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Hour 1 - Republican momentum? · The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday edition. Clay and Buck. Although you'll note just Buck
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  Speaker 2: talking today. Clay is taking a day for travel. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot to discuss. Of course, the midterms in
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  Speaker 2: full swing as early voting is happening in a whole
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  Speaker 2: bunch of places, including Texas. So I will leave the
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  Speaker 2: haranguing on this one to Clay. But for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who can vote who have not early voted, perhaps...
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  Speaker 2: worth considering i'm trying to find a time to go
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  Speaker 2: i want to go with carrie with my wife together
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  Speaker 2: i feel like that will be kind of a fun
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  Speaker 2: activity we'll take a nice little stroll down to uh
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  Speaker 2: city hall here in miami beach or i guess it's
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  Speaker 2: the convention center i forget where the voting uh what
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  Speaker 2: they call the voting place but uh we're gonna go
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  Speaker 2: get that early vote done because well of course our
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  Speaker 2: civic duty the beautiful thing the voting that is such
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  Speaker 2: a big part of what it means to be an
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  Speaker 2: american So we're going to get that done, but we're
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  Speaker 2: also going to look closely here at where all these
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  Speaker 2: races currently stand. We have some— I think we're at the
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  Speaker 2: point where we can say some suppression polls coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Big hammering from the New York Times on this New
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  Speaker 2: York Times-Siena poll. They're saying Trump sits 36 percent approval,
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  Speaker 2: 59 percent disapproved. They're saying lowest— that's the lowest that
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  Speaker 2: they've ever polled Trump, and that Democrat voters have an
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  Speaker 2: 11-point favorability. Look, that's a lot of noise at the
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  Speaker 2: national level. First of all, Trump's not actually on the ballot.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's out there. He was in North Carolina yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to some of that in a moment. But
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  Speaker 2: this is about the individual members of Congress. This is
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  Speaker 2: about House reps, senators, governors, and some other positions out
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  Speaker 2: there that are very important, especially if you live, well...
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  Speaker 2: important for you if you live in one of the
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  Speaker 2: states affected, but also important for control of Congress and
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  Speaker 2: the next two years of the Trump administration. So I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you, I think it's going to be very tight.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not expecting some, certainly not expecting a red wave.
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  Speaker 2: No one's expecting that. But I believe that you can
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  Speaker 2: see some last minute surge here in some of these
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  Speaker 2: close races that'll deliver some nice wins to Republicans in
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  Speaker 2: some critical places. That's my My sense right now, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money going into this, of course, still. And
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  Speaker 2: we have not even hit Election Day. Trump was in
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina yesterday. Let me let me start with this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to work a little bit through the you
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  Speaker 2: know what? I was going to say good news, bad news.
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  Speaker 2: But who knows? North Carolina turn out big time and
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  Speaker 2: defeat this Roy Cooper guy and give Michael Watley the
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  Speaker 2: big job. That would be a much, much better move.
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  Speaker 2: But let's see where we are. With things Trump was
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  Speaker 2: there yesterday and he, you know, he's kind of doing
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  Speaker 2: a highlight reel. It's really the Trump highlight reel out
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  Speaker 2: there on display for everybody. This is cut for play it.
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  Speaker 3: The choice in this election is very simple. You can
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  Speaker 3: vote for the radical left Democrat communist to loot your wealth,
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  Speaker 3: raise your taxes by five trillion dollars. Annihilate your borders,
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  Speaker 3: decimate North Carolina industries. I mean, look at me, I'm
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  Speaker 3: up here for just a little while and I'm announcing
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  Speaker 3: two companies and the military are gonna be spending, right?
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna mutilate your children, the utilization of your transgender utilization.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine that? Give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty,
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  Speaker 3: They're going to have they're still fighting for.
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  Speaker 2: Men playing in women's sports.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Or or you can defeat the Democrat communist and vote
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  Speaker 3: for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families,
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  Speaker 3: lower taxes, less crime, a booming North Carolina economy. No
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  Speaker 3: amnesty for illegal aliens. But to do that, you must
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  Speaker 3: vote Republican.
