March 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Payton McNabb calls out the hypocrisy and anti-women Democrats in the chamber. A iHeart Radio app Talkback from a Democrat who is switching sides after the way the Democrats behaved at last night's State of the Union address. Mitch McConnell is stepping down and former Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron is entering the Senate race. Cameron's version of DEI is MEI: merit excellence and integrity. Fighting fentanyl. When the Democrats refused to stand Marc Fogel and his mom, the kid with cancer, Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray's families, just to name a few, it was incredibly revealing. Black Lives Matter plaza in DC is going to be removed. Grok creatives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Kentucky Senate candidate for the Republican Party Daniel Cameron will
join us. Top of the next hour. A man who
was very instrumental in the speech that you all heard
last night, Steven Miller will join us.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
All of that coming your way.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
But I wanted to continue to discuss why last night
was such a spectacular success for Trump and continue to
play several different moments. One we didn't mention Buck, and
I thought it again just kind or two that we
haven't really mentioned very much, but I thought went to
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Trump's ability to pull heartstrings, and you story to further
political narrative. Mark Foegel, who was imprisoned by Russia for
a relatively inconsequential story of violation. His mother, ninety five
year old mother was in the crowd. She met with
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Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, just a few moments before Trump
was shot nearly killed. She asked Trump, begged him to
bring her son home. Trump followed through on that promise
and had both of them in the gallery and Buck,
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you're gonna be a new dad soon. This story to
me is way undertold, and I wanted to focus on
it for a moment. Imagine for all of you out there,
if you are in your nineties and your son or
daughter is imprisoned in a foreign country for a crime
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they didn't commit, you have no idea every day is
a blessing no matter how old you are. But I
would imagine when you get into your eighties and nineties
you feel that even more so because any day could
truly be your last if you look at mortality tables,
to have a son that is or a daughter, but
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to have a child that is being held by a
country like Russia. To go to that Butler Pennsylvania rally
to ask Trump directly for him to bring your boy home,
and then for Trump to do it and deliver on
the promise that he made to that mom. I think
it's an incredible story. I think it goes to Trump's
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uniquely compelling ability to connect with people of a variety
of backgrounds. Not one Democrat stood buck when a ninety
five year old mom, assisted by her son to stand,
had that story told, and I thought it was compelling.
I think Democrats have a big problem looming here, and
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that is as Trump keeps promises that he made during
the campaign, including some very important ones to the base
and the Trump voters, really to the American people. As
Trump keeps promises overall and racks up wins, gets things done,
shows the results that we want to see, it will
become increasingly self defeating for Democrats to reflexively oppose whatever
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it is that he has done. The Ukraine getting into
a ceasefire, for example, there will be chatter if he
gets Ukraine to a ceasefire, if he's able to broker
that deal. Now I know, peace is a whole separate
set of not separate, but additional set of processes, and
there's a lot that passed to happen here. We haven't
gotten there yet. But on an issue like that, and
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on an issue like getting an American home, there should
be nothing but congratulations.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That was the right move. Remember when say what you
will about it, Remember when Obama called for the raid
on bin Laden, That was the right call. It was
the right move. A lot of people say it was
a huge part of his reelection, and I don't remember
anybody on the right going we should have Osama should
have gotten a fair trial, or you know whatever, There
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wasn't some big chorus of people opposing something that was
clearly the right decision for a commander in chief, and
it was a win for America. It was the right
thing to do. So they're going to be in a
position where I think that continues to happen. We've already
we've seen this with the return of the American from
Russia who is hell. We've seen this with the return
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of hostages and remains of hostages from Hamas, and I
think we're likely to see it on the Ukraine deal.
And I think this just adds to the growing sense
that Democrats aren't just an opposition party. There are toothless
and somewhat absurd one. They can't so toothless in some
cases they're old so but I mean toothless, like they
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don't have any bite. They can't actually make coherent arguments
against what is happening right now. This is I think
likely to continue because folk the main focus of the
Trump administration so far has been on that that sixty
percent plus issue array for the country. People strongly agree
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with what is going on here and the things that
are happening, and on the foreign policy front, I think
that this is a place where Trump can get a
lot done. I mean, you even saw this morning, Clay.
Looks like there's going to be some renegotiating already over
the tariffs with Mexico and Canada specifically, and some things
will be covered, some things won't. There's going to be
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some deals happening, and we'll see if Trump is correct
based on what happens with the economy over the next
twelve months or so, or however you want to gauge
it on the tariff plan. But he's doing the things
that he said he was going to do, and Democrats
just hate whatever he does, so if he does good things,
it's a tough place for them to be some of you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I saw Jesse Kelly, our friend, tweet that he was
watching ABC News' version of the State of the Union
this addressed to joint addressed Congress, and that he hadn't
noticed how frequently Democrats refused to stand for these moments
because they were showing only one half of the chamber.
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You know who did notice, and I do think this
is significant. Joscelyn Nungerre's mother, Alexis, she noticed when her
daughter's murder was talked about and when Trump announced that
he was going to name. I believe it was a
wildlife refuge after her because she was super interested in wildlife. This,
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I believe thirteen year old girl. Here's her mom saying
she definitely noticed Democrats refused to stand and how disrespectful
she found it to her daughter's memory.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Play cut nine.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
If they can stand and applaud you and stand up
for the right of innocent people like your daughter, what
does that party stand for.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I've found a repulsive.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
They don't stand for anything. They don't stand for us
as citizens, they don't stand for our security, they don't
stand for honorable things that we meet in this country.
And it's just very disgraceful to us as US citizens
that those are the people that we have here in Congress,
in House and Senates.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Disgusting and also Buck Peyton McNabb a young girl teenage
girl who was hit in the face by a male
volleyball player and suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result.
She also called out America Democrats. They had all these
women wearing pink on the Democrat side, supposedly to stand
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for women, and the reality was they're actually supporting men
being able to dominate women in women's athletics. We'll listen
to cut ten.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Last night, I thought that the pink suits and everyone
matching was real cute, when, of course, the day before
zero Democrats voted for the protection of women and girls,
and then zero Democrats stood and applauded when I was
getting recognized for my injury, because like ROLLI said, I mean,
they are anti They couldn't be more anti women, and frankly,
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they are anti American. They really embarrassed themselves all night
and it was honestly.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Sad to see.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
But I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
This is the people in the room noticed, Buck, and
I think the other aspect of this speech that is
going to become more and more apparent. We've talked about
it some on this program. Most people don't watch, but
they will see over time these clips echoing through their
TikTok feed or their Instagram reels or their x feeds.
