July 19, 2024 • 36 mins
Hulk Hogan's speech at RNC brings out Democrats' lack of sense of humor and lack of patriotism. GOP is now the party of fun. Astounding that Secret Service director hasn't been fired after failure to protect Trump and citizens in the crowd. Trump describes the assassination attempt, pays tribute to Corey Comperatore in RNC speech. Caller who attended RNC. WH says Biden will return to campaign trail next week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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wanted to note that last night there were some phenomenal speeches,
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the biggest one of course, being President Trump himself. But
I don't know how I think that there's a We
have a lot of you that are of the same
guys of roughly the same age as Clay and me,
and you probably have the same feelings about this individual
that we do, which is just when you were a
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young guy, Hulk Hogan was just the coolest guy in
the world, like like circa nineteen ninety, right, Hulk Hogan
was just the best, and he made Terry what's his
real at Terry Terry Billia? I think Terry Billia, that's right,
So Terry Billia ak, Hulk Hogan was there last night,
and brother, he was there for you to play one
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what Sigarna two when Donald Tuugh and all.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The top of maniacs run wild on you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Brother Biden's answer, by the way, resounding answer is what
no idea? What's going on? Well? What's crazy?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You shared this, and I think it speaks to the
tone deafness. The Biden Harris campaign team shared this as
if it were some maga crazy threat, which just makes
me think, did.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You see this like such a there's such a bunch.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They don't even know that that's a famous Hult Cogan
slogan and not an actual Somebody tweeted that they were
waiting for CNN to fact check Hulk Cogan and be
like he is not actually speaking to his brother, you know,
like you know, just like running through all of his
on the mic commentary. But I saw when, like when
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I saw the Biden Harris teams share that, I just
thought to myself, are they actually working for Trump? Like
has Trump taken over the Biden Harris campaign's slogan? Because
are they just filled with that many imbeciles that they
thought in some way that's like some existential threat of violence.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't even understand what they could be thinking. Of
the lamest things about the lamestream media, they make believe
the game that they play that they can't understand Trump
jokes or Maga jokes is one of the most annoying
because it's so petty, it doesn't work, it's dumb. It's
just it's their version of I know you are, but
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what am I or you know, giving us like the
it's just but they do it I don't know they
they're so deranged about Trump that they pretend they can't
get jokes. For those of us who have a sense
of humor about anything and understand that last night was
also about pageantry and showmanship. That's what's what a convention,
a political convention is. It's meant to be a visual,
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it's meant to be a spectacle. It was awesome to
have Hulk Hogan there doing his thing, and he's also
I'll say this, there's nostalgia behind it, sure, but hul
Cogan also takes us back to an air right because
he got really big in the late eighties and the
early nineties, right, well, that was really his print. He
takes us back to a time when American flags and
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pride in your American ness and Americanism was expected. It
was it was celebrated, it was something to just be
happy about. It's the Democrat party of the twenty first
century that is, by their own admission, in some cases,
frightened of the American flag and Americana. So Hulk's a throwback.
But Clay, I think he also shows how much things
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have changed because Democrats look at him like, oh my gosh,
why is he wearing that time, those the T shirt
that he's ripping up. It's so hyper masculine.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, it takes me back to for instance, and you
guys can fact check me on this if I'm wrong,
but I believe the nineteen eighty eight Olympics were in Seoul,
in Korea, and I was at that point in time
nine years old, and that is basically the apex of
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when Hulk Cogan was becoming an absolute global superstar. It
continued from there, and you could say he was superstar
on either side of that. But what I remember about that,
as you are just bringing up, is we're gonna have
the Olympics start in just a couple of weeks in Paris,
maybe a week, whatever the math is on that. I
remember watching the nineteen eighty eight Olympics and rooting as
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hard as I could for Americans to win every single medal.
And I remember old school day, Buck, you would pull
up the newspaper and it was a really big deal
which country won the most medals? Do you remember all that,
Like how much nationalism there was to root for your country.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Patriotism was cool. We grew up in an era where
patriotism was cool and filthy commies in this country who
hated their own country were treated like the filthy commies
they are. That that transformed, that changed, starting I would
say in the mid nineties and then in the early
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two thousands, although nine to eleven I think put a
there was a momentary pause on the hating of patriotism,
and then they got back to hating patriotism a few
years into the Bush term, or maybe two years into
the Bush term. But Hulk Hogan represents an era where
our cultural icons were still expected our American cultural icons
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were still expected to love America, and that is absolutely
no longer the case. Unfortunately, it's very you know, whether
it's the you know, the kneeling and like the US
women's soccer teams. I mean, we could go all day
all these different people who elevate themselves by lowering and
demeaning this the greatest country in all human history. That's
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been a that's a troubling cultural and political shift, and
I think Hulk Hogan is a he harkens back to
the era where everyone loved the American flag.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I would argue too, people are getna get fired
up about this. Hulk Hogan maybe the greatest sports entertainer
of all time. I don't know who else you would
put on that category now. And again, I'm not saying
he's Michael Jordan. I'm not saying he's Babe Ruth. I'm
not saying he's the greater, say athlete, you said sports
entertains entertainer. I don't know that anybody is better than him.
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And what it also epitomized to me from this convention,
and I thought yesterday very much epitomized at Buck Republicans
have become the party of fun. When's the last time
that you saw Democrats and they just looked like they
were having a really good time? Maybe eight Obama, It's
been a long time where you put it on and
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there was just a joy and an effervescence associated with it.
Whether it's kid rock, and by the way, the reaction
shots of some of the RNC members trying to dance
to kid Rock was funny. But Haul Cogan, Dana White,
just this personification of American badass ness and fun. I
think that carries through. I think it's infectious, and I
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don't think Democrats are always like upset now about fun
or people who have success or people who are having
a good time, and I think that carries through and conveys,
particularly with young men who I believe are breaking Republican
in a big way right now. Yes, it's more than
just a party or a politician.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's a movement. Maga, maga, however you choose to say it.
