It All Just Collapsed for Trump in Texas

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump and MAGA are collapsing in Texas across all of the major races there. The Senate race, the governor's race, the lieutenant governor's race. It is looking bad, bad for Donald Trump and MAGA. Let's just zoom in on the Senate race right now. You take a look at all of the major polls, and I mean all of them, from state regime media Fox to TSU to YouGov to T-P-O-R to Recon-M-R, Siena to Wedgwood, you name it. James Tallarico, the Democratic candidate, leads every single major poll, about half a dozen of them in Texas. On average, he's up about three points. You zoom in on the lieutenant governor race there, not getting nearly enough attention.

0:45Ben Meiselas:You have the MAGA Republican governor, Dan Patrick, trailing Democrat Vicki Goodwin. I mean, she's up significantly in some of the latest polling, even where the Democrats were under sampled in the sample size here. Forty eight percent of likely voters are backing Goodwin, while forty six percent are backing Patrick. Also a neck and neck race for governor. You have Gina Hinojosa, who we've had here on the Midas Touch Network, the Democratic candidate within about a point of or in some cases, even with Greg Abbott, the MAGA sycophant, whose recent actions over the past 48 hours, including promoting the destruction of Big Bend National Park with Trump donors, also banning THC products.

1:38Ben Meiselas:Yeah, Texas, the freest state, except when the government tells you how the hell you need to live your life. Oh, and don't forget also that Greg Abbott is the guy who gave no taxes on electricity to all of the major data centers. I can't think of anybody who hates the state of Texas more than Greg Abbott. And frankly, in my opinion, Abbott's like a communist. I mean, it's part of the communist oligarchy with Donald Trump saying, you know what? You want to bring data centers in? Free data centers for all the billionaires. It's just socialism and communism for the oligarchs while he screws the people.

2:19Ben Meiselas:By the way, folks, you even have Republican Senator John Cornyn who's on his way out. I mean, let's just be real, though. I mean, Cornyn was quite pathetic when he voted to confirm Todd Blanche. But he is calling out right now Donald Trump, Abbott, the despicable Trump regime and other MAGAs for destroying Big Bend National Park. I mean, just think about it. It's a beautiful national park right by the Rio Grande. You have all of these Texas sheriffs. I mean, all of them. I mean, Republican, very right wing Republican sheriffs and sheriffs across the board saying, what the hell are you doing? and you're building border security fences in an area where there are no crossings.

3:05Ben Meiselas:You're gonna destroy Big Ben National Park. You're gonna cut off the access of the people of Texas to the water. You're gonna be ceding territory for what? Oh, wait a minute. Donald Trump's buddies who are massive donors to Donald Trump's campaign, guess what they got? You give Donald Trump a little campaign cash and it just so happens, coincidentally, You get$7 billion in contracts from people like Donald Trump and Greg Abbott Barnard Construction. Yeah, they donated a million bucks to Donald Trump. And now they seem to be getting massive contracts everywhere. Now, it's quite sad, actually, to see what's happening in Big Bend National Park.

3:48Ben Meiselas:I mean, truly brought a tear to my eye as I've been studying more and more what is happening there. And again, this is a bipartisan issue. To me, same thing with THC, same thing with data centers, same thing with the Trump regime covering up child sex trafficking rings. These are bipartisan issues. Take a look at Bing Ben National Park right here. I'll run the B-roll as you can see these massive cranes just destroying this beautiful national park. Look at it just being run over and bulldozed over. It's so freaking sad. Why? Because Donald Trump wants to pretend he's really tough while he hides in catering trucks in Turkey to sneak off the old Air Force one.

4:29Ben Meiselas:Oh, by the way, did you hear what he said last night? I was in the more dangerous plane, actually. I took the bigger risk by sneaking out onto a container for catering in Turkey and crouching and hiding. It's so freaking pathetic, man. Never ending wars, covering up the Epstein files, making the cost of living so much more difficult. No wonder Donald Trump is freaking collapsing in Texas. Take a look. James Tallarico's rally in Port Arthur, Texas, hitting capacity. James Tallarico's rally in Pasadena, Texas, hitting capacity and overflow room there as well. And let me just share with you a little bit of this Tallarico speech.