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  Speaker 2: It's all true. And those are areas of high voter
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  Speaker 2: concern right now. The highest, of course, the economy, but
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  Speaker 2: also on the borders and crime economy borders crime. We
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  Speaker 2: talk about it a lot here on the show. I
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  Speaker 2: would say the first of all, Trump is in a
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  Speaker 2: place where if he wants to say utilization, I think
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  Speaker 2: he's probably able to coin the term. Maybe that will become.
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  Speaker 2: word on its own. I believe he means mutilation, but
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  Speaker 2: he keeps saying mutilization. But because he's Trump, I think
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  Speaker 2: it might sort of catch on. I actually didn't know,
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  Speaker 2: in fairness, that bigly was a word until Trump used it.
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  Speaker 2: So Trump taught me a word, which is not a
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  Speaker 2: very common thing. So I give him a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe mutilization will find its way into the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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  Speaker 2: Point being, Trump is doing what he does best out
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  Speaker 2: there making the case to the american people on the
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  Speaker 2: campaign trail that these democrats are nuts and that there's
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  Speaker 2: absolutely no way they're going to be able to improve
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  Speaker 2: the lives of the people who are currently frustrated that's
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  Speaker 2: really the saddest thing of all when you look at
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  Speaker 2: where democrats stand on these issues and what we've seen
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  Speaker 2: play out not just under the trump second term but
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  Speaker 2: just in general in american politics let's just say in
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  Speaker 2: the 21st century to to tie it all together. Democrats
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  Speaker 2: are wrong on all of the key issues, and yet
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  Speaker 2: they're able to generate, of course, they have tremendous allegiance
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  Speaker 2: from some people who don't care about the wrongness of
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  Speaker 2: their beliefs. This is what you get with people in
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  Speaker 2: cities where the needles are everywhere, the druggies are everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: there's too much crime, there's blight in the downtown, and
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  Speaker 2: it's only Democrats in charge and people keep voting Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: They just haven't suffered enough. And they think that their
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  Speaker 2: suffering through bad policy somehow makes them a better person.
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  Speaker 2: The suffering doesn't maybe affect them. There's that not in
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  Speaker 2: my backyard phenomenon. It really comes down to whether Democrats
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  Speaker 2: think that the vote that they cast as a statement
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  Speaker 2: of personal superiority, I'm a good person, is more important
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  Speaker 2: and affects them more than the reality of the politicians
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  Speaker 2: and the policies that come into play when you put
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  Speaker 2: a party in power that lacks a self-correction mechanism they
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  Speaker 2: just keep doubling down on crazy all the time they
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  Speaker 2: have changed nothing since 2024 i think that's worth pointing
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  Speaker 2: out donald trump led a red wave and the democrats
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  Speaker 2: got uh thoroughly trounced and yet whether it's the transgender
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  Speaker 2: sports issue or it's uh the democrats uh being an
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  Speaker 2: open borders party and all these, the Democrats being the
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  Speaker 2: party of more crime, less safety, all these things remain true.
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  Speaker 2: But because there is economic frustration out there right now,
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  Speaker 2: they see an opening. They see the ability to connect
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  Speaker 2: with people on an emotional level that will override the
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  Speaker 2: the rational, override the experience of what it has been
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  Speaker 2: for them to be an American in this country for
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  Speaker 2: the last few years and really for all time and say,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, this time around I will vote Democrat
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  Speaker 2: or this time around I'll actually show up. Maybe I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to show up. You know, you get into
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  Speaker 2: party switching or independence, swing voters. You also get into enthusiasm,
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  Speaker 2: base turnout. All these things come together and the votes
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  Speaker 2: will be tallied and we'll see how it shakes out,
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  Speaker 2: but I do feel like there is some good momentum
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  Speaker 2: now behind the Republicans. It felt a little too quiet,
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  Speaker 2: and I was a little frustrated with it, in particularly
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  Speaker 2: August into the first half of September. That seems to
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  Speaker 2: have been the strategy, and we'll see if the strategy
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  Speaker 2: pays off for them. Something else that we'll spend more
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  Speaker 2: time talking about today, Trump here, here he is talking
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  Speaker 2: about the Ilhan Omar scandal. phenomenon guys you bleep this
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  Speaker 2: right i think we needed a bleep just making sure
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  Speaker 2: because i'm looking at the transcript i'm like uh we
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  Speaker 2: had to bleep trump the president here he is uh
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  Speaker 2: trump on ilhan omar play cut nine you know they keep.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about deportation now she could go to jail this
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  Speaker 4: is just my opinion i think she's a sick a
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  Speaker 4: very dishonest person who hates our country and She comes
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  Speaker 4: from a country that is essentially not even a country, Somalia.
