Joe Scarborough Says James Talarico Won Texas Because GOP Pulled 1 ‘Stupid’ Move | EUROtoday

Don’t mess with Texas … voters who care in regards to the First Amendment — or “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

On Wednesday’s episode of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough argued that one of many most important the reason why state Rep. James Talarico defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas’ Democratic major for Senate was as a result of he gained an entire lot of visibility after his “Late Show” controversy.

Last month, Talarico and Colbert mentioned the Federal Communications Commission “colluded” with CBS executives to maintain an interview he did on the “Late Show” off the air.

This shouldn’t be the primary time Colbert has clashed along with his community’s overlords and the President Donald Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr. Last 12 months, CBS introduced that it might cancel “The Late Show” in May 2026 after Colbert ripped CBS’s dad or mum firm, Paramount Global, for settling a lawsuit with the president — a transfer critics felt threatened freedom of speech.

“I swear, I just wish these Republicans weren’t so stupid. I wish they’d listen to me. I’m trying to help them out a little bit here, just to make it a fair fight in the fall,” Scarborough mentioned Wednesday of Talarico profitable Texas’ Democratic Senate major. “But what did we say? What did we say? First of all, when they took Colbert off the air? You’re going to pay for it. They did pay for it with ‘South Park’ three or four days laterdeciding they’re going to lean in even harder. Right?”

Scarborough continued: “And so here they try to keep Talarico off the show. What happens? They give him a boost. If you talk to Jasmine Crockett, she’ll say the same thing — ‘I was ahead until that controversy.’ So the very person they were trying to defeat, the very person whose message scared them, is the very person who they helped win this race!”

Scarborough concluded his ideas on the Senate major by saying that Republicans want to relax out with their makes an attempt to “game the system” by pulling shady stunts.

“It just keeps happening over and over. They think they can game the system. They think that somehow, they’re going to be able to win. In the end, voters have the final say,” Scarborough mentioned.

CBS denied Talarico and Colbert’s accusation in regards to the spiked interview, saying that the present was given authorized steering that broadcasting Talarico’s interview may “trigger the FCC equal-time rule,” which implies that Colbert may additionally should interview the opposite candidates concerned in Texas’ Senate major race if he aired the one with Talarico.

Crockett, whose profile has considerably risen because of some very meme-able moments in Congresscould have seen the writing on the wall about her Senate major ambitions after Talarico gained an entire lot of public curiosity after his Colbert interview was pulled. After her opponent accused the FCC and CBS of tomfoolery, Crockett made some extent to inform the press the identical factor that CBS mentioned in regards to the scenario.

Crockett mentioned she acquired data suggesting that CBS didn’t air the interview “because of a fear the FCC may say something to them, and that there may have been advice to just have me on, and then they can clear the issue. It is my understanding someone, somewhere, decided we just don’t want to do that.”

She added that though she doesn’t “have love for the current FCC” she did assume “there are additional layers at play here.”