August 18, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show focused heavily on primary election day politics, with extensive coverage of the Florida, Alaska, and Wyoming primaries, as well as broader discussions about the Republican Party’s political momentum heading into the next election cycle. Clay and Buck opened the hour by highlighting primary contests in Florida, Alaska, Wyoming, and a special congressional election in California, while reflecting on their own voting experiences and the importance of local elections. A major theme throughout the first hour was Florida’s emergence as what the hosts described as a Republican stronghold, citing voter registration trends, congressional redistricting, and the state’s dramatic political transformation under Governor Ron DeSantis. They argued that Florida has shifted from a traditional swing state into a reliable Republican bastion and debated whether DeSantis’ tenure ranks among the most successful gubernatorial administrations of the 21st century.
The conversation expanded into a broader analysis of the changing political landscape across the United States, comparing Florida with Texas, Tennessee, California, and New York. The hosts discussed COVID-era policies, population migration trends, and the influence of President Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago on Florida’s political identity. They also examined Florida’s booming real estate market, rising property values across the state, and growing affordability concerns, particularly in Miami and the Florida Panhandle, which they described as among the hottest housing markets in the country. Discussions of economic growth, demographic shifts, voter registration changes, and real estate development were woven into a larger argument about Florida’s growing importance in national politics.
A significant portion of Hour 1 covered controversy surrounding Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff following remarks he made about President Trump during a political rally. Clay and Buck criticized Ossoff’s comments, particularly references involving Trump aide Natalie Harp, arguing that the rhetoric amounted to a personal attack. The hosts defended Harp’s role in the administration and used the controversy to launch a wider conversation about what they described as political and legal efforts to target President Trump and individuals in his orbit. They revisited cases involving Trump associates and argued that opponents have increasingly focused on people surrounding Trump because direct attacks against the president have become less effective politically.
Election integrity and campaign tactics became another central topic as the show turned to Alaska’s primary election. Clay and Buck devoted substantial attention to what they called the “tale of two Dan Sullivans,” discussing allegations that Democrats supported a candidate with a nearly identical name to Republican Senator Dan Sullivan in order to create voter confusion. The hosts examined Alaska’s nonpartisan primary system, ranked-choice voting, court rulings allowing both candidates to remain on the ballot, and evidence they claimed demonstrated a coordinated effort to siphon votes from the incumbent senator. The discussion framed Alaska as a critical battleground in the fight for Senate control and highlighted concerns about election strategy, voter confusion, and political gamesmanship.
The Alaska focus intensified with an interview featuring Senator Dan Sullivan, who discussed the race’s stakes, accused Democrats of attempting to manipulate the election through deceptive tactics, and argued that Alaska represents a key firewall against a Democratic Senate majority. Sullivan highlighted his legislative record, contrasted it with that of his opponents, criticized ranked-choice voting, and urged voters to carefully identify the correct candidate on the ballot. The hosts and Sullivan repeatedly emphasized the national significance of the Alaska Senate race, arguing that control of the chamber could hinge on the outcome.
Throughout Hour 1, the hosts also reflected on voter turnout, polling locations, primary election procedures in different states, prediction markets, congressional races, and the evolving balance of power between Republicans and Democrats nationwide. The hour concluded with a discussion about support for veterans through the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, recognition of the upcoming 25th anniversary of 9/11, and previews of upcoming program topics, including WNBA discussions, continued election coverage, and a forthcoming conversation about Iran with Steve Yates later in the show. Overall, Hour 1 centered on Florida politics, Republican voter registration gains, Ron DeSantis, primary election results, Alaska Senate politics, ranked-choice voting, Jon Ossoff, President Donald Trump, election integrity, voter turnout, and the battle for Sena
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Tuesday edition of The Clay A,
Travis and Buck Saxon Show. Clay and Buck. That's what
we actually call it, that's what the people call it.
Clay and Buck. And we have primary day going on here.
It's late August, so primary day is about as exciting
as the political news cycle is likely to be. We
got Florida. Hey, everybody, I just voted and they gave
(00:23):
me a little sticker that says I voted. So that's exciting.
Florida primary. Alaska, where there's a bit of skullduggery, Clay,
a little bit of cloak and dagger politics going on
in Alaska of all places. And Wyoming, where I think
Republicans tend to have the highest advantage. It's either is
(00:46):
it Wyoming? West Virginia is really high, but Wyoming has
a primary today. It's the very red state. There's also
a special election in California's fourteenth congressional district, so there
is that. Okay, Clay, can I just start with this.
I want I want to be positive today. I must
are off on a happy note. Well that's unexpected. Look
at this, you know what I'm saying. I'm coming in
(01:08):
here with something. I love reading this from the New
York Times, especially as I walk back from voting in
our Florida primary where there were a lot of judges.
This is one thing you realize when you go into
the ballot box and you are looking through this and
you think you're knowledge about politics, and then you realize
there are jobs. You're like, what is this job this
person's doing? Okay, I do a lot of reading and
(01:32):
politics for a living, and there's always somebody on there
or some some thing that I'm supposed to make a
decision about it. I go, wait a second, I think
I've heard of this this before. It gets way down
into the weeds of local politics. So the good news
for Florida. New York Times here Florida primary underscores states
new identity as a Republican juggernaut. Ooof injected into my veins. Florida,
(01:56):
I love it. And New York Times then continues Publicans
hold every statewide elected office and has drastically swung voter
registration of the state. A newly jerrymandered congressional map has
added four Republican leaning seats, so basically, Clay, while today
is only a primary, it is also a moment to
(02:16):
celebrate the beautiful, bright redness of the state of Florida.
Thank you, Governor Ron DeSantis for presiding over a I'm
trying to remember what the latest is. It went from
two hundred and fifty thousand plus Democrat registration in this
state in twenty eighteen, Clay to well over a million
(02:38):
Republican advantage. And I'm not sure what the latest number is,
but well, I mean, you're talking about a massive swing. Beautiful,
bright red Florida. All my friends come down. The weather
is warm, the water is warm. The weather might be
a little too warm, but it is a great day here, Clay.
That is one thing I'm excited about. I did check
with the team though, and I'm not whimping out here,
(03:00):
but we have the Rush rule. We never endorsed in
a primary. Russia also never told anybody who we voted
for in a primary, So I think I have to.
I think I have to. Oh that's I told everybody
exactly who I voted for. Yeah, but you're Clay, like,
I mean, I don't really want to hold back. Marcia Blackburn,
Bill Hagerty, and h Brent Taylor Boom boom boom for
(03:23):
for governor, Congress and UH and Senate. So uh, so
you are dodging this. I was just looking at the uh.
