October 9, 2024 • 36 mins
Latest Milton track. Mark Halperin says Harris is in trouble, according to internal polling from both campaigns. Gambling market, public polling moving toward Trump. Callers weigh in. Senator Ron Johnson talks about the close Senate race between Eric Hovde and Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin. NYT frets over how Trump will prosecute his opposition — exactly like the Democrats have already done.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. I appreciate all
of y'all hanging out with us, and by us I
mean me today. Because Buck is traveling to California, You're
gonna be able to hear him tomorrow from LA But
he is also going to be on Bill Maher, which
is awesome because that show, which airs on HBO Friday evenings,
(00:24):
has a large audience. I think Buck is going to
do a fantastic job on it. Cannot wait to watch
and see him there. But because of Hurricane Milton, which
the last update staff can get me if this has
changed at all, is that Hurricane Milton is expected to
come ashore around eleven PM tonight, That is about nine
(00:44):
hours on the East Coast from now, and the location
with which it is expected to come ashore has moved
from Tampa down to Sarasota in the direction potentially of
Fort Myers, the area two years ago that was hit
so awfully by that hurricane. These things can shift. We
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encourage all of you to stay safe. Buck is in
South Florida. He decided he wanted to leave to make
sure he could travel. They're shutting down Tampa, They're shutting
down to Orlando. I have not heard today how South
Florida travel is going with Fort Lauderdale and Miami, but
I imagine there will be substantial travel related issues. And
(01:25):
I want all of you to be aware of making
sure that you listen to all the people in your
area and make the smartest possible decisions for you and
your family, because we want you all to stay safe.
And that is the update on Hurricane Milton. Just as
I was about to come back from break, I was
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scrolling through X this popped five minutes ago. Quinnipiac has
a new poll out of Wisconsin. Donald Trump up two
points in Wisconsin. Guys, we're gonna talk with Ron Johnson
here at the bottom of the hour. The timing is
(02:06):
very interesting, But this ties in with a Wall Street
Journal report earlier this week that said, in her internal
polling of Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat from Wisconsin, her internal
polling had Trump up three points in Wisconsin. I have
(02:29):
been telling you, guys, look look, look at what they do,
not what they say. Why suddenly, a month out from
the election, does Kamala Harris, who hasn't done any media
at all, do sixty minutes call her Daddy, Howard Stern,
Stephen Colbert, and the View all in the space of
(02:53):
about forty eight hours. Because they are panicking, they tried
to hide her. They tried to run the Vibe campaign
without any actual positions on their website. They cut and
pasted from Joe Biden. They knew she was bad in
interviews and that the clips would go megaviral because they
(03:15):
saw her failed twenty twenty campaign. Remember she didn't even
do an interview for a year as vice president after
she got lit up in her interview about the border
and said I haven't been to Europe either, if you well,
remember that she didn't do it for a year. She
can't respond to questions and they are now desperate because
(03:37):
they're aware that she is losing again. This number just
from Quinnipiac, which has been one of the more reliable
pollsters out there. They have Donald Trump up two points
in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This is bad.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This is really bad for the Kamala campaign. And it
ties in with is his name Halperin? I know I've
read his books, but I'm not sure that I've ever
heard his name pronounced. Remember the book Game Change that
they turned into a movie. Really well done. Behind the
scenes story about the two thousand and eight presidential campaign.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Mark Halperin was one of the writers.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They then decided I think he got me tooed and
he basically got fired from everywhere. But he's got really
good sources. He was the, I think, guys, the first
one to say, Hey, Biden's gonna drop out, and he's
gonna drop out really soon, and he cited how it
was going to happen, and he ended up being correct. Well,
(04:40):
he went on recently and talked about what I think
we just saw reflected in Wisconsin, which is Kamala's internal
numbers are not good in the battleground states and there
is a bit of a panic setting in there. Listen
to what he had to say. I believe, guys, this
is cut twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I just saw some new private polling today that's very
robust private polling. She's in a lot of trouble. Here's
how I framed it this morning in my newsletter. The
conversation I'm having with Trump people and Democrats with data
are extremely bullish on Trump's chances in the last forty
eight hours, extremely bullish. You think of the seven battleground states,
which ones is Harrison, danger of losing I would say Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona,
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North Carolina, and Georgia. I'm not saying she'll lose all six,
but she's in danger.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
More polls have just come out again. This is from Quinnipiac.
Trump up three in Michigan, up two in Wisconsin. They
have Kamala up three in Pennsylvania. All of these are
major shifts against Kamala. And again I'm telling you they
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are in trouble again. These numbers just coming out from Quinnipiac.
And for those of you out there who say I
don't trust the polls, I don't pay attention to polls,
I totally understand it. What I would suggest to you
is look at the gambling markets. I think some of
these gamblers get early leads on what these poles are
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saying and start to put their money down based on that.
Why do I say that I love to gamble on sports?
I did, some of you know this a daily television
show for Fox Sports for four years where we talked
about the lines all the time. And I understand some
of you never gamble. Some of you think it's a sin,
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some of you hate the fact that it's legal in
your states. Understood, just like I understand some of you
don't think that anybody should ever have a beer, ever
touch alcohol, right. I'm a moderation guy. Don't drink all
the time, Drink sometimes, don't gamble all the times. Gamble sometimes.
This is my take on life. You're welcome to agree
or disagree. But what is interesting is a lot of
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times you can tell right before big news breaks in
sports because the line will move and sometimes they.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Will pull it off the market.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That is, when you know that somebody has a health
related issue at quarterback, and you maybe didn't know it
in advance, the line will suddenly move a ton because
if you're starting quarterback isn't able to go. A lot
of times that means that there's a big drop off
in the quality of the team. This is not rocket science,
(07:33):
So I use polls as kind of a rough approximator
for what the data is showing. But I really like
to look at the gambling markets because what people say
is often very different than what people do. I've seen
this for much of my career in media. You know
(07:54):
how I talked about the one of the things that
you see that's so dishonest from MSNBC and CNN prognosticators
is they talk left. New York Times, Washington Post does
this too, but they live right. What do I mean
by that? They make all the decisions in their own
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personal lives that most Republicans would say are smart. They
get married before they have kids. They put their kids
in the best possible schools if they have resources. They
often live in gated communities. They make choices different than
what they tell others to do. They talk left, but
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they live right. When you're putting money down in these
gambling markets, you may or may not be right, but
you're having to have skin in the game. You're putting
your money where your mouth is. I think they had
access to some of these numbers, and the numbers are
not going well for Kamala. Harris and I got to
(09:02):
give Buck credit for this because even in the middle
of remember Brat summer, that Vibe summer, when Kamala got
elevated July twenty first and kind of took off a
little bit, all the media suddenly saying that she's the
greatest thing since sliced bread. She soared up until basically
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the end of August. She had about a month of
really really good numbers, and then things started to falter,
and I think what is ultimately happening here is they
are coming back to the reality, which is Joe Biden won.
