June 5, 2026 • 36 mins
In Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Clay and Buck open the program with a deep dive into a major political controversy dominating headlines, focusing on troubling allegations surrounding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and the fallout from a high-profile New York Times report. The hosts dissect the most serious claims, including alleged misconduct and disturbing personal behavior, while questioning Platner’s judgment and electability in a critical Senate race. They also examine the broader political strategy implications, suggesting Democrats may face a difficult decision about whether to stand by their candidate or replace him, with potential consequences for control of the Senate.
A key theme throughout the opening segment is sharp criticism of mainstream media coverage, particularly the New York Times. Clay and Buck argue the reporting downplayed the severity of the allegations and framed the story in a way that allows supporters to dismiss or rationalize the claims. They emphasize a growing distrust in legacy media institutions, advising listeners to be skeptical of how stories are presented and warning public figures about engaging with journalists without full transparency, including recording interviews to avoid selective editing or mischaracterization.
The conversation then shifts into economic news, where the hosts highlight what they describe as strong and encouraging indicators for the U.S. economy. They point to a better-than-expected jobs report, solid revisions to previous employment numbers, and a stable unemployment rate as signs of economic momentum. Clay expands on this optimism, citing record stock market performance and a significant decline in crime rates—particularly historic lows in murder rates in major cities like New York—as evidence of improving national conditions. He also expresses excitement about future economic developments, including a major anticipated IPO, framing these trends as part of a broader positive trajectory for the country.
Despite the upbeat economic outlook, the tone turns more critical when the discussion moves to election procedures in California. Clay raises concerns about extended ballot-counting timelines, noting that mail-in ballots can be accepted and counted days after Election Day. He highlights unusual voting patterns in ongoing races, where late-arriving ballots appear overwhelmingly skewed toward Democratic candidates, fueling skepticism about fairness and transparency. The hosts argue that ballot harvesting and prolonged counting create opportunities for manipulation, while also acknowledging that deeply entrenched political preferences in large urban centers play a significant role in outcomes.
Building on this, Buck offers a broader cultural and political critique of major metropolitan areas like Los Angeles and New York City. He argues that ideological conformity, social pressure, and identity politics drive continued support for Democratic leadership, even in the face of persistent quality-of-life issues such as crime, homelessness, and urban decline. The hosts question whether political motivations rooted in opposition to President Donald Trump will persist in future elections or simply shift toward new Republican figures, suggesting this dynamic could shape upcoming campaign strategies and voter behavior.
The hour also touches on examples of real-world consequences tied to policy decisions in large cities, including discussions about criminal justice outcomes and anecdotal cases where leniency or political considerations may have led to tragic results. These examples are used to reinforce their broader arguments about governance, accountability, and voter decision-making.
Throughout Hour 1, the show balances heavy political and economic analysis with lighter, personality-driven moments. A humorous on-air correction about phrasing leads to a series of listener call-ins poking fun at the hosts, adding levity and audience engagement to the broadcast. The hour wraps with additional headlines, including reports that the Chicago Bears may move out of downtown Chicago, which the hosts frame as another sign of broader challenges facing major urban centers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Friday edition. Clay and Buck. We appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Let's have some fun,
get you informed and educated as.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You roll into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
As I am watching right now on the quad box,
Fox News and CNN paneled discussion surrounding Graham Platner and
the revelations that came out in the New York Times
article that was finally published yesterday, and we will get
into some of those revelations here right off the top
(00:33):
momentarily MSNBC, Trump is discussing adding a Lincoln Memorial promenade
and also the.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
White House ballroom. So Buck, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Cover for your boys season on MSNBC. You read the article.
I read the article. We will get into it. We
have got a loaded program. We will hear from many
of you and and we will break all this down.
But I thought, Buck, and I'm curious if this was
your kind of takeaway. I thought there were three primary
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parts of the of the story, and I would say,
just fyi, we have reached out to the woman who
had the most I would say troubling allegations that were
levied against Graham Platner in this particular story that he
had put her arm behind her back, that he had
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shoved her into a bedroom and refused to allow her
to leave.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That there was.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That certainly, and we'll play some of the audio of this.
That certainly he knew, and I mean, it boggles the
mind to believe that anyone could even argue that they
did not. That the Nazi tattoo that he got on
his chest for almost twenty years, he knew exactly what
it was, and he described it to her. She had
no idea what it was beforehand. She has text messages
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that she was sending to her girlfriends, that he is
clearly lying about the Nazi tattoo, that he is an
unhinged guy. I think it's fair to say he may
have physically abused her, and that the New York Times
worked their darndist to try to keep this from being
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as awful of a story as it might have been
based on what some of the women had said. Here's
another part of this book, he said, and the campaign
didn't even dispute it. And you might need to turn
down the radio a little bit, because this is unfortunately
pretty crude. He said, if a man ever tried to
break into his apartment, that he would rape him, but
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not in a gay way.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And the campaign said, yes, that is true.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
They didn't even I read that, and I went back
and I reread it because I said, surely they denied that.
He said if a guy broke into his apartment that
he would rape him, but not in a gay way.
And know the campaign said yes that he did in
fact say that this is not a mentally well guy.
I think that he is going to end up being unelectable.
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I don't think these are going to be the last
revelations that are going to come out and go figure,
a guy who made the choice to get a Nazi
tattoo on his chest and kept it for twenty years
may not be the greatest decision maker on the planet.
And I think there's a full on panic buck. My
take is, I actually think Republicans benefit if Graham Platner
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stays in because I don't think he can win. So
everybody's out there like, oh, Republicans are trying to come
after him and get him, but purely from a political perspective,
not analyzing morality at all. I actually think this guy
is going to continue to have worse stories come out.
And I don't think Maine voters are going to show
up and vote for him. And this matters nationally because
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if they don't flip the main Senate seat, they have
no check ants to flip the Senate seat. All Right,
I hit a lot. There is there anything? How would
you build upon that? That was a clay Nato. I'm
still I'm still trying to get my bearings after that. Look,
I think that the replacement would be Mills, right, yeah,
if there were, If there was a step down by Platner,
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the replacement is I think a bigger challenge for Susan Collins.
Even if it were late in the game, doesn't matter.
The money will still be there. But from the Democrats,
the name recognition is already there because of her role
in the state already. So I'm hoping Platner stays in.