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And the impact of Trump being able to connect with
so many different people and Democrats being unwilling to acknowledge
their basic humanity, I think is going to continue to
provide a sign of the growing divide between sanity and
the parties.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
How are Democrats standing up for women in any meaningful sense?
Right now? What is this with the paddles and the
audience and you know, the wearing pink and all this stuff.
This is not quite at the same level of embarrassment
as we saw with Democrats kneeling in Kent cloth for
Saint George Floyd. If we all recall remember that that
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Nancy Pelosi donned Kent a cloth from West Africa to
show her solidarity. What does that have to do with
with George Floyd. The whole thing was was completely absurd.
But Democrats are into theatrics. A lot of people, a
lot of the chatter online lately has been along the
lines of I think it's because you know, you've got
Elon and Trump. It's like the quarterback of the football
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team and the head of the math club teamed up
and they're fighting against the self righteous and sanctimonious theater kids.
The Democrats are all about sanctimonious theatrics. And we saw
what four years of abiden regime was able to accomplish,
and it wasn't good. Accomplish is really the wrong word.
How they were able to devastate things, unsteady, things, overspend
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and I think that rolling out so much from DOGE
as well early on has forced them into this posture
of like I said, having Alysta Slotkin say that they
also want spending to be cut. Really, when has a
Democrat ever come out with a bold plan to cut
federal government spending or cut federal government waste. We're really
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talking about waste here. It's not you know, you could
say we spend too much money on fill in the blank,
but if we're paying to people who aren't even supposed
to get money in the first place, or if we're
paying into ghost accounts, or if we're paying to fraudsters,
things like that. Elon says one hundred billion dollars of waste, fraud,
and abuse has already been cut. How can they not
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be in favor of this, And how can they not
be in favor of a ninety five percent drop in
a legal cross to the border. The only way they
could be opposed to it would be if they actually
want illegals to cross, in which of course they do.
The only way they could be opposed to what Dosh
is doing is if they actually want the fraud and
the spending to continue. To remember, inflation is devastating, especially
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for people who are living on paycheck to paycheck are
based on wages, not on assets. It's also a very
effective means of keeping the elites in place and keeping
the middle class dependent on the government in a whole
range of ways, because you're constantly chipping away at their
wages and then telling them that you're going to make
up for it with government programs, and the cycle continues.
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So Clay, they're really just on the wrong side of
every major issue and continue the Ukraine War for no
apparent reason as long as possible. This is where they stand.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Not only that, Buck, I mean, if you're out there
and you're saying, oh, it couldn't have possibly been this
good for Trump, you guys are are just totally missing it.
Here was CNN's David Challion saying, yes, sixty nine percent
of a mayors had a positive reaction.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
We talked about.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
CNN's sixty nine and CBS seventy six percent positive. But
here's what you heard. If you were watching CNN last
night after the speech to.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The results, what was your reaction to Trump's speech? Forty
four percent of speech watchers and our instant poell tonight
say they had a very positive reaction to Trump's speech
twenty five percent somewhat positive, thirty one percent negative.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
When Trump's only getting thirty one percent negative on a
CNN poll immediately reacting to something that he did. Buck
Democrats are in a dire dire position. Will continue to react.
By the way, at the bottom of the hour, we'll
hear what Daniel Cameron thought, and then Stephen Miller at
the top of the next hour. But I want to
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I have filled out one bracket before because you made
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Speaker 2 (14:13):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We had mentioned that
the speech last night, overwhelmingly by the number, is very strong.
People liked it. The notion of America is back. We
have a great and beautiful future ahead of us a big,
beautiful future. It's very exciting stuff. And were there some converts. Well,
I've mentioned to you the talkback function. It's a lot
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us a talkback we have This is AA podcast listener Jay,
send us a talkback on how much the speech affected
him last night?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Play it Hi voted Democrat. I've been on the fence
for a while after last night. How they reacted to
that little thirteen year old boy. How do you not
clap or stand for him? It was his moment, not Trump's,
had nothing to do with Trump. I don't want to
be associated with people like that. It just shows how
democrats they only care about themselves, and that's not who
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I am.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That's not what I stand for.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I'm not doing it no more. Thanks Clay, First of all,
appreciate you writing talk backing in Clay Jay, not Clay Clay.
What do you think of the Democrat move here? I
don't see how it is defensible. I don't see how
they could even claim that this was anything other than
a terrible look for them.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't think this has ever been the case in
my life where we could be talking to a larger
segment of the population. And I appreciate that guy reaching out.
I think there are millions of you every week now
that listen to us that have not been traditionally Republican voters.
(15:54):
And I think you have just seen the Democrat Party
completely lose its way, and and you have found yourself
a part of the Trump coalition. And I understand a
lot of you out there are longtime Trump voters. You
voted Trump in sixteen twenty twenty four. But I always
make a point of this because I do think it's significant.
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Trump got sixty five million votes in twenty sixteen. By
twenty twenty four, he got seventy seven million votes. Now
I've had I don't know, three or four million of
the people who voted Trump in twenty sixteen died unfortunately
or weren't able to vote for some reason. By twenty
twenty four, we're talking about Trump in the space of
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those eight years as a public figure, adding somewhere around
twenty million new voters potentially, right, And I think a
lot of those people are listening right now, and some
of you got on board the train in twenty some
of you got on board the train twenty four.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Here's what I'm seeing, Buck.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I think some people who didn't even vote Trump in
twenty four now are looking at him as president and saying,
what's so awful? I've been sold a bill of goods.
I think a lot of people are waking up every
single day like that caller, we just had yes, And
I think there's gonna be more of that as well.
The Democrats don't really have an agenda that they can
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put forward as the counter to what Trump is offering,
because if they were honest about what they want, they
turn off a strong majority of the American people.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
They're going to lose. Generally. What they have done in
the past is gotten away with pretending they want certain things.
But Biden went so hard left for so long. The
border is really the best example this, but there are
others as well. On an gender issue too, but remember Biden.
The White House under Biden was putting out official statements
in support of what they call gender affirming care for minors,
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sex change operations for kids. That was the Biden administration,
and they won't walk away from this, So all they
can really do is say that Trump is horrible, and
that's gotten old, that's gotten tiresome, and it doesn't work anymore.
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Speaker 1 (19:01):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We go
up to the Bluegrass State now, where a Senate race
is brewing. Mitch McConnell has announced that he is going
to step down. Republicans are lining up to run, including
our friend Daniel Cameron, former Attorney General of the Great
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State of Kentucky. And before we get into the Senate campaign,
it is March madness. How much fun for people who
have I know you're a football guy. I know you
played football at Louisville, But how much fun for people
who have not experienced Kentucky during college basketball tournament season?
