Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Sep 19 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back in. It is day to day here.
All these polls come flying in, giving us a sense
as to what's happening right now. Remember it's not election day,
so polls or just a snapshot in time of sentiment.
They could change tomorrow, but they give us a sense
of momentum. They give us a sense as to how
close this is going to be, where it's going to

(00:21):
be close. I do think Trump is looking good in
Wisconsin at this point, and maybe enough that he'll help
pull our friend, mister Hovedy across the line in the
great state of Wisconsin. Ur wisn fam up there in Wisconsin.
You are an army out there. We appreciate so much
all of you listening in the Milwaukee area. And you

(00:42):
can go out and do your best to get friends
and family to the polls. In a state like Wisconsin.
You know, you don't need that many people to get
really engaged to be able to see how it affects
the numbers. So just remember that. You know, I grew
up in New York City where I was like.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm going to vote Republican because that's my civic duty
to vote.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
And then I would just get crushed you know, it's
like eighty twenty just get crushed year in the ear.
Although Juliani did win the mayor when I was but
I was too young to vote for that, right, I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
I wasn't a part of the Giuliani miracle because I
was twelve or something. But anyway, this is it's good
for Trump. That's the bottom line. And there's something else
I just wanted to note. First of all, the fact
that they've only done seven interviews with Kamala and Walls
is in a sense, it's really all you have to
know because it's such clear indication of what a disaster

(01:36):
she really is as a candidate. And also, I think
that people's sense of the debate, there's some polling that
shows some marginal, you know, victory for Kamala and debate,
I really just think she did a little better than
people thought. But she memorized lines. It wasn't like Kamala
impressed us with her knowledge and her you know, ability
to handle things on the fly. She memorized lines and

(01:57):
she keeps saying those lines. So the law longer she goes,
the more it's like wait a second, So you're like
an actor who, unless he's spewing Shakespeare, doesn't sound very
smart because you got nothing to say. You know, this
is what people have always said about de Niro. By
the way, without a script, he's as dumb as a
fence post.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
You ever heard that before, You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
That doesn't surprise me because memorizing lines or reading, frankly,
for people who don't know how teleprompter or television works,
you're basically an actor if you're not on the fly
reacting to what people say. And you got an ear
piece in so people in the production room can tell
you questions to ask, or give you data points or

(02:39):
whatever else. I mean, you can tell pretty quickly who
is good on their feet and who's not. And that's
why I thought the Trump Gutfeld situation was so great.
Kamala Harris would never do that. She would never do
an unscripted one of four panel discussion show. That's what
I thought was so great about the Gutfeld setup was
they didn't treat Trump any differently than they would have

(03:02):
you or me if we were a panelist on the show.
They had cat tempt, they had tyrists who were always there.
Our friend Emily Campagno was there, and then Gutfeld hosted
it and Trump was the fourth panelist, and he just
sat in the chair like hung out, like would ordinarily
have happened on the show, and he fit in fantastically well.
He gave Gutfeld a lot of grief for not being

(03:24):
enough of a Trump supporter early on and saying a
lot of awful things about him, and I actually thought
there are a bunch of quotes from there that I
thought were great. But the gut Felt asked him about it,
and he said, if I only was allied with people
who said nice things about me all the time, I
would have no like no political allies, because everybody has
ripped me at some point. And I think that's one

(03:45):
thing we've talked about it on this show. Trump doesn't
get enough credit for being totally willing to give up
on any sort of antipathy, grudge or anything else. The
minute somebody's like, you know what, he's doing a pretty
good job. He forgets all the negative that was said. Hey,
there's always room on the train if you'll get on

(04:06):
the train. There's room on the train, but you have
to get on the Trump train. Absolutely. But Jadie Vance
called him America's Hitler, and now he's running with him
as VP.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I mean that's a perfect example of this is also
why not not to go back here. But when people
were very upset in the primary, particularly at some of
the Ronda Santis fans out there, and they're like, you're
never gonna be allowed back, I was like, no, no,
they're gonna be allowed back in the Republican ten. It's okay,
Like it was a rough primary, but it's okay. We
can all Nicko endorsed him.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
I understand, Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, which you could predict,
and all those people like the Liz Cheney when it's
particularly funny buck because it now is the case that
she's so anti Trump that she's willing to support the
furthest left wing Democrat nominee of all time, and all
these people out there who are running the Bulwark or
the Lincoln Project. I guarantee you, if Ron DeSantis were

(04:55):
the nominee, and I think DeSantis would have been the
nominee if Trump were not, would be attacking DeSantis every
bit as vociferously as they have been attacking Trump.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I have zero doubt because that's also where their audience,
and their money is now they are there. They're Democrat mercenaries,
is what they are. They're mercenaries, and that they'll just
take money to fight for whichever side, and the money
comes from the Democrats right now, because you can't argue
to me at least that this is I mean, there's
one former Republican or former conservative who always does the

(05:27):
conservative case for and it's become this this cliche. It's
become this meme of, you know, the conservative case for
abortion for all nine months of a pregnancy, the conservative
case for open borders and DEI programs. You're like, you're
a leftist. You're not making a god, there's no conservative case.
You're just a leftist. You just hate Trump so much

(05:47):
that you have switched teams. You are Benedict Arnold. You
have betrayed your team and you now fight for the
other team. I just wish they were honest about it.
But there's so much of that because what they all
they're Republicans who go on MSNBC. They're all Democrats who
call themselves Republicans. It's such a sham, it's absurd. I mean,
you know, I think Joe Scarborough's technically an independent now, but.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know, the guy's a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
How can you be an independent and have nothing critical
to say about Kamala Harris, who's the worst Democrat candidate
since Duccacus.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
I totally agree with all that, and I also just
think it's amazing to think about the political trajectory we're on.
That Dick Cheney, who in the days of Fahrenheit nine
to one, one right, nine to eleven or whatever it was,
the Michael Moore, Dick Cheney was Satan, he was Darth Vader.
He was the great evil of the entire United States,