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  Speaker 4: It's a real s * * t house, okay? It's
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  Speaker 4: got no government. It's got no police protect. All they
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  Speaker 4: do is have people running around shooting each other. Then
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  Speaker 4: she comes over here and she wants to tell us
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  Speaker 4: how to run America. She wants to tell us how
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  Speaker 4: to run the United States of America. And she'll say,
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  Speaker 4: I have constitutional rights. And she never heard the word concert.
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  Speaker 4: She never saw that before.
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  Speaker 1: See that?
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  Speaker 4: She never saw that before. But she says she has rights.
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  Speaker 4: She's a disgrace to our country. And it's amazing that
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  Speaker 4: she can get elected, but Somalians vote for her. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Somalians vote for her. And most of them shouldn't be here.
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  Speaker 2: So there's something much bigger at work with the investigation
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  Speaker 2: into Ilhan Omar as well. There are some very weighty
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  Speaker 2: issues that come into play. First of all, If, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: the charges against her are proven and she is found
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  Speaker 2: and she is found guilty, she has not even been
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  Speaker 2: charged yet. So this is all just investigation and allegation. If,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, that's the case, she would be the first
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  Speaker 2: person possibly in what she would be the first person
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  Speaker 2: if she was found guilty to have been in Congress
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  Speaker 2: and face deportation from the country and being stripped of citizenship.
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  Speaker 2: That is a possibility right now with a sitting member
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  Speaker 2: of Congress, a Democrat. Beyond that, though, and this is
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  Speaker 2: why I understand, first of all, Trump talking about how
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  Speaker 2: Somalia is not a nice place. Leftists, the Democrat corporate media,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to say he's just behind. mean or he's
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  Speaker 2: being racist or he's being whatever it is no there's
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  Speaker 2: an important lesson from this yes of course we've taken
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  Speaker 2: in far too many people from the third world legally
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  Speaker 2: and illegally in my lifetime into this country and that
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  Speaker 2: needs to be that needs to stop We also have
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  Speaker 2: to have a massive increase in deportations, which they're increasing it.
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  Speaker 2: And we can look at the latest numbers from DHS.
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  Speaker 2: But that is an important, a critical mission, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: for the future of the country. However, when you look
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  Speaker 2: at Ilhan Omar, you also get a real sense of
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  Speaker 2: how Democrats are just emotionally and psychologically predisposed to resent
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  Speaker 2: a country that they should be so grateful to. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of saying I'm proud to be an American, Democrats say
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud to be better than America. Put me in
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  Speaker 2: charge and I'll make it what it should be. But
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  Speaker 2: right now, it's really not so great. It's kind of racist,
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  Speaker 2: kind of bad, a lot of things about it. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you can push this issue more, say, well, if it's
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  Speaker 2: so bad, why do people from all over the world,
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  Speaker 2: why do so many people from name a poor country?
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  Speaker 2: Why do they all want to come here? And they'll say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's because we're wealthy. Well, guess what? There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of countries, actually, that are well off. And now they
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  Speaker 2: go to some of those countries, too. But they all
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  Speaker 2: want to come here, despite the fact that they have
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  Speaker 2: tremendous criticisms and a lot of resentment for this place.
