Mayra Flores, Iran, Immigration & More

Former Congresswoman Mayra Flores joins Bobby Pulido for one of the most candid and thought-provoking conversations featured on the Ranch Hall Podcast.

In this episode, Bobby and Mayra discuss border security and immigration policy, the SAVE Act, birthright citizenship, constitutional rights, tariffs and trade, inflation and the economy, foreign policy, redistricting, and the changing political landscape of the Rio Grande Valley.

While they often approach these issues from different perspectives, both share a passion for South Texas and a belief that important conversations should be rooted in policy, not politics.

Whether you agree or disagree, this episode offers an honest exchange of ideas and perspectives on some of the most important issues facing South Texas and the nation today.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Its policies. Right now, fuel prices are outrageous. That's undeniable. And it was because of a war choice. Do you support the war?

SPEAKER_02 0:09

So what war?

SPEAKER_00 0:11

Iran war.

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Well, we're not in war. President Trump is doing the best that he can to come up with a good deal.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

I've been blessed to walk a few different roads, the stage, the studio, and lately deeper into my own community. This podcast is my way of listening more, sharing more, and finding common ground. I'm Bobby Polito, and this is my Ranch Hall podcast. And today we're gonna break the internet. Because I have a very, very famous Republican that has actually been elected and is here, Myra Flores. Welcome to my Ranch Hall Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:52

Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. Happy to be here.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

Yes, this is uh this is something that's uh uh I never thought I didn't have this one on my bingo card, but but honestly, like I think that we all care so much about our country and our community that we want to live more in harmony even if we're not on the same team.

SPEAKER_02 1:14

Correct. And I'm not afraid to to talk to someone. And that's great. And who doesn't agree with me?

SPEAKER_00 1:19

And I commend you for that because I have seen you go into other spaces that are not safe, right? And we've gone to we've actually done the same podcasts in different in different with different people, right? Right? Uh I I went pastor Joel Garza.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

I saw him.

SPEAKER_00 1:35

In a den, right? And people were telling me, don't go in there. He's a mega pastor. Like if it was like a I go, he's a cool guy. Like, I don't have a problem with them. And we had a great conversation.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

He's an amazing pastor.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

He's an amazing pastor, and we had a great conversation, and and I I don't believe in this demonizing the other side. I don't like it. Um, yes, we could disagree about different things, they may disagree about your side or whatever, and that's okay. But but I commend you for doing that because unlike my opponent, has never done a podcast like this. I've never seen like I've gone and tried to look. I commend you for doing that because I think that at the very least, you have to show up and answer tough questions sometimes. Not that I'm gonna grill you because I'm not, right? This is not a debate, right? I I I I don't view it that way. This is a conversation.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Well, you know, my friend Charlie Kirk is is uh is someone who inspired me uh tremendously, and he always um talked to the other side. Sure. And I saw the interview he did with Governor Newsom, and that was the the interview that made me do this podcast with Hugh. I saw that podcast. I said, you know what? I know he would be very proud of me to do this podcast with someone that is on the other side and doesn't always agree with uh with our side, and that's okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

And it's okay. I think I think Myra at you say Mayra or Myra? How do you how do you like Mayra? Mayra. Oh, there you go. Mayra Flores. Yes, okay. Okay, Mayra. The the thing is, is I and this is what I believe in politics, right? We really all want the same things. We all want the same things. I I I I really believe at the end of the day, we all want to live happy lives. We want to provide for our families, we want to uh be able to afford things, uh enjoy our life, uh pass on our our our lessons to our kids. I think for the most part, uh Republicans and Democrats both agree that we want the same things generally. And I mean there's gonna be some there's gonna be some crazy people on the on the right, and there's some crazy people on the left. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the great majority of the people that are center right, center left, conservative or liberal. I think we all want the same thing. Right? It's just we just differ in how we get there. That's all that that's the only thing is how do you get there, right? One side has this plan, the other side has this other plan, right? But I think, do you think, and and you can be honest, do you think that one side has all the answers?

SPEAKER_02 4:11

No, absolutely not. I think the answers are in in the American people. I believe that more of the everyday American people need to run for office at the local level, at the state level, and at the federal level. One of the reasons why we're in the position that we're that we're in is because we don't have the everyday running this country, the everyday American that understands what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck. No disrespect to lawyers, but we got plenty of lawyers in Washington. We need teachers, we need moms, fathers, plumbers. We need again, the everyday hardworking people running this country. And for people to say, you don't have the qualifications, because I was told many times you don't have the qualifications because I'm a respiratory care practitioner. Look, I got there and within 24 hours I was like, How did they get here? I realize that we've been lied and manipulated into thinking that these positions are only for certain of certain people. And I'm here to tell you no, these positions are for the everyday American people.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Tell me a little bit about your experience when you went to DC. You run in a special election, right? Right.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

So you were there, you were there for like six months, something like that? Right, about seven, eight months or so.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Okay, seven, eight months.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

How was it a historic win? I was the first Mexican-born congresswoman ever elected in history on on both sides. So it was a very historic win for South Texas. The district that I ran in that special election had been Democrat for over a hundred years, and we're we were able to flip that uh district. And unfortunately, redistricting hurt us tremendously in 22. Um redistricting made it a lot safer for Democrats at the time. Now, of course, redistricting happened once again. Now they've they've made it more safer towards Republicans. So I've been on both sides where it's hurted me, where um it's favored our side. I've lived through two redistrictings in just a in just a few a few years.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

We're gonna get into that, but I want to talk, I want you to talk a little bit about what that experience was when you get there. You make $174,000 a year.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

Which is plenty which is more than enough.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Is it more than enough? Absolutely. Okay, I got a question for you. And and I'm just asking, I'm just asking questions, right? Where did you live when you were there?

SPEAKER_02 6:34

Where did I live? Yeah. In my office.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Okay. Explain to people that, right? Because this is important. Yeah, because people do not realize that. They think you went in DC and you go over there and you live in this cushy-less life, lifestyle. And a lot of people that are in Congress, right? I I want you to tell talk about this.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

The everyday American people cannot afford to rent their own place in in Washington. So rich people that run for these positions, yes, of course, they can afford it.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Right. What is what is rent what does rent cost in DC?

