November 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 kicks off with a deep dive into the aftermath of the recent elections, highlighting Republican challenges in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City. Clay and Buck analyze what these results mean for the GOP moving forward and stress that Donald Trump remains President, with Republicans holding majorities in Congress. They discuss the booming economy alongside persistent inflation and affordability issues, noting how Biden-era price hikes continue to impact Americans.
A major focus of this hour is the ongoing government shutdown and its ripple effects on air travel. The hosts break down Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s announcement of a 10% reduction in flight capacity across 40 major markets, citing outdated air traffic control systems and staffing shortages. They emphasize the critical role of air traffic controllers and warn of growing public frustration as travel disruptions mount.
The conversation shifts to Trump’s push to end the Senate filibuster, with audio of Trump urging Republicans to eliminate it to advance “common sense” policies. Clay and Buck debate the long-term consequences, including potential Democratic moves like granting statehood to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., or expanding the Supreme Court. They argue that while ending the filibuster could offer short-term wins, it risks permanent structural changes favoring Democrats.
Election analysis continues with a look at turnout problems for Republicans in off-year races. The hosts note that 600,000 Trump voters failed to show up in Virginia and New Jersey, exploring why GOP enthusiasm dips outside presidential contests. Clay uses a sports analogy to explain how Trump mobilizes voters for “big games” like presidential elections, while Democrats maintain consistent turnout for every race. They also discuss cultural dynamics around Trump’s movement compared to past GOP candidates.
Adding a lighter moment, the hour features a quirky listener love connection sparked by a viral comment about repealing the 19th Amendment. Allison from Los Angeles and V from Raleigh exchange messages, blending humor with political commentary on women’s voting rights and the filibuster.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in everybody thirst day edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. Dicks off right now, and we're
still settling in on those election results a little bit.
We're still getting used to the reality for our fellow
Americans and New Yorkers that they got a tough road
(00:23):
ahead with their soon to be mayor. But it's gonna
be all right. As we said, Also, Virginia, New Jersey close,
but no cigar in New Jersey. Virginia a blowout, but
it's okay, It's okay. We move on where we move forward.
Remember Trump is still the president. We are still a
majority in the House, in the Senate, and it has
been We're in November. We're getting close to when I
(00:45):
can say this, and I'm not gonna be all sappy
about it, Clay, I'm not going to get all saccharin
here on the air, but I do think this is
one of the best years overall overall in terms of
policy achievement, direction of a president's see that I can remember.
The economy is booming. There are problems and we should
(01:05):
address those. There are affordability issues, There are inflation, really
lingering inflation issues. Right, It's not that inflation keeps going up.
It's that prices rocketed up, thank you, Biden. And as
Clay has said many times, it's true, once they go up,
very hard for them to come down for a whole
bunch of reasons. So they tend to continue to go
up over time. So we've got that to work through
(01:30):
and we'll discuss it. We've also, Clay still got a
shutdown happening, which I have to say, the shutdown better
end soon. They better shut that down because people are
going to really get frustrated with some of what's going
on here. The lack of air traffic controller is able
(01:53):
to come on the job. They're not getting paid, And
I can understand this. You're doing a critical job as
an air traffic controller. It is a critic job, by
the way. It's one of those things where you want
really good professional air traffic controllers, no question about it.
You know, play the biggest airline disaster in history in
terms of casualties, not including nine eleven, was a terrorist attack.
(02:16):
The biggest airline disaster in history was really an air
traffic control issue, and it was on I want to
say Tenerife Island, you know, one of those like islands
in the Atlantic and it was two jets that one
was taking off and one was taxiing. Oh no, and
they hit each other. My point being that was a
(02:38):
long time ago. But if you checked that one out, Producer, Greg,
do a quick one, a quick number on that one,
because it was horrible. It was hundreds and hundreds of
people lost their lives in it. Air traffic control is
really important, is my point. And we want air traffic
controllers to be paid, yes, sir, And.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We've got to cut on that because they have announced
that we are going to have a ten percent reduction
in scheduled flight capacity at forty different high traffic markets.
This is yesterday, Sean Duffy letting us know that that
is now out. And so I would encourage all of
you out there to make sure that you are closely
(03:16):
following if you're traveling. I'm traveling tomorrow. I'm already presuming
that getting out of New York City is going to
be a disaster.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary here, he is talking about it.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I anticipate there will be additional disruptions, there'll be frustration.
We are working with the airlines, they're going to work
with passengers. But in the end, our sole role is
to make sure that we keep this airspace as safe
as possible. The Administrator is going to talk about all
of the tools we're going to deploy. One of them, though,
is going to be that there is going to be
a ten percent reduction in capacity at forty of our locations.
(03:52):
The administrator is going to tell you that it's been
This is database. This is not based on what airline
travels has more flights out of location. This is about
where's the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I mean, this is going to be a mess, Buck,
It is going to be a mess. By the way,
it just has a fact update here. Yeah, I was right.
It was Tenaifae and Clay. This was back in nineteen
seventy seven, five hundred and eighty three fatalities, worst airline disaster,
not including nine to eleven, which was man made terrorism,
(04:27):
but worst airline disaster in history, and it was taxiing
on the runway. My point being air traffic control. We
all want them to be staffed, paid and really good.
And one problem we've already seen, and this is from
a lot of what Secretary Duffy has been saying about
(04:48):
this is that the air traffic control system is really outdated.
It needs to be fixed in general. So now we're
taking an outdated system, putting additional strain on it because
of personnel, because Chuck Schumer doesn't want the left wing
base of his party to be able to mount the
challenge against him. I mean, when you start to add
up what's going on here, it is gross. Oh by
(05:09):
the way, Nancy Pelosi's not running speaking about a great
year in American politics. That's official too. She's out at
eighty five years young. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's at least one positive. Trump has reacted to that
already in typical Trumpian fashion. And look, I think this
air traffic issue is going to start to get people
angry on a level that maybe they haven't been before,
if that makes sense. I mean, we're going to be
(05:39):
talking about disimpacting everybody. We shared and talked about the
video of Houston, which I'm told is already always has
a major issue there. But three and a half hours,
four hours for TSA. I bet a lot of you
if you see a line that long, just want to
turn around and go back home. And I think the
(06:02):
anger over this is going to grow now. There have
been some reports Buck that Democrats were emboldened by their
wins in Virginia and in New Jersey and in New
York City and have decided to be more aggressive in
demanding some sort of changes. Trump obviously has said, let's
(06:23):
go ahead and in the filibuster because the reason why
we have this shutdown right now is we have to
get to sixty votes. And right now I don't believe
we've gotten past fifty six I think or fifty seven.