5:14Ben Meiselas:I thought it was quite inspiring. Here's what he says. We can stop our government from spending billions of our tax dollars on this Big Bend project here. Listen to what he says. Let's play this clip. We can stop our government from spending billions of our tax dollars on a useless wall in Big Bend, one of the most sacred places in the state of Texas.

5:39Ben Meiselas:And he talks about how we the people are all just getting screwed. Let's play this clip. We are getting screwed. Whether you're a little more conservative or a little more progressive, we're all getting screwed. None of us can afford groceries. None of us can afford gas. None of us can afford health care. The billionaire mega donors and corporate special interests that are buying the system, that are buying politicians like Ken Paxton, they don't care who you are. They don't care about your politics. They only care about their profits. They don't see us as Democrats and Republicans. They don't see red or blue.

6:20They see green. They see us as a group of people they can rip off. They see us as one opposing team. So we might as well start acting like one. It's time. It's time for us to come together across all these manufactured divisions so that we can take on the people at the very top who have been screwing us over for far too long. This episode of the Midas Touch podcast is brought to you by Wild Grain. If you've been watching what you eat but still want great bread, pastries, and pasta at home, you've got to check out Wild Grain. It's the first Bake from Frozen subscription box for sourdough breads, artisanal pastries, and fresh pastas.

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8:23Ben Meiselas:Powerful indeed. Now contrast that to this virtual phone town hall that Ken Paxton had now. Lots of MAGA world very nervous that Ken Paxton is not really campaigning effectively. He just did his first ad in Spanish. And you can see the guy is really desperate. He spent a lot of the summer traveling around Europe. Is this guy even from Texas? I think he's from California. But he's been traveling around Europe with his girlfriend, gallivanting around. You know, what was the latest Ken Paxton story? He was on the board of a hospital and he gave himself, as a board member of this hospital, the cell phone tower on top of the hospital.

9:09Ben Meiselas:He like claimed ownership over and now he makes like a million dollars a year by basically using the utilities and writing himself into ownership over cell phone towers so that he could get paid literally millions of dollars, about a million dollars a year for the rest of his life. Must be nice, Ken Paxton, must be nice. But take a listen to what went down when a town hall caller said, Hi, Paxton. Good to meet you. Why'd you cheat on your wife, Paxton? Here, play this clip right here. Hi, Paxton. It's nice to meet you. I'm just wondering, why did you cheat on your wife?

9:48I'm not going to talk about personal issues that relate to my family, just like I don't think you would want to discuss your marriage on a call with thousands of people. All I can tell you is that I'm proud of my kids. I've got four wonderful kids. I've got seven grandchildren. Well, six and one on the way. And there's a lot at stake. And so while I care about this country, I'm not going to talk about things that would affect them. So thank you so much for your question. Yeah, let's try a question from Rebecca. Rebecca, you're on. Yes, sir. Thank you.

10:28Ben Meiselas:Powerful stuff indeed. Now, let me show you a brief clip of my interview from with Gina Hinojosa. Here's what she's focused on. Let's play it. It's why nobody trusts government. I don't trust government right now. Government is working for the billionaires. Just like you said, we're paying into a system that is working against us right now. So I've proposed$1 ,500 to every Texas household. It comes out of what we call a rainy day fund that is like overflowing. It's billions. It used to be at 10 billion. We'll take it back to 10 billion and use the rest to give back to the people of Texas because we have to prove that government can do something good for people.

11:09This is not a normal position, but these are not normal times. I just went through how Texans are struggling. I will tell you weekly I am running into Texans who are donating plasma as a second job. They are working Texans, teachers, crane operators, and they stand in line at the plasma center. before they open two to three times a week to earn enough money to pay their bills. This is unacceptable. It is tragic. It is Greg Abbott's Texas.

11:39Ben Meiselas:Now, it should be noted as well that you have Ken Paxton, this MAGA sycopan. Ken Paxton, again, he's running for the Senate seat over there in Texas. Now, he hates Texas. Obviously, Ken Paxton hates the—he's not even really from Texas. He hates the people of Texas. Loves criming, loves cheating on his wife, apparently. Loves releasing sex abusers from prison. Like, dude, the worst human being scum imaginable. And look at him go on state regime media Fox and beg like a little dog for money. Paxton, such a pathetic little fool, huh? Such a pathetic. Texas deserves so much better than the scumbag Ken Paxton.

