March 5, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show dives deeply into the rapidly shifting dynamics of American politics, with a strong focus on the Texas Senate race, President Trump’s strategic maneuvers, and breaking news from Washington. Clay and Buck open the hour by analyzing the fallout from the Texas primary and the growing expectation that President Trump will endorse a candidate in the Texas Senate race. They emphasize how critical the Texas seat is to preserving the GOP’s narrow Senate majority and outline the broader 2026 Senate landscape—highlighting difficult Republican battles in Maine and North Carolina, as well as opportunities in Georgia. The hosts examine how a Trump endorsement, whether for John Cornyn or Ken Paxton, signals a deliberate effort to maintain Senate control ahead of potential Supreme Court vacancies.
A major portion of the hour is devoted to the explosive controversy surrounding Democratic candidate James Talarico, whose far‑left ideological positions, past tweets, and public comments have become a focal point of criticism. Clay and Buck dissect his rhetoric comparing himself to biblical figures, his claims about “white skin” being a societal contagion, and his promotion of Dr. Fauci memorabilia—framing Talarico as a deeply out‑of‑touch progressive misaligned with Texas voters. They compare him to figures like Jasmine Crockett and Beto O’Rourke, arguing that Democrats continue to misjudge which candidates appeal to mainstream Texans. They also break down the Republican strategic calculus, suggesting that Trump may back Cornyn to avoid draining resources needed for more competitive races across the country.
The hosts then shift to broader electoral trends, highlighting dramatic changes in Florida’s voter registration. With Republicans gaining nearly 1.5 million registrants and Democrats losing ground since 2016, Clay and Buck describe Florida as the modern GOP stronghold and a blueprint for conservative policy success nationwide. They discuss how population movement from blue states to red states—accelerated by COVID-era policies—is reshaping the national electoral map. They project that the 2030 census and future Supreme Court rulings on race‑based congressional districts could yield a significant long‑term structural advantage for Republicans.
Midway through the hour, the program takes a dramatic turn with breaking news: President Trump has fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, marking the first removal of a cabinet secretary in this administration. Clay and Buck react in real time as Fox News reports the termination and the appointment of Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma as the new acting head of the Department of Homeland Security. They recount the scandals that contributed to Noem’s downfall—including reports of inappropriate spending, allegations about personal relationships, and a controversial $200 million DHS ad campaign featuring her—describing widespread bipartisan dissatisfaction after her congressional hearing. The hosts speculate on what the leadership change means for border security, immigration policy, and future DHS operations.
The hour concludes with humorous listener talk‑backs, commentary on superhero films, and reflections on political governance, but the overarching themes remain firmly rooted in 2026 election strategy, Republican momentum in key states, the Texas Senate showdown, and the high‑stakes DHS shake‑up inside the Trump administration.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in our number two Clay Travis buck Sexton show.
We appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're
going to talk with Ryan Gardusky in the third hour.
We were just talking with Yile Eckstein in Israel in
the first hour of the program. Let's talk about a
couple of things here, Buck that I think are interesting
(00:22):
on the American political front. First of all, the fallout
of what happened in the Texas primary on Tuesday has
led to reports that President Trump is potentially going to
endorse and that he is ready to have a nominee
(00:44):
in the Senate in Texas. What is that telling us
about the landscape in general? I think it is that
President Trump is really seriously focused on preserving the majority
in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I think is going to be more challenging.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Because there are a lot of different races to focus
on in the Senate. We've got a fifty three forty
seven advantage for the Republicans right now, given the JD
vance breaks the ties, that means that Democrats would have
to pick up four different seats. And if you look
at the way the landscape of the different states are
(01:25):
setting up, Maine is going to be tough for Susan Collins.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That is a blue state that.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know they break it up and that there is
a red part of that blue state. But Susan Collins
seems to be almost the only Republican that can win
in Maine. Right now, You've got a really difficult race
shaping up in North Carolina open Senate seat. Michael Wattley
is going to be going up against Roy Cooper. Roy
Cooper is a popular former governor who has been elected
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statewide before, So that is going to be a tough battle.
And then you've got George which is probably the best
opportunity of Republicans to pick off an existing seat where
Usoff is running. But you start to run through all
these different maps and it almost becomes impossible for Democrats
(02:15):
to win control of the Senate if Texas is preserved.
And so I think President Trump is making a calculated
decision about what exactly he wants to do to preserve
that Senate majority. And you say, Okay, what's going on
with that Senate majority? I think there's a decent chance
buck that one of the older Supreme Court justices, maybe
(02:36):
even more than one of the older Supreme Court justices
decides to step down, given the fact that we have
basic majority gets a Supreme Court justice life tenure. I
don't know how long it's going to be until Republicans
have control of the Senate and the presidency again. Might
happen this year, but you would like to have it
(02:57):
happen for the next couple of years, given the ages
that everybody is in the Senate right now. So there's
gonna be a lot of focus on the House, and
we know what they will do.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
They will impeach.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It will become difficult to get anything through Congress at all.
I would argue it's very difficult to get everything through
Congress now. But Ken Paxton, who we just reached out
to to invite on the program, has just said he
would drop out of the Senate race if the Save
Act were passed and they ended the filibuster in order
(03:28):
to do so.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think this is.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
An intriguing political situation that we're in because John Thune,
now the leader of the Senate, is put on the
hot seat a bit here because he knows that basically
his preservation of a Senate majority is almost guaranteed if
they passed the Save Act. But that is the challenge
(03:52):
that we face, and again we have an offer out
to Paxton. There have been reports that Trump is going
to endorse Cornyon, the sitting incumbent. One bit of update
for all of you out there, there is a live
press conference update in Austin, Texas on the shooter that
killed multiple people in an Austin knight club bar shooting scene.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And so we were run.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We are running on that and we will get you
an update on that information. Although, Buck, I think, as
we said on the program, when you show up in
a Iranian T shirt, kind of a suggestion that maybe
you're acting out as a basis of terrorism for that behavior.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we will we will talk about all of that.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now, what's your assessment here, Buck, as you analyze this
again the Texas Senate. To me, it's the the larger
story here is President Trump sees that Texas Senate seat
if it's in Republican hands, the map just doesn't add
up for for Democrats a easily. Maybe you get Maine,
(05:02):
maybe you get North Carolina. You might be favored there,
but then you would have to flip Ohio, you would
have to flip Texas. We just had Steve Danes step
down in Montana, but Montana would be a tough flip,
and that presumes that you win the toss ups in
Trump states, in Georgia, in Michigan, that kind of map.