There are at least three or four more Democrats who
need to vote to open back up the government. We'll
see whether the final results coming down will get things fixed.
(06:47):
My bet would be that we would have some sort
of resolution by early next week. I don't know where
you are on this, but that could grow faster. And
here Trump on cut thirty buck to build on that
is super angry about the shutdowns that appears, and he
wants drastic action. There were reports that he talked to
(07:07):
the Senate Republicans yesterday and said it's time to end
the filibuster. This has been an ongoing debate for basically
as long as I can remember politics existing. Here is
cut thirty Trump saying once and for all that's in
the filibuster.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think that if we got rid of the filibuster,
we would approve so many good things, common sense things,
wonderful things, that it would be hard to beat us.
If we don't, it's always going to be a slog
So I do say this. I would say absolutely without question,
I have no doubt in my mind get rid of it,
and the Republicans should do it. But they have a
number of Republicans that don't agree. And you know what,
it's a question, do I want to lose my relationship
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with those Republicans that have been very good to me
for a long period of time, that voted against the
crooked Democrats on impeachment and everything else. Do I want
to lose them over it? I think it's a very
important point. Do you ever have people that are wrong
but you can't convince them? So do you destroy your
whole relationship with them? And I'd be close to losing it,
but probably not.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That's really funny working through all that. Buck my general
position on the filibuster, we talked about it earlier. I
don't want Democrats to suddenly be able to add Puerto
Rico and Washington, DC if they have fifty votes plus
the UH plus the President. I don't want them to
be able to expand the Supreme Court. I get the frustration.
(08:27):
I personally am not in favor of ending the filibuster.
I don't know what your take is, because eventually it
ends up blowing up on you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
This is the this is the I wish I could
take the counterpoint to you, because it's more fun to
argue with you. But on this one, we would our
team Trump would use it to try to push policies
that then people can judge the effectiveness of or not.
And his thing is, I would do such good things
(08:56):
that the American people would be so in favor of
dot dot dot. Democrats once the filibuster is gone, will
do exactly what you're talking about, which is permanently stack
the deck so you will have no more Trump like administrations,
you will have no more Republican administrations. And that then
(09:17):
becomes the challenge. Now people might say they're going to
do that anyway when they have a majority. That's fair,
But you know, it's a little bit like nuclear deterrence
right now, right, I mean, you know, do you really
want to fire first? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
They're going to be more diabolical. I think they can
do things that are more detrimental. And I just named three.
Imagine what the impact would be if Puerto Rico becomes
a state and they get two Democrats, Washington, d c.
Becomes a state and they get two Democrats and they decide, hey,
instead of having nine Supreme Court justices, we should have thirteen.
(09:52):
And the new Democrat appointed, the new Democrat president appoints
suddenly for Supreme Court justices, and everything changes. The reason
why the filibuster makes sense, in my opinion, is it
stops crazy exaggerated movement. Sometimes the crazy exaggerated movement can
be in your favor, sometimes it's going to be on
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the other side. And honestly, this already kind of blew
up on Democrats with the Supreme Court. As One thing
Mitch McConnell got right was they essentially eliminated the filibuster
for Supreme Court justices, and they when they did it,
to allow the justices to get through with just a
majority vote. That was what McConnell said. And the Democrats
(10:36):
certainly have lost out to the Republicans when it comes
to justices as passing with a bare majority since they
passed that law.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So change that law.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I think you have to be very careful adjusting long
precedent for expedient current events.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
One thing to be reminded of, though, is that Clay
the Democrats shot first, so to speak on that Harry Reid,
Democrats decided and then had to live with the reality
when things change. But then the Democrats were claiming, oh,
the Republicans did it. Of course, of course, right, so
that well, and like we're like, guys, if you do this,
we're going to do this. They did it, and then
(11:14):
when we did it, they said, why are you doing
it first?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, this is also one of the great challenges of
communication in general. Democrats shut down the government. This is
their choice, but lots of people out in America believe
that Republicans are the ones who shut down the government.
So they say, wow, Republicans are in control of the
House and Senate, but yeah, you got to have sixty
votes to be able to move anything, and Democrats are
(11:37):
the ones that won't allow things to move. But a
lot of Democrat base voters believe that it's actually Republicans
to blame on this issue, so yes, they will just
lie no matter what. But I think they are more
diabolical than Republicans are. And so if you end the filibuster,
then there will be I think worse results for Republicans
(11:59):
ahead in any benefit you get in the short term.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But to be fair Trump, let's say he ends the filibuster.
Obviously it would be the Senate. But if he says,
let's do this, guys, and they go along with it.
We sees Greenland, They're not gonna make a peep. We'd
say Greenland is now a state. We fill it with maga.
You know, we tell all we we have a like
(12:22):
an all hands on deck MAGA from I got a
bunch of New Yorkers that would probably move there right now.
Who are Republicans? Yeah, and you know, I mean we
could stack the deck too. We we grab Greenland. What
was the other one? He's thinking, we don't want Canada
too many Panama Canal. We sees the Panama Canal. Trump
(12:43):
maybe crowns himself king for life. I don't know. Libs cry,
here's a fun here's a fun question for you.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Building on that, how many different seizure of territory plans
do you think there are in the Pentagon right now?
And how many different countries like that just warp, you know,
sort of warp game, like if heg Seth wanted to
Is there a America seeses? I think certainly there is Greenland, Iceland, Canada.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
We invaded Grenada, Yeah, okay, so this is like, you know,
invading a meeting of the rotary club down the street
or something. I mean this is like we invaded Grenada.
So I'm sure we got plans to do it. So
how many countries do you think we have planned?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Venezuela for sure, Like there's somewhere it's culled, you know
right now, socio political flashpoints, defend Taiwan.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm sure all that's game planned out.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I would like to know the most unexpected country that
we have plans if we had to take it over
currently at the Pentagon, that would be a big question.
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Speaker 2 (16:24):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Uh remember
yesterday when we closed up the shop by one of
our listeners in LA calling in and saying women shouldn't
have the right to vote. That was after another listener
on the other side of the country. If I remember,
Bonnie from South Carolina said she wanted to apologize to
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the country for women and the decisions they made in
the twenty twenty five election. Here is a podcast listener V.