There are a bunch of serious battles that are going
on in the congressional districts because, as you mentioned, Florida
has redrawn their congressional districts and a lot of people
(03:44):
are going to be voting in areas that they may
not have voted in the past, meaning they're voting for
new congress people, all these different things. I will say
this because I'm looking up the numbers right now as
we talk. Is Ron de Santis the most successful governor
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in the twenty first century? I think the answer is yes,
when you look at his eight year tenure. I'm not
sure who else you would point to, And I honestly
think you would have to go to back in time
for some period of time to even think of someone
(04:25):
who has accomplished as much in eight years as Ron
DeSantis will have accomplished in eight years. I think there's
no question that the transformation of Florida to really the
seat of Republic. Now. I know you Texans at look
Tennessee is beautiful and great and Clays mister Tennessee, but
just you're out done size wise in terms of population
(04:47):
by Florida and Texas, right, so they don't have as many.
I would also just point out Tennessee's not a swing state.
Texas should not be a swing state. When Ron DeSantis
took over Buck he won by fifty thousand votes over
Andrew Gillen. Oh, it's it's crazy. By the way, Andrew
gillam is, you know, has fallen into a disrepute. I think, yeah,
(05:10):
that's a very kind way of describing I'm in a
nice mood today. I'm in a nice mood today. And
I would say, but what I meant to say, Clay,
is that Texas and Florida are really both vying for
California is clearly the alpha Democrats state, and I think
that the number two, the VP, if you will, is
New York for the Democrats. Texas and Florida, you could
(05:33):
make okay, Now, Texas is a bigger population, but Texas
and Florida because the Trump, because Trump and mar A Lago,
the Trump family, the transformation, the role of play during COVID,
it was way better than Texas during COVID. Governor Greg
Abbott was a little, uh, a little iffy on the
COVID stuff. I remember, it's amazing to see this state
go from the year two thousand where the biggest political
(05:55):
story in the world is whether Miami Dade can count
hanging and dimpled chads and all this other stuff. So
now it's Fortress Florida, and you have you have great
candidates for all these different state wide offices, and we'll
see who ends up winning the primary. But it's basically
a lock for us. I think going forward on this. Now,
(06:18):
you know I just went You're a Florida property owner,
so you get in on some of this love some
of this action too, and you're probably you're probably Panhandle
real estate salesman of the Year just by talking about
how much you love it, even though I know you
say you don't want people to keep buying there because
it's getting crowded. I mean they just have I mean property.
People would not believe how expensive property has gotten on
(06:43):
the Panhandle. There are houses now selling for thirty million
dollars on the Florida Panhandle. And I'm not talking about
a state where you have acres of property associated with it,
just a house thirty million dollars. It's really kind of
kind of wild how popular it is. And I know
(07:03):
where you are, Miami. Look, probably it's fair to say
the three most expensive cities in America now number one
is San Francisco. It has the highest rent of any
city in America. Now number two with New York City.
Three is Miami. I think that's pretty clear. Would you
dispute that at all, that those are the three most
expensive places to live in the country. Now, yeah, those
(07:26):
are the three most expensive real estate markets, and the
real estate markets still exploding in all those places. Now
a lot of that is also international money, I might add,
so it's a little bit of a distortion from what
you would think just the you know, Americans are buying.
But getting back to the primaries here, there are two
stories we're going to talk about. This Alaska situation where
(07:46):
you have it's a tale of two Dan Sullivan's. That's
where Yes, sir, you look like you know you gave
you that, you gave me the wave. No, No, I'm
still looking. I'm kind of my eyebrows went up because
I'm looking at all the odds across all the Florida
votes that are going on today, and there are some
intriguing dollars pouring in into the prediction market, so I'm
(08:08):
just kind of following it. So it's a tale of
two Dan Sullivan's, which we shall explain some of that.
But there's also something else that's on everyone's radar a
little bit right now, other than Florida. You're amazing, Florida,
I love you. Little love letter to Florida today on
the show, and all of our Florida listeners, we Clay
have seen this. As Off Fellow, who is running again
(08:33):
now he has gotten some attention here for something that
a lot of people point out is quite cringe worthy,
as they say on the New York Post cover here
as Off is getting some heat after he did this.
He said on Sunday at a rally in Atlanta, something
about Trump, and it was uncalled for. It was nasty,
(08:56):
it was a low blow. This is cut one. Here's
what he said.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war while
he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves. The President
sleeps through his meetings, he gaulks and trade stocks.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So he doesn't want to do the job.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie
on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir
of qatar.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Ah. He's talking about an aide there, a young woman
named Natalie Harror, who is Klay and I I've met
her or She's delightful and she's a very trusted member
of the Trump White House, Trump administration. And I think
we all know what he's doing there. I think we
all got it, buddy. Last night he decided to play
a little cleanup on this what it seems this is
(09:52):
cut to play it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Why did you decide to invoke Natalie Harp specifically in
that speege. Here's the point where in wartime the commander
in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People
have lost their lives, our naval logistics are fraid, the
global energy system is in crisis, and he retreats into
(10:18):
this bubble of West wing aides who are his security
blanket to make him feel good about himself.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Clay, that's not why he brought up her name. We
all know. And it shows you who this ausoff guy
really is. It shows you who the Democrats think a
manly man actually how he acts. Yeah, look, Natalie's awesome
and she works basically all the time around the clock.
She sits at Beck and call for the president to
(10:48):
be able to basically handle anything. In the Oval office,
she has a seat on the wall to the right
side of the president. He's constantly asking questions. I don't
think this is giving away any grace about this. She
has said that she is giving up four years of
her life to basically work all the time for him
(11:11):
in this second term because she thinks it's so important
what he is doing. And look, I think one of
the things that happens, Buck is it's hard to score
points by attacking Trump now, and so I think this
is particularly nasty. But what often happens is people recognize
they can't really take shots at Trump, so they try
(11:34):
to expand the horizon of people that they're going to
attack around him. And I mean, look, we saw this
with Walt Nada, who is his body man, carries a
lot of his bags around. Awesome guy. They charged him
with federal crimes related to classified documents because he moved
some boxes and the goal is to just bring pressure
(11:57):
to bear on Trump. But everybody around remember the accountant
he went to prison because he didn't accurately account for
the car that he was driving for purposes of his taxes?
Did you even know that that was a I didn't
even know that. There's some tax rods people do, And
I'm like, yeah, I didn't know you can't do that.
I didn't know you had to account for the use
(12:19):
of a company car on your personal I've never had
this before, but on your personal income tax. Yeah. I
mean it's but it's it's a great example. I mean,
we're talking about tax retaking, his weaponization. To be clear,
it's not like, oh, he should have known nobody. I mean,
no one goes to prison for that. I mean, if
you're talking about a few thousand dollars in disputed taxes
in a in an organization that has hundreds of millions
(12:42):
of dollars. But I would have more respect for us
off if he just came out and said what he
was clearly trying to imply is that there was something
inappropriate with their relationship, and that's clearly why everybody reacted.
If he had just owned it and said what he's
(13:02):
clearly trying to imply, then I would at least have
more respect for him. It would be dishonest, but it
would at least be honest as to his purposes. Can
I just say this is one thing, one superpower that
Trump has. You know you sometimes you might think, okay,
Trump went a little far with that or whatever, but
he always owns what he says. He never does the
(13:25):
oh I took the cheap shot, but I didn't. I
didn't actually mean the cheap shot. Yeah, now they've tried
to say he took cheap shots when he didn't. That's
a different thing. But when he's decided that he wants
to get into the into the mud with somebody, he
doubles down on it. I mean, over that's overwhelming me.
