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This is on Daunted Life, a man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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Our guys today, we got a special guest on the podcast.
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Her name is Lauren Davis.
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She is running for Dallas County Judge in Dallas, Texas.
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This is not actually a judicial position, even though the name might suggest that.
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This is essentially the position of the top executive of Dallas County.
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So she's running against the incumbent, Clay Jenkins.
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And so I actually met her at the world premiere for Uncle Tom Two down in Dallas, you know, about a month and a half ago or something like that.
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As I met her, it's like, okay, she's clearly just a real person, just a normal person.
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She's a mom.
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She's a business owner.
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She's those types of things.
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But then there were things that were happening in Dallas County specifically because of Clay Jenkins that she said, no, this is not just unfortunate.
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This isn't appropriate.
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I'm going to do something about it.
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But she went farther than what a lot of people would normally do because some people would just, you know, scream online or, you know, complain to their friends or maybe put a sign in their yard or maybe support some random candidate.
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No, she decided to run for office to get this guy out of there.
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So just a regular gal that, you know, is, you know, with a husband and three kids and helping run a business and all those different things.
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And now she's actually running for office to kind of take away some of the blue dots that we're seeing in a deeply red state.
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And that's something that we talk about in this podcast because we're talking about the state of Texas.
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If you don't live in the state of Texas, maybe you just assume that it's all deep red no matter what.
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But the reality on the ground is, as Texas is the number one goal for Democrats in terms of the electoral map, because if you can make Texas purple and then trend it towards the state of Texas, maybe you just assume that it's all deep red no matter what.
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Because if you can make Texas purple and then trend it towards blue, then the Republicans will never win another national election because you're not going to flip California and you're not going to flip New York.
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We're going to talk about those things, but we're also going to talk about the fact that she's being told by a lot of people.
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She needs to stop talking about her Christian faith whenever she's talking publicly and how she refuses to do that because she has a worldview and her worldview is informed by a Judeo Christian ethic and how she's not just going to leave that aside because it makes you uncomfortable.
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And then we get into some other things about, you know, kind of why she was running specifically how the things that were affecting her family directly kind of led to all these things.
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So it's a really, really fun conversation. So even if you don't live in Dallas County, because again, there are quite a few people.
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I think it's always in the top three or top five are people that, you know, Dallas is in terms of my audience for the show and it has been from the beginning.
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But the reality is, is this is a very, very important race for the entire country because this is a non establishment Republican.
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This is just a regular gal that decided to run for office right in and has a really good chance of winning, deciding to actually throw her hat, you know, in the fray or get into the fray, I guess it were.
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And so this is a very, very interesting thing for people that don't even live in Texas. There's so much here. So I don't want to keep her from you too much longer.
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But before we get into the actual episode today, I do want to make sure that we mentioned our sponsor for today show that's the upper room and the Kings Council.
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Riley Meek, guys, I think this would be a tremendous asset for you. But I'm not going to keep Lauren Davis from you any longer. So without further ado, let's get into it.
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Lauren Davis, welcome to Undaunted Life of Man's Podcast.
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Thanks. Thanks so much for having me.
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Yeah, I've been very excited to have you on the show since we met. We met way back at the Uncle Tom II premiere down there in Dallas.
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I'm glad that our past ran across one another because you are running for office and we'll get way more into that here in a second.
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But that wasn't always your thing, right? You know, before very recently, running for office didn't even seem like it was a fathomable thing for you and your family, but here you are.
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So again, we'll get into the race here in a second. But what was Lauren Davis doing before you decided to throw our hat in the ring for an appointment into office?
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Yes, well, I was doing anything but politics. I was really, you know, the most average everyday go along to get along, not trying to make any waves.
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And my husband and I started our own business back in 2008 called the Gents Place. It's high-end men's grooming, so we own barbershops across the country.
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We have a product line and several other companies. We also have a nonprofit that I help out with.
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Once a month, we do a pop-up barbershop at a homeless shelter here in Dallas.
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We also do a veteran suit drive every year and then go down to Fort Hood here in Texas and help with the Soldier Recovery Union.
