September 8, 2024 • 59 mins
Judge delays Trump’s NY criminal trial sentencing to after the election. RFK Jr. news. Trump vs. Kamala on the economy. Special guests Bernie Moreno and Corey Lewandowski.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is twenty four, a weekly highlight reel from the Clay,
Travis and Buck Sexton Show featuring all things election coverage.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's get started. Here are Clay and Bucks.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Reports just breaking literally right now that they have delayed
the Trump hush money New York City sentencing trial until
after the election.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Ah, there we go, And.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So I'm seeing that on multiple accounts. I haven't seen
a full article yet about this, but this is breaking
news right now. We're gonna get Dana Perino. That clip
that you're referencing is pretty fantastic. But this was scheduled
for September eighteenth. We just talked about it yesterday and again,
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breaking news just coming down. We'll get more details for you.
But this would mean all of the lawfare has blown
up in the Democrat Party's face on a level that
I think it was hard to even predict. What happened
dismissed in South Florida, probably never gonna happen in DC.
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Fanny Willis and her boyfriend Nathan Wade still hanging out
down in Atlanta. That case is on basically like Kick
to the Curb, but the New York City case, the
trumped up felonies based on bookkeeping.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Is now falling apart as well.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And but to me, Buck, what I take as a
notice on this and again this is just breaking news,
is that the polling must be disastrous on any law
fair related to Trump, and the Kamala team has let
it be known that they basically want all pencils down
on this because it's a mess for them.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think that if they sentenced Trump to prison now,
that doesn't mean he would start serving, right. We've discussed this.
If Merchan, though said you get a year in Rikers Island,
which you know could have been something along the lines
of what he faced, I don't know whatever it would
be for thirty four thirty fourth felonies. You've actually got
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to say it in stelter voice, thirty fourth Feladays, it
is absurd and everybody knows it. But Clay, I think they,
to your point, recognize what it delivered Trump the election,
to have a judge in New York City, with the
whole sham trial everything going on, to say a presidential
candidate should go to prison for a bookkeeping dispute, really,
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I mean, I don't even think anything was wrong with
any of this or a book keeping dispute internally where
there was no crime committed whatsoever. And even if there
was a crime, it's like a you know, jaywalking. I mean,
the thing is absurd. To say a president should go
to prison for that is just it's just nuts. It's
two nuts for them to pull it off. So I
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think the delay, I agree with you, is at least
in part by oh my gosh, would this have backfired
even more? Because I think the lawfair up to this
point in terms of the poling, I think it has
backfired that. I think they believe that the whole thing. Remember,
not only were they going to try to drag Biden
across the finish line.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Still a little sad about this, all right, it's still
a little a little raw.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It's a little little student for me because I really
did think they were gonna take Biden.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But Clay, a part of it was why did they
believe that they would be able to drag Biden across
the finish line even though he has dementia? And it's
because they thought the lawfair stuff would turn the country
against Trump in a substantial way. He's a convicted felon.
I have not met a single person who said.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He's a convicted felon. No, I don't like him.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
The only people who care about it hated Trump before.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's been again. The order just coming down as we
are talking to all of you. The delay is now
for sentencing and punishment scheduled for November twenty sixth of
twenty twenty four, So three weeks after election day is
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now when Trump would face some sort of legal consequence
according to Judge merchand he has posted his uh. He
has posted his ruling saying that he doesn't want to
get it, ironically, that he doesn't want to get involved
in the actual process of the case itself. And so
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November twenty sixth, I mean this is again. I will
just point out buck all of these left wingers who
have been dreaming of Trump getting Trump now four years,
they keep getting lucied with the Charlie Brown football like they're.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Like, we finally got him.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now he's gonna go to Rikers Island and he's gonna
and they just keep delaying. I think if he wins
on November twenty sixth, meeting Trump wins the election on
November twent twenty six I think that they will do
some sort of very petty punishment and I think the
law fair is going to be regarded as one of
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the most disastrous own goals in the history of presidential politics,
because I think it has rallied Trump supporters. I think
it may well propel Trump into the White House. And
if you questioned whether that was true or not, do
you have any doubt at all, Buck that if they
thought it was beneficial on September eighteenth to do something
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to Trump, they would have done it. They realized it's
politically suicidal to make this decision, and so they bumped
it to after the trial.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Just also looking at the election.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, after the narrative, the narrative shifts that have occurred here,
no one even mentions anymore that Donald Trump took a
bullet through the ear while campaigning in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Correct, Like this is you know he's running.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
This is a man who took a bullet to run
for running against Kamala Harris was.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I don't know, has never sacrificed anything for anybody that
I've ever seen, other than just trying to advance Kamala's
political prospects. Like we're just the sense of destiny and
history and everything else that you would expect for a
presidential candidate who has been through.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How many total trials?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I know it's for criminal, but is it six? With
it there's two civil right? I can't keep it all least.
I think you're right. I think it's six different major
legal proceedings. And that doesn't even include Buck all of
the people surrounding Trump who have also been including it
was an Alan Weiselberg for not reporting that he got
a car. It went to prison. I mean, look, it's
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it's really affected a lot of people, including me, how
we think about trying to live in New York City
as a conservative. I mean, they're going to throw you,
and they're going to throw a senior citizen accountant in
prison for you know, a lot of people don't even
know that you would have I know he's an account
so he would probably know, but a lot of people
wouldn't even know that you're supposed to do that a
list on your taxes. I had use of a company
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car like this is mickey mouse stuff. They sent him
to prison for that. They didn't say you have to
pay a fine, so you have to take this stuff
into account. But I just think the fact that Trump
is up against Commlin when you see what has been
thrown in his way, really starting with the raid on
mar A Lago, which, oh, it's worth noting that whole
case has been just thrown out by the federal judge.
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So the raid that kicked off the law there, that
case is caput right now, that case is donezo. And
you had four criminal cases. You've had six major legal
proceedings all meant to get Trump ready, the Egen Carroll defamation.
You had the Trump corporation stuff, the civil stuff, the
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Letitia James in New York. You had the four criminal trials.
The guy took a bullet and just barely survived. It
was a miracle that he survived. And there's still people
who are like, yeah, I think I might vote for
Kamala Harris. I just see here, I'm like, what what
world are we living in? I mean, on the one side,
you've got the you've got a story of like, uh,
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you know, just the the Tasks of Hercules or something,
and then it's just like Kamala Harris, Yeah, let's give
it to her.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She's the nominee, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It's just there's there's no comparison in terms of the
gravity and the seriousness between these two political figures.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And again that is why I think you're starting to
see a panic. If Trump can just stay between the
lines on Tuesday and not be the worst version of
himself from a independent voter perspective, which we saw in
the first debate against Joe Biden, then Kamala's campaign is
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going to go up and smoke. I think there are
embers right now. There are do you want to play.
We'll play when we come back. When you get Dana Perino,
who is maybe the nicest person on television in America,
would you get her fired up? And she fullays you,
(09:08):
I mean you are just not ready for prime time
in any respect. This is Kamala Harris's spokesperson. We'll play
that for you. I think you were about to call
for it until this great news time you would have
a time. Let's do it here.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yes, just Dana Perino with the campaign Na Kamala campaign
spokesperson hit it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
They haven't heard from her ian. I know that she
did the speech in New Hampshire. But the President Trump,
for all the interviews that he's on, he's willing to
take questions everything. Is it a risk to put all
your chips on one debate when she hasn't really been
able to do any sort of Q and A with
anybody except for in debate prep.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Well, i'd reject that she sat down with Dana Bash
for a long interview on CNN that aired.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
One interview in forty seven days.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Well, you know, I know, you guys are just now
paying attention to her now that she's the presidential candidate.
But she's done about ninety interviews this year, is the
vice president, and people maybe weren't paying attention or listening.
She's taken questions from reporters on the campaign trail so
far in this campaign, people who are covering her every
single day. She's going to be more interviews and come
on press Moore and take more reporter questions. Of course
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she's gonna do that over the course of this campaign.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Look, Dana's brand to what, to the degree I can
speak to it is she's you know, she's honest and
fair and very nice. Yes, and you know she's here
is being a very nice person. That's just that's I mean,
I've met her, you know, and a lot of people
know her. She's a very nice person, good journalist. I
don't mean she's too nice. I just mean, you know,
she's very polite to guess and she's just like, come on, dude,
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come on, dude. Oh, she's done a lot of interviews
as the vice president, so that's the same thing as
running in a presidential campaign.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
This is absurd and bragging that she set down for
a long interview with the Dana Bash a long interview.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, I think it was like eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I just they are terrified of what might happen for her,
and man, I really that we did truly have an
adversarial media. Give jd Vance an example. The guy will
sit down and talk to CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, all
the people that are going to come after him. I really,
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legitimately desperately have some wish that on the debate itself,
they would actually confront Kamala with all of the flip
flopping and try to hold her feet to the fire.
And I hope Trump will ask questions of her. I
know you're not technically supposed to, but for me, Trump
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pointing out that she supports reparations and now wants to
build a border wall, he could turn to her and say, Kamala,
why don't you endorse me now that you are coming
along with me on wanting to build a.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Border wall, I gotta tell you something.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And I know that we've been talking about this, and
I've agreed with you, Clay up to this point, that
both camps will come away and say that you know
their side wanted, and yeah, that will happen. I actually
think Kamala's gonna get pretty badly. She's It's not gonna
be a knockout, but this, this would be a this
would be a unanimous decision by the judges, if the
judges were on on well, we know we.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Got the rig judge system, so we know that they'll
have a poll and Kamala will win, probably on CNN
and things like that, of course.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
But but but it's gonna she's she's gonna lose momentum.
I I think she's gonna get her butt kicked up there.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I don't think it's gonna be because and I couldn't
say that for all of the Biden debate.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I mean, it's just not wasn't Trump's best showing. I
said it at the time. I think he's gonna it's
gonna be a butt kicking up there. I really think so,
the more I've really been thinking about it, she is
so weak. I mean, it's having Tim wall It's like
it's like an emotional support.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Blank And I agree. It's super weird. And and by
the way, Tim Walls is dumber than she is. We're
making fun of Kamala. Tim Wallas hasn't set for an interview.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I gotta tell you so.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And then also, I know that we've been saying that
Kamala not picking Shapiro. I don't think Shapiro wanted to
be on this ticket. I think he wants to run
his own campaign and I think he thinks that Kamala
is going to lose. You'll never get that confirmed anywhere, right,
because he's not going to say that.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I think he's too sharp though a guy, to want
to attach himself to be Kamala's VP when he gets
to run his own deal in the next cycle. I
think if he thinks Kamala's going to lose, which I
think he does.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, and he would have good access to polling in Pennsylvania, right, yes,
big time.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So I think I think that matters.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You're listening to twenty four the Year of Impact with
Clay and Buck.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Got some breaking news for you on this lovely Friday.
RFK Junior is getting some points, giving him some points
from the Buckster. He has his The Supreme Court in
the state of North Carolina. Clay just told me has
agreed that RFK Junior's name must be removed from the
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ballot as per his request. So, okay, he's off in
North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
If it doesn't end up getting to going to another court.
The Court of Appeals so far has done it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I imagine, and this is important, Buck that the Biden
team Harris team is going to immediately appeal and demand
that RFK Junior's name stay on the ballot in North
Carolina because they think it hurts Trump.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Look, I RFK Junior endorsed Trump, which I was very
happy about, and all along I've been saying that that's
what he should do. I also think he should have waited. Rather,
he shouldn't have waited so long to do it, and
shouldn't have stayed in so long, because now we have
this problem if he gets off all the ballots and
all the key swing states left. Great, Okay, welcome to
the party, RFK Junior. But it's not a good thing
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for Trump if he stays on in those states. That
is just a reality, and it's a misstep. Perhaps RFK Junior,
I'm sure doesn't want it to be that way, but
this is the concern that some of us have had
all along of running what is effectively a vanity campaign.
