September 19, 2024 • 36 mins
Iran hacked Trump's campaign, shared info with Biden-Harris campaign. MSNBC guest says Putin will be impressed by Kamala Harris because she's the product of a "mixed marriage." Trump at Long Island rally. Trump responds to Howard Stern's criticism of Trump voters. RNC Co-Chair Michael Whatley joins Clay and Buck to discuss election security, early voting and expanding the electoral map.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome then our number two Thursday edition Clay Travis Buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us
as we are rolling through this Thursday edition of the program.
Lots of pulling data out as we discussed with all
of you, and it is telling us a variety of
different stories, all of which essentially add up to it's
(00:22):
going to be close. You need to go vote. You
need to go vote early, as early as you possibly
can get those votes bank, and then buckle up. It's
going to be a wild ride. I've said, Buck has said,
We're both going to go vote as early as we
possibly can. My opening date is October sixteenth. I believe
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in the state of Tennessee, where I live, I'm going
to be there, Buck. I know you and Florida are
going to be there early. And some of the arguments
for Kamala Harris are increasingly insane, such that I can't
even believe that they are. I'm going to play you
one of them from MSNBC yesterday, but I wanted to
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mention this, Buck and get your take on it. We
have talked about the exploding pagers, We've talked about the
exploding walkie talkies, in from Hesbola. But yesterday actually a
pretty significant story I thought dropped in terms of espionage,
and you can only imagine how much more attention it
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would have gotten if Trump had been somehow connected to it,
as opposed to the victim of it. Iran has been
trying to hack the Trump campaign, and according to many
different reports out there, they were able to get some
information hacked via email sort of this phishing scam for
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lack of a better way to describe it. They then
shared it with the Biden Harris campaign. And I do
think this is important. Iran, if you heard us talking
about yesterday, wants Kamala Harris to win. You hear all
this talk about Russia. Russia, Russia, the country right now
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in the Middle East that is attacking Israel on all fronts,
that is funding has blood, that is funding hamas is Iran,
and they desperately want Kamala Harris to win because they
think it will allow them better opportunity to be able
to run rough shot over the Middle East. They think
it will give them a better opportunity to get a
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nuclear bomb. They know that Trump will be tougher on them,
and so they care so much that there has been
talk about assassination attempts coming from Iran on President Trump,
but also buck they are engaged in a cyber hacking
goal counter espionage, with the idea being that they want
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to impact this election. This is a pretty big deal
and it will immediately get buried because the Trump campaign
is the victim. But I do think that the storyline
of Iran wanting Kamala Harris to win shouldn't be ignored.
When America's deepest and most dangerous allies or enemies are
working on the idea that we want Kamala Harris to
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be elected, I do think it kind of tells you
what they see from Trump and what they fear from him.
I would also point out that if Israelis could vote
in the American election, this is people who actually live
in Israel, they would overwhelmingly support Trump. They desperately in
Israel want Trump to win this race.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, if you've paid attention, right, if anyone's been watching
Midi's foreign policy, certainly through the Obama era to now,
the Democrats are fundamentally and dangerously wrong about Iran. They
have learned nothing from recent or distant history when it
comes to the Iranian regime. They respond to force, and
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that is it. There is no gentle hand outstretch that
will be met by the Iranians in good faith by
the again by the Mullahs, by the people in charge
in Iran, and the Democrats are they're kind of maniacal
on this. It doesn't matter what the Iranian regime does.
It's somehow is always a fault of Republicans and in
this country and Israel, you know, it's like we're always
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forcing them to somehow support terror regimes. All are terror
groups all over the Middle East and engage in and
just vicious acts of violence which are really just rooted
in anti Semitism, hatred of Israel, hatred of the West,
hatred of Christians. So yeah, they're they're very wrong on this.
So of course Iran wants a Democrat and specifically Kamala Harris,
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because these foreign governments are also aware of the politics
in this country whereby Iran is considered a country of
brown people and therefore it fits into that anti colonial
really you know, anti the white component of the Democrat
party that believes that white countries oppress non white countries
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all over the world, and Iran is one of them.
And they think Israel, as we've talked about, as a
white country, which is not even accurate really, but put
that aside, and also thinking of this as a white country,
we're actually the most diverse country in the world. But
the way that the left used these things is not
influenced really by reality, by numbers, by demographics.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They have narratives and they stick to it, and so
they are useful idiots.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The Democrats are pro not just pro a softer line
toward Iran, but I think unfortunately we're willing to under
the Obama administration, really just sacrifice a lot of the
rest of US interests in in the least in order
to get that very bad Iran nuclear deal done. And
the fact that now we're not going to be hearing
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about Iranian hacking on behalf of the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
This is just pure partisan editorializing.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
There's you know, we don't know what the information is
or what they tried to hack, but we do know
that Democrats made a mountain out of a mole hill
with Russia collusion stuff in twenty sixteen, acting like some
ads on Facebook one hundred thousand dollars worth of ads
on Facebook is in any way indicative of an election
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that has been held under some kind of false pretense.
So it's very frustrating Clay, But I also think enough
people see through this. But you know, our side doesn't
turn to hysteria over this stuff the same way. So
even if it was reported on we all know, like, yeah, okay,
so Iran is meddling and doing some things. The chance
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of this having any effect on the outcome the election.
They're always the Democrats are always looking for a reason
to cry and say it's not fair, why is Trump
doing so well? And you know, I think this is
another moment where the double standard is a parent for
all to see.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I wanted to play this because I do think it's
so funny. They're trying to come up with all sorts
of reasons why Kamala Harris is going to be such
a forceful leader. What would make Vladimir Putin quake in
his boots? Buck. It is the fact that Kamala Harris
is of a mixed race background. This is legitimately what
(07:19):
they argued last night on MSNBC. This is a retired
Army general. Steve Anderson says, Putin man, he's never going
to be able to handle the power of Kamala because
she's a product of a mixed marriage. Listen to this, Kamala.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Harris would be just the opposite. Why because she's an inspiration.
Not only is she positive and does she bring hope
and optimism, but as a black woman, the product of
a mixed marriage, she will inspire millions of people throughout
the world. Our credibility is a nation that we would
be able to allow our country is so great that
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we're allowed a woman like that to become the command
and she the president of the and I state. That
is going to stand a powerful message all over the world.
People like Vladimir Putin are going to say, hey, wait
a minute, these guys, you know, they truly have a
democratic country, They truly are representative, They truly are fighting
for all their people. And Kamala Harris is a manifestation
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of that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I mean, even by crazy deranged standards, we've already elected
Barack Obama. The data actually reflects, despite the fact that
Democrats constantly want to rip the United States as being
a profoundly racist country, that probably the United States is
the least racist country maybe in the history of the world.
