June 22, 2022 • 37 mins
Biden's gas tax holiday is a gimmick, Barack Obama said so in 2008. Clay predicts Floridian Trump vs. Floridian DeSantis "major battle" for GOP nomination in 2024, so does Politico. Also: Powerhouse DeSantis won't request Trump's gubernatorial endorsement. C&B dive into indictment against former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum arrested on wire fraud charges. Elon Musk agrees with C&B: Recession likely. Clay, in recognition of the show's one-year anniversary this week, reads list of C&B #1 markets.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and everybody to the Wednesday edition.
Always happy when I get the day right of the
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. So we have a
lot going on to talk to you all about today. Obviously,
we'll dive in just a second here to the gas
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tax holiday situation. Is the Biden regime really gonna pull
this at the last minute and do everything that they
can to buy off the voters, which is really what
this is. It is it is a gimmick to borrow
a term from a Democrat administration. We'll dive into that
here in just a second. And we've also got more
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updates on what happened at UV all day. We'll be
discussing that with you in a little bit. Just say,
the details keep getting worse for the law enforcement response.
With more information comes more outrage unfortunately about what happened there.
We will discuss that with you. Also, some major US
cities are having a particularly high year for violence right now,
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including New York and Los Angeles, after all time records
in places like Philadelphia and other cities last year. So
you're seeing cities that are having their worst years of
violence in a long time, and even some that are
having their worst years ever. And when you look at
some of the Democrat policies that are being pushed by
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progressive prosecutors like Gascone and Krasner, I would say Boudan,
but he just got recalled. There's others that we have
to discuss, others that we have to talk about here
as well. That's an important story. We've also got Senator
Josh Holly joining us to talk about the gun control
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legislation Senates pushed through here. I mean they call it bipartisan,
and it technically it is bipartisan. There's a whole lot
more to discuss here about how it's not really going
to do very much, if anything, I would say anything
that's good. It will also leave some open territory for
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abuse of some of the regulations. And we've got our
friend Ian Miller, who is great on the topic of
masks not working and vaccines being overpromised. When it comes there,
he'll be joining us third hour two. So show is
racked and stacked, and I'm here, of course with my
main man, Clay. I'm still down in Key Largo, which
is quite a lovely place to be. Clay is in
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Atlanta and Clay So the federal gas tax, Hollott, let's
just start with this. Even the gas CEOs who usually
you'll notice, they don't usually get into the political fray
because a lot of regulation. They just want to keep
pumping their oil, doing their business. I know there's obviously
lobbyists and such, but they don't speak out against politicians
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that frequently. The Chevron CEO has said Biden basically doesn't
know what the heck he's talking about. Here is Biden's
response play clip one good question on the Chevron CEO's
complaint Today. He said that your administration has largely criticized
the oil and gas industry and at times has vilified it,
and that the administration would need to take a change
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in approach in order to make progress. I'm reducing energy
prices and to increase supply. Do you have a reaction
to that, surf I didn't know if they shared that quickly.
I mean, does it really think it's a time for jokes?
Clay people can't afford gas. The gas CEO is saying
the Biden regime is clownish and he thinks it's funny
here's what's going on. The Democrats know that nothing else matters.
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All the distractions they're trying to throw up surrounding January sixth,
the potential impact as we go forward, surrounding whatever the
Supreme Court does with Roe v. Wade, All of it
is a big distraction that is not taking away attention
from eight point six percent inflation and how angry every
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single person is when they go to pump their gas
and it's five dollars a gallon. That is every single time.
The essence of this, and the problem with the gas
tax holiday is it's not going to do anything other
than provide a short term show. And the biggest issue
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the Biden administration has is all of the oil and
gas companies know that the Biden administration is opposed to
everything that they do and every aspect of their business.
So take it outside of gas. If you knew that
there was a government that hated what your business was
and they were suddenly desperate for your product because there
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was a midterm election coming up, would you invest billions
of dollars in production when you knew that as soon
as they possibly could, they would cut your legs out
from underneath you and what was a profitable business would
rapidly decline in profitability because remember Bucket, wasn't very long
ago that we were talking about gas prices going negative.
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Do you remember that, Like in March and April of
twenty twenty when everybody was supposed to stay at home
and all this oil was being delivered to the United
States and the price of a barrel of crude oil
actually went into negative territory because there was nowhere to
store it and there was no consumption product in place.
That's what they're afraid of. They're afraid of creating a
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situation where they're drastically oversupplying a market that is trying
to cut the legs out of the business that they
are in the middle of. And so there's no trust,
there's no reciprocity here, there's no reproachment, there is no
relationship because ultimately Democrats want oil and gas, anything other
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than so called clean energy, to vanish and to vanish forever.
And Biden is trying to make the oil and gas
companies responsible for the price of oil and gas, when
if he had allowed the full fruition of our production
from the first place, he wouldn't be going on bended
need of Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran begging for them
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to increase production so that we can replace what we're
losing in Russia. They don't have any plans, folks, not really.
At this point, it is down to gimmicks. You have
to wonder at what phase will Biden just decide to
send Biden stimulus checks even though we're going through a
terrible period of inflation, to effectively buy off as many
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voters as possible at the very end here. And they
can't have it both ways either. You can't have the
Biden regime talking about a move that will bring down
gas prices and Biden doing everything he can on gas prices.
But it's not as fault that gas prices are high, right, Well,
no one's saying it's all his fault. Nothing at a
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macroeconomic level is ever entirely the sitting president's fault. But
has he made it worse? Has he made the wrong moves? Yes,
clearly obviously, everybody, including the CEOs of all the fossil
fuel energy companies, but also everybody who's had to pump
gas for the last six months. Nos. Yeah, this administration
has made things more painful, more difficult, and you know
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you still, Clay, I love this. You've got like these.
The Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm can't help herself. John Kerry
can't help himself. They're going around here, You go here,
Graholm saying, yeah, look, things are tough, but what a
great opportunity while you can't afford to drive to work,
to transition to green energy. Place seven. We've got obviously
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all of this upheaval, We've got the coming out of
the pandemic, we've got this obvious invasion of Ukraine on
the energy side, and we've got the moment to think
and act strategically about lifting up communities and building these
supply chains out and building out the installations in a
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way that give everyone a chance to succeed. The sixty
four thousand dollars electric vehicle solution to five dollars gas
is maybe the most Marie Antoinette esque move of any
modern political party during our lives. Remember Debbie stab Now,
the Senator from Michigan, bragging about how she had driven
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from Michigan to DC and she just kept driving past
in her brand new electric vehicle, all of the high
gas prices and ultimately what's wild here, buck is Barack
Obama actually pointed this out some time ago, that everything
about a gas tax holiday was a gimmick. He said
it back in two thousand and eight. And I would
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imagine there'll be a lot of people playing this because
obviously Joe Biden was the vice president of Barack Obama
at the time that this was said. And guess what Obama,
at least on this scenario was one hundred percent right. Listen.
But for us to suggest that thirty cents a day
for three months is real relief, that that's a real
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energy policy means that we are not tackling the problem
that has to be tackling. We are offering gimmicks when
we're offering the same thing that John McCain's offering on
the cheat. That means we're not presenting a truthful response
to the challenges that we face in America. We can
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do better than that. This time. It's a gimmick. It's
a gimmick. Luck. I would love to hear Joe Biden
actually directly questioned on this. Of course it rarely happens,
but hey, your former president set a gas tax holiday
was a gimmick. Why was he wrong. I would love
to hear that Joe Biden's response to that, and that
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they also know Clay where this is all heading. A
Biden administration that has a Republican major already in the
House and even a slim majority in the Senate isn't
going to get any major legislation through. You're going to
hear a lot of class warfare stuff, and obviously depending
on the Republican candidate, there'll be a real focus on
you know, January sixth, all the things that we can expect.
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But then it really turns into politically, this country after
the midterms is going to shift right into presidential election mode,
and it's there's not going to be some long holiday.
There's not going to be a honeymoon period of you know,
a year in between. We're going to be shifting right
toward and at that point, with Biden not able to
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point to any achievements, and with all the pain that
we're seeing economically in this country, never mind all the
other dysfunction that we talk about. Legal immigration, worst it's
ever been, violent crime the worst it's ever been in
a number of cities a nationwide, the worst it's been
in decades. All these things just point in one direction.
And that is for the one thing that Democrats and
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the apparatus are really responsive to, the imminent loss of power,
the massive loss of authority. That's where they're heading. And
so you're already seeing the desperation, right, I mean, come on,
a gas tax holiday is desperate. Honestly, Biden. Even tapping
into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it's not really what it's
for now. Politicians play games with things like this, but
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that's supposed to be in the case of an embargo
or award. It's not just gas price a little high.
Let's buy off the voters a little bit. Let's tell
them I'm doing something. The thing that they could do
is encourage not just exploration, not just refining, Encourage fossil
fuel domestic production, and say we're not going to stand
in your way this year or in four years or
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in ten years. We understand this is where the economy is.
They ideologically cannot do that. That is where the rubber
meets the road. Drill, baby, drill. I remember someone distilling
the question of what we should do when it came
to oil and gas, and that is exactly what should
be done. But you're right, when your entire party is
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predicated on the idea of climate change as a destructive
force that must be resolved, then the Green New Deal
energy policies mean you can't actually solve an energy crisis
that has emerged and is continuing to grow and is
probably going to lead to higher gas prices throughout the
course of the summer. And Buck, the discussion here is
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about a gas tax holiday until September. Do you really
think they would end it in September or do you
think they would extend it to Oh, I don't know,
November tenth, maybe through Thanksgiving. Oh, we're going to give
everybody a little bit of a break. And I can't
even wait. We'll have to talk about this as it
gets closer to July fourth, more in earnest. Remember last
year when the Biden White House put out the statement
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that you were saving sixteen cents on your Fourth of
July barbecue over the year before thanks to the Biden
economic Those pork rib tasted so much better with the
two bits that I was saving or whatever. You know
that the twelve and a sixteen cents that you were saving.
We'll talk about this and more. And also you mentioned
twenty twenty four. Got some great guests coming down the line.
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Donald Trump endorsement, Ron De Santis Politico with an interesting
story there about looking ahead and where we might be headed.
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're rolling
through the Wednesday edition of the program and I tease
this as we went to break. There's gonna be a
lot of discussion on this show. I think it's going
to be a reality. I believe that Ron Santis, governor
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of Florida, is going to be running against Donald Trump
for the twenty twenty four presidential nomination on behalf of
the Republican Party. And Politico has a story that went
up early this morning that Rhonda Santis is not asking
for Donald Trump's indorsement in the state of Florida, according
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to four people I'm reading from Politico. According to four
people connected to the governor and former president. De Santis
has not asked Trump for a formal endorsement and isn't
planning to. It's a clear sign to Santis, who more
than four years ago was a little known congressman from
northeast Florida, has risen high in the GOP stratosphere, and
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they are expecting now that there is going to be
There's a New Yorker article we talked about it that
hinted edit had quotes from Trump. I think that we
are headed for a major battle between DeSantis and Trump
in twenty twenty three as we run into the twenty
twenty four presidential election. Now things can still change, Buck Rhn.
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De Santis has got to win reelection in Florida this November.
His wife has been unhealthy. She had breast cancer. Appears
fortunately to have recovered from that, but there are potential
health considerations there. Trump is obviously over the age of
seventy five. He seems to be in great health right now,
but that's always worth mentioning two. But it appears increasingly
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likely that that is going to be a battle of
Leviathans in the Republican Party for twenty twenty four's nomination.
