The Chris Cuomo Project - What’s REALLY Behind the Texas Walkouts

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Texas Democrats have left the state to block a mid-decade redistricting vote, triggering threats of arrest from Governor Greg Abbott — and even FBI involvement. The high-stakes standoff has become a flashpoint for the 2024 political landscape, with lawmakers fleeing to blue states in protest as the GOP tries to reshape congressional maps. In this episode of The Chris Cuomo Project, Chris and his team explore what the odds are telling us — not just about Texas, but about the 2024 landscape. From redistricting battles to surprise firings and shifting polls, prediction markets are offering a unique window into the political chaos. And according to Cuomo, they might be more accurate than traditional pundits ever were" Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Join Chris Ad-Free On Substack: http://thechriscuomoproject.substack.com Support our sponsors: Life insurance is never cheaper than it is today. Get the right life insurance for YOU, for LESS, and save more than fifty percent at https://selectquote.com/chrisc Use my link to give the new AG1 flavors a try, plus get a FREE Welcome Kit: http://drinkag1.com/ccp Go to kalshi.com?utm_source=chriscuomo to trade on the outcome of real-world Right now, Soul is offering 30% off your entire order! Go to http://GetSoul.com and use the code CUOMO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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off about real things, okay, affordability, the yawning chasm between those who have too much and those who don't have enough. And how the practices of success in our society are getting very, very hard to access, okay? That's all real, just as it was with MAGA, okay? But the remedies and the rationale is where it gets dicey. On the right, we know that whole story of what the plus minus is on MAGA, but we're seeing that on the left. Socialism, really? Embracing Islamism and far left radical agendas, really? So you really are going to prove the MAGA people right with their white replacement theory, which I don't believe at all. But now you're going to give a suggestion of that by taking, you know, the Palestinian side over the American and the Israeli side or Iran

or any of these fractious issues. So what matters? I'm telling you it's all about the midterms, but here's the weird thing. What we're obsessed with right now is nothing that traditionally midterms have been about. Why do presidents usually get beat up in their first midterm after they're elected? because it's usually a referendum on the state of play that they were lying about to get elected, and now they got to own it, the status quo, right? So when you look at what your top issues are, economy, health care, crime, safety, right, education, and then, four deep, you start to get into what I call the culture wars, reproductive rights, okay? Immigration, there's a security issue to that also, but there's also a culture war issue to it in terms of how you discuss it.

Right? Then there's all the presidential power, presidential approval, election security, all that stuff that is really more hype than it is anything that is productive. So what will make a difference in the midterms? Because that's what everybody's clawing for right now is to find their way to the midterms to where they can get more power or keep the power they have in the case of MAGA. So it brought me into a new frame of mind where I have decided to broaden the circle and to have this conversation, I need Greg and a very rarely discussed resource here at the Chris Cuomo project, Amrish, our editor, music editor. It's not our editor. He doesn't know anything. Well, he edits here. He's our soundboard operator. He's the engineer. He's not the editor. He's the engineer. He's the engineer. He's the engineer. He's the engineer. He's the engineer. He's the engineer. He has not edited. The editor is somebody else. I'm sure he could.

It's not his fault. That thing that you guys all told me about a couple of weeks ago when there was the edit in there, it's not Amrish's fault. But he is the guy who will make sure that we are able to be seen and heard and that everything works well. He does it with music. He does it here. He's a very interesting guy and he's got an interesting look at the world as a young dude. So I have two young dudes and me about what is working right now on us in politics. because, see, that's what I see it as.

I see it as all manufactured, all manipulative. I don't even think it's organic, to be honest. And we have an interesting way to get at it today. I want to get their take on what matters and why. But we also have Kalshi, okay, who's partnering with us, the largest U.S. prediction market maker, okay? And we're going to see what's resonating with betters. And let me tell you why I'm into this, which I haven't been.

I am anti-sports betting, okay? I think it has ruined my son and his generation. Oh, is he in trouble? They are, thank God, no, but he could be, because they did a very clever thing, these people. And I bet you Amherst, you've got buddies who are into this, too. A little different for you because you're in the family way now. So money matters to you differently.

