August 2, 2024 • 36 mins
Kamala's first off-script remarks since she took over: a non-sensical word salad. Trump now slight favorite in gambling markets. Attacking Kamala on race isn't a winning strategy. Acronym for Trump victory is EBC: Economy, border, crime. Republicans should vote early. Callers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show Buck.
We'll be back on Monday, as he is good traveling
with his family. Should be fun to be back together
on Monday. As I mentioned yesterday, I was expecting to
be getting ready to be in the air to Israel,
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but our flights were canceled to Israel. So we are
going to reschedule that trip, and we promise that we
will bring you a on the ground report from Israel
at some point in the months ahead. Well, we got
a lot to talk with you here on this Friday.
Four point three percent unemployment number that came out this morning.
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That's the highest since October of twenty twenty one, three
years and change into the Biden administration, other than the
sugar high of Blue States in day, their restrictions over COVID.
Basically everything that Biden administration has touched has turned to garbage.
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We will discuss. There's another boxer out there this morning
with X Y chromosomes. That is how we define men
beating the crap out of a woman at the Olympics.
I can't believe this is real life, but you heard
Donald Trump on with us yesterday condemning that fact, Kamala Harris,
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Joe Biden, every Democrat out there continues to remain silent
on this issue, and everyone out there that is trying
to defend it is effectively saying, hey, well it's actually
a woman. Yeah, good luck with that. We'll discuss more
about what is actually weird, and that is many left
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wing policies right now, but I want to start with
what is becoming quite clear. Kamala Harris's strategy is a
replication of the twenty twenty Joe Biden's strategy, which is
we're gonna hide her. We're not going to allow her
to talk to anyone, We're gonna put her on a teleprompter,
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We're only going to allow her to interact with friendly individuals.
This is becoming now a scandal as we come up
on two weeks since she has become the Democrat nominee.
Remember she never ever has received a single vote for president.
With her being on the ballot for president and still
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being in the race, I think like one hundred of
you might have voted for her in Iowa in twenty
twenty because her name was still on the ballot, because
she didn't withdraw in time for her name to be
off the ballot. But none of you have ever in
your lives been able to vote for Kamala Harris to
be president of the United States. The entire purpose of
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the primary season is to test our candidates, allow them
to interact with voters in Iowa, in New Hampshire, in
South Carolina, in many other early primary states, and allow
them to demonstrate to all of us why they are
the best potential representative, whether you love or hate Donald Trump.
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He had very serious challengers, Ron DeSantis, Nicky Haley, among others.
He beat them all. He went out on the road
to Iowa, he went out on the road to New Hampshire.
He won every primary, I think, except for Vermont, where
a bunch of Democrats decided to flip over, in maybe DC,
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where a bunch of Democrats decided to flip over because
they hate Trump so much. Trump is tested. Trump is
on the road all the time doing interviews, as we saw,
sometimes to his detriment. I would argue with the Nationalists
Association of Black Journalists. He came on yesterday on this
program unscheduled interview because he wanted to react to men
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beating up women in the Olympics and the fact that
that is now Democrat Party orthodoxy. If you missed it,
you can go listen to Donald Trump on this program
in the third hour. Media all over the country picked
up that interview. I'll run through some of that with
you later in the program, demonstrating how many people out
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there paying attention to what we say on a day
to day basis on this program. But the problem with
Kamala is she's got so many weaknesses. The Democrats are
aware of that, and those weaknesses get illuminated every time
she actually talks to anyone saying anything other than what's
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on the teleprompter. And this is what happened last night
when she decided to step off the teleprompter and not
read a statement for the first time in twelve days.
This was the word salad that she delivered. She is
right now the Democrat nominee. Nobody's asking her questions. She's
not interacting with any voters. She's never received a single vote,
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and this is why they are trying to hide her
like they hid Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Listen, this is just an extraordinary testament to the importance
of having the president who understands the power of diplomacy.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And understands the strength that rests in understanding the.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
This is an incredible day.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay. I'm glad that the prisoners are back, although I think,
as Trump talked about with us yesterday, we have consistently
given up way more than we've gotten back. And if
you go back to Brittany Griner being traded for the
Merchant of Death, that gave I think reason for Vladimir
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Putin to take Evan Gersovich and others prisoner because he
knows that he's going to get back better. We gave
a trained assassin to Russia and we got back a
Wall Street Journal reporter just being fair, do you think
that trained assassin may go kill somebody else? I think
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that's probably a pretty good chance. Do you think the
guy who's the Merchant of Death, one of the greatest
arms dealers ever, might have an impact? Given that Russia's
actually at war with Ukraine, we're incentivizing, and I'll talk
about this later, more of our citizens to be taken hostage.
By giving such generous transfers of prisoners with the Russians
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and other foreign adversaries, there will be soon I would
predict to all of you more innocent Americans taken hostage
because Vladimir Putin has run recognize that he can play
Joe Biden like a fiddle, and I think he probably
is also a little bit afraid of what will happen
if Trump were to win this election, because despite all
the Russia Russia collusion arguments, Trump has actually been way
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harder on Putin than Joe Biden has. In fact, I
was talking with a friend who is married to a
Russian woman. We were out to dinner recently, and she
was saying she just got back from Russia. She was
saying that everyone she talked to in Russia. This was
before Biden dropped out, we're all hoping that Biden would
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win because all of the Russians see him as much
weaker than Trump. And that makes logical sense, right. The
Russians aren't stupid. Vladimir Putin isn't an imbecile. He recognized
that Biden is weak. They wanted Biden to win again
because they thought that would further in Bolden Russia. Kamala
Harris is similarly weak. But what they are doing is
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they are going to try to hide her. They did
with Joe Biden, and they were able to use COVID
as the excuse. Right now, think about this. You heard
the media get off their butts after June twenty seventh,
the debate where Donald Trump knocked out Joe Biden, and
you heard all of the media saying, Oh, we need
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to hear a press conference. Oh, it's supremely important right
now that we get interviews with Joe Biden. That was
because they were recognizing that Trump was going to beat
Biden and they knew they needed to force him out
of the race. That's why the media got so active.