That's when when you get so deep into the election,
it's a vanity campaign.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And in Michigan and Wisconsin in particular, the Kamala Harris
campaign is trying to insist after months of wanting RFK
Junior off the ballot, they now are trying to insist
that he cannot pull his name off the ballot.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
If Kamala Harris can be four banning straws, then against it,
four reparations, then against it the Democrat Party, certainly Clay
can be four RFK Junior on the ballot, or rather
against RFK Junior on the ballot, and now for it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And by the way, that data is the reason why
it matters in North Carolina right now is today was
scheduled to be the day that ballots were first sent
out in North Carolina, and they would have RFK Junior's
name on them. So this is a major legal dispute
given the fact that North Carolina is a battleground state.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You're listening to twenty four the most importantier in politics
with Clay Travis ad bock Sexton.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Donald Trump, as we mentioned, speaking in New York laying
out some aspects of his economic agenda. We've had our
crew rolling on that. I want to just play several
of the cuts as Trump is focused on the economy today.
Let me also tell you as we roll into our
two here, we've got a bunch of guests scheduled for you.
Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee going to be on at
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one thirty eastern with us Julie Kelly from d C.
Toway in on Hunter Biden playing guilty, but also the
Judge Chutkin hearing in the Jack Smith d C. Jan
sixth related case. She was in that courtroom in DC.
We'll talk about it, and then we're going to go
down to Israel. Out to Israel wherever you may be
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at two thirty eastern for the absolute latest there with
Jeff Tigs that is on the horizon of where we're going.
But let me hit you with some of these clips
that Trump has laid out as part of the economic
speech that he is giving right now.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
In New York.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Let's start with Cut twenty five. Trump large big picture.
What's the goal of his economic plan.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
My plan will rapidly defeat inflation, quickly bring down prices,
and reignite explosive economic growth. Kamala Harris will take more
money out of American pockets. My plan will leave the
typical family with many thousands of dollars more than they
have right now. First, I will end Kamala Harris's anti
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energy crusade and implement a policy of energy abundance, energy independence,
and even energy dominance. We have more liquid gold under
our feet than any other country, including Russia and Saudi Arabia,
will be using it. My plan will cut energy prices
in half or more than that within twelve months.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So that's cut twenty five. He specifically says he's going
to terminate the Green New Deal. That is Cut twenty six,
and then a couple of more clips I'll call for.
But here is I'm doing away with the Green New
Deal once and for all. This is Trump today in
New York.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
To further defeed inflation. My plan will terminate the Green
New Deal, which I call the Green new scam, greatest
scam in history, probably a ten trillion dollar scam that
we waste. We throw it like throwing money right out
the window. It actually sets us back, as opposed to
it moves us forward, and we send all unspent funds
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under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, which the Democrats agreed
after it was approved that it wasn't for that purpose,
it was for other purposes like giveaways.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Okay, buck, I love this idea. Elon Musk, who has
endorsed Trump and become very active. I saw Elon Musk
tweet that he thinks this is the most important election
because when it comes to the free speech, if Kamal
is put into office, the amount of restrictions we will
see in the United States will be substantial. Trump says
he wants Elon Musk to be the head of the
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Government Efficiency Commission. That's certainly a redundancy given most government agencies.
Here's what he said about Elon.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
That the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me
his complete and total endorsement.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That's nice, smart guy.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
He knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing.
Very much appreciated. I will create a Government Efficiency Commission
task with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of
the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms
we need to do. It can't go on the way
we are now. And Elon, because he's not very busy,
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has agreed to hit that task force. Be interesting if
he has the time, have be a good one to
do it, but he's agreed to do it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So these are economic policies. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't they fire, meaning Elon
Musk seventy or eighty percent of Twitter employees and now
it's X And I mean I would argue that the
site is better than it's ever been with more upside.
I know they're trying to tell you, oh, all the
share values been lost. Yeah, well he had to cut
it down. He had to basically tear it down to
the studs and the foundation and rebuild just on the
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site where Twitter had formerly been in a lot of ways.
But I think he's done a phenomenal job with it.
And more importantly the reality of Twitter was that it
had become a left wing social justice organization incubated inside
of a tech company, and then it took over right.
The relationship perhaps at first was a parasite, and then
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it was symbiotic, and then it was dominance. And I
think that you see this unfortunately in the federal government too.
I worked in the federal government. The truth is that
a vast majority I don't want I know in the
Hillary election, I think it was something like five percent
of federal government employees donated to Hillary over Trump, right,
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something something astonishingly high. And you just say, why is that? Well,
because there are a lot of people work in the
federal government who inherently believe in the system, but they
also want to be self paced in their work output
unfirable and not really subject to, you know, the ups
and downs of the real economy and things like that.
And again, I was a federal govern employee. I know
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about this attitude and and it's one of the reasons
I left the federal government and lasted that long. And Clay,
I think that Elon could do an incredible job, because
that's when people talk about the swamp. The federal bureaucracy
is in many ways the worst part of it, because
it's the forever state, and it's the ungovernment, it's the
unaccountable governance branch that the founding fathers certainly.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Didn't see it this way. Why has it become what
it is? Why is it this Leviathan?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I think you could fire fifty or seventy five percent
of all federal government employees and the actual government efficiency
would not change at all. And I suspect that Elon
Musk knows that now they have union protections, it's very
hard to fire people unfortunately inside of the government, even
when they are behaving inappropriately and engaging in fireable offenses.
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But I think our government would be far better off
if we could just come in with a and wipe
out half of all federal government employees.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I mean, even the Pentagon. You know, I read Elon's
most recent biography, you know, that was the Isaacson one
that came out. I thought it was very good, and
you know, by getting involved in the aerospace, effectively sending
rockets into outer space industry, he came up against the
reality of aerospace and defense with the federal government, which.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Are these.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
They called a what is it a plus plus margin
contract or it's essentially a plus expense plus cost cost plus.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Cost plus contract. Where you got to just run up
all your costs as long as you want, get fully
reimbursed for all your costs, and then get like a
twenty percent profit on top of that. That's how people
wonder why we're not doing any cool stuff in space
and why a private company had to come along. That
is true throughout the federal government. You want to talk
about fraud, waste, and abuse, I think they think something
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like sixty billion dollars a year and Medicaid fraud occurs.
Think of it sixty billion.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Now, Look to me, the most impressive thing Elon has
done is Tesla is an amazing company that has been
very successful, and he redesigned the way that we power vehicles.
He's better at sending rockets to space than NASA, and
NASA had a seventy year head.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Start on him. I mean, it really is extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I mean, we're have we can't get I'm surprised this
hasn't gotten a bigger story. Have you paid attention? There
are two astronauts stuck in space right now. We cannot
get them back. They were supposed to, I believe, go
for eight days and instead they're going to be there
for eight months. This is real, not a lot to
talk about it. We're having to use SpaceX to get
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them back. Our government can't get our astronauts back right now.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Our government has to go to Elon and say.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Excuse me, Elon, can you help us. That's where Uncle
Sam is these days.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Think about how crazy that is.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
We sent two astronauts to space and our government doesn't
have the capabilities to get them back. We have to
get them back with Elon Musk. One more thing, by
the way, speaking of efficiency, I do think this is important,
and to me again, First Amendment is the most important
issue at stake here because without those freedoms, we have
no freedoms. But I do think Trump understands basic economics
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in a way that Kamala does not. And that makes
sense because Trump was a builder. He had to get
so many things. You try to build anything in New York,
the amount of process that you have to go through
is mind numbing. But he wants to die pile back
regulations surrounding corporations, but also corporate tax rate here is
cut twenty eight. He wants to bring the corporate tax
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rate for companies that are producing goods in America down
to fifteen percent. Listen to this discussion from New York today.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
To further support the revival of American manufacturing, my plan
calls for expanded R and D tax credits, one hundred
percent bonus appreciation expensing for new manufacturing investments, and a
reduction in the corporate tax rate from twenty one percent
to fifteen percent, solely for companies that make their product
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in America. You have to make your product in America.
If you outsource offshore or replace American workers, you are
not eligible for any of these benefits. In fact, you
will pay a very substantial tariff. When a product comes
in from another country, that's made in another country and
comes in, there'll be a big tariff on that product.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
So these are good moves. Again, go back to pre
COVID America. We had the lowest rate of inflation almost
out there at all. We had wages outpacing the cost
of goods, we had mortgages. A lot of you out
there certainly would like to go back to these days
in the two and three quarter percent three percent range.
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And the American economy had never been stronger in the
history of the United States. Because Trump's economic policies were
working and starting to fire on all cylinders, and then
China had a virus that they created in a lab
that got out and essentially shut down the world. And
I believe put Joe Biden in office because whatever rig
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job they had tried to put in place in the
fall of twenty twenty, if COVID doesn't happen, Trump walks
away with that race. Even when they're trying to rig it,
they managed to scare enough people because of COVID to
put Biden in office. A lot of those people, frankly,
some of you are listening to us right now because
you regret how you voted in twenty twenty. And now
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I think they're starting to panic a bit because Kamala
still not talking. I was reading just during commercial break
book a left wing advisor, somebody who's on pod Save
America was complaining because Trump's doing all these podcasts that
appeal to young men, and he's saying that media is
not giving enough scrutiny to those interviews that Trump is
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doing with the Theo Vaughns of the world, the Aiden
Rosses of the world. People, if you have kids or
grandkids who are boys that these guys are speaking to,
and Nate Silver responded, you know one thing Kamala could
do is actually do her own interviews as opposed to
expecting the media to attack Trump for doing his. And
we mentioned in August, Trump and Jade Vance did thirty
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four national interviews. I think two of them were on
this program. Kamala didn't one with CNN. It's really kind
of crazy to think about.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
And with Tim Walls there.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
She didn't even just do one.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
She could run with her with her security blanket next
to her. You know, oh Tim Wallas is here, Midwesterners,
you can trust me. All things is.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
If you imagine if Trump was not doing any interviews
at all, and he did one in August and it
was with Fox News, how much they would be losing
their mind if Kamala was doing thirty four interviews.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
It's tough to even get worked up about it for McLay,
just because everybody, we all just know what this is, right,
We get the game. We all have the expectation that
people who say they're journalists and they don't have a
dog in this fight are lying. Okay, we all know that,
So ABC, NBCCBS CNN, MSNBC. Look, Fox is a is
a conservative or pro Trump leaning network. There are some
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people that actually don't like Trump at all, but in general,
but everyone knows that it leans right and no one
no one sits around being like Fox has no opinion. No,
they have a Indian shows on at night. They'd present
some shows as news. I mean, I think Brett Behar's
show is quite honestly as fair as any news show
you could find. I don't think it's they present a panel.
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The panelists are Republican and Democrats. Nobody on that panel
is dumb. No one's a clay pigeon, right, They're civil
to I've done that panel many times in the past.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They're civil to each other.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Anyway. I'm just saying, like we're really getting into this.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I would say Martha McCollum is too, and that's who
Trump wanted to do the Martha McCallum and Brett Bayr
are both to me very fair.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I mean, CNN did a fair job in the Biden
Trump debate. I think it was in part because I
think CNN had people that wanted Biden out. But they
were fair in that debate, and we said so at
the time. But I mean, you look at their programming
and they're putting people on at seven o'clock, eight o'clock,
nine o'clock as objective news, and they're just pundits who
aren't very entertaining, right, I mean, they're just pundits without
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their own thoughts who have to read off of a prompter.
So that's all the reality. I will also say though,
in the thank you buck for being calm, thank you
for not panicking. JD Vance is doing a phenomenal job,
all right. They unlaunched a coordinated media. Oh he doesn't
like cat ladies or whatever. JD is a very high
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wattage guy who is a prime example of the American
dream working.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
As it should, which is that if you.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Take your lumps, but you focus, you kick ass, and
you build something, you can be somebody that people look
up to and that has really made something of himself.
That's the whole game that we thought we were in.
So and you see, to your point, Clay, this is
what got me thinking about it in the media interviews.
JD can handle any of this.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Stuff, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You see, he's like putting on policy clinics whenever he
sits down, and he's got a compelling life story.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You're listening to twenty four the Year of Impact with
Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
We are joined now by Bernie Marino, who is probably
fired up about the Ohio State buck Eyes, and certainly
I is fired up about the Cleveland Browns and the
Cincinnati Bengals both returning to the grid iron this week
as the NFL is returning to action. But Bernie, I
want to like lead in with this aspect of things.