I mean that honestly, if you look at the welcoming
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nature of this nation relative to the histories of almost
anywhere else in terms of who we allow to be citizens,
the degree to which we have constantly embraced legal immigration.
But to argue, oh, there's no way that Russia is
going to be able to Kamala because she's a product
of a mixed race marriage is next the level crazy,
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even for the people who are crazy on MSNBC. And
I do think the conversation we had about what happens
to Kamala is one of the craziest situations we've ever
been in before because she hasn't really accomplished much in
her life in terms of actual things. Right, She's been
elected to office. Congratulations for that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I mean, you know, she is the vice president. You know,
we we have to operate in reality here too. I mean,
it's by she's not.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
My point is not like she can go back to
something that she created. She hasn't founded some business, she
hasn't even have a family like.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
She's offered law partnerships where she doesn't even have to
show up and she'll be making you know, two to.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Six million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, dude, this is how they win because they
do this. She definitely take care of their losers. Yes,
they take care of their losers. On the right, people
are like, oh, you got like battered, bruised and destroyed
trying to save the country.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Like and you're not super rich. I don't know, go
open up like a car wash.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
People are just kinda you know, our our team doesn't take.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Care of our political you know, wounded soldiers. If you
will the other side, if you do what the what
the apparatus wants, you are good to go for life.
You'll get the book deals for books no one reads.
You'll get money shoveled toward you, because it's just like
I said, But it's like, it's like when the mob
boss make sure that the guy who goes into into prison,
(10:37):
his family is taken care of. So everybody else knows,
keep your mouth shut and your family will be taken
care of. That's the whole game.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I just think I don't know that we've ever seen
a swing between she's gonna be famous for hundreds of
years or no one is gonna remember her name forever.
I think that's tons of people who have run for president,
by the way, that that don't win that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Aren't you No one even remembers them. I mean you
can think about this, Come on, Bud, I mean, she's
gonna be the first. There are lots of people who
win the presidency that lots of people do not remember.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Does any even remember John Terry? Really? Does anyone remember
John Edwards? Really? Like, think of some of.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
These people who were there those John Kerry was close.
John Edwards, okay, might have been close if he didn't
have an affair with his uh uh and get his
donor baby have a baby with a with a campaign aid.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
In his defense, as he said, he waited until his wife,
who was dying of cancer, was in temporary remission, until
he commenced the affair. That is what he said on television.
I kid you not. Yeah, that's a tough putt to say.
Democrats were like this guy's great, the ambulance chaser who's
basically made it impossible to get obstetric's care in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Let's get that guy going.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
For hundreds of years. Kamala Harris will be famous or
she will vanish and no one will ever talk about
her again. That's the stakes. Forty five days again, Truck
to Me is going to be significant because he elected
president and he's been such a huge part of the
American political process over the last decade. Now, if he
loses back to back elections, his legacy is going to
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be a lot different than if he wins.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They both have. He's got a lot. Maga has a
lot on the line here. We should all be very
clear eyed about that. Maga has a lot on the
line because you know, only once, can't get fooled again
like the last election. Okay, we wanted a mulligan, We've
got the mulligan. You got to hit this one straight
down the fairway. You have the worst Democrat candidate ever.
(12:33):
If you can't beat Kamala, she is an I think
unmitigated disaster for them. Obama super talented Biden. Okay, they
had COVID. Kamala is a disaster of a candidate.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
If you can't beat Kamala, you got to go back
to the drawing board and really kind of reassess. But again,
tons at stake. Forty five days. I think Trump is
going to win, But man, there is a lot a
lot at stake as to the history of this country
and also just history itself. For the next several hundred
years because unfortunately, if Kamala wins, she's going to become
(13:10):
I don't even know them, and we never had a
female president before. I mean, they're going to turn her
into into one of the most I can't believe this
is real, but they will turn her into one of
the greatest heroes in the history of the United States.
If she wins. Just be prepared, there will be Kamala
Harris Day. Some places, it's like you're trying to I'm
sad over here, sad you think I'm crazy. Fifty years
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
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Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know Trump was in Long Island and getting everybody
fired up there. The Trump magic at the rallies still
so real. Despite what Kamala tried to say about how
people leave them board that is that is not true
as we all know. Here he has this cut eighteen
with his classic line Kamala, you're fired.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Less than two months from now, we are going to
tell Kamala that we've had enough.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Kamala, you've been a terrible vice president. You will be
an even worse president. We're not gonna take it anymore. Kamala, Tamala,
you're fired. Get out, you're fired.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
First of all, I think Clay he's saying her name Kamala,
because you know, Democrats get very huffy about mispronouncing Kamala's name.
They they they're very indignant if you say. And it's
funny because I remember when Tucker had his show on Fox,
he played clips of Kamala saying her name to ways. Yes,
she says, she multiple pronounces her own name. So that's
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one interesting. And then something else from Trump that I
wanted to get, get us too. Before we talk to
a Sherman Wantley here of the RNC. This has cut nineteen.
Clay Trump says he is going to Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Listen, I'm going to Springfield and I'm going to Aurora.
You may never see me again, but that's okay.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Gotta do what I gotta do.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Whatever happened to Trump, Well, he never got out of Springfield.
I'm leading in Ohio by like fifteen points a lot,
and we're going to take care of Ohio, and we're
going to take care of Colorado, and we're going to
take care of every single state in the Union.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
They're all under season.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
A lot of people don't talk about the Springfield thing.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I think is going to be particularly powerful because the
media thinks they've won, or you know, they're winning on this,
whether or not somebody ate a cat. Springfield is in
a really bad place because of all of the migrants
who are getting welfare who have been dumped on that city.
Focusing on economy border is a major win for Trump
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every time he does it. And Springfield is not only
significant for what's going on in Springfield, Ohio right now,
but because it's not an outlier. There are tons of
Springfields right now all over the country that are overrun
right now with migrants, whether they're being flown in legally
by the Biden Kamala team or they're there illegally. And
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many of you listening to us right now are having
communities in your state impacted drastically as a result, too,
So I think shining a spotlight on that is a
hugely positive story. I think allowing an open town hall,
which is what you and I suggested, so that all
the residents in Springfield, Ohio can come out and speak
and tell what the impact.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Has been for all of them. I think it is
going to be a very powerful argument for Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
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you hanging out with us. We're scheduled to be joined
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by RNC chair Michael Wattley here in the near future.
