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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Friday edition nowur number two Klay Travis Buck
Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us
as we are powering through this program. Buck, We'll be
back with me on Monday. Traveling around with his family today.
As often the case during the course of the summer season,
especially with the amount of time that we spent down
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in South Florida with a bunch of advertisers, we were
supposed to be several of us from the iHeart crew
in the air shortly headed to Israel. All of the flights, however,
have been canceled for today that are headed into Israel,
even on l Al Airline, which we were told almost
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never cancels, because there is an expectation that Iran Lebanon
that they're going to respond to the attacks that Israel
has undertaken in an effort to respond to the twelve
innocent people who were killed in northern Israel with a
Hesbola rocket that hit are a soccer field and injured
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many young kids. So that has raised the level of
danger in that area to such extent that they are
limiting all travel from the United States to Israel right now.
What is the latest on the ground there. What should
we expect? David Affoon is in our New York City
studio right now. He's an expert on what's going on
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in Israel, and I know that it's kind of a
complicated situation for many people out there right now. Sovid,
what can you tell us about the absolute latest? What
should we expect? Is this a situation where Iran, Lebanon
and their terror ally strike you think in the next
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few days. Is it something that stretches weeks? What happens now?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, good to be with you, Clay. What we're seeing now,
in response to a series of really henous attacks over
the last number of months on innocent Israelis and its
terror proxies is probably what you could best describe as
a hell storm of Israeli come uppance that Iran and
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its terror proxies are facing. You've seen the deputy head
of his Ballah in Beirut assassinated, the head of the
politiborough of Hamas Ismailhania assassinated in Tehran, and also confirmation
that muhammadf the terror mastermind, was indeed assassinated in the
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Gaza strip. You know, the Israelis sometimes lose focus and
perhaps that was what happened in the years and months
that led up to the attacks on October seventh. But
when they are focused at eradicating their enemies, my god, they're.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Good, no doubt. And when you look at this situation,
I mean we're ten months basically since everything took place
in in the October seventh attack. This feels quite clearly
from a US perspective that this is going to extend
into our election cycle. What do you think? And again,
(03:12):
you're the publisher of the New York Sun, by the way,
for people who don't know, what do you think Israeli's
think of our upcoming election and the potential outcome? Now,
if Kamala Harris is the nominee versus if Donald Trump
is the nominee, how much of an impact If net
and Yahoo were being honest with us, does he think
the selection of our next president will have when it
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comes to Israel's ability to defend itself in the Middle East?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I mean, it has a very significant impact, and more
than anything, it has a significant impact on the strength
of US Israel relations. I mean, the truth is that
meddling in the Middle East and Israeli affairs is old
news when it comes to American administrations, by the way,
on both sides of the isle, both Democrats and Republicans.
I mean it was President George Bush really pressured or
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could old Ariel Sharon to pull out of Gaza in
the first place of two thousand and five, and then
cousin Leeza Rice insisted that they allow Hamas to run
in elections in two thousand and seven. So meddling in
the Middle East is old news for old administrations. The
truth is that the administration of Donald Trump was really
the only administration in history that deferred more to the
Israelis and said, look, we're in la, We're here to
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support you. Let us know what's helpful and how we
can be helpful. Of course, they weighed in and they
had their perspective and their opinions on things, but you know,
they were really supportive in that way. So I think
it will make a huge difference. You know, Donald Trump
administration would be very supportive of Israel's efforts now to
re establish security on its borders, and Kamala Harris administration
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would would wildly meddle, to say the least.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
No doubt as you sort of contemplate that that playing
out there, what's Israel's move Now? This seems to have
spiraled potentially into a larger Middle Eastern upfront battle instead
of just Iran using so many of these terror groups
as proxies. Do you think we're in danger of this
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spiraling or do you believe the targeted attacks that Israel
carried out to eliminate many of those terror assets has
actually given the potential of this getting dialed back in significance?
Where are we in terms of trying to exactly examine
where the conflagration goes from here?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, I think you hit the nail on the
head there, But conventional wisdom always says, and you know,
if you look at the history of Joe Biden's approach
to foreign policy, it's always de escalate, the escalate, the escalate.
