WarRoom Battleground EP 960: Polls Close In Texas For The Future Of Our Republic
Stephen K. Bannon declares March 3, 2026, Texas’s "game day," framing the election as a battle against Sharia law, with Proposition 10 on the ballot amid claims of $4B in taxpayer funds for Islamist groups. Polls show Ken Paxton leading John Cornyn 51% to 31%, fueled by $20M in attacks on Hunt and Cornyn’s $100M spending spree, while grassroots voters reject his negative ads. Frank Gaffney warns of a "stealthy jihad," citing Austin shootings linked to Islamic extremism and halal food in state institutions, tying it to Minnesota AG Keith Ellison’s opposition to Sharia bans. With $69M+ spent to block Paxton, the race hinges on voter turnout—Texas’s outcome could redefine America’s cultural and political future. [Automatically generated summary]
Also, the coverage, our election night coverage, will start at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
Grant Stinchfield from Dallas, his Dallas studio, will co-host.
There's that right there.
We'll go until we know who the winners are in this really, which turned into a massive primary in the Democratic side, but I think the most expensive in the history of the Republican Party.
We lead off with Chris Wilson, is one of the most respected pollsters and political operatives in the state of Texas.
You've made your career here.
Chris, just put it into perspective, we had a cold open.
Ben Berquam, our field reporter, who will be at the headquarters of Ken Paxton tonight, stopped by Plano, Texas.
We did a stand-up there and talked to him for a while.
He's been all over Texas for a while.
And it was very interesting about the polling.
We played a coal open for him that had all of mainstream media, the MSNBC, really all over this primary, particularly the two and a half million people who have voted and really looking like in early voting, the Democrats coming out in a presidential cycle.
You know this better than anything.
Talk to us about first off the early vote and then where do you see this race today?
You know, I think it's too early to, even though it's the day of election day, to judge what the early voting actually means.
There's clearly excitement on the Democratic side, but I think anyone who today is trying to channel some crystal ball and extrapolate what that means for November is just out throwing out the fool's gold.
Because look, we saw massive turnout and enthusiasm amongst Republicans at the primary in 2022 during Biden's midterm, and it didn't translate into turnout in November.
So from a data scientist perspective, I look at this as a positive because all these Democrats that are turning out are now giving me data to judge who they are for the general election.
And that's actually very positive.
It will help my clients ultimately win.
But as you mentioned, I was executive director of the Republican Party of Texas back in the 90s.
I did Ted Cruz's first race in 2012 and all his subsequent races since then.
And I've done Governor Abbott's work over the years.
And so I've seen a lot in Texas.
And the fact of the amount of money that has been spent, and you said in your open that it's the most ever Republican primary, and I'm sure that ends up being true, is just stunning to me.
And going into the race on election day, here's how it looks.
And I should step back because I'm known to the pollster.
I'm known as somebody who does data science.
Today I run a company called EyesOver, and we track millions of online conversations happening in real time.
So instead of relying on polling snapshots, we measure what we call a sport score, and which it tells us where the grassroots energy is moving.
And the grassroots energy leads the overall energy.
And so going into election day, the race looks like this.
Ken Paxton is generating just over half of the positive engagement, about 51%.
John Cornyn is sitting around 31%.
And Wesley Hunt, who I should disclose to your listeners, I work, have worked for the Wesley Hunt Super PAC, and he is at 17%.
And I will point out on that matter, and if it sounds like I'm a little bit bothered about it, that might not be unfair.
There's been more money spent against Wesley Hunt from a negative perspective than there has against Ken Paxton and John Cornyn combined.
And so we can talk about it if you want.
But having said that, so we go in.
The online conversation entered today clearly shows Paxton has the center of gravity in the race.
But really, what really matters as I look at this from an analytical perspective is not just the percentages.
What the data shows that the race has organized itself into two political coalitions amongst the Republican Party in Texas.
And this is a little bit of what I saw in 2012, not to go back too far, but with Ted Cruz in the primary against David Dewhurst, who the establishment supported, and there were other people in the race, obviously, but we sort of saw the same thing emerge, but we didn't have this tool.