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And so I have three kids. My oldest is 16, middle is 14, and youngest is 12.
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So we were just in the thick of life, raising our children, running our businesses. And, yeah, it's pretty average everyday American.
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Yeah, so you didn't really have a whole lot going on. You were constantly bored. You didn't have anything to do.
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And I used an appointment a second ago, so I kind of misspoke. Obviously, you're not going for something that you would be appointed to.
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You are actually running for office. And so you're actually running for Dallas County Judge.
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And so even though the name might imply this, it's not a judicial position. Like you don't need to be a lawyer to get that job or have been a judge before any of those types of things.
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So essentially the way that I understand it, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, that's essentially the top executive for Dallas County.
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Okay. And so you're running against incumbent Clay Jenkins and, you know, we'll get more into all that.
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But I guess what made you want to run for office just in general, but then specifically why this particular position?
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Yeah, well, three things. So the two points that cost me to change my life completely around and run for office is one we were barbershops during COVID.
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We are deemed non-essential. So that entire idea of earning a living, putting food on your dinner table, being non-essential, having to lay off single mothers during that time.
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That's point one. That was at the beginning of the pandemic. We're all figuring it out. And we agreed to shut our businesses down.
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We had literally had police officers show up at one of our barbershops and one of the more conservative suburbs of Dallas, Frisco, Texas, and tell us closure doors were taking your business license.
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Okay. And then second point is when we're two years into the pandemic. So about this time last year, the public school system, my kids were in.
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But ordered by Clay Jenkins to defy Governor Abbott on the masking mandate. So Governor Abbott said no more. Clay Jenkins, the county executive right said, no, I know better than the governor.
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And I'm going to, I'm going to force masks and public schools force them.
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And we just said no. My middle son has survived three open heart surgeries.
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So he has to access more surgeries throughout his life for life saving intervention. And just the entire politicization of the medical community was what tipped me over.
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And he got me, it's a life and safety of my child. And so when my kids showed up without a mask at their public school, the first day of this time last year, there were the only two out of six hundred and four kids.
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The school went nuts. I mean, nuts. They literally coned my daughter off in PE class and she had to sit there and watch masked children run around in front of her.
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And people and all the kids were harassing her. Then they took my son and my daughter who in the same school, both put them in the library isolated them and eventually built a plexiglass cage around them in the library, where all the kids were still access accessing the library.
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They got no access to their lessons initially, no PE, no art, no music. They couldn't even access the cafeteria. We had our community go on hinge on us.
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Fifth grade boy goes up to my daughter and shouts in our face. You deserve to die. Parents at the school calling us attempted murders and terrorists. So we could go on and on.
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But between getting my business shut down and then having a community that once loved me go on hinged and become my enemy and my children's enemy was enough for me to do something about the way our world was going.
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And so obviously the tax you're taking is running for office, but even on the back end and if we say the C word out loud, then no one will ever hear this episode because it'll get, you know, you ramp down and suppress and all that.
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But many of the things we're learning about the C word and the V word that was supposed to prevent the spread of the C word is coming out to be basically bogus.
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We had recently the representative of Pfizer over in Europe, basically talking about, yeah, we never really tested it in terms of like stopping the spread of the C word.
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So I guess the V word was what exactly because typically when you get a V word, it keeps you from getting whatever the ailment is that you're afraid of getting.
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And so as you look back just generically as a mom, not someone running for office, but as a mom as part of a unit of a family with an, you know, an intact, you know, father and mother and kids in the whole nine yards.
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Do you feel validated somewhat in the fact that to where it's like, hey, it's not, it's not just about this stupid American flag freedom liberty nonsense.
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It was like, look, this doesn't mean anything. These things aren't protecting our children. If anything, they're hurting them.
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Yes. And that's, it's precisely it. Politics entered medicine. And that's where the whole thing got off track. And that's why I'm running for County Judge is because this position is over public health and emergency management.
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And so it's under that power that Clay Jenkins has manipulated and abused the entire population of Dallas County. He's still pushing the V word on everyone, and especially on children.