That's his position. So at least there's some level of
standing behind your words with us. Off you want to
(13:48):
you want to take that. And by the way, this
is a young woman, she's unmarried. You know, he's he's
he's sullying her reputation completely, uh, with no basis whatsoever
other than he knows that anything that is throwing mud
at Trump is gonna get a clap and a laugh
from that audience. And that's what it is. But it's
a gross thing to do, it's a dishonorable thing to do.
(14:10):
And then he pretends like, oh, it's really about policy. Matters, Yes,
asof and we all know who asof is to. You
just sort of look at this guy, you know, he's uh,
he's betto, he's Did you see the mayor of Minneapolis
by the way, at the like the Jacob entrepreneurs thing, Yes,
dancing like a like a total dork. Uh. You know
(14:31):
it's just the the pandering, wimpy nonsense from some of
these democrats. You just you know who they are. You know,
they're like the last guy in the world that you
want to have your back when you know, the biker
gang shows up at the bar and you need someone
to have have your uh, you know, have your six.
So anyway, no doubt we'll take some of your calls.
We got a bunch of talkbacks on a variety of
(14:52):
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and Buck. We are rolling through the Tuesday edition of
the program. We come back here on the backside. Let's
dive into this just utterly ridiculous ploy that they are
trying to put into place in Alaska where they are
(17:00):
trying to run I feel like we're you need to
vote for the Dan Sullivan with an S in his name.
Dan S. Sullivan Democrats are trying to run Dan J.
Sullivan to try to siphon off the overall vote totals
of Dan S. Sullivan, the current Republican Senator. It's one
(17:24):
of the dirtiest plays I've seen in a long time.
I think, honestly, Buck, because it's Alaska. A lot of
people have not been paying attention to this story on
a national level. But given the battleground states as they are,
Alaska is one of the states that Democrats would probably
have to win to take back control of the Senate.
(17:45):
And this is just how dirty they're willing to play.
So we'll fill you in on all this when we
come back here in the next segment. Indeed, we show
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into Clay and Buck Primary day. Not any huge stories
I think to dive into with Wyoming right now. Uh,
Florida is just like just a giant parade of awesome here,
although I think like forget of a parade. I was
(19:13):
at my city hall here at Miami Beach. I think
it gave me this nice little I voted sticker, and
I voted for whom I don't know, can neither confirm
nor deny. I'm gonna keep everybody on the edge of
their seats because you know, there's there's no upside in
this too. No matter what I say, people are gonna
get mad at me. And also, uh, there were so
(19:34):
many people in the ballot for governor. It was crazy.
I didn't count, but I want to say I saw
at least ten names, maybe twelve names. And lorda, you
pick a side, like a Republican side or a Democrat side, like,
you go in, yeah, yeah, so I'm only voting among Republicans.
You're not registered one way or the other. You tell them,
Like in Tennessee. I go up and they say, in fact,
(19:55):
the lady said, I have to ask, but I probably
know which side you're vot voting because I listen. And
when I voted in the primary in Tennessee. Thank you
for everybody, by the way, who volunteers to work at
so many different polling places across the country. This is
like whenever I voted in New York City, Clay. The
only people who ever, this is back when I was
doing a fair amount of Fox News or CNN and stuff.
(20:18):
It was the cops who were providing security. They'd be like, hey, buddy,
good to see you. You know what I mean. It
was only the cops, only NYPD guys that would note
that they knew who I was voting for. When I
was going in back in the day, they ask you
in Florida, they ask you for ID right away. You
had got to provide your obviously Florida driver's license and
showed that to them. They checked pretty rigorously, actually my
(20:40):
address and asked me a few questions about that, and
then they gave me my ballot. I went through almost
nobody there voting. It is election day. I saw one
person leaving who I assume was a voter. Other than that,
it was just me, So I had the place to myself.
A lot of voting staff around there had any questions,
(21:01):
and yes, you only vote for your within your own party.
And if there are a lot of a lot of
county judges and things like that, that we're in the
mix two. So you're getting right down to that granular
political level. But yeah, in Florida, it's a it's just
Republican dominance on display. It's fantastic. We love What was
the stat you just told me about election day voting
early returns so far? Yeah, that the twenty twenty six
(21:24):
early numbers. Florida does a really good job of updating
on their official sites exactly how many people have voted,
what side of the aisle they're voting on, things like that.
That the turnout so far for twenty twenty six for
Republicans in the primary is better than the turnout for
twenty twenty two for Republicans. So the percentage of voters
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that is that are out there. Democrats and Republicans. I
believe it was sixty three percent right now are Republican voters.
Twenty eight percent are Democrat voters. Yeah, so the dominance
is on display. Now, let's shift and those of you
who are listening to us, what on K E and
I we're on live right now in Alaska in Anchorage.
(22:10):
We're we're up on the Alaska air waves, and Alaska
is really the most interesting political story right now of
the primary. You wouldn't normally have something that is this intriguing,
perhaps sinister going on. Sabotage is the word of the day,
it would seem, Clay, here's what you got. This is
(22:31):
Sullivan v. Sullivan, which sounds like a Supreme Court case,
but it actually is what's going on right now. You
have the incumbent US Senator Dan Sullivan, who's a Republican.
He's seeking another term. So this is a competitive race
because well of a few things. But the challenger to
Daniel S. Sullivan is this guy, Daniel J. Sullivan. Okay,
(22:56):
everybody and a court has refused to took this to court.
They refused to kick him off as essentially playing a
intentional spoiler here. Clay's nickname has become Decoy Dan, which
I think is a pretty good nickname. He is a
former forest service worker from Petersburg, Alaska, and he filed
(23:21):
as a Republican right near the deadline June first, twenty
twenty six, a couple days before that, and he just
decided that he was going to get in this race.
Clay Alaska has a non partisan top four primary, so
all unlike here in Florida, we have to be registered
before you can only vote all four candidates. I'm sorry,
(23:42):
the top four candidates rather advanced in November general election,
regardless of the party. So this is a bad faith
sham with Decoy Dan. What do you think? Look it is.
By the way, they also have evidence of emails that
the not surprised that top Democrat officials in Alaska were
(24:04):
involved in trying to sabotage this and the I believe
it went all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court,
and the Alaska Supreme Court said we're going to allow
this to occur. I mean, it's ridiculous, but in look,
go back in time. We're talking about Florida voting in
two thousand, there were a lot of people because of
(24:25):
the so called butterfly ballot. If you remember that who
made a choice in that Florida election that was different
than what they might have intended based on the way
that the dots were designed, And Florida has since fixed
all of their election related integrity issues. Now, are you
talking dimple chads? Dimple chads? Was? I think if you
(24:47):
remember all the chad era. But if they can get
Dan s Sullivan going head to head with Dan J. Sullivan, unfortunately,
I think a lot of people you may not have
great eyesight, you may just go in there. I think
people will be confused and in a race that may
come down to a couple of points or a few
(25:09):
thousand votes, I think that Republicans could end up losing
this race because people vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan.