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  Speaker 2: And Ilhan Omar, somebody who left a failed dysfunctional state
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  Speaker 2: and was taken in now, allegedly illegally, but taken in.
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  Speaker 2: by the warm embrace of this incredible place known as America,
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  Speaker 2: and then has proceeded, yes, she's a member of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: but she constantly denigrates American foreign policy, denigrates American culture,
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  Speaker 2: denigrates the Constitution, all of these things, things that don't
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  Speaker 2: even exist in the home country that she fled. You
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  Speaker 2: would think there would be nothing but a constant gratitude.
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  Speaker 2: How many of you have seen a video? How many
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  Speaker 2: of you have seen Ilhan Omar with a smile on
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  Speaker 2: her face saying, just talking about what a beautiful, incredible
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  Speaker 2: place America is, how wonderful this country is, how she's
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  Speaker 2: lucky to be here, never mind be a member of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: how it took in her family, and it took in
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  Speaker 2: so many other Somalis from the hellhole that had been
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  Speaker 2: ruined by Somalis. There's no sense of gratitude. There's no
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  Speaker 2: sense of accountability. And that is something that Ilhan Omar
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately shares with all of these uh dsa socialists with
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  Speaker 2: all of these leftists with all these maniacs even running
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  Speaker 2: around in paris with palestinian flags that they're flying while
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  Speaker 2: they burn down stores and they loot and they pillage
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  Speaker 2: they don't appreciate how wonderful the place is that they
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  Speaker 2: happen to be lucky enough to either have been born
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  Speaker 2: into or perhaps snuck into no gratitude No sense of
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  Speaker 2: wanting to give back and be thankful in a meaningful way. No,
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  Speaker 2: they're here. They're inside. They're a fifth column and they
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  Speaker 2: want to tear it down. They think they know better.
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  Speaker 2: They want to make it something else. just get enough
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  Speaker 2: resentful people together and give them enough power, and they'll
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  Speaker 2: transform this place known as America into something so much better,
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  Speaker 2: even though the place they come from is so much worse.
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  Speaker 2: Why would they know more than we know here about
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  Speaker 2: how to have a great country? That is what Trump
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  Speaker 2: is getting at. That is what Americans need to be
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  Speaker 2: reminded of as we look at who to vote for
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  Speaker 2: in this election cycle, which is the party that appreciates, loves, cherishes,
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  Speaker 2: and protects America. which is the party that constantly undermines, denigrates,
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  Speaker 2: and wants to transform this place because it's just not
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  Speaker 2: good enough. Ilhan Omar is just one example of countless
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  Speaker 2: examples of Democrats who take that approach. Whether you're in
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  Speaker 2: Michigan or Pennsylvania or Texas or North Carolina or take
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  Speaker 2: your pick, they are always in the blame America first party.
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  Speaker 2: and Buck, the gateway drug to sanity. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 2: Clay and Buck. We were talking about the investigation into
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  Speaker 2: member of Congress and noted America hater Ilhan Omar. She
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  Speaker 2: has broken her silence. She wishes to speak publicly or
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  Speaker 2: has spoken publicly publicly. about this whole situation. And this
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  Speaker 2: is cut 11. And here is what she said.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan here.
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  Speaker 6: I just wanted to say thank you so much for
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  Speaker 6: the support to everyone who sent a note of support
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  Speaker 6: for everyone who sent $ 5, $ 10, $ 20. That goes a
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  Speaker 6: long way as we fight Trump and his administration for
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  Speaker 6: trying to intimidate me and so many people right before
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  Speaker 6: the midterm elections. We know that they're running scared. We're
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  Speaker 6: not going to be intimidated. We're not going to be silenced.
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  Speaker 6: We're not going to be scared. I'll be out there
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  Speaker 6: campaigning alongside all of you and making sure that we
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  Speaker 6: beat back all of this and that we win in
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  Speaker 6: the midterms, win the House, win the Senate. and hold
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  Speaker 6: this administration accountable. Thank you so much again, and please
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  Speaker 6: continue to support us. It is going to be a
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  Speaker 6: very expensive and challenging time, and so we appreciate whether
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  Speaker 6: you're able to send.