Is it with Louisville and also Kentucky, but certainly a
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lot of other schools that often make it, whether it's
Murray State some of the others. How crazy for basketball
is Kentucky this time of year?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Oh, Clay? I mean, you know this is a it
is a wild atmosphere here. People. I've gotten invites to
March Madness parties like you know, four and five months ago.
I mean, this is like you know, the time in
Kentucky for sports enthusiasts, in particular basketball enthusiasts. So yeah,
it's it's gonna be It's gonna be wild, man. People
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take off work, you know, people pull their kids out
of school. You know, everybody's watching, they're tuned in to TV.
Uh and you know all the different games that are happening.
So it's gonna be I mean, it's gonna be crazy.
I imagine that. You know, there's gonna be a lot
of folks that are are are calling in sick to
work for the tournament, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So Daniel, thanks for being here with us. We know
you're the former age of Kentucky and you're now a
Senate candidate. What do you think would be the most
important thing you could get done if you were to
join in the next next Senate group the next time
that Congress has seeded, given what you've already seen the
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Trump administration? Essentially, what are your top priorities? Why do
you want to be the next senator from the great
state of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Well, buck, Look, let me first say you and I
will you know, obviously share this in common. I mean,
we're gonna we care about our kids, right, and congrats
to you guys on the announcement that you just recently made.
We care about the future for our children, and my
wife and I want to see a colorblind society, a
merit based society, one in which we uproot diversity, equity,
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and inclusion and replace it with merit, excellence, and intelligence
and integrity. That's something that is is core to who
I am. Is fighting to preserve that colorblind society, fighting
to preserve our constitutional rights, making sure that we secure
our southern border. Look, I thought one of the best
lines last night from the President was, you know, it
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turns out we didn't need new legislation, We just needed
the new president. I want to help the President continue
to fulfill that commitment and promise to secure our southern
border because as a Kentuckian, I mean, we've seen what
fitnel does when it comes across a porous and unsecured
southern border. It hurts our people in the heartland of
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this country. I want to help fight alongside President Trump
and support the America First agenda on securing the southern border,
unleashing our economy, unleashing cryptos such that folks can have
an opportunity there, and then again preserving our constitutional rights
and getting rid of DEI. And as someone who lives
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in a community and an economy that is fueled by
fossil fuels meaning coal and natural gas, we got to
preserve that we've got to have at all of the
above or across the board energy strategy, and I want
to promote that to main sure make sure that Kentucky
in this country is maintaining our energy independence.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You live in a state that has a Democrat governor, unfortunately,
as I know you're not pleased of. But in that address,
when Democrats refuse to stand for a girl who had
traumatic brain injury because she was playing against a man
in volleyball, when they refuse to stand for the family
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of Lake and Riley, the family of Joscelyn Nungary, the
wife of a murdered police officer. A kid much less
serious but gets admitted to US military Academy, Mark Fogel,
ninety five year old mom who was imprisoned. This son,
Mark was mom gets him out Corey COMPETEI the firefighter, family, wife,
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two daughters.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
There.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
What does it say about the Democrats and their political
perspective right now that they lack the basic humanity to
just stand and honor good American stories and heroes like
that last night?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I mean, look, it was absolutely absurd and crazy. You
think about the Kamala Harris Tim Walls campaign. I mean,
the Democrat members of the House and Senate have basically
said hold our beer because we're gonna do you know
what didn't work in the twenty four presidential election. We're
actually gonna double down on that. We're not going to
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listen to the American people. We're not going to care
about common sense and fair play in women's sports. We're
not going to care about these American, deeply rooted American
stories that President Trump presented last night when it came
to DJ Daniel and the tragedy of Lake and Riley
and others that you mentioned. They couldn't stand for that.
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They couldn't stand to celebrate the greatness of America. They
couldn't stand for these heartfelt stories that of people that
have seen challenges and continue to you know, persevere and
are inspiring our nation in building that resolved. They couldn't
stand for those things simply because Claydy your point, like,
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they're scared of the far left of their base. They're
scared of being called out on social media. I mean,
it's it's it's it's absolutely absurd. But what it what
it ultimately does, It reveals the nature of who they
are is Democrats in terms of the members of the
House and Senate. It reveals who they are. So we
saw that on full display last night. But we also
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saw a president it was completely in control of of
of this vision of this country. That is about unity,
It's about protecting our southern border. It's aboute unleashing our
economy and making it work for every American. That that
was the contrast that last night. And I can't let
me tell you, I couldn't be prouder to be a
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Republican and someone who who wants to help President Trump
enact as America First Agenda.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
We're speaking to Daniel Cameron, former Attorney General of Kentucky.
He's running for Senate. I assume I just always find
this so interesting, Daniel. I assume that in your state
it will be something similar to other red states where
Democrats try to steal a Senate seat. Whoever you're going
to run against on the Democrat side is going to
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basically tell everybody in Kentucky they're not really a Democrat?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Is that your expectation. I know you don't even know
necessarily who you're going to be dealing with, but how
else could they win in a state like yours other
than pretending, Especially given where the Democrat Party is right now.
I think it's at one of the lowest points in
terms of overall favorability nationwide. It has been in a
certainly living memory. So to run against you, is the
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person going to have to just say I'm one of
those Democrats who's not really a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Honestly, I hand it with Buck. I don't know a
story they're going to be able to share, because you know,
what people in Kentucky care about, and President Trump won
this state overwhelmingly, and what people here in Kentucky care
about is are you going to help support President Trump's agenda?
And the Democrats, whether it's Basher, who just two weeks
ago sued Donald Trump, whether it's him or any other
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Democrat who has aspirations of a different office, they're not
going to be able to pass that litmus test because
they have shown repeatedly that they opposed the Trump agenda,
an agenda that I should say that the majority of
Kentuckian's value and support, and so again, I don't know
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what they're going to do on that side of the ledger.
