Meet Bobby Cole, the Farmer and former Firefighter running for Governor of Texas. Can He Win?
Hey there folks!
I’m excited to share the latest episode of my new podcast EXTREMELY REASONABLE. In this episode, I sit down with Texas gubernatorial candidate Bobby Cole, a former firefighter and farmer running as a working-class Democrat in the 2026 race.
Watch and Listen Here:
Cole explains why he entered the race, how he plans to compete with lower name recognition, and why he believes Democrats should invest more in rural Texas — arguing those voters are ignored by his party and taken for granted by Republicans. We discuss whether that strategy adds up in a statewide election, especially with millions of registered Texans sitting out recent cycles.
He also addresses concerns about his lack of political experience, the Democratic establishment backing his primary opponent, how he would mobilize Black voters, and whether today’s political divide is Left vs. Right or the wealthy vs. everyone else.
Plus: his views on Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, his news diet, who advises him, what he’ll do if he loses, and his advice for non-traditional candidates considering a run.
Let me know what you thought of the conversation in the comments and please like and subscribe for more!
Thank you, Kaivan Shroff
I LIVE IN Stanstead Quebec WHERE Kristi Noem CAME FOR A VISIT AND TOLD US WE WOULD BE ASSIMILATED OR EXTERMINATED and resistance is futile. My wife is handicapped and so am I. We earned our infirmities honestly with 110 years of hard work and good citizenship. Stanstead is rural and agricultural and tourist friendly and the American media is all about conflict and if it bleeds it leads. We had a visitor from Oil Rich Alberta for a few days. The last visitor we had from Alberta was a wealthy Oil Sheik whose father came to Alberta from Texas. Quebec has banned fossil fuels starting in 2030 and fossil fueled vehicles must be grandfathered into our 21st century nation of Quebec in Canada's Confederation. Our Provinces are sovereign. The job of Ottawa is to keep Canada together while your media tears us apart. Alberta and Quebec are Canada's political polarities when they are neither political nor polarities.
Our LATEST Alberta VISITOR GREW UP IN THE TOWN WHERE MY Nashville born mentor and WIFE AND I WERE WED. Our VISITOR is not an oil man he is not Elon Musk, he is not a famous celebrity he is the son everybody in Stanstead, wants and trusts he is a rodeo clown. Woody Guthrie sang about America First and Old Man Trump the New York slumlord. Woodie Guthrie sang songs of the dustbowl and Mexican Deportees. We are farmers and ranchers here in Stanstead aka Kraft/Heinz of San Paolo Brazil's HOCKEYTOWN CANADA and THE Northern Kingdom Vermont. The SAME VERMONT MY father CALLED Mississippi NORTH BECAUSE IT WAS THE REDDEST STATE IN THE Union AND WAS UNEDUCATED, UNHEALTHY AND HOMOGENEOUS AND HAD gentiles only SIGNS on the inns BEFORE the arrival Bernie, Ben, Jerry AND Paul Newman. Phil Ochs sang about Mississippi in the 1960s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrrOY0vwuPE&list=RDKrrOY0vwuPE&start_radio=1
Mississippi found another country to part of in November of 2024. I buried our Amrican Flag and Fly Zelenkyy's flag with the Maple Leaf and flag of France's Bourbons.
They just tore down the old supermarket across the street from Canada customs and immigration with its two doors less than ten feet apart. They were not the entrance and the egress they were Canadian AND American AND YOU USED Only ONE DOOR ON AN HONOUR SYSTEM YOU LEFT BY THE SAME DOOR YOU CAME IN AND THE STORE WAS BI-NATIONAL.
It WAS Nazis THAT FOUNDED AND FINANCED America FIRST and it was the Nazi Party of Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbels that formed America First.
Charlie "the Nazi" Lindbergh and Henry the National Socialist Ford that were the faces of America First in 1940.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee
of Stanstead where until they can make the Canadian entrance handicap accessible we cannot visit our library and opera house where two nations share a library and Opera House. I saw the Pirates of Penzance I left my ass IN THE Divided States OF America AND LAID MY FEET IN Québec A 21ST CENTURY Liberal democracy for the entire performance and now I can't use the front door of your Borg Collective.
I still love America and say Kaddish every election day in November.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUgzXJACXzs&list=RDmpg-kkwXpwE&index=4