Democrats are Terrified After What Just Happened in McAllen, Texas
Republican Javier Villalobos just won the mayoral race in McAllen, Texas, a town which is 85% Hispanic and located in a county, Hidalgo Country, which went for Biden by 17 points in 2020. This shocking result may very well be the Democrats' canary in a coal mine, signaling a dramatic demographic shift unpredicted by the political elites and the consultant class. For years, Republicans have been told that if they only accepted mass amnesty and an open border, Hispanics would flock to the GOP. In reality, it may very well be the dangerous open border, culturally unhinged policies of the Marxist Democrats which drive Hispanics to their great political awakening. If you're desperate for some good news, look no further than McAllen, Texas. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, everybody, some amazing news out of McAllen, Texas.
Republicans won a mayor's race in an 85% Hispanic city.
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Can things change for the better?
So on this program, we try to be one of optimism and positivity, try to find solutions and not just complain about the problems.
We try to identify them and then we try to present a roadmap on how we can actually solve these issues.
We have a lot of things we want to get to today, but the one thing that I think can give you some hope, and it is an amazing possibly canary in the coal mine, is what's happening in Texas.
In Texas, one of the most Hispanic communities in America just elected a Republican as mayor in McAllen, Texas.
Now, one of my best friends in the world is from McAllen, Texas.
And we used to joke, he said that every single position on the city council in Congress was dominated traditionally by Democrats.
85% Hispanic town.
I want you to think about that.
85% of the town of McAllen, Texas is Hispanic.
This was not covered by MSNBC or Huffington Post or BuzzFeed, but Javier Villalobos won Saturday in a Mexican-American majority McAllen, Texas.
I'm reading from Axios.com, funded by Lorene Powell Jobs.
Comes as Latino Democrats say their party has been ignoring Mexican-Americans in Texas, New Mexico, and California, as the Republican Party makes dents in areas once solidly blue.
Villalobos, an attorney and former chair of the Hildago County Republican, let me stop there.
This guy did not pretend not to be a Republican.
He was the chairman of the Republican Party.
What this shows you is the Hispanic community in McAllen, Texas, a border town.
And if you know anything about Texas geography, as Producer Connor does, that is on the border of the border.
In fact, there are buildings tall enough where I believe you can even see Mexico from McAllen, Texas.
That is as close to the border as you can get.
And Villobos shows that as he was chairman of the Hildago County Republican, he beat Veronica Whitaker by 200 votes in a nonpartisan race where Democrats have traditionally dominated for years.
His victory drew praise from Steve Cortez and others.
And I look into this and I see that this is a fire alarm for Democrats.
Hispanic voters have been the most mentioned talking point in Republican and conservative circles.
You see, at Turning Point USA, we have had the blessing of spending a lot of time with the wealthiest and most successful Americans across the country, many of whom we've lost this last year.
And a common goal amongst Republican donors, especially, has been, how do we win over Hispanics?
How do we win over Latino voters?
And I've always shared that concern and that focus.
If you ever drive by Wheeling, Illinois, I went to Wheeling High School, where it was 53% English as a second language.
Let me say that again.
53% of the high school I went to was Hispanic.
I was a minority as a white male in my high school.
And growing up, I knew that the Hispanics were more conservative than they realized.
But only the Democrat Party was presenting them with an ask for their vote.
I think the Republican Party has done a much better job over the last decade of communicating and courting Hispanic voters.
But one of the biggest lies when it comes to Hispanics is one that a smart man that I completely disagree with, Carl Rove, has been trying to push forward for the last couple years.
And I have nothing personal against Karl Rove.
I think he says some very smart things at times.
I also think he says some things that are totally wrong.
And Karl Rove has said for years that the key to winning the Hispanic vote is immigration, that if we just embrace amnesty and corporate tax cuts, Hispanics are going to come to us in record numbers.
Now, this is a very basic and I think deceiving reading of the Hispanic community.
Having spent time in the Hispanic and Latino community growing up, hosting five, or is it six, young Latino leadership summits at Turning Point USA?