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Everyone in Ohio who is listening to me right now,
and at some point this season, we have been number
one in Columbus, we have been number one in Cincinnati,
and we have been number one in Cleveland. So every
major media market in Ohio, you guys love this show.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
We love you.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And in Ohio, you don't just have the opportunity to
cheer for the buck Eyes, the Browns and the Bengals.
You have the opportunity to deliver the United States Senate
to the Republican Party by voting for the man who
is on with us right now, Bernie Marino. It's a
big election in Ohio, but it's also a big election
in the nation. Ohio has the opportunity to flip the
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Senate to control of Republican Party hands and Bernie, I
bet you're seeing some good numbers out there as we
sit sixty two days from election day.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Yeah. Absolutely. First of all, thank you for having me
again on the show. I love being on. And let
me just reinforce that on November fifth, our polls close
at seven thirty pm, and I'm hoping within an hour
of that period of time, you'll see Brett Baer, because
nobody's gonna be watching CNN, We'll be watching Box Nude
comes up and says, we can now say that the
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Republicans controlled the United States Senate because Bernie Marino defeated
career politician Shared Brown. So the entire world will breathe
a little collective sigh of relief knowing that we at
least got the Senate in our hands.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Hey, Bernie Bock, appreciate you being with us. Just let
everybody know. I mean, I'll set the stage here for
one second. When we were out of Wisconsin for the
RNC and talking to some Wisconsin Republicans, and they also
brought Michigan into the conversation. Talk to the Michigan Republicans
that they said that the way that Democrats win in
those states is essentially pretending they're not Democrats when they're
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talking to Wisconsinites or Michiganders and then going along with
whatever Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, et cetera wants. Right,
what is the dynastic Is it a similar dynamic in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
With uh with Brown?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I mean, how is it because Ohio is pretty solid
red right, why is it competitive there?
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Well, I'll simplify it from that. They're bold face flyers,
so share Brown, which is lie and lie and lie
at TV commercials. The media, of course goes along with it,
and he gets re elected. And then he goes to Washington,
d C. For five years, acts like crazy Bernie Sanders
and Elizabeth Warren combined and votes in the most radical
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left wing way. And then it comes back to Ohio, says,
remember me on the moderate, on the bipartisan guy, I
want a secure border, I want energy independence. You know,
these guys cannot run on the policies that they actually
vote for because they would lose seventy thirty. So they
have to spend a year, with the media's help, lying
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to the people of Ohio. We're not gonna let them
get away with it this cycle. We're going to make
certain that we expose him for the radical leftist that
he is, by the way, there's a guy who went
to college when Richard Dixon was in the White House,
by the way, and majored in Russian study, so he
knows a thing or two about socialists in lying Bernie.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
If you look at the state of Ohio, we know
the statewide, you want as many people voting as possible.
But is there a particular area of Ohio that, to
you in this Senate race is the swing area. If
you win that area, you know that you will be
the next Senator from Ohio. Where in particular is the
area that decides this race.
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Probably Northeast Ohio because Cuyahoga County is the biggest county
in Ohio in terms of population. There's a lot of
Republican voters up here. I had a lot more Democrats.
So in the previous cycle in twenty eighteen, Sharon Brown
was able to win that county by fifty points. We
won't let them get anywhere near that number. I employed
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thousands of people here. My companies were rated the best
place to work in Northeast Ohio. I had twelve dealerships
up here, my tech companies here, which is where I live.
Most people don't see Sharon Brown as a guy who's
more of a creature of DC, except of course, again
during election cycle. So I think we'll be very competitive
in Cuyahoga, in the Mahoning Valley, places like Youngstown, where
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you've seen thousands, tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs leave
the area under his watch. We saw a plant there
in Lordstown that got closed under share Brown's watch. We've
seen our steel industry decline under share Brown's watch. Other's
second tired of the empty promises of these career politicians
that know what to say to get elected but then
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do totally different things when they're where they're in office.
So that Northeast quarter is really important.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
How do you think? I mean, I think one one
aspect of your race that is going to get a
lot of attention or is getting a lot of attention,
is not only possible Senate control, but also Ohio with
JD Vance as the VP on the ticket, and then
Tim Walls Minnesota. The middle of the country battle, like
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the battle for those middle of the road, middle of
the country voters that will play out in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
really western Pennsylvania mostly, and then Michigan, Wisconsin. I mean,
what are the core issues and what do you think
the deciding factor will be for that swath of the
electorate that is likely to determine your race as well
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as the presidential election.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
Well, let me just say Tim Walls is not somebody
who represents Midwest values at all, so let's take him
out of the equation. But the reason these states matter
so much is because this is the core issue of
this race. Look in nineteen forty nine, six of the
wealthiest fourteen cities in the United States of America, we're
in Ohio. The wealthiest city in the country was Detroit, Michigan. Why,
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because we've made things here in America. You could go
to high school, go to work right away, and live
a good upper middle class or middle class life where
you can afford a home, afford a car, raise kids
in this good community with good schools and elected leaders.
Let's just face it, from both parties for twenty or
thirty or forty years, destroyed that version of the American
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green shipped our jobs in China and Mexico. And we're
going to get that back. We're going to get energy
dominance back here. We're going to make things that we
can make here in America. We're going to support this
idea of a strong vibrant middle class. This is what
our party is now fully centered on doing. Give huge
credit to President Trump for re orienting the party in
that way.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Yesterday I was in West Virginia. West Virginia is going
to vote to put a Republican in the Senate. Joe
Manchi is on his way out. We know that in Ohio,
which is going to be a red state, President Trump
is going to win it. In Montana, which is going
to be a red state, President Trump is going to
win it. Two potential seats to flip. They are spending
money like crazy against you, But I saw Guy Benson
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put up a poll internally that shows you leading right
now in Ohio. Are you comfortable with how this race
is going right now? Do you have enough money? What
would you tell our audience out there again? Number one
in Columbus, number one in Cincinnati, number one in Cleveland,
have the ability to deliver this state for you that
you need from them down the stretch run here.
Speaker 8 (38:38):
You can't vote for President Trump as share Brown. If
you give President Trump's share Brown, what's he going to do?
He's probably going to make it to the Chuck Chumer
is a majority leader. It means they're going to peach
him again to block every one of his agenda items.
They'll not allow him to put the proper people in
the cabinet. So if you're out there, you're gonna support
President Trump, you like President Trump's, you've got to vote
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for Bernie Marino to the United States Senates. That's message
number one, turns of message number two. We feel really
good about where we stand in the polls. That one
percent plus that you talked about was before our advertising campaign.
And let me just say it this way. We opened
a can of whoop pass on him on TV about
a week and a half ago. So we're going to
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actually have more messaging on TV than year Brown will have.
We're not unlike him. We're not going to make it
about personal tax and personal insult that's all he's got
on me. We're going to make it about his voting record,
his track record, and the fact that he's over stated
is welcome. Fifty years as an elected official never having
had a job in the private sector is way too long.
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We're going to get rid of them. We're going to
retire them. We're going to win. But everybody out there
know this. You can vote on October eighth. Please go
vote early. It allows us to know whose voters who's not.
He saves us a ton of money. And by the way,
if you never want to get another text message or
email from me, then go vote early. Will stop communicating
with the ipronis Well.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I'm just wondering.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
One area where there's clearly going to be some real
political impact in this cycle is on the illegal immigration crisis.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
It is.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
It is hilarious, Bernie. I'm sure you've seen this. I
know you're very busy, but we turn on some of
the national Democrat media, they're like, oh my gosh, Kamala
Harris and Joe Biden are just shocked at all the
illegals that have come in recent years, and they're working
so hard to stop it. Where's your where's your opponent?
Girod Brown on this.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
Well, first of all, as you know, I'm a legal
immigrant to this country. I find it disgusting that this
country keeps rewarding people who skip the line, break our rules,
refuse to learn the language, don't assimilate, and are here
to have handouts. It's totally against what immigration is supposed
to be in this country. Where's shere? Brown? Share Brown's
voted against every single border measure that President Trump put forward.
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He said the wall was stupid, the wall was racist.
He said that there's no problem with the border. That
is a made up right wing conspiracy theory. How many
times have we heard those words now? Of course, he
hides behind this supposed bipartisan bill which would have allowed
five thousand illegal crossings a day, so almost a million
and a half people to break our laws and break
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into our home, which is exactly one point five million
too many. We should have a zero tolerance policy for
illegal immigration. And by the way, Sheer Brown and Kamala
Harris believe that the people who did break into our
country that are here illegally should be allowed to be
United States citizens. I think we got to deport them
if they're in this country illegally, because again, that's common sense.
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If I broke into your home, you wouldn't allow me
to stay, and you certainly wouldn't let me take better
care of me than the people who live in your home.
So this is common sense. The Democrats like to make
this about being xenophobic and racist. I can tell you,
as a legal immigrant to every American citizen living listening
to this who was born here. Stop rewarding people who
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break our immigration laws to come here. It's infuriating for
us that had to follow the process to watch America
do that. It's going to stop next year.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
How are you looking with the Latino community in your
home state, Bernie? And also, how do you think Trump's
going to do nationally with the Latino vote?
Speaker 8 (42:20):
You're coated Mumbian and in Ohio and Ohio? Uh in what?
Speaker 10 (42:29):
Please?
Speaker 8 (42:30):
Fine?
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Sounds good to me? Oh, that's great, Bertie, Bernie, We're gonna.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Win the Hispanic vote. We're gonna win the Hispanic vote
because look, Hispanics care about family, they care about community.
We've seen what happened in Venezuela. And let me just
tell you something again, for Americans that inherited this country
through birth, whether it's your grandfather, grandfather, great grandfather, or whatever,
do not allow these leftist lunatics to turn this country
in Venezuela. Please, I'm pleading with you. My family came
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here for the America that we understand to be the country.
This country can easily turn into Venezuela this election. You
put Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz. With a Democrat majority
in the Senate House, one generation, this country becomes Venezuela Bernie.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
A couple of things here, I think that you just
hammered home that are significant. I want you to hammer
him home again. One the importance of going out and
voting early. We are telling everybody in this audience get
your vote in. Buck and I are both going to
go vote, vote early. But I want you to lay
out specifically how that can help in Ohio. Second thing,
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you said, you cannot have split voters. People can't vote Trump,
which they're gonna do by ten and also vote for
Sharad Brown. Brown called Trump a racist. He said Trump's
a racist. Now he's trying to to say, oh, I'll
work with Trump. If you are voting Trump, you have
to vote Marino, and you need to go vote early.
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But explain again in detail why that can help you
so much at being able to win and flip control
of the Senate.
Speaker 8 (44:04):
Absolutely so. If you think about the last four weeks
of the selection like a football game, it's four quarters.
It's four weeks of early voting. So we don't know
how people voted, but we know that they're Republican inclined
to vote. So we see that people are voting early,
we don't have to chase you. We don't have to
send you emails or text messages, we don't have to
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go knock on your door. We know that one county
is doing well but another county is not, so we
can put resources and we can end each quarter saying, okay,
for the first week of early voting, what's the score,
Then the second week, the third week, and the final week.
If we don't have people Republicans go out there and
vote early in mass then we have to communicate with
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the entire population of voters consistently for four weeks, and
it's very, very expensive. So it allows us to shift
our resources. Look, can you imagine playing a football game
and you couldn't watch the score until the game was over,
And that's insane. So we have to make certain that
people go out there and vote early. It's very easy
to do it in Ohio. And on top of that,
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you never know what's going to happen November fifth, by
the way, we could have a snowstorm, we could have
a blizzard, we could have a power outage. We don't know.
Banks that vote get it done. This is the easiest
election to do that because it's not confusing. You are
not confused out there if you're thinking that you're going
to vote for President Trump or Kamala Harris, because that's
not a hard decision. And like you just said earlier, look,
Sharon Brown, we don't have to wonder what he will do.
