September 2, 2024 • 33 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thank you for listening. This is the best of with
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The next Vice President of the United States. J D Vance,
Senator from Ohio, joins us. Now, JD, great to have
you on the program again.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good to be with you guys.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Sorry, we're good man.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know, some of us knew you were going to
be the VP, like six months ago. I'm just saying
some of us. There's there's a record of this stuff
out there, so.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
I had to buy a steak for Buck. He said
that you were going to be the VP pick months
and months ago. It's his greatest prediction on the show,
so I'm not surprised that he would decide to gloat
as we began the interview, just throwing it out there.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That makes one of us guys because you knew something Buck,
I didn't know. But good on you.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Ah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You know, sometimes the best thing is to throw it
into the end zone with your eyes closed. So anyway,
my friend I got lucky on that one. Tell me
this though, last night, the Kamalist speech we both watched,
meaning Clay and I.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I'm sure you watched it too.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It feels like a camp you know how seinfeldt was
a show about nothing. I mean, it wasn't obviously totally
about nothing, but it was just like them living their lives.
And that's how we pitched it to NBC. It's a
show about nothing. The Kamala campaign seems to just be
a show about feelings.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
What is she really trying.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To accomplish, Like, what is the what is the policy thrust?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, so I didn't watch the whole speech just because I,
you know, didn't want to lose twenty IQ points, you know,
when I'm underslept thanks to the campaign. But look, I
think that what she's trying to do here is make
herself the change agent, right. She's trying to make people
forget that she bears responsibility for the open border, for
the inflation, for the you know, the Inflation Explosion Act,
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which she cats to deciding vote on, And she's I
think persuading her party that if they just lie to
the American people and try to induce this collective amnesia,
everybody's gonna forget that she's been the vice president for
the past three and a half years. And I just
don't think it works. Right. It maybe works for one
night at the DNC convention, when there's no countervailing narrati.
But I don't think that she can run that message
(02:02):
for seventy five days. Eventually people are going to say, like,
why did you do all these things that made my
life worse? And I don't think Kamala has a good answer.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Tim Walls is I think also a disaster. But one
of the attack lines that they've come after you on,
I just think is, regardless of your politics, absolutely ridiculous.
And I'm curious for you. You graduated from a family
that was not very doing very well financially, went into
the Marines, went to Ohio State. I'll ask you about
(02:32):
the Buckey's forecast this year here in a little bit,
and then you go to Yale Law School. That's an
incredible accomplishment. I know your grandmother and your mother were
ecstatic about you being able to accomplish that. When Tim
Walls and Kamala Harris attack you for going to Yale
Law School, I think it lands really flat, not even
with just Democrat voters or Republican voters, but just moms
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and dads and grandpas and grandma's out there that want
their kids to achieve as much as possible. Well, you
kind of surprised that this has become one of the
lines of attack against you.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, I am surprised because I know these people are
cynical about politics, and I just don't think that it
actually works, right. I mean, a lot of Americans, especially
those who grow up in less fortunate circumstances, they want
their kids to be able to achieve the American dream.
And I've never felt this sense of resentment directed towards me.
I've always felt when people hear my story, they kind
of see, you know, themselves and me, and they're rooting
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for me because I came from a similar background to
the one that they came from. And I think any
kid who grows up in the kind of circumstances that
I grew up in a poor family, you know, not
the nicest things, not easy, not an easy life. You know,
we always feel the sense of great gratitude to the
people who made us who we are, and for me, particularly,
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that's my mom and my grandmother, and I just feel
like this overwhelming sense of thanks that they worked and
sacrificed and made it possible for me to live the
life that I've been able to live. I think most
Americans feel that sense of gratitude to somebody in their life.
When Tim Watson tries to insult what I've accomplished, he's
fundamentally insulting. You know, these women who made me who
I am. I just don't think that it works. I
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think most people want their kids to have a better life,
and they're kind of problem that happens. They're not resentful.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
There was a lot of attention on the comments that
Andy Basher made after I think it was night two
of the DNC and he brought you up and he
said something that people truly thought was over the line
and tried to give him an opportunity to walk it
(04:34):
back or clarify, and the governor Kentucky did not do.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So what do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Where do you stand on what Basher said when he
said that he hoped that something terrible would befall your family?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, I think it was really gross, right. I mean,
I sort of expect that people are going to come
after me. That's the price of participating in national politics.
But to have a guy stand there and say, well,
I hope that JD speriences of female in his family
who's impregnated through rape, It's like well, are you talking
about my daughter, you talk about my wife? It's just gross.
Just leave these guys out of it and don't engage
(05:09):
in these bizarre fantasies because you have these ridiculous, regressive
social views. So look, man, it's you kind of get
used to it. My wife is very tough, and I
think that, you know, she sort of accepts that this
is just the price of participation here, not just for me,
but for herself and for the whole family. It's not
a good thing. That that's how it is. And you know,
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I think the best revenge here is victory, right. We
want to beat these guys, take back the country and
make them realize that that kind of politics just doesn't
work for most Americans. But if we don't beat them,
then it's going to be rewarded. I think it's one
of the reasons it's so important to actually win, is
it's not just we want to govern the country more effectively,
and that's obviously the most important thing. I think we
also want to make sure that the Democrats don't feel
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emboldened by the kind of race that they've been running,
which is completely divorced from details or policy. It's all
about vibes and it's all about gas lighting, Like, I
don't want anybody to be elected president running a campaign
like that.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
RFK Junior is going to have a rally in about
an hour. President Trump is out in Phoenix area as well.
Do you expect RFK Junior to drop out of the
race And if he does, do you think he's going
to endorse you? Guys? What do you know about what's
coming in the next few hours.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, so I really don't know a whole lot, right,
I mean, I've been making my pitch to RFK personally
and to his voters, but in public, right, I've never
actually spoken to RFK about dropping out of the race
or about getting behind the president. I certainly think that
if you look at the issue set that RFK cares about, right, So,
take medical freedom. This is a guy who's been I think,
a very important voice in America on why do we
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kick a bunch of veterans out of the military, why
do we fire a bunch of nurses for refusing to
take the experimental COVID shot? But clearly Trump is more
the candidate of medical freedom. If you think about what
RFK has said about the Ukraine conflict and not turning
this thing into World War three. Clearly Trump is the
person and who's trying to prevent this thing from escalating.