Of course, you know, the age old lesson of Churchill
is that it doesn't always work that way, and you
end up empowering your enemies in doing so, and particularly
in the Middle East. I mean, that really is how
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it works. I mean, the only time that Iran ever
suspended its nuclear program was when the United States was
militarily active in both Afghanistan and Iraq on its borders,
and then it got nervous, and I think although the
conventionalism what you're gonna hear from all the talking heads
now is well, you know, Israel has dramatically escalated, and
the Iranians are going to be upset now and they're
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going to bite back. Sure, they're going to make a
show of it, and you're gonna hear a lot of
saber rattling and rhetoric. But in the end of the day,
there are some folks that are really, really nervous. I mean,
to have the ability to pull off what the Israelis have.
It just tells every single level of leadership in Iran
and in all of its terror proxies that nobody is
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safe and that the gloves are off. So I would
say that the chances are that you know, rhetoric aside,
and they'll probably be some kind of symbolic, you know,
reprisal attack which won't cause that much damage and we'll
know about it in advance. Retrica side, I think it
actually does a lot to put these guys in their place.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
A lot of yeah, no, sorry, I was gonna cut
you off. A lot of the attention had been on Hamas.
Suddenly the attention is on has Boa. How does this end?
I mean, I mean we know that this is not
going to end in the context of suddenly Arabs aren't
going to be like, hey, you know what, we love
Jewish people. We hope they live forever and happily and
prosper in this region. But how do we get back
to some form of mutual daytat where there isn't perpetual
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war going on? Are we close to that? Is that
still months away? Is it years away? Where do we
go from here?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I think one thing's for sure is that if history
is a guy, the Israelis aren't going to slow down here.
I mean, you know, you often hear this bandied about
where folks say, well, you can't really get rid of
Hamas Humus. It's just an idea and if you get
rid of one leader, somebody else will show up. Tell
that to Black September, you know, I don't know if
your listeners no. Black September was a terror group that
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was among Israel's premier foes in the seventies and eighties.
In fact, during the nineteen seventy two Olympic Games, there
were eleven athletes that were killed, and it played out
on live television all over the world eleven Israeli athletes.
Israel and its security services set the goal of completely
eliminating Black September and methodically routinely one after the other.
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It took them ten years and Black September just doesn't
exist today. And you know, Israeli, there's definitely a paradigm
change in the security apparatus in Israel. They cannot. The
idea of containing threats no longer exists. So you're going
to see a relentless, methodical campaign to eliminate the threats,
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and the leadership it's not going to slow down from here.
You're just going to see more and more and more
of this. And I think at some point the leadership
will be so debilitated that they will have to slow down.
And that's when you're going to see things start to settle.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
And if things start to settle down, what if that
look like from an American perspective, that means that what
should happen in terms of America being an ally of Israel?
From your perspective, well.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
I think you know what Israel wants from an ally,
and I think what all allies would want from each
other is really support, you know, to listen and to
you know, the concerns, what they're going through and where
they can be helpful. I mean, one thing that is
quite unique about the Israel US alliance is that Israel
and Premison, you know, who specifically underlined this in his
(09:12):
speech to Congress recently. You know, we don't want American
troops or you know, this is what Israelis will say,
we don't want American troops. We don't want I mean,
there's a lot of business that's done. Obviously, there's there's
military aid, which most of it is spent in the
United States, and that helps support the US military industry.
But really it's it's you know, we want the Israelis
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is saying we want to get the job done. We
want to do it ourselves, and you know, we appreciate
your backing and your support and your assistance. And that
what we've seen now with the Biden administration sort of
slowing down weapons shipments and things like that, sort of
withholding that support is a turn towards you know, Israeli
domestic production. So right now, and this hasn't really been
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widely reported, there is a huge push in Israel to
build domestic weapons production capabilities in particular mortars and tank
shells and other kind of munitions that israelult typically rely
on the Americans for. And I think you know, back
to the question you asked about sort of what the
election means. Under the Obama years, you saw Israel, you know,
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focusing on building relationship with others around the globe, you know,
with India, and you know that we saw the first
trips to Africa and Singapore, Latin America. So you know,
a good US Israel relationship is the product of, you know,
what you'd expect from supportive allies and approach that you'd
expect from supportive allies, which you know, certainly under the
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Joe Biden administration it's very qualified, and under the and
Harris administration, I think it would be even more so.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
David Afoon, publisher of the New York Sun, Well appreciate
you coming into the New York City studio and sharing
all this breakdown with all of us. Always a pleasure,
Thank you very much. And I just mentioned that we
were supposed to be in the air headed to Israel
right now and we were going to be helping to
advance the cause of the IFCJ that's the International Fellowship
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they canceled our flight to be able to go to Israel.