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  Speaker 5: 5, 10, 20.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, right.
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  Speaker 2: Fundraising appeal. Notice something here. She's using this for fundraising.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, it's politics. Not a surprise. Fine. She's
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  Speaker 2: allowed to, but she's using it for fundraising. No surprise there.
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  Speaker 2: Do you hear a denial of any of this stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't wouldn't you if you were accused of, let's
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  Speaker 2: just say it, not really being an American, because if
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  Speaker 2: you have achieved your Americanness via fraud, you can be denaturalized.
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  Speaker 2: She was not born here. She was not an American
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  Speaker 2: at birth. I know we can talk about the Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court ruling another time, but technically that right right now
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  Speaker 2: and for a long time, that has been the way
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  Speaker 2: that the that has been the law of the land,
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  Speaker 2: like it or not. But she was not born here.
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  Speaker 2: She was born in Somalia, obviously. If she achieved her
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  Speaker 2: American-ness via fraud, that's very noteworthy. But also, wouldn't you
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  Speaker 2: be furious? We have a lot of lawful immigrants who
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  Speaker 2: listen to this show. Welcome to our American family. Many
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  Speaker 2: of you have been here for decades and decades. I
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  Speaker 2: would be really ticked off. You wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 2: tell me that. How dare you try to say that
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  Speaker 2: I stole my American-ness? How dare you say that I
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  Speaker 2: achieved it via fraud? I didn't catch any of that
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  Speaker 2: from her. I heard no denial. Just noting. Ten weeks.
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  Speaker 2: That's how many weeks are left in this calendar year. Halloween,
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  Speaker 2: Election Day, Thanksgiving, the holiday season rush, Christmas. It's going
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  Speaker 2: Clay and Buck, you know, in the midst of all
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  Speaker 2: of this election analysis and discussions about the future of
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  Speaker 2: the Republic and the biggest news of the day, as
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: well as war and peace abroad, Russia, Ukraine, the situation,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: the Middle East, you got to find time to just
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: kick back, relax and let the good times roll. And
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: for some of you, I don't know, that might just
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  Speaker 2: be going for a drive in the drive in the
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  Speaker 2: hills or wherever you live near your house. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you might be going out, maybe doing a little skeet
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  Speaker 2: shooting or something. I don't know, whatever you got. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: I really literally got my hands dirty with my balcony gardening.
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  Speaker 2: And I have taken this up as a new hobby.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: And I will tell you, balcony gardening is quite therapeutic.
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  Speaker 2: It is something that I would highly recommend. Now, most
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  Speaker 2: of you have actual gardens because you have actual land.
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  Speaker 2: I live in a city, so the balcony is the
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  Speaker 2: best that I can do. but let me tell you
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  Speaker 2: my clusius they're really the star of the show on
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  Speaker 2: my balcony coming in dense got some long planters i
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  Speaker 2: had a friend of mine over who was quite an
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  Speaker 2: expert and he was showing me how to do all
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  Speaker 2: of this stuff got tight branching going on excellent for
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: a privacy screen which is what i'm building Also salt
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  Speaker 2: and wind tolerant. Those Clusias can take a beating and
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: keep on growing. I've got a young mango tree, staked
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and looking healthy. Within two years, perhaps, succulent mangoes will
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: be growing on my balcony from said tree. I have
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: a beautiful fiddle leaf fig. Fiddle leaf fig, which has
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: got big violin-shaped leaves. That one's coming in quite lovely.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Silver buttonwood as well. Latin name, Canocarpus erectus. Classic coastal
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Florida material. So the balcony garden, for those who are wondering,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: is coming along quite well. Now, when I go into
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Home Depot again, are people going to be like, there
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: he is, the guy who knows how to balcony garden?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Will they clap?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Will they all stand at attention and salute and say, sir,
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  Speaker 2: nobody quite knows how to mix in their soil and
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  Speaker 2: rocks quite like you? Maybe. That's for others to decide.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: But all I can tell you, my friends, is my
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: balcony gardening game is strong. And I think it's time
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: for me to get a wide brim hat and perhaps
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: an oversized dress shirt and go full Martha Stewart out
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: there because I'm really enjoying it. I don't know. Do
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  Speaker 2: they have an executive card at Home Depot? I'm going
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: to have to find the VIP section for all the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: soil that I'm using. What could be manlier? What could
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  Speaker 2: be more salt of the earth than getting up to
