District Club: Republicans' Midterm Cash Infusion, Trump on the World Stage, and Media Ban Lifts

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Ben Domenech (2:35)

Welcome to another edition of the District Club. I'm Ben Domenech, Opinion Editor at The Daily Wire. Happy to be joined again by my colleagues, Tim Rice, DC Bureau Chief and our White House correspondent, Mary Margaret Olihan. Great to be with you and also to welcome our guests, Mary and Ben. And we're going to start by welcoming our guest, Mary Olihan, great to be with you and also to welcome our guest today, Terry Moran, long time expert reporter in terms of covering Washington, all aspects of the swamp. You can check out his Substack at realpatriotism.com. I'm also told, I was not allowed to say this, but you are now officially a playwright. So, congratulations on that, Terry, and welcome to the District Club.

I want to start today's conversation actually with something a little bit different, which is I think that today we have to talk about the degree to which we have seen this massive money bomb that Republicans have been talking about for the last several weeks as they're saving grace in this midterm, and really debate whether it's going to have any impact at all. There was a great piece, I think, and I say this pretty rarely when it comes to covering Texas in the New York Times that ran through the different names that came to mind when people had to react to the name Ken Paxton. It included a number of different Republicans, including key Republican voters, people who had voted Republican consistently before. Here are some of the things they said. Crook, criminal, crook, crooked, bad, amoral, disgusting, two words, morally corrupt, disgusting, corrupt, womanizer, crook. By the way, the one who said womanizer and crook, also when reacting to Talarico, indicated that she would definitely be voting for Ken Paxton. So I think that we are sort of through the looking glass when it comes to this situation. The latest news is that the Senate Leadership Fund backed Political Action Committee is willing to spend upwards of $200 million in Texas, according to Punchbowl this morning.

This seems to me to be a massive self-own by the Republican Party. Tim, Mary Margaret, what is your reaction to this situation that basically has Republicans throwing a lot of money into a race that could have been something that cost them a lot less? Yeah.