Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
You heard it here first. Actually, you probably didn't, but we will repeat it. It is Election Day in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Texas. Our new congressional maps are now in place that were designed to keep a Republican majority in the House.
Chapter 2: What are the major election updates in Texas?
But it is the Senate primary in Texas. that could determine the balance of power back in Washington. Surprise. You know, that's the big news, Katie, here. The turnout is massive. I was crunching the numbers just yesterday. More than 2.5 million people have voted here in the primaries here in the state of Texas.
And I've got to say, the enthusiasm is on the Democratic side, because I looked at the past primaries for the past few years, and normally more Republicans vote than Democrats. Not this year. This year, more than 50% of the votes are on the Democratic side, really showing enthusiasm. I asked a political scientist about this, Katie, because I was like, look, I'm really curious what's driving this.
He said two things, the U.S. Senate race between Tallarico and Crockett, and also opposition to Trump's policies. They told me I was at the wrong place and where I live is far away, and I just wanted to vote here and get back to work. And she told me she wouldn't let me. I was hoping she would just let me go in. She said I'm at the wrong place. I can't vote here.
I've always voted here, say, eight years in a row now.
Chapter 3: How is voter turnout impacting the Texas Senate primary?
I've come to this location. But now they're telling me that I need to go to another location to vote. Did they explain why? No, they didn't explain why. And when I went online yesterday, because I knew they were going to try to do this, I went yesterday online to register and everything like that to find out where my poll is. And it got me nowhere.
And Katie, I think that was some sound, but we jumped the gun a little bit because that's actually sound related to some of the confusion and the high emotions that we have seen here in the polling places that you see behind me. And let me explain why.
Very early this morning, we talked to the election judge on the Democratic side, and he said that more people had been turned away from this polling place than had actually voted. It was very frustrating for these voters showing up, wanting to vote, and being told that they had to go to another precinct.
Well, I talked to the Democratic, excuse me, I talked to the election department for the county here where I am in Dallas, and they said that since 2019, people here have been able to vote at any polling place, at any voter place in the county, and it was that way for early voting. But today... people had to go vote to their designated precinct. Why?
Well, he said that the parties are the ones who decide this. The Democrats wanted to keep it the same. People could vote everywhere. People could decide where to vote. The Republicans wanted to make sure that people voted in their particular precinct.
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Chapter 4: Why are Democrats showing more enthusiasm in this election?
So they pointed the finger at Republicans. I asked the county Republicans for comment, and I had not heard back. Give me the lowdown for the GOP, Tony.
Well, it is also a very fascinating race because you have, of course, longtime Senator John Cornyn on the ballot, but he could possibly lose his seat to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who, Katie, as you know, has a long history of issues, legal issues, moral issues, ethical issues. And so the big question on the Republican race is whether or not he is going to
make it alone tonight with no runoff or whether or not he could possibly face a runoff against John Cornyn. Of course, most of the people following that race very closely think that if it becomes a runoff, that that increases the likelihood that John Cornyn could possibly lose his longtime seat in the U.S. Senate. 2.5 million people voted early.
More of them, and this is what's unusual, more of them are Democrats than Republicans. If you are a Republican in the Senate, in Congress right now, who are you rooting for? So Republicans on the Hill and the Senate absolutely want John Cornyn, the incumbent Republican, very powerful Texas senator, to win this election.
Of course, there's a three-way race with Ken Paxton and Wesley Hunt, which means that it's most likely Katie going to go to a runoff. But what Republicans on the Hill really worry about is that if Ken Paxton wins were to win, to be the Republican nominee. He is the current attorney general of Texas. He's very controversial. He's plagued with scandal, but he is a favorite of the MAGA right.
If he were to win, Republicans think that Texas could actually be lost for the party and that a Democrat could win. So we'll see how this all plays out. The primary matters, but the Democratic primary matters just as much. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people.
You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
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Chapter 5: What challenges are voters facing at polling places?
And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. It's Tuesday, 3 March, year of our Lord, 2026.
It's game day in Texas, and so this whole effort we've had down here to make sure that folks knew about Proposition 10 and the proposition to prohibit Sharia law in the state of Texas got a full hearing on the Republican side. It's on the Republican ballot today, along with some other propositions, but also to cover the... the Agricultural Commission, Railroad Commission, the Attorney General.