SPEAKER_02 7:12

Oh my goodness. I mean, you're lucky if you can find someone you can share rent with, maybe $3,000, $4,000 a month.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

A month.

SPEAKER_02 7:21

If that's sharing.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

So so if it's for the city. So it's very expensive.

SPEAKER_02 7:25

So I have a a home and a family back here, so I just decided it was best to live in my own.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

So I'm gonna ask you, I'm gonna ask you the question again. Is $174,000 enough?

SPEAKER_02 7:40

It is. It is enough because and I won't I wouldn't ask for more because the American people are struggling a lot making less.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:50

And so, you know, at the time it was two incomes. Also, we're not there ever, you know, a lot. We're I was there maybe three, four days and then fly back home.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 8:00

You know, I was I would never stay in DC. I didn't like DC. As soon as I had an opportunity to fly back home, first flight, back home. Right. And so during those days, I didn't mind living in in my office, but it does make it more difficult for those who do not have who are not millionaires. That's my point, though. But millionaires who run for office can afford a very luxurious life.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

That's my point.

SPEAKER_02 8:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

Right? My point is, is if you say we need less lawyers and less of this and more teachers, a teacher cannot afford it it to live in both areas, right? Or run for office.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

I mean, I would criticize, you know, for um making an income running for office. See, but if you're not rich, how are you going to be able to run for office and pay the bills?

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Right. Your your your kid has to eat.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

Millionaires are able to afford running a campaign because they have the money. But people like myself have to make an income to pay the bills and run for office.

SPEAKER_00 9:05

So so so having said that, what's your view on Citizens United? What's your view on Citizens United? Because I think that's the biggest problem. Right? You're familiar with Citizens United?

SPEAKER_02 9:19

No.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Citizens United was a Supreme Court case in 2010.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

The Democratic Party tried to get big money out of politics. Right? The Republican Party wanted to keep it. Right? And Mitch McConnell, they they worked really hard on getting the Supreme Court. It was a 5-4 decision. They were basically trying to say, and this is what I what I think, right? We have a problem of too much money in politics. You know how expensive it is to run a race.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Very expensive.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

Right? And it should not be that the one that has the most money has the greater chance of winning. It should be the better candidate. Do you agree with me on that?

SPEAKER_02 9:54

I agree, of course.

SPEAKER_00 9:55

Right? Because I think that what happens is, and I saw you tweet something recently, and I think this was I I agree with you 100%.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

Which one?

SPEAKER_00 10:03

You came up on my algorithm, right? You tweeted about stock trading and members of Congress. Because I think that's the biggest problem.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

It is. Okay. How can insider trading you make millions of dollars? Right. You know, when you're in Congress and they claim they're not, but their spouses are. Uh or their children are making millions of dollars. And you know, there's a lot of good members of Congress right now fighting against that. I don't think this should be political. I think Democrats and Republicans should join. I agree. This and I actually have seen um Congresswoman um Anna Paulina fighting this and um AOC as well.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Both of them have have been fighting um this type of um illegal um acts and yeah, because I I think all the Congress tries to cater to the corporate PACs and the big corporations. And I get it, right?

SPEAKER_02 11:00

If you don't have I didn't take any corporate money when I was running for office.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

At all. At all. Zero. But you were there very little time. Right.

SPEAKER_02 11:06

Did they try hard? They do try. Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Yeah?

SPEAKER_02 11:10

Yes, absolutely. Um, but I always said I work for the American people. If it's the right thing to do, I will support this legislation. If I'm if I don't support it, doesn't you can't pay me enough to support something I don't believe in.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

I I I I think that's an admirable thing. I I think that's that's that's the way it should be. Right. And I and like, you know, I've I've I've often said, you know, if I get in, I want I want to overturn Citizens United and get big money out of politics. Because then they started having these super PACs. Like, you know, right now, like, then they'll they'll have people that will a super PAC that will just open up and they'll call themselves, I don't know. Like right now, there's one that the Republicans have started to meddle in the Democratic primaries, and they call it lead left pack, right? And then they'll go try to put money behind the weaker candidate. So that way, in the general, they'll beat them. And like there's just so much shenanigans going on that I think it does not serve the people. And and and and the same happens on both sides. It happens.

SPEAKER_02 12:17

It happens on both sides. Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Everything that I'm saying, um, it's not an attack on the other side. It's right. This is something that we need to reform the system so we can have a better sit a better representation in place.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Right. I mean, look, you ran feel a certain way about all this, but at the same time, the people in Washington leading your party don't agree with you.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

Right.

SPEAKER_02 12:40

And so how are you going to cross party lines? Because there will be times that will you cross party lines if it benefits the the people of South Texas? Because that's that's also what's uh what's important.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

I agree. I I agree. Now, this last time you did not have the president's support before you did.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:00

Right? How how how was that? I mean, he was the big he's the big dog in the party, right? He's the he is, right?

SPEAKER_02 13:08

And I support I support the president. I do support the president. Um, he's doing you know a lot of great things. It's and that's okay. Uh I support I I support the president. And when you look at, you know, uh Kamala Harris and her policies, I didn't agree with her. Right. I agree with President Trump's policies. He secured the border, uh, working on the the economy. It's not about me. If he made that decision not to support me for this for this election, I I respect that. But this isn't about me. This is about the country.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

And so I'm going to there were some posts that you were kind of attacking about him not being America first like he used to be.

SPEAKER_02 13:48

Never.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

No. Do you think do you think and and you can be honest, right? Do you think the first administration, right, the 2016 Trump, was the same as this Trump? Do you think that he's governing consistently the same? Or do you think there's been an evolution?

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Of course. We we all grow. I'm not the same person I was back in 2016.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

You know, we all we all that's fair enough. Right, we all grow and he's gotten through a lot as well. You know, they try to use um the law against him and try to put him in prison. Of course, he's not going to be the same, but he is doing exactly what he ran on. He said he was going to secure the border, and he secured the border. During the Biden administration, thousands and thousands of people were crossing illegally into our country. And that's one of the reasons why South Texas turned red. Right.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

I agree.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

Because South Texas was very upset how the Biden administration was just allowing everyone, practically everyone, to come into this country. That was a huge opening for President Trump. And as soon as he came in, he secured the border.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

However, you have also said that if they don't do something about this, they're gonna lose this time because you see that it's shifting again. Right? You have said that. I've I I I've said what? You said if Republicans don't come in here and invest in this deal.

