end of the day, you need momentum. You need people to go to the polls and be willing to vote for your nominee. And if they just don't care enough in the primary between which of those two go to the polls compared to how much the Democrats cared, that spells trouble. >> Have Trump whose numbers are extremely low. Um, we have a number of people in Texas who are who are independent and who are also what we consider swing voters, especially in this moment. Uh, suburban voter voters in particular. People are frustrated about the war. they're frustrated about affordability. Um, and then you look at Ter Rico. I mean, he's got the it factor. He stands almost at the bully pulpit. Um, he can talk about religion and faith in a way that most other Democrats can't. I went to college in Texas. I have a lot of friends who have been longtime Trump supporters who actually voted in the Democratic party primary because they wanted to vote for Terico. So, I look at those little anecdotes here and there and I do have some hope and faith that this could actually be >> always careful to declare it. I love >> One small example of how bad the turnout was among Republican voters in Texas was that in 2024, Trump won nearly 58% of the vote in Star County, Texas. But in this last primary election, 96% of the votes cast were Democrat. a huge flip-flop in terms of which voters came out to vote. >> How about as a share of the people who voted overall? It's not just that this 2.3 million is such a large portion, the largest ever for a Texas Senate Democratic primary. It's that more people voted in the Democratic primary than the Republican primary. Look at this share of Texas midterm primary ballots. Look at this. The 2000's average, if you look at the 2000s, on average, you see this Republicans outvote Democrats. More people choose the Republican ballot than the Democratic ballot in midterm primaries by 60% to 40%, a margin of 3 to2. But look, so far Democrats, more people are actually choosing the Democratic ballot. This is extremely extremely unusual. 51% to 49%. And so far, there have actually been more of the Republican ballots estimated to be counted than Democrats. So this margin may climb ever higher. And I will note that this was the last this is the first time the first time Democrats outvoted Republicans. in a midterm primary season in Texas since 2002. So, a lot of Democrats voting and more Democrats voting than Republicans. As I said, tremendous for Democrats now have a runoff between Ken Paxton, who was literally impeached by the House for corruption and bribery, and Cornin, a four-time incumbent. This is going to take weeks. It seems like Trump is saying he's calling on one of them to step down because of the amount of money that is going to now be invested in just that runoff and how much later one of those candidates will be able to position themselves as the viable candidate to Telerico. >> This is just such a mess. A phrase I often use, what a dumpster fire. I mean, this is as close as you basically can get. 54% chance for Ken Paxton despite at this point having fewer votes in the initial round than John Cornney incumbent a 44% chance but really this is as close as it can be this is as close as can be it's going to be a knockout dragout fight over the next few months that ultimately may come down to >> one man >> one man >> Donald Trump >> right Donald John Trump who he gets behind that can make the difference but at this point I mean these two are going to be going together like old boxers and it could very much help the Democrats chance in the fall if in fact there's some really bad blood left. >> Okay, talk to me about that. If it helps the Democratic chances, what does that do to the overall odds in the US Senate? >> Yeah, overall odds in the US Senate. This is just a segment which is just great news for Democrats. And what are we talking about here? I mean, this is I think the biggest change that we have seen in the national picture, which was all along we thought that the Democrats would win back the House of Representatives. That was the most likely possibility. But at this point, look at this. Look at the change in odds from a year ago. a chance of winning the Senate. Republicans had an 81% chance a year ago. Look at this. It has fallen through the floor. Fallen through the floor. Now it's just a 56% chance. Democrats chances way up to a 44% chance. There is a real fight on their hands. Republicans have not just for the House, which are likely to lose, but for the Senate as well. >> Democrats, the National Party, I'm sure, is seeing an opportunity here and may very well invest in Texas in order to flip this seat. But let's talk a little bit about that coalition Tico got. Evidently, it was very similar to the coalition that Mdani won in New York despite the fact that they had slightly different focuses. Although really their main focus, even if if Mandani was technically part of the Democrat Socialist Party and Telerico is a Democrat, was the working person and how much healthc care is costing. In fact, Heler Rico said that that Ken Paxton illegally is corrupt and that Cornin was legally corrupt because he was taking away people's healthc care by his vote with that big awful bill. Both of Mandani and Telerico really drilling down on the message of the economy and how much Republican policies are hurting the American worker. So, in terms of this runoff and whether or not the Republicans are going to be mired in this may very well depend on whether of them listens to stepping down as Trump has suggested. But interestingly, Trump did not actually endorse any either of these candidates, which in itself is very interesting because Trump likes to put his thumb on the scale. Is it because he perhaps thinks that his influence, his endorsement no longer matters as much? He must be seeing his own polling. His decision to not endorse may very well cost the Republicans the Senate. >> The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Mus Muslims are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%. Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. >> Muslims aren't defunding our schools. >> Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. >> It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians. >> The culture wars are a smokeokc screen. So many of the divisions in this state and in this country are manufactured >> by billionaires who want us fighting each other instead of fighting them. >> They want us They want us looking left and right at our neighbors instead of looking up at them. The biggest divide in our politics is not left versus right. It's top versus bottom. >> Thanks for watching. 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