And so we kind of saw it after the fact because polling is really a trailing indicator to these things.
So on one coalition, you see the grassroots populist wing of the Republican Party, which is driving the engagement around Paxton.
And then the other coalition is the institutional Republican support, which has rallied around Cornyn.
Hunt has picked up voters who are looking for kind of a generational, I'll describe it, scandal-free alternative, but those have dissipated over time as both the Paxton and the Cornyn campaign super PACs have done an effective job of attacking Wesley Hunt.
So what Texas voters are deciding today isn't just between three candidates.
I would submit it is deciding which coalition they want leading the party going forward.
Because in modern primaries, the candidate who controls the grassroots conversation has the structural advantage.
And I think that is absolutely essential as we move into runoffs and the general election in Texas.
When you look at this data, positive conversations, one of the things we've been here for about five weeks.
And of course, we have to curate all the local news and particularly MSNBC and CNN.
I'm stunned by the scale.
I'm just blown away by the scale of the spending of Cornyn, both against Hunt and about Paxton.
But it's the negativity.
These are some of the worst, most brutal, negative ads I've ever seen.
Does that fit into the data too?
When you say that Paxton is leading in positive statements, I don't even know where the positive statements are coming from.
I have never seen a campaign ever that literally has no issues about it.
And it's about how awful these two people are.
And I should tell you, my daughter sits on the board.
She went to West Point and sits on the board at West Point with Wesley Hunt.
And he's just an incredible guy.
You know, he's a combat Apache helicopter pilot.
He's just amazing.
Dave, you know, it'd be hard for Wesley Hunt's mother, I think, to vote for him, just like just Paxton.
I've just never seen the brutality of these ads.
Is that figuring to your data?
I know a lot of grassroots people that have said, I just can't vote for Cornyn.
If Cornyn somehow gets in a runoff and wins this thing in a runoff, I don't know if I'm there in November because I'm so repulsed by what I've seen here on this campaign.
And like I said, the great thing about EyesOver is it leads polling.
And what's interesting is in early February, Hunt passed Cornyn in terms of our internal tracking on EyesOver.
And then what we saw about three or four days later, that ends up popping up, I'm sure, in their internal polling.
And to your point, we've seen $13 million in recorded advertising anti-Hunt.
And you said his mother may not vote against him.
It's been something to watch.
So, if there's 13 million that is spent on TV, and as you know, direct mail, grassroots, door-to-door, and digital doesn't get reported in the same way.
So, I usually take that number and increase it by 60 to 70%.
So, let's just say, probably a conservative figure is somewhere in the range of $20 million has been spent attacking Wesley Hunt overall.
And you're right, there hasn't been a lot of positive run in this campaign.
There has been a call and Senator Cornyn and tell him what a great job he's doing, shutting down the border, things like that.
But it has really been more of an anti-campaign.
It's been, this seems the strategy of Corn and his supporters has been to make people vote against Hunt and vote against Paxon rather than provide any sort of positive reasons for Cornyn.
And I'll say, you know, in modern politics, the race isn't just fought on TV anymore.
It's fought in the grassroots narrative ecosystem.
And the candidate who dominates that ecosystem has the momentum on the field.
And so I think from that standpoint, is what those pro-Cornyn groups did by going after Hunt so aggressively is they may have given the race to Paxon without a runoff.
So the inflection point with those polls you saw where it looked like Cornyn would not make a runoff.
There was a potential, he was tied, I think, with Hunt behind Paxon.
And as you know, there would be some heads on pikes with this money spent by these outside groups, the Senate Leadership Fund.
If he doesn't make a runoff, there's about 10 of the biggest professionals in modern American politics that would have a lot of splaining to do.
But as you've seen this, the coalition you're talking about, the wing, the populace grassroots, do you see a path tonight, potentially, where actually Ken Paxton could get 50% plus one vote?
I mean, he is right at about 51% in our track, in our online tracking.
And it is, you know, there's a lot of things that can happen to alter that.
But I'll tell you, I saw, I've been CEO of this company since January 1st of 2025.
And in that time, I've seen us be exactly right on elections from New Jersey and Virginia to Malawi and Poland and Bolivia.
