David French

where they'd been in 2018, 2019, et cetera, and sort of saying, here are the statistics, aren't they great, wasn't effective to Trump people's experiences.

And now Trump is coming out and he's sort of, he's up the ante and saying, well, I'll make up statistics, I'll make things up and tell you how great everything is.

But again, you just can't lie your way out of voters' actual experiences.

And I think we've always had a vulnerability to just the lowest common denominator politics.

And, you know, I think for me, when I was growing up, if you watched the way people interacted with each other, the arguments and the conversations that they had, it was fundamentally different.

And we just didn't know what we had.

when we had it, and it really has brought home to me when I teach undergrads,

I one time asked some of my students to watch the 2012 first debate between Romney and Obama.

And I can't remember if I've told this story before, but the overwhelming sentiment that these students took from it was I didn't realize they were friends or I didn't realize that, you know, like how civil this could be.

And I remember that 2012 first debate in particular is pretty tense.

But you look at it now.

It's just fundamentally different.

And I know there are Republicans out there and he lost.

Well, there are lots of examples of Republicans who won without being like Trump.

So can we just dispense with the idea that that's the only way to win?

I am so all about this primary.

This is such a, it is American national politics and our choice in a microcosm, right?

With Ken Paxton, it might be fair to say that he could be the most corrupt politician in America, not named Donald Trump.

It's quite possible.

The charges against him.