June 21, 2024 • 36 mins
Clay chats with callers. Whitmer, Clay says, is the backup plan for Biden. Fate of the Washington Post. Michelle Obama as a Biden replacement? People are making small-dollar donations to Trump, even as inflation eats into everything they have to spend, indicating grassroots enthusiasm. Kelly Loeffler, former U.S. senator and chairwoman of Greater Georgia, talks with Clay about the WNBA’s future and why the debate is a huge opportunity for Trump.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in our number three, Clay Travis Buck Sexton
Show Buck. We'll be back on Tuesday. I'm sure we'll
be talking a lot all next week about the upcoming
debate on Thursday and then reacting to it on Friday.
It's important to remember and remind yourselves as well that
there are still many major Supreme Court decisions outstanding that
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also could come down next week, maybe even the week after,
but we will see exactly there, in particular the presidential
immunity case, as well as the question of whether or
not the jan sixth political prisoners, I think it's fair
to call them that can be prosecuted under a Sarbines
Oxley corporate charge basically obstructing an official event, official proceeding.
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Still to be determined whether or not that is permissible.
So all of that on the horizon, still heading this way.
Next week promises to be potentially a really important week's
worth of news. Some news during this last couple of
minutes I'm reading from a post from Donald Trump himself.
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Sean O'Brien, the General president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
has accepted my invitation to speak at the RNC our
Great Convention will unify Americans, demonstrate to the nation's working
families they come first. When I'm back in the White House,
the hard working Teamsters and all working Americans will once
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again have a country they can afford to live in
and be respected around the world. Sean, I look forward
to seeing you represent the Teamsters in Milwaukee. Together, we
can make America great again. Research request for the team
in New York. The Teamsters have not typically endorsed a
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Republican candidate. I don't believe that they have endorsed anyone
at all yet. My understanding is that both Biden and
Trump have made their pitch. I believe this will be,
as a result, somewhat unprecedented in that you will have,
unless the Teamsters are in fact going to intro endorse Trump,
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which I do not believe they have, you will have
a individual speaking in Milwaukee who is neither a Trump
nor Biden's supporter. Again, I believe I'm correcting all those facts.
This is just breaking news right now. Trump has just
posted what I read for you. I cannot think of
very many times when someone would speak at a convention
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and potentially be supporting the other side. So is this
a little bit of a hint about the possibility of
the Teamsters maybe coming down on the side of Trump,
and if it is, or even if they just don't
make an official endorsement, this would potentially have seismic impact
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because I just laid out for all of you that
effectively this feels like a big ten election, And for
those of you who don't know, when I say a
big ten election, I mean the big ten conference in
that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan are going to decide who
the next President of the United States is. Maybe Minnesota.
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By the way, Minnesota, I saw a poll recently that
had Trump up one. I shared that with you guys.
But if Minnesota goes Trump, then Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin
are going Trump two. And I also think there is
a strong likelihood that all three of these states moved together.
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That means that much like in twenty sixteen when Trump
swept Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and then in twenty twenty
when Biden swept those three, I think the likelihood is
that all three of these states move in ten because
whatever motivates someone in Pennsylvania to vote for Trump or
Biden is not going to be that dissimilar from what
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would motivate somebody in Michigan. This matters, by the way,
because it feels to me on some level like the
entire American presidential election is just coming down to Michigan.
Am I crazy? I've been I've been making this argument.
Am I crazy to make this argument? Large Jewish population
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in Michigan, Huge Arab population in southeast Michigan, the Dearborn
area in particular, still very large manufacturing teamsterur based car construction,
car manufacturing, very much of a blue collar base there
that would traditionally have been much of the base of
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the Democrat Party that now has in many ways shifted
and begun to at least be up for grabs with
the possible ability that the overall membership of the Teamsters
may end up voting for Donald Trump over Joe Biden. Again,
just very important to pay attention to what's going on there.
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It feels in many ways to me like we basically
have a governor's race in Michigan between Biden and Trump,
and whicheverone wins that local battleground state is going to
be president of the United States. That's why I said
Democrats cool calculus could be to put Gretchen Whitmer on
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the ticket alongside of Josh Shapiro. I haven't heard anybody
else argue that Democrat or Republican publicly, but it's what
to me, all of the calculus, if you're playing chess,
would support. But in the meantime, much of what you're
seeing going back and forth between Trump and Biden, the
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motivation for Biden to be difficult on Israel and Benjamin
net Yahoo is in my opinion, not actually believing that
Israel is behaving inappropriately in the way that they've responded
to October seventh, but in arguing that what's really going
on here is Biden is trying to preserve both the
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Arab support and the Jewish support so that he can
win the state of Michigan, and Trump recognizing rightly that
if he is able to win Michigan, he's going to
be president of the United States. Biden has to win
all three of those states. If Trump plucks off Michigan
or Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, there's about a ninety nine percent
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chance he's going to be president of the United States,
because the electoral college math basically doesn't add up unless
Biden is able to win all three of those states.
Trump takes one, He's going to be the next president
of the United States. Biden knows it. So really, what
you're seeing there is a battle over who's going to
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be the governor of Michigan. It fills very small, but
I think as this process plays out over the next
four and a half months, what you're going to see
is the presidential election increasingly is basically just going to
move to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. All the rallies are
going to be there, all of the money is going
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to be spent there. Just get ready for it. Speaking
of money, and this is significant, you probably have heard
a lot of talk if you've been paying much attention
about Biden's big cash advantage. Oh, Biden's going to have
so much more money than Trump. That's conventional wisdom. Has
now been proven wrong, at least as we sit here today.
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Joe Biden now has less money to spend than Donald
Trump does. Trump and the RNC raised one hundred and
forty one million dollars in eighty one million dollars raised
by Biden and the DNC. Right now, Trump has one
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hundred and sixteen and a half million dollars on hand,
at least he did at the beginning of June, and
Biden has ninety one point six million. This is reflective
of the massive amounts of money that came rolling in
for Trump as soon as he was convicted of the
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thirty four felon accounts in New York City and the
numbers that I saw, twenty five percent of all of
those donors are first time Trump donors, that is, people
who have never given money before. And the average donation amount,
I thought this was very interesting seventy dollars and twenty
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seven cents. I know a lot of you out there
are struggling on a day to day basis because of
the rising cost of goods to meet your family budgets,
to be able to have enough money left in your
bank accounts to be able to handle all of your necessities.
