June 1, 2026 • 36 mins
In Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Clay Travis hosts solo and delivers a wide-ranging, politically focused broadcast packed with breaking news analysis, election coverage, and commentary on key national issues shaping the current political landscape. This hour centers heavily on 2026 election news, Senate control, Supreme Court debates, and emerging political scandals, making it a critical segment for listeners tracking U.S. politics, midterm strategy, and culture war topics.
A major theme throughout Hour 1 is the escalating controversy surrounding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, which Clay frames as a pivotal development in the battle for U.S. Senate control. Platner, the presumed Democratic nominee challenging Republican Senator Susan Collins, is facing explosive allegations involving inappropriate online behavior, including reported sexting with multiple women and potential connections to a platform popular among minors. Clay highlights reports from major outlets and emphasizes internal Democratic concern, suggesting a coordinated “code red” effort to derail Platner’s candidacy before the June 9 primary. The host argues that Maine represents a must-win seat for Democrats hoping to flip the Senate, meaning any vulnerability in their nominee could have national consequences for the balance of power in Washington. The discussion explores whether these allegations will resonate with voters in what Clay calls a “post-personal scandal political era,” or if more damaging revelations could still emerge.
Closely tied to the Maine race is a broader strategic discussion about Democratic ambitions to reshape federal power, particularly through Supreme Court expansion. Clay spends significant time analyzing comments from Democratic leaders suggesting an increase in the number of justices from nine to thirteen, tying this potential move to the number of federal circuits. He dismisses the argument as politically motivated and warns that if Democrats regain Senate control and the presidency, they could move to pack the Supreme Court, eliminate the filibuster, and add new states such as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Listener calls reinforce the topic, with multiple callers suggesting Republicans should preemptively expand the Court, though Clay argues Republicans are unlikely to take such aggressive institutional steps.
The hour also previews key state-level elections, particularly in California, emphasizing the significance of the upcoming California governor and Los Angeles mayor primaries. Clay explains the state’s “top-two” primary system and discusses potential Republican strategy, including concerns that a split GOP vote could result in two Democrats advancing, potentially impacting turnout and broader electoral dynamics. He highlights candidates like Steve Hilton and discusses the implications of these races for national political trends.
On cultural and social issues, Hour 1 touches on the ongoing debate over transgender athletes in women’s sports, citing recent California track and field results and comments from political figures who support inclusion policies. Clay frames this as a flashpoint issue likely to influence voter sentiment, particularly in competitive states.
Additional topics include a brief update on U.S.-Iran tensions and negotiations under President Donald Trump, described as ongoing and cyclical, as well as commentary on a recent Jill Biden media interview that Clay characterizes as out-of-touch. The show also weaves in broader critiques of media bias, particularly questioning whether negative coverage of Democratic candidates originates from within the party itself.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Monday edition Clay and Buck. Buck is traveling
for his book doing some events in Washington, d C.
He will be back with us tomorrow, but for today,
as we begin the week, it's just me hanging out
with all of you. For the next three hours, eight
hundred and two to eight eight two, we will take
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your calls and we will dive into the absolute latest.
And there were a bunch of news stories that emerged
over the course of the weekend, among them what is
going on in Iran? The situation there ongoing back and
forth negotiations as President Trump reportedly has demanded stricter terms
to any ceasefire agreement over the weekend, and Iran has said,
(00:47):
as often seems to be the case, oh my goodness,
we are not going to allow that to occur. And
so we will see what ends up happening. As we
kind of are in the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In the.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
What's the Groundhog Day all every day, it's like a
new subtle variation of the same story as it pertains
to Iran. But we will give you the absolute latest there.
It is the eve for those of you in California
of both the LA Mayors primary and also the California
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governor's primary, and there are major moving parts in those stories.
To remind you, for those of you who are not familiar,
the top two candidates, regardless of party, advanced to the
California Governor's race and also advanced to the LA mayors race,
So big decisions being made there as it pertains to
whether or not Spencer Pratt will advance to take on
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Karen Bass and also who will be the Republican it
looks like it will be Steve Hilton, and who will
be the Democrat nominee going forward, Although if we can
grab the audio, Steve Hilton is now making an explicit
direct argument that if you are voting for Chad Bionco,
you are endangering it being a double Democrat runoff and
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they're not being a Republican included on the ballot in
the governor's race at all. And some of you may say, okay, well,
if Democrats are going to win the governor's race likely anyway,
what is the impact of having a Republican on the ballot?
Could have major down ballot impact because Republican turnout has
been very good so far for this race. But if
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the vote is split between Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco.
There is the possibility that you get a double Democrat ticket,
so we will continue on the eve of the California
primary to discuss that throughout the course of this show.
Joe Biden's interview with CBS News has officially dropped, and
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there are all sorts of ridiculous quotes in there. We'll
play a couple of cuts from that story. Tom Steyer,
who is among the candidates to be the Democrat nominee,
he has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try
to be the Democrat nominee in California for the governor's race.
He is encouraging men who identify as women, boys who
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identify as girls, and saying basically they are heroes in
the wake of yet more state championships in California track
and field being won by boys and making girls stand
next to them on the podium, which is the way
that California has decided to deal with this. But big picture,
much tumult coming out over the weekend surrounding Graham Plattner,
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who is the nominee presumptive nominee. Next week is the
main primary June ninth. He is the presumptive Democrat nominee
who will be running against Susan Collins. There is effectively
no way that Democrats could take back control of the
Senate without having the opportunity to win in Maine and
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flip that seat, knocking Susan Collins, a Republican out of office.
Worked contemplating, as there's been a lot of decision and
discussion on redistricting, Susan Collins is the only member of
the Senate or the House who is a Republican from
all of New England. Think about how crazy that is,
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because there's been a lot of focus in the Democrat
Party about, oh my goodness, look at the redistricting that's
going on in red states.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In all of New England, there is not a single.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Republican member of the House of Representatives because of the
way they have redistricted, And Susan Collins is the only
Republican in the Senate. So the only Republican statewide in
the congressional delegation, in the House or in the Senate
is Susan Collins. And you might say, Okay, Clay, what
happened with Graham Platner, Well, this is the guy with
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the Nazi tattoo on his chest. Over the weekend, the
New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both reported
that Platner, according to his wife's own reports to the
campaign finance director, had been engaging in sext conversations with
at least six different women, and he has done so
(05:10):
allegedly while having a profile. And I'm not familiar with
this site at all, to be fair with you. I
got married long before online dating really was a thing,
so I don't know very much about the online dating ecosystem.