And I think it's also worth noting with everyone these
days too.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You have to be completely.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Turned against by your own side in some way for
someone to step down, Right, It has to remember how
why did Biden step down because he had dementia and
the whole thing was an appalling farce. No, it was
because Pelosi and and some of the big heavyweights of
the Democrat machine told them, you got to go. Why
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did Swallwell step down because big name people in the
Democrat and also the women were staffers who would work
for him. Clearly Democrats all this sort of stuff. My
point here, Clay is, short of something like that, the
incentive for the individual is to stay in and try
to win it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
At some level.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Winning is the only vindication you can have for your reputation,
for your brand after something like this happens. This guy
Platner is clearly a scumbag, and the Democrats do not care.
They didn't They don't care how big of a scumbag
somebody is at all, as long as they're going to
vote in lockstep with the Democrat apparatus. And so now
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we see that they're trying to make a pure power
calculation about this. We also see in the New York Times.
I think that they got this out there so that
it would be First of all, the way that they
wrote this article was intended to make Platner seem, yes,
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like he's damaged. But they talk about his PTSD and
his service, and he's cleaned things up, and there's a
little bit of static around how bad he really was
with these women, and some women like him. And you
know what they did is they muddied the waters so
that any Democrat who wants to vote for Plattner can say, yeah,
I don't really believe some of that stuff. It's a
right wing operative who pushed the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All this right.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We'll get more to that, by the way, coming up
in a bit, so Clay, I think that Platner he's
definitely staying, He's not going anywhere. I think that's probably
better for the Republicans. But it also tells you of
the ruthlessness, ruthlessness of the Democrat machine. And with that
we could also give the happiness Do you want to
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give the happy news? Now there's some nice news. I
didn't know you're going to launch into this one.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Just all all fired up about this because we we
we knew that this story was coming. There was a
lot of discussion around it. And I should also mention
the foremost of the anti Platner voices, the woman uh
that was foremost in the in the discussion she has
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she has published and maybe we'll read a little bit
of her posts on on social media talking about how
dishonest the New York Times was in the way that
in her opinion. They covered her story, and so she
has said that that that we have offered her the
opportunity to come on and tell her story on this
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radio program too.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now I'll Lindja Fifield just to be clear. She's out.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean her name is that, that's not you know,
she's named in the piece. It's everywhere. I mean, we're not, uh.
And we think she's going to join us on the
program today, I might add, and she should. So we're
excited to talk to her about exactly what she thinks
happened here, Clay, which is the New York Times position
themselves like they're gonna be truth tellers and there's gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Be a lot more, and then they really kind.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Of laundered the whole thing so that I would have
minimal impact against Platner, which does bring me to you
cannot trust the New York Times. They are not journalists,
they are activists. Nobody should trust the New York Times. Clay,
would would you let me ask you this, Would you
ever speak to the New York Times as a source,
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knowing that it could blow back on you in some way,
and trust that they would keep you confidential as a source,
knowing who you are.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think they would blow me as a source in
a heartbeat and not think twice, hey hey, hey, hey,
that's what it's called. It's called blowing your So you
know what. He knows what I'm saying. And the point is,
I think they would put my name out there despite
you know, I'm I'm gonna have you know, I'm gonna
(08:58):
have some coffee or something. I'm gonna have some something
over here. You go ahead, sir. Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm sorry. I just I didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I didn't know they did that for sources. I maybe
I would have been a source more often. I have
to tell you the uh the I have been of
this opinion for a very long time. And I would
say this for anyone out there that is talking to
any media member period.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Record the entire thing, Record the entire thing.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
My biggest issue with talking to media at this point
is you and I are blessed to be able to
sit here for three hours and talk. We got other
shows that we do. I don't feel like my voice
is unheard. And if I'm going to spend the time
that is required to talk to a journalist in quotation
marks to try to get that journalist to write something
(09:49):
that I would like to be written.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's not very efficient.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I could just say what I think and or say
what I believe myself, and if I talk to them
for thirty minutes, they might two sentences of what I said,
and it might not be remotely reflective of what the
actual conversation was.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So yes, to your point. Look, I think that this
and this individual.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think she actually thought I need to talk to
a place like the New York Times. I think she
was being strategic and intelligent because she knew that she
was she had vulnerabilities that they would attack her and say,
you're a conservative, you're a right leaning voter. Of course
you're going to say something awful about Graham Platner. So
she actually was trying to self protect her legitimacy by
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talking in her mind to someone that would otherwise be
predisposed to be favorable to Platiner, and then they were favorable.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
To platin All right, I do I do have I do.
Some of you are very astute. I do have a
correction to me. Okay, you burn a source, you blow cover,
you blow.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Someone's say, yeah, I would I would have summary.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So I come from the CIA where if you that's you, you,
that's you. You blow a cover? Is when you were
that would be like if you name somebody who's doing that,
you blow someone's cover, you burn a source. Sorry, now
we know why Clay was giggling so much.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You you think about it more in the context of
having come from national security in that background, what your
information is, could we just saw with John Bolton could
lead to charges.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I don't think I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Any information that if I gave to somebody I would
get charged with a crime. I'm not in the intel community.
I'm not getting blown by sources all the time. And
so uh and so you know, you know, just never
know how exactly that's gonna shake out.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
The intel community is not blowing your cover, and as
a New York Times source, you would be burned if
you spoke to them. Okay, So now everyone is is
clear on the terminology and have a lot of people out.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
There box saying maybe I should talk to journals more often. Boy,
it's one of those days.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
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Speaker 2 (13:37):
And hang with the guys Clay and Buck, pre said
on the iHeart app. All right, welcome back into Clay
and Buck.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Let's bring you up to speed with some encouraging news
about the economy. CNBC's Rick Santelli here is stunned. Stunned
by the jobs numbers, uh and also the last month revision.
The man himself, the man who started the tea party
back in the day, I'll never forget that, basically by
(14:06):
doing what he does here, which is just getting fired
up about stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Play one the main.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Job job Jobs report one hundred and seventy two thousand.