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We just look at what he did when he was
in office as a senator from Ohio President Trump was
in the White House. He fought President trumpet every step
of the way and every major vote that mattered. Let's
not let him do that again.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Amen, Bernie Marino, next senator from the state of Ohio,
he's going to flip control to the Republican Party. Bernie,
We appreciate the time. Keep the sprint going.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
My man, you got it.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
You're listening to twenty four The Most Important Tier in
Politics with Clay Travis at Buck Sexton.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Corey Lewandowski is with us Trump twenty twenty four senior
campaign official, a veteran of the Trump Wars politically speaking,
Good to have you back, Corey, Thanks for being on
the show.
Speaker 10 (46:16):
Well, it's a pleasure, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Look, let's just get Let's just give you the ball
that you're rum with it. Here you have the connectivity
and the perspective to see how it's looking for Trump
in a way that everybody wants to hear. I mean,
we can just sort of start by honing in on
some of the battlet ground states. How's the campaign, how's
the ground game, how are we looking.
Speaker 10 (46:39):
Let me give your listeners some historical perspective of this,
and I'll just go back four years of where the
campaign was on this day in twenty twenty. On the
Real Clear Politics average. In twenty twenty, we were down
seven points to Joe Biden. Today Rasmusen has us up
four points. But let's go to the big states, the
states that are going to matter where this election is
going to be decided, first and foremost. In Arizona, on
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this day four years ago, we were down five points
for Joe Biden. Today, according to Real Clear Politics, we're
up five point five for a net swing of ten
and a half points. When you look at where we
are in the battleground state of Michigan four years ago,
down three point three to Biden, today, we're up two
point two for a net swing of five point five.
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And then let me just go down to Pennsylvania. We
were down three to six, we're now are up three
to one for a net swing of six point seven.
And lastly, Wisconsin, Wisconsin today, four years ago we were
down four point four points. Today we're up three point
zero and the real Clare average for a net of
seven point four point swing. All of that is to
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say we are in the strongest position Donald Trump has
ever been in his life to seek this reelection and
have victory in November. Absolutely no question.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Corey Kamala Harris's campaigning in New Hampshire today, I told
our audience we started the show, look at where Kamala
is going.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
It will tell you how she sees the race.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Is it to you a sign of nervousness that Kamala
is in New Hampshire and in Virginia, two states that
Biden won comfortably in twenty twenty one? New Hampshire by
seventy won Virginia by ten. Doesn't that kind of indicate
to all of us what her internal polling is showing?
Speaker 10 (48:26):
Oh, it absolutely does. Look, you know, we've got public
polling that shows that the state of Virginia is a
three point race. Right now, We've got public polling that
shows that New Hampshire is dead. Even she is afraid
because if she loses the four electoral votes in New
Hampshire and the electoral votes in Virginia, she has no path.
Where is Donald Trump recently and where is he today? Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona,
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North Carolina, Rinse and repeat why, because that's where this
race is going to be won and lost. When you
look at the battleground states, my home state of New Hampshire,
We're going to continue to ask people on the ground.
There a strong presence. I will always advocate for the
president to go up and see those people. But Kamala Harris,
her first campaign stops of this election cycle are in
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a state like New Hampshire. It tells you everything you
need to know that she is so concerned that she's
going to lose that state that she's putting her first
campaign stops there. And look, I think it's very possible
she does lose. Donald Trump lost the state of New
Hampshire in twenty sixteen by about twenty seven hundred votes.
And now the people know what's at stake, and they
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know that his record will bring them economic prosperity, safety
and security, and an opportunity for everybody in that grantite
state to have a better future.
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Speaking of Corey Lewandowski, senior campaign advisor for Trump twenty
twenty four, Corey, to that end, on the economic side
of things, what is the primary messaging that the campaign
as running in these particularly in the swing states, on
what the Trump economy would do? And also, how is
the Trump campaign defining the Kamala economy? Because I don't
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think that the Kamala campaign knows really, But so how's
that going?
Speaker 10 (50:15):
Well, it's very simple, right, Donald Trump has a record
while he was in office of passing the largest tax
cut in American history. And what's amazing, and your listener
should be aware of this is Donald Trump and Kamala
Harris have actually never met. And the reason for that
is because she was so ineffective as a US Senator
that she wasn't part of any of these bipartisan negotiations
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to help provide economic release to the American people. So
where are we right now? We know that the you
know what they used to call bidnomics she's walking away from.
She's no longer supporting that because of the devastation has
entailed and told on the American families. It doesn't matter
if you are rich or poor, black or white, green,
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or it doesn't matter. You are feeling the crunch of
the Biden Harris Walls administration, which is more money to
put food on your plate, is more money to put
gas in your car. It is more money to make
sure your kids have the school supplies that they need
to go back to school. And people are tired of
it because it's unsustainable.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Corey, When you look at the larger landscape of this race,
it seems to me the easiest path for Trump winning
is North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania. Now there's a lot of
other states. We just mentioned New Hampshire, Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona.
There's a lot of states in play out there. But
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when you look at the map, is that the pathway
of Hey, we win North Carolina, we win Georgia, we
win Pennsylvania, those three states and it's done. Is that
part of the way You're thinking, how would you assess
the map here as we sit sixty two days out, Well.
Speaker 10 (51:55):
Look, I think North Carolina's a state that's been very
good to us over the last two cycles. Georgia, you know,
is a state that we have clearly an opportunity to
be successful there. Historically speaking, there's a number of Republicans
who've been elected down there and has been a state
that's been good to us. That being said, Pennsylvania is
always the Great White Whale, and until Donald Trump won
it in twenty sixteen, Republicans always thought they could win it,
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but they could never pull it off. But his message
is particularly when you juxtapose that to Kamala's message of
fracking is what Donald Trump supports, she opposes it. You know,
we have seen what outsourcing jobs has done to the
state of Pennsylvania. We've seen what the outsourcing of manufacturing
has done. So Pennsylvania is a battleground state for sure,
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but look what we've been able to do in Michigan.
Look what the auto workers have come around to Donald
Trump because Joe Biden is willing to put those autofactories
down in Mexico. Look at the state of Wisconsin, and
I just want to go back to those numbers. Four
years ago. Today we were down full point four points
in Wisconsin. Today we're up three If anybody saying that
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Tim Wallas has been in addition to this campaign for
Kamala Harris, they are sorely mistaken. He is the most,
if not the most very close to the most radical
governor in America, and his Midwest values have not given
them any bump in those battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin,
or Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (53:20):
Cory, we know you talked to Trump on a regular
daily basis. The debate coming up. There's one debate that
Kamala has agreed to so far right's still just one.
I think that she said, okay, yeah, I'll show up
for that one. What should we expect from the big guy?
Speaker 10 (53:36):
Look, I think Donald Trump has been preparing for debates
his entire life. We know that, and I've heard it
hundreds of times. If Donald Trump would just do this,
he will win, or if he'll just stop talking. You know,
he has a record of winning presidential debates. Whether it
was in the primary process all the way back in
fifteen and sixteen, which I know many of you remember,
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or it was when he debated Hillary Clinton and he
said you'd be in jail. It was that one liner,
the off the cuff, you know, a temporaneous statement that
he made that everybody started laughing. Or at the last debate, well,
Joe Biden is rooling on himself, and Donald Trump turned
and said, I don't know what that guy just said,
and either does he I mean it. You know, it's
so funny because this guy has such a quick wit
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that I would anticipate a line like that is going
to happen in this debate, and it's going to show
the humanization of Donald Trump, because I believe Kamala Harris
is just going to try and be a robot. She's
going to tell us how she prosecutes criminals like Donald Trump,
and how she has made her way and broken through
the glass ceiling and all of those things. The reality is,
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she doesn't know what she's for and what she's against.
And this is going to be the first time, truly
that the American people will have a chance to see
and hear from her because most of the media has
given her a free pass for the last forty five days.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
Corey, do you think the Kamala camp is starting to
panic a little bit? It feels like they got the
sugar high in August, then they didn't get as much
as they thought coming out of the DNC and the
numbers have continued to tick back.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Have you seen that in the.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
Internal polling with the Trump team and does that kind
of characterize why we've seen it feels sort of like
a frenetic Kamala Harris campaign of late, where they're just
desperately trying to erase the things that she said she's
four in the past and now claim she's against them.
Speaker 10 (55:25):
Yeah, her staff is out actively telling all the members
of the media what Kamala now stands for. We haven't
heard it from her. We haven't heard it from the candidate,
but our staff is doing it on Friday nights and
you know, privately with members of the media because they're
afraid because coming off of the Democrat Convention, she should
have gotten a five to seven point bump, but she
did not. And the reason she didn't get that bump
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partially is because we received and secured the RFK endorsement
the following day. And I don't want to overlook that,
but that RFK endorsement in Glendale, Aras might have been
the largest crowd and rally and applause I have ever
heard for anybody on a debate on a stage other
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than Donald John Trump.
Speaker 8 (56:10):
The crowd was.
Speaker 10 (56:11):
In love with this guy. And what we're seeing and
what the polling data is indicating is those women who
are twenty five to forty years old, who have multiple
children or children are coming to the Trump campaign in
record numbers because they're concerned about what Kamala and Joe
did to their kids, forcing them with the vaccines and
the RFK Junior endorsement and the Tulsa Gabbard endorsement are
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paying significant dividends of the campaign in both the short
term and then will continue to do so in the
long term.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
We got one more question for you from one of
our VIPs. Vip Joe asks Corey, where are all the commercials?
Please tell me the battleground states are going to get
flooded with commercials. I haven't heard or seen one single
Trump commercial. What can you tell me about now? He's
in by the way in Mississippi. I think some people
out there in red states or seeing I ain't seeing much, Corey.
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My bet is going to be you're feeling pretty good
about a lot of states.
Speaker 7 (57:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (57:07):
Look, if we got trouble in Mississippi, fellas, we're in
big trouble, right. I think we're going to be okay
down and those are our people. But that said, don't forget.
We are just under nine weeks away from election day,
although early voting in ballasty going out as early as
Saturday in the States, so we are running TV commercials.
But I want people to remember this. Fifty percent of
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the electorate no longer receives their communication from television, from
mainstream media. They're getting it through social media platforms, They're
getting it from their phone. So our ability to communicate
with those people continues to evolve as the delivery platforms
continue to evolve. And that's what we're trying to do
is make sure that the right people are getting the
right messages at the right time.
Speaker 3 (57:50):
Corey Buck and I have both said that we're going
to vote early. We're going to get our ballot in.
For people out there that are listening right now, would
you encourage them to go vote early? If so, why,
what is the impact?
Speaker 10 (58:03):
Well, let me tell you something. I am a big
believer and now I live in a state of New
Hampshire that we don't have really voting. We don't have
absentee voting. You have to vote on election day, shy
of you know, a major health crisis. But in places
that allow people to vote early, absolutely take that opportunity.
You know, Republicans always win on election day because our
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people tend to wait. But the Democrats have mastered this
ability to go to people and get them to vote
early and put that money in the bank for later,
to put that vote in the bank for later. I
think what we're going to see it may just be
one debate, it may be it maybe two or three,
we don't know. Kamala's team won't commit to that. But
if you get your ballot, don't wait in the hold
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it for sixty days. If you already know that you're
voting for Donald Trump, you put your name on that envelope,
fill it out, vote for Donald Trump, and get it
back in. Because that's how we're going to be successful
is making sure that every per who has the opportunity
to vote early is doing that. And if we can
maintain parody with the Democrats and the early vote and
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the absentee voting, we know that we'll win on election day.
And we have to have a system and an election
outcome that's too big to rig.
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Corey, keep up the good work.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
Tell President Trump to have fun tonight in Harrisburg with
Sean Hannity. We know he will in six days from now.
We can't wait to watch that first debate.
Speaker 10 (59:25):
Thank you, guys,
This is twenty four, a weekly highlight reel from the Clay,
Travis and Buck Sexton Show featuring all things election coverage.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's get started. Here are Clay and Bucks.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Reports just breaking literally right now that they have delayed
the Trump hush money New York City sentencing trial until
after the election.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Ah, there we go, And.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
So I'm seeing that on multiple accounts. I haven't seen
a full article yet about this, but this is breaking
news right now. We're gonna get Dana Perino. That clip
that you're referencing is pretty fantastic. But this was scheduled
for September eighteenth. We just talked about it yesterday and again,
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breaking news just coming down. We'll get more details for you.