Iowa's out there too, but seems difficult. I think Trump feels,
(05:25):
if he has Texas in his back pocket, that the
Senate majority is confirmed, and I think that's motivating a
lot of his actions.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, I think that the Senate's looking good for Republicans overall.
I think that you are going to have a tougher
time with the House. And this is the conventional wisdom
that everyone has on this, because it's probably going to
be the case. I would say James tall Rico here
he is, this has cut seven. He says, they're gonna
(05:54):
call me a radical leftist and a fake Christian. Maybe
because you are, James, but let's talk about this place seven.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
They're scared of the movement we are building. They're gonna
throw everything they have at us. They're gonna call me
a radical leftist. They're gonna call me a fake Christian.
They'll call our movement on Texan, on'n American. They'll call
us a threat. The only truth is we are a threat.
We are a threat to their corrupt system. Two thousand
(06:23):
years ago, when the powerful few at the top hurt
those at the bottom, that barefoot rabbi didn't stay in
his room and pray. He walked into the seat of
power and flipped over the tables of injustice to those
who love this state, to those who love this country,
to those who love our neighbors. It's time to start
(06:45):
flipping tables.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh, just comparing himself to Jesus. This guy very humble,
very humble, fellow h James Tallerico. This tweet has been
getting more attention. This was him speaking, or rather tweeting,
after the Ahmad arbery case. He wrote this is in
a twenty twenty. White skin gives me and every white
(07:11):
American immunity from the virus, but we spread it wherever
we go through our words, our actions, and our systems.
We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white
hood or a Confederate flag to be contagious. Our inherent racism,
as white people play is contagious, and we have to
(07:32):
seek to contain that contagion by just having our white skin.
This guy doesn't think he's a leftist. I really want
to ask the question between the God is trans or
non binary? You gotta trans the kids. Abortion is exactly
what Jesus had in mind. Loves Jesus loves abortion, it's
great to kill babies, and white skin is a form
(07:55):
of contagion that pollutes society everywhere it goes. If these
are all his position, if he is not a leftist,
who is a leftist? I want to know if he
is not to the left of the Democrat Party, who
is I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm gonna say this, and some of you are going
to say he can't be serious, Clay, I'm serious. I
think he may be crazier than Jasmine Crockett. Oh no,
I think so too. I think so too. It's possible
that this guy is further left wing than Jasmine Crockett was,
and I think he's crazier. I mean, he posted did
you see this? I shared this? In December of twenty
(08:31):
twenty one. He said his favorite Christmas gift was a
Doctor Fauci action figure, and he said that everybody in
Texas needed to make sure that they got their COVID
shot and had gotten their most recent round of boosters.
December of twenty one.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, that's you. Know, December of twenty one is a
lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You know, March April twenty twenty, you go back in
time by May of twenty twenty. Somehow you and I
were smart enough to be able to deduce everything that
had to do with COVID. So I'm giving people passes
in March and April of twenty twenty and kind of
the confusion of the moment, But by May of twenty twenty,
like the whole COVID game, the rig job should have
(09:12):
been a parent if you were paying attention December of
twenty one posting a Fauci action figure. You are a
committed left winger, and you mentioned this a little bit
in the first hour. But I think tall Rico actually
is a interesting dynamic because it feels very much like
(09:33):
Tim Walls. This is people who are leftists, left wing
women largely trying to pick guys that they think will
appeal to normal guys and failing miserably because they don't
understand how to talk to normal dudes. Remember when they
(09:55):
try to call Tim Walls coach Walls, and they put
him in the plaid shirt, and they get him a
gunn and they sent him out and they said look,
he wears boots. He's a totally normal guy. And then
totally normal guys watched Tim Walls and they said, this
is not a totally normal guy. James Tallerico is a
lesbian's idea of a white guy that will appeal to
(10:16):
normal white guys and normal men out.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Christian, to Christians specifically, just because he does the I
talk about Jesus thing, He's going to appeal to anybody
who believes in Jesus. This is the New York Times
editorial board version of a white Christian guy from Texas
who other people who go to Christian Christian churches are
going to find common ground with. It's it's absurd that again,
(10:43):
they just have no idea. It's like a different species
to them.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
If it's like they're trying to translate a language and
that they don't really understand and find someone who they
think can speak to people that they recognize they have lost.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And so I just don't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Think there's going to be any any ability here whatsoever
UH to UH to corral voters now on the Paxton
front and the UH and the corn In front. I
think this is a tactical decision from Trump that he
wants to allocate resources so that we can make a
(11:23):
real run in Michigan. He knows that Georgia is going
to be a pick up a bull. He knows that
Maine and North Carolina are going to be super difficult battlegrounds,
and heat Ohio and Iowa and uh and Texas and
Montana and all these other different states. And he's trying
to figure out how we can spend the least amount
of money necessary in Texas to win this race. And
(11:46):
I think Trump has been convinced that that is by
him endorsing John Cornyn. Now, Cornyan beat Paxton by a
small margin of votes in the primary, and I believe
what happened was the Cornin people went back to Trump
and they said, ken Paxton wasn't able to beat us
(12:07):
head to head in the Republican primary. You have to
get over fifty percent support in order to be the
official nominee. So we have the runoff in late May,
and they are saying he's not going to be able
to beat us in May, either whether you believe that
or not. And then there's going to be one hundred
million dollars spent or more in this additional primary, potentially
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and then you're going to have to spend hundreds of
millions of dollars more if Paxton is the nominee in
order to beat tall Rico.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Now here's what I would say.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think whoever the Republican nominee is, is going to
beat tall Rico. I think they're going to raise a
lot of money for him, just like they did for Beto.
But I think this guy is actually a far less
appealing version of Beto. I think he's crazier. I think
he's got further left wing opinions say. I think it's
a little more handsome. Beto's a better look at guy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Better looking guy, you know, Beto in those Wrangler jeans,
a little more, a little more exciting to the ladies
and some of the guys than Tall Rico is. So
you know, we can just call it out. We'll say
say it like it is. But I think that this
guy is I think this guy is toasting the election.
