October 20, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 zeroes in on the New York City mayoral race, which the hosts argue is the most consequential upcoming election. Clay and Buck dissect the explosive controversy surrounding front-runner Zohran Mamdani, who was recently photographed campaigning alongside an Imam linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and pro-jihad rhetoric. President Donald Trump weighed in, calling the association “a shame” and questioning Mamdani’s judgment. The hosts debate whether this scandal will impact the race and highlight that major Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have withheld endorsements, signaling deep party discomfort.
Clay and Buck predict that Mamdani will likely win, citing gambling markets giving him a 93% chance of victory, compared to Cuomo’s slim odds and Curtis Sliwa’s near-zero chances. They argue that Mamdani’s radical proposals—such as city-run grocery stores and free public transit—are unrealistic and doomed to fail but warn that his charisma could make him a dangerous figure for Democrats nationally. The conversation explores whether Mamdani will moderate his agenda early on to avoid backlash before ramping up progressive policies later in his term.
The hour also examines Democratic Party strategy and 2026 midterms, suggesting that figures like AOC and Gavin Newsom may secretly prefer chaos under far-left leadership to position themselves as saviors in 2028. Clay and Buck stress that Democrats need star power and name recognition to win nationally, dismissing moderates like Andy Beshear as too bland for the modern political landscape.
Listeners call in to vent frustrations about New York politics, with some advocating for Curtis Sliwa to stay in the race and others arguing Republicans should let NYC “sink beneath the waves of communism.” Callers share real-world anecdotes about crime, fare evasion, and mass migration from NYC to Long Island and New Jersey, underscoring fears that Mamdani’s policies—such as free buses—will worsen homelessness and strain city services. The discussion expands to foreign investment in NYC real estate, skyrocketing rents, and the long-standing trend of oligarchs using Manhattan property to shield assets.
Clay and Buck also tackle cultural contradictions within the left, highlighting the “unholy alliance” between progressive activists and Islamist sympathizers, questioning how identity politics can reconcile support for LGBTQ rights with pro-Palestinian movements that endorse Sharia law. They predict these fractures will intensify in coming years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody, second hour of play and Buck and let's
dive into I think the election that's getting more attention
coming up here in a few weeks than any other,
and that is New York City mayor. I understand for
a lot of you you're thinking, not my problem. Well,
let's just put this into context. Very likely that if
(00:21):
it is in fact a mom Donnie, I now play.
We were on Kiley's show this weekend, and it's funny
play those plays like, Hey, I'm not trying to tell
New Yorkers that they just need to suffer for the
benefit of the rest of the country, but I'm kind
of telling them they need to suffer for the benefit
of the group. You know, this is exactly where I
do not. I am hopeful that things will turn around
(00:44):
here somehow, although I'm not gonna lie to you guys,
I don't have a great idea of what that would
be because Cuomo is all so awful. He's not a communist,
but he is a very very bad authoritarian democrat. He's
he is more on the pro business side and less
(01:06):
radical leftist in his ideology, but he was I lived
in New York during COVID, and I lived in New
York during the jail break stuff that he pushed in Albany.
You know, no bail, no jail, all that, and the
guy was a he was a disaster. It's not even
I couldn't even tell you that Cuomo was a oh okay,
(01:28):
he was awful. And he also has a reputation for
being the meanest person in New York politics. I can't
speak to that personally, but I have heard that from
numerous people that he's a really nasty guys. If you
cross him, Yeah, he's one of these guys who's like,
I'm afia, don Basically that's exactly right. If you cross him,
he's gonna get you back, and he's gonna get you
(01:48):
back really badly, even if you cross him on minor stuff.
So that's his reputation. But on the other side, yeah,
we got mom Donnie. And here you have here you
have Trump weighing in on the Mamdani situation. This has
cut four play it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I think it's a shame that that particular man is
endorsing him and very friendly with him.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You can see it as a relationship.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
He blew up the World Trade Center, right, didn't The
man you're talking about blow up the World Tess Center
and he's friends with Mandani.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
All right, Clay, let me just give some backstory here.
Somebody knows what Trump's talking about. Mamdani was just campaigning
this weekend with a quote notorious gay hating Brooklyn Imam,
who is an unindicted co conspirator in the nineteen ninety
three World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked
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to other terrorist activity in the United States, including urging
jihad on the Big Apple. Mamdani is the front runner
to be the governor. He was standing arm in arm
with Seraj Wahaj, the EMM, at the Bedford Stuyvesant Mosque,
(03:03):
in a photo posted on x and and there you
have that. So, uh, Clay, this guy is paling around
with a radical pro ghad Emam and Trump is calling
this one out. And I'm not even I don't even
know that being pro gi hot is in the top
three worst things about this guy in terms of what
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he's gonna do to New York City, because I think
that the list is very long, and I just wonder
how the Democrats are gonna are gonna spin this thing.
People are saying, well, what if Sliwa drops out? If
slee Wad drops out, it is within striking distance. It
is within the polling margin of error if Sliwa stays in,
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Mom Donnie wins. So what to do?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This is what you and I were talking to Kelly about,
and you were just like burn it all down. Sorry,
big Apple, but I was trying to be constructed. Look,
I'm in New York right now. It's a great city.
We have to leave it behind, and and the rest
of the country just to just has to move on.
I think that Mamdanni is going to win. And when
(04:12):
Mam Donnie wins, there's a reason Hakim Jefferies and Chuck
Schumer have refused to endorse him. He is going to
become a communist one of the front facing elements of
the Democrat Party going forward. I don't think that AOC
or Kami Mam Donni are the people that the Democrats
want to be the face of their party. I think
(04:34):
that that will become the reality, and I think the
nation as a whole will benefit because the House and
the Senate will remain in Republican control. And I also
think this is what you said on Kayley, and you've
said it on the program quite a lot. Too, Buck,
I do think that you are true, You are correct
(04:54):
on this. I think Mam Donni is a glib.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Articulate, likable, charismatic voice that will actually be a very
poor and ineffective mayor, meaning that many of the things
that he wants to do or that he talks about doing,
he'll just be simply incapable of doing it. And let
me give you an example of an there's no way
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the city of New York is going to.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Open grocery stores.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Right.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
This whole idea that suddenly you're gonna save money because
instead of the hard working people who are busting their
asses to compete every single day in New York in
the grocery market, that the City of New York is
somehow going to be more efficient, effective and cost.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Controlling of.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Produce in New York is crazy. And so there's no
way some of this stuff is ever going to happen.
It's just kind of Reddit fantasies where leftists sit around
and say, well, maybe we should just have grocery stores
instead of the grocery companies and then everybody he can
save money. So I think he's gonna be inefficient, and
(06:03):
if he leaves Jessica Tish in charge of crime in
New York City. I think she's actually doing a good job.
And so my thought is in general that he'll be awful,
but so incapable of putting into place the policies that
he wants to put into place that it will be
(06:24):
hard for him to make New York that much worse
than it is now. I do think a lot of
New Yorkers, though, are looking around and saying, why do
I want to live here anymore? Sean Hannity gonna be
on right after us. Buck Sexton on with me right now.
