October 16, 2024 • 36 mins
Georgia breaks all early voting records after Dems called their laws "Jim Crow 2.0." Phony Tim Walz tries to denigrate JD Vance by pretending he doesn't know what a venture capitalist does. Senator Ted Cruz joins Clay and Buck to discuss the stakes in his tight Texas U.S. Senate race against left-wing Democrat Colin Allred. The great leaf blower controversy.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Gladcherravis buck Sexton Show, Final Hour, Wednesday
edition of the program. We're gonna have some fun with
this because the leaf Blowing Community Book Pro and con
absolute uproar. You thought abortion, religion third rails that you
could not touch. The leaf blowing opinions are rampant. It's
(00:25):
like Buck, and I'm a very strong opinion on this too.
What you should do about reclining seats on airplanes. I
would ban them. I think that all of you who
recline your.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Seats are evil.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I think partly this has to do with what size
you are of a human. If you are anywhere near
six feet and you are find flying coach on an airplane,
if someone reclines their seat in any way, it's like
they're basically sitting in your lap. Other people of you.
My wife's five to two. I look over sometimes on
airplane flights and it's like she's got a huge luxury
(01:02):
seat to be hanging out in. If you are a
decent sized man in an airplane and someone reclines in
your vicinity, I understand why you are filled with rage.
Strong opinion there. I don't think that should be allowed either.
I'm looking out for everyone trying to bring common courtesy
the world and bring everyone together. We will take some
(01:22):
of your responses there, but you know, I wanted to
play a couple of things here that I think are
emblematic of the profound inauthenticity of the Democrat arguments as
we now sit twenty days from election day. Do you remember, Buck,
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when all of us were told, Hey, this new Georgia law,
Oh my goodness, it's basically like Jim Crow. Joe Biden
came out and said, it's not even Jim Crow, it's
Jim Eagle, which was a weird. It's a weird idea.
It was like, so much worse than Jim Crow, It's
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Jim Eagle. He said that if you supported it, you
were basically like Confederate President Jefferson Davis. They even did
I love Kurby Your Enthusiasm, Buck, but the final season
of Kirby Your Enthusiasm was based around the idea that
Larry David got arrested for bringing water to someone standing
in line to vote in Georgia. In twenty twenty, they
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moved the All Star Game, which would have been honoring
Hank Aaron, out of Atlanta because they said the Georgia
Wall was so racist. Then in twenty twenty two, what happened.
The number of people who voted skyrocketed, proving it was wrong.
And now in twenty twenty four early voting started and
they had the biggest turnout for early voting in the
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history of.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The state of Georgia.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But I do think there should be consequences for the
people who lied to you about the reasonable election integrity
efforts brought to bear by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. But
I want to let you hear this buck montage of
everybody talking about how super racist the Georgia voting bills were.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This is cut fourteen.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault
on voting rights, unlike anything we've ever seen since the.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Jim Crow era.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
This is Jim.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Crow and new clothe.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I do absolutely agree that it's racist.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It is a redux of Jim Crow in a suit
and tie.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
This is the new Jim Crow. This makes Jim Crow
look like Jim Eagle Buck.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
This is They are really unbelievable at sending out talking
points and then getting everyone to regurgitate them so that
they start to create their own narrative, do you I
would be embarrassed if I got talking points to just
go out and say what somebody else asked me to say.
I don't even think I get these talking point emails.
(03:59):
But the number of Democrats who are eager and desperately
want to go out and make these arguments is frankly
flat out embarrassing. But there are no consequences, right all
this has been proven untrue, and George is going to
have a huge turnout, and I think George is going
to vote Trump. But it only matters in the context
of what they tried to argue.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, really, what you see is any argument that Democrats
want to have over voting integrity measures is really just
analogous or it's just a way of talking about racism. Actually,
they're the only voting that ever concerns them is racism
against voting rights issues, is racism against Black Americans. There's
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no other voting issue that gets them energized. They really
just use this, I think, as a scare tactic to
try to convince the black community that there's some nefarious
scheme out there by Republicans to make sure that their
votes don't count or they're not not allowed to vote
or something along those lines. And I know that they
(05:02):
would say if we had some MSNBC panelists here would say, oh, well,
look at the history of this country and say, yes,
you mean when Democrats were suppressing black votes in the South,
you know, the Republican Party, the Party of Abraham Lincoln,
and they always like to switch all of this around.
But that was then. This is now right. I mean,
show me whose vote is being suppressed through any kind
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of racist means. And in fact, the issue we talked
about when you were out, Clay was in Virginia where
the DOJ, the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, which
is essentially the social justice warriors, who will send the
FBI after you. I mean, that's what the social that's
what the Civil Rights Division. Unfortunately, DJ has become for
a long time. They're saying that it's somehow not fair
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for self identified illegals to be removed from the voter rules,
even though they have an opportunity to cure it. I
think they have ten days or something after they self identify.
If there's some mistake, they can say oh no, no,
I actually M a legal citizen. They don't want that
to happen that's not a good faith measure by the
Biden DJ. There's something going on here, and we can
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discuss and debate how you know, bad faith and how
ill intentioned these kind of measures really are. But in Georgia,
I mean, it reminds me of of in North Carolina, Clay.
They also were saying back in the Obama era that
there were some voting measures that had been changed in
North Carolina and this was racist, suppressing the black vote.
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That's anything that Republicans want to do, even if it's
sometimes making you know, just clarity, I mean, whether it's
voting roles or things, just sort of taking the basic
housekeeping measures you would need to run a clean election.
Anything that the right wants to do on this, we're
told is racist, even when afterwards there's a bigger turnout
of the black vote, you know what I mean, Yes,
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they don't care. You know, they'll say that that law
Republicans want to pass a North Carolinian zone I'm talking about.
I can't even it was over deck to go, oh,
that vote or that law is racist and it's gonna
and it's racist because it's going to suppress the black vote.
And then and then the law goes into effect. There's
a record increase in the record turnout of the Black vote,
even above where it was before the law comes out,
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and they just say whatever, move on to the next
false racism allegation when it comes to voting rights. I mean,
this is what they do all the time. It's so
people can Chris Haes, like Chris Hayes can pretend to
be civil rights heroes on MSNBC, like, how dare they're
trying to change the votes?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
They may have record turnout in Georgia. Buck, As we
were talking, new Georgia poll out from Quinnipiac, Trump up
six head to head on Kamala Harris, Trump up seven
with the full field of voters out there available. This
has been one of the most reliable of the pollsters.
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But if Trump wins Georgia by three or more points,
He's gonna win a decent shot I think nationwide in
the popular vote. So this is an incredibly good result
for Trump with early voting underway in Georgia. LOTSI all
listened to us in Georgia. Go vote. I get fired
up about sometimes. Buck, You know that I really dislike
(08:16):
Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't think Kamala is very like a Polish me.