But think about this for a moment. Have you heard
any of those same demands about Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris
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hasn't done anything and her odds, frankly, I'm looking at
him right now of winning the presidency have moved close
to fifty to fifty. Trump is now a small favorite
to be elected president. In twenty twenty four, he was
a big favorite over Joe Biden. Trump hasn't changed anything really.
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In fact, if you want to criticize the Trump campaign,
it's that it's been caught flat footed in responding with
Kamala over the last twelve days or so and allowed
her to a large extent escape scrutiny and not even
have to deal with the fact that while they're doing
interviews all over the country with both friendly and supremely
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antagonistic media, Kamala is not doing anything. She's in the
process of picking her vice president. We're now about ninety
days away from the election, and think about how crazy
this is. We're about thirty days away from when some
of you are going to be able to return your ballots.
And I'm gonna be honest with a lot of you.
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You know that I have been super optimistic about Donald
Trump winning in twenty twenty four. These are challenging times
all of a sudden. This is why I believed they
would switch from Biden. They knew Biden couldn't win. The
overarching story you see him wandering around aimlessly last night
at the airport. The overarching story of the twenty twenty
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four campaign when it was Biden versus Trump, was that
Biden didn't have the mental or physical faculties to be president.
Now what they're trying to do with Kamala is rerun
the twenty twenty campaign by making Trump the story, even
though it's the Biden Harris administration, even though Kamala has
been in power for four years. Make it a referendum
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on Trump and just try to stay out of the way.
That's what Biden did, and it was enough to barely
get him across the finish line because he was assisted
by COVID. Is Kamala going to be allowed to hide
like Biden was in twenty twenty and is that going
to be enough to get her dragged across the finish line.
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I'm starting to think it might be. But be honest
with y'all, look at what happened with John Fetterman. He
couldn't speak and he got elected by five points in Pennsylvania.
They have right now a better get out the vote
system in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. If Kamala Harris wins
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all three of those states, she will be the president
of the United States. It's time to get serious. It's
time to buckle down. There's been a lot of flailing.
There hasn't been very many direct attacks that have landed
significantly on Kamala Again. I think a big reason why
that is is because she has so much incredible vulnerabilities
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that it's hard to decide which issue to hit her on.
I would submit that ultimately, the story of the election
has not changed. This is about the border, this is
about the failure of the economy. Trump should almost exclusively
be talking about both of them. Those issues. It's the
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border stupid, it's the economy stupid. Hit them almost exclusively.
You can also go with the defund the police, the crime.
You need to settle on about three issues and only
talk about those three issues. You've got to be disciplined.
The Trump campaign so far had been very disciplined. I
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think it's come off a bit of the rails of
late Kamala is a very very bad candidate, but so
was John Fetterman. They are going to hider. They're running
a replay of twenty twenty. They hand selected Joe Biden,
now they've hand selected Kamala. We know what their strategy is.
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The last two weeks, it's been working. Is there a
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Sanity in an insane world, The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. You guys
know that I love following the gambling markets in politics
more than I like following the polls. And right now
Trump has if you wanted to gamble, Trump has a
fifty four percent chance. According to Polymarket, which is the
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biggest sports, sports and politics gambling market out there, almost
five hundred million dollars has been bet on who is
going to win the twenty twenty four election. Trump has
a fifty four percent chance to win. Kamala Harris has
a forty four percent chance to win. That is this
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moment exactly as you look. So Trump is less than
a touchdown favorite basically if you were thinking about this
in a sports market, and he was just a few
weeks ago around a three touchdown favorite. So Kamala Harris
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has cut this thing in the space of twelve days
with a massive influx of media help from a Trump
huge favorite election to a really basically toss up a
coin flip in many senses of the word. And that
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should have everybody a little bit of freight. I'm gonna
be honest with you because Kamala Harris is right now
a far more formidable foe than Joe Biden. Now. I
think that's partly because I don't think the Trump team
has pivoted perfectly in addressing her. I think they've been
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scattershot in their attacks. They have not been precise, they
have not been directed and targeted in the same way
that they should have been. To me, this is not
a supremely difficult person to go after. She's the least
popular vice president in the history of our country, serving
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under the least popular president in the history of our country.
Everything that Joe Biden did she's partly responsible for, because
it's the Biden Harris regime. But there's too much of
a scattershot attack on her right now, and I think
to a large extent, that's because she has so many vulnerabilities.
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Kamala Harris is a uniquely awful candidate. Nobody has ever
voted for her. Democrats rejected her when she ran in
twenty twenty. She doesn't have a staff that likes her.
She has, to a large extent, a creation of a
one party state in California. But you have to decide
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what are her vulnerabilities, and you have to deliver on them.
Time after time after time, and I think focusing on
her race, which has now turned into a part of
this conversation, is not a winning strategy. She has failed
at the border. Why were they so concerned, I'm going
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to talk about this when we come back. Why were
they so concerned with the use of the phrase borders
are that The first thing they put out was that
it was inappropriate to call her the borders are because
they know how vulnerable she is there. Don't mess up.