And I understand with all the rigging and the irregularities
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and the COVID and everything else, So you don't have
to email me or tell me, because ultimately he was
able to convince people that he was scranting Joe he
was the grandfatherly anti Trump. That was a lie, and
he's governed very radically. But he convinced a lot of
people out there, Hey, I'm just a nice, avuncular, likable
(10:09):
old guy.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm like your grandpa. I'm like your old uncle.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I like ice cream, I've got grandkids, I love my wife,
I love America. They sold them, and a lot of
people in the Midwest bought that. A lot of people
in Michigan voted for Trump in twenty twenty flipp I
mean in twenty sixteen, flipped to Biden in twenty twenty,
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just like a lot of people voted for Obama in
twelve and flipped to Trump in sixteen. COVID the fear
they managed to scare people, and of course they managed
to ballot harvest. But now New York Times and The
Washington Post, they're getting nervous because the smartest of them
are saying, wait a minute, Kamala Harris doesn't have that
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same appeal that Joe Biden did.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
There's no Scranton Kamala.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And these high school graduates, these lower middle class voters
are not showing up to pull the lever for Kamala.
And you combine that with lesser support in Hispanic Asian,
Black Jewish voters. Identity politics is not motivating people like
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it did before for Kamala. And these numbers that I'm
just sharing with you right now that have just come
out showing her behind in Michigan and in Wisconsin are
going to set off massive alarm bells. But if you
listen to this program, you would have expected this because
we told you, look at what she's doing. Nobody changes
(11:53):
their game plan on the fly if they're winning. If
you're in a football game and you're winning by twenty
points and you've been running the football on every play,
you don't suddenly decide to throw it on every play.
If you did, your coach would be committing malpractice. Kamala
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tried to run, tried to be this plotting style.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm going to keep it close.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And now she's falling behind, and that's why she's doing
all these interviews. My argument for all of you was,
and that's going to expose her more because that's generally happened.
That's generally what happens when somebody out there starts trying
to do something that they don't do well, they get exposed.
(12:42):
And I think that's what's happening here. But my goodness,
let's take some of your calls. We're going to talk
with Senator Ron Johnson. You want to talk about an
expert on how you win in Wisconsin. He texted me
right after all these numbers started coming out about how
well Eric Huvedy's doing, and he said, man, I want
to come on and talk to you about what I'm
(13:03):
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get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis bock Sexton show.
A lot of you want to weigh in variety of
different topics out there.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Let's take a couple of your calls.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Senator Ron Johnson going to join us at the bottom
of the hour, Rich in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
What you got for us.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
He's just gonna let you know. I've always voted on
your election day in the past, but after listening to
you guys and Sean Hannity, it got me to thinking
of all the things that could happen between now and
election day. A person could have a heart attack and die,
getting or getting a car wreck, and so with that
in mind, I'm going to vote for the first time
early this year. So I just wanted to thank you,
(15:08):
guys and Sean for encouraging people to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, I appreciate you, and I appreciate you listening. Look,
we don't say things, and we expect you to just say,
you know what, I'm going to do it Justcas Clay
said it, just because Buck said it. We know you're
all smart. We tell you a lot of times, Hey,
this is what we're going to do, and I would
encourage you to make the same choice. Think about it,
(15:32):
and I'm going to vote early. Buck is going to
vote early. We are telling you that based on all
the super smart people we talk to involved in campaigns,
they tell you to get out the vote effort works
way better if you take your name off the roster
and they don't have to contact you because they know
your ballots in. So that's what I'm listening to those
(15:52):
guys in gals. I'm getting my vote in early. I
a lot of times vote on election day. I did
it in twenty I did it in twenty two. I'm
gonna go vote early now in twenty four. Encourage you
guys to do it as well. By the way, crosstabs
out on that Quinnipiac poll, and we're going to talk
with Ron Johnson about Wisconsin in particular. Head to head,
(16:18):
they have Trump up four head to head, they have
Trump up to in Wisconsin. To be fair, they have
Kamala up to in Pennsylvania. I would submit to all
of you that, just like in twenty sixteen when Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin all went for Trump, and just like in
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twenty twenty when Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin all went for Biden,
I think the most likely outcome is all three of
these states are gonna move together now Trump only needs
to win one of these, and he's probably going to
be president if he can win in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan.
I believe he's going to be president. But I think
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they're likely to all three move in concert, just like
we saw in sixteen, just like we saw in twenty.
But those numbers in Michigan would be a full on
panic because what they would reflect is what we told
you on this program for some time that uniquely in
the state of Michigan, because of the large Jewish and
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Arab population, there is a real difficulty for Kamala At
trying to manage the anti Semitic base of the Democrat
Party that believes that Israel is the aggressor and behaving
in a way that is indefensible. She's trying to balance
that she hasn't been able to. I think that's the
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story coming out of Michigan, as she's losing both Jewish
and Arab support, and in particular in that Detroit area
where my wife is from. If you know Oakland County,
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We're talking about the brand new polls that have just
come out in the mid West from Quinnipiac look very
good for Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan Show show Kamala
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with a small lead in Pennsylvania. We are joined now
by Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin who wanted to react
to a story that came out in the Wall Street
Journal that said that Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin was getting
really nervous because she saw Trump up three in her
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internal polling, because Eric Covedy, who's running to try to
replace her, was only down two. You know the state
of a Wisconsin and what it takes to win senator
better than almost anybody. Thanks for giving us the time.
What are you seeing on the ground and what's likely
to be a very close race.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Well, a lot of enthusiasm for President Trump and Eric
Covedy and our Republicans canvas up and down the ballot.