Guys who lived in the New York City area born
(06:45):
and raised Buck and just said, you know what, Florida
is better. I'm gonna move. I think it's gonna be
really good for high end Florida pricing. I'm telling you
Tennessee to Texas. I found out the other day one
of my new neighbors, coming in from New York, hedge
fun guy just said, I'm done with it. I'm not
gonna continue here. I'm gonna go where I don't have
(07:06):
state income tax.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Just the Panhandle is where all you rich New Yorkers
want to go. Miami, Miami Beach is full. Okay, everything
is too expensive. You're already so Clay can get you
great deals. Waterfront, my friends, Waterfront in the Panhandle, go
check that out, because we're good over here. Now we've
already got the infrastructure problems that now I've been here
three years and I'm like these New Yorkers coming down
(07:29):
into my mind. It's very funny.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
As soon as you move somewhere new, you want to
immediately pull up the bridge. You're like, there's only too
many people moving in here now.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This is this is keep saying where I am in Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Now, everybody suddenly like six months after they get here,
they're like, we got to stop all these Californians and
New Yorkers in Chicagoans from coming down here.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What do they think they are? It's like, you've been
here six months, buddy, Carrie has to has to stop me.
Sometimes we go for walks around the neighborhood and there's
so much money going into new construction, new houses being
built around here right now. Will be with out in
a beautiful sunny day with Ginger and I look at
some massive construction site residential. You know's be like these
New Yorkers just just crowding, crowding our coffee shops, Uh,
(08:14):
crowding are parking.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I've been here three years and already I'm in
that category. So yes, I uh says. By the way,
you know what's actually this is real?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The attitudes of legal immigrants to illegal immigrants, for example,
mirror this where illegal immigrants, I mean sorry, legal immigrants
are like you tell those illegal immigrants to go home
and do it the right way, buddy, Like they are
very a lot of times very stringent. I think this
is why I played by them got wrong.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
They thought that Trump's you know, anti illegal immigration stance
would play poorly with legal immigrants, and boy were they
ever wrong on that because legal immigrants know how hard.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It is to get here legally, and.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
So when you see people cutting the line, you actually
get way more frustrated with American immigration policy. The fact
that you had to play it right, you had to
for years, work maybe decades, to get yourself here and
your family members here, and then some guy walks across
the southern border and the Biden administration is like, you're
an American now, and no, you're fed up with that too.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You have mom Donnie here defending himself after this alleged
terror linked NYC E moom Here he is here, he
is talking about this when this is cuts twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The same mom met with Mayor Bloomberg, met with Mayor Deblasio,
campaigned alongside Eric Adams, and the only time it became
an issue of national attention was when I met with him.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, I think it's because people think that you actually
are sympathetic to radical not just left wing, but radical
Islamist ideology. Yes, and that's why no one thinks Bloomberg,
no one thinks Mayor Bloomberg is big on the radical Islam.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I mean Eric Adams, I mean Eric Adams was again.
I think people in New York are going to look
back fondly on the Eric Adams administration if I'm correct,
and Mamdanni is gonna win. Uh, but Eric Adams. Nobody thought, Oh,
Eric Adams is a sympathizer of Hamas. Eric Adams wouldn't
go on Fox News if Martha McCollum asked him and said, hey,
(10:22):
should Hamas put down their weapons the time they should?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
There's a possibility here. There's a possibility here that we
haven't really discussed, but I could foresee this. First of all,
it please like we got people calling writing in every
day we talk about Mamdanni and they go, why aren't
you guys you know Sliwa New York is eight to
one Democrat or Republican. Okay. A lot of people that
are willing to vote for Cuomo are not willing to
(10:50):
vote for a Republican and they will vote for Mom
Donnie over Sliwa. This is what you have. You have
to understand the it's not oh if Cuoma because people
were saying, well, Cuomo should drop that out, Like if
Cuomo drops out, most of those votes are gonna go
to Mom Donnie. They're not going to go to Sleewan. Okay.
So that's do you have a lot of New York
I know New Yorkers. I am still a New Yorker
(11:11):
in exile here in Florida with a lot of US.
I wonder if Sean we should ask Sean, our friend
Sean Hannity, if he if he still feels like he's
a New Yorker in Florida, or if he's gone full
Floridian you know, is he is?
Speaker 7 (11:24):
He Sean lived all over the country, right, so I
think he's like fed up.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He's been here for he was in New York for
he was in New York for at least a long
eye had beautiful uh part of Long Island thirty years,
probably thirty years or something. Yeah, I think at that
point you're you consider yourself a New York guy. But
because I still I still feel like a New Yorker
who lives in Florida except for tax purposes, I'm a
Florida resident, year round, year round, Florida. But you're gonna
(11:50):
get audited again, now again, aud it again. I haven't.
I set foot in New York as rare only to
see my family on holidays now because of what they
do to me with the taxes. But here's okay. So
here's the situation, though, Clay. Maybe Mom Donnie comes in
and he isn't as radical in the first year as
a lot of people think, and then it will all
(12:12):
be oh see, he's more reasonable, just long enough for
the Democrats to try to snatch control of the House
in the midterms, and you know he's gonna have a
four year Mom Donnie have a four year term if
he wins. Maybe he turns up the heat of the
crazy town more year two more year three, that's a possibility.
I just want to keep that out there. So if
(12:32):
he doesn't come in acting like Joseph Stalin right away, Everyan's.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Gonna be like, oh my gosh, he's not so bad.
I think there's some truth to that. Here is something
to think about. Remember how we discussed that Gavin Newsom
was popping bubbly when Trump won because his worst case
scenario was Kamala winning and then he can't run for
twelve years basically for president.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
YEP.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
I don't think AOC wants the Democrats to do well
in twenty twenty six. Something to think about in the
back of your mind. I don't think Gavin Newsom really
wants them to do well. I think they want to
be the solution to a problem, and if things are
going better than Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries look reasonable
and it makes it harder for them to win. I
(13:13):
think they want to dial up the crazy and let
Trump be successful in the midterms because it benefits them
politically if Republicans have success. So my only thought on
that is I think AOC runs far left wing. If
it hurts the midterms, what does she care her seat's safe.
She cares about twenty eight just something to file away.
(13:34):
How many Democrats actually with national ambition want twenty twenty
six to be successful. I don't actually think very many
of them do.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I also think that Democrats realize you need star power
to win national elections. Now, now that doesn't have to
be a TV star like Trump necessarily, but you need
somebody with universal name recognition, but also who, say, I
know Biden is born. Biden had been in the game
for so long and was think of all the video
(14:05):
and all the photos of Biden with Obama, Biden with Obama,
Biden with Obama, and that was his currency one hundred
percent name recognition eight more years of the Obama administration.