So I think on the issue set, clearly Trump is
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the guy. And I also think I mean, you guys know,
I grew up in a family of blue dogs, socially
conservative Democrats. They were Kennedy Democrats, right, and they feel
like the party has less than behind and that's why
they become Trump Republicans. So I think it could be
a very powerful testament to have an actual Kennedy, the
most famous Kennedy still living, get behind Donald Trump. I
certainly hope that he will. I have no reason to
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mistrust the media reports about it. I think it is
going to happen. I don't know exactly how it's going
to happen, but there's just no room for Kennedy Democrats
and Kamala Harris's party anymore. So I hope they come
to our side.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Do you think it could be significant given what the
polls are telling everybody about these critical swing states? And
also if I could add to that, JD, what are
you seeing in terms of the ground game. I mean,
you know you're the number two on the Republican side here,
so you must have good visibility into how the GOP
is operating in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Again. You know, I think it's it could be really important, right,
I mean, we know the race is going to be tight,
we know the media is on the side of Kamala
and the Democrats, and we just know we live in
a divided countries. So a couple points here there could
mean the difference between Donald Trump where Kamala Herris getting
elected president. So yeah, it's really really important. On the
ground game side, I mean, what we're seeing is two things, right.
(08:24):
So first of all, our grassroots are super engaged. People
are very excited, and I think the energy here is
just you know, off the charts. But we're also doing
a lot of things that people don't realize to try
to ensure election integrity. The new R and C chair
has filed close to ninety lawsuits to try to protect
legally cast ballots but ensure that illegally cast ballots aren't counted.
(08:46):
So we've got a lot going on. Some of it
doesn't always collect headlines. We actually had two really big victories,
one in Arizona and one in Pennsylvania on the ballot
integrity front just in the last couple of days. So look, man,
I think it's going well. We're gonna have to run
through the finish line. We're gonna have to do what
we can. But if you just look at the numbers
both we're seeing from the Democrats, the public numbers and
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our own private numbers, what we're seeing is that Kamala
Harris got a bit of a sugar high. Towards the
end of July, it started to wear off a little bit.
I don't think their convention is going to stem that
at all. In fact, it might accelerate it. And so
we're in a good spot. We just have to do
what we need to do.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Talking to jd Vance, Okay, you're an Ohio State Buckeye fan.
College football starts this weekend. You just mentioned the Midwest. Honestly,
big ten fans in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, many of
them listening to us right now. Probably you're going to
decide this election. How do you think Ohio State's going
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to do and how do you balance that out going
on the road and making your pitch to Wolverine Spartans,
penn State, Niitney Lion fans and Wisconsin Badger fans all
over Big ten Nation, because I think that's pretty much
where you're going to be campaigning all fall. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I mean, I've already spent a ton of time in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
I pretty much go there once a week and will
through I mean each state. I go once a week
and will through the end of the election. I joked
with the President when he first asked me to be
his CP. I was like, well, you know, hopefully we
don't lose Michigan by like nine hundred votes, because you're
going to regret it because it's probably just one thousand
pissed off Wolverine fans who would vote for a Buck guy.
(10:19):
But I think that most Michiganders are going to be
able to put sports rivalries aside and put the country first,
which is what, of course all of us believe is
the most important thing. I mean, look, I'm a lifelong
Buckeyes fan. I think we have just in terms of sheer,
raw talent, maybe the best Ohio state team I've seen
since you know, the great two thousand and three team
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that upset the upset Miami the National Championship game. Like
we had. We are stacked this year, and I think
that if we if we take care of things, I mean,
we should be in the title game and we should
win it. But we'll see. Man.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
By the way, that was passion. That was not pass
interference in the in the championship game against Miami, You
guys can never complain about officiating for the rest of
your life as a fan. After getting that call.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
There were there were two other calls that went against
us earlier in the game where we would have won
either one of them. So on balance, we won that game.
I'll go to my grave believe in that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
If I may, if I'm may way in here as
the no stradamis of all things JD. World, I think
my beloved Buckeyes will have the best year they have
had in many years.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Clay and JD.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Buck Buck. By the way, you should know this, JD.
Buck had never been to a college football game. I
took him to Alabama Ole Miss. He had an amazing time.
He couldn't believe that this was a world that he
had never experienced before. But now he tries to claim
that he's a fan of every team, and so he's
like he's always saying like role tide. He's going to
be saying, you know, I've always been held to the victors,
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and also you know I've always been a big Ohio
State guy. I mean, really, the pandering is absurd on
this show.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, let's let's go to the Ohio State Michigan game,
assuming we want, because I bet I can get some
pretty sweet tickets as the VP elect, and we'll be
in a celebratory mood. And look, it's it's going to
be a big game this year. I think it's going
to determine ultimate seating in the College Football Playoff. I mean,
how both teams might actually make the playoff, and of
Michigan's you know sort of people aren't aren't putting them
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as high this year, but you never know, because it's
always a good program. So we'll see, guys. I'm feeling
very good about the buck guys. I'm feeling very good
about the Bengals, and I'm feeling very good about this
presidential race. So maybe we can hit the trifecta here
and have the Buckeyes wins the CFP playoffs, the Mingles
win the Super Bowl, and Donald Trump could elected president.
That'd be a good year.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I have total faith you and Trump are gonna win.
You know we were talking to this before. Neither Clayton
nor I have ever been to the Naval Observatory, so
you may have to get some with someone on your
staff to give us a tour.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Okay, that's that's in your future too.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Thank you, Jenny Vance.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Everybody make sure jad we're cite anything you want to
tell people to go to, they can get involved.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Help out.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Most important thing, Donald J. Trump dot com. Volunteer donate
if you're able, because we've got to correct the record
on Kamala Harris and donations. Help us do that. Volunteer
and knock on doors or do phone banking. We just
have to do everything we can to win this race.
It's going to be tight, but we're gonna win.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Play Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Welcome back into clay Anne Buck. Something interesting that maybe
has been a little crowded out of the headlines by
the d NC falsehoods extravaganza. You have a politico and
a bunch of others reporting on this one. Oh, it's
a Reuter's interview with Trump, where Republican presidential candidate to
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Trump when asked in this interview about Elon Musk, he said, quote,
he's a very smart guy. I certainly would give him
a cabinet position if he would do it. I certainly would.
He's a brilliant guy. And then Elon Musk responded on
social media on x the platform that he owned owns,
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and wrote, I am willing to serve and Clay, more specifically,
the CEO of Twitter shared a picture of himself standing
behind a podium with the words Department of Government Efficiency
and doze doge etched into it, which is kind of
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funny because he obviously also talked about doge coin years
ago the crypto tooken or crypto coin whatever, Clay, I
think Elon Musk, as the government efficiencies are under Trump
would be incredible. The only thing that would make me
bummed out about it is that he wouldn't be running
his other companies that are doing amazing things.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
But we need some we need a shock to the bureaucracy.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Yes, yes, I want half of all federal employees fired.
I mean I do, and I don't think that if
you gave the second half fifty percent raises the people
that are actually working most the other half would care
about it. I mean, Elon's a great example because he
bought Twitter, fired seventy five percent of the employees, and
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the site doesn't seem to be working any less efficiently
than it was before. In fact, on the flip side,
maybe better. And I bet a lot of you out
there listening to us right now, whether you have government
or private sector jobs, if you work hard at your job,
you look around at some of the knuckleheads that are
making similar salaries to you, you'd rather make more and
the company would probably be more efficient if you could
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do more. At least half of the people in the
federal government could be fired. We wouldn't miss anything. I
would love if we could do it, and lower taxes
as a result. Be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Clay Travis and buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton shows we are
joined by the woman who should get all of the
Pulitzers that were won by the New York Times and
the Washington Post for their Russia Eyes and instead they
should be rebranded Miranda Divine Awards if she wanted them
for everything that she has done in the New York
Post covering all of the lies of Joe Biden and
his family, joined now by Miranda Devine herself, Miranda as
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all of this stuff is now getting thrown out there,
and you see every other media outlet beginning to cover in.