Excuse me. Tim Walls is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's really funny if you haven't seen the video of
Tim Walls walking around wave in his hands everything.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I don't mind Kamala.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I think she is in She is desperately on I
feel like I psychologically understand Kamala, but Tim Walls to me,
she Kamala desperately won't wants to be liked to such
an extent that she doesn't actually stand for anything, and
she's basically taken every position on every issue. That actually
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fills to me profoundly sad on some level. If you
want to psychoanalyze Kamala, I think she's very happy, and
I think she's looked to politics as a way to
validate her existence, and so she wants everybody to like
her so much that she's changed every position throughout her life.
That would be my quick psycho analysis of Kamlas. She
doesn't stand for anything. She's not particularly smart. Deep down
she knows it, but I understand her. Tim Walls is
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just a real liar, and I mean he lies about everything,
and he's also a really bad actor. And this clip
the other day that went viral of him the way
he's attacked JD. Vance. I just found find profoundly dishonest.
If he said to JD. Vans, Hey, you know what,
we disagree on a lot of political issues. Let me
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make the case for why you're wrong, I would not
dislike Tim Walls, but the way that he said, like
none of my classmates went to Yale, none of them
were lawyers. He talks down to people like me who
are from a red state and we all want our
kids to achieve more than us, and he makes us
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all sound in the way that he talks to us,
like we're all a bunch of ignorant, stupid rednecks.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And this really got to me. The other day.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He was talking about JD. Vance now being a venture capitalist,
and he said, I don't even know what venture capital is.
First of all, even though I think Tim Walls is
a moron, he's lying about this. He certainly knows what
a venture capital is. There's lots of venture capitalists that
donate to his campaign. There's lots of venture capitalists all
over in Minnesota where he's the governor. If he truly
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didn't know what a venture capitalist was, buck, he's so
dumb that he should resign on the spot, but he's
standing there in his flannel shirt, which evidently costs five
hundred and fifty dollars, cosplaying this regular guy red state Rube,
which he has tried to make his persona. Listen to
cut eight of the latest attack on JD.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Vance. It just doesn't add.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Up, Senator Vance. He became a media darling. He wrote
a book about a place he grew up, but the
premise was was trashing that place where he grew up
rather than lifting it up. This guy's a venture capitalist,
cosplaying like he's a cowboy or something. I don't even
know what a venture capitalist does most of the time.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, he's like, I'm just a big old dumbass vheah.
For me, it's absurd. Okay, let's take a look at
the JD thing. I would also note that when JD
is pointing out the and I read Hillbilly Elogy years
a year, I think I read it in twenty twelve
or twenty eleven when it came out in a long
time ago. It's been out a long time. Yeah. I
read Hillibilly Elogy early on when it came out because
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so many people said, you've really got to read this.
It's a good book, and so I did. I don't think.
I don't think Walls is a reader. By the way,
I don't think it's going to shock anybody to hear
that he does love Broadway, though. But he is making
this case here that JD. Vance was denigrating his community.
That's not true. He was pointing out that in his
own life and in the community that he grew up
and lived in, there are dysfunctions, there are problems, and
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there are people who need help and that need to
be addressed. I would argue that JD. Vance's own life
story is an inspiration to that community. Yes, that you too,
if you do the right things and you work hard
and you stay in the fight, you know, you can
join the Marines, and you can go to Yale and
you could even be vice president of the United States.
(12:18):
I think JD's story is inspirational to people who come
from some of the forgotten parts of whether it's Appalachia
or the russ Belt or you name it. And for
Tim Wallas to play this like, oh, like, you know,
he's just one of those fancy Yale guys. You know,
I don't even know what adventure game that is actually
demeaning to people. You know, just because somebody is running
an autobody shop, or somebody's a plumber, or somebody's a trucker,
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it doesn't mean that Tim Wallas is going to connect
with them by being like, oh, you know those You know,
people work hard in a lot of roles, and they
have aspirations too, you know, they want to own that
business or they want to build and get bigger, and
they also can appreciate the success of their fellow Americans.
It's just so dishonest for Tim Wallas to be like, oh,
he's a bit of a fancy guy, mister fancy man.
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I mean, JD grew up with a single mom who
what a drug addiction.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well, and I haven't talked to JD about this, but
it wasn't long ago that Democrats celebrated Bill Clinton from
let's be honest, a place that wasn't on the front
page of the newspaper, Hope, Arkansas, being raised by a
single parent, being able to go to Georgetown, being able
to go to Yale Law School, the same place that
(13:29):
JD Van is a U and success story that a
kid who came from not a privileged background could rise
to the office of presidency is the American dream at
its most basic level. And so when he's also attacking JD.
Vance for being a venture capitalist and a cowboy, lots
of cowboys are venture capitalists. I mean cowboys run a
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lot of businesses out there. It is so profoundly dishonest
to me the way that Tim Walls carries himself and
the fact that he's supposed to be some paragon of
Red State America that's going to connect with people across
the country. I think it's worse than that buck. I
think it's blown up because I think people see through
what bs he is pedaling and it actually becomes insulting
(14:13):
in the same way Barack Obama saying to black man, hey,
you guys are sexist if you're not voting for kmmalin.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, we just see that she's an empty suit.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Similarly, as a Red State guy, I look at Tim
Walls and I say, you know, you are uniquely disqualifying
to me as a vice president based on your dishonesty
in the way you try to speak to me.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You know, we got a lot of people listening who
are pulling long hours, you know, whether it's at the
office or as a general contractor or or an electrician
or any trade you name it, so that they can
provide for their families and if they have kids, to
create opportunities maybe you know, you know, the whole thing is,
you're an electrician, you're working hard. Your kid can be
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a venture capitalist worth fifty million dollars or one hundred
million dollars whatever, if he wants to take that pathway
or she wants to take that pathway. That's what we
all thought the American dream was right, It's not all
that all fancy went to Yale guy, he abandoned his
community in Ohio. It's like, what does that mean? Could
you imagine him? First of all, the way that you
could also turn this around on so many democrats too,
(15:15):
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and famous, they spend absolutely no time in those communities.
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Speaker 2 (17:44):
Team. We got a quick turnaround, but something exciting coming up.