What I know is that when it comes to look,
I was the first statewide elected office holder in Kentucky
to endorse President Trump for reelection. I've been with him,
I was fortunate enough to speak on his path and
the RNC convention in twenty twenty. I support the President
and his agenda, and I want to stand up for
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the values and the men, women and children of our
one hundred and twenty counties because, again, whether it's illegal immigration,
whether it is the abuses of opioids that have come
into this state because of a poor southern border, whether
it's helping unleash our economy, these are things that my
wife and I care about because we've got two little
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boys and we want to make sure that this country
is the best and greatest version of it. So if
you talk about somebody wanting to help unleash the Golden
Age or the Golden era, in America. That's me because
I know that that will ultimately benefit our kids.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm talking to Daniel Cameron, running for the Senate in
the state of Kentucky. You mentioned Trump and your endorsement
of Trump. Do you expect for Trump to endorse in
your race, and if so, what kind of time frame
might that look like. I presume you will certainly be
seeking his endorsement. What is that process like and what
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do you anticipate?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, I certainly hope to earn his support and trust again,
and obviously you know that's a judgment and decision that
he has to make. But in conjunction with that is
getting out and talking to as many primary voters as
I possibly can. Obviously, in a very crowded Republican primary
for governor, I won that with nearly fifty percent of
(29:11):
the vote. There have been two poles that have come
out recently related to the Senate race. I'm I'm just
shy of forty percent in both of those polls. I've
earned the trust of a lot of voters here in Kentucky,
and I say I frankly, it's it's myself, my wife,
and they've gotten to know our family and gotten to
know a little bit of our story, and so we
(29:32):
want to continue to keep that trust in relationship with
with the folks here in Kentucky. And it's been built
out of the work that I did as Attorney General
and standing up and fighting against DEI and ESG and
and so and and trying to preserve constitutional rights. So
these are things that like our our court of who
(29:52):
I am. It's not just a you know, it's not
a show for me. I believe in these things. I
want to support the President's agen and then I want
to stand up for the folks in our one hundred
and twenty counties and you know, I you know, believe
that you know, folks, voters got to get to know
the man and the family and all of those things.
And my wife and I are committed to running hard
(30:13):
in this race. We recognize there about fifteen months between
now and the May primary in twenty six but yeah,
we want to earn heck, I want to earn y'all support.
I want to earn the voters support. I want to
earn President Trump support. I want to unify the Republican
Party such that like we don't honestly, we don't even
have a primary like we get unified behind a candidate,
(30:33):
get to that finish line of May of next year,
and be ready to go into the general strong such
that you know, outside groups aren't even having to focus
on Kentucky. They can focus on Georgia, they can focus
on other battle ground states. And so my you know,
my heart is, you know, let's get out and talk
to as many people as we can. Let's share our
message in our vision for what leadership looks like in
(30:54):
the United States Senate. And again let the chips fall
where they may.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Daniel Cameron and running for Senate in Kentucky. We'll be
talking more about that as it goes along. And and sir,
you spoke about earning votes, including earning or earning support
and votes including ours. Here, I've got one thing for
you that you could help me out with that would
certainly go a long way. Okay, Clay and I are
going head to head in a march madness bracket. Who's
(31:19):
gonna win the whole thing? If you get this one right,
I've got to support you no matter what for Senate.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Let me look look, look, you know, I'll either say
it's an SEC school or ACC school. That way I
cover UK and U of L. How about that.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I'll take it that that will narrow it down for me,
because otherwise I'm doing coin flips myself on each way.
I have no idea. I don't even know who's in
Division I basketball, so I'll figure it out as I go.
But I'm exppreciated by the way.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So I'm expecting now, based on that answer, for the
next Democrat left wing newspaper headline to be Kentucky Daniel
Cameron picks Duke to win title.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
ACC.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You tried to say Louisville, but you better say Duke's
gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You better make that to you.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
I hope Pat Kelsey knows that when it comes to
the ACC, I'm all about U of L. I hope
my years of football playing there if folks know that
when I say the ACC, I mean U of L.
So yeah, let's hope you know the U of L
knows that.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Daniel Cameron, everybody, Daniel, thanks for being here with us.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Hey, thanks guys, God bless you.
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Speaker 2 (33:31):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck next hour.
In the middle of the hour, we'll be joined by
our buddy, Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff,
the Big Deal and in many ways one of the
top minds in the Trump immigration policy orbit. And so
he'll be with us talking about everything from the speech
(33:51):
last night and what we saw, and somebody who is
a stalwart from the first Trump administration. So he also
brings that institutional memory of how this House is operating
as an addendum to how the first White House was.
But Clay one thing that I don't think we got
to see it when we were in DC most recently,
we did see the very sad inauguration anti Trump protest
(34:15):
like free Palestine. There's like three old ladies huddled together
purple hair. It was very sad. But there is a
Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington, d C. The mayor
of DC, Mayor Bowser, has confirmed that Black Lives Matter
plaza is going to be removed. It's going to be
(34:38):
changed into something else. I would just note the fact
that this ever happened, is a reminder of how crazy
people went and how far Democrats took it with this
whole Black Lives Matter two point zero movement. But this
is I think also just indicative of what everyone is
(34:58):
calling the vibe shift, the change in the zeitgeist, that's
a fun word, the change in the political zeitgeist right now,
which is such that the most radical left wing stuff
the Democrats have to tidy up and push off to
the side a bit, including this big street mural which
was highly political and partisan, and what do we know
(35:18):
what they're replacing it with. I hope just a street
I got this is a good call. I know this
is a crazy take, but I don't really.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Like the idea of putting any messages on streets by
and large, because inevitably it requires you to be making
a political statement while you're just trying to use the street,
like has happened with the Pride flags where they tried
to charge hate crimes because guys have put tire tracks
on them. I just want to point out, for those
of you who are getting very creative on Grock with
(35:48):
the Megan Markle shirtless clay flute memes, if you wanted
to make a mural of that in your hometown and
send us that photo that Clay was okay with that
street mural, not this partisan stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Megan Markle and him baking together shirtless while flute playing
totally acceptable street art, right, Clay.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I mean, I do think it would bring the people
of America together and probably be the number one show
on Netflix, and according to Piers Morgan, would probably be
a better actual television show than the one that she made.