You need somebody who has both that name recognition but
also the branding around them, right, it has to be
a That's why I think, like your guy, I never
(14:25):
remember his name. The uh, you know, the jerk from
the governor of Kentucky, right, Andy Basheer, Andy Basheer, Nah,
nobody knows who this guy is. Can't do it. He's
not interesting enough. Can't do it. People say, oh, we've
got a moderate Democrat like Andy Basheer is the nominee
nah doesn't get enough sizzle on social media.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Guys too boring, too bland, I think, But remember what
they did with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But this is what I'm saying. Joe Biden Clay was
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Speaker 7 (16:23):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. All right,
I'm gonna tee up some of these callers who want
to react to me saying New York should just, much
like Buck Island, be left to the sands of time
and the rest of the nation can move on and
have a fabulous existence. There is a new poll that
is out and it shows that if Curtis Lee What
(16:47):
drops out, there is a chance that Andrew Cuomo could
win this race. If Curtis Lee What stays in, there
is no chance that anybody else is gonna win. And
for those of you out there say, okay, I don't
trust polls, the gambling markets say that there is a
ninety three percent chance right now, Mam Donnie is going
(17:09):
to win, six percent chance Cuomo is going to win,
less than one percent chance that Slee was gonna win.
This is people putting their actual money down. Hundreds of
millions of dollars now buck has been wagered in who
is going to be elected the mayor of New York
City And Mom Donnie today just hit a record high.
(17:31):
So if you disagree with the polling, you can go
make a bundle of money, putting your money where your
mouth is.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We're going to take these calls when we come back
here in just a second. Yeah, So light us up here.
And if you just want to get mad at Clay
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welcome back into Clay. We got a lot of lines lit.
I think play has touched a nerve in the Five
Burroughs and beyond the Tri State area with his maybe
(19:08):
maybe Democrat areas have to learn a painful lesson mcclayly.
If you remember, we have all these beautiful Republicans, beautiful Republicans
who listen to us in the Tri State, beautiful Republicans
who listened to us in California. I love women behind
on the battlefield. I love them all.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
But you know, a lot of them moved to Westchester,
A lot of them are listening on Long Island, and
a lot more of them. I think you're going to
be listening outside New York City when Mamdani is elected
in the city so slowly sinks beneath the wave of communism,
and people with money decide, you know what, there's a
lot of places where I can live very well, Texas, Tennessee,
(19:46):
Florida among them, where I don't have to pay fifteen
percent of my money in state taxes. With Mamdani pledging
to raise the taxes even more, but a ton of
people want a weigh in. We got uloaded lines again.
The mayor's race is fifteen days am I right about that?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Fifteen days from now is the official race.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Cursely what we should say, I'll just echo he should
drop out as long as he stays in the race, Mom,
Donnie is basically one hundred percent going to win this election, not.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Saying Clay is going here. Next he's going to tell
you that Bastrami at Kats's delicatest and is overrated. Central
Park is not that beautiful in the fall. I mean,
he's really you know, he's being rough. He's been rough
on New York right now, and I'm being rough on
New York but being very kind to the rest of
(20:39):
the country because we'll all benefit on New York seeking
beneath the waves of communism. Kevin Wisconsin wants to weigh
in on this one. What's going on? Kevin?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Hey, I thanks for taking my call. I just want
to know when and why did Clay and Buck turn
into every other? We need republican elite that won't even
answer a fight when it comes to may or all
other you know important uh, you know.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
So, what should Okay, Kevin, what would a strong need?
Is that a good thing? What would a strong need
Republican show be saying right now to you?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, right now, at first you should have gotten behind
Slee way to begin with, But right now you would
definitely be saying that como needs to drop out because
he knows he can't win.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Kevin, I could give I could give Curtis Lee what
ten million dollars tomorrow, more than anybody has given him,
probably for his campaign in the history of his UH
primary runs, in the history of his political career. And
he would still lose by thirty points, maybe forty, but.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
At least to be a fair fighter got drought. But
there is a I.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Don't how is it a fair fight?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Like if you support someone who gets their ass kicked
then makes it worse for everybody else, how is that
a strong thing to do?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, it's okay, So let's concede that maybe New York
is lost, but there is.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
A well, agree with me, this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
There is a way you can redeem yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
There is other elections to where we have socialists that are.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Running that might win, and with the wavin Kevin, you're
very far away in Wisconsin. I'm just wondering, why is
this guy? This got you so fired up? Were you
a former New Yorker?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I myself am supporting someone who's running for mayor in Minneapolis,
even though I don't even live in the state, who
happens to be the only conservative running against fifteen other candidates.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
Where we have Omar Pete.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Who is another Democratic socialist in the same line as Mandani,
who could very well win this race.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well, you're the hero of hopeless causes. This is kind
of where we.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Are in this case. I'm saying that he's not a
hopeless cause. I think he's got the best shot.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
He has a z Let me just be Kevin. He
has a z z row percent chance of winning. He
has as much chance of being elected mayor of New
York City as I do of being Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
I'll make a bet with you, Okay, all right, we'll
do a dinner.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
All right.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I can't quite go on the same line of dinners
that the you two seem to be able to afford,
but I'll do a state dinner with you that Laverne Turner,
an independent candidate for mayor in Minneapolis. All right, will
win this election because they happen to have rank choice voting,
and this time around it will favor Laverne.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Okay, I appreciate the call. I will I have no
idea who Lavernon Shirley.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You might have.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Well, I can't make a bet on someone I don't
even know. Thank you for the call. I don't Kevin
was everywhere all over the place. I will admit I
do not know a lot about the Minneapolis mayor's race.
I did look it up while we were talking. And
the crazy guy who knelt at the George Floyd funeral,
(24:00):
the sort of curly haired white guy. He is an
o Jacob Fray. He is an overwhelming favorite to be re.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Elected mayor, so as also known as he's gonna win again. Yes,
and I didn't know this. Minneapolis, guys, what is going
on in your city? Shots fired calls were at four
thousand and they're celebrating that down from five thousand. Four
(24:27):
thousand calls about shots fired in the city of Minneapolis. Oh,
I mean, it's just is this like is this like
like Lebanon in the eighties, Like what are you guys
doing over there? Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I mean the city in the wake of George Floyd.
Tons of cops just said I'm leaving. They're gonna reelect.
It appears the dumbest human in maybe the governor's offices
anywhere in the country, obviously with Tim Walls and so
I just think Minneapolis has fallen. And uh, it's a
(24:59):
shame because it's a nice place.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
What craziness that is? Really? Okay, we got more people
who are fired up. Jerry and Jersey. Jerry, and Jersey's angry.
He's not inviting you to Satrial's Clay, You're off the list.
What's going on, Jerry?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Yeah, hey, guys, thanks taking my call. You know, the
demands for Curtis to leave the race is observed once
you think about it, because Democrats elected a communist Muslim
in their primary, and they nominated him to leave the city.