I think there's no chance. And now you should never
(13:23):
say that Texans. You need to show up, you need
to vote, you need to make sure that this doesn't
end up happening. But they're they're not even running a
passable version of a Texas Centrist. In this campaign, they're
running a a an ardent leftist. I mean he is
a leftist. There's no way around that. Just because you
talk about God doesn't mean you aren't a leftist. In fact,
(13:46):
there are a lot I can speak from the Catholic
church side of this, there are a lot of commie
Catholics running around, including in the clergy, which is very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, I think also you could see where Jasmine Crockett
had a base black female voters, and particular we're going
to show up for her in a substantial way. I'm
not sure what James tell Rico's base is, and so
again I think either Paxton or Cornyn would win. But
I do believe that now that we're in sort of
strategic season for analyzing, there's been a lot of talk
(14:17):
about the quality of Senate nominees in different states. And
we've talked about this before. In Georgia, Republicans have lost
three straight Senate races that they should have won, just
point blank. Three straight Senate races in Georgia were all winnable.
Warnock and Asa are not great candidates, and Georgia Republicans
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have not been able to get across the finish line
because they haven't had a good enough nominees. Meanwhile, Brian
Kemp wins by eight points. Every other office in the
state overwhelmingly comfortable wins. We've got to get better nominees
across the board, and so I think this is the
this is the strategic analysis. We'll open up phone lines.
A lot of Texans will have strong thoughts on this.
(15:00):
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Speaker 2 (16:35):
Good morning, fellas.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
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National Airport, I expecting to see play in here somewhere.
I like the uh, the references to the Dark Knight,
and I don't want to go out on a limb here,
but I think this Box imitation of Vain might be better
than his imitation of the Fuck that's wild. I know
to say that, but hey, I'm crazy like that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
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the Baine impersonation.
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Is that the best best superhero movie ever made? Ooh,
I am a Batman?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Begins over on the rest of the trilogy, fan, I
like the first one the most.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Actually, as a movie.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
My problem with those movies is the female leads are terrible.
Katie Holmes, that other chick who is just not cute.
I'm sorry, she's just it's it's just not not even Midge,
She's just not attractive. I don't remember her name, Maggie
Jillenhall gross not good for the role. But the first
movie I think is the best. You agree or disagree.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
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Speaker 1 (18:55):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. You know, Buck,
there's a lot of good news out there, and I
don't think we discussed this on the program yet. I
saw this and I thought to myself, you know what,
we should dive into this. And I meant to mention
it a day or so ago. But your home state
of Florida. I know there's a lot of frustration out there.
(19:18):
People say, oh, you know, what's the impact? Nothing ever changes.
It doesn't matter who wins races, It's all going to
turn into I think a sometimes people just get so
much negativity running. And I do think this is important
and worth breaking down Florida voter registration.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Did you see this.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
This is from a guy named Michael Pruser who does
the data on this. Let me hit you with some
numbers because I think Governor Ron DeSantis and a lot
of the Republican Floridian establishment has not gotten enough attention.
And I do believe the store of Florida is occurring
across many different states simultaneous. According to the most recent
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numbers that came out this is the beginning of March,
so through the end of February, Republicans now have an
advantage of nearly one point five million overall voters in
the state. That is five point five million registered Republicans
in Florida. They are now about four point four million
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registered Democrats. Now that's a pretty impressive overall outcome. But
what's interesting, Buck is if you go back to just
let's see just twenty sixteen, right as Trump was coming
into office, right before DeSantis came into office, there were
just four point five million registered Republicans and there were
(20:54):
four point nine million registered Democrats. So Democrats have lost
about five hundred thousand and Republicans have added roughly a million.
Palm Beach County, which was used to be a bastion
of the Democrat Party, is going to flip red very soon.
(21:14):
I believe that will leave only three counties, three or
four counties total that even have a Democrat majority. So
if you're out there and you're frustrated, and I get it,
and you say, hey, who gets elected doesn't matter, and
I know there are some of you out there in
the market because we hear from them all the time. Florida,
I think is an incredible story about what happens when
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there are good policies put in place, when there are smart,
committed Republican leaders put in place and when they execute.
And I would argue right now that Florida is the
base of the Republican Party and for those of you
out there who can remember Florida as the ultimate swing
state battleground in all of the nation, and it's really
(22:01):
kind of incredible to see. And sometimes we miss progress
that is occurring because it's easier to focus on negative
stories and it's easier to be upset on a day
to day basis. But Florida is one of the greatest
success stories in Republican Party history. If you look at
what's happened over the last decade, and you, as a
Floridian now buck are part of that mass influx of people.
(22:25):
I actually think Florida is poised to become even more
of a leader in Republican Party circles going forward. It's
really an incredible story, and I don't think it gets
talked about enough in a positive way.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No, I think it's fantastic. It's obviously I live here
and I'm so pleased to see how well everything is going.
So the numbers speak for themselves. Fortress Florida is stronger
than ever. Ron Dea Santists who has stepped away from
the national spotlight a bit in the last couple of years,
but he has done a phenomenal job as governor, and
(23:02):
I think there's still some very worthwhile stuff that he's
trying to get through in his last year. And it
shows you that you can have reasonable, competent people in
charge of state government. It is a thing that can happen,
and it's a good thing when it happens. It makes
people safer, it makes businesses more prosperous, it makes your
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day to day life more efficient, to streets are cleaner.
I mean, all these things that you'd like to think
all government is doing at some level, or rather all
necessary government is functioning in a way to make your
life better or at least not make your life worse.
And unfortunately, in New York City, I experienced the other
side of this, so I know what it is like
on both sides of this coin. I know what it's
(23:47):
like to be in a place New York where the
people in charge are in some cases ideologically dedicated to
destroying your quality of life and taking from you and
blaming you for the problems that some of their policies
are exacerbating. And I've seen the other side of it
where you are welcomed and if you are law abiding,
(24:09):
you have the benefit of law enforcement around you. So
therefore you get to lead a safer, more orderly, and
more pleasant existence. And that is what we have in Florida.
So yeah, man, it's great. And I just the people
that are still holding out in some of these other
places who are I'm not talking about the Republicans who
live in California. I get it, you got family there,
(24:30):
you love your state. It's a beautiful state.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You want to go.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I mean the Democrats who are still in these states
who don't get it. I don't understand what they don't
get at this point, Well I do. It's a delusion,
like a manufactured delusion. Which is a fantastic book that
all of you should get from the New York Times
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Speaker 2 (24:52):
It is a spectacular book.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I sold many copies, and I do believe that one
of the big untold stories right now is Florida is
an example of the census and how the census is
going to swing in a really transformative way for the map.