I feel like the rest of the country is going
to have to ask for Rhonda Santis too. They're got
to ask Floridians to be willing to part with their
favorite governor. Because we've got audiences now listening Fla, Tampa,
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iod Miami, all up the southern, all up South Florida,
and then you know, on the on the side of
the west side hand handle world. I mean, we got
a big on. Everyone is the capital of the Republican
Party now, and both these guys live there, and so
it's just gonna be a It's gonna be so interesting
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to see it. But I know they don't want to
give up their governor, and he's heading into to a
presidential well, let's be honest, I mean, do they want
to even give him up to the to the White House,
But certainly even to a presidential election would be a big,
a big shift in focus that would occurled though I
think people can handle keep people do handle both those things.
I just say this, though, Clay Um He's gonna win reelection.
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It looks like in the governor's race in Florida, not
by a little bit, but by a major amount, and
also will have changed the registrations of hundreds of thousands
from down a few hundred thousand to the Democrats to
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Welcome back to Clay and Buck Show. Eight hundred two
eight two two eight eight two. I'm down here in
Keebargo for the Florida Association of Broadcasters, having a great
time here. And Clay is in Atlanta with his kids
checking out a Braves game, having fun up there. And
so we're always moving around the country and we'll let
you know, and we're coming to your your neck of
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the woods because it's a good time to get to
see some of our folks all over the US. But
because I'm in Florida right now, I have to say
it's interesting that there's a pretty big breaking news story
just from this morning, and it's not a good time
to be an Andrew Gillam fan. You all remember the
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twenty eighteen gubernatorial election here in the state of Florida
where Andrew Gillham ran against the now governor. We were
just talking about Ronda Santis, who some people are saying
is looking more and more likely to be a republic
look at presidential contender and maybe even an occupant at
sixteen hundred Pennsylvania at some point we shall all see.
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I don't pretend to have a crystal ball. I've been
in politics political radio too long to think that I
can predict these things. But he's certainly getting talked about
a lot in that regard his former former opponent in
twenty eighteen, Andrew Gillham. And this was a super close race.
Just woever remembers, Ron De Santis won four million, seventy
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six thousand, one hundred and eighty six votes in the
final tally Andrew Gillham four million, forty three thousand, seven
hundred twenty three a difference of give or take thirty
thirty three thousand votes in that governor's race. A razor
a razor's edge on a raisers edge kind of margin there. Well,
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the breaking news today is that the individual the Democrats
wanted to be the governor of the state of Florida
is facing a twice empty, one count federal indictment for
conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud and making
false statements to the FBI. Clay I read through the
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d J. This is always the best way to do
it right. Whenever they have the actual Department of Justice
charging or the charging document available to be read or
just their press release on what the charges are. He
it seems had someone a co conspirator, alleged co conspirator,
Sharon Janet Lettmann Hicks, and they were raising money for
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one purpose and then she was funneling money. This is
again according to the indictment, funneling money through it looks
like some kind of LLC or corporation and then funneling
money directly back to Gillham for personal usage and for
her for personal usage. So this is one of these things.
You know, this man, when I remember from from terrorism cases,
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you know it gets not that this is a terrorism case,
but you know it gets most people with these federal indictment,
false statements charges and anything involving wire fraud, because its
numbers on the screen, easy enough to prove, and you
face twenty years maximum for a wire fraud charge. It's
a serious felony. For everybody out there who wonders about
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the importance of governor's races, I think you can make
a strong argument that the state of Florida, in electing
RHN De Santis over Andrew Gillim rendered the single most
important governor's race election result in the twenty first century
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and maybe going back twenty or thirty years before that.
Let me explain what I mean by that thesis you
mentioned it Buck thirty three thousand votes. De Santis beats
Andrew gillimby Worth also noting that Andrew Gillam was a
part of a gay sex embrolio that happened in Miami,
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where least had to be called drugs were used. Photos
of him passed out on the ground. I believe he
was there with a prostitute and a substantial amount of
illegal drugs, a METS prostitute, and like meth or something
was in abundance, Yeah, which blew up his life even
before these federal indictments came down just a couple of
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hours ago. And so when you look at this, and
I think when you follow through everyone out there, I'll
understand if Andrew Gillam had been the governor of Florida,
let's pretend that he doesn't get the federal indictments. Let's
pretend that the gay sex scandal doesn't emerge. Let's just
say he wins and he mostly stays out of trouble.
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He would have done exactly what Andrew Cuomo did and
exactly what Gavin Newsom did he would have shut down
the state of Florida if he had shut down during COVID,
If he had shut down the state of Florida during COVID,
just like Florida and California, so many Republican governors would
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have been afraid to follow the lead of Ron DeSantis,
who made the decision that lockdowns made zero sense, who
opened up schools, who kept everything flowing in terms of
the commerce as best was possible in the state of Florida.
And we would have been Canada or we would have
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been Australia, because I'm not sure any other governor of
a populous state would have been willing to stand up
to the popular tide of locked down viral superior say
the other even much more. Remember, Florida was a Democrat
leaned by registrations state going. I mean it was very close,
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but maybe by one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand registrations,
So it was this very thin margin state. There were
far more red states, yes, where the governors they were
just whimpy. I'm just gonna say it. They went along
with it, a lot of them trying to rewrite the history. Now.
But there were places that could have been beacons of
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sanity and freedom and constitutionalism during the pandemic. Who just
bent the knee to fouciism? They because, remember people, it's
so important. I hated lockdowns and masking even when Trump
was president. Trump wasn't pushing that stuff. I mean, the
first couple of weeks we're all terrified. We saw in
northern Italy. It was the states that became essentially crazy.
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Florida did not become crazy, but these other states went
completely out of their minds, New York, California. And then
when Biden became president, you added the federal government layer
on top of it. But so Trump was far better
on these issues, needs to be said, far better on
these issues of COVID and lockdowns than Biden was not
even close. And obviously Governor Ronda Santis at a state
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level was by far not even just the best to
such a broad term, the sanest, the most data driven,
the most realistic about what was actually happening, and Clay
he created the space for others. You know, I think
Abbott had DeSantis envy in Texas. I think there were
other governors who saw what happened in Florida and saw
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that it was possible for businesses to be open. And
you know, without Florida and Descantists, does Georgia open as
early as it did? I don't think so. Without Desantists,
does Texas start to move in the right directionals? I
think far too slowly. I don't think so. I think
some small states would have, but they would have had
such tiny populations and they would have been overwhelmingly rural
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in nature such that it wouldn't have had the same impact.
