Dan Pfeiffer

But I think that there is I'm just not in presidential politics.

Strength and toughness matters a lot.

How you define strength and toughness is very important.

You can define it in ways that are much better than sort of like brute force strength that Trump sort of has tried to swagger his way into the Oval Office.

It matters much less in congressional and Senate races.

No one sees you as being tasked with staring down the Iranians or taking out al-Qaeda or stopping crime in the streets or whatever else people associate probably incorrectly with toughness.

And so I, I think that like Trump has sort of sent them on this path and it is red meat for the Fox base.

And so it's one thing of like Jesse waters and the Yahoo's on the five do it.

It was interesting to me that it was such a big part of, uh, Paxton's victory speech.

I just, I just like took note of that.

His speech was interesting because he did – very Trump-esque in that he was very excited and enjoying doing the Tallarico attacks and responding to the crowd.

And then he was reading with no emotion lines about lowering people's costs and

Before we do that, I just do want to stipulate that.

Team South America has a very, very real chance of winning this race.

Yeah.

Well, we should talk about that for sure.

I get why everyone is skeptical of Texas.

We have been burned so many times.

But this is our best chance in a generation to win statewide office in Texas.

We have not won a Senate race in Texas since 1988.