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The county is paying $25 gift cards for it to get, you know, that V word will call it. And then also the public school system Dallas I see was paying kids as young as five years old, direct payments on gift cards, $25 to get that
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V word. And it literally you think about a family of five kids. That's a grocery bill. And they were co-hosting teachers, teachers got 500 principals, got $1,000.
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These are, where's this money come from? This is ultimately taxpayer money. And if you have to pay someone and coerce them to get something, it's probably not effective and they continue to do it.
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And now you're seeing words causing death, a lot of death. And I think about my son and I'm so glad I questioned it initially. And then all that info came out and I turned into a no way in the world.
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Would I have myself or my kids get that? But my son, he's survived through open heart surgeries. He's the last person on the planet. She'll be getting myocarditis.
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And, you know, it's just, it's abominable that they're doing this. Well, and even recently, there seems to be a cabal of people that are certainly profiting off of this.
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But even recently, I think it was the main medical appointee in the state of Florida. I can't remember his name or his actual title. But he came out and had a tweet that basically said that he's a general Florida.
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That's right. That's right. So he basically was suggesting that no children, or he actually ran it out from like, yeah, young men all the way up to the age of 39.
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He does not suggest that they get the V word because of the potential risk that it's having on them because that's one thing for my wife and I Lauren, when we decided that we weren't just going to hold up in our house until the V word was available.
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We knew that we could potentially get the C word. We knew that that was potentially something that happened. And then when we got it, it's like, okay, we're going to have to deal with whatever the long term implications of getting this are.
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But we didn't want to add something on top of that to where it's like, look, we don't know the long term implications of the V word either.
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And then when they casually when my wife was like three months pregnant, when the nurses casually said, yeah, we should probably get you a V worded.
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I about shot through the roof. I'm like, based on what data are you suggesting that my pregnant wife get this? Because you're just saying it because it's something to say and or something more nefarious so that you're potentially profiting off of it.
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So you have someone like Clay Jenkins there in Dallas County. That is pretending as if he's he cares about the public good and that he just wants everybody to be healthy.
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Obviously, he's the only one that can do that. And so here's the thing, Lauren, that's interesting to me is you could have just screened from the rooftops.
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You could have just gone to the school board meeting. You could have just put signs out in your yard. You could have framed people online. You could have started a podcast.
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But instead you decided to run for office to boot this joker out of there. Why go that far? Because you had a bunch of steps before that you could have stopped at.
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Yeah, well, and I did go to the school board and I did, you know, start advocating and going to different groups and speaking out.
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And the tipping point was in the primary set a primary opponent and I filed on the last day because this was not something that, you know, I had been pre planned or thinking of this was purely the chain of events.
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The person who stood up to take on Clay Jenkins was actually a Democrat and God put the one person in my life that I would be able to see so clear that was a fake in a phony.
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And that was the district one Dallas ISD school board trustee who I had been fighting who was over my kid's school who was siding with parents calling us attempted murders and terrorists.
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He's the one who stepped up and said, Oh, I'm a Republican. I'll run against Clay Jenkins. I'll, I'm against masks. And I said, hold on a second.
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You're the man. I've been calling out by name at the school board. You're the person, the school board trustee who motioned and voted for the masking of our children against governor Abbott's orders.
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No way. And I waited. And I waited. And no one stood up. And when you're convicted and you don't see anyone standing up, then that means that you you're the one who was chosen to be out front.
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So I just heated the call. You know, if you feel convicted on your heart and you don't act. That's just something I didn't want to feel that regret for the rest of my life that I was convicted in my heart to do something and I didn't do anything about it.
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Well, I appreciate you throwing your hat in the ring because that does take a certain level of courage. Again, when people start talking about courage, they're like, is it really the same as running into a burning building? No, running for office is not the same as running into a burning building to save a cat or a person.
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But yeah, you know, we get it like it does. It is running into something. I don't know what. Yeah, I'm still figuring that out and you're putting your life out.
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Yeah, it's certainly an insane word world. And now you've got dorks on Twitter that their entire life somehow is centered around making your life miserable in the life of your husband and your children miserable.
