The Tudor Dixon Podcast: GOP Election Disaster! Tudor Dixon Exposes What Went Wrong

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You are listening to The Tudor Dixon Podcast, and this is Wednesday, November 4th. It's the day after Election Day. And at this point, while I'm recording this, I have to say, I don't know that we are terribly shocked. I'm not happy, of course. I'm not happy. I'm in Michigan, but I'm not terribly shocked because we know the midterms that this happens and the midterms that they flip. Obviously, we were hoping not to flip the House and the Senate. We had some unique cases this year in this race. When we had Darlene Graham, that was a tragedy with Lindsey Graham dying. We had some strange things happening in Ohio that we weren't prepared for.

I just don't think it's overall incredibly shocking, but I have some insights, I think, on why races went this way. Now, as it stands right now, as I'm recording this again, there is no call in the Michigan races. I will say that the governor's race and the Senate race are looking rough right now. The Senate race is closer. I still think that there's hope in the Senate race, but I will say again, Wayne County, which is Detroit, essentially, has not come in yet. They are always the last to tabulate their votes. And we know that Wayne County goes to the Democrats. In fact, the numbers for Mike Rogers so far, there's just a few in. So so far, we're seeing that they're not really higher than they were in 2024 And that's where we thought we were going to be able to pull in some new voters. There was an idea that was like, you know what, go after the independents, go after the different voters. And right now, they're not higher. So actually, they're a little bit lower at this point. That could change as those numbers come in. But we have to kind of analyze that and say, was that the right approach? Was it the right approach to go after voters in Detroit? And we'll get into that in a little bit. I want to go to Texas really quick. James Tallarico has been the projected winner. He won over Ken Paxton there.

I don't think we're totally shocked. I actually did not think James Tallarico would win. What I'm shocked by is the number that he won by. Because at this point, we're looking at about 20 points. That's a really big swing for Democrats.

In Texas, to go up to that point. They haven't won a Senate seat. Now they have this Senate seat, and they've won it by 20 points. A lot of people are gonna say that this was a Ken Paxton issue. That Ken Paxton had baggage, and that his campaign wasn't totally focused on winning. I mean, there were times when, I think, on 4th of July, when he was out of the country, and people took offense to that. I think that Talarico was able to capitalize on that, even though he had a lot of missteps. So that's something we have to analyze. How did he have, he has this weird, bizarre view on Christianity. How did he get away with that? He had this 13 missing days at the end of the campaign. How did he get away with that?

Don't get me wrong. We knew a lot of these races were going to go to Democrats. Again, it's a midterm. I'd hoped we wouldn't lose Texas, especially to Talarico, because you have to think about this. I could literally have one foot in the grave and Talarico will still be a young senator. He's young. He can be there forever. I think even more devastating what we're seeing of Texas is losing that governor's race. So Abbott has conceded.

Gina Hinojosa won that governor's race. I think that's going to be quite a blow to the people of Texas and it's going to change Texas significantly.

And we don't want Texas to change that significantly.

So we're looking at some interesting scenarios. Michigan obviously is going to be a tough one. If Abdul wins, he's going to be, I believe, the most radical senator there is, and the most radical person we've had in Congress so far. Ohio, some missteps there with the Vivek ad that I think affected the Houston race, and Sherrod Brown won the Senate race there. So that flipped. North Carolina, we had Michael Watley. I think that there was strong feeling that he had been RNC chair, that he would be a good candidate. Never really made a lot of waves in North Carolina. South Carolina, devastating situation there. Losing Lindsey Graham so suddenly. Obviously, his sister was appointed.

Probably would have been the right thing for her to not run for re-election after she was appointed to that seat. Because I do think that her inexperience showed in the debates, and that was really hard to get past. Nebraska, close race right now. Nebraska, some shenanigans went on there. We're going to get into that.