Well, I won't have to bet. What are you talking about? Money matters differently. I'm sure your wife would love you blowing a few hundred dollars on a football game. If I had like an inn, she'd love it. That's the point. If I go down to the heart with the daughter. And it's like, hey, somebody said, you know, she's the fastest is going to win. You know, I'll put some...

You hipster people in Brooklyn, you don't go to the dog track. You, like, want them all saved. I actually, no. Her dad is a big horsebacker. So we went to the aqueduct last time he was in town. And I think, and we went on a weekday, and that is not the, it was like a Thursday afternoon. The decay of society. No, I mean, these are the professional gamblers, you know?

I mean, but, you know, it's not like a fun weekend. Professional gambler. Well, the awkward, you know, the Pope was there many years ago at the aqueduct. Yes. Yeah, they passed off bogs. Other than poker, there is no, you know, it's chance, okay? And poker is also, but you can really play with chance with poker. Other things is very hard.

However, they made sport betting feel like gaming. Yeah. And that vibe has been very sticky for my son. So now everybody's betting on everything. You used to not be able to touch politics. But now, Cal She and all these secondary market makers and market reflectors can make a market and whatever they want.

Well, Amherst is looking at prop bets all the time. All the time. And we are now getting to see a new metric that I think is pretty viable. And I'll tell you why. Odds makers are ridiculously accurate compared to pollsters, compared to political pundits,

you know? I mean, they're amazing how they get games to be so close. So they're showing an ability to handicap in politics also that I think is really cool. And I also think that it's really interesting. about how different everybody in the market sees things than how I do, which is a good thing that I don't bet. So I'm outlining what usually matters in the midterms, what usually

matters. But in terms of what's motivating our politics right now, there are things that are nowhere on the list. So what is like getting a lot of traction that people want to bet on, which is obviously a relevant way through Kalshi, to see what people are into and what side they're on? So this is trending today big time. Will, any Texas House Democrat be arrested this month with a nice little icon of Greg Paxton? Right now, there's a 17% chance. Earlier today, when I checked, there's about a 25% chance for those who may not be paying attention to this incredibly, it's a dramatic but insanely boring story because it's about

gerrymandering and drawing lines and stuff. Can you fill people in on the story? Listen, hold on. This is what it's about. Greg is right-ish, okay? Well, no, I'm saying it's boring in the sense of like it's incredibly important, but But on the surface, who cares about the lines? On the surface, it's about redistricting.

But that's not what they're betting on. What they're betting on is whether Democrats to stall the vote on the districting because they don't have enough votes to control the outcome. Remember, state legislatures set congressional districts. So Congress has decided by the states. That's why the Republicans were very smart in the 80s to start cultivating legislative seats in different states and governorships if they could, because that's where you make the main rule that decides whether you win or not.

Remember, you have 95% retention of incumbency. Why? A lot of it's to do with the district. It's a huge scam as far as I'm concerned. But so the Democrats in Texas to get away from the vote are thinking about leaving and not being available. And the governor said, I will come and find you and arrest you for not holding the vote. Can he?

And today when the 25% thing was spiking, he put out a thing like he's trying to get the FBI involved to actually go after these guys. So trying to involve like the federal official. for the state officials, and they're taking up, like, Safe Harbor in, like, very blue states like Illinois and New York, where as somebody with family in Texas, it's like, I don't think you actually need a reason to go outside of Texas at the middle of August. It's like, go jump in Lake Michigan or something. Like, you can have a good weekend outside of Texas. I also am not sure I like the look of running away from your responsibility. They'll say, but we don't have the numbers,

so we're going to basically let them manipulate the system unless we do something extreme, like running away. And I don't buy that. I think that you've got to elections matter. You know what I mean? Yeah, this is also the state that is the home of senator. I'm going to Cancun in the middle of any major crisis. Like, okay, they're playing their little trick. They're like fleeing. But Ted Cruz is nowhere to be found anytime something is actually happening. Well, Cruz's was much more egregious. And then this current constant. Like, this guy keeps getting elected no matter what, you know. And they keep saying, oh, he's going to be really tested this time and Texas could go blue and it like never happens by the way maybe on the local level you have a mix but on the national level it hasn't happened so what do they say now