Ted Cruz, the Senator from Texas in his battle to
keep that seat. We'll talk to him. He put on
a clinic in his debate last night. He'll be with
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. We are
scheduled to be joined by Senator Ted Cruz soon. He
had a debate last night with Colin Allred in their
Texas Senate race. That is one of I would say
probably two, although Nebraska we may need to get deb
Fisher on at some point. The Republicans are looking really
good to take control of the Senate. Tim sheheehe and
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Montana is running a great campaign, looks likely to beat
Tester of West Virginia is going to flip. Has been
expected for a while. Bernie Marino is I think gonna
win in Ohio tomorrow. We're gonna be joined by Eric Hubdy,
who is looking really good. In Wisconsin. We need to
get Mike Rodgers from Michigan. On a lot of these
battleground states all over the Midwest, and we're going to
(19:41):
be joined soon by our friend Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Ted Cruz is with us. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We'll get to the larger picture in a moment. But
what are you seeing on the ground, Senator? Appreciate you
making the time to join us. Great job in the
debate last night. We talked about it some earlier on
the show. What are you seeing on the for both
yourself and Trump and what are voters most focused on
in your experience?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Well, Claig, great to be with you, guys. Look, it
is a real battle in Texas. My biggest challenge in
the race is frankly complacency that people say, listen, it's Texas,
You're a Republican, this is easy. I think that's objectively false.
Chuck Schumer has been explicit I am his number one
target in the country, and Schumer and George Sorows are
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flooding one hundred and fifty million dollars into the state.
I'm getting pummeled on TV. I've been massively outspent, and
there now been more than a dozen polls that show
this race as a one point race or a two
point race or a three point race. They are all
in and it is a battle. Right I'm right in
the middle of a fifty three stop bus tour all
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over the state of Texas. I'm in witchdoff Falls, Texas
right now, headed up to Amarillo. Right after that. We're
criss crossing the state. But it is a battle, and
it's a one or two or three points where we
are being massively outspent right now.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
You know, Senator Cruz, We've got a lot of people
listening right now who live in the great state of Texas,
and I think to some of them it might even
be a surprise that you're in anything even resembling a
close race. I think, on the one hand, you know,
you've just been a fixture as a conservative senator for
a while now, and people just expect kind of expect
you to be there. But we're here to tell them all.
(21:24):
If you don't want your favorite TV show going off
the air, so to speak, you got to make sure
you actually watch. You got to show up. How can
people help at this point? What are some of the
groups that you'd like to see getting more activated and involved,
and what has to happen to make sure that we
pull this across the finish line and you get six
more years.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Well, there are two things that matter enormously. Number One,
if you're in Texas, come out and vote early. Voting
starts next week on Monday, So come out and vote early,
and get your friends to vote early. Pick up the
phone and call your friends, Email your friends, text your sister,
your son, your next door neighbor, your co worker, get
them to vote. Turnout matters enormously. And then secondly, I
(22:04):
would ask every one of your listeners, whether you're in
Texas or whether you're in any other state, go to
our website. It's Ted Cruz dot org, Ted Cruz dot org,
Ted Cruz dot org. Go to the website and make
a contribution. Give ten dollars or twenty five or fifty dollars,
or maybe you can even give one hundred or five
hundred or one thousand. But whatever you can give, please
(22:25):
go right now to Ted Cruz dot org because we
are getting swamped. Schumer and Soros look at some level,
it's not complicated. If you are a hard partisan Democrat
after Donald Trump, there is nobody in the country you
want to beat more than me. And so every radical
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left wing Democrat gives money to my opponent. When my
opponent spoke at the Democrat convention in Chicago, the entire
stadium spontaneously began chanting beat Ted Cruz. I'm who is
the only person that got that particular treatment? Guys, I'll
tell you, I'm actually pretty proud of that. You had
twenty thousand hardcore radicals who I think are trying to
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destroy America and they see me as one of the
principal impediments standing in their way. Now, I'll tell you
what happened to my opponent, Colin Allred, who is a
very very left wing Democrat. He raised over a million
dollars in the next twenty four hours, and so that
money he is trying to lie to the voters of Texas.
He's trying to claim run away from his record. The
(23:30):
debate last night was all about him running away from
his record. But the only way we can counteract that
is with the resources to communicate my record and his record.
And to do that takes your listeners going to Ted
Cruz dot org right now and giving generously. At Ted
Cruise dot.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Org, we played some of the clips from your debate
last night, Senator, and it seems particularly the case that sometimes,
as you well know, races can come down to one
issue that just really connects with voters. It feels like
Colin alread your opponent his refusal to condemn men pretending
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to be women and playing women's sports, particularly because he's
actually an athlete. He played football, he played in the NFL,
played college football. He knows better than anybody else. This
is not some guy sitting in a university faculty lounge
arguing about transgender issues.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
He knows how much bs this is. Are you seeing
that cut through?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Because that the town hall that Trump just did with
Harris Faulkner today, every woman raised her hand when she
asked whether they were concerned about their daughters or granddaughters
competing against men in me in women's sports. Are you
seeing that resonate with your voters.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Absolutely, it is resonating powerfully. And look like you've talked
about this issue for a long time. You obviously come
from the world of sports, and so you've been really
vocal in taking on this lunacy and doing so early on.
But it is an issue that it really shows how
radical and extra em Colin already is that that he
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has four different times supported and voted for boys competing
against girls sports. He's voted for boys going to girls' bathrooms,
going to the girls locker rooms, going to girls changing rooms.
And and for the radical Democrat, Your daughter, your granddaughter,
she has no rights, she has no right not to
be at her changing room next to a fully naked
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grown man. And and and that's just that's just fundamentally wrong,
and and and this issue is about fairness, you know it.
It didn't used to be controversial to observe that boys
and girls are different, that men and women are different.
And we all saw the ridiculousness of two biological men
at the Olympics dominating women's boxing. You know that is
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and and Clay, you put your your finger on exactly
where this is resonating. It's funny the media thinks that
that the people who care about this are are the crazies,
and it is it is moderate undecided women that recognize
this is really unfair, and it speaks volumes that it's
a debate. Colin Alred tried to keep saying that's that's
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I don't support boys competing against girls. And he's just
flat out lining because he can say that in the debate,
but every time he's voted on it, he's voted the
wrong way.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Speaking of Senator Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz dot org for
those of you in Texas, or will I guess anywhere right?
What a pitch in and help out Ted Cruz dot org.
Right now they're spending one hundred and fifty million dollars
against you, Senator Cruz. The How concerned should people be
right now about the the California ing of Texas. It's
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something that I know Democrats for a long time have
been hoping to achieve. What are the long term trends
and what do you think can be done about it?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So it's a very real issue, and I will say
there are countervailing factors. So there's some people who leave
California who lead blue states and they're fed up. They're
fed up with the high taxes, they're fed up with
the high regulations, the shutdowns, the woke policies, and they
look around the country and they say where do I
want to be and they pick Texas And the data
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show actually those folks are more conservative than the median voter.
They show up here, they buy a pickup truck, a
hat and boots and a shotgun, and I call them
refugees for freedom. I want every one of them to
come to Texas and to be here and to fight
for our freedoms. There's another group, which is a company
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moves to Texas and they transfer all their employees, and
the employees didn't necessarily decide I want to be in Texas.
