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Chapter 1: What recent polling data reveals about Donald Trump's approval in Texas?
That right there was from one of the peaceful No Kings protests in Texas. Standing tall, Texas standing proud. And if you look at the latest polling data, Donald Trump is negative 20.5 in Texas. Of all of the states he won, where he is underwater, Even more so than Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona, Iowa, Trump negative 20.5.
I'll show this to you as well. The handmaids protest that went down as well in Fort Worth. Let's play it. Now, people in Texas are getting hit from all sides, from this Trump regime, from the MAGA Republicans, from their MAGA Republican governor, Greg Abbott, whether it's their health insurance premiums going up, whether it's the fact that Abbott did not even opt
opt into Medicaid expansion, whether it's utility costs, insurance costs, the general cost of living people from Texas, again, are getting hit from all sides. Trump's tariffs against the world, hurting small businesses. I mean, you hear stories like this all across Texas, North Texas shoe designer hit hard by those tariffs, has to pass the costs on to her customers.
And we've seen small businesses have been gutted and decimated by this Trump regime. 120,000 small business job losses last month. And just take a look at what's happening in North Texas. You see why? Let's play it. Tariff war continues. One local shoe designer tells NBC5's Vince Sims that tariffs on her latest invoice are threatening the future of her beloved business.
The creative mind behind these intricately carved shoes is Lucky Lou Shoes owner Lulu Von Hotred.
I'll get 20 years of my life and I wouldn't do anything else. There's nothing else I want to do.
She knows tariffs were impacting a lot of things, but she wasn't expecting the taps she got on this year's order.
at the most. My duties will come in at like $2,000 to $3,000 at the most, depending on my order. Last week I got an order, a small order. I got a $16,000 duty. I just started crying because I knew I knew that it was going to have such an impact on everything I've done in my life.
Von Hotrich says, like everyone else, she's had to raise her prices.
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Chapter 2: How are Texans affected by rising healthcare and utility costs?
But that was based on a view that Hispanic voters were moving towards Trump. But Trump's support with Hispanics in Texas and throughout the country has collapsed. Negative 58 net approval among the Hispanic community. Let's bring in Bobby Cole, Democratic candidate for governor in Texas. Cattle rancher, firefighter. Bobby, you're running for governor in Texas.
Think you're going to be able to flip this thing, man?
Yeah, I think so. I mean, your run-up tells the tale. We're talking about doubling of health insurance premiums in this state. And then you got your insurance premiums going up on your car, your house, utility costs are going up, mortgages are going up, interest rates. I don't even understand what this Republican party is wanting to do. It's almost like they don't want anybody to vote for them.
And the only way I can explain that is they don't want your vote. They're going to gerrymander their way in. or they're simply not gonna have a vote anymore. So when you got the Supreme Court in your back pocket. Other than that, I can't explain why they wanna attack the working men and women of Texas like they do.
Well, look, you know, partisanship is so deeply entrenched and people are growing up in Texas thinking, you know, if you're a Republican, can never vote Democrat. You know, they'd almost rather have Putin based on what Trump and Abbott are saying. I mean, you know, so I've heard that. You know, and you have there all of this disinformation that's being spread.
But like the government, you know, Abbott, I mean, whether it's with all of the costs, utilities, insurance, heck, the floods in the Guadalupe River that, you know, I mean,
It's now something that's not even being discussed nationally, but at a state and local level, the refusal to accept certain federal funds to have emergency responses, and then it just moves on and let's focus on gerrymandering versus giving emergency relief there. I mean, it's just...
How do you get over, though, the fact that it is such the deeply entrenched partisanship in that state where people keep voting for a guy in Abbott who seems to keep giving the middle finger to the people?
Well, I mean, before this state was Republican, it was Democrat. And so there's still hope that Democrats can wrestle this state back. I don't understand why you want to be a head of a state government where you essentially want to tear it down to the point that it doesn't function for the people, which is what the government's for.
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Chapter 3: What impact do tariffs have on small businesses in Texas?
i really don't have the time to do this but i'm going to make the time and i don't have the money to do this but i'm going to find a way to make it work because when i tell you i am concerned about the future of this state uh the future the futures are youth our children uh if you're if you're not gonna fight for that i don't know what you'll fight for and and that's the reason i decided to run
And I'll touch on the thing I started it off with. There's this MAGA movement afoot, and it's an authoritarian movement. And what I believed was if you could find the right kind of candidate, Abbott is vulnerable in rural Texas. If you run a candidate that is from rural Texas,
that has lived in rural Texas, has worked in rural Texas, and has been raised with the values that rural Texans are raised with, that his message could resonate. And if that candidate could break through and become the Democratic governor of Texas, it would be a big red roadblock to this MAGA movement nationally. And that's what I'm prepared to do, and that's what I'm gonna do.
Bobby, where can people find out more about your campaign and learn more about you as a candidate?
They can go to coalforgovernor.com. You can read about my positions. You can also access all my social media feeds. And like I said, if you want to help, support, and donate, donations are gladly accepted. I am grassroots. This campaign is about the people, and I need the people's help. I'm prepared. I am the candidate that can do in Texas what a generation, it's been a generation since.
As a Democrat, I can win this state. I am change. I am the agent of change. And I am for working families. And I'm for fair wages and economic justice. And I'm for protecting the legacy of democracy that's been left to all of us. And I want to make sure it's given to the next generation. Bobby Cole, thanks for joining us. Okay.
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