September 10, 2024 • 36 mins
CNN's Erin Burnett stunned by Kamala Harris' far left-wing policies. C&B preview the debate. CNN's Dana Bash defends Harris flip-flops. Trump widens lead in gambling markets. How will Trump handle a debate that Kamala needs to win? NYT front page story on Trump's age. Does anyone care about Harris and Willie Brown?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We
appreciate all of you hanging out with us. It is
debate Day, nine pm Eastern, six pm on the West Coast,
Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris from Philadelphia, perhaps the only
debate the two of them will have all throughout the season.
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We are exactly eight weeks from election day today. That is,
if my math is right, fifty six days away. Many
of you will be able to vote in a month
or less, depending on what community you are in. It
is officially go time. We will dive into what we
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believe are the biggest and most important aspects of the debate.
Certainly we'll be breaking it all down for you tomorrow.
In earnest poles have begun to turn against Kamala Harris.
The analogy that I would make since football season is
here is Donald Trump has the ball. He is winning.
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He can run out the clock by simply running off
tackle and putting together a couple of first downs. Will
see whether or not he is able to do so
again nine pm Eastern. I know almost all of you
will be watching to see what we get. And while
there's lots of discussions about what version of Trump we
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will get. To be fair, he was awful. I think
he acknowledges this in the first debate that he had
against Joe Biden. He was much better in the second debate.
He obviously knocked out Joe Biden on June twenty seventh,
in the first debate of this presidential cycle. We will
see how he does against Kamala Harris. But I do
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think Buck, we have to spend a little bit of
time to start off the show today just reiterating for
you how crazy far left wing Kamala Harris really is.
And they keep finding more and more receipts from her
failed twenty twenty presidential campaign, where everyone was competing to
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be the furthest left wing they could possibly be with frankly,
almost the exception of Joe Biden, everybody else was trying
to get to the left of Bernie Sanders because they
thought that was the pathway to end up being the nominee.
And as part of an ACLU I believe it was
a written survey see an end of their credit went
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back and tracked down these answers. Kamala Harris was asked
about whether or not she believed in sex change operations
paid for by taxpayers for illegal immigrants. It sounds like
mad lib crazy liberal perspective. And she was asked about
drug possession. She said yes on sex changes, and she
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said that you should be able to possess crack, fentanyl,
whatever drug you wanted. She was in favor of decriminalizing possession.
That really happened. Aaron Burnett, the host of the CNN
show on which this report was shared, even herself, seems
staggered by the implications and the fact that Kamala Harris
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did not really in her campaign have any explanation for
these insanely far left wing policies. I want to give
CNN credit something we don't say often on this show.
This is what it sounded like last night on Aaron Burnett.
As that was all laid out.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
On immigration, she made this open ended pledge to end
immigrant attention. She said she supported taxpayer funded gender transition
surgeries for detained migrants.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
She also said she's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A pair funded gender transition surgeries for detainment change Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
She actually said she supported.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
She wrote both wrote and answered in the affirmative when
she was asked this, and she said she also supported
it for federal prisoners now. She also pledged to slash
immigration detention five to fifty percent, close all family and
private facilities, and decrease funding for ICE and then the.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
ICE detainers with local law enforcement. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
She also buck said that she would end all criminal
penalties for having crack and finnel, among other things. This
is crazy town even for Democrats. What's your reaction here
when you see this coming out, not only coming out,
but CNN being the one to cover it. Kamala Harris
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is a far left radical who would have no chance
of winning any nationwide election without the media being willing
to completely cover for her, live for her, carry water
for her, do everything that they think that is possible,
really to create an image of somebody that's just not
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based in reality. And when Kamala Harris has been when
she was asked about this very gently, I might add
by Dana Bash over at c recently.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Right, it wasn't a Dana Bash she was doing the interview.
That's right. They're all the same at CNN. It's all
blends together.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Remember, she kept saying, my principles haven't changed, which I
thought was interesting because I don't think Kamala Harris actually
has any principles, at least not as a person in
public life. I think that she is a devotee of
power and of being around the powerful wielding power in
their name, and I think she's a vessel for the
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Democrat machine. I do not believe that she actually really
believes in anything. And the fact and the way you
know this is that she took positions, Clay, and this
is what's coming up in that ACLU questionnaire segment they
did on CNN. She took positions that nobody would ever
think would play well nationally, right. I mean, you couldn't
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think for a second that some of these things that
she was in now banning FRACKA mean, these are things
that somebody says if their plan when they say it
is to lie and said that I never said it,
or just changed their mind the moment they run up
against political resistance. This is why I have had a
dare I say it, a quiet and cool confidence about
Trump's future here ever since Kamala became the nominee, which
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always factored into my assessment of why Joe Biden had
I know, the debate disaster happened, but why Biden was
actually a better play, a safer play in many ways
than Kamala Harris. Not only does she lack the political
skills we talked about that yesterday that you've had in
some other politicians, particularly some other Democrat politicians in recent cycles,
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she also is somebody who can't really claim to stand
for anything other than whatever works in the moment. And
I think that that lack of authenticity, coupled with the
lack of authenticity that she exudes when she's just talking
to people, right, I mean, she comes across as inauthentic,
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and her political program, you know, her platform, whatever you
want to call it, is also deeply anauthentic because she
doesn't really care, well, what works. What do you need
me to say? That's what Kamala will say. So I
think that this is tonight. You know, you're gonna see
a lot of dancing. Remember even Gavin Newsom when he
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debated Ron DeSantis, he did a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Of oh, bud, you know, just I'm just gonna talk
in circles here and be handsome. Didn't work. People saw it,
and I think they'll see through Kamala Harris tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To be fair, Hannity was fact checking Gavin Newsom in
real time and calling out his lies, and I think
that really rattled Gavin Newsom. The facts weren't on his
side and they were shown to him. I do think
this really cuts through the noise.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
If Trump says to Kamala Harris, in addition to wanting
to leave the border wide open, you believed that we
should be paying taxpayer American payers should be paying for
sex change surgery for illegal immigrants, that is Banana Land crazy.
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And let me give you a line here, Buck. If
Trump wanted to take control of this debate early. This
came from an emailer and it's actually an incredible suggestion,
and I forwarded it to the Trump team. Buck, what
if Trump, in his opening response, said, I want to
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do something that's going to really stun everybody here today.