But there is a site called kick Kik that is
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largely used by teenagers, and that is where Graham Platner
had a profile, according to the Daily Wire. And I
think one of the real questions that has to be
out there now is how old were some of these
women that Graham Platner was allegedly sexting with, or any
of them under the age of eighteen, because that platform
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in particular is very popular with teenagers. And this has
turned into a huge story again. The main Senate decision
is being made on June ninth, and Plattner's people are
furious that this story came out not only from the
New York Times but also to Wall Street journal, and
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some of you might be sitting back saying, Okay, Clay,
what's going on here? What's the real story? I think
there's a great deal of apprehension about Graham Plattner's ability
to win statewide in Maine. And it feels a bit
to me like Democrats have ordered a code read on
Graham Platner, much like they did on Joe Biden back
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in the day. In other words, there are potential stories
that are out there that are yet to come about
Graham Platner that may make him unelectable. And you say, Okay, Clay,
what would happen if Platner were the nominee on June ninth,
and if they forced him to withdraw, Democrats would get
to pick whichever nominee they want, much like they did
(06:55):
with Kamala Harris. So I think there may be a
Kamala Harris Joe Biden likes story that is taking place
in Maine, and it is a major national story because, again,
if you look at the map, there's basically no way
for Democrats to take back control of the Senate if
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they don't win in Maine. And so there suddenly is
a lot of nerve nervousness about what might be taking
place there. And so we've got a couple of different cuts.
Maybe people from Maine want to react to this, But
here is Graham Platner saying establishment media is trying to
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rip apart his loving marriage. This is what he's arguing
after his wife told the campaign that he had been
sexting with at least six different women that he was
not married to. Cut five, where we've heard Amy's video,
Siamese video last.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Night about this situation, the story in the Times and
the Journal, what would your state be at this point?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That surprised me that the establishment media outlets are just
going to run gossip instead of wanting to talk about
the things that actually matter in this race, which are
the material realities that make their manners are working with.
These people are going to try to make this race
about anything but what it's supposed to be about, which
is policy. They never want to talk about policy. Amy
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and I have a very loving and very happy marriage.
They would very much like to try to rip that apart.
We're going to come after us in every awful way
that they possibly can.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay, so he says it's gossip. The problem with that
is his wife is the one who told the campaign
manager as they were doing opposition research, Hey, my husband
has been sexting with six different women, at least many
of which he may have met on this platform that
is very popular with underage and teenagers. Which is why
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I wonder whether as this story continues to develop, it's
going to come out that Graham Plattner has been talking
to girls that were under eighteen years old. But he
gets the opportunity to defend himself. He also says the
Wall Street Journal and the New York Times story it's
not true. Listen, cut forward story true right about the text?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
No, no, this is the amazing part. The Wall Street
Journal New York Times ran stories without any evidence besides
the gossip from a former staffer. I'm sorry, that's frankly
journalistic mountpractice. We pushed back on it, they won it.
They did it anyways, Sorry that the messages did not exist.
(09:39):
I'm confirming that Genevieve McDonald said in the New York
Times is not truly so.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You never met with her about uncomfortable for lack of
regretter words sexting messages.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
As the campaign was going.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
We talked about things an Amianized marriage that we've gone
through over the years. We talked about that because that's
our marriage, and we discussed with the campaign n of
the McDonald clins isn't true.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, So Democrats are in a full fledged panic if
we can get Corey Booker. Corey Booker was on over
the weekend. It is now Democrats that are being asked
and saying, well, yes, it's something that we should be
very nervous about. And again it feels to me like
they have ordered a code read on Graham Platner inside
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of the actual Democrat party. Let me put it to
you this way. Do you think The New York Times
would run an awful story about Graham Platner if the
Democrat establishment did not want that story to be run.
Do you think they would decide to do it the
week before the primary? Do you think this pressure campaign
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would be ratcheted up on him like this right now
if it were not in any way a part of
the Democrat establishment that was making this happen. I'll just
ask you this, when's the last time the New York
Times wrote an awful story about a Democrat that other
Democrats weren't happy was written? This feels a bit to me,
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not only like the Kamala Joe Biden situation, where they
can sweep in with a candidate that they think is
more likely to win than the one that they have
already selected as a nominee, but also this feels.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Like Eric Swalwell.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I know that Swalwell has vanished, but tomorrow is the
California primary and we have no idea what happened with Swalwell.
It wasn't very long ago that everybody was saying Swalwell
was the favorite to be the Democrat nominee. He was
endorsed by all the prominent unions, he was going to
be the guy, and then you started to see these
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stories coming about his behavior. And now his political career
is over. He's resigned his congressional seat, nobody really knows
where he's gone. And it feels to me like that
is what we are seeing play out in real time
with Platner. Democrats get nasty when they have a candidate
they feel like is going to be exposed in some
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way in the general election, and they just come in
and completely kneecap. Now some of you out there are
going to say, hey, we're in a new era. The
sex scandals don't matter, voters don't care. There have been
a lot of sex scandals surrounding President Trump throughout the
entirety of his political career. Trump just won the popular vote,
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He's been elected president twice. Massive numbers of people have
shown out to vote for his endorsed candidates in this
midterm election cycle as well. So I'm open to the
argument that people just don't care, but I will open
up calls. I'm curious how this is playing in Maine.
The numbers reflect that this is starting to land on
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Platner in a significant way. And I would just say again,
there is an echo here of what we saw happen
with Joe Biden and of what we saw happen just
recently with Eric Swalwell. So be paying attention to this
as we are sitting getting ready for the mid term
next week in Maine. The timing on this is certainly interesting,
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and is there more coming? It would not shock me
at all if more scandal stories are coming. And this
is just the opening salvo from the New York Times. Guys,
if we can grab Corey Booker, Senator from New Jersey.
It's rare that Democrats start to turn their backs on
other Democrats. This is a sign that the code read
to me has been ordered in many ways. On grand platter,
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Speaker 1 (14:53):
Welcome back in, Clay and Buck, appreciate all of you
hanging out with us.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Rolling through the Monday edition of the.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
A lot of reactions coming in as well to the
continued fallout from Graham Platner and the stories from the
New York Times. In the Wall Street Journal, you might
be saying, Okay, Clay, what's the impact of the Senate control.