You have people that I don't remember unless you were
at a political rally. I don't remember ever seeing people
walking around, particularly wearing Bush Cheney gear. Yeah, Trump has
merchandise swag. He's got stuff that people wear all the time.
(08:40):
You go out in certain parts of the country, like
where Clay is up in the Panhandle, and you'll see
photos or you'll see it you're with your own eyes
of boats that have Trump flags, like there'll just a
there's a sense of unity and of fun and also
just there's a culture. Trump has cultural implications and you
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saw that on display last night. As for what he
actually said, let's get into some of what Trump's messaging was,
because I thought, you know, it's interesting people were saying, oh,
he spoke too long. Well, that's what Trump does. And
I would say the first thirty minutes were remarkable and
historic and truly moving, and the rest of it was
Trump being Trump, and a lot of people, especially given
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what happened with a bullet scraping his head and other
bullets just barely missing him, they really appreciated that Trump
could get up there, and do you know, they wanted
as much Trump as they could get on that stage.
It was a reassurance, I think, to a lot of
people who truly believe in Trump and the movement he represents.
(09:45):
It was reassurance that he's definitely okay because he's really
being Trump up there, you know. And sure he maybe
has a new perspective on things, which anybody would after
a near death experience like that, and that is certainly
what it was. But I think it was reass sure
into the Trump faithful that he's able to get up
there do what he did. And it also, by the way,
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Clay is quite a juxtaposition between Biden, who is still
and I'm seeing the troubling reports that Biden may be
dropping out on Sunday. I'm seeing them, don't they I
will not I will not waiver. I will never surrender
Clay until I am totally defeated. I mean, we may
wake up one day and Buck Island may have been
(10:26):
hit by a tidal wave and no longer exists, and
historians will wonder where it was, But for now the
island end yours. But Biden can't get up, and can't
get up and do the debate for ninety minutes. We
all saw that he really can't get up and do
very much at all in public. Trump can go off
the cuff for I think he probably just got tired
because it was midnight. I mean, Trump could go up
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there and do a three hour stage show by himself
any day of the week and it would be entertaining,
and he would go off prompter and we'll play some
of those cuts for you as he went off prompter.
But to me, the first thirty minutes is probably where
seventy five or eighty percent of people are watching. Then
it gets late on the East Coast. People got kids
put to bed, they've got to take care of their
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nightly obligations. A lot of you just get tired.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
But one thing that I haven't heard anybody say is
by speaking long, Trump basically cut any of the criticism
of him out of CNN and MSNBC's viewership because by
the time he finished, it was after midnight on the
East Coast and most of the reactions, whatever they were
going to be positive or negative, people turned off their
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televisions and went to bed. If he had done a
thirty five minute speech, there would have been still a
substantial audience for an hour of people reacting to what
he said. Instead, most people when Trump finished just turned
off their televisions. And this morning the narrative cycle has
already moved from Hey, what happened at the RNC to
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what's Biden going to do? We're right back to where
we were before the RNC started. The new movie is
the same as the old movie, and it is what
are democrats going to do? And I do think that
is an intriguing aspect of this. We'll play a couple
of cuts for you from Trump when we come back,
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Speaker 3 (13:40):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton show Buck. I
know we're all reacting to the RNC and the battleover
whether Biden is going or not going to be the nominee.
But the details that continue to come out about how
close we came to Trump being assassinated on live television,
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to legitimately having his head blown off while he was
trying to talk to people in Pennsylvania become even more
disturbing and even more infuriating with every single day. And
I give Trump and frankly his family, we talk to
all of them basically this week, a lot of credit
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for not obsessing over this and even being complementary of
the Secret Service agents that were on the stage to
immediately protect him. But I cannot believe at all that
this Secret Service director still has her job and that
there is an absolute demand across the political spectrum for
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her to be fired. The newest report is from Senator
Josh Holly that says many of the people who were
supposedly in the Secret Service detail or just you know,
Homeland security employees that had no particular training at all
to be able to protect the president. And as more
and more of these videos come out of that guy
climbing onto the roof of that shed, I get angrier
(15:14):
that this happened, and just can't stop thinking about how
fortunate we are that Trump wasn't killed, but also this
Corey Comparatore the fact that he was killed, and I
thought Trump paid great tribute to him. I would be
furious if I was his family, beyond words, because his
death is directly on their incompetence.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
At some level. When the incompetence is so extreme, it
becomes hard to believe that it's possible that it's just incompetence. Yes,
And I think we keep running into that. How is
it that you have this this secret service, which you know,
we were dealing with secret service every day at the RNC.
(15:59):
You know, everyone's gotting padded down and wanded, and there's
all these security barriers. And I'll be honest with you,
it feels at the RNC a little excessive sometimes, but
they have tremendous resources. And they allowed a twenty year
old kid with a rifle to get a shot off
and hit the president of the year. I mean, like,
what if we were invaded Clay, if we were invaded
(16:23):
by North Korea? Okay, and our military just was like,
oh wait, you didn't think we actually were ready to
defend the Homeland and you know, and they seized the
west coast of the United States. I think it would
be fair to say, what the heck are we paying
the military for it? Do you know what I mean? This
is your most important job. This is the one thing
you have to really do. This is all we really
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care about when it comes to Secret Service. They've gotten
very good at, you know, motorcades back and forth in DC,
so that people feel really important who were in the
motorcade and telling people at cocktail parties that are ten
thousand dollars ahead, stand back, stand back.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Look, I've dealt with Superservice fair amount. Some of them
are great, just like any organizations. Some of them are
wonderful people. Some of them are jerks. This is their
one job and they failed. And I don't know how
they come back from this, because the fact that the
president or President Trump is still alive has nothing to
do really with Secret Service. It's just that the shooter missed.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And if you can't get fired for this, what can
you get fired for? That's my big thing. If Biden
won't fire you for this, what is his standard of
job approval and in competence that this somehow doesn't force
him to fire. I just I can't believe this is
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where we are. But I don't want to get lost
in the fact that they're right now having the funeral
for a guy who should one hundred percent be alive
today if they had just done the basics of their job. Look,
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Speaker 2 (18:49):
Good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
All right, welcome back in team. We are going to
take your calls. If you're on hold, stay with us.
