Today

This morning on “Today” a brief segment of an interview with Savannah Guthrie conducted by Hoda Kotb aired. It was heart-wrenching and emotional. The full interview will air tomorrow and Friday on “Today.”

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Speaking of “Today,” H-Town is front and center this morning. NBC reporter Priscilla Thompson is live from IAH letting America know that the TSA line is a 4-hour wait. Nice job, Donald Trump.

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On Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick snubbing State Sen. Taylor Rehmet on committee assignments. This is what Patrick had to say:

“Sen. Rehmet won a special election to fill out an unexpired interim term in 2026, in which no bills are filed, voted on, or passed. He has to win in November to serve a full term in the legislature. If he does win in November, he would be assigned committees like anyone else at the beginning of the next legislative session in January 2027. I explained that to him a month ago.”

This is a silly, stupid, and dumb response. If MAGA candidate Leigh Wambsganss had beaten Sen. Rehmet, you think she would have been snubbed on committee assignments? I don’t think so. Patrick is not scoring any points with this move. What a dummy.

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Now this is what you call a clusterf_ck. It is typical MAGA. See this from the Trib:

At least 12,674 Dallas County voters trying to cast ballots in both party primaries showed up at the wrong polling locations March 3 after the county GOP forced the elimination of countywide polling sites on election day, county data shows.

Democrats had more than double the number of primary voters in Dallas County as Republicans so, unsurprisingly, a larger number of Democratic voters had to be redirected to the correct site, according to a Votebeat analysis of data provided by Dallas County election officials. But similar percentages of voters from both parties were affected by the change.

Out of the total voter turnout on election day, at least 6,641 voters, or 7.7%, seeking to cast ballots in the Democratic primary, and 2,369 voters, or 6.4%, seeking to cast ballots in the Republican primary, went to the wrong voting site. Those voters subsequently received texts from county representatives stationed at polling sites to redirect voters to the correct places, according to the county data, which was obtained by Votebeat via a public records request.

Those numbers don’t reflect the full number of affected voters, either. The county couldn’t determine a party for at least 3,638 additional voters who also received texts because they were redirected to voting locations used by both parties, county officials said. And for 26 other voters in the data, the county had no information. Poll workers also redirected other voters who chose not to receive texts and aren’t reflected in the data, according to Paul Adams, the Dallas County elections administrator.

Allen West, the chairman of the Dallas Republican party, had suggested in a statement on March 4 that the change had affected Democratic voters more than Republican ones.

“Yesterday Republican voters in Dallas County evidenced their ability to adapt and overcome proving that precinct level voting can be accomplished on primary Election Day,” West said in a statement the party posted on social media. “It’s apparent that Democrats struggled with grasping basic civics.”

West, who declined to comment on Votebeat’s findings for this story, has since said Republicans will agree to use countywide voting sites for the upcoming May 26 runoff election, citing the potential for confusion. 

Here is the entire Trib read: Thousands of Dallas County voters went to wrong polling site.

If the Dallas Democratic Party had pulled this stunt, MAGA knuckleheads like Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick would be calling a special session to investigate and neuter or whatever Dallas Democrats. Instead, silence from MAGA leaders at our state capitol. The Texas Secretary of State, our state’s chief election officer, is also silent.

Don’t ever let these MAGA clowns lecture you about voting integrity. Fu_king morons.

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I went to the game last night at Daikin Park and once again it was a spectacular night to have the roof open. See the featured photo. I had a hot dog last night to go with my Saint Arnold. Opening Day is tomorrow.