I'm going to tell you exactly how you attack her
when you come back, and why I think it's not
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lot of noise every day. Sometimes it's hard to distill
complex sort stories down to easily digestible components. Here is
how Kamala Harris is beaten. Three words. It's very simple.
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I'm gonna give you an acronym economy, border crime, EBC.
That's all you have to do. Economy, border crime. If
Trump just focuses on those three issues, leaves everything else
to the side, he will win the twenty twenty four
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election because these are the three things that voters care
about the most, and if you look at these on
a factual basis, they are the three areas that the
Biden Kamala administration has failed on most consistently. On the economy,
I just mentioned, we hit four point three percent unemployment,
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highest since October of twenty ti twenty one. The stock
market today is down nearly one thousand points earlier. I
think it's down around seven hundred now. There is and
are major warning lights flashing that we are going to
hit a recession. When you hit a recession in the
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fourth year of an administration, it's a sign that things
have gone horribly wrong. Inflation soared all the way to
nine percent. I don't have to tell you all of that.
You felt it. The cost of your goods, that is,
what you purchase, has gone up more than the average
person's wages have. The economy is a colossal failure, to
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say nothing of the thirty five trillion dollars in debt.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris failed on the economy. That
is point one. That is the e in EBC border
is the second one. Kamala Harris, why did they decide
that she wasn't the borders are because they are terrified
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of her being tied directly to the ten million plus
illegals that have poured into this country and have made
even blue cities look around and say, what in the
world is going on here? New York City, Chicago, La Atlanta, Washington,
d C, Denver, places that don't have really a Republican
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party that is functional in them at all sanctuary cities.
They've been overloaded. The border. Kamala Harris is directly responsible
and attached to the failures there. The border is the
second focal point that will lead to a Donald Trump victory.
The third is crime. You have to be very smart
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in how you attack Kamala Harris on crime. You have
to go after her for supporting defund the police and
raising money to bail out riot and allowing crime to
skyrocket across the country. Quality of life issues, shoplifting that's
on the border. Sorry, that's on the ballot in California,
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trying to repeal I think it's Proposition forty seven so
that people can actually be arrested for stealing things. Now,
that's it. That's all you need to focus on. Every
question you get, return it to EBC. Every opportunity you
have to talk about an issue, return it to EBC. Economy,
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border crime. Now, if you want to occasionally add in
things that are pertinent of the moment, like Donald Trump
did yesterday when he said, hey, we shouldn't have people
with x Y chromosomes beating up women in the Olympics,
I think that's fine. Touches on a story of the
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day that is trending, that is massively important. But then
immediately circle back to I don't think it's a win
to fight battles over identity politics. Is Kamala Harris Indian?
Is she black? People are gonna make their own decisions
about what her background is, and people like me could
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come on here and point out that Kamala Harris was
the mistress of a married man, and that she got
paid four hundred thousand dollars while sleeping with that married man,
and that she doesn't have kids of her own, and
that she didn't get married till she was fifty, and
that her family is actually Jamaican, she spent time in Canada,
and her mom's family is Indian, and she hasn't had
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the traditional black experience in America, So trying to make
her appear to be a paragon of blackness is actually
not in any way authentic. All of those things we
can talk about here and you guys all know them.
But for Trump himself and for JD. Vance, this is
a three letter election EBC, Economy, border crime. You're gonna
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hear me for the next ninety days reference EBC A lot.
This is an economy, this is a border, this is
a crime election. The Biden Harris campaign cannot defend itself
on those three issues. They failed. They want to fight
a battle on is Kamala black. They want to fight
a battle on hey, what do we think about women
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having children? They want to fight a battle on abortion.
Don't allow them to pick the battleground. You have to
be disciplined and you have to return to the issues
that you're right on and that you're one hundred percent
going to win. Now, that doesn't mean when we're eventually
going to have the debate and Kamala Harris tries to
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go after Donald Trump on abortion, which she will, that
he shouldn't punch back and point out that his position
is quite clear. Every state should be able to make
its own decision as it pertains to their choices on abortion.
Counter punching is fond, But you want to be fighting
this election on the terrain of economy, border, and crime.
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Who's going to be better on those issues? The bonus
is it connects with men, black, white, Asian, and Hispanic.
It connects with women, black, white, Asian and Hispanic. The economy,
the border, and crime impacts everyone, and it doesn't get
bogged down in identity politics. My concern is what Kamala
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Harris would love more than anything is to sit around
and debate Donald Trump on whether or not she's black.
In fact, ironically enough, I was thinking about this last night. Effectively,
what Trump is doing is the same thing that Biden
did when he said, if you don't vote for me,
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you ain't black. He's basically turning this into an identity
politics election. That worked for Biden. By the way, even
though it's shameful, his argument that if you are a
certain race, you should vote for me is the foundation
of identity politics. That's why he picked Kamala Harris. That's
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why he picked Katanji Brown Jackson. Trump should be embracing
the meritocracy. It's what's going to solve the issues of
the economy, border and crime EBC. If you make this
an election about EBC, you win. And I understand trust me,
because we have to come on and every single day
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there's a billion issues that are taking place, and we
have to sit down buck and eye and we have
to say, okay, these are the seven things that we
need to talk about today that are impacting your day
to day lives. But we're not running for president of
the United States, and we're not in a debt on
sprint here ninety days away from the election, and remember
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thirty days away basically from when people start to vote.