They just stick with their jobs. Those guys tend to
vote exactly like they did where they came from. And
in many ways, Texas is a victim of our own
success because we're the best place in the country to
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run a business, and so we have so many businesses
moving to Texas that they are bringing in hundreds of
thousands of employees from California and other Blue states, and
so that influx that they're cross cutting instincts. But the
second group, it's dangerous because they're voting just like they
did in La Ted.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
First of all, everybody go to Ted Cruz dot org,
go donate to him. I want to build on this
because I do think this is part of a larger
picture here. If you're looking at the national Senate race,
Republicans are looking really good. In Montana, West Virginia's flipping.
You're starting to see panic. I think on the Democrat side,
they are now just trying to flood your state because
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they're terrified of some of the trend lines they're seeing elsewhere,
and if they could knock you off, they feel like
maybe they've got some chance to try to retain their majority.
So this is a nationalized play. Really, it's not about Texas.
It's about a desperate ploy to try to retain the
Senate in a larger national context on the map. Is
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that what you think a lot of this money is
motivated by.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I think that's absolutely right. And look, let's break it
down in different options that can happen anyone in business
or life. You think about best case scenario, worst case scenario.
You try to give probabilities. All of us hope we
have a fantastic election in November. We hope that Donald
Trump is re elected as president, that we win a
Republican senative, Republican House. That would be very very good.
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A lot of good would come of it. We will
secure the border, we will cut taxes, we will end
the war on energy, we will bring down inflation, we
will end the wars abroad. Israel will defeat Hamas. There's
a lot of good that will come of that. But
on the other hand, it might be a bad election.
The numbers are close enough. It could be if God forbid,
Kamala Harris wins. I think it is likely that the
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Democrats also will win the House. In my judgment, the
White House and the House of Representatives are positively correlated.
They're going to go together. If the Democrats win both
the White House and the House, then the Senate becomes
orders of magnitude more important. It is the only check
in balance to stop the country from plunging over the cliff.
(30:12):
And you laid out the math exactly right. Today the
Democrats have a fifty one to forty nine majority in
the Senate. We're going to win West Virginia. The Democrats
have essentially conceded it, so that takes it to fifty
to fifty. And right now we are leading in Montana
by four to six points. If we win West Virginia
and Montana, the Republicans have a fifty one to forty
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nine majority. Now Chuck Schumer's looking at those identical poll
numbers and he realizes the same thing. If he wants
to stop it, there's only one place he has a
prayer to do that, and that is Texas. And the
last time I ran in twenty eighteen, I won by
less than three points. I won by two point six percent.
So Schumer's saying, look, all I need is three points
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in Texas. And if he flips Texas, he holds onto
the majority. And let me tell you guys, what happens there,
because it is truly terrified. If Schumer gets the majority
with a Democrat House and a Democrat white House, Collin
all Red has pledged to be the fiftieth vote to
end the filibuster. The filibuster is the requirement of sixty
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votes to take up major legislation. If that happens, let
me tell you what January of next year looks like.
The first thing Schumer does is then the filibuster. He
then does four things in rapid succession. He strikes down
every voter integrity law in the country, strikes down every
photo ID law in the country, and he legalizes ballot
harvesting everywhere in the country. Number one. Number two, he
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adds two new states, DC and Puerto Rico. He would
do that because he believes that gives him four new
Democrat senators. Number three, he would give immediate voting rights
to every illegal alien in America. They're twenty to thirty
million illegal aliens in America. If he does that, Texas
immediately turns blue and every statewide elected official in Texas
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is defeated. Texas becomes California. And number four, he would
pack the sup Court, grow it from nine justices to thirteen,
and put four left wing justices. Now, guys, both of
you have known you a long time. I am, by
nature an optimist. I have no answer to that scenario.
I view that scenario as a system ending event in history.
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Great nations rise and fall. That would be I believe,
the end of the United States of America as we
know it. And what is terrifying is we are literally
one vote away. Those are the stakes of my race.
And that's why I would ask folks to go to
Ted Cruz dot org right now and ensure that we
don't lose and we don't go off the edge of
that cliff.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Amen, we have so many of you listening in Texas
right now. You gotta go out and vote. Do not
sleep on this. Think of all the money they're putting
into this. Think of what Ted has just put out
there as the future if they pull off this upset
through really crickery and treachery. But that's what the Democrats
excel at Ted Cruz dot org and all of our texts,
(33:00):
and we got a lot of you get out there
and vote Ted. Thank you so much, Senator Cruise. Always
appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
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Closing up chop here on Clay and back and I'm
just gonna say it, early morning, leaf flowers and flute
players coming for play once again. He has he has
kicked over the leaf pile. He is getting a lot
of heat. And here we have a leaf blow This
is from our talkback San Antonio listener Ben owns a
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landscape company. Let's play this one.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I use leaf blowers whenever I have to. I own
a landscape company and I do lawn maintenance. I have
ten to fifteen lawns per day on Thursdays and Fridays.
And if I don't get started at seven, then I'm
going to have an issue finishing before it gets dark
out now, but even before I'll be up until I'll
be working until eight in the summer. And if I
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don't get started early, so that's my issue.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
What say you, Clay, Should he get night vision goggles? Yeah? Yeah,
I want him out after dark.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I appreciate the fact that he works hard, sleep in
a little bit in the morning, and come out a
little bit later, and look in particular all of you
non professional leaf blowers, because his full time job is
that right, A lot of you, with your own leaf
blowers are running around on the weekend at seven am,
(36:32):
destroying the sleep habits of Americans everywhere. And you know
who agrees with me, Buck Sexton's fabulous mother. She has
great taste in the leaf blowing issue as well.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
We'll be back through tomorrow.
Welcome back in Gladcherravis buck Sexton Show, Final Hour, Wednesday
edition of the program. We're gonna have some fun with
this because the leaf Blowing Community Book Pro and con
absolute uproar. You thought abortion, religion third rails that you
could not touch. The leaf blowing opinions are rampant. It's
(00:25):
like Buck, and I'm a very strong opinion on this too.
What you should do about reclining seats on airplanes. I
would ban them. I think that all of you who
recline your.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Seats are evil.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I think partly this has to do with what size
you are of a human. If you are anywhere near
six feet and you are find flying coach on an airplane,
if someone reclines their seat in any way, it's like
they're basically sitting in your lap. Other people of you.
My wife's five to two. I look over sometimes on
airplane flights and it's like she's got a huge luxury
(01:02):
seat to be hanging out in. If you are a
decent sized man in an airplane and someone reclines in
your vicinity, I understand why you are filled with rage.