There's actually a editorial that I thought was really well
(15:21):
done in the Wall Street Journal on the opinion page
this morning. I was reading as I got ready for
the show. The argument is already starting to be made
in a very public way that when Democrats take back
control of the Senate, at some point in time, they're
going to add four Supreme Court justices and This is
where I get frustrated on the people who are in
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the Senate on the Republican side now saying well, we
can't violate the norms of the Senate. Let me tell you,
as soon as Democrats get back control, they're going to
come after the Supreme Court. Here is the new argument
that they have trotted out. This is from Amy Raskin,
who is among the most radical of all of the
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left wingers in the Democrat Party. He says, they're thirteen
federal circuits in America, and traditionally the Supreme Court has
made made up of a number of justices equal to
the number of circuits. We've got thirteen circuits, but we
only have nine justices. This is a quote from Rascin.
So that means that under the best of circumstances, four
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entire federal regions, four federal circuits, will be left out completely.
Why would they want thirteen, Well, because that would give
Democrats a seven to six majority on the Supreme Court. Also,
this entire argument is ludicrous because the Supreme Court has
had the same size since eighteen sixty nine, and the
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circuits have been created for a very very long time.
Tenth circuit in nineteen twenty nine, DC Circuit eighteen ninety three.
There's no legitimacy one soever to the argument that the
thirteen federal circuits demand that there be thirteen Supreme Court justices.
But does that matter, of course not. They're going to
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trot this out. And this is why the Senate is
so important to them. At some point in time, if
they have a bare majority in the United States Senate
and they have a president again, they're going to add
for Supreme Court justices and they're going to ram it through,
and they're going to go from nine to thirteen and
they're going to take back control. How do they do that, Well,
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you have to get Susan Collins out in Maine. And
that is why I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt,
all of this is directly connected to what's going on
with Graham Platner. This is a concern that he's got
too much baggage and he can't be elected. This hit
job is not coming from the Republican side at all.
It's coming from the Democrat side. This is again all
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about ending the filibuster, packing the courts, maybe adding new
states like Puerto Rico and DC to change fundamentally the
power structure in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
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Speaker 1 (18:07):
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Speaker 3 (18:56):
Welcome back in Clay and Buck.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Rolling through the Monday edition of the program after all
the news that has come out during the course of
the weekend, again reminding you the Groundhog Day negotiations with
Iran continue. We will update you if anything substantial happens there.
But I do think the most substantial storyline of the
weekend was Graham Platner the code read being ordered by
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the Democrats, New York Times teeing off on him, and again,
much like with swallwell, remember what happens with these stories.
The initial story allows the subsequent stories. So you may say, well,
why do I care if he's having sext that's for
those of you're not experts text sex, sexting conversations with
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six different women. Well, the next question is going to
be who the women are, right, and if he was
meeting some of these women on an online dating platform
that is, to a large extent for teenagers. The secondary
question of this is was he sexting with miners, which
even for Democrats I would think would be an end
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to his campaign. And if they are looking at internal responses,
remember that everybody thought Susan Collins was going to lose
six years ago, and she won comfortably. All of the
polling was against her, she was down in every single
statewide poll that was released, and then she won by
like nine points. Main voters really really like Susan Collins.
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So if you're going to knock her out after multiple
terms in office, during which time she has been very
popular in the state. You have to have a really
good candidate. And if the New York Times is suddenly saying,
wait a minute, this guy was sexting random women, it
isn't just gossip. It is their attempt to justify the
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subsequent stories that will be used to try to torpedo
his candidacy again, just like Joe Biden with Kamala, just
like what we saw happen with Eric Swallwell, this is
inside code read nasty Democrat politics. And when you have
senators in office going on and saying yes, I am
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very nervous about this, you definitely know that the code
red has been ordered. And that's what Corey Booker did
yesterday on Meet the Press Watch. Do you have concerns
with the weight of all these controversies that it may
jeopardize Democratic hopes to get that Senate seat in Maine?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, I have concerns that guy has questions to answer,
and that's what campaigns are for. But when I go
all over New Jersey and see hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of New Jerseys losing their health care and millions
more seeing their health care costs go up. As I
have families who say I can't afford gas for my
car and childcare for my children, I know that so
much is riding on Democrats taking control of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Okay, so and again, Democrats taking control of the Senate
means thirteen Supreme Court justices. It means making Puerto Rico
and Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
States.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It means four new senators. They're trying to create a
perpetual majority and do everything that they can when they
get that majority to ensure that it extends for a
very long time. They are going to do what Republicans
refuse to do. As soon as they get fifty senators
plus the White House, they are going to structurally alter
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the fabric of our government in a way that they
believe in shrines them in perpetual political power. And if
Grand Platinir doesn't win in Maine, that ability to take
over the government is called into significant question. So that
is the basis for all of this, and again it's
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why Platiner matters to such an extent. I wonder if
it's going to also play out in Michigan, where I
think Mike Rogers, if you look at the polling is
posed to do really well if Abdul l Sayed is
the nominee. Now, this is a decision that Michigan Democrat
primary voters are going to have to make in August.
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We won't know until then who the actual nominee is
going to be. But I think there is starting to
be an argument to be made that Republicans are benefiting
from Democrats making poor choices. And I think if you
ask where does this all come from, how does Graham
Platner emerge? What is his background? It's a really fascinating
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story that they have tried to create, and I think
it's rooted in the Democrat Party's recognition that they are
failing to connect with men, young men in particular, and
so they're trying to find masculine voices to reach to
these reach out to these young men, and they made
the decision to go with James Talerico in Texas and
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with Graham Platiner in Maine. What is intriguing to me
about this is tall Rico is a masculine nominee that
makes Tim.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Walls look like a badass.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He is weak, he is effeminate, He is not someone
that is going to bring in normal Texan voters. So
they have failed by picking a male candidate who is
too effeminate, who is too woke to actually stand up
for what most Texans believe. On the flip side, they
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have then gone with Graham Platner, who is actually a
repository of perfect toxic masculinity. If you think about what
they would traditionally in the Democrat Party describe as toxic masculinity,
what might.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
That look like? A Nazi tattoo on the chest?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I think maybe people might say, hey, what would a
toxically masculine man look like? Maybe somebody who's supporting Nazis.
