Tony, thank you very much for joining. I'm very happy to have you on today. For the people who don't know who you are, the five people out there, could you give a quick intro of who you are and what you do? Yeah, I run current revolt. We're a Texas-based media outlet that specifically covers just Texas-based news. So things like affairs and scandals and just inter-party happenings within Texas, all of that is on our website. I love that. I love that. Well, I had to bring you in because this story, well, it's not just, it's many stories nested within one story, is obviously all the election drama in Texas, and obviously this is going to be your ballpark. I wanted to lead with the big one. Obviously, this is the one that everyone's talking about is the Cornyn versus Paxton race. There's a lot of moving parts here. The interesting

thing I think everyone's pointing out is Trump has had this problem for this longest time in which

he seems to not look into who he's endorsing or he just endorses just obviously guys that hate him. I think there's really no other way to put it.

And this seems like to be another case where Paxton obviously seems to be the MAGA, you know,

favorite, obviously the base is behind him. He's great on policies, you know, loyal,

a Trump loyalist, I would say. And then Cornyn gets the knot over him.

Could you maybe give us some of the inside baseball into why this is happening?

And maybe specifically from the Texan point of view,

why Cornyn has such an unfavorable view among Texans?

Yeah, there's probably two reasons, right, that you can speculate on.

One is the biggest one, which is Democrats also view Paxton as the

least likely to win against Tala Rico. James Tala Rico is the nominee for Texas Senate for the Democrats,

right? And polling is consistently shown, and this is all polling, is consistently shown that

when it's a Paxton, Ken Paxton versus James

Tala Rico matchup, Ken Paxton performs the worst versus compared to like a John

Corny.

Right.

So not only are like conservatives and like right wing people supporting Ken Paxton, but

Democrats want Ken Paxton to win, right?

They view him as the weaker one.

So maybe Trump sees maybe the long term game on this, right? They view him as the weaker one. So maybe Trump sees maybe the long-term game on this, right, and the risk associated with

that race.

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