Is there any doubt that this anecdote eleven it's about
a good labor market has been very correct.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That is a really strong number.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And last month, while we had a revision from one
hundred and fifteen thousand to one hundred and seventy nine thousand,
which means the two month revision has gotta be over
ninety thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That is a good number.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Even manufacturing posted a seven thousand job gain, So how
strong is one hundred and seventy two thousand. That would
be the best number since one hundred and eighty five
thousand in March.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
These are solid numbers. Play looking pretty good. You know,
what are you thinking about this?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
All the people that are out there that are what
I would say polly an ish about where we are
right now. I'm just I'm not going to apologize for
thinking things are good and getting better. I understand that
that doesn't mean on an individual basis that every single
person is having the greatest financial positions of their lives.
(15:18):
But when you look at record high stock prices, buck,
I was looking again.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I love looking at data.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The numbers on murders are collapsing at a level that
I'm not sure anybody has ever seen before, even in
New York City. Did you New York City through the
end of May has the lowest recorded murder rate in
the history of the city. I've got that data. I'm
trying to have some positive stories. I don't want to
blow a Friday. I want it to turn out really
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really well with all of this data. When you look
at what's going on, with what's going on with the
stock market, murders collapsing, these are great numbers, really way
more job than people were anticipating. The unemployment rate is
four point two percent. We have gotten millions of illegals
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out of this country. The border is completely secure. What
I want to start to see happen. If you said, Okay, Clay,
what is an ideal thing? The overall rate of employment
for young men and men twenty five to fifty four
I think needs to go back up because I think
a lot of men got frustrated. Candidly, I think a
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lot of people are sort of sucking off the government
teat and taking advantage of all the free money that
is out there, and so they're making the decision not
to be in the larger marketplace. The most important, I
think number that we can start to see is the
percentage of people that are employed, because some people just
get frustrated and say, screw it, I'm not going to
even try to keep finding a job. I think when
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you start to look at all these numbers, the data
is really really, really looking positive. And by the way,
this day next week we are going to have the
larger IPO in the history of the world. SpaceX is
going public. The thing is oversubscribed. They're letting average investors
be able to get shares at the IPO price inside
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you're going to be able to get this. I just
I am really really optimistic about where we are sitting.
Doesn't mean that I don't recognize there are other things
that are not perfect, but I think the overall trend
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Speaker 2 (18:53):
Speaking truth and having fun. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Welcome back in Clay and buckh all of you hanging
out with us as we are rolling through the Friday
edition of the program. Two thirty scheduled right now, the
accuser of Graham Platner that was foremost in the New
York Times article is going to be on with us
to share her story and why she feels like the
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New York Times did not do a fair job of
conveying her story, and so that will be at two thirty.
Her name is Buck Lindsey. I want to make sure
that I get her FIFELD so she will be on
with us at two thirty, about two hours from now.
I know we had a bunch of positives. The overall
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stock market continues to set records, not necessarily today, but
the numbers are spectacularly good when it comes to new jobs.
And we played that audio for you. Let me also
hit you with something that is not great. Buck California
vote counting, and I I feel like there's just a
calculated decision to pretend that this counting is not going on.
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I am increasingly troubled. It looks like Spencer Pratt as
these male ballots have come in, and basically, if you
voted by mail, according to the numbers that are coming
in right now, there is almost a zero percent chance
that you voted for Spencer Pratt or that you voted
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for Steve Hilton.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And for a lot of you out.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There, I think that is hard to explain how that
could be possible. Legitimately, nobody who is actually voting by
mail is voting Republican at all. Because you look at
these numbers and as they come in, it's crazy. Tens
of thousands of people are voting for Nitsia Rahman, and
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almost no one is voting for Spencer Pratt. So Spencer
Pratt's people all showed up in person and voted, and
then all of the people that are Democrat voters are
now showing up and voting for others. So Spencer Pratt
is now a substantial underdog to advance to the runoff.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Also, Steve Hilton.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I can't even imagine how frustrating it is to be
Steve Hilton right now. In fact, let's get him on
if we can again Ali, maybe Monday or Tuesday, after
another weekend, because it's not going to be much closer
to being counted.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
They are either.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Steve Hilton is comfortably not even like I mean he
was in the lead when everybody voted in person. He
has a huge lead now as all of these ballots
continue to tick in. The ballots can still arrive up
to a week after election day. Let me repeat that,
you can still you can still be filling out your
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ballot today. In California, they have seven days after election
day under which ballots can still be and they are
still able to count them. It's one of the craziest
things that I have seen that California has gone back
in time to an era where they're slower counting votes
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than they were in eighteen ninety. And I think everybody
out there who is listening to us right now, you
guys know that the reality is they're doing this for
a reason. Why did they change the rules in California
so that they could have counting go on four weeks?
No one benefits on the Republican side.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We know this.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
They have the ability to corral and get as many
votes out there as they possibly can. And so my
concern would be, if I'm Steve Hilton, the votes just
keep coming in. We've seen this before, we saw it
happen in twenty twenty. The entire concept of mail ballots
is it's a license to cheat.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It just is.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And the fact that we are allowing male ballots like this,
and by the way, I'm not talking about if you
are overseas, if you're a tiny pinprick of the number
of people we get that right, that serve overseas and
you're not in the country. Millions and millions of people
in California, where they have ample early voting and they
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have ample opportunity to go vote in person, are deciding
to send out these ballots. They send a ballot to
every registered voter. How many of those ballots do you
think get harvested? This is crazy, the fact that this
is being allowed to happen. Buck So my concern is
our friend Steve Hilton is just having to sit there
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for weeks as many of these places don't even bother
to count, and he's in a position where there is
going to be more and more votes going against him
more uniform Bucket. We were just saying, I mean Spencer Pratt,
no one did a male ballot for Spencer Pratt basically
in all of LA County. That's what the numbers are
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now reflecting every Spencer Prat voter actually showed up in
person and went and voted. Basically none of them actually
filled out a mail ballot. I just this is the
President Trump is one billion percent right about this. I
hope the Supreme Court is going to try to clean
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some of this up because with the election day, you know,
they've got a case in front of them right now
to try to figure out how long can you continue
to count ballots and how much can you stretch election day.
We have election month in California now, and Steve Hilton
has a narrow lead still, but every day a dribble
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of these votes is continuing to come in, and they
still have forty percent of the vote outstanding according to
estimates that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Look, there's also an people get people get mad at
me when I say this, But it's just the truth, Clay.