We'll get to that in just a few moments. Also,
we have a stacked guest line. We had so many
people who we really wanted to talk to the rn
C that we did some interviews that we're going to
play for you here. Coming up shortly. Eric Prince, founder
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of Blackwater, straight up ask him, you're gonna serve as
Secretary of Defense under Trump? Hear what he says. Tennessee
Representative Mark Green, Kevin Roberts, who's the president of the
Heritage Foundation, gold Star Family member Darren Hoover, who's the
father of Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover who lost his life
serving his country in Afghanistan during the disastrous Biden withdrawal.
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He was at the gate where the suicide bomb went off.
But we'll get to all those really amazing interviews coming
up here in the third hour, he meant to tell
you at the top of our one, but please stay
with us for that. And then you know, it was
I think the whole speech last night that Trump gave
Clay as we're watching it was ninety minutes. We just
a look, don't do a ninety minute wedding toast. I'm
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just telling you right now to keep your speeches and
your toast generally on the short side. For all of us,
you know, Trump is superhuman, but for most of us
who want to keep it shorter, well, there was the
one part of it that we all agree was particularly memorable, emotional,
and profound, something stirring in the American soul, just to
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hear the words from President Trump, and it was when
he described what happened to him last weekend in the
assassination attempt. We just wanted to share this with you
because honestly, it touched all of us as we were
watching it. It touched our hearts. And listen.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Behind me and to the right was a large screen
that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership.
The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart,
I started to like this turned to my right and
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was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which
I'm very lucky I didn't do. When I heard a
loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really really hard.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
On my right ear.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I said to myself, Wow, what was that? It can
only be a bullet and moved my right hand to
my ear brought it down. My hand was covered with blood,
just absolutely blood all over the place. I immediately knew
it was very serious that we were under attack, and
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in one movement, proceeded to drop to the ground. Bullets
were continuing to fly as very brave Secret Service agents
rushed to the stage, and they really did.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
They rushed to the start.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Those are great people at great risk, I will tell you,
and pounced on top of me so that I would
be protected. There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet in
a certain way, I felt very safe because.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I had God on my side. I felt that.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
The amazing thing is that prior to the shot.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
If I had not moved my head at that very
last instant, the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark,
and I would not be here tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
We would not be together, Clay.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It was.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It was emotional to be at the RNC as Trump
is saying this. It was emotional. You know, Carrie was
tearing up. She told me when this was going on,
so many people in the audience were tearing up because
we almost we almost lost Trump, not he almost lost
an election. We almost lost our guy, President Trump to
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violence in an election, to an assassin's bullet. And I
know it's on the one hand, it shakes you to
your core to just think about it and to think
about what would have happened to the country. But I
do try to take the positive from it of what
a gift we are in this period right now of
Trump is okay. I understand we talked about the Corey
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COMPETI who lost his lost his life. I understand that
it was a disaster from a Secret Service perspective, But
for the nation and for the future of politics in
this country and just our national soul, we were given
a reprieve. We were given a second chance here. Trump
was given a second chance, but so were all the
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rest of us. And we talked with the rn C
chair yesterday. For people who missed it, I haven't heard
him say this anywhere else or read anyone write about it.
He said that there's no way the RNC would have
taken place in Milwaukee this week if Trump had been shot.
I mean, we would all be in the midst of
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funeral preparations arrangements for Donald Trump. And as you mentioned,
Corey Comportoi, right now in Pennsylvania, they are having his funeral.
And I think it's important to recognize that the Secret
Service futility cost him his life and Trump paid tribute
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to him. We have that cut six. Let's play that
as well, because there was a cost here. Thankfully, the
two other people who were hit, according to what Trump
said last night, it appears that they are going to survive.
But this dad, this husband, he died because of Social Security,
Social Secret Service failure, just like Trump nearly did. Here's
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Trump paying tribute to him. Cut six.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I want to thank the fire department and the family
for sending his helmet, his outfit, and it was just
something and they're going to do something very special when
they get it. But we did something which cannot match
what happened, not even close. But I am very proud
to say that over the past few days, we've raised
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six point three million dollars for the families of David
James and Corey, including from a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Just called up.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
He's sent me a check right here. I just got
it one million dollars from Dan Newland.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Thank you, Dan, really very I thought powerful moment as
Trump acknowledged that dad and that husband's death. One hundred
percent innocent Trump supporter could have been any of you
out there listening right now who've ever been to a
Trump rally. And on Monday, the director of the Secret
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Service is going to have to testify in front of Congress.
But to me, if you talk about Biden's weakness and
his inability to lead, not demanding that woman's resignation or
firing her. By the time we got to Sunday and
knew enough of the evidence surrounding this, the incompetence of
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the Secret Service protection that day is only getting worse
as more of the details come out. And as we
said on Monday Show, this is not some brilliant strategic
plan of attack that had never been seen before in
the annals of the presidency or American assassination attempts. The
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guy climbed on top of the most self evident location
that you could attempt to shoot Trump from and was
able to do so. It is a failure of epic
magnitude that nearly threw this country into complete chaos. And
that's only by the grace of God are we still
able to have a normal political discussion at all.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right now, That's how I like to think of this
is we were all given a second chance. You know.
There's a very famous quote by Marcus Aurelius and Meditations,
which is Marcus Aurelius is kind of diary, if you will,
and a lot of the other a lot of I
should say stoic philosophers have become very popular in recent years,
especially on social media. But the Marcus Aurelius quote is
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think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life.