But this would mean all of the lawfare has blown
up in the Democrat Party's face on a level that
I think it was hard to even predict. What happened
dismissed in South Florida, probably never gonna happen in DC.
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Fanny Willis and her boyfriend Nathan Wade still hanging out
down in Atlanta. That case is on basically like Kick
to the Curb, but the New York City case, the
trumped up felonies based on bookkeeping.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Is now falling apart as well.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And but to me, Buck, what I take as a
notice on this and again this is just breaking news,
is that the polling must be disastrous on any law
fair related to Trump, and the Kamala team has let
it be known that they basically want all pencils down
on this because it's a mess for them.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I think that if they sentenced Trump to prison now,
that doesn't mean he would start serving, right. We've discussed this.
If Merchan, though said you get a year in Rikers Island,
which you know could have been something along the lines
of what he faced, I don't know whatever it would
be for thirty four thirty fourth felonies. You've actually got
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to say it in stelter voice, thirty fourth Feladays, it
is absurd and everybody knows it. But Clay, I think they,
to your point, recognize what it delivered Trump the election,
to have a judge in New York City, with the
whole sham trial everything going on, to say a presidential
candidate should go to prison for a bookkeeping dispute, really,
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I mean, I don't even think anything was wrong with
any of this or a book keeping dispute internally where
there was no crime committed whatsoever. And even if there
was a crime, it's like a you know, jaywalking. I mean,
the thing is absurd. To say a president should go
to prison for that is just it's just nuts. It's
two nuts for them to pull it off. So I
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think the delay, I agree with you, is at least
in part by oh my gosh, would this have backfired
even more? Because I think the lawfair up to this
point in terms of the poling, I think it has
backfired that. I think they believe that the whole thing. Remember,
not only were they going to try to drag Biden
across the finish line.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Still a little sad about this, all right, it's still
a little a little raw.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It's a little little student for me because I really
did think they were gonna take Biden.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But whatever.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But Clay, a part of it was why did they
believe that they would be able to drag Biden across
the finish line even though he has dementia? And it's
because they thought the lawfair stuff would turn the country
against Trump in a substantial way. He's a convicted felon.
I have not met a single person who said.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He's a convicted felon. No, I don't like him.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
The only people who care about it hated Trump before.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's been again. The order just coming down as we
are talking to all of you. The delay is now
for sentencing and punishment scheduled for November twenty sixth of
twenty twenty four, So three weeks after election day is
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now when Trump would face some sort of legal consequence
according to Judge merchand he has posted his uh. He
has posted his ruling saying that he doesn't want to
get it, ironically, that he doesn't want to get involved
in the actual process of the case itself. And so
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November twenty sixth, I mean this is again. I will
just point out buck all of these left wingers who
have been dreaming of Trump getting Trump now four years,
they keep getting lucied with the Charlie Brown football like they're.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Like, we finally got him.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Now he's gonna go to Rikers Island and he's gonna
and they just keep delaying. I think if he wins
on November twenty sixth, meeting Trump wins the election on
November twent twenty six I think that they will do
some sort of very petty punishment and I think the
law fair is going to be regarded as one of
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the most disastrous own goals in the history of presidential politics,
because I think it has rallied Trump supporters. I think
it may well propel Trump into the White House. And
if you questioned whether that was true or not, do
you have any doubt at all, Buck that if they
thought it was beneficial on September eighteenth to do something
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to Trump, they would have done it. They realized it's
politically suicidal to make this decision, and so they bumped
it to after the trial.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Just also looking at the election.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, after the narrative, the narrative shifts that have occurred here,
no one even mentions anymore that Donald Trump took a
bullet through the ear while campaigning in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Correct, Like this is you know he's running.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
This is a man who took a bullet to run
for running against Kamala Harris was.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
I don't know, has never sacrificed anything for anybody that
I've ever seen, other than just trying to advance Kamala's
political prospects. Like we're just the sense of destiny and
history and everything else that you would expect for a
presidential candidate who has been through.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
How many total trials?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I know it's for criminal, but is it six? With
it there's two civil right? I can't keep it all least.
I think you're right. I think it's six different major
legal proceedings. And that doesn't even include Buck all of
the people surrounding Trump who have also been including it
was an Alan Weiselberg for not reporting that he got
a car. It went to prison. I mean, look, it's
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it's really affected a lot of people, including me, how
we think about trying to live in New York City
as a conservative. I mean, they're going to throw you,
and they're going to throw a senior citizen accountant in
prison for you know, a lot of people don't even
know that you would have I know he's an account
so he would probably know, but a lot of people
wouldn't even know that you're supposed to do that a
list on your taxes. I had use of a company
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car like this is mickey mouse stuff. They sent him
to prison for that. They didn't say you have to
pay a fine, so you have to take this stuff
into account. But I just think the fact that Trump
is up against Commlin when you see what has been
thrown in his way, really starting with the raid on
mar A Lago, which, oh, it's worth noting that whole
case has been just thrown out by the federal judge.
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So the raid that kicked off the law there, that
case is caput right now, that case is donezo. And
you had four criminal cases. You've had six major legal
proceedings all meant to get Trump ready, the Egen Carroll defamation.
You had the Trump corporation stuff, the civil stuff, the
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Letitia James in New York. You had the four criminal trials.
The guy took a bullet and just barely survived. It
was a miracle that he survived. And there's still people
who are like, yeah, I think I might vote for
Kamala Harris. I just see here, I'm like, what what
world are we living in? I mean, on the one side,
you've got the you've got a story of like, uh,
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you know, just the the Tasks of Hercules or something,
and then it's just like Kamala Harris, Yeah, let's give
it to her.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
She's the nominee, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
It's just there's there's no comparison in terms of the
gravity and the seriousness between these two political figures.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
No doubt.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And again that is why I think you're starting to
see a panic. If Trump can just stay between the
lines on Tuesday and not be the worst version of
himself from a independent voter perspective, which we saw in
the first debate against Joe Biden, then Kamala's campaign is
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going to go up and smoke. I think there are
embers right now. There are do you want to play.
We'll play when we come back. When you get Dana Perino,
who is maybe the nicest person on television in America,
would you get her fired up? And she fullays you,
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I mean you are just not ready for prime time
in any respect. This is Kamala Harris's spokesperson. We'll play
that for you. I think you were about to call
for it until this great news time you would have
a time. Let's do it here.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yes, just Dana Perino with the campaign Na Kamala campaign
spokesperson hit it.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
They haven't heard from her ian. I know that she
did the speech in New Hampshire. But the President Trump,
for all the interviews that he's on, he's willing to
take questions everything. Is it a risk to put all
your chips on one debate when she hasn't really been
able to do any sort of Q and A with
anybody except for in debate prep.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
Well, i'd reject that she sat down with Dana Bash
for a long interview on CNN that aired.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
One interview in forty seven days.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Well, you know, I know, you guys are just now
paying attention to her now that she's the presidential candidate.
But she's done about ninety interviews this year, is the
vice president, and people maybe weren't paying attention or listening.
She's taken questions from reporters on the campaign trail so
far in this campaign, people who are covering her every
single day. She's going to be more interviews and come
on press Moore and take more reporter questions. Of course
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she's gonna do that over the course of this campaign.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Look, Dana's brand to what, to the degree I can
speak to it is she's you know, she's honest and
fair and very nice. Yes, and you know she's here
is being a very nice person. That's just that's I mean,
I've met her, you know, and a lot of people
know her. She's a very nice person, good journalist. I
don't mean she's too nice. I just mean, you know,
she's very polite to guess and she's just like, come on, dude,
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come on, dude. Oh, she's done a lot of interviews
as the vice president, so that's the same thing as
running in a presidential campaign.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
This is absurd and bragging that she set down for
a long interview with the Dana Bash a long interview.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean, I think it was like eighteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I just they are terrified of what might happen for her,
and man, I really that we did truly have an
adversarial media. Give jd Vance an example. The guy will
sit down and talk to CNN, MSNBC, NBC News, all
the people that are going to come after him. I really,
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legitimately desperately have some wish that on the debate itself,
they would actually confront Kamala with all of the flip
flopping and try to hold her feet to the fire.
And I hope Trump will ask questions of her. I
know you're not technically supposed to, but for me, Trump
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pointing out that she supports reparations and now wants to
build a border wall, he could turn to her and say, Kamala,
why don't you endorse me now that you are coming
along with me on wanting to build a.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Border wall, I gotta tell you something.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
And I know that we've been talking about this, and
I've agreed with you, Clay up to this point, that
both camps will come away and say that you know
their side wanted, and yeah, that will happen. I actually
think Kamala's gonna get pretty badly. She's It's not gonna
be a knockout, but this, this would be a this
would be a unanimous decision by the judges, if the
judges were on on well, we know we.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Got the rig judge system, so we know that they'll
have a poll and Kamala will win, probably on CNN
and things like that, of course.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
But but but it's gonna she's she's gonna lose momentum.
I I think she's gonna get her butt kicked up there.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
I really do.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
I don't think it's gonna be because and I couldn't
say that for all of the Biden debate.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I mean, it's just not wasn't Trump's best showing. I
said it at the time. I think he's gonna it's
gonna be a butt kicking up there. I really think so,
the more I've really been thinking about it, she is
so weak. I mean, it's having Tim wall It's like
it's like an emotional support.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Blank And I agree. It's super weird. And and by
the way, Tim Walls is dumber than she is. We're
making fun of Kamala. Tim Wallas hasn't set for an interview.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I gotta tell you so.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
And then also, I know that we've been saying that
Kamala not picking Shapiro. I don't think Shapiro wanted to
be on this ticket. I think he wants to run
his own campaign and I think he thinks that Kamala
is going to lose. You'll never get that confirmed anywhere, right,
because he's not going to say that.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
I think he's too sharp though a guy, to want
to attach himself to be Kamala's VP when he gets
to run his own deal in the next cycle. I
think if he thinks Kamala's going to lose, which I
think he does.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Well, and he would have good access to polling in Pennsylvania, right, yes,
big time.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So I think I think that matters.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You're listening to twenty four the Year of Impact with
Clay and Buck.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Got some breaking news for you on this lovely Friday.
RFK Junior is getting some points, giving him some points
from the Buckster. He has his The Supreme Court in
the state of North Carolina. Clay just told me has
agreed that RFK Junior's name must be removed from the
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ballot as per his request. So, okay, he's off in
North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
If it doesn't end up getting to going to another court.
The Court of Appeals so far has done it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
I imagine, and this is important, Buck that the Biden
team Harris team is going to immediately appeal and demand
that RFK Junior's name stay on the ballot in North
Carolina because they think it hurts Trump.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Look, I RFK Junior endorsed Trump, which I was very
happy about, and all along I've been saying that that's
what he should do. I also think he should have waited. Rather,
he shouldn't have waited so long to do it, and
shouldn't have stayed in so long, because now we have
this problem if he gets off all the ballots and
all the key swing states left. Great, Okay, welcome to
the party, RFK Junior. But it's not a good thing
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for Trump if he stays on in those states. That
is just a reality, and it's a misstep. Perhaps RFK Junior,
I'm sure doesn't want it to be that way, but
this is the concern that some of us have had
all along of running what is effectively a vanity campaign.
That's when when you get so deep into the election,
it's a vanity campaign.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And in Michigan and Wisconsin in particular, the Kamala Harris
campaign is trying to insist after months of wanting RFK
Junior off the ballot, they now are trying to insist
that he cannot pull his name off the ballot.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
If Kamala Harris can be four banning straws, then against it,
four reparations, then against it the Democrat Party, certainly Clay
can be four RFK Junior on the ballot, or rather
against RFK Junior on the ballot, and now for it.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
And by the way, that data is the reason why
it matters in North Carolina right now is today was
scheduled to be the day that ballots were first sent
out in North Carolina, and they would have RFK Junior's
name on them. So this is a major legal dispute
given the fact that North Carolina is a battleground state.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You're listening to twenty four the most importantier in politics
with Clay Travis ad bock Sexton.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Donald Trump, as we mentioned, speaking in New York laying
out some aspects of his economic agenda. We've had our
crew rolling on that. I want to just play several
of the cuts as Trump is focused on the economy today.