SPEAKER_02 15:14

Oh, absolutely. Right, like I've I've seen the Republicans, yes, Republicans have to invest in the Hispanic community.

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Because you got a lot of hate, Myra. Maida. Sorry, you gotta have you got a lot of hate, Maida. And and I'm gonna tell you, right? You're not in my party, and and you know, but it bothered me to see these these influencers that are really racists call you names. Yeah, I'm not gonna be. Like like Torta, like, like Torta. Like I I No no. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

I I I saw it, but these are people that I didn't think it was funny.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

I don't because you know what deal with on a daily basis.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

This is the internet and very unfortunate. You got heat. Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Right? Because you said that they need to invest in Hispanics.

SPEAKER_02 16:02

Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Right?

SPEAKER_02 16:03

But I got heat from trolls. I got, you know, those people are not a representation of what the Republican Party. You know, I I work with the Republican Party. These people that were attacking me in in this way, who we don't I don't know who they are, um, they do not represent the Republican Party. And so just like there's a lot of people who you disagree with that that you might think, you know what? These people are not a representation of my party. Same, these people who attacked me are not a representation of the Republican Party. The Republican Party has always been very welcoming, uh, especially when I went into office. And till this day we work together.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

And uh because there's one thing you say, right? And I agree with you where you say, hey, the border's secure, right?

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Yes, it's very important.

SPEAKER_00 16:54

And I and I think it I agree with that. However, the enforcement has been very aggressive, right? The enforcement here already, like not at the border, but uh with with workplace raids and things like that, right?

SPEAKER_02 17:07

Were they illegally in the country?

SPEAKER_00 17:09

Uh I think in many cases, no. In some cases, yes. Because at the end of the day, because because let me ask you, do you are you a constitutionalist? Do you believe in the constitution? Do you think the constitutional do you should rules should be for I mean I am a big big Second Amendment, right? I'm a Democrat, right? What what's that, right? But I believe I believe in our Second Amendment. And the Second Amendment. Yeah. And I believe in the Constitution. You can't pick and choose your I'm a constitutionalist, right? Okay, because there have been some places where they have gone. The Fourth Amendment protects every person, not citizen, every person from illegal search and seizure, right, in our country. You cannot go into a house as a law enforcement officer without a judicial warrant. Just can't do it. You have to have a warrant. You have to go to a judge, you gotta say, hey judge, sign off on this because we have this, right? Fourth amendment principles have been violated in the name of ICE enforcement. And I think that's a big problem.

unknown 18:11

Right?

SPEAKER_02 18:12

If you are illegally in the country, it doesn't matter who's gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

But the Fourth Amendment still protects every person, right? No te cuesta nada, no les cuesta nada, Mayra, to say we're gonna go get a judicial warrant if this person is for whatever reason, right? It doesn't it it it's you shouldn't bypass that step. That's my that that's my point.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

If you are illegally in the country, it doesn't matter who the president is, the likely chances of you getting deported will always be there. Obama was a deporter in chief. No one made a big deal when Obama was deporting more illegal immigrants than President Trump. Yes. But now they're making a big deal because it's President Trump. But the deportations have always existed.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

But Obama never, never, ever went to work site rates. Never did.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

You don't know that.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

No, he did not.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

No, you don't know that because the media didn't put it out there.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Oh, so it's a media thing.

SPEAKER_02 19:08

Well, the media has a lot to do with all this because they portray President Trump a certain way, but then they don't portray Obama in the same way. But if you're illegally in the country.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

But let me ask you a question.

SPEAKER_02 19:22

We the law is is the same.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

Let me ask you a question.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

He didn't change the law.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Do you think do you think do you think that Obama's administration when it comes to ICE enforcement and the Trump administration are pretty much the same thing? You you you don't distinguish between the two. You think they're the same?

SPEAKER_02 19:41

I believe that our ICE agents and our border patrol agents are just enforcing the laws that already uh have already been in place. It's their job to deport those that are not here illegally. It's not about feelings, it's not how how we feel. You know, at the end of the day, Congress put in place these laws. If Congress doesn't like what our ICE agents are doing, what our Border Patrol agents are doing, then change the law.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

I agree with that. Because the law has been a lot of people. But there is this, but there is discretion in applying the law, right? There is discretion. There there always is.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

I just put my I just think it's important to put our emotions and our feelings aside. When the law is a law, I am I it's unfortunate, but if you're here illegally in the country, whether Obama, Biden, or President Trump, there's always going to be that likely chance of you getting deported. It doesn't, it's not President Trump's fault that you're illegally in the country.

SPEAKER_00 20:41

Right. In the case of the Gama Square family.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

And all and by the way, all this ha all this is happening because Biden allowed millions of people to come into this country but but but people that came here and disrespected No, no, but hold on. Disrespected our laws. And I'm gonna talk about the Gama Square and made immigrants also look bad. A lot of the people that cross illegally, they came here demanding things, housing, care. How did your family come to this country? Yeah, legally.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

How? Explain to me.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

My grandfather my grandfather's from South Texas, he was born here.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

Your grandfather was from South Texas?

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Yeah, yeah. My my family's been here. But they fell in love, they fell in love with my mom.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

But you were born in Burgos, right? Right, yes. How was it that you were born in Burgos?

SPEAKER_02 21:22

And my dad was an American citizen.

SPEAKER_00 21:25

And he moved to Burgos?

SPEAKER_02 21:26

No, no, no, no. He fell in love with my mom, but my mom just wanted to be in Mexico. It took a lot of convincing for her to move here to the United States.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

So your dad was in the US and your mom was in Mexico? Yeah, yeah. So your dad never moved, your dad never moved to Burgos.

SPEAKER_02 21:40

No, we just to visit, of course.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

And then he got and then he got married to your My Dad's been an American. No, no, I'm just asking. Yes, I'm not I'm not it's not about playing gotcha. I'm just curious how how that processed Yeah, he fell in love with my mom. Right. So so it was through it was through marriage.

SPEAKER_02 21:56

Yeah, my my father being an American citizen. So when you're born, how It doesn't matter where you're born if a if a parent is an American citizen, you're given citizenship at a time.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

How how how do you feel about uh the attempts of them trying to get rid of birthright citizenship?

