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Ben Shapiro links Texas losses to affordability, chaos and corruption

The Morning Wire discussion warns Republicans against a single-issue explanation and turns to Vance, DeSantis and Cruz as potential presidential contenders.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 35,638 views a day, 37 times a normal first day on this channel (963).

Ben Shapiro Explains Why Republicans Got Crushed in Texas

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0:19Shapiro points to Democratic funding and shifting Hispanic votes in explaining the Texas result.
1:22He predicts Democratic overreach and warns Republicans against treating their defeat as a single-issue problem.
2:18His central diagnosis combines unaffordability, chaos and corruption.
2:57He doubts Rubio will run for president but expects Vance, DeSantis and Cruz to seek the nomination.

Republicans looking for one explanation for their Texas defeat will not get it from Ben Shapiro. In a Morning Wire discussion posted by Daily Wire News, he argues that several problems combined, and that reducing the result to one issue would leave the party misunderstanding what happened.

"The Republicans lost because of basically three things in combination: unaffordability, chaos, and corruption," Shapiro says. He also points to Democratic funding and shifts in Hispanic voting patterns as important parts of the Texas result.

The segment drew about 24,000 views in its first half-day, already far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience of fewer than a thousand for comparable videos.

Shapiro's warning runs in both directions. He predicts Democrats will read their victories as permission to pursue an aggressive progressive agenda, while Republicans will look for too narrow a diagnosis rather than confront deeper problems. Those are his expectations for the aftermath, not policies or decisions already announced.

The discussion then moves to the next presidential nomination. Shapiro considers a Marco Rubio candidacy unlikely, describing him as risk-averse, but expects J.D. Vance, Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz to seek the Republican nomination. For Vance, his argument is about the pressure that comes with being vice president: Shapiro sees an expectation to run that would be difficult to avoid.

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The facts

Channel: Daily Wire News
Subscribers: 187,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 319,359
Channel views, pace per day: 48,097 (on a normal day: 34,490)
Video published: November 5, 2026
Video views so far: 24,011 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 35,638

The numbers

The Texas discussion passed the channel's usual first-day audience well before a full day was up. Its comment section was also considerably busier than usual.

the video's first day

usual first day here

963

this video

35,638

subscribers

187,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

72,916,536

views per day

48,097