I live most of my life, almost forty years in
New York City. I think truly, for people who live
in very red, very common sense, commonplace, common sense situations
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like you know, I don't know Idaho, or pick a
very red part of any state, there can be this
How can so many people be that crazy? They can't
really be that crazy, right, I mean, some of them are,
but the Democrats in these places, more of them must
be capable of seeing reason. You know, there's a disbelief
at how widespread the left wing rot is in either
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New York or Los Angeles or these other places.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's there. This is what I'm I'm trying to tell
you guys.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Unfortunately, you might be thinking, oh, they're just cheating, cheating,
cheating in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And by the way, that may be that's true.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I will see I would not be surprised at all
I'm talking about ballot harvesting and all this other stuff.
I would also, though, just want to remind you that
if you've never spent a lot of time in New York, Chicago,
La Portland, Austin, Seattle, Boston, blah blah, any of these places,
if you haven't really spent a lot of time there,
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it is hard to wrap your mind around how self
aggrandizing and self defeating the left wing mentality is there.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
They will convince them they will step in human poop.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Walk past an encampment on the street, avoid a glass
bottle being thrown at their head, get on a public
transit system that smells like urine, have cops who won't
do anything about some maniac running around shirtless with a hatchet.
Go to some downtown that is now like a ghost
town because all the businesses are closing down because of
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all and clay.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
They will still vote Democrat. This is the part of
it that I know is so hard for They just they.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Vote Democrat because when they're at yoga class that weekend
and they're seeing their friends, you know, drinking you know,
locally made mead and comparing you know, the latest trends
in pet therapy they want to be able to say
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I voted for Karen Bass because I'm one of the
good people. So I just want to remind everyone, you know,
if they're cheating, and do I think they're cheating going on? Yeah,
of course, but I don't know yet, right, I have
a gut feeling that they're cheating on behalf of the
Democrats in these places, but I don't know. I don't
have proof, so I think we should wait till we
actually although can I just went out Clay I talked
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to this before the show. There was apparently a ballot
dump of twenty five thousand votes all went for It
was all Bass, right or was it just all Democrats?
It was just all none of them went Spencer Pratt
like the whole dump, which is how the numbers have
started to flip, because he had a huge lead with
all of the voting in person that had been released,
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so statistically, to find twenty five thousand votes and not
a single one of them went for Spencer Pratt, you
would have a few that were just mistakes. The literacy
rate of Los Angeles is not as high as a
lot of people might think it is. You have a
lot of people also who don't speak English very well.
Do you see what I'm saying here, Folks? The chance
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that not a single of twenty five thousand votes would
go for Spencer Pratt, even if it was entirely accidental,
is I think a statistical anomaly, Let's put it that way.
I think it's an irregularity, Let's put it that way.
And so these are things to keep in mind as
this goes. Although it is disappointing to see how this
is playing out, I cannot say it is shocking. We're
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expecting both shenanigans on the ballot harvesting, etc. Which Clay
was just talking about. But also there are people who
can look at all of the objective reality that they
live through and understand that there are decisions being made
by people in authority that lead.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
To those situations.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
All those things, you know, the poop and the pee,
and the and the trains, and the crazy people and
the tent encampments and the dysfunction and the spending.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
That's going through the room, all of that.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
They look at all of that and they go, I
want more of the same, because good people support the
people that are making these decisions, and I want to
be a good person and that's as simple as it
is for a lot of people in Los Angeles for
them to vote for a Republican as a kin to
voting for Trump. And voting for Trump is some form
of cultural social sepuku.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That's a word that hasn't made it onto the show before.
I mean, I'm spicing up today. Yes, I sign off
on all of that, and we will continue here. Here's
what I would ad And again I don't know the
answer to this. Will Trump not being in office change
the degree to which so many people on the Democrat
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side have made their foundation of life anti trump Ism,
orange Man, bad Trump derangement syndrome? Or are they just
going to This is a big question. I don't claim
to know the answer. Are they just going to pivot
to Marco Rubio or JD Vance or whomever the newest
(30:33):
boogeyman is in their world? Will they then take all
of the psychological complete collapse that they have embraced arounding
Trump and just transfer it to a new Republican figure.
I don't know the answer, but I always come back
to I love that scene in Sex and the City
(30:55):
where it's probably not the expected the analogy here, but
when Charlotte is standing there upset because she makes her
own life choices, and she just keeps saying, I chose
my choice. I chose my choice. I chose my choice.
How many women in major cities think that or say
(31:17):
that when they become, unfortunately a victim of violent crime
or there's been some robbery. Do they have the cognition
and the ability to recognize I didn't have to live
like this. I made this life choice. Now, remember that
woman buck who didn't prosecute the guy who shoved her
down the stairs because he was black and she didn't
(31:37):
want to do it. And then that guy shoved a
seventy six year old veteran down the stairs and the
veteran died. This has just happened in New York City. Yeah,
in her mind, does she recognize that she made a
poor choice or does she still think, well, at least
I was a good person.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I was a lot of particularly women who vote Democrat
in these cities and around the country. If you ask them,
what is worth you being hospitalized by some maniac who
hits you over the head with a hammer, who's been
arrested a hundred times, or your friends and neighbors thinking
that you're a trumper and maybe a little bit racist,
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they would choose.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Door number one. There you go, it's that that that
is the truth.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And this is what I mean though about don't underestimate
how crazy these people are there, and I mean millions
of them. I'm talking about the majority of voters in
New York City are delusional.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And yes, to your point, Buck, actually it's not a
crazy delusion because their cultural circles and their social cachet
there's far more of a consequence for.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
There's a calculation that they're making. Yeah, they're making a calculation.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's true.
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Speaker 2 (34:08):
Buck on the iHeart APT. Welcome back in here to
Clay and Buck. Let's get to some talkbacks here. Uh
here we go. All right, I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
This is talkback Bee, Rob from West Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Hit it, hey, Buck down here in South Florida. You
know where I could find some journalists to talk to
you tonight. Help a brother out, all right, Rob?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You know I'll take my lumps on this one. I'll
take my lumps on this one.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh another one, Okay, See Chris and Flood, I had
a feeling this is just all anyone. We're trying to
talk about important matters here of national security and economics
and politics. But Chris and Florida wants to talk about
a little flub that happened at the top of the show.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Please see, in all my years of listening, I never
thought that I would hear the masterfully take Nicole buck
Sexton blow a story in the manner that he did.