We'll let you know when we officially get him on
the line, but I wanted to play for you. I
mentioned how good Trump was last night on Gutfeld, and
we also mentioned with you earlier this week that Howard Stern,
a guy that Trump used to go on with quite
a lot back in the day on radio, has said
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that he hates Trump supporters and he doesn't want any
of you to be listening to him. We have the
audio of Howard Stern saying that on Fox News. They
played it and then Trump responding to it. I think
it's kind of fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't hate the guy. I hate the people who
vote for him. I think they're stupid.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I do.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'll be honest with you. I have no respect for you.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Also said he didn't want him to listen. Trump responded
to that last night on Gutfeld. Here's that.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Well, I watch, I know some of them, and like Howard.
I was on Howard Stern show as much as anybody,
and yeah, he was great at that time, and then
he went woke. Yeah, and since he's gone woke, his
ratings have gone down the tubes and he sort of
went anti Trump for a couple of reasons. But I
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was on his show a lot. Yeact, he has a
best of Did you ever see the best of? Best
of Howard Stern? I don't want to promote it necessarily,
and I was there for just about all of them,
the best of We had good shows.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Who was good?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
But he's changed and you know he doesn't do the
ratings anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's Trump talking about Howard Stern. We're joined now by
Michael Wattley, who is chairman of the RNC, and we're
going to get into a lot of different stories, but
I want to start. You know the state of North
Carolina very well. Trump won North Carolina in twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty. How do you think Trump is looking
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in North Carolina? Chairman in twenty twenty four based on
what you.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
See better than we were in either twenty sixteen or
in twenty twenty. And I would say that based on
the polling that we're watching right now, where we're actually
pulling ahead of where we did four years ago or
eight years ago. When I look at the enthusiasm that
we see on the ground, I think that we feel
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very good about this state. You know, and the fundamentals
are really important here. You know, North Carolina is a
state that really believes in law and order, day back
the blue, and it is also the state with the
heaviest percentage of military families. We talk about soldiers, veterans,
and military families more than any other state in the country.
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This is a state that understands peace through strength and
understands what it means to have a president who really
truly backs our soldiers. So, you know, we feel that
the fundamentals here feel really good. We've just seen a
number of polls that have come out in the last
week showing him up you know, two points, three points,
one point fairly consistently with a small lead. But you know,
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we want it by three and a half points in
twenty sixteen. We want it by a point and a
half in twenty twenty, and I feel like we're in
pretty solid shape here.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So that's huge because if Trump wins North Carolina and Georgia,
which I think he's likely to do, you can tell
us what you're seeing there. He's got a lot of
different pathways at that point to be elected president.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Yeah, we agree, you know, And honestly, if he wins
every state that he won in sixteen and twenty plus Georgia,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, then we have enough to get to
two seventy and Sarvin Wantley is the best place in
the map right now.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Treman Wantley with us now, appreciate you being with us, sir.
The situation in Pennsylvania, Clay has said, I agree with this.
I think that this is pretty clear. It is the
most important battleground state. Perhaps it feels like whoever wins
Pennsylvania probably wins the whole thing. I was wondering if
you could just give us a sense as to what
does the Republican We've got a very important Senate seat
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up there, some congressional.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Races that are critical.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
What does the Republican ground game and plan look like
from now to election day? In the state Pennsylvania that
could determine the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Yeah, pedal to the medal. I mean, we're going to
absolutely be hammered down in Pennsylvania from now through election day.
The sheer number of visits that you are seeing there
from Donald Trump, from JD. Vance, from a number of
different surrogates and other folks that support him across the
state is going to be very regular. We've already seen
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him a bunch and we're going to see him a
bunch up there. I've been doing regular events up there.
We've had RFK Junior, We've had Telsea Gabbert, and so
I expect the presences to be there. The grassroots program
is very advanced at this point in time. Trump Force
forty seven. We are recruiting and training thousands of volunteers
right now to make phone calls and knock on doors
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and make sure that they're bringing out the low propensity voters.
That's the biggest target that we're making sure. You know,
one you get your base voters in, you got to
make sure you get those low propensity guys off the couch.
So that's the basis for what we're trying to build
up there. We've got a really good partnership with the
Pennsylvania GOP and feel really good about where we are.
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And you know, when we talk about polling versus sixteen
and twenty, probably no state where we are in better
shape today than where we were from twenty sixteen and
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
What just you know you mentioned this.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think it's so important because we get a lot
of emails Chairman Wattley about you know, I want to help,
I want to get involved for people who live in Pennsylvania.
We got a lot of states in Pennsylvania, particularly out
west where there's critical terrain here for this upcoming election.
Where do they go to kind of get in the
system and what can they do?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Yeah, there's two things that they can do. So the
first is our grassroots program. We call it Trump Force
forty seven. They can go to Trump Force forty seven
dot com and you sign up. We will reach back
out to you, will make you a Trump Forced team captain.
And the thing that we're going to ask you to
do is go get ten members of your community to
commit to vote. It's a pretty basic. Just go talk
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to your friends, your family members, your colleagues, your coworkers,
get them to commit to vote, and then we're going
to ask you to do twenty five or fifty or
one hundred. As people keep kind of moving up the chain.
Anybody who gets one hundred commitments before election day, we're
going to invite them down to meer Lago for our
victory party. I think it's going to be a fantastic
opportunity for people to get involved. The other thing that
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is equally as important for us is our election integrity program,
and so people can go to protect the Vote dot
com and they can sign up and they can get
trained and they can be a poll worker or a
pole observer, which is just tremendously important when we talk
about making sure that we're going to protect the ballot
and we're going to let everybody know that their vote
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is going to count, and it's going to count once.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Look, I've talked about this, My wife cared about this,
and she is now working at our local voting precinct
and she'll be there all day on election day. And
I would encourage everybody out there who blows bucking me
up all the time about being concerned about rigged elections
to go ahead and volunteer yourself in your local communities
to pay attention to how the vote's going. We've talked
(26:18):
a lot about this, but I'm get critical, absolutely critical.
We've talked a lot about this on the show, but
I want people to hear it from you, and they're
probably going to get tired of us talking about it.
Buck and I are voting early. We have seen the
data that the earlier you can bank your vote, the
better it is for the Trump team because it allows
low propensity voters to then be focused on and for
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overall turnout to go up. What would you tell people
out there, Chairman and Watley, who are nervous about voting early,
about what they can mean by getting their ballots banked early,
and how would you allay their concerns.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Well, what I would say is just listen to what
President Trump has said, point blank. It is great if
you want to vote early. It's great. If you want
to vote by mail, it's great. If you want to
vote on election day. The key is you have to
make a plan and execute the plan and make sure
that you deliver your vote. You know, when you think
about the mechanics on early voting, you know there's a
lot of people who just cannot vote on election day.