Once people start to vote, you're chasing a smaller number
of eligible voters out there, and I want you guys
to go out and vote early. In fact, I'll talk
about this a little bit later in the program. I've
made a decision in my own life. For virtually my
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entire life, I have been an election day voter. I
just really like going into the polls on election day.
I don't mind standing in line, I don't mind the
hustle and bustle of election day voting. I like it.
I think it's a really enjoyable part of American life
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to know that you are going in and you are
going to be able to have your voice heard. And
so I think all of that is such a supremely
important part of this larger discussion. Get your vote in
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early so that you can focus on getting other people
out to vote, and so you don't have to worry
about what the weather's going to be that day, or
whether you're going to have a sick kid or whether
you're going to have a grandparent that you need to
help with, or whether suddenly your kid has a sporting
event that you have to go to, or your grandkid
does There are millions of people out there that plan
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on voting on election day that never go get your
vote in our early economy, border crime, EBC. It's not complicated.
All right, we come back. We'll take some of your
calls because it is Friday, and we try to make
sure that we hit as many of those calls on
Friday as we possibly can. We're going to get a
discussion by the way, at the top of the next
hour about Israel. I mentioned that we had to cancel
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our trip to Israel that we were going to go
on with the show because all the airplane flights have
been canceled in with the expectation that there is going
to be a major attack coming soon. Prayers for everyone
in Israel. After they have been taking out some of
the Tarror leaders all over them, at least the expectation
is there's going to be a counter strike. We'll talk
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with David Afoon about all of that. Also, Senator Marsha
Blackburn is scheduled to join us in the third hour
of the program yesterday was the primary in Tennessee. She
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton show. Lots of
people rolling in and reacting to a variety of stories.
We get ready for Friday. Many of you want to
wake way in. We will take some of those calls
here eight hundred in two A two two eight eight two.
As I mentioned, Buck is going to be back with
me on Monday. He is traveling with his family today
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for us? Thanks for calling, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Hey, I just wanted to make a point about people
banking their votes early. It's it's more than just the weather.
What it does is it helps the door knockers narrow
a list down so we can cover more doors in
a day.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I volunteer once, it was a few years ago. I'm
not particularly active, but I knocked on doors, and I
would encourage people to do it because you don't have
to get in an argument with the person about who
they're voting for. They give you a targeted list. Your
job as a doorknocker is just to get that ballot
in as early as possible. When you do that, your
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name comes off the list of doors that I have
to knock on. So instead of knocking on fifty doors,
you know, in a five block radius, I can now
do you know twenty doors and ten block radius, and
as election day gets closer and closer, I can really
get on those few people who by now know me
to get their ballots in. And at this point, you know,
you can offer to maybe take it in for them
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or drive them to the poll, or they forget, like, oh,
what time is the rec center open till? You know?
Or what time is the school open till? And you
can tell them, you know, okay, you need to get
it in today. And then the other thing that happens
is not only do I have fewer doors to knock on,
but your name comes off the list for calls, texting mail, mail,
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that stuff you get in the mail, your name comes
off that lift. So it works for you. You get
all less of that election craft. Your ballot has been banked,
and it's easier on the campaign mail because they have
to reach out to fewer voters. So it really is
more than just about the weather.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Super smart, and I think that is incredibly important. What
you just laid out for people out there that are concerned.
If you vote, you allow other lower propensity voters that
haven't yet voted to be focused on. The earlier you
get your ballot in, the smarter you can be about
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how all of that goes. Bob in Nebraska. What's got
for me? Bob? Where in Nebraska are you? Bob?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Uh Northeast Nebraska?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Okay, Omaha. By the way, I'm going to keep hammering
this on the program for the next ninety days too.
Those of you living in the Omaha voting air that district,
you have the potential in Omaha to decide who the
next president of the United States is. But sorry to
cut you off, Bob, I know we got a ton
of people listening in the Omaha area. You guys legitimately
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could decide the next president of the United States, and
Omaha by itself. What do you think, Bob.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I'm furious with Donald Trump, and I'm furious with his
communications team. I think they have allowed they are backpedaling.
They should stay on message, and you were stating that
earlier before the break. Their message now is so muddled
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and so incoherent, and they've allowed Kamala Harris to take
the offense away from them, and it's very She has
taken all of the momentum out of the Trump campaign.
And I blame it on the communications team and Trump
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because he can be so uncontrollable I love listening to Trump.
I could listen to a rally speech of his ten times,
but he allows himself to go on these riffs that
just blur the issues that need to be highlighted. And
you said earlier, economy, border crime. I disagree, it's border, border, border,
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then time, then economy.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Thank you for the call. Look, I think the economy
is the number one thing that connects everybody. You can
disagree and say, hey, I think the border should be first,
but I don't think anybody would disagree if you really
look at the data. This is an economy, a border,
and a crime election, and most people think in threes.
You ever wonder why the five paragraph essay is such
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a standard part of what we are taught, because you
know the vote for reference here opening paragraph, make three
arguments close. There are three arguments in this race for
Donald Trump to make economy, border crime, Open up, five
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paragraph say people think often in threes. The holy trinity
this year of the twenty twenty four election is the economy,
border and crime. Now, Israel could also work its way
in as a mess. We are going to talk about
that next with David Afoon, who is scheduled to be
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in studio with us. Then in the third hour we're
going to be joined by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
All that coming your way, we are going to make
some sense for the world and keep hammering that economy,
border and crime. I'm Klay Travis. Thanks for hanging with
us on this fabulous Friday in August.
