CONFIRMED! Trump GOP just lost MAINE and TEXAS ELECTIONS Friday by 13 Percent EACH?!

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]It appears Republicans have a data center problem in Texas. Houston, we have a problem. Texas, we have a problem. It's AI. Currently, there are more than 460 of the facilities across the Lonear State and construction showing no signs of slowing down. Now, even lifelong GOP voters are fighting against data data center expansion as more and more are being proposed in deep red rural counties. Let's bring in MS Now senior transportation reporter Josh Inger. Josh, you were just in Texas and spoke to several residents there about this issue. What'd you find out?

[00:00:34]>> So, Jonathan, you know, Republicans have made it super easy for these centers to be built in, you know, ruby red central Texas, right? There's very little regulation and and these companies are incentivized to go to counties like this where there's wide open land, almost no one regulating what they do, and a lot of Republican voters. But a lot of these voters now feel like they've had this sort of jammed down their throats at this point. They are angry because they feel it's encroaching on their way of life and they say they're going to take that anger, at least some of them, to the ballot box.

[00:01:09]Things have never come easy in the Texas Hill Country. For generations, the ranching communities here have faced down everything from drought to depression.

[00:01:17]>> It's land. It's our God-given right to to own something like this. We fought for it. We had to work hard for it, as many Americans have. But for Reena Schroeder, the challenge is different now.

[00:01:27]>> Come on. Come on, chicken.

[00:01:30]>> She owns this ranch in Lot, Texas, population 644. And she says she's in the fight of her life against AI data centers. Those behemoths, big tech can't seem to build quickly enough. Spurred by low regulation in the Lonear State and cheered on by the president, massive campuses are consuming vast swaths of rural Texas. This one the equivalent of nearly 200 football fields. The facilities house the computers that drive the AI revolution. But they're also driving Reena, a Christian conservative and lifetime Republican, straight into the arms of Democrats.

[00:02:04]>> I'm President Trump. I'm in charge.

[00:02:08]>> He doesn't care about us. Somebody asked him about a week ago, what about the American people? And and they're struggling right now.

[00:02:16]>> To what extent are Americans financial situations motivating you to make a deal?

[00:02:21]>> Not even a little bit. He did not care.

[00:02:24]I couldn't even watch that. I was angry after that. Like, I voted for you and you don't care about me. Last year, the president signed an executive order reducing regulation of data center construction across the country. Behind Virginia, Texas now has the most, almost 500 already in business with nearly 150 more under development. And nationwide, more than 4,300 are already online.

[00:02:48]Outraged neighbors contending with skyrocketing utility bills as the centers overwhelm power grids and guzzle groundwater to feed cooling systems inside. And then there's the sound these places make when they're finally operational. Do you hear this? That low-level mechanical hum in the background. That's the sound of massive fans they use to keep the computers inside cool. at this facility about an hour outside of Fort Worth. When you look at it from above, you could see they've installed soundproof walls in response to community complaints about the noise. But a quarter mile away, Cheryl Shaden says the noise is as loud as ever.

[00:03:24]>> It's like living on the edge of Niagara Falls or you're on a runway next to a jet that's taking off. But this jet doesn't take off.

[00:03:32]>> Morning, noon, night. She even hears it in her bedroom. And it's changed everything about how she lives her life, including her politics. Red or blue, if you vote against data centers, we vote for you.

[00:03:43]>> A lifelong conservative, she's so angry she refuses to vote for Trumpbacked Attorney General Ken Paxton, who clinched the GOP nomination for Senate Tuesday. Instead, she's allin for James Talerico, a Democrat seeking to flip a seat controlled by Republicans since 1993.

[00:04:01]You're willing at this point to forego basically every conservative issue and let the Senate fall into the hands of Democrats if that's what it takes to kill data centers.

[00:04:13]>> Yep. My entire community is going to break rank. Everybody. All of us. We've had enough.

[00:04:19]>> Breaking rank.

[00:04:20]>> The main Senate race is heating up over comments from incumbent Republican Susan Collins. Marine combat veteran Graham Platner has repeatedly claimed the Republican senator sent him to Iraq by voting to authorize the war in 2002.

[00:04:34]Well, here's what Senator Collins said when she was asked about Platner's claims yesterday.

[00:04:41]So, I respect anyone who steps forward to serve their country, but the fact is that was Platner's decision to serve. He was not drafted.