But I did think that was interesting. Seventy dollars twenty
seven cents average donation. These are small dollar donors, and
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I'm not trying to demean it by saying small dollars.
There's people out there with millions of dollars they can give,
super rich people, and typically those people are very engaged
in the political process. This means there's a lot of
grassroots enthusiasm for Trump. Also, this number really jumps out
of me. Twenty five percent first time donors. Whatever you
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think of Trump, isn't it kind of staggering that we
could be sitting here in June of twenty twenty four,
nearly nine years after Trump first came down the escalator
at Trump Tower to begin his presidential campaign and to
begin his life as a politician, and we could he'll
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be in that campaign getting twenty five percent at least
according to the campaign new donors. These are people coming
off the sidelines who had never given a dollar to
Trump before, and suddenly, nine years into his political career,
they said, enough is enough. I'm putting my money where
my mouth is. Not only presumably am I going to
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be a Trump supporter, I'm willing to go into my wallet,
pull out my credit card, write a check, do whatever
is necessary to make my voice heard. That's got to
be super encouraging, because yes, Biden's going out and he's
going to have George Clooney and Julia Roberts and Robert
de Niro and all the frankly aging Hollywood celebrities, Steven Spielberg,
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Kate Capshaw, all those people donating massive amounts of money
to him. But then you've got normal, average, everyday Americans
who are just fed up with Joe Biden using his
Department of Justice as a political arm to try to
put his chief political rival in prison for the rest
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of his life. And they flooded the Donald Trump website
to the tune of now Trump having more money to spend,
it's going to be fascinating to see how that money
gets spent, and we may reach we may have already reached.
I mentioned being down in Georgia the past several days.
Every time I looked up, there was a dementia or
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dishonesty anti Biden ad on local television.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Those of you in Georgia probably see these all the time.
I'm not in the battleground state. I don't see that
many political ads. At some point, there's a law of
diminishing returns. Remember in South Carolina, what did Jamie Harrison
spend like one hundred million dollars on the Senate race
against Lindsey Graham and he's still lost by ten points.
At some point, people do just start tuning out all
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of the noise. You put it on mute during the
commercial breaks, you roll your eyes and you change the channel. Then,
if you're a diehard political junkie, at some point you've
seen all these ads so many times that they cease
having a substantial impact. We'll talk about that when we
come back. I also want to play for you because
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I don't want to forget the fact that the wide
open southern border is having real consequences and real cost
on many innocent Americans, and they're talking about it in
a way on MSNBC on Joy Reid Show that I
think you need to hear. I'm going to play that
for you and we come back. Also, Kelly Leffler speaking
of the state of Georgia. She's going to be with
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what she sees on the ground down there, former senator
representing the great State of Georgia. We'll talk with her
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. If it
hasn't already happened in your state or your local community,
it probably will in the months to come. Certainly in
the years to come, someone who is illegally in this
country is going to commit a crime that is devastating
to the people in your community. We don't know when
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it will happen, if it hasn't already happened, but we
do know that, unlike crimes that are committed by American citizens,
if we actually enforce the law, the people committing these
crimes would never be here and their innocent victims would
not be taken advantage of. Yet it's considered unacceptable to
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even have this conversation on MSNBC. Where when young innocent people,
whether it's Lake and Riley or many others, the mother
of five in Maryland who was just murdered in cold
blood by illegal immigrants, when they are victims. And by
the way, this is who typically commits violent crimes. Young men.
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Overwhelmingly young men are entering this country. We don't have
a lot of eighty year old grandmas running around with
guns blowing people away. We don't have them committing violent crimes.
Most all, violent crime is committed by men sixteen to
forty years old, sixteen to fifty. If you want to
expand it a little bit, go look and it's skewed
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younger right, Men in their twenties and thirties, teenage years
commit the majority of these violent crimes. Who are the
people that are actually coming into this country young men,
and who are they committing violence crimes against often American
citizens who should have never been their victims. This is
the conversation that they had about this recently on MSNBC. Listen.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
This is one of the reasons that people have these
sort of thinking, this sort of thinking. Here's the three
cable networks reporting of this. Was our banner said, soon
Biden announces legal protections for undocumented spouses a citizens. CNN's
banner said, Biden announces new protections for some undocumented spouses.
Here was Fox's banner. Migrant arrested for raping thirteen year
old in years. Yes, and so I think that's part
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of the problem. Says that you have a.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Lot of the fear mongery exactly, and it's not.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean, you hear them laughing there. That's Jaiapaul, by
the way, congresswoman talking with Joy Reid on MSNBC. You
hear them laughing there. But this is not fear mongering.
It isn't fear mongering to discuss who is committing violent crimes.
In fact, it's actually willful blindness to refuse to acknowledge
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who is committing violent crimes in this country. And one
of the toxic aspects of identity politics in particular is
in this nation, we seem to only really care about
victims of violent crime in much of the country when
white men are involved. That's the reality, because the vast
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majority of crime in this country, white men aren't involved
in it all. But compare the amount of coverage that
you get on MSNBC or CNN, and I don't even
think that it matters because it could be a white
guy from Russia, or it could be a white guy
from some other European country Ukraine, who's sneaking into our country.
If they're committing a crime, regardless of what their racial
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background is, it's a crime that should have never been
allowed to occur. Joe Biden has blood on his hands
for every single American citizen who is violently attacked by
someone who should have never been here. It could have
been stopped. It should have been stopped. To me, Biden
should be charged as an accessory in every single one
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Buck Sexton Show Friday edition of the program. Buck will
be back on Tuesday. Lay Travis Roland with you here.
Join now by the first guest of the day. She
is Kelly Leffler. She is doing fantastic work down in
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the state of Georgia. Appreciate her joining us right now. Kelly,
Let's just start off. First of all, it's good to
talk with you. I think I saw you a couple
of months ago down in April at your event. Really
enjoyed speaking at the Greater Georgia event you put on.
I know you're fighting battles every single day down in Georgia.