Let's face it, when a candidate releases internal polls that
aren't good, I mean, that's a sign of of desperation,
it's a cry for help. And so that's a very
good sign. But we take nothing for granted. You know,
all these polls to show big margins in Wisconsin, they're
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always wrong because Wisconsin is a very purple state, I
would say more trending blue. Quite honestly, when you take
a look at the you know the history of statewide races,
But in this case, I'm believing that it is shifting,
primarily because Republicans now are viewed as the party of
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the working men and women of this country. I was
at the Trump rally in Dodge County and I had
a great conversation with a pretty good group of UAW
union members and they were incredibly enthusiastic. I mean, you
know what going to a Trump rallies like, right, I
mean you got yeah, Dan spend a lot of time
in line. It's it's going to be eight, nine, ten,
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twelve hour day attending and they were happy to do it.
So no, this is you know, if the Cook Report
has this race to toss up, I appreciate you having
me on. Eric hub needs your support, Ericpubday dot com.
Tammy Baldwin's entire campaign is just a smear, just lying
about an extraordinary individual, a serial entrepreneur has taken his
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success set up the Eric Hubday Foundation, which has built
shelters for trafficked children all around the world. And yet
Tammy Baldwin, rather than run on her record because she
has none. All, her campaign is just a bunch of lies.
Let's face it, like every other Democrat candidate running for
national office right now, is just a pack of lives.
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So again erichofday dot com. He needs support nationally. This
is entirely winnable. He needs the resource to refute all
the lives.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You have won a couple of races that it came
down to the absolute nitty gritty. Twenty sixteen, I think
they stop spending money on your behalf. You won twenty
twenty two, you won by I think you can correct me,
like twenty five thousand rough votes. What does in your
mind Trump and Huvedy need to do to win the
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Senate seat and take control of the Senate back, because
make no mistake, that would do it, and also to
win back the presidency. Where is this race to you
likely to be decided?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Ground game? Ground game, ground game. That's always been true.
Democrats have the advantage of being able to mine their
votes in Milwaukee, Madison, a couple other areas. Republicans we
have to mind votes in every little town in Wisconsin.
But that's for our advantage because those people in the
rural areas, people that are working smaller factories, they realize
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we are on their side, and so it's all about
ground game. We obviously are pushing early voting. I mean,
listen to your show for those exact same reasons. In Wisconsin,
we could have the miserable day on election day, right,
So we don't want to be ahead on election day,
and normally we're a few hundred thousand votes behind. We
want to be ahead, and as you've been reinforcing, that
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allows us to straight all of our get out to
vote efforts on the low propensity voters who will decide
and see elections. So if you're going to vote anyway,
vote early, get it done. We don't have to waste
our time and resources, you know, calling you up, encourage
you to vote. So it's all about ground game.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, and let me re emphasize that too, because look,
I'm in Tennessee. The likelihood that we're going to have
some massive winter storm is low, and so I think
some people don't really pay attention to the weather. But
in Nevada, you know this, The fate of the Senate
may well have been determined by a freak snowstorm that
hit in northern Nevada and drove down turnout. Where you
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are in Wisconsin, the weather can flip in a hurry. Michigan, Pennsylvania,
places where the weather come early November, I mean, you
can speak to it way better than I can. But
anybody who ever watches a Green Bay Packers game has
seen this happen. Suddenly the weather can be bad and
people don't want to don't have the ability or the
time to be in line on election day, right, I
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mean this is so important for everybody.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, Trump's first rally in Green Bay in April it
was miserable. We got three or four inches of driving sleep.
I almost got knocked over from my walk from the
rally to my car. The wins were so terrible. So no,
prime example, we have to get out and we've got
to vote early and again support Eric Hoveday erichoveday dot
(24:22):
com because one of the things I've been promoting is
trip up elections, making sure that we have as many
Republicans on the ball as possible. Those folks run their campaign,
they get their sick, you know, their second, fifth, and
fifteenth cousin out voting for them, They're gonna vote for
people up ball as well. So again, this is what
we've been doing to the Republican Party Wisconsin. This is
what the quote, honest say, the large donors in Wisconsin
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been promoting the ground game, early voting. So we've got
the game plan, it's about execution.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
At this point, we're talking to Senator Ron Johnson, who
knows better how to win close elections in Wisconsin than
probably anybody in the country. You heard that internal poll
come out about tammy Ball, the one saying Trump's up
three on Kamala. I think you were listening, But the
Quinnipiac poll just just came out having Trump up in Wisconsin.
You say it's a purple state, it's going to be
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tight no matter what. You saw what happened in sixteen
with Trump, you saw what happened in twenty. How would
you compare the on the ground feeling, which admittedly is
anecdotal and square with what you're seeing in the numbers.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Well, just compare rallies. You know, I've seen sort of
the you know, they make it look good for a
Kamala Harris, but not even close to the number of
people that are coming out for Trump. And again, it's
it's a real commitment to do that. It's a lot,
a lot of time, a lot of waiting. And you
know what's interesting about those Trump rallies. I don't think
people really understand this. And what is so much fun
for people to attend them. Is you're talking and you're
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gathering with people who fervently love this country like President
Trump does. I mean, it is a phenomenon. I actually
feel sorry for people who aren't in a swing state
that don't get it to experience a Trump rally. It is.
It is phenomenal. And you know, again, this is the
third year of a campaign he or a third campaign
the Trump's gone through, and from my standpoint, the enthusiasm
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of the Trump rallies is as high, it's not higher
than it has ever been.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
If people are concerned about election integrity in Wisconsin, what
would you tell them to do? Because I don't know
if you've heard me, Senator, my wife's concerned. She has registered,
she is going to be working the poll at her
local jurisdiction. We get these questions all the time. What
would you tell them they should do in Wisconsin?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Well, volunteer to be election observers. You know, I think
we'll probably have all those shifts filled, but just in case,
we already recruited over five thousand poll workers. Of they've
got to sign up a year ahead of time, but
they've been trained to get paid the other ones. Actually,
you know, administering the election. So that helped tremendously in
twenty twenty two, where I didn't have to wait till
three four o'clock in the morning because we had poll
works in Milwaukee to the election results in. So we've
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got that covered. Unfortunately, we have a Democrat governor who
has vetoed all the other election reforms to restore confidence
in our election system. So again, it's really all about
having eyes on the process. And my biggest concern, honestly
is illegal immigants voting. Probably less of an issue in
Wisconsin because we're we're feeling the pain of the open border,
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primarily through drug trafficking, but we have a migrant population
here and again it's undeniable. We are seeing illegal immigrants
being registered to vote throughout the country, oftentimes without their knowledge. G.