SPEAKER_02 22:12

Well, what I don't it's been taking advantage for far too long. A lot of people come here to Mexico just to have their just to have their their children. For example, I don't know if you know this, but I saw an advertisement in Reynosa. I was crossing into there was an advertisement in Reynosa from Mission Hospital advertising to come and have your your child here in the in the United States.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

When was this?

SPEAKER_02 22:39

Uh a few months ago. Yeah, there's a huge advertisement.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

But under the Trump administration? They're they're actually saying come and have your baby.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

Actually, that was in 2024.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

But it doesn't honestly, but that advertisement's been there for a long time. These advertisements have always existed under all the administrations.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

To be honest with you. Now do you think honestly, like it's someone shouldn't just be able to come here and just your child's automatically in America. Can I ask you a question?

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Do you think? Are you from Harlingen?

SPEAKER_02 23:10

Is that like is that your I we were we moved a lot growing up. So I six months out of the year, I lived in South Texas and then I I lived up in the Panhandle, San Benito.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

San Benito, okay, not Harlingen. Yeah. You call San Benito. San Benito. Okay. Yeah. So so like what percentage, like you're in the valley, I'm in the valley. I think a lot of people that live here in the valley, right, are a product of birthright citizenship. A lot. At some point, right?

SPEAKER_02 23:33

Absolut absolutely. And so you agree with that, right? Of course. Of course. Okay. But I just think that just because something's been done for a long time, doesn't mean that we should continue doing it. If it's not if it's not working. When people are coming in into the United United States and taking advantage of our laws, there has it has to change. For example, before when people crossed illegally into our country back in the 70s, 80s, 90s, they didn't really have to pay a cartel. It's changed now. It is. If you are if you cross illegally into the United States, you have to pay the cartel. This is a terrorist organization that has the people of Mexico terrorized. So things have changed. And so according to that, if laws have to be changed, and benefits. And what does it take? And let me ask you a question.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

I agree. And what does it take to change a law?

SPEAKER_02 24:26

That's up to Congress.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

That's in Congress, that's in the Senate. There you go. I agree with that. That's not what's happening right now. Right? President Trump is trying to end birthright citizenship with himself. They're challenging it in the Supreme Court as we speak. This is not through Congress. Right?

SPEAKER_02 24:42

But you do know that the executive order can be reversed. You do know that, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:47

If you believe in the Constitution, you do believe, first of all, this it's already been ruled, they're challenging it again, that every person that is born in this country, right? That's what the Constitution says, automatically is a citizen. That's that's the law. That's the way it that's the way it reads in the Constitution. Constitutional scholars have checked this out. It's gonna get challenged, right? And and there's been rumors that they're already kind of not gonna cite on President Trump's deal. Regardless, if there's something that needs to get fixed, I agree with you. You do it through laws in Congress. I agree with it.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

All presidents have used their executive orders to announce their their own.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

And right up, I I disagree with everyone that has that has circumvented Congress. Republican or Democrat, I don't think you should do that.

SPEAKER_02 25:35

I think that if you know if you're in in that position and you can use your power to pass an agenda, I think you should. Now, whenever another president comes in, they'll they'll do the same the same thing. That's one of the reasons why I ask Congress on the Republican side, hey, we need to make those executive orders into law. Because if a Democrat president comes in, he's going to erase all President Trump's executive orders. And I do support President Trump's executive orders. And in order for those to become law, Congress and the Senate has to pass that.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Right. You gotta work. You know, you always said, I'm a deal maker, we'll make deals, right? Go out there and and and and fix it, right? I mean, I I I think that's what that's what should happen. Now, going back, you know, to you said, like, okay, because it there was there was a there was a thing that you early on when I first got into the race, right? And they started hitting me. Fox News comes out and puts out this hit on me. They went, you said, I'm not the same person I was in 2016. I've changed, I've evolved.

SPEAKER_02 26:42

Right. Right?

SPEAKER_00 26:43

We are in 20 in 2015, I went out for Halloween, and I put a Halloween disguise, I didn't know what I was gonna be dressed as. And the last minute I went to this, I don't know, this shop where they, you know, they sell these costume shops or whatever, and I put on a wig, a blonde wig, and I and I painted myself like kind of gory, as if I was gonna be Keith Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys. You ever remember that movie? You're probably too young.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

I know which movie was.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

So I put a post in 2015 how I looked like Trump and Paquita La del Barrio had had a kid. That was the joke. Somehow they turned this into me posing myself as a gory Trump, which was not what I said. I said I just looked like Trump and Paquita had a kid. I was actually Keith for Sutherland, but you comment on they actually went and what do you think about this? And I think it's very irresponsible. And I'm like, what did I do wrong, man? Like, like, like it was Halloween. I can't dress like somebody normal, right? Well, well, yes. Look, I get it, they're dirty, they suck, but should we be the same way, contribute to that same type of noise?

SPEAKER_02 28:00

Like, honestly, like because I think it's important that we focus on the policies, you know, and that's something policy related. That's something that you and I right now could focus on, right? Like, let's let's talk about you know the the policy. So in the future you disagree with the future, Might.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

I'm gonna just say if they come up with you with some old video or old hit piece, I just ask that you just have a little bit more understanding about the game and how it's played. Because look, I mean, I'm I you got hit and I get it, it's politics. I'm getting hit, it's politics, right?

SPEAKER_02 28:33

I mean, you campaigned against me back in 22. It's politics. It's it it's politics. You know, you you block walked, you know, with my opponent. You did a commercial with my opponent, he's my friend. It's politics.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

No, no, no, but listen, I never went negative, right? I never, I never, I never like talk smack about anybody. I I don't believe you can talk smack on policy, you can talk smack on on votes, you can that's all fair game. I I get it, right? But I just I just I just said like I mean, I I wanted to bring it up because I was like, what is she doing talking about this? Like, this is nothing. But they just blow it up to make it seem like it's this, you know, they're trying to paint this, oh, he's a scandalous person, and this and that. And I and I saw another one too. When I was running my primary, uh-huh, you put in there, Bobby's a Republican, he just doesn't know it.