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The map is not going to change until twenty thirty,
but the legacy of COVID. When you look at what's
happened with Texas, with Tennessee, with Florida, there are a
lot of other states to point to as well. Is Democrats'
ability to win nationwide elections is going to be severely
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curtailed starting in twenty thirty. Now, twenty twenty eight is
still going to be a battle that's fought on frankly,
a map that has shifted in Republican party directions. But
all of this is going to be I think a
super important story that is not getting enough attention. And
buck this doesn't even take into account what I think
(25:57):
the Supreme Court is going to do. And again, this
is not being I'm trying to be positive here because
there's so many things that I think don't get enough attention.
I was thinking about the Florida numbers and the fact
that people are voting with their feet because of the
leadership of Ron DeSantis and others. But also look at
what the Supreme Court's likely to do when it comes
to race based congressional districts. I don't think they're going
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to give their ruling in time to impact the twenty
twenty six midterm cycle, because I think they're going to
say it's too political, but they, I believe, are going
to do away.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
With race based congressional districts.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Right now, it is considered constitutional to say, hey, we're
going to have a majority black district, and we'll draw
that district so that it encompasses all these different interstates
and neighborhoods. And you look at some of the most
jerry manndered communities out there, many of them are race
based drawn districts for black voters. The country has actually
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become so much more diverse with Hispanic and Asian and
and other people of different backgrounds that this black white
dynamic and black based districts I think are not going
to be allowed. And you say, okay, Clay, what's the
impact of that going to be by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That could swing twenty seats.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Towards Republicans because those districts being not able to be
gerrymandered that way. So if you think about that ruling,
which I think is going to come down this summer,
and then you think about what's going to happen with
the twenty thirty census, and using Florida as an example
of how population has shifted the map for twenty thirty
(27:38):
and beyond is going to be massively in favor of
red states. And here's something else. I think the acceleration
of voters from blue states is going to move even
faster because if you look at the budgets of New
York and California, for example, they spend way more than
a state like Florida or Texas, big states would and
(28:00):
they get far weaker results. And I think that is
all going to Again, this is big picture talking next
five six years, all of that is going to that
transformation is going to occur even more rapidly. So I
understand a lot of people out there saying, and I
get it because I'm impatient. I want things to happen
as quickly as they possibly can. I don't think that
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we're talking enough about how much difference that's going to
make in the years ahead. Now, should we still pass
the Save Act and ensure that federal elections are reliable
and that we do something crazy like require somebody to
show up with a photo photo ID in order to vote. Yes,
that is a non negotiable to me. It should happen,
(28:45):
And I understand how that can be frustrating when things
like that aren't happening. But I do think the larger
trend lines here are not being talked about enough, and
they are incredibly favorable. And this is what good governance does.
People do note and they vote with their feet.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Indeed, that's excellent. Clay's good at the whole stump speech thing.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I think he's getting any ideas it could be kind
of a wide open field in twenty twenty eight. Laura,
we should talk. I'd be a great chief of staff.
I'm just saying, I'm just throwing it out there, mister
Clay Travis. You have the political gift of gab. Sir,
I feel like I'm ready to move to Tennessee, and
I live in Florida. It's already great here.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I just think that again, results really do matter, and
sometimes it's frustrating when you don't see those results in
real time.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And look at Florida, it really is a great story.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
You've never lived in a deeply dysfunctional well. I actually
didn't say that you live in DC, but way.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
We got breaking news.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Wow, wow all on oh boy.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I was asking I was asking Buck if we should
bring this up because there was a bunch of noise.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I've got the vapors. I've got the vapors bucks.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Good Joe has been fired. Everybody Christine Home has been fired.
They're telling me, oh lord, who man.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
This is the first cabinet secretary to be removed from office.
We were talking off air about the fact that the
odds in the prediction markets had gone to ninety percent
that she was out. Wall Street Journal has really kind
of come after with a bunch of stories about spending,
and so christ turns out, someone who's corrupt, cheats on
(30:27):
her husband and shoots dogs for fun isn't the best
person to put in charge of maybe your most important
federal agency. I'm glad the administration is moving in the
right direction here. So now who is going to be
the DHS secretary? That's going to be the next question.
So Christinoam out. That's breaking news. Just came up on
Fox News as an alert. There's a possibility I guess
that Tom Homan could be could slash should say alleged.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
By the way, with all of that alleged, these are
all allegations, of course, Yes, christineaam is going to step
down and Tom Holme is taking over.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'm not sure who that next person is going to
be breaking news, will come back and talk about who
might be. Oh wow, she's being replaced by Mark Wayne Mullen,
Oklahoma Senator.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We was just just on the show this week, friend
of the show, Mark Wayne Mullen. That's according to breaking
news from from Fox News, senator from Oklahoma will now
take over as the head of DHS.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Apparently the hearing was disastrous from Republican and Democrat side
of things. We didn't really cover the hearing, but no,
I'm had a hearing on Capitol Hill. She was asked
about a special government employee who travels with her who
is not her husband, and that did not go over well.
She was asked a number of things that did not
go over well, including a two hundred million dollar ad
campaign starring her. That's taxpayer dollars, everybody, two hundred million dollars.
(31:53):
So President Trump, this is big news. So look, we're
gonna go to break, we'll come back and we'll talk
about it. This is the first cabinet secretary in two
point zero. There's been a lot of stability so far.
This is the first cabinet secretary out. Michael Walls has
shifted right. They moved him to Ambassador to the UN
if I'm not mistaken from inside of the government. So
(32:15):
that's the biggest move prior to now.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But again, breaking news, Christy Nome out and Senator Mark
Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma up now to be the new
head of DHS. We'll talk about that when we come
back again. Breaking news coming down right now.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I'd just love to see this Trump administration making smart
decisions and doing the best thing for the American people
and for the mission. That's where I come down on this.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck the big breaking news
and it is everywhere now, it is on Fox News,
that is on the Daily Mail. It is everywhere. Trump
preparing to fire Christinome. Well, sorry, Trump has fired Christinome. Rather,
that's on Fox News. But the headline of Daily Mail
is quote after she lied under oath over two hundred
(34:54):
and twenty million dollars vanity campaign. Vanity may have in
the undoing here, my friends, too many appearances holding automatic
weapons improperly for no apparent reason and showing up everywhere,
and the whole thing. A two hundred million dollar ad
campaign for starring a government employee is a lot of money, everybody.