I don't know if that's a man or a woman, Raleigh,
North Carolina, reacting to Alison in LA.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That is cc hey.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
This is V from Raleigh station one oh six point one.
I was just wondering if that chick in the third
hour that said the nineteen should be repealed? If is
she single? Because I could use a smart woman like
that in my life. Truly, just wondering.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
All right, there you go, love connection here. I didn't
know that he was going to be kicking the gasoline
canister over on the fire with that one. But I
like where his head's at.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
V is in Raleigh, North Carolina, if you're listening right now,
Alison in La. He likes the cut of your jib
and he needs a woman, So maybe we can bring
joy to the world. There you go. So starting off
the show early with the love connection here, Buck, you
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At some point, they're gonna have to figure out how
the shutdown ends. I mean, I do think they're not
gonna let the government stay shut down forever. I wonder
how Democrats are going to try to spin this thing.
We've also got more election fallout that we can talk about.
I'll be honest with deal Clay. Most of the assessments
(19:23):
that I'm seeing from people about what happened on Tuesday,
I don't think are very good. You know, the people
that recognize Mondani's not gonna be good for New York
Shore and all this. That's obvious. But I don't think
that there are clear, huge lessons, not just for the
presidential election in twenty eight but even for the mid terms.
(19:44):
You take from this, there are some things you can
draw from it, but it's always grain of salt has
to be added in it. It was a difficult night
no matter what for the Republicans to try to pull
out the well in New York. It wasn't even a Republican.
It was just a last ditch effort to stop a communist.
I think the.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Big question, and this is going to be the only
question for the next year, is to what extent do
Trump voters who are non traditional voters show up in
twenty twenty six, Because there are more Trump supporters in
the country than there are Democrat supporters. That's what the
(20:22):
twenty twenty four election showed us. But the people who
hate Trump, they show up for everything. They show up
for the dog catcher election, they show up for school board,
they show up. It doesn't even matter. And so their
base is more reliably going to turn out uh in
elections like twenty five off year elections in general. So
(20:45):
how good are the candidates? Well, yes, I don't think
we talked about this yesterday. I asked you this off air.
For instance, I think you and I would agree that
Glenn Youngkin is about as good of a candidate as
the Republicans could have in Virginia. He wasn't allowed to
run for reelection because in Virginia you only get one term.
Now they can be non consecutive, so he could come
back and run again in four years. The guy he beat,
(21:07):
Terry mccauliffe, was trying to do just that. What would
the results have been if Glenn Youngkin had been on
the ballot in twenty five when some serience loses by
what fifteen? What would the difference have been?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So Youngkin? This is the way I see it. First
of all, that the trend was the friend of Democrats
in this one overall in Virginia. Because Trump won Virginia,
Democrats are ticked off. As I mentioned, a lot of
the northern Virginia suburbs, and really we're talking like Arlington, Fairfax,
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you know, so where all the government employees who don't
live in DC live, they live inside the Beltway. So
some of them are in Maryland too, you know, Bethesda,
et cetera. But obviously there was no big Maryland election
that we were focused on, so you have that, and
they were ticked off about the shutdown. But also because
they've had a Republican governor, and they're angry about that
(21:59):
because they don't like sanity. They want they want insanity.
I think that the other issue, though, was win some Sears.
She was really pounding this issue of transgenders in the
you know, women's bathrooms, that kind of stuff, and that
didn't seem like it was landing with the elector this
(22:20):
time around. But when Newsom Ran, I mean not Newsom, sorry,
Young Kin Ran, whoa both tall, handsome, angular jaws, easy
to get them confused. But when Young Kin was running,
remember there was a lot of anger about the school
shutdowns that Democrats had and Young Kin was kind of
(22:41):
a sane, you know, fleece vest dad like person and
be like, we're going to open up the schools. We're
not going to do that crazy stuff again. So he
tapped into something that was powerful in that moment. I
don't think the Sears campaign was able to tap into
anything if actively. Obviously we agree with the sentiment on
(23:02):
the transgender issue, but that wasn't price of electricity, government shutdown,
anti trump Ism, these were much bigger and cost of living,
these were much bigger things. This time around.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Six hundred thousand Trump voters did not show up in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
What do you think that is? If you're one of
those Trump voters, what are you what are you thinking?
Because this just makes it harder for Trump. I think
it is the question, uh, the analogy that I would make.
Can I just put it out a quick ass while
you're before your analogy? If you voted, if you voted
for Trump, but and you live in Virginia and or
(23:40):
do not vote, or New Jersey or New Jersey, thank
you in Jersey too, if you're living either the state.
By the way, I don't think we're going to get
a single call because I think everyone who listens to
the show who voted voted again. I really believe that.
But if you voted, so now we're gonna get people
to say.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
No. If you're in New Jersey or Virginia, you voted
Trump last year, but you didn't show up to vote
this year?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Why why? Yes? I want to know why. Call in
and tell us why. And by the way, if it's
you know, you were worried your pizza was going to
get called and the kid, let us know that. But
if there was some other reason, I want to know
that too.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Let me let me give you my analogy, and I'll
go into the world of sports to explain it. For
those of us out there who are awesome college football fans.
If you go to a college football stadium this Saturday
for the football game, there will be one hundred thousand
people eighty thousand, seventy five thousand people that show up
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for the football game. If you go in a couple
of months for a basketball game, there might be eight
or nine thousand. If you go for the next time
to go watch a women's softball game or a men's
baseball game, there might be a thousand people there.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
My analogy is Trump people are football fans. They show
up for the big event. They want to be a
part of something much larger than themselves. They care about
the thing that everybody cares about, which is the presidential election.
Democrats have more die hard fans that are going to
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show up for the football game all the way down
to the gymnastics competition. Their die hards are more die
hard across the entire universe of voting, and football brings
in a lot of guys, a lot of gals too,
who otherwise don't care that much about sports, but the
event is so big they feel compelled to be a
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part of it, and that is what Trump has mobilized.
But the mobilization only works. Another analogy would be, you know,
there's fifty million people buck who watch the AFC or
NFC championship game. That's a huge amount of crowd. That's
the final four teams that are playing for to win
the super Bowl. But then one hundred million people show
(26:01):
up and watch the Super Bowl. So you're a fan
enough not to watch the final four, but a fan
that wants to watch the huge final event. People want
to be a part of the biggest thing, and Trump
has more people who like him who want to be
a part of the biggest thing. That would be my analogy, and.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
This is what I saw ties in with voting with
Zorn again, analyzing the way you talk about sports, I'm
if I'm analyzing the other team's offense.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You want to know what they're doing well, is also
what their weaknesses are, right, You have to know both
of those things. Zorn created a culture around his candidacy.
