Moral Choices
Majority 54
Majority 54
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A 50-point swing among Hispanic voters and a conservative Texas state Senate district is a big deal and a great sign. |
| 0:09.2 | We'll go inside the numbers a bit like the Grinch hearing carols and trying to stop Christmas from coming. |
| 0:14.8 | Special elections and terrible polling has Trump back to trying to find a way to keep elections from coming. |
| 0:19.9 | Also, a partial retreat by ICE in Minnesota. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome back to the podcast for the 54% of Americans who regularly vote for progress in every election. |
| 0:28.0 | I want to convince their friends and family members to join our majority. |
| 0:31.1 | This is Majority 54. |
| 0:33.4 | Well, great news coming out of Texas. |
| 0:35.4 | Jason, Democrat Taylor Ramett, a labor union leader and Air Force veteran, defeated Republican Lee Wamsgantz, who was a conservative activist, who got the complete and total endorsement of Donald Trump just days before the vote. |
| 0:51.5 | Remet won by 14 percentage points in a district that Trump won by 17. So it's a 32 point swing. |
| 0:59.0 | And as you alluded to in the intro, the Hispanic vote seems to have flipped by a massive amount here. |
| 1:10.2 | Jason, how much should we care about this is a midterm? |
| 1:13.4 | I mean, a special election. |
| 1:15.0 | It was on a Saturday. |
| 1:15.9 | It was the only thing up. |
| 1:19.1 | Like, are we overreacting to this? |
| 1:21.0 | I don't think so. |
| 1:22.0 | I think it's a measure. |
| 1:22.8 | I think it depends on how we react to it, |
| 1:26.2 | or at least what we draw from it. |
| 1:27.6 | Right. |
| 1:27.8 | So there's to me there's there's two things here to draw from this. |
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