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  Speaker 2: your elbows in some fresh potting soil to make sure
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that your Clusias are getting exactly the sunlight they need.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: With all that, my friends, I wanted to give you
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: an early voting. I know we're getting back to the news,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: back to the news. Are there photos, by the way? Yes,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: there are. Although I don't really have proper gear yet.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I got to figure out how people dress for this stuff.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I guess you just dress however you want. But I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: want to look the part when I'm wielding my trowel
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: because I wield it. I wield it quite well. Now,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: our friend Ryan Groduski, by the way, he always keeps
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: tabs on the show, make sure that we're staying close
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to the numbers he was on last week. I can't
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: even remember how many views he got on the YouTube
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: where he broke down the analysis of where things currently
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: stand for this midterm election. So I said, Ryan, since
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: it's been about a week, can you give us the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: latest detailed update of early voting? And then we could
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: work that into the conversation here. And Our friend Gerduski,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: host of It's a Numbers Game, great podcast doing phenomenal,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: especially these days with the election coming up. Phenomenal download numbers.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Go listen to it, guys. Ryan does a great job.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Here he is, cut 34. Gerduski, breaking down the early vote.
• 22:51
  Speaker 7: Voting is underway across most of the country in the
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: early vote. Right now, Democrats have a sizable lead in
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: most states. Over in Iowa, Democrats have a 22,000 vote lead.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: compared to 2024 when Republicans actually held a 9,000 vote lead.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: But this lead, despite being in favor of Democrats, is
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: much smaller than they had in 2022 when Democrats had
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: a 60,000 vote advantage at this point in the election.
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: Over in Arizona, 13 days out, there have been 635,000
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: votes cast. That's 20% of all ballots. Republicans hold a
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: minor deficit of 7,000 votes. heading to this election. In 2022,
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: Democrats at this point held a 24,000 vote lead. Over
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: in North Carolina, 924,000 ballots have been cast. Democrats have
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: led in every single day of early voting, but their
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: lead has fallen from D plus 28 to D plus 15.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: Over in Georgia, the black vote has fallen from 37%
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: on the first day of early voting to 34% today.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: while the white electorate has increased from 50 to 52%.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: Georgia does not have partisan electorate, so we do not
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: know the party registration. We just know the race of
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: the voter. This shows a stronger black turnout than it
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: was in 2024, but numbers are increasing in favor of Republicans.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: Over in Florida, Republicans leading the early vote by 2.4%
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: after two days of early voting. This is a 24-point
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: swing in Democrats' favor from 2024. And lastly, in Texas,
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: there were 800,000 people early voting in the first two days.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: The electorate is D plus 8. It was R plus
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: 11 in 2022. That is a 19-point swing in Democrats' favor.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: So all that sounds like good news, except, and I
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: know that was just Ryan who was calling in there,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: sent us that voice text. All that sounds like it's
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: trending in a good way for Republicans. Now, I understand
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: they're behind in the early vote, but that's expected. That's
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: baked in. So what you can get from listening to
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: these early vote tallies is that Democrats... are at this
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: stage where there's an early vote. Less ahead. I got
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: texts from some of you yesterday. Real Americans vote on
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Election Day. Our side, we're very... Republicans, you're a little
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: get off my lawn on this one. I have to
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: say it. Election Day is one day. OK, that's fine,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: but hope you don't get a lot of snow in Michigan.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I hope you don't have some problem with the car.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: There's there's these issues that come up. And as I said,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: you allow the get out the vote efforts to do
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: better micro targeting of those less likely those low propensity
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: voters as you get closer and closer to Election Day.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: So you're actually helping out the team if you can
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: vote early, which is why, of course, Clay. I think
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Clay was probably the first person in the state of
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Tennessee practically to vote. And now he's all high stepping
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: around as Mr. Early Vote. But don't tell him I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: said this. He's got a point. It does actually make
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of sense to get in there early. I'm
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: going to get in this week for sure and vote.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: At least that's my plan. But you heard Ryan breaking