Most of I believe the flights to Israel, if not
all of them from the United States right now, are
all shut down, and the fact is that many Jewish
people are still under direct attack rather than being able
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. Appreciate all
of you I mentioned, and I think this is important
that we're going to continue to hammer the economy. The
border in crime EBC is what is going to decide
this election. In my opinion, by the way, prior to
(13:19):
Joe Biden dropping out, I think Joe Biden's mental and
physical frailty would have decided the election. Now, I think
that would have been connected to the economy, border in
crime as well. In that I don't think people would
have trusted Joe Biden on that, but I think the
overarching narrative story would have been Biden's incompetence and failure,
which is what Democrats recognize and why they replaced him.
(13:42):
But I do think it's important to recognize what is
going on right now is according to Wall Street, many
of the signposts out there suggests that we are headed
rapidly for a recession, and that has to do with
the level of jobs. That has to do with the
unemployment ticking up to four point three percent, which is
(14:02):
the highest since October of twenty twenty one. Here was
Rick Santelli on CNBC reacting to the new jobs numbers
that came out this morning and shined a light on
the frailty of our current economic situation.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Listen the underwins for the July Jobs Jobs Jobs report,
non farm payrolls comes in at one hundred and fourteen thousand,
one hundred and fourteen thousand. Of course, that is the
lightest level going back to minus two hundred and forty
three thousand, which was DCE of twenty twenty in the
pandemic affected months. Of course, now if we look at
(14:40):
the unemployment rate, the unemployment rate moved up to four
point three moved up to four point three That is
the warmest it's been since October of twenty one. October
of twenty one.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
So highest unemployment rate in almost three years, just in
time for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to run for reelection.
Now they see that they are in trouble here, and
I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen from an economic perspective.
But first, these numbers troubled Wall Street pretty immensely. As
I am speaking to you right now, apologies because you
(15:17):
probably are on your lunch break somewhere and you're thinking, hey,
at four oh one K, how's it doing well? Probably
not so well today. The Dow is down eight hundred
and fifty points right now. That's two percent drop, a
little bit over two percent in the Dow. The S
and P five hundred down two point two percent, and
then ASDAK down two point six percent. These are all
(15:41):
very large and substantial drops that are taking place in
the economy, and I'm here to tell you we're in
for some real challenges on a lot of different fronts
because in an effort to try to beat back inflation,
we have managed to create different problems. It's the old analogy.
(16:02):
You know, when things start going bad in the economy,
it's like a dam with water popping, and suddenly there's
all these places where water's coming and you can't hit
them all with your hands or your legs. I saw
this this morning, uh, and I was pretty surprised by it,
because it's a staggering number for those of you out
(16:23):
there in the in the New York City area, those
of you listening to us on wor I don't know
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(16:45):
It just sold yesterday for eight point five million dollars.