about the likelihood that it's going to happen well as we've been recording it state at 17 percent but there is this throbbing red dot so it could go earlier today when that news came out about the FBI it's spiked to around 25 now it's at 17 you think it happens would you bet on it uh would i bet on it No, I don't, I think this is all a big game. I think, you know, there are these reports that came out that said it's actually a lot harder to actually arrest people and go through, because there's this thing where Abbott's trying to, oh, okay, you're actually, you're all vacating your seats. You're not going to be in the house anymore, but it's actually harder to do and it's going to take a really long time. So I think this is just going to stall out and it's just a big, it's a big performance, but a lot of people are clamoring for performance. They want the Democrats to be performing.

You know what I mean? Like, Talarico, your boy who was on the show this Tuesday, he's one of the main guys who's going out there talking about this thing. But he's not on the run. No, I thought he's, I thought all the Democrats are keeping him from having quorum. Right, but I don't think Teller Rico ran out of the state. Let's, let me see where it is. Yeah, Google, where is Tellerico? I'm thinking that Trump loves to say lock up his opponents so much, which is ironic, given that the other narrative, another narrative that's going on right now is Russiagate and how he's a victim of lawfare.

But he's always saying he wants to lock up his opponents. I could see somebody like Governor Abbott wanting to ingratiate himself and doing exactly that. Mago would love it. Telarico is in Illinois. He's having a hot dog, you know. Because of the vote? Yeah, because of the vote. He's one of the ones leading this whole thing.

Hot dog to vote ratio. Yeah, yeah. What's the hot dog to vote? In New York, you can get the one with the stewed onions, you know? I don't know. I don't know that I like that. I like James Talarico. I think he's certainly a leader of his generation and could be a future leader for all of us.

but um i don't like this move man i don't like duck in the process 500 dollars a day every day they i don't care about the fines but i i don't like ducking your job you lost the elections the numbers are what they are make the argument on the floor on the record and let people know where you stand and then the votes go how they go but the argument is that this type of redistricting that texas is trying to do doesn't happen this often and this early so they're trying to change the game by you know manipulating this stuff so it's like well you guys are doing this thing so we're going to do this thing like why isn't it an analogy where so this one team has decided the full court press all game long which doesn't usually happen until the ends of games and they're doing that all

game and you've decided to not get off the bench and you will not come after the after the commercial break is over and the whistle is blown and you're supposed to come back out of the timeout you won't do it you know more than anyone here that i was a theater student and so this type of analogy is very lost on me full court press means the whole team is going after someone court press means that they play defense the whole way from when the ball gets inbounded. And that is a very aggressive thing to do. Nobody ever does it. It's legal, though.

This is basketball? Yes, it's legal, though. And so is this. This is legal to hold the vote right now. And the basketball team in, uh, what is it, the spurs? This is not going well. No, I was going to say, like, he's trying. No, yeah, the spurs, that's the San Antonio team.

Is that the only Texas basketball team? Yes. Yes. Yeah, I'm, this is not, this is like having to explain the joke. Yeah, like, I'm, you're tired, the analogy is very lost to me because I've never done a full court press. Amrish as somebody who is competent. Why is this, this is not illegal, illegal what they're doing, holding the vote like this. It is an aberration. It is not how it's usually done. They're changing the culture of this kind of change. But is it where

them refusing to do the vote is turn about as fair play? Or does this play to you? you as the Democrats violating a rule that actually matters, which is not doing their job. I think it more along the line, it's rather changing the game rather than trying to like play rules because if you look at it over the course of a period of time, things really haven't changed all too much. The things people say and the topics they talk about, of course, do. But like the general like tactics politicians use to do things, it's more or less been the same since I was a kid. And with that in mind, when you see people doing new things, It's really just, are they actually doing anything new or are they just trying to change perspective?