Trump has done that, and he's the first Republican to
do that as a president in my lifetime. And this
is why people the only person that really did that
(26:54):
before him on the Republican side, and living memory would
be Reagan. There was a Reagan was a movement as
well as a president. Trump is a movement as well
as a president. And I would even argue, I mean Reagan,
there's a lot of cultural implications too, but Trump specifically
has brought. I mean, whether it was the rallies, the hats,
(27:16):
the dance, I mean, you think about all these cultural
markers now, McClay anywhere in the world, I can I
can you know. I mean this happened in Taiwan a
couple of times. I just do a couple of words
of like Trump, I'm like, probably love type safest city.
The people of Taiwan love it, like they all know
right away. He is such a larger than life character.
(27:38):
But also people want to be a part of it.
It makes them feel a part. Voting for George W.
Bush was like, well, I can't vote for the communists,
so here I am, or like Mitt Romney was, maybe
Mitt Romney even more so. Mitt Romney was like, well,
I guess we got to have Lumberg in charge because
otherwise the factory will burn down. Like that was you
(28:00):
know how that was going. I do think that you're
right about that.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And this is why you guys, I'm on record for
this for several years now. As soon as the midterms
are over, you're gonna hear Trump's a king, Trump is hitler,
Trump is a fascist writ large, over and over again.
As soon as the midterms are over, the pivot is
going to make your head spin. They're going to say
Republicans will never be able to replicate the turnout that
(28:26):
they got from President Trump. He is a uniquely gifted
political candidate, the likes of which we will never see again,
and MAGA is going to die with him. That's going
to be the argument, and it will remain to be
seen whether that's true or not based on what we
see in twenty eight. But I like this question that
we put out there Virginia, New Jersey, if you voted
(28:49):
for Trump and did not show up, and again there's
a lot of y'all. Six hundred thousand Trump voters didn't
show up in New Jersey, six hundred thousand Trump voters
didn't show up in Virginia. To reiterate what we said yesterday,
Trump got more votes for president in Virginia and New
Jersey than the winning gubernatorial candidates got on Tuesday night.
(29:14):
Think about that for a minute. Now, turnout was obviously
up higher for a presidential election, but there were enough
people in Virginia who voted Trump who if they had
all showed up, then the Republican governors would have won
in both New Jersey and in Virginia, because that's the
numbers that Trump put up. And I'm just curious, Buck,
(29:34):
The question is, why did you not show up? Why
would you why would you take the time and be
committed in the presidential Maybe it's just a lot of
people don't think state matters that much.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
You know, they don't notice who the governor is. They don't.
I mean, we know in New York that that sleo
would have won if you hadn't suppressed all this Leela vote.
That's on that's on you, Clay.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That was what seven point one percent he would have
been at fifty point one per I cost him forty
three percent of the New York electorate.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You know, it's funny. I actually I had I had
dinner with a friend of mine last night who was
a former whose career MIPD and he actually knows Broad Channel.
We had a little laugh about this. He knows Broad
Channel Island uh, And and I was like, which, just
I'm bringing it up because that was if you went
to bed Tuesday night. That was the single. There were
(30:26):
three colors for the map for Cuomo, Mamdani Sliwa. There
was not a color for Sliwa winning anywhere on the
entire because Cuomo even Staten Island. I mean, some of
the places that would have gone red went Cuomo overall.
But there was one little island that it was Broad
Channel Island, which is near for a rockaway and then
(30:47):
it flipped over. But I asked him because I said,
I said, you know you were MYPD. I was like,
let me guess Broad Channel Island full of like FDN
Y and NYPD guys, right, And he said, oh yeah,
I lived there for years. That place is uh. That
place is based a haven for cops and firefighters. Who
I was like, well, yeah, of course that's where. But
Sleeva didn't even win that island Clay. So that was
(31:09):
it was a rough night. It was a rough night.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
At what point in the returns was it thirty seconds
after they started did the Curtis Slee what camp say? Yeah,
the math is not gonna map, you know, like how
quickly did the numbers?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Like how long? Because I'm sure if you.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Worked as hard as Curtis Sliwad did, he went to
bed the night before the election thinking maybe lightning will strike,
maybe I will win.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We have third sight. We have we have some from
our audience breaking news that we're gonna get back to
here in it. We have break we have audience to
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the news tickers everywhere. This is for our family. We
have some breaking news that we will share, which Clay
(31:54):
we can get to. If everyone says this, we come back.
Oh that's a hell of a tease. You know what
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Speaker 2 (34:00):
Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton show.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You had a tease for us, I believe, but let
me play It's important.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
We have to follow through on the tees. You're not
going to follow through connection.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I was going to well, I was going to play
it yesterday the talk back from Allison so that people
could realize who our V had reached out for. This
is Alison yesterday. V has fallen in love with her
in Raleigh based on this talkback.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
DD Hey, this is Alison from LA. I want to
second that lady's notion about apologizing for women. I'm conservative,
always voted Republican twenty four to seven Rush listener, but
I have to say they never should have given women
the right to vote. It's just most of them are
just too emotional.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
So V has fallen in love with Alison. Do we
have any further update on that? Is there an additional
love connection that has been made. Have we heard anything else?
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Team?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Have we heard from Alison? Have we heard oh we
have heard mallet that. Okay, that's just the whole point. Okay,
well I wanted to make sure. Okay, it might be
update for the audience. I'm here just making miracles happen.
Play our next one.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
This is Alison in La. I'm just curious, can we
get rid of the filibuster and then before Trump leaves
office put it back on?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Well wait, I thought Allison was going to be reacting
to v What happened there? Producer Greg? Oh, okay, sorry,
well that was very seriously, that was nice. They played
the wrong one, play the one that we care about.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
And yes, I am single, and I appreciate what the
gentleman said. So anyway, I guess that's it.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Thanks, I got it. We gotta love connection. We got
a single guy, we got a single goal. You know
what they're rooted. They're rooted together in Clay. Their their
desire to repeal the amendment that allows women to vote.