And if you're wondering how in the world this happened,
I confess that I had a dream where Meghan Markle
and I were going to an adult student abroad program
and we were baking together. And I understand if you
(36:30):
guys can't trust me anymore when we got we Speaking
of shows, I need to find out. I know Steven
Miller's been working one hundred hours a week. Has he
caught up on Cobra Kai? For those of you out
there that listen to the show for years, Steven Miller
unexpectedly huge Karate Kid fan. In addition to shutting down
the Border, has he shut down Netflix and watched the
(36:52):
latest Cobra Kai? All that more? Third Hour, We'll have
some fun. Thanks for hanging with us on play a
buck
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Kentucky Senate candidate for the Republican Party Daniel Cameron will
join us. Top of the next hour. A man who
was very instrumental in the speech that you all heard
last night, Steven Miller will join us.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
All of that coming your way.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
But I wanted to continue to discuss why last night
was such a spectacular success for Trump and continue to
play several different moments. One we didn't mention Buck, and
I thought it again just kind or two that we
haven't really mentioned very much, but I thought went to
(00:41):
Trump's ability to pull heartstrings, and you story to further
political narrative. Mark Foegel, who was imprisoned by Russia for
a relatively inconsequential story of violation. His mother, ninety five
year old mother was in the crowd. She met with
(01:03):
Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, just a few moments before Trump
was shot nearly killed. She asked Trump, begged him to
bring her son home. Trump followed through on that promise
and had both of them in the gallery and Buck,
(01:24):
you're gonna be a new dad soon. This story to
me is way undertold, and I wanted to focus on
it for a moment. Imagine for all of you out there,
if you are in your nineties and your son or
daughter is imprisoned in a foreign country for a crime
(01:44):
they didn't commit, you have no idea every day is
a blessing no matter how old you are. But I
would imagine when you get into your eighties and nineties
you feel that even more so because any day could
truly be your last if you look at mortality tables,
to have a son that is or a daughter, but
(02:05):
to have a child that is being held by a
country like Russia. To go to that Butler Pennsylvania rally
to ask Trump directly for him to bring your boy home,
and then for Trump to do it and deliver on
the promise that he made to that mom. I think
it's an incredible story. I think it goes to Trump's
(02:28):
uniquely compelling ability to connect with people of a variety
of backgrounds. Not one Democrat stood buck when a ninety
five year old mom, assisted by her son to stand,
had that story told, and I thought it was compelling.
I think Democrats have a big problem looming here, and
(02:50):
that is as Trump keeps promises that he made during
the campaign, including some very important ones to the base
and the Trump voters, really to the American people. As
Trump keeps promises overall and racks up wins, gets things done,
shows the results that we want to see, it will
become increasingly self defeating for Democrats to reflexively oppose whatever
(03:17):
it is that he has done. The Ukraine getting into
a ceasefire, for example, there will be chatter if he
gets Ukraine to a ceasefire, if he's able to broker
that deal. Now I know, peace is a whole separate
set of not separate, but additional set of processes, and
there's a lot that passed to happen here. We haven't
gotten there yet. But on an issue like that, and
(03:39):
on an issue like getting an American home, there should
be nothing but congratulations.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That was the right move. Remember when say what you
will about it, Remember when Obama called for the raid
on bin Laden, That was the right call. It was
the right move. A lot of people say it was
a huge part of his reelection, and I don't remember
anybody on the right going we should have Osama should
have gotten a fair trial, or you know whatever, There
(04:05):
wasn't some big chorus of people opposing something that was
clearly the right decision for a commander in chief, and
it was a win for America. It was the right
thing to do. So they're going to be in a
position where I think that continues to happen. We've already
we've seen this with the return of the American from
Russia who is hell. We've seen this with the return
(04:26):
of hostages and remains of hostages from Hamas, and I
think we're likely to see it on the Ukraine deal.
And I think this just adds to the growing sense
that Democrats aren't just an opposition party. There are toothless
and somewhat absurd one. They can't so toothless in some
cases they're old so but I mean toothless, like they
(04:48):
don't have any bite. They can't actually make coherent arguments
against what is happening right now. This is I think
likely to continue because folk the main focus of the
Trump administration so far has been on that that sixty
percent plus issue array for the country. People strongly agree
(05:10):
with what is going on here and the things that
are happening, and on the foreign policy front, I think
that this is a place where Trump can get a
lot done. I mean, you even saw this morning, Clay.
Looks like there's going to be some renegotiating already over
the tariffs with Mexico and Canada specifically, and some things
will be covered, some things won't. There's going to be
(05:32):
some deals happening, and we'll see if Trump is correct
based on what happens with the economy over the next
twelve months or so, or however you want to gauge
it on the tariff plan. But he's doing the things
that he said he was going to do, and Democrats
just hate whatever he does, so if he does good things,
it's a tough place for them to be some of you.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I saw Jesse Kelly, our friend, tweet that he was
watching ABC News' version of the State of the Union
this addressed to joint addressed Congress, and that he hadn't
noticed how frequently Democrats refused to stand for these moments
because they were showing only one half of the chamber.
(06:12):
You know who did notice, and I do think this
is significant. Joscelyn Nungerre's mother, Alexis, she noticed when her
daughter's murder was talked about and when Trump announced that
he was going to name. I believe it was a
wildlife refuge after her because she was super interested in wildlife. This,
(06:33):
I believe thirteen year old girl. Here's her mom saying
she definitely noticed Democrats refused to stand and how disrespectful
she found it to her daughter's memory.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Play cut nine.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
If they can stand and applaud you and stand up
for the right of innocent people like your daughter, what
does that party stand for.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I've found a repulsive.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
They don't stand for anything. They don't stand for us
as citizens, they don't stand for our security, they don't
stand for honorable things that we meet in this country.
And it's just very disgraceful to us as US citizens
that those are the people that we have here in Congress,
in House and Senates.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Disgusting and also Buck Peyton McNabb a young girl teenage
girl who was hit in the face by a male
volleyball player and suffered a traumatic brain injury as a result.
She also called out America Democrats. They had all these
women wearing pink on the Democrat side, supposedly to stand
(07:42):
for women, and the reality was they're actually supporting men
being able to dominate women in women's athletics. We'll listen
to cut ten.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Last night, I thought that the pink suits and everyone
matching was real cute, when, of course, the day before
zero Democrats voted for the protection of women and girls,
and then zero Democrats stood and applauded when I was
getting recognized for my injury, because like ROLLI said, I mean,
they are anti They couldn't be more anti women, and frankly,
(08:15):
they are anti American. They really embarrassed themselves all night
and it was honestly.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Sad to see.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
But I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
This is the people in the room noticed, Buck, and
I think the other aspect of this speech that is
going to become more and more apparent. We've talked about
it some on this program. Most people don't watch, but
they will see over time these clips echoing through their
TikTok feed or their Instagram reels or their x feeds.
(08:46):
And the impact of Trump being able to connect with
so many different people and Democrats being unwilling to acknowledge
their basic humanity, I think is going to continue to
provide a sign of the growing divide between sanity and
the parties.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
How are Democrats standing up for women in any meaningful sense?
Right now? What is this with the paddles and the
audience and you know, the wearing pink and all this stuff.