And either way, I feel you end up in a situation where people like us sit and contemplate and talk about it. But ultimately, it's going to just happen, like regardless of if we feel it's illegal, not illegal, shouldn't be done, should be done. Because they're playing a game and we're the people that watch, essentially, just like, you know, the sports reference you just made. And if you can't stop it with litigation, and it's meaning it's legal, then it's going to happen. I got to tell you, though, I could argue it either way, but if I'm playing, I go to Calci and I take the bet, I take the action, that there is going to be an arrest. By when? This month, so it's August 5th, what is it, 30 days in August 31? I would take it. Now, do I think it's going to happen? No, but I would bet on it because there is incentive for it to happen,

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You don't know basketball. You don't know phonics. I get it. I know phonics very well. I'm saying this. I've never read this name before. I'm looking at this thing. Sometimes when you see a name in print, but you've never said it out loud before, that's what I'm getting. So I don't have a prompter in front of me. Like, actually, you rarely have a prompter just for the act.

Continue. Okay. So anyway, he fired this lady, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after the July jobs report. He called the numbers rigged. Some people are not happy about this. They're making comparisons to the old Soviet Union,

the old Russia and Argentina and Greece for fudging. their numbers and the government coming out. If you watch Chernobyl, it's, you know, it's no, no, it's good, it's good. What is, what is your take on the situation? Because a lot of Republicans are coming out, these business toads are coming out, Ray Dalio, I think, Ray Dalio. So all these people are coming out, you know, say, actually it's a good thing. Okay, she actually sucks, blah, blah, blah. Like, what is your take on just the idea of, like, firing this figure moments after the report comes out? Here's the thing. It worked. And I'll tell you why. What Trump is doing is messing with a,

culture of accommodation. What does that mean? That we've allowed things to continue the way they are, even though they're suboptimal because that's the way we do it and it's the way we've always done it and it's more good than it is bad. Now, that is unsatisfying and it does seem suggestive of the idea that it should be better or different. So the job numbers get revised often. Why? Because they are collected in a way to get ahead of the number. And so they are going to be revisions and adjustments, and there always have been. America is known as the gold standard for economic information. So the way that we do this, it's front-loaded to get ahead of the number. Otherwise, you'd have to wait, and the data would be late, okay? And it would take a lot longer

to know what's happening in the economy. That's why they do it this way. And Trump cut a lot of the staff that does the crunching. So he put strain on the system that now he wants to judge as inadequate. However, it is easy to sell that this number gets changed a lot and therefore is not to be trusted. And therefore, someone should be fired because remember, this is in Trump world

where people know him mostly from the apprentice and when he doesn't like something, he fires the person. So he likes to fire and it seems like he's doing something. So firing this person works for MAGA and is a reinforcement of the idea that he will break. it. He will break the system. He will break down the deep state and all the ways that they manipulate us. And one of the ways is statistics. That's why you have lies, damn lies,

and statistics, as a politician once famously said. So I actually think it works for him politically, but it is also absurd to people who are students of what's happening and who are aware of what's happening. And this is an obvious deflection because he's always relied on data when it works for him, and now he wants to say the data is a problem. Well, yeah, you could call it a win for him politically, but in the long run, what does this do when you start, when you're not able to trust the numbers, the government puts up through its own people? He wants you not to trust. Disrust works for Trump, because all he wants you to listen to is him, and he wants the freedom to BS you. And if truth doesn't matter, and if everybody questions everything, he gets away with a lot more,

And it works for them. The market I have pulled up here pertains to the state of the economy at the end of 2025. 79% of people as of today think the economy is going to have a soft landing by the end of the year. 11% say high unemployment, low inflation, and then low unemployment, high inflation is 9%. Great. What is a safe landing? What does a soft landing mean? Below 5% unemployment and below 5% inflation.

If I were making a bet that by the end, of the year, I think there is a better chance that it is below 5% employment and below 5% inflation. But if I were going to bet, I'd bet on high inflation, not high unemployment. If you go back to what we were talking about a moment ago, what do you say about how the markets really haven't seemed to react? Like, there's talk when Trump took office again that they're kind of baking in the insanity and they're kind of like the tariffs will go up and down. when he talks about firing Jerome Powell, the market tanks, and he walks it back and he goes back up,

I feel like with, especially with this bureau person they got rid of, at what point is it death by a thousand cuts where you start making these threats and then you actually fire people and like just the information gets worse and worse and worse, and the accuracy gets worse and worse and the professionals that you have doing these jobs go away, go away, go away.