That's clearly what Democrats, who claim to care so much
about election integrity, are hoping that they can do to
steal this race. So Clay, I think if you put
(25:31):
Donald J. Trump on the ballot nationally against Donald G.
Trump on the ballot nationally, and I don't, by the way,
I'm not mocking anybody for that, I think a lot
of people would get it wrong. Yeah, a lot of
people would get a lot of people to your point eyesight.
(25:51):
You're in there, you're not paying attention. Also, a lot
of people don't know politicians middle names. Let's just be honest. Correct, correct, there.
Here's a James Sexton out there who's become quite famous,
who is not me. He is a different James Sexton.
He's a divorce attorney in New York City. We have
the same name. Now I'm known as Buck, so it's
pretty which is my middle name. So that makes things differently.
(26:13):
But how many people can tell the difference between public
figures they know based on the same name but a
different middle initial. I think you would have. I couldn't
guess at the number, but you'd have a huge number
in the aggregately. In Alaska, here's the problem. I think
there will be thousands of people who inadvertently vote for
(26:33):
the wrong Dan Sullivan, and that is effectively a vote
for the Democrats, because you're diluting the overall percentage that
the real Dan Sullivan would get. I'm surprised, based on
the email evidence that is out there, that the Alaska
Supreme Court allowed this to happen, because it is such
(26:54):
a dirty trick. I okay, I as a clay, I
read through the legal proceeding on this, you know, the short,
the quick and dirty of it. If I am the judge,
what is the legal argument you make? I get people
aren't gonna want to hear this Alaska people right now,
they're gonna go full grizzly bear on me. But what
(27:15):
is the argument you make? The guy's legal name is yeah,
what he says it is he met the deadline? Is
it a dirty trick of course? But what is the
legal mechanism they tried to impose? The person in charge
of like I'm trying to think division, division of elections.
They try to say there's a good faith thing. Yeah,
(27:36):
but what does that mean? And the judge who looked
at this, I think, unfortunately is it he says, there's
a novel good faith test for somebody. Do you meet
the legal requirements? Yes or no? I think the judge
is in a tough spot here because think about it.
If you could just get rid of somebody because you
think they're a bad faith challenger, but they meet all
the legal requirements, you don't think Democrats would abuse that.
(27:58):
I mean, that's opening up a huge you know, on
what legal basis could you exclude this guy? No, I
mean I think it's a This is why Democrats did it, right,
They thought that they would be able to legally get
away with it. To me, it is the emails that
exist showing that this is a scheme designed to confuse
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and I would argue defraud voters because to your point, Buck,
if you intend to vote for someone and due to
the fact that they have tried to confuse you, you
don't make the decision that you intended, then I think
that is super dirty. Now here is I'm going to
try to be positive. Here is a positive on this.
(28:42):
Could reasonable Alaska voters actually be turned off by the
duplicity of the Democrat Party? And is there going to
be so much attention on s Dan s Sullivan who
is the one you need to vote for, that it
actually ends up hurting Democrats. I could see an argument
(29:03):
that that could occur too. Well, let's ask Senator Sullivan
Clay he is with us right now on the line,
and then the S stands for super Dan s Super Sullivan. Dan,
Senator Sullivan, great to be with us, man, Thank you
so much. Tell us what's going on here? This is
crazy town? Hey?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Well listen, by the way, you remember last time I
was on the show, I said, you guys got to
come up and do a show in Alaska. We got
a lot of a lot of Clay and Buck fans,
so we got to still make that happen. But hey,
I am out sign waving right now at a key
intersection with a ton of our supporters. Sign waving in
Alaska's the Alaskans who are listening, though, is a big deal.
(29:42):
But look, we got a lot of energy. As I
just mentioned everybody here. We live in the greatest state,
in the greatest country in the world, and we got
to get people out to vote. We got to get
people out to vote. For sure, you're mentioning the You know,
the Dems are cheating right. It's just unbelievable. They can't
beat me up my record. They can't beat me. Spended
millions and millions and millions of Schumer and George Soros
(30:05):
Stark money. So they decide to recruit this far left
progressive to put his name on the ballot. He tried
to register as a Republican. He tried to actually use
my middle initial. I mean, he's coordinating with the Democrat
Peltola's campaign, and the guy even stole my campaign logo
(30:28):
if you can believe that all to confuse Alaskans, and look,
I think it's going to backfire. I think Alaskans are like,
wait a minute, you're treating you Democrats in Alaska. And
by the way, Schumer's behind this for sure. You guys
are treating Alaskans with contempt, with disrespect. So what we've
been saying is, hey, don't let the Democrats steal this election.
(30:50):
They can't win on the merits, get out and vote,
and so that's gonna happen today. But it is sad
that the DEM's got to do that because my opponent
has no record, no vision for the future.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Okay, let's dive into this because it is such a
dirty trick that I know, it's morning in Alaska and
people are starting to go out and vote. What should
they know? You also have this ranked choice voting system,
which is more complicated because Democrats wanted to try to
confuse people with that too. What is the baseline that
(31:22):
every Alaskan who wants to go vote for Dan s
Sullivan s is in Superman? As Buck just said, what
is the what should they know? What should they expect
to see on the ballot? And if you are a
Trump supporting Dan S. Sullivan supporter. What is the best way
that people can fill out their ballots today?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
So it's pretty simple. It's just gonna say Sullivan, Comma
Dan S. And then it will say Republican incumbent. Okay,
So that's pretty clear. Sullivan Comma Dan S. Republican incumbent.
The other guy, the fake sham guy, the far left
(32:04):
progressive guy who claims that he's a Republican, which he's not,
the guy who's trying to cheat with Peltola. Remember, this
guy's not in it to win it. He's in it
to rig it for the Democrat. And you guys know
if Republicans were doing this for a key election to
the United States Senate. Remember, Schumer said that his pathway
to the majority is through Alaska. So Chuck Schumer saying
(32:29):
he can be the majority leader for the US Senate
if he wins the Alaska Senate. See, by the way,
it's not my seat, it's the Alaskan people's seat. But
the fake guy, the liberal, the Schumer Peltola plant, who
is literally out there to confuse Alaskans get him to
throw away their vote. His name will be Sullivan. Daniel
(32:50):
Jay Junior with nothing else on it. So it's a
pretty good distinguishing factor. Look for Dan as Republican incumbent.
For all the Alaskans listening, you got a lot of
fans here, guys, and uh and they got to and
we got to get out to vote right. I mean,
the issue in Alaska is, you guys know, claim buck.
(33:11):
We got a lot, We got a lot going on,
schools starting, people are hunting and fishing. But this election
is going to be really important. We got a governor's
election too, We got state House, we got a state rep.
Nick Begich is doing a great job, our Republican congressman.
But you know, Alaska we're the firewall for freedom in America.
(33:31):
If Schumer thinks he's going to be able to cheat
his way to the majority, we're not gonna let him
do that, not in our state.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
No way. Go out there and get it done, guys,
A lot of you listening in Alaska, go spread the word.