How optimistic are you as we sit about four and
a half months out that Georgia is going to flip
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back to a red state and Trump is going to
beat Biden in your state.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well, Claient, it's great to be back with you. We
had a blast together and Georgia is so grateful for
you coming down and speaking to hundreds of grassroots activists
and leaders in Georgia. You know, what we're doing in
Georgia is going to put us in a very different
position than we were in in twenty twenty. So I
was just speaking at a Republican lawyers group and we
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were talking talking about how the preparation and the readiness
is so much more informed by what happened in twenty
twenty and we're looking ahead to win in twenty twenty four.
But it's going to take work every single day on
the ground, and that's what we're doing. We're doing voter roll, cleanup,
voter registration, making sure that kids in colleges know that
the conservative movement is where freedom and opportunity is. We're
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reaching out to the black and Hispanic communities, so we
see that momentum on the ground. We're taking nothing for granted.
And look the polls. The polls look positive, but the
only one that matters is on November fifth.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
No doubt. And as you look at those polls and
kind of think forward June twenty seventh, we've been having
a discussion about this. You've run for office before, you know,
when people really kind of start to pay attention. A
lot of times people say the election actually begins after
Labor Day. Why is this debate happening six days from now?
What do you think June twenty seventh tells us about
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the state of this race?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Clay, I think it tells us a lot. I think
it tells us that voters are ready for this to happen.
But more importantly, this debate needs to happen because Americans
want to hear the contrast between the two visions and
the two records that have been clearly demonstrated uniquely now
in both presidencies. And you know, I think Democrats are
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a little concerned about what's going on with their candidate,
and I think this is going to be a pressure
test and it's a huge opportunity to make sure that
President Trump tells the story of his four years in
office how it elevated Americans across the board. And I
don't know how Biden is going to defend his record.
I think it's super critical that we hear from him
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because we're in a perilous place in this country. I mean,
we have unprecedented risks at home and abroad, and he
needs to answer for where he has put this country.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
We're talking to Kelly Leffler. All right, Kelly, you owned
a WNBA franchise in Atlanta, and so you know the
struggles to get attention, how difficult it's been to build
this business for people out there who aren't familiar with
your tenure as the owner of the WNBA franchise in Atlanta.
Caitlin Clark is playing there tonight. I believe there's a
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massive amount of attention for this game, particularly because she's
bringing that amount of attention. But before we get to
Caitlin Clark, what was your experience like as a WNBA
owner and why are you not still a WNBA owner?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Well, the short answer to your last question is because
the WNBA stopped being about basketball and started being about
partisan politics. But let me tell you, being a team
owner for a decade was an incredible experience because for
most of that time, the league was about sport and
the uniting power of basketball. And I saw that firsthand
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when I lived in Chicago during the nineties during the
Bulls run, I had a fifty dollars standing room only
ticket and it was exciting. I saw how a team
can unite a city, and I wanted to bring that
spirit of basketball to Atlanta. So for a decade, my
business partner and I were fifty to fifty owners in
the team. And you know, it's interesting that the debates
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in Atlanta. This game tonight is in Atlanta, and that's
exactly where the Olympics were held in ninety six. That
David Stern, if you remember, the commissioner of the NBA,
was inspired to create a women's league. And I think
he'd be rolling over in his grave right now if
he saw that what Caitlin Clark brings to the league
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and how she's being treated, because at that time, we
would have done anything to have a player like that.
A phenom a sensation, and the WNBA is effectively turning
their back on her. She's been shunned from the Olympics,
and they're defending all her detractors in the league. So
it's really puzzling that we have this great player that's
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elim the game, that is responsible for one third of
ticket sales in a league that's reportedly losing fifty million dollars,
and it could really help restore and actually save the league.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You had issues in the WNBA because you had a
crazy idea and you just kind of hinted at that, Hey,
this league should bring everybody together. If I remember correctly,
your issues with the WNBA to a large extent dealt
with them going all in on BLM. And what I
think is one of the craziest stories of the entire
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twenty twenty sports calendar year for people out there who
have forgotten the individual and I believe was Waukeshaw, Wisconsin
who was shot. He was armed with a knife. He
was a person who had abused women. The woman who
he had abused called asking for police come to protect her,
and all of the WNBA women wrote his name on
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the T shirts that they made and protested the police
in Wisconsin showing up to tech that woman. I felt
like I was taking crazy pills. You had to as well.
I did.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Because the WNBA was formed to empower women, to inspire
young girls. I was a young girl playing in sports
that we didn't really have women role models. But I
loved Michael Jordan and to see women standing up for
other women would have been really amazing. But they insisted
on partnering with this BLM organization. Marxist leadership self avowed Marxists,
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put a Marxist on the WNBA Social Justice Committee, and
BLM was all about defunding the police. And at that time,
I said, we need to use sports for unity. And
I think we all remember during twenty twenty when the
Last Dance played on ESPN and during the pandemic and
everyone was so excited. It brought people together. But the
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WNBA went against that and said, no, we're going to
stand with BLM and not stand with the basketball and
the bigger community. So I was the only sports team
owner to stand up and speak out against it and
say we should unite around the American flag. We can
use this to bring people together to inspire people through
these challenging times and for that they attacked me and
you know, tried to cancel me and I refuse to
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bend the knee.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well, it's super brave and I'm glad you're telling that
story to the extent this audience hasn't heard it. We're
talking to former US Senator Greater Georgia chairwoman Kelly Leffler.
All right, tonight, Kaitlin Clark is coming to Atlanta. Why
do you think the WNBA has tripped all over itself
in the way that they have responded to Caitlin Clark.
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What is the story here? And certainly I think, but
I'm curious what your opinion is. Is it about something
other than basketball itself?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well, it shouldn't be. The story is Caitlin Clark can
save the WNBA if the WNBA can get politics out
of the way. But they can't because they won't let it.
You know, if you look at Caitlyn Clark has done
in terms of bringing attention a spot like viewership record.
Viewership was just hit last week with three million people
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watching the sky Fever game. Arenas are selling out when
she plays there. Nike has given her a something like
twenty eight million dollar contract and she's a great player.
She's all about basketball, but she's not about the leftist
political ideology that the league wants everyone to bow down to.
And so they're you know, seeing the challenges of that
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where players are lashing out against Caitlyn. Caitlyn is rising
above it. She's playing through it. She's one of the
fiercest competitors out there. She can take the physicality, she
can take the toughness. We've even had to have a
congressman from Indiana write a letter to the league that says,
wait a minute, you know, it feels like there's a
player that's being treated differently. Meanwhile all the other players
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are saying, well, she gets special whistles, and I just say, okay.