I have realized that it's not the Hispanic community that wants mass amnesty.
Instead, they want something that the conservative movement seem to be getting away from, but they're almost recommitting themselves to, especially in recent years, which is Hispanics first and foremost want law and order.
This is an issue that is not talked about enough when we try to communicate to Hispanics.
Now, you might say, well, why would they want that?
Well, if you travel to Central America or South America, you cannot have commerce in many parts of Mexico because it's run by the cartel.
You can't go to school in parts of Nicaragua because of the lawlessness.
Hispanics know that if you do not have police that can keep the streets safe, commerce does not matter.
Schooling does not matter.
In fact, in the Hispanic community, because of the history, because where they've come from, they know that as soon as the windows start getting smashed, the businesses start getting looted, and the drive-by shootings commence, this kind of chaotic destruction of civil society makes it unlivable.
And Hispanics, by the way, have a reverence for law enforcement.
You look at many police departments across the country, they are overrepresented by the Hispanic community.
In fact, nearly half of Border Patrol agents are Hispanic.
Hispanic voters believe in duty.
They believe in participating in something bigger than themselves.
Now, this kind of deeper read of the intellectual drivers of why Hispanics might all of a sudden be interested in Republican politics goes right over the head of Republican consultants.
Republican consultants say amnesty is all they care about.
All they want is open borders.
And that's just not true.
First of all, many of the Hispanics in McAllen, Texas came here legally.
There's plenty that came here illegally, but there's plenty that came here legally.
And the Mexicans in McAllen, Texas were thought to be just automatic Democrats, but we're seeing that change.
And it's changing first and foremost because of the law and order issue.
Secondly, it's changing because of the social issues and the hyper radical, dare I say, degenerate culture that the left seems to be embracing.
I'm talking about a new video out from Nickelodeon, new video out from Nickelodeon that shows a drag queen talking to five, six, and seven-year-olds, glorifying sex changes, and Nickelodeon platforming this idea of being a drag queen.
A Hispanic voter in McCall and Texas, who is Catholic and has a large family and believes in order and believes in tradition, they see this on their television.
They say, oh, that's not what I want.
And they retreat or they choose a different voting choice of someone, any party that wants to keep what works and what is moral and what is timeless the same.
Listen to this right now.
This is a jingle, I guess you could say, a Nickelodeon of a, I don't know if it's a woman or a man propagandizing six-year-olds that they should become drag queens.
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It's pride, everybody.
Every color on the pride flag is a symbol in the sky.
And I'm proud to be me every time that I see that pride flag waving high.
Breathe means life because living is a gift.
Orange means healing and we have to persist in working to heal the world and healing ourselves.
And that's just a small taste of it.
I just want you to imagine a 45-year-old Hispanic in McAllen, Texas, who grew up going to the Catholic Church, believing in marriage between a man and a woman.
All of a sudden, they turn on Nickelodeon, they see this trash, and they say, hold on a second, there's something wrong here.
And their instincts are not incorrect.
There's a couple other issues of why Hispanics are coming in the Republican direction that most Republican consultants do not realize.
But if you are losing hope here, I want to reiterate this.
Hispanic heavy Texas City, 85% Hispanic, was won by a Republican, not just any Republican, but the former chair of the Hildalgo County Republican Party.
If you look closely, there is a seismic shift happening in American politics right now where Hispanic voters and voters of color are coming in the Republican direction.
And this spells trouble for Pelosi and Schumer.
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Mayor Alos in Hispanic heavy Texas City sets off Democrats' alarms.
Now, here's what's happening.
In the Chamber of Commerce circles, in the establishment Republican circles, many of them are saying, aha, Hispanic voters are coming in our direction.
This is now why we need mass amnesty.
In fact, it's the opposite.
The more that Republicans and conservatives embrace traditional social conservative values, emphasize small business and entrepreneurship, protect the muscular class, the more Hispanics are going in the direction of Republicans.
Winning Over Hispanic Voters00:05:51
There's another reason, though, why Hispanics are embracing the Republican Party at a record number, and they're not just doing better, they are winning mayor's races.