This is not quite at the same level of embarrassment
as we saw with Democrats kneeling in Kent cloth for
Saint George Floyd. If we all recall remember that that
(09:27):
Nancy Pelosi donned Kent a cloth from West Africa to
show her solidarity. What does that have to do with
with George Floyd. The whole thing was was completely absurd.
But Democrats are into theatrics. A lot of people, a
lot of the chatter online lately has been along the
lines of I think it's because you know, you've got
Elon and Trump. It's like the quarterback of the football
(09:50):
team and the head of the math club teamed up
and they're fighting against the self righteous and sanctimonious theater kids.
The Democrats are all about sanctimonious theatrics. And we saw
what four years of abiden regime was able to accomplish,
and it wasn't good. Accomplish is really the wrong word.
How they were able to devastate things, unsteady, things, overspend
(10:13):
and I think that rolling out so much from DOGE
as well early on has forced them into this posture
of like I said, having Alysta Slotkin say that they
also want spending to be cut. Really, when has a
Democrat ever come out with a bold plan to cut
federal government spending or cut federal government waste. We're really
(10:34):
talking about waste here. It's not you know, you could
say we spend too much money on fill in the blank,
but if we're paying to people who aren't even supposed
to get money in the first place, or if we're
paying into ghost accounts, or if we're paying to fraudsters,
things like that. Elon says one hundred billion dollars of waste, fraud,
and abuse has already been cut. How can they not
(10:55):
be in favor of this, And how can they not
be in favor of a ninety five percent drop in
a legal cross to the border. The only way they
could be opposed to it would be if they actually
want illegals to cross, in which of course they do.
The only way they could be opposed to what Dosh
is doing is if they actually want the fraud and
the spending to continue. To remember, inflation is devastating, especially
(11:17):
for people who are living on paycheck to paycheck are
based on wages, not on assets. It's also a very
effective means of keeping the elites in place and keeping
the middle class dependent on the government in a whole
range of ways, because you're constantly chipping away at their
wages and then telling them that you're going to make
up for it with government programs, and the cycle continues.
(11:38):
So Clay, they're really just on the wrong side of
every major issue and continue the Ukraine War for no
apparent reason as long as possible. This is where they stand.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Not only that, Buck, I mean, if you're out there
and you're saying, oh, it couldn't have possibly been this
good for Trump, you guys are are just totally missing it.
Here was CNN's David Challion saying, yes, sixty nine percent
of a mayors had a positive reaction.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
We talked about.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
CNN's sixty nine and CBS seventy six percent positive. But
here's what you heard. If you were watching CNN last
night after the speech to.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
The results, what was your reaction to Trump's speech? Forty
four percent of speech watchers and our instant poell tonight
say they had a very positive reaction to Trump's speech
twenty five percent somewhat positive, thirty one percent negative.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
When Trump's only getting thirty one percent negative on a
CNN poll immediately reacting to something that he did. Buck
Democrats are in a dire dire position. Will continue to react.
By the way, at the bottom of the hour, we'll
hear what Daniel Cameron thought, and then Stephen Miller at
the top of the next hour. But I want to
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Speaker 2 (14:13):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. We had mentioned that
the speech last night, overwhelmingly by the number, is very strong.
People liked it. The notion of America is back. We
have a great and beautiful future ahead of us a big,
beautiful future. It's very exciting stuff. And were there some converts. Well,
I've mentioned to you the talkback function. It's a lot
(14:34):
of fun. If you don't have it yet, download that
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Clay and Buck page. Press the microphone. You can send
us a talkback we have This is AA podcast listener Jay,
send us a talkback on how much the speech affected
him last night?
Speaker 8 (14:49):
Play it Hi voted Democrat. I've been on the fence
for a while after last night. How they reacted to
that little thirteen year old boy. How do you not
clap or stand for him? It was his moment, not Trump's,
had nothing to do with Trump. I don't want to
be associated with people like that. It just shows how
democrats they only care about themselves, and that's not who
(15:11):
I am.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That's not what I stand for.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
I don't want to do it.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I'm not doing it no more. Thanks Clay, First of all,
appreciate you writing talk backing in Clay Jay, not Clay Clay.
What do you think of the Democrat move here? I
don't see how it is defensible. I don't see how
they could even claim that this was anything other than
a terrible look for them.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't think this has ever been the case in
my life where we could be talking to a larger
segment of the population. And I appreciate that guy reaching out.
I think there are millions of you every week now
that listen to us that have not been traditionally Republican voters.
(15:54):
And I think you have just seen the Democrat Party
completely lose its way, and and you have found yourself
a part of the Trump coalition. And I understand a
lot of you out there are longtime Trump voters. You
voted Trump in sixteen twenty twenty four. But I always
make a point of this because I do think it's significant.
(16:14):
Trump got sixty five million votes in twenty sixteen. By
twenty twenty four, he got seventy seven million votes. Now
I've had I don't know, three or four million of
the people who voted Trump in twenty sixteen died unfortunately
or weren't able to vote for some reason. By twenty
twenty four, we're talking about Trump in the space of
(16:35):
those eight years as a public figure, adding somewhere around
twenty million new voters potentially, right, And I think a
lot of those people are listening right now, and some
of you got on board the train in twenty some
of you got on board the train twenty four.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Here's what I'm seeing, Buck.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I think some people who didn't even vote Trump in
twenty four now are looking at him as president and saying,
what's so awful? I've been sold a bill of goods.
I think a lot of people are waking up every
single day like that caller, we just had yes, And
I think there's gonna be more of that as well.
The Democrats don't really have an agenda that they can
(17:12):
put forward as the counter to what Trump is offering,
because if they were honest about what they want, they
turn off a strong majority of the American people.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
They're going to lose. Generally. What they have done in
the past is gotten away with pretending they want certain things.
But Biden went so hard left for so long. The
border is really the best example this, but there are
others as well. On an gender issue too, but remember Biden.
The White House under Biden was putting out official statements
in support of what they call gender affirming care for minors,
(17:45):
sex change operations for kids. That was the Biden administration,
and they won't walk away from this, So all they
can really do is say that Trump is horrible, and
that's gotten old, that's gotten tiresome, and it doesn't work anymore.
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Speaker 1 (19:01):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We go
up to the Bluegrass State now, where a Senate race
is brewing. Mitch McConnell has announced that he is going
to step down. Republicans are lining up to run, including
our friend Daniel Cameron, former Attorney General of the Great
(19:24):
State of Kentucky. And before we get into the Senate campaign,
it is March madness. How much fun for people who
have I know you're a football guy. I know you
played football at Louisville, But how much fun for people
who have not experienced Kentucky during college basketball tournament season?