(06:41):
even up to what was the movie that Will Ferrell's
but he made about the Imperial Presidency, where Dick Cheney
was the bad guy. Do you know what I'm talking about?
It was about was it vice? I think that's what
it was. I think it was called Weisa and it
was the Welsh guy kind of malugionisque.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
Actually, what's his name? Guy who plays Batman? He's an mallusion.
I mean they spend Christian Bale plays in that movieh.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
And that was like the Hollywood just take down, like
we're going to crush Dick Cheney and all these things.
And now on last week, Kamala Harris is bragging about
Dick Cheney endorsing her. I just, I mean, the world
is so upside down, and we talked about this yesterday,
but we should follow up. The Teamsters declined to endorse

(07:32):
Kamala for the first time that they have not endorsed
a Democrat, I believe, going all the way back to
nineteen eighty eight. Now their rank and file members are
overwhelmingly voting Trump based on the poll data they put
out sixty forty, but it feels like to me they
should have endorsed Trump, but they're trying to just basically say, well,

(07:56):
we're not going to make an endorsement, which is a
win for Trump. But the rank and file Teamsters, primarily
in the Midwest, buck is a glaring sign of weakness
for Kamala Harris because they voted for Biden in twenty
twenty one.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Thing that's going to be fun.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Klay and I were just discussing this in a commercial
break there for a second. I want you to hear this.
Pelosi's out there making this case that there wasn't that
they didn't just annoint Kamala. There was an open primary,
she won, and.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
This is I truly.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
This is Soviet style rewriting of history, you know, just
so you know, in the Soviet Union, Stalin actually had
expert photo you know, refinishing or retouching people. Because when
they would liquidate people who were in photos with Stalin,
you know this clay, they would remove them, they would
remove them from the pos Yeah, this does a really exist.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
They would erase them.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
They would erase you from the public record because obviously
there's no internet. So like, oh, you're in photos with Stalin, Eh,
you got executed.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
I got our movie from.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
The photo Soviet Soviet mindset rewriting of history going on
by Democrats. When it comes to Kamala, here's Pelosi saying, oh, yeah,
she won the primary.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
What you had reportedly said you wanted a sort of
an open primary. When if Joe Biden stepped down, did
you change your mind because you saw all the excitement
around Kamala Harris, No.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
I didn't change my mind. We had an open primary
and she won it. Nobody else got in the race
because she was politically a student, and that was the thought,
let's show our talent. We have a great bench of
all these great people in the country, and she could
she just the President endorsed her, and that's a big

(09:44):
deal because Joe Biden's most consequential president of modern times.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Nancy Pelosi truly lives in an alternate universe. I mean,
I understand she's been able to acquire and wield power
effectively for the left to the tremendous detriment of the
United States for many years, but she is like her
mind is actually on some other reality. Clay Kamala Harris
clearly didn't win a primary. I don't know what do

(10:11):
you even think she's saying? Joe Biden is the most consonant.
So Joe Biden's more consequential to a Democrat than Barack Obama. Really, Yeah,
she tried to argue, remember that he should be on
Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Remember we played that audio like it was good.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I think that in favor one of my favorite clips
from the DNC. Do you remember when they had the
video of Nancy Pelosi chanting we love Joe or whatever
it was, and like she was like dismissively doing it. She,
I think, to be fair, has been friends with Joe
Biden on some level. Again, political friends. A lot of

(10:48):
times bs like who knows whether they really like each
other or not, but they've been allies for forty years,
and it seems like she is desperate to try to
repair the rupture of their relationship such that she now
is going way over the top anytime she discusses Joe
Biden's political career.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I also just I think it's worth noting Clay.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
If Kamala loses this election, oh man, these so many
of these Democrats were like, She's the greatest candidate I've
ever seen.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
She's amazing.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
They'll be like, oh, I can't believe we got stuck
with Kamala.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
She was terrible. We all knew.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
They will all admit that they all knew she was terrible.
The level of dishonesty here is mind blowing.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Also, think about Kamala's future. She is either going to
somehow get elected president and be an awful president. But
she'll get elected president, be the first woman. It'll be
a big deal. She'll echo throughout history. Sadly or buck
they're gonna kick her to the curb like Michael Decaccus.
She'll end up like the president of the University of

(11:54):
California or something like that.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's a great gig. She'll make a million dollars a
year to go to cocktail parties. Get I disagree. She
won't have a huge political future, but they'll take very good.
Kama's gonna be richer than she currently is, and she's
already rich by the way. Yeah, but they're just gonna
shunt her off to the side and completely hide her.
Or she's going to be famous for hundreds of years.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Like this is. I mean, think about the twist here.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
If she wins, like as crazy as it is, hundreds
of years from now, she'll be on I can't believe
this is real, but all the pictures of the presidents,
she'll be the first woman ever elected. Hundreds of years
from now, long after we're all dead, people will be
talking about Kamala Harris and her historic presidency or buck
Nobody is going to remember her name at all, and

(12:41):
they're gonna put her as, you know, the president of
some California university, whereas Trump's going to be a historic
figure for a long time because he was a president.
Regardless of what happens here, the swing on potential outcomes
for Kamala Harris's narrative right now is off the charts wild.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Yeah, I mean, does anyone remember John Nance Garner. I mean,
if FDR had gotten a really bad cold, you might
remember him.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
But you know that was the warm spit guy, right,
he said, the might DP would that's the only thing
I know about.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Yeah. Well, well, well like amateur presidential historian Clay remembers
this guy, but like no normal person out there is
like throwing out John Nance Garner's name.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
No, there's a ton I mean she will be she
will be relegated to the dustbin of history, or she
will be famous for hundreds of years based on what
happens in about forty five days.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
I'm impressed you just pulled out the bucket. I gotta
say a little golf clap for you. There, bucket a
warm spit on the fly. You just knew I you know,
which I think, by the way, was edited. I'm gonna
make myself even more of a history nerd.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
I think he actually said it was a bucket of
warm piss, but you couldn't say the word piss back then,
so they changed it to spit.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
So I think there's a dispute about which one press
impressed by her historical knowledge. Bill Malugin just saying.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Well, he is a dreamy man, Uh yeah to Mekin
of his Street.