How does that happen? So again, the FBI, all these
you know, all these federal officials are completely ignoring this,
and President Biden uses his executive order to order his
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agencies as apartments to register voters. G I'm sure they're
doing that a non partisan basis. So that's my biggest concern,
is this, these millions of people coming in here registering
potentially voting and giving the election. So to me, that
is the biggest problem that I see. In twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Four, we're talking to Senator Ron Johnson. I want to
go back to you saying that a lot of times
Republicans are having to make up a big deficit because
there's so much early voting. They get out the vote,
they harvest, they do whatever they can. On the Democrat side,
do you think that you're going to see record high
early voting from a Republicans And if so, what sort
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of signs are that are there and how you said
you can get a lot better targeting. But that means
on election day when Republicans we know we're going to
show up much more. It's just like a sporting event, right,
You don't want to have to make up the biggest
possible deficit.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, we first of all, never had this effort. We've
never had This is our primary mission, our primary strategy
in election to early vote. So everybody's signed up for it.
You know, the Trump rally, the biggest banner was vote early. Okay,
So no, this is something we're pushing again. We have
to execute on it. Our repugnants have to you know,
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follow our directive and get out there and do it.
But again, people understand what's at stake. They truly do.
They love this country. They're so concerned about what's happened
and your Democrat governance. So yeah, I'm working tirelessly. I
know a lot of people are to actually accomplish this goal.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Outstanding stuff, Senator, on your way out, one more time.
What can people do for Eric Covedy as well?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
He needs resources to refute all the lives Eric hubday
dot com, please flood just campaign with money so he
can again win this This very winnable Senate seem very winnable.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Indeed, could put Senator Ron Johnson back in the majority.
Could make a tremendous difference for the country. Everybody in Wisconsin,
listen to us, Get out and vote, Get out and
vote early, Take friends and family to the polls.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Senator, we appreciate you, say well, take care of thanks.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Look, I mean, Ron Johnson knows better than anybody how
to win close races. And I'm telling you he wanted
to come on and he wanted you guys to know
Eric Covedy can win. And my goodness, if Tammy Baldwin
loses and Donald Trump wins. We are the number one
show in Milwaukee right now. You guys in Wisconsin have
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the ability to deliver the United States Senate and the
Presidency to the Republican Party. We just spend an awesome
time with y'all up for the Republican National Convention. I
am telling you the momentum is there. You just heard
me talk about the Quinnipiac polls. Get out and vote early.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
The weather.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You guys know way better than me that the weather
can flip in a heartbeat. Get your vote banked, and
start working on other people. It came down to twenty
thousand votes in Wisconsin last time. Wisconsin was the closest
of all those states. I'm telling y'all, Kamala can't win
if she loses Wisconsin. The math doesn't math. She knows it.
(30:47):
You guys can make this happen. I can feel it.
It's right there. And by the way, I've got good energy.
I better because I'm going to be all over the
place in the next several days, all over the country
as hard as I can to help get our message out.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
You heard me say earlier.
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Speaker 1 (32:39):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcast. You just heard from Senator Ron Johnson.
This election is there to be one. Get your ballots in,
get your votes in. Find friends and family that you
can persuade to either vote early or make it your
(33:00):
mission to get them and drive them to the polls
with you on election day. But get your votes banked early.
This is why we're starting to see some of the
panic out there that is setting in. I wanted to
hit this I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
For those of you who are watching on video, you
can see this is the Sunday New York Times magazine.
The headline is could he lock them up? That is, Oh,
they're terrified that Donald Trump might use the Department of
Justice to his favor. And they even have a little
section here called path to prosecution. Step one remake the
(33:40):
Department of Justice and the FBI. Step two open investigations
or influence them. Step three route cases to favorable judges.
Step four appeal adverse rulings. I've read this over the
weekend and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm just I was reading it, and as I'm reading it.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I just can't stop thinking, are they totally unaware that
this is exactly what is going on already? Are they
just absent in understanding what exactly Merrick Garland, Joe Biden,
Jack Smith and left wing Department of Justice prosecutors have
already done. Is what they claim is a huge and
(34:29):
existential threat to the nation if Trump does it, they've
already done it to him. Do they not see this roadmap?
Are they dumb? Or are they lying? Maybe it's both,
but it's just staggering to me. I talked about being
willing to examine your preconceptions and just contemplate them. It's
(34:49):
crazy to me that we could be in this situation,
all right. Thirty two. I wanted to play this cut
for you Panics starting to set in at seeing they
are saying, uh oh, everything that Kamala Harris is doing,
it's not working. The numbers are staying the same. You're
starting to hear the signs of a panic and people
(35:12):
saying this feels a lot like twenty sixteen. This is
a reporter named Priscilla Alvarez talking to Dana Bash on
CNN Cut thirty two.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
This has been a campaign that was described by multiple Democrats,
allies aids to the vice president as a good vites campaign.
But what's also creeping in now is that anxiety. The
reason for that is because these polls are not really moving.
Despite multiple battleground blitzes, despite the opportunities she has had
(35:43):
across media outlets, there is still not a lot of
movement from voters who are moving more towards her versus
former President Donald Trump. In fact, I had one source
describe it to me this way quote. People are nervous,
they know the polls are tight, and a lot of
us are having these backs to twenty sixteen too. We
know when it can go the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
There you have it. You're starting to hear them begin
the panic when that's happening. Add on more steam if
you're winning the race, run through the finish line as
fast as you possibly can. And if you finish your race,
that means go get your ballots in, turn around and
(36:28):
go back and help other people get their ballots in.