And not only did he blow the story, he blew
the whole segment, and then he followed it up with
blowing the ad that he was reading. Dear Lord Clay,
(35:19):
this is great, all.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Right, Chris, Chris, I'm glad I can help make your
Friday a little brighter.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
And you know, like I said, I'll take the heat
on this one.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, it is you burn a source, you blow cover,
burn a source, blow cover. Hey, we all learned something today,
John from Orange County.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
I can't let this one go here. I am driving
to work this morning in a nice white shirt, drinking
my coffee, and I hear Buck make this comment about
getting blown I absolutely end up spitting my coffee all
over the inside of my car, get it all over
my white shirt. Now I've got to turn around, go
home and change my shirt.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The goments on this were are are amazing, and uh,
if you were wondering, Buck, you want to reinforce you don't, well,
I would say sometimes journalists have been known RFK junior
story for instance, you typically burn a source, not blow
a source. So, uh, there is the correction for you.
(36:24):
By the way, a little bit of news. Well, we'll
get into some of this Chicago Bears, Buck, you were
talking about Chicago and what are the consequences reports that
they are leaving downtown Chicago Soldier Field and moving to Indiana.
That is a sign you were just talking about poor
choices made by cities, Chicago Bears bailing on downtown Chicago
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for the first time in generations.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
More coming up
Welcome in Friday edition. Clay and Buck. We appreciate all
of you hanging out with us. Let's have some fun,
get you informed and educated as.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You roll into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
As I am watching right now on the quad box,
Fox News and CNN paneled discussion surrounding Graham Platner and
the revelations that came out in the New York Times
article that was finally published yesterday, and we will get
into some of those revelations here right off the top
(00:33):
momentarily MSNBC, Trump is discussing adding a Lincoln Memorial promenade
and also the.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
White House ballroom. So Buck, this is.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Cover for your boys season on MSNBC. You read the article.
I read the article. We will get into it. We
have got a loaded program. We will hear from many
of you and and we will break all this down.
But I thought, Buck, and I'm curious if this was
your kind of takeaway. I thought there were three primary
(01:09):
parts of the of the story, and I would say,
just fyi, we have reached out to the woman who
had the most I would say troubling allegations that were
levied against Graham Platner in this particular story that he
had put her arm behind her back, that he had
(01:31):
shoved her into a bedroom and refused to allow her
to leave.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That there was.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
That certainly, and we'll play some of the audio of this.
That certainly he knew, and I mean, it boggles the
mind to believe that anyone could even argue that they
did not. That the Nazi tattoo that he got on
his chest for almost twenty years, he knew exactly what
it was, and he described it to her. She had
no idea what it was beforehand. She has text messages
(02:02):
that she was sending to her girlfriends, that he is
clearly lying about the Nazi tattoo, that he is an
unhinged guy. I think it's fair to say he may
have physically abused her, and that the New York Times
worked their darndist to try to keep this from being
(02:23):
as awful of a story as it might have been
based on what some of the women had said. Here's
another part of this book, he said, and the campaign
didn't even dispute it. And you might need to turn
down the radio a little bit, because this is unfortunately
pretty crude. He said, if a man ever tried to
break into his apartment, that he would rape him, but
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not in a gay way.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And the campaign said, yes, that is true.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
They didn't even I read that, and I went back
and I reread it because I said, surely they denied that.
He said if a guy broke into his apartment that
he would rape him, but not in a gay way.
And know the campaign said yes that he did in
fact say that this is not a mentally well guy.
I think that he is going to end up being unelectable.
(03:15):
I don't think these are going to be the last
revelations that are going to come out and go figure,
a guy who made the choice to get a Nazi
tattoo on his chest and kept it for twenty years
may not be the greatest decision maker on the planet.
And I think there's a full on panic buck. My
take is, I actually think Republicans benefit if Graham Platner
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stays in because I don't think he can win. So
everybody's out there like, oh, Republicans are trying to come
after him and get him, but purely from a political perspective,
not analyzing morality at all. I actually think this guy
is going to continue to have worse stories come out.
And I don't think Maine voters are going to show
up and vote for him. And this matters nationally because
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if they don't flip the main Senate seat, they have
no check ants to flip the Senate seat. All Right,
I hit a lot. There is there anything? How would
you build upon that? That was a clay Nato. I'm
still I'm still trying to get my bearings after that. Look,
I think that the replacement would be Mills, right, yeah,
if there were, If there was a step down by Platner,
(04:20):
the replacement is I think a bigger challenge for Susan Collins.
Even if it were late in the game, doesn't matter.
The money will still be there. But from the Democrats,
the name recognition is already there because of her role
in the state already. So I'm hoping Platner stays in.
And I think it's also worth noting with everyone these
days too.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You have to be completely.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Turned against by your own side in some way for
someone to step down, Right, It has to remember how
why did Biden step down because he had dementia and
the whole thing was an appalling farce. No, it was
because Pelosi and and some of the big heavyweights of
the Democrat machine told them, you got to go. Why
(05:07):
did Swallwell step down because big name people in the
Democrat and also the women were staffers who would work
for him. Clearly Democrats all this sort of stuff. My
point here, Clay is, short of something like that, the
incentive for the individual is to stay in and try
to win it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
At some level.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Winning is the only vindication you can have for your reputation,
for your brand after something like this happens. This guy
Platner is clearly a scumbag, and the Democrats do not care.
They didn't They don't care how big of a scumbag
somebody is at all, as long as they're going to
vote in lockstep with the Democrat apparatus. And so now
(05:50):
we see that they're trying to make a pure power
calculation about this. We also see in the New York Times.