(27:16):
I'm one of them. I don't know where I'm going
to be on election day. I could be in Arizona,
I could be in the bat I could be, you know,
in New Hampshire. So the first day of early voting,
I will be there and I will cast my vote
for it. It is safe and it is secure. The
other thing that really comes out of it is we
spend a lot of money and a lot of time
and a lot of effort going out and getting people
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to vote, you know, before they cast their vote, whether
it's by mail or early or on election day. And
if we're spending time and resources talking to a voter
and they go vote ten days early, that's ten days
where I don't have to spend money on them. I
can actually go spend money to talk to the low
propensity voters and I can make sure that we're going
to get them up and we're going to get them out,
(27:59):
and we can help activate them to go have other
conversations as well. So there's a lot of ancillary benefits
to it. We don't want to necessarily cannibalize, you know,
people who want to vote on election day. We're not
telling you don't do it. But really what we're trying
to do is get people who won't vote on election
day to go vote earlier, go vote by mail, and
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that way. This is an additive thing. You know, we
believe in politics through addition. But every dollar I don't
have to spend convincing you to vote because you already
have is a dollar I can spend on somebody else.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And on the election integrity side of things, I remember
you spoke to us at the RNC in Milwaukee about
poll monitors. How is that program going? And I'm sure
you get this. I would be willing to bet your
office has been deluged last well, you know, months, maybe
longer with people who are very concerned about what we
(28:53):
could just call irregularities or Shenanigan's chairman, Watley, what can
you say to people about making sure that only legal
ballots will be counted in this election?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Yeah. So two key metrics that we're tracking and we're
working on. What we're seeing in terms of making sure
we have the right laws, rules and regulations put in
place in every state is the states are making dramatic improvements.
Some of them are doing it voluntarily and working with us.
Other ones we're having to Sue I filed one hundred
(29:26):
and fifteen lawsuits as the General Counsel and now is
the chair of the RNC, and we're getting some very
important wins making sure that we're keeping the basic rules
of the road in place so only American citizens can vote.
You've got to have a voter ID. We want the
states to clean up the voter roles, and where we
have mail in balloting, we want basic protections on those.
(29:47):
So really good progress that we're making there, not enough.
We've still got work to do. We've got a number
of states, you know, particularly Pennsylvania, Michigan, that keep fighting
us on it, so we end up in court quite
a bit, but even there, we're starting to get some
pretty significant wins. The other metric is that we want
to be in the room right We want to be
in the room with volunteers and attorneys anytime a voter's
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cast or accounted. Since Laura Trump and I put this
program together, we said we were going to get one
hundred thousand people to sign up for that program. Very
excited to say we've got one hundred and seventy five
thousand people already across the country who have signed up
and We've got five thousand of them in every single
one of our battleground states, and we're continuing to recruit.
We're continuing to do more. Laura Trump, Matt Whittaker, who
(30:33):
was the acting attorney general for President Trump, Pam Bondi,
who was the attorney general down in Pennsylvania, myself have
had a nationwide tour. We call it the Protective Vote Tour.
We were just in New Hampshire last night, in having
a fantastic series of conversations all across the country making
sure that we're raising awareness of this and that we're
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getting people to sign up.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We know Trump had the rally last night in Long Island.
We know, as just talking with you, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
all the seven battleground states. Where else would you tell
us you just mentioned New Hampshire. Should we be paying
attention there? Where is momentum that maybe might surprise people
(31:17):
a little bit outside of the seven battleground states that
everybody talks about.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
You know, Virginia, we're seeing some pretty good results. We
like the numbers there, and we've got a guy in
Glenn Younkin who showed us how you can win in
Virginia as a Republican. The guy is just absolutely transformed
politics in that state and he's been a great partner,
and so we're working with him right now. So I
really am very bullish about what we can try and
do on the ground in Virginia New Hampshire. You know,
(31:45):
we feel really really good about it. I spent the
day up there yesterday. I had a number of meetings
and events, and you know, we feel good about what's
going on there. You know, And the stretch that the
President wants to continue to talk about is a place
like New Jersey where we're actually showing you know, some
of the polling showing him that's inside the margin, you know,
and and you know, when you have a rally with
(32:07):
one hundred and seven thousand people, you kind of got
to believe that you're doing something there. You know. It
may be a stretch, but you know what, we're going
to have those conversations.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
You know.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
I think we're spending time in New York. He was
in Nassau yesterday. We've been in California because we've got
congressional districts there that really truly matter, and so even
if we're not going to be able to carry the state,
we do feel like we're in a great position to
carry those congressional districts which we need in order to
expand our majority in the House. So we like the map.
(32:38):
I mean, we're playing offense right now. I think that
Kamala Harrison and the Democrats are playing defense, especially when
you look at the seven battleground states where we're showing,
you know, probably slim but very durable league in five
of them, and we're basically tied in the other two
right now.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Chairman Watley of the R and C. Great to have
you on, sir, you know, stay on the mission and
we'll talk to you again, hopefully before the election, and
we'll be celebrating soon thereafter.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Tell you, I really truly appreciate the opportunity to talk
to you, but more importantly to talk to all of
your listeners. And we certainly hope that everybody will go
to you know, Protective vote dot com or Trump for
forty seven dot com and sign up and join the fight.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
There you go, you heard them. Everybody go join up.
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Speaker 10 (35:43):
Union member in Raleigh? And about the Tiefstars how they
didn't sponsor somebody yesterday. I just I think that number
is a lot higher than the five fifty nine point
six percent, Like they didn't even take a poll in
my area, and in my area we're like, you know
about probably eighty five to ninety percent Republicans.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah, we had thank you for the call. Was it
somebody called in with us from Providence if I remember
last week or early this week Buck and said, hey,
all the union workers in my shop are all in
on Trump. And for those of you who didn't here yesterday,
we gave you the Teamsters official polling data which showed
(36:27):
sixty forty the lead for Trump over Kamala. What we
didn't say, Buck, was that Biden actually had a small
lead according to the Teamster data in twenty twenty over Trump,
and I think it was like forty five to thirty
five if I remember the polling data. So if that
is correct, that Trump is going to overwhelmingly win the Teamsters,
(36:49):
given how many there are in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Kamala was in trouble
Welcome then our number two Thursday edition Clay Travis Buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us
as we are rolling through this Thursday edition of the program.