And I'm talking not just a little bit right, but exactly right.
A couple of weeks ago in Aragon and Spain, we were exactly right.
And so it is, it's stunning to me.
And like I said earlier, eyes over is really the momentum on the field.
You and I were texting everyone I was telling you, I'm going to college basketball tonight.
I love basketball and a college basketball game tonight.
I love basketball.
And if you watch much basketball, you know that sometimes the scoreboard doesn't represent what's going on on the court because you have a team that gets a turnover, they go on a run, and that's the momentum.
So, polling is like the scoreboard, uh, but what we measure is momentum.
So, going into this, there's no question that Ken Paxton has the momentum.
And, like I said, the momentum measures out at 51.7.
And usually, those things converge almost exactly right at the end.
Now, sometimes primaries can be weird things.
You get people who stay home.
And we certainly saw that in SD9, where for whatever reason, about half the Republican electorate in Texas, Senate District 9 special election in Texas, where about half the Republican electorate just decided they didn't want to vote because it was cold outside and they figured they're going to win in November.
And so, weird things can happen, but based on what I'm seeing here, yes, Ken Paxton has an absolute chance to win this thing without a runoff.
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So, last week we told the world that Donald Trump's State of the Union address was a home run.
And guess what?
The polling that came out echoed that.
When's the last time you saw that?
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Yeah, I think most people are expecting it to be somewhere in the mid-40s.
But I think, you know, if there's enough enthusiasm and if he peels off enough of those voters today, he's got a shot at it.
I do think, obviously, you know, he's in at least for the runoff.
I think the biggest problem that we're going to have here, Steve, and this is my frustration with the establishment: $69 million that they're spending to try to support Cornyn that could go towards all these America first battles, could go towards permanent infrastructure for us to build a real red wall.
And if this thing goes to a runoff with Cornyn in it, who's to say they don't spend another $100 million?
And so I just, I have such frustration for the Republican establishment that always get mad at us when we try to primary incumbents.
Now we're looking back at you.
Stop spending tens of millions of dollars to try to save a dying politician, this rhino, and let's actually go towards the future.
The only thing I can compare this to, Steve, is when I spent two months on the ground in Pennsylvania and saw them just light Donald Trump on fire with DNC money.
But when we're talking primaries, this is unprecedented.
And like I said, remember, if this goes to a runoff, we could be talking about seeing twice as much spending over the next month.
So I just, I'm praying Paxton gets there tonight.
It will be one of the biggest upgrades in electoral history to go from a Cornyn to a patriot like Ken Paxton and the America First Movement.
We've gone through, you know, there's, you know, years in which nothing happens, decades in which nothing happens and weeks in which, you know, so much everything happens.
We had this amazing state of the union, which was really back to core Trump in the optics of it, the drama of it, the way he was like an or it was like he was an orchestra conductor bringing in people, bringing in heroes, talking and calling the Democrats out in these perfect set pieces.
And you had so many people jacked up the next couple of days.
Then we had the bombing and clearly there's, you know, there's some issues with the bombing.
Some people are very going home on this.
Some people are uncertain.
Some people don't think they got enough information.
Some of the young people are quite upset about it.
But where do you think we are right now?
And do you think any of that will have any impact on turnout today in this primary?
Look, I think the State of the Union was a home run.
And I think that the moment that I was hoping to get, right?
Because Steve, as people who are working on the ground trying to get voters to be excited, to try to get voters to be motivated, we always look for moments, right?
What are the little nuggets that we're going to have to get people to actually take this step and take action and get out and vote?
Steve, the moment from the State of the Union, when Donald Trump said, stand if you agree that the American government should put Americans first over legal aliens and to see them pan the room and not one Democrat standing up.
I don't get excited often, Steve.
You know, I like to be a realist on your show and give it to the posse straight.
That was a moment that gave me hope for 2026 to think that's going to be something that if we narrate that right, if we drive that message home, because that is what won with the America First Movement in 2024, was going back to the core issues, putting Americans first, not illegals.
I think that that picture and that paused moment where not one Democrat was standing for Americans over illegals, that's what gives me hope.