I read my eyes almost popped out of my head
an editorial in The New York Times over the weekend saying, oh,
Hunter Biden needs to be charged with a lot of
crimes for violating the Foreign Registry Lobbying Law FARA. And
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you know they would would any of these stories ever
have come out at this point if Joe Biden were
still running Or is this just a sign that they're
done protecting him? How do you assess based on your reporting?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Yeah, I think the latter that they are done with
protecting him. They've protected him since the beginning of his candidacy.
They lied, They troduced the New York Post, they produced
Rudy Giuliani and the whistleblowers and everybody else who was
telling the truth about Joe Biden's corruption. James Comer, the
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Oversight Committee chairman, has been completely pillaried in his hometown,
and they sent, you know, media operatives from Associated Press
and elsewhere just pretty much camped out there trying to
find dirt on him to no avail. So you know,
this has been a complete media protection campaign. Let alone
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the CIA, the DOJ, the irs, who've all protected the Bidens.
But now that Joe Biden is no longer a candidate,
they're going to just seamlessly, as you saw with the
New York Times, just move on to normal reporting, as
if this is a normal story that's just suddenly emerged.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Miranda, I saw a tweet and I wanted to have
you break this down for us a little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
You're looking at the issue of.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
This election and some of the let's just say, possible
pitfalls or fraud that could happen here.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
This was in your tweet.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Alabama found over three thousand illegal aliens on their voter rolls.
What is happening in PA, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona will
never know because they're run by Democrats. Trump lost by
forty five thousand votes in a handful of states last time.
Biden Harris have led in twelve to eighteen million illegals
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in their administration. They are giving them Social Security numbers. Okay,
there's a lot here. I mean, let's start with Alabama
finding over three thousand illegals on their voter rolls. Why
is a single illegal on the voter rules.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Well, I mean that's tens very good question, and it's
also something that we were told wasn't happening. We're still
being told by Democrats and their allied media that there's
no way. This is just a mega conspiracy theory that
illegal aliens are voting because it's illegal. So of course
they're not going to do it. I mean, these are
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people whose very first act on coming into the United
States was to commit a crime, was to cross the
border illegally. So I don't think the fact that there's
a law saying it's illegal, that it is never prosecuted
or very rarely prosecuted, is going to dissuade them from
doing what democratic operatives are encouraging them to do. So
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I started looking at this because actually, Maria Bartiroma just
texted me on the weekend and she said that a
friend of hers had sent her this really disturbing text about,
you know, trying to This was in Texas, trying to
get her sixteen year old son to get a driving
test at the local DMV in Fort Worth and they
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were booked out. The months ahead, so she went to
various other DMVs and finally she just was fed up
and she's just got in the car and went to
her to one of these DMVs and found that there
was a huge queue of illegal aliens who were getting drivers' licenses.
They can get social Security numbers and drivers' licenses, And
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then there were NGOs outside the DMBs with little tables
set up to help them register, encouraging them all to
register to vote. So if you are not allowed to vote,
why would they want to register them to vote. There's
a kind of disconnect there. And then the other piece
of the puzzle that you need to understand is that
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there are only three states that require citizenship proof of
citizenship to vote, so really there are just no guardrails
also work.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Noting, as my sixteen year old told me last night
we were watching the DNC, they have extensive security apparatus
that requires you to present a ID in order to
get into the DNC. Right, you have to have a
photo ID extensively docus you're past in order to be
able to access the DNC itself, which is of course
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very interesting. Miranda. I also saw this and it was
on the front page of New York Times. They have
accelerated the rate at which they are swearing in new
citizens to a I believe it was a fifteen year high.
They are trying to get as many people sworn in
as fast as they can the minute that they're being
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sworn in. Left wing media, left wing voter advocacy groups
are there to make sure that everybody gets registered again.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's on the.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Front page of the New York Times. They don't talk
about it for the immediate political ramifications. But isn't that
a sign of them pulling out all the stops to
get as many people as possible that they think is
going to be on their side in I mean, to
do a fifteen year high of citizenship of swearings in
this fall is pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Really, is rather a coincidence, isn't it? And it's just
so typical that, you know, federal government, which is so
incredibly incompetent at everything else, suddenly he manages to be
really good when it suits the powers that be, whether
it's collecting taxes or signing up people to vote and
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or to become citizens new citizens so that they'll vote
for the Democrats. And you know, behind a lot of
really nefarious happenings in this country at the moment is
one man, Alexandra Mayorcus and he's of course the DHS secretary.
And when you look at censorship, you look at the
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illegal alien invasion that he has ushered in and then
sort of secreted all these illegal migrants across the country
by flying them in, flying them from the border and
in fact from across the border to a community near you,
so that people don't know there's just how many millions
of illegals there are here. And then Mayorcis also is
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in charge of the Secret Service. So really, whenever you
look at something that's going really badly awry in this country,
there's one man behind it very often.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Miranda, you put out again the estimate here for Biden's
border of twelve to eighteen million.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I'm just wondering if you if you could walk us through.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I think they admit by their own numbers to ten, right,
but give me your set, because first of all, whether
it's twelve or eighteen is jaw dropping. It's the most
we've ever seen that are permanent illegals, meaning they're not
trying to you know, people talk about the nineties, and
I've spoken to border Patrol about this. Some of the
numbers were guys who would actually go back and forth
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to Mexico many times, and there were single adult males
who were coming to work and going back, coming to
work and going back. These are people that are planning
to stay forever. Well, that twelve to eighteen million estimate,
how do you you know what would mean we're at
the high end, what would mean we're at the low end?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Well, I mean even if there were only eight million,
it's still on absolute crisis. But the numbers are much
larger than what they're saying because they don't account to
the gotaways and the godways are just you know, often
their cartel, gang members, people with criminal records, you know, pedophiles, psychopaths, gangsters, murderers, terrorists.
(24:33):
We know that there have been dozens of terrorists, including
ISIS terrorists that have actually been apprehended, but that's if
you're a terrorist, you don't want to be apprehended. So
they know. Border Patrols has some idea about got aways,
and Bill Millusion from Fox News is very good on this,
just by footprints and infrared cameras and so on, but
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no one really knows how many there are now that
the border is actually controlled by the cartels, and it's
so vast. I mean, the poor border patrol people are
held up babysitting and doing sort of bureaucracy rather than
actually stopping these people coming across the border. And you know,
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everybody knows that Joe Biden unwound all of Donald Trump's
border protection measures on day one with these executive orders.