That is how we are going to win. Thank you
all for spending a Wednesday with me. Buck Sexon will
be back from Los Angeles tomorrow. This has been Clamba
Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. I appreciate all
of y'all hanging out with us, and by us I
mean me today. Because Buck is traveling to California, You're
gonna be able to hear him tomorrow from LA But
he is also going to be on Bill Maher, which
is awesome because that show, which airs on HBO Friday evenings,
(00:24):
has a large audience. I think Buck is going to
do a fantastic job on it. Cannot wait to watch
and see him there. But because of Hurricane Milton, which
the last update staff can get me if this has
changed at all, is that Hurricane Milton is expected to
come ashore around eleven PM tonight, That is about nine
(00:44):
hours on the East Coast from now, and the location
with which it is expected to come ashore has moved
from Tampa down to Sarasota in the direction potentially of
Fort Myers, the area two years ago that was hit
so awfully by that hurricane. These things can shift. We
(01:05):
encourage all of you to stay safe. Buck is in
South Florida. He decided he wanted to leave to make
sure he could travel. They're shutting down Tampa, They're shutting
down to Orlando. I have not heard today how South
Florida travel is going with Fort Lauderdale and Miami, but
I imagine there will be substantial travel related issues. And
(01:25):
I want all of you to be aware of making
sure that you listen to all the people in your
area and make the smartest possible decisions for you and
your family, because we want you all to stay safe.
And that is the update on Hurricane Milton. Just as
I was about to come back from break, I was
(01:46):
scrolling through X this popped five minutes ago. Quinnipiac has
a new poll out of Wisconsin. Donald Trump up two
points in Wisconsin. Guys, we're gonna talk with Ron Johnson
here at the bottom of the hour. The timing is
(02:06):
very interesting, But this ties in with a Wall Street
Journal report earlier this week that said, in her internal
polling of Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat from Wisconsin, her internal
polling had Trump up three points in Wisconsin. I have
(02:29):
been telling you, guys, look look, look at what they do,
not what they say. Why suddenly, a month out from
the election, does Kamala Harris, who hasn't done any media
at all, do sixty minutes call her Daddy, Howard Stern,
Stephen Colbert, and the View all in the space of
(02:53):
about forty eight hours. Because they are panicking, they tried
to hide her. They tried to run the Vibe campaign
without any actual positions on their website. They cut and
pasted from Joe Biden. They knew she was bad in
interviews and that the clips would go megaviral because they
(03:15):
saw her failed twenty twenty campaign. Remember she didn't even
do an interview for a year as vice president after
she got lit up in her interview about the border
and said I haven't been to Europe either, if you well,
remember that she didn't do it for a year. She
can't respond to questions and they are now desperate because
(03:37):
they're aware that she is losing again. This number just
from Quinnipiac, which has been one of the more reliable
pollsters out there. They have Donald Trump up two points
in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
This is bad.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
This is really bad for the Kamala campaign. And it
ties in with is his name Halperin? I know I've
read his books, but I'm not sure that I've ever
heard his name pronounced. Remember the book Game Change that
they turned into a movie. Really well done. Behind the
scenes story about the two thousand and eight presidential campaign.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Mark Halperin was one of the writers.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
They then decided I think he got me tooed and
he basically got fired from everywhere. But he's got really
good sources. He was the, I think, guys, the first
one to say, Hey, Biden's gonna drop out, and he's
gonna drop out really soon, and he cited how it
was going to happen, and he ended up being correct. Well,
(04:40):
he went on recently and talked about what I think
we just saw reflected in Wisconsin, which is Kamala's internal
numbers are not good in the battleground states and there
is a bit of a panic setting in there. Listen
to what he had to say. I believe, guys, this
is cut twenty.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I just saw some new private polling today that's very
robust private polling. She's in a lot of trouble. Here's
how I framed it this morning in my newsletter. The
conversation I'm having with Trump people and Democrats with data
are extremely bullish on Trump's chances in the last forty
eight hours, extremely bullish. You think of the seven battleground states,
which ones is Harrison, danger of losing I would say Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona,
(05:24):
North Carolina, and Georgia. I'm not saying she'll lose all six,
but she's in danger.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
More polls have just come out again. This is from Quinnipiac.
Trump up three in Michigan, up two in Wisconsin. They
have Kamala up three in Pennsylvania. All of these are
major shifts against Kamala. And again I'm telling you they
(05:52):
are in trouble again. These numbers just coming out from Quinnipiac.
And for those of you out there who say I
don't trust the polls, I don't pay attention to polls,
I totally understand it. What I would suggest to you
is look at the gambling markets. I think some of
these gamblers get early leads on what these poles are
(06:14):
saying and start to put their money down based on that.
Why do I say that I love to gamble on sports?
I did, some of you know this a daily television
show for Fox Sports for four years where we talked
about the lines all the time. And I understand some
of you never gamble. Some of you think it's a sin,
(06:35):
some of you hate the fact that it's legal in
your states. Understood, just like I understand some of you
don't think that anybody should ever have a beer, ever
touch alcohol, right. I'm a moderation guy. Don't drink all
the time, Drink sometimes, don't gamble all the times. Gamble sometimes.
This is my take on life. You're welcome to agree
or disagree. But what is interesting is a lot of
(06:59):
times you can tell right before big news breaks in
sports because the line will move and sometimes they.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Will pull it off the market.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
That is, when you know that somebody has a health
related issue at quarterback, and you maybe didn't know it
in advance, the line will suddenly move a ton because
if you're starting quarterback isn't able to go. A lot
of times that means that there's a big drop off
in the quality of the team. This is not rocket science,
(07:33):
So I use polls as kind of a rough approximator
for what the data is showing. But I really like
to look at the gambling markets because what people say
is often very different than what people do. I've seen
this for much of my career in media. You know
(07:54):
how I talked about the one of the things that
you see that's so dishonest from MSNBC and CNN prognosticators
is they talk left. New York Times, Washington Post does
this too, but they live right. What do I mean
by that? They make all the decisions in their own
(08:15):
personal lives that most Republicans would say are smart. They
get married before they have kids. They put their kids
in the best possible schools if they have resources. They
often live in gated communities. They make choices different than
what they tell others to do. They talk left, but
(08:40):
they live right. When you're putting money down in these
gambling markets, you may or may not be right, but
you're having to have skin in the game. You're putting
your money where your mouth is. I think they had
access to some of these numbers, and the numbers are
not going well for Kamala. Harris and I got to
(09:02):
give Buck credit for this because even in the middle
of remember Brat summer, that Vibe summer, when Kamala got
elevated July twenty first and kind of took off a
little bit, all the media suddenly saying that she's the
greatest thing since sliced bread. She soared up until basically
(09:22):
the end of August. She had about a month of
really really good numbers, and then things started to falter,
and I think what is ultimately happening here is they
are coming back to the reality, which is Joe Biden won.