Welcome in Friday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton show Buck.
We'll be back on Monday, as he is good traveling
with his family. Should be fun to be back together
on Monday. As I mentioned yesterday, I was expecting to
be getting ready to be in the air to Israel,
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but our flights were canceled to Israel. So we are
going to reschedule that trip, and we promise that we
will bring you a on the ground report from Israel
at some point in the months ahead. Well, we got
a lot to talk with you here on this Friday.
Four point three percent unemployment number that came out this morning.
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That's the highest since October of twenty twenty one, three
years and change into the Biden administration, other than the
sugar high of Blue States in day, their restrictions over COVID.
Basically everything that Biden administration has touched has turned to garbage.
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We will discuss. There's another boxer out there this morning
with X Y chromosomes. That is how we define men
beating the crap out of a woman at the Olympics.
I can't believe this is real life, but you heard
Donald Trump on with us yesterday condemning that fact, Kamala Harris,
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Joe Biden, every Democrat out there continues to remain silent
on this issue, and everyone out there that is trying
to defend it is effectively saying, hey, well it's actually
a woman. Yeah, good luck with that. We'll discuss more
about what is actually weird, and that is many left
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wing policies right now, but I want to start with
what is becoming quite clear. Kamala Harris's strategy is a
replication of the twenty twenty Joe Biden's strategy, which is
we're gonna hide her. We're not going to allow her
to talk to anyone, We're gonna put her on a teleprompter,
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We're only going to allow her to interact with friendly individuals.
This is becoming now a scandal as we come up
on two weeks since she has become the Democrat nominee.
Remember she never ever has received a single vote for president.
With her being on the ballot for president and still
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being in the race, I think like one hundred of
you might have voted for her in Iowa in twenty
twenty because her name was still on the ballot, because
she didn't withdraw in time for her name to be
off the ballot. But none of you have ever in
your lives been able to vote for Kamala Harris to
be president of the United States. The entire purpose of
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the primary season is to test our candidates, allow them
to interact with voters in Iowa, in New Hampshire, in
South Carolina, in many other early primary states, and allow
them to demonstrate to all of us why they are
the best potential representative, whether you love or hate Donald Trump.
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He had very serious challengers, Ron DeSantis, Nicky Haley, among others.
He beat them all. He went out on the road
to Iowa, he went out on the road to New Hampshire.
He won every primary, I think, except for Vermont, where
a bunch of Democrats decided to flip over, in maybe DC,
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where a bunch of Democrats decided to flip over because
they hate Trump so much. Trump is tested. Trump is
on the road all the time doing interviews, as we saw,
sometimes to his detriment. I would argue with the Nationalists
Association of Black Journalists. He came on yesterday on this
program unscheduled interview because he wanted to react to men
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beating up women in the Olympics and the fact that
that is now Democrat Party orthodoxy. If you missed it,
you can go listen to Donald Trump on this program
in the third hour. Media all over the country picked
up that interview. I'll run through some of that with
you later in the program, demonstrating how many people out
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there paying attention to what we say on a day
to day basis on this program. But the problem with
Kamala is she's got so many weaknesses. The Democrats are
aware of that, and those weaknesses get illuminated every time
she actually talks to anyone saying anything other than what's
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on the teleprompter. And this is what happened last night
when she decided to step off the teleprompter and not
read a statement for the first time in twelve days.
This was the word salad that she delivered. She is
right now the Democrat nominee. Nobody's asking her questions. She's
not interacting with any voters. She's never received a single vote,
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and this is why they are trying to hide her
like they hid Biden in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Listen, this is just an extraordinary testament to the importance
of having the president who understands the power of diplomacy.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And understands the strength that rests in understanding the.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Significance of diplomacy and strengthening alliances.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
This is an incredible day.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Okay. I'm glad that the prisoners are back, although I think,
as Trump talked about with us yesterday, we have consistently
given up way more than we've gotten back. And if
you go back to Brittany Griner being traded for the
Merchant of Death, that gave I think reason for Vladimir
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Putin to take Evan Gersovich and others prisoner because he
knows that he's going to get back better. We gave
a trained assassin to Russia and we got back a
Wall Street Journal reporter just being fair, do you think
that trained assassin may go kill somebody else? I think
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that's probably a pretty good chance. Do you think the
guy who's the Merchant of Death, one of the greatest
arms dealers ever, might have an impact? Given that Russia's
actually at war with Ukraine, we're incentivizing, and I'll talk
about this later, more of our citizens to be taken hostage.
By giving such generous transfers of prisoners with the Russians
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and other foreign adversaries, there will be soon I would
predict to all of you more innocent Americans taken hostage
because Vladimir Putin has run recognize that he can play
Joe Biden like a fiddle, and I think he probably
is also a little bit afraid of what will happen
if Trump were to win this election, because despite all
the Russia Russia collusion arguments, Trump has actually been way
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harder on Putin than Joe Biden has. In fact, I
was talking with a friend who is married to a
Russian woman. We were out to dinner recently, and she
was saying she just got back from Russia. She was
saying that everyone she talked to in Russia. This was
before Biden dropped out, we're all hoping that Biden would
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win because all of the Russians see him as much
weaker than Trump. And that makes logical sense, right. The
Russians aren't stupid. Vladimir Putin isn't an imbecile. He recognized
that Biden is weak. They wanted Biden to win again
because they thought that would further in Bolden Russia. Kamala
Harris is similarly weak. But what they are doing is
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they are going to try to hide her. They did
with Joe Biden, and they were able to use COVID
as the excuse. Right now, think about this. You heard
the media get off their butts after June twenty seventh,
the debate where Donald Trump knocked out Joe Biden, and
you heard all of the media saying, Oh, we need
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to hear a press conference. Oh, it's supremely important right
now that we get interviews with Joe Biden. That was
because they were recognizing that Trump was going to beat
Biden and they knew they needed to force him out
of the race. That's why the media got so active.