I want to thank Kamala Harris. I want to thank you,
Kamala for me being alive today, because if you hadn't
been such a disaster at the border, and I hadn't
turned my head to look at the graphic of all
of the illegal immigrants that you have allowed into this country,
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I would have been murdered by an assassin on July
thirteenth in Butler, Pennsylvania. The only reason I'm alive today
is because you did such a bad job at the
Border that I had to turn and look at that
graphic the exact moment that guy fired a bullet. I
think that it would be like a holy crap moment
right off the top.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You know this.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So much of the tone of a debate is set
in the first five minutes, and a lot of people
tune in for the first five or ten minutes and
then they kind of get everything gets all the noise
kind of gets in your head and you can't keep
up with it all. This is an average viewer. I
think if he came out with a punchy line like that,
that ties her directly to the failures at the Border,
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sex change operations. Things like that. He sets the tone.
It's like hitting a big punch early in a boxing match.
And I think a lot of people would resonate. And
here's the other thing about these debates, and you know it,
and I think this was the Biden team what they
found out. Biden got knocked out on June twenty seventh,
but we kept watching the clips four weeks. It's not
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just what's said, it's what goes viral and what clips
echo through social media and solidify the opinion of what
was said. Because most people are going to watch all
ninety minutes. Everyone in America is going to see at
least one thirty or sixty second clip. What are those
distilled moments and how do they capture the zeigists. It's
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not just the debate anymore, it's the echo of the
viral clips for weeks after. I think that we can
all expect that ABC is going to be favorable toward Kamala.
They can't make it too obvious because then that's counterproductive
for them. But I think that ABC will show us
a different a slightly different approach than what cen END did,
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even where they decided for once, let's have a pretty neutral,
pretty neutral monitoring, and End did a good job.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know, there was nothing I would If.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
There was anything I found objectionable in the way Sin
and moderated that debate, I would have said it. But
I didn't see anything that was a problem. I thought
all the questions were fair.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
This is the thing.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It's possible to do that right. Yes, it's worth reminding.
You know, people say, oh, well they can't do you know,
everyone has a bias eye. I mean, you can come
close enough in a debate. You know, referees and sports
aren't perfect, but like they can get the major calls.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Should note in fact, if the game's well officiated, you
don't even notice who called the game. That's what the
best debate is. You shouldn't have the debate moderator be
a storyline at all. They should fade into the background
and it should be about the people on the stage.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
And I do think that you'll see just the questions
will be more favorable to Kamala trying to get out
of the way maybe some of.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Her weaknesses or early on.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But look, she's not a good orator, she's not a
good public speaker, she is not smart on policy. She
really has very little to play here except some emotional
appeal of being a woman, being a minority. You know,
Trump is a big bad man. And abortion.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
She's going to lean on abortion, every single abortion a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You know, the single most important policy by far to
the Democrat party is the ability to kill babies in
the womb, and that is that'll be a part of it.
But I really do think that there's there's no way
she comes out of tonight looking great. I think her
team is just hoping that she can sort of keep
things status quo. In terms of if I'm Kamala Harris
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and I come out of tonight's debate without a clear
gain of any kind for Trump, that's a win.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That's the best I see. I think she has. I
think she's losing, and I think she needs to win
or no debate.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I agree, but I'm saying she doesn't your expectation, your point,
so woe that the best she can hope for is
a draw. The best she can hope for his status
quo draw. Realistically in terms of public opinion and the
polling after this, Yeah, of course. I mean she'd love
to turn the momentum.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
She is losing and she could be behind two or
three points after this in a way where everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Goes, oh, this is not looking good. Correct.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think the result of this one will not be
the knockout that we saw in June twenty seventh. I
believe both parties will turn and raise their gloves, and
the people who like Trump will say Trump one.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And people who like headline Kamala one. Clay Travis with
a bold prediction, Kamala Harris will do better than a
senile dementia riddle Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I would, I mean, that would be amazing to watch
if Kamala somehow was worse than Biden.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't know what she would.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean, she might probably have to collapse like faint,
you know, when she gets asked about sex change operations
for migrants. I don't even know how she could hardly
be worse. But again, if I'm advising Trump, it is economy,
border crime, just perry an attack, and I will say,
don't follow her down the rabbit hole. Don't go down
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the rabbit hole with whatever argument she wants to make.
He did that a little bit with Biden, remember when
they started arguing over how history was going to judge
their presidencies. And I'm like, no one ever says that
a Republican did a good job. Don't argue about what
historians think. Just kind of stay on the issues, and
if he can, he's gonna win.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It's a side note, Clay. It's one of the sad
things for me.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
So many contemporary historians, they're just they're all communists now.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It is scary and unfortunate the.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Historians now, so many of them, it seems like they
might as well be the gender studies professor team at
Wesleyan or something like. They're just so many left wing
historians and a good tell as always if they use BCE.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
By the way, that's all you have to know.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We're coming up on the first break. But there's a
world where I would have been a history professor. I
was a history major. I absolutely loved it. And if
you go back and look at popular historians, so many
of them truly love America. And it does seem like
many modern day historians really hate America.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And it's you.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Know, they have such power to tell the story of
America that it's sad to see the story of America
becomes so negative. History should be one of the more
objective humanities profession or humanity the endeavors, and unfortunately it's
it's like gender studies now in a lot of cases. Anyway,
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Speaker 4 (16:16):
The flip flops of Kamala Harris when it comes to
key policies, that's going to be I think one of
the biggest challenges for her. Tonight in this debate, CNN's
Dana bash This has cut four saying well, some of
the flip flops are genuine play for the.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Pober president is going to be going after her on
some of these changes, and some of them are genuine changes,
like fracking, which she explained after I asked her why
some of them are changes because she was running and
then she became part of President Biden's campaign and then
his administration. And you know this, Wolf, when you're the
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vice president, you don't really get to make your own policy.
That happens when you're at the top of the ticket,
which she is doing. Now.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Eh, sorry, they can try, they can pull all this stuff, Clay,
it just doesn't resonate. Everyone's like, oh wait, what was
that She can't have her own ideas and policies because
she was tied to Biden.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
He's absurd.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
That actually makes more sense. The problem is she said
that she didn't support fracking when she was her own boss,
when she was running for president of the United States,
and she said the reason she didn't was because she
couldn't look at her baby nieces in the face if
she allowed fracking to occur. I guess she's better at
looking her baby nieces.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
In the face and allow It only makes sense if
it would only make sense if Biden also wanted to
ban fracking. This doesn't hold up at all. Yeah, Benny,
fracking is lunacy, by the way, true lunacy.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And her answer to Dana Bash would unfracking, which was
the only thing she pushed back against, was not actually
good at all and didn't explain herself at all other
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton show as
we now have reached potentially the only that we will
have between Trump and Kamala Harris tonight, nine o'clock Eastern.