That is, ninety seven and a half percent of the
value of this building has vanished. Why is that Because
the commercial real estate market in many of these big
cities has collapsed because a lot of people don't want
(17:08):
to go into an office anymore. That, in conjunction with
the rise in interest rates, has created a massive exposure
for a lot of different financial institutions out there. But again,
we're talking about a big, twenty three story office building
in Midtown Manhattan, great location, sold for three hundred and
(17:31):
thirty two million dollars in two thousand and six. Just
sold for eight point five million dollars yesterday, eight point
five million, twenty three story building. Because the costs associated
with the upkeep on that building are so substantial that
everybody just wants to run away from the liabilities. I'm
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telling you, I'm not hearing a lot of people talk
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Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. I know
I said that this was the election of economy, border crime, Economy,
border crime, just keep hammering it over and over and
over again. But I do think it's important to recognize
(19:21):
that when Trump is criticized, very often, he is criticized
for things that Democrats themselves have done. If you listen
to this show over the last three years, you know
that Buck and I enjoy sharing clips from the View
almost more than we enjoy sharing clips from any other
media outlet, because even among stupid and dumb media outlets,
(19:45):
the View is at the absolute apex of that stupidity,
and sunny hostin alongside of sometimes Joy Behar, I would argue,
represents the apex of the stupidity pyramid at the View
and this was great work done by I think at
(20:06):
Amaze on Twitter to go back and combine Sonny Hostin
talking about Nicki Haley and how her ethnicity should certainly
be a part of the discussion because she's Indian and
she may not always have acknowledged that she was Indian
(20:26):
in a way that Sonny Hostin agreed with, while simultaneously
saying recently, indeed, I think yesterday that any discussion of
Kamala Harris's ethnicity by Trump was completely unacceptable. I'm going
to play that for you here. The first is again
(20:47):
Sonny Hostin on the View saying, Hey, this is totally
worthy of being discussed as it pertains to Nicky Haley,
and then yesterday saying it's completely unacceptable to discuss it
relating to Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Listen, Nikki Hayley's gone by Nikki since she was a child.
It's documented in high school. I wouldn't be shocked that
as somebody an Indian woman growing up in South Carolina
at that time, she actually did to avoid prejudice. So
I just want to be careful about critiquing.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Here going by.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
There's some of us.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
That can be chameleons and decide not to embrace our
ethnicity so that we can pass because that's there, Yeah, necessary.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
You know, I think if she leaned into.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
An of people, don't go by the wait's serious.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
I think to question someone's racial identity, actually him, especially him,
the bar has fallen so low.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Okay, so we may need to play that where that
actually is it? Can we play it, guys, where there's
a gap between the two of them, because it's kind
of hard to understand where it's easier to see if
you watch the video clip, because you can see, Okay,
this is one and here is the other. Is that possible?
Can we pause it, guys? Right after the first one,
let you digest. Okay, here she is talking about Nicki Haley,
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and then let me set up the second one. Can
we do that? Is that possible? Right here? Let's play again.
This is Sunny Houstin on the view saying, hey, Nicki
Haley's ethnicity certainly, remember she's got an Indian background, certainly
worthy of discussion because she's tried to adjust her ethnicity.
(22:23):
Listen to that.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
Nikki Haley's gone by Niki since she was a child.
It's documented in high school. I wouldn't be shocked that
as somebody an Indian woman growing up in South Carolina
at that time, she actually did to avoid prejudice. So
I just want to be careful about critiquing there going
there's some of us.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
That can be chameleons and decide not to embrace our
ethnicity so that we can pass it's there.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
Yeah, necessary, you know, I think if she leaned into
an of people, don't go by.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Their Okay, that's the first part. That was her attacking
Nicki Haley for being a chameleon and not leaning into
her ethnicity. Here was Sonny Hostin yet yesterday saying, and
by the way, that was Alissa Alyssa Fara Griffin, who
is formerly of the Trump White House. That was the
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other voice you heard in that clip, the conservative in
quotation marks on the view. Here now is yesterday Sonny Hostin,
who previously said that Nicki Haley was a chameleon and
questioning her ethnicity was certainly very valid now saying Trump
questioning Kamala Harris's ethnicity in any way is completely unacceptable.
Speaker 7 (23:30):
Listen, wait, I think to question someone's racial identity, especially him,
especially him, the bar has fallen solo.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Okay, So now you can't do it at all, Republican
Nicki Haley, she's a chameleon. It's very fair to ask
why her name is what it is, why she lives
the way she does, why she has at times tried
to shift her ethnicity for her political advantage. That is
Sonny Hostin on Nicki Haley Kamala Harris completely unacceptable. Now again,
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I don't think this is the most fertile area for
Donald Trump to attack. We took some calls on this yesterday.