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: it down. The lead compared to 2022, which is the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: last midterm we could have data for in the early vote.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: The lead is considerably lower. Less than in those in
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: those places where we can actually start to look at
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the tally. That is, I think, encouraging. It's not proof.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: It's not OK. Everything is fine. But we'd much rather
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: that be the case than the alternative, which is some
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: blowout early lead, even more so in North Carolina or
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: even more so in Arizona or any any of these
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: places that we went through some of that early data.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: And I think the only one that, and he said
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: it at the end, that's got me a little, hold
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: on a second, is Texas. There really does seem to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: be some Talafrico situation here where people are excited about
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: this guy. And maybe it's just because there's been so
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: much press about how Talafrico can win. The guy disappeared,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: as we know, for 13 days. And now we're supposed
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: to think that, oh, he just had the flu and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: that was totally fine. It does strike me as possible
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: that Tallarico, in a way very similar to Kamala Harris,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: is better off doing minimal media because the more people
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: see him out there, the more they'll hear some of
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the stuff. But he's been moderating on some of these positions.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's meaning a change of heart. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: just think that he is sly enough to understand. You
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: probably don't want to tell voters at this stage of
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the game, God is non-binary and that the state should
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: be able to trans your kids if they come home
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: one day and say, I'm not a boy, I'm a girl.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: That's stuff that he's staying away from or he's saying
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: it's complicated in the past. So there we I I
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: still feel very confident in Texas, but I just wish
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: the numbers were a little bit different. And here's Tallarico,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: by the way, weighing in on data centers. This is 17.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Play this one. Elon wants our land.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: He's already trying to buy one of our beautiful state
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: parks down in South Texas. He wants our water for
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: these AI data centers. He wants our taxpayer funds, like
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: when he ran that crazy doge process. And he wants
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: his very own personal United States senator. And that's what
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: he thinks he can get with Ken Paxton.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, Texas is bigger than France. He wants our water.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: This one guy, this is such a classic example of
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: what I was talking about before. Texas, as you all
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: know who lived there, is a massive state with incredible resources,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: particularly oil, but incredible natural resources. And here you have
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: The most, I think you could say the most important,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: certainly conglomerate of companies, not including the chip companies like
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: TSMC in Taiwan and their role in the, they're right
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: up there too. But if you're looking at non-specific chip technology,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: or non-specific to the chip industry, Elon's constellation of companies,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: and there's talk now of a Tesla-SpaceX merger for an
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: a super mega company, the most important for productivity and
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: advancing humanity forward with technology of anything existing in the world,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: that Texas, a red state, is becoming, is really the
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: hub and the hometown, if you will, the home state
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: of those efforts. Democrats realize this is a huge problem
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: for them. They got very used to having Silicon Valley,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: the greatest wealth generation corridor in the United States, bigger
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: than wall street by a lot, uh, In terms of
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: individual fortunes, nobody has money like Silicon Valley money, especially
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: when you're talking now in the era of AI. These
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: guys are rich, crazy rich. Obviously, Elon's the richest single
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: guy in the world. But if you're looking at, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: he's also in a, he has XAI, right? I mean,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: he's involved in the AI race. I use Grok all
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the time. I think Grok is my favorite of the
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: AIs that exist, and I've used a bunch of them.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: But he's at, why is Tallarico attacking Elon Musk? Because
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: the politics of frustration translate very easily into the politics
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: of resentment. And Democrats play this cynical class warfare game
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: so well. Because here's the reality. Why is it hard
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: for you to, or for anyone, but why is it
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: hard to pay your bills right now? Government overspending, government regulation,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: government decision-making. This is the problem. The problem is the
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: government spends too much of your money, and it takes
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: too much of your money in taxation, and it slows