SPEAKER_02 29:22

I did.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

Why? What do you mean by that? Because I I've never been a Republican.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

A lot of people I believe in South Sexis are, I believe they're aligned more with the Republican Party than the Democrat Party. I do you agree with men playing in women's sports?

SPEAKER_00 29:39

No, I don't.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

But the Democrats but your leader, but the leader, the party that you support does.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

No.

SPEAKER_02 29:46

Whether you like it or not, the Democrat Party in Washington pushes that agenda. Do you agree with children transitioning and puberty blockers?

SPEAKER_00 29:56

Well, I I mean, and that's a discussion to be had.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

The party in Washington doesn't.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

But I think what you confuse, Maida.

SPEAKER_02 30:03

No, I'm not confused. Yes, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 30:05

You are confused. I think what you confuse.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Because those values don't align with the Democrat Party. As much as you I think that your dislike towards President Trump is one of the reasons is maybe the reason why.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

It's not even about I I don't think he's that conservative, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_02 30:23

But your yes, your views when it comes to the Second Amendment, you know, pro-border security, you don't support men playing in women's sports. I don't, you don't support children transitioning, taking puberty blockers. You're telling me all these things. I'm like, that doesn't align with the Democrat Party. As much as you want to support the in Washington, that's not what they're pushing.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

But I can no, I don't think so. I disagree.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

That is what that is exactly what the Democrat Party in Washington is pushing for. They push for men to play in women's sports, for men to go into women's arrest rooms. Your leadership.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

And you have a vote, right? You didn't vote 100% of the time with your Republican Party.

SPEAKER_02 31:08

Ninety four. Ninety-four percent.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

So there were six percent where you disagreed with your party.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

That had nothing to do with that.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

But Maida, but my point is Well, my point is you disagreed.

SPEAKER_02 31:22

Of course, there's a few things. But you you would you you disagree with your party on most of the major social issues?

SPEAKER_00 31:31

Financially, listen, fiscally, I can tell you, right, as policy, I think Republicans are terrible for the economy. Terrible. And right now they're big.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

How do you say that when President Biden had does it gave us the worst economy?

SPEAKER_00 31:45

That was af listen. Listen, I'll I'll and I'll have that discussion with you all day of the uh all day of the week. Right? Listen, don't ask me. President Biden gave us the worst economy.

SPEAKER_02 31:55

Don't ask me, go ahead and now it's improving thanks to President.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

It's not improving.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

It's improving.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

It's terrible.

SPEAKER_02 32:00

It's improving. It is not it's not where we want it to be.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

It's terrible. But listen, listen, do you know where we're talking about? We're moving towards the. I'm just gonna say this. Okay. The economy got really bad after COVID. It was a worldwide phenomenon. Right? After COVID, there was all these supply chain issues that went out where people, everything got so expensive. It was a s it's it really was terrible. But across the world. It was. I was a respiratory care practitioner. Yeah, and if you look across the world, all of the incumbents that were there lost. Like there was only one that didn't. One party that did not lose. Mexico. Morena. That was the only party. Go look it up.

SPEAKER_02 32:46

Morena, the worst party in Mexico.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

I don't I don't get involved in in I care about our politics here, right? And so I'm not gonna have an opinion about that. But but but going back to the other thing, right? Biden inherited, it was post-COVID, it was tough on everybody. The world was terrible because of COVID. It really set the world back. Right now, it's like it's it's that has nothing to do with it. It's policies. Right now, fuel prices are outrageous. That's undeniable. And it was because of a war choice. Do you support the war?

SPEAKER_02 33:20

The what war?

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Iran war.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

Well, we're not in war. President Trump is doing the best that he can to come up with a good deal. We do not want Iran to have the power of nuclear bombs. Okay, okay, but you're saying Do you want Iran? I'm gonna ask you. You're saying we're not in war. Do you want Iran to have the power to have nuclear bombs? Do you what do you think?

SPEAKER_00 33:40

I do not, I do not. Are you from are you?

SPEAKER_02 33:43

So what do you what do you suggest President Trump do?

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Are you familiar with the JCPOA?

SPEAKER_02 33:49

What do you suggest? If you do not want Iran to have the power I'm asking you a question for that same reason. So President Trump is doing the best that he can to stop them from having nuclear bombs, along with Secretary Marco Ruffiel.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

Are you familiar with that?

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Well what would that have to do with it has everything to do with it? With with nucle with them having the power of the of nuclear bombs.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

It has everything to do with it. You're not familiar with it, but I'll I'll obviously. But you or you could tell me if you are.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

But but yes, the point here is that President Trump is a peacemaker. He has stopped many wars. We would be in a lot more war like in a lot more trouble in the middle of the world.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

We're not at war if it wasn't You're saying we're not at war right now.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

No, I don't believe so. I believe President Trump right now is is stopping the Iran government from having any power to have nuclear bombs. We don't, you and I both agree that they should not have the power to have nuclear bombs. And that's what President Trump is doing. He's in a very tough position.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

There was actually a thing called the JCPOA that was under the the Obama administration that had a nuclear agreement with Iran, where they would check and make sure that was already instituted. Guess who got rid of it?

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Who got rid of it?

SPEAKER_00 35:12

Donald Trump. In other words, there was already an agreement on how on specifically for nukes, right? Like it was like they go in, they can monitor, he got rid of it. This is this is the things like that that I'm saying, right? I I'm not here to talk trash about Trump just to talk trash, right? If I disagree, I'll disagree. And if I agree, I'll agree. I really will. I swear. No, listen, when he comes and he listen, when Trump says the insurance companies have too much power, we need to do something about that, I applaud and I go, let's go. Let's go. Let's go move your people, let's make some laws, and let's take the power away from them. He won't do it. He hasn't done it yet, and I'm disappointed. But I don't have a problem agreeing when he says something that I agree with. But if there was already a nuclear place thing in place, why do you go change?

SPEAKER_02 36:02

Because Iran was not respecting that. Yes, they were. No, they weren't. No, they weren't. You don't even know what the agreement was, though. They were clearly not respecting it whenever they were actually they actually had nuclear bombs. That's why they had to put a stop to it.

SPEAKER_00 36:17

Listen, do you think tariffs made things more expensive here?

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Tariffs had to be used to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

Do you think they made things more expensive here?

unknown 36:24

No.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

You don't.