That's when you know they actually don't have an answer
for her skill level, because if you're blaming it on
the ress she has record, you can look at her
stats right now. She's one of the top players in
the league. She's certainly the best rookie in the league.
And she's been overtly left off of the Olympic roster.
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So look, she still has a chance to save the league.
The league can recover from this if they embrace her
and elevate her just like every other player. But we
haven't seen that happening yet.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You've been a really successful entrepreneur in your career. I'm
curious how you would assess this because sometimes it seems
to me that people would rather be part of a
small company or entity that they have control over than
build something truly massive. And you mentioned Jordan in the
Last Dance and going to watch him play fifty dollars
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tickets in Chicago. To me, that's a perfect example. Jordan
and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson came into the league
and they changed it forever and made people care about
the NBA that might not have before. We just saw
one more recently in the late nineties, Tiger Woods came
into the PGA and brought a brand new audience and
took the PGA to a different level than golf had
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ever been before. Why do you think the WNBA, which
you know better than anybody, has been begging and starved
for attention and trying to make people care about their sport,
has been given this Tiger Woods like gift and tripped
all over it.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Well, and let me even add one more example. And
I've had a commissioner with it a conversation with NBA
Commissioner Adam Silver about this his vision for the WNBA.
Look at what Venus and Serena Williams did for.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Tennis, the audiences.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
They brought in, they banded that sport that could have
been tremendous. The fact is, Caitlin Clark does not fit
the mold that they want in the WNBA. She doesn't
bring the intersexual sectional qualities that they think are required
to put on a pedestal, and they want to make
sure that they preserve this left wing ideology and if
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you don't buy into it and you don't promote it,
then you can't be promoted on their platform. And that's
just really tragic for the league and for the valuations
of the teams. I think, you know, if that's going
to hold them back, that's a shame because here we
have a talented player that's potentially influencing thousands of other
young girls who want to be part of athletics. Maybe
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not basketball, maybe it's tennis or golf, but they want
to see that there's a chance for them to succeed.
And yet we have WNBA players going down the road
of advocating to allow men in sports. They're writing op
ed after op ed about it, and this is where
the league stands right now, and it's not heading in
the right direction given the platform they've been offered.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Would you have ever believed you said you grew up
playing sports. I know a lot of people out there
listening did as well. Would you ever believe that we'd
find a place where a woman like Don Staley, who
is probably right now the most prominent women's coach in
all of college. I think that's fair to say, would
be saying, hey, if you're a man who identifies as
a woman, you should be able to come and get
a women's scholarship and compete in women's basketball, like twenty
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years ago. Would you believe this would have ever been possible.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I can't believe it today, certainly not twenty years ago.
In fact, before she passed, I had the opportunity to
meet the late great Pat Summit, who fought so hard,
amazing woman, and fought so hard to have women have
the same opportunities. Now they're virtually trying to hand it
to men on the silver platter. And you know, while
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the American team USA is going for their eighth consecutive
Olympic gold medal. Who knows the ninth one may not
be possible because there may be a man playing on
Team Spain or you know whatever. So you know, it's
one of those things that it's you can't believe it,
and you hope that we can get back to normal.
But I was the first Senator in the history of
the United States to introduce protecting women in girls' sports
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language in the Senate. I could only get a few
other Republican senators on that bill with me, and it
didn't even get brought to the floor, and I was
criticized for it being divisive because everyone said, we don't
need a bill to do that. Well, four years later,
we should have had that bill because too many girls
are getting excluded, too many boys are in girls' locker rooms,
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and now states are trying to codify, and the federal
government through Title nine rollbacks, trying to codify allowing men
in women's sports and in men's women's locker rooms, and
it's not fair to young girls.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
It's absolutely crazy. Kelly Leffler, I just came back from
Atlanta with my kids, went and watched the Atlanta Braves
play absolutely amazing time. Georgia needs to go back red.
How can people help if they're listening to you right
now and they're around and they're listening, they're in Georgia
or they're around the country and they want to help.
What you're doing.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Well. First of all, if you're in Georgia, go to
Greater Georgia dot com sign up to get involved and
we'll get you involved right away. Also, if you're around
the country, contact your local GOP Chector, young Republicans, college Republicans,
reach out and get involved in something. Because when we
look at the polls, we can see things are going
in the right direction. But you have to ask yourself
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what am I doing to make sure that we stay there?
And it's not just enough to say I'm gonna vote.
You have to do a little bit more. Talk to
your friends and family. Don't get canceled about being conservative
and be proud. Get out and talk to your family
owned friends as much as you can about getting involved.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Kelly, look forward to seeing you again soon. Appreciate the time.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Thanks, Claig. I gat to see you go.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
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Thanks to all of you for hanging out with us
or in the course of this Friday show. I am,
by the way, headed to Omaha tomorrow. I know we
have a huge listenership in Omaha and many of you
have been reaching out to me saying, hey, Clay, you
got to come check out the College World Series. I
am flying in tomorrow for Saturday and Sunday games in
(35:18):
Omaha for the College World Series, my favorite University of
Tennessee team taking on Texas A and m Fight Naggi's
should be a great matchup, best two out of three series.
I can't wait to check it out. I'm gonna be
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things that I have to absolutely positively be able to
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going to games Saturday Sunday. Be back here with all
of you on Monday. Buck, We'll be back on Tuesday,
and we'll be gearing up for the big debate on Thursday.
What do we expect to see? What will we see?
I cannot wait. Also the Supreme Court opinions on presidential
immunity and whether or not the jan six prisoners can't
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continue to be held under a Sarbine's Oxley related charge.
That will likely be decided, if not next week, it
has to be decided in the next ten days. So
major news coming. You never know when it's gonna break.
Make sure you're hanging out with all of us. I
cannot wait. Three year anniversary today. We appreciate Buck and
I do greatly all of you hanging with us every
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single day. See you on Monday.
Welcome back in our number three, Clay Travis Buck Sexton
Show Buck. We'll be back on Tuesday. I'm sure we'll
be talking a lot all next week about the upcoming
debate on Thursday and then reacting to it on Friday.