And I understand with all the rigging and the irregularities
(09:43):
and the COVID and everything else, So you don't have
to email me or tell me, because ultimately he was
able to convince people that he was scranting Joe he
was the grandfatherly anti Trump. That was a lie, and
he's governed very radically. But he convinced a lot of
people out there, Hey, I'm just a nice, avuncular, likable
(10:09):
old guy.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I'm like your grandpa. I'm like your old uncle.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I like ice cream, I've got grandkids, I love my wife,
I love America. They sold them, and a lot of
people in the Midwest bought that. A lot of people
in Michigan voted for Trump in twenty twenty flipp I
mean in twenty sixteen, flipped to Biden in twenty twenty,
(10:35):
just like a lot of people voted for Obama in
twelve and flipped to Trump in sixteen. COVID the fear
they managed to scare people, and of course they managed
to ballot harvest. But now New York Times and The
Washington Post, they're getting nervous because the smartest of them
are saying, wait a minute, Kamala Harris doesn't have that
(10:59):
same appeal that Joe Biden did.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
There's no Scranton Kamala.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And these high school graduates, these lower middle class voters
are not showing up to pull the lever for Kamala.
And you combine that with lesser support in Hispanic Asian,
Black Jewish voters. Identity politics is not motivating people like
(11:29):
it did before for Kamala. And these numbers that I'm
just sharing with you right now that have just come
out showing her behind in Michigan and in Wisconsin are
going to set off massive alarm bells. But if you
listen to this program, you would have expected this because
we told you, look at what she's doing. Nobody changes
(11:53):
their game plan on the fly if they're winning. If
you're in a football game and you're winning by twenty
points and you've been running the football on every play,
you don't suddenly decide to throw it on every play.
If you did, your coach would be committing malpractice. Kamala
(12:16):
tried to run, tried to be this plotting style.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I'm going to keep it close.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And now she's falling behind, and that's why she's doing
all these interviews. My argument for all of you was,
and that's going to expose her more because that's generally happened.
That's generally what happens when somebody out there starts trying
to do something that they don't do well, they get exposed.
(12:42):
And I think that's what's happening here. But my goodness,
let's take some of your calls. We're going to talk
with Senator Ron Johnson. You want to talk about an
expert on how you win in Wisconsin. He texted me
right after all these numbers started coming out about how
well Eric Huvedy's doing, and he said, man, I want
to come on and talk to you about what I'm
(13:03):
seeing on the ground. Perfect timing. Now with those Quinnipiac
polls coming out showing Trump with the lead in Wisconsin,
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get your podcasts. Welcome back in Clay Travis bock Sexton show.
A lot of you want to weigh in variety of
different topics out there.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Let's take a couple of your calls.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Senator Ron Johnson going to join us at the bottom
of the hour, Rich in Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
What you got for us.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
He's just gonna let you know. I've always voted on
your election day in the past, but after listening to
you guys and Sean Hannity, it got me to thinking
of all the things that could happen between now and
election day. A person could have a heart attack and die,
getting or getting a car wreck, and so with that
in mind, I'm going to vote for the first time
early this year. So I just wanted to thank you,
(15:08):
guys and Sean for encouraging people to do that.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Well, I appreciate you, and I appreciate you listening. Look,
we don't say things, and we expect you to just say,
you know what, I'm going to do it Justcas Clay
said it, just because Buck said it. We know you're
all smart. We tell you a lot of times, Hey,
this is what we're going to do, and I would
encourage you to make the same choice. Think about it,
(15:32):
and I'm going to vote early. Buck is going to
vote early. We are telling you that based on all
the super smart people we talk to involved in campaigns,
they tell you to get out the vote effort works
way better if you take your name off the roster
and they don't have to contact you because they know
your ballots in. So that's what I'm listening to those
(15:52):
guys in gals. I'm getting my vote in early. I
a lot of times vote on election day. I did
it in twenty I did it in twenty two. I'm
gonna go vote early now in twenty four. Encourage you
guys to do it as well. By the way, crosstabs
out on that Quinnipiac poll, and we're going to talk
with Ron Johnson about Wisconsin in particular. Head to head,
(16:18):
they have Trump up four head to head, they have
Trump up to in Wisconsin. To be fair, they have
Kamala up to in Pennsylvania. I would submit to all
of you that, just like in twenty sixteen when Michigan, Pennsylvania,
and Wisconsin all went for Trump, and just like in
(16:40):
twenty twenty when Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin all went for Biden,
I think the most likely outcome is all three of
these states are gonna move together now Trump only needs
to win one of these, and he's probably going to
be president if he can win in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, or Michigan.
I believe he's going to be president. But I think
(17:02):
they're likely to all three move in concert, just like
we saw in sixteen, just like we saw in twenty.
But those numbers in Michigan would be a full on
panic because what they would reflect is what we told
you on this program for some time that uniquely in
the state of Michigan, because of the large Jewish and
(17:24):
Arab population, there is a real difficulty for Kamala At
trying to manage the anti Semitic base of the Democrat
Party that believes that Israel is the aggressor and behaving
in a way that is indefensible. She's trying to balance
that she hasn't been able to. I think that's the
(17:45):
story coming out of Michigan, as she's losing both Jewish
and Arab support, and in particular in that Detroit area
where my wife is from. If you know Oakland County,
if you know that area in general, that's where this
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We're talking about the brand new polls that have just
come out in the mid West from Quinnipiac look very
good for Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan Show show Kamala
(19:06):
with a small lead in Pennsylvania. We are joined now
by Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin who wanted to react
to a story that came out in the Wall Street
Journal that said that Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin was getting
really nervous because she saw Trump up three in her
(19:27):
internal polling, because Eric Covedy, who's running to try to
replace her, was only down two. You know the state
of a Wisconsin and what it takes to win senator
better than almost anybody. Thanks for giving us the time.
What are you seeing on the ground and what's likely
to be a very close race.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Well, a lot of enthusiasm for President Trump and Eric
Covedy and our Republicans canvas up and down the ballot.