Make sure you vote Dan s for super or Superman
Dan s Sullivan, Senator Sullivan. Good luck to you, and
hopefully when you when you pick up the ree elect here,
come back on and tell us about it all. Out
all came through.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I will do that, guys, and then look, well, we'll
have a big general election too, right regardless that I
won't even try to bore you or confuse you with
our ridiculous rank choice voting system. But we'll be back
at it for the general and we'll love to get
on the show before.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
No, we'll be talking to you about that for sure.
I'm going to make a promise. I'm going to come
up and do a show from Alaska during this election season.
We'll get it, set of it, love it.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
You guys are very popular up here. We'd love to
have you up here. And then we can spend a
lot of time talking about my opponent's record. By the way,
my opponent, Democrat, was fired by the Alaskan people in
twenty twenty four. Two terms in the House, Heltola, not
one bill signed in the law. Two terms in the House,
(34:46):
not one bill signed in law. Miss twenty percent of
her votes, which is a pattern. She missed twenty percent
of her votes when she was in the state House,
so doesn't show up for work. My record is very different.
Sixty three bills signed in the law.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Last year.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I had more bills signed in a law than any
other US senator, and Alaskans want that. Alaskans expect that
when they send people to wash and you work hard
like Alaskans and your produce results. That's what I'm running
on compared to my opponent, not even a close call.
Never showed up for work, didn't get anything done, and
got fired by the Alaskan people in twenty twenty four.
(35:24):
Now she wants some promotion to the Senate.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
I don't think so, I don't know, right, Senator, godspeed,
good luck. We'll talk to you soon. Okay, guys, Dan S.
Sullivan on the ballot, we'll be back last learn hang
with the guys right there when you need them most
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Welcome everybody to the Tuesday edition of The Clay A,
Travis and Buck Saxon Show. Clay and Buck. That's what
we actually call it, that's what the people call it.
Clay and Buck. And we have primary day going on here.
It's late August, so primary day is about as exciting
as the political news cycle is likely to be. We
got Florida. Hey, everybody, I just voted and they gave
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me a little sticker that says I voted. So that's exciting.
Florida primary. Alaska, where there's a bit of skullduggery, Clay,
a little bit of cloak and dagger politics going on
in Alaska of all places. And Wyoming, where I think
Republicans tend to have the highest advantage. It's either is
(00:46):
it Wyoming? West Virginia is really high, but Wyoming has
a primary today. It's the very red state. There's also
a special election in California's fourteenth congressional district, so there
is that. Okay, Clay, can I just start with this.
I want I want to be positive today. I must
are off on a happy note. Well that's unexpected. Look
at this, you know what I'm saying. I'm coming in
(01:08):
here with something. I love reading this from the New
York Times, especially as I walk back from voting in
our Florida primary where there were a lot of judges.
This is one thing you realize when you go into
the ballot box and you are looking through this and
you think you're knowledge about politics, and then you realize
there are jobs. You're like, what is this job this
person's doing? Okay, I do a lot of reading and
(01:32):
politics for a living, and there's always somebody on there
or some some thing that I'm supposed to make a
decision about it. I go, wait a second, I think
I've heard of this this before. It gets way down
into the weeds of local politics. So the good news
for Florida. New York Times here Florida primary underscores states
new identity as a Republican juggernaut. Ooof injected into my veins. Florida,
(01:56):
I love it. And New York Times then continues Publicans
hold every statewide elected office and has drastically swung voter
registration of the state. A newly jerrymandered congressional map has
added four Republican leaning seats, so basically, Clay, while today
is only a primary, it is also a moment to
(02:16):
celebrate the beautiful, bright redness of the state of Florida.
Thank you, Governor Ron DeSantis for presiding over a I'm
trying to remember what the latest is. It went from
two hundred and fifty thousand plus Democrat registration in this
state in twenty eighteen, Clay to well over a million
(02:38):
Republican advantage. And I'm not sure what the latest number is,
but well, I mean, you're talking about a massive swing. Beautiful,
bright red Florida. All my friends come down. The weather
is warm, the water is warm. The weather might be
a little too warm, but it is a great day here, Clay.
That is one thing I'm excited about. I did check
with the team though, and I'm not whimping out here,
(03:00):
but we have the Rush rule. We never endorsed in
a primary. Russia also never told anybody who we voted
for in a primary, So I think I have to.
I think I have to. Oh that's I told everybody
exactly who I voted for. Yeah, but you're Clay, like,
I mean, I don't really want to hold back. Marcia Blackburn,
Bill Hagerty, and h Brent Taylor Boom boom boom for
(03:23):
for governor, Congress and UH and Senate. So uh, so
you are dodging this. I was just looking at the uh.
There are a bunch of serious battles that are going
on in the congressional districts because, as you mentioned, Florida
has redrawn their congressional districts and a lot of people
(03:44):
are going to be voting in areas that they may
not have voted in the past, meaning they're voting for
new congress people, all these different things. I will say
this because I'm looking up the numbers right now as
we talk. Is Ron de Santis the most successful governor
(04:04):
in the twenty first century? I think the answer is yes,
when you look at his eight year tenure. I'm not
sure who else you would point to, And I honestly
think you would have to go to back in time
for some period of time to even think of someone
(04:25):
who has accomplished as much in eight years as Ron
DeSantis will have accomplished in eight years. I think there's
no question that the transformation of Florida to really the
seat of Republic. Now. I know you Texans at look
Tennessee is beautiful and great and Clays mister Tennessee, but
just you're out done size wise in terms of population
(04:47):
by Florida and Texas, right, so they don't have as many.
I would also just point out Tennessee's not a swing state.
Texas should not be a swing state. When Ron DeSantis
took over Buck he won by fifty thousand votes over
Andrew Gillen. Oh, it's it's crazy. By the way, Andrew
gillam is, you know, has fallen into a disrepute. I think, yeah,
(05:10):
that's a very kind way of describing I'm in a
nice mood today. I'm in a nice mood today. And
I would say, but what I meant to say, Clay,
is that Texas and Florida are really both vying for
California is clearly the alpha Democrats state, and I think
that the number two, the VP, if you will, is
New York for the Democrats. Texas and Florida, you could
(05:33):
make okay, Now, Texas is a bigger population, but Texas
and Florida because the Trump, because Trump and mar A Lago,
the Trump family, the transformation, the role of play during COVID,
it was way better than Texas during COVID. Governor Greg
Abbott was a little, uh, a little iffy on the
COVID stuff. I remember, it's amazing to see this state
go from the year two thousand where the biggest political
(05:55):
story in the world is whether Miami Dade can count
hanging and dimpled chads and all this other stuff. So
now it's Fortress Florida, and you have you have great
candidates for all these different state wide offices, and we'll
see who ends up winning the primary. But it's basically
a lock for us. I think going forward on this. Now,
(06:18):
you know I just went You're a Florida property owner,
so you get in on some of this love some
of this action too, and you're probably you're probably Panhandle
real estate salesman of the Year just by talking about
how much you love it, even though I know you
say you don't want people to keep buying there because
it's getting crowded. I mean they just have I mean property.
