Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's Texas loss, not being a shock or surprise.

I'm guessing most of you have already seen the headlines on this one.

But for the sake of context, a candidate Trump actively endorsed suffered a landslide

defeat in a ruby red Texas district that Trump won by 17 points in 2024. Trump pushed for

the Republican in a get-out-the-vote message, saying, quote,

she's a highly successful entrepreneur and an incredible supporter of our movement to make America

great again. My good friend, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, needs a strong conservative

Republican in SD-9 to keep Texas red. Preliminary results are saying

it looks like the final outcome of the Texas State Senate 9 runoff will be somewhere around

57% for Fort Worth Democratic candidate Taylor Ramette, and just under 43% for the Republican.

So, Trump wins by 17 points in 2024, and now the Democratic candidate wins by somewhere around 14 or 15.

That's an absolutely shifted political landscape. But it isn't a shock.

The long-time idea is that all politics is local,

but in the days of Trump micromanaging the entirety of the Republican Party,

according to his whim.

Local politics is national.

Events in Minnesota swing votes in Texas.

All of the polling suggested this was likely.

Republicans have lost major portions of the Latino vote, the conspiracy vote, and now they're

losing at least some of the Second Amendment vote. That's on top of falling approval ratings,

a bad economy, and a Republican Party that has done nothing to curtail the worst impulses of

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