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Speaker 1 (15:19):
It's interesting to see that they are just hoping. Not
enough people care or pay attention to the fact that
Kamala Harris is just not campaigning. I mean, it's not
running a political campaign in any meaningful ways, not showing
up talking to the press, only scripted public appearances where

(15:39):
she is literally reading off of a script, whether you know,
a teleprompter or piece of paper in front of her.
And it's I think incredibly condescending to the American voter
that they think that they can pull this off. The
Democrats think they can pull it off, but it is
a very close race, and they got a dementia patient
elected before, so, you know, anything as possible.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Their choice of surrogates, though lately, has been interesting. Clay,
if you were trying to pick who you'd want to
be making the case for Kamala right now, there are
names that.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Would come to mind. You know.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
Obviously, either one of the Obamas would be likely helpful.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
I don't know who else.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
In You know, you could argue that there are I
think some prominent members of the Senate in the House
right now, Democrat side, who could be effective spokespersons for
the what you're.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
I'm just thinking, because you're asking a really good question,
who is a man that the Democrat Party has that
could actually connect with men right now? Like you're asking,
and I'm thinking, like where she's really struggling is with men.
And you're right, Barack and Michelle Obama are probably the
two most popular in the Democrat Party.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
That would make sense.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
But I actually didn't have any. Like I was saying,
there's plenty of people they could go to it. As
I'm saying this, I'm like, uh, I mean, Tim Walls
can certainly make the case to be a male feminist,
but I don't think that's going to apply, that's going
to appeal to guys.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'm trying to think.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
You asked if I were advising Kamala and they said, hey, Clay,
we know that we're really underwater with men. Tim Walls.
This whole like Coach Walls thing is totally bombed because, like,
the only people who like Tim Walls are basically male feminist,
not football fans. I can't even tell you who is
the most masculine person in the Democrat Party that would

(17:30):
resonate with men. I can't even give you a name.
I mean, I'm not even kidding, like where you would
be like, oh, that guy. Maybe if they could get Fetterman.
I actually think he's probably, I mean, the most masculine
Democrat right now. Can you beat Fetterman as an elected
official most masculine Democrat, I'd have.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
To I'd have to look at a list.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Look, I'm not not trying to play hard to get
here with the answer. I just I don't have anyone
who really comes to mind. Really, this was just a
pre for me to get to who they are picking
to make the case, which I got to say.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
I think she would be.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Among the last people on my list. Hillary Clinton, Hillary,
She's out there, not a good joint. She is making
the case. And here she let's just start with let's
start with twenty two. Here Hillary's saying that Trump is
filled with grievance and rage, and whenever she speaks about Trump,

(18:27):
I just feel like all I see is oh and
one Hillary ohen one play twenty two.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
He is angrier, he is lashing out all the time
at everybody. He's filled with grievance and rage. You know,
in my acceptance speech at the convention way back in
twenty sixteen, I said, you know, you can't trust somebody
with nuclear weapons who you can bait with a tweat,
because I saw that in him.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
At the time, a.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Lot of people didn't, or they gave him the benefit
of the doubt where they thought, hey, you know, we've
had two terms of a Democrat, let's try the Republicans
for whatever reason. I understand that, But now the stakes
are even higher because he has a record. We have
seen him try to abuse power, we have seen him
try to overturn a legitimate, free, fair election.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
I kind of say, when she says you can't trust
him with the nukes, well he already did, actually, and
it was fine, and there were no new wars, and
it was a time of particular peace for America relative
to other recent presidencies. So that's point one on that Clay.
And also I just think it's it's a total.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I mean, lie is even the right word.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
It's just it's a fantasy that Democrats have that Trump
is angry and bitter and mean. I mean, he can
get fired up about things, but so can any politician.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
He has fun.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
He makes more jokes and is more lighthearted in public
than any politician I have ever seen before. And it's
not even close on either side. By the way, he
is more willing to have fun up there on stage
and to entertain an audience, and to make jokes and
to be self deprecating than anyone else I've ever seen
in politics. And Hillary's out there saying that he's shrill

(20:15):
and angry. I think psychologists would call this projection.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Also, think about how difficult that is with the level
of pressure that's on him, in addition to being in
the middle of a presidential campaign where there have been
two assassination attempts against him in the last sixty days,
and also to be in a situation where they're trying
to bankrupt him and put him in prison for the

(20:41):
rest of his life. To be able to get out
of the bed, and even factor in that he's seventy
eight or seventy nine years old, is pretty solid evidence
that he's just built different. I mean, buck, think about
just this aspect. What percentage of Americans do you think
would be comfortable getting up on a stage to talk

(21:03):
to thousands of people again if they had come within
a quarter inch of having their head blown off. I mean,
you talk about post traumatic stress, which is a very
real thing that affects people who have been under fire.
Trump was hit by a bullet on July thirteenth, and
he has continued to get up on the stage and
talk to audiences in front of massive crowds, and be

(21:28):
as publicly available as any president that I can remember,
in terms of shaking hands and kissing babies and doing
the general aspects of what is required to win presidential office.
I don't think very many men or women would have
the intestinal fortitude to be willing to get up on
the stage and do it fearlessly like he is doing

(21:49):
it in the wake of these two assassination attempts.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
I think that's true. I also think and this is dark,
but I believe it, so I will say it that
one of the reasons it feels like nothing has really
changed in the public discussion, in the rhetoric. You know,
just nothing has changed at all in the aftermath of
now two assassination attempts, one where he actually took a

(22:14):
bullet in the ear. It's still miraculous that Trump wasn't
killed that day. I will never stop being grateful for
the country, honestly for the country, because God knows what
that would have led to. That you know that Trump
was okay. I think one of the reasons though, and
this is the part of it that gets darklay that
nothing has changed here is I think a lot I

(22:38):
can't give you a percentage, and I'm not saying all,
but I think a lot of Democrats are unbothered by
these assassination attempts on Trump, and I do believe that
a not insignificant portion of them are disappointed with the outcome,
and that's a very bad place for the country to be.