The other reason is this idea of the macho man.
You know, Donald Trump used to come into these rallies to the song Macho Macho Man, and he used to dance as the way Trump would.
He wouldn't move his feet at all.
He would just do the hands back and forth like he was punching.
He was doing his best Muhammad Ali impression.
It's probably one of the greatest.
I got to say, going to those rallies last fall was one of the greatest memories of my life all across the country.
It was a lot of fun.
And this idea of the macho man is not something to be overlooked.
You see, if you go to a poor Hispanic family in McAllen, Texas, or maybe in Arizona, or maybe in the Central Valley in California, there is this idea for the man to be the provider of the family.
And he might be only earning $18,000 a year and his family might barely be scraping by, but he will sit at the head of the table with both hands on the table and say, I am proud of my family.
I'm proud of what I am doing.
And I believe masculinity is something worthy of protecting and understanding.
You see, the American left, with what they are doing with the transgender movement, with what they're doing with almost every single cultural program they are putting forward, they are almost saying to the traditional Hispanic male, you need to be more feminine.
That is a losing issue.
I've talked to a lot of Hispanic men about this, and a lot of Hispanic men agree with me wholeheartedly.
They say in the Hispanic community, there's something to be said about the way to win over Hispanics is not through the head, but through the heart.
And the Democrats seem to try to be force-feeding the Hispanic culture, this postmodernist, white liberal, Yale-manufactured agenda.
And you have Hispanics that kind of look at this, say, hold on a second.
You're trying to tell me that you don't believe in God.
You're trying to tell me there's no such thing between men and women.
You're trying to tell me we should only have one kid per family.
We have to stop eating meat, get rid of oil and gas, have abortions on demand, no borders at all whatsoever, and get rid of the police.
Basically, Democrats, white liberals from Yale and Harvard, are going to the Hispanic community and poking these Hispanics in the eyes and saying everything your family's family, your grandfather's grandfather has done has been racist, colonialist, and white supremacist.
And excuse the voters of McAllen, Texas, 85% Hispanic, which, by the way, used to be one of the most dependable Democrat areas in the country.
I want to just reinforce how big of a deal this is.
This would be like a Republican winning a mayor's race in black-dominated Chicago.
That's how big of a deal this is.
In an 80% black area, this is how big of a deal it would be.
Karl Rove, nice guy.
I have nothing against him personally.
I really mean that.
He's just totally wrong on this.
He says that Republicans have to stop talking about the culture war issues.
Instead, that Republicans should just talk about tax cuts and the size of government.
And I think those things are important, but they are not everything.
In fact, you want to win over Hispanics.
We need to wage the most aggressive counteroffensive in the American culture war we've ever seen.
So now we have evidence that what happened in 2020 with Donald Trump and Hispanics is not a one-off trend.
It's not one-off.
It is a trend.
It's something that is now manifesting itself in real local politics, which is the greatest canary in the coal mine, the harbinger of things to come.
So how do we accelerate this?
If we do our job, Hispanics will be reliable Republican conservative voters.
Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal, this was last week.
He says, yes, it's still the economy stupid.
Now, I don't disagree with that.
I think the economy is very important.
But Karl Rove says, quote, swing voters dislike big spending.
The GOP can't focus only on the culture war.
And he goes through and he says that the way to win over swing voters is to talk about GDP growth.
And he has all these statistics that he puts forward.
Now, here's the problem with Karl Rove, is that he comes on television, he comes and does these op-eds with a whiteboard.
Everything to him is focus grouped.
Everything to him is charts and graphs.
What if I told you, Karl Rove, that your polling is not going to necessarily indicate to you that what has been does not have to be what will be?
What do I mean by that?
That the Republican Party generally has struggled with the Hispanic community, but now we are winning in record numbers.
What do Hispanics want?
Do Hispanics want a long discussion about corporate tax rates?
Here's what Karl Rove says: He says that pluralities in seven of these congressional districts, he's talking about swing districts, now think both the country and the economy are on the wrong track.