Let's face it, when a candidate releases internal polls that
aren't good, I mean, that's a sign of of desperation,
it's a cry for help. And so that's a very
good sign. But we take nothing for granted. You know,
all these polls to show big margins in Wisconsin, they're
(20:08):
always wrong because Wisconsin is a very purple state, I
would say more trending blue. Quite honestly, when you take
a look at the you know the history of statewide races,
But in this case, I'm believing that it is shifting,
primarily because Republicans now are viewed as the party of
(20:30):
the working men and women of this country. I was
at the Trump rally in Dodge County and I had
a great conversation with a pretty good group of UAW
union members and they were incredibly enthusiastic. I mean, you
know what going to a Trump rallies like, right, I
mean you got yeah, Dan spend a lot of time
in line. It's it's going to be eight, nine, ten,
(20:50):
twelve hour day attending and they were happy to do it.
So no, this is you know, if the Cook Report
has this race to toss up, I appreciate you having
me on. Eric hub needs your support, Ericpubday dot com.
Tammy Baldwin's entire campaign is just a smear, just lying
about an extraordinary individual, a serial entrepreneur has taken his
(21:12):
success set up the Eric Hubday Foundation, which has built
shelters for trafficked children all around the world. And yet
Tammy Baldwin, rather than run on her record because she
has none. All, her campaign is just a bunch of lies.
Let's face it, like every other Democrat candidate running for
national office right now, is just a pack of lives.
(21:33):
So again erichofday dot com. He needs support nationally. This
is entirely winnable. He needs the resource to refute all
the lives.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You have won a couple of races that it came
down to the absolute nitty gritty. Twenty sixteen, I think
they stop spending money on your behalf. You won twenty
twenty two, you won by I think you can correct me,
like twenty five thousand rough votes. What does in your
mind Trump and Huvedy need to do to win the
(22:06):
Senate seat and take control of the Senate back, because
make no mistake, that would do it, and also to
win back the presidency. Where is this race to you
likely to be decided?
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Ground game? Ground game, ground game. That's always been true.
Democrats have the advantage of being able to mine their
votes in Milwaukee, Madison, a couple other areas. Republicans we
have to mind votes in every little town in Wisconsin.
But that's for our advantage because those people in the
rural areas, people that are working smaller factories, they realize
(22:37):
we are on their side, and so it's all about
ground game. We obviously are pushing early voting. I mean,
listen to your show for those exact same reasons. In Wisconsin,
we could have the miserable day on election day, right,
So we don't want to be ahead on election day,
and normally we're a few hundred thousand votes behind. We
want to be ahead, and as you've been reinforcing, that
(22:58):
allows us to straight all of our get out to
vote efforts on the low propensity voters who will decide
and see elections. So if you're going to vote anyway,
vote early, get it done. We don't have to waste
our time and resources, you know, calling you up, encourage
you to vote. So it's all about ground game.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah, and let me re emphasize that too, because look,
I'm in Tennessee. The likelihood that we're going to have
some massive winter storm is low, and so I think
some people don't really pay attention to the weather. But
in Nevada, you know this, The fate of the Senate
may well have been determined by a freak snowstorm that
hit in northern Nevada and drove down turnout. Where you
(23:36):
are in Wisconsin, the weather can flip in a hurry. Michigan, Pennsylvania,
places where the weather come early November, I mean, you
can speak to it way better than I can. But
anybody who ever watches a Green Bay Packers game has
seen this happen. Suddenly the weather can be bad and
people don't want to don't have the ability or the
time to be in line on election day, right, I
(23:58):
mean this is so important for everybody.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, Trump's first rally in Green Bay in April it
was miserable. We got three or four inches of driving sleep.
I almost got knocked over from my walk from the
rally to my car. The wins were so terrible. So no,
prime example, we have to get out and we've got
to vote early and again support Eric Hoveday erichoveday dot
(24:22):
com because one of the things I've been promoting is
trip up elections, making sure that we have as many
Republicans on the ball as possible. Those folks run their campaign,
they get their sick, you know, their second, fifth, and
fifteenth cousin out voting for them, They're gonna vote for
people up ball as well. So again, this is what
we've been doing to the Republican Party Wisconsin. This is
what the quote, honest say, the large donors in Wisconsin
(24:44):
been promoting the ground game, early voting. So we've got
the game plan, it's about execution.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
At this point, we're talking to Senator Ron Johnson, who
knows better how to win close elections in Wisconsin than
probably anybody in the country. You heard that internal poll
come out about tammy Ball, the one saying Trump's up
three on Kamala. I think you were listening, But the
Quinnipiac poll just just came out having Trump up in Wisconsin.
You say it's a purple state, it's going to be
(25:10):
tight no matter what. You saw what happened in sixteen
with Trump, you saw what happened in twenty. How would
you compare the on the ground feeling, which admittedly is
anecdotal and square with what you're seeing in the numbers.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Well, just compare rallies. You know, I've seen sort of
the you know, they make it look good for a
Kamala Harris, but not even close to the number of
people that are coming out for Trump. And again, it's
it's a real commitment to do that. It's a lot,
a lot of time, a lot of waiting. And you
know what's interesting about those Trump rallies. I don't think
people really understand this. And what is so much fun
for people to attend them. Is you're talking and you're
(25:47):
gathering with people who fervently love this country like President
Trump does. I mean, it is a phenomenon. I actually
feel sorry for people who aren't in a swing state
that don't get it to experience a Trump rally. It is.
It is phenomenal. And you know, again, this is the
third year of a campaign he or a third campaign
the Trump's gone through, and from my standpoint, the enthusiasm
(26:08):
of the Trump rallies is as high, it's not higher
than it has ever been.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
If people are concerned about election integrity in Wisconsin, what
would you tell them to do? Because I don't know
if you've heard me, Senator, my wife's concerned. She has registered,
she is going to be working the poll at her
local jurisdiction. We get these questions all the time. What
would you tell them they should do in Wisconsin?