And I think that's going to be one of the things we take from the state of the union to try to motivate our base.
Caroline Wren, as only you can do, ma'am, you lit up.
You put a couple of tweets out today that just lit people up, particularly Cornyn.
We had Barris on yesterday and Barris said, hey, look, I got news for people.
We've been doing polling here.
The negativity in this race is so bad, right?
And Cornyn and these guys, the Senate Leadership Fund, they brought so much of this money in here and destroyed a grassroots here or tried to destroy grassroots here.
And Ken Paxton, but then went after Wesley Hunt, which I told you is a decorated Apache helicopter pilot that sits was a West Point grad that sits on the board of West Point.
That's turned him off.
He says, hey, I think a third, I think 30% of the grassroots MAGA movement won't vote for Cornyn in the general.
You kind of picked up on that theme today on your tweets.
Why do they think, as Chris Wilson broke out, this kind of populist grassroots wing that is so powerful here in Texas, what is it that the establishment, and not just the Texas establishment, this is DC establishment.
What is it that the biggest donors, the biggest corporations, what do they fear about a guy like Ken Paxton?
I mean, why is Cornyn so special that $100 million just for what potentially could be the first round?
Ken Paxton has gone after every major corporation in this country if they are violating antitrust laws, if they are violating the Texas Constitution.
And we've seen it over and over again when no other AG is willing to because they're scared it might piss off some of their donors.
And I'm speaking directly now to the Republican AGs, which are largely spineless.
Ken Paxton was willing to.
Think about it.
When they stole the election from Donald Trump in 2020 and we're all sitting there saying, hey, they stole it.
Go do something.
Who is it that authored the Amicus brief to back up Trump and say, no, no, no, you can't do this?
It was Ken Paxton.
I had to help Ken.
You know, I was calling all these other Texas, or sorry, AGs, Republican AGs across the country saying, you need to sign on to Ken Paxton's Amicus brief.
None of them even had the guts to do it.
Finally, by the end, they were all kind of forced on to sign.
But that's because Ken Paxton is a leader for the people.
He is not the leader for corporations.
He's not the leader for the donor class.
He is a leader for the people of Texas.
And I'm praying that he gets to the Senate because when you're in the Senate, the decisions that you make don't just affect Texas.
They will affect the entire country.
And we need desperately someone like Ken Paxton.
Look at it right now with this crop of Republican senators we have.
We basically are relying on Mike Lee and then a handful of patriotic House members to try and get the SAVE Act done, which I'm not even sure it's going to at this point because these senators, especially in the Republican side, they just, they tell us one thing when it's an election year and then they do the other.
And this brings me to my point too about Cornyn.
John Cornyn has run for reelection.
I think I said this is his fifth time and he's had to be accountable to voters and he has still done horrific votes that no Texas Republican and the majority of Texans don't support having to do with anything from gun rights and others.
Can you imagine if Cornyn gets another term?
He's 76 years old.
So he will go 74, 76.
He'll go into his 80s.
He's not running again.
So he will be wholly unaccountable.
He will not be accountable to any voters.
He won't be accountable to Texas voters.
He's just going to go in there and do whatever he wants in this last term here.
And we cannot have that.
Ken Paxton will be accountable to the people of Texas.
This is why it is the most important race in this country and he has to win.
Your assessment right now, by the way, if you're in Texas and you're hearing this, you still have plenty of time to get to the polls at least an hour or so.
So make sure you go.
Do you believe Chris Wilson thinks he could actually take it tonight?
I always say on your show that I think polls are for strippers and firemen, not for predicting elections.
And so I'm curious.
I was just in Texas this weekend and the energy is certainly behind Ken Paxton.
The negative ads have had an effect.
I've talked to a few people who told me, oh, you know, I'm going to vote for Wesley Hunt because the negative ads are just too much for me on this, but they can't stand Cornyn.
And I've talked to them.
I've said, look, I think Wesley's a really good guy, but I think that he has no chance in this.
So you're wasting your vote there.
You need to come over to Paxton.
Every single one of them switched over and said, all right, you're right.