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That's their entire life because they're miserable losers. But the thing that's going to be interesting is like we keep saying Dallas County. And by that, yes, we do mean Dallas, Texas, you know, we don't mean like Dallas, Washington, if there's another Dallas here in the United States.
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So that's going to strike some people Lauren that listened to the show that, you know, live not in Texas or that live in Canada or Australia or the UK. We love our listeners all around the world.
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But when they hear Texas, they think red state. They think American flags. They think four wheel drive pickups. They think whiskey and, you know, chewing tobacco in the Dallas Cowboys and that that's what they think of right.
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And they think it's red, red, red, super red as red as it could possibly get. Even when they hear people say that there are blue dots in Texas, like Austin or San Antonio or Houston or Dallas.
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It doesn't always compute because they're like, well, Texas is always red. It's always going to be red. So talk to me a little bit about that perception because a guy like Clay Jenkins or anyone that's of his ilk.
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They don't really come to power if it's just flat out red, like the state of Oklahoma where I live or like Mississippi or Alabama or somewhere like that. So kind of explain that reality of what's going on on the ground in this supposedly red state.
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Yes. Yes. It's a major 911 emergency here in Texas. We are, we are far from solid red. We are, we are turning purple by the minute. It's like a, it's like a slow bleed into all parts of our communities.
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We have a lot of people escaping the edges of our country coming in here and mixing in their failed policies and beliefs into our political system. You know, we have AG race.
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We have a governor's race this year, this cycle. And they are not just for sure. Those are races. You know, we have Bado trying to come in. Clay Jenkins is right now, Beto's Hotel.
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There is an, there is a concerted effort to turn Texas and we are feeling that pressure. So this is, this is a battle for the anchor of our entire country.
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Right. Texas has enough electoral votes to swing an election for all of time to come. And the, if you look at our, how our systems built right, we have our democratic republic.
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So we're, you know, accumulation of states and the federal government is currently constantly attacking our state's rights constantly.
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So, AG Paxton has been a warrior in fighting. I mean, he's constantly having to sue the federal government because the federal government is constantly trying to come into Texas and, and rule from a central location.
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Right. And the somehow our country was set up. We left that long time ago. And our governor is constantly under attack or borders under attack.
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I mean, Texas is just straight under attack from whatever this is that hates America. I, you know, people called all different things.
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It's the isms, the ISM at the end of it name it. It's, there's, there's a flavor of it. But what it is, it's anti American.
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And it's the direct assault is happening in Texas. So fortifying our state, fortifying our AG governor, which we should pull that out, but we cannot take it for granted.
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But the next in line are county judges. There's 254 in the state of Texas. And they are the leadership.
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There's nothing in leadership between the governor and the county judge. And then we've seen in COVID with Clay Jenkins, what happens when they defy.
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It creates total chaos. So we really, really have to fortify these big cities with a, with a good solid conservative county judge.
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Well, in Texas is the bullseye, because everyone knows exactly what you said, because if you flip Texas, then you flip the entire country because everyone likes to talk about how California used to be read.
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California is not coming back unless the rapture happens, right? You know, New York is not coming back. And so you have to have Texas.
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You have to have Florida. You have to have all these other population centers and what a lot of Republicans don't realize, especially when you start talking about, you know, large candidates on the national scale.
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It's like, look, Republicans don't have the opportunity to split votes. Look what happened with George H.W. and with Ross Perot back in the day.
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Ross Perot pulled a bunch of people out of H.W.'s camp and that led to Bill Clinton being president, which led to a bunch of crazy things happening for this country.
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So if you have a third party candidate or a libertarian candidate that pops up, that's only going to take away from Republican votes, because obviously the overwhelming amount of people that are registered to vote in the United States are registered Democrats.
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It's whether or not they show up, but Republicans just have to vote no matter what.
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But if you can flip Texas and look, Beto almost beat Ted Cruz in the senatorial race.
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No one likes to talk about that because Beto is one of the least impressive human beings on planet Earth.
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But it's like, look, you were really, really close to having a blue senator and a red senator representing the state of Texas.