(22:59):
I have never one's thought, and all of the time
I've been working in politics, you know, in media, and
before that, when I was working for a government, I
have never once thought I wish physical harm would come
to some to an American politician because I disagree with
what he or she believes. I'm not saying people are
involved in it. I'm just saying what they wish for.

(23:21):
And I think there are unfortunately a lot of Democrats.
You can see it online. You don't have to take
my word for it, who are unbothered and even disappointed
by the fact that Trump is still walking around okay,
and that is is terrifying as just a commentary on
how toxic the look, how toxic the ideological left has

(23:42):
become in this country, and how unmoored from the standards
and the systems and the institutions that they pretend to
care about they really are.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
I was out last night. It's interesting that you mentioned this.
I went out for dinner, but right beforehand, I met
a friend who is from New York City that was
in town and we were just having a drink and
he was talking about exactly this. He said that he
went out with several of his buddies from high school,

(24:12):
and all of those guys that these buddies with from
high school are big Democrats, and he hadn't seen him
in a few months, and they went out and they
hadn't been together since July thirteenth, and he said, all
those guys said, yeah, we were on a text chain
like damn, I'm sorry they missed him.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
And he was very common.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
I know.

Speaker 1 (24:33):
And you say this and the Democrats will jump down
your throat and say, no, that's not true. It is true.
I've heard it from a lot of people. I've heard
people that have just had conversations, whether with their barista
or their cab driver, or you know, just somebody that
they have some exchange with in the aftermath of both
of these assassination attempts, where people express a desire that

(24:54):
the other outcome could have happened, and that there is
something deeply disturbing and menacing about how widespread that mentality
is among Democrats. Because it is very real and we
all know that it's out there.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
I think thirty to forty percent at least of diehard
Democrats wish Trump was dead and that the assassination attempts
had worked. I don't think that there is anywhere near
that element in terms of sheer numbers in the Republican
Party or people who are voting for Trump about Kamala

(25:30):
or Biden. They won't talk about it in the media
to a large extent. Buck we just saw a Department
of Justice charges come down for an Alaskan guy. I
think I just screenshoted this who has been threatening to
kill all six Supreme Court justices, a guy named Panos concern.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I'm guessing if it's six, it's the six ones that
are not the left wing loons, okay?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
They he donated to Democrats eighty times. Just got arrested
in Alaska for threatening to kill the six conservative justices.
He donated to Democrats eighty times. Department of Justice just
arrested him.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Again.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
They're six conservatives. They aren't naming the justices, but there
are six conservatives. Guy voted donated eighty times to Democrat causes.
If any of these stories had occurred and diehard Donald
Trump's supporters were involved, it's all you would hear about

(26:35):
the toxicity that exists on the right, I would submit
to you. On the right, there is a deep held
belief and faith and fervor for Trump. It isn't on
the left a deep fervor for Kamala. They hate Trump, yes,
and so hate is the motivator to get people to kill.

(26:56):
People who are supporting Trump by and large, just want
Trump to stay healthy and want Trump to win. A
lot of people who are supporting in quotation marks Kamala
legitimately want Trump dead. And again this ties in with
the whole trying to compare him to Hitler and say
he's a threat to democracy. If you really believe that
to be true, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden wouldn't have

(27:18):
called Trump after the second assassination attempt and wished him well.
They are lying about him being hitler or a direct
threat to democracy because it motivates their base, but a
lot of that base really believes it, which is why
they're trying to kill him.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I just I wish there was a way that I mean,
this is kind of a separate thought, but I see
you agree with me that there's that the desire for
physical harm against Trump is tragically far more widespread in
common among Democrats across the country than I think a
lot of people on the right realize. Like you know,
I still have contact with the left and Democrats in

(27:54):
different ways, and I'm able to observe and hear from
different people who are hearing as well, and it's very common.
But just on the side, this whole notion that Trump
is a threat to democracy, I wish, you know, I
wish there was a way that I could put up,
like what would be for me a large sum of
money to bet, like a Mark Cuban or one of

(28:15):
these guys. The democracy is going to be just fine, Okay,
There's going to be an election in four more years
and everything, you know, and what kind of odds would
they give me on this one? Because great, I feel
like these these imbeciles, we should just be able to
make them put their money with their mouth.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Democracy is going to fall party.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
A bunch of cry baby loons, and you know they're
emotionally destabilized because they don't have the internal courage of
their convictions to block out all the nonsense about the
threat to democracy.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, I would.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I would place a huge bet against some of these
great ideas, huge bet that you know, they say democracy
is under threat, and say, okay, if Trump wins, how
much you're going to put down on the table that
there is a completely normal, legitimate election in four years
after Trump has his second term. I'd put you know,
whatever money I have at hand.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
That's a great point. I would put down as much
as I could too. They wouldn't actually put it down,
but it is. It would be great to call him out,
all right, Speaking of calling him out, Buck, this is fun.
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(29:26):
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(30:04):
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(30:25):
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Speaker 2 (31:22):
And politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay Travis
at Buck Sexton.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts. Lots of polling data out as we
discussed with all of you, and it is telling us
a variety of different stories, all of which essentially add
up to it's gonna be close.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
You need to go vote.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
You need to go vote early, as early as you
possibly can get those votes bank, and then buckle up.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
It's going to be a wilder ride.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
I've said, Buck has said, We're both going to go
vote as early as we possibly can. My opening date
is October sixteenth. I believe in the state of Tennessee,
where I live, I'm gonna be there, Buck, I know
you and Florida are going to be there early. And
some of the arguments for Kamala Harris are increasingly insane,