(35:19):
For DHS.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
You can win statewide a lot of times on ten
million dollar campaigns or less, so spending two hundred million
dollars on this seems to have been the final straw.
And again reports from uh from Fox News is the
only place that has it so far. Mark Wwayne Mullen,
(35:41):
Republican Senator from Oklahoma, is now the head of the DHS.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I'd also point out She was asked in this hearing
ask no if she had quote sexual relations with Corey.
This was in a congressional hearing, Just to be clear,
asked if she had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski. No replied, quote,
I am shocked. We're going down and peddling tabloid garbage
in this committee. End quote.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
You could also say no, but you're under row. We'll
read for you when we come back. President Trump has
posted on truth Social that Mark Wayne Mullen is in.
We'll read exactly what he said. It's a little bit long,
but when we come back again. First Cabinet Secretary out
took a little.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Bit over a year. Mark Wayne Mullen in.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
He'll have to get confirmed, but he is coming from
the Senate a lot of times. That is very easy,
relatively speaking, so I would expect that confirmation will be
relatively smooth. But we'll break this down and more when
we come back again. Major breaking news. Christy Nooam out
at DHS, Mark Wayne Mullen in.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
We'll discuss next
Welcome in our number two Clay Travis buck Sexton show.
We appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're
going to talk with Ryan Gardusky in the third hour.
We were just talking with Yile Eckstein in Israel in
the first hour of the program. Let's talk about a
couple of things here, Buck that I think are interesting
(00:22):
on the American political front. First of all, the fallout
of what happened in the Texas primary on Tuesday has
led to reports that President Trump is potentially going to
endorse and that he is ready to have a nominee
(00:44):
in the Senate in Texas. What is that telling us
about the landscape in general? I think it is that
President Trump is really seriously focused on preserving the majority
in the Senate.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I think is going to be more challenging.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Because there are a lot of different races to focus
on in the Senate. We've got a fifty three forty
seven advantage for the Republicans right now, given the JD
vance breaks the ties, that means that Democrats would have
to pick up four different seats. And if you look
at the way the landscape of the different states are
(01:25):
setting up, Maine is going to be tough for Susan Collins.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
That is a blue state that.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know they break it up and that there is
a red part of that blue state. But Susan Collins
seems to be almost the only Republican that can win
in Maine. Right now, You've got a really difficult race
shaping up in North Carolina open Senate seat. Michael Wattley
is going to be going up against Roy Cooper. Roy
Cooper is a popular former governor who has been elected
(01:53):
statewide before, So that is going to be a tough battle.
And then you've got George which is probably the best
opportunity of Republicans to pick off an existing seat where
Usoff is running. But you start to run through all
these different maps and it almost becomes impossible for Democrats
(02:15):
to win control of the Senate if Texas is preserved.
And so I think President Trump is making a calculated
decision about what exactly he wants to do to preserve
that Senate majority. And you say, Okay, what's going on
with that Senate majority? I think there's a decent chance
buck that one of the older Supreme Court justices, maybe
(02:36):
even more than one of the older Supreme Court justices
decides to step down, given the fact that we have
basic majority gets a Supreme Court justice life tenure. I
don't know how long it's going to be until Republicans
have control of the Senate and the presidency again. Might
happen this year, but you would like to have it
(02:57):
happen for the next couple of years, given the ages
that everybody is in the Senate right now. So there's
gonna be a lot of focus on the House, and
we know what they will do.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
They will impeach.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
It will become difficult to get anything through Congress at all.
I would argue it's very difficult to get everything through
Congress now. But Ken Paxton, who we just reached out
to to invite on the program, has just said he
would drop out of the Senate race if the Save
Act were passed and they ended the filibuster in order
(03:28):
to do so.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think this is.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
An intriguing political situation that we're in because John Thune,
now the leader of the Senate, is put on the
hot seat a bit here because he knows that basically
his preservation of a Senate majority is almost guaranteed if
they passed the Save Act. But that is the challenge
(03:52):
that we face, and again we have an offer out
to Paxton. There have been reports that Trump is going
to endorse Cornyon, the sitting incumbent. One bit of update
for all of you out there, there is a live
press conference update in Austin, Texas on the shooter that
killed multiple people in an Austin knight club bar shooting scene.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
And so we were run.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
We are running on that and we will get you
an update on that information. Although, Buck, I think, as
we said on the program, when you show up in
a Iranian T shirt, kind of a suggestion that maybe
you're acting out as a basis of terrorism for that behavior.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So we will we will talk about all of that.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now, what's your assessment here, Buck, as you analyze this
again the Texas Senate. To me, it's the the larger
story here is President Trump sees that Texas Senate seat
if it's in Republican hands, the map just doesn't add
up for for Democrats a easily. Maybe you get Maine,
(05:02):
maybe you get North Carolina. You might be favored there,
but then you would have to flip Ohio, you would
have to flip Texas. We just had Steve Danes step
down in Montana, but Montana would be a tough flip,
and that presumes that you win the toss ups in
Trump states, in Georgia, in Michigan, that kind of map.
Iowa's out there too, but seems difficult. I think Trump feels,
(05:25):
if he has Texas in his back pocket, that the
Senate majority is confirmed, and I think that's motivating a
lot of his actions.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, I think that the Senate's looking good for Republicans overall.
I think that you are going to have a tougher
time with the House. And this is the conventional wisdom
that everyone has on this, because it's probably going to
be the case. I would say James tall Rico here
he is, this has cut seven. He says, they're gonna
(05:54):
call me a radical leftist and a fake Christian. Maybe
because you are, James, but let's talk about this place seven.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
They're scared of the movement we are building. They're gonna
throw everything they have at us. They're gonna call me
a radical leftist. They're gonna call me a fake Christian.
They'll call our movement on Texan, on'n American. They'll call
us a threat. The only truth is we are a threat.
We are a threat to their corrupt system. Two thousand
(06:23):
years ago, when the powerful few at the top hurt
those at the bottom, that barefoot rabbi didn't stay in
his room and pray. He walked into the seat of
power and flipped over the tables of injustice to those
who love this state, to those who love this country,
to those who love our neighbors. It's time to start
(06:45):
flipping tables.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Oh, just comparing himself to Jesus. This guy very humble,
very humble, fellow h James Tallerico. This tweet has been
getting more attention. This was him speaking, or rather tweeting,
after the Ahmad arbery case. He wrote this is in
a twenty twenty. White skin gives me and every white
(07:11):
American immunity from the virus, but we spread it wherever
we go through our words, our actions, and our systems.