And so like you're left with the acting person and the person below the acting person. Do you see what I'm getting at? Like, what point do we realize, oh, shit, we don't have anything to draw off of anymore because he doesn't like bad information. So there is no more bad information, but we're living in a bad moment.

Like, how do you fix that? The information, perseverance, that the information matters and the information has to come out, even if he doesn't like it, even if the administration compromises the ability to produce it, and depend on. on it, right? So even though that they are affecting the distrust that they are also banking on,

it has to keep coming out. And you have to keep insisting on the standard. And that's why something like this with labor statistics, you have to be a fair broker and say, yeah, the numbers get revised, but we are seen as being more accurate than pretty much any other country. And he just doesn't like the job statistics. And here's the test. Find me statistics that he likes that he also questions the veracity of. And you won't. And that's his week. weakness, not ours. But I like that market. And if I'm making a bet, Cal she is right to put the action where they are, but I would go, unemployment's going to stay low, okay? We may be at full employment, by the way, and we're getting rid of workers that we actually need. But inflation could

spike. We have not seen the impact of the trade war that was forced by the president in the interest of getting better deals, which we have to see if those happen. And the tariff structure, This idea that we're getting all this revenue, but somehow we're never going to pay as consumers, doesn't make any sense to most in the economy, which would mean if a metric is going to pop, it's going to be inflation first, not unemployment. Support comes from AG1, and you know why. One and done, okay? Yep, AG1's got new flavors. Cool, cool, cool. They got everything they've always had, though, on top of it. I didn't need the extra flavors. Okay, the original is, fine for me, I'm sticking with it. But here's the deal. All the different bottles, all the different cost centers, all the different combinations, not knowing what goes with what. All of that is taken out of the mix, plus the best way for absorption, which is without question, powders

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Anything about Andrew? Will Andrew Cuomo endorse Eric Adams? 17% chance. Really? They're giving it, yeah? I think that kind of, that question, though, it's interesting. I think that assumes that they were both in the same party, which they really aren't now because they're both independents.

So the need for that is a little different, but they are saying that you all have to come together to beat this movement. I don't know. That's a good one. Man, they make a market in interesting things, and they do it in interesting ways. Oh, I mean, this has everything, highest temperature in Denver today. 70% chance it's going to be 90. Hell yeah. I'm about those kind of bets.

Yeah, you like those temperature bets? This is just a market. Will Trump ban lab grown meat? Yes or no? What's the timeline? The timeline is before January 1st, 2026, if a bill becomes a law that bans the sale of cultivated meat before then. Cultivated meat.

They're calling it a cultivated meat instead of lab grown. It's a good band name. Yeah, cultivated meat. Yeah, it sounds like an underground like metal band or something, a cultivated meat. eight percent chance was 28 so so you you you started this whole thing talking about the midterm so what how do you tie gerrymandering and firing the BLS woman how do you tie that all together for the midterms Chris distraction distraction that gives trump an advantage of attacking dysfunction now you could argue he's causing the dysfunction but all of these things are culture wars and even the BLS one

even though it's about government data and statistics it's actually about a culture of of belief or disbelief in government and the institutions. And Trump, by all rights, should be running almost exclusively on the economy and the big beautiful bill. And it seems like he wants to talk about anything but the big beautiful bill. And I think that's because it was a sellout move to the rich. And all that talk about working on our fiscal stewardship was BS. And he's going to use distractions.

And each of these is a distraction that plays to his favor. and against what we should be focused on, which is where's legislation on immigration that gives what the rule changes are and resources that they really need to get us to the next level and an accommodation that all people are not the same just because they entered the same way, and what this big, beautiful bill actually did, and whether it's beautiful or it's ugly. That's what it should be about, and he wants to run away from those. There's a New York Times article I'm looking at from just a little while ago. Mike Flood, Republican of Nebraska, was not 30 seconds into his prepared introduction

at a town hall on Lincoln on Monday when the booing and jeering began. And so this Republican is doing a town hall. Yeah, booze. I like hissing. That's what everybody's booing. I like to hiss. You know what I mean?