But think about this for a moment. Have you heard
any of those same demands about Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris
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hasn't done anything and her odds, frankly, I'm looking at
him right now of winning the presidency have moved close
to fifty to fifty. Trump is now a small favorite
to be elected president. In twenty twenty four, he was
a big favorite over Joe Biden. Trump hasn't changed anything really.
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In fact, if you want to criticize the Trump campaign,
it's that it's been caught flat footed in responding with
Kamala over the last twelve days or so and allowed
her to a large extent escape scrutiny and not even
have to deal with the fact that while they're doing
interviews all over the country with both friendly and supremely
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antagonistic media, Kamala is not doing anything. She's in the
process of picking her vice president. We're now about ninety
days away from the election, and think about how crazy
this is. We're about thirty days away from when some
of you are going to be able to return your ballots.
And I'm gonna be honest with a lot of you.
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You know that I have been super optimistic about Donald
Trump winning in twenty twenty four. These are challenging times
all of a sudden. This is why I believed they
would switch from Biden. They knew Biden couldn't win. The
overarching story you see him wandering around aimlessly last night
at the airport. The overarching story of the twenty twenty
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four campaign when it was Biden versus Trump, was that
Biden didn't have the mental or physical faculties to be president.
Now what they're trying to do with Kamala is rerun
the twenty twenty campaign by making Trump the story, even
though it's the Biden Harris administration, even though Kamala has
been in power for four years. Make it a referendum
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on Trump and just try to stay out of the way.
That's what Biden did, and it was enough to barely
get him across the finish line because he was assisted
by COVID. Is Kamala going to be allowed to hide
like Biden was in twenty twenty and is that going
to be enough to get her dragged across the finish line.
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I'm starting to think it might be. But be honest
with y'all, look at what happened with John Fetterman. He
couldn't speak and he got elected by five points in Pennsylvania.
They have right now a better get out the vote
system in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. If Kamala Harris wins
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all three of those states, she will be the president
of the United States. It's time to get serious. It's
time to buckle down. There's been a lot of flailing.
There hasn't been very many direct attacks that have landed
significantly on Kamala Again. I think a big reason why
that is is because she has so much incredible vulnerabilities
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that it's hard to decide which issue to hit her on.
I would submit that ultimately, the story of the election
has not changed. This is about the border, this is
about the failure of the economy. Trump should almost exclusively
be talking about both of them. Those issues. It's the
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border stupid, it's the economy stupid. Hit them almost exclusively.
You can also go with the defund the police, the crime.
You need to settle on about three issues and only
talk about those three issues. You've got to be disciplined.
The Trump campaign so far had been very disciplined. I
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think it's come off a bit of the rails of
late Kamala is a very very bad candidate, but so
was John Fetterman. They are going to hider. They're running
a replay of twenty twenty. They hand selected Joe Biden,
now they've hand selected Kamala. We know what their strategy is.
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Sanity in an insane world, The Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. You guys
know that I love following the gambling markets in politics
more than I like following the polls. And right now
Trump has if you wanted to gamble, Trump has a
fifty four percent chance. According to Polymarket, which is the
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biggest sports, sports and politics gambling market out there, almost
five hundred million dollars has been bet on who is
going to win the twenty twenty four election. Trump has
a fifty four percent chance to win. Kamala Harris has
a forty four percent chance to win. That is this
(15:05):
moment exactly as you look. So Trump is less than
a touchdown favorite basically if you were thinking about this
in a sports market, and he was just a few
weeks ago around a three touchdown favorite. So Kamala Harris
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has cut this thing in the space of twelve days
with a massive influx of media help from a Trump
huge favorite election to a really basically toss up a
coin flip in many senses of the word. And that
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should have everybody a little bit of freight. I'm gonna
be honest with you because Kamala Harris is right now
a far more formidable foe than Joe Biden. Now. I
think that's partly because I don't think the Trump team
has pivoted perfectly in addressing her. I think they've been
(16:08):
scattershot in their attacks. They have not been precise, they
have not been directed and targeted in the same way
that they should have been. To me, this is not
a supremely difficult person to go after. She's the least
popular vice president in the history of our country, serving
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under the least popular president in the history of our country.
Everything that Joe Biden did she's partly responsible for, because
it's the Biden Harris regime. But there's too much of
a scattershot attack on her right now, and I think
to a large extent, that's because she has so many vulnerabilities.
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Kamala Harris is a uniquely awful candidate. Nobody has ever
voted for her. Democrats rejected her when she ran in
twenty twenty. She doesn't have a staff that likes her.
She has, to a large extent, a creation of a
one party state in California. But you have to decide
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what are her vulnerabilities, and you have to deliver on them.
Time after time after time, and I think focusing on
her race, which has now turned into a part of
this conversation, is not a winning strategy. She has failed
at the border. Why were they so concerned, I'm going
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to talk about this when we come back. Why were
they so concerned with the use of the phrase borders
are that The first thing they put out was that
it was inappropriate to call her the borders are because
they know how vulnerable she is there. Don't mess up.