Let me ask you guys again, and I only want
black or Indian callers, people with the same background. Eight
hundred two eight two two eight eight two. Am I
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wrong on this? Is Trump actually making a strong argument
here that is resonating with minority voters by saying, effectively,
Kamala Harris ain't black. This is almost a mirror image
of the argument, ironically, that Joe Biden made when Joe
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Biden said if you vote, if you don't vote for Biden,
you ain't black. Right, That's what he said in the
twenty twenty presidential election. Now Trump is saying Kamala Harris
isn't black. It's a derivation of that, but effectively it's
challenging identity as a proxy for political support. Trump is saying, hey,
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Kamala Harris, you're not black, Okay. I think there's a
lot of black people, my opinion, out there that are
a bit squeamish about the way that Kamala Harris identifies
as black, by which I mean she isn't that similar
to most black men or black women. You say, Okay,
what do you mean by that, Clay, Well, she doesn't
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have kids of her own, she didn't get married until
she was fifty. She is of mixed race, and for
the most part, did not grow up in black communities
in the United States. She spent I think twelve to
eighteen in Canada, otherwise lived in Berkeley. She did go
(25:57):
to Howard and she's a member of a black Sorori
to be fair, but she married a Jewish white guy.
She has no kids of her own, she didn't get
married until she's fifty, and she's of a mixed race background.
Her mom is Indian. She didn't have a substantial relationship,
to my understanding, with her father, so she was primarily
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raised by her mother's Indian family. Nothing's wrong with that.
But by bringing all that up, Trump basically said, hey,
she wanted to be seen as Indian until she decided
there was more value to be seen as black. Now,
the reality is she's both right, and so that's where
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I think it's unfair in some ways to say, oh,
she's not black, Oh she's not Indian, because it's doing
the same thing in some ways that Biden did, where
it's using your race to define what you represent, when
the reality is, in my opinion, we all have way
more in common across racial lines than we do indifferent.
(27:05):
That's why I think the Trump message should be economy,
border crime, because there's a lot of Black guys out
there that are like, Yeah, economy, border crime, That's what
I'm voting on. There's a lot of Hispanic guys out there,
there's a lot of Asian women. That is a unifying
message that cuts across identity politics. In some ways, what
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Trump is doing by making that attack is actually using
Democrat Party identity politics and actually endorsing it in some
way with his attack. Now, I think what Trump believes
is that that actually is going to undercut Kamala Harris's
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support in the black community. Is he right or is
my argument that ultimately the way to appeal to black, Hispanic, Asian,
and white people is to focus on the issues of economy,
border crime and leave the identity politics to the Democrats.
(28:13):
What do you think? And I'm asking specifically, we have
a few of these callers I think yesterday for black
or minority listeners, how will that play in your community
when you walk into church on Sunday and you talk
with your friends, when you go to a birthday party
(28:33):
this weekend and you talk with your friends, how will
Trump's argument, in your opinion at the National Association of
Black Journalists play in your communities as you go about
your weekend activities. I don't claim to be an expert
on this, but my sense is EBC, baby economy, border crime.
(28:55):
That's the election unites everybody saying, Oh are you black?
Are you Indian? What is your ethnicity? Does it register?
I think it's a fascinating question. I think it's a
big gamble. And Trump trust intuitively his political instincts, and
he's been right a lot. But on my take, I
(29:16):
sit there and I just kind of think, Eh, you're
letting Kamala Harris off the hooks for her failures when
you discuss things that she had no control over. None
of us can control who our mom or dad are,
who our grandma or grandpa, are, what their ethnicities are,
what they did good or bad. Kamala and Biden can
(29:36):
control the choices they made in the White House to
me go after the choices economy, border crime. But am
I wrong? I'm open to Hey, Trump's playing forty chessier
clay and you're not smart enough to even understand what's
going on. I'm curious to hear from minority voters who
I think is going to strike Most white voters don't care, right,
I don't think there's that many white voters out there.
(29:57):
Like I was going to vote for Kamala Harris. Then
I found out that she's actually from Jamaica and her
family's actually Indian and they own slaves, and now I
can never vote, Like, I don't think there's that many
Trump supporting white people out there that care at all
about Kamalo's ethnicity, care about policy, but does that register
in a positive way for independent or minority voters. Eight
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Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
As we are rolling through the Friday edition of the program.