I'm going to vote for Paxton.
And even if they hadn't, they were going to vote for Paxton in a runoff versus Cornyn.
So I can't envision a place where Paxton doesn't beat Cornyn in a runoff.
I hope that Paxton has a pretty decent size win tonight.
So then that way, maybe there'll be less money.
But I'm hearing the Cornyn people are saying they're going to spend another $100 million in three months.
That could be $200 million literally lit on fire in this race when we have to defend much more competitive races in places like New Hampshire, North Carolina.
We have pickup opportunities in places like Michigan.
And instead, we're setting all this money on fire in Texas to anoint Cornyn to another term that literally nobody wants.
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Frank Gaffney, the Shrey law, you've been working on this for a long time.
Today is so important.
If you haven't voted in Texas, you still got to wait up until seven o'clock, I think, local time to vote.
So if you haven't vote, go out and vote.
It's very important you're part of this primary.
Your thoughts, sir, today, as we're going to start counting them up in a couple hours.
And I strongly encourage anybody who is eligible to vote and hasn't yet, go to the Republican primary ballot.
Because one of the most consequential items, I think, on it, taking nothing away from Ken Paxon's race and all the rest, is Proposition 10.
It's at the very bottom of it.
It's only five words long.
Texas should prohibit Sharia law.
And it's so vitally important that that be not only approved, but approved decisively that you've moved here for the past month or so, as have I, to help patriotic Texans expose the true nature of Sharia.
the mortal threat that it represents, yes, for sure, to the state of Texas, where it is metastasizing as we speak, but also for every other state in the Union, where similar efforts to penetrate and subvert and ultimately overthrow our constitutional republic are underway.
Don't take my word for it.
That's what the Muslim Brotherhood itself has said.
And by the way, speaking of the Muslim Brotherhood, a segue from your last segment with Mike Lindell in the previous hour of the show, you were sort of ruminating why, you know, Keith Ellison would be so keen to stop Mike Lindell from getting the nomination to become the governor of his state, Minnesota.
Well, there's one other item.
Keith Ellison is a Muslim brother, or at least a Muslim Brotherhood asset for sure.
Was throughout his public life, certainly in the United States Congress.
And now he's the Attorney General of the state of Minnesota.
And he wants to stop a man who has said repeatedly on your program and elsewhere, his first order of business as governor, Mike Lindell says this, would be banning Sharia law.
Well, why is that so important to get a booster rocket behind people like Mike Lindell all across America is because what we're witnessing here, and we've been talking about it, Steve, and I think the people of Texas, whenever they hear this stuff, are naturally going to say, no, we don't want that here.
For example, this epic city, it caught a lot of people's attention because it's an incipient no-go zone.
We've seen them all over Europe.
It's part of the takedown of Western civilized nations.
We've seen, for example, in addition, there's something, our friend Kristen Deering, one of our great Texan patriots who's done some terrific research on all this, says there's 600, at least 600 Sharia supremacist organizations, mosques, schools, front organizations, influence operations, what have you, in the state of Texas.
And that get this.
Over the past nine years, they've garnered $4 billion in taxpayer funds from either the federal or the state government.
And then there's this.
Halal food is now being served as the only food in numerous state institutions.
You don't know it.
You're just getting fed food consecrated to the Muslim God Allah.
And by the way, obtained from animals through the most horrific, barbaric means possible.
The defense is now building.
We have to make it translate into a strong vote to prohibit a yes vote on Proposition 10.
We started the 5 o'clock show Eastern Time, the early edition of the afternoon show with Berquam out there at Epic, at the original, before they built Epic City, the original.
It's massive.
I don't think people understand the scale of this Islamic invasion in Texas.
It is jaw-dropping what they've done.
We have Peter McElvaney come over here, who's an expert in London, and he said he spent a week in November.
He said, Steve, I don't think you guys quite comprehend that given the same timeframe, how much more sophisticated and advanced they are than 20 years ago when they really started moving into London.
And of course, London stand today is gone.
London has fallen.
Frank, social media, you're going to be up with us later tonight on this vote on election night.
Thank you for all your work and shifting the flag down here.