People would not believe how expensive property has gotten on
(06:43):
the Panhandle. There are houses now selling for thirty million
dollars on the Florida Panhandle. And I'm not talking about
a state where you have acres of property associated with it,
just a house thirty million dollars. It's really kind of
kind of wild how popular it is. And I know
(07:03):
where you are, Miami. Look, probably it's fair to say
the three most expensive cities in America now number one
is San Francisco. It has the highest rent of any
city in America. Now number two with New York City.
Three is Miami. I think that's pretty clear. Would you
dispute that at all, that those are the three most
expensive places to live in the country. Now, yeah, those
(07:26):
are the three most expensive real estate markets, and the
real estate markets still exploding in all those places. Now
a lot of that is also international money, I might add,
so it's a little bit of a distortion from what
you would think just the you know, Americans are buying.
But getting back to the primaries here, there are two
stories we're going to talk about. This Alaska situation where
(07:46):
you have it's a tale of two Dan Sullivan's. That's
where Yes, sir, you look like you know you gave
you that, you gave me the wave. No, No, I'm
still looking. I'm kind of my eyebrows went up because
I'm looking at all the odds across all the Florida
votes that are going on today, and there are some
intriguing dollars pouring in into the prediction market, so I'm
(08:08):
just kind of following it. So it's a tale of
two Dan Sullivan's, which we shall explain some of that.
But there's also something else that's on everyone's radar a
little bit right now, other than Florida. You're amazing, Florida,
I love you. Little love letter to Florida today on
the show, and all of our Florida listeners, we Clay
have seen this. As Off Fellow, who is running again
(08:33):
now he has gotten some attention here for something that
a lot of people point out is quite cringe worthy,
as they say on the New York Post cover here
as Off is getting some heat after he did this.
He said on Sunday at a rally in Atlanta, something
about Trump, and it was uncalled for. It was nasty,
(08:56):
it was a low blow. This is cut one. Here's
what he said.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war while
he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves. The President
sleeps through his meetings, he gaulks and trade stocks.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
So he doesn't want to do the job.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie
on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir
of qatar.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Ah. He's talking about an aide there, a young woman
named Natalie Harror, who is Klay and I I've met
her or She's delightful and she's a very trusted member
of the Trump White House, Trump administration. And I think
we all know what he's doing there. I think we
all got it, buddy. Last night he decided to play
a little cleanup on this what it seems this is
(09:52):
cut to play it.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Why did you decide to invoke Natalie Harp specifically in
that speege. Here's the point where in wartime the commander
in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People
have lost their lives, our naval logistics are fraid, the
global energy system is in crisis, and he retreats into
(10:18):
this bubble of West wing aides who are his security
blanket to make him feel good about himself.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Clay, that's not why he brought up her name. We
all know. And it shows you who this ausoff guy
really is. It shows you who the Democrats think a
manly man actually how he acts. Yeah, look, Natalie's awesome
and she works basically all the time around the clock.
She sits at Beck and call for the president to
(10:48):
be able to basically handle anything. In the Oval office,
she has a seat on the wall to the right
side of the president. He's constantly asking questions. I don't
think this is giving away any grace about this. She
has said that she is giving up four years of
her life to basically work all the time for him
(11:11):
in this second term because she thinks it's so important
what he is doing. And look, I think one of
the things that happens, Buck is it's hard to score
points by attacking Trump now, and so I think this
is particularly nasty. But what often happens is people recognize
they can't really take shots at Trump, so they try
(11:34):
to expand the horizon of people that they're going to
attack around him. And I mean, look, we saw this
with Walt Nada, who is his body man, carries a
lot of his bags around. Awesome guy. They charged him
with federal crimes related to classified documents because he moved
some boxes and the goal is to just bring pressure
(11:57):
to bear on Trump. But everybody around remember the accountant
he went to prison because he didn't accurately account for
the car that he was driving for purposes of his taxes?
Did you even know that that was a I didn't
even know that. There's some tax rods people do, And
I'm like, yeah, I didn't know you can't do that.
I didn't know you had to account for the use
(12:19):
of a company car on your personal I've never had
this before, but on your personal income tax. Yeah. I
mean it's but it's it's a great example. I mean,
we're talking about tax retaking, his weaponization. To be clear,
it's not like, oh, he should have known nobody. I mean,
no one goes to prison for that. I mean, if
you're talking about a few thousand dollars in disputed taxes
in a in an organization that has hundreds of millions
(12:42):
of dollars. But I would have more respect for us
off if he just came out and said what he
was clearly trying to imply is that there was something
inappropriate with their relationship, and that's clearly why everybody reacted.
If he had just owned it and said what he's
(13:02):
clearly trying to imply, then I would at least have
more respect for him. It would be dishonest, but it
would at least be honest as to his purposes. Can
I just say this is one thing, one superpower that
Trump has. You know you sometimes you might think, okay,
Trump went a little far with that or whatever, but
he always owns what he says. He never does the
(13:25):
oh I took the cheap shot, but I didn't. I
didn't actually mean the cheap shot. Yeah, now they've tried
to say he took cheap shots when he didn't. That's
a different thing. But when he's decided that he wants
to get into the into the mud with somebody, he
doubles down on it. I mean, over that's overwhelming me.
That's his position. So at least there's some level of
standing behind your words with us. Off you want to
(13:48):
you want to take that. And by the way, this
is a young woman, she's unmarried. You know, he's he's
he's sullying her reputation completely, uh, with no basis whatsoever
other than he knows that anything that is throwing mud
at Trump is gonna get a clap and a laugh
from that audience. And that's what it is. But it's
a gross thing to do, it's a dishonorable thing to do.
(14:10):
And then he pretends like, oh, it's really about policy. Matters, Yes,
asof and we all know who asof is to. You
just sort of look at this guy, you know, he's uh,
he's betto, he's Did you see the mayor of Minneapolis
by the way, at the like the Jacob entrepreneurs thing, Yes,
dancing like a like a total dork. Uh. You know
(14:31):
it's just the the pandering, wimpy nonsense from some of
these democrats. You just you know who they are. You know,
they're like the last guy in the world that you
want to have your back when you know, the biker
gang shows up at the bar and you need someone
to have have your uh, you know, have your six.
So anyway, no doubt we'll take some of your calls.
We got a bunch of talkbacks on a variety of
(14:52):
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new playing Buck have your back. Welcome back in Clay
and Buck. We are rolling through the Tuesday edition of
the program. We come back here on the backside. Let's
dive into this just utterly ridiculous ploy that they are
trying to put into place in Alaska where they are
(17:00):
trying to run I feel like we're you need to
vote for the Dan Sullivan with an S in his name.
Dan S. Sullivan Democrats are trying to run Dan J.
Sullivan to try to siphon off the overall vote totals
of Dan S. Sullivan, the current Republican Senator. It's one
(17:24):
of the dirtiest plays I've seen in a long time.
