It's a Numbers Game: The Texas RED WAVE Is DEAD — Here's What Destroyed the GOP!

Ryan Girdusky (0:00)

Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Girdusky. Thank you guys for being here. So one of the election results from Tuesday that Republicans really were hit at the core and was Democrats' massive win in Texas. Like that was really, really hurt.

Democrats won the US Senate race where James Talarico beat Ken Paxton by double digits, 1.2 million votes. Paxton obviously had a lot of issues as a candidate, but he was notoriously lazy, and he had a ton of scandals, but it wasn't just him. Democrats won every statewide race, including the Governance Mansion by over 700,000 votes, and the closest Republicans came to winning was 4%. I mean, that's not far, like that's not a bland side loss, but it ain't that close. It's 400,000 votes. So Texas has a lot of competitive races coming up. Texas as a state is more competitive now.

What does that mean? Can Republicans win this state back before the 2030 redistricting fight that will have dozens of seats up for grabs and could change the entire political map, not just for Texas, but the country? We have on Ross Hunt on today's podcast. Ross is a researcher and data analyst in Texas, and he was one of the guys I was looking to in early data analysis to say, how was it showing up? And he was the one I was like, Ross has given me some warning signs about this state. I think we're probably going to lose it. And I trust Ross' opinion on a number of things. He's a pretty good guy. So we'll have him on the podcast later. But if Republicans can win back Texas and how. But before we get to the interview, let's talk about what Democrats are up to with all their newfound political power. Now, some Democrats in the states are fairly limited in what they can do because Republicans managed to hold the state legislatures like Amy Acton in Ohio. She doesn't have either House of Legislature in North Carolina and in other states like Georgia, Texas, and Kansas, and maybe Alaska, who knows, but Alaska, their county votes slower than you can imagine. Republicans will hold at least one legislative body. So there's very limited things that the governor can do. It's not going to be a full sweep of power. But in other states, the Democrats have a lot of control, more control now than they've had since the Obama era. One of Democrats' top goals and priorities is something called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. And it's this agreement among Democrat-run states that they will reward all of their electoral college votes to whoever, whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote, not the vote in their respected states. This really caught steam after Trump won in 2016, obviously not winning the popular vote, but winning the electoral college.

It wouldn't have affected 2024 because Trump won both the popular vote and the electoral college, which would have been hilarious if California and New York had to give Trump all their electoral college votes. It would have been so, so funny to watch them, all these libs of New York having to cast their vote too, for Donald Trump and really disenfranchising millions of their voters. Well, under the belief that Republicans can't win the national popular vote, even though they just did, currently 17 states have signed the compact. Every New England state except New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, Hawaii, California, Oregon and Washington. Now that Democrats have enough state legislatures and governor's mansions, they believe they could have the compact be large enough that it would actually affect the overall election that basically they'll have enough states going in on saying, we want this national vote compact. It doesn't matter if the next Republican wins Pennsylvania. If they lose the popular vote, Pennsylvania will reward all of their electoral college votes to the Democrat. This is their run around for trying to thwart the way that we run elections forever.

This push to change the way we count elections, especially when we push hard for Democrats in Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, and most importantly is Pennsylvania, the largest swing state now in the country. Now, this is going to face a lot of legal hurdles. There's a law against faithless electors in most states. So in states like California and New York, you cannot just vote. If you're an elector, you cannot just vote for whomever you want to, right? You can't just vote for whomever comes across your mind, depending on if they won your state or not. And this is really important for Democrats in primaries. They don't want a situation where, like in 2016, all these Bernie Sanders delegates are all of a sudden electors, and they're voting for Bernie instead of Hillary, even if she won the state.