And now they're getting scared of the communist Muslim and
they want Republicans to bail them out and help them
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elect the guy who's only a granny killer. He doesn't
he's not actually a communist.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Jerry, I'm with you. This is why we don't need
to save New York. We just let it go underwater
and the rest of the country benefits.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
One hundred percent, Clay one hundred. You know, New York
City cannot be bailed out by Republicans. It won't serve
them well. And imagine, guys, if Republicans elect I'm nominated
at awful Republican and then Republicans turned to Democrats and said, hey,
your guy gotta get out because we want to elect
our Republican. Imagine how that would go. So New York
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City needs no sympathy from us.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Thank you kind of Jerry and Jersey is looking across
the Hudson River with glee at what is about to
happen to my beloved New York City. Okay, this is
making me sad. Damon, I think Jerry. Jerry has been
stuck in Lincoln Tunnel traffic one time too many. He's like,
you know what, I'm done. He's making a good decision. Damon.
Used to live in New York City. Damon, you're with me.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Just let New York City sink underneath the waves of communism.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
You know, a buck, you should tell Clay that if
this guy takes over in New York City, there's no
more del friskness.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Man, that's a great spot.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I would I if they start charging more for my
stakes at Del Friscos, then I'll be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Damon, what do you think should happen?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Here's the thing New York City has turned into most
of like your your European socialist countries, where there's there's
two parties, there's a left and then there's a ultra left.
I mean, I hate to say it as as an
ex New Yorker and are the veteran conservative. You know,
I bleed, I bleed, red, white and blue. But but
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let this place go, let us self destruct. I mean,
it's there's so much history there, There's so much Uh
you know, where's the Steinbrenner family. I mean, where are
they to say to They need to not come out,
They need to come out and not endorse the Scotch.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Hey, they're not in the playoffs. I'll tell you that, David. Sorry,
Yankee fans, I'm really teeing off on New York today.
Louise in Long Island. Uh, Louise, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Thank you for taking my call. I'm looking at this
a little differently in terms of the Mundani race. Everybody's
focused on the finances. But my question is is he
going to do things like introduce chia law in certain
areas of the city. Is he's going to allow foreigners
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to come in and invest in property to change the
aspect of the city. I mean, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, okay, there's a there's a few, there's a few things.
I'm the one who's lived in New York, so I'll
step in here, Clay, excuse me, excuse me, sir, you
with all of your m I'm very comfortable with the
city going under the water. So so, so to our
callers questions, one is you have to remember that the
mayor of New York City. New York still operates within
New York's New York City operates with the New York State.
And so there are things that go beyond what just
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the city can do that would conflict with say state
law which you which you can't which you can't have,
and so uh, you also have a city council, uh,
and laws to be changed would have to be changed
even at the city level in the city council. So
there there's some things that Mamdani is not capable of
doing that he has talked about legally. Uh, there are
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other things that I think he will not be able
to do logistically or bureaucratically, he won't be able to
figure out how to get the things done that he
wants to get done. So I wouldn't worry about that.
And New York already has a tremendous amount of foreign
investment from all over the world. It's actually the New
York City high end real estate market has been a
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place where oligarchs from Russia and China and wherever have
been stashing cash for going on thirty years now, so
that's nothing new. But you have a tremendous I've seen
some recent data Clay that something like thirty or forty
percent of the public housing in New York City, which
is substantial, is people that won't weren't born in America.
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So you have a massive foreign born population, not just
in New York City, but living in subsidized housing in
New York City.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
One thing Louise hit on that I do think is interesting,
and we'll take some more of your calls on this
to close out the hour, sharial aw the disconnect between
left wing support for people like Mom Donnie and for
sort of the Palestinian cause. This is an unholy alliance
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of epic proportions because as we've joked about for some time.
I think I even offered to fund an airplane to
fly the Gaze to Gaza to protest in favor of
in favor of Hamas in Gaza, just to see how
it would go. They throw you off buildings and behead
you if you are gay in many of these countries
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under Sharia law. So the people walking around with Pride
flag saying free, free Palestine, their brains are so broken.
I can't even comprehend the arguments that they're making. But
on Luise's point, Buck, they don't want to actually do
that because that would force meaning start to put in
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place Sharia law and say, hey, if you're a girl,
you can't get an education after eighth grade, which is
basically I think, what now is the law in Afghanistan
now the Taladon is taken back over. If that is
to happen, then it will force that cognitive dissonance to
be explored and exploded where you point out, wait a minute,
these people are actually completely the antithesis of what the
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left in this country tries to argue. And it's why
this identity politics coalition I think on the left is
ultimately unmanageable in the years ahead. I think you started
to see it fracturing with Trump. I think I think
it's an unholy alliance that cannot continue.
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Speaker 7 (33:24):
Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show Bucks could
have run out by the way much like you ran
out on the city of New York.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Uh harsh hard.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
He said, you know what, Miami's got great weather, starting
to get a little cold up here, A little chilly
Buck said, you know, I think I'll just have summer
year round. But Buck has got a check up for
the baby, so I'll have you for the third hour solo.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But you want to hit a bunch of these calls.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Uh before we before we run out a lot of
you weighing in on the New York City Mayor's race,
which is fifteen days and early vote is just about
to start. Chris in Manhattan, what you got for us?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Hey, guys, So I work in Manhattan, but I live
in Long Island, so very interesting. My wife and I
put our house up for sale about two months ago.
The amount of people that are coming in from Glendale,
Queens to move out of the city too, Long Island
is off the charts. It was the best time for
us to sell a house. We sold it within a week, Okay,
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and now we're moving down to New Jersey in Tom's River.
But anyhow, it is. It's a real thing. Now. I've
worked in Manhattan for forty years. I take the subway.
I've taken videos and brought them to the cops of
the amount of people that jump over the turnstiles. Yep,
off the charts. They lost one hundred million dollars last year. Now, Mindomie,
one of his plans is to have free bus services.
(34:47):
You know. And I'm gonna tell you something. I know
a couple of bus drivers. They're all gonna quit because
a bunch of homeless are gonna go live on the buses.
That's what they're gonna do. They're getting on there for free.
So you're not gonna have enough people to do anything
this guy wants. I have friends who are cops. They're
they're done too. This whole thing is gonna be a
complete and utter disaster. We could see it a mile away.
(35:10):
And all these spoiled kids from Brooklyn are voting for this, okay,
and they don't you know, like I said, it's gonna
be free subways, free buses. It's a joke. The place
was a joke when Eric Adams was mayor. It's just
gonna get worse. And that's all I'm saying. I'm out
of here. But they're all coming in from Queens. I'm
telling you right now, they're all moving out to Long Island.
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I live in Best Page. They're all coming out here.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Thank you, Chris. I think there's gonna be a lot
of that Buck.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
It's the best thing for or real estate of values too,
a lot more people.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I'm getting a little heat now, I'm getting a little
heat on some of these comments. But I'll be like, yeah,
Bucks standing up for new York from Miami Beach and
your sandals getting your Hey, hey, I can still love
from Afar. Okay, I am rooting for you, New York.
I'm just rooting for you. Do have miles away.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
We do have a lot of family members that Yeah,
my family lives in New York.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Still.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
My family, I should say it lives in New York still.