I think, honestly, Buck, because it's Alaska. A lot of
people have not been paying attention to this story on
a national level. But given the battleground states as they are,
Alaska is one of the states that Democrats would probably
have to win to take back control of the Senate.
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And this is just how dirty they're willing to play.
So we'll fill you in on all this when we
come back here in the next segment. Indeed, we show
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into Clay and Buck Primary day. Not any huge stories
I think to dive into with Wyoming right now. Uh,
Florida is just like just a giant parade of awesome here,
although I think like forget of a parade. I was
(19:13):
at my city hall here at Miami Beach. I think
it gave me this nice little I voted sticker, and
I voted for whom I don't know, can neither confirm
nor deny. I'm gonna keep everybody on the edge of
their seats because you know, there's there's no upside in
this too. No matter what I say, people are gonna
get mad at me. And also, uh, there were so
(19:34):
many people in the ballot for governor. It was crazy.
I didn't count, but I want to say I saw
at least ten names, maybe twelve names. And lorda, you
pick a side, like a Republican side or a Democrat side, like,
you go in, yeah, yeah, so I'm only voting among Republicans.
You're not registered one way or the other. You tell them,
Like in Tennessee. I go up and they say, in fact,
(19:55):
the lady said, I have to ask, but I probably
know which side you're vot voting because I listen. And
when I voted in the primary in Tennessee. Thank you
for everybody, by the way, who volunteers to work at
so many different polling places across the country. This is
like whenever I voted in New York City, Clay. The
only people who ever, this is back when I was
doing a fair amount of Fox News or CNN and stuff.
(20:18):
It was the cops who were providing security. They'd be like, hey, buddy,
good to see you. You know what I mean. It
was only the cops, only NYPD guys that would note
that they knew who I was voting for. When I
was going in back in the day, they ask you
in Florida, they ask you for ID right away. You
had got to provide your obviously Florida driver's license and
showed that to them. They checked pretty rigorously, actually my
(20:40):
address and asked me a few questions about that, and
then they gave me my ballot. I went through almost
nobody there voting. It is election day. I saw one
person leaving who I assume was a voter. Other than that,
it was just me, So I had the place to myself.
A lot of voting staff around there had any questions,
(21:01):
and yes, you only vote for your within your own party.
And if there are a lot of a lot of
county judges and things like that, that we're in the
mix two. So you're getting right down to that granular
political level. But yeah, in Florida, it's a it's just
Republican dominance on display. It's fantastic. We love What was
the stat you just told me about election day voting
early returns so far? Yeah, that the twenty twenty six
(21:24):
early numbers. Florida does a really good job of updating
on their official sites exactly how many people have voted,
what side of the aisle they're voting on, things like that.
That the turnout so far for twenty twenty six for
Republicans in the primary is better than the turnout for
twenty twenty two for Republicans. So the percentage of voters
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that is that are out there. Democrats and Republicans. I
believe it was sixty three percent right now are Republican voters.
Twenty eight percent are Democrat voters. Yeah, so the dominance
is on display. Now, let's shift and those of you
who are listening to us, what on K E and
I we're on live right now in Alaska in Anchorage.
(22:10):
We're we're up on the Alaska air waves, and Alaska
is really the most interesting political story right now of
the primary. You wouldn't normally have something that is this intriguing,
perhaps sinister going on. Sabotage is the word of the day,
it would seem, Clay, here's what you got. This is
(22:31):
Sullivan v. Sullivan, which sounds like a Supreme Court case,
but it actually is what's going on right now. You
have the incumbent US Senator Dan Sullivan, who's a Republican.
He's seeking another term. So this is a competitive race
because well of a few things. But the challenger to
Daniel S. Sullivan is this guy, Daniel J. Sullivan. Okay,
(22:56):
everybody and a court has refused to took this to court.
They refused to kick him off as essentially playing a
intentional spoiler here. Clay's nickname has become Decoy Dan, which
I think is a pretty good nickname. He is a
former forest service worker from Petersburg, Alaska, and he filed
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as a Republican right near the deadline June first, twenty
twenty six, a couple days before that, and he just
decided that he was going to get in this race.
Clay Alaska has a non partisan top four primary, so
all unlike here in Florida, we have to be registered
before you can only vote all four candidates. I'm sorry,
(23:42):
the top four candidates rather advanced in November general election,
regardless of the party. So this is a bad faith
sham with Decoy Dan. What do you think? Look it is.
By the way, they also have evidence of emails that
the not surprised that top Democrat officials in Alaska were
(24:04):
involved in trying to sabotage this and the I believe
it went all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court,
and the Alaska Supreme Court said we're going to allow
this to occur. I mean, it's ridiculous, but in look,
go back in time. We're talking about Florida voting in
two thousand, there were a lot of people because of
(24:25):
the so called butterfly ballot. If you remember that who
made a choice in that Florida election that was different
than what they might have intended based on the way
that the dots were designed, And Florida has since fixed
all of their election related integrity issues. Now, are you
talking dimple chads? Dimple chads? Was? I think if you
(24:47):
remember all the chad era. But if they can get
Dan s Sullivan going head to head with Dan J. Sullivan, unfortunately,
I think a lot of people you may not have
great eyesight, you may just go in there. I think
people will be confused and in a race that may
come down to a couple of points or a few
(25:09):
thousand votes, I think that Republicans could end up losing
this race because people vote for the wrong Dan Sullivan.
That's clearly what Democrats, who claim to care so much
about election integrity, are hoping that they can do to
steal this race. So Clay, I think if you put
(25:31):
Donald J. Trump on the ballot nationally against Donald G.
Trump on the ballot nationally, and I don't, by the way,
I'm not mocking anybody for that, I think a lot
of people would get it wrong. Yeah, a lot of
people would get a lot of people to your point eyesight.
(25:51):
You're in there, you're not paying attention. Also, a lot
of people don't know politicians middle names. Let's just be honest. Correct, correct, there.
Here's a James Sexton out there who's become quite famous,
who is not me. He is a different James Sexton.
He's a divorce attorney in New York City. We have
the same name. Now I'm known as Buck, so it's
pretty which is my middle name. So that makes things differently.
(26:13):
But how many people can tell the difference between public
figures they know based on the same name but a
different middle initial. I think you would have. I couldn't
guess at the number, but you'd have a huge number
in the aggregately. In Alaska, here's the problem. I think
there will be thousands of people who inadvertently vote for
(26:33):
the wrong Dan Sullivan, and that is effectively a vote
for the Democrats, because you're diluting the overall percentage that
the real Dan Sullivan would get. I'm surprised, based on
the email evidence that is out there, that the Alaska
Supreme Court allowed this to happen, because it is such
(26:54):
a dirty trick. I okay, I as a clay, I
read through the legal proceeding on this, you know, the short,
the quick and dirty of it. If I am the judge,
what is the legal argument you make? I get people
aren't gonna want to hear this Alaska people right now,
they're gonna go full grizzly bear on me. But what
(27:15):
is the argument you make? The guy's legal name is yeah,
what he says it is he met the deadline? Is
it a dirty trick of course? But what is the
legal mechanism they tried to impose? The person in charge
of like I'm trying to think division, division of elections.