It's important to remember and remind yourselves as well that
there are still many major Supreme Court decisions outstanding that
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also could come down next week, maybe even the week after,
but we will see exactly there, in particular the presidential
immunity case, as well as the question of whether or
not the jan sixth political prisoners, I think it's fair
to call them that can be prosecuted under a Sarbines
Oxley corporate charge basically obstructing an official event, official proceeding.
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Still to be determined whether or not that is permissible.
So all of that on the horizon, still heading this way.
Next week promises to be potentially a really important week's
worth of news. Some news during this last couple of
minutes I'm reading from a post from Donald Trump himself.
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Sean O'Brien, the General president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
has accepted my invitation to speak at the RNC our
Great Convention will unify Americans, demonstrate to the nation's working
families they come first. When I'm back in the White House,
the hard working Teamsters and all working Americans will once
(01:34):
again have a country they can afford to live in
and be respected around the world. Sean, I look forward
to seeing you represent the Teamsters in Milwaukee. Together, we
can make America great again. Research request for the team
in New York. The Teamsters have not typically endorsed a
(01:57):
Republican candidate. I don't believe that they have endorsed anyone
at all yet. My understanding is that both Biden and
Trump have made their pitch. I believe this will be,
as a result, somewhat unprecedented in that you will have,
unless the Teamsters are in fact going to intro endorse Trump,
(02:18):
which I do not believe they have, you will have
a individual speaking in Milwaukee who is neither a Trump
nor Biden's supporter. Again, I believe I'm correcting all those facts.
This is just breaking news right now. Trump has just
posted what I read for you. I cannot think of
very many times when someone would speak at a convention
(02:42):
and potentially be supporting the other side. So is this
a little bit of a hint about the possibility of
the Teamsters maybe coming down on the side of Trump,
and if it is, or even if they just don't
make an official endorsement, this would potentially have seismic impact
(03:04):
because I just laid out for all of you that
effectively this feels like a big ten election, And for
those of you who don't know, when I say a
big ten election, I mean the big ten conference in
that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan are going to decide who
the next President of the United States is. Maybe Minnesota.
(03:24):
By the way, Minnesota, I saw a poll recently that
had Trump up one. I shared that with you guys.
But if Minnesota goes Trump, then Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin
are going Trump two. And I also think there is
a strong likelihood that all three of these states moved together.
(03:45):
That means that much like in twenty sixteen when Trump
swept Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and then in twenty twenty
when Biden swept those three, I think the likelihood is
that all three of these states move in ten because
whatever motivates someone in Pennsylvania to vote for Trump or
Biden is not going to be that dissimilar from what
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would motivate somebody in Michigan. This matters, by the way,
because it feels to me on some level like the
entire American presidential election is just coming down to Michigan.
Am I crazy? I've been I've been making this argument.
Am I crazy to make this argument? Large Jewish population
(04:28):
in Michigan, Huge Arab population in southeast Michigan, the Dearborn
area in particular, still very large manufacturing teamsterur based car construction,
car manufacturing, very much of a blue collar base there
that would traditionally have been much of the base of
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the Democrat Party that now has in many ways shifted
and begun to at least be up for grabs with
the possible ability that the overall membership of the Teamsters
may end up voting for Donald Trump over Joe Biden. Again,
just very important to pay attention to what's going on there.
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It feels in many ways to me like we basically
have a governor's race in Michigan between Biden and Trump,
and whicheverone wins that local battleground state is going to
be president of the United States. That's why I said
Democrats cool calculus could be to put Gretchen Whitmer on
(05:37):
the ticket alongside of Josh Shapiro. I haven't heard anybody
else argue that Democrat or Republican publicly, but it's what
to me, all of the calculus, if you're playing chess,
would support. But in the meantime, much of what you're
seeing going back and forth between Trump and Biden, the
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motivation for Biden to be difficult on Israel and Benjamin
net Yahoo is in my opinion, not actually believing that
Israel is behaving inappropriately in the way that they've responded
to October seventh, but in arguing that what's really going
on here is Biden is trying to preserve both the
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Arab support and the Jewish support so that he can
win the state of Michigan, and Trump recognizing rightly that
if he is able to win Michigan, he's going to
be president of the United States. Biden has to win
all three of those states. If Trump plucks off Michigan
or Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, there's about a ninety nine percent
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chance he's going to be president of the United States,
because the electoral college math basically doesn't add up unless
Biden is able to win all three of those states.
Trump takes one, He's going to be the next president
of the United States. Biden knows it. So really, what
you're seeing there is a battle over who's going to
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be the governor of Michigan. It fills very small, but
I think as this process plays out over the next
four and a half months, what you're going to see
is the presidential election increasingly is basically just going to
move to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. All the rallies are
going to be there, all of the money is going
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to be spent there. Just get ready for it. Speaking
of money, and this is significant, you probably have heard
a lot of talk if you've been paying much attention
about Biden's big cash advantage. Oh, Biden's going to have
so much more money than Trump. That's conventional wisdom. Has
now been proven wrong, at least as we sit here today.
(07:47):
Joe Biden now has less money to spend than Donald
Trump does. Trump and the RNC raised one hundred and
forty one million dollars in eighty one million dollars raised
by Biden and the DNC. Right now, Trump has one
(08:09):
hundred and sixteen and a half million dollars on hand,
at least he did at the beginning of June, and
Biden has ninety one point six million. This is reflective
of the massive amounts of money that came rolling in
for Trump as soon as he was convicted of the
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thirty four felon accounts in New York City and the
numbers that I saw, twenty five percent of all of
those donors are first time Trump donors, that is, people
who have never given money before. And the average donation amount,
I thought this was very interesting seventy dollars and twenty
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seven cents. I know a lot of you out there
are struggling on a day to day basis because of
the rising cost of goods to meet your family budgets,
to be able to have enough money left in your
bank accounts to be able to handle all of your necessities.
But I did think that was interesting. Seventy dollars twenty
seven cents average donation. These are small dollar donors, and
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I'm not trying to demean it by saying small dollars.