He could easily at any time in the last three
and a half years have written new executive orders unwinding
He's unwinding, and he hasn't done that. And instead they're
pretending they need Congress to act. And that, I think
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is how Kamala Harris is trying to frame her culpability
as the borders are as some sort of virtue. Now
she's pretending that she's tougher on the border than Donald Trump.
The numbers think for themselves.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Miranda, you have covered politics for a while, and I
encourage you guys to go follow Miranda. I love all
the work she does with the New York Post. I
also think New York Post is the best newspaper in
America in terms of being fun and write on most issues. Now,
I like the Wall Street Journal the most Miranda, But
you guys are number two on my favorites list. But
(26:19):
how unbelievable is Kamala Harris' ascension and the fact that
even with this crazy ascension to the nomination, she has
not talked to anyone in media. Contextualize this based on
your experience. How extraordinary the times that we are in
right now as it pertains to what the Democrats are
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trying to do.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Well, I mean, it's a whole new playbook, I guess. Really,
Joe Biden began and the pandemic allowed him that latitude
to run a basement campaign and hide from the media,
and it worked so well they won the elect So
of course they're going to do it again. And instead
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of having a senile candidate as Joe Biden obviously was
back in twenty nineteen to anyone who observed him in
action in Iowa and New Hampshire, they now have a
candidate who really is not good on her feet too.
She's not good at stringing together arguments, and she gets
very nervous and high pitched, and she's just terrible. And
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so they've decided that they're going to hide her away
because they got away with it with Joe Biden, and
I think they'll get away with it now because the
media is not really complaining and the public doesn't really
know that this is out of the ordinary, And so
what you're seeing is images of Kamala Harris, who is attractive,
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she looks dignified, she's well dressed, she's always smiling and
looking joyful. And the few words that she says, like
last night at the convention when she just came on
for a minute a half and I just spoke about
love and how you know, we should unite and there's
more that joins us together than divides us. People want
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to hear that. People want to feel good. They don't
want to feel angry and aggrieved. And you know, I
do think that there is a danger that Kamala Harris,
as awful a candidate as she is, as repellent as
her policies are, I think that Republicans are banking too
much on the debate being the sort of eye opener
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for the American voter. I think that potentially she will
get the questions because her best friend is a senior
executive at ABC, and the Democrats did this before with
Donna Brazil, and so she's quite good at the teleprompter,
she'll memorize some answers, and if she doesn't completely fail
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because the expectations are now held so low for her,
then it'll be chalked up as a huge victory and
she'll that with no other scrutiny to the elections.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I agree with everything Randa is saying about that, which
is a little depressing, but I think she's right. Randa Devine,
New York Post columnist, laptop from how author Miranda always
appreciate you making the time for us.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Thanks clam Buck, Clayton Travis, and Buck Sexton on the
front line.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I went to a wedding Saturday, Buck, and you were
just telling me this detail off the air. Congratulations to
my cousin, Jennifer. She is an Alabama graduate and she
married an LSU gradual. She is role tiede and he
is a Bayou bingal And there were no fights, and
so maybe there is hope for our country after all.
Though people are pointing out that it was a July
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wedding and not a fall wedding season, in which case
there may be more conflict coming. But I did think
this was interesting. By the way, one of the speeches.
You'll appreciate this.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Buck.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
One of the speeches at the wedding. Guy said he
was suspicious immediately because his brother was telling him where
she went to high school. It's like, why are you
not saying where she went to college? And so he said,
I knew as an LSU guy then that I should
be suspicious that there might be something afoot here. He
didn't want to say that she went to Alabama. But
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if they can get along, anybody can. But I saw this.
There are now brides charging people admission prices for their wedding.
You have to buy a ticket selling tickets. New York
Post reporting on this today. A new trend of midweek
destination wedding. So think about that.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh you have to go to take multiple you know
the Cayman Islands. Yeah, on Wednesday, because that's when we're
getting married, because it's cheaper than doing it on a weekend.
Brunch weddings. So you have a wedding in the morning
and then everyone has brunch. I guess at noon. This
is all just about venues and costs and everything. Or
the most controversial, which Clay started with selling tickets like
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you're going to a Swift concert but really it's so
that you can see Tom and Sally get hitched.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Have you ever been to a wedding that you would
buy a ticket for. I know everybody has to give
I look, monetary donations.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Not involving immediate family, in which case you're obligated to go. No,
there's never been a wedding where I was like, you
know what, I'm gonna buy a ticket to go to this.
In fact, I would do the I would pay to
not go to most of the weddings that I've been to.
I know that makes me sound like the wedding grinch,
but you know, I've just I've been to too many weddings.
I've been to like fifty weddings in my life, and
I think I needed to be really at ten of them.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I think, yeah, that's a good I think all of
the guys that I know, I might have to go
to some second weddings, but everybody that I know, everybody
that I like, has has already gotten married. I think
I'm on to the next iteration is going to be
basically kid weddings of but you know friends.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
But I was, I say, you've got three boys, so
as they get older, the thing is you're not gonna
have to worry about actually, you know, the whole wedding aspect, because.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I am going to end up paying for all three
of those weddings.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Okay, well, at least you'll hire, you'll hire a wedding plan.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
We know any of the details. But I saw what
weddings cost. Now outrageous, I could I like my jaw dropped.
I don't know how any parent out there can hardly
afford you.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm going to tell you all something now, especially for
those of you who are still planning a wedding. Or
I don't usually say do what I do, Well, maybe
I say that, But Carrie and I did big party
all of our friends.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
In New York City.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Two hundred people at the party. Okay, big party. And
it was just a party with one toast. And you
can have that, and you can have that at you know,
your local dance hall or whatever you want, whatever you
want to do it. And then we had a church
wedding for immediate family only. It was about twenty twenty
five people, and then we went out to dinner. Yeah,
and we wouldn't change a thing about it. And if
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I told you the cost, how low it is you'd
be like, Wow, you guys are thrifty.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
But I didn't want to spend. In New York City,
you can spend.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I didn't want to tell you guys on two hundred,
three hundred thousand dollars on a wedding in the blink
of an eye. So we did it at about the
national average level. We're so happy. So just do that, man, Clay.
Tell people throw a party for the engagement and then
just have a nice, small wedding. You don't need three
hundred people at your wedding.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
I would even suggest eloping, taking the money that you
would have spent on the wedding and putting it towards
your first residency, but that's me being an old.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well, Clay would use the money from the wedding to
start a media company, so that's actually that could
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Really pay off, or you could lose it all.
Thank you for listening. This is the best of with
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
The next Vice President of the United States. J D Vance,
Senator from Ohio, joins us. Now, JD, great to have
you on the program again.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Good to be with you guys.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Sorry, we're good man.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know, some of us knew you were going to
be the VP, like six months ago. I'm just saying
some of us. There's there's a record of this stuff
out there, so.