In the data, which is what I like to look at,
we have three major polls that have come out in
the last twenty four hours, all of them I would
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say somewhat favorable to Trump. In that Harvard Harris has
a dead tie, New York Times has Trump up one,
and the most recent NPR mayrist Pole has Kamala up one.
Why does that matter? In order based on the last
couple of elections to win, if Trump is running even
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with Kamala or down even a point or two in
the final popular vote, He's very likely to win the
electoral college because the numbers get run up in California
and New York East and West Coast are bigger fans
of the Democrat Party than much of the rest of
the country in the middle of the road areas, and
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these numbers are now being reflected in the gambling markets.
Buck Trump is and has as we are speaking just
opened his biggest lead in the gambling markets in over
a month against Kamalin.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Now it's still close, but Trump is.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
A fifty three percent favorite to win to Kamala's forty
five percent favorite to win. That's around a field goal
if you're out there and you are a football fan.
In terms of what that would look like in the
gambling markets, Trump basically has a field goal advantage. Now,
a lot can change, and there may well be substantial
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movement in the gambling markets based on what happens tonight
in the ninety minute debate. But to me, what stands
out buck is Trump is a fairly substantial gambling favorite.
Of the battleground states to win Georgia, to win North Carolina,
and to win Arizona. Small favorite Pennsylvania. Small favorite, that
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is Trump. Kamala is a small favorite in Michigan and
in Wisconsin. Simplest math, Trump wins Georgia, Trump wins North Carolina,
Trump wins Pennsylvania. He's president of the United States. No
other outcome matters. Simplest route. So I do think this
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is significant because it ties in with what would be
my analysis of this race. Trump doesn't need to do
anything crazy. He doesn't need to change any of the
trajectory of the race. That's what Kamala needs, So don't
play into her attacks. Be the presidential candidate, use her
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record against her, and I think Trump comes out very good.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I think that trying to go for a knockout would
be a mistake. Yeah, because I think he's winning and
I think if he can just continue what's going on,
he's going to end up being the president. Look, we
know that something has changed because we were all being told,
and the Liberals were dancing around in celebration that Kamala
was ahead in all the swing states. No serious polster,
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no serious person would I would say right now that
Kamala Harris is ahead in all of.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Or even a majority. I think of the swing states.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
At best, they could argue she's tied. If they're telling
you Kamala is tied, guess what she's losing. And that's
where this is. I worry a little bit that there's
going to be a letdown here because the last presidential
debate ended a candidacy. Generally, presidential debates I think have
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very limited impact. However, this is likely to be a
very tight election, so even a relatively small shift in
the numbers because of Kamala and Trump's performances. That may
be enough to have a determined outcome. You'll never really
You're never really able to measure, right, I mean, did
someone win because of the debate or not. But I
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just hope that Trump stays cool, calm and collected tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You know, be funny.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
He's gonna be Trump, He's I don't think I have
to tell him that He's going to do his thing.
But if the only the only trap he could fall
into is looking petty and overly aggressive, and I think
he knows, and he wasn't. With a guy in pure
meltdown next to him. Trump didn't look mean, He didn't
look like he was badgering or belligerent toward Biden. He
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just was kind of like, Oh, this is a mess,
isn't it. I mean, you almost it almost was at
certain points in the Biden Trump debate, like Trump was
sitting next to you and we were all watching Biden,
and he was like, Oh, this guy's having a bad night.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know what I'm saying. It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It didn't come across as as nasty and those kinds
of I know, we considered, say what about the policy.
How could Kamalok went on policy or policies are insane
and they change every five minutes. This is really going
to be feel vibe, personality, emotion as the takeaway for
a lot of people who are still who are still
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thinking about who they're going to vote for.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, and I don't think people know Kamala, I really don't.
I'm talking about the general public. Everybody has their impressions
of Trump. I think Trump could surprise people by just
being presidential, which he can often be, and looking like
he's a bigger man than Kamala who actually attacks him.
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And I think it's worth remembering Biden tried to get
him riled up. Remember the stupid alley Cat line when
Biden was like, You've got the morals of an alley cat,
which is I still think one of the oldest man
lines ever. Like it actually just managed to age Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean, agent, I have to call Trump a dog
faced pony soldier or whatever that was.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
But he said you had sex with a porn star
you did?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
All these things that I think they thought would get
Trump really riled up, And Trump just said and I
didn't and didn't go down the rabbit hole. By and large,
Kamala's gonna come at him with that. Now Kamala has
got her own history. I think Kamala is sleeping with
a married man in San Francisco is for uh no, Buck,
(25:11):
I think you're gonna is for us worthy of discussing.
My concern is if Trump goes after her based on
what race she is or sleeping with Willie Brown, that that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
You see this the way I do that, this is
not this is not the time. Okay, So you and
I agree. Sorry, I thought you were gonna say, go
after on the Willie Brown stuff. That's not That's not
going to work to his advantage tonight. Here's how can
make all the jokes you want. Our friend Jesse Kelly
certainly makes jokes about it. But here's the counter where
it could work.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
If she comes after him and says, uh, you know,
you slept with a porn star, you are guilty of
sexual assault, all these things, I think it would be
really funny if Trump said this would be my advice. Look,
I don't want to focus on anyone's past allegations. Some
people say that you slept with the mayor of San
Francisco while he was married. I'm not going to focus
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on things like that, or that he gave you four
hundred thousand dollars in jobs. That's not the kind of
thing that I would focus on. Others can or that
the reason you're here now is because you are willing
to sleep with people and rise as a result. That's
not really my thing. Like it's funny if he addresses
it in a way and then he pivots and says,
this election is about the future, and all the choices
(26:25):
you've made in the past prove that you're not the
right person to lead us into the future. I wish
I wish we could go Freaky Friday on this thing, Buck,
because I would give anything to have a ninety minute
debate with Kamala Harris and actually be able to hold
her accountable for her record. I don't know that Trump
is going to be the best person to do this.