There's people out there with millions of dollars they can give,
super rich people, and typically those people are very engaged
in the political process. This means there's a lot of
grassroots enthusiasm for Trump. Also, this number really jumps out
of me. Twenty five percent first time donors. Whatever you
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think of Trump, isn't it kind of staggering that we
could be sitting here in June of twenty twenty four,
nearly nine years after Trump first came down the escalator
at Trump Tower to begin his presidential campaign and to
begin his life as a politician, and we could he'll
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be in that campaign getting twenty five percent at least
according to the campaign new donors. These are people coming
off the sidelines who had never given a dollar to
Trump before, and suddenly, nine years into his political career,
they said, enough is enough. I'm putting my money where
my mouth is. Not only presumably am I going to
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be a Trump supporter, I'm willing to go into my wallet,
pull out my credit card, write a check, do whatever
is necessary to make my voice heard. That's got to
be super encouraging, because yes, Biden's going out and he's
going to have George Clooney and Julia Roberts and Robert
de Niro and all the frankly aging Hollywood celebrities, Steven Spielberg,
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Kate Capshaw, all those people donating massive amounts of money
to him. But then you've got normal, average, everyday Americans
who are just fed up with Joe Biden using his
Department of Justice as a political arm to try to
put his chief political rival in prison for the rest
(11:04):
of his life. And they flooded the Donald Trump website
to the tune of now Trump having more money to spend,
it's going to be fascinating to see how that money
gets spent, and we may reach we may have already reached.
I mentioned being down in Georgia the past several days.
Every time I looked up, there was a dementia or
(11:26):
dishonesty anti Biden ad on local television.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
There.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Those of you in Georgia probably see these all the time.
I'm not in the battleground state. I don't see that
many political ads. At some point, there's a law of
diminishing returns. Remember in South Carolina, what did Jamie Harrison
spend like one hundred million dollars on the Senate race
against Lindsey Graham and he's still lost by ten points.
At some point, people do just start tuning out all
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of the noise. You put it on mute during the
commercial breaks, you roll your eyes and you change the channel. Then,
if you're a diehard political junkie, at some point you've
seen all these ads so many times that they cease
having a substantial impact. We'll talk about that when we
come back. I also want to play for you because
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I don't want to forget the fact that the wide
open southern border is having real consequences and real cost
on many innocent Americans, and they're talking about it in
a way on MSNBC on Joy Reid Show that I
think you need to hear. I'm going to play that
for you and we come back. Also, Kelly Leffler speaking
of the state of Georgia. She's going to be with
(12:35):
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representing the great State of Georgia. We'll talk with her
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. If it
hasn't already happened in your state or your local community,
it probably will in the months to come. Certainly in
the years to come, someone who is illegally in this
country is going to commit a crime that is devastating
to the people in your community. We don't know when
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it will happen, if it hasn't already happened, but we
do know that, unlike crimes that are committed by American citizens,
if we actually enforce the law, the people committing these
crimes would never be here and their innocent victims would
not be taken advantage of. Yet it's considered unacceptable to
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even have this conversation on MSNBC. Where when young innocent people,
whether it's Lake and Riley or many others, the mother
of five in Maryland who was just murdered in cold
blood by illegal immigrants, when they are victims. And by
the way, this is who typically commits violent crimes. Young men.
(15:22):
Overwhelmingly young men are entering this country. We don't have
a lot of eighty year old grandmas running around with
guns blowing people away. We don't have them committing violent crimes.
Most all, violent crime is committed by men sixteen to
forty years old, sixteen to fifty. If you want to
expand it a little bit, go look and it's skewed
(15:43):
younger right, Men in their twenties and thirties, teenage years
commit the majority of these violent crimes. Who are the
people that are actually coming into this country young men,
and who are they committing violence crimes against often American
citizens who should have never been their victims. This is
the conversation that they had about this recently on MSNBC. Listen.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
This is one of the reasons that people have these
sort of thinking, this sort of thinking. Here's the three
cable networks reporting of this. Was our banner said, soon
Biden announces legal protections for undocumented spouses a citizens. CNN's
banner said, Biden announces new protections for some undocumented spouses.
Here was Fox's banner. Migrant arrested for raping thirteen year
old in years. Yes, and so I think that's part
(16:32):
of the problem. Says that you have a.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Lot of the fear mongery exactly, and it's not.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I mean, you hear them laughing there. That's Jaiapaul, by
the way, congresswoman talking with Joy Reid on MSNBC. You
hear them laughing there. But this is not fear mongering.
It isn't fear mongering to discuss who is committing violent crimes.
In fact, it's actually willful blindness to refuse to acknowledge
(16:57):
who is committing violent crimes in this country. And one
of the toxic aspects of identity politics in particular is
in this nation, we seem to only really care about
victims of violent crime in much of the country when
white men are involved. That's the reality, because the vast
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majority of crime in this country, white men aren't involved
in it all. But compare the amount of coverage that
you get on MSNBC or CNN, and I don't even
think that it matters because it could be a white
guy from Russia, or it could be a white guy
from some other European country Ukraine, who's sneaking into our country.
If they're committing a crime, regardless of what their racial
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background is, it's a crime that should have never been
allowed to occur. Joe Biden has blood on his hands
for every single American citizen who is violently attacked by
someone who should have never been here. It could have
been stopped. It should have been stopped. To me, Biden
should be charged as an accessory in every single one
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Buck Sexton Show Friday edition of the program. Buck will
be back on Tuesday. Lay Travis Roland with you here.
Join now by the first guest of the day. She
is Kelly Leffler. She is doing fantastic work down in
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the state of Georgia. Appreciate her joining us right now. Kelly,
Let's just start off. First of all, it's good to
talk with you. I think I saw you a couple
of months ago down in April at your event. Really
enjoyed speaking at the Greater Georgia event you put on.
I know you're fighting battles every single day down in Georgia.
How optimistic are you as we sit about four and
a half months out that Georgia is going to flip
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back to a red state and Trump is going to
beat Biden in your state.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Well, Claient, it's great to be back with you. We
had a blast together and Georgia is so grateful for
you coming down and speaking to hundreds of grassroots activists
and leaders in Georgia. You know, what we're doing in
Georgia is going to put us in a very different
position than we were in in twenty twenty. So I
was just speaking at a Republican lawyers group and we
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were talking talking about how the preparation and the readiness
is so much more informed by what happened in twenty
twenty and we're looking ahead to win in twenty twenty four.
