Political Analyst Discusses Texas's Role in Future Elections (Part 2)

You know, maybe they could win some congressional seats back in two years. As you noted, there's no senatorial election in two years in Texas or a governor's election in two years. But in two years we pick a president and Texas has that big batch of electoral votes that Republicans have always relied upon. They can't do it with Florida alone. No. And Republicans are gonna need Texas and a lot of other states they lost in the Senate and Senate races if they have any chance to win the presidency. That said, I think there are a lot of over exuberant Democrats that just because a lot of voters wanted to put a check on the Republican Party and their excesses, that in a presidential race that they're going to be the same number of people wanting to vote for a Democrat in Texas or a lot of these other red states. That's not going to be the case. In fact, you know, Texas could be a battleground. I don't discount that. But I would still say Republicans start out with an advantage in Texas and certainly a lot of these in South Carolina and North Carolina and Mississippi. I mean, these are still red states. It just meant that there were enough voters so disenchanted with Trump's job performance, the state of the economy and a lot of the focus on decorating Washington instead of focusing on a lot of Americans economic needs. Now look, if Trump continues to go in that direction, if he doesn't take any lessons from the midterms, then yeah, maybe we will see a landslide in a presidential campaign. But I think we're already seeing the Republican Party come to grips with the fact that they need to distance themselves from parts of that record. I think Vance is really in a tough situation as a result. And there may be some new fresh blood that comes out of the Republican Party and figures out how to win a lot of those swing voters in Texas. Let's talk about that. There has been a lot of bomb throwing, you know, within the Republican Party over the past 48 hours. It seems like Vice President Vance had his own statement to say about things in which he, he said that one of the key reasons why they lost the election was the Iran war and policy towards Israel. There seems to be an even more pronounced rift between two parts of President Trump's administration. And yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no doubt about it. I mean, the advance. Look, if you're a vice president and we see this throughout the history and different parties, like it's really tough to be the loyal number two and to also try to stake out your own political views. And I think the risk that Vance is running is that Trump may not endorse him. If he looks like a disloyal number two, then he may not get Trump's endorsement, which still does mean something in a Republican vote. I was going to ask, does the Trump endorsement mean anything anymore after this? Because. Oh, yeah.