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And so I guess the thing that I want to talk to you about, and this is from a macro sense, so this still applies to Dallas County and the race.
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But what you're doing, are you looking at this as potentially a, I don't know, like a playbook for other people around the country,
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for people in solidly red states that maybe are trying to be infiltrated by what the Democratic Party is trying to do or what leftists or, you know, people that are all those ism.
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So maybe they're, they're into socialism or Marxism or communism and they're just going to try to, you know, basically tear the system down randomly across the country.
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Is that kind of how you see this or you, you just focus narrowly on Dallas County Judge?
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No, this is a national race through and through.
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You know, someone like me, an everyday citizen, a mom with school aged children at home, a business owner can step up and successfully win this race and show the country what good governance looks like.
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It trailblazes the way for others to come and we will average up and better our candidate pool, because historically people don't want to mess with this.
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I mean, we get slammed every day, I get told what I should do every day.
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I mean, this is not for the faint of heart, but it's just worth it.
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And so showing people how worth it it is and how possible it is and it can be done.
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Right. I think, I think, I always forget his name, I think he was George Banneker with a four minute mile, you know, broke that record and everyone else breaks it.
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We had Trump and then Glenn Yunken and then you have all these school boards and local elections being focused on the battleground truly is in the primary.
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We need to start focusing on our primaries because that's where our candidates are picked and historically we don't participate in primary.
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So this elite ruling class is just picking people for us.
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So it's a selection process, not an election process. And I experienced that here.
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So we need to be recruiting our neighbors and ourselves to step up and serve in this capacity, right?
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Maybe I'm not fit to go into the military and serve overseas or what have you, but I'm certainly fit to participate and run in our local elections.
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And so I just feel like this will give a calling to all women and men like myself who are just everyday citizens wanting to save our America.
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When that was what it was meant to be, it was supposed to be everyday citizens.
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It wasn't supposed to be people that wanted to get into Congress or get into elected position and that be their job.
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It was like, no, you have a job, you have a business.
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And when Roger Bannister, it was Roger Bannister the first time.
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Yeah, like whenever he did that for the first time, like he broke a mental block for people.
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It was never a physical block. It was always a mental block because that got to be honest.
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I've been asked about running for office before actually quite a bit, you know, over my, you know, career.
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And since I've been an adult and it's never appealed to me because I'm like, I have to be too honest.
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I have to say my actual opinion. And whenever you're running for office, you're constantly having to calculate.
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And then you're, you're deemed if you've changed your position on something, but it's like, don't, don't you want that American public?
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Like when somebody sees new data or new arguments and they get swayed to that position, wouldn't you rather have somebody that has some of those convictions?
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Because it's not like we're talking about somebody swaying you, you know, to pretend like what's growing inside the belly of a pregnant woman is not a baby.
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Like it's potentially something else. Like there are certain things that are just standard that are in stone.
25:18
But then there are other things that you can be swayed on.
25:20
So I guess talk to me a little bit about that because you've been asked your position on a million different things.
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And if you come out, mealy mouth or kind of wishy washy or something like that, that's a campaign ad.
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You know, for somebody else, like, Oh, Lauren doesn't have a fully fledged opinion on this super obscure part of American policy of some kind.
25:37
So talk to me a little bit about some of the positions that you've had to take and how you kind of formulate your arguments.
25:42
Yeah, so I've been encouraging people to stop asking their politicians or people running for office to lie to them. Everyone says, tell me three things, three things you're going to do.
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And, you know, give me your three, three, three, three. And I said, I just am not going to do that. I said, those, you can have the right answer to the wrong questions.
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And that'll lead you down a road. And I think that's where we're at in politics.
26:03
You need to ask me what battles I've fought prior to running for office. What does my character and integrity look like? Also, do I have a biblical worldview?
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You know, I have a lot of people that say, talk about Jesus less, talk about your faith less. And I'm like, I can't do that. I have a biblical worldview.
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I came by it not because someone told me to have it because life led me that direction. I was raised by atheists. I have a whole testimony of my own.
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But what why my biblical worldview matters to you and to anybody, what no matter where your faith lies is that I ultimately know where outcomes lie and that's in God.
