Steve Schmidt WARNS: Every Congressional Race Counts To Vote Out MAGA
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Steve Schmidt sits down with Terry Virts, a 30-year Air Force fighter pilot veteran and NASA astronaut, who is now running in the 9th Congressional District of Texas. The Houston Chronicle stated in its endorsement of Terry that "in MAGA country, Terry Virts offers hope of holding onto a redistricted seat." His district is literally 'Ground Zero' for gerrymandering, and supporting Terry's race is critical to crushing MAGA in the midterm elections. Hear what Terry has to say about the kind of candidates required for the Democratic Party to flip the House, what he will do if he is elected to Congress, as well as some fascinating stories about his experience as a fighter pilot and astronaut.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Steve Schmidt with the warning, and I'm thrilled today to be joined by my friend, Terry |
| 0:08.8 | Verks, a candidate for the United States Congress in the 9th District of Texas. |
| 0:16.0 | This is a race that you should care about. |
| 0:20.4 | And you should care about it because voting this MAGA majority out of office is of the utmost |
| 0:30.0 | importance for the future of you, everyone you love, all of your children and your grandchildren, and Terry |
| 0:41.4 | Verts is a winning candidate. And we're going to talk about that. Terry, how you doing? |
| 0:48.7 | Doing good. Having fun. We're down to, we're early voting already here, and the election's just |
| 0:53.6 | about 10 days away. |
| 0:54.6 | March 3rd is the actual primary in Texas. |
| 0:57.2 | So it's a, it's a full-time job now to say the least. |
| 1:00.7 | So, Terry, you're a career politician. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm only, I'm only kidding. |
| 1:08.2 | One of the things we want to, we want to do today is we want to talk about where people can find you |
| 1:16.2 | and where they can write a check to support you at. |
| 1:21.0 | So why don't you tell us where the website is and how people can find it and the best place to write a check. And I'm going to do |
| 1:29.5 | this throughout this conversation today because you need the money to win and you're the |
| 1:36.3 | only candidate in the Democratic primary who can win this general election race. The Houston Chronicle |
| 1:42.4 | just made that point. And the exact quote, |
| 1:45.2 | you'll correct me if I, if I do it wrong, but what the Houston Chronicle said, if Democrats are |
| 1:50.0 | serious about defeating MAGA and about winning this seat, then they nominate Terry Verts to be |
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