And what happened was DeSantis trusted his data, his analysis
of all of the COVID related lockdown decisions, and he
was willing to go out there and take all of
the fire because when you followed in his wake, there
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wasn't as much criticism for everyone else. And thirty three
thousand vote buck thirty three thousand votes in Florida in
a twenty eighteen governor's election that, let's be honest, nobody
thought was super important. I know, people cared, and whether
you're Republican or Democrat party rules in Florida is a
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big deal, but no one thought that governors would become
as important as they did by twenty twenty. In the spring,
I mean, we have a lot more than thirty thousand
people in the state of Florida alone listening to this
right now, that's right, we have we have several times
over plus the margin of victors. Just so everyone when
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we talk about and that's why we always like to
move the stories around based on where things are happening.
So we're looking at every part of the country, because
we have stations in every part of the country and
we want to make sure that we're representing, you know,
not just the national level, but the concerns at the
state and even local level. When that becomes a prominent
enough issue for everyone to be hearing about it, and
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you think about that Florida election, the implications of it,
and how tight it was going into this mid term,
I just don't want it. I don't want anyone leaving anything,
you know, anything on the table. Leave it all on
the field, so to speak, right, everyone's got this has
got to be all hands on deck, because even even
an election that doesn't get that much attention can make
a huge difference too. I mean the case of Florida.
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Think about this, folks, Millions and millions of people's jobs,
their mental health, their their physical health, all turned on
their kids offered up right, I mean the Republican Party
offered up Ronda Santists. So we were laughing yesterday. The
hit piece on him is this guy who goes to
Harvard and Yale and serves his country in the military.
He's way too focused. Not enough beer bonds for Ronda
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Santists when he's in college. And then they wanted they
wanted Andrew Gillim who put aside to you know, the
personal scandal, but it was also there's illegal drugs and
other things involved. Put aside that for a moment. It's
basic a twenty one counts federal indictment that end. By
the way, the DeSantis is too serious angle is the
exact opposite of the George W. Bush story, which was
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this is a guy who likes to party too much,
who has too much fun. He's coasted his entire life.
So if you're a fun loving, easygoing guy, I think
I think also W. Bush went to Yale, right, and
you don't take school that seriously, Oh you're not ready
to be president. If you do take school seriously and
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you come from a middle class background, you're way too
focused and therefore are not a good choice either. You
literally get hit on either side. He partied too much,
didn't party enough. He's too cool, he's not cool enough.
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Gonna tee off on all these crazy parents who are
getting their kids six months to five years old. The
COVID shot, which officially began yesterday. But we told you
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on this show that we believe we're probably already in
a recession. The richest man in the world. Well, Elon Musk,
he says session is inevitable. Joe Biden claiming that recession
is not inevitable. Whose side are you going to take,
the guy who understands business and has built the largest
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wealth almost in the history of the country, or the
guy who's been in government for over forty years and
basically never accomplished anything. Here's Elon Musk responding to Biden.
Joe Biden has just come out and said that a
recession in America is not inevitable. How do you feel
about the economy? Well, I think a recession is inevitable
at some point. As to whether there is a recession
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in the near tone, I think that is more likely
than not. Well, agree with the Elon Musk. If you
had to pick a side to be on, would you
either be on Joe Biden's opinion on the economy or
Elon Musk's opinion on the economy. So here's what's going on.
The Biden administration is hoping that they can bolster sentiment.
I mean, this is really you know, fingers and toes
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in the dam as. It's cracking kind of a policy, right,
But they're hoping that they in bolster sentiment just enough
that we eke out another quarter or two here without
being formally in a recession, because the only thing that
might drive their political hopes down into the dumps more
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than the super high price of gas is when everybody
has to because it becomes a definitional issue. Use the
r word recession when you have people saying, because it's gonna,
you know what, it's gonna be called the Biden recession.
They're gonna try to call it, you know, the Trump recession,
or the Biden Transition to Greatness plan or some such lunacy.
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But it's gonna be the Biden recession, and we all
know it. And I gotta tell you I talked to
a friend of mine. I'll just say it. I talked
to him. We talked on air about this yesterday on
TV side Ned Ryan, who's a super smart we've had
him most show many times, Great Guy, Super Squared Away
runs American Majority. And I said, so, what are we
really looking at here, Clay? He said, based on the numbers,
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and he's plugged in with the consultants and he knows
how these races are going. Anything that Biden won by
twelve to fifteen points, in twenty twenty is in play,
and maybe some outliers of fifteen to twenty points that
meeting Biden won by fifteen or twenty points then could
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be in play in this mid term, which means I
don't know if we've ever seen something like this. Well,
to put it in context, we just saw a Texas
thirty fourth congressional district that Myra flor Az won. It
swung by twenty one points, so the Democrat congressman one
by fourteen. She won by about seven So that's a
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twenty one point swing. That kind of could put into
a rough outline some of these districts and how they
could change. And by the way, yesterday I told everybody
out there, hey, it's our one year anniversary. I want
to think the specific markets that we have been number
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You know it, I love it, I've got it. I
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just the top one hundred biggest radio markets in the country.
We rank highly in many of them. But Buck, that
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is an awful lot of markets out there. We love
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and a lot of unique areas all over the country
that are currently listening to us the most of any
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make sure this audience feels focused, informed, entertained, and fired
up for our first full scale election together friends in
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and Buck Sexton on the front lines, se
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast. Welcome and everybody to the Wednesday edition.