12:25Ben Meiselas:Here, play this clip right here. And those are the things we need to let voters know, because most voters don't know the mainstream media, as Trump would call the fake media. They're not exposing his real record. And right now he's been on TV because he's got a lot of money coming in from California and other liberal states. So he had 30 million dollars when I finished my race at zero. So we're trying to we're trying to get help from all over the country. So go to Ken Paxman dot com and help us because we need help. James Tallarico actually put out the following statement. I applaud Senator Cornyn for taking action on the corrupt Big Bend border wall.

12:59Ben Meiselas:He and I agree we need to secure our border by listening to local sheriffs and border patrol. But this monument to corruption represents wasteful, irresponsible government spending that no Texan asked for. Enriching wealthy contractors without making Texas one bit safer. We don't need to wreck one of our nation's greatest treasures by building an expensive wall on an already existing natural barrier. There's freaking mountains there. Why do you need a wall? This is why these Trump, they're so idiotic. It's like, you know, you want to talk about we don't like windmills. We don't like clean energy.

13:33Ben Meiselas:You realize there's a lot of windmills and clean energy also in Texas right now. I mean, you're just destroying industries with your freaking stupidity. Oh, we build the wall. There's a mountain. There's a freaking mountain in Big Bend. We need bipartisan commitment, Tallarico says, to modernize surveillance technology and hire more Border Patrol agents, not sweetheart no bid contracts that waste billions of our taxpayer dollars. Something I would add is border patrol means freaking border. It doesn't mean you send ICE and border patrol Gestapo marching through our freaking streets and killing people.

14:09Ben Meiselas:Okay. I just want to be very clear where I am on that because I think ICE should absolutely be abolished. And I understand why there is a need for people to guard the border. I understand. I believe in strong borders. I believe in empathy. I believe in dignity of human beings. I actually thought that the good proposal, by the way, what Border Patrol did has completely deviated from what its purpose was. And that's why morale, by the way, is lower than ever within Border Patrol and especially lower than ever within ICE because Trump wants his own personal SS. He wants his Nazis. That's what he's looking for.

14:49Ben Meiselas:Not actually dealing with complex problems. Trump don't do good with complex problems, OK? Trump isn't good about that. That's an understatement, okay? There was a way to solve and address this. You know what the way was? There was a bipartisan immigration bill that Donald Trump killed. Why did Donald Trump kill it? Because he wanted there to be problems at the border because he said it's a winning issue for him. So he made all of the MAGAs block a bipartisan bill, which would have actually enhanced border security. It would have sped up asylum proceedings to make determinations about whether asylum seekers meet the criteria.

15:27Ben Meiselas:It would provide dignity to people. It would provide a pathway to citizenship for people who were here paying taxes and working and contributing, not this hellish, ridiculous, dystopian SS world that Donald Trump and his Gestapo have created. Folks, I could keep on going on, but I'll leave you with this. It ain't just in Texas. It ain't just in Texas. You look at Nate Silver, and I don't love citing Nate Silver, but his data conforms with my data right here. The probability of James Tallarico winning Texas, 63%. The probability of Paxton winning, 37%. But you zoom in and then you zoom out and then you zoom in and then you zoom out.

16:09Ben Meiselas:Zoom in on the United States Senate right here. Right now, Democrats favored to not just take the House, favored a long shot to win the House, but they're also favored to win the Senate. Let me leave you with this. I think that Democrats are going to take the control of the Senate, take control of the House. And I think there's going to be a blue tsunami like has never been seen before. I'm going to explain to you why. If you've been following the special elections, Democrats have been overperforming the polls by 10 to 15 points, more along the lines of 15 points, they've been overperforming. People are livid at this fascist regime.

16:44Ben Meiselas:I think there's a great deal of distortion right now taking place with these stupid gamified debates that corporate news wants to have, that we the people don't give a SHI, you know what I'm going to say. All these things that they want us to be focused on, that's not where the people are. We the people recognize there is a fascist regime in the Oval Office who's destroying the White House, who's destroying our country, who's made us weaker, who's covering up child sex trafficking rings, who's made the cost of living so much worse for the American people. It's very obvious to we the people. And it's important to have accountability.

17:22Ben Meiselas:Accountability. And that's what the Democrats are going to be judged on. They come into power. No weakness. No element. Accountability. There's a criminal, rogue, fascist regime in power who need to be held accountable. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers, everybody.

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