Lots of pulling data out as we discussed with all
of you, and it is telling us a variety of
different stories, all of which essentially add up to it's
(00:22):
going to be close. You need to go vote. You
need to go vote early, as early as you possibly
can get those votes bank, and then buckle up. It's
going to be a wild ride. I've said, Buck has said,
We're both going to go vote as early as we
possibly can. My opening date is October sixteenth. I believe
(00:43):
in the state of Tennessee, where I live, I'm going
to be there, Buck. I know you and Florida are
going to be there early. And some of the arguments
for Kamala Harris are increasingly insane, such that I can't
even believe that they are. I'm going to play you
one of them from MSNBC yesterday, but I wanted to
(01:05):
mention this, Buck and get your take on it. We
have talked about the exploding pagers, We've talked about the
exploding walkie talkies, in from Hesbola. But yesterday actually a
pretty significant story I thought dropped in terms of espionage,
and you can only imagine how much more attention it
(01:25):
would have gotten if Trump had been somehow connected to it,
as opposed to the victim of it. Iran has been
trying to hack the Trump campaign, and according to many
different reports out there, they were able to get some
information hacked via email sort of this phishing scam for
(01:48):
lack of a better way to describe it. They then
shared it with the Biden Harris campaign. And I do
think this is important. Iran, if you heard us talking
about yesterday, wants Kamala Harris to win. You hear all
this talk about Russia. Russia, Russia, the country right now
(02:09):
in the Middle East that is attacking Israel on all fronts,
that is funding has blood, that is funding hamas is Iran,
and they desperately want Kamala Harris to win because they
think it will allow them better opportunity to be able
to run rough shot over the Middle East. They think
it will give them a better opportunity to get a
(02:30):
nuclear bomb. They know that Trump will be tougher on them,
and so they care so much that there has been
talk about assassination attempts coming from Iran on President Trump,
but also buck they are engaged in a cyber hacking
goal counter espionage, with the idea being that they want
(02:52):
to impact this election. This is a pretty big deal
and it will immediately get buried because the Trump campaign
is the victim. But I do think that the storyline
of Iran wanting Kamala Harris to win shouldn't be ignored.
When America's deepest and most dangerous allies or enemies are
working on the idea that we want Kamala Harris to
(03:14):
be elected, I do think it kind of tells you
what they see from Trump and what they fear from him.
I would also point out that if Israelis could vote
in the American election, this is people who actually live
in Israel, they would overwhelmingly support Trump. They desperately in
Israel want Trump to win this race.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, if you've paid attention, right, if anyone's been watching
Midi's foreign policy, certainly through the Obama era to now,
the Democrats are fundamentally and dangerously wrong about Iran. They
have learned nothing from recent or distant history when it
comes to the Iranian regime. They respond to force, and
(03:58):
that is it. There is no gentle hand outstretch that
will be met by the Iranians in good faith by
the again by the Mullahs, by the people in charge
in Iran, and the Democrats are they're kind of maniacal
on this. It doesn't matter what the Iranian regime does.
It's somehow is always a fault of Republicans and in
this country and Israel, you know, it's like we're always
(04:20):
forcing them to somehow support terror regimes. All are terror
groups all over the Middle East and engage in and
just vicious acts of violence which are really just rooted
in anti Semitism, hatred of Israel, hatred of the West,
hatred of Christians. So yeah, they're they're very wrong on this.
So of course Iran wants a Democrat and specifically Kamala Harris,
(04:44):
because these foreign governments are also aware of the politics
in this country whereby Iran is considered a country of
brown people and therefore it fits into that anti colonial
really you know, anti the white component of the Democrat
party that believes that white countries oppress non white countries
(05:06):
all over the world, and Iran is one of them.
And they think Israel, as we've talked about, as a
white country, which is not even accurate really, but put
that aside, and also thinking of this as a white country,
we're actually the most diverse country in the world. But
the way that the left used these things is not
influenced really by reality, by numbers, by demographics.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
They have narratives and they stick to it, and so
they are useful idiots.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
The Democrats are pro not just pro a softer line
toward Iran, but I think unfortunately we're willing to under
the Obama administration, really just sacrifice a lot of the
rest of US interests in in the least in order
to get that very bad Iran nuclear deal done. And
the fact that now we're not going to be hearing
(05:52):
about Iranian hacking on behalf of the Democrats.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
This is just pure partisan editorializing.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
There's you know, we don't know what the information is
or what they tried to hack, but we do know
that Democrats made a mountain out of a mole hill
with Russia collusion stuff in twenty sixteen, acting like some
ads on Facebook one hundred thousand dollars worth of ads
on Facebook is in any way indicative of an election
(06:19):
that has been held under some kind of false pretense.
So it's very frustrating Clay, But I also think enough
people see through this. But you know, our side doesn't
turn to hysteria over this stuff the same way. So
even if it was reported on we all know, like, yeah, okay,
so Iran is meddling and doing some things. The chance
(06:41):
of this having any effect on the outcome the election.
They're always the Democrats are always looking for a reason
to cry and say it's not fair, why is Trump
doing so well? And you know, I think this is
another moment where the double standard is a parent for
all to see.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I wanted to play this because I do think it's
so funny. They're trying to come up with all sorts
of reasons why Kamala Harris is going to be such
a forceful leader. What would make Vladimir Putin quake in
his boots? Buck. It is the fact that Kamala Harris
is of a mixed race background. This is legitimately what
(07:19):
they argued last night on MSNBC. This is a retired
Army general. Steve Anderson says, Putin man, he's never going
to be able to handle the power of Kamala because
she's a product of a mixed marriage. Listen to this, Kamala.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Harris would be just the opposite. Why because she's an inspiration.
Not only is she positive and does she bring hope
and optimism, but as a black woman, the product of
a mixed marriage, she will inspire millions of people throughout
the world. Our credibility is a nation that we would
be able to allow our country is so great that
(07:57):
we're allowed a woman like that to become the command
and she the president of the and I state. That
is going to stand a powerful message all over the world.
People like Vladimir Putin are going to say, hey, wait
a minute, these guys, you know, they truly have a
democratic country, They truly are representative, They truly are fighting
for all their people. And Kamala Harris is a manifestation
(08:18):
of that.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
I mean, even by crazy deranged standards, we've already elected
Barack Obama. The data actually reflects, despite the fact that
Democrats constantly want to rip the United States as being
a profoundly racist country, that probably the United States is
the least racist country maybe in the history of the world.
I mean that honestly, if you look at the welcoming
(08:43):
nature of this nation relative to the histories of almost
anywhere else in terms of who we allow to be citizens,
the degree to which we have constantly embraced legal immigration.
