Texas election red alert as Trump collapses to 29%
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What is the Texas Department of Public Safety’s voter‑registration backlog and why does it matter for the midterms?
Coming up today, Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen all the way into the twenties in a new poll and now Republicans are distancing from the president because they're desperate not to get destroyed in the midterms.
How did the Wall Street Journal find that conservative podcasts cut Trump mentions by 70%?
But we have a potentially massive problem in Texas where I am right now, where tens of thousands of voter registration applications were caught in a backlog weeks before the election.
Why did Donald Trump give Chinese President Xi Jinping a red‑carpet welcome at Joint Base Andrews?
Is this what they will use to put down James Tallarico?
What’s the impact of Trump’s ban on major news outlets and the resulting press‑pool restrictions?
Meanwhile, Donald Trump finally gets something he's wanted for years, which is that major news organizations are being kept far away from him.
Is Senator Mitch McConnell able to speak or vote after his recent health incidents?
he's surrounded by friendly MAGA media going, do you have an update about the ballroom, sir?
Why is White House counselor Peter Navarro urging the administration to stop appearing on Fox News?
We're also going to look at the literal red carpet treatment for Chinese authoritarian president Xi Jinping, the Trump administration turning on Fox and a very weird new interview with Melania Trump.
How are falling Trump approval ratings (now at 29%) affecting Republican election strategy?
We have all of that and more today.
What does Melania Trump say about her husband’s work ethic in her interview with Fox Business?
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We have to start today talking about a potentially huge election problem in Texas. I'm in Texas for a signing tomorrow at Texas Tribune Festival. Hope to see you there. I'll sign my book for you. I want to tell you what we know about what's going on here with voter registration. And then there's also some aspects of this that that we don't know. Now, I don't have evidence today Republicans are intentionally trying to manipulate this election, but they usually do. And what we know that's happening is that tens of thousands of voter registration applications have been sitting unprocessed because of what's being called an error, an error. by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Some of these go back a year.
And what happened is that when eligible Texans use the DPS website to renew their driver's license or to replace an ID or change their address, they can also submit a voter registration app, except some of those applications were never actually sent to the underlying counties where those voters were trying to register. State officials say, well, the records were incomplete, so they weren't transmitted. But nobody has said what information was missing. What what's the problem? Why would you collect a missing application? And initially they said, we don't even know how many people are affected by this. Now, the Texas Association of County Election Officials says it is tens of thousands of applications and updates to applications.
There are counties getting tens of thousands individually in some cases, and it is happening days before the midterms. In an election where Democrats could, for the first time in decades, take a Senate seat if James Tallarico defeats Ken Paxton. Now, the voter registration deadline in Texas is October 5th. Early voting starts October 19th. And of course, Election Day is November 3rd. So county officials are suddenly being handed massive numbers of old registrations and being told, hey, go ahead and process this. And this is already one of the busiest periods of the entire cycle. Now there's another complication. Some of these people may have subsequently updated their registration info. So officials need to make sure that an old record that suddenly appears in the system
doesn't overwrite the newer correct information. Now there is some good news. The Texas secretary of state says, listen, if you submitted your registration before the deadline and you're not on the voter rolls, you can still cast a provisional ballot. And then officials can check the transaction. And if you were registered on time, the ballot should be counted. But if you're going, David, give me a come on, give me a break.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Texas Department of Public Safety’s voter‑registration backlog and why does it matter for the midterms?
0:00–0:14
2
How did the Wall Street Journal find that conservative podcasts cut Trump mentions by 70%?
0:14–0:26
3
Why did Donald Trump give Chinese President Xi Jinping a red‑carpet welcome at Joint Base Andrews?
0:26–0:29
4
What’s the impact of Trump’s ban on major news outlets and the resulting press‑pool restrictions?
0:29–0:37
5
Is Senator Mitch McConnell able to speak or vote after his recent health incidents?
0:37–0:43
6
Why is White House counselor Peter Navarro urging the administration to stop appearing on Fox News?
0:43–0:57
7
How are falling Trump approval ratings (now at 29%) affecting Republican election strategy?
0:57–0:59
8
What does Melania Trump say about her husband’s work ethic in her interview with Fox Business?
0:59–1:10:37
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