[00:04:54]Graham Platner, Democratic candidate for Maine's US Senate seat, joins us now.

[00:04:58]Good to meet you. Good to have you on the program. Uh Colin's comments have drawn some pretty sharp reaction, especially from veterans. What about what she said strikes a chord?

[00:05:10]It's rather amazing to me that someone who's been in a place of political power for this long doesn't seem to recognize that the decisions that she has made uh have consequences.

[00:05:24]Like the the willingness for young Americans to enlist in the military, to put on the uniform, to serve their country, that is a national resource.

[00:05:34]That is something that we as Americans take great pride in.

[00:05:38]And that's also why it should never be abused and used for personal gain or used just for like political gain, which is exactly what happened with the war in Iraq. Uh, and frankly is still happening right now with the war in Iran, another war that Susan Collins has not been able to uh find a spine to stand up against.

[00:05:58]So, it's it it's the idea that it's my fault that I wanted to serve my country. Uh but she one of the establishment politicians who actually started the war has no agency whatsoever and no responsibility. It's a I think it's a pretty damning admission that she doesn't actually seem to take any any responsibility or even understand the consequences of her power and her inability to use it effectively.

[00:06:31]>> Well, let me ask you about the war that's going on right now. There was not authorization. And obviously there was no vote um on Iran, but I wonder how you think Democrats in Congress are handling the current situation and the way the president of the United States is prosecuting this.

[00:06:46]>> Uh not well. You know, I there is something that really blows my mind at the moment, which is that this is the war in Iran right now is uniquely unpopular. The vast majority of Americans are against it. They think it's they see it for what it is. They see it for a completely insane madeup thing that's making all of our lives harder. It's making gas more expensive.

[00:07:08]It's killing people. It's gotten 13 Americans killed. We've killed thousands of people in Iran. All because Donald Trump wants a distraction from the Epstein files. And that's insane. And yet somehow our representative democracy can't figure out a way to use any power not just to stop it from happening, but they can't even slow it down. There should be no funding for this. And we should have very loud voices in with Democrats in the Senate and Congress coming together and being the anti-war party. And that's we've got some voices that are speaking up, but it's not a it's not the whole caucus, and it needs to be. and it still frustrates me. I wish we would see more. And >> and in your criticism just now of Senator Collins, you say it particularly surprises you because she's coming out of a place of political experience. I want to note that we invited her to be on the program um too. But I want to play in the meantime some more of what she's saying. I think that speaks to your political experience comment about why she thinks voters should choose her and not you. Here it is.

[00:08:16]I've been able to secure in the last five years $1.5 billion for 674 projects with my opponent. That would go away. That would go away. He would not have the seniority, the experience, the knowledge, or the respect in order to secure that funding.

[00:08:42]So, um, while the latest poll, uh, from UNH has you ahead by, um, nine points, we've seen the senator defy expectations in polls before. Does the argument we just heard from her in a time of economic uncertainty help her?

[00:09:00]>> No. And the reason why is that things have gotten harder down here. She's been in power for 30 years. She points out that she has seniority. She does. She's been there since the late 1990s and that seniority has not created a Maine in which housing is more affordable or accessible. It is not she has not been able to keep our rural health care system from collapsing system by the way that is collapsing because she didn't use her power at all to stop the big beautiful bill which cut Medicaid and Medicare funds simply to justify tax cuts for corporations and billionaires. It is those cuts that are contributing to the closing of rural hospitals in Maine. Mayers are not seeing their wages go up, but they are seeing the price of goods and services that they need continue to go up, including right now gas. I mean, we're still at $4.50 up here. And the money that she has brought into the state has not addressed any of this. What Collins does is that instead of standing up for working people in this state by trying to make any kind of structural change, whether it's getting money out of politics, changing the tax code, making it illegal for senators and congress people to trade stocks and bonds, she won't try to do that. She makes a lot of money off of the stock market. Instead of doing those things, she try she just brings in eararks and says that, "Well, if you lose me in my seniority, you don't get to do this anymore." Here's the thing. We're going to lose her someday.