I'm going to tell you exactly how you attack her
when you come back, and why I think it's not
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lot of noise every day. Sometimes it's hard to distill
complex sort stories down to easily digestible components. Here is
how Kamala Harris is beaten. Three words. It's very simple.
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I'm gonna give you an acronym economy, border crime, EBC.
That's all you have to do. Economy, border crime. If
Trump just focuses on those three issues, leaves everything else
to the side, he will win the twenty twenty four
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election because these are the three things that voters care
about the most, and if you look at these on
a factual basis, they are the three areas that the
Biden Kamala administration has failed on most consistently. On the economy,
I just mentioned, we hit four point three percent unemployment,
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highest since October of twenty ti twenty one. The stock
market today is down nearly one thousand points earlier. I
think it's down around seven hundred now. There is and
are major warning lights flashing that we are going to
hit a recession. When you hit a recession in the
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fourth year of an administration, it's a sign that things
have gone horribly wrong. Inflation soared all the way to
nine percent. I don't have to tell you all of that.
You felt it. The cost of your goods, that is,
what you purchase, has gone up more than the average
person's wages have. The economy is a colossal failure, to
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say nothing of the thirty five trillion dollars in debt.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris failed on the economy. That
is point one. That is the e in EBC border
is the second one. Kamala Harris, why did they decide
that she wasn't the borders are because they are terrified
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of her being tied directly to the ten million plus
illegals that have poured into this country and have made
even blue cities look around and say, what in the
world is going on here? New York City, Chicago, La Atlanta, Washington,
d C, Denver, places that don't have really a Republican
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party that is functional in them at all sanctuary cities.
They've been overloaded. The border. Kamala Harris is directly responsible
and attached to the failures there. The border is the
second focal point that will lead to a Donald Trump victory.
The third is crime. You have to be very smart
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in how you attack Kamala Harris on crime. You have
to go after her for supporting defund the police and
raising money to bail out riot and allowing crime to
skyrocket across the country. Quality of life issues, shoplifting that's
on the border. Sorry, that's on the ballot in California,
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trying to repeal I think it's Proposition forty seven so
that people can actually be arrested for stealing things. Now,
that's it. That's all you need to focus on. Every
question you get, return it to EBC. Every opportunity you
have to talk about an issue, return it to EBC. Economy,
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border crime. Now, if you want to occasionally add in
things that are pertinent of the moment, like Donald Trump
did yesterday when he said, hey, we shouldn't have people
with x Y chromosomes beating up women in the Olympics,
I think that's fine. Touches on a story of the
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day that is trending, that is massively important. But then
immediately circle back to I don't think it's a win
to fight battles over identity politics. Is Kamala Harris Indian?
Is she black? People are gonna make their own decisions
about what her background is, and people like me could
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come on here and point out that Kamala Harris was
the mistress of a married man, and that she got
paid four hundred thousand dollars while sleeping with that married man,
and that she doesn't have kids of her own, and
that she didn't get married till she was fifty, and
that her family is actually Jamaican, she spent time in Canada,
and her mom's family is Indian, and she hasn't had
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the traditional black experience in America, So trying to make
her appear to be a paragon of blackness is actually
not in any way authentic. All of those things we
can talk about here and you guys all know them.
But for Trump himself and for JD. Vance, this is
a three letter election EBC, Economy, border crime. You're gonna
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hear me for the next ninety days reference EBC A lot.
This is an economy, this is a border, this is
a crime election. The Biden Harris campaign cannot defend itself
on those three issues. They failed. They want to fight
a battle on is Kamala black. They want to fight
a battle on hey, what do we think about women
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having children? They want to fight a battle on abortion.
Don't allow them to pick the battleground. You have to
be disciplined and you have to return to the issues
that you're right on and that you're one hundred percent
going to win. Now, that doesn't mean when we're eventually
going to have the debate and Kamala Harris tries to
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go after Donald Trump on abortion, which she will, that
he shouldn't punch back and point out that his position
is quite clear. Every state should be able to make
its own decision as it pertains to their choices on abortion.
Counter punching is fond, But you want to be fighting
this election on the terrain of economy, border, and crime.
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Who's going to be better on those issues? The bonus
is it connects with men, black, white, Asian, and Hispanic.
It connects with women, black, white, Asian and Hispanic. The economy,
the border, and crime impacts everyone, and it doesn't get
bogged down in identity politics. My concern is what Kamala
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Harris would love more than anything is to sit around
and debate Donald Trump on whether or not she's black.
In fact, ironically enough, I was thinking about this last night. Effectively,
what Trump is doing is the same thing that Biden
did when he said, if you don't vote for me,
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you ain't black. He's basically turning this into an identity
politics election. That worked for Biden. By the way, even
though it's shameful, his argument that if you are a
certain race, you should vote for me is the foundation
of identity politics. That's why he picked Kamala Harris. That's
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why he picked Katanji Brown Jackson. Trump should be embracing
the meritocracy. It's what's going to solve the issues of
the economy, border and crime EBC. If you make this
an election about EBC, you win. And I understand trust me,
because we have to come on and every single day
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there's a billion issues that are taking place, and we
have to sit down buck and eye and we have
to say, okay, these are the seven things that we
need to talk about today that are impacting your day
to day lives. But we're not running for president of
the United States, and we're not in a debt on
sprint here ninety days away from the election, and remember
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thirty days away basically from when people start to vote.
Once people start to vote, you're chasing a smaller number
of eligible voters out there, and I want you guys
to go out and vote early. In fact, I'll talk
about this a little bit later in the program. I've
made a decision in my own life. For virtually my
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entire life, I have been an election day voter. I
just really like going into the polls on election day.