But to argue, oh, there's no way that Russia is
going to be able to Kamala because she's a product
of a mixed race marriage is next the level crazy,
(09:07):
even for the people who are crazy on MSNBC. And
I do think the conversation we had about what happens
to Kamala is one of the craziest situations we've ever
been in before because she hasn't really accomplished much in
her life in terms of actual things. Right, She's been
elected to office. Congratulations for that.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I mean, you know, she is the vice president. You know,
we we have to operate in reality here too. I mean,
it's by she's not.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
My point is not like she can go back to
something that she created. She hasn't founded some business, she
hasn't even have a family like.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
She's offered law partnerships where she doesn't even have to
show up and she'll be making you know, two to.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Six million dollars a year.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I mean, dude, this is how they win because they
do this. She definitely take care of their losers. Yes,
they take care of their losers. On the right, people
are like, oh, you got like battered, bruised and destroyed
trying to save the country.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Like and you're not super rich. I don't know, go
open up like a car wash.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
People are just kinda you know, our our team doesn't take.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Care of our political you know, wounded soldiers. If you
will the other side, if you do what the what
the apparatus wants, you are good to go for life.
You'll get the book deals for books no one reads.
You'll get money shoveled toward you, because it's just like
I said, But it's like, it's like when the mob
boss make sure that the guy who goes into into prison,
(10:37):
his family is taken care of. So everybody else knows,
keep your mouth shut and your family will be taken
care of. That's the whole game.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I just think I don't know that we've ever seen
a swing between she's gonna be famous for hundreds of
years or no one is gonna remember her name forever.
I think that's tons of people who have run for president,
by the way, that that don't win that.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Aren't you No one even remembers them. I mean you
can think about this, Come on, Bud, I mean, she's
gonna be the first. There are lots of people who
win the presidency that lots of people do not remember.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Does any even remember John Terry? Really? Does anyone remember
John Edwards? Really? Like, think of some of.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
These people who were there those John Kerry was close.
John Edwards, okay, might have been close if he didn't
have an affair with his uh uh and get his
donor baby have a baby with a with a campaign aid.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
In his defense, as he said, he waited until his wife,
who was dying of cancer, was in temporary remission, until
he commenced the affair. That is what he said on television.
I kid you not. Yeah, that's a tough putt to say.
Democrats were like this guy's great, the ambulance chaser who's
basically made it impossible to get obstetric's care in South Carolina.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Let's get that guy going.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
For hundreds of years. Kamala Harris will be famous or
she will vanish and no one will ever talk about
her again. That's the stakes. Forty five days again, Truck
to Me is going to be significant because he elected
president and he's been such a huge part of the
American political process over the last decade. Now, if he
loses back to back elections, his legacy is going to
(12:08):
be a lot different than if he wins.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
They both have. He's got a lot. Maga has a
lot on the line here. We should all be very
clear eyed about that. Maga has a lot on the
line because you know, only once, can't get fooled again
like the last election. Okay, we wanted a mulligan, We've
got the mulligan. You got to hit this one straight
down the fairway. You have the worst Democrat candidate ever.
(12:33):
If you can't beat Kamala, she is an I think
unmitigated disaster for them. Obama super talented Biden. Okay, they
had COVID. Kamala is a disaster of a candidate.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
If you can't beat Kamala, you got to go back
to the drawing board and really kind of reassess. But again,
tons at stake. Forty five days. I think Trump is
going to win, But man, there is a lot a
lot at stake as to the history of this country
and also just history itself. For the next several hundred
years because unfortunately, if Kamala wins, she's going to become
(13:10):
I don't even know them, and we never had a
female president before. I mean, they're going to turn her
into into one of the most I can't believe this
is real, but they will turn her into one of
the greatest heroes in the history of the United States.
If she wins. Just be prepared, there will be Kamala
Harris Day. Some places, it's like you're trying to I'm
sad over here, sad you think I'm crazy. Fifty years
(13:32):
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Speaker 2 (14:57):
You know Trump was in Long Island and getting everybody
fired up there. The Trump magic at the rallies still
so real. Despite what Kamala tried to say about how
people leave them board that is that is not true
as we all know. Here he has this cut eighteen
with his classic line Kamala, you're fired.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Less than two months from now, we are going to
tell Kamala that we've had enough.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Kamala, you've been a terrible vice president. You will be
an even worse president. We're not gonna take it anymore. Kamala, Tamala,
you're fired. Get out, you're fired.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
First of all, I think Clay he's saying her name Kamala,
because you know, Democrats get very huffy about mispronouncing Kamala's name.
They they they're very indignant if you say. And it's
funny because I remember when Tucker had his show on Fox,
he played clips of Kamala saying her name to ways. Yes,
she says, she multiple pronounces her own name. So that's
(16:01):
one interesting. And then something else from Trump that I
wanted to get, get us too. Before we talk to
a Sherman Wantley here of the RNC. This has cut nineteen.
Clay Trump says he is going to Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Listen, I'm going to Springfield and I'm going to Aurora.
You may never see me again, but that's okay.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
Gotta do what I gotta do.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
Whatever happened to Trump, Well, he never got out of Springfield.
I'm leading in Ohio by like fifteen points a lot,
and we're going to take care of Ohio, and we're
going to take care of Colorado, and we're going to
take care of every single state in the Union.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
They're all under season.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
A lot of people don't talk about the Springfield thing.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I think is going to be particularly powerful because the
media thinks they've won, or you know, they're winning on this,
whether or not somebody ate a cat. Springfield is in
a really bad place because of all of the migrants
who are getting welfare who have been dumped on that city.
Focusing on economy border is a major win for Trump
(17:02):
every time he does it. And Springfield is not only
significant for what's going on in Springfield, Ohio right now,
but because it's not an outlier. There are tons of
Springfields right now all over the country that are overrun
right now with migrants, whether they're being flown in legally
by the Biden Kamala team or they're there illegally. And
(17:25):
many of you listening to us right now are having
communities in your state impacted drastically as a result, too,
So I think shining a spotlight on that is a
hugely positive story. I think allowing an open town hall,
which is what you and I suggested, so that all
the residents in Springfield, Ohio can come out and speak
and tell what the impact.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Has been for all of them. I think it is
going to be a very powerful argument for Trump.