It's not an accident that people don't have any sense of the degree this is happening.
It's by design.
Stealthy jihad followed by the violent kind is the ticket.
My social media is at Frank Dafney on X. You can find our work at securingamerica.substack.com, our show here right here on Real America's Voice or right there on Real America's Voice.
We also, of course, Steve, have bansharia.com.
I entreat people of Texas, especially, but across the nation, to take advantage of the resources that are there.
It will clue you up and enable you to help become part of the fight to keep America free.
Because as I like to say, if Sharia is not prohibited, Sharia will prohibit freedom in our country.
Let me just give you the chain of custody on this story.
David Nino Rodriguez, who has one of the biggest podcasts, not the biggest podcast originating from Texas.
Well, I guess Joe Rogan's from Austin.
So I can't, and you got also Alex Jones, but one of the bigger podcasts down in El Paso.
You came to me on Saturday night, and we can't give the sources because David's plugged in everywhere.
David said, hey, this thing, I'm telling you, the counterterrorism service is going to set up.
This was a terrorist attack, Muslim terrorist attack.
Sunday morning, we talked about it.
We didn't feel comfortable enough because the government was not coming out with it.
So you weren't on our special coverage on the Sunday show.
But then they, it's shortly thereafter, I think early Sunday afternoon, they confirm what you had told me.
Now today, earlier in the day, and a lot's taking place, but you've got inside sources.
It was announced that the officers who basically put this situation down were going to a grand jury.
Then the governor came out and said, hey, because the thing blew up, people were tweeting it out.
I think Savannah Hernandez, the great Savannah Hernandez, put it up and the thing blew up.
It went viral.
And Governor Abbott stepped in and says, hey, I get the final says on this, and I'm going to make sure nothing takes place here.
And I think just as we're coming on air, David, they announced that there are not going to be any charges and this, they have to go through this every time.
But that's not what it felt like initially.
Your sense of this, and this is what happens when we came out with the conference we had six weeks ago to kick off Prop 10 of the prohibiting Sharia law in Texas.
A couple of days later, I think it was Austin City Council.
The Austin people were down.
Oh, no, we're going to be Sharia compliant.
We're not, you know, we're going to have Sharia Appreciation Day, Muslim Appreciation Day.
These enclaves, and you saw this in Dallas with this jury nullification on the Trende Aragra murder trial, where they tortured the guy, a gang member who they thought stiffed him.
They tortured him in front of his nieces and nephews, and they had jury nullification.
These blue cities like Austin, brother, and maybe El Paso, you get caught sideways as a police officer of security.
But the way that bar set up, you're easy targets, man.
You're sitting ducks.
Like I've said, I've been to that bar many times, had a lot of fun in that bar many times.
And the outside right there is a patio facing the street, the sixth street.
So, yeah, I mean, anybody who's crazy enough to just start firing at the people on that patio, you're going to hit somebody, you're going to kill somebody.
And that's exactly what happened.
So you don't even need to enter the bar.
So the fact that he was taken down, I applaud those heroes in the Austin Police Department, but they shouldn't have this backlash.
They shouldn't even have to worry about facing a grand jury.
But they're saying, well, this is protocol.
This is what happens.
It's a natural process.
But really, it's Jose Garza just neutering the policemen from doing their job.
And now you got to think twice.
Well, if I take a guy down, what's going to happen to me?
Talk to me a second about your knowledge on that night.
And you knew because Sorcerest, the guy had on property Allah sweatshirt.
He had a Quran in his car, a prayer rig in his car.
It was pretty obvious at the time for people that are knowledgeable of these things about this was just not some guy on a Saturday night that had a beef with somebody talking to his girlfriend, right?
You were the guy that gave everybody a heads up on the cartel situation at these resorts for six months.
You said, hey, I wouldn't go down there.
So tonight, two things happened.
Number one, obviously they're hitting, the Iranians are hitting targets in the Gulf during Ramadan that are Muslim targets.
Also, Qatar found, broke up two sleeper cells of Iranians today, or Iranian-affiliated people.
They broke up two terrorist cells.