Always happy when I get the day right of the
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. So we have a
lot going on to talk to you all about today. Obviously,
we'll dive in just a second here to the gas
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tax holiday situation. Is the Biden regime really gonna pull
this at the last minute and do everything that they
can to buy off the voters, which is really what
this is. It is it is a gimmick to borrow
a term from a Democrat administration. We'll dive into that
here in just a second. And we've also got more
(00:44):
updates on what happened at UV all day. We'll be
discussing that with you in a little bit. Just say,
the details keep getting worse for the law enforcement response.
With more information comes more outrage unfortunately about what happened there.
We will discuss that with you. Also, some major US
cities are having a particularly high year for violence right now,
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including New York and Los Angeles, after all time records
in places like Philadelphia and other cities last year. So
you're seeing cities that are having their worst years of
violence in a long time, and even some that are
having their worst years ever. And when you look at
some of the Democrat policies that are being pushed by
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progressive prosecutors like Gascone and Krasner, I would say Boudan,
but he just got recalled. There's others that we have
to discuss, others that we have to talk about here
as well. That's an important story. We've also got Senator
Josh Holly joining us to talk about the gun control
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legislation Senates pushed through here. I mean they call it bipartisan,
and it technically it is bipartisan. There's a whole lot
more to discuss here about how it's not really going
to do very much, if anything, I would say anything
that's good. It will also leave some open territory for
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abuse of some of the regulations. And we've got our
friend Ian Miller, who is great on the topic of
masks not working and vaccines being overpromised. When it comes there,
he'll be joining us third hour two. So show is
racked and stacked, and I'm here, of course with my
main man, Clay. I'm still down in Key Largo, which
is quite a lovely place to be. Clay is in
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Atlanta and Clay So the federal gas tax, Hollott, let's
just start with this. Even the gas CEOs who usually
you'll notice, they don't usually get into the political fray
because a lot of regulation. They just want to keep
pumping their oil, doing their business. I know there's obviously
lobbyists and such, but they don't speak out against politicians
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that frequently. The Chevron CEO has said Biden basically doesn't
know what the heck he's talking about. Here is Biden's
response play clip one good question on the Chevron CEO's
complaint Today. He said that your administration has largely criticized
the oil and gas industry and at times has vilified it,
and that the administration would need to take a change
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in approach in order to make progress. I'm reducing energy
prices and to increase supply. Do you have a reaction
to that, surf I didn't know if they shared that quickly.
I mean, does it really think it's a time for jokes?
Clay people can't afford gas. The gas CEO is saying
the Biden regime is clownish and he thinks it's funny
here's what's going on. The Democrats know that nothing else matters.
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All the distractions they're trying to throw up surrounding January sixth,
the potential impact as we go forward, surrounding whatever the
Supreme Court does with Roe v. Wade, All of it
is a big distraction that is not taking away attention
from eight point six percent inflation and how angry every
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single person is when they go to pump their gas
and it's five dollars a gallon. That is every single time.
The essence of this, and the problem with the gas
tax holiday is it's not going to do anything other
than provide a short term show. And the biggest issue
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the Biden administration has is all of the oil and
gas companies know that the Biden administration is opposed to
everything that they do and every aspect of their business.
So take it outside of gas. If you knew that
there was a government that hated what your business was
and they were suddenly desperate for your product because there
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was a midterm election coming up, would you invest billions
of dollars in production when you knew that as soon
as they possibly could, they would cut your legs out
from underneath you and what was a profitable business would
rapidly decline in profitability because remember Bucket, wasn't very long
ago that we were talking about gas prices going negative.
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Do you remember that, Like in March and April of
twenty twenty when everybody was supposed to stay at home
and all this oil was being delivered to the United
States and the price of a barrel of crude oil
actually went into negative territory because there was nowhere to
store it and there was no consumption product in place.
That's what they're afraid of. They're afraid of creating a
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situation where they're drastically oversupplying a market that is trying
to cut the legs out of the business that they
are in the middle of. And so there's no trust,
there's no reciprocity here, there's no reproachment, there is no
relationship because ultimately Democrats want oil and gas, anything other
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than so called clean energy, to vanish and to vanish forever.
And Biden is trying to make the oil and gas
companies responsible for the price of oil and gas, when
if he had allowed the full fruition of our production
from the first place, he wouldn't be going on bended
need of Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran begging for them
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to increase production so that we can replace what we're
losing in Russia. They don't have any plans, folks, not really.
At this point, it is down to gimmicks. You have
to wonder at what phase will Biden just decide to
send Biden stimulus checks even though we're going through a
terrible period of inflation, to effectively buy off as many
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voters as possible at the very end here. And they
can't have it both ways either. You can't have the
Biden regime talking about a move that will bring down
gas prices and Biden doing everything he can on gas prices.
But it's not as fault that gas prices are high, right, Well,
no one's saying it's all his fault. Nothing at a
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macroeconomic level is ever entirely the sitting president's fault. But
has he made it worse? Has he made the wrong moves? Yes,
clearly obviously, everybody, including the CEOs of all the fossil
fuel energy companies, but also everybody who's had to pump
gas for the last six months. Nos. Yeah, this administration
has made things more painful, more difficult, and you know
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you still, Clay, I love this. You've got like these.
The Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm can't help herself. John Kerry
can't help himself. They're going around here, You go here,
Graholm saying, yeah, look, things are tough, but what a
great opportunity while you can't afford to drive to work,
to transition to green energy. Place seven. We've got obviously
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all of this upheaval, We've got the coming out of
the pandemic, we've got this obvious invasion of Ukraine on
the energy side, and we've got the moment to think
and act strategically about lifting up communities and building these
supply chains out and building out the installations in a
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way that give everyone a chance to succeed. The sixty
four thousand dollars electric vehicle solution to five dollars gas
is maybe the most Marie Antoinette esque move of any
modern political party during our lives. Remember Debbie stab Now,
the Senator from Michigan, bragging about how she had driven
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from Michigan to DC and she just kept driving past
in her brand new electric vehicle, all of the high
gas prices and ultimately what's wild here, buck is Barack
Obama actually pointed this out some time ago, that everything
about a gas tax holiday was a gimmick. He said
it back in two thousand and eight. And I would
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imagine there'll be a lot of people playing this because
obviously Joe Biden was the vice president of Barack Obama
at the time that this was said. And guess what Obama,
at least on this scenario was one hundred percent right. Listen.