So real dream, this is a real dream. I will say.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I love that Allison had already weighed in on the
filibuster too, So if you're if V was wondering, if
he was like, what could really make this love connection
impossible to avoid? And he was like, but I need
to know what Alison thinks about the filibuster? What be
I mean, I'm just telling you he's ready to propose
marriage now. I think they might skip the whole courtship process.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I mean, she wants to she wants to repeal the
amendment that allows women to vote. She wants to get
rid of the filibuster. V. What else do you have
to know? I mean very She's clearly very pro to A.
I mean, I think we got on the list here.
She's got a Maga hat or five at home. You're
good to go. La and Raleigh coming together like oil
and water.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
We will continue to update you on the greatest love
story ever told as the program continues. That is Alison
responding to V. I would say maybe they could vote
on it, but Alison doesn't think she should.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You know that I had audience members getting married like
a decade ago. It actually happened. It does happen sometimes
Welcome in everybody thirst day edition of The Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. Dicks off right now, and we're
still settling in on those election results a little bit.
We're still getting used to the reality for our fellow
Americans and New Yorkers that they got a tough road
(00:23):
ahead with their soon to be mayor. But it's gonna
be all right. As we said, Also, Virginia, New Jersey close,
but no cigar in New Jersey. Virginia a blowout, but
it's okay, It's okay. We move on where we move forward.
Remember Trump is still the president. We are still a
majority in the House, in the Senate, and it has
been We're in November. We're getting close to when I
(00:45):
can say this, and I'm not gonna be all sappy
about it, Clay, I'm not going to get all saccharin
here on the air, but I do think this is
one of the best years overall overall in terms of
policy achievement, direction of a president's see that I can remember.
The economy is booming. There are problems and we should
(01:05):
address those. There are affordability issues, There are inflation, really
lingering inflation issues. Right, It's not that inflation keeps going up.
It's that prices rocketed up, thank you, Biden. And as
Clay has said many times, it's true, once they go up,
very hard for them to come down for a whole
bunch of reasons. So they tend to continue to go
up over time. So we've got that to work through
(01:30):
and we'll discuss it. We've also, Clay still got a
shutdown happening, which I have to say, the shutdown better
end soon. They better shut that down because people are
going to really get frustrated with some of what's going
on here. The lack of air traffic controller is able
(01:53):
to come on the job. They're not getting paid, And
I can understand this. You're doing a critical job as
an air traffic controller. It is a critic job, by
the way. It's one of those things where you want
really good professional air traffic controllers, no question about it.
You know, play the biggest airline disaster in history in
terms of casualties, not including nine eleven, was a terrorist attack.
(02:16):
The biggest airline disaster in history was really an air
traffic control issue, and it was on I want to
say Tenerife Island, you know, one of those like islands
in the Atlantic and it was two jets that one
was taking off and one was taxiing. Oh no, and
they hit each other. My point being that was a
(02:38):
long time ago. But if you checked that one out, Producer, Greg,
do a quick one, a quick number on that one,
because it was horrible. It was hundreds and hundreds of
people lost their lives in it. Air traffic control is
really important, is my point. And we want air traffic
controllers to be paid, yes, sir, And.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We've got to cut on that because they have announced
that we are going to have a ten percent reduction
in scheduled flight capacity at forty different high traffic markets.
This is yesterday, Sean Duffy letting us know that that
is now out. And so I would encourage all of
you out there to make sure that you are closely
(03:16):
following if you're traveling. I'm traveling tomorrow. I'm already presuming
that getting out of New York City is going to
be a disaster.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But Sean Duffy, Transportation Secretary here, he is talking about it.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I anticipate there will be additional disruptions, there'll be frustration.
We are working with the airlines, they're going to work
with passengers. But in the end, our sole role is
to make sure that we keep this airspace as safe
as possible. The Administrator is going to talk about all
of the tools we're going to deploy. One of them, though,
is going to be that there is going to be
a ten percent reduction in capacity at forty of our locations.
(03:52):
The administrator is going to tell you that it's been
This is database. This is not based on what airline
travels has more flights out of location. This is about
where's the pressure and how do we alleviate the pressure.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I mean, this is going to be a mess, Buck,
It is going to be a mess. By the way,
it just has a fact update here. Yeah, I was right.
It was Tenaifae and Clay. This was back in nineteen
seventy seven, five hundred and eighty three fatalities, worst airline disaster,
not including nine to eleven, which was man made terrorism,
(04:27):
but worst airline disaster in history, and it was taxiing
on the runway. My point being air traffic control. We
all want them to be staffed, paid and really good.
And one problem we've already seen, and this is from
a lot of what Secretary Duffy has been saying about
(04:48):
this is that the air traffic control system is really outdated.
It needs to be fixed in general. So now we're
taking an outdated system, putting additional strain on it because
of personnel, because Chuck Schumer doesn't want the left wing
base of his party to be able to mount the
challenge against him. I mean, when you start to add
up what's going on here, it is gross. Oh by
(05:09):
the way, Nancy Pelosi's not running speaking about a great
year in American politics. That's official too. She's out at
eighty five years young. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
That's at least one positive. Trump has reacted to that
already in typical Trumpian fashion. And look, I think this
air traffic issue is going to start to get people
angry on a level that maybe they haven't been before,
if that makes sense. I mean, we're going to be
(05:39):
talking about disimpacting everybody. We shared and talked about the
video of Houston, which I'm told is already always has
a major issue there. But three and a half hours,
four hours for TSA. I bet a lot of you
if you see a line that long, just want to
turn around and go back home. And I think the
(06:02):
anger over this is going to grow now. There have
been some reports Buck that Democrats were emboldened by their
wins in Virginia and in New Jersey and in New
York City and have decided to be more aggressive in
demanding some sort of changes. Trump obviously has said, let's
(06:23):
go ahead and in the filibuster because the reason why
we have this shutdown right now is we have to
get to sixty votes. And right now I don't believe
we've gotten past fifty six I think or fifty seven.
There are at least three or four more Democrats who
need to vote to open back up the government. We'll
see whether the final results coming down will get things fixed.
(06:47):
My bet would be that we would have some sort
of resolution by early next week. I don't know where
you are on this, but that could grow faster. And
here Trump on cut thirty buck to build on that
is super angry about the shutdowns that appears, and he
wants drastic action. There were reports that he talked to
(07:07):
the Senate Republicans yesterday and said it's time to end
the filibuster. This has been an ongoing debate for basically
as long as I can remember politics existing. Here is
cut thirty Trump saying once and for all that's in
the filibuster.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I think that if we got rid of the filibuster,
we would approve so many good things, common sense things,
wonderful things, that it would be hard to beat us.
