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Nov 6, 2026
Mallen BakerHOST
And while aforementioned tech titans were suddenly experiencing buyer's remorse at all the explicit Trump toadying they'd been doing, Republicans were likewise reflecting that their proximity to those billionaires had cost them dearly as well.
Mallen BakerHOST
Brendan Steinhauser, longtime Republican strategist, told the FT this.
Mallen BakerHOST
The party should send the tech bros back to Silicon Valley.
Mallen BakerHOST
And he added that the party needed to distance itself from Elon Musk, NVIDIA boss Jensen Huang and Trump's top AI advisor, David Sachs.
Calder McHughGUEST
And so it is possible to get back there.
Calder McHughGUEST
I do think if you're a Republican who wants someone like Brendan Steinhauser, who you mentioned, who wants more tech regulation or is concerned about AI, the worry is probably... is this baked in now like how much how much is this a sort of sentiment among the the voters that republicans are worse on these issues than democrats are
Evan SwarztrauberHOST
but i i don't think really anything is totally baked in in american
Calder McHughGUEST
politics like i think these things are always shifting and i also think one maybe coalition to throw in there too is the sort of more catholic right um and and also just the religious right in general like there is a pretty strong argument to be made that, you know, the Pope has made, that lots of folks have made, about sort of what AI means for the idea of a soul, you know, or the idea that a human being is special in many ways, that comes from a lot of these kind of religious traditions.
Christine MuiHOST
And she answered, that she supported local communities to have the choice to decide whether they wanted a data center or not.
Christine MuiHOST
I talked to Brendan Steinhauser.
Christine MuiHOST
He's the CEO of the AI Safety Group Alliance for Secure AI Action, and he's a Republican AI safety advocate.
Christine MuiHOST
The dual hats here is interesting because he had said, as a former Republican consultant, oh man, this night is a terrible disaster for me.
Laura RiceHOST
But most didn't dare to hope for victories in statewide offices where no Democrat had served for 30 years.
Laura RiceHOST
So what went wrong for Republicans last night, especially in bright red Texas? Brendan Steinhauser is a GOP strategist who's worked with outgoing Senator John Cornyn, among many others.
Laura RiceHOST
Brendan, welcome back to The Standard.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
It's good to be with you.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
They moved very hard against the GOP and against the president.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
So suburban voters, Hispanic voters, young people, African-American men all moved away from the president and toward Democrats last night.
Laura RiceHOST
Brendan Steinhauser is a GOP strategist.
Laura RiceHOST
We'll hear from some Democrats just ahead on The Texas Standard.
Toluani OsibamowoGUEST
And so those are those niche issues that can either depress voter turnout or can change how they vote.
Toluani OsibamowoGUEST
I spoke to someone on the other side of the aisle, a Republican strategist named Brendan Steinhauser, about how that might have affected things for people.
Brendan SteinhauserSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think what actually might have happened is that it kind of depressed Republican turnout in some of those areas where they really needed to do well to counteract what was going on in the cities and the suburbs.
Toluani OsibamowoGUEST
And we saw that in the cities and suburbs, you know, they leaned blue as well.
Jared GanzHOST
MAGA extremists are on the run from sea to shining sea, said House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, New York, who is likely to be the next Speaker of the House.
Jared GanzHOST
Texas-based Republican strategist Brendan Steinhauser dubbed the night an utter disaster in a text message, along with a gif of the Titanic sinking.
Jared GanzHOST
The Hill insiders can read more from Julia Manchester and Helen Hoskus about how the blue wave broke Trump's midterm map.
Jared GanzHOST
Three things to know.
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P-Doom, P-Doom, what's your P-Doom? What's your P-Doom? What's your P-Doom?
Liron ShapiraHOST
Brendan Steinhauser, what's your P-Doom?
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
I think my P-Doom, if you're talking specifically about human extinction, is probably 9% or 10%.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
But if you're talking about a major catastrophic event that kills millions of people and does a lot of damage that would be considered just massively disruptive to humanity, I think that's closer to 20% to 25%.
Matt GallowayHOST
This is a place where most people vote Republican.
Matt GallowayHOST
It's also where Brendan Steinhauser grew up and where he still has a family ranch.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
that texas is like a country in some ways it is i mean and again you think about what does that mean like what kind of country i think about it's kind of like the size of france roughly right and you think about the different regions and different cultures and okay we don't have like different dialects really but we have the coastal region and then we have plains and we have hill country where it's rolling we have Big Bend area where there's huge mountains, and then you've got the Panhandle, which is flat and desolate, and it's all very different geographically, culturally, but it's all Texas.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
Hi, I'm Brendan Steinhauser.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
I'm a Republican strategist based in Texas, and I've worked on a number of Republican campaigns throughout the years, including for Senator John Cornyn, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, and Congressman Michael McCaul.
Brendan SteinhauserGUEST
Tell us where we are right now.
Luke MuehlhauserGUEST
Jeez.
Luke MuehlhauserGUEST
Um, another example I really like is, um, Brendan Steinhauser was like a 20 year veteran of, um, Republican campaigns and strategic communications and like started to get more worried about AI safety, talk to some people, read some stuff, got some context, and then decided to, um, create this organization called the Alliance for Secure AI.
Luke MuehlhauserGUEST
And that's now like one of the largest, um, kind of strategic communications organizations in the, uh, AI safety ecosystem.
Luisa RodriguezHOST
Super cool.
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Luisa RodriguezHOST
Can you talk about why?
Luke MuehlhauserGUEST
Yeah, I totally disagree.
Luke MuehlhauserGUEST
I gave the examples of Brad Carson, Brendan Steinhauser, lots of young people earlier.
Luke MuehlhauserGUEST
I think that if we just focus on government policy alone, I think there's a lot of impact that's been had.
Deepa ShivaramCORRESPONDENT
This was something that Trump could talk about and voters really responded to.
Deepa ShivaramCORRESPONDENT
I talked to Brendan Steinhauser.
Deepa ShivaramCORRESPONDENT
He's a GOP strategist about this.
Deepa ShivaramCORRESPONDENT
And this is what he told me.