(26:47):
I think jad Vance would be really good if he
had gotten to go against her in the VP debate.
Trump is has many skills. I don't know that really
succinctly articulated someone else's failures of policy are going to
be the thing that people remember about Trump.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
What you're talking about fun fun fact or little data
point would be trump engaging in printerzio or apophesis, where
you say what you want to say by saying you're
not going to talk about it. Right, So I didn't
know that's what it's called, but I always think that's funny.
You know, it's it's a it's an you know, an
ancient rhetorical trick, right, this is the thing. And you
(27:27):
could sit there and say, well, I could talk about
like Willie Brown and Kamalaw and you know, sleeping your
way to the top of politics.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But I'm not that kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know that that's the sort of classic and I
think comes off super funny, gets your message across, but
doesn't attack. I always say the most successful attacks are
delivered with a smile, and some women are really good
at it. We employ Tommy Lay and she's been on
the show a lot. She's pretty, and she smiles a
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lot when she like has a knife in her hand,
and people don't even know they're getting gutted because the
cosmetic oftentimes disguises the attack. Right, Does that make sense?
I feel like, what would people come at you on Twitter?
You know, you're always kind of you're always just like
game on. It's like someone's rolled the basketball of the
court and they're like, let's say, like you're just down
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to throw down, like you don't care at all. So
some people can have that approach, which I think is
always is always an advantage.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You never want to let them get under your skin.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well, and I think that's the point with Trump. He
didn't let Biden get under his skin. And Kamala is desperate.
I really do believe that her campaign is desperate and
they need Trump to come off the handle so that
they can argue that he doesn't have the disposition to
be president, that he doesn't have the temperament.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
That's what they want to argue.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
It's also funny, you know what the front page of
the New York Times us today buck Trump's age becomes
an issue. They didn't cover barely at all, Joe Biden's
age for years. Today, on the day of the September
tenth debate, I pull out the New York Times old
man style my newspaper, and it says, maybe been yesterday's paper.
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To be fair, they all rolled together, but the front
page story was about Trump and his age, and what
a huge issue it's become I just I couldn't help
but smile. I mean, like, come on, well you knew
they were going to do that. I mean that was
that was the most Yeah, that was clear. There was
no way they weren't going to try to say, how
could they run somebody who's so old?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Right?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
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We were talking about Kamala Harris's past. First of all.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
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Last night I had some Crocket coffee buck before I
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But we were laughing, I'll send this.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
In this clip, there's an old ABC profile of Willie Brown,
who was Kamala Harris's married She was his mistress. I
guess whatever you want to call it. He was married,
multiple kids. He was sixty, she was twenty nine. There
is a clipbuck of him dancing in a nightclub. Kamala
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turns to look at the camera and the reporter asks,
are you his daughter? I'm telling you, I'm about to
share the clip the video. I saw it and I
couldn't believe it was real. But it brings home that
she will do anything for power, and starting in her twenties,
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she was sleeping with a sixty year old guy who
was married with kids. He gave her two four hundred
thousand dollars jobs. People say, Okay, why does that matter.
It's indicative to me of how her campaign is now.
She will do anything to get power. She claims that.
She I mean, I really think there is no core
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to Kamala Harris, Like, what does she actually believe in?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Well, yeah, that's what I've been saying along. She just
believes in power, the pursuit of it, the wielding of it. Yes,
being a part of the machine of the powerful.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I don't know, Clay.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I just I don't know that anyone cares that she
was doing this stuff. What was it we're talking with
forty years ago now, or it's not forty years ago?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Uh, thirty years ago? Yeah, thirty years ago. I don't know.
I don't think anyone cares. Right, it's not like she
was not illegal.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
But if you're a if you're a mom out there
right now, who says, hey, I don't like Donald Trump
because I don't think he seems like a great husband.
I don't think he seems like a trustworthy guy. You're
gonna vote for the woman who was sleeping with a
married man. I think it does register with married women.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Think it. I don't think it floats to the top
of people's mind. It does.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I think there are a lot of married women out
there that hate side chicks.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Married women are are voting Republican overwhelmingly anyway. Okay, married women,
are you meat and potatoes of the Republican Party? It's
act yeah, well, that's that's true on some level. But
if you actually go into the deep dive data in
twenty twenty, the reason why Trump lost and I know
I was rigged all these other things, but go to
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the actual places. It's suburban women in Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta,
and Las Vegas. You go into the Phoenix, you go
into those areas. I'm telling you they're still a lot
of educated, suburban women who don't like Trump personally. They
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may like his policies, and they're married and they have kids.
And I think there are a lot of married women
out there that hate the idea of the side chick,
of the mistress that's Kamala Harris and then she got
They probably also hate the idea of the guy who's
married three times and she did on his previous wives, right.
So I don't think this is a game we necessarily
want to get into.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
But I think it helps to shift the calculus in
their world. I guarantee you Buck, there are a ton
of women out there that are saying, I'm going to
vote against Donald Trump because he's married three times and
I don't think he's a great husband, and I don't
like his character, and then they're going to vote for
the side chick.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I think it's I think people care a lot more
than Kamala is an idiot who's going to make everything
more expensive more than democratic and more.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You know that all matters.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
But I don't know that that registers with suburban women
who were willing to flip to Biden in twenty two.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Suburban women, suburban women call in a suburban women here,
call in. Okay, tell what I'm just saying. Well, let's
get some calls in from this. Let's actually hear Clay
is channeling superban women. Suddenly, no one understands suburban married
women better than me. I don't necessarily want to know
what you're doing, because every time we do this, people
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call in there like I would crawl on hot call
for Donald Trump. Women are voting for Kamala.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
By the way, do you hear your girlfriends reference Trump's
character and have no idea about Kamala is? I think
it cancels out and then you come back to policy.
That's my argument. Okay, she's also an alley cat. In
Joe Biden's parlance, He's an alley cat. Let's just come
back to economy, border crime, because then you get back
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on the issues and Trump wins there.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
All right, ladies, you tell me, I don't think anybody
cares about wo Kamala was sleeping with thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
But last Uncle Bill. He's coming up.
Welcome in Tuesday edition Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We
appreciate all of you hanging out with us. It is
debate Day, nine pm Eastern, six pm on the West Coast,
Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris from Philadelphia, perhaps the only
debate the two of them will have all throughout the season.