Strong opinion there. I don't think that should be allowed either.
I'm looking out for everyone trying to bring common courtesy
the world and bring everyone together. We will take some
(01:22):
of your responses there, but you know, I wanted to
play a couple of things here that I think are
emblematic of the profound inauthenticity of the Democrat arguments as
we now sit twenty days from election day. Do you remember, Buck,
(01:43):
when all of us were told, Hey, this new Georgia law,
Oh my goodness, it's basically like Jim Crow. Joe Biden
came out and said, it's not even Jim Crow, it's
Jim Eagle, which was a weird. It's a weird idea.
It was like, so much worse than Jim Crow, It's
(02:04):
Jim Eagle. He said that if you supported it, you
were basically like Confederate President Jefferson Davis. They even did
I love Kurby Your Enthusiasm, Buck, but the final season
of Kirby Your Enthusiasm was based around the idea that
Larry David got arrested for bringing water to someone standing
in line to vote in Georgia. In twenty twenty, they
(02:27):
moved the All Star Game, which would have been honoring
Hank Aaron, out of Atlanta because they said the Georgia
Wall was so racist. Then in twenty twenty two, what happened.
The number of people who voted skyrocketed, proving it was wrong.
And now in twenty twenty four early voting started and
they had the biggest turnout for early voting in the
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history of.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
The state of Georgia.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
But I do think there should be consequences for the
people who lied to you about the reasonable election integrity
efforts brought to bear by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. But
I want to let you hear this buck montage of
everybody talking about how super racist the Georgia voting bills were.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
This is cut fourteen.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
We are witnessing right now a massive and unabashed assault
on voting rights, unlike anything we've ever seen since the.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Jim Crow era.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
This is Jim.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Crow and new clothe.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I do absolutely agree that it's racist.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It is a redux of Jim Crow in a suit
and tie.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
This is the new Jim Crow. This makes Jim Crow
look like Jim Eagle Buck.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
This is They are really unbelievable at sending out talking
points and then getting everyone to regurgitate them so that
they start to create their own narrative, do you I
would be embarrassed if I got talking points to just
go out and say what somebody else asked me to say.
I don't even think I get these talking point emails.
(03:59):
But the number of Democrats who are eager and desperately
want to go out and make these arguments is frankly
flat out embarrassing. But there are no consequences, right all
this has been proven untrue, and George is going to
have a huge turnout, and I think George is going
to vote Trump. But it only matters in the context
of what they tried to argue.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well, really, what you see is any argument that Democrats
want to have over voting integrity measures is really just
analogous or it's just a way of talking about racism. Actually,
they're the only voting that ever concerns them is racism
against voting rights issues, is racism against Black Americans. There's
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no other voting issue that gets them energized. They really
just use this, I think, as a scare tactic to
try to convince the black community that there's some nefarious
scheme out there by Republicans to make sure that their
votes don't count or they're not not allowed to vote
or something along those lines. And I know that they
(05:02):
would say if we had some MSNBC panelists here would say, oh, well,
look at the history of this country and say, yes,
you mean when Democrats were suppressing black votes in the South,
you know, the Republican Party, the Party of Abraham Lincoln,
and they always like to switch all of this around.
But that was then. This is now right. I mean,
show me whose vote is being suppressed through any kind
(05:24):
of racist means. And in fact, the issue we talked
about when you were out, Clay was in Virginia where
the DOJ, the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, which
is essentially the social justice warriors, who will send the
FBI after you. I mean, that's what the social that's
what the Civil Rights Division. Unfortunately, DJ has become for
a long time. They're saying that it's somehow not fair
(05:49):
for self identified illegals to be removed from the voter rules,
even though they have an opportunity to cure it. I
think they have ten days or something after they self identify.
If there's some mistake, they can say oh no, no,
I actually M a legal citizen. They don't want that
to happen that's not a good faith measure by the
Biden DJ. There's something going on here, and we can
(06:10):
discuss and debate how you know, bad faith and how
ill intentioned these kind of measures really are. But in Georgia,
I mean, it reminds me of of in North Carolina, Clay.
They also were saying back in the Obama era that
there were some voting measures that had been changed in
North Carolina and this was racist, suppressing the black vote.
(06:30):
That's anything that Republicans want to do, even if it's
sometimes making you know, just clarity, I mean, whether it's
voting roles or things, just sort of taking the basic
housekeeping measures you would need to run a clean election.
Anything that the right wants to do on this, we're
told is racist, even when afterwards there's a bigger turnout
of the black vote, you know what I mean, Yes,
(06:53):
they don't care. You know, they'll say that that law
Republicans want to pass a North Carolinian zone I'm talking about.
I can't even it was over deck to go, oh,
that vote or that law is racist and it's gonna
and it's racist because it's going to suppress the black vote.
And then and then the law goes into effect. There's
a record increase in the record turnout of the Black vote,
even above where it was before the law comes out,
(07:15):
and they just say whatever, move on to the next
false racism allegation when it comes to voting rights. I mean,
this is what they do all the time. It's so
people can Chris Haes, like Chris Hayes can pretend to
be civil rights heroes on MSNBC, like, how dare they're
trying to change the votes?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
They may have record turnout in Georgia. Buck, As we
were talking, new Georgia poll out from Quinnipiac, Trump up
six head to head on Kamala Harris, Trump up seven
with the full field of voters out there available. This
has been one of the most reliable of the pollsters.
(07:53):
But if Trump wins Georgia by three or more points,
He's gonna win a decent shot I think nationwide in
the popular vote. So this is an incredibly good result
for Trump with early voting underway in Georgia. LOTSI all
listened to us in Georgia. Go vote. I get fired
up about sometimes. Buck, You know that I really dislike
(08:16):
Tim Walls.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't think Kamala is very like a Polish me.
Excuse me. Tim Walls is fabulous.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
That's really funny if you haven't seen the video of
Tim Walls walking around wave in his hands everything.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I don't mind Kamala.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
I think she is in She is desperately on I
feel like I psychologically understand Kamala, but Tim Walls to me,
she Kamala desperately won't wants to be liked to such
an extent that she doesn't actually stand for anything, and
she's basically taken every position on every issue. That actually
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fills to me profoundly sad on some level. If you
want to psychoanalyze Kamala, I think she's very happy, and
I think she's looked to politics as a way to
validate her existence, and so she wants everybody to like
her so much that she's changed every position throughout her life.
That would be my quick psycho analysis of Kamlas. She
doesn't stand for anything. She's not particularly smart. Deep down
she knows it, but I understand her. Tim Walls is
(09:17):
just a real liar, and I mean he lies about everything,
and he's also a really bad actor. And this clip
the other day that went viral of him the way
he's attacked JD. Vance. I just found find profoundly dishonest.