Maybe someone who is on on a teenage app, an
app designed for teenagers, primarily in his thirties, approaching forty
years old, potentially chatting with teenagers while he's married. I
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think a lot of people would say, maybe, maybe I'm
willing to overlook the Nazi tattoo. Maybe I'm willing to
overlook all the crazy Reddit post. Maybe I am over
willing to overlook the sexting controversy when he's married with
six different women. But it might be a bridge too
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far for a lot of main voters to vote for
the Nazi adulter. That seems like kind of an awful
thing to say. Who might have been might have been
engaging in sexual conversations with miners on a teenager dating app.
Democrats are looking at all this, and remember they know
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things that have not come out yet, and they are saying, uh, oh,
there's no way this guy can beat Susan Collins. We've
got to take him out while we still can. And
it's funny because they're fine with the Nazi Nazi tattoo.
Remember when Elon Musk raised his hand and acknowledged the audience,
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they turned it into a Nazi salute George Clooney did
in good Night and Good Luck. I think it was
called the Broadway play. I told you guys, I went
and watched the Broadway play because I was interested to
see what it was like. The play ends with Elon
Musk doing that salute as if he is a Nazi.
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Somebody is gonna grab me on video doing that and say,
look at what Lady Travis does on a day to
day basis. They turned Elon Musk acknowledging the crowd with
a hand gesture into a Nazi salute. Meanwhile, they are
actually defending the guy with a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
A bridge too far is a Nazi tattoo in conjunction
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with multiple different sexting partners who might have been teenagers,
and having a profile featuring, according to the Daily Wire,
a shirtless pick of himself in a towel standing in
front of a mirror, so that he was trying to
meet people with that profile pick. This is all maybe
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a bridge too far for Democrats, not because they're actually
morally compelled to speak out, but because they are concerned
that the average swing voter in Maine is going to say, hey,
maybe we should stick with the incumbent senator who we
may not agree with on everything, but is unlikely unlikely
to create huge, major scandals going forward. I'll open up
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your phone lines. I'm actually curious how you guys would
respond to this. Eight hundred and two two two eight
a two Do you agree with me that the hit
the red has been ordered? When the New York Times
is writing this, and again, the big question is will
Maine voters care? Or do we live in a post
personal politics world that I think is actually structurally a
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really interesting conversation where everyone just presumes that any personal
attack is entirely partisan in nature. One of the legacies
of the Trump era may be that personal political attacks,
whether it's designed for Democrats or Republicans, just don't land
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because we all presume that they're just political in nature,
and everyone presumes that so many of these Democrat and
Republican politicians have sorted personal lives, and people just don't care. Now,
you can also argue this is actually not connected to Trump,
that it is further connected long range to everything Democrats
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saying since back in the day with Bill Clinton, when
remember Democrats pretend that they're outraged about the allegations against
Donald Trump, but Bill Clinton was actually engaging in sexual
conduct with an intern in the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I would argue, to a.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Certain extent, once that was allowed to occur in the
nineteen nineties, the politics of personal destruction were effectively over,
and it may be the case that these grand platiner
allegations are just going to fall flat. I don't necessarily
buy that here, because I think what has led Democrats
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to order the code read is they know worse things
are coming. The New York Times doesn't write a story
about a candidate engaging in sexting just to have that
be the standalone story. There's more coming. This is the
bridge that allows them to get to the next couple
of stories. And again under main law, if Platner is
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the nominee next week, they have to convince him to
drop out in order to replace him. Much like we
saw with Joe Biden. It would be easier for them
if he dropped out before the actual June ninth primary
got here, but that's only eight days away. Again, I
don't think these are Republican driven attacks. I think this
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is all coming from the Democrat side eight hundred and
two A two two eight A two. You guys can
tell me whether or not you buy that being the case,
and how significant this is going forward? Is personal political attacks?
Are they basically just over next hour I'm going to
dive into it. Being the eve of California, we'll talk
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about the LA Mayor's race, the California Governor's race, and
where that is likely to lead us, in particular with
a flashpoint happening in California as it pertains to a
trans athlete UH in California yet again in winning multiple
state championship in girls track and field. I know some
of you have daughters that were competing in those We've
(31:07):
had some of the callers discussing this and just what
an absurdity is to have that male track and field
athlete standing on the podium next to the girls that
should have actually won the title. And people who say, Okay,
this is an abarent thing, this doesn't happen very often.
Tom Styer, who wants to be the next governor of California,
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is not only saying it should happen, he's saying it's
a good thing. And this boy pretending to be a
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Speaker 1 (32:51):
We got a ton of you talking back reacting to
the Wall Street Journal editorial. Also a bunch of calls
rolling in about the Grand Platner code red. Let's see
Gene in Apex, North Carolina. Let's just run through. Let's
start with Gene cut b. If increasing the Supreme Court
number of seats to thirteen is such a good idea,
(33:14):
why don't we just do it now? See what they'll
think about that idea. That is a bunch of you
are going to weigh in with the same idea let
me hit several of these all over the country and
I'll tell you what I think. Mike from Wisconsin cut c,
fire away bo if.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Jamie Raskin says we need thirteen Supreme Court justices. Why
isn't Trump just had four more?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And Derek in Dayton, Ohio, well cut d. He has
this to say, why don't we.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Just call their bluff and a point four more Supreme
Court justices right now?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And Tom from Manhattan probably listening on wor cut E
he's actually a podcast listener.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
He has this to say, why can't Trump and re
Polan say Noah, Raskin, you're right, We're going to do
it and Trump through it right now before the mid terms,
nominate four new people for the Supreme Court, get them approved.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
If you have the majority, and now we have a
ten to three lead.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
What would the Democrats say about that?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
They won't. So this is all very interesting.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Again, this is coming out of the headline Wall Street
Journal editorial. Democrats promised to direct the court, Jamie Raskin
saying he wants thirteen. Hakeem Jeffries who it would be?
The Speaker of the House, he said recently, the Supreme
Court is a disgrace. In April, he said, in the
new Congress, we're going to have to do something about
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this Supreme Court. And let me be very clear, everything
is on the table, everything to deal with the corrupt
MAGA majority. Here's the answer. Democrats will do it, Republicans won't.
I do think it's an interesting argument. If President Trump said, hey, look,
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Jamie Raskin and Hakim Jeffrey are telling you exactly what
they will do if they take back control of the Senate.
