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John Regalado

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630 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

You can't just go in and be like, okay, where are the Ds?

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

Show me the Ds.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

Because that in and of itself turns politics into this literal cliff where it's like, we just, we slide one way or the other and everybody's playing kind of the red, blue color coding game and then message the most extreme belligerent messaging you could possibly think of to push people one way or the other.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

And that's why kind of our culture is, you know, it's like we've got, it's not like Christian values, it's like Christian nationalism.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

It's not just social progressive ideas, it's woke, you know, it's like these caricatures of kind of the former,

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

the seeds of what existed on both sides.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

So I, I think that's a good idea.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

I think, um, I think what you, what we saw in California, Elon Musk, I kind of want once heard comment on like the lack of just intellectual diversity or political diversity in California was its own, um,

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

it harmed the system because it was like, people are just gonna vote blue no matter what.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

And what kind of immune system do you have in a state or in a government that doesn't tolerate any political diversity?

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

and where the political opponent doesn't have any chance of gaining power and sort of course correcting.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

So if there's not tension, you really can fall into these traps.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

And so I hear you on all of that.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

And I think I agree with you.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

I feel starved, and I think a lot of Americans feel starved.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

What is something different?

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

Where is somebody who's just radically different?

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

Who's the closest that has been in the political sphere in your lifetime that's almost gotten you there, almost crossed that threshold of this feels real, this feels like coming from a good place?

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

Oh, yeah.

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Can Talarico Turn Texas Blue? | James Talarico vs 20 Undecided Voters Surrounded Follow-Up

And what I'm kind of hearing is like, you know, the Abe Lincoln band of rivals kind of idea, like, or a team of rivals, sorry.