SPEAKER_02 36:25

No. I think that President Trump had to use the power of tariffs to get Mexico to do what they're supposed to be doing. And I applaud President Trump for using the power of tariffs to get these countries to do it. Because they've been taking advantage of the United States for a long time. A lot of these countries have tariffs on us. Why can't we put tariffs on them? Why is it okay for them to have tariffs on us? Do you agree that we have no tariffs on the U.S.?

SPEAKER_00 36:51

Do you agree that Trump implemented tariffs to try to increase manufacturing in the United States?

SPEAKER_02 36:58

I believe he used the power of tariffs to get Mexico to secure the United States.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He didn't just put tariffs on Mexico, Maida. He put tariffs on the world.

unknown 37:08

Right.

SPEAKER_00 37:09

No, no, no. This was not a Mexican thing.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

No, because those This was everybody. Right. But if those countries have tariffs on us, why can't we put tariffs on them?

SPEAKER_00 37:17

He tariffed countries like Brazil that we had a trade surplus with, and then had to reverse course and say, oh, you know what? We're not tariffing coffee anymore like we were because we can't make it.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

The United States has been taking advantage of the government.

SPEAKER_00 37:33

That's a that's a narrative that I think right now is showing it did not come to fruition.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

Because everything is We live in the United States and you live in the United States for a reason. Do you know the country has been taking advantage of the city?

SPEAKER_00 37:43

Do you know that recently do you know that recently? Do you know that recently the wages for the first time since 2023, wages are less are less now than inflation. Right? You can't tell me, my dad, that the economy is doing better.

SPEAKER_02 38:01

Our economy is doing better than it was under the Biden administration. I can't imagine what our country would be under Kamala Harris.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

I I'm not even going back. Listen. No, we have to. No, I'm not going to Kamala. We have to be able to win. Listen, they have a we're in a better No, but she was the vice president.

SPEAKER_02 38:20

She did win, though. She was the vice president alongside Biden. She didn't win.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

Trump has the keys to our economy. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

Right? It is thanks to him our economy is getting better.

SPEAKER_00 38:31

He's got the keys to our economy. He has a majority in the House. He has a majority in the Senate. There's no excuses.

SPEAKER_02 38:39

The Democrat Party had all that, and did they do the things?

SPEAKER_00 38:43

But I but listen.

SPEAKER_02 38:44

And I don't know if you know how this works. We have a very small majority. So, for example, right now we're pushing for the Save Act, the Save America Act. It's a terrible act. It's an amazing act. What's wrong with those that are illegally legally in the country to vote? You don't think only Americans should be able to vote?

SPEAKER_00 39:02

I have a question for you, because I only look at things that's what this bill is.

SPEAKER_02 39:06

I'm glad you brought it up.

SPEAKER_00 39:07

I'm glad you brought it up.

SPEAKER_02 39:08

Only Americans should have the right to vote in elections.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

That's not true. That is not what this bill is about. It is absolutely not. It's a voter suppression bill, is what it is. And I'm going to tell you something.

SPEAKER_02 39:18

How does it suppress a vote?

SPEAKER_00 39:20

I don't know if you've have you have you really read through it? Really, have you read through it?

SPEAKER_02 39:24

Yes, but how does it how does it suppress a vote? Having an idea.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you. I'm going to ask you a question. Okay? We live in Texas.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:32

Right? Yes. Texas is under under the administration and under the rule of what? What uh what uh Texas right now, who who who in Texas runs Texas? Republicans or Democrats?

SPEAKER_02 39:43

Republicans, of course.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

Okay, at every level, right? Supreme Court, uh both both houses, the Senate, everything. The governor, Lieutenant Governor, every level. Okay. Have you looked and see how much voter fraud there is in this state?

SPEAKER_02 39:58

There there isn't uh as much voter fraud.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

It's super like 0.00.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

I want zero right, and I'm thanks to the our governor, thanks to the amazing job Republicans have done, that we do not have that fraud. Now, this is a federal, so we want all 50 states not to have fraud, just like Texas. So you're right, Texas does not have fraud as much, but we want that for all 50 states. We do not want fraud in company.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

I'm running in Texas, I care about Texas. Right? Listen, I'm running here. I I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna tell you about the United States of America. I care about my company.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

I want what we have here in Texas, I want off the company.

SPEAKER_00 40:38

But as it is right now, right now, you go and you have to show ID to vote here.

SPEAKER_02 40:44

What's wrong with that?

SPEAKER_00 40:45

I'm not saying it. I I agree. It's fine. Yeah. If it isn't broke, don't fix it. Right?

SPEAKER_02 40:52

It's not going to impact Texas as much. It's going to impact states like Allegor, it doesn't impact.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

It's going to impact us here, and I'll tell you why.

SPEAKER_02 40:59

How does it impact us?

SPEAKER_00 41:00

Let me answer. I'm going to tell you why it's going to impact us here. Because they require two forms of ID. Right? If if you right as it is right now, we have. Do you know what the voter participation rates are in the valley as it is right now?

SPEAKER_02 41:14

Very low.

SPEAKER_00 41:15

Very low, Maida.

SPEAKER_02 41:16

Very low. Do you agree?

SPEAKER_00 41:18

Embarrassing. It's embarrassingly low. Do you think that we need to make it harder for people to vote here?

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Or does it make it harder harder?

SPEAKER_00 41:25

It will make it harder for sure. You got to show more ID. There's people that cannot afford a passport, Maida. There's a lot of people here that say, I don't even have a passport. You're gonna make them go get a passport in addition to a They don't need a passport.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

All they need is a driver license and an ID.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

No, no, two forms of ID. Not one. That's what the Save America Act wants. It's two. Right? And and and and first proof that you're an American citizen.

SPEAKER_02 41:51

And here's the other thing. To prove that you're an American citizen, you have to prove two.

SPEAKER_00 41:55

And here's the other problem. If you if you go change your name, you got married, and it doesn't match, you can't vote. Right? Like, like there are there are some there are some problems. Listen, if you were to tell me, Bobby, do you think we need more better better laws for voting? I will say absolutely, it ain't in that act. That's a good thing. I 100%. That's a terrible bill.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

It's an It is a terrible bill. It's the bill that we need to carry momentum in November. I'm asking.