If he said to JD. Vans, Hey, you know what,
we disagree on a lot of political issues. Let me
(09:38):
make the case for why you're wrong, I would not
dislike Tim Walls, but the way that he said, like
none of my classmates went to Yale, none of them
were lawyers. He talks down to people like me who
are from a red state and we all want our
kids to achieve more than us, and he makes us
(09:59):
all sound in the way that he talks to us,
like we're all a bunch of ignorant, stupid rednecks.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And this really got to me. The other day.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
He was talking about JD. Vance now being a venture capitalist,
and he said, I don't even know what venture capital is.
First of all, even though I think Tim Walls is
a moron, he's lying about this. He certainly knows what
a venture capital is. There's lots of venture capitalists that
donate to his campaign. There's lots of venture capitalists all
over in Minnesota where he's the governor. If he truly
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didn't know what a venture capitalist was, buck, he's so
dumb that he should resign on the spot, but he's
standing there in his flannel shirt, which evidently costs five
hundred and fifty dollars, cosplaying this regular guy red state Rube,
which he has tried to make his persona. Listen to
cut eight of the latest attack on JD.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Vance. It just doesn't add.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Up, Senator Vance. He became a media darling. He wrote
a book about a place he grew up, but the
premise was was trashing that place where he grew up
rather than lifting it up. This guy's a venture capitalist,
cosplaying like he's a cowboy or something. I don't even
know what a venture capitalist does most of the time.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, he's like, I'm just a big old dumbass vheah.
For me, it's absurd. Okay, let's take a look at
the JD thing. I would also note that when JD
is pointing out the and I read Hillbilly Elogy years
a year, I think I read it in twenty twelve
or twenty eleven when it came out in a long
time ago. It's been out a long time. Yeah. I
read Hillibilly Elogy early on when it came out because
(11:36):
so many people said, you've really got to read this.
It's a good book, and so I did. I don't think.
I don't think Walls is a reader. By the way,
I don't think it's going to shock anybody to hear
that he does love Broadway, though. But he is making
this case here that JD. Vance was denigrating his community.
That's not true. He was pointing out that in his
own life and in the community that he grew up
and lived in, there are dysfunctions, there are problems, and
(11:58):
there are people who need help and that need to
be addressed. I would argue that JD. Vance's own life
story is an inspiration to that community. Yes, that you too,
if you do the right things and you work hard
and you stay in the fight, you know, you can
join the Marines, and you can go to Yale and
you could even be vice president of the United States.
(12:18):
I think JD's story is inspirational to people who come
from some of the forgotten parts of whether it's Appalachia
or the russ Belt or you name it. And for
Tim Wallas to play this like, oh, like, you know,
he's just one of those fancy Yale guys. You know,
I don't even know what adventure game that is actually
demeaning to people. You know, just because somebody is running
an autobody shop, or somebody's a plumber, or somebody's a trucker,
(12:41):
it doesn't mean that Tim Wallas is going to connect
with them by being like, oh, you know those You know,
people work hard in a lot of roles, and they
have aspirations too, you know, they want to own that
business or they want to build and get bigger, and
they also can appreciate the success of their fellow Americans.
It's just so dishonest for Tim Wallas to be like, oh,
he's a bit of a fancy guy, mister fancy man.
(13:04):
I mean, JD grew up with a single mom who
what a drug addiction.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Well, and I haven't talked to JD about this, but
it wasn't long ago that Democrats celebrated Bill Clinton from
let's be honest, a place that wasn't on the front
page of the newspaper, Hope, Arkansas, being raised by a
single parent, being able to go to Georgetown, being able
to go to Yale Law School, the same place that
(13:29):
JD Van is a U and success story that a
kid who came from not a privileged background could rise
to the office of presidency is the American dream at
its most basic level. And so when he's also attacking JD.
Vance for being a venture capitalist and a cowboy, lots
of cowboys are venture capitalists. I mean cowboys run a
(13:51):
lot of businesses out there. It is so profoundly dishonest
to me the way that Tim Walls carries himself and
the fact that he's supposed to be some paragon of
Red State America that's going to connect with people across
the country. I think it's worse than that buck. I
think it's blown up because I think people see through
what bs he is pedaling and it actually becomes insulting
(14:13):
in the same way Barack Obama saying to black man, hey,
you guys are sexist if you're not voting for kmmalin.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, we just see that she's an empty suit.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Similarly, as a Red State guy, I look at Tim
Walls and I say, you know, you are uniquely disqualifying
to me as a vice president based on your dishonesty
in the way you try to speak to me.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You know, we got a lot of people listening who
are pulling long hours, you know, whether it's at the
office or as a general contractor or or an electrician
or any trade you name it, so that they can
provide for their families and if they have kids, to
create opportunities maybe you know, you know, the whole thing is,
you're an electrician, you're working hard. Your kid can be
(14:53):
a venture capitalist worth fifty million dollars or one hundred
million dollars whatever, if he wants to take that pathway
or she wants to take that pathway. That's what we
all thought the American dream was right, It's not all
that all fancy went to Yale guy, he abandoned his
community in Ohio. It's like, what does that mean? Could
you imagine him? First of all, the way that you
could also turn this around on so many democrats too,
(15:15):
who pretend to represent communities and when they get rich
and famous, they spend absolutely no time in those communities.
Isn't that interesting? Yeah? Oh, you know, yeah, there's a
lot of that we could talk about. Anyway. Let's also
take some of your calls here. We got the talkbacks
also on the leaf blowers, which is gonna be hilarious.
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Team. We got a quick turnaround, but something exciting coming up.
Ted Cruz, the Senator from Texas in his battle to
keep that seat. We'll talk to him. He put on
a clinic in his debate last night. He'll be with
us here in just a minute, so stay with us.
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Speaker 1 (18:56):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. We are
scheduled to be joined by Senator Ted Cruz soon. He
had a debate last night with Colin Allred in their
Texas Senate race. That is one of I would say
probably two, although Nebraska we may need to get deb
Fisher on at some point. The Republicans are looking really
good to take control of the Senate. Tim sheheehe and
(19:19):
Montana is running a great campaign, looks likely to beat
Tester of West Virginia is going to flip. Has been
expected for a while. Bernie Marino is I think gonna
win in Ohio tomorrow. We're gonna be joined by Eric Hubdy,
who is looking really good. In Wisconsin. We need to
get Mike Rodgers from Michigan. On a lot of these
battleground states all over the Midwest, and we're going to
(19:41):
be joined soon by our friend Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Ted Cruz is with us. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
We'll get to the larger picture in a moment. But
what are you seeing on the ground, Senator? Appreciate you
making the time to join us. Great job in the
debate last night. We talked about it some earlier on
the show. What are you seeing on the for both
yourself and Trump and what are voters most focused on
in your experience?
