The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1924 - Upsets That ROCKED The First Round of Midterm Primaries Explained
04 Mar 2026
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Chapter 1: What major upsets occurred in the first round of the 2026 primaries?
The first round of primaries for 2026 took place last night and there were some major upsets. Seven year incumbent Dan Crenshaw lost his primary to a candidate endorsed by both Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson. Not a pair that you see working together every day.
Former future of the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett, lost her primary to James Tallarico, a soft-spoken pseudo-Christian who is somehow, in fact, much more radical than she is. Didn't see that coming. And Reza Pahlavi, the crown prince of Iran, light of the Aryans, they call him, appears to be losing his primary in the White House to take over Persia after the Ayatollah. I'm Michael Knowles.
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Tonight, it's a little unclear. Obviously, his travel schedule is a little busy and a little hectic right now. But we're going to try to get Dan to come on Bar Fight tonight. We're going to be debating the Iran war with Lib and get all the positions on the right covered. In any case, I remember the first time I met Dan.
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Chapter 2: What does Dan Crenshaw's primary loss signify for the GOP?
And these Republicans cheated in the race. Honey, sweetheart, there aren't any Republicans running in the race. This is You were running against a Democrat. So this is a, okay, where do I, this is what's called a political primary. So I know what you're thinking. You think that in the election, the Republican runs against the Democrat. That's true. You'll get it.
That's called the, if you could take notes, please, Jasmine. Yes, that's called the general election. And that's what happens next if you don't lose like you just did. But the thing that happens first is there's something called a primary. Primary. P-R-I-M-A-R what? Primary, yes. It's like first. It's like what happens first. Primary.
And then you, if you know anything at all, and if you have skill and resonance with voters, you win that. But it's hard to win the primary when you don't know what a primary is. So... Anyway, better luck next time. Now, the craziest part of this, we've all made fun of Jasmine Crockett, maybe excessively. I don't know. Maybe we need to do some soul searching. It's been fun. We've had a good time.
But you know the craziest part of Jasmine Crockett? She changes her voice and her diction and her cadence depending on which audience she's speaking to. She either pretends to be Jenny from the block or she speaks reasonably. She's just over the top. You know the craziest part? The guy who beat her, James Tallarico, is much, much worse. We'll get to that momentarily.
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Chapter 3: How did endorsements from Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson influence the Texas primary?
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If the Democrats end up winning the general election, if they end up winning the Senate seat, you're going to be wishing that you had Jasmine Crockett in the U.S. Senate. Because the guy who just beat her in the primary, James Tallarico, is much, much worse. He's going viral right now, right this minute as we speak, for a clip of him claiming that God is non-binary.
God is both masculine and feminine. and everything in between. God is non-binary.
Okay, so for people who obsess over using the preferred pronouns of confused individuals, human beings, it is amazing that they refuse to use God's preferred pronouns. Let's not forget that God, according to my religion and according to James Tallarico's professed religion, is incarnate, takes on flesh and dwells among us, is a man. He's a man. God is a man.
God is triune, three persons in one divine unity. The Trinity is incomprehensible by its very nature. If we could comprehend the Trinity, he would not be God, to use the medieval formulation. So even the point he makes about God encompassing feminine characteristics, too, that point's fine. To say that God is non-binary, is deeply sacrilegious and politically very, very radical.
It's not the only radical thing that Tallarico said. Here's another clip going around of Tallarico explaining why it is so important for voters to keep in mind the abortion rights of transgenders.
Before we go further, I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day at the state capitol. And you better believe I'll be giving sermons on that too.
So when I use the word woman, it should not be understood as an exhaustive term, but rather as a lens through which to understand, examine, and interrogate patriarchy. Similar to how we specify anti-black racism.
I think a lot of people who voted for Tallarico in this primary did not see these clips. A lot of the Democrats who are really excited about Tallarico as the nominee have not seen these clips. I think Tallarico probably is going to want to downplay these clips when he runs in the general election. We cannot allow him to do that.
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Chapter 4: What does Jasmine Crockett's loss reveal about the Democrat Party's future?
Maybe we'll get some new Ayatollah, but he's going to play ball. Or the revolution to liberate the people, to bring democracy and liberalism and Madisonian ideals to Iran. Now, for me, I have been very, very clear from before this war took off and ever since. Had I been on the National Security Council, which no one invited me to, I would have made strong arguments against going to war.
That would have been the side I was arguing. Now, I'm only using publicly available information. There's obviously a lot more information that the government had that I don't have. Namely, on the risks posed by Iran, on the imminence of those risks, and of the likelihood that we could efficiently and effectively effect our ends. You know, bring about the government that we want to see in Iran.
That's information that I don't have. So just going from the public information, I would have argued that the risks were too high, that the likelihood of success was too low. At the same time, we have to observe Trump has the best foreign policy record of any president probably in our lifetimes. So I think he's got a lot of credibility on this issue. And
Given that starting point, I think a lot of people in my camp, and I think Trump's camp, every piece of evidence we see, not just from the last 10 years, but even day by day now, is that Trump is in this camp. He wants the more modest outcome. which is, look, the neocons, the hawks, the liberal idealists, they want democracy and liberalism and a total revolution in Iran.
And pretty soon, you know, we're going to have gay pride parades through Tehran. I don't care about that. Actually, I don't want that. And I certainly don't care about that.
What I want out of Iran is to neutralize our enemy, get rid of the people who keep threatening us, get rid of the people who openly try to kill Trump, get rid of the people who have been a real problem since 1979, since they threw out the leader that we could work with. And I want to unify the Gulf states along with Israel and just keep them all in line with American interests, more importantly.
And I want a guy in Iran that we can work with. whether that guy is popularly elected, whether that guy is from an opposition party, whether that guy is from within the Ayatollah's regime. I don't really care. I want a guy that we can work with. That's the restrained realist, in my view, America first outcome in Iran. I think that's what Trump is on board with, which raises this question.
Is he going to support the guy who is supposedly the great restorer of freedom and democracy and justice in Iran? Is he going to support Reza Pahlavi? He's asked that question directly. We'll get to his answer in a moment. First, folks, if you have not joined Daily Wire Plus yet, you have to do it right now.
We have a bar fight tonight live from John Rich's Redneck Riviera on lower Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee. It's live, though. It is. There is no delay. There's no editing. There's no sensor button. If people say something, it's a little, you know, vulgar or whatever. So hopefully they're going to be nice about it. Very, very exciting. This is a War in Iran special episode.
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