But for us to suggest that thirty cents a day
for three months is real relief, that that's a real
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energy policy means that we are not tackling the problem
that has to be tackling. We are offering gimmicks when
we're offering the same thing that John McCain's offering on
the cheat. That means we're not presenting a truthful response
to the challenges that we face in America. We can
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do better than that. This time. It's a gimmick. It's
a gimmick. Luck. I would love to hear Joe Biden
actually directly questioned on this. Of course it rarely happens,
but hey, your former president set a gas tax holiday
was a gimmick. Why was he wrong. I would love
to hear that Joe Biden's response to that, and that
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they also know Clay where this is all heading. A
Biden administration that has a Republican major already in the
House and even a slim majority in the Senate isn't
going to get any major legislation through. You're going to
hear a lot of class warfare stuff, and obviously depending
on the Republican candidate, there'll be a real focus on
you know, January sixth, all the things that we can expect.
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But then it really turns into politically, this country after
the midterms is going to shift right into presidential election mode,
and it's there's not going to be some long holiday.
There's not going to be a honeymoon period of you know,
a year in between. We're going to be shifting right
toward and at that point, with Biden not able to
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point to any achievements, and with all the pain that
we're seeing economically in this country, never mind all the
other dysfunction that we talk about. Legal immigration, worst it's
ever been, violent crime the worst it's ever been in
a number of cities a nationwide, the worst it's been
in decades. All these things just point in one direction.
And that is for the one thing that Democrats and
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the apparatus are really responsive to, the imminent loss of power,
the massive loss of authority. That's where they're heading. And
so you're already seeing the desperation, right, I mean, come on,
a gas tax holiday is desperate. Honestly, Biden. Even tapping
into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, it's not really what it's
for now. Politicians play games with things like this, but
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that's supposed to be in the case of an embargo
or award. It's not just gas price a little high.
Let's buy off the voters a little bit. Let's tell
them I'm doing something. The thing that they could do
is encourage not just exploration, not just refining, Encourage fossil
fuel domestic production, and say we're not going to stand
in your way this year or in four years or
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in ten years. We understand this is where the economy is.
They ideologically cannot do that. That is where the rubber
meets the road. Drill, baby, drill. I remember someone distilling
the question of what we should do when it came
to oil and gas, and that is exactly what should
be done. But you're right, when your entire party is
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predicated on the idea of climate change as a destructive
force that must be resolved, then the Green New Deal
energy policies mean you can't actually solve an energy crisis
that has emerged and is continuing to grow and is
probably going to lead to higher gas prices throughout the
course of the summer. And Buck, the discussion here is
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about a gas tax holiday until September. Do you really
think they would end it in September or do you
think they would extend it to Oh, I don't know,
November tenth, maybe through Thanksgiving. Oh, we're going to give
everybody a little bit of a break. And I can't
even wait. We'll have to talk about this as it
gets closer to July fourth, more in earnest. Remember last
year when the Biden White House put out the statement
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that you were saving sixteen cents on your Fourth of
July barbecue over the year before thanks to the Biden
economic Those pork rib tasted so much better with the
two bits that I was saving or whatever. You know
that the twelve and a sixteen cents that you were saving.
We'll talk about this and more. And also you mentioned
twenty twenty four. Got some great guests coming down the line.
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Donald Trump endorsement, Ron De Santis Politico with an interesting
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're rolling
through the Wednesday edition of the program and I tease
this as we went to break. There's gonna be a
lot of discussion on this show. I think it's going
to be a reality. I believe that Ron Santis, governor
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of Florida, is going to be running against Donald Trump
for the twenty twenty four presidential nomination on behalf of
the Republican Party. And Politico has a story that went
up early this morning that Rhonda Santis is not asking
for Donald Trump's indorsement in the state of Florida, according
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to four people I'm reading from Politico. According to four
people connected to the governor and former president. De Santis
has not asked Trump for a formal endorsement and isn't
planning to. It's a clear sign to Santis, who more
than four years ago was a little known congressman from
northeast Florida, has risen high in the GOP stratosphere, and
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they are expecting now that there is going to be
There's a New Yorker article we talked about it that
hinted edit had quotes from Trump. I think that we
are headed for a major battle between DeSantis and Trump
in twenty twenty three as we run into the twenty
twenty four presidential election. Now things can still change, Buck Rhn.
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De Santis has got to win reelection in Florida this November.
His wife has been unhealthy. She had breast cancer. Appears
fortunately to have recovered from that, but there are potential
health considerations there. Trump is obviously over the age of
seventy five. He seems to be in great health right now,
but that's always worth mentioning two. But it appears increasingly
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likely that that is going to be a battle of
Leviathans in the Republican Party for twenty twenty four's nomination.
I feel like the rest of the country is going
to have to ask for Rhonda Santis too. They're got
to ask Floridians to be willing to part with their
favorite governor. Because we've got audiences now listening Fla, Tampa,
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iod Miami, all up the southern, all up South Florida,
and then you know, on the on the side of
the west side hand handle world. I mean, we got
a big on. Everyone is the capital of the Republican
Party now, and both these guys live there, and so
it's just gonna be a It's gonna be so interesting
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to see it. But I know they don't want to
give up their governor, and he's heading into to a
presidential well, let's be honest, I mean, do they want
to even give him up to the to the White House,
But certainly even to a presidential election would be a big,
a big shift in focus that would occurled though I
think people can handle keep people do handle both those things.
I just say this, though, Clay Um He's gonna win reelection.