Now take what's left and live it properly. There is
a perspective that comes from almost losing your life, and
as a nation, I think we almost lost our politicals system.
To be honest with you, I don't know what happens
if Trump. I honestly can't even really go there because
it's just so horrible for the country. But now we
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recognize the path that we are on with greater clarity
I think than ever before. And Trump certainly does and
that was evident from everything at the r and see
that he was saying, and just the energy and the
people around him. So let's make the most of this
second chance that we got in this election, but also
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Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Like we said,
a bunch of interviews that we did as well in Milwaukee,
so many of you that we wanted to be able
to share with you. So a lot of those come
in here in the third hour. But I've wanted to
share with you for people out there who say I
don't trust any of the polls, I don't believe any
of them.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Are accurate.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Here is CNN data guru Harry Inton saying Biden's led
so far in the composite polls zero days in twenty
twenty four, which is the exact opposite of twenty twenty,
when Biden had led every day up to this point
in the election cycle.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Cut a team.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Every single day of the twenty twenty four calendar year,
Joe Biden has been trailing down Trump one hundred percent
of the days. On any day you take a national average,
Joe Biden has been trailing down Trump. Compare that to
where we were back in the twenty twenty campaign, where
every single day up to this point in the campaign,
Joe Biden was ahead of Donald Trump on one hundred
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percent of the day, really exactly. So it's the complete
and polar opposite of where we were four years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Okay, so the question at this point, obviously we're still
debating whether Biden will be in but leaving aside the
assassination attempt that we saw on Saturday, I think the
biggest question right now is whether Biden or any Democrat
out there, has the ability to alter the narrative in
such a way between now and remember, like mid September,
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when all of these ballots start getting banked. That's sort
of a snapshot of whatever the national picture is at
that point in time. This is really legit panic time
for Democrats in terms of being able to change the
narrative arc that we've already seen so far in twenty
twenty four. I don't see a way that Democrats and
I'm not saying that means there isn't a way. I
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just I don't see a way that Democrats can turn
this thing around.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean this is this is a electoral disaster for
the whole thing. Whether Biden stays or Biden goes or whatever,
the whole thing is a disaster for them. Look at
all the damage that's been done to their brand and
to the sense that they have anybody who's really in
charge calling the shots. Niles from Missouri was a delegate
at the RNC. What's up Niles.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Driving home today? And I can tell you that it
doesn't matter what the Democrats do, because the Republican National
Convention and President Trump showed that we are the Unity
Party and we're going to bring the country together. President
Trump did not use that speech to pander across the country.
He used that speech to get policy that's going to
help everybody. No tax on tips that helps everybody across
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the country. You want safer streets, Build that wall helps
everybody across the country. I was on the floor and.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
I started the chant for Weston, for the mom who
lost her child to the fentanyl crisis. If you want
to end the fentanyl crisis, come to the Republican Party,
vote for Trump, and we're going to fix this country
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Niles, thank you so much. Good to go to have
you at the R and C. Thanks for calling into
Clay and Buck. You know, Clay, I just say this.
I've always felt this way. It's something that I've told
people for many years. The great irony of American politics,
in my mind, is that Democrats kick and scream and
think it's horrible in the end of democracy. But when
when our side wins, it's actually better for everybody. Like
it's actually better for Democrats when they think it's going
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to be so awful, But it is better for Democrats
when Republicans are in charge, because it's like the adults
are in charge.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You know, Buck, your point on democracy. I actually think
that's the strongest argument Biden has. Remember last week when
he wrote that letter on Monday, and he said, basically,
it will be anti democratic if I'm not the nominee
because we had the entire primary process and I won.
I think he said eighty seven percent of the overall delegates.
(33:56):
If he's really going to dig his heels in, that's
what I would anticipate him coming back with as his
strongest argument, because it is profoundly anti democratic to stage
an entire primary. Joe Biden wins overwhelmingly, and then a
couple of weeks before he officially becomes the nominee, a
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bunch of rich people and a bunch of elite Democrat
power brokers decide, hey, you can't be the guy.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I would lean hard into that argument. Now.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It doesn't help him in terms of burning down the process,
but I think it's a strong one.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I didn't want to reign on your parade, Clay, but
I'm raining on it. Clay Town has gotten a little
stormy right now. This is just breaking news via MSNBC,
who did not even deign to show at the RNC
as a news organization, just as a no. They weren't
even I get CNN. I give them credit. They realize
(34:55):
they got to do something else a little different. They
got to pretend, at least to be journalists. They're not,
but they got to pretend. MSNBC Breaking News. Biden Whitehouse,
as of the last hour, has released a statement saying
Biden will be back on the campaign trail next week.
Buck Island prices are skyrocketing. I don't even know. I
(35:16):
don't even know if the condo board is going to
approve any of you who are not currently on the island.
We might have to see more of your financials. To
be fair.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
They've said that Biden's not wavering for a long time,
and they will say he's not wavering up till about
five minutes before he officially waivers and steps down and
Buck Island goes underwater, much like Atlantis becomes a historic,
rumored destination that is no longer visited.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I think clay Town is going to look like the
town at the beginning of Hillbilly Elergy with all the
closed stores. What a week.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
By the way, again, I just want to say for
everybody in Milwaukee, you guys were absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I will add this Buck.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Guess who's addressing all the top Democrat donors today.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
According to the New York Times. It ain't Joe Biden
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
So while one story might be hey, we're not going anywhere,
the other one may well be Kamala Bidener time shaking hands,
some people leaving Claytown or pulling off onto the interstate
at the rest stop, getting a burger and thinking, maybe
we go back.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Maybe it's not time yet to become a part of
the Island of Buck. So we'll see. But look, we
got we got Eric Prince coming up. Guys, We've got
the head of the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
We got a lot of guests. So Mark Green, my congressman,
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yep.