That's kind of a fun jeer. But he's talking about the bill. He goes, there's been a lot of misinformation out there about the bill. And people start shouting, you are a liar, liar, liar. So this is going to be, in terms of the distractions like you're talking about, like it seems like this is top of mind, at least of the voters at this. Well, look, there is a downside to Trump by making people believe nothing. And if you believe in nothing, he is going to be burdened by that as well.

And the Epstein stuff has bled over into other categories of consciousness where people don't believe him either. He's always had a very low believability index, okay? Even as an actor, like those commercials with the grimace and, you know, the Pizza Hut stuff, like you just wasn't very convincing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that really tells you everything you need to know. Yeah, you said, believability, I'm saying as an actor. Like, I don't believe he's actually eating this pizza, you know? Sometimes I look in your eyes and I see absolutely nothing. Well, isn't that the point you're trying to make?

The point I'm trying to make is that he may get hoisted on his own pittard, which is that when he needs people to believe things, they may not believe him because he's told them and reinforced the idea that they should believe nothing. I mean, I feel like that's the whole COVID-19 thing. Like, he was full of shit for so much of his previous term. When the virus actually hit, you know, people were tuning the guy out, even though he was trying to, you know, get the vaccine. made. That is the one thing where he's got until Epstein, where there's space between him and Maga. Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah. Yeah.

Is whether the one is there? No, I don't know. I'm just making sure. The one from Welcome Back, Carter? No, I doubt. That's a, that's a show before my time, my friend. That's with, what, Trevolta? Gabe Kaplan. Gabe Kaplan. John Travolta. You ever watch? I did. Nick and Night. Welcome back to the same

old place that we laughed about. Getting the memories. Just saying. No, I watched it in real time. I watched it. Mr. Cartier. What? Where?

Are you doing, John Travolta? Give me drugs. Give me drugs. Oh, no. I just watched, what is it, the fanatic? Vinny's addicted. Give me drugs. Give me drugs.

Trouble. He's on a lot of celebrity bald sights, but I think he's owning the baldness now, but for a long time he had a really bad rug. But he's still good looking. Yeah. He's still good. Oh, yeah. He dressed up recently as the guy from Greece and like in

reunion. And there are all these comments are like, he looks just like he did in Greece. It's like, no, he doesn't. He's like a much older man. But he, you know, he's got a leather jacket on, I suppose, but he didn't. No, they said he looked good there. I'm not saying he looked bad. I'm just saying they were saying he looked exactly like he did in the film, which can't be true. Because he was like, I don't know, 20 and now he's like 70. And it's your birthday this weekend, by the way. Oh, yeah. I'm going to be 55, double nickel. Turns out that 55 is a thing. I thought 60 was the next thing. I turned 50. Then you turn 60. Then you turn 60. or maybe 65.

Well, I think you'd turn 50, then 51, then 52, then 53, then 54, then 55, then 56, then 57, then 58, then 59, then 60. You said 50 and then 60. You're skipping several years. Did you know that when you celebrate a birthday, you are actually in that next numerical year already? So I'm celebrating 55, but that actually means I'm in my 56th year. Right. I'm not in my 55th year. When you're born, that's year.

It's your first year, but it doesn't count as a full year. But, yeah. Because I had a daughter recently, and she's, you know, now her birthday was in May. So she's just one in several months, but she's in her second year. Yeah, I love when you, you know, new parents, you keep talking about them in months. Oh, yeah, she's 31 months now. Shut up. Sorry.

All right, you get 12 months. That's it. Okay. So she'll just be one until I can round up to two. I thought this was fun, though. We should do this more. It's an interesting way. to game out how society feels about things that are kind of up in the air.

And now you can actually bet on it and get in on the action. And maybe that's a good thing because politics is a spectator sport. Maybe if people are betting on it, they'll take it more seriously. That certainly happened with football in my house. Is that now people watch every play because they're betting on everything. I don't enjoy that so much. But maybe it'll create more engagement and make people take outcomes more seriously because they literally stand to win or lose

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