[00:10:35]She's not going to be there forever. And when that day comes, we will lose her seniority. The question is, do we want to replace her with someone who one has the time and the inclination to spend time rebuilding that seniority and rebuilding that power, but also using that power to make those structural changes, getting money out of politics, making it illegal for Congress people to trade stock? Exactly 48 hours ago, the internal data feeds of the Republican National Committee completely locked down in a state of absolute strategic panic. Have you actually looked at what just happened in the absolute bedrock of the conservative movement? Or are you still letting the corporate media networks convince you that everything is completely under control? On Friday night, a pair of devastating double-digit electoral collapses in Maine and Texas confirmed that the MAGA policy platform has officially detached from its own grassroots base. We are talking about a pair of 13% statistical clean sweeps that have sent the Washington establishment into an absolute tail spin, completely shattering the myth of Donald Trump's down ballot invincibility. If you genuinely believe that deep red rural Texas and workingclass Maine are locked down for the GOP, you are actively lying to yourself and the latest numbers prove it. How on earth do you manage to lose the lifelong Christian conservative voting block in the middle of the Texas Hill Country? You do it by letting hyper capitalist big tech billionaires jam massive multi-acre artificial intelligence data centers straight down the throats of rural communities. The Lonear State is currently being overrun by more than 460 of these massive mechanical behemoths with an additional 150 under active development. These aren't just small office buildings. We are talking about massive technological campuses consuming the equivalent of 200 football fields of wide open land, completely overwhelming the local power grids and guzzling millions of gallons of groundwater just to keep their internal computer systems cool. Do you think regular, hard-working American ranchers are just going to sit back and watch their utility bills skyrocket while their quiet god-given land is subjected to a constant, deafening, low-level mechanical hum that sounds like living on the edge of a non-stop jet runway? This is exactly where the radical corporate deregulation strategy of the executive branch backfires completely. Last year, Trump signed a sweeping executive order reducing regulations on data center construction across the country to satisfy his multi-billionaire tech donors. And when local Christian conservative ranchers like Reena Schroeder explicitly asked how this affects the financial survival of everyday families, the administration's response was chillingly direct. They don't care, not even a little bit. Are you surprised that these lifelong Republican voters are actively breaking rank and fleeing straight into the arms of the opposition? Look at the Senate race. Trump backed Attorney General Ken Paxton just clinched the Republican nomination, expecting a traditional, easy victory in a state controlled by his party since 1993.

[00:13:46]Instead, conservative communities are openly pledging to abandon every single traditional ideological issue and let the Senate fall into the hands of Democrats just to kill the data center expansion. They are lining up behind James Talerico, a candidate who is actively exposing the massive widening cleavage between smalltown conservative values and the hyper capitalist billionaire class that currently dictates the administration's priorities. Meanwhile, up in the Northeast, the exact same structural collapse is playing out for incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins. Her entire 30-year career of establishment seniority was completely demolished in a single afternoon by a brutal 9-point deficit in the latest UNH polling. How do you defend the absolute arrogance of an establishment politician who looks a Marine combat veteran in the eye and tells him that his deployment to Iraq was entirely his own choice because he wasn't drafted? Democratic challenger and combat veteran Graham Platner has completely weaponized this moment, exposing Collins as a spineless insider who routinely authorizes foreign conflicts, including the deeply unpopular manufactured war in Iran simply to distract the public from the impending release of the Epstein files.

[00:15:02]Are you still buying the old establishment argument that senior politicians bring home the money to fix local communities? Collins brags about securing $1.5 billion for local earmarks. Yet Maine's rural health care system is completely collapsing. Housing is entirely unaffordable and gas prices remain stuck at a brutal $4.50 a gallon. Why? Because she chose to maintain total compliance with the administration's signature legislative bill, which systematically gutted Medicare and Medicaid funding simply to justify massive tax cuts for corporations and billionaires.

[00:15:38]While everyday citizens watch their local hospitals close down, Collins continues to generate massive personal wealth trading stocks and bonds on the private market. The entire Republican coalition is fracturing along its deepest economic contradictions, proving that you can only trick the working class with carefully managed vibes for so long before the material reality of their daily lives completely falls apart. Democrats are finally abandoning traditional suit and tie candidates and running anti-war veterans who actually look, talk, and live like the communities they want to represent. The traditional small town conservative base is completely done with being treated as expendable fuel for the billionaire class. And Friday's twin 13% electoral warnings prove the machine is completely running on empty. If you are completely done with the sanitized prepackaged corporate news feed and you want the deep cover power dynamics before the legacy networks even turn on their studio lights, you need to lock into this channel right now. Hit that subscribe button immediately to claim your permanent unrestricted seat at this table for raw political intelligence.

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