We should do it now. Republicans won't do it. I
understand the argument. Democrats play for keeps and they play
a long range game. Democrats are much more diabolical. Republicans, frankly,
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are not. Republicans still want to be able to show
up at the country club, and they have a lot
of Mitt Romney's people who don't really want to be
in a fight. They don't realize the stakes. And that's
why Republicans are going to say we can't change the filibuster,
we can't violate societal norms. Meanwhile, the minute that Democrats
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get the opportunity, they will do it. And I think
this is where President Trump is correct. He understands the
stakes at play. So I think Democrats they will expand
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Republicans won't do it.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Put simply, they won't even follow the argument and the
roadmap being laid out for everyone right here and now.
And this is why the stakes on who is president
and who ends up in control of the Senate are
so substantial. All right, we've got a bunch of you
one away in we'll take some of your calls. I'm
(36:20):
going to play the latest cuts on the LA mayor's
race and on the governor's race tomorrow in California because
this is the next opportunity to get a referendum on
where the country is going and how people are responding.
All that coming your way. Also, give you the latest
on the groundhok Day situation in Iran. All that and more,
(36:43):
Plus what do we think about Democrats continuing to allow
and now celebrating a boy winning girls state titles in California?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
That mor
Welcome in Monday edition Clay and Buck. Buck is traveling
for his book doing some events in Washington, d C.
He will be back with us tomorrow, but for today,
as we begin the week, it's just me hanging out
with all of you. For the next three hours, eight
hundred and two to eight eight two, we will take
(00:23):
your calls and we will dive into the absolute latest.
And there were a bunch of news stories that emerged
over the course of the weekend, among them what is
going on in Iran? The situation there ongoing back and
forth negotiations as President Trump reportedly has demanded stricter terms
to any ceasefire agreement over the weekend, and Iran has said,
(00:47):
as often seems to be the case, oh my goodness,
we are not going to allow that to occur. And
so we will see what ends up happening. As we
kind of are in the.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
In the.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
What's the Groundhog Day all every day, it's like a
new subtle variation of the same story as it pertains
to Iran. But we will give you the absolute latest there.
It is the eve for those of you in California
of both the LA Mayors primary and also the California
(01:24):
governor's primary, and there are major moving parts in those stories.
To remind you, for those of you who are not familiar,
the top two candidates, regardless of party, advanced to the
California Governor's race and also advanced to the LA mayors race,
So big decisions being made there as it pertains to
whether or not Spencer Pratt will advance to take on
(01:46):
Karen Bass and also who will be the Republican it
looks like it will be Steve Hilton, and who will
be the Democrat nominee going forward, Although if we can
grab the audio, Steve Hilton is now making an explicit
direct argument that if you are voting for Chad Bionco,
you are endangering it being a double Democrat runoff and
(02:09):
they're not being a Republican included on the ballot in
the governor's race at all. And some of you may say, okay, well,
if Democrats are going to win the governor's race likely anyway,
what is the impact of having a Republican on the ballot?
Could have major down ballot impact because Republican turnout has
been very good so far for this race. But if
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the vote is split between Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco.
There is the possibility that you get a double Democrat ticket,
so we will continue on the eve of the California
primary to discuss that throughout the course of this show.
Joe Biden's interview with CBS News has officially dropped, and
(02:49):
there are all sorts of ridiculous quotes in there. We'll
play a couple of cuts from that story. Tom Steyer,
who is among the candidates to be the Democrat nominee,
he has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to try
to be the Democrat nominee in California for the governor's race.
He is encouraging men who identify as women, boys who
(03:10):
identify as girls, and saying basically they are heroes in
the wake of yet more state championships in California track
and field being won by boys and making girls stand
next to them on the podium, which is the way
that California has decided to deal with this. But big picture,
much tumult coming out over the weekend surrounding Graham Plattner,
(03:34):
who is the nominee presumptive nominee. Next week is the
main primary June ninth. He is the presumptive Democrat nominee
who will be running against Susan Collins. There is effectively
no way that Democrats could take back control of the
Senate without having the opportunity to win in Maine and
(03:56):
flip that seat, knocking Susan Collins, a Republican out of office.
Worked contemplating, as there's been a lot of decision and
discussion on redistricting, Susan Collins is the only member of
the Senate or the House who is a Republican from
all of New England. Think about how crazy that is,
(04:16):
because there's been a lot of focus in the Democrat
Party about, oh my goodness, look at the redistricting that's
going on in red states.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In all of New England, there is not a single.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Republican member of the House of Representatives because of the
way they have redistricted, And Susan Collins is the only
Republican in the Senate. So the only Republican statewide in
the congressional delegation, in the House or in the Senate
is Susan Collins. And you might say, Okay, Clay, what
happened with Graham Platner, Well, this is the guy with
(04:48):
the Nazi tattoo on his chest. Over the weekend, the
New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both reported
that Platner, according to his wife's own reports to the
campaign finance director, had been engaging in sext conversations with
at least six different women, and he has done so
(05:10):
allegedly while having a profile. And I'm not familiar with
this site at all, to be fair with you. I
got married long before online dating really was a thing,
so I don't know very much about the online dating ecosystem.
But there is a site called kick Kik that is
(05:30):
largely used by teenagers, and that is where Graham Platner
had a profile, according to the Daily Wire. And I
think one of the real questions that has to be
out there now is how old were some of these
women that Graham Platner was allegedly sexting with, or any
of them under the age of eighteen, because that platform
(05:53):
in particular is very popular with teenagers. And this has
turned into a huge story again. The main Senate decision
is being made on June ninth, and Plattner's people are
furious that this story came out not only from the
New York Times but also to Wall Street journal, and
(06:14):
some of you might be sitting back saying, Okay, Clay,
what's going on here? What's the real story? I think
there's a great deal of apprehension about Graham Plattner's ability
to win statewide in Maine. And it feels a bit
to me like Democrats have ordered a code read on
Graham Platner, much like they did on Joe Biden back
(06:34):
in the day. In other words, there are potential stories
that are out there that are yet to come about
Graham Platner that may make him unelectable. And you say, Okay, Clay,
what would happen if Platner were the nominee on June ninth,
and if they forced him to withdraw, Democrats would get
to pick whichever nominee they want, much like they did
(06:55):
with Kamala Harris. So I think there may be a
Kamala Harris Joe Biden likes story that is taking place
in Maine, and it is a major national story because, again,
if you look at the map, there's basically no way
for Democrats to take back control of the Senate if
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they don't win in Maine. And so there suddenly is
a lot of nerve nervousness about what might be taking
place there. And so we've got a couple of different cuts.