I think that they got this out there so that
it would be First of all, the way that they
wrote this article was intended to make Platner seem, yes,
(06:10):
like he's damaged. But they talk about his PTSD and
his service, and he's cleaned things up, and there's a
little bit of static around how bad he really was
with these women, and some women like him. And you
know what they did is they muddied the waters so
that any Democrat who wants to vote for Plattner can say, yeah,
I don't really believe some of that stuff. It's a
right wing operative who pushed the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
All this right.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
We'll get more to that, by the way, coming up
in a bit, so Clay, I think that Platner he's
definitely staying, He's not going anywhere. I think that's probably
better for the Republicans. But it also tells you of
the ruthlessness, ruthlessness of the Democrat machine. And with that
we could also give the happiness Do you want to
(06:53):
give the happy news? Now there's some nice news. I
didn't know you're going to launch into this one.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Just all all fired up about this because we we
we knew that this story was coming. There was a
lot of discussion around it. And I should also mention
the foremost of the anti Platner voices, the woman uh
that was foremost in the in the discussion she has
(07:19):
she has published and maybe we'll read a little bit
of her posts on on social media talking about how
dishonest the New York Times was in the way that
in her opinion. They covered her story, and so she
has said that that that we have offered her the
opportunity to come on and tell her story on this
(07:39):
radio program too.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now I'll Lindja Fifield just to be clear. She's out.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I mean her name is that, that's not you know,
she's named in the piece. It's everywhere. I mean, we're not, uh.
And we think she's going to join us on the
program today, I might add, and she should. So we're
excited to talk to her about exactly what she thinks
happened here, Clay, which is the New York Times position
themselves like they're gonna be truth tellers and there's gonna.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Be a lot more, and then they really kind.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Of laundered the whole thing so that I would have
minimal impact against Platner, which does bring me to you
cannot trust the New York Times. They are not journalists,
they are activists. Nobody should trust the New York Times. Clay,
would would you let me ask you this, Would you
ever speak to the New York Times as a source,
(08:29):
knowing that it could blow back on you in some way,
and trust that they would keep you confidential as a source,
knowing who you are.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think they would blow me as a source in
a heartbeat and not think twice, hey hey, hey, hey,
that's what it's called. It's called blowing your So you
know what. He knows what I'm saying. And the point is,
I think they would put my name out there despite
you know, I'm I'm gonna have you know, I'm gonna
(08:58):
have some coffee or something. I'm gonna have some something
over here. You go ahead, sir. Are you okay?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I'm sorry. I just I didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I didn't know they did that for sources. I maybe
I would have been a source more often. I have
to tell you the uh the I have been of
this opinion for a very long time. And I would
say this for anyone out there that is talking to
any media member period.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Record the entire thing, Record the entire thing.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
My biggest issue with talking to media at this point
is you and I are blessed to be able to
sit here for three hours and talk. We got other
shows that we do. I don't feel like my voice
is unheard. And if I'm going to spend the time
that is required to talk to a journalist in quotation
marks to try to get that journalist to write something
(09:49):
that I would like to be written.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
It's not very efficient.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I could just say what I think and or say
what I believe myself, and if I talk to them
for thirty minutes, they might two sentences of what I said,
and it might not be remotely reflective of what the
actual conversation was.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So yes, to your point. Look, I think that this
and this individual.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I think she actually thought I need to talk to
a place like the New York Times. I think she
was being strategic and intelligent because she knew that she
was she had vulnerabilities that they would attack her and say,
you're a conservative, you're a right leaning voter. Of course
you're going to say something awful about Graham Platner. So
she actually was trying to self protect her legitimacy by
(10:36):
talking in her mind to someone that would otherwise be
predisposed to be favorable to Platiner, and then they were favorable.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
To platin All right, I do I do have I do.
Some of you are very astute. I do have a
correction to me. Okay, you burn a source, you blow cover,
you blow.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Someone's say, yeah, I would I would have summary.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So I come from the CIA where if you that's you, you,
that's you. You blow a cover? Is when you were
that would be like if you name somebody who's doing that,
you blow someone's cover, you burn a source. Sorry, now
we know why Clay was giggling so much.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You you think about it more in the context of
having come from national security in that background, what your
information is, could we just saw with John Bolton could
lead to charges.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I don't think I've ever had.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Any information that if I gave to somebody I would
get charged with a crime. I'm not in the intel community.
I'm not getting blown by sources all the time. And
so uh and so you know, you know, just never
know how exactly that's gonna shake out.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
The intel community is not blowing your cover, and as
a New York Times source, you would be burned if
you spoke to them. Okay, So now everyone is is
clear on the terminology and have a lot of people out.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
There box saying maybe I should talk to journals more often. Boy,
it's one of those days.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Hey, let's get to the job summer, buddy, Let's get
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we're gonna hit you with some great jobs numbers when
we come back, so they're gonna blow your mind. Clay
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And hang with the guys Clay and Buck, pre said
on the iHeart app. All right, welcome back into Clay
and Buck.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Let's bring you up to speed with some encouraging news
about the economy. CNBC's Rick Santelli here is stunned. Stunned
by the jobs numbers, uh and also the last month revision.
The man himself, the man who started the tea party
back in the day, I'll never forget that, basically by
(14:06):
doing what he does here, which is just getting fired
up about stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Play one the main.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Job job Jobs report one hundred and seventy two thousand.
Is there any doubt that this anecdote eleven it's about
a good labor market has been very correct.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
That is a really strong number.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And last month, while we had a revision from one
hundred and fifteen thousand to one hundred and seventy nine thousand,
which means the two month revision has gotta be over
ninety thousand.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
That is a good number.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Even manufacturing posted a seven thousand job gain, So how
strong is one hundred and seventy two thousand. That would
be the best number since one hundred and eighty five
thousand in March.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
These are solid numbers. Play looking pretty good. You know,
what are you thinking about this?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
All the people that are out there that are what
I would say polly an ish about where we are
right now. I'm just I'm not going to apologize for
thinking things are good and getting better. I understand that
that doesn't mean on an individual basis that every single
person is having the greatest financial positions of their lives.
(15:18):
But when you look at record high stock prices, buck,
I was looking again.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I love looking at data.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The numbers on murders are collapsing at a level that
I'm not sure anybody has ever seen before, even in
New York City. Did you New York City through the
end of May has the lowest recorded murder rate in
the history of the city. I've got that data. I'm
trying to have some positive stories. I don't want to
blow a Friday. I want it to turn out really
(15:46):
really well with all of this data. When you look
at what's going on, with what's going on with the
stock market, murders collapsing, these are great numbers, really way
more job than people were anticipating. The unemployment rate is
four point two percent. We have gotten millions of illegals
(16:08):
out of this country. The border is completely secure. What
I want to start to see happen. If you said, Okay, Clay,
what is an ideal thing? The overall rate of employment
for young men and men twenty five to fifty four
I think needs to go back up because I think
a lot of men got frustrated. Candidly, I think a
(16:28):
lot of people are sort of sucking off the government
teat and taking advantage of all the free money that
is out there, and so they're making the decision not
to be in the larger marketplace. The most important, I
think number that we can start to see is the
percentage of people that are employed, because some people just
get frustrated and say, screw it, I'm not going to
even try to keep finding a job. I think when
(16:50):
you start to look at all these numbers, the data
is really really, really looking positive. And by the way,
this day next week we are going to have the
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(17:13):
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you're going to be able to get this. I just
I am really really optimistic about where we are sitting.