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It looks like in the governor's race in Florida, not
by a little bit, but by a major amount, and
also will have changed the registrations of hundreds of thousands
from down a few hundred thousand to the Democrats to
upstate wide a few hundred thousand Republican. So we live
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Welcome back to Clay and Buck Show. Eight hundred two
eight two two eight eight two. I'm down here in
Keebargo for the Florida Association of Broadcasters, having a great
time here. And Clay is in Atlanta with his kids
checking out a Braves game, having fun up there. And
so we're always moving around the country and we'll let
you know, and we're coming to your your neck of
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the woods because it's a good time to get to
see some of our folks all over the US. But
because I'm in Florida right now, I have to say
it's interesting that there's a pretty big breaking news story
just from this morning, and it's not a good time
to be an Andrew Gillam fan. You all remember the
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twenty eighteen gubernatorial election here in the state of Florida
where Andrew Gillham ran against the now governor. We were
just talking about Ronda Santis, who some people are saying
is looking more and more likely to be a republic
look at presidential contender and maybe even an occupant at
sixteen hundred Pennsylvania at some point we shall all see.
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I don't pretend to have a crystal ball. I've been
in politics political radio too long to think that I
can predict these things. But he's certainly getting talked about
a lot in that regard his former former opponent in
twenty eighteen, Andrew Gillham. And this was a super close race.
Just woever remembers, Ron De Santis won four million, seventy
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six thousand, one hundred and eighty six votes in the
final tally Andrew Gillham four million, forty three thousand, seven
hundred twenty three a difference of give or take thirty
thirty three thousand votes in that governor's race. A razor
a razor's edge on a raisers edge kind of margin there. Well,
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the breaking news today is that the individual the Democrats
wanted to be the governor of the state of Florida
is facing a twice empty, one count federal indictment for
conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud and making
false statements to the FBI. Clay I read through the
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d J. This is always the best way to do
it right. Whenever they have the actual Department of Justice
charging or the charging document available to be read or
just their press release on what the charges are. He
it seems had someone a co conspirator, alleged co conspirator,
Sharon Janet Lettmann Hicks, and they were raising money for
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one purpose and then she was funneling money. This is
again according to the indictment, funneling money through it looks
like some kind of LLC or corporation and then funneling
money directly back to Gillham for personal usage and for
her for personal usage. So this is one of these things.
You know, this man, when I remember from from terrorism cases,
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you know it gets not that this is a terrorism case,
but you know it gets most people with these federal indictment,
false statements charges and anything involving wire fraud, because its
numbers on the screen, easy enough to prove, and you
face twenty years maximum for a wire fraud charge. It's
a serious felony. For everybody out there who wonders about
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the importance of governor's races, I think you can make
a strong argument that the state of Florida, in electing
RHN De Santis over Andrew Gillim rendered the single most
important governor's race election result in the twenty first century
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and maybe going back twenty or thirty years before that.
Let me explain what I mean by that thesis you
mentioned it Buck thirty three thousand votes. De Santis beats
Andrew gillimby Worth also noting that Andrew Gillam was a
part of a gay sex embrolio that happened in Miami,
(22:59):
where least had to be called drugs were used. Photos
of him passed out on the ground. I believe he
was there with a prostitute and a substantial amount of
illegal drugs, a METS prostitute, and like meth or something
was in abundance, Yeah, which blew up his life even
before these federal indictments came down just a couple of
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hours ago. And so when you look at this, and
I think when you follow through everyone out there, I'll
understand if Andrew Gillam had been the governor of Florida,
let's pretend that he doesn't get the federal indictments. Let's
pretend that the gay sex scandal doesn't emerge. Let's just
say he wins and he mostly stays out of trouble.
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He would have done exactly what Andrew Cuomo did and
exactly what Gavin Newsom did he would have shut down
the state of Florida if he had shut down during COVID,
If he had shut down the state of Florida during COVID,
just like Florida and California, so many Republican governors would
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have been afraid to follow the lead of Ron DeSantis,
who made the decision that lockdowns made zero sense, who
opened up schools, who kept everything flowing in terms of
the commerce as best was possible in the state of Florida.
And we would have been Canada or we would have
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been Australia, because I'm not sure any other governor of
a populous state would have been willing to stand up
to the popular tide of locked down viral superior say
the other even much more. Remember, Florida was a Democrat
leaned by registrations state going. I mean it was very close,
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but maybe by one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand registrations,
So it was this very thin margin state. There were
far more red states, yes, where the governors they were
just whimpy. I'm just gonna say it. They went along
with it, a lot of them trying to rewrite the history. Now.
But there were places that could have been beacons of
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sanity and freedom and constitutionalism during the pandemic. Who just
bent the knee to fouciism? They because, remember people, it's
so important. I hated lockdowns and masking even when Trump
was president. Trump wasn't pushing that stuff. I mean, the
first couple of weeks we're all terrified. We saw in
northern Italy. It was the states that became essentially crazy.
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Florida did not become crazy, but these other states went
completely out of their minds, New York, California. And then
when Biden became president, you added the federal government layer
on top of it. But so Trump was far better
on these issues, needs to be said, far better on
these issues of COVID and lockdowns than Biden was not
even close. And obviously Governor Ronda Santis at a state
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level was by far not even just the best to
such a broad term, the sanest, the most data driven,
the most realistic about what was actually happening, and Clay
he created the space for others. You know, I think
Abbott had DeSantis envy in Texas. I think there were
other governors who saw what happened in Florida and saw
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that it was possible for businesses to be open. And
you know, without Florida and Descantists, does Georgia open as
early as it did? I don't think so. Without Desantists,
does Texas start to move in the right directionals? I
think far too slowly. I don't think so. I think
some small states would have, but they would have had
such tiny populations and they would have been overwhelmingly rural
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in nature such that it wouldn't have had the same impact.
And what happened was DeSantis trusted his data, his analysis
of all of the COVID related lockdown decisions, and he
was willing to go out there and take all of
the fire because when you followed in his wake, there
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wasn't as much criticism for everyone else. And thirty three
thousand vote buck thirty three thousand votes in Florida in
a twenty eighteen governor's election that, let's be honest, nobody
thought was super important. I know, people cared, and whether
you're Republican or Democrat party rules in Florida is a
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big deal, but no one thought that governors would become
as important as they did by twenty twenty. In the spring,
I mean, we have a lot more than thirty thousand
people in the state of Florida alone listening to this
right now, that's right, we have we have several times
over plus the margin of victors. Just so everyone when
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we talk about and that's why we always like to
move the stories around based on where things are happening.