Maybe people from Maine want to react to this, But
here is Graham Platner saying establishment media is trying to
(07:38):
rip apart his loving marriage. This is what he's arguing
after his wife told the campaign that he had been
sexting with at least six different women that he was
not married to. Cut five, where we've heard Amy's video,
Siamese video last.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Night about this situation, the story in the Times and
the Journal, what would your state be at this point?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That surprised me that the establishment media outlets are just
going to run gossip instead of wanting to talk about
the things that actually matter in this race, which are
the material realities that make their manners are working with.
These people are going to try to make this race
about anything but what it's supposed to be about, which
is policy. They never want to talk about policy. Amy
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and I have a very loving and very happy marriage.
They would very much like to try to rip that apart.
We're going to come after us in every awful way
that they possibly can.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay, so he says it's gossip. The problem with that
is his wife is the one who told the campaign
manager as they were doing opposition research, Hey, my husband
has been sexting with six different women, at least many
of which he may have met on this platform that
is very popular with underage and teenagers. Which is why
(08:55):
I wonder whether as this story continues to develop, it's
going to come out that Graham Plattner has been talking
to girls that were under eighteen years old. But he
gets the opportunity to defend himself. He also says the
Wall Street Journal and the New York Times story it's
not true. Listen, cut forward story true right about the text?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
No, no, this is the amazing part. The Wall Street
Journal New York Times ran stories without any evidence besides
the gossip from a former staffer. I'm sorry, that's frankly
journalistic mountpractice. We pushed back on it, they won it.
They did it anyways, Sorry that the messages did not exist.
(09:39):
I'm confirming that Genevieve McDonald said in the New York
Times is not truly so.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You never met with her about uncomfortable for lack of
regretter words sexting messages.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
As the campaign was going.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
We talked about things an Amianized marriage that we've gone
through over the years. We talked about that because that's
our marriage, and we discussed with the campaign n of
the McDonald clins isn't true.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, So Democrats are in a full fledged panic if
we can get Corey Booker. Corey Booker was on over
the weekend. It is now Democrats that are being asked
and saying, well, yes, it's something that we should be
very nervous about. And again it feels to me like
they have ordered a code read on Graham Platner inside
(10:24):
of the actual Democrat party. Let me put it to
you this way. Do you think The New York Times
would run an awful story about Graham Platner if the
Democrat establishment did not want that story to be run.
Do you think they would decide to do it the
week before the primary? Do you think this pressure campaign
(10:44):
would be ratcheted up on him like this right now
if it were not in any way a part of
the Democrat establishment that was making this happen. I'll just
ask you this, when's the last time the New York
Times wrote an awful story about a Democrat that other
Democrats weren't happy was written? This feels a bit to me,
(11:06):
not only like the Kamala Joe Biden situation, where they
can sweep in with a candidate that they think is
more likely to win than the one that they have
already selected as a nominee, but also this feels.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Like Eric Swalwell.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I know that Swalwell has vanished, but tomorrow is the
California primary and we have no idea what happened with Swalwell.
It wasn't very long ago that everybody was saying Swalwell
was the favorite to be the Democrat nominee. He was
endorsed by all the prominent unions, he was going to
be the guy, and then you started to see these
(11:39):
stories coming about his behavior. And now his political career
is over. He's resigned his congressional seat, nobody really knows
where he's gone. And it feels to me like that
is what we are seeing play out in real time
with Platner. Democrats get nasty when they have a candidate
they feel like is going to be exposed in some
(12:01):
way in the general election, and they just come in
and completely kneecap. Now some of you out there are
going to say, hey, we're in a new era. The
sex scandals don't matter, voters don't care. There have been
a lot of sex scandals surrounding President Trump throughout the
entirety of his political career. Trump just won the popular vote,
(12:23):
He's been elected president twice. Massive numbers of people have
shown out to vote for his endorsed candidates in this
midterm election cycle as well. So I'm open to the
argument that people just don't care, but I will open
up calls. I'm curious how this is playing in Maine.
The numbers reflect that this is starting to land on
(12:44):
Platner in a significant way. And I would just say again,
there is an echo here of what we saw happen
with Joe Biden and of what we saw happen just
recently with Eric Swalwell. So be paying attention to this
as we are sitting getting ready for the mid term
next week in Maine. The timing on this is certainly interesting,
(13:08):
and is there more coming? It would not shock me
at all if more scandal stories are coming. And this
is just the opening salvo from the New York Times. Guys,
if we can grab Corey Booker, Senator from New Jersey.
It's rare that Democrats start to turn their backs on
other Democrats. This is a sign that the code read
to me has been ordered in many ways. On grand platter,
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Welcome back in, Clay and Buck, appreciate all of you
hanging out with us.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Rolling through the Monday edition of the.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
A lot of reactions coming in as well to the
continued fallout from Graham Platner and the stories from the
New York Times. In the Wall Street Journal, you might
be saying, Okay, Clay, what's the impact of the Senate control.
There's actually a editorial that I thought was really well
(15:21):
done in the Wall Street Journal on the opinion page
this morning. I was reading as I got ready for
the show. The argument is already starting to be made
in a very public way that when Democrats take back
control of the Senate, at some point in time, they're
going to add four Supreme Court justices and This is
where I get frustrated on the people who are in
(15:43):
the Senate on the Republican side now saying well, we
can't violate the norms of the Senate. Let me tell you,
as soon as Democrats get back control, they're going to
come after the Supreme Court. Here is the new argument
that they have trotted out. This is from Amy Raskin,
who is among the most radical of all of the
(16:04):
left wingers in the Democrat Party. He says, they're thirteen
federal circuits in America, and traditionally the Supreme Court has
made made up of a number of justices equal to
the number of circuits. We've got thirteen circuits, but we
only have nine justices. This is a quote from Rascin.
So that means that under the best of circumstances, four
(16:27):
entire federal regions, four federal circuits, will be left out completely.
Why would they want thirteen, Well, because that would give
Democrats a seven to six majority on the Supreme Court. Also,
this entire argument is ludicrous because the Supreme Court has
had the same size since eighteen sixty nine, and the
(16:49):
circuits have been created for a very very long time.
Tenth circuit in nineteen twenty nine, DC Circuit eighteen ninety three.
There's no legitimacy one soever to the argument that the
thirteen federal circuits demand that there be thirteen Supreme Court justices.