If we don't, it's always going to be a slog
So I do say this. I would say absolutely without question,
I have no doubt in my mind get rid of it,
and the Republicans should do it. But they have a
number of Republicans that don't agree. And you know what,
it's a question, do I want to lose my relationship
(07:46):
with those Republicans that have been very good to me
for a long period of time, that voted against the
crooked Democrats on impeachment and everything else. Do I want
to lose them over it? I think it's a very
important point. Do you ever have people that are wrong
but you can't convince them? So do you destroy your
whole relationship with them? And I'd be close to losing it,
but probably not.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
That's really funny working through all that. Buck my general
position on the filibuster, we talked about it earlier. I
don't want Democrats to suddenly be able to add Puerto
Rico and Washington, DC if they have fifty votes plus
the UH plus the President. I don't want them to
be able to expand the Supreme Court. I get the frustration.
(08:27):
I personally am not in favor of ending the filibuster.
I don't know what your take is, because eventually it
ends up blowing up on you.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
This is the this is the I wish I could
take the counterpoint to you, because it's more fun to
argue with you. But on this one, we would our
team Trump would use it to try to push policies
that then people can judge the effectiveness of or not.
And his thing is, I would do such good things
(08:56):
that the American people would be so in favor of
dot dot dot. Democrats once the filibuster is gone, will
do exactly what you're talking about, which is permanently stack
the deck so you will have no more Trump like administrations,
you will have no more Republican administrations. And that then
(09:17):
becomes the challenge. Now people might say they're going to
do that anyway when they have a majority. That's fair,
But you know, it's a little bit like nuclear deterrence
right now, right, I mean, you know, do you really
want to fire first? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
They're going to be more diabolical. I think they can
do things that are more detrimental. And I just named three.
Imagine what the impact would be if Puerto Rico becomes
a state and they get two Democrats, Washington, d c.
Becomes a state and they get two Democrats and they decide, hey,
instead of having nine Supreme Court justices, we should have thirteen.
(09:52):
And the new Democrat appointed, the new Democrat president appoints
suddenly for Supreme Court justices, and everything changes. The reason
why the filibuster makes sense, in my opinion, is it
stops crazy exaggerated movement. Sometimes the crazy exaggerated movement can
be in your favor, sometimes it's going to be on
(10:13):
the other side. And honestly, this already kind of blew
up on Democrats with the Supreme Court. As One thing
Mitch McConnell got right was they essentially eliminated the filibuster
for Supreme Court justices, and they when they did it,
to allow the justices to get through with just a
majority vote. That was what McConnell said. And the Democrats
(10:36):
certainly have lost out to the Republicans when it comes
to justices as passing with a bare majority since they
passed that law.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
So change that law.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I think you have to be very careful adjusting long
precedent for expedient current events.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
One thing to be reminded of, though, is that Clay
the Democrats shot first, so to speak on that Harry Reid,
Democrats decided and then had to live with the reality
when things change. But then the Democrats were claiming, oh,
the Republicans did it. Of course, of course, right, so
that well, and like we're like, guys, if you do this,
we're going to do this. They did it, and then
(11:14):
when we did it, they said, why are you doing
it first?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, this is also one of the great challenges of
communication in general. Democrats shut down the government. This is
their choice, but lots of people out in America believe
that Republicans are the ones who shut down the government.
So they say, wow, Republicans are in control of the
House and Senate, but yeah, you got to have sixty
votes to be able to move anything, and Democrats are
(11:37):
the ones that won't allow things to move. But a
lot of Democrat base voters believe that it's actually Republicans
to blame on this issue, so yes, they will just
lie no matter what. But I think they are more
diabolical than Republicans are. And so if you end the filibuster,
then there will be I think worse results for Republicans
(11:59):
ahead in any benefit you get in the short term.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
But to be fair Trump, let's say he ends the filibuster.
Obviously it would be the Senate. But if he says,
let's do this, guys, and they go along with it.
We sees Greenland, They're not gonna make a peep. We'd
say Greenland is now a state. We fill it with maga.
You know, we tell all we we have a like
(12:22):
an all hands on deck MAGA from I got a
bunch of New Yorkers that would probably move there right now.
Who are Republicans? Yeah, and you know, I mean we
could stack the deck too. We we grab Greenland. What
was the other one? He's thinking, we don't want Canada
too many Panama Canal. We sees the Panama Canal. Trump
(12:43):
maybe crowns himself king for life. I don't know. Libs cry,
here's a fun here's a fun question for you.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Building on that, how many different seizure of territory plans
do you think there are in the Pentagon right now?
And how many different countries like that just warp, you know,
sort of warp game, like if heg Seth wanted to
Is there a America seeses? I think certainly there is Greenland, Iceland, Canada.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
We invaded Grenada, Yeah, okay, so this is like, you know,
invading a meeting of the rotary club down the street
or something. I mean this is like we invaded Grenada.
So I'm sure we got plans to do it. So
how many countries do you think we have planned?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Venezuela for sure, Like there's somewhere it's culled, you know
right now, socio political flashpoints, defend Taiwan.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
I'm sure all that's game planned out.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I would like to know the most unexpected country that
we have plans if we had to take it over
currently at the Pentagon, that would be a big question.
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Speaker 2 (16:24):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Uh remember
yesterday when we closed up the shop by one of
our listeners in LA calling in and saying women shouldn't
have the right to vote. That was after another listener
on the other side of the country. If I remember,
Bonnie from South Carolina said she wanted to apologize to
(16:46):
the country for women and the decisions they made in
the twenty twenty five election. Here is a podcast listener V.
I don't know if that's a man or a woman, Raleigh,
North Carolina, reacting to Alison in LA.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That is cc hey.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
This is V from Raleigh station one oh six point one.
I was just wondering if that chick in the third
hour that said the nineteen should be repealed? If is
she single? Because I could use a smart woman like
that in my life. Truly, just wondering.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
All right, there you go, love connection here. I didn't
know that he was going to be kicking the gasoline
canister over on the fire with that one. But I
like where his head's at.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
V is in Raleigh, North Carolina, if you're listening right now,
Alison in La. He likes the cut of your jib
and he needs a woman, So maybe we can bring
joy to the world. There you go. So starting off
the show early with the love connection here, Buck, you
never you never know what you might get if you
didn't hear Alison. Maybe we can pull Allison and bring
(17:54):
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At some point, they're gonna have to figure out how
the shutdown ends. I mean, I do think they're not
gonna let the government stay shut down forever. I wonder
how Democrats are going to try to spin this thing.