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We are exactly eight weeks from election day today. That is,
if my math is right, fifty six days away. Many
of you will be able to vote in a month
or less, depending on what community you are in. It
is officially go time. We will dive into what we
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believe are the biggest and most important aspects of the debate.
Certainly we'll be breaking it all down for you tomorrow.
In earnest poles have begun to turn against Kamala Harris.
The analogy that I would make since football season is
here is Donald Trump has the ball. He is winning.
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He can run out the clock by simply running off
tackle and putting together a couple of first downs. Will
see whether or not he is able to do so
again nine pm Eastern. I know almost all of you
will be watching to see what we get. And while
there's lots of discussions about what version of Trump we
(01:25):
will get. To be fair, he was awful. I think
he acknowledges this in the first debate that he had
against Joe Biden. He was much better in the second debate.
He obviously knocked out Joe Biden on June twenty seventh,
in the first debate of this presidential cycle. We will
see how he does against Kamala Harris. But I do
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think Buck, we have to spend a little bit of
time to start off the show today just reiterating for
you how crazy far left wing Kamala Harris really is.
And they keep finding more and more receipts from her
failed twenty twenty presidential campaign, where everyone was competing to
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be the furthest left wing they could possibly be with frankly,
almost the exception of Joe Biden, everybody else was trying
to get to the left of Bernie Sanders because they
thought that was the pathway to end up being the nominee.
And as part of an ACLU I believe it was
a written survey see an end of their credit went
(02:29):
back and tracked down these answers. Kamala Harris was asked
about whether or not she believed in sex change operations
paid for by taxpayers for illegal immigrants. It sounds like
mad lib crazy liberal perspective. And she was asked about
drug possession. She said yes on sex changes, and she
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said that you should be able to possess crack, fentanyl,
whatever drug you wanted. She was in favor of decriminalizing possession.
That really happened. Aaron Burnett, the host of the CNN
show on which this report was shared, even herself, seems
staggered by the implications and the fact that Kamala Harris
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did not really in her campaign have any explanation for
these insanely far left wing policies. I want to give
CNN credit something we don't say often on this show.
This is what it sounded like last night on Aaron Burnett.
As that was all laid out.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
On immigration, she made this open ended pledge to end
immigrant attention. She said she supported taxpayer funded gender transition
surgeries for detained migrants.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
She also said she's.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
A pair funded gender transition surgeries for detainment change Mike.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
She actually said she supported.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
She wrote both wrote and answered in the affirmative when
she was asked this, and she said she also supported
it for federal prisoners now. She also pledged to slash
immigration detention five to fifty percent, close all family and
private facilities, and decrease funding for ICE and then the.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
ICE detainers with local law enforcement. Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
She also buck said that she would end all criminal
penalties for having crack and finnel, among other things. This
is crazy town even for Democrats. What's your reaction here
when you see this coming out, not only coming out,
but CNN being the one to cover it. Kamala Harris
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is a far left radical who would have no chance
of winning any nationwide election without the media being willing
to completely cover for her, live for her, carry water
for her, do everything that they think that is possible,
really to create an image of somebody that's just not
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based in reality. And when Kamala Harris has been when
she was asked about this very gently, I might add
by Dana Bash over at c recently.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Right, it wasn't a Dana Bash she was doing the interview.
That's right. They're all the same at CNN. It's all
blends together.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Remember, she kept saying, my principles haven't changed, which I
thought was interesting because I don't think Kamala Harris actually
has any principles, at least not as a person in
public life. I think that she is a devotee of
power and of being around the powerful wielding power in
their name, and I think she's a vessel for the
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Democrat machine. I do not believe that she actually really
believes in anything. And the fact and the way you
know this is that she took positions, Clay, and this
is what's coming up in that ACLU questionnaire segment they
did on CNN. She took positions that nobody would ever
think would play well nationally, right. I mean, you couldn't
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think for a second that some of these things that
she was in now banning FRACKA mean, these are things
that somebody says if their plan when they say it
is to lie and said that I never said it,
or just changed their mind the moment they run up
against political resistance. This is why I have had a
dare I say it, a quiet and cool confidence about
Trump's future here ever since Kamala became the nominee, which
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always factored into my assessment of why Joe Biden had
I know, the debate disaster happened, but why Biden was
actually a better play, a safer play in many ways
than Kamala Harris. Not only does she lack the political
skills we talked about that yesterday that you've had in
some other politicians, particularly some other Democrat politicians in recent cycles,
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she also is somebody who can't really claim to stand
for anything other than whatever works in the moment. And
I think that that lack of authenticity, coupled with the
lack of authenticity that she exudes when she's just talking
to people, right, I mean, she comes across as inauthentic,
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and her political program, you know, her platform, whatever you
want to call it, is also deeply anauthentic because she
doesn't really care, well, what works. What do you need
me to say? That's what Kamala will say. So I
think that this is tonight. You know, you're gonna see
a lot of dancing. Remember even Gavin Newsom when he
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debated Ron DeSantis, he did a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Of oh, bud, you know, just I'm just gonna talk
in circles here and be handsome. Didn't work. People saw it,
and I think they'll see through Kamala Harris tonight.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To be fair, Hannity was fact checking Gavin Newsom in
real time and calling out his lies, and I think
that really rattled Gavin Newsom. The facts weren't on his
side and they were shown to him. I do think
this really cuts through the noise.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
If Trump says to Kamala Harris, in addition to wanting
to leave the border wide open, you believed that we
should be paying taxpayer American payers should be paying for
sex change surgery for illegal immigrants, that is Banana Land crazy.
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And let me give you a line here, Buck. If
Trump wanted to take control of this debate early. This
came from an emailer and it's actually an incredible suggestion,
and I forwarded it to the Trump team. Buck, what
if Trump, in his opening response, said, I want to
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do something that's going to really stun everybody here today.
I want to thank Kamala Harris. I want to thank you,
Kamala for me being alive today, because if you hadn't
been such a disaster at the border, and I hadn't
turned my head to look at the graphic of all
of the illegal immigrants that you have allowed into this country,
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I would have been murdered by an assassin on July
thirteenth in Butler, Pennsylvania. The only reason I'm alive today
is because you did such a bad job at the
Border that I had to turn and look at that
graphic the exact moment that guy fired a bullet. I
think that it would be like a holy crap moment
right off the top.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You know this.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So much of the tone of a debate is set
in the first five minutes, and a lot of people
tune in for the first five or ten minutes and
then they kind of get everything gets all the noise
kind of gets in your head and you can't keep
up with it all. This is an average viewer. I
think if he came out with a punchy line like that,
that ties her directly to the failures at the Border,
(09:30):
sex change operations. Things like that. He sets the tone.