Let me also tell you as we roll into our
two here, we've got a bunch of guests scheduled for you.
Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee going to be on at
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one thirty eastern with us Julie Kelly from d C.
Toway in on Hunter Biden playing guilty, but also the
Judge Chutkin hearing in the Jack Smith d C. Jan
sixth related case. She was in that courtroom in DC.
We'll talk about it, and then we're going to go
down to Israel. Out to Israel wherever you may be
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at two thirty eastern for the absolute latest there with
Jeff Tigs that is on the horizon of where we're going.
But let me hit you with some of these clips
that Trump has laid out as part of the economic
speech that he is giving right now.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
In New York.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Let's start with Cut twenty five. Trump large big picture.
What's the goal of his economic plan.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
My plan will rapidly defeat inflation, quickly bring down prices,
and reignite explosive economic growth. Kamala Harris will take more
money out of American pockets. My plan will leave the
typical family with many thousands of dollars more than they
have right now. First, I will end Kamala Harris's anti
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energy crusade and implement a policy of energy abundance, energy independence,
and even energy dominance. We have more liquid gold under
our feet than any other country, including Russia and Saudi Arabia,
will be using it. My plan will cut energy prices
in half or more than that within twelve months.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
So that's cut twenty five. He specifically says he's going
to terminate the Green New Deal. That is Cut twenty six,
and then a couple of more clips I'll call for.
But here is I'm doing away with the Green New
Deal once and for all. This is Trump today in
New York.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
To further defeed inflation. My plan will terminate the Green
New Deal, which I call the Green new scam, greatest
scam in history, probably a ten trillion dollar scam that
we waste. We throw it like throwing money right out
the window. It actually sets us back, as opposed to
it moves us forward, and we send all unspent funds
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under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, which the Democrats agreed
after it was approved that it wasn't for that purpose,
it was for other purposes like giveaways.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Okay, buck, I love this idea. Elon Musk, who has
endorsed Trump and become very active. I saw Elon Musk
tweet that he thinks this is the most important election
because when it comes to the free speech, if Kamal
is put into office, the amount of restrictions we will
see in the United States will be substantial. Trump says
he wants Elon Musk to be the head of the
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Government Efficiency Commission. That's certainly a redundancy given most government agencies.
Here's what he said about Elon.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
That the suggestion of Elon Musk, who has given me
his complete and total endorsement.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That's nice, smart guy.
Speaker 9 (19:25):
He knows what he's doing. He knows what he's doing.
Very much appreciated. I will create a Government Efficiency Commission
task with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of
the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms
we need to do. It can't go on the way
we are now. And Elon, because he's not very busy,
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has agreed to hit that task force. Be interesting if
he has the time, have be a good one to
do it, but he's agreed to do it.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So these are economic policies. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't they fire, meaning Elon
Musk seventy or eighty percent of Twitter employees and now
it's X And I mean I would argue that the
site is better than it's ever been with more upside.
I know they're trying to tell you, oh, all the
share values been lost. Yeah, well he had to cut
it down. He had to basically tear it down to
the studs and the foundation and rebuild just on the
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site where Twitter had formerly been in a lot of ways.
But I think he's done a phenomenal job with it.
And more importantly the reality of Twitter was that it
had become a left wing social justice organization incubated inside
of a tech company, and then it took over right.
The relationship perhaps at first was a parasite, and then
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it was symbiotic, and then it was dominance. And I
think that you see this unfortunately in the federal government too.
I worked in the federal government. The truth is that
a vast majority I don't want I know in the
Hillary election, I think it was something like five percent
of federal government employees donated to Hillary over Trump, right,
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something something astonishingly high. And you just say, why is that? Well,
because there are a lot of people work in the
federal government who inherently believe in the system, but they
also want to be self paced in their work output
unfirable and not really subject to, you know, the ups
and downs of the real economy and things like that.
And again, I was a federal govern employee. I know
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about this attitude and and it's one of the reasons
I left the federal government and lasted that long. And Clay,
I think that Elon could do an incredible job, because
that's when people talk about the swamp. The federal bureaucracy
is in many ways the worst part of it, because
it's the forever state, and it's the ungovernment, it's the
unaccountable governance branch that the founding fathers certainly.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Didn't see it this way. Why has it become what
it is? Why is it this Leviathan?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I think you could fire fifty or seventy five percent
of all federal government employees and the actual government efficiency
would not change at all. And I suspect that Elon
Musk knows that now they have union protections, it's very
hard to fire people unfortunately inside of the government, even
when they are behaving inappropriately and engaging in fireable offenses.
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But I think our government would be far better off
if we could just come in with a and wipe
out half of all federal government employees.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
I mean, even the Pentagon. You know, I read Elon's
most recent biography, you know, that was the Isaacson one
that came out. I thought it was very good, and
you know, by getting involved in the aerospace, effectively sending
rockets into outer space industry, he came up against the
reality of aerospace and defense with the federal government, which.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Are these.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
They called a what is it a plus plus margin
contract or it's essentially a plus expense plus cost cost plus.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
That's what it is.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Cost plus contract. Where you got to just run up
all your costs as long as you want, get fully
reimbursed for all your costs, and then get like a
twenty percent profit on top of that. That's how people
wonder why we're not doing any cool stuff in space
and why a private company had to come along. That
is true throughout the federal government. You want to talk
about fraud, waste, and abuse, I think they think something
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like sixty billion dollars a year and Medicaid fraud occurs.
Think of it sixty billion.
Speaker 10 (23:25):
I know.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Now, Look to me, the most impressive thing Elon has
done is Tesla is an amazing company that has been
very successful, and he redesigned the way that we power vehicles.
He's better at sending rockets to space than NASA, and
NASA had a seventy year head.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Start on him. I mean, it really is extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I mean, we're have we can't get I'm surprised this
hasn't gotten a bigger story. Have you paid attention? There
are two astronauts stuck in space right now. We cannot
get them back. They were supposed to, I believe, go
for eight days and instead they're going to be there
for eight months. This is real, not a lot to
talk about it. We're having to use SpaceX to get
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them back. Our government can't get our astronauts back right now.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Our government has to go to Elon and say.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Excuse me, Elon, can you help us. That's where Uncle
Sam is these days.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Think about how crazy that is.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
We sent two astronauts to space and our government doesn't
have the capabilities to get them back. We have to
get them back with Elon Musk. One more thing, by
the way, speaking of efficiency, I do think this is important,
and to me again, First Amendment is the most important
issue at stake here because without those freedoms, we have
no freedoms. But I do think Trump understands basic economics
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in a way that Kamala does not. And that makes
sense because Trump was a builder. He had to get
so many things. You try to build anything in New York,
the amount of process that you have to go through
is mind numbing. But he wants to die pile back
regulations surrounding corporations, but also corporate tax rate here is
cut twenty eight. He wants to bring the corporate tax
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rate for companies that are producing goods in America down
to fifteen percent. Listen to this discussion from New York today.
Speaker 9 (25:17):
To further support the revival of American manufacturing, my plan
calls for expanded R and D tax credits, one hundred
percent bonus appreciation expensing for new manufacturing investments, and a
reduction in the corporate tax rate from twenty one percent
to fifteen percent, solely for companies that make their product
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in America. You have to make your product in America.
If you outsource offshore or replace American workers, you are
not eligible for any of these benefits. In fact, you
will pay a very substantial tariff. When a product comes
in from another country, that's made in another country and
comes in, there'll be a big tariff on that product.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
So these are good moves. Again, go back to pre
COVID America. We had the lowest rate of inflation almost
out there at all. We had wages outpacing the cost
of goods, we had mortgages. A lot of you out
there certainly would like to go back to these days
in the two and three quarter percent three percent range.
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And the American economy had never been stronger in the
history of the United States. Because Trump's economic policies were
working and starting to fire on all cylinders, and then
China had a virus that they created in a lab
that got out and essentially shut down the world. And
I believe put Joe Biden in office because whatever rig
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job they had tried to put in place in the
fall of twenty twenty, if COVID doesn't happen, Trump walks
away with that race. Even when they're trying to rig it,
they managed to scare enough people because of COVID to
put Biden in office. A lot of those people, frankly,
some of you are listening to us right now because
you regret how you voted in twenty twenty. And now
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I think they're starting to panic a bit because Kamala
still not talking. I was reading just during commercial break
book a left wing advisor, somebody who's on pod Save
America was complaining because Trump's doing all these podcasts that
appeal to young men, and he's saying that media is
not giving enough scrutiny to those interviews that Trump is
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doing with the Theo Vaughns of the world, the Aiden
Rosses of the world. People, if you have kids or
grandkids who are boys that these guys are speaking to,
and Nate Silver responded, you know one thing Kamala could
do is actually do her own interviews as opposed to
expecting the media to attack Trump for doing his. And
we mentioned in August, Trump and Jade Vance did thirty
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four national interviews. I think two of them were on
this program. Kamala didn't one with CNN. It's really kind
of crazy to think about.
Speaker 4 (28:07):
And with Tim Walls there.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
She didn't even just do one.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
She could run with her with her security blanket next
to her. You know, oh Tim Wallas is here, Midwesterners,
you can trust me. All things is.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
If you imagine if Trump was not doing any interviews
at all, and he did one in August and it
was with Fox News, how much they would be losing
their mind if Kamala was doing thirty four interviews.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
It's tough to even get worked up about it for McLay,
just because everybody, we all just know what this is, right,
We get the game. We all have the expectation that
people who say they're journalists and they don't have a
dog in this fight are lying. Okay, we all know that,
So ABC, NBCCBS CNN, MSNBC. Look, Fox is a is
a conservative or pro Trump leaning network. There are some
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people that actually don't like Trump at all, but in general,
but everyone knows that it leans right and no one
no one sits around being like Fox has no opinion. No,
they have a Indian shows on at night. They'd present
some shows as news. I mean, I think Brett Behar's
show is quite honestly as fair as any news show
you could find. I don't think it's they present a panel.
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The panelists are Republican and Democrats. Nobody on that panel
is dumb. No one's a clay pigeon, right, They're civil
to I've done that panel many times in the past.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
They're civil to each other.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Anyway. I'm just saying, like we're really getting into this.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I would say Martha McCollum is too, and that's who
Trump wanted to do the Martha McCallum and Brett Bayr
are both to me very fair.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
I mean, CNN did a fair job in the Biden
Trump debate. I think it was in part because I
think CNN had people that wanted Biden out. But they
were fair in that debate, and we said so at
the time. But I mean, you look at their programming
and they're putting people on at seven o'clock, eight o'clock,
nine o'clock as objective news, and they're just pundits who
aren't very entertaining, right, I mean, they're just pundits without
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their own thoughts who have to read off of a prompter.
So that's all the reality. I will also say though,
in the thank you buck for being calm, thank you
for not panicking. JD Vance is doing a phenomenal job,
all right. They unlaunched a coordinated media. Oh he doesn't
like cat ladies or whatever. JD is a very high
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wattage guy who is a prime example of the American
dream working.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
As it should, which is that if you.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Take your lumps, but you focus, you kick ass, and
you build something, you can be somebody that people look
up to and that has really made something of himself.
That's the whole game that we thought we were in.
So and you see, to your point, Clay, this is
what got me thinking about it in the media interviews.
JD can handle any of this.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Stuff, Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
You see, he's like putting on policy clinics whenever he
sits down, and he's got a compelling life story.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You're listening to twenty four the Year of Impact with
Clay and Buck.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
We are joined now by Bernie Marino, who is probably
fired up about the Ohio State buck Eyes, and certainly
I is fired up about the Cleveland Browns and the
Cincinnati Bengals both returning to the grid iron this week
as the NFL is returning to action. But Bernie, I
want to like lead in with this aspect of things.