Is it with Louisville and also Kentucky, but certainly a
(19:47):
lot of other schools that often make it, whether it's
Murray State some of the others. How crazy for basketball
is Kentucky this time of year?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Oh, Clay? I mean, you know this is a it
is a wild atmosphere here. People. I've gotten invites to
March Madness parties like you know, four and five months ago.
I mean, this is like you know, the time in
Kentucky for sports enthusiasts, in particular basketball enthusiasts. So yeah,
it's it's gonna be It's gonna be wild, man. People
(20:17):
take off work, you know, people pull their kids out
of school. You know, everybody's watching, they're tuned in to TV.
Uh and you know all the different games that are happening.
So it's gonna be I mean, it's gonna be crazy.
I imagine that. You know, there's gonna be a lot
of folks that are are are calling in sick to
work for the tournament, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
So Daniel, thanks for being here with us. We know
you're the former age of Kentucky and you're now a
Senate candidate. What do you think would be the most
important thing you could get done if you were to
join in the next next Senate group the next time
that Congress has seeded, given what you've already seen the
(21:00):
Trump administration? Essentially, what are your top priorities? Why do
you want to be the next senator from the great
state of Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Well, buck, Look, let me first say you and I
will you know, obviously share this in common. I mean,
we're gonna we care about our kids, right, and congrats
to you guys on the announcement that you just recently made.
We care about the future for our children, and my
wife and I want to see a colorblind society, a
merit based society, one in which we uproot diversity, equity,
(21:31):
and inclusion and replace it with merit, excellence, and intelligence
and integrity. That's something that is is core to who
I am. Is fighting to preserve that colorblind society, fighting
to preserve our constitutional rights, making sure that we secure
our southern border. Look, I thought one of the best
lines last night from the President was, you know, it
(21:53):
turns out we didn't need new legislation, We just needed
the new president. I want to help the President continue
to fulfill that commitment and promise to secure our southern
border because as a Kentuckian, I mean, we've seen what
fitnel does when it comes across a porous and unsecured
southern border. It hurts our people in the heartland of
(22:15):
this country. I want to help fight alongside President Trump
and support the America First agenda on securing the southern border,
unleashing our economy, unleashing cryptos such that folks can have
an opportunity there, and then again preserving our constitutional rights
and getting rid of DEI. And as someone who lives
(22:36):
in a community and an economy that is fueled by
fossil fuels meaning coal and natural gas, we got to
preserve that we've got to have at all of the
above or across the board energy strategy, and I want
to promote that to main sure make sure that Kentucky
in this country is maintaining our energy independence.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
You live in a state that has a Democrat governor, unfortunately,
as I know you're not pleased of. But in that address,
when Democrats refuse to stand for a girl who had
traumatic brain injury because she was playing against a man
in volleyball, when they refuse to stand for the family
(23:21):
of Lake and Riley, the family of Joscelyn Nungary, the
wife of a murdered police officer. A kid much less
serious but gets admitted to US military Academy, Mark Fogel,
ninety five year old mom who was imprisoned. This son,
Mark was mom gets him out Corey COMPETEI the firefighter, family, wife,
(23:42):
two daughters.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
There.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
What does it say about the Democrats and their political
perspective right now that they lack the basic humanity to
just stand and honor good American stories and heroes like
that last night?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I mean, look, it was absolutely absurd and crazy. You
think about the Kamala Harris Tim Walls campaign. I mean,
the Democrat members of the House and Senate have basically
said hold our beer because we're gonna do you know
what didn't work in the twenty four presidential election. We're
actually gonna double down on that. We're not going to
(24:19):
listen to the American people. We're not going to care
about common sense and fair play in women's sports. We're
not going to care about these American, deeply rooted American
stories that President Trump presented last night when it came
to DJ Daniel and the tragedy of Lake and Riley
and others that you mentioned. They couldn't stand for that.
(24:42):
They couldn't stand to celebrate the greatness of America. They
couldn't stand for these heartfelt stories that of people that
have seen challenges and continue to you know, persevere and
are inspiring our nation in building that resolved. They couldn't
stand for those things simply because Claydy your point, like,
(25:04):
they're scared of the far left of their base. They're
scared of being called out on social media. I mean,
it's it's it's it's absolutely absurd. But what it what
it ultimately does, It reveals the nature of who they
are is Democrats in terms of the members of the
House and Senate. It reveals who they are. So we
saw that on full display last night. But we also
(25:26):
saw a president it was completely in control of of
of this vision of this country. That is about unity,
It's about protecting our southern border. It's aboute unleashing our
economy and making it work for every American. That that
was the contrast that last night. And I can't let
me tell you, I couldn't be prouder to be a
(25:46):
Republican and someone who who wants to help President Trump
enact as America First Agenda.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
We're speaking to Daniel Cameron, former Attorney General of Kentucky.
He's running for Senate. I assume I just always find
this so interesting, Daniel. I assume that in your state
it will be something similar to other red states where
Democrats try to steal a Senate seat. Whoever you're going
to run against on the Democrat side is going to
(26:14):
basically tell everybody in Kentucky they're not really a Democrat?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Is that your expectation. I know you don't even know
necessarily who you're going to be dealing with, but how
else could they win in a state like yours other
than pretending, Especially given where the Democrat Party is right now.
I think it's at one of the lowest points in
terms of overall favorability nationwide. It has been in a
certainly living memory. So to run against you, is the
(26:39):
person going to have to just say I'm one of
those Democrats who's not really a Democrat.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Honestly, I hand it with Buck. I don't know a
story they're going to be able to share, because you know,
what people in Kentucky care about, and President Trump won
this state overwhelmingly, and what people here in Kentucky care
about is are you going to help support President Trump's agenda?
And the Democrats, whether it's Basher, who just two weeks
ago sued Donald Trump, whether it's him or any other
(27:08):
Democrat who has aspirations of a different office, they're not
going to be able to pass that litmus test because
they have shown repeatedly that they opposed the Trump agenda,
an agenda that I should say that the majority of
Kentuckian's value and support, and so again, I don't know
(27:30):
what they're going to do on that side of the ledger.