SPEAKER_00 42:28

Because you want to win. That's it. Of course.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

Of course I want to win. I want only Americans to be able to vote. Yes. I want Americans to vote too. Only Americans.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

I don't want to make it harder for Americans to vote.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

If you're too hard to commit another identity, it's not about laziness. Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_00 42:43

There's a lot of people out there that can't afford it.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

I think it's an insult to think that we can't have an ID. I think it's an insult.

SPEAKER_00 42:51

I didn't say that. I just told you it's a good thing that we have to show our ID.

SPEAKER_02 42:54

So what's wrong with the Save America Act?

SPEAKER_00 42:56

The Save America Act is not what's going on. That's exactly what it is.

SPEAKER_02 43:00

It's to prove that you're an American citizen that only Americans can vote in elections.

SPEAKER_00 43:04

The Save America Act, MIDIA, is more stringent than what we have now in Texas. It is more stringent than the three. It makes it hard. It's harder for people to cheat. If you think in Texas, it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

So I do want to make it harder for people to cheat.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

I don't want anybody to cheat either.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

Well, this bill will make it harder.

SPEAKER_00 43:21

Go look across the country how much voter fraud there is.

SPEAKER_02 43:25

There's a lot of voters.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

It's not voter fraud.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

And just because there isn't a certain amount, like you say, we don't want any voter fraud. I don't want it either. And I believe that this is what the American people want. By the way, over 50%, both sides here, the American people support this bill. That you don't support.

SPEAKER_00 43:46

They're like you, they haven't read it. That's why they support it.

SPEAKER_02 43:49

By the way, but Democrats and Republicans support this bill. So you should look at this as a yes. Yes, I'm going to send you the statistics. Both sides, Democrats and Republicans. Republicans, the majority support this bill. That's not true. This is actually one of the few people. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question.

SPEAKER_00 44:05

How many Democrats supported that bill in this last House vote?

SPEAKER_02 44:10

You know what?

SPEAKER_00 44:11

I'm asking you a question.

SPEAKER_02 44:12

You know what?

SPEAKER_00 44:13

You just made a claim.

SPEAKER_02 44:14

You're you're no. I'm talking about the American people. There was a poll done. There was a poll done.

SPEAKER_00 44:22

I know. The poll does not the poll, the poll.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

By the way, your friends here in South Texas voted in favor of it.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

One of them. Okay. Henry Quare. One of them did.

SPEAKER_02 44:31

Henry Quare.

SPEAKER_00 44:32

That's right. And Henry Quare. I would not have voted for this.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

Henry Quare voted for this bill. And a lot of others voted for this bill. Why? Because they know that their constituents, the majority, support these bills. So they're actually listening to the people that elected them to be in that position. Yeah, I I don't think that And by the way, the district that you're running for office supports these bills.

SPEAKER_00 44:53

Based on what you're saying, though, again the group that I'm running for in office and the district supports this bill. That's what you say. No, no, no, no. That's your notion.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

The majority of the people of Texas 15 support the Save America Act. They don't need to be able to do that. So are you going to listen to the people of Texas 15? Or are you going to put your your best interests in the UK?

SPEAKER_00 45:12

I do not believe that that bill. Listen.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

You're wrong. No. The majority of people in Texas 15 support the Save America Act.

SPEAKER_00 45:20

Let's go back.

SPEAKER_02 45:20

17%. Let's go back.

SPEAKER_00 45:24

If you were going to ask are you forgetting that?

SPEAKER_02 45:25

If you were going to ask This is a Trump district.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

You're not even going to let me talk. Are you going to let me talk?

SPEAKER_02 45:31

I just don't understand how you don't realize that. You're running in a district.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

You just acknowledged that we don't have voter fraud here.

SPEAKER_02 45:38

And you're and now you're talking about we do have voter fraud, but we don't have it at the at the percentage of California. But just because we have a little bit of voter fraud doesn't mean that we should have a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 45:49

You just told me that our laws are fine in Texas. Yes. Mmm. What is that? How does that look?

SPEAKER_02 46:07

I want the the low percentage of fraud in Texas. I want that.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

I want it California. If if the law said if that Save America Act was let's make everybody like Texas has it, I'd be all for it. I'd be like, yeah. Not no two forms of ID.

SPEAKER_02 46:26

What's wrong with two forms of ID?

SPEAKER_00 46:28

It's more expensive. You're you are, again, you are discriminating because people can't afford it. You're it's a poll tax on voting. No.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

We can afford it.

SPEAKER_00 46:36

We can afford it. Tell that to the tell that to do you know where the lowest per capita income in the nation is, Maida?

SPEAKER_02 46:42

Do you know where the lowest per capita you think we can't very hardworking people?

SPEAKER_00 46:49

We can absolutely afford to have the lowest per capita income that we have in the nation is here.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

We are very hardworking people. The lowest per capita is the Hispanic, we are the we are the most hardworking people in South Texas. And yes, we in South Texas can afford can afford to have two forms of ID. Actually, most of us already have it.

SPEAKER_00 47:13

I disagree with that. And I and you know what? I think you're tricking, you're trying to find a problem where it doesn't exist. It does not exist as a problem. Voter fraud is not a problem in Texas. I don't know about other places. I'm not gonna talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 47:25

We solve problems. That's fine.

SPEAKER_00 47:26

You know, Democrats run on problems, but if we are problems, if we already have, see, there you go into the spiel, right? You're not solving a sp a problem.

SPEAKER_02 47:36

We are we're solving a problem that has existed, and if it's what the American people want, we should do it.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

And we're gonna find out. We're gonna find out what the people really want. I believe me, I listen to the people of Texas 15.

SPEAKER_02 47:50

The people of Texas 15 want the Save America Act.

SPEAKER_00 47:55

That's what they want. I disagree with that. I don't know what echo chamber you're in, right?

SPEAKER_02 48:00

I know this district very well.

SPEAKER_00 48:02

How do you know it?

SPEAKER_02 48:03

17% of this district. I live in this district about the city. 17% of this district voted for President Trump. Almost seven, like a huge percentage of people voted for President Trump in this past election. Most people in Texas 15.

SPEAKER_00 48:20

Might not do you know what you're just saying?

SPEAKER_02 48:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 48:23

You're saying 17%.

SPEAKER_02 48:26

Over. President Trump won this district by 17.