(32:18):
such that I can't even believe that they are real.
I'm going to play you one of them from MSNBC yesterday,
but I wanted to mention this, Buck and get your
take on it. We have talked about the exploding pagers,
we've talked about the exploding walkie talkies in from Hesbola,
but yesterday actually a pretty significant story I thought dropped

(32:42):
in terms of espionage, and you can only imagine how
much more attention it would have gotten if Trump had
been somehow connected to it as opposed to the victim
of it. Aaran has been trying to hack the Trump
campaign and according to many different reports out there, they

(33:03):
were able to get some information hacked via email sort
of this phishing scam for lack of a better way
to describe it. They then shared it with the Biden
Harris campaign. And I do think this is important. Iran,
if you heard us talking about this yesterday, wants Kamala

(33:23):
Harris to win. You hear all this talk about Russia. Russia, Russia,
the country right now in the Middle East that is
attacking Israel on all fronts, that is funding has blood,
that is funding Hamas is Iran, and they desperately want
Kamala Harris to win because they think it will allow

(33:44):
them better opportunity to be able to run rough shot
over the Middle East. They think it will give them
a better opportunity to get a nuclear bomb. They know
that Trump will be tougher on them, and so they
care so much that there has been talk about assassin
nation attempts coming from Iran on President Trump. But also

(34:05):
buck they are engaged in a cyber hacking goal counter espionage,
with the idea being that they want to impact this election.
This is a pretty big deal and it will immediately
get buried because the Trump campaign is the victim. But
I do think that the storyline of Iran wanting Kamala

(34:25):
Harris to win shouldn't be ignored. When America's deepest and
most dangerous allies or enemies are working on the idea
that we want Kamala Harris to be elected, I do
think it kind of tells you what they see from
Trump and what they fear from him. I would also
point out that if Israelis could vote in the American election,

(34:48):
this is people who actually live in Israel, they would
overwhelmingly support Trump. They desperately in Israel want Trump to
win this race.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Well, if you've paid attention, right, if anyone's in watching
Mid East foreign policy, certainly through the Obama era to now,
the Democrats are fundamentally and dangerously wrong about Iran. They
have learned nothing from recent or distant history. When it
comes to the Iranian regime. They respond to force, and

(35:19):
that is it. There is no gentle hand outstretch that
will be met by the Iranians in good faith, by
the again, by the Mullahs, by the people in charge
in Iran, and the Democrats are they're kind of maniacal
on this. It doesn't matter what the Iranian regime does,
it's somehow is always a fault of Republicans and in
this country and Israel, you know, it's like we're always

(35:41):
forcing them to somehow support terror regimes. All are terror
groups all over the Middle East and engage in and
just vicious acts of violence which are really just rooted
in anti Semitism, hatred of Israel, hatred of the West,
hatred of Christians. So yeah, they're they're very wrong on this.
Of course, Iran wants a Democrat and specifically Kamala Harris,

(36:05):
because these foreign governments are also aware of the politics
in this country whereby Iran is considered a country of
brown people and therefore it fits into that anti colonial
really you know, anti white component of the Democrat party
that believes that white countries oppress non white countries all

(36:28):
over the world, and Iran is one of them. And
they think Israel, as we've talked about, as a white country,
which is not even accurate really, but put that aside,
and also thinking of this as a white country, we're
actually the most diverse country in the world. But the
way that the left used these things is not influenced
really by reality, by numbers, by demographics. They have narratives
and they stick to it, and so they are useful idiots.

(36:52):
The Democrats are pro not just pro a softer line
toward Iran, but I think, unfortunately we're willing to under
the Obama administration really just sacrifice a lot of the
rest of US interest in the least in order to
get that very bad Iran nuclear deal done. And the
fact that now we're not going to be hearing about

(37:14):
Iranian hacking on behalf of the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
This is just.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Pure partisan editorializing. There's you know, we don't know what
the information is or what they tried to hack, but
we do know that Democrats made a mountain out of
a mole hill with Russia collusion stuff in twenty sixteen,
acting like some ads on Facebook. One hundred thousand dollars
worth of ads on Facebook is in any way indicative

(37:40):
of an election that has been held under some kind
of false pretense. So it's very frustrating Clay, But I
also think enough people see through this. But you know,
our side doesn't turn to hysteria over this stuff the
same way. So even if it was reported on we
all know like, yeah, okay, so Iran is metal and

(38:00):
doing some things. The chance of this having any effect
on the outcome the election. They're always the Democrats are
always looking for a reason to cry and say it's
not fair. Why is Trump doing so well? And you know,
I think this is another moment where the double standard
is a parent for all to see.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
I wanted to play this because I do think it's
so funny. They're trying to come up with all sorts
of reasons why Kamala Harris is going to be such
a forceful leader. What would make Vladimir Putin quake in
his boots? Buck It is the fact that Kamala Harris
is of a mixed race background. This is legitimately what

(38:40):
they argued last night on MSNBC. This is a retired
Army general, Steve Anderson says Putin man, he's never going
to be able to handle the power of Kamala because
she's a product of a mixed marriage.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Listen to this.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
Kamala Harris would be just the opposite. Why because she's
an inspiration. Not only is she positive and does she
bring hope and optimism.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
But as a black woman, the product of.

Speaker 7 (39:07):
A mixed marriage, she will inspire millions of people throughout
the world. Our credibility is a nation that we would
be able to allow our country is so great that
we're allowed a woman like that to become the commander
and chiefs the president of the United States.

