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Clay Travis
Welcome, everybody, to the Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate you being here. Was quite a speech last night, some people are saying the greatest speech of all presidential speeches in recent history, for sure. President Trump did a phenomenal job. Clocked in it. I think it was over two hours. It definitely was a, was a lengthy one. The President lighting it up. America is back. That was at the very top. Dawn of the golden age. And a lot of positivity, a lot of good things going on in this speech. And Clay, we're, we're going to work through it piece by piece. I just, I will start with this assessment. There is both a sense of tremendous optimism and a bulliance on the right about where all of this is going. And it's been a heck of a first month for Trump. And then the left, the Democrats, seem to have nothing other than pouting. I didn't even stay up to watch the Alyssa Slotkin rebuttal. I'll tell you the truth. It was late. I had to switch time zones. I'm an old man, so I had to check it out this morning. I understand that they feel they have to do. I actually don't think they have to do this. I think that this is an outdated model. But, but the bigger thing from the Democrats wasn't just the incredibly wimpy response. Worthless, really forgettable response officially to Trump's address to Congress. But the childishness of the Democrats in attendance does deserve some of our attention because all of you are familiar with the massive accomplishments of Trump's first term, of Trump's now first month of his second term. And the plans for the future are incredibly exciting for those of us who want to see this golden age unfold, who want to see America at its absolute best. Democrats are having a tough time with that whole concept. You had one congressman have to be escorted out of the chamber. Just not a, not a good look. We'll discuss. This is not something that the Democrat Party should be okay with a lot of interruptions. They had these little paddles like they were at a, an auction in the audience. And Clay, let's just, let's just jump with this and you tell me what your biggest, biggest feelings were on this. But Trump pointed out early on, it doesn't even matter what he does at this point, whether it's ending the Ukraine war or curing cancer, Democrats are against whatever Trump is for Trump, Derangement syndrome is in its terminal stage. Play, play clip 18 here. This is my fifth such speech to Congress. And once again, I Look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded. And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won't do it no matter what. Five, five times I've been up here. It's very sad and it just shouldn't.
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Buck Sexton
Be this.
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Clay Travis
Clay Trump was having fun.
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Stephen Miller
He was. And I thought it was the best speech of his political career. And I don't think that's hyperbole. Much of it, if you strip away the politics, really boiled down to basic common sense. And I guess my biggest takeaway last night, Buck, was Democrats did what they would have said was impossible. They made Trump look like the adult in the room. I thought they feel, they, their behavior, they looked and sounded like brats. I thought they were behaving like poorly, poorly regulated school children. They were adults emotionally outbursting. Their, their. It just, it felt like the Democrat Party to me was on a suicidal mission to destroy its brand. And to me, Buck, there were a lot of great things Trump did. He's always got a real narrative ability to connect, whether it was with Lake and Riley's mom and sister, whether it was with Jocelyn Nungare's mother and announcing that he's going to name a wildlife refuge after her, whether it was having the kid in the crowd that was getting his United States Military Academy admission. And I thought by far the most compelling moment of the night, the 13 year old kid being named a Secret Service honorary member. Democrats didn't stand for any of that, Buck. And I think the reason why they did not is their brains are broken because they're so concerned about being too conciliatory to Trump on social media and getting dragged by whatever left wing lunatics are popular on social media that they abandoned their basic humanity. I don't care who you are. When that 13 year old kid who survived brain cancer stood up and gave a hug to the Secret Service agent, you should have almost wanted to cry or cried. If you are just a basic normal human being with complete control of the normal life, that was a moment where it was hard to, to, even if you're a guy, where it was hard not to feel a bit emotional. And Buck, what stood out to me, maybe most of all you. I watched that. Awful. You woke up and watched it this morning, which by the way, I think is worse. Start off your morning watching Senator.
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Clay Travis
At least I had some coffee, I had some Crockett to take care of it.