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: wealth creation through unnecessary regulation, especially when you get into
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: lunatic stuff like climate change legislation. Those are the problems,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: but that takes some thinking. That's complicated for some people
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: to get through or to believe that. The issue here
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: is for people who are having trouble paying their bills
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: or affording things, they.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Are being told it's because of this super rich guy.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: In fact, he wants to build these big, ugly, mean
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: data centers. Guys, you all know this. Texas is so big,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: you could have all the data centers in the United
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: States in Texas, and most people in Texas would never
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: even see, you know, won't even see them. You could
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: take one little piece of it. Now, I'm not saying that,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: you know, they have to be all out in the
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: middle of nowhere, but, like, there's going to be some
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: that are out in the middle of nowhere.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: And.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Elon's– look, I'm picking up a Tesla next week, so
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: obviously I'm bought into this is where the future is going.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: But for what matters for us for this election, saying
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: look at this super rich guy, why don't they ever
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: talk about Soros' son who's now funding all this stuff
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: and funding incredibly destructive NGOs and nonprofits and all this
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: left-wing DSA Paris-style undermine the state nonsense? Why– the Parisian riots.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Why is that? Oh, he's their billionaire. So he's good.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Reid Hoffman, he's their billionaire. So that's OK. He's not
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: the problem because he funds lunatic left wing causes. But
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Elon is doing incredible things with his companies and is
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: giving a lot of money to Republicans. That's the only
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: this guy is doing more. Think about this. Elon Musk,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you could argue, is doing more to address the climate
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: change issue, which is a non-issue. But just pretend like
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: it is an issue. than any other human being alive.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Do you hear Democrats ever talk about that? They don't
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: care because he gives money to Republicans, therefore he is
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the enemy. So even by their logic, if he's saving
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: the planet, it's not worth being nice to him and
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: encouraging what he's doing because more important that Republicans lose.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: A lot of Democrats, I think, really believe that. Even
• 33:13
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• 33:14
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  Speaker 7: More is coming up just the way you'd expect it.
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  Speaker 2: How about that? Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We
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  Speaker 2: have an appearance on the speed cam. For those of
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  Speaker 2: you who are YouTube subscribers, here he is. He wants
• 34:38
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• 34:43
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  Speaker 2: is my son, James Speed. and also known as Jimmy Speed. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the camera. We will take calls from some of you. Da-da.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Da-da.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's me. We will take Ron in Texas. Ron,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: talk to me. What's going on with our man Paxton?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: What? Hey, this afternoon, I wanted to see you. I
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: haven't been born yesterday, and here in Corpus, and I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: just wanted to put out the word to Texas who
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: are listening. You need to go out and vote for Paxson.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Stop Tom Rico. He's a fraud. He's a liar. He's
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: far out left. He thinks abortion is good because it's
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: never mentioned in the Bible, so we can't, you know,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: we can't, no restrictions at all on it. He wants
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: to open, he wants to close prisons. He wants to
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: open the border. These are things he's actually said.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: He's a nightmare for Texas, Ron. I totally agree. Texans
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: get out there and vote. Kevin in North Carolina, take
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: it away.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: Roy Cooper, the current Senate candidate, he became governor in
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: 2020 because of 75 million absentee ballots, 45 million in 24.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: We thank President Trump for coming here last night to
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: help out Michael Watley running for Senate.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Also, All the ballot.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Is a photo ID for absentee ballots, and we need
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: to vote for that amendment. All of those have to
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: do with North Carolina winning in the future.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Critical stuff.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: No, you go ahead.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: We've got 10 seconds, Kevin. Finish up.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: Tom Hanks, April May, demanded absentee ballots when he came
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: back from Australia. That's ruining us right now nationwide.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: North Carolina, get out there and vote. Everybody get out
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: there and vote. Hour two coming up. And speed says hi.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Speaking truth and having fun. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.