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wanted to note that last night there were some phenomenal speeches,
(01:04):
the biggest one of course, being President Trump himself. But
I don't know how I think that there's a We
have a lot of you that are of the same
guys of roughly the same age as Clay and me,
and you probably have the same feelings about this individual
that we do, which is just when you were a
(01:25):
young guy, Hulk Hogan was just the coolest guy in
the world, like like circa nineteen ninety, right, Hulk Hogan
was just the best, and he made Terry what's his
real at Terry Terry Billia? I think Terry Billia, that's right,
So Terry Billia ak, Hulk Hogan was there last night,
and brother, he was there for you to play one
(01:47):
what Sigarna two when Donald Tuugh and all.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
The top of maniacs run wild on you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Brother Biden's answer, by the way, resounding answer is what
no idea? What's going on? Well? What's crazy?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
You shared this, and I think it speaks to the
tone deafness. The Biden Harris campaign team shared this as
if it were some maga crazy threat, which just makes
me think, did.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You see this like such a there's such a bunch.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
They don't even know that that's a famous Hult Cogan
slogan and not an actual Somebody tweeted that they were
waiting for CNN to fact check Hulk Cogan and be
like he is not actually speaking to his brother, you know,
like you know, just like running through all of his
on the mic commentary. But I saw when, like when
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I saw the Biden Harris teams share that, I just
thought to myself, are they actually working for Trump? Like
has Trump taken over the Biden Harris campaign's slogan? Because
are they just filled with that many imbeciles that they
thought in some way that's like some existential threat of violence.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I don't even understand what they could be thinking. Of
the lamest things about the lamestream media, they make believe
the game that they play that they can't understand Trump
jokes or Maga jokes is one of the most annoying
because it's so petty, it doesn't work, it's dumb. It's
just it's their version of I know you are, but
(03:27):
what am I or you know, giving us like the
it's just but they do it I don't know they
they're so deranged about Trump that they pretend they can't
get jokes. For those of us who have a sense
of humor about anything and understand that last night was
also about pageantry and showmanship. That's what's what a convention,
a political convention is. It's meant to be a visual,
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it's meant to be a spectacle. It was awesome to
have Hulk Hogan there doing his thing, and he's also
I'll say this, there's nostalgia behind it, sure, but hul
Cogan also takes us back to an air right because
he got really big in the late eighties and the
early nineties, right, well, that was really his print. He
takes us back to a time when American flags and
(04:08):
pride in your American ness and Americanism was expected. It
was it was celebrated, it was something to just be
happy about. It's the Democrat party of the twenty first
century that is, by their own admission, in some cases,
frightened of the American flag and Americana. So Hulk's a throwback.
But Clay, I think he also shows how much things
(04:30):
have changed because Democrats look at him like, oh my gosh,
why is he wearing that time, those the T shirt
that he's ripping up. It's so hyper masculine.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, it takes me back to for instance, and you
guys can fact check me on this if I'm wrong,
but I believe the nineteen eighty eight Olympics were in Seoul,
in Korea, and I was at that point in time
nine years old, and that is basically the apex of
(05:00):
when Hulk Cogan was becoming an absolute global superstar. It
continued from there, and you could say he was superstar
on either side of that. But what I remember about that,
as you are just bringing up, is we're gonna have
the Olympics start in just a couple of weeks in Paris,
maybe a week, whatever the math is on that. I
remember watching the nineteen eighty eight Olympics and rooting as
(05:22):
hard as I could for Americans to win every single medal.
And I remember old school day, Buck, you would pull
up the newspaper and it was a really big deal
which country won the most medals? Do you remember all that,
Like how much nationalism there was to root for your country.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Patriotism was cool. We grew up in an era where
patriotism was cool and filthy commies in this country who
hated their own country were treated like the filthy commies
they are. That that transformed, that changed, starting I would
say in the mid nineties and then in the early
(06:00):
two thousands, although nine to eleven I think put a
there was a momentary pause on the hating of patriotism,
and then they got back to hating patriotism a few
years into the Bush term, or maybe two years into
the Bush term. But Hulk Hogan represents an era where
our cultural icons were still expected our American cultural icons
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were still expected to love America, and that is absolutely
no longer the case. Unfortunately, it's very you know, whether
it's the you know, the kneeling and like the US
women's soccer teams. I mean, we could go all day
all these different people who elevate themselves by lowering and
demeaning this the greatest country in all human history. That's
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been a that's a troubling cultural and political shift, and
I think Hulk Hogan is a he harkens back to
the era where everyone loved the American flag.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I would argue too, people are getna get fired
up about this. Hulk Hogan maybe the greatest sports entertainer
of all time. I don't know who else you would
put on that category now. And again, I'm not saying
he's Michael Jordan. I'm not saying he's Babe Ruth. I'm
not saying he's the greater, say athlete, you said sports
entertains entertainer. I don't know that anybody is better than him.
(07:14):
And what it also epitomized to me from this convention,
and I thought yesterday very much epitomized at Buck Republicans
have become the party of fun. When's the last time
that you saw Democrats and they just looked like they
were having a really good time? Maybe eight Obama, It's
been a long time where you put it on and
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there was just a joy and an effervescence associated with it.
Whether it's kid rock, and by the way, the reaction
shots of some of the RNC members trying to dance
to kid Rock was funny. But Haul Cogan, Dana White,
just this personification of American badass ness and fun. I
think that carries through. I think it's infectious, and I
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don't think Democrats are always like upset now about fun
or people who have success or people who are having
a good time, and I think that carries through and conveys,
particularly with young men who I believe are breaking Republican
in a big way right now. Yes, it's more than
just a party or a politician.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It's a movement. Maga, maga, however you choose to say it.
You have people that I don't remember unless you were
at a political rally. I don't remember ever seeing people
walking around, particularly wearing Bush Cheney gear. Yeah, Trump has
merchandise swag. He's got stuff that people wear all the time.