But does that matter, of course not. They're going to
(17:10):
trot this out. And this is why the Senate is
so important to them. At some point in time, if
they have a bare majority in the United States Senate
and they have a president again, they're going to add
for Supreme Court justices and they're going to ram it through,
and they're going to go from nine to thirteen and
they're going to take back control. How do they do that, Well,
(17:31):
you have to get Susan Collins out in Maine. And
that is why I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt,
all of this is directly connected to what's going on
with Graham Platner. This is a concern that he's got
too much baggage and he can't be elected. This hit
job is not coming from the Republican side at all.
It's coming from the Democrat side. This is again all
(17:54):
about ending the filibuster, packing the courts, maybe adding new
states like Puerto Rico and DC to change fundamentally the
power structure in Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
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of your calls. A bunch of people from Maine weighing in.
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
Rolling through the Monday edition of the program after all
the news that has come out during the course of
the weekend, again reminding you the Groundhog Day negotiations with
Iran continue. We will update you if anything substantial happens there.
But I do think the most substantial storyline of the
weekend was Graham Platner the code read being ordered by
(19:21):
the Democrats, New York Times teeing off on him, and again,
much like with swallwell, remember what happens with these stories.
The initial story allows the subsequent stories. So you may say, well,
why do I care if he's having sext that's for
those of you're not experts text sex, sexting conversations with
(19:46):
six different women. Well, the next question is going to
be who the women are, right, and if he was
meeting some of these women on an online dating platform
that is, to a large extent for teenagers. The secondary
question of this is was he sexting with miners, which
even for Democrats I would think would be an end
(20:08):
to his campaign. And if they are looking at internal responses,
remember that everybody thought Susan Collins was going to lose
six years ago, and she won comfortably. All of the
polling was against her, she was down in every single
statewide poll that was released, and then she won by
like nine points. Main voters really really like Susan Collins.
(20:32):
So if you're going to knock her out after multiple
terms in office, during which time she has been very
popular in the state. You have to have a really
good candidate. And if the New York Times is suddenly saying,
wait a minute, this guy was sexting random women, it
isn't just gossip. It is their attempt to justify the
(20:54):
subsequent stories that will be used to try to torpedo
his candidacy again, just like Joe Biden with Kamala, just
like what we saw happen with Eric Swallwell, this is
inside code read nasty Democrat politics. And when you have
senators in office going on and saying yes, I am
(21:18):
very nervous about this, you definitely know that the code
red has been ordered. And that's what Corey Booker did
yesterday on Meet the Press Watch. Do you have concerns
with the weight of all these controversies that it may
jeopardize Democratic hopes to get that Senate seat in Maine?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Yeah, I have concerns that guy has questions to answer,
and that's what campaigns are for. But when I go
all over New Jersey and see hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of New Jerseys losing their health care and millions
more seeing their health care costs go up. As I
have families who say I can't afford gas for my
car and childcare for my children, I know that so
much is riding on Democrats taking control of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Okay, so and again, Democrats taking control of the Senate
means thirteen Supreme Court justices. It means making Puerto Rico
and Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
States.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
It means four new senators. They're trying to create a
perpetual majority and do everything that they can when they
get that majority to ensure that it extends for a
very long time. They are going to do what Republicans
refuse to do. As soon as they get fifty senators
plus the White House, they are going to structurally alter
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the fabric of our government in a way that they
believe in shrines them in perpetual political power. And if
Grand Platinir doesn't win in Maine, that ability to take
over the government is called into significant question. So that
is the basis for all of this, and again it's
(22:52):
why Platiner matters to such an extent. I wonder if
it's going to also play out in Michigan, where I
think Mike Rogers, if you look at the polling is
posed to do really well if Abdul l Sayed is
the nominee. Now, this is a decision that Michigan Democrat
primary voters are going to have to make in August.
(23:13):
We won't know until then who the actual nominee is
going to be. But I think there is starting to
be an argument to be made that Republicans are benefiting
from Democrats making poor choices. And I think if you
ask where does this all come from, how does Graham
Platner emerge? What is his background? It's a really fascinating
(23:36):
story that they have tried to create, and I think
it's rooted in the Democrat Party's recognition that they are
failing to connect with men, young men in particular, and
so they're trying to find masculine voices to reach to
these reach out to these young men, and they made
the decision to go with James Talerico in Texas and
(23:59):
with Graham Platiner in Maine. What is intriguing to me
about this is tall Rico is a masculine nominee that
makes Tim.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Walls look like a badass.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
He is weak, he is effeminate, He is not someone
that is going to bring in normal Texan voters. So
they have failed by picking a male candidate who is
too effeminate, who is too woke to actually stand up
for what most Texans believe. On the flip side, they
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have then gone with Graham Platner, who is actually a
repository of perfect toxic masculinity. If you think about what
they would traditionally in the Democrat Party describe as toxic masculinity,
what might.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
That look like? A Nazi tattoo on the chest?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
I think maybe people might say, hey, what would a
toxically masculine man look like? Maybe somebody who's supporting Nazis.
Maybe someone who is on on a teenage app, an
app designed for teenagers, primarily in his thirties, approaching forty
years old, potentially chatting with teenagers while he's married. I
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think a lot of people would say, maybe, maybe I'm
willing to overlook the Nazi tattoo. Maybe I'm willing to
overlook all the crazy Reddit post. Maybe I am over
willing to overlook the sexting controversy when he's married with
six different women. But it might be a bridge too
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far for a lot of main voters to vote for
the Nazi adulter. That seems like kind of an awful
thing to say. Who might have been might have been
engaging in sexual conversations with miners on a teenager dating app.
Democrats are looking at all this, and remember they know
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things that have not come out yet, and they are saying, uh, oh,
there's no way this guy can beat Susan Collins. We've
got to take him out while we still can. And
it's funny because they're fine with the Nazi Nazi tattoo.
Remember when Elon Musk raised his hand and acknowledged the audience,
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they turned it into a Nazi salute George Clooney did
in good Night and Good Luck. I think it was
called the Broadway play. I told you guys, I went
and watched the Broadway play because I was interested to
see what it was like. The play ends with Elon
Musk doing that salute as if he is a Nazi.
(26:42):
Somebody is gonna grab me on video doing that and say,
look at what Lady Travis does on a day to
day basis. They turned Elon Musk acknowledging the crowd with
a hand gesture into a Nazi salute. Meanwhile, they are
actually defending the guy with a Nazi tattoo on his chest.
