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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you guys for being here.

You know, January was my most listened to month of this podcast in our one year history.

So I want to thank you all for who subscribe, who like this show, who watch and listen to it

every single episode.

It means beyond what you can imagine.

I am very grateful for those who interested in data and my messiness and everything else.

I want to start by addressing a special election that I didn't think I have to talk to.

I would talk about.

I wasn't prepared just

at there and bringing this up, but it's made a lot of news and there's a lot of misinformation

going on, both on social media and in the mainstream media. So let's talk about the special

election that happened for the Texas State Senate last week. There was a special election in Texas

is ninth state Senate district. This is the

Fort Worth area. It's a district that Trump won in 2024 by 17 points. There was a special

election in the Democrat candidate won by 14 points. There was a tremendous 31 point swing. And the media

has gone on a whirlwind tour. They are talking about this as if it is the

indicator among all indicators that Republicans are doomed. Rasta sat of the New York Times,

put out a whole podcast that Trump was losing swing voters and young people and Latinos,

his coalition that delivered him the presidency, veteran Republican

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