I don't mind standing in line, I don't mind the
hustle and bustle of election day voting. I like it.
I think it's a really enjoyable part of American life
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to know that you are going in and you are
going to be able to have your voice heard. And
so I think all of that is such a supremely
important part of this larger discussion. Get your vote in
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early so that you can focus on getting other people
out to vote, and so you don't have to worry
about what the weather's going to be that day, or
whether you're going to have a sick kid or whether
you're going to have a grandparent that you need to
help with, or whether suddenly your kid has a sporting
event that you have to go to, or your grandkid
does There are millions of people out there that plan
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on voting on election day that never go get your
vote in our early economy, border crime, EBC. It's not complicated.
All right, we come back. We'll take some of your
calls because it is Friday, and we try to make
sure that we hit as many of those calls on
Friday as we possibly can. We're going to get a
discussion by the way, at the top of the next
hour about Israel. I mentioned that we had to cancel
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our trip to Israel that we were going to go
on with the show because all the airplane flights have
been canceled in with the expectation that there is going
to be a major attack coming soon. Prayers for everyone
in Israel. After they have been taking out some of
the Tarror leaders all over them, at least the expectation
is there's going to be a counter strike. We'll talk
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with David Afoon about all of that. Also, Senator Marsha
Blackburn is scheduled to join us in the third hour
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We get ready for Friday. Many of you want to
wake way in. We will take some of those calls
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As I mentioned, Buck is going to be back with
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right now, but I am now sitting here with all
of you and I'm drinking my delectable Krocket Coffee, which
I would encourage all of you to go subscribe to
(31:30):
uh Crocketcoffee dot com. Got a shipment at the house yesterday.
It's the best coffee for anyone out there if you
actually love America. Susan in New York, what you got
for us? Thanks for calling, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Hey, I just wanted to make a point about people
banking their votes early. It's it's more than just the weather.
What it does is it helps the door knockers narrow
a list down so we can cover more doors in
a day.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I volunteer once, it was a few years ago. I'm
not particularly active, but I knocked on doors, and I
would encourage people to do it because you don't have
to get in an argument with the person about who
they're voting for. They give you a targeted list. Your
job as a doorknocker is just to get that ballot
in as early as possible. When you do that, your
(32:19):
name comes off the list of doors that I have
to knock on. So instead of knocking on fifty doors,
you know, in a five block radius, I can now
do you know twenty doors and ten block radius, and
as election day gets closer and closer, I can really
get on those few people who by now know me
to get their ballots in. And at this point, you know,
you can offer to maybe take it in for them
(32:40):
or drive them to the poll, or they forget, like, oh,
what time is the rec center open till? You know?
Or what time is the school open till? And you
can tell them, you know, okay, you need to get
it in today. And then the other thing that happens
is not only do I have fewer doors to knock on,
but your name comes off the list for calls, texting mail, mail,
(33:03):
that stuff you get in the mail, your name comes
off that lift. So it works for you. You get
all less of that election craft. Your ballot has been banked,
and it's easier on the campaign mail because they have
to reach out to fewer voters. So it really is
more than just about the weather.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Super smart, and I think that is incredibly important. What
you just laid out for people out there that are concerned.
If you vote, you allow other lower propensity voters that
haven't yet voted to be focused on. The earlier you
get your ballot in, the smarter you can be about
(33:41):
how all of that goes. Bob in Nebraska. What's got
for me? Bob? Where in Nebraska are you? Bob?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Uh Northeast Nebraska?
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Okay, Omaha. By the way, I'm going to keep hammering
this on the program for the next ninety days too.
Those of you living in the Omaha voting air that district,
you have the potential in Omaha to decide who the
next president of the United States is. But sorry to
cut you off, Bob, I know we got a ton
of people listening in the Omaha area. You guys legitimately
(34:11):
could decide the next president of the United States, and
Omaha by itself. What do you think, Bob.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
I'm furious with Donald Trump, and I'm furious with his
communications team. I think they have allowed they are backpedaling.
They should stay on message, and you were stating that
earlier before the break. Their message now is so muddled
(34:39):
and so incoherent, and they've allowed Kamala Harris to take
the offense away from them, and it's very She has
taken all of the momentum out of the Trump campaign.
And I blame it on the communications team and Trump
(34:59):
because he can be so uncontrollable I love listening to Trump.
I could listen to a rally speech of his ten times,
but he allows himself to go on these riffs that
just blur the issues that need to be highlighted. And
you said earlier, economy, border crime. I disagree, it's border, border, border,
(35:24):
then time, then economy.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Thank you for the call. Look, I think the economy
is the number one thing that connects everybody. You can
disagree and say, hey, I think the border should be first,
but I don't think anybody would disagree if you really
look at the data. This is an economy, a border,
and a crime election, and most people think in threes.
You ever wonder why the five paragraph essay is such
(35:51):
a standard part of what we are taught, because you
know the vote for reference here opening paragraph, make three
arguments close. There are three arguments in this race for
Donald Trump to make economy, border crime, Open up, five
(36:11):
paragraph say people think often in threes. The holy trinity
this year of the twenty twenty four election is the economy,
border and crime. Now, Israel could also work its way
in as a mess. We are going to talk about
that next with David Afoon, who is scheduled to be
(36:34):
in studio with us. Then in the third hour we're
going to be joined by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
All that coming your way, we are going to make
some sense for the world and keep hammering that economy,
border and crime. I'm Klay Travis. Thanks for hanging with
us on this fabulous Friday in August.
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