Vice President JD Vance believes "woke is dead," and he thinks recent conduct from Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico demonstrates the point.
In an episode of conservative Vince Coglianese's podcast that aired on Tuesday, Vance sorted through white and black pills pertaining to the midterm election, which is now only five weeks away.
'Democrats are literally running away.'
Vance acknowledged the recent rightist doom-saying about the election, boosted in part by recent polls indicating that the Democrats have a serious edge in multiple races. However, the vice president emphasized that the country "is not going to be saved by what Thomas Paine would have called sunshine patriots."
"You have got to get in there and win these races and make it possible for Republicans to deny a bunch of crazy communists from having positions of power in the United States of America," said Vance. "It's just that simple."
Vance further suggested that the situation may not be as bleak for Republicans as some think, recalling polls from fall of 2024 that indicated that then-Vice President Kamala Harris was going to trounce President Donald Trump and that the Democrats were going to maintain control of the U.S. Senate.
In a Reuters/Ipsos poll published in late September 2024, Harris led Trump 47% to 40%, while an NBC News national poll showed Harris leading Trump 49% to 44%. Trump ultimately defeated Harris in a landslide, securing the popular vote and 86 more Electoral College votes than the Democrat.
While optimistic that the pollsters may be wrong again, Vance noted there are nevertheless "headwinds" and that seldom does a party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House maintain its trifecta through the midterm election.
"It almost never happens, but this is very different," said Vance. "Number one, we have a very unique president. Number two, we have a bunch of crazy people running on the other side — yes, people who are promising not to lower your prices or to make your life better. They're promising to trans your kids and steal all your property. Like, that is not what the American people want out of their government."
On the topic of the "lunatics" Republicans must work to deny power, two Democratic names came up: Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, and Talarico, who is running against Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Coglianese noted that "Talafreako" appears to be "spending all of his time running away from every insane position he's ever expressed around with a camera" and referenced recently published undercover footage revealing the radicalism and heresy at the Democrat's church in Austin, Texas.
"This is what I think a particular type of hyper-progressive does to Christianity," said Vance. "They don't actually believe in the Resurrection. They don't believe that Jesus died as an atonement for human sin. What they believe is that Christianity can possibly be a useful tool to acquire political power. So they strip your religion of all of its meaning, of all of its truth, and wear it as a skin suit — and they try to trick people into voting for them."
"That's what Talafreako is fundamentally engaged in," added Vance.
The vice president once again identified a silver lining: Whereas Talarico was previously proud of his theological, economic, and moral radicalism, now when "you turn on the TV ... you would think James Talarico is basically a Republican, maybe a moderate Republican — but you would have no idea if you're just a normal Texas voter watching his advertising who this guy is."
Although Talarico's election-time moderation could be read as naked opportunism and deceit, Vance suggested instead that it means "we've won the argument."
"When you've won the argument so thoroughly that the other side is pretending they agree with you on the issues just to get elected, the result is not the black pill," said the vice president.
"The reason I'm super optimistic about just the nature of the country long-term is we have won the argument. Woke is dead. The Democrats are literally running away from things that they said two years ago in an effort to gain political power. That's cynical. It's ridiculous. But the fact that we won the argument is a very good first step."
Talarico — who had a five-point lead over Paxton in a September Texas Public Opinion Research poll and was tied with Paxton in the new Republican-sponsored Stratus Intelligence poll — recently walked back his previous claims that there are six genders and that "God is nonbinary," as well as his support for male transvestites playing in girls' sports.
A lesbian chaplain at Talarico's church in Austin was recently shown in undercover footage claiming that while Talarico has publicly pivoted about God being "nonbinary," "he'll change his tune back to where he was" if elected.
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In what BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales calls a “fluff piece” from Politico, major Democrat donor Reid Hoffman has warned Kamala Harris to stay out of the presidential race.
“We just talked about Gavin Newsom saying, ‘Yeah, I mean, sure, I’ve thought about running for president, but if Kamala runs, I’m out. I’m out. She can just have it,’” Gonzales begins.
“And now we hear that this big Democrat, you know, shadow puppeteer and megadonor Reid Hoffman … he’s like, ‘OK, I’m going to choose my fighter.’ And it’s not Kamala,” she continues, explaining that he did show favor for AOC.
But Hoffman, Gonzales notes, isn’t just the founder of Linkedin.
“There’s a lot of fishy stuff about him in the Epstein files that I’m going to share, and then you can draw your own conclusions,” she says.
In 2013, Hoffman sent Epstein an email that read: “Also: when will you be @ your island? Chatting with Joi about setting up a joint visit.”
“By the way, we know that he went to the island, based off of other files, too. There’s an entire itinerary of how he was flown in for the visit,” Gonzales says.
“Now, Reid Hoffman has said, ‘Yes, I went to the island, but I didn’t know anything about the girls, and I didn’t do anything with the girls,’” she continues.
“He also said he didn’t know about Epstein’s criminal history or allegations of any wrongdoing,” she adds.
However, she’s “not buying that.”
“I’m not buying that he didn’t know about Epstein’s criminal history or allegations of any wrongdoing when this email from 2015 exists where he is trying to help him with bad press,” she says.
In the email, Epstein writes: “is the metal sculpture yours?”
Hoffman responds: “my gift to you. … been giving a bit of thought to how I can help with recent press fu. Mostly looking for help on the on-line front.”
In another strange email, Hoffman writes that he sent “two gifts” to Epstein.
“1 - Ice cream. If you have any interest, you should try – else for=the girls. 2 - something that may strike your funny bone for the island,” he wrote.
“I’m just wondering who are the girls? What is the island gift? What do you mean ‘ice cream’?” Gonzales asks, pointing out that sending ice cream “doesn’t seem like a good idea.”
“So being that Reid Hoffman has this weird history with Jeffrey Epstein … it bothers me that the media is giving any kind of legitimacy to the guy who was this close with Jeffrey Epstein,” she continues.
“And yet Donald Trump is orange man bad because he was in a grainy picture with him in 2000,” she adds.
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