Attorney General and the Senate primary are obviously getting national attention, and the Senate is getting international attention. It is... I believe the most, just through this first round, is the most expensive primary, I think, in the history of the Republican Party. Caroline Wren is going to be on in our second hour. Second hour, we're going to do a War Room Texas.
She's going to be on to break down some of the spending of John Cornyn. Richard Barris last night, I thought broke news in some of the analyses he's doing. And this would anecdotally back up what I've seen here. I think there are...
not an insignificant number of mega voters of grassroots here and the grassroots is very strong that is so repulsed first off they're they know who uh cornyn is and they've known who he is for a long time um they're adamantly opposed to what he stands for it really stands for because he's part of the problem in washington
But I think they're so turned off by the negative nature of this campaign and the ads and the scale and what I call the gross tonnage of the ads that Barris said 30% of the grassroots would not vote for Cornyn. I agree with that.
I think if he was to pull this out and at least finish second and go into a runoff, if Ken Paxton can't get to 50% plus one vote, all these pundits will say, well, he's just going to put money in. I think it's very difficult. You're going to see tonight with his results. What, I believe it's $80 or $90 million. I saw something yesterday, $122 million already spent in this primary.
I mean, the numbers, this is from every group. Of course, he's got Senate Leadership Fund, plus all these outside groups that are all over it. Ben Berquam joins us. Ben, you're going to be at Ken Paxton's headquarters tonight, so we'll see how that goes. But you have stopped... on your journey, and as only Ben Burkard could do, you're in Plano, Texas, sir.
Correct me if I'm wrong, are you in front of the original epic city? Is that a mosque in the background? Yeah, that's right, Steve. Some of the audience knows about Josephine, Texas, the big controversy where they called it the Epic City. Well, that's actually Epic City 2. Plano, Texas is Epic City 1. And this is part of that. This is East Plano Islamic Center.
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Chapter 6: How does the voting process differ from previous elections in Texas?
I saw analysis today. There's over, I think, 2.5. five million Muslims already in the country, more than, excuse me, there's more Muslims, I think five million, there are more than 24 states in the union. You've seen this from the beginning, Ben. In fact, you went, we sent you an assignment to Europe and you're saying we get to 25%. That's when it's over.
I mean, London, I think today is close to 20%. Once you get 20%, you can't turn it back. Tell folks, you went to Europe and saw this up close and personal, the invasion that's going on there. What did you see? Well, it's the cancer of woke leftism.
In communism, they call them useful idiots, but it's the same thing here where you have jihadists masquerading as a peaceful religion that use stupid people to invite them in as the Trojan horse, if you will, and then they metastasize into the cancer you see in Europe. And what I saw in England, England is gone. France is gone. Paris is gone.
In Paris, you have no-go zones where the cops don't even go into them. We were there. We were threatened. Our lives were threatened. In England, my life was threatened. I went on to the university, London University.
I got threatened to get shanked in the neck by a pro-Palestinian illegal migrant that had come over, saw me out there just recording asking questions, threatened to shank me in the neck. This is what's happening every single day. And in Europe, it's worse because you have that direct access across the Mediterranean to North Africa and the Middle East. You have huge numbers.
I mean, what we think of as an invasion, we had a massive invasion under Joe Biden. But what you have in Europe is almost exclusively Islamic. And that's the big difference. You've also been... In the border, you went to Darien Gap. You saw the different, you would be down and see the prayer rugs, all of that. This invasion here, you know, Natalie's going to be on.
She's written a piece on Substack of one of the dangers in this war right now. And in Qatar, Qatar just announced that they broke up two terror rings in Qatar of Iranian terrorists. uh, terrorist. You've seen it from the beginning. This is part of the reason that the 25 million, you're right.
The bulk of those are not jihadists, but, but, but, but I'm getting interrupted here real quick by some security. Go ahead. Keep going. Okay. You've been, I just want to make sure you're squared away on the security, Ben. They'll give you a hook in a second.