When you say you look at it more coordinated, Marco Rubio today and Lindsey Graham were saying, hey, the big, massive wave of attacks that the West are bringing, the American military with the Israelis.
And now we know the Saudis want to be a part of it.
Maybe the UAE wants to be a part of it because they've been attacked.
Abu Dhabi was hit earlier and our consulate in Abu Dhabi was hit or excuse me in Dubai.
Our consulate in Dubai was hit, not the embassy in Abu Dhabi.
But knowing that it could be a massive hit tonight, are you more concerned than ever that you could see a coordinated blowback?
I mean, if you were them, right, if we're looking at for wargaming this, I would do it as a coordinated effort, maybe multiple mass shootings at once or take down the infrastructure, however they decide to do that.
You know, have the police go to one section of the city, then go in.
I mean, this could be, I would be using strategy.
These people, you know, the first guy we saw in Austin was a crazy, what I would call just a crazy lunatic, took the matter into his own hands.
But I think what they're waiting for is a more coordinated effort.
You know, if I had to war game this, that's what I'd be looking for, a more coordinated effort to take down America.
You were there and set up the flares when Biden had the invasion.
And one of the worst parts was obviously along the border with El Paso.
Knowing that 15, 20, 25 million essentially came through the border and into the interior of the United States, that wasn't just all Mexicans or people from South America.
You had a number of potential jihadis that came across.
What is your fear for the invasion we've had?
And what would you recommend to President Trump since now we've kind of gone back to targeted enforcement?
What would you say we got to start thinking about deportations overall?
Like I was like, wow, even in my prime in boxing, I couldn't jump a fence like that and land on my feet and then dodge cars all the way through the highway.
I mean, these guys were athletic and they were military-age men.
So I knew the gig was up.
I knew what was going on.
I knew they were going to be activated for such a time as now.
But I think these raids that Trump, that ICE has performed in these last, you know, this first year of Trump's presidency, I think that's the first operation of this phase, first phase of the operation, taking down the dangerous maybe organizers, controllers of a coordinated attack.
So I think that's another reason why we haven't seen anything yet, yet, yet.
But I still think that, you know, they probably just put a dent into the immigrants.
There's millions here, you know, there's millions of them here that are unvetted.
So to me, I think they would wait for the perfect time to do that, such a coordinated event, a perfect time.
And I don't know when that will be, but only they do.
But I would just tell everyone, you know, and also I'd like to say the expats in Mexico might be a good time to come back to America and visit your family.
Nino Rodriguez, thank you so much for joining us today.
Always love your insights.
You were on top of this Austin story like nobody else.
Thank you, sir.
Okay, some logistics.
We're going to, Grant Stitcher is about to start on RAV.
We're going to take a short break here.
We're going to rejoin on the main RAV station channel, Grant Stinchfield, at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
We're going to kick off our coverage tonight of the Texas primary.
Obviously, we'll be talking also about North Carolina and Arkansas, other things that are happening.
Stinchfield and myself will be doing a two-hander here throughout the night.
We're going to have some tremendous guests, pollsters, people know what's going on in Texas.
Our own Ben Berquam will be at the Paxton headquarters doing live updates.
Of course, Chris Wilson, who's a data scientist, thinks there could be a possibility that seeing the momentum of Ken Paxton, even with all this money spent against him, that Ken Paxon may have a shot to actually close it out tonight.
We'll see that.
Obviously, Prop 10, the prohibiting of Sharia law in the state of Texas, is up on the Republican ballot.
If it gets enough momentum tonight, we'll push it forward.
But the, what, four or five weeks have been here been quite an eye-opener.
One thing I will tell you, and I want to thank Patriot Mobile for helping us out down here and assisting us in introducing the people, the grassroots in this state, the MAGA movement in the state.
This is the railhead for the MAGA movement.
And man, we've got great states like Tennessee, Ohio, Florida, just incredible.
But I got to tell you, the grassroots here are very, very special people.
We're going to see how it manifests itself tonight.
And remember, the Democrats are putting a presidential election cycle number.
So we're going to break it all down for you.
We'll see you back on Real America's Voice at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
And we'll stay until we get some answers in this primary.