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Everyone in Ohio who is listening to me right now,
and at some point this season, we have been number
one in Columbus, we have been number one in Cincinnati,
and we have been number one in Cleveland. So every
major media market in Ohio, you guys love this show.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
We love you.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And in Ohio, you don't just have the opportunity to
cheer for the buck Eyes, the Browns and the Bengals.
You have the opportunity to deliver the United States Senate
to the Republican Party by voting for the man who
is on with us right now, Bernie Marino. It's a
big election in Ohio, but it's also a big election
in the nation. Ohio has the opportunity to flip the
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Senate to control of Republican Party hands and Bernie, I
bet you're seeing some good numbers out there as we
sit sixty two days from election day.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
Yeah. Absolutely. First of all, thank you for having me
again on the show. I love being on. And let
me just reinforce that on November fifth, our polls close
at seven thirty pm, and I'm hoping within an hour
of that period of time, you'll see Brett Baer, because
nobody's gonna be watching CNN, We'll be watching Box Nude
comes up and says, we can now say that the
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Republicans controlled the United States Senate because Bernie Marino defeated
career politician Shared Brown. So the entire world will breathe
a little collective sigh of relief knowing that we at
least got the Senate in our hands.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Hey, Bernie Bock, appreciate you being with us. Just let
everybody know. I mean, I'll set the stage here for
one second. When we were out of Wisconsin for the
RNC and talking to some Wisconsin Republicans, and they also
brought Michigan into the conversation. Talk to the Michigan Republicans
that they said that the way that Democrats win in
those states is essentially pretending they're not Democrats when they're
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talking to Wisconsinites or Michiganders and then going along with
whatever Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi, et cetera wants. Right,
what is the dynastic Is it a similar dynamic in Ohio.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
With uh with Brown?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I mean, how is it because Ohio is pretty solid
red right, why is it competitive there?
Speaker 8 (33:23):
Well, I'll simplify it from that. They're bold face flyers,
so share Brown, which is lie and lie and lie
at TV commercials. The media, of course goes along with it,
and he gets re elected. And then he goes to Washington,
d C. For five years, acts like crazy Bernie Sanders
and Elizabeth Warren combined and votes in the most radical
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left wing way. And then it comes back to Ohio, says,
remember me on the moderate, on the bipartisan guy, I
want a secure border, I want energy independence. You know,
these guys cannot run on the policies that they actually
vote for because they would lose seventy thirty. So they
have to spend a year, with the media's help, lying
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to the people of Ohio. We're not gonna let them
get away with it this cycle. We're going to make
certain that we expose him for the radical leftist that
he is, by the way, there's a guy who went
to college when Richard Dixon was in the White House,
by the way, and majored in Russian study, so he
knows a thing or two about socialists in lying Bernie.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
If you look at the state of Ohio, we know
the statewide, you want as many people voting as possible.
But is there a particular area of Ohio that, to
you in this Senate race is the swing area. If
you win that area, you know that you will be
the next Senator from Ohio. Where in particular is the
area that decides this race.
Speaker 8 (34:49):
Probably Northeast Ohio because Cuyahoga County is the biggest county
in Ohio in terms of population. There's a lot of
Republican voters up here. I had a lot more Democrats.
So in the previous cycle in twenty eighteen, Sharon Brown
was able to win that county by fifty points. We
won't let them get anywhere near that number. I employed
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thousands of people here. My companies were rated the best
place to work in Northeast Ohio. I had twelve dealerships
up here, my tech companies here, which is where I live.
Most people don't see Sharon Brown as a guy who's
more of a creature of DC, except of course, again
during election cycle. So I think we'll be very competitive
in Cuyahoga, in the Mahoning Valley, places like Youngstown, where
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you've seen thousands, tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs leave
the area under his watch. We saw a plant there
in Lordstown that got closed under share Brown's watch. We've
seen our steel industry decline under share Brown's watch. Other's
second tired of the empty promises of these career politicians
that know what to say to get elected but then
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do totally different things when they're where they're in office.
So that Northeast quarter is really important.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
How do you think? I mean, I think one one
aspect of your race that is going to get a
lot of attention or is getting a lot of attention,
is not only possible Senate control, but also Ohio with
JD Vance as the VP on the ticket, and then
Tim Walls Minnesota. The middle of the country battle, like
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the battle for those middle of the road, middle of
the country voters that will play out in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
really western Pennsylvania mostly, and then Michigan, Wisconsin. I mean,
what are the core issues and what do you think
the deciding factor will be for that swath of the
electorate that is likely to determine your race as well
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as the presidential election.
Speaker 8 (36:48):
Well, let me just say Tim Walls is not somebody
who represents Midwest values at all, so let's take him
out of the equation. But the reason these states matter
so much is because this is the core issue of
this race. Look in nineteen forty nine, six of the
wealthiest fourteen cities in the United States of America, we're
in Ohio. The wealthiest city in the country was Detroit, Michigan. Why,
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because we've made things here in America. You could go
to high school, go to work right away, and live
a good upper middle class or middle class life where
you can afford a home, afford a car, raise kids
in this good community with good schools and elected leaders.
Let's just face it, from both parties for twenty or
thirty or forty years, destroyed that version of the American
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green shipped our jobs in China and Mexico. And we're
going to get that back. We're going to get energy
dominance back here. We're going to make things that we
can make here in America. We're going to support this
idea of a strong vibrant middle class. This is what
our party is now fully centered on doing. Give huge
credit to President Trump for re orienting the party in
that way.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Yesterday I was in West Virginia. West Virginia is going
to vote to put a Republican in the Senate. Joe
Manchi is on his way out. We know that in Ohio,
which is going to be a red state, President Trump
is going to win it. In Montana, which is going
to be a red state, President Trump is going to
win it. Two potential seats to flip. They are spending
money like crazy against you, But I saw Guy Benson
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put up a poll internally that shows you leading right
now in Ohio. Are you comfortable with how this race
is going right now? Do you have enough money? What
would you tell our audience out there again? Number one
in Columbus, number one in Cincinnati, number one in Cleveland,
have the ability to deliver this state for you that
you need from them down the stretch run here.
Speaker 8 (38:38):
You can't vote for President Trump as share Brown. If
you give President Trump's share Brown, what's he going to do?
He's probably going to make it to the Chuck Chumer
is a majority leader. It means they're going to peach
him again to block every one of his agenda items.
They'll not allow him to put the proper people in
the cabinet. So if you're out there, you're gonna support
President Trump, you like President Trump's, you've got to vote
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for Bernie Marino to the United States Senates. That's message
number one, turns of message number two. We feel really
good about where we stand in the polls. That one
percent plus that you talked about was before our advertising campaign.
And let me just say it this way. We opened
a can of whoop pass on him on TV about
a week and a half ago. So we're going to
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actually have more messaging on TV than year Brown will have.
We're not unlike him. We're not going to make it
about personal tax and personal insult that's all he's got
on me. We're going to make it about his voting record,
his track record, and the fact that he's over stated
is welcome. Fifty years as an elected official never having
had a job in the private sector is way too long.
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We're going to get rid of them. We're going to
retire them. We're going to win. But everybody out there
know this. You can vote on October eighth. Please go
vote early. It allows us to know whose voters who's not.
He saves us a ton of money. And by the way,
if you never want to get another text message or
email from me, then go vote early. Will stop communicating
with the ipronis Well.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
I'm just wondering.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
One area where there's clearly going to be some real
political impact in this cycle is on the illegal immigration crisis.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
It is.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
It is hilarious, Bernie. I'm sure you've seen this. I
know you're very busy, but we turn on some of
the national Democrat media, they're like, oh my gosh, Kamala
Harris and Joe Biden are just shocked at all the
illegals that have come in recent years, and they're working
so hard to stop it. Where's your where's your opponent?
Girod Brown on this.
Speaker 8 (40:33):
Well, first of all, as you know, I'm a legal
immigrant to this country. I find it disgusting that this
country keeps rewarding people who skip the line, break our rules,
refuse to learn the language, don't assimilate, and are here
to have handouts. It's totally against what immigration is supposed
to be in this country. Where's shere? Brown? Share Brown's
voted against every single border measure that President Trump put forward.
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He said the wall was stupid, the wall was racist.
He said that there's no problem with the border. That
is a made up right wing conspiracy theory. How many
times have we heard those words now? Of course, he
hides behind this supposed bipartisan bill which would have allowed
five thousand illegal crossings a day, so almost a million
and a half people to break our laws and break
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into our home, which is exactly one point five million
too many. We should have a zero tolerance policy for
illegal immigration. And by the way, Sheer Brown and Kamala
Harris believe that the people who did break into our
country that are here illegally should be allowed to be
United States citizens. I think we got to deport them
if they're in this country illegally, because again, that's common sense.
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If I broke into your home, you wouldn't allow me
to stay, and you certainly wouldn't let me take better
care of me than the people who live in your home.
So this is common sense. The Democrats like to make
this about being xenophobic and racist. I can tell you,
as a legal immigrant to every American citizen living listening
to this who was born here. Stop rewarding people who
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break our immigration laws to come here. It's infuriating for
us that had to follow the process to watch America
do that. It's going to stop next year.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
How are you looking with the Latino community in your
home state, Bernie? And also, how do you think Trump's
going to do nationally with the Latino vote?
Speaker 8 (42:20):
You're coated Mumbian and in Ohio and Ohio? Uh in what?
Speaker 10 (42:29):
Please?
Speaker 8 (42:30):
Fine?
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Sounds good to me? Oh, that's great, Bertie, Bernie, We're gonna.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Win the Hispanic vote. We're gonna win the Hispanic vote
because look, Hispanics care about family, they care about community.
We've seen what happened in Venezuela. And let me just
tell you something again, for Americans that inherited this country
through birth, whether it's your grandfather, grandfather, great grandfather, or whatever,
do not allow these leftist lunatics to turn this country
in Venezuela. Please, I'm pleading with you. My family came
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here for the America that we understand to be the country.
This country can easily turn into Venezuela this election. You
put Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz. With a Democrat majority
in the Senate House, one generation, this country becomes Venezuela Bernie.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
A couple of things here, I think that you just
hammered home that are significant. I want you to hammer
him home again. One the importance of going out and
voting early. We are telling everybody in this audience get
your vote in. Buck and I are both going to
go vote, vote early. But I want you to lay
out specifically how that can help in Ohio. Second thing,
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you said, you cannot have split voters. People can't vote Trump,
which they're gonna do by ten and also vote for
Sharad Brown. Brown called Trump a racist. He said Trump's
a racist. Now he's trying to to say, oh, I'll
work with Trump. If you are voting Trump, you have
to vote Marino, and you need to go vote early.
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But explain again in detail why that can help you
so much at being able to win and flip control
of the Senate.
Speaker 8 (44:04):
Absolutely so. If you think about the last four weeks
of the selection like a football game, it's four quarters.
It's four weeks of early voting. So we don't know
how people voted, but we know that they're Republican inclined
to vote. So we see that people are voting early,
we don't have to chase you. We don't have to
send you emails or text messages, we don't have to
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go knock on your door. We know that one county
is doing well but another county is not, so we
can put resources and we can end each quarter saying, okay,
for the first week of early voting, what's the score,
Then the second week, the third week, and the final week.
If we don't have people Republicans go out there and
vote early in mass then we have to communicate with
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the entire population of voters consistently for four weeks, and
it's very, very expensive. So it allows us to shift
our resources. Look, can you imagine playing a football game
and you couldn't watch the score until the game was over,
And that's insane. So we have to make certain that
people go out there and vote early. It's very easy
to do it in Ohio. And on top of that,
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you never know what's going to happen November fifth, by
the way, we could have a snowstorm, we could have
a blizzard, we could have a power outage. We don't know.
Banks that vote get it done. This is the easiest
election to do that because it's not confusing. You are
not confused out there if you're thinking that you're going
to vote for President Trump or Kamala Harris, because that's
not a hard decision. And like you just said earlier, look,
Sharon Brown, we don't have to wonder what he will do.