Speaker 5 (00:26):
I had to buy a steak for Buck. He said
that you were going to be the VP pick months
and months ago. It's his greatest prediction on the show,
so I'm not surprised that he would decide to gloat
as we began the interview, just throwing it out there.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That makes one of us guys because you knew something Buck,
I didn't know. But good on you.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Ah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
You know, sometimes the best thing is to throw it
into the end zone with your eyes closed. So anyway,
my friend I got lucky on that one. Tell me
this though, last night, the Kamalist speech we both watched,
meaning Clay and I.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I'm sure you watched it too.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It feels like a camp you know how seinfeldt was
a show about nothing. I mean, it wasn't obviously totally
about nothing, but it was just like them living their lives.
And that's how we pitched it to NBC. It's a
show about nothing. The Kamala campaign seems to just be
a show about feelings.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
What is she really trying.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
To accomplish, Like, what is the what is the policy thrust?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, so I didn't watch the whole speech just because I,
you know, didn't want to lose twenty IQ points, you know,
when I'm underslept thanks to the campaign. But look, I
think that what she's trying to do here is make
herself the change agent, right. She's trying to make people
forget that she bears responsibility for the open border, for
the inflation, for the you know, the Inflation Explosion Act,
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which she cats to deciding vote on, And she's I
think persuading her party that if they just lie to
the American people and try to induce this collective amnesia,
everybody's gonna forget that she's been the vice president for
the past three and a half years. And I just
don't think it works. Right. It maybe works for one
night at the DNC convention, when there's no countervailing narrati.
But I don't think that she can run that message
(02:02):
for seventy five days. Eventually people are going to say, like,
why did you do all these things that made my
life worse? And I don't think Kamala has a good answer.
Speaker 5 (02:09):
Tim Walls is I think also a disaster. But one
of the attack lines that they've come after you on,
I just think is, regardless of your politics, absolutely ridiculous.
And I'm curious for you. You graduated from a family
that was not very doing very well financially, went into
the Marines, went to Ohio State. I'll ask you about
(02:32):
the Buckey's forecast this year here in a little bit,
and then you go to Yale Law School. That's an
incredible accomplishment. I know your grandmother and your mother were
ecstatic about you being able to accomplish that. When Tim
Walls and Kamala Harris attack you for going to Yale
Law School, I think it lands really flat, not even
with just Democrat voters or Republican voters, but just moms
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and dads and grandpas and grandma's out there that want
their kids to achieve as much as possible. Well, you
kind of surprised that this has become one of the
lines of attack against you.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, I am surprised because I know these people are
cynical about politics, and I just don't think that it
actually works, right. I mean, a lot of Americans, especially
those who grow up in less fortunate circumstances, they want
their kids to be able to achieve the American dream.
And I've never felt this sense of resentment directed towards me.
I've always felt when people hear my story, they kind
of see, you know, themselves and me, and they're rooting
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for me because I came from a similar background to
the one that they came from. And I think any
kid who grows up in the kind of circumstances that
I grew up in a poor family, you know, not
the nicest things, not easy, not an easy life. You know,
we always feel the sense of great gratitude to the
people who made us who we are, and for me, particularly,
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that's my mom and my grandmother, and I just feel
like this overwhelming sense of thanks that they worked and
sacrificed and made it possible for me to live the
life that I've been able to live. I think most
Americans feel that sense of gratitude to somebody in their life.
When Tim Watson tries to insult what I've accomplished, he's
fundamentally insulting. You know, these women who made me who
I am. I just don't think that it works. I
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think most people want their kids to have a better life,
and they're kind of problem that happens. They're not resentful.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
There was a lot of attention on the comments that
Andy Basher made after I think it was night two
of the DNC and he brought you up and he
said something that people truly thought was over the line
and tried to give him an opportunity to walk it
(04:34):
back or clarify, and the governor Kentucky did not do.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So what do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Where do you stand on what Basher said when he
said that he hoped that something terrible would befall your family?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yeah, I think it was really gross, right. I mean,
I sort of expect that people are going to come
after me. That's the price of participating in national politics.
But to have a guy stand there and say, well,
I hope that JD speriences of female in his family
who's impregnated through rape, It's like well, are you talking
about my daughter, you talk about my wife? It's just gross.
Just leave these guys out of it and don't engage
(05:09):
in these bizarre fantasies because you have these ridiculous, regressive
social views. So look, man, it's you kind of get
used to it. My wife is very tough, and I
think that, you know, she sort of accepts that this
is just the price of participation here, not just for me,
but for herself and for the whole family. It's not
a good thing. That that's how it is. And you know,
(05:29):
I think the best revenge here is victory, right. We
want to beat these guys, take back the country and
make them realize that that kind of politics just doesn't
work for most Americans. But if we don't beat them,
then it's going to be rewarded. I think it's one
of the reasons it's so important to actually win, is
it's not just we want to govern the country more effectively,
and that's obviously the most important thing. I think we
also want to make sure that the Democrats don't feel
(05:51):
emboldened by the kind of race that they've been running,
which is completely divorced from details or policy. It's all
about vibes and it's all about gas lighting, Like, I
don't want anybody to be elected president running a campaign
like that.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
RFK Junior is going to have a rally in about
an hour. President Trump is out in Phoenix area as well.
Do you expect RFK Junior to drop out of the
race And if he does, do you think he's going
to endorse you? Guys? What do you know about what's
coming in the next few hours.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, so I really don't know a whole lot, right,
I mean, I've been making my pitch to RFK personally
and to his voters, but in public, right, I've never
actually spoken to RFK about dropping out of the race
or about getting behind the president. I certainly think that
if you look at the issue set that RFK cares about, right, So,
take medical freedom. This is a guy who's been I think,
a very important voice in America on why do we
(06:42):
kick a bunch of veterans out of the military, why
do we fire a bunch of nurses for refusing to
take the experimental COVID shot? But clearly Trump is more
the candidate of medical freedom. If you think about what
RFK has said about the Ukraine conflict and not turning
this thing into World War three. Clearly Trump is the
person and who's trying to prevent this thing from escalating.
So I think on the issue set, clearly Trump is
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the guy. And I also think I mean, you guys know,
I grew up in a family of blue dogs, socially
conservative Democrats. They were Kennedy Democrats, right, and they feel
like the party has less than behind and that's why
they become Trump Republicans. So I think it could be
a very powerful testament to have an actual Kennedy, the
most famous Kennedy still living, get behind Donald Trump. I
certainly hope that he will. I have no reason to
(07:25):
mistrust the media reports about it. I think it is
going to happen. I don't know exactly how it's going
to happen, but there's just no room for Kennedy Democrats
and Kamala Harris's party anymore. So I hope they come
to our side.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Do you think it could be significant given what the
polls are telling everybody about these critical swing states? And
also if I could add to that, JD, what are
you seeing in terms of the ground game. I mean,
you know you're the number two on the Republican side here,
so you must have good visibility into how the GOP
is operating in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Again. You know, I think it's it could be really important, right,
I mean, we know the race is going to be tight,
we know the media is on the side of Kamala
and the Democrats, and we just know we live in
a divided countries. So a couple points here there could
mean the difference between Donald Trump where Kamala Herris getting
elected president. So yeah, it's really really important. On the
ground game side, I mean, what we're seeing is two things, right.