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And we have an epidemic of humans believing they can control other humans outcomes. And so they construct policies and programs, especially in the school system.
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And in our, say, homeless solutions and things, thinking that they can truly manipulate an outcome. And it's just not possible.
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Outcomes are for God between the person and God. That's the outcomes. But we can control our inputs.
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And so I promise to people, my one promise is that I will always maintain my biblical worldview in office because it's going to be hard.
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And when push comes to shove and the next evil thing comes across our world that causes our public leaders to make big decisions, no matter how close evil gets up in my face.
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I will never waver. I will never be tempted to take your rights away.
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We are self governing people and that comes from a biblical worldview that comes from our founding. And so that's the most important thing because then you can predict not even knowing me, you can predict my decision making, right, when push comes to shove on things.
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It matters and it not matters in a way that I'm trying to push my faith onto somebody else, but that you know where I stand and my foundation.
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And that's all that we should care about. What is your foundation? All these little, what are you going to do this? Tell me about that this, all these little things.
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Just get to the core. And so that's, that's how I've been asked about all kinds of things. And I just say, I have a book for worldview. You, you tell me how you think I'll decide.
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Well, the funny thing about that, Lauren, is the moment you start talking about running for office or being in office and you talk about God or Jesus or the Bible or any of those types of things. The new buzz phrase or buzzword is Christian nationalist.
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Like, oh, they're, they're a Christian nationalist. I, I'm super tempted. I keep saying this. I'm just going to make sure it's a Christian nationalist and I'll probably sell a ton of them because it's like so many people are scared of that label.
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But everybody has a worldview. Everybody operates a particular worldview and you cannot expect them to set that worldview aside whenever they come into office.
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Right? And so these people that want you to not talk about Jesus, guess what? They have a secular worldview. They have a humanist worldview and they're bringing that with them when they're, you know, going in, you know, advocating for particular laws or voting on legislation or something like that.
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So talk to me a little bit more about that because the expectation is that, okay, stop talking about Jesus so much. That's really awkward. We, we don't really, we don't really know if he even existed. It's all this other kind of weird nonsense stuff that's in the ethereal that you're trying to bring down the ground level.
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But just talk to me a little bit, a little bit more about that because I think that's a very, very important point that you're making.
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You have to keep that as a part of what you're doing because where do we get the value of human life from? That doesn't come from Darwin. That doesn't come from Karl Marx.
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That comes from a Judeo Christian ethic and foundation that leads us to those types of things, but now I feel like I'm preaching. You go ahead.
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No, no, but that's all, all very true. And Jesus was our most perfect example, whether people believe he was the son of God or not. He was the most perfect example.
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He didn't need a sign outside of his home that says in this home, we believe and then fill in the blank. He just was. He just went in the center of where people needed him and he was him.
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And why people have paid that is a perversion and that is evil infiltrating into what the truth is. And it comes in so many forms.
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It's such a current in our culture. God has been taken out of our schools. There's no reading the Bible anymore in school. And I've had my children go. My three children go from public school to Christian schools now.
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And they are so happy in their Christian school. They don't have locks on the locker. My son, my oldest son, he's a sophomore. Last year when he switched from his public school into his private school in which, look, I wanted to be in the public school.
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I did not want to sign up for three kids in private school. That was not in our budget. Like we're not just flush with cash where that was just an easy decision. That was a sacrifice because it was forced on us.
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And my son got there and he's going, this is so weird. Everyone's being so nice. I don't have to put a lock on my locker. And that's a biblical worldview.
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That gives you everything you need to know. Our world would be just a little kinder and a little softer and better if we could just maintain that. We wouldn't have crime going through the roof. We wouldn't have leaders and teachers excusing horrible behavior, criminal behavior.
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We wouldn't have people lowering the bar. The biblical worldview orders everything. It puts it in order. It helps you frame the horrible things in life because we are a fallen society and they're as evil and it is real.
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It helps you place that. It causes peace and harmony inside your heart. We have kids committing suicide at an astronomical rate because they've been untethered from their foundation of truth. And it's unfair to lead these children astray.