You've been, Ben, you've seen it from the beginning of going all the way down to the Darien Gap, people coming up, you used to see the prayer rugs, all of it. I mean, how dangerous now, now it's actually on the ballot. These people are getting more political power every day. Your observations? It's a death sentence for any nation.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Republican primary race in Texas?
You've got this attack. You see, obviously, with Iran and their enemies in the Middle East. it's a death sentence and it is incompatible with Western ideology. That's the biggest difference. You go to a place, Islam is incompatible with Islam, but it's extremely incompatible with anything else. And that's what we're talking about.
In a nation that believes in freedom and liberty, if you even allow the seed of Islam Sharia into your community, It destroys, they cannot coexist. They are oil and water. And that's what we're talking about. When you look, I mean, shoot, look at what we're hearing about today in Austin, Texas. We take out the Ayatollah, the supreme leader, the Satan on earth that wants to exterminate America.
And immediately you have terrorist attacks in places across America and around the world, including in Austin, Texas. And rather than celebrating the cops that killed this jihadist, now these three cops are going to be put on trial, are going to stand in front of a grand jury because the BLM movement in America, it's all connected. Woke leftism is a death sentence for this nation.
And it's what's invited in Sharia law to America. Hang on one second. I know you got to bounce. You got scurry there, but I want you to hold through. I want to talk about tonight's coverage. You're going to be at Ken Paxton's headquarters. Ben Burkholm, the best field reporter and investigative reporter ever that has specialized in the border and what happened on this invasion.
Every town, a border town, every state, a border state. Today is election day. in the great state of Texas. And they were correct. Two and a half million votes. Two million people already voted in early voting. I think the Democrats were ahead in early voting. People requested Democratic ballots by, I think, almost 250,000. Big turnout for the Democrats.
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Chapter 8: How are national and local issues influencing voter sentiment?
And the missile buildup is designed to give them immunity in terms of developing their nuclear program. If we waited much longer, they're doing 100 a month. The idea of imminent threat to me is an odd thing. Who wants to let a homicidal maniac be able to get to the imminent stage of hurting you?
If somebody is threatening my family, wants to rape your wife and burn down your house and kill your children, I don't want to wait till they get to the gun store and the gas station. Since 1979, this regime has been dedicated to chaos through their religious agenda. In 1983, 220 Marines were killed by Hezbollah in Lebanon, 18 sailors, 100 injured.
Roadside bombs coming out of Iran has maimed and killed hundreds if not thousands of Americans. They mean it when they say death to America. I'm glad we didn't let it go further. I'm glad we didn't let them build more missiles. I'm glad we didn't let them regenerate after midnight hammer. So the idea that you're gonna let a homicidal maniac get to the imminent stage to me is misplaced.
So I've never felt better about how this ends. It's not if they fall, it's when they fall. It's not us alone, it's us with the region. Europe is now getting into the game. So I wanna compliment President Trump for starting something that the world is now gravitating to. We have breaking news into CNN. A source in the Middle East telling CNN that the U.S.
consulate in Dubai was struck and now is on fire. CNN national security correspondent Kylie Atwood is with us along with CNN political and national security analyst David Sanger. Kylie, first to you, what are you learning about this news? Yes. What we're learning from a source in the UAE right now on the ground is that the U.S. consulate that is in Dubai. This is more than an hour from the U.S.
embassy which is in the UAE. It is on fire at this moment. There are videos on social media that are coming in of this. This was hit by a suspected drone. This obviously comes after last night we were tracking drones that had hit the U.S. embassy in Riyadh. So this is a very
dangerous situation on the ground, of course, for all of the people who are living there, but also the Americans who are at these embassies. As I came in, I also saw the media reports about Dubai's consulate. The last update I had with seconds before getting before these cameras was that a drone unfortunately struck a parking lot
adjacent to the chancellery building and then set off a fire in that place. All personnel are accounted for. As you're aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic facilities in advance of this. In the cases, for example, of Beirut, We basically drew down to bare bones as well as in Baghdad and in Erbil and in a couple other posts as well.
So we've been very fortunate, obviously, but our embassies and our diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime. With an update, I will obviously refer you to the Department of War. Suffice it to say that our objectives remain as they've been identified from the beginning and by the President, laid out clearly yesterday.
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