A bridge too far is a Nazi tattoo in conjunction
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with multiple different sexting partners who might have been teenagers,
and having a profile featuring, according to the Daily Wire,
a shirtless pick of himself in a towel standing in
front of a mirror, so that he was trying to
meet people with that profile pick. This is all maybe
(27:27):
a bridge too far for Democrats, not because they're actually
morally compelled to speak out, but because they are concerned
that the average swing voter in Maine is going to say, hey,
maybe we should stick with the incumbent senator who we
may not agree with on everything, but is unlikely unlikely
to create huge, major scandals going forward. I'll open up
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your phone lines. I'm actually curious how you guys would
respond to this. Eight hundred and two two two eight
a two Do you agree with me that the hit
the red has been ordered? When the New York Times
is writing this, and again, the big question is will
Maine voters care? Or do we live in a post
personal politics world that I think is actually structurally a
(28:14):
really interesting conversation where everyone just presumes that any personal
attack is entirely partisan in nature. One of the legacies
of the Trump era may be that personal political attacks,
whether it's designed for Democrats or Republicans, just don't land
(28:35):
because we all presume that they're just political in nature,
and everyone presumes that so many of these Democrat and
Republican politicians have sorted personal lives, and people just don't care. Now,
you can also argue this is actually not connected to Trump,
that it is further connected long range to everything Democrats
(29:00):
saying since back in the day with Bill Clinton, when
remember Democrats pretend that they're outraged about the allegations against
Donald Trump, but Bill Clinton was actually engaging in sexual
conduct with an intern in the Oval office.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I would argue, to a.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Certain extent, once that was allowed to occur in the
nineteen nineties, the politics of personal destruction were effectively over,
and it may be the case that these grand platiner
allegations are just going to fall flat. I don't necessarily
buy that here, because I think what has led Democrats
(29:39):
to order the code read is they know worse things
are coming. The New York Times doesn't write a story
about a candidate engaging in sexting just to have that
be the standalone story. There's more coming. This is the
bridge that allows them to get to the next couple
of stories. And again under main law, if Platner is
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the nominee next week, they have to convince him to
drop out in order to replace him. Much like we
saw with Joe Biden. It would be easier for them
if he dropped out before the actual June ninth primary
got here, but that's only eight days away. Again, I
don't think these are Republican driven attacks. I think this
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is all coming from the Democrat side eight hundred and
two A two two eight A two. You guys can
tell me whether or not you buy that being the case,
and how significant this is going forward? Is personal political attacks?
Are they basically just over next hour I'm going to
dive into it. Being the eve of California, we'll talk
(30:45):
about the LA Mayor's race, the California Governor's race, and
where that is likely to lead us, in particular with
a flashpoint happening in California as it pertains to a
trans athlete UH in California yet again in winning multiple
state championship in girls track and field. I know some
of you have daughters that were competing in those We've
(31:07):
had some of the callers discussing this and just what
an absurdity is to have that male track and field
athlete standing on the podium next to the girls that
should have actually won the title. And people who say, Okay,
this is an abarent thing, this doesn't happen very often.
Tom Styer, who wants to be the next governor of California,
(31:30):
is not only saying it should happen, he's saying it's
a good thing. And this boy pretending to be a
girl is actually heroic. We'll talk about that in more.
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Speaker 1 (32:51):
We got a ton of you talking back reacting to
the Wall Street Journal editorial. Also a bunch of calls
rolling in about the Grand Platner code red. Let's see
Gene in Apex, North Carolina. Let's just run through. Let's
start with Gene cut b. If increasing the Supreme Court
number of seats to thirteen is such a good idea,
(33:14):
why don't we just do it now? See what they'll
think about that idea. That is a bunch of you
are going to weigh in with the same idea let
me hit several of these all over the country and
I'll tell you what I think. Mike from Wisconsin cut c,
fire away bo if.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Jamie Raskin says we need thirteen Supreme Court justices. Why
isn't Trump just had four more?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And Derek in Dayton, Ohio, well cut d. He has
this to say, why don't we.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Just call their bluff and a point four more Supreme
Court justices right now?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
And Tom from Manhattan probably listening on wor cut E
he's actually a podcast listener.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
He has this to say, why can't Trump and re
Polan say Noah, Raskin, you're right, We're going to do
it and Trump through it right now before the mid terms,
nominate four new people for the Supreme Court, get them approved.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
If you have the majority, and now we have a
ten to three lead.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
What would the Democrats say about that?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
They won't. So this is all very interesting.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Again, this is coming out of the headline Wall Street
Journal editorial. Democrats promised to direct the court, Jamie Raskin
saying he wants thirteen. Hakeem Jeffries who it would be?
The Speaker of the House, he said recently, the Supreme
Court is a disgrace. In April, he said, in the
new Congress, we're going to have to do something about
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this Supreme Court. And let me be very clear, everything
is on the table, everything to deal with the corrupt
MAGA majority. Here's the answer. Democrats will do it, Republicans won't.
I do think it's an interesting argument. If President Trump said, hey, look,
(34:57):
Jamie Raskin and Hakim Jeffrey are telling you exactly what
they will do if they take back control of the Senate.
We should do it now. Republicans won't do it. I
understand the argument. Democrats play for keeps and they play
a long range game. Democrats are much more diabolical. Republicans, frankly,
(35:22):
are not. Republicans still want to be able to show
up at the country club, and they have a lot
of Mitt Romney's people who don't really want to be
in a fight. They don't realize the stakes. And that's
why Republicans are going to say we can't change the filibuster,
we can't violate societal norms. Meanwhile, the minute that Democrats
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get the opportunity, they will do it. And I think
this is where President Trump is correct. He understands the
stakes at play. So I think Democrats they will expand
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Republicans won't do it.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Put simply, they won't even follow the argument and the
roadmap being laid out for everyone right here and now.
And this is why the stakes on who is president
and who ends up in control of the Senate are
so substantial. All right, we've got a bunch of you
one away in we'll take some of your calls. I'm
(36:20):
going to play the latest cuts on the LA mayor's
race and on the governor's race tomorrow in California because
this is the next opportunity to get a referendum on
where the country is going and how people are responding.
All that coming your way. Also, give you the latest
on the groundhok Day situation in Iran. All that and more,
(36:43):
Plus what do we think about Democrats continuing to allow
and now celebrating a boy winning girls state titles in California?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
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