(08:40):
You go out in certain parts of the country, like
where Clay is up in the Panhandle, and you'll see
photos or you'll see it you're with your own eyes
of boats that have Trump flags, like there'll just a
there's a sense of unity and of fun and also
just there's a culture. Trump has cultural implications and you
(09:03):
saw that on display last night. As for what he
actually said, let's get into some of what Trump's messaging was,
because I thought, you know, it's interesting people were saying, oh,
he spoke too long. Well, that's what Trump does. And
I would say the first thirty minutes were remarkable and
historic and truly moving, and the rest of it was
Trump being Trump, and a lot of people, especially given
(09:25):
what happened with a bullet scraping his head and other
bullets just barely missing him, they really appreciated that Trump
could get up there, and do you know, they wanted
as much Trump as they could get on that stage.
It was a reassurance, I think, to a lot of
people who truly believe in Trump and the movement he represents.
(09:45):
It was reassurance that he's definitely okay because he's really
being Trump up there, you know. And sure he maybe
has a new perspective on things, which anybody would after
a near death experience like that, and that is certainly
what it was. But I think it was reass sure
into the Trump faithful that he's able to get up
there do what he did. And it also, by the way,
(10:05):
Clay is quite a juxtaposition between Biden, who is still
and I'm seeing the troubling reports that Biden may be
dropping out on Sunday. I'm seeing them, don't they I
will not I will not waiver. I will never surrender
Clay until I am totally defeated. I mean, we may
wake up one day and Buck Island may have been
(10:26):
hit by a tidal wave and no longer exists, and
historians will wonder where it was, But for now the
island end yours. But Biden can't get up, and can't
get up and do the debate for ninety minutes. We
all saw that he really can't get up and do
very much at all in public. Trump can go off
the cuff for I think he probably just got tired
because it was midnight. I mean, Trump could go up
(10:46):
there and do a three hour stage show by himself
any day of the week and it would be entertaining,
and he would go off prompter and we'll play some
of those cuts for you as he went off prompter.
But to me, the first thirty minutes is probably where
seventy five or eighty percent of people are watching. Then
it gets late on the East Coast. People got kids
put to bed, they've got to take care of their
(11:08):
nightly obligations. A lot of you just get tired.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
But one thing that I haven't heard anybody say is
by speaking long, Trump basically cut any of the criticism
of him out of CNN and MSNBC's viewership because by
the time he finished, it was after midnight on the
East Coast and most of the reactions, whatever they were
going to be positive or negative, people turned off their
(11:34):
televisions and went to bed. If he had done a
thirty five minute speech, there would have been still a
substantial audience for an hour of people reacting to what
he said. Instead, most people when Trump finished just turned
off their televisions. And this morning the narrative cycle has
already moved from Hey, what happened at the RNC to
(11:55):
what's Biden going to do? We're right back to where
we were before the RNC started. The new movie is
the same as the old movie, and it is what
are democrats going to do? And I do think that
is an intriguing aspect of this. We'll play a couple
of cuts for you from Trump when we come back,
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton show Buck. I
know we're all reacting to the RNC and the battleover
whether Biden is going or not going to be the nominee.
But the details that continue to come out about how
close we came to Trump being assassinated on live television,
(14:06):
to legitimately having his head blown off while he was
trying to talk to people in Pennsylvania become even more
disturbing and even more infuriating with every single day. And
I give Trump and frankly his family, we talk to
all of them basically this week, a lot of credit
(14:29):
for not obsessing over this and even being complementary of
the Secret Service agents that were on the stage to
immediately protect him. But I cannot believe at all that
this Secret Service director still has her job and that
there is an absolute demand across the political spectrum for
(14:52):
her to be fired. The newest report is from Senator
Josh Holly that says many of the people who were
supposedly in the Secret Service detail or just you know,
Homeland security employees that had no particular training at all
to be able to protect the president. And as more
and more of these videos come out of that guy
climbing onto the roof of that shed, I get angrier
(15:14):
that this happened, and just can't stop thinking about how
fortunate we are that Trump wasn't killed, but also this
Corey Comparatore the fact that he was killed, and I
thought Trump paid great tribute to him. I would be
furious if I was his family, beyond words, because his
death is directly on their incompetence.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
At some level. When the incompetence is so extreme, it
becomes hard to believe that it's possible that it's just incompetence. Yes,
And I think we keep running into that. How is
it that you have this this secret service, which you know,
we were dealing with secret service every day at the RNC.
(15:59):
You know, everyone's gotting padded down and wanded, and there's
all these security barriers. And I'll be honest with you,
it feels at the RNC a little excessive sometimes, but
they have tremendous resources. And they allowed a twenty year
old kid with a rifle to get a shot off
and hit the president of the year. I mean, like,
what if we were invaded Clay, if we were invaded
(16:23):
by North Korea? Okay, and our military just was like,
oh wait, you didn't think we actually were ready to
defend the Homeland and you know, and they seized the
west coast of the United States. I think it would
be fair to say, what the heck are we paying
the military for it? Do you know what I mean? This
is your most important job. This is the one thing
you have to really do. This is all we really
(16:45):
care about when it comes to Secret Service. They've gotten
very good at, you know, motorcades back and forth in DC,
so that people feel really important who were in the
motorcade and telling people at cocktail parties that are ten
thousand dollars ahead, stand back, stand back.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Look, I've dealt with Superservice fair amount. Some of them
are great, just like any organizations. Some of them are
wonderful people. Some of them are jerks. This is their
one job and they failed. And I don't know how
they come back from this, because the fact that the
president or President Trump is still alive has nothing to
do really with Secret Service. It's just that the shooter missed.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And if you can't get fired for this, what can
you get fired for? That's my big thing. If Biden
won't fire you for this, what is his standard of
job approval and in competence that this somehow doesn't force
him to fire. I just I can't believe this is
(17:42):
where we are. But I don't want to get lost
in the fact that they're right now having the funeral
for a guy who should one hundred percent be alive
today if they had just done the basics of their job. Look,
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Speaker 2 (18:49):
Good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
All right, welcome back in team. We are going to
take your calls. If you're on hold, stay with us.