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Since my kids have been in Christian schools, they've come to me each individually. And in one form or fashion said they are more connected to God. This is the happiest they've been. This is the most content they've been. And we've had mental health crisis in our family with our children.
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I've been on suicide watch with one of my children. I understand I come from a family of deep mental illness and addiction. My dad was an alcoholic. He died from his addiction. I've seen the inside. And the only way through is through Christ.
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And that if that's offensive to people, then so be it that their system isn't working. It's collapsing our society. So I just say proof is in the fruit. And we've been doing it their way and it's not working. So I'm asking for a restoration to the way our founding fathers had it.
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Well, in the gospel is offensive because it's counter to everything we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to operate in modernity, whereas it's all about ourselves narcissism is a good thing. And I tell people all the time this is a drum I've been beaten for a while. It's like, why are you why do you still have your kids in the government run schools and you expect them not to come out like government
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minions, right? So vetted private Christian school or homeschool. It's like if you actually care about those types of things. And again, that's why I say vetted because there are schools out there that are terrible that have a cross in the lobby. And so again, you know, without getting off onto a different diet tribe. So one thing that I that I couldn't find because I know we're wrapping to a close because
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several more of these to do today is the polling. What do things look like right now? Because I couldn't really find stuff on that specific race or at least stuff that I trusted. So where where are you right now in the race? Yes, we'll be pulling again here soon. But our internal poll said if the message gets out that I win decisively.
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So people just have to know exist. I'm an unknown, right? I've never been in politics before. This man made his career off of being on TV, touting all his, you know, public health policies will call him between Ebola and in the current crisis.
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So we our goal is just to get the message out. We've been hanging banners on on highways and no more politicians. Lauren Davis running against Clay Jenkins. We're getting school buses honking getting ambulances honking. I got an endorsement from the Dallas Police Association.
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So the words getting out and we went decisively. And Dallas County is not as blue as people would say a generic ballot says we're 43% Republican, 47% Democrat, 10% undecided. So plus for them, that's in within the margin of error.
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It's certainly within the margin of error. And obviously we see tons of independence that are leaning towards the Republican Party right now and basically every generic ballot that we see across the country because obviously they've seen.
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And people are like, Oh, the first two years of Joe Biden. No, no, no. In the first few months of the Biden administration, we were able to see some of the degradation that that he was going to cause.
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We couldn't fathom how bad it was going to get. But then obviously we're seeing it right now. So, so obviously the elections coming up here on November the 8th. And that's how that people can go out. I think most people know by now if you're not registered to vote, you need to go out and get registered to vote.
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You can take care of business on November the 8th. If you need to vote early for whatever reason or something like that or do your absentee ballot, make sure you get all that stuff squared away.
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We've got your website that will put in the show notes and all those types of things. But this is just kind of your final plea to our audience again, a lot of people that live in Dallas County listen to the show.
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So why should they vote for you? And then obviously if they want to help, if anybody wants to help you in your race, how can they do that?
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Yes, I would say the number one reason to vote for me is because I am not a career politician. Career politician is someone who factors their political career into their decision making for the people. And then you no longer represent the people you represent yourself.
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I am committed to restoring this position back to the small government and serving the people as it should. And that crosses party lines. This is not a partisan race in its function. It is on the ticket, but in his function, it just needs to serve the people.
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So that's my commitment. And then anything you can do to help donations, block walking, vote November 8. I encourage people to vote on Election Day. It's the best day to vote. So November 8. Find your polling place, put it in your calendar and get everyone in your sphere of influence to go out and vote.
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It's not an election that we can sit by and just know if I can do it, you can do it. First sign in my yard was my sign. First block walking I did was for me. I never voted in midterms before. And now here I'm on the ticket. So we can do this and we're so hopeful.
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All right, guys, the website is Davis for Dallas. That's Davis and the number four Dallas dot com Davis for Dallas dot com. But that's all for me. Is there anything else you want to get off your chest.
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Nope, that's great. I appreciate the platform. Thank you so much. Lauren Davis. Thank you for coming on a dog to life a man's podcast.
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Thank you.
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