Several of you want to weigh in breaking news and
we'll talk a little bit more about this at the
top of the next hour. Kamala Harris has officially secured
the Democrat nomination. Now some of you are saying, wait
a minute, the actual Democrat convention is not until late
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August in Chicago. You're right. They did a non public
online voter nomination role. This is what Joe Biden was
hoping to do before they said Nanna na, Joe, You're out.
So they have officially nominated Kamala Harris. So she is
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the nominee. She's gonna be picking her VP soon. We
will talk about the beepsteaks for Kamala at the top
of the next hour. But a bunch of you went
to weigh in with a discussion. We just had Sean
in Newport News, Virginia. Black guy, how does Trump attacking
Kamala Harris's blackness play to you and those around you?
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Thanks for having me on the showfellas. This is exactly
why we wanted Trump to pick somebody like Byron Donald's.
We knew that no matter what the Democrats was gonna say,
anything Trump brought was racist or sexist. All Trump has
to do with disagree with Kamala Harris, and they're gonna
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say he's racist and sexist. But if you pick somebody
like Byron Donalds, that completely takes the race issue out
of it, and they have a gentleman as such that
could attack Kamala Harris on her ethnicity and lying about it.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Yep, I Sean, I'm with you. This is why now,
I said Tim Scott, we've had Byron Donald's on the
show a lot. We really like him as well. I
thought that was the direction Trump should go, and I've
said this for a while. I think Trump has a
lot Thank you for the call. I think Trump has
a lot of blackmail supporters. I think Republicans in general
are gaining a lot of black male supporters. I think
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if Trump had picked picked personally a black male running mate,
you had to think they might elevate Kamala. I think
Sean just nailed it. You could have that discussion among
black voters and among black candidates. That would be a
fair discussion. But as soon as Trump says anything, oh,
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it's racist, it's sexist, identity politic attacks that actually motivates
the Democrat base. Caroline in Houston, immigrant from Cameroon, what
do you think about this story, Claire?
Speaker 8 (34:10):
I think race really doesn't matter to me. I'm I'm
a black woman from Africa. Race shouldn't be an issue.
Let's look at policies. Let's look at what Trum has
done to the black community. Let's look at what the
difference between Trump and Kamala Harris, what Trum has done
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to the black community. So let's look at policies and
not race. I am not looking at race because no
matter what, the race card is always gonna be played,
no matter what Trum does, it's always going to be
something about race. So I am voting for Trum not
based on race, and voting for Trum based on policies.
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And especially because I know that our daughters, oh boys
will not be allowed to pleach in girls sports. That
matters to me a lot. And I know that Trump
tends for our ghos and for women. So that's my
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reason why I'll be voting for Trump. Race doesn't matter.
Policy yets not race.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Thank you for the call, Caroline, that would suggest again
my argument, economy, border crime, ebc uh RAINA in Texas.
What do you think.
Speaker 8 (35:37):
Firmly believe that Common needs to go home. We don't
need a woman as a vice president or president.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So you're just out on her. Is there any woman
on the planet that you would like to see as
president or vice president.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
No, regardless of race, women do not belong in those positions.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Uh so you're thank you for the call, Rada. I
appreciate raina female calling in and saying no woman should
be vice president or president. Maybe some of you agree
with that. I don't. I don't. I think there's plenty
of women that could be president or vice president personally,
but I do think that Trump going EBC, economy, border crime,
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it's the key to this race. Let me just say
this too, by the way, I don't think anybody should
be excluded from any job because of their race or
their sex. I mean that because if you're doing that,
that's the foundation of racism or sexism. And the best
person at something might be someone you don't expect to
be great at it. That's the benefit of American opportunity
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and the meritocracy. Let the best man or best woman win,
like used to happen in sports before we decided the
best woman could be a man pretending to be a woman.
Likes happening at the Olympics. Right now, we'll talk a
bit about that and the deep Steaks. Who is Kamala
gonna pick and how could it impact things? I'll tell
you next