So I would say this though, Clay. New York City
real estate right now is pretty much at the all
time high and renting as well well. So no matter
what happens in New York, the demand never goes down.
People want to be there, people want to live there.
I mean, this is just the you know, well, this
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is the truth. I think.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
Actually a huge part of it is what you hit on.
A lot of people use New York real estate from
foreign countries to shield assets because it's so expensive that
if you are supremely wealthy in your Russian aligarchs, those
are the.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Big fancy apartments. I'm talking about the average one bedroom.
The average price renting a one bedroom in New York
it's like four grand. It's basically an all time high.
Speaker 7 (36:44):
They won't build new places for people to live, and
they have rent control that's a bad problem. It actually
just keeps driving up the costs for everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
We'll be back for
Welcome everybody, second hour of play and Buck and let's
dive into I think the election that's getting more attention
coming up here in a few weeks than any other,
and that is New York City mayor. I understand for
a lot of you you're thinking, not my problem. Well,
let's just put this into context. Very likely that if
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it is in fact a mom Donnie, I now play.
We were on Kiley's show this weekend, and it's funny
play those plays like, Hey, I'm not trying to tell
New Yorkers that they just need to suffer for the
benefit of the rest of the country, but I'm kind
of telling them they need to suffer for the benefit
of the group. You know, this is exactly where I
do not. I am hopeful that things will turn around
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here somehow, although I'm not gonna lie to you guys,
I don't have a great idea of what that would
be because Cuomo is all so awful. He's not a communist,
but he is a very very bad authoritarian democrat. He's
he is more on the pro business side and less
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radical leftist in his ideology, but he was I lived
in New York during COVID, and I lived in New
York during the jail break stuff that he pushed in Albany.
You know, no bail, no jail, all that, and the
guy was a he was a disaster. It's not even
I couldn't even tell you that Cuomo was a oh okay,
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he was awful. And he also has a reputation for
being the meanest person in New York politics. I can't
speak to that personally, but I have heard that from
numerous people that he's a really nasty guys. If you
cross him, Yeah, he's one of these guys who's like,
I'm afia, don Basically that's exactly right. If you cross him,
he's gonna get you back, and he's gonna get you
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back really badly, even if you cross him on minor stuff.
So that's his reputation. But on the other side, yeah,
we got mom Donnie. And here you have here you
have Trump weighing in on the Mamdani situation. This has
cut four play it.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I think it's a shame that that particular man is
endorsing him and very friendly with him.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You can see it as a relationship.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
He blew up the World Trade Center, right, didn't The
man you're talking about blow up the World Tess Center
and he's friends with Mandani.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
All right, Clay, let me just give some backstory here.
Somebody knows what Trump's talking about. Mamdani was just campaigning
this weekend with a quote notorious gay hating Brooklyn Imam,
who is an unindicted co conspirator in the nineteen ninety
three World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked
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to other terrorist activity in the United States, including urging
jihad on the Big Apple. Mamdani is the front runner
to be the governor. He was standing arm in arm
with Seraj Wahaj, the EMM, at the Bedford Stuyvesant Mosque,
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in a photo posted on x and and there you
have that. So, uh, Clay, this guy is paling around
with a radical pro ghad Emam and Trump is calling
this one out. And I'm not even I don't even
know that being pro gi hot is in the top
three worst things about this guy in terms of what
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he's gonna do to New York City, because I think
that the list is very long, and I just wonder
how the Democrats are gonna are gonna spin this thing.
People are saying, well, what if Sliwa drops out? If
slee Wad drops out, it is within striking distance. It
is within the polling margin of error if Sliwa stays in,
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Mom Donnie wins. So what to do?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
What?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This is what you and I were talking to Kelly about,
and you were just like burn it all down. Sorry,
big Apple, but I was trying to be constructed. Look,
I'm in New York right now. It's a great city.
We have to leave it behind, and and the rest
of the country just to just has to move on.
I think that Mamdanni is going to win. And when
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Mam Donnie wins, there's a reason Hakim Jefferies and Chuck
Schumer have refused to endorse him. He is going to
become a communist one of the front facing elements of
the Democrat Party going forward. I don't think that AOC
or Kami Mam Donni are the people that the Democrats
want to be the face of their party. I think
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that that will become the reality, and I think the
nation as a whole will benefit because the House and
the Senate will remain in Republican control. And I also
think this is what you said on Kayley, and you've
said it on the program quite a lot. Too, Buck,
I do think that you are true, You are correct
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on this. I think Mam Donni is a glib.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Articulate, likable, charismatic voice that will actually be a very
poor and ineffective mayor, meaning that many of the things
that he wants to do or that he talks about doing,
he'll just be simply incapable of doing it. And let
me give you an example of an there's no way
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the city of New York is going to.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Open grocery stores.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Right.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
This whole idea that suddenly you're gonna save money because
instead of the hard working people who are busting their
asses to compete every single day in New York in
the grocery market, that the City of New York is
somehow going to be more efficient, effective and cost.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Controlling of.
Speaker 7 (05:43):
Produce in New York is crazy. And so there's no
way some of this stuff is ever going to happen.
It's just kind of Reddit fantasies where leftists sit around
and say, well, maybe we should just have grocery stores
instead of the grocery companies and then everybody he can
save money. So I think he's gonna be inefficient, and
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if he leaves Jessica Tish in charge of crime in
New York City. I think she's actually doing a good job.
And so my thought is in general that he'll be awful,
but so incapable of putting into place the policies that
he wants to put into place that it will be
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hard for him to make New York that much worse
than it is now. I do think a lot of
New Yorkers, though, are looking around and saying, why do
I want to live here anymore? Sean Hannity gonna be
on right after us. Buck Sexton on with me right now.
Guys who lived in the New York City area born
(06:45):
and raised Buck and just said, you know what, Florida
is better. I'm gonna move. I think it's gonna be
really good for high end Florida pricing. I'm telling you
Tennessee to Texas. I found out the other day one
of my new neighbors, coming in from New York, hedge
fun guy just said, I'm done with it. I'm not
gonna continue here. I'm gonna go where I don't have
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state income tax.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Just the Panhandle is where all you rich New Yorkers
want to go. Miami, Miami Beach is full. Okay, everything
is too expensive. You're already so Clay can get you
great deals. Waterfront, my friends, Waterfront in the Panhandle, go
check that out, because we're good over here. Now we've
already got the infrastructure problems that now I've been here
three years and I'm like these New Yorkers coming down
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into my mind. It's very funny.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
As soon as you move somewhere new, you want to
immediately pull up the bridge. You're like, there's only too
many people moving in here now.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This is this is keep saying where I am in Tennessee.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
Now, everybody suddenly like six months after they get here,
they're like, we got to stop all these Californians and
New Yorkers in Chicagoans from coming down here.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
What do they think they are? It's like, you've been
here six months, buddy, Carrie has to has to stop me.