So we're looking at every part of the country, because
we have stations in every part of the country and
we want to make sure that we're representing, you know,
not just the national level, but the concerns at the
state and even local level. When that becomes a prominent
enough issue for everyone to be hearing about it, and
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you think about that Florida election, the implications of it,
and how tight it was going into this mid term,
I just don't want it. I don't want anyone leaving anything,
you know, anything on the table. Leave it all on
the field, so to speak, right, everyone's got this has
got to be all hands on deck, because even even
an election that doesn't get that much attention can make
a huge difference too. I mean the case of Florida.
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Think about this, folks, Millions and millions of people's jobs,
their mental health, their their physical health, all turned on
their kids offered up right, I mean the Republican Party
offered up Ronda Santists. So we were laughing yesterday. The
hit piece on him is this guy who goes to
Harvard and Yale and serves his country in the military.
He's way too focused. Not enough beer bonds for Ronda
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Santists when he's in college. And then they wanted they
wanted Andrew Gillim who put aside to you know, the
personal scandal, but it was also there's illegal drugs and
other things involved. Put aside that for a moment. It's
basic a twenty one counts federal indictment that end. By
the way, the DeSantis is too serious angle is the
exact opposite of the George W. Bush story, which was
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this is a guy who likes to party too much,
who has too much fun. He's coasted his entire life.
So if you're a fun loving, easygoing guy, I think
I think also W. Bush went to Yale, right, and
you don't take school that seriously, Oh you're not ready
to be president. If you do take school seriously and
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you come from a middle class background, you're way too
focused and therefore are not a good choice either. You
literally get hit on either side. He partied too much,
didn't party enough. He's too cool, he's not cool enough.
You can't win in folks. My cell phone is absolutely
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of the program, appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
Gonna tee off on all these crazy parents who are
getting their kids six months to five years old. The
COVID shot, which officially began yesterday. But we told you
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on this show that we believe we're probably already in
a recession. The richest man in the world. Well, Elon Musk,
he says session is inevitable. Joe Biden claiming that recession
is not inevitable. Whose side are you going to take,
the guy who understands business and has built the largest
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wealth almost in the history of the country, or the
guy who's been in government for over forty years and
basically never accomplished anything. Here's Elon Musk responding to Biden.
Joe Biden has just come out and said that a
recession in America is not inevitable. How do you feel
about the economy? Well, I think a recession is inevitable
at some point. As to whether there is a recession
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in the near tone, I think that is more likely
than not. Well, agree with the Elon Musk. If you
had to pick a side to be on, would you
either be on Joe Biden's opinion on the economy or
Elon Musk's opinion on the economy. So here's what's going on.
The Biden administration is hoping that they can bolster sentiment.
I mean, this is really you know, fingers and toes
(32:54):
in the dam as. It's cracking kind of a policy, right,
But they're hoping that they in bolster sentiment just enough
that we eke out another quarter or two here without
being formally in a recession, because the only thing that
might drive their political hopes down into the dumps more
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than the super high price of gas is when everybody
has to because it becomes a definitional issue. Use the
r word recession when you have people saying, because it's gonna,
you know what, it's gonna be called the Biden recession.
They're gonna try to call it, you know, the Trump recession,
or the Biden Transition to Greatness plan or some such lunacy.
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But it's gonna be the Biden recession, and we all
know it. And I gotta tell you I talked to
a friend of mine. I'll just say it. I talked
to him. We talked on air about this yesterday on
TV side Ned Ryan, who's a super smart we've had
him most show many times, Great Guy, Super Squared Away
runs American Majority. And I said, so, what are we
really looking at here, Clay? He said, based on the numbers,
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and he's plugged in with the consultants and he knows
how these races are going. Anything that Biden won by
twelve to fifteen points, in twenty twenty is in play,
and maybe some outliers of fifteen to twenty points that
meeting Biden won by fifteen or twenty points then could
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be in play in this mid term, which means I
don't know if we've ever seen something like this. Well,
to put it in context, we just saw a Texas
thirty fourth congressional district that Myra flor Az won. It
swung by twenty one points, so the Democrat congressman one
by fourteen. She won by about seven So that's a
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twenty one point swing. That kind of could put into
a rough outline some of these districts and how they
could change. And by the way, yesterday I told everybody
out there, hey, it's our one year anniversary. I want
to think the specific markets that we have been number
one in. Are you ready during the course of this year?
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You know it, I love it, I've got it. I
am ready to roll. We have been number one, and
this is in order of the market size, so I'm
not trying to favor one or the other. This is
market size, top one hundred markets. We have been number
one in Houston, in Phoenix, in San Diego, in Denver,
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in Salt Lake, City in Sacramento, Austin, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, Raleigh, Durham, Milwaukee, Greensboro,
North Carolina, Memphis, Tennessee, Fort Myers and Naples, Louisville, Kentucky, Birmingham, Alabama, Tucson, Arizona, Albany,
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New York, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Des Moines, Iowa, Omaha, Spokane
and Spokane, Washington, and Syracuse, New York. Now, those are
just the top one hundred biggest radio markets in the country.
We rank highly in many of them. But Buck, that
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is an awful lot of markets out there. We love
all of you. Those are a lot of big cities
and a lot of unique areas all over the country
that are currently listening to us the most of any
radio show. And we want to use this platform, this
legendary platform built created by held up by Rush Lumbaugh
for decades. We want to know, take this platform and
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make sure this audience feels focused, informed, entertained, and fired
up for our first full scale election together friends in
this mid term. So we are on a mission. You
are part of this mission. You are the mission to
save the country, my friends, That's the plan. Sleet, Travis
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