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Well, volunteer to be election observers. You know, I think
we'll probably have all those shifts filled, but just in case,
we already recruited over five thousand poll workers. Of they've
got to sign up a year ahead of time, but
they've been trained to get paid the other ones. Actually,
you know, administering the election. So that helped tremendously in
twenty twenty two, where I didn't have to wait till
three four o'clock in the morning because we had poll
works in Milwaukee to the election results in. So we've
(26:54):
got that covered. Unfortunately, we have a Democrat governor who
has vetoed all the other election reforms to restore confidence
in our election system. So again, it's really all about
having eyes on the process. And my biggest concern, honestly
is illegal immigants voting. Probably less of an issue in
Wisconsin because we're we're feeling the pain of the open border,
(27:15):
primarily through drug trafficking, but we have a migrant population
here and again it's undeniable. We are seeing illegal immigrants
being registered to vote throughout the country, oftentimes without their knowledge. G.
How does that happen? So again, the FBI, all these
you know, all these federal officials are completely ignoring this,
and President Biden uses his executive order to order his
(27:37):
agencies as apartments to register voters. G I'm sure they're
doing that a non partisan basis. So that's my biggest concern,
is this, these millions of people coming in here registering
potentially voting and giving the election. So to me, that
is the biggest problem that I see. In twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Four, we're talking to Senator Ron Johnson. I want to
go back to you saying that a lot of times
Republicans are having to make up a big deficit because
there's so much early voting. They get out the vote,
they harvest, they do whatever they can. On the Democrat side,
do you think that you're going to see record high
early voting from a Republicans And if so, what sort
(28:15):
of signs are that are there and how you said
you can get a lot better targeting. But that means
on election day when Republicans we know we're going to
show up much more. It's just like a sporting event, right,
You don't want to have to make up the biggest
possible deficit.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, we first of all, never had this effort. We've
never had This is our primary mission, our primary strategy
in election to early vote. So everybody's signed up for it.
You know, the Trump rally, the biggest banner was vote early. Okay,
So no, this is something we're pushing again. We have
to execute on it. Our repugnants have to you know,
(28:52):
follow our directive and get out there and do it.
But again, people understand what's at stake. They truly do.
They love this country. They're so concerned about what's happened
and your Democrat governance. So yeah, I'm working tirelessly. I
know a lot of people are to actually accomplish this goal.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Outstanding stuff, Senator, on your way out, one more time.
What can people do for Eric Covedy as well?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
He needs resources to refute all the lives Eric hubday
dot com, please flood just campaign with money so he
can again win this This very winnable Senate seem very winnable.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Indeed, could put Senator Ron Johnson back in the majority.
Could make a tremendous difference for the country. Everybody in Wisconsin,
listen to us, Get out and vote, Get out and
vote early, Take friends and family to the polls.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
Senator, we appreciate you, say well, take care of thanks.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Look, I mean, Ron Johnson knows better than anybody how
to win close races. And I'm telling you he wanted
to come on and he wanted you guys to know
Eric Covedy can win. And my goodness, if Tammy Baldwin
loses and Donald Trump wins. We are the number one
show in Milwaukee right now. You guys in Wisconsin have
(30:04):
the ability to deliver the United States Senate and the
Presidency to the Republican Party. We just spend an awesome
time with y'all up for the Republican National Convention. I
am telling you the momentum is there. You just heard
me talk about the Quinnipiac polls. Get out and vote early.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
The weather.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You guys know way better than me that the weather
can flip in a heartbeat. Get your vote banked, and
start working on other people. It came down to twenty
thousand votes in Wisconsin last time. Wisconsin was the closest
of all those states. I'm telling y'all, Kamala can't win
if she loses Wisconsin. The math doesn't math. She knows it.
(30:47):
You guys can make this happen. I can feel it.
It's right there. And by the way, I've got good energy.
I better because I'm going to be all over the
place in the next several days, all over the country
as hard as I can to help get our message out.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
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Speaker 1 (32:39):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcast. You just heard from Senator Ron Johnson.
This election is there to be one. Get your ballots in,
get your votes in. Find friends and family that you
can persuade to either vote early or make it your
(33:00):
mission to get them and drive them to the polls
with you on election day. But get your votes banked early.
This is why we're starting to see some of the
panic out there that is setting in. I wanted to
hit this I mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
For those of you who are watching on video, you
can see this is the Sunday New York Times magazine.
The headline is could he lock them up? That is, Oh,
they're terrified that Donald Trump might use the Department of
Justice to his favor. And they even have a little
section here called path to prosecution. Step one remake the
(33:40):
Department of Justice and the FBI. Step two open investigations
or influence them. Step three route cases to favorable judges.
Step four appeal adverse rulings. I've read this over the
weekend and.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm just I was reading it, and as I'm reading it.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I just can't stop thinking, are they totally unaware that
this is exactly what is going on already? Are they
just absent in understanding what exactly Merrick Garland, Joe Biden,
Jack Smith and left wing Department of Justice prosecutors have
already done. Is what they claim is a huge and
(34:29):
existential threat to the nation if Trump does it, they've
already done it to him. Do they not see this roadmap?
Are they dumb? Or are they lying? Maybe it's both,
but it's just staggering to me. I talked about being
willing to examine your preconceptions and just contemplate them. It's
(34:49):
crazy to me that we could be in this situation,
all right. Thirty two. I wanted to play this cut
for you Panics starting to set in at seeing they
are saying, uh oh, everything that Kamala Harris is doing,
it's not working. The numbers are staying the same. You're
starting to hear the signs of a panic and people
(35:12):
saying this feels a lot like twenty sixteen. This is
a reporter named Priscilla Alvarez talking to Dana Bash on
CNN Cut thirty two.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
This has been a campaign that was described by multiple Democrats,
allies aids to the vice president as a good vites campaign.
But what's also creeping in now is that anxiety. The
reason for that is because these polls are not really moving.
Despite multiple battleground blitzes, despite the opportunities she has had
(35:43):
across media outlets, there is still not a lot of
movement from voters who are moving more towards her versus
former President Donald Trump. In fact, I had one source
describe it to me this way quote. People are nervous,
they know the polls are tight, and a lot of
us are having these backs to twenty sixteen too. We
know when it can go the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
There you have it. You're starting to hear them begin
the panic when that's happening. Add on more steam if
you're winning the race, run through the finish line as
fast as you possibly can. And if you finish your race,
that means go get your ballots in, turn around and
(36:28):
go back and help other people get their ballots in.
That is how we are going to win. Thank you
all for spending a Wednesday with me. Buck Sexon will
be back from Los Angeles tomorrow. This has been Clamba
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