(08:24):
So first of all, our grassroots are super engaged. People
are very excited, and I think the energy here is
just you know, off the charts. But we're also doing
a lot of things that people don't realize to try
to ensure election integrity. The new R and C chair
has filed close to ninety lawsuits to try to protect
legally cast ballots but ensure that illegally cast ballots aren't counted.
(08:46):
So we've got a lot going on. Some of it
doesn't always collect headlines. We actually had two really big victories,
one in Arizona and one in Pennsylvania on the ballot
integrity front just in the last couple of days. So look, man,
I think it's going well. We're gonna have to run
through the finish line. We're gonna have to do what
we can. But if you just look at the numbers
both we're seeing from the Democrats, the public numbers and
(09:06):
our own private numbers, what we're seeing is that Kamala
Harris got a bit of a sugar high. Towards the
end of July, it started to wear off a little bit.
I don't think their convention is going to stem that
at all. In fact, it might accelerate it. And so
we're in a good spot. We just have to do
what we need to do.
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Talking to jd Vance, Okay, you're an Ohio State Buckeye fan.
College football starts this weekend. You just mentioned the Midwest. Honestly,
big ten fans in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, many of
them listening to us right now. Probably you're going to
decide this election. How do you think Ohio State's going
(09:43):
to do and how do you balance that out going
on the road and making your pitch to Wolverine Spartans,
penn State, Niitney Lion fans and Wisconsin Badger fans all
over Big ten Nation, because I think that's pretty much
where you're going to be campaigning all fall. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I mean, I've already spent a ton of time in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
I pretty much go there once a week and will
through I mean each state. I go once a week
and will through the end of the election. I joked
with the President when he first asked me to be
his CP. I was like, well, you know, hopefully we
don't lose Michigan by like nine hundred votes, because you're
going to regret it because it's probably just one thousand
pissed off Wolverine fans who would vote for a Buck guy.
(10:19):
But I think that most Michiganders are going to be
able to put sports rivalries aside and put the country first,
which is what, of course all of us believe is
the most important thing. I mean, look, I'm a lifelong
Buckeyes fan. I think we have just in terms of sheer,
raw talent, maybe the best Ohio state team I've seen
since you know, the great two thousand and three team
(10:41):
that upset the upset Miami the National Championship game. Like
we had. We are stacked this year, and I think
that if we if we take care of things, I mean,
we should be in the title game and we should
win it. But we'll see. Man.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
By the way, that was passion. That was not pass
interference in the in the championship game against Miami, You
guys can never complain about officiating for the rest of
your life as a fan. After getting that call.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
There were there were two other calls that went against
us earlier in the game where we would have won
either one of them. So on balance, we won that game.
I'll go to my grave believe in that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
If I may, if I'm may way in here as
the no stradamis of all things JD. World, I think
my beloved Buckeyes will have the best year they have
had in many years.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Clay and JD.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Buck Buck. By the way, you should know this, JD.
Buck had never been to a college football game. I
took him to Alabama Ole Miss. He had an amazing time.
He couldn't believe that this was a world that he
had never experienced before. But now he tries to claim
that he's a fan of every team, and so he's
like he's always saying like role tide. He's going to
be saying, you know, I've always been held to the victors,
(11:48):
and also you know I've always been a big Ohio
State guy. I mean, really, the pandering is absurd on
this show.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Well, let's let's go to the Ohio State Michigan game,
assuming we want, because I bet I can get some
pretty sweet tickets as the VP elect, and we'll be
in a celebratory mood. And look, it's it's going to
be a big game this year. I think it's going
to determine ultimate seating in the College Football Playoff. I mean,
how both teams might actually make the playoff, and of
Michigan's you know sort of people aren't aren't putting them
(12:17):
as high this year, but you never know, because it's
always a good program. So we'll see, guys. I'm feeling
very good about the buck guys. I'm feeling very good
about the Bengals, and I'm feeling very good about this
presidential race. So maybe we can hit the trifecta here
and have the Buckeyes wins the CFP playoffs, the Mingles
win the Super Bowl, and Donald Trump could elected president.
That'd be a good year.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
I have total faith you and Trump are gonna win.
You know we were talking to this before. Neither Clayton
nor I have ever been to the Naval Observatory, so
you may have to get some with someone on your
staff to give us a tour.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Okay, that's that's in your future too.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Thank you, Jenny Vance.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Everybody make sure jad we're cite anything you want to
tell people to go to, they can get involved.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Help out.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Most important thing, Donald J. Trump dot com. Volunteer donate
if you're able, because we've got to correct the record
on Kamala Harris and donations. Help us do that. Volunteer
and knock on doors or do phone banking. We just
have to do everything we can to win this race.
It's going to be tight, but we're gonna win.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Play Travis and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Welcome back into clay Anne Buck. Something interesting that maybe
has been a little crowded out of the headlines by
the d NC falsehoods extravaganza. You have a politico and
a bunch of others reporting on this one. Oh, it's
a Reuter's interview with Trump, where Republican presidential candidate to
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Trump when asked in this interview about Elon Musk, he said, quote,
he's a very smart guy. I certainly would give him
a cabinet position if he would do it. I certainly would.
He's a brilliant guy. And then Elon Musk responded on
social media on x the platform that he owned owns,
(14:01):
and wrote, I am willing to serve and Clay, more specifically,
the CEO of Twitter shared a picture of himself standing
behind a podium with the words Department of Government Efficiency
and doze doge etched into it, which is kind of
(14:23):
funny because he obviously also talked about doge coin years
ago the crypto tooken or crypto coin whatever, Clay, I
think Elon Musk, as the government efficiencies are under Trump
would be incredible. The only thing that would make me
bummed out about it is that he wouldn't be running
his other companies that are doing amazing things.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
But we need some we need a shock to the bureaucracy.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Yes, yes, I want half of all federal employees fired.
I mean I do, and I don't think that if
you gave the second half fifty percent raises the people
that are actually working most the other half would care
about it. I mean, Elon's a great example because he
bought Twitter, fired seventy five percent of the employees, and
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the site doesn't seem to be working any less efficiently
than it was before. In fact, on the flip side,
maybe better. And I bet a lot of you out
there listening to us right now, whether you have government
or private sector jobs, if you work hard at your job,
you look around at some of the knuckleheads that are
making similar salaries to you, you'd rather make more and
the company would probably be more efficient if you could
(15:30):
do more. At least half of the people in the
federal government could be fired. We wouldn't miss anything. I
would love if we could do it, and lower taxes
as a result. Be fabulous.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Clay Travis and buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton shows we are
joined by the woman who should get all of the
Pulitzers that were won by the New York Times and
the Washington Post for their Russia Eyes and instead they
should be rebranded Miranda Divine Awards if she wanted them
for everything that she has done in the New York
Post covering all of the lies of Joe Biden and
his family, joined now by Miranda Devine herself, Miranda as
(16:11):
all of this stuff is now getting thrown out there,
and you see every other media outlet beginning to cover in.