Voters are closely divided on raising corporate taxes, but strong majority in all 10 districts say taxes overall should either be lowered or kept the same.
And he has all these numbers to reiterate that.
It's what he says here at the end.
Democrats may continue on Republicans, maybe counting on Republicans to emphasize culture war issues, rather than deliver a focused, principled attack on the president's orgy of spending and tax increases.
Hidden Data from Mr Rove00:03:00
Let me stop there.
Mr. Rove, how did Mitt Romney do with the Hispanic community?
Did Mitt Romney win the Rio Grande Valley?
How did Mitt Romney do in McCallan, Texas?
Krall Rove continues.
This isn't to suggest issues like defunding the police, critical race theory, and border security are unimportant.
But in 2022, as in most years, the economy will likely be the real congressional battleground.
The sooner Republicans can recognize that, the better.
Now, he cushions his language a little bit because I think he doesn't want the inevitable backlash of the I told you so.
My favorite Karl Rove story is when he goes on Fox News right before the 2016 election, and Donald Trump is down in every single poll imaginable.
And Karl Rove holds up his whiteboard.
He goes through something, and I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to find this clip.
I've looked for it, and I'm paraphrasing, but this is the essence of it.
It was a beautiful piece of television.
I just wish that he would have a follow-up question.
It was either Martha McCallum or Sean Hannity or someone.
They said, so, Mr. Rove, tell us, do you think there is a hidden Trump voter?
And Karl Rove said, I find no evidence that there is a hidden Trump voter.
And I thought to myself, well, Mr. Rove, if it's hidden, of course you can't find the evidence of that.
Obviously, that's the whole point of something being hidden.
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Romney Agenda vs Rising Issues00:03:15
So Mitt Romney lost McAllen, Texas 71% to 29%.
So when we were putting forward the Romney agenda of Bain Capital, corporate tax cuts, private equity running the world, 29% of voters in McCall, Texas wanted that agenda.
Now they're electing Republicans as mayor.
So what happened?
What's happened is that Republicans have now been unafraid to engage on culture war issues.
Mitt Romney intentionally avoided culture war issues.
Mitt Romney would run the other way anytime anyone would say anything that wasn't able to be proven on a graph or a chart that didn't include deindustrializing our economy, shutting down manufacturing plants, or cutting taxes for Jeff Bezos, Mitt Romney didn't want to talk about it.
And a lot of you listening to this program probably voted for Mitt Romney.
I voted for Mitt Romney.
It was the first vote I ever made.
I was enthusiastic about it because I thought the conservative movement was all about economic freedom for corporations.
And as long as we were socially moderate and accepting of the internationalist globalist order, then we are going to win and everything's going to be terrific.
Now, mind you, as I look back at the time, at 2012 and the years leading up to that, I realize we were bamboozled and swindled by a corporate class that took advantage of Barack Obama and the hatred for Barack Obama and infiltrated and co-opted and hijacked a grassroots movement centered around freedom and liberty and a reclamation of America and pivoted it towards an agenda that, quite honestly,
was indifferent about the decay of America as long as we were having a rising stock market and robust economic growth.
Mitt Romney was a pro-choice governor of Massachusetts.
If you want to find someone who's been on every issue of every side of every issue, that's Mitt Romney.
He was for abortion before he was against it.
He was in favor of China before he was against it.
And so the Mitt Romney Republican Party won 28% of the vote in McCallan, Texas, 29%.
And now we are having Republicans win races there.
And so what is the lesson for the rest of the Republican Party?
Well, first, we have to dive into how Donald Trump did.
And how Donald Trump did is pretty remarkable.
Well, Donald Trump increased the Republican vote margin to 41%.
Mitt Romney won 28, 29%, 28.6%.
Donald Trump won 41%, a 13-point increase.
And now Republicans are winning mayor's races.
So Republicans went from winning 28% of the Hispanic vote to 41% to now a majority and winning a mayor's race.
Why Harris Visits the Border00:06:05
I'm going to go to cut 26 here.
Camala, Harris, Kamala, whatever.