Sometimes we go for walks around the neighborhood and there's
so much money going into new construction, new houses being
built around here right now. Will be with out in
a beautiful sunny day with Ginger and I look at
some massive construction site residential. You know's be like these
New Yorkers just just crowding, crowding our coffee shops, Uh,
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crowding are parking.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I've been here three years and already I'm in
that category. So yes, I uh says. By the way,
you know what's actually this is real?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
The attitudes of legal immigrants to illegal immigrants, for example,
mirror this where illegal immigrants, I mean sorry, legal immigrants
are like you tell those illegal immigrants to go home
and do it the right way, buddy, Like they are
very a lot of times very stringent. I think this
is why I played by them got wrong.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
They thought that Trump's you know, anti illegal immigration stance
would play poorly with legal immigrants, and boy were they
ever wrong on that because legal immigrants know how hard.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
It is to get here legally, and.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
So when you see people cutting the line, you actually
get way more frustrated with American immigration policy. The fact
that you had to play it right, you had to
for years, work maybe decades, to get yourself here and
your family members here, and then some guy walks across
the southern border and the Biden administration is like, you're
an American now, and no, you're fed up with that too.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
You have mom Donnie here defending himself after this alleged
terror linked NYC E moom Here he is here, he
is talking about this when this is cuts twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The same mom met with Mayor Bloomberg, met with Mayor Deblasio,
campaigned alongside Eric Adams, and the only time it became
an issue of national attention was when I met with him.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, I think it's because people think that you actually
are sympathetic to radical not just left wing, but radical
Islamist ideology. Yes, and that's why no one thinks Bloomberg,
no one thinks Mayor Bloomberg is big on the radical Islam.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I mean Eric Adams, I mean Eric Adams was again.
I think people in New York are going to look
back fondly on the Eric Adams administration if I'm correct,
and Mamdanni is gonna win. Uh, but Eric Adams. Nobody thought, Oh,
Eric Adams is a sympathizer of Hamas. Eric Adams wouldn't
go on Fox News if Martha McCollum asked him and said, hey,
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should Hamas put down their weapons the time they should?
Speaker 1 (10:26):
There's a possibility here. There's a possibility here that we
haven't really discussed, but I could foresee this. First of all,
it please like we got people calling writing in every
day we talk about Mamdanni and they go, why aren't
you guys you know Sliwa New York is eight to
one Democrat or Republican. Okay. A lot of people that
are willing to vote for Cuomo are not willing to
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vote for a Republican and they will vote for Mom
Donnie over Sliwa. This is what you have. You have
to understand the it's not oh if Cuoma because people
were saying, well, Cuomo should drop that out, Like if
Cuomo drops out, most of those votes are gonna go
to Mom Donnie. They're not going to go to Sleewan. Okay.
So that's do you have a lot of New York
I know New Yorkers. I am still a New Yorker
(11:11):
in exile here in Florida with a lot of US.
I wonder if Sean we should ask Sean, our friend
Sean Hannity, if he if he still feels like he's
a New Yorker in Florida, or if he's gone full
Floridian you know, is he is?
Speaker 7 (11:24):
He Sean lived all over the country, right, so I
think he's like fed up.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
He's been here for he was in New York for
he was in New York for at least a long
eye had beautiful uh part of Long Island thirty years,
probably thirty years or something. Yeah, I think at that
point you're you consider yourself a New York guy. But
because I still I still feel like a New Yorker
who lives in Florida except for tax purposes, I'm a
Florida resident, year round, year round, Florida. But you're gonna
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get audited again, now again, aud it again. I haven't.
I set foot in New York as rare only to
see my family on holidays now because of what they
do to me with the taxes. But here's okay. So
here's the situation, though, Clay. Maybe Mom Donnie comes in
and he isn't as radical in the first year as
a lot of people think, and then it will all
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be oh see, he's more reasonable, just long enough for
the Democrats to try to snatch control of the House
in the midterms, and you know he's gonna have a
four year Mom Donnie have a four year term if
he wins. Maybe he turns up the heat of the
crazy town more year two more year three, that's a possibility.
I just want to keep that out there. So if
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he doesn't come in acting like Joseph Stalin right away, Everyan's.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Gonna be like, oh my gosh, he's not so bad.
I think there's some truth to that. Here is something
to think about. Remember how we discussed that Gavin Newsom
was popping bubbly when Trump won because his worst case
scenario was Kamala winning and then he can't run for
twelve years basically for president.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
YEP.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
I don't think AOC wants the Democrats to do well
in twenty twenty six. Something to think about in the
back of your mind. I don't think Gavin Newsom really
wants them to do well. I think they want to
be the solution to a problem, and if things are
going better than Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries look reasonable
and it makes it harder for them to win. I
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think they want to dial up the crazy and let
Trump be successful in the midterms because it benefits them
politically if Republicans have success. So my only thought on
that is I think AOC runs far left wing. If
it hurts the midterms, what does she care her seat's safe.
She cares about twenty eight just something to file away.
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How many Democrats actually with national ambition want twenty twenty
six to be successful. I don't actually think very many
of them do.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I also think that Democrats realize you need star power
to win national elections. Now, now that doesn't have to
be a TV star like Trump necessarily, but you need
somebody with universal name recognition, but also who, say, I
know Biden is born. Biden had been in the game
for so long and was think of all the video
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and all the photos of Biden with Obama, Biden with Obama,
Biden with Obama, and that was his currency one hundred
percent name recognition eight more years of the Obama administration.
You need somebody who has both that name recognition but
also the branding around them, right, it has to be
a That's why I think, like your guy, I never
(14:25):
remember his name. The uh, you know, the jerk from
the governor of Kentucky, right, Andy Basheer, Andy Basheer, Nah,
nobody knows who this guy is. Can't do it. He's
not interesting enough. Can't do it. People say, oh, we've
got a moderate Democrat like Andy Basheer is the nominee
nah doesn't get enough sizzle on social media.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Guys too boring, too bland, I think, But remember what
they did with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But this is what I'm saying. Joe Biden Clay was
was Obama's wingman for eight years. Everybody knew who Joe
Biden was. Andy Basheer. I don't even know what any
Basheer looks like, except I probably saw him at the
No Kings rally if I look closely. All right, Look,
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. All right,
I'm gonna tee up some of these callers who want
to react to me saying New York should just, much
like Buck Island, be left to the sands of time
and the rest of the nation can move on and
have a fabulous existence. There is a new poll that
is out and it shows that if Curtis Lee What
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drops out, there is a chance that Andrew Cuomo could
win this race. If Curtis Lee What stays in, there
is no chance that anybody else is gonna win. And
for those of you out there say, okay, I don't
trust polls, the gambling markets say that there is a
ninety three percent chance right now, Mam Donnie is going
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to win, six percent chance Cuomo is going to win,
less than one percent chance that Slee was gonna win.
This is people putting their actual money down. Hundreds of
millions of dollars now buck has been wagered in who
is going to be elected the mayor of New York
City And Mom Donnie today just hit a record high.