But it's going to take work every single day on
the ground, and that's what we're doing. We're doing voter roll, cleanup,
voter registration, making sure that kids in colleges know that
the conservative movement is where freedom and opportunity is. We're
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reaching out to the black and Hispanic communities, so we
see that momentum on the ground. We're taking nothing for granted.
And look the polls. The polls look positive, but the
only one that matters is on November fifth.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
No doubt. And as you look at those polls and
kind of think forward June twenty seventh, we've been having
a discussion about this. You've run for office before, you know,
when people really kind of start to pay attention. A
lot of times people say the election actually begins after
Labor Day. Why is this debate happening six days from now?
What do you think June twenty seventh tells us about
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the state of this race?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Clay, I think it tells us a lot. I think
it tells us that voters are ready for this to happen.
But more importantly, this debate needs to happen because Americans
want to hear the contrast between the two visions and
the two records that have been clearly demonstrated uniquely now
in both presidencies. And you know, I think Democrats are
(21:23):
a little concerned about what's going on with their candidate,
and I think this is going to be a pressure
test and it's a huge opportunity to make sure that
President Trump tells the story of his four years in
office how it elevated Americans across the board. And I
don't know how Biden is going to defend his record.
I think it's super critical that we hear from him
(21:44):
because we're in a perilous place in this country. I mean,
we have unprecedented risks at home and abroad, and he
needs to answer for where he has put this country.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
We're talking to Kelly Leffler. All right, Kelly, you owned
a WNBA franchise in Atlanta, and so you know the
struggles to get attention, how difficult it's been to build
this business for people out there who aren't familiar with
your tenure as the owner of the WNBA franchise in Atlanta.
Caitlin Clark is playing there tonight. I believe there's a
(22:18):
massive amount of attention for this game, particularly because she's
bringing that amount of attention. But before we get to
Caitlin Clark, what was your experience like as a WNBA
owner and why are you not still a WNBA owner?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Well, the short answer to your last question is because
the WNBA stopped being about basketball and started being about
partisan politics. But let me tell you, being a team
owner for a decade was an incredible experience because for
most of that time, the league was about sport and
the uniting power of basketball. And I saw that firsthand
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when I lived in Chicago during the nineties during the
Bulls run, I had a fifty dollars standing room only
ticket and it was exciting. I saw how a team
can unite a city, and I wanted to bring that
spirit of basketball to Atlanta. So for a decade, my
business partner and I were fifty to fifty owners in
the team. And you know, it's interesting that the debates
(23:17):
in Atlanta. This game tonight is in Atlanta, and that's
exactly where the Olympics were held in ninety six. That
David Stern, if you remember, the commissioner of the NBA,
was inspired to create a women's league. And I think
he'd be rolling over in his grave right now if
he saw that what Caitlin Clark brings to the league
(23:38):
and how she's being treated, because at that time, we
would have done anything to have a player like that.
A phenom a sensation, and the WNBA is effectively turning
their back on her. She's been shunned from the Olympics,
and they're defending all her detractors in the league. So
it's really puzzling that we have this great player that's
(23:59):
elim the game, that is responsible for one third of
ticket sales in a league that's reportedly losing fifty million dollars,
and it could really help restore and actually save the league.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You had issues in the WNBA because you had a
crazy idea and you just kind of hinted at that, Hey,
this league should bring everybody together. If I remember correctly,
your issues with the WNBA to a large extent dealt
with them going all in on BLM. And what I
think is one of the craziest stories of the entire
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twenty twenty sports calendar year for people out there who
have forgotten the individual and I believe was Waukeshaw, Wisconsin
who was shot. He was armed with a knife. He
was a person who had abused women. The woman who
he had abused called asking for police come to protect her,
and all of the WNBA women wrote his name on
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the T shirts that they made and protested the police
in Wisconsin showing up to tech that woman. I felt
like I was taking crazy pills. You had to as well.
I did.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Because the WNBA was formed to empower women, to inspire
young girls. I was a young girl playing in sports
that we didn't really have women role models. But I
loved Michael Jordan and to see women standing up for
other women would have been really amazing. But they insisted
on partnering with this BLM organization. Marxist leadership self avowed Marxists,
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put a Marxist on the WNBA Social Justice Committee, and
BLM was all about defunding the police. And at that time,
I said, we need to use sports for unity. And
I think we all remember during twenty twenty when the
Last Dance played on ESPN and during the pandemic and
everyone was so excited. It brought people together. But the
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WNBA went against that and said, no, we're going to
stand with BLM and not stand with the basketball and
the bigger community. So I was the only sports team
owner to stand up and speak out against it and
say we should unite around the American flag. We can
use this to bring people together to inspire people through
these challenging times and for that they attacked me and
you know, tried to cancel me and I refuse to
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bend the knee.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Well, it's super brave and I'm glad you're telling that
story to the extent this audience hasn't heard it. We're
talking to former US Senator Greater Georgia chairwoman Kelly Leffler.
All right, tonight, Kaitlin Clark is coming to Atlanta. Why
do you think the WNBA has tripped all over itself
in the way that they have responded to Caitlin Clark.
(26:38):
What is the story here? And certainly I think, but
I'm curious what your opinion is. Is it about something
other than basketball itself?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well, it shouldn't be. The story is Caitlin Clark can
save the WNBA if the WNBA can get politics out
of the way. But they can't because they won't let it.
You know, if you look at Caitlyn Clark has done
in terms of bringing attention a spot like viewership record.
Viewership was just hit last week with three million people
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watching the sky Fever game. Arenas are selling out when
she plays there. Nike has given her a something like
twenty eight million dollar contract and she's a great player.
She's all about basketball, but she's not about the leftist
political ideology that the league wants everyone to bow down to.
And so they're you know, seeing the challenges of that
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where players are lashing out against Caitlyn. Caitlyn is rising
above it. She's playing through it. She's one of the
fiercest competitors out there. She can take the physicality, she
can take the toughness. We've even had to have a
congressman from Indiana write a letter to the league that says,
wait a minute, you know, it feels like there's a
player that's being treated differently. Meanwhile all the other players
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are saying, well, she gets special whistles, and I just say, okay.
That's when you know they actually don't have an answer
for her skill level, because if you're blaming it on
the ress she has record, you can look at her
stats right now. She's one of the top players in
the league. She's certainly the best rookie in the league.