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We just look at what he did when he was
in office as a senator from Ohio President Trump was
in the White House. He fought President trumpet every step
of the way and every major vote that mattered. Let's
not let him do that again.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Amen, Bernie Marino, next senator from the state of Ohio,
he's going to flip control to the Republican Party. Bernie,
We appreciate the time. Keep the sprint going.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
My man, you got it.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
You're listening to twenty four The Most Important Tier in
Politics with Clay Travis at Buck Sexton.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
Corey Lewandowski is with us Trump twenty twenty four senior
campaign official, a veteran of the Trump Wars politically speaking,
Good to have you back, Corey, Thanks for being on
the show.
Speaker 10 (46:16):
Well, it's a pleasure, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (46:18):
Look, let's just get Let's just give you the ball
that you're rum with it. Here you have the connectivity
and the perspective to see how it's looking for Trump
in a way that everybody wants to hear. I mean,
we can just sort of start by honing in on
some of the battlet ground states. How's the campaign, how's
the ground game, how are we looking.
Speaker 10 (46:39):
Let me give your listeners some historical perspective of this,
and I'll just go back four years of where the
campaign was on this day in twenty twenty. On the
Real Clear Politics average. In twenty twenty, we were down
seven points to Joe Biden. Today Rasmusen has us up
four points. But let's go to the big states, the
states that are going to matter where this election is
going to be decided, first and foremost. In Arizona, on
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this day four years ago, we were down five points
for Joe Biden. Today, according to Real Clear Politics, we're
up five point five for a net swing of ten
and a half points. When you look at where we
are in the battleground state of Michigan four years ago,
down three point three to Biden, today, we're up two
point two for a net swing of five point five.
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And then let me just go down to Pennsylvania. We
were down three to six, we're now are up three
to one for a net swing of six point seven.
And lastly, Wisconsin, Wisconsin today, four years ago we were
down four point four points. Today we're up three point
zero and the real Clare average for a net of
seven point four point swing. All of that is to
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say we are in the strongest position Donald Trump has
ever been in his life to seek this reelection and
have victory in November. Absolutely no question.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Corey Kamala Harris's campaigning in New Hampshire today, I told
our audience we started the show, look at where Kamala
is going.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
It will tell you how she sees the race.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Is it to you a sign of nervousness that Kamala
is in New Hampshire and in Virginia, two states that
Biden won comfortably in twenty twenty one? New Hampshire by
seventy won Virginia by ten. Doesn't that kind of indicate
to all of us what her internal polling is showing?
Speaker 10 (48:26):
Oh, it absolutely does. Look, you know, we've got public
polling that shows that the state of Virginia is a
three point race. Right now, We've got public polling that
shows that New Hampshire is dead. Even she is afraid
because if she loses the four electoral votes in New
Hampshire and the electoral votes in Virginia, she has no path.
Where is Donald Trump recently and where is he today? Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona,
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North Carolina, Rinse and repeat why, because that's where this
race is going to be won and lost. When you
look at the battleground states, my home state of New Hampshire,
We're going to continue to ask people on the ground.
There a strong presence. I will always advocate for the
president to go up and see those people. But Kamala Harris,
her first campaign stops of this election cycle are in
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a state like New Hampshire. It tells you everything you
need to know that she is so concerned that she's
going to lose that state that she's putting her first
campaign stops there. And look, I think it's very possible
she does lose. Donald Trump lost the state of New
Hampshire in twenty sixteen by about twenty seven hundred votes.
And now the people know what's at stake, and they
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know that his record will bring them economic prosperity, safety
and security, and an opportunity for everybody in that grantite
state to have a better future.
Speaker 4 (49:47):
Speaking of Corey Lewandowski, senior campaign advisor for Trump twenty
twenty four, Corey, to that end, on the economic side
of things, what is the primary messaging that the campaign
as running in these particularly in the swing states, on
what the Trump economy would do? And also, how is
the Trump campaign defining the Kamala economy? Because I don't
(50:10):
think that the Kamala campaign knows really, But so how's
that going?
Speaker 10 (50:15):
Well, it's very simple, right, Donald Trump has a record
while he was in office of passing the largest tax
cut in American history. And what's amazing, and your listener
should be aware of this is Donald Trump and Kamala
Harris have actually never met. And the reason for that
is because she was so ineffective as a US Senator
that she wasn't part of any of these bipartisan negotiations
(50:37):
to help provide economic release to the American people. So
where are we right now? We know that the you
know what they used to call bidnomics she's walking away from.
She's no longer supporting that because of the devastation has
entailed and told on the American families. It doesn't matter
if you are rich or poor, black or white, green,
(50:59):
or it doesn't matter. You are feeling the crunch of
the Biden Harris Walls administration, which is more money to
put food on your plate, is more money to put
gas in your car. It is more money to make
sure your kids have the school supplies that they need
to go back to school. And people are tired of
it because it's unsustainable.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Corey, When you look at the larger landscape of this race,
it seems to me the easiest path for Trump winning
is North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania. Now there's a lot of
other states. We just mentioned New Hampshire, Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona.
There's a lot of states in play out there. But
(51:39):
when you look at the map, is that the pathway
of Hey, we win North Carolina, we win Georgia, we
win Pennsylvania, those three states and it's done. Is that
part of the way You're thinking, how would you assess
the map here as we sit sixty two days out, Well.
Speaker 10 (51:55):
Look, I think North Carolina's a state that's been very
good to us over the last two cycles. Georgia, you know,
is a state that we have clearly an opportunity to
be successful there. Historically speaking, there's a number of Republicans
who've been elected down there and has been a state
that's been good to us. That being said, Pennsylvania is
always the Great White Whale, and until Donald Trump won
it in twenty sixteen, Republicans always thought they could win it,
(52:17):
but they could never pull it off. But his message
is particularly when you juxtapose that to Kamala's message of
fracking is what Donald Trump supports, she opposes it. You know,
we have seen what outsourcing jobs has done to the
state of Pennsylvania. We've seen what the outsourcing of manufacturing
has done. So Pennsylvania is a battleground state for sure,
(52:39):
but look what we've been able to do in Michigan.
Look what the auto workers have come around to Donald
Trump because Joe Biden is willing to put those autofactories
down in Mexico. Look at the state of Wisconsin, and
I just want to go back to those numbers. Four
years ago. Today we were down full point four points
in Wisconsin. Today we're up three If anybody saying that
(53:00):
Tim Wallas has been in addition to this campaign for
Kamala Harris, they are sorely mistaken. He is the most,
if not the most very close to the most radical
governor in America, and his Midwest values have not given
them any bump in those battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin,
or Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4 (53:20):
Cory, we know you talked to Trump on a regular
daily basis. The debate coming up. There's one debate that
Kamala has agreed to so far right's still just one.
I think that she said, okay, yeah, I'll show up
for that one. What should we expect from the big guy?
Speaker 10 (53:36):
Look, I think Donald Trump has been preparing for debates
his entire life. We know that, and I've heard it
hundreds of times. If Donald Trump would just do this,
he will win, or if he'll just stop talking. You know,
he has a record of winning presidential debates. Whether it
was in the primary process all the way back in
fifteen and sixteen, which I know many of you remember,
(53:57):
or it was when he debated Hillary Clinton and he
said you'd be in jail. It was that one liner,
the off the cuff, you know, a temporaneous statement that
he made that everybody started laughing. Or at the last debate, well,
Joe Biden is rooling on himself, and Donald Trump turned
and said, I don't know what that guy just said,
and either does he I mean it. You know, it's
so funny because this guy has such a quick wit
(54:19):
that I would anticipate a line like that is going
to happen in this debate, and it's going to show
the humanization of Donald Trump, because I believe Kamala Harris
is just going to try and be a robot. She's
going to tell us how she prosecutes criminals like Donald Trump,
and how she has made her way and broken through
the glass ceiling and all of those things. The reality is,
(54:39):
she doesn't know what she's for and what she's against.
And this is going to be the first time, truly
that the American people will have a chance to see
and hear from her because most of the media has
given her a free pass for the last forty five days.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
Corey, do you think the Kamala camp is starting to
panic a little bit? It feels like they got the
sugar high in August, then they didn't get as much
as they thought coming out of the DNC and the
numbers have continued to tick back.
Speaker 2 (55:07):
Have you seen that in the.
Speaker 3 (55:08):
Internal polling with the Trump team and does that kind
of characterize why we've seen it feels sort of like
a frenetic Kamala Harris campaign of late, where they're just
desperately trying to erase the things that she said she's
four in the past and now claim she's against them.
Speaker 10 (55:25):
Yeah, her staff is out actively telling all the members
of the media what Kamala now stands for. We haven't
heard it from her. We haven't heard it from the candidate,
but our staff is doing it on Friday nights and
you know, privately with members of the media because they're
afraid because coming off of the Democrat Convention, she should
have gotten a five to seven point bump, but she
did not. And the reason she didn't get that bump
(55:47):
partially is because we received and secured the RFK endorsement
the following day. And I don't want to overlook that,
but that RFK endorsement in Glendale, Aras might have been
the largest crowd and rally and applause I have ever
heard for anybody on a debate on a stage other
(56:08):
than Donald John Trump.
Speaker 8 (56:10):
The crowd was.
Speaker 10 (56:11):
In love with this guy. And what we're seeing and
what the polling data is indicating is those women who
are twenty five to forty years old, who have multiple
children or children are coming to the Trump campaign in
record numbers because they're concerned about what Kamala and Joe
did to their kids, forcing them with the vaccines and
the RFK Junior endorsement and the Tulsa Gabbard endorsement are
(56:35):
paying significant dividends of the campaign in both the short
term and then will continue to do so in the
long term.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
We got one more question for you from one of
our VIPs. Vip Joe asks Corey, where are all the commercials?
Please tell me the battleground states are going to get
flooded with commercials. I haven't heard or seen one single
Trump commercial. What can you tell me about now? He's
in by the way in Mississippi. I think some people
out there in red states or seeing I ain't seeing much, Corey.
(57:03):
My bet is going to be you're feeling pretty good
about a lot of states.
Speaker 7 (57:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (57:07):
Look, if we got trouble in Mississippi, fellas, we're in
big trouble, right. I think we're going to be okay
down and those are our people. But that said, don't forget.
We are just under nine weeks away from election day,
although early voting in ballasty going out as early as
Saturday in the States, so we are running TV commercials.
But I want people to remember this. Fifty percent of
(57:28):
the electorate no longer receives their communication from television, from
mainstream media. They're getting it through social media platforms, They're
getting it from their phone. So our ability to communicate
with those people continues to evolve as the delivery platforms
continue to evolve. And that's what we're trying to do
is make sure that the right people are getting the
right messages at the right time.
Speaker 3 (57:50):
Corey Buck and I have both said that we're going
to vote early. We're going to get our ballot in.
For people out there that are listening right now, would
you encourage them to go vote early? If so, why,
what is the impact?
Speaker 10 (58:03):
Well, let me tell you something. I am a big
believer and now I live in a state of New
Hampshire that we don't have really voting. We don't have
absentee voting. You have to vote on election day, shy
of you know, a major health crisis. But in places
that allow people to vote early, absolutely take that opportunity.
You know, Republicans always win on election day because our
(58:25):
people tend to wait. But the Democrats have mastered this
ability to go to people and get them to vote
early and put that money in the bank for later,
to put that vote in the bank for later. I
think what we're going to see it may just be
one debate, it may be it maybe two or three,
we don't know. Kamala's team won't commit to that. But
if you get your ballot, don't wait in the hold
(58:46):
it for sixty days. If you already know that you're
voting for Donald Trump, you put your name on that envelope,
fill it out, vote for Donald Trump, and get it
back in. Because that's how we're going to be successful
is making sure that every per who has the opportunity
to vote early is doing that. And if we can
maintain parody with the Democrats and the early vote and
(59:07):
the absentee voting, we know that we'll win on election day.
And we have to have a system and an election
outcome that's too big to rig.
Speaker 2 (59:15):
Corey, keep up the good work.
Speaker 3 (59:17):
Tell President Trump to have fun tonight in Harrisburg with
Sean Hannity. We know he will in six days from now.
We can't wait to watch that first debate.
Speaker 10 (59:25):
Thank you, guys,
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