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Stephen Miller
But what is the number one criticism that you would have of Trump if you were a Democrat? Probably that he oftentimes behaves in an emotional fashion and isn't always acting like an adult. They took the worst criticism they have ever had about Trump. You know, leave aside the Hitler stuff, but just his deportment, right. The way he carries himself. And they were far worse. And I thought with Slotkin speech, Buck, we know Trump has men, men, white, black, Asian, Hispanic. The polls are out there, 6040 approval, 5743 double digit approval. The younger, the men, he's got them even more. I thought Trump actually, Buck, really did a phenomenal job of connecting with women. And I think there were a lot of women out there that if you had heard from MSNBC or New York Times that this guy's Hitler, they were watching and they kept waiting for some awful shoe to drop. And he was phenomenal the whole way. Last thought, he waited till the very end to talk about foreign affairs. I think he spoke for the longest ever 100 minutes, I think was the final tally a longer than anyone ever spoke. Probably an hour and a half of that was all American focused policies. And then at the very end, he talked to Ukraine, he talked the Middle East. I thought it was a home run. I just, I don't know that, that we have seen a better version of Trump than what we saw last night. And I think Democrats are starting to panic because they have no answer for him.
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Clay Travis
Well, they looked pathetic last night. And I really mean that. When you have somebody who in the very opening is just being flagrantly disrespectful to the President of the United States. Excusably so, yes, there was nothing, there's nothing you can say about that other than he's acting like, you know, a street communist, a community organizer. I mean, he was acting like some guy from Code Pink who is shrieking in the back of a congressional hearing. Except he's a member of Congress and this is a joint address to Congress. So that's pathetic. The little paddles that they held up in the audience made them look so silly. Made them look effeminate and weak and preposterous. I mean, the whole thing was what was an absurdity. And on the issue of women in the narrative right now, and who I think is doing a better job or who's in a better position with it. We've discussed this. Democrats got a little extra boost for themselves because of the fear mongering around abortion in the midterms. Right. We know that they were able to use that to greater effect in the midterms in Biden's first, after Biden's first couple of years. But now it's gone to the states and Democrat states have incredibly. I was just in Colorado, which has a just barbaric abortion law for the state of, I mean, it is all nine months, by the way. It's officially all nine months of a pregnancy. But the states have, have been able to do what they should have done in the first place from a constitutional perspective, which is address this issue. And on the other side of it, Democrats, and this came up last night, specifically Democrats are the ones who keep saying, I want large hairy men to be able to play against your high school or college age female athlete, daughter or sister. I want that to happen when they have somebody in the audience who is a female athlete who had brain damage. Brain damage from, you know, this would be like Clay if somebody who was 20 was on the, on the football field with a kid who's 12 and paralyzed him. I mean, everyone would think that was a horrible and monstrous thing.
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Stephen Miller
Right?
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Clay Travis
Like, what are you doing as a 20 year old playing? Well, the male, female differential isn't that far off from that, especially in a contact sport. And Democrats are all in it. We just saw the Senate, Senate, Democrats all voting against protection for women in sports. So I think actually the Republicans have the issue that they can club the other side with. They can spike the volleyball in the face of the Democrats on this one. They can go after them in a way that's far more aggressive. And, and I think that the whole thing is falling apart for Democrats. Alissa Slotkin. Does anyone think that Alyssa Slotkin is the future of any party? No, she's not. She doesn't have the, any of the political skills. Doesn't have the. The whole thing is appalling, honestly. And I think that we saw last night, you got one side that wants America to be fantastic and the other side just wants to sit and pout and act like children.
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Stephen Miller
And if you were watching that, and by the way, this is not just our take. 69% of CNN viewers found Trump's speech to be very favorable. 76% of CBS News, all of the numbers rolling in are rave. And I just, Democrats could have been somewhat reasonable. They could have clapped for a 13 year old cancer patient who survived. They could have clapped for Lake and Riley's mom and, and, and sister when they were standing. They could have clapped for Jocelyn Non Garay or the, or the US Military Academy cadet. All which by the way the, the, the 13 year old walked over and gave him a handshake which was just perfect and authentic and real. And I think really what ultimately this comes down to is Democrats are supremely fake and also the party of super old people. Did you notice Buck? I think it was, I was watching Fox News but when they panned from our friend Riley Gaines sitting in the upper deck and they went straight to Nancy Pelosi and the disconnect as they were talking about women in men's sports, the disconnect between Riley games, Riley Gaines young, effervescent, brave, fearless and Nancy Pelosi sort of vacantly chewing on her gums looking lost was I thought just a perfect epitomization of how lost Democrats are. We'll continue to break this down because I think it was significant. I think it's going to register, resonate for some time. But last night was an incredible show of support for our military, firefighters and police officers. Law and order once again a top priority at the border and throughout the country. Since 9 11, the tunnel of towers foundation has been supporting America's greatest heroes and their families. The efforts now in its 24th year to provide forever security to the families of fallen soldiers and first responders who have lost a loved one in the line of duty. Heroes like firefighter James Dickman, passionate about fire safety, aspired to do everything in his power to keep his community and fellow firefighters safe. While responding to an apartment fire, James and his crew tried to save people thought to be trapped inside. When the situation escalated, James wasn't able to escape. He perished in the blazing inferno caused the fire arson. James leaves behind his loving wife Jamie, children Paige and Grant. Tunnel the Towers gave the Dickman family the gift of a mortgage free home. Jamie is grateful to Tunnel the Towers and to caring friends like you for lifting the financial burden of a mortgage off her shoulders. Donate $11 a month to Tunnel the Towers at t2t.org that's t the number two t.org Clay, Travis and Buck Sexton Mic drops that never sounded so good. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Stephen Miller, White House Deputy Chief of Staff joins us right now. Stephen, appreciate you making the time breaking from your 21, 22 hour work days at this White House to fill us in on. Well, first, the aftermath of a highly successful speech. Did it all come off as you guys intended? And what should we be expecting here in the days ahead?
