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MB Michael Berry Michael Berry Conservative talk radio host based in Houston, covering Texas and national politics, elections, immigration and culture.

“It's not a valentine. You don't have to love that person. People tell me all the time, we need better candidates. Sure we do. But this isn't where we pick better candidates. This is where we pick the lesser of two evils.”

The Michael Berry Show · US Politics · November 2026

“It's not a valentine. You don't have to love that person. People tell me all the time, we need better candidates. Sure we do. But this isn't where we pick better candidates. This is where we pick the lesser of two evils.” — Michael Berry, The Michael Berry Show

Context

Speaking the night before Election Day to listeners frustrated with the candidates on offer, Berry argues a vote is a choice about direction, not an endorsement of a person.

Transcript

The Michael Berry Show Around 25:53 into the episode
Michael Berry

…you're all district. You never actually saw the field. Didn't even make the team, for that matter. But now what they're doing, the Democrats, because the Jewish congressman, Stevens, has endorsed the Republican candidate, they are now claiming the fact that it was done at a black church is racist.

Speaker 11

Huh.

Michael Berry

…school shooting. It's a mom or a dad or a school teacher or a janitor or a police officer who steps in, steps up, and deals with it. You look at every case of every time there is a crisis. It is an average, everyday person. The beauty of an election is it's the only time that every single, not a poll, Not a focus group. It's the only time that all of us state what future we want for our country. It's not a valentine. You don't have to love that person. People tell me all the time, we need better candidates. Sure we do. But this isn't where we pick better candidates. This is where we pick the lesser of two evils. To quote Ben Carson, unless Jesus Christ is on the ballot, you're picking the lesser of two evils. It's not a valentine. It's a strategy session for what you want your country to look like. There will be issues that will be confronted by the person you put in office. Who do you trust has a better thought process for who they vote, for how they vote, for what they do? The Michael Berry Show. It's…

Speaker 9

Blessed with donors, a logo, and an unshakable faith that the voters aren't paying attention.

Michael Berry

This party has a candidate. Age? Irrelevant. Ambition? Considerable.

Speaker 9

A man who has concluded that the proper answer to a confused 10-year-old.

Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.

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