Speaker 8 (39:23):
That is going to stand a.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
Powerful message all over the world. People like Vladimir Putin
are going to say, hey, wait a minute, these guys,
you know, they truly have a democratic country, They truly
are representative, they truly are fighting for all their people.
And Kamala Harris is a manifestation of that.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Buck.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
I mean, even by crazy deranged standards, we've already elected
Barack Obama. The data actually reflects, despite the fact that
Democrats constantly want to rip the United States as being
a profoundly racist country, that probably the United States is
the least racist country maybe in the history of the world.
I mean that honestly, if you look at the welcoming

(40:05):
nature of this nation relative to the histories of almost
anywhere else in terms of who we allow to be citizens,
the degree to which we have constantly embraced legal immigration,
but to argue, Oh, there's no way that Russia is
going to be able to handle Kamala because she's a
product of a mixed race marriage. Is next level crazy,

(40:28):
even for the people who are crazy on MSNBC. And
I do think the conversation we had about what happens
to Kamala is one of the craziest situations we've ever
been in before because she hasn't really accomplished much in
her life in terms of actual things. Right, she's been
elected to office, congratulations for that.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
I mean, she is the vice president. We have to
operate in reality here too. I mean it's by she's not.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
My point is it's not like she can go back
to some thing that she created. She hasn't founded some business,
she hasn't don't even have a family, Like, she'll.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Be altered law partnerships where she doesn't even have to
show up and she'll be making you know, two to
six million dollars a year. I mean, dude, this is
how they win because they do this.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
They take care of their losers.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yes, they take care of their losers. On the right,
people are like, oh, you got like battered, bruised and destroyed.
Trying to save the country like, and you're not super rich.
I don't know, go open up like a car wash.
You know, people are just kind of you know, our
our team doesn't take care of our political you know,
wounded soldiers. If you will the other side, if you

(41:44):
do what the what the apparatus wants, you are good
to go for life. You'll get the book deals for
books no one reads. You'll get money shoveled toward you.
Because it's just like I said, But it's like, it's
like when the mob boss make sure that the guy
who goes into into prison his family has taken care of,
so everybody else knows. Keep your mouth shut and your
family will be taken care of. That's the whole game.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
I just think I don't know that we've ever seen
a swing between she's gonna be famous for hundreds of
years or no one is going to remember her name forever.
I think that's tons of people who have run for president,
by the way, that that don't win, that.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Aren't no one even remembers them. I mean, you could
think about this, come on, but you I mean, she's
gonna be the first. There are lots of people who
win the presidency that lots of people do not remember.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Does any even remember John Terry? Really?

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Does anyone remember John Edwards?

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Really?

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Like, think of some of these people who were there
those John Kerry was close. John Edwards, okay, might have
been close if he didn't have an affair with his
uh uh and get his donor baby have a baby
with a with a campaign aid. In his defense, as
he said, he waited until his wife, who was dying
of cancer, was in temporary remission, until he commenced the affair.

(42:54):
That is what he said on television. I kid you not.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah, that's a that's a tough putt to say.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Democrats were like this guy's great, the ambulance chaser who's
basically made it impossible to get obstetric's care in South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Let's get that guy going for hundreds of years.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
Kamala Harris will be famous or she will vanish and
no one will ever talk about her again. That's the stakes.
Forty five days again. Truck to Me is going to
be significant because he was elected president and he's been
such a huge part of the American political process over
the last decade. Now, if he loses back to back elections,
his legacy is going to be a lot different than

(43:31):
if he wins.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
They both have.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
He's got a lot, Maga has a lot on the line.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Here.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
We should all be very clear eyed about that. Maga
has a lot on the line, because you know only once,
can't get fooled again like the last election. Okay, we
wanted a mulligan, We've got the mulligan. You got to
hit this one straight down the fairway. You have the
worst Democrat candidate ever. If you can't beat Kamala, she

(43:57):
is an I think unmitigated disaster for them. Obama, super
talented Biden. Okay, they had COVID. Kamala is a disaster
of a candidate. If you can't beat Kamala, you've got
to go back to the drawing board and really kind
of reassess. But again, Tons at steak forty five days,
I think Trump is going to win. But man, there

(44:19):
is a lot, a lot at stake as to the
history of this country and also just history itself for
the next several hundred years, because unfortunately, I Kamala wins,
she's going to become I don't even know, man, we
never had a female president before. I mean, they're going
to turn her into into one of the most I
can't believe this is real, but they will turn her

(44:40):
into one of the greatest heroes in the history of
the United States.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
If she wins.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
Just be prepared, there will be Kamala Harris Day. Some places,
it's like you're trying to get quit sad over here,
sad you think I'm crazy. Fifty years from now, if
Kamala Harris wins, there will be a Kamala Harris National
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get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show.
Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. We're scheduled
to be joined by RNC chair Michael Wattley here in
the near future. We'll let you know when we officially
get him on the line. But I wanted to play
for you. I mentioned how good Trump was last night

(46:36):
on Gutfeld, and we also mentioned with you earlier this
week that Howard Stern, a guy that Trump used to
go on with quite a lot back in the day
on radio, has said that he hates Trump supporters, and
he doesn't want any of you to be listening to him.
We have the audio of Howard Stern saying that on
Fox News. They played it, and then Trump responding to it.

(46:58):
I think it's kind of fascinating.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Listen. I don't hate the guy. I hate the people
who vote for him. I think they're stupid.

Speaker 8 (47:04):
I do.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
I'll be honest with you. I have no respect for you.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Also said he didn't want him to listen. Trump responded
to that last night on Gutfeld.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Here's that.

Speaker 9 (47:15):
Well, I watch I know some of them, and like Howard,
I was on Howard stern show as much as anybody,
and yeah, he was great at that time, and then
he went woke.

Speaker 8 (47:26):
Yeah, and since he's gone woke, his ratings have gone
down the tubes.

Speaker 9 (47:29):
And he sort of went anti Trump for a couple
of reasons.

Speaker 8 (47:34):
But I was on his show a lot.