Doesn't mean that I don't recognize there are other things
that are not perfect, but I think the overall trend
(17:35):
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Speaking truth and having fun. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Welcome back in Clay and buckh all of you hanging
out with us as we are rolling through the Friday
edition of the program. Two thirty scheduled right now, the
accuser of Graham Platner that was foremost in the New
York Times article is going to be on with us
to share her story and why she feels like the
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New York Times did not do a fair job of
conveying her story, and so that will be at two thirty.
Her name is Buck Lindsey. I want to make sure
that I get her FIFELD so she will be on
with us at two thirty, about two hours from now.
I know we had a bunch of positives. The overall
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stock market continues to set records, not necessarily today, but
the numbers are spectacularly good when it comes to new jobs.
And we played that audio for you. Let me also
hit you with something that is not great. Buck California
vote counting, and I I feel like there's just a
calculated decision to pretend that this counting is not going on.
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I am increasingly troubled. It looks like Spencer Pratt as
these male ballots have come in, and basically, if you
voted by mail, according to the numbers that are coming
in right now, there is almost a zero percent chance
that you voted for Spencer Pratt or that you voted
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for Steve Hilton.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And for a lot of you out.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
There, I think that is hard to explain how that
could be possible. Legitimately, nobody who is actually voting by
mail is voting Republican at all. Because you look at
these numbers and as they come in, it's crazy. Tens
of thousands of people are voting for Nitsia Rahman, and
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almost no one is voting for Spencer Pratt. So Spencer
Pratt's people all showed up in person and voted, and
then all of the people that are Democrat voters are
now showing up and voting for others. So Spencer Pratt
is now a substantial underdog to advance to the runoff.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Also, Steve Hilton.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I can't even imagine how frustrating it is to be
Steve Hilton right now. In fact, let's get him on
if we can again Ali, maybe Monday or Tuesday, after
another weekend, because it's not going to be much closer
to being counted.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
They are either.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Steve Hilton is comfortably not even like I mean he
was in the lead when everybody voted in person. He
has a huge lead now as all of these ballots
continue to tick in. The ballots can still arrive up
to a week after election day. Let me repeat that,
you can still you can still be filling out your
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ballot today. In California, they have seven days after election
day under which ballots can still be and they are
still able to count them. It's one of the craziest
things that I have seen that California has gone back
in time to an era where they're slower counting votes
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than they were in eighteen ninety. And I think everybody
out there who is listening to us right now, you
guys know that the reality is they're doing this for
a reason. Why did they change the rules in California
so that they could have counting go on four weeks?
No one benefits on the Republican side.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
We know this.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
They have the ability to corral and get as many
votes out there as they possibly can. And so my
concern would be, if I'm Steve Hilton, the votes just
keep coming in. We've seen this before, we saw it
happen in twenty twenty. The entire concept of mail ballots
is it's a license to cheat.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
It just is.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
And the fact that we are allowing male ballots like this,
and by the way, I'm not talking about if you
are overseas, if you're a tiny pinprick of the number
of people we get that right, that serve overseas and
you're not in the country. Millions and millions of people
in California, where they have ample early voting and they
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have ample opportunity to go vote in person, are deciding
to send out these ballots. They send a ballot to
every registered voter. How many of those ballots do you
think get harvested? This is crazy, the fact that this
is being allowed to happen. Buck So my concern is
our friend Steve Hilton is just having to sit there
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for weeks as many of these places don't even bother
to count, and he's in a position where there is
going to be more and more votes going against him
more uniform Bucket. We were just saying, I mean Spencer Pratt,
no one did a male ballot for Spencer Pratt basically
in all of LA County. That's what the numbers are
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now reflecting every Spencer Prat voter actually showed up in
person and went and voted. Basically none of them actually
filled out a mail ballot. I just this is the
President Trump is one billion percent right about this. I
hope the Supreme Court is going to try to clean
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some of this up because with the election day, you know,
they've got a case in front of them right now
to try to figure out how long can you continue
to count ballots and how much can you stretch election day.
We have election month in California now, and Steve Hilton
has a narrow lead still, but every day a dribble
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of these votes is continuing to come in, and they
still have forty percent of the vote outstanding according to
estimates that I've seen.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Look, there's also an people get people get mad at
me when I say this, But it's just the truth, Clay.
I live most of my life, almost forty years in
New York City. I think truly, for people who live
in very red, very common sense, commonplace, common sense situations
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like you know, I don't know Idaho, or pick a
very red part of any state, there can be this
How can so many people be that crazy? They can't
really be that crazy, right, I mean, some of them are,
but the Democrats in these places, more of them must
be capable of seeing reason. You know, there's a disbelief
at how widespread the left wing rot is in either
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New York or Los Angeles or these other places.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's there. This is what I'm I'm trying to tell
you guys.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Unfortunately, you might be thinking, oh, they're just cheating, cheating,
cheating in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
And by the way, that may be that's true.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
I will see I would not be surprised at all
I'm talking about ballot harvesting and all this other stuff.
I would also, though, just want to remind you that
if you've never spent a lot of time in New York, Chicago,
La Portland, Austin, Seattle, Boston, blah blah, any of these places,
if you haven't really spent a lot of time there,
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it is hard to wrap your mind around how self
aggrandizing and self defeating the left wing mentality is there.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
They will convince them they will step in human poop.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Walk past an encampment on the street, avoid a glass
bottle being thrown at their head, get on a public
transit system that smells like urine, have cops who won't
do anything about some maniac running around shirtless with a hatchet.