It's like hitting a big punch early in a boxing match.
And I think a lot of people would resonate. And
here's the other thing about these debates, and you know it,
and I think this was the Biden team what they
found out. Biden got knocked out on June twenty seventh,
but we kept watching the clips four weeks. It's not
(09:53):
just what's said, it's what goes viral and what clips
echo through social media and solidify the opinion of what
was said. Because most people are going to watch all
ninety minutes. Everyone in America is going to see at
least one thirty or sixty second clip. What are those
distilled moments and how do they capture the zeigists. It's
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not just the debate anymore, it's the echo of the
viral clips for weeks after. I think that we can
all expect that ABC is going to be favorable toward Kamala.
They can't make it too obvious because then that's counterproductive
for them. But I think that ABC will show us
a different a slightly different approach than what cen END did,
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even where they decided for once, let's have a pretty neutral,
pretty neutral monitoring, and End did a good job.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know, there was nothing I would If.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
There was anything I found objectionable in the way Sin
and moderated that debate, I would have said it. But
I didn't see anything that was a problem. I thought
all the questions were fair.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
This is the thing.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
It's possible to do that right. Yes, it's worth reminding.
You know, people say, oh, well they can't do you know,
everyone has a bias eye. I mean, you can come
close enough in a debate. You know, referees and sports
aren't perfect, but like they can get the major calls.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Should note in fact, if the game's well officiated, you
don't even notice who called the game. That's what the
best debate is. You shouldn't have the debate moderator be
a storyline at all. They should fade into the background
and it should be about the people on the stage.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
And I do think that you'll see just the questions
will be more favorable to Kamala trying to get out
of the way maybe some of.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Her weaknesses or early on.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But look, she's not a good orator, she's not a
good public speaker, she is not smart on policy. She
really has very little to play here except some emotional
appeal of being a woman, being a minority. You know,
Trump is a big bad man. And abortion.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
She's going to lean on abortion, every single abortion a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
You know, the single most important policy by far to
the Democrat party is the ability to kill babies in
the womb, and that is that'll be a part of it.
But I really do think that there's there's no way
she comes out of tonight looking great. I think her
team is just hoping that she can sort of keep
things status quo. In terms of if I'm Kamala Harris
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and I come out of tonight's debate without a clear
gain of any kind for Trump, that's a win.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That's the best I see. I think she has. I
think she's losing, and I think she needs to win
or no debate.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I agree, but I'm saying she doesn't your expectation, your point,
so woe that the best she can hope for is
a draw. The best she can hope for his status
quo draw. Realistically in terms of public opinion and the
polling after this, Yeah, of course. I mean she'd love
to turn the momentum.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
She is losing and she could be behind two or
three points after this in a way where everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Goes, oh, this is not looking good. Correct.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
I think the result of this one will not be
the knockout that we saw in June twenty seventh. I
believe both parties will turn and raise their gloves, and
the people who like Trump will say Trump one.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And people who like headline Kamala one. Clay Travis with
a bold prediction, Kamala Harris will do better than a
senile dementia riddle Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I would, I mean, that would be amazing to watch
if Kamala somehow was worse than Biden.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't know what she would.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I mean, she might probably have to collapse like faint,
you know, when she gets asked about sex change operations
for migrants. I don't even know how she could hardly
be worse. But again, if I'm advising Trump, it is economy,
border crime, just perry an attack, and I will say,
don't follow her down the rabbit hole. Don't go down
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the rabbit hole with whatever argument she wants to make.
He did that a little bit with Biden, remember when
they started arguing over how history was going to judge
their presidencies. And I'm like, no one ever says that
a Republican did a good job. Don't argue about what
historians think. Just kind of stay on the issues, and
if he can, he's gonna win.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
It's a side note, Clay. It's one of the sad
things for me.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
So many contemporary historians, they're just they're all communists now.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
It is scary and unfortunate the.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Historians now, so many of them, it seems like they
might as well be the gender studies professor team at
Wesleyan or something like. They're just so many left wing
historians and a good tell as always if they use BCE.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
By the way, that's all you have to know.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
We're coming up on the first break. But there's a
world where I would have been a history professor. I
was a history major. I absolutely loved it. And if
you go back and look at popular historians, so many
of them truly love America. And it does seem like
many modern day historians really hate America.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And it's you.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Know, they have such power to tell the story of
America that it's sad to see the story of America
becomes so negative. History should be one of the more
objective humanities profession or humanity the endeavors, and unfortunately it's
it's like gender studies now in a lot of cases. Anyway,
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Speaker 4 (16:16):
The flip flops of Kamala Harris when it comes to
key policies, that's going to be I think one of
the biggest challenges for her. Tonight in this debate, CNN's
Dana bash This has cut four saying well, some of
the flip flops are genuine play for the.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Pober president is going to be going after her on
some of these changes, and some of them are genuine changes,
like fracking, which she explained after I asked her why
some of them are changes because she was running and
then she became part of President Biden's campaign and then
his administration. And you know this, Wolf, when you're the
(16:58):
vice president, you don't really get to make your own policy.
That happens when you're at the top of the ticket,
which she is doing. Now.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Eh, sorry, they can try, they can pull all this stuff, Clay,
it just doesn't resonate. Everyone's like, oh wait, what was
that She can't have her own ideas and policies because
she was tied to Biden.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
He's absurd.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
That actually makes more sense. The problem is she said
that she didn't support fracking when she was her own boss,
when she was running for president of the United States,
and she said the reason she didn't was because she
couldn't look at her baby nieces in the face if
she allowed fracking to occur. I guess she's better at
looking her baby nieces.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
In the face and allow It only makes sense if
it would only make sense if Biden also wanted to
ban fracking. This doesn't hold up at all. Yeah, Benny,
fracking is lunacy, by the way, true lunacy.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And her answer to Dana Bash would unfracking, which was
the only thing she pushed back against, was not actually
good at all and didn't explain herself at all other
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton show as
we now have reached potentially the only that we will
have between Trump and Kamala Harris tonight, nine o'clock Eastern.