Speaker 9 (47:36):
In fact, he has a best of Did you ever
see the best of? Best of Howard Stern? I don't
want to promote it necessarily, and I was there for
just about all of them, the best stuff.

Speaker 8 (47:47):
We had good shows. Who was good? But he's changed,
and you know, he doesn't do the ratings anymore.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
That's Trump talking about Howard Stern. We're joined now by
Michael Wattley, who is chairman of the RNC, and we're
going to get in a lot of different stories, but
I want to start. You know, the state of North
Carolina very well. Trump won North Carolina in twenty sixteen
and twenty twenty. How do you think Trump is looking

(48:12):
in North Carolina, Chairman, in twenty twenty four, based on
what you.

Speaker 10 (48:17):
See, better than we were in either twenty sixteen or
in twenty twenty. And I would say that based on
the polling that we're watching right now, where we're actually
pulling ahead of where we did four years ago or
eight years ago. When I look at the enthusiasm that
we see on the ground, I think that we feel

(48:37):
very good about this state, you know, and the fundamentals
are really important here. You know, North Carolina is a
state that really believes in law and order day back
the blue. And it is also the state with the
heaviest percentage of military families. We talk about soldiers, veterans,
and military families more than any other state in the country.

(48:58):
This is a state that understands peace through strength and
understands what it means to have a president who really
truly backs our soldiers. So, you know, we feel that
the fundamentals here feel really good. We've just seen a
number of polls that have come out in the last
week showing him up you know, two points, three points,
one point, fairly consistently with a small lead. But you know,

(49:23):
we won it by three and a half points in
twenty sixteen. We want it by a point and a
half in twenty twenty. And I feel like we're in
pretty solid shape here.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
So that's huge because if Trump wins North Carolina and Georgia,
which I think he's likely to do, you can tell
us what you're seeing there. He's got a lot of
different pathways at that point to be elected president.

Speaker 10 (49:45):
Yeah, we agree, you know, And honestly, if he wins
every state that he won in sixteen and twenty plus Georgia,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, then we have enough to get to
two seventy and sir, wildly is the best place in
the map right now.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Wantley with us now, appreciate you being with us, sir.
The situation in Pennsylvania. Clay has said, I agree with this.
I think that this is pretty clear it is the
most important battleground state. Perhaps it feels like whoever wins
Pennsylvania probably wins the whole thing. I was wondering if
you could just give us a sense as to what
does the Republican We've got a very important Senate seat

(50:22):
up there, congressional races that are critical. What does the
Republican ground game and plan look like from now to
election day in the state Pennsylvania That could determine the
whole thing.

Speaker 10 (50:35):
Yeah, pedal to the medal. I mean, We're going to
absolutely be hammered down in Pennsylvania from now through election day.
The sheer number of visions that you are seeing there
from Donald Trump, from JD. Vance, from a number of
different surrogates and other folks that support him across the
state is going to be very regular. We've already seen

(50:55):
him a bunch and we're going to see him a
bunch up there. I've been doing regular events up there.
We've had RFK Junior, We've had Telsea Gabbert, and so
I expect the presences to be there. The grassroots program
is very advanced at this point in time. Trump for
forty seven. We are recruiting and training thousands of volunteers
right now to make phone calls and knock on doors

(51:18):
and make sure that they're bringing out the low propensity voters.
That's the biggest target that we're making sure. You know,
once you get your base voters in, you got to
make sure you get those low propensity guys off the couch.
So that's the basis for what we're trying to build
up there. We've got a really good partnership with the
Pennsylvania GOP and feel really good about where we are.

(51:40):
And you know, when we talk about polling versus sixteen
and twenty, probably no state where we are in better
shape today than where we were from twenty sixteen and
twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
What just you know you mentioned this.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
I think it's so important because we get a lot
of emails Chairman Wattley about you know, I want to help,
I want to get involved for people who live in Pennsylvania.
We got a lot of states in Pennsylvania, particularly out west,
where there's critical terrain here for this upcoming election. Where
do they go to kind of get in the system
and what can they do?

Speaker 10 (52:14):
Yeah, there's two things that they can do. So the
first is our grassroots program we call it Trump Force
forty seven. They can go to Trump Force forty seven
dot com and you sign up. We will reach back
out to you. We'll make you a Trump Forced Team Captain.
And the thing that we're going to ask you to
do is go get ten members of your community to
commit to vote. It's a pretty basic Just go talk

(52:36):
to your friends, your family members, your colleagues, your coworkers,
get them to commit to vote, and then we're going
to ask you to do twenty five or fifty or
one hundred. As people keep kind of moving up the chain.
Anybody who gets one hundred commitments before election day, we're
going to invite them down to mer Lago for our
victory party. I think it's going to be a fantastic
opportunity for people to get involved. The other thing that

(52:57):
is equally as important for us is our Election in
Tech program, And so people can go to Protect the
Vote dot com and they can sign up and they
can get trained and they can be a poll worker
or a poll observer, which is just tremendously important when
we talk about making sure that we're going to protect
the ballot and we're going to let everybody know that

(53:18):
their vote is going to count, and it's going to
count once.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
Look, I've talked about this, My wife cared about this,
and she is now working at our local voting precinct
and she'll be there all day on election day. And
I would encourage everybody out there who blows bucking me
up all the time about being concerned about rigged elections
to go ahead and volunteer yourself in your local communities
to pay attention to how the vote's going. We've talked

(53:43):
a lot about this, but I'm get critical, absolutely critical.
We've talked a lot about this on the show, but
I want people to hear it from you, and they're
probably going to get tired of us talking about it.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
Buck and I are voting early.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
We have seen the data that the earlier you can
bank your vote, the better it is for the Trump
team because it allows low propensity voters to then be
focused on and for overall turnout to go up. What
would you tell people out there, Chairman Watley, who are
nervous about voting early, about what they can mean by

(54:14):
getting their ballots banked early, and how would you allay
their concerns.