We've also got more election fallout that we can talk about.
I'll be honest with deal Clay. Most of the assessments
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that I'm seeing from people about what happened on Tuesday,
I don't think are very good. You know, the people
that recognize Mondani's not gonna be good for New York
Shore and all this. That's obvious. But I don't think
that there are clear, huge lessons, not just for the
presidential election in twenty eight but even for the mid terms.
(19:44):
You take from this, there are some things you can
draw from it, but it's always grain of salt has
to be added in it. It was a difficult night
no matter what for the Republicans to try to pull
out the well in New York. It wasn't even a Republican.
It was just a last ditch effort to stop a communist.
I think the.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Big question, and this is going to be the only
question for the next year, is to what extent do
Trump voters who are non traditional voters show up in
twenty twenty six, Because there are more Trump supporters in
the country than there are Democrat supporters. That's what the
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twenty twenty four election showed us. But the people who
hate Trump, they show up for everything. They show up
for the dog catcher election, they show up for school board,
they show up. It doesn't even matter. And so their
base is more reliably going to turn out uh in
elections like twenty five off year elections in general. So
(20:45):
how good are the candidates? Well, yes, I don't think
we talked about this yesterday. I asked you this off air.
For instance, I think you and I would agree that
Glenn Youngkin is about as good of a candidate as
the Republicans could have in Virginia. He wasn't allowed to
run for reelection because in Virginia you only get one term.
Now they can be non consecutive, so he could come
back and run again in four years. The guy he beat,
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Terry mccauliffe, was trying to do just that. What would
the results have been if Glenn Youngkin had been on
the ballot in twenty five when some serience loses by
what fifteen? What would the difference have been?
Speaker 1 (21:18):
So Youngkin? This is the way I see it. First
of all, that the trend was the friend of Democrats
in this one overall in Virginia. Because Trump won Virginia,
Democrats are ticked off. As I mentioned, a lot of
the northern Virginia suburbs, and really we're talking like Arlington, Fairfax,
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you know, so where all the government employees who don't
live in DC live, they live inside the Beltway. So
some of them are in Maryland too, you know, Bethesda,
et cetera. But obviously there was no big Maryland election
that we were focused on, so you have that, and
they were ticked off about the shutdown. But also because
they've had a Republican governor, and they're angry about that
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because they don't like sanity. They want they want insanity.
I think that the other issue, though, was win some Sears.
She was really pounding this issue of transgenders in the
you know, women's bathrooms, that kind of stuff, and that
didn't seem like it was landing with the elector this
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time around. But when Newsom Ran, I mean not Newsom, sorry,
Young Kin Ran, whoa both tall, handsome, angular jaws, easy
to get them confused. But when Young Kin was running,
remember there was a lot of anger about the school
shutdowns that Democrats had and Young Kin was kind of
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a sane, you know, fleece vest dad like person and
be like, we're going to open up the schools. We're
not going to do that crazy stuff again. So he
tapped into something that was powerful in that moment. I
don't think the Sears campaign was able to tap into
anything if actively. Obviously we agree with the sentiment on
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the transgender issue, but that wasn't price of electricity, government shutdown,
anti trump Ism, these were much bigger and cost of living,
these were much bigger things. This time around.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Six hundred thousand Trump voters did not show up in Virginia.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
What do you think that is? If you're one of
those Trump voters, what are you what are you thinking?
Because this just makes it harder for Trump. I think
it is the question, uh, the analogy that I would make.
Can I just put it out a quick ass while
you're before your analogy? If you voted, if you voted
for Trump, but and you live in Virginia and or
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do not vote, or New Jersey or New Jersey, thank
you in Jersey too, if you're living either the state.
By the way, I don't think we're going to get
a single call because I think everyone who listens to
the show who voted voted again. I really believe that.
But if you voted, so now we're gonna get people
to say.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
No. If you're in New Jersey or Virginia, you voted
Trump last year, but you didn't show up to vote
this year?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Why why? Yes? I want to know why. Call in
and tell us why. And by the way, if it's
you know, you were worried your pizza was going to
get called and the kid, let us know that. But
if there was some other reason, I want to know
that too.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Let me let me give you my analogy, and I'll
go into the world of sports to explain it. For
those of us out there who are awesome college football fans.
If you go to a college football stadium this Saturday
for the football game, there will be one hundred thousand
people eighty thousand, seventy five thousand people that show up
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for the football game. If you go in a couple
of months for a basketball game, there might be eight
or nine thousand. If you go for the next time
to go watch a women's softball game or a men's
baseball game, there might be a thousand people there.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
My analogy is Trump people are football fans. They show
up for the big event. They want to be a
part of something much larger than themselves. They care about
the thing that everybody cares about, which is the presidential election.
Democrats have more die hard fans that are going to
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show up for the football game all the way down
to the gymnastics competition. Their die hards are more die
hard across the entire universe of voting, and football brings
in a lot of guys, a lot of gals too,
who otherwise don't care that much about sports, but the
event is so big they feel compelled to be a
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part of it, and that is what Trump has mobilized.
But the mobilization only works. Another analogy would be, you know,
there's fifty million people buck who watch the AFC or
NFC championship game. That's a huge amount of crowd. That's
the final four teams that are playing for to win
the super Bowl. But then one hundred million people show
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up and watch the Super Bowl. So you're a fan
enough not to watch the final four, but a fan
that wants to watch the huge final event. People want
to be a part of the biggest thing, and Trump
has more people who like him who want to be
a part of the biggest thing. That would be my analogy, and.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
This is what I saw ties in with voting with
Zorn again, analyzing the way you talk about sports, I'm
if I'm analyzing the other team's offense.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Here.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
You want to know what they're doing well, is also
what their weaknesses are, right, You have to know both
of those things. Zorn created a culture around his candidacy.
Trump has done that, and he's the first Republican to
do that as a president in my lifetime. And this
is why people the only person that really did that
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before him on the Republican side, and living memory would
be Reagan. There was a Reagan was a movement as
well as a president. Trump is a movement as well
as a president. And I would even argue, I mean Reagan,
there's a lot of cultural implications too, but Trump specifically
has brought. I mean, whether it was the rallies, the hats,
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the dance, I mean, you think about all these cultural
markers now, McClay anywhere in the world, I can I
can you know. I mean this happened in Taiwan a
couple of times. I just do a couple of words
of like Trump, I'm like, probably love type safest city.