We don't have to be showing symptoms like a white
hood or a Confederate flag to be contagious. Our inherent racism,
as white people play is contagious, and we have to
(07:32):
seek to contain that contagion by just having our white skin.
This guy doesn't think he's a leftist. I really want
to ask the question between the God is trans or
non binary? You gotta trans the kids. Abortion is exactly
what Jesus had in mind. Loves Jesus loves abortion, it's
great to kill babies, and white skin is a form
(07:55):
of contagion that pollutes society everywhere it goes. If these
are all his position, if he is not a leftist,
who is a leftist? I want to know if he
is not to the left of the Democrat Party, who
is I'm just curious.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
I'm gonna say this, and some of you are going
to say he can't be serious, Clay, I'm serious. I
think he may be crazier than Jasmine Crockett. Oh no,
I think so too. I think so too. It's possible
that this guy is further left wing than Jasmine Crockett was,
and I think he's crazier. I mean, he posted did
you see this? I shared this? In December of twenty
(08:31):
twenty one. He said his favorite Christmas gift was a
Doctor Fauci action figure, and he said that everybody in
Texas needed to make sure that they got their COVID
shot and had gotten their most recent round of boosters.
December of twenty one.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, that's you. Know, December of twenty one is a
lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You know, March April twenty twenty, you go back in
time by May of twenty twenty. Somehow you and I
were smart enough to be able to deduce everything that
had to do with COVID. So I'm giving people passes
in March and April of twenty twenty and kind of
the confusion of the moment, But by May of twenty twenty,
like the whole COVID game, the rig job should have
(09:12):
been a parent if you were paying attention December of
twenty one posting a Fauci action figure. You are a
committed left winger, and you mentioned this a little bit
in the first hour. But I think tall Rico actually
is a interesting dynamic because it feels very much like
(09:33):
Tim Walls. This is people who are leftists, left wing
women largely trying to pick guys that they think will
appeal to normal guys and failing miserably because they don't
understand how to talk to normal dudes. Remember when they
(09:55):
try to call Tim Walls coach Walls, and they put
him in the plaid shirt, and they get him a
gunn and they sent him out and they said look,
he wears boots. He's a totally normal guy. And then
totally normal guys watched Tim Walls and they said, this
is not a totally normal guy. James Tallerico is a
lesbian's idea of a white guy that will appeal to
(10:16):
normal white guys and normal men out.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Christian, to Christians specifically, just because he does the I
talk about Jesus thing, He's going to appeal to anybody
who believes in Jesus. This is the New York Times
editorial board version of a white Christian guy from Texas
who other people who go to Christian Christian churches are
going to find common ground with. It's it's absurd that again,
(10:43):
they just have no idea. It's like a different species
to them.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
If it's like they're trying to translate a language and
that they don't really understand and find someone who they
think can speak to people that they recognize they have lost.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And so I just don't.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Think there's going to be any any ability here whatsoever
UH to UH to corral voters now on the Paxton
front and the UH and the corn In front. I
think this is a tactical decision from Trump that he
wants to allocate resources so that we can make a
(11:23):
real run in Michigan. He knows that Georgia is going
to be a pick up a bull. He knows that
Maine and North Carolina are going to be super difficult battlegrounds,
and heat Ohio and Iowa and uh and Texas and
Montana and all these other different states. And he's trying
to figure out how we can spend the least amount
of money necessary in Texas to win this race. And
(11:46):
I think Trump has been convinced that that is by
him endorsing John Cornyn. Now, Cornyan beat Paxton by a
small margin of votes in the primary, and I believe
what happened was the Cornin people went back to Trump
and they said, ken Paxton wasn't able to beat us
(12:07):
head to head in the Republican primary. You have to
get over fifty percent support in order to be the
official nominee. So we have the runoff in late May,
and they are saying he's not going to be able
to beat us in May, either whether you believe that
or not. And then there's going to be one hundred
million dollars spent or more in this additional primary, potentially
(12:30):
and then you're going to have to spend hundreds of
millions of dollars more if Paxton is the nominee in
order to beat tall Rico.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Now here's what I would say.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I think whoever the Republican nominee is, is going to
beat tall Rico. I think they're going to raise a
lot of money for him, just like they did for Beto.
But I think this guy is actually a far less
appealing version of Beto. I think he's crazier. I think
he's got further left wing opinions say. I think it's
a little more handsome. Beto's a better look at guy.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Better looking guy, you know, Beto in those Wrangler jeans,
a little more, a little more exciting to the ladies
and some of the guys than Tall Rico is. So
you know, we can just call it out. We'll say
say it like it is. But I think that this
guy is I think this guy is toasting the election.
I think there's no chance. And now you should never
(13:23):
say that Texans. You need to show up, you need
to vote, you need to make sure that this doesn't
end up happening. But they're they're not even running a
passable version of a Texas Centrist. In this campaign, they're
running a a an ardent leftist. I mean he is
a leftist. There's no way around that. Just because you
talk about God doesn't mean you aren't a leftist. In fact,
(13:46):
there are a lot I can speak from the Catholic
church side of this, there are a lot of commie
Catholics running around, including in the clergy, which is very disappointing.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Well, I think also you could see where Jasmine Crockett
had a base black female voters, and particular we're going
to show up for her in a substantial way. I'm
not sure what James tell Rico's base is, and so
again I think either Paxton or Cornyn would win. But
I do believe that now that we're in sort of
strategic season for analyzing, there's been a lot of talk
(14:17):
about the quality of Senate nominees in different states. And
we've talked about this before. In Georgia, Republicans have lost
three straight Senate races that they should have won, just
point blank. Three straight Senate races in Georgia were all winnable.
Warnock and Asa are not great candidates, and Georgia Republicans
(14:38):
have not been able to get across the finish line
because they haven't had a good enough nominees. Meanwhile, Brian
Kemp wins by eight points. Every other office in the
state overwhelmingly comfortable wins. We've got to get better nominees
across the board, and so I think this is the
this is the strategic analysis. We'll open up phone lines.
A lot of Texans will have strong thoughts on this.
(15:00):
We also have invited Paxton and corn In both on
the program as this is playing out in real time,
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Got a bunch of
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Ryan Gradusky in a little bit about that Texas election situation.