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We'll let you know when we officially get him on
the line, but I wanted to play for you. I
mentioned how good Trump was last night on Gutfeld, and
we also mentioned with you earlier this week that Howard Stern,
a guy that Trump used to go on with quite
a lot back in the day on radio, has said
(19:22):
that he hates Trump supporters and he doesn't want any
of you to be listening to him. We have the
audio of Howard Stern saying that on Fox News. They
played it and then Trump responding to it. I think
it's kind of fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Listen.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I don't hate the guy. I hate the people who
vote for him. I think they're stupid.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
I do.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'll be honest with you. I have no respect for you.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Also said he didn't want him to listen. Trump responded
to that last night on Gutfeld. Here's that.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Well, I watch, I know some of them, and like Howard.
I was on Howard Stern show as much as anybody,
and yeah, he was great at that time, and then
he went woke. Yeah, and since he's gone woke, his
ratings have gone down the tubes and he sort of
went anti Trump for a couple of reasons. But I
(20:10):
was on his show a lot. Yeact, he has a
best of Did you ever see the best of? Best
of Howard Stern? I don't want to promote it necessarily,
and I was there for just about all of them,
the best of We had good shows.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Who was good?
Speaker 6 (20:24):
But he's changed and you know he doesn't do the
ratings anymore.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's Trump talking about Howard Stern. We're joined now by
Michael Wattley, who is chairman of the RNC, and we're
going to get into a lot of different stories, but
I want to start. You know the state of North
Carolina very well. Trump won North Carolina in twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty. How do you think Trump is looking
(20:48):
in North Carolina? Chairman in twenty twenty four based on
what you.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
See better than we were in either twenty sixteen or
in twenty twenty. And I would say that based on
the polling that we're watching right now, where we're actually
pulling ahead of where we did four years ago or
eight years ago. When I look at the enthusiasm that
we see on the ground, I think that we feel
(21:13):
very good about this state. You know, and the fundamentals
are really important here. You know, North Carolina is a
state that really believes in law and order, day back
the blue, and it is also the state with the
heaviest percentage of military families. We talk about soldiers, veterans,
and military families more than any other state in the country.
(21:34):
This is a state that understands peace through strength and
understands what it means to have a president who really
truly backs our soldiers. So, you know, we feel that
the fundamentals here feel really good. We've just seen a
number of polls that have come out in the last
week showing him up you know, two points, three points,
one point fairly consistently with a small lead. But you know,
(21:59):
we want it by three and a half points in
twenty sixteen. We want it by a point and a
half in twenty twenty, and I feel like we're in
pretty solid shape here.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
So that's huge because if Trump wins North Carolina and Georgia,
which I think he's likely to do, you can tell
us what you're seeing there. He's got a lot of
different pathways at that point to be elected president.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Yeah, we agree, you know, And honestly, if he wins
every state that he won in sixteen and twenty plus Georgia,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, then we have enough to get to
two seventy and Sarvin Wantley is the best place in
the map right now.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Treman Wantley with us now, appreciate you being with us, sir.
The situation in Pennsylvania, Clay has said, I agree with this.
I think that this is pretty clear. It is the
most important battleground state. Perhaps it feels like whoever wins
Pennsylvania probably wins the whole thing. I was wondering if
you could just give us a sense as to what
does the Republican We've got a very important Senate seat
(22:57):
up there, some congressional.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Races that are critical.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
What does the Republican ground game and plan look like
from now to election day? In the state Pennsylvania that
could determine the whole thing.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Yeah, pedal to the medal. I mean, we're going to
absolutely be hammered down in Pennsylvania from now through election day.
The sheer number of visits that you are seeing there
from Donald Trump, from JD. Vance, from a number of
different surrogates and other folks that support him across the
state is going to be very regular. We've already seen
(23:31):
him a bunch and we're going to see him a
bunch up there. I've been doing regular events up there.
We've had RFK Junior, We've had Telsea Gabbert, and so
I expect the presences to be there. The grassroots program
is very advanced at this point in time. Trump Force
forty seven. We are recruiting and training thousands of volunteers
right now to make phone calls and knock on doors
(23:53):
and make sure that they're bringing out the low propensity voters.
That's the biggest target that we're making sure. You know,
one you get your base voters in, you got to
make sure you get those low propensity guys off the couch.
So that's the basis for what we're trying to build
up there. We've got a really good partnership with the
Pennsylvania GOP and feel really good about where we are.
(24:16):
And you know, when we talk about polling versus sixteen
and twenty, probably no state where we are in better
shape today than where we were from twenty sixteen and
twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
What just you know you mentioned this.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
I think it's so important because we get a lot
of emails Chairman Wattley about you know, I want to help,
I want to get involved for people who live in Pennsylvania.
We got a lot of states in Pennsylvania, particularly out
west where there's critical terrain here for this upcoming election.
Where do they go to kind of get in the
system and what can they do?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
Yeah, there's two things that they can do. So the
first is our grassroots program. We call it Trump Force
forty seven. They can go to Trump Force forty seven
dot com and you sign up. We will reach back
out to you, will make you a Trump Forced team captain.
And the thing that we're going to ask you to
do is go get ten members of your community to
commit to vote. It's a pretty basic. Just go talk
(25:11):
to your friends, your family members, your colleagues, your coworkers,
get them to commit to vote, and then we're going
to ask you to do twenty five or fifty or
one hundred. As people keep kind of moving up the chain.
Anybody who gets one hundred commitments before election day, we're
going to invite them down to meer Lago for our
victory party. I think it's going to be a fantastic
opportunity for people to get involved. The other thing that
(25:32):
is equally as important for us is our election integrity program,
and so people can go to protect the Vote dot
com and they can sign up and they can get
trained and they can be a poll worker or a
pole observer, which is just tremendously important when we talk
about making sure that we're going to protect the ballot
and we're going to let everybody know that their vote
(25:54):
is going to count, and it's going to count once.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Look, I've talked about this, My wife cared about this,
and she is now working at our local voting precinct
and she'll be there all day on election day. And
I would encourage everybody out there who blows bucking me
up all the time about being concerned about rigged elections
to go ahead and volunteer yourself in your local communities
to pay attention to how the vote's going. We've talked
(26:18):
a lot about this, but I'm get critical, absolutely critical.
We've talked a lot about this on the show, but
I want people to hear it from you, and they're
probably going to get tired of us talking about it.
Buck and I are voting early. We have seen the
data that the earlier you can bank your vote, the
better it is for the Trump team because it allows
low propensity voters to then be focused on and for
(26:40):
overall turnout to go up. What would you tell people
out there, Chairman and Watley, who are nervous about voting early,
about what they can mean by getting their ballots banked early,
and how would you allay their concerns.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Well, what I would say is just listen to what
President Trump has said, point blank. It is great if
you want to vote early. It's great. If you want
to vote by mail, it's great. If you want to
vote on election day. The key is you have to
make a plan and execute the plan and make sure
that you deliver your vote. You know, when you think
about the mechanics on early voting, you know there's a
lot of people who just cannot vote on election day.
