Radio Host Chris Salcedo’s Real Talk On #TEXIT

Another Texas-based radio host has come out in support of TEXIT as a legitimate political option for Texans.

Chris Salcedo, the host of the syndicated Chris Salcedo Show and a host on Newsmax TV, set off a firestorm this morning when he publicly signaled his support for a TEXIT vote.

Citing State Representative Kyle Biedermann’s commitment to file the Texas Independence Referendum Act, Salcedo went on to discuss his belief that it is a viable political option for Texans who will not live under an oppressive federal government.

Salcedo also echoed the Texas Nationalist Movement’s years-long arguments that it would be a peaceful, BREXIT-style exit and that an overwhelming percentage of Texans would vote in favor of leaving the union.

His remarks bolster the TNM’s efforts to get an independence referendum on the ballot as he becomes the latest high-profile media personality to come out in support of the vote.

You can listen to the full-clip from his show below.

Chris Salcedo frames his case around socialism, which he calls ruinous and says he wants no part of. He argues that Texas agreed to join the union on the condition that the United States remain a constitutional republic, and that a government that stops adhering to the Constitution loses its legitimacy. To critics who point out that Britain was a sovereign country, Salcedo answers that Texas once was too.

Salcedo rejects press coverage that cast Biedermann’s proposal as a call to war. He admits he once worried a fight over independence could turn bloody, and says holding a vote is the administrative route that avoids it. He’d insist on paper ballots and says there’s no rush. A vote’s real value, in his telling, is that it forces people who ignore politics to ask why Texas wants to leave. That question, Salcedo says, lets Texans reestablish who they are as a people.