We'll get to that in just a few moments. Also,
we have a stacked guest line. We had so many
people who we really wanted to talk to the rn
C that we did some interviews that we're going to
play for you here. Coming up shortly. Eric Prince, founder
(19:10):
of Blackwater, straight up ask him, you're gonna serve as
Secretary of Defense under Trump? Hear what he says. Tennessee
Representative Mark Green, Kevin Roberts, who's the president of the
Heritage Foundation, gold Star Family member Darren Hoover, who's the
father of Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover who lost his life
serving his country in Afghanistan during the disastrous Biden withdrawal.
(19:31):
He was at the gate where the suicide bomb went off.
But we'll get to all those really amazing interviews coming
up here in the third hour, he meant to tell
you at the top of our one, but please stay
with us for that. And then you know, it was
I think the whole speech last night that Trump gave
Clay as we're watching it was ninety minutes. We just
a look, don't do a ninety minute wedding toast. I'm
(19:51):
just telling you right now to keep your speeches and
your toast generally on the short side. For all of us,
you know, Trump is superhuman, but for most of us
who want to keep it shorter, well, there was the
one part of it that we all agree was particularly memorable, emotional,
and profound, something stirring in the American soul, just to
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hear the words from President Trump, and it was when
he described what happened to him last weekend in the
assassination attempt. We just wanted to share this with you
because honestly, it touched all of us as we were
watching it. It touched our hearts. And listen.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Behind me and to the right was a large screen
that was displaying a chart of border crossings under my leadership.
The numbers were absolutely amazing. In order to see the chart,
I started to like this turned to my right and
(20:53):
was ready to begin a little bit further turn, which
I'm very lucky I didn't do. When I heard a
loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really really hard.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
On my right ear.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
I said to myself, Wow, what was that? It can
only be a bullet and moved my right hand to
my ear brought it down. My hand was covered with blood,
just absolutely blood all over the place. I immediately knew
it was very serious that we were under attack, and
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in one movement, proceeded to drop to the ground. Bullets
were continuing to fly as very brave Secret Service agents
rushed to the stage, and they really did.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
They rushed to the start.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Those are great people at great risk, I will tell you,
and pounced on top of me so that I would
be protected. There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet in
a certain way, I felt very safe because.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I had God on my side. I felt that.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
The amazing thing is that prior to the shot.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
If I had not moved my head at that very
last instant, the assassin's bullet would have perfectly hit its mark,
and I would not be here tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
We would not be together, Clay.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It was.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
It was emotional to be at the RNC as Trump
is saying this. It was emotional. You know, Carrie was
tearing up. She told me when this was going on,
so many people in the audience were tearing up because
we almost we almost lost Trump, not he almost lost
an election. We almost lost our guy, President Trump to
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violence in an election, to an assassin's bullet. And I
know it's on the one hand, it shakes you to
your core to just think about it and to think
about what would have happened to the country. But I
do try to take the positive from it of what
a gift we are in this period right now of
Trump is okay. I understand we talked about the Corey
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COMPETI who lost his lost his life. I understand that
it was a disaster from a Secret Service perspective, But
for the nation and for the future of politics in
this country and just our national soul, we were given
a reprieve. We were given a second chance here. Trump
was given a second chance, but so were all the
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rest of us. And we talked with the rn C
chair yesterday. For people who missed it, I haven't heard
him say this anywhere else or read anyone write about it.
He said that there's no way the RNC would have
taken place in Milwaukee this week if Trump had been shot.
I mean, we would all be in the midst of
(24:26):
funeral preparations arrangements for Donald Trump. And as you mentioned,
Corey Comportoi, right now in Pennsylvania, they are having his funeral.
And I think it's important to recognize that the Secret
Service futility cost him his life and Trump paid tribute
(24:47):
to him. We have that cut six. Let's play that
as well, because there was a cost here. Thankfully, the
two other people who were hit, according to what Trump
said last night, it appears that they are going to survive.
But this dad, this husband, he died because of Social Security,
Social Secret Service failure, just like Trump nearly did. Here's
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Trump paying tribute to him. Cut six.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
I want to thank the fire department and the family
for sending his helmet, his outfit, and it was just
something and they're going to do something very special when
they get it. But we did something which cannot match
what happened, not even close. But I am very proud
to say that over the past few days, we've raised
(25:35):
six point three million dollars for the families of David
James and Corey, including from a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Just called up.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
He's sent me a check right here. I just got
it one million dollars from Dan Newland.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Thank you, Dan, really very I thought powerful moment as
Trump acknowledged that dad and that husband's death. One hundred
percent innocent Trump supporter could have been any of you
out there listening right now who've ever been to a
Trump rally. And on Monday, the director of the Secret
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Service is going to have to testify in front of Congress.
But to me, if you talk about Biden's weakness and
his inability to lead, not demanding that woman's resignation or
firing her. By the time we got to Sunday and
knew enough of the evidence surrounding this, the incompetence of
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the Secret Service protection that day is only getting worse
as more of the details come out. And as we
said on Monday Show, this is not some brilliant strategic
plan of attack that had never been seen before in
the annals of the presidency or American assassination attempts. The
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guy climbed on top of the most self evident location
that you could attempt to shoot Trump from and was
able to do so. It is a failure of epic
magnitude that nearly threw this country into complete chaos. And
that's only by the grace of God are we still
able to have a normal political discussion at all.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right now, That's how I like to think of this
is we were all given a second chance. You know.
There's a very famous quote by Marcus Aurelius and Meditations,
which is Marcus Aurelius is kind of diary, if you will,
and a lot of the other a lot of I
should say stoic philosophers have become very popular in recent years,
especially on social media. But the Marcus Aurelius quote is
(27:47):
think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life.