They try to say there's a good faith thing. Yeah,
(27:36):
but what does that mean? And the judge who looked
at this, I think, unfortunately is it he says, there's
a novel good faith test for somebody. Do you meet
the legal requirements? Yes or no? I think the judge
is in a tough spot here because think about it.
If you could just get rid of somebody because you
think they're a bad faith challenger, but they meet all
the legal requirements, you don't think Democrats would abuse that.
(27:58):
I mean, that's opening up a huge you know, on
what legal basis could you exclude this guy? No, I
mean I think it's a This is why Democrats did it, right,
They thought that they would be able to legally get
away with it. To me, it is the emails that
exist showing that this is a scheme designed to confuse
(28:20):
and I would argue defraud voters because to your point, Buck,
if you intend to vote for someone and due to
the fact that they have tried to confuse you, you
don't make the decision that you intended, then I think
that is super dirty. Now here is I'm going to
try to be positive. Here is a positive on this.
(28:42):
Could reasonable Alaska voters actually be turned off by the
duplicity of the Democrat Party? And is there going to
be so much attention on s Dan s Sullivan who
is the one you need to vote for, that it
actually ends up hurting Democrats. I could see an argument
(29:03):
that that could occur too. Well, let's ask Senator Sullivan
Clay he is with us right now on the line,
and then the S stands for super Dan s Super Sullivan. Dan,
Senator Sullivan, great to be with us, man, Thank you
so much. Tell us what's going on here? This is
crazy town? Hey?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Well listen, by the way, you remember last time I
was on the show, I said, you guys got to
come up and do a show in Alaska. We got
a lot of a lot of Clay and Buck fans,
so we got to still make that happen. But hey,
I am out sign waving right now at a key
intersection with a ton of our supporters. Sign waving in
Alaska's the Alaskans who are listening, though, is a big deal.
(29:42):
But look, we got a lot of energy. As I
just mentioned everybody here. We live in the greatest state,
in the greatest country in the world, and we got
to get people out to vote. We got to get
people out to vote. For sure, you're mentioning the You know,
the Dems are cheating right. It's just unbelievable. They can't
beat me up my record. They can't beat me. Spended
millions and millions and millions of Schumer and George Soros
(30:05):
Stark money. So they decide to recruit this far left
progressive to put his name on the ballot. He tried
to register as a Republican. He tried to actually use
my middle initial. I mean, he's coordinating with the Democrat
Peltola's campaign, and the guy even stole my campaign logo
(30:28):
if you can believe that all to confuse Alaskans, and look,
I think it's going to backfire. I think Alaskans are like,
wait a minute, you're treating you Democrats in Alaska. And
by the way, Schumer's behind this for sure. You guys
are treating Alaskans with contempt, with disrespect. So what we've
been saying is, hey, don't let the Democrats steal this election.
(30:50):
They can't win on the merits, get out and vote,
and so that's gonna happen today. But it is sad
that the DEM's got to do that because my opponent
has no record, no vision for the future.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Okay, let's dive into this because it is such a
dirty trick that I know, it's morning in Alaska and
people are starting to go out and vote. What should
they know? You also have this ranked choice voting system,
which is more complicated because Democrats wanted to try to
confuse people with that too. What is the baseline that
(31:22):
every Alaskan who wants to go vote for Dan s
Sullivan s is in Superman? As Buck just said, what
is the what should they know? What should they expect
to see on the ballot? And if you are a
Trump supporting Dan S. Sullivan supporter. What is the best way
that people can fill out their ballots today?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
So it's pretty simple. It's just gonna say Sullivan, Comma
Dan S. And then it will say Republican incumbent. Okay,
So that's pretty clear. Sullivan Comma Dan S. Republican incumbent.
The other guy, the fake sham guy, the far left
(32:04):
progressive guy who claims that he's a Republican, which he's not,
the guy who's trying to cheat with Peltola. Remember, this
guy's not in it to win it. He's in it
to rig it for the Democrat. And you guys know
if Republicans were doing this for a key election to
the United States Senate. Remember, Schumer said that his pathway
to the majority is through Alaska. So Chuck Schumer saying
(32:29):
he can be the majority leader for the US Senate
if he wins the Alaska Senate. See, by the way,
it's not my seat, it's the Alaskan people's seat. But
the fake guy, the liberal, the Schumer Peltola plant, who
is literally out there to confuse Alaskans get him to
throw away their vote. His name will be Sullivan. Daniel
(32:50):
Jay Junior with nothing else on it. So it's a
pretty good distinguishing factor. Look for Dan as Republican incumbent.
For all the Alaskans listening, you got a lot of
fans here, guys, and uh and they got to and
we got to get out to vote right. I mean,
the issue in Alaska is, you guys know, claim buck.
(33:11):
We got a lot, We got a lot going on,
schools starting, people are hunting and fishing. But this election
is going to be really important. We got a governor's
election too, We got state House, we got a state rep.
Nick Begich is doing a great job, our Republican congressman.
But you know, Alaska we're the firewall for freedom in America.
(33:31):
If Schumer thinks he's going to be able to cheat
his way to the majority, we're not gonna let him
do that, not in our state.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
No way. Go out there and get it done, guys,
A lot of you listening in Alaska, go spread the word.
Make sure you vote Dan s for super or Superman
Dan s Sullivan, Senator Sullivan. Good luck to you, and
hopefully when you when you pick up the ree elect here,
come back on and tell us about it all. Out
all came through.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
I will do that, guys, and then look, well, we'll
have a big general election too, right regardless that I
won't even try to bore you or confuse you with
our ridiculous rank choice voting system. But we'll be back
at it for the general and we'll love to get
on the show before.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
No, we'll be talking to you about that for sure.
I'm going to make a promise. I'm going to come
up and do a show from Alaska during this election season.
We'll get it, set of it, love it.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
You guys are very popular up here. We'd love to
have you up here. And then we can spend a
lot of time talking about my opponent's record. By the way,
my opponent, Democrat, was fired by the Alaskan people in
twenty twenty four. Two terms in the House, Heltola, not
one bill signed in the law. Two terms in the House,
(34:46):
not one bill signed in law. Miss twenty percent of
her votes, which is a pattern. She missed twenty percent
of her votes when she was in the state House,
so doesn't show up for work. My record is very different.
Sixty three bills signed in the law.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Last year.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I had more bills signed in a law than any
other US senator, and Alaskans want that. Alaskans expect that
when they send people to wash and you work hard
like Alaskans and your produce results. That's what I'm running
on compared to my opponent, not even a close call.
Never showed up for work, didn't get anything done, and
got fired by the Alaskan people in twenty twenty four.
(35:24):
Now she wants some promotion to the Senate.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
I don't think so, I don't know, right, Senator, godspeed,
good luck. We'll talk to you soon. Okay, guys, Dan S.
Sullivan on the ballot, we'll be back last learn hang
with the guys right there when you need them most
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