What I know is that when it comes to look,
I was the first statewide elected office holder in Kentucky
to endorse President Trump for reelection. I've been with him,
I was fortunate enough to speak on his path and
the RNC convention in twenty twenty. I support the President
and his agenda, and I want to stand up for
(27:51):
the values and the men, women and children of our
one hundred and twenty counties because, again, whether it's illegal immigration,
whether it is the abuses of opioids that have come
into this state because of a poor southern border, whether
it's helping unleash our economy, these are things that my
wife and I care about because we've got two little
(28:12):
boys and we want to make sure that this country
is the best and greatest version of it. So if
you talk about somebody wanting to help unleash the Golden
Age or the Golden era, in America. That's me because
I know that that will ultimately benefit our kids.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
I'm talking to Daniel Cameron, running for the Senate in
the state of Kentucky. You mentioned Trump and your endorsement
of Trump. Do you expect for Trump to endorse in
your race, and if so, what kind of time frame
might that look like. I presume you will certainly be
seeking his endorsement. What is that process like and what
(28:49):
do you anticipate?
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, I certainly hope to earn his support and trust again,
and obviously you know that's a judgment and decision that
he has to make. But in conjunction with that is
getting out and talking to as many primary voters as
I possibly can. Obviously, in a very crowded Republican primary
for governor, I won that with nearly fifty percent of
(29:11):
the vote. There have been two poles that have come
out recently related to the Senate race. I'm I'm just
shy of forty percent in both of those polls. I've
earned the trust of a lot of voters here in Kentucky,
and I say I frankly, it's it's myself, my wife,
and they've gotten to know our family and gotten to
know a little bit of our story, and so we
(29:32):
want to continue to keep that trust in relationship with
with the folks here in Kentucky. And it's been built
out of the work that I did as Attorney General
and standing up and fighting against DEI and ESG and
and so and and trying to preserve constitutional rights. So
these are things that like our our court of who
(29:52):
I am. It's not just a you know, it's not
a show for me. I believe in these things. I
want to support the President's agen and then I want
to stand up for the folks in our one hundred
and twenty counties and you know, I you know, believe
that you know, folks, voters got to get to know
the man and the family and all of those things.
And my wife and I are committed to running hard
(30:13):
in this race. We recognize there about fifteen months between
now and the May primary in twenty six but yeah,
we want to earn heck, I want to earn y'all support.
I want to earn the voters support. I want to
earn President Trump support. I want to unify the Republican
Party such that like we don't honestly, we don't even
have a primary like we get unified behind a candidate,
(30:33):
get to that finish line of May of next year,
and be ready to go into the general strong such
that you know, outside groups aren't even having to focus
on Kentucky. They can focus on Georgia, they can focus
on other battle ground states. And so my you know,
my heart is, you know, let's get out and talk
to as many people as we can. Let's share our
message in our vision for what leadership looks like in
(30:54):
the United States Senate. And again let the chips fall
where they may.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Daniel Cameron and running for Senate in Kentucky. We'll be
talking more about that as it goes along. And and sir,
you spoke about earning votes, including earning or earning support
and votes including ours. Here, I've got one thing for
you that you could help me out with that would
certainly go a long way. Okay, Clay and I are
going head to head in a march madness bracket. Who's
(31:19):
gonna win the whole thing? If you get this one right,
I've got to support you no matter what for Senate.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Let me look look, look, you know, I'll either say
it's an SEC school or ACC school. That way I
cover UK and U of L. How about that.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I'll take it that that will narrow it down for me,
because otherwise I'm doing coin flips myself on each way.
I have no idea. I don't even know who's in
Division I basketball, so I'll figure it out as I go.
But I'm exppreciated by the way.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So I'm expecting now, based on that answer, for the
next Democrat left wing newspaper headline to be Kentucky Daniel
Cameron picks Duke to win title.
Speaker 6 (31:56):
ACC.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
You tried to say Louisville, but you better say Duke's
gonna lose.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
You better make that to you.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
I hope Pat Kelsey knows that when it comes to
the ACC, I'm all about U of L. I hope
my years of football playing there if folks know that
when I say the ACC, I mean U of L.
So yeah, let's hope you know the U of L
knows that.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Daniel Cameron, everybody, Daniel, thanks for being here with us.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Hey, thanks guys, God bless you.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
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Speaker 2 (33:31):
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck next hour.
In the middle of the hour, we'll be joined by
our buddy, Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff,
the Big Deal and in many ways one of the
top minds in the Trump immigration policy orbit. And so
he'll be with us talking about everything from the speech
(33:51):
last night and what we saw, and somebody who is
a stalwart from the first Trump administration. So he also
brings that institutional memory of how this House is operating
as an addendum to how the first White House was.
But Clay one thing that I don't think we got
to see it when we were in DC most recently,
we did see the very sad inauguration anti Trump protest
(34:15):
like free Palestine. There's like three old ladies huddled together
purple hair. It was very sad. But there is a
Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington, d C. The mayor
of DC, Mayor Bowser, has confirmed that Black Lives Matter
plaza is going to be removed. It's going to be
(34:38):
changed into something else. I would just note the fact
that this ever happened, is a reminder of how crazy
people went and how far Democrats took it with this
whole Black Lives Matter two point zero movement. But this
is I think also just indicative of what everyone is
(34:58):
calling the vibe shift, the change in the zeitgeist, that's
a fun word, the change in the political zeitgeist right now,
which is such that the most radical left wing stuff
the Democrats have to tidy up and push off to
the side a bit, including this big street mural which
was highly political and partisan, and what do we know
(35:18):
what they're replacing it with. I hope just a street
I got this is a good call. I know this
is a crazy take, but I don't really.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
Like the idea of putting any messages on streets by
and large, because inevitably it requires you to be making
a political statement while you're just trying to use the street,
like has happened with the Pride flags where they tried
to charge hate crimes because guys have put tire tracks
on them. I just want to point out, for those
of you who are getting very creative on Grock with
(35:48):
the Megan Markle shirtless clay flute memes, if you wanted
to make a mural of that in your hometown and
send us that photo that Clay was okay with that
street mural, not this partisan stuff.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Megan Markle and him baking together shirtless while flute playing
totally acceptable street art, right, Clay.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
I mean, I do think it would bring the people
of America together and probably be the number one show
on Netflix, and according to Piers Morgan, would probably be
a better actual television show than the one that she made.
And if you're wondering how in the world this happened,
I confess that I had a dream where Meghan Markle
and I were going to an adult student abroad program
and we were baking together. And I understand if you
(36:30):
guys can't trust me anymore when we got we Speaking
of shows, I need to find out. I know Steven
Miller's been working one hundred hours a week. Has he
caught up on Cobra Kai? For those of you out
there that listen to the show for years, Steven Miller
unexpectedly huge Karate Kid fan. In addition to shutting down
the Border, has he shut down Netflix and watched the
(36:52):
latest Cobra Kai? All that more? Third Hour, We'll have
some fun. Thanks for hanging with us on play a
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