In the data, which is what I like to look at,
we have three major polls that have come out in
the last twenty four hours, all of them I would
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say somewhat favorable to Trump. In that Harvard Harris has
a dead tie, New York Times has Trump up one,
and the most recent NPR mayrist Pole has Kamala up one.
Why does that matter? In order based on the last
couple of elections to win, if Trump is running even
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with Kamala or down even a point or two in
the final popular vote, He's very likely to win the
electoral college because the numbers get run up in California
and New York East and West Coast are bigger fans
of the Democrat Party than much of the rest of
the country in the middle of the road areas, and
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these numbers are now being reflected in the gambling markets.
Buck Trump is and has as we are speaking just
opened his biggest lead in the gambling markets in over
a month against Kamalin.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Now it's still close, but Trump is.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
A fifty three percent favorite to win to Kamala's forty
five percent favorite to win. That's around a field goal
if you're out there and you are a football fan.
In terms of what that would look like in the
gambling markets, Trump basically has a field goal advantage. Now,
a lot can change, and there may well be substantial
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movement in the gambling markets based on what happens tonight
in the ninety minute debate. But to me, what stands
out buck is Trump is a fairly substantial gambling favorite.
Of the battleground states to win Georgia, to win North Carolina,
and to win Arizona. Small favorite Pennsylvania. Small favorite, that
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is Trump. Kamala is a small favorite in Michigan and
in Wisconsin. Simplest math, Trump wins Georgia, Trump wins North Carolina,
Trump wins Pennsylvania. He's president of the United States. No
other outcome matters. Simplest route. So I do think this
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is significant because it ties in with what would be
my analysis of this race. Trump doesn't need to do
anything crazy. He doesn't need to change any of the
trajectory of the race. That's what Kamala needs, So don't
play into her attacks. Be the presidential candidate, use her
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record against her, and I think Trump comes out very good.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
I think that trying to go for a knockout would
be a mistake. Yeah, because I think he's winning and
I think if he can just continue what's going on,
he's going to end up being the president. Look, we
know that something has changed because we were all being told,
and the Liberals were dancing around in celebration that Kamala
was ahead in all the swing states. No serious polster,
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no serious person would I would say right now that
Kamala Harris is ahead in all of.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Or even a majority. I think of the swing states.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
At best, they could argue she's tied. If they're telling
you Kamala is tied, guess what she's losing. And that's
where this is. I worry a little bit that there's
going to be a letdown here because the last presidential
debate ended a candidacy. Generally, presidential debates I think have
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very limited impact. However, this is likely to be a
very tight election, so even a relatively small shift in
the numbers because of Kamala and Trump's performances. That may
be enough to have a determined outcome. You'll never really
You're never really able to measure, right, I mean, did
someone win because of the debate or not. But I
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just hope that Trump stays cool, calm and collected tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
You know, be funny.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
He's gonna be Trump, He's I don't think I have
to tell him that He's going to do his thing.
But if the only the only trap he could fall
into is looking petty and overly aggressive, and I think
he knows, and he wasn't. With a guy in pure
meltdown next to him. Trump didn't look mean, He didn't
look like he was badgering or belligerent toward Biden. He
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just was kind of like, Oh, this is a mess,
isn't it. I mean, you almost it almost was at
certain points in the Biden Trump debate, like Trump was
sitting next to you and we were all watching Biden,
and he was like, Oh, this guy's having a bad night.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
You know what I'm saying. It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
It didn't come across as as nasty and those kinds
of I know, we considered, say what about the policy.
How could Kamalok went on policy or policies are insane
and they change every five minutes. This is really going
to be feel vibe, personality, emotion as the takeaway for
a lot of people who are still who are still
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thinking about who they're going to vote for.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, and I don't think people know Kamala, I really don't.
I'm talking about the general public. Everybody has their impressions
of Trump. I think Trump could surprise people by just
being presidential, which he can often be, and looking like
he's a bigger man than Kamala who actually attacks him.
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And I think it's worth remembering Biden tried to get
him riled up. Remember the stupid alley Cat line when
Biden was like, You've got the morals of an alley cat,
which is I still think one of the oldest man
lines ever. Like it actually just managed to age Trump.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I mean, agent, I have to call Trump a dog
faced pony soldier or whatever that was.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
But he said you had sex with a porn star
you did?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
You know?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
All these things that I think they thought would get
Trump really riled up, And Trump just said and I
didn't and didn't go down the rabbit hole. By and large,
Kamala's gonna come at him with that. Now Kamala has
got her own history. I think Kamala is sleeping with
a married man in San Francisco is for uh no, Buck,
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I think you're gonna is for us worthy of discussing.
My concern is if Trump goes after her based on
what race she is or sleeping with Willie Brown, that that.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
You see this the way I do that, this is
not this is not the time. Okay, So you and
I agree. Sorry, I thought you were gonna say, go
after on the Willie Brown stuff. That's not That's not
going to work to his advantage tonight. Here's how can
make all the jokes you want. Our friend Jesse Kelly
certainly makes jokes about it. But here's the counter where
it could work.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
If she comes after him and says, uh, you know,
you slept with a porn star, you are guilty of
sexual assault, all these things, I think it would be
really funny if Trump said this would be my advice. Look,
I don't want to focus on anyone's past allegations. Some
people say that you slept with the mayor of San
Francisco while he was married. I'm not going to focus
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on things like that, or that he gave you four
hundred thousand dollars in jobs. That's not the kind of
thing that I would focus on. Others can or that
the reason you're here now is because you are willing
to sleep with people and rise as a result. That's
not really my thing. Like it's funny if he addresses
it in a way and then he pivots and says,
this election is about the future, and all the choices
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you've made in the past prove that you're not the
right person to lead us into the future. I wish
I wish we could go Freaky Friday on this thing, Buck,
because I would give anything to have a ninety minute
debate with Kamala Harris and actually be able to hold
her accountable for her record. I don't know that Trump
is going to be the best person to do this.
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I think jad Vance would be really good if he
had gotten to go against her in the VP debate.
Trump is has many skills. I don't know that really
succinctly articulated someone else's failures of policy are going to
be the thing that people remember about Trump.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
What you're talking about fun fun fact or little data
point would be trump engaging in printerzio or apophesis, where
you say what you want to say by saying you're
not going to talk about it. Right, So I didn't
know that's what it's called, but I always think that's funny.