The people of Taiwan love it, like they all know
right away. He is such a larger than life character.
(27:38):
But also people want to be a part of it.
It makes them feel a part. Voting for George W.
Bush was like, well, I can't vote for the communists,
so here I am, or like Mitt Romney was, maybe
Mitt Romney even more so. Mitt Romney was like, well,
I guess we got to have Lumberg in charge because
otherwise the factory will burn down. Like that was you
(28:00):
know how that was going. I do think that you're
right about that.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And this is why you guys, I'm on record for
this for several years now. As soon as the midterms
are over, you're gonna hear Trump's a king, Trump is hitler,
Trump is a fascist writ large, over and over again.
As soon as the midterms are over, the pivot is
going to make your head spin. They're going to say
Republicans will never be able to replicate the turnout that
(28:26):
they got from President Trump. He is a uniquely gifted
political candidate, the likes of which we will never see again,
and MAGA is going to die with him. That's going
to be the argument, and it will remain to be
seen whether that's true or not based on what we
see in twenty eight. But I like this question that
we put out there Virginia, New Jersey, if you voted
(28:49):
for Trump and did not show up, and again there's
a lot of y'all. Six hundred thousand Trump voters didn't
show up in New Jersey, six hundred thousand Trump voters
didn't show up in Virginia. To reiterate what we said yesterday,
Trump got more votes for president in Virginia and New
Jersey than the winning gubernatorial candidates got on Tuesday night.
(29:14):
Think about that for a minute. Now, turnout was obviously
up higher for a presidential election, but there were enough
people in Virginia who voted Trump who if they had
all showed up, then the Republican governors would have won
in both New Jersey and in Virginia, because that's the
numbers that Trump put up. And I'm just curious, Buck,
(29:34):
The question is, why did you not show up? Why
would you why would you take the time and be
committed in the presidential Maybe it's just a lot of
people don't think state matters that much.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
You know, they don't notice who the governor is. They don't.
I mean, we know in New York that that sleo
would have won if you hadn't suppressed all this Leela vote.
That's on that's on you, Clay.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
That was what seven point one percent he would have
been at fifty point one per I cost him forty
three percent of the New York electorate.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
You know, it's funny. I actually I had I had
dinner with a friend of mine last night who was
a former whose career MIPD and he actually knows Broad Channel.
We had a little laugh about this. He knows Broad
Channel Island uh, And and I was like, which, just
I'm bringing it up because that was if you went
to bed Tuesday night. That was the single. There were
(30:26):
three colors for the map for Cuomo, Mamdani Sliwa. There
was not a color for Sliwa winning anywhere on the
entire because Cuomo even Staten Island. I mean, some of
the places that would have gone red went Cuomo overall.
But there was one little island that it was Broad
Channel Island, which is near for a rockaway and then
(30:47):
it flipped over. But I asked him because I said,
I said, you know you were MYPD. I was like,
let me guess Broad Channel Island full of like FDN
Y and NYPD guys, right, And he said, oh yeah,
I lived there for years. That place is uh. That
place is based a haven for cops and firefighters. Who
I was like, well, yeah, of course that's where. But
Sleeva didn't even win that island Clay. So that was
(31:09):
it was a rough night. It was a rough night.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
At what point in the returns was it thirty seconds
after they started did the Curtis Slee what camp say? Yeah,
the math is not gonna map, you know, like how
quickly did the numbers?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Like how long? Because I'm sure if you.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Worked as hard as Curtis Sliwad did, he went to
bed the night before the election thinking maybe lightning will strike,
maybe I will win.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
We have third sight. We have we have some from
our audience breaking news that we're gonna get back to
here in it. We have break we have audience to
be clear, audience breaking news. Ah okay, and we will
share with everybody. I don't This is not like on
the news tickers everywhere. This is for our family. We
have some breaking news that we will share, which Clay
(31:54):
we can get to. If everyone says this, we come back.
Oh that's a hell of a tease. You know what
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis, Buck Sexton show.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
You had a tease for us, I believe, but let
me play It's important.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
We have to follow through on the tees. You're not
going to follow through connection.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
I was going to well, I was going to play
it yesterday the talk back from Allison so that people
could realize who our V had reached out for. This
is Alison yesterday. V has fallen in love with her
in Raleigh based on this talkback.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
DD Hey, this is Alison from LA. I want to
second that lady's notion about apologizing for women. I'm conservative,
always voted Republican twenty four to seven Rush listener, but
I have to say they never should have given women
the right to vote. It's just most of them are
just too emotional.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
So V has fallen in love with Alison. Do we
have any further update on that? Is there an additional
love connection that has been made. Have we heard anything else?
Speaker 6 (34:57):
Team?
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Have we heard from Alison? Have we heard oh we
have heard mallet that. Okay, that's just the whole point. Okay,
well I wanted to make sure. Okay, it might be
update for the audience. I'm here just making miracles happen.
Play our next one.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
This is Alison in La. I'm just curious, can we
get rid of the filibuster and then before Trump leaves
office put it back on?
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Well wait, I thought Allison was going to be reacting
to v What happened there? Producer Greg? Oh, okay, sorry,
well that was very seriously, that was nice. They played
the wrong one, play the one that we care about.
Speaker 7 (35:30):
And yes, I am single, and I appreciate what the
gentleman said. So anyway, I guess that's it.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Thanks, I got it. We gotta love connection. We got
a single guy, we got a single goal. You know
what they're rooted. They're rooted together in Clay. Their their
desire to repeal the amendment that allows women to vote.
So real dream, this is a real dream. I will say.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I love that Allison had already weighed in on the
filibuster too, So if you're if V was wondering, if
he was like, what could really make this love connection
impossible to avoid? And he was like, but I need
to know what Alison thinks about the filibuster? What be
I mean, I'm just telling you he's ready to propose
marriage now. I think they might skip the whole courtship process.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
I mean, she wants to she wants to repeal the
amendment that allows women to vote. She wants to get
rid of the filibuster. V. What else do you have
to know? I mean very She's clearly very pro to A.
I mean, I think we got on the list here.
She's got a Maga hat or five at home. You're
good to go. La and Raleigh coming together like oil
and water.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
We will continue to update you on the greatest love
story ever told as the program continues. That is Alison
responding to V. I would say maybe they could vote
on it, but Alison doesn't think she should.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
You know that I had audience members getting married like
a decade ago. It actually happened. It does happen sometimes
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