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Well, Claig, great to be with you, guys. Look, it
is a real battle in Texas. My biggest challenge in
the race is frankly complacency that people say, listen, it's Texas,
You're a Republican, this is easy. I think that's objectively false.
Chuck Schumer has been explicit I am his number one
target in the country, and Schumer and George Sorows are
(20:27):
flooding one hundred and fifty million dollars into the state.
I'm getting pummeled on TV. I've been massively outspent, and
there now been more than a dozen polls that show
this race as a one point race or a two
point race or a three point race. They are all
in and it is a battle. Right I'm right in
the middle of a fifty three stop bus tour all
(20:49):
over the state of Texas. I'm in witchdoff Falls, Texas
right now, headed up to Amarillo. Right after that. We're
criss crossing the state. But it is a battle, and
it's a one or two or three points where we
are being massively outspent right now.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
You know, Senator Cruz, We've got a lot of people
listening right now who live in the great state of Texas,
and I think to some of them it might even
be a surprise that you're in anything even resembling a
close race. I think, on the one hand, you know,
you've just been a fixture as a conservative senator for
a while now, and people just expect kind of expect
you to be there. But we're here to tell them all.
(21:24):
If you don't want your favorite TV show going off
the air, so to speak, you got to make sure
you actually watch. You got to show up. How can
people help at this point? What are some of the
groups that you'd like to see getting more activated and involved,
and what has to happen to make sure that we
pull this across the finish line and you get six
more years.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Well, there are two things that matter enormously. Number One,
if you're in Texas, come out and vote early. Voting
starts next week on Monday, So come out and vote early,
and get your friends to vote early. Pick up the
phone and call your friends, Email your friends, text your sister,
your son, your next door neighbor, your co worker, get
them to vote. Turnout matters enormously. And then secondly, I
(22:04):
would ask every one of your listeners, whether you're in
Texas or whether you're in any other state, go to
our website. It's Ted Cruz dot org, Ted Cruz dot org,
Ted Cruz dot org. Go to the website and make
a contribution. Give ten dollars or twenty five or fifty dollars,
or maybe you can even give one hundred or five
hundred or one thousand. But whatever you can give, please
(22:25):
go right now to Ted Cruz dot org because we
are getting swamped. Schumer and Soros look at some level,
it's not complicated. If you are a hard partisan Democrat
after Donald Trump, there is nobody in the country you
want to beat more than me. And so every radical
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left wing Democrat gives money to my opponent. When my
opponent spoke at the Democrat convention in Chicago, the entire
stadium spontaneously began chanting beat Ted Cruz. I'm who is
the only person that got that particular treatment? Guys, I'll
tell you, I'm actually pretty proud of that. You had
twenty thousand hardcore radicals who I think are trying to
(23:08):
destroy America and they see me as one of the
principal impediments standing in their way. Now, I'll tell you
what happened to my opponent, Colin Allred, who is a
very very left wing Democrat. He raised over a million
dollars in the next twenty four hours, and so that
money he is trying to lie to the voters of Texas.
He's trying to claim run away from his record. The
(23:30):
debate last night was all about him running away from
his record. But the only way we can counteract that
is with the resources to communicate my record and his record.
And to do that takes your listeners going to Ted
Cruz dot org right now and giving generously. At Ted
Cruise dot.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Org, we played some of the clips from your debate
last night, Senator, and it seems particularly the case that sometimes,
as you well know, races can come down to one
issue that just really connects with voters. It feels like
Colin alread your opponent his refusal to condemn men pretending
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to be women and playing women's sports, particularly because he's
actually an athlete. He played football, he played in the NFL,
played college football. He knows better than anybody else. This
is not some guy sitting in a university faculty lounge
arguing about transgender issues.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
He knows how much bs this is. Are you seeing
that cut through?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Because that the town hall that Trump just did with
Harris Faulkner today, every woman raised her hand when she
asked whether they were concerned about their daughters or granddaughters
competing against men in me in women's sports. Are you
seeing that resonate with your voters.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Absolutely, it is resonating powerfully. And look like you've talked
about this issue for a long time. You obviously come
from the world of sports, and so you've been really
vocal in taking on this lunacy and doing so early on.
But it is an issue that it really shows how
radical and extra em Colin already is that that he
(25:02):
has four different times supported and voted for boys competing
against girls sports. He's voted for boys going to girls' bathrooms,
going to the girls locker rooms, going to girls changing rooms.
And and for the radical Democrat, Your daughter, your granddaughter,
she has no rights, she has no right not to
be at her changing room next to a fully naked
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grown man. And and and that's just that's just fundamentally wrong,
and and and this issue is about fairness, you know it.
It didn't used to be controversial to observe that boys
and girls are different, that men and women are different.
And we all saw the ridiculousness of two biological men
at the Olympics dominating women's boxing. You know that is
(25:49):
and and Clay, you put your your finger on exactly
where this is resonating. It's funny the media thinks that
that the people who care about this are are the crazies,
and it is it is moderate undecided women that recognize
this is really unfair, and it speaks volumes that it's
a debate. Colin Alred tried to keep saying that's that's
(26:12):
I don't support boys competing against girls. And he's just
flat out lining because he can say that in the debate,
but every time he's voted on it, he's voted the
wrong way.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Speaking of Senator Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz dot org for
those of you in Texas, or will I guess anywhere right?
What a pitch in and help out Ted Cruz dot org.
Right now they're spending one hundred and fifty million dollars
against you, Senator Cruz. The How concerned should people be
right now about the the California ing of Texas. It's
(26:44):
something that I know Democrats for a long time have
been hoping to achieve. What are the long term trends
and what do you think can be done about it?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
So it's a very real issue, and I will say
there are countervailing factors. So there's some people who leave
California who lead blue states and they're fed up. They're
fed up with the high taxes, they're fed up with
the high regulations, the shutdowns, the woke policies, and they
look around the country and they say where do I
want to be and they pick Texas And the data
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show actually those folks are more conservative than the median voter.
They show up here, they buy a pickup truck, a
hat and boots and a shotgun, and I call them
refugees for freedom. I want every one of them to
come to Texas and to be here and to fight
for our freedoms. There's another group, which is a company
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moves to Texas and they transfer all their employees, and
the employees didn't necessarily decide I want to be in Texas.
They just stick with their jobs. Those guys tend to
vote exactly like they did where they came from. And
in many ways, Texas is a victim of our own
success because we're the best place in the country to
(27:57):
run a business, and so we have so many businesses
moving to Texas that they are bringing in hundreds of
thousands of employees from California and other Blue states, and
so that influx that they're cross cutting instincts. But the
second group, it's dangerous because they're voting just like they
did in La Ted.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
First of all, everybody go to Ted Cruz dot org,
go donate to him. I want to build on this
because I do think this is part of a larger
picture here. If you're looking at the national Senate race,
Republicans are looking really good. In Montana, West Virginia's flipping.