You know, it's it's a it's an you know, an
ancient rhetorical trick, right, this is the thing. And you
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could sit there and say, well, I could talk about
like Willie Brown and Kamalaw and you know, sleeping your
way to the top of politics.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
But I'm not that kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know that that's the sort of classic and I
think comes off super funny, gets your message across, but
doesn't attack. I always say the most successful attacks are
delivered with a smile, and some women are really good
at it. We employ Tommy Lay and she's been on
the show a lot. She's pretty, and she smiles a
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lot when she like has a knife in her hand,
and people don't even know they're getting gutted because the
cosmetic oftentimes disguises the attack. Right, Does that make sense?
I feel like, what would people come at you on Twitter?
You know, you're always kind of you're always just like
game on. It's like someone's rolled the basketball of the
court and they're like, let's say, like you're just down
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to throw down, like you don't care at all. So
some people can have that approach, which I think is
always is always an advantage.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You never want to let them get under your skin.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Well, and I think that's the point with Trump. He
didn't let Biden get under his skin. And Kamala is desperate.
I really do believe that her campaign is desperate and
they need Trump to come off the handle so that
they can argue that he doesn't have the disposition to
be president, that he doesn't have the temperament.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
That's what they want to argue.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
It's also funny, you know what the front page of
the New York Times us today buck Trump's age becomes
an issue. They didn't cover barely at all, Joe Biden's
age for years. Today, on the day of the September
tenth debate, I pull out the New York Times old
man style my newspaper, and it says, maybe been yesterday's paper.
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To be fair, they all rolled together, but the front
page story was about Trump and his age, and what
a huge issue it's become I just I couldn't help
but smile. I mean, like, come on, well you knew
they were going to do that. I mean that was
that was the most Yeah, that was clear. There was
no way they weren't going to try to say, how
could they run somebody who's so old?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Right?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Like?
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Of course, of course, not a surprise at all. We'll
take some of your calls on this one debate night,
the big night. Everybody gonna be a lot of I
was gonna say a lot of fun. I don't know
if funds of our word, but it'll certainly be a
spectacle and we'll be watching. So give us a call.
What do you think you're going to see? You know,
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Clays looking at me? What's up, Clay? I'm just laughing.
We were talking about Kamala Harris's past. First of all.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
As soon as I finished this segment, we finished the
first hour. I'm going downstairs and making myself a fabulous
cup of Crockett coffee. And many of you out there,
as you get ready for staying up a little bit late,
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Speaker 3 (31:54):
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Speaker 1 (31:55):
Last night I had some Crocket coffee buck before I
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Speaker 3 (32:13):
But we were laughing, I'll send this.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
In this clip, there's an old ABC profile of Willie Brown,
who was Kamala Harris's married She was his mistress. I
guess whatever you want to call it. He was married,
multiple kids. He was sixty, she was twenty nine. There
is a clipbuck of him dancing in a nightclub. Kamala
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turns to look at the camera and the reporter asks,
are you his daughter? I'm telling you, I'm about to
share the clip the video. I saw it and I
couldn't believe it was real. But it brings home that
she will do anything for power, and starting in her twenties,
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she was sleeping with a sixty year old guy who
was married with kids. He gave her two four hundred
thousand dollars jobs. People say, Okay, why does that matter.
It's indicative to me of how her campaign is now.
She will do anything to get power. She claims that.
She I mean, I really think there is no core
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to Kamala Harris, Like, what does she actually believe in?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Well, yeah, that's what I've been saying along. She just
believes in power, the pursuit of it, the wielding of it. Yes,
being a part of the machine of the powerful.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
I don't know, Clay.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I just I don't know that anyone cares that she
was doing this stuff. What was it we're talking with
forty years ago now, or it's not forty years ago?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Uh, thirty years ago? Yeah, thirty years ago. I don't know.
I don't think anyone cares. Right, it's not like she
was not illegal.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
But if you're a if you're a mom out there
right now, who says, hey, I don't like Donald Trump
because I don't think he seems like a great husband.
I don't think he seems like a trustworthy guy. You're
gonna vote for the woman who was sleeping with a
married man. I think it does register with married women.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Think it. I don't think it floats to the top
of people's mind. It does.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I think there are a lot of married women out
there that hate side chicks.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Married women are are voting Republican overwhelmingly anyway. Okay, married women,
are you meat and potatoes of the Republican Party? It's
act yeah, well, that's that's true on some level. But
if you actually go into the deep dive data in
twenty twenty, the reason why Trump lost and I know
I was rigged all these other things, but go to
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the actual places. It's suburban women in Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Atlanta,
and Las Vegas. You go into the Phoenix, you go
into those areas. I'm telling you they're still a lot
of educated, suburban women who don't like Trump personally. They
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may like his policies, and they're married and they have kids.
And I think there are a lot of married women
out there that hate the idea of the side chick,
of the mistress that's Kamala Harris and then she got
They probably also hate the idea of the guy who's
married three times and she did on his previous wives, right.
So I don't think this is a game we necessarily
want to get into.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
But I think it helps to shift the calculus in
their world. I guarantee you Buck, there are a ton
of women out there that are saying, I'm going to
vote against Donald Trump because he's married three times and
I don't think he's a great husband, and I don't
like his character, and then they're going to vote for
the side chick.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
I think it's I think people care a lot more
than Kamala is an idiot who's going to make everything
more expensive more than democratic and more.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You know that all matters.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
But I don't know that that registers with suburban women
who were willing to flip to Biden in twenty two.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Suburban women, suburban women call in a suburban women here,
call in. Okay, tell what I'm just saying. Well, let's
get some calls in from this. Let's actually hear Clay
is channeling superban women. Suddenly, no one understands suburban married
women better than me. I don't necessarily want to know
what you're doing, because every time we do this, people
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call in there like I would crawl on hot call
for Donald Trump. Women are voting for Kamala.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
By the way, do you hear your girlfriends reference Trump's
character and have no idea about Kamala is? I think
it cancels out and then you come back to policy.
That's my argument. Okay, she's also an alley cat. In
Joe Biden's parlance, He's an alley cat. Let's just come
back to economy, border crime, because then you get back
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on the issues and Trump wins there.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
All right, ladies, you tell me, I don't think anybody
cares about wo Kamala was sleeping with thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
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