And she's been overtly left off of the Olympic roster.
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So look, she still has a chance to save the league.
The league can recover from this if they embrace her
and elevate her just like every other player. But we
haven't seen that happening yet.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
You've been a really successful entrepreneur in your career. I'm
curious how you would assess this because sometimes it seems
to me that people would rather be part of a
small company or entity that they have control over than
build something truly massive. And you mentioned Jordan in the
Last Dance and going to watch him play fifty dollars
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tickets in Chicago. To me, that's a perfect example. Jordan
and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson came into the league
and they changed it forever and made people care about
the NBA that might not have before. We just saw
one more recently in the late nineties, Tiger Woods came
into the PGA and brought a brand new audience and
took the PGA to a different level than golf had
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ever been before. Why do you think the WNBA, which
you know better than anybody, has been begging and starved
for attention and trying to make people care about their sport,
has been given this Tiger Woods like gift and tripped
all over it.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Well, and let me even add one more example. And
I've had a commissioner with it a conversation with NBA
Commissioner Adam Silver about this his vision for the WNBA.
Look at what Venus and Serena Williams did for.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Tennis, the audiences.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
They brought in, they banded that sport that could have
been tremendous. The fact is, Caitlin Clark does not fit
the mold that they want in the WNBA. She doesn't
bring the intersexual sectional qualities that they think are required
to put on a pedestal, and they want to make
sure that they preserve this left wing ideology and if
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you don't buy into it and you don't promote it,
then you can't be promoted on their platform. And that's
just really tragic for the league and for the valuations
of the teams. I think, you know, if that's going
to hold them back, that's a shame because here we
have a talented player that's potentially influencing thousands of other
young girls who want to be part of athletics. Maybe
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not basketball, maybe it's tennis or golf, but they want
to see that there's a chance for them to succeed.
And yet we have WNBA players going down the road
of advocating to allow men in sports. They're writing op
ed after op ed about it, and this is where
the league stands right now, and it's not heading in
the right direction given the platform they've been offered.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Would you have ever believed you said you grew up
playing sports. I know a lot of people out there
listening did as well. Would you ever believe that we'd
find a place where a woman like Don Staley, who
is probably right now the most prominent women's coach in
all of college. I think that's fair to say, would
be saying, hey, if you're a man who identifies as
a woman, you should be able to come and get
a women's scholarship and compete in women's basketball, like twenty
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years ago. Would you believe this would have ever been possible.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
I can't believe it today, certainly not twenty years ago.
In fact, before she passed, I had the opportunity to
meet the late great Pat Summit, who fought so hard,
amazing woman, and fought so hard to have women have
the same opportunities. Now they're virtually trying to hand it
to men on the silver platter. And you know, while
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the American team USA is going for their eighth consecutive
Olympic gold medal. Who knows the ninth one may not
be possible because there may be a man playing on
Team Spain or you know whatever. So you know, it's
one of those things that it's you can't believe it,
and you hope that we can get back to normal.
But I was the first Senator in the history of
the United States to introduce protecting women in girls' sports
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language in the Senate. I could only get a few
other Republican senators on that bill with me, and it
didn't even get brought to the floor, and I was
criticized for it being divisive because everyone said, we don't
need a bill to do that. Well, four years later,
we should have had that bill because too many girls
are getting excluded, too many boys are in girls' locker rooms,
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and now states are trying to codify, and the federal
government through Title nine rollbacks, trying to codify allowing men
in women's sports and in men's women's locker rooms, and
it's not fair to young girls.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
It's absolutely crazy. Kelly Leffler, I just came back from
Atlanta with my kids, went and watched the Atlanta Braves
play absolutely amazing time. Georgia needs to go back red.
How can people help if they're listening to you right
now and they're around and they're listening, they're in Georgia
or they're around the country and they want to help.
What you're doing.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Well. First of all, if you're in Georgia, go to
Greater Georgia dot com sign up to get involved and
we'll get you involved right away. Also, if you're around
the country, contact your local GOP Chector, young Republicans, college Republicans,
reach out and get involved in something. Because when we
look at the polls, we can see things are going
in the right direction. But you have to ask yourself
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what am I doing to make sure that we stay there?
And it's not just enough to say I'm gonna vote.
You have to do a little bit more. Talk to
your friends and family. Don't get canceled about being conservative
and be proud. Get out and talk to your family
owned friends as much as you can about getting involved.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Kelly, look forward to seeing you again soon. Appreciate the time.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Thanks, Claig. I gat to see you go.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Braves, Go Braves. Indeed starting to win a little bit
by the way six and one playing the Yankees tonight
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Speaker 1 (34:56):
Thanks to all of you for hanging out with us
or in the course of this Friday show. I am,
by the way, headed to Omaha tomorrow. I know we
have a huge listenership in Omaha and many of you
have been reaching out to me saying, hey, Clay, you
got to come check out the College World Series. I
am flying in tomorrow for Saturday and Sunday games in
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Omaha for the College World Series, my favorite University of
Tennessee team taking on Texas A and m Fight Naggi's
should be a great matchup, best two out of three series.
I can't wait to check it out. I'm gonna be
bringing in kids with me, So if you are in
Omaha and you want to send me some suggestions on
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things that I have to absolutely positively be able to
check out, don't hesitate. I have not spent I think
I went to Omaha for one day. I've been to
one game before with my friend Bobby Bones, who does
a show for iHeart. He's a big Arkansas Razorback fan.
We flew in there. I watched an Arkansas Razorback game
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I need to check out, let me know. Like I said,
I'll be there with kids for a couple of days,
going to games Saturday Sunday. Be back here with all
of you on Monday. Buck, We'll be back on Tuesday,
and we'll be gearing up for the big debate on Thursday.
What do we expect to see? What will we see?
I cannot wait. Also the Supreme Court opinions on presidential
immunity and whether or not the jan six prisoners can't
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continue to be held under a Sarbine's Oxley related charge.
That will likely be decided, if not next week, it
has to be decided in the next ten days. So
major news coming. You never know when it's gonna break.
Make sure you're hanging out with all of us. I
cannot wait. Three year anniversary today. We appreciate Buck and
I do greatly all of you hanging with us every
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single day. See you on Monday.
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