Matt Rinaldi

They think they're

you know, one election away from some fascist takeover of our country.

And that's their mentality.

So they're showing up in droves.

And honestly, you don't even have to spend a lot of money talking to them.

The left doesn't have to talk to them tremendously.

They're just showing up where we're having to yell at our people.

So there's some disenfranchised individuals.

There's some Republicans that just think we're winning.

They're consuming the daily media storm from Fox News and other places.

And they just think Republicans are winning.

Democrats are losing.

What do I have to worry about?

And then the third thing, and this is the most heinous part, is that the other Republican who lost this, John Huffman, who's a more moderate Republican, he represents that Bush moderate Chamber of Commerce establishment wing of the GOP.

He was celebrating.

night of this election and put a statement out basically saying that he and his people didn't feel that lee had done enough to ask them to vote and understand that that moderate wing is trying to not only in this special election but i think they're thinking about doing this for november is they're thinking about sitting out for any republican nominee that is a true strong conservative and

in an attempt to try to take the party back in the direction of the Bush wing.

The moderates in the Texas GOP that have been out of power for a decade are already trying to recruit someone to try to take the party back so that they can get a Texas GOP chair who's not actually holding Republicans accountable.

So you see a lot of different things at play here.

I'm sure there's several ways we could take this conversation.