Matt Rinaldi

Well, I like our former Texas GOP chair, Matt Rinaldi's views.

He said, my view on the recent election results is that they completely validate all my political opinions, disprove everyone who has disagreed with me, and show that if my faction got everything we want, we would win every election every time.

So that's probably...

what almost every single person is saying right now.

I think there's an important thing that's missing out of that CNN piece.

When this election happened in November, it already showed us that Democrats had energy, more energy than Republicans.

You and I have talked offline about this problem, Steve.

2,000 less Democrat votes were cast in the special election for Taylor Remitt in that swing, even though he came short in the first round.

But more than 20,000 people that came out and voted for a Republican for Senate in November did not come back out.

Governor Abbott actually called this as soon as he could by Texas law.

There's some restrictions on mail-in ballots and overseas people and things like that.

But the reality is that

Republicans did not take this race as seriously.

And I think there are three factors that we need to think about.

One is that there are some disenfranchised conservatives.

They're patriots.

They're people that you and I know very well that are just very frustrated with the lack of things that are happening.

But some of those people are not participating in elections.

The Democrats think they are at war.

They think they are about to lose.