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When people are thinking, why is it a toss up? It's Texas. Midterm elections are always tough for the party in power. And it's just been that way. I don't know what the explanation is, but it's typically been that we went through a tough primary. But look, we're gonna win this race. Texas is not gonna vote for a socialist. Amen. Republican Ken Paxton on the stretch run trail, branding James Tallarico with the S-word and hoping it will stick. Meantime, James Tallarico appears to now be running against the trillionaire he claims is behind the curtain. And Ken Paxton has the ultimate mega-donor. Elon Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas. Panel, our friend, Uber analyst Mark Jones saying this week Paxton is behind the eight ball with time running out. Odds on Calchi moving steadily against the Republican AG whose chances of winning have tumbled beneath the weight of the heavy early vote turnout in Texas cities. Fair assessment, Bill? Yeah, if you had to bet money, you'd bet on Tallarico right now. He's got, Paxton has three different problems. First of all, it is historically narrow margin between the two primary voting groups. Secondly, the polling consistently shows about 10%, of Republicans are not going to vote for him. And I know a lot of those Republicans that are not voting for him. I was on a conference call just last week with Tallarico and a bunch of Republicans, and they're not voting for him. They're not voting for Paxton. And then the third thing is all the polling shows independents breaking hard against Paxton right now. And that varies from poll to poll, but Mark had him, I think, 37-58 or something like that. And then the UT poll has it like 6-1 or something. So it's a daunting situation that Paxton's facing. Bob, if you're talking to independents... How do you get them to break the other way? Well, I think you just have to look at how is James Tallarico going to vote if he gets elected. You know, the first vote is going to be for the Senate majority leader, most likely, if he becomes our senator. And, you know, Ken Paxton is not going to vote for abortion. He's not going to vote for... Thank you very much. Unsecured border, he's not going to vote to defund law enforcement, all of these things. I've talked to a lot of Republicans that were not going to vote or were going to undervote it. And they all said when they went into the ballot box, they just held their nose and voted for Paxton. You agree with that, Charles? I do, yeah. I mean, something I said for a while that I do think that while a lot of people may have hesitation before when they get into the ballot box, they're going to have to have that reconciliation moment in their mind and probably will go for him. But I do wonder how much money Republicans are going to spend these last couple of days where you can spend money to get him over the edge when we have a lot of down ballot I mean, there's a lot of ballot Last push they can get to save like state house candidates and things like that tomorrow at the poll on the second day, a gentleman well dressed with his extremely expensive shoes on stop to tell us unsolicitedly. I just did something I've never thought I'd do in my life and we like, okay, what I voted straight democrat. I'm tired. And I was like, okay, have a good day. But I was like, blown away, because we all knew he was Republican when he walked away. I can spot him a mile away. No way. Right. . We're starting with Chris in the next block. When we come back, character after a long string of victories. Could Ken Paxton's moral missteps and brushes with corruption cost him a seat in the U.S. Senate?