I read my eyes almost popped out of my head
an editorial in The New York Times over the weekend saying, oh,
Hunter Biden needs to be charged with a lot of
crimes for violating the Foreign Registry Lobbying Law FARA. And
(16:33):
you know they would would any of these stories ever
have come out at this point if Joe Biden were
still running Or is this just a sign that they're
done protecting him? How do you assess based on your reporting?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Yeah, I think the latter that they are done with
protecting him. They've protected him since the beginning of his candidacy.
They lied, They troduced the New York Post, they produced
Rudy Giuliani and the whistleblowers and everybody else who was
telling the truth about Joe Biden's corruption. James Comer, the
(17:08):
Oversight Committee chairman, has been completely pillaried in his hometown,
and they sent, you know, media operatives from Associated Press
and elsewhere just pretty much camped out there trying to
find dirt on him to no avail. So you know,
this has been a complete media protection campaign. Let alone
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the CIA, the DOJ, the irs, who've all protected the Bidens.
But now that Joe Biden is no longer a candidate,
they're going to just seamlessly, as you saw with the
New York Times, just move on to normal reporting, as
if this is a normal story that's just suddenly emerged.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Miranda, I saw a tweet and I wanted to have
you break this down for us a little bit.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
You're looking at the issue of.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
This election and some of the let's just say, possible
pitfalls or fraud that could happen here.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
This was in your tweet.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Alabama found over three thousand illegal aliens on their voter rolls.
What is happening in PA, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Arizona will
never know because they're run by Democrats. Trump lost by
forty five thousand votes in a handful of states last time.
Biden Harris have led in twelve to eighteen million illegals
(18:26):
in their administration. They are giving them Social Security numbers. Okay,
there's a lot here. I mean, let's start with Alabama
finding over three thousand illegals on their voter rolls. Why
is a single illegal on the voter rules.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Well, I mean that's tens very good question, and it's
also something that we were told wasn't happening. We're still
being told by Democrats and their allied media that there's
no way. This is just a mega conspiracy theory that
illegal aliens are voting because it's illegal. So of course
they're not going to do it. I mean, these are
(19:03):
people whose very first act on coming into the United
States was to commit a crime, was to cross the
border illegally. So I don't think the fact that there's
a law saying it's illegal, that it is never prosecuted
or very rarely prosecuted, is going to dissuade them from
doing what democratic operatives are encouraging them to do. So
(19:27):
I started looking at this because actually, Maria Bartiroma just
texted me on the weekend and she said that a
friend of hers had sent her this really disturbing text about,
you know, trying to This was in Texas, trying to
get her sixteen year old son to get a driving
test at the local DMV in Fort Worth and they
(19:48):
were booked out. The months ahead, so she went to
various other DMVs and finally she just was fed up
and she's just got in the car and went to
her to one of these DMVs and found that there
was a huge queue of illegal aliens who were getting drivers' licenses.
They can get social Security numbers and drivers' licenses, And
(20:11):
then there were NGOs outside the DMBs with little tables
set up to help them register, encouraging them all to
register to vote. So if you are not allowed to vote,
why would they want to register them to vote. There's
a kind of disconnect there. And then the other piece
of the puzzle that you need to understand is that
(20:31):
there are only three states that require citizenship proof of
citizenship to vote, so really there are just no guardrails
also work.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Noting, as my sixteen year old told me last night
we were watching the DNC, they have extensive security apparatus
that requires you to present a ID in order to
get into the DNC. Right, you have to have a
photo ID extensively docus you're past in order to be
able to access the DNC itself, which is of course
(21:05):
very interesting. Miranda. I also saw this and it was
on the front page of New York Times. They have
accelerated the rate at which they are swearing in new
citizens to a I believe it was a fifteen year high.
They are trying to get as many people sworn in
as fast as they can the minute that they're being
(21:28):
sworn in. Left wing media, left wing voter advocacy groups
are there to make sure that everybody gets registered again.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
It's on the.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Front page of the New York Times. They don't talk
about it for the immediate political ramifications. But isn't that
a sign of them pulling out all the stops to
get as many people as possible that they think is
going to be on their side in I mean, to
do a fifteen year high of citizenship of swearings in
this fall is pretty crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Really, is rather a coincidence, isn't it? And it's just
so typical that, you know, federal government, which is so
incredibly incompetent at everything else, suddenly he manages to be
really good when it suits the powers that be, whether
it's collecting taxes or signing up people to vote and
(22:20):
or to become citizens new citizens so that they'll vote
for the Democrats. And you know, behind a lot of
really nefarious happenings in this country at the moment is
one man, Alexandra Mayorcus and he's of course the DHS secretary.
And when you look at censorship, you look at the
(22:42):
illegal alien invasion that he has ushered in and then
sort of secreted all these illegal migrants across the country
by flying them in, flying them from the border and
in fact from across the border to a community near you,
so that people don't know there's just how many millions
of illegals there are here. And then Mayorcis also is
(23:07):
in charge of the Secret Service. So really, whenever you
look at something that's going really badly awry in this country,
there's one man behind it very often.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Miranda, you put out again the estimate here for Biden's
border of twelve to eighteen million.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I'm just wondering if you if you could walk us through.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
I think they admit by their own numbers to ten, right,
but give me your set, because first of all, whether
it's twelve or eighteen is jaw dropping. It's the most
we've ever seen that are permanent illegals, meaning they're not
trying to you know, people talk about the nineties, and
I've spoken to border Patrol about this. Some of the
numbers were guys who would actually go back and forth
(23:53):
to Mexico many times, and there were single adult males
who were coming to work and going back, coming to
work and going back. These are people that are planning
to stay forever. Well, that twelve to eighteen million estimate,
how do you you know what would mean we're at
the high end, what would mean we're at the low end?
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Well, I mean even if there were only eight million,
it's still on absolute crisis. But the numbers are much
larger than what they're saying because they don't account to
the gotaways and the godways are just you know, often
their cartel, gang members, people with criminal records, you know, pedophiles, psychopaths, gangsters, murderers, terrorists.
(24:33):
We know that there have been dozens of terrorists, including
ISIS terrorists that have actually been apprehended, but that's if
you're a terrorist, you don't want to be apprehended. So
they know. Border Patrols has some idea about got aways,
and Bill Millusion from Fox News is very good on this,
just by footprints and infrared cameras and so on, but
(24:57):
no one really knows how many there are now that
the border is actually controlled by the cartels, and it's
so vast. I mean, the poor border patrol people are
held up babysitting and doing sort of bureaucracy rather than
actually stopping these people coming across the border. And you know,
(25:18):
everybody knows that Joe Biden unwound all of Donald Trump's
border protection measures on day one with these executive orders.