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So if you disagree with the polling, you can go
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
We're going to take these calls when we come back
here in just a second. Yeah, So light us up here.
And if you just want to get mad at Clay
for representing Nashville interests over New York interests, a little
too much. I would say, the nation's interests over New
York's interests. Notice, how we look what he did right there.
He's a smooth operator to play Travis. He says, he's
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welcome back into Clay. We got a lot of lines lit.
I think play has touched a nerve in the Five
Burroughs and beyond the Tri State area with his maybe
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maybe Democrat areas have to learn a painful lesson mcclayly.
If you remember, we have all these beautiful Republicans, beautiful Republicans
who listen to us in the Tri State, beautiful Republicans
who listened to us in California. I love women behind
on the battlefield. I love them all.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
But you know, a lot of them moved to Westchester,
A lot of them are listening on Long Island, and
a lot more of them. I think you're going to
be listening outside New York City when Mamdani is elected
in the city so slowly sinks beneath the wave of communism,
and people with money decide, you know what, there's a
lot of places where I can live very well, Texas, Tennessee,
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Florida among them, where I don't have to pay fifteen
percent of my money in state taxes. With Mamdani pledging
to raise the taxes even more, but a ton of
people want a weigh in. We got uloaded lines again.
The mayor's race is fifteen days am I right about that?
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Fifteen days from now is the official race.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Cursely what we should say, I'll just echo he should
drop out as long as he stays in the race, Mom,
Donnie is basically one hundred percent going to win this election, not.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Saying Clay is going here. Next he's going to tell
you that Bastrami at Kats's delicatest and is overrated. Central
Park is not that beautiful in the fall. I mean,
he's really you know, he's being rough. He's been rough
on New York right now, and I'm being rough on
New York but being very kind to the rest of
(20:39):
the country because we'll all benefit on New York seeking
beneath the waves of communism. Kevin Wisconsin wants to weigh
in on this one. What's going on? Kevin?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Hey, I thanks for taking my call. I just want
to know when and why did Clay and Buck turn
into every other? We need republican elite that won't even
answer a fight when it comes to may or all
other you know important uh, you know.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
So, what should Okay, Kevin, what would a strong need?
Is that a good thing? What would a strong need
Republican show be saying right now to you?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Well, right now, at first you should have gotten behind
Slee way to begin with, But right now you would
definitely be saying that como needs to drop out because
he knows he can't win.
Speaker 7 (21:27):
Kevin, I could give I could give Curtis Lee what
ten million dollars tomorrow, more than anybody has given him,
probably for his campaign in the history of his UH
primary runs, in the history of his political career. And
he would still lose by thirty points, maybe forty, but.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
At least to be a fair fighter got drought. But
there is a I.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Don't how is it a fair fight?
Speaker 7 (21:50):
Like if you support someone who gets their ass kicked
then makes it worse for everybody else, how is that
a strong thing to do?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Well, it's okay, So let's concede that maybe New York
is lost, but there is.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
A well, agree with me, this is what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 (22:06):
There is a way you can redeem yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
There is other elections to where we have socialists that are.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Running that might win, and with the wavin Kevin, you're
very far away in Wisconsin. I'm just wondering, why is
this guy? This got you so fired up? Were you
a former New Yorker?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I myself am supporting someone who's running for mayor in Minneapolis,
even though I don't even live in the state, who
happens to be the only conservative running against fifteen other candidates.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
Where we have Omar Pete.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Who is another Democratic socialist in the same line as Mandani,
who could very well win this race.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well, you're the hero of hopeless causes. This is kind
of where we.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Are in this case. I'm saying that he's not a
hopeless cause. I think he's got the best shot.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
He has a z Let me just be Kevin. He
has a z z row percent chance of winning. He
has as much chance of being elected mayor of New
York City as I do of being Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 10 (23:08):
I'll make a bet with you, Okay, all right, we'll
do a dinner.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
All right.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I can't quite go on the same line of dinners
that the you two seem to be able to afford,
but I'll do a state dinner with you that Laverne Turner,
an independent candidate for mayor in Minneapolis. All right, will
win this election because they happen to have rank choice voting,
and this time around it will favor Laverne.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Okay, I appreciate the call. I will I have no
idea who Lavernon Shirley.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
You might have.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Well, I can't make a bet on someone I don't
even know. Thank you for the call. I don't Kevin
was everywhere all over the place. I will admit I
do not know a lot about the Minneapolis mayor's race.
I did look it up while we were talking. And
the crazy guy who knelt at the George Floyd funeral,
(24:00):
the sort of curly haired white guy. He is an
o Jacob Fray. He is an overwhelming favorite to be re.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Elected mayor, so as also known as he's gonna win again. Yes,
and I didn't know this. Minneapolis, guys, what is going
on in your city? Shots fired calls were at four
thousand and they're celebrating that down from five thousand. Four
(24:27):
thousand calls about shots fired in the city of Minneapolis. Oh,
I mean, it's just is this like is this like
like Lebanon in the eighties, Like what are you guys
doing over there? Oh?
Speaker 7 (24:38):
I mean the city in the wake of George Floyd.
Tons of cops just said I'm leaving. They're gonna reelect.
It appears the dumbest human in maybe the governor's offices
anywhere in the country, obviously with Tim Walls and so
I just think Minneapolis has fallen. And uh, it's a
(24:59):
shame because it's a nice place.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
What craziness that is? Really? Okay, we got more people
who are fired up. Jerry and Jersey. Jerry, and Jersey's angry.
He's not inviting you to Satrial's Clay, You're off the list.
What's going on, Jerry?
Speaker 8 (25:15):
Yeah, hey, guys, thanks taking my call. You know, the
demands for Curtis to leave the race is observed once
you think about it, because Democrats elected a communist Muslim
in their primary, and they nominated him to leave the city.
And now they're getting scared of the communist Muslim and
they want Republicans to bail them out and help them
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elect the guy who's only a granny killer. He doesn't
he's not actually a communist.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Jerry, I'm with you. This is why we don't need
to save New York. We just let it go underwater
and the rest of the country benefits.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
One hundred percent, Clay one hundred. You know, New York
City cannot be bailed out by Republicans. It won't serve
them well. And imagine, guys, if Republicans elect I'm nominated
at awful Republican and then Republicans turned to Democrats and said, hey,
your guy gotta get out because we want to elect
our Republican. Imagine how that would go. So New York
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City needs no sympathy from us.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Thank you kind of Jerry and Jersey is looking across
the Hudson River with glee at what is about to
happen to my beloved New York City. Okay, this is
making me sad. Damon, I think Jerry. Jerry has been
stuck in Lincoln Tunnel traffic one time too many. He's like,
you know what, I'm done. He's making a good decision. Damon.
Used to live in New York City. Damon, you're with me.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Just let New York City sink underneath the waves of communism.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
You know, a buck, you should tell Clay that if
this guy takes over in New York City, there's no
more del friskness.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Man, that's a great spot.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
I would I if they start charging more for my
stakes at Del Friscos, then I'll be in trouble.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Damon, what do you think should happen?