Here we go, podcast listener, This is f on the
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Speaker 2 (16:35):
Good morning, fellas.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
This is Stephen Dallas. Although right now I'm in the
National Airport, I expecting to see play in here somewhere.
I like the uh, the references to the Dark Knight,
and I don't want to go out on a limb here,
but I think this Box imitation of Vain might be better
than his imitation of the Fuck that's wild. I know
to say that, but hey, I'm crazy like that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I impress you, sir. I'm glad. I'm glad he likes
the Baine impersonation.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Is that the best best superhero movie ever made? Ooh,
I am a Batman?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Begins over on the rest of the trilogy, fan, I
like the first one the most.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Actually, as a movie.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
My problem with those movies is the female leads are terrible.
Katie Holmes, that other chick who is just not cute.
I'm sorry, she's just it's it's just not not even Midge,
She's just not attractive. I don't remember her name, Maggie
Jillenhall gross not good for the role. But the first
movie I think is the best. You agree or disagree.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
I mean, Heath Ledger is almost impossible to beat. He's
the greatest villain of all time, I think, So.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. You know, Buck,
there's a lot of good news out there, and I
don't think we discussed this on the program yet. I
saw this and I thought to myself, you know what,
we should dive into this. And I meant to mention
it a day or so ago. But your home state
of Florida. I know there's a lot of frustration out there.
(19:18):
People say, oh, you know, what's the impact? Nothing ever changes.
It doesn't matter who wins races, It's all going to
turn into I think a sometimes people just get so
much negativity running. And I do think this is important
and worth breaking down Florida voter registration.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Did you see this.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
This is from a guy named Michael Pruser who does
the data on this. Let me hit you with some
numbers because I think Governor Ron DeSantis and a lot
of the Republican Floridian establishment has not gotten enough attention.
And I do believe the store of Florida is occurring
across many different states simultaneous. According to the most recent
(20:07):
numbers that came out this is the beginning of March,
so through the end of February, Republicans now have an
advantage of nearly one point five million overall voters in
the state. That is five point five million registered Republicans
in Florida. They are now about four point four million
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registered Democrats. Now that's a pretty impressive overall outcome. But
what's interesting, Buck is if you go back to just
let's see just twenty sixteen, right as Trump was coming
into office, right before DeSantis came into office, there were
just four point five million registered Republicans and there were
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four point nine million registered Democrats. So Democrats have lost
about five hundred thousand and Republicans have added roughly a million.
Palm Beach County, which was used to be a bastion
of the Democrat Party, is going to flip red very soon.
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I believe that will leave only three counties, three or
four counties total that even have a Democrat majority. So
if you're out there and you're frustrated, and I get it,
and you say, hey, who gets elected doesn't matter, and
I know there are some of you out there in
the market because we hear from them all the time. Florida,
I think is an incredible story about what happens when
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there are good policies put in place, when there are smart,
committed Republican leaders put in place and when they execute.
And I would argue right now that Florida is the
base of the Republican Party and for those of you
out there who can remember Florida as the ultimate swing
state battleground in all of the nation, and it's really
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kind of incredible to see. And sometimes we miss progress
that is occurring because it's easier to focus on negative
stories and it's easier to be upset on a day
to day basis. But Florida is one of the greatest
success stories in Republican Party history. If you look at
what's happened over the last decade, and you, as a
Floridian now buck are part of that mass influx of people.
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I actually think Florida is poised to become even more
of a leader in Republican Party circles going forward. It's
really an incredible story, and I don't think it gets
talked about enough in a positive way.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
No, I think it's fantastic. It's obviously I live here
and I'm so pleased to see how well everything is going.
So the numbers speak for themselves. Fortress Florida is stronger
than ever. Ron Dea Santists who has stepped away from
the national spotlight a bit in the last couple of years,
but he has done a phenomenal job as governor, and
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I think there's still some very worthwhile stuff that he's
trying to get through in his last year. And it
shows you that you can have reasonable, competent people in
charge of state government. It is a thing that can happen,
and it's a good thing when it happens. It makes
people safer, it makes businesses more prosperous, it makes your
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day to day life more efficient, to streets are cleaner.
I mean, all these things that you'd like to think
all government is doing at some level, or rather all
necessary government is functioning in a way to make your
life better or at least not make your life worse.
And unfortunately, in New York City, I experienced the other
side of this, so I know what it is like
on both sides of this coin. I know what it's
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like to be in a place New York where the
people in charge are in some cases ideologically dedicated to
destroying your quality of life and taking from you and
blaming you for the problems that some of their policies
are exacerbating. And I've seen the other side of it
where you are welcomed and if you are law abiding,
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you have the benefit of law enforcement around you. So
therefore you get to lead a safer, more orderly, and
more pleasant existence. And that is what we have in Florida.
So yeah, man, it's great. And I just the people
that are still holding out in some of these other
places who are I'm not talking about the Republicans who
live in California. I get it, you got family there,
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you love your state. It's a beautiful state.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
You want to go.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I mean the Democrats who are still in these states
who don't get it. I don't understand what they don't
get at this point, Well I do. It's a delusion,
like a manufactured delusion. Which is a fantastic book that
all of you should get from the New York Times
bestseller list last week. I highly recommend it.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It is a spectacular book.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I sold many copies, and I do believe that one
of the big untold stories right now is Florida is
an example of the census and how the census is
going to swing in a really transformative way for the map.
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The map is not going to change until twenty thirty,
but the legacy of COVID. When you look at what's
happened with Texas, with Tennessee, with Florida, there are a
lot of other states to point to as well. Is Democrats'
ability to win nationwide elections is going to be severely
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curtailed starting in twenty thirty. Now, twenty twenty eight is
still going to be a battle that's fought on frankly,
a map that has shifted in Republican party directions. But
all of this is going to be I think a
super important story that is not getting enough attention. And
buck this doesn't even take into account what I think
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the Supreme Court is going to do. And again, this
is not being I'm trying to be positive here because
there's so many things that I think don't get enough attention.
