234. Trump’s Texas Panic: The Last Minute Scramble

Anthony, I have spent the last couple of hours while I was walking my dog, Charlie, listening to Donald Trump's speech and to James Tallarico's speech.

It was pretty surreal because they were literally three hours apart in Lubbock.

You needed a couple of hours because James Tallarico's speech was a tight 28 minutes or something.

Donald Trump's speech was a not tight hour and a half that he was up on stage for, so you needed that amount of time.

Um, and it felt like, um, there was energy on both sides.

They both got about 4,000 people, but as Tallarico pointed out, they were in an area of the state that Donald Trump had won handily, uh, three times.

So you might've expected more conservatives to turn out than Democrats.

Um, I, I, I know you and I've been backwards and forwards on Tallarico's chances and the Democrats chances in Texas.

What are you thinking right now?

I'm thinking Ken Paxton's doing a lot of squats right now.

I don't think his ass is muscular enough for Donald Trump.

And so he's in the gym right now somewhere in Dallas doing some squats.

He didn't get

the muscle praise.

No.

I mean, he basically got told he was ugly by Trump.

I don't know how the president thinks this stuff is helping these candidates, but it's definitely entertaining.

You know, listen, I mean, it's a toss up caddy.

I don't love the five to six point lead that Tallarico has.

If it was another state, I'd be like, yeah, he's outside the margin of error.

Narrowly, he's likely going to win.

But you saw this race with Netanyahu last night.

You saw the situation in Brazil.

These things go freaky deke at the last minute.

And so I don't love the...