KSEV Mornings · October 21, 2026 · Hour 2
Minnesota’s voter vouching video played on air, JD Vance vs. Marco Rubio, Don Huffines’ whistleblower portal, Houston trains and a listener who called Craig and Wayne RINOs.
Wednesday’s second hour played the Muckraker hidden-camera video from a Minnesota polling place, twice, by listener request. Craig Coglianese and Wayne Dolcefino also took on Trump’s “Shylock” flap, the SAVE Act, out-of-state money in the Paxton vs. Talarico race, gas prices, JD Vance vs. Marco Rubio and Comptroller Don Huffines’ new whistleblower portal, then answered a listener who accused them both of being RINOs.
Craig who?
The hour opened with Wayne introducing his co-host as Craig Collins. “I called you Craig Collins, didn’t I?” he asked, then admitted, “I’m so embarrassed.” Craig let it go and said time goes fast when they are talking with listeners.
Trump’s “Shylock” comment
Wayne said Trump took grief on CNN for a comment some called antisemitic. “I think people really need to lighten up,” he said, adding that he was raised in a Jewish home when he was young and it did not offend him. Craig agreed that people “desire to overreact,” but said some things are worth reacting to.
The Minnesota vouching video
Craig explained that the video first went viral in August and is making the rounds again now that Minnesotans are voting. In it, a man tells election workers the people with him are Hamas members who just arrived from the Gaza Strip and that he does not know their citizenship status. The answer on tape: “If you’re vouching, you can vouch for up to eight people,” and the people being vouched for “don’t need to show anything.” Craig’s point was that anyone actually trying to game the system “just wouldn’t be honest.” He also said people tend to let someone they see as being on their political team get away with things they would never allow from the other side.
The SAVE Act and the undecided voters
Wayne said Republicans should take small victories and “make it a simple up and down vote on whether we should require proof of citizenship to vote.” He also reminded Craig how polls work: when one candidate has 44 and the other has 42, “there’s a whole bunch of voters out there” who have not decided, so there is always time for a late surge.
Messaging the diesel waiver
Wayne brought up Trump’s post saying people owe him an apology over the diesel fuel waiver, which Trump tied to getting an American out in a hostage exchange. If that is true, Wayne said, the message should be that this is why you trust the president, because he knows things he cannot always share. “There’s so many ways to message this in the right way.”
Played one more time
After a listener asked to hear it again, Craig played the opening of the video a second time and said it is the kind of thing that is “terrifying and hilarious,” because people deny that it happens.
Out-of-state money and the Paxton vs. Talarico race
Wayne asked why people from other states can give to Texas campaigns, with a joke about his cousin Vinny, and said he would favor limiting campaign contributions. Craig wondered whether the money would just find another route. He also noted that James Talarico is now framing the race as running against Elon Musk because of Musk’s late money for Ken Paxton. “But isn’t that just fighting fire with fire?” Craig asked, pointing to the outside money that has backed Talarico.
Gas prices and Iran
Wayne said people are frustrated because things are expensive, “but gas prices are not even as high as they were during the Biden administration.” Craig noted that prices were dropping before the fight with Iran started, and predicted that “in the very near future gas prices will actually go down a lot because the fight with Iran will be over.”
JD Vance or Marco Rubio?
Wayne said he is not a huge fan of JD Vance, though “I think he’s very smart,” and called himself “a Marco Rubio fan” who thinks Rubio “is more palatable to middle voters.” Craig likes Vance. He said he would like a candidate closer to his own age who articulates the same problems differently, and argued that millennials, not Gen Z, are the generation Republicans most need to reach. Wayne said America First is still the answer, and the conversation landed on delivering the same message differently.
Don Huffines’ whistleblower portal
After Craig gave out the wrong call-in number (Wayne asked that calls to it “start around midnight”), Wayne praised Comptroller Don Huffines and his new portal for sending tips directly to law enforcement investigators. “We got to get him on the show,” he said, and told a story about waiting seven months for records from one city.
Trains, snow and Kay’s Lounge
Craig said he misses trains. Wayne said Houston “should have done a monorail a long time ago” and remembered commuting from Katy to Channel 13 in an hour and a half. Craig, who moved here from up north, still laughs about the snow plow he saw stuck in the snow in Texas: “That seems like a poor use of the plow.” Wayne also remembered the Channel 13 crew getting to Kay’s Lounge minutes after the late news, with so many news trucks parked out front that the station manager told them to park in the back.
A listener calls them RINOs
Caller Lee pointed out that Paxton had just won a statewide race before the impeachment and told Wayne his SpaceX stock was up that morning. Then Craig read a message from a listener accusing both hosts of being liberals. Wayne said he agrees with “95% of Trump’s policies. Maybe 100%,” and that he is “probably to the right of Trump on a lot of things,” but he will still criticize what could be done better. “And so if that makes me a RINO, then come on, baby.” Craig said some media figures, naming Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson, shift positions to chase an audience. “Wayne and I don’t do that,” he said. “We’re just going to tell you what we think.” He pointed to Marco Rubio’s speech in Europe as a master class in delivering a tough message, and said that if you tell people everything is great when their own lives are not, “I distrust you more.”
Wayne closed with a push to get out and vote in Fort Bend, Harris and Montgomery counties.
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