(27:16):
I'm one of them. I don't know where I'm going
to be on election day. I could be in Arizona,
I could be in the bat I could be, you know,
in New Hampshire. So the first day of early voting,
I will be there and I will cast my vote
for it. It is safe and it is secure. The
other thing that really comes out of it is we
spend a lot of money and a lot of time
and a lot of effort going out and getting people
(27:37):
to vote, you know, before they cast their vote, whether
it's by mail or early or on election day. And
if we're spending time and resources talking to a voter
and they go vote ten days early, that's ten days
where I don't have to spend money on them. I
can actually go spend money to talk to the low
propensity voters and I can make sure that we're going
to get them up and we're going to get them out,
(27:59):
and we can help activate them to go have other
conversations as well. So there's a lot of ancillary benefits
to it. We don't want to necessarily cannibalize, you know,
people who want to vote on election day. We're not
telling you don't do it. But really what we're trying
to do is get people who won't vote on election
day to go vote earlier, go vote by mail, and
(28:20):
that way. This is an additive thing. You know, we
believe in politics through addition. But every dollar I don't
have to spend convincing you to vote because you already
have is a dollar I can spend on somebody else.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
And on the election integrity side of things, I remember
you spoke to us at the RNC in Milwaukee about
poll monitors. How is that program going? And I'm sure
you get this. I would be willing to bet your
office has been deluged last well, you know, months, maybe
longer with people who are very concerned about what we
(28:53):
could just call irregularities or Shenanigan's chairman, Watley, what can
you say to people about making sure that only legal
ballots will be counted in this election?
Speaker 8 (29:06):
Yeah. So two key metrics that we're tracking and we're
working on. What we're seeing in terms of making sure
we have the right laws, rules and regulations put in
place in every state is the states are making dramatic improvements.
Some of them are doing it voluntarily and working with us.
Other ones we're having to Sue I filed one hundred
(29:26):
and fifteen lawsuits as the General Counsel and now is
the chair of the RNC, and we're getting some very
important wins making sure that we're keeping the basic rules
of the road in place so only American citizens can vote.
You've got to have a voter ID. We want the
states to clean up the voter roles, and where we
have mail in balloting, we want basic protections on those.
(29:47):
So really good progress that we're making there, not enough.
We've still got work to do. We've got a number
of states, you know, particularly Pennsylvania, Michigan, that keep fighting
us on it, so we end up in court quite
a bit, but even there, we're starting to get some
pretty significant wins. The other metric is that we want
to be in the room right We want to be
in the room with volunteers and attorneys anytime a voter's
(30:10):
cast or accounted. Since Laura Trump and I put this
program together, we said we were going to get one
hundred thousand people to sign up for that program. Very
excited to say we've got one hundred and seventy five
thousand people already across the country who have signed up
and We've got five thousand of them in every single
one of our battleground states, and we're continuing to recruit.
We're continuing to do more. Laura Trump, Matt Whittaker, who
(30:33):
was the acting attorney general for President Trump, Pam Bondi,
who was the attorney general down in Pennsylvania, myself have
had a nationwide tour. We call it the Protective Vote Tour.
We were just in New Hampshire last night, in having
a fantastic series of conversations all across the country making
sure that we're raising awareness of this and that we're
(30:55):
getting people to sign up.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We know Trump had the rally last night in Long Island.
We know, as just talking with you, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
all the seven battleground states. Where else would you tell
us you just mentioned New Hampshire. Should we be paying
attention there? Where is momentum that maybe might surprise people
(31:17):
a little bit outside of the seven battleground states that
everybody talks about.
Speaker 8 (31:23):
You know, Virginia, we're seeing some pretty good results. We
like the numbers there, and we've got a guy in
Glenn Younkin who showed us how you can win in
Virginia as a Republican. The guy is just absolutely transformed
politics in that state and he's been a great partner,
and so we're working with him right now. So I
really am very bullish about what we can try and
do on the ground in Virginia New Hampshire. You know,
(31:45):
we feel really really good about it. I spent the
day up there yesterday. I had a number of meetings
and events, and you know, we feel good about what's
going on there. You know, And the stretch that the
President wants to continue to talk about is a place
like New Jersey where we're actually showing you know, some
of the polling showing him that's inside the margin, you know,
and and you know, when you have a rally with
(32:07):
one hundred and seven thousand people, you kind of got
to believe that you're doing something there. You know. It
may be a stretch, but you know what, we're going
to have those conversations.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
You know.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
I think we're spending time in New York. He was
in Nassau yesterday. We've been in California because we've got
congressional districts there that really truly matter, and so even
if we're not going to be able to carry the state,
we do feel like we're in a great position to
carry those congressional districts which we need in order to
expand our majority in the House. So we like the map.
(32:38):
I mean, we're playing offense right now. I think that
Kamala Harrison and the Democrats are playing defense, especially when
you look at the seven battleground states where we're showing,
you know, probably slim but very durable league in five
of them, and we're basically tied in the other two
right now.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Chairman Watley of the R and C. Great to have
you on, sir, you know, stay on the mission and
we'll talk to you again, hopefully before the election, and
we'll be celebrating soon thereafter.
Speaker 8 (33:06):
Tell you, I really truly appreciate the opportunity to talk
to you, but more importantly to talk to all of
your listeners. And we certainly hope that everybody will go
to you know, Protective vote dot com or Trump for
forty seven dot com and sign up and join the fight.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
There you go, you heard them. Everybody go join up.
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Christian in Raleigh, North Carolina. What's up Christian.
Speaker 10 (35:43):
Union member in Raleigh? And about the Tiefstars how they
didn't sponsor somebody yesterday. I just I think that number
is a lot higher than the five fifty nine point
six percent, Like they didn't even take a poll in
my area, and in my area we're like, you know
about probably eighty five to ninety percent Republicans.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah, we had thank you for the call. Was it
somebody called in with us from Providence if I remember
last week or early this week Buck and said, hey,
all the union workers in my shop are all in
on Trump. And for those of you who didn't here yesterday,
we gave you the Teamsters official polling data which showed
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sixty forty the lead for Trump over Kamala. What we
didn't say, Buck, was that Biden actually had a small
lead according to the Teamster data in twenty twenty over Trump,
and I think it was like forty five to thirty
five if I remember the polling data. So if that
is correct, that Trump is going to overwhelmingly win the Teamsters,
(36:49):
given how many there are in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
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