I was thinking about the Florida numbers and the fact
that people are voting with their feet because of the
leadership of Ron DeSantis and others. But also look at
what the Supreme Court's likely to do when it comes
to race based congressional districts. I don't think they're going
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to give their ruling in time to impact the twenty
twenty six midterm cycle, because I think they're going to
say it's too political, but they, I believe, are going
to do away.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
With race based congressional districts.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Right now, it is considered constitutional to say, hey, we're
going to have a majority black district, and we'll draw
that district so that it encompasses all these different interstates
and neighborhoods. And you look at some of the most
jerry manndered communities out there, many of them are race
based drawn districts for black voters. The country has actually
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become so much more diverse with Hispanic and Asian and
and other people of different backgrounds that this black white
dynamic and black based districts I think are not going
to be allowed. And you say, okay, Clay, what's the
impact of that going to be by twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
That could swing twenty seats.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Towards Republicans because those districts being not able to be
gerrymandered that way. So if you think about that ruling,
which I think is going to come down this summer,
and then you think about what's going to happen with
the twenty thirty census, and using Florida as an example
of how population has shifted the map for twenty thirty
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and beyond is going to be massively in favor of
red states. And here's something else. I think the acceleration
of voters from blue states is going to move even
faster because if you look at the budgets of New
York and California, for example, they spend way more than
a state like Florida or Texas, big states would and
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they get far weaker results. And I think that is
all going to Again, this is big picture talking next
five six years, all of that is going to that
transformation is going to occur even more rapidly. So I
understand a lot of people out there saying, and I
get it because I'm impatient. I want things to happen
as quickly as they possibly can. I don't think that
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we're talking enough about how much difference that's going to
make in the years ahead. Now, should we still pass
the Save Act and ensure that federal elections are reliable
and that we do something crazy like require somebody to
show up with a photo photo ID in order to vote. Yes,
that is a non negotiable to me. It should happen,
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And I understand how that can be frustrating when things
like that aren't happening. But I do think the larger
trend lines here are not being talked about enough, and
they are incredibly favorable. And this is what good governance does.
People do note and they vote with their feet.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Indeed, that's excellent. Clay's good at the whole stump speech thing.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Everybody.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
I think he's getting any ideas it could be kind
of a wide open field in twenty twenty eight. Laura,
we should talk. I'd be a great chief of staff.
I'm just saying, I'm just throwing it out there, mister
Clay Travis. You have the political gift of gab. Sir,
I feel like I'm ready to move to Tennessee, and
I live in Florida. It's already great here.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I just think that again, results really do matter, and
sometimes it's frustrating when you don't see those results in
real time.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And look at Florida, it really is a great story.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
You've never lived in a deeply dysfunctional well. I actually
didn't say that you live in DC, but way.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
We got breaking news.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Wow, wow all on oh boy.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
I was asking I was asking Buck if we should
bring this up because there was a bunch of noise.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I've got the vapors. I've got the vapors bucks.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Good Joe has been fired. Everybody Christine Home has been fired.
They're telling me, oh lord, who man.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
This is the first cabinet secretary to be removed from office.
We were talking off air about the fact that the
odds in the prediction markets had gone to ninety percent
that she was out. Wall Street Journal has really kind
of come after with a bunch of stories about spending,
and so christ turns out, someone who's corrupt, cheats on
(30:27):
her husband and shoots dogs for fun isn't the best
person to put in charge of maybe your most important
federal agency. I'm glad the administration is moving in the
right direction here. So now who is going to be
the DHS secretary? That's going to be the next question.
So Christinoam out. That's breaking news. Just came up on
Fox News as an alert. There's a possibility I guess
that Tom Homan could be could slash should say alleged.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
By the way, with all of that alleged, these are
all allegations, of course, Yes, christineaam is going to step
down and Tom Holme is taking over.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'm not sure who that next person is going to
be breaking news, will come back and talk about who
might be. Oh wow, she's being replaced by Mark Wayne Mullen,
Oklahoma Senator.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
We was just just on the show this week, friend
of the show, Mark Wayne Mullen. That's according to breaking
news from from Fox News, senator from Oklahoma will now
take over as the head of DHS.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Apparently the hearing was disastrous from Republican and Democrat side
of things. We didn't really cover the hearing, but no,
I'm had a hearing on Capitol Hill. She was asked
about a special government employee who travels with her who
is not her husband, and that did not go over well.
She was asked a number of things that did not
go over well, including a two hundred million dollar ad
campaign starring her. That's taxpayer dollars, everybody, two hundred million dollars.
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So President Trump, this is big news. So look, we're
gonna go to break, we'll come back and we'll talk
about it. This is the first cabinet secretary in two
point zero. There's been a lot of stability so far.
This is the first cabinet secretary out. Michael Walls has
shifted right. They moved him to Ambassador to the UN
if I'm not mistaken from inside of the government. So
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that's the biggest move prior to now.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
But again, breaking news, Christy Nome out and Senator Mark
Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma up now to be the new
head of DHS. We'll talk about that when we come
back again. Breaking news coming down right now.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I'd just love to see this Trump administration making smart
decisions and doing the best thing for the American people
and for the mission. That's where I come down on this.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
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Speaker 3 (34:34):
Welcome back into Clay and Buck the big breaking news
and it is everywhere now, it is on Fox News,
that is on the Daily Mail. It is everywhere. Trump
preparing to fire Christinome. Well, sorry, Trump has fired Christinome. Rather,
that's on Fox News. But the headline of Daily Mail
is quote after she lied under oath over two hundred
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and twenty million dollars vanity campaign. Vanity may have in
the undoing here, my friends, too many appearances holding automatic
weapons improperly for no apparent reason and showing up everywhere,
and the whole thing. A two hundred million dollar ad
campaign for starring a government employee is a lot of money, everybody.
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For DHS.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
You can win statewide a lot of times on ten
million dollar campaigns or less, so spending two hundred million
dollars on this seems to have been the final straw.
And again reports from uh from Fox News is the
only place that has it so far. Mark Wwayne Mullen,
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Republican Senator from Oklahoma, is now the head of the DHS.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I'd also point out She was asked in this hearing
ask no if she had quote sexual relations with Corey.
This was in a congressional hearing, Just to be clear,
asked if she had sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski. No replied, quote,
I am shocked. We're going down and peddling tabloid garbage
in this committee. End quote.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
You could also say no, but you're under row. We'll
read for you when we come back. President Trump has
posted on truth Social that Mark Wayne Mullen is in.
We'll read exactly what he said. It's a little bit long,
but when we come back again. First Cabinet Secretary out
took a little.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Bit over a year. Mark Wayne Mullen in.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
He'll have to get confirmed, but he is coming from
the Senate a lot of times. That is very easy,
relatively speaking, so I would expect that confirmation will be
relatively smooth. But we'll break this down and more when
we come back again. Major breaking news. Christy Nooam out
at DHS, Mark Wayne Mullen in.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
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