Go to some downtown that is now like a ghost
town because all the businesses are closing down because of
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all and clay.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
They will still vote Democrat. This is the part of
it that I know is so hard for They just they.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Vote Democrat because when they're at yoga class that weekend
and they're seeing their friends, you know, drinking you know,
locally made mead and comparing you know, the latest trends
in pet therapy they want to be able to say
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I voted for Karen Bass because I'm one of the
good people. So I just want to remind everyone, you know,
if they're cheating, and do I think they're cheating going on? Yeah,
of course, but I don't know yet, right, I have
a gut feeling that they're cheating on behalf of the
Democrats in these places, but I don't know. I don't
have proof, so I think we should wait till we
actually although can I just went out Clay I talked
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to this before the show. There was apparently a ballot
dump of twenty five thousand votes all went for It
was all Bass, right or was it just all Democrats?
It was just all none of them went Spencer Pratt
like the whole dump, which is how the numbers have
started to flip, because he had a huge lead with
all of the voting in person that had been released,
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so statistically, to find twenty five thousand votes and not
a single one of them went for Spencer Pratt, you
would have a few that were just mistakes. The literacy
rate of Los Angeles is not as high as a
lot of people might think it is. You have a
lot of people also who don't speak English very well.
Do you see what I'm saying here, Folks? The chance
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that not a single of twenty five thousand votes would
go for Spencer Pratt, even if it was entirely accidental,
is I think a statistical anomaly, Let's put it that way.
I think it's an irregularity, Let's put it that way.
And so these are things to keep in mind as
this goes. Although it is disappointing to see how this
is playing out, I cannot say it is shocking. We're
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expecting both shenanigans on the ballot harvesting, etc. Which Clay
was just talking about. But also there are people who
can look at all of the objective reality that they
live through and understand that there are decisions being made
by people in authority that lead.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
To those situations.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
All those things, you know, the poop and the pee,
and the and the trains, and the crazy people and
the tent encampments and the dysfunction and the spending.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
That's going through the room, all of that.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
They look at all of that and they go, I
want more of the same, because good people support the
people that are making these decisions, and I want to
be a good person and that's as simple as it
is for a lot of people in Los Angeles for
them to vote for a Republican as a kin to
voting for Trump. And voting for Trump is some form
of cultural social sepuku.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
That's a word that hasn't made it onto the show before.
I mean, I'm spicing up today. Yes, I sign off
on all of that, and we will continue here. Here's
what I would ad And again I don't know the
answer to this. Will Trump not being in office change
the degree to which so many people on the Democrat
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side have made their foundation of life anti trump Ism,
orange Man, bad Trump derangement syndrome? Or are they just
going to This is a big question. I don't claim
to know the answer. Are they just going to pivot
to Marco Rubio or JD Vance or whomever the newest
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boogeyman is in their world? Will they then take all
of the psychological complete collapse that they have embraced arounding
Trump and just transfer it to a new Republican figure.
I don't know the answer, but I always come back
to I love that scene in Sex and the City
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where it's probably not the expected the analogy here, but
when Charlotte is standing there upset because she makes her
own life choices, and she just keeps saying, I chose
my choice. I chose my choice. I chose my choice.
How many women in major cities think that or say
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that when they become, unfortunately a victim of violent crime
or there's been some robbery. Do they have the cognition
and the ability to recognize I didn't have to live
like this. I made this life choice. Now, remember that
woman buck who didn't prosecute the guy who shoved her
down the stairs because he was black and she didn't
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want to do it. And then that guy shoved a
seventy six year old veteran down the stairs and the
veteran died. This has just happened in New York City. Yeah,
in her mind, does she recognize that she made a
poor choice or does she still think, well, at least
I was a good person.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I was a lot of particularly women who vote Democrat
in these cities and around the country. If you ask them,
what is worth you being hospitalized by some maniac who
hits you over the head with a hammer, who's been
arrested a hundred times, or your friends and neighbors thinking
that you're a trumper and maybe a little bit racist,
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they would choose.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Door number one. There you go, it's that that that
is the truth.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
And this is what I mean though about don't underestimate
how crazy these people are there, and I mean millions
of them. I'm talking about the majority of voters in
New York City are delusional.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
And yes, to your point, Buck, actually it's not a
crazy delusion because their cultural circles and their social cachet
there's far more of a consequence for.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
There's a calculation that they're making. Yeah, they're making a calculation.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
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they do if they actually are a victim of violent crime.
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Speaker 2 (34:08):
Buck on the iHeart APT. Welcome back in here to
Clay and Buck. Let's get to some talkbacks here. Uh
here we go. All right, I knew this was gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
This is talkback Bee, Rob from West Palm Beach, Florida.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Hit it, hey, Buck down here in South Florida. You
know where I could find some journalists to talk to
you tonight. Help a brother out, all right, Rob?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You know I'll take my lumps on this one. I'll
take my lumps on this one.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Oh another one, Okay, See Chris and Flood, I had
a feeling this is just all anyone. We're trying to
talk about important matters here of national security and economics
and politics. But Chris and Florida wants to talk about
a little flub that happened at the top of the show.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Please see, in all my years of listening, I never
thought that I would hear the masterfully take Nicole buck
Sexton blow a story in the manner that he did.
And not only did he blow the story, he blew
the whole segment, and then he followed it up with
blowing the ad that he was reading. Dear Lord Clay,
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this is great, all.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Right, Chris, Chris, I'm glad I can help make your
Friday a little brighter.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
And you know, like I said, I'll take the heat
on this one.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Yes, it is you burn a source, you blow cover,
burn a source, blow cover. Hey, we all learned something today,
John from Orange County.
Speaker 7 (35:41):
I can't let this one go here. I am driving
to work this morning in a nice white shirt, drinking
my coffee, and I hear Buck make this comment about
getting blown I absolutely end up spitting my coffee all
over the inside of my car, get it all over
my white shirt. Now I've got to turn around, go
home and change my shirt.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
The goments on this were are are amazing, and uh,
if you were wondering, Buck, you want to reinforce you don't, well,
I would say sometimes journalists have been known RFK junior
story for instance, you typically burn a source, not blow
a source. So, uh, there is the correction for you.
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By the way, a little bit of news. Well, we'll
get into some of this Chicago Bears, Buck, you were
talking about Chicago and what are the consequences reports that
they are leaving downtown Chicago Soldier Field and moving to Indiana.
That is a sign you were just talking about poor
choices made by cities, Chicago Bears bailing on downtown Chicago
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for the first time in generations.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
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