I can never remember the right way to pronounce it truly.
This is going viral.
This is her with Lester Holt from NBC.
And this all ties together with this issue of McCall and Texas and how to win over Hispanics and whether or not we are going to be able to win elections and broaden our party.
And I could just tell you right now, the people that wear three masks and that go around screaming at people if they are not vaccinated in Brooklyn, they're very nervous.
They're nervous because the people that they've never met in places they've never visited and towns they can't find on a map and people that aren't necessarily traditional white conservative voters are rising up in record numbers and embracing Republicans.
Play cut 26.
Okay.
Do you have any plans to visit the border?
At some point, you know, we've been to the border.
You haven't been to the border.
And I haven't been to Europe.
And I don't understand the point that you're making.
All I could say is Lester Holt will be audited next month and thoughts and prayers for his family as they go through a financial colonoscopy.
Because how dare he ask a question like that of Kamala?
Is it Kamala or Kamala?
I really mean no offense.
I get this wrong all the time.
It's a complete dumb look when I get it right.
How about this?
Vice President Harris.
And so she goes down to Guatemala and she says many things that she wants to help Guatemala.
In fact, she was protesting when she went down to Guatemala and she told them, don't come to America and amongst many other things.
But Lester Holt presses her, why haven't you visited the border?
Now, that's a very good question.
Why wouldn't Kamala Harris visit the border?
Well, for one, they don't actually believe that we have a border.
They believe that we have an arbitrarily drawn colonial line between Texas and Mexico of illegally assumed land.
You think I'm joking?
That is the viewpoint that is expressed in college campuses.
Nations are merely a construct put forward by white supremacist colonialists, that there should be no difference between Macau and Texas and Mexico City, Mexico.
The U.S. Constitution does not have limits, boundaries, or borders.
We're all citizens of the world.
Now, those of us that actually have our viewpoint rooted in reason and logic, we know that countries are not acts of randomness.
We know that countries are deliberate.
That it's when a people come together, hopefully through the consent of the governed, give up a little bit of their freedom and liberty in exchange for some form of a civil government, and hopefully and prayerfully in return, will get a free society.
And the difference is quite stark.
In Mexico, they have a cartel running their entire country.
Now, in America, we have a different cartel running our country.
It's called Congress, but that's a different topic for a different time.
But why would Kamala Harris visit the border?
Well, if she visited, she would have to take responsibility.
The longer she doesn't visit, the less responsibility she has to take.
And to her, visiting Paris and visiting Uvalde, Texas is a moral equivalent or Nahales, Arizona.
So to her, to Lester Holt, she says, well, I haven't been to Stockholm.
What's your point?
Well, here's the point, Kamala.
In Stockholm, they don't have 3,000 people coming across the border from Stockholm into Texas every single day.
That would be one difference.
Number two, Stockholm or Paris is not bringing in tons of drugs into our country every single day, or guns, or thousands of women are not getting raped every single month coming from London into our country.
But for her, we're all citizens of the world.
What crisis?
There is no crisis.
You see, the Democrats are governing as if they never actually have to face another election again.
So there's two explanations here.
The first explanation very well could be that Democrats think that because of the way that they are able to manipulate mail and balloting, because of the way that they are able to control the voting systems, that they never actually have to face another election again the way they used to.
Or, number two, they are so confident in their own press releases and their own nonsense coming out of the New York Times and the Washington Post that they think they're actually doing such a wonderful job.
How could people not possibly support them?
But Democrats almost always make this mistake.
Governing for them is something they've never been good at because governing takes consensus, it takes perseverance, it takes focus, it takes the ability to take responsibility for your actions.
Democrats are awful at governing, they're really good at running bureaucracies inefficiently for their own personal gain.
But as far as governing a state or a country, that is a skill that most Democrats do not have because for them, governing takes looking at the world empirically through practical wisdom and using prudence and then putting forth public policy.
Democrats are ideologues.
They're ideologues in pursuit of power.
And that's why Kamala Harris does not want to visit the border.
Thanks so much, everybody.
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