SPEAKER_00 48:31

Well, you just said 17% of this district voted for Trump is what you just said that. 17%.

SPEAKER_02 48:36

Meaning what President Trump won by 17%.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

Oh, I know. I know that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

I I know that this district supports the majority of this district support this Safe America Act. So are you going to listen to the people?

SPEAKER_00 48:53

I don't, I don't think because it's not about how you feel.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

It's about how the district that you represent.

SPEAKER_00 48:58

I I agree. And I think I do represent the district really well. So you say you live in this district. I thought you lived in San Benito.

SPEAKER_02 49:04

I'm from San Benito. But I'm a distance.

SPEAKER_00 49:07

Ah, okay, okay, okay, okay.

unknown 49:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:08

I did not know that.

SPEAKER_02 49:09

But but I live in Hidalgo County.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 49:12

Lines have changed. I just mentioned to you. Right. Lines have changed.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

Do you think we need an independent gerrymandering commission across the country? Do you think we need to end this partisan gerrymandering?

SPEAKER_02 49:23

On both sides, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:24

Yes. You agree with me on that?

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Yeah, I would say.

SPEAKER_00 49:27

I I would agree the same thing, right? Because it it's a tit for a tat, right? And it's like now with they're getting this, they're getting that. Like, I think we need to stop all this madness. You shouldn't choose your voters on how you draw the lines. You need to go win the voters over by going and campaigning. Do you agree with me on that?

SPEAKER_02 49:44

Yes, absolutely, absolutely. But you know, after redistricting happened uh here in Texas, just so you know that we now have more Hispanic majority districts after the redistricting. Which is which is great. I don't know what the problem is. We have more Hispanic majority districts after the redistricting. We don't have have less Hispanic majority. We actually have a lot more Hispanic majority districts. I I just don't think actually the new map favors more uh Hispanics. The problem that Democrat Democrats are upset with is because these these uh Hispanic voted for President Trump in 2024.

SPEAKER_00 50:22

No, but if that was been a problem, then look, you yourself, I've seen your tweets. You come up on my feed and they pop up and they said, Myra, don't don't take some follow me. Don't take don't take Bobby Pulido, uh, don't take Bobby Pulido you lightly because absolutely right, and I and and I'm like, well, I'm in a Trump plus 17, I should lose.

SPEAKER_02 50:46

Of course.

SPEAKER_00 50:47

Right? I should lose. I'm not sure. I'm literally I I am literally the underdog.

SPEAKER_02 50:52

Of who you are, right?

SPEAKER_00 50:53

The underdog.

SPEAKER_02 50:55

But because of who you are, I don't think that you should be underestimating. I'm not right. You're you're people know who you are. You're you're a Tehano artist who I I grew up listening to your music. I grew up listening to your music. I grew up with the Posadas of Ramon Ayala, you would put together here in South Texas to give children presents every year. I grew up with that. I grew up listening to your music. I know you're very well known in this in this area, and that you make this area, this this seat competitive. If it was anyone else, I would be don't even worry about it. But because of who you are and the music and the work that you've done throughout the years, hey, we should take this race serious. And we should make it do you don't think they are taking it serious? I I want yes, they are. They're taking it serious and they're investing in this race, and I'm glad that they are. Yeah. Because even though I I love your music, love the work. I know you're not gonna vote for me. I get it. But you know, at the end of the day, I'm gonna vote Republican down the ballot, right? You're gonna encourage people to vote Democrat. I'm gonna encourage people to vote Republican. Um, and we can both respect each other.

SPEAKER_00 52:09

Of course. I don't think that I don't think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 52:11

That's the beauty, right?

SPEAKER_00 52:12

Of this country that's not gonna be sense to it.

SPEAKER_02 52:14

That's the beauty of uh of this country. Um but I do say that it's important that we pay attention to this race. That yes, President Trump won this seat by seven, won it by 17 points. Sure. But Bobby Polito isn't just any candidate, it's Bobby Polito. It's a it's a huge Tejano artist who a lot of people admire and respect in South Sexis.

SPEAKER_00 52:37

I wish you had told my my opponent that because she'd just call me a quinceañera singer. So so so uh I love Quincenera.

SPEAKER_02 52:47

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:48

And I and I and I've actually been going to Quincenedas already, right? I saw I saw that. And and uh a lot of them really, uh lots and lots and meeting lots of people up and down the district. I even went to the northernmost part of the district and made a lot of friends.

SPEAKER_02 53:01

I saw that.

SPEAKER_00 53:01

Yeah, so yeah, I mean, look, it is what it is. I appreciate you.

SPEAKER_02 53:05

I'm I'm from here, I grew up here, you know, and so I I get it. And so I'm like, hey, we should pay attention to this race. And for me, it's about the policies, you know. I want the people of South Texas to look at the policies. I'm about the policies and not elect someone who who they who they like.

SPEAKER_00 53:23

I want to ask you for a favor. Do you do you ever use Chat GPT?

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_00 53:27

So go go. I want you to go into ChatGPT and I want you to Google or Chat GPT it and ask who has been better on the economy the last 30 years, Republicans or Democrats? I want you to do that.

SPEAKER_02 53:43

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 53:43

Okay?

SPEAKER_02 53:44

No problem.

SPEAKER_00 53:44

And and and because that way it's like don't don't trust me, trust the data, right? Because when I told you that we've been better on the economy, we actually have. And because I've actually done it.

SPEAKER_02 53:54

I disagree. No, no, I know you disagree with that. President Trump, you know, has has done a tremendous job in the first term, and now we're recuperating from the horrible job the Biden and Harris administration did.

SPEAKER_00 54:08

So it's still Biden's fault.

SPEAKER_02 54:10

That we have the economy that yeah, absolutely. President Trump is getting out, getting us out of the Biden administration's mess. Yes. 100%.

SPEAKER_00 54:23

You can say whatever you want to, and that's fine. But the people on the ground that I'm talking about. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine.

SPEAKER_02 54:29

Uh to disagree.

SPEAKER_00 54:30

That's fine. We can agree to disagree. I thank you for coming. I thank you for being here.

SPEAKER_02 54:35

Everyone vote Republican in November.

SPEAKER_00 54:39

Vote for Bobby right away. Thank you very much.