Speaker 10 (54:18):
Well, what I would say is just listen to what
President Trump has said point blank, it is great. If
you want to vote early, it's great. If you want
to vote by mail, it's great. If you want to
vote on election day. The key is you have to
make a plan and execute the plan and make sure
that you deliver your vote. You know, when you think
about the mechanics on early voting, you know there's a
lot of people who just cannot vote on election day.

(54:40):
I'm one of them. I don't know where I'm going
to be on election day. I could be in Arizona,
I could be in the bat I could be, you know,
in New Hampshire. So the first day of early voting,
I will be there and I will cast my vote
for it. It is safe and it is secure. The
other thing that really comes out of it is we
spend a lot of money and a lot of time
and a a lot of effort going out and getting

(55:01):
people to vote, you know, before they cast their vote,
whether it's by mail or early or on election day.
And if we're spending time and resources talking to a
voter and they go vote ten days early, that's ten
days where I don't have to spend money on them.
I can actually go spend money to talk to the
low propensity voters, and I can make sure that we're

(55:21):
going to get them up and we're going to get
them out, and frankly, we can help activate them to
go have other conversations as well. So there's a lot
of ancillary benefits to it. We don't want to necessarily cannibalize,
you know, people who want to vote on election day.
We're not telling you don't do it, but really what
we're trying to do is get people who won't vote
on election day to go vote earlier, go vote by mail,

(55:44):
and that way. This is an additive thing. You know,
we believe in politics through addition. But every dollar I
don't have to spend convincing you to vote because you
already have is a dollar I can spend on somebody else.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
And on the election integrity side of things, I remember
you spoke to us at the r NC in Milwaukee
about poll monitors. How is that program going? And I'm
sure you get this. I would be willing to bet
your office has been deluged last well months, maybe longer,
with people who are very concerned about what we could

(56:18):
just call irregularities or Shenanigan's chairman Wattley, what can you
say to people about making sure that only legal ballots
will be counted in this election.

Speaker 8 (56:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (56:31):
So two key metrics that we're tracking and we're working on.
What we're seeing in terms of making sure we have
the right laws, rules and regulations put in place in
every state is the states are making dramatic improvements. Some
of them are doing it voluntarily and working with us.
Other ones we're having to sue. I filed one hundred
and fifteen lawsuits as the General Counsel and now as

(56:54):
the chair of the RNC, and we're getting some very
important wins making sure that we're the basic rules of
the road in place so only American citizens can vote.
You got to have a voter ID. We want the
states to clean up the voter roles, and where we
have mail in balloting, we want basic protections on those.
So really good progress that we're making there, not enough.

(57:15):
We've still got work to do. We've got a number
of states, you know, particularly Pennsylvania and Michigan that keep
fighting us on it, so we end up in court
quite a bit, but even there we're starting to get
some pretty significant wins. The other metric is that we
want to be in the room right. We want to
be in the room with volunteers and attorneys anytime a
voter's cast or accounted. Since Laura Trump and I put

(57:37):
this program together, we said we were going to get
one hundred thousand people to sign up for that program.
Very excited to say we've got one hundred and seventy
five thousand people already across the country who have signed up,
and we've got five thousand of them in every single
one of our battleground states. And we're continuing to recruit.
We're continuing to do more. Laura Trump, Matt Whittaker, who

(57:58):
was the acting Attorney general for President Trump, Pam Bondi,
who was the Attorney general down in Pennsylvania, myself have
had a nationwide tour. We call it the Protective Vote Tour.
We were just in New Hampshire last night and having
a fantastic series of conversations all across the country making
sure that we're raising awareness of this and that we're

(58:20):
getting people to sign up.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
We know Trump had the rally last night in Long Island.
We know, as just talking with you, Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania,
all the seven battleground states? Where else would you tell
us You just mentioned New Hampshire. Should we be paying
attention there? Where is momentum that maybe might surprise people

(58:42):
a little bit outside of the seven battleground states that
everybody talks about.

Speaker 10 (58:47):
You know, Virginia, we're seeing some pretty good results. We
like the numbers there, and we've got a guy in
Glenn Junkan who showed us how you can win in
Virginia as a Republican. The guy is just absolutely transformed
politics in that state and he's been a great partner,
and so we're working with him right now. So I
really am very bullish about what we can try and
do on the ground in Virginia, New Hampshire. You know,

(59:10):
we feel really really good about it. I spent the
day up there yesterday. I had a number of meetings
and events, and you know, we feel good about what's
going on there.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
You know.

Speaker 10 (59:18):
And the stretch that the President wants to continue to
talk about is a place like New Jersey where we're
actually showing you know, some of the polling showing him
that's inside the margin, you know. And and you know,
when you have a rally with one hundred and seven
thousand people. You kind of got to believe that you're
doing something there. You know, it may be a stretch,
but you know what, we're going to have those conversations.

Speaker 5 (59:40):
You know.

Speaker 10 (59:41):
I think we're spending time in New York. He was
in Nassau yesterday. We've been in California because we've got
congressional districts there that really truly matter, and so even
if we're not going to be able to carry the state,
we do feel like we're in a great position to
carry those congressional districts, which we need in order to
expand our majority in the House. So we like the

(01:00:02):
matt I mean, we're playing offense right now. I think
that Kamala Harrison and the Democrats are playing defense, especially
when you look at the seven battleground states where we're
showing you know, probably slim but very durable leads in
five of them, and we're basically tied in the other
two right now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Chairman Wattley of the RNC.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
Great to have you on, sir, you know, stay on
the mission and we'll talk to you again, hopefully before
the election, and we'll be celebrating soon thereafter.

Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
Tell you, I really truly appreciate the opportunity to talk
to you, but more importantly to talk to all of
your listeners. And we certainly hope that everybody will go
to you know, Protect the Vote dot com or Trump
fors forty seven dot com and sign up and join
the fight.

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