Now take what's left and live it properly. There is
a perspective that comes from almost losing your life, and
as a nation, I think we almost lost our politicals system.
To be honest with you, I don't know what happens
if Trump. I honestly can't even really go there because
it's just so horrible for the country. But now we
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recognize the path that we are on with greater clarity
I think than ever before. And Trump certainly does and
that was evident from everything at the r and see
that he was saying, and just the energy and the
people around him. So let's make the most of this
second chance that we got in this election, but also
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Speaker 3 (30:03):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Like we said,
a bunch of interviews that we did as well in Milwaukee,
so many of you that we wanted to be able
to share with you. So a lot of those come
in here in the third hour. But I've wanted to
share with you for people out there who say I
don't trust any of the polls, I don't believe any
of them.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Are accurate.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Here is CNN data guru Harry Inton saying Biden's led
so far in the composite polls zero days in twenty
twenty four, which is the exact opposite of twenty twenty,
when Biden had led every day up to this point
in the election cycle.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Cut a team.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Every single day of the twenty twenty four calendar year,
Joe Biden has been trailing down Trump one hundred percent
of the days. On any day you take a national average,
Joe Biden has been trailing down Trump. Compare that to
where we were back in the twenty twenty campaign, where
every single day up to this point in the campaign,
Joe Biden was ahead of Donald Trump on one hundred
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percent of the day, really exactly. So it's the complete
and polar opposite of where we were four years ago.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Okay, so the question at this point, obviously we're still
debating whether Biden will be in but leaving aside the
assassination attempt that we saw on Saturday, I think the
biggest question right now is whether Biden or any Democrat
out there, has the ability to alter the narrative in
such a way between now and remember, like mid September,
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when all of these ballots start getting banked. That's sort
of a snapshot of whatever the national picture is at
that point in time. This is really legit panic time
for Democrats in terms of being able to change the
narrative arc that we've already seen so far in twenty
twenty four. I don't see a way that Democrats and
I'm not saying that means there isn't a way. I
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just I don't see a way that Democrats can turn
this thing around.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean this is this is a electoral disaster for
the whole thing. Whether Biden stays or Biden goes or whatever,
the whole thing is a disaster for them. Look at
all the damage that's been done to their brand and
to the sense that they have anybody who's really in
charge calling the shots. Niles from Missouri was a delegate
at the RNC. What's up Niles.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Driving home today? And I can tell you that it
doesn't matter what the Democrats do, because the Republican National
Convention and President Trump showed that we are the Unity
Party and we're going to bring the country together. President
Trump did not use that speech to pander across the country.
He used that speech to get policy that's going to
help everybody. No tax on tips that helps everybody across
(32:42):
the country. You want safer streets, Build that wall helps
everybody across the country. I was on the floor and.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
I started the chant for Weston, for the mom who
lost her child to the fentanyl crisis. If you want
to end the fentanyl crisis, come to the Republican Party,
vote for Trump, and we're going to fix this country
moving forward.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Niles, thank you so much. Good to go to have
you at the R and C. Thanks for calling into
Clay and Buck. You know, Clay, I just say this.
I've always felt this way. It's something that I've told
people for many years. The great irony of American politics,
in my mind, is that Democrats kick and scream and
think it's horrible in the end of democracy. But when
when our side wins, it's actually better for everybody. Like
it's actually better for Democrats when they think it's going
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to be so awful, But it is better for Democrats
when Republicans are in charge, because it's like the adults
are in charge.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
You know, Buck, your point on democracy. I actually think
that's the strongest argument Biden has. Remember last week when
he wrote that letter on Monday, and he said, basically,
it will be anti democratic if I'm not the nominee
because we had the entire primary process and I won.
I think he said eighty seven percent of the overall delegates.
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If he's really going to dig his heels in, that's
what I would anticipate him coming back with as his
strongest argument, because it is profoundly anti democratic to stage
an entire primary. Joe Biden wins overwhelmingly, and then a
couple of weeks before he officially becomes the nominee, a
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bunch of rich people and a bunch of elite Democrat
power brokers decide, hey, you can't be the guy.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I would lean hard into that argument. Now.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
It doesn't help him in terms of burning down the process,
but I think it's a strong one.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I didn't want to reign on your parade, Clay, but
I'm raining on it. Clay Town has gotten a little
stormy right now. This is just breaking news via MSNBC,
who did not even deign to show at the RNC
as a news organization, just as a no. They weren't
even I get CNN. I give them credit. They realize
(34:55):
they got to do something else a little different. They
got to pretend, at least to be journalists. They're not,
but they got to pretend. MSNBC Breaking News. Biden Whitehouse,
as of the last hour, has released a statement saying
Biden will be back on the campaign trail next week.
Buck Island prices are skyrocketing. I don't even know. I
(35:16):
don't even know if the condo board is going to
approve any of you who are not currently on the island.
We might have to see more of your financials. To
be fair.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
They've said that Biden's not wavering for a long time,
and they will say he's not wavering up till about
five minutes before he officially waivers and steps down and
Buck Island goes underwater, much like Atlantis becomes a historic,
rumored destination that is no longer visited.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I think clay Town is going to look like the
town at the beginning of Hillbilly Elergy with all the
closed stores. What a week.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
By the way, again, I just want to say for
everybody in Milwaukee, you guys were absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
I will add this Buck.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Guess who's addressing all the top Democrat donors today.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
According to the New York Times. It ain't Joe Biden
Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
So while one story might be hey, we're not going anywhere,
the other one may well be Kamala Bidener time shaking hands,
some people leaving Claytown or pulling off onto the interstate
at the rest stop, getting a burger and thinking, maybe
we go back.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Maybe it's not time yet to become a part of
the Island of Buck. So we'll see. But look, we
got we got Eric Prince coming up. Guys, We've got
the head of the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
We got a lot of guests. So Mark Green, my congressman,
it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Yep.
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