You're starting to see panic. I think on the Democrat side,
they are now just trying to flood your state because
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they're terrified of some of the trend lines they're seeing elsewhere,
and if they could knock you off, they feel like
maybe they've got some chance to try to retain their majority.
So this is a nationalized play. Really, it's not about Texas.
It's about a desperate ploy to try to retain the
Senate in a larger national context on the map. Is
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that what you think a lot of this money is
motivated by.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I think that's absolutely right. And look, let's break it
down in different options that can happen anyone in business
or life. You think about best case scenario, worst case scenario.
You try to give probabilities. All of us hope we
have a fantastic election in November. We hope that Donald
Trump is re elected as president, that we win a
Republican senative, Republican House. That would be very very good.
(29:28):
A lot of good would come of it. We will
secure the border, we will cut taxes, we will end
the war on energy, we will bring down inflation, we
will end the wars abroad. Israel will defeat Hamas. There's
a lot of good that will come of that. But
on the other hand, it might be a bad election.
The numbers are close enough. It could be if God forbid,
Kamala Harris wins. I think it is likely that the
(29:51):
Democrats also will win the House. In my judgment, the
White House and the House of Representatives are positively correlated.
They're going to go together. If the Democrats win both
the White House and the House, then the Senate becomes
orders of magnitude more important. It is the only check
in balance to stop the country from plunging over the cliff.
(30:12):
And you laid out the math exactly right. Today the
Democrats have a fifty one to forty nine majority in
the Senate. We're going to win West Virginia. The Democrats
have essentially conceded it, so that takes it to fifty
to fifty. And right now we are leading in Montana
by four to six points. If we win West Virginia
and Montana, the Republicans have a fifty one to forty
(30:32):
nine majority. Now Chuck Schumer's looking at those identical poll
numbers and he realizes the same thing. If he wants
to stop it, there's only one place he has a
prayer to do that, and that is Texas. And the
last time I ran in twenty eighteen, I won by
less than three points. I won by two point six percent.
So Schumer's saying, look, all I need is three points
(30:53):
in Texas. And if he flips Texas, he holds onto
the majority. And let me tell you guys, what happens there,
because it is truly terrified. If Schumer gets the majority
with a Democrat House and a Democrat white House, Collin
all Red has pledged to be the fiftieth vote to
end the filibuster. The filibuster is the requirement of sixty
(31:13):
votes to take up major legislation. If that happens, let
me tell you what January of next year looks like.
The first thing Schumer does is then the filibuster. He
then does four things in rapid succession. He strikes down
every voter integrity law in the country, strikes down every
photo ID law in the country, and he legalizes ballot
harvesting everywhere in the country. Number one. Number two, he
(31:34):
adds two new states, DC and Puerto Rico. He would
do that because he believes that gives him four new
Democrat senators. Number three, he would give immediate voting rights
to every illegal alien in America. They're twenty to thirty
million illegal aliens in America. If he does that, Texas
immediately turns blue and every statewide elected official in Texas
(31:55):
is defeated. Texas becomes California. And number four, he would
pack the sup Court, grow it from nine justices to thirteen,
and put four left wing justices. Now, guys, both of
you have known you a long time. I am, by
nature an optimist. I have no answer to that scenario.
I view that scenario as a system ending event in history.
(32:18):
Great nations rise and fall. That would be I believe,
the end of the United States of America as we
know it. And what is terrifying is we are literally
one vote away. Those are the stakes of my race.
And that's why I would ask folks to go to
Ted Cruz dot org right now and ensure that we
don't lose and we don't go off the edge of
that cliff.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Amen, we have so many of you listening in Texas
right now. You gotta go out and vote. Do not
sleep on this. Think of all the money they're putting
into this. Think of what Ted has just put out
there as the future if they pull off this upset
through really crickery and treachery. But that's what the Democrats
excel at Ted Cruz dot org and all of our texts,
(33:00):
and we got a lot of you get out there
and vote Ted. Thank you so much, Senator Cruise. Always
appreciate you being with us.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
Thank you, gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
God blessed God bless Tedcruz dot org important a website
also Buck Yesterday, I called in about this time on
the golf course because I was helping to raise money
for Tunnel to Towers, which I believe is one of
the best charitable organizations anywhere in the country, and we
raised millions of dollars yesterday. You and I are donating
(33:28):
proceeds from Crockett Coffee to Tunnel to Towers because we,
individually and the two of us, are so impressed at
what we have seen from Frank Siller in the work
that he does. I was out at Liberty National Golf
Club in New Jersey, overlooks the New York City skyline.
A lot of our wour listeners know how beautiful and
majestic that area can be. But man, they had four
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different individuals share the story of having their mortgages paid off.
Three of them were widows who had lost their husbands
and had young children. They make a tremendous difference for
so many people out there, firemen, police officers, people in
the armed forces. If you see the sacrifices that they make,
and some of these guys and gals make the ultimate
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sacrifice and have young families, they will pay off the
mortgage and take care of the responsibility of their lodging,
their resonance cost. It makes such a huge difference. I
wish you'd been all able to hear from three different
widows there. I played in a golf event, but it
was so much more than that to be able to
raise just an incredible amount millions of dollars. Join me,
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Join buck, go to tunnels to towers and sign up
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I played in a great foursome with guys Tony John Marco,
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Speaker 2 (35:16):
Closing up chop here on Clay and back and I'm
just gonna say it, early morning, leaf flowers and flute
players coming for play once again. He has he has
kicked over the leaf pile. He is getting a lot
of heat. And here we have a leaf blow This
is from our talkback San Antonio listener Ben owns a
(35:38):
landscape company. Let's play this one.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I use leaf blowers whenever I have to. I own
a landscape company and I do lawn maintenance. I have
ten to fifteen lawns per day on Thursdays and Fridays.
And if I don't get started at seven, then I'm
going to have an issue finishing before it gets dark
out now, but even before I'll be up until I'll
be working until eight in the summer. And if I
(36:01):
don't get started early, so that's my issue.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
What say you, Clay, Should he get night vision goggles? Yeah? Yeah,
I want him out after dark.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
I appreciate the fact that he works hard, sleep in
a little bit in the morning, and come out a
little bit later, and look in particular all of you
non professional leaf blowers, because his full time job is
that right, A lot of you, with your own leaf
blowers are running around on the weekend at seven am,
(36:32):
destroying the sleep habits of Americans everywhere. And you know
who agrees with me, Buck Sexton's fabulous mother. She has
great taste in the leaf blowing issue as well.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
We'll be back through tomorrow.
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