He could easily at any time in the last three
and a half years have written new executive orders unwinding
He's unwinding, and he hasn't done that. And instead they're
pretending they need Congress to act. And that, I think
(25:40):
is how Kamala Harris is trying to frame her culpability
as the borders are as some sort of virtue. Now
she's pretending that she's tougher on the border than Donald Trump.
The numbers think for themselves.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Miranda, you have covered politics for a while, and I
encourage you guys to go follow Miranda. I love all
the work she does with the New York Post. I
also think New York Post is the best newspaper in
America in terms of being fun and write on most issues. Now,
I like the Wall Street Journal the most Miranda, But
you guys are number two on my favorites list. But
(26:19):
how unbelievable is Kamala Harris' ascension and the fact that
even with this crazy ascension to the nomination, she has
not talked to anyone in media. Contextualize this based on
your experience. How extraordinary the times that we are in
right now as it pertains to what the Democrats are
(26:41):
trying to do.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
Well, I mean, it's a whole new playbook, I guess. Really,
Joe Biden began and the pandemic allowed him that latitude
to run a basement campaign and hide from the media,
and it worked so well they won the elect So
of course they're going to do it again. And instead
(27:03):
of having a senile candidate as Joe Biden obviously was
back in twenty nineteen to anyone who observed him in
action in Iowa and New Hampshire, they now have a
candidate who really is not good on her feet too.
She's not good at stringing together arguments, and she gets
very nervous and high pitched, and she's just terrible. And
(27:24):
so they've decided that they're going to hide her away
because they got away with it with Joe Biden, and
I think they'll get away with it now because the
media is not really complaining and the public doesn't really
know that this is out of the ordinary, And so
what you're seeing is images of Kamala Harris, who is attractive,
(27:45):
she looks dignified, she's well dressed, she's always smiling and
looking joyful. And the few words that she says, like
last night at the convention when she just came on
for a minute a half and I just spoke about
love and how you know, we should unite and there's
more that joins us together than divides us. People want
(28:08):
to hear that. People want to feel good. They don't
want to feel angry and aggrieved. And you know, I
do think that there is a danger that Kamala Harris,
as awful a candidate as she is, as repellent as
her policies are, I think that Republicans are banking too
much on the debate being the sort of eye opener
(28:31):
for the American voter. I think that potentially she will
get the questions because her best friend is a senior
executive at ABC, and the Democrats did this before with
Donna Brazil, and so she's quite good at the teleprompter,
she'll memorize some answers, and if she doesn't completely fail
(28:52):
because the expectations are now held so low for her,
then it'll be chalked up as a huge victory and
she'll that with no other scrutiny to the elections.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
I agree with everything Randa is saying about that, which
is a little depressing, but I think she's right. Randa Devine,
New York Post columnist, laptop from how author Miranda always
appreciate you making the time for us.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Thanks clam Buck, Clayton Travis, and Buck Sexton on the
front line.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
I went to a wedding Saturday, Buck, and you were
just telling me this detail off the air. Congratulations to
my cousin, Jennifer. She is an Alabama graduate and she
married an LSU gradual. She is role tiede and he
is a Bayou bingal And there were no fights, and
so maybe there is hope for our country after all.
Though people are pointing out that it was a July
(29:47):
wedding and not a fall wedding season, in which case
there may be more conflict coming. But I did think
this was interesting. By the way, one of the speeches.
You'll appreciate this.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Buck.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
One of the speeches at the wedding. Guy said he
was suspicious immediately because his brother was telling him where
she went to high school. It's like, why are you
not saying where she went to college? And so he said,
I knew as an LSU guy then that I should
be suspicious that there might be something afoot here. He
didn't want to say that she went to Alabama. But
(30:19):
if they can get along, anybody can. But I saw this.
There are now brides charging people admission prices for their wedding.
You have to buy a ticket selling tickets. New York
Post reporting on this today. A new trend of midweek
destination wedding. So think about that.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh you have to go to take multiple you know
the Cayman Islands. Yeah, on Wednesday, because that's when we're
getting married, because it's cheaper than doing it on a weekend.
Brunch weddings. So you have a wedding in the morning
and then everyone has brunch. I guess at noon. This
is all just about venues and costs and everything. Or
the most controversial, which Clay started with selling tickets like
(30:59):
you're going to a Swift concert but really it's so
that you can see Tom and Sally get hitched.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Have you ever been to a wedding that you would
buy a ticket for. I know everybody has to give
I look, monetary donations.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Not involving immediate family, in which case you're obligated to go. No,
there's never been a wedding where I was like, you
know what, I'm gonna buy a ticket to go to this.
In fact, I would do the I would pay to
not go to most of the weddings that I've been to.
I know that makes me sound like the wedding grinch,
but you know, I've just I've been to too many weddings.
I've been to like fifty weddings in my life, and
I think I needed to be really at ten of them.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I think, yeah, that's a good I think all of
the guys that I know, I might have to go
to some second weddings, but everybody that I know, everybody
that I like, has has already gotten married. I think
I'm on to the next iteration is going to be
basically kid weddings of but you know friends.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
But I was, I say, you've got three boys, so
as they get older, the thing is you're not gonna
have to worry about actually, you know, the whole wedding aspect, because.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
I am going to end up paying for all three
of those weddings.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Okay, well, at least you'll hire, you'll hire a wedding plan.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
We know any of the details. But I saw what
weddings cost. Now outrageous, I could I like my jaw dropped.
I don't know how any parent out there can hardly
afford you.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm going to tell you all something now, especially for
those of you who are still planning a wedding. Or
I don't usually say do what I do, Well, maybe
I say that, But Carrie and I did big party
all of our friends.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
In New York City.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Two hundred people at the party. Okay, big party. And
it was just a party with one toast. And you
can have that, and you can have that at you know,
your local dance hall or whatever you want, whatever you
want to do it. And then we had a church
wedding for immediate family only. It was about twenty twenty
five people, and then we went out to dinner. Yeah,
and we wouldn't change a thing about it. And if
(32:51):
I told you the cost, how low it is you'd
be like, Wow, you guys are thrifty.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
But I didn't want to spend. In New York City,
you can spend.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
I didn't want to tell you guys on two hundred,
three hundred thousand dollars on a wedding in the blink
of an eye. So we did it at about the
national average level. We're so happy. So just do that, man, Clay.
Tell people throw a party for the engagement and then
just have a nice, small wedding. You don't need three
hundred people at your wedding.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
I would even suggest eloping, taking the money that you
would have spent on the wedding and putting it towards
your first residency, but that's me being an old.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Well, Clay would use the money from the wedding to
start a media company, so that's actually that could
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Really pay off, or you could lose it all.
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