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Here's the thing New York City has turned into most
of like your your European socialist countries, where there's there's
two parties, there's a left and then there's a ultra left.
I mean, I hate to say it as as an
ex New Yorker and are the veteran conservative. You know,
I bleed, I bleed, red, white and blue. But but
(27:17):
let this place go, let us self destruct. I mean,
it's there's so much history there, There's so much Uh
you know, where's the Steinbrenner family. I mean, where are
they to say to They need to not come out,
They need to come out and not endorse the Scotch.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Hey, they're not in the playoffs. I'll tell you that, David. Sorry,
Yankee fans, I'm really teeing off on New York today.
Louise in Long Island. Uh, Louise, what do you think?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Thank you for taking my call. I'm looking at this
a little differently in terms of the Mundani race. Everybody's
focused on the finances. But my question is is he
going to do things like introduce chia law in certain
areas of the city. Is he's going to allow foreigners
(28:06):
to come in and invest in property to change the
aspect of the city. I mean, I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, okay, there's a there's a few, there's a few things.
I'm the one who's lived in New York, so I'll
step in here, Clay, excuse me, excuse me, sir, you
with all of your m I'm very comfortable with the
city going under the water. So so, so to our
callers questions, one is you have to remember that the
mayor of New York City. New York still operates within
New York's New York City operates with the New York State.
And so there are things that go beyond what just
(28:35):
the city can do that would conflict with say state
law which you which you can't which you can't have,
and so uh, you also have a city council, uh,
and laws to be changed would have to be changed
even at the city level in the city council. So
there there's some things that Mamdani is not capable of
doing that he has talked about legally. Uh, there are
(28:59):
other things that I think he will not be able
to do logistically or bureaucratically, he won't be able to
figure out how to get the things done that he
wants to get done. So I wouldn't worry about that.
And New York already has a tremendous amount of foreign
investment from all over the world. It's actually the New
York City high end real estate market has been a
(29:20):
place where oligarchs from Russia and China and wherever have
been stashing cash for going on thirty years now, so
that's nothing new. But you have a tremendous I've seen
some recent data Clay that something like thirty or forty
percent of the public housing in New York City, which
is substantial, is people that won't weren't born in America.
(29:46):
So you have a massive foreign born population, not just
in New York City, but living in subsidized housing in
New York City.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
One thing Louise hit on that I do think is interesting,
and we'll take some more of your calls on this
to close out the hour, sharial aw the disconnect between
left wing support for people like Mom Donnie and for
sort of the Palestinian cause. This is an unholy alliance
(30:17):
of epic proportions because as we've joked about for some time.
I think I even offered to fund an airplane to
fly the Gaze to Gaza to protest in favor of
in favor of Hamas in Gaza, just to see how
it would go. They throw you off buildings and behead
you if you are gay in many of these countries
(30:39):
under Sharia law. So the people walking around with Pride
flag saying free, free Palestine, their brains are so broken.
I can't even comprehend the arguments that they're making. But
on Luise's point, Buck, they don't want to actually do
that because that would force meaning start to put in
(31:00):
place Sharia law and say, hey, if you're a girl,
you can't get an education after eighth grade, which is
basically I think, what now is the law in Afghanistan
now the Taladon is taken back over. If that is
to happen, then it will force that cognitive dissonance to
be explored and exploded where you point out, wait a minute,
these people are actually completely the antithesis of what the
(31:25):
left in this country tries to argue. And it's why
this identity politics coalition I think on the left is
ultimately unmanageable in the years ahead. I think you started
to see it fracturing with Trump. I think I think
it's an unholy alliance that cannot continue.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show Bucks could
have run out by the way much like you ran
out on the city of New York.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Uh harsh hard.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
He said, you know what, Miami's got great weather, starting
to get a little cold up here, A little chilly
Buck said, you know, I think I'll just have summer
year round. But Buck has got a check up for
the baby, so I'll have you for the third hour solo.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But you want to hit a bunch of these calls.
Speaker 7 (33:52):
Uh before we before we run out a lot of
you weighing in on the New York City Mayor's race,
which is fifteen days and early vote is just about
to start. Chris in Manhattan, what you got for us?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Hey, guys, So I work in Manhattan, but I live
in Long Island, so very interesting. My wife and I
put our house up for sale about two months ago.
The amount of people that are coming in from Glendale,
Queens to move out of the city too, Long Island
is off the charts. It was the best time for
us to sell a house. We sold it within a week, Okay,
(34:25):
and now we're moving down to New Jersey in Tom's River.
But anyhow, it is. It's a real thing. Now. I've
worked in Manhattan for forty years. I take the subway.
I've taken videos and brought them to the cops of
the amount of people that jump over the turnstiles. Yep,
off the charts. They lost one hundred million dollars last year. Now, Mindomie,
one of his plans is to have free bus services.
(34:47):
You know. And I'm gonna tell you something. I know
a couple of bus drivers. They're all gonna quit because
a bunch of homeless are gonna go live on the buses.
That's what they're gonna do. They're getting on there for free.
So you're not gonna have enough people to do anything
this guy wants. I have friends who are cops. They're
they're done too. This whole thing is gonna be a
complete and utter disaster. We could see it a mile away.
(35:10):
And all these spoiled kids from Brooklyn are voting for this, okay,
and they don't you know, like I said, it's gonna
be free subways, free buses. It's a joke. The place
was a joke when Eric Adams was mayor. It's just
gonna get worse. And that's all I'm saying. I'm out
of here. But they're all coming in from Queens. I'm
telling you right now, they're all moving out to Long Island.
(35:31):
I live in Best Page. They're all coming out here.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Thank you, Chris. I think there's gonna be a lot
of that Buck.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
It's the best thing for or real estate of values too,
a lot more people.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I'm getting a little heat now, I'm getting a little
heat on some of these comments. But I'll be like, yeah,
Bucks standing up for new York from Miami Beach and
your sandals getting your Hey, hey, I can still love
from Afar. Okay, I am rooting for you, New York.
I'm just rooting for you. Do have miles away.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
We do have a lot of family members that Yeah,
my family lives in New York.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Still.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
My family, I should say it lives in New York still.
So I would say this though, Clay. New York City
real estate right now is pretty much at the all
time high and renting as well well. So no matter
what happens in New York, the demand never goes down.
People want to be there, people want to live there.
I mean, this is just the you know, well, this
(36:20):
is the truth. I think.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
Actually a huge part of it is what you hit on.
A lot of people use New York real estate from
foreign countries to shield assets because it's so expensive that
if you are supremely wealthy in your Russian aligarchs, those
are the.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Big fancy apartments. I'm talking about the average one bedroom.
The average price renting a one bedroom in New York
it's like four grand. It's basically an all time high.
Speaker 7 (36:44):
They won't build new places for people to live, and
they have rent control that's a bad problem. It actually
just keeps driving up the costs for everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
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