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Daniel Cameron
Well, first, it's great to be back on the air with you. I think it's the first time I've been on the air with you since President Trump was inaugurated back into the White House. So it's great to be on with you. And yes, I enjoyed getting the chance to come on your air many times during the four years between term one and term two. And it's very enjoyable to be here now, calling you from the West Wing of the White House. So thank you. The speech last night went more incredibly than we could have ever even hoped. And of course, we always know that these massive internationally watched, must see TV events for President Trump are where he truly thrives. But even by those extremely high standards, this speech exceeded their expectations. And of course, at the same time, Democrats humiliated themselves before that same international viewing audience, behaving in a way that really shocks the conscience of the country. I mean, it wasn't just, it wasn't just disturbing, it was really profoundly sinister. I mean, to not stand and honor victims and their families who have been murdered by illegal aliens. To not stand and honor children, a child 13 year old who is battling brain cancer, who's getting to live out his dream and become, to his surprise, an honorary Secret Service agent. And to see all of the inspiring stories and heroes. And a border agent who exchanged gunfire with a cartel. A girl who was, who suffered a severe brain injury because she was spiked in the face by a male athlete. I mean, story after story of people who overcome hardship, adversity, unimaginable loss. I was there last night. I was stunned. The Democrats didn't stand to honor these Americans in their stories.
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Stephen Miller
What do you attribute that to, Stephen, do you think? I'm curious. I agree with you. I think it was the best speech that. Trent, thanks for coming on and we're proud of all the work you're doing. I think it was the best speech that Trump has ever given in his career. Not only based on how he did.
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Daniel Cameron
But I agree with you and I appreciated your, we all appreciate your saying so, posting on X last night. So that's not going to notice. Thank you.
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Stephen Miller
Well, it's well deserved. You guys are busting your ass and I thought it was a stellar performance by Trump and you guys had weaved so many perfect narratives together to get, give people attention in the, in the gallery there. Why do you think Democrats have so lost their way? Because leave aside politics, Stephen. It's basic humanity to cheer for a 13 year old who's overcome brain cancer. It's basic humanity to cheer for a 95 year old mother who gets her son back from Russian captivity. These are not political related concerns. I talked some with people afterwards and they said the left wing has so taken control of social media that all of these Democrats are terrified to be seen as in any way applauding anything the President does. And also there's a crazy level of groupthink that has destroyed them. What do you attribute this to? Because it's not normal, it's super weird. And I know Tim Walls tried to say Republicans were weird, but it's also profoundly inhumane to me. Leaving aside the politics.
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Daniel Cameron
Well, you're right. I mean, it displays a shocking absence of humanity at a very fundamental level. At a human level, you know, you see these people who have suffered and endured loss and pain that people can't even imagine. How do you not stand and honor them? How do you not show any kind of respect or decency in that moment? It really does defy any attempt to describe it or understand it. President Trump at the beginning of his speech challenged Democrats to for just one night put aside their own petty, impersonal and partisan feelings and celebrate big wins for America. For example, like you mentioned, getting somebody back who is in, who is improperly detained in Russia to be reunited with their family would be an example of a big win for America that everybody should stand up and applaud or capturing the terrorists behind the Abbey gate murder of 13 U.S. service members. These are things that you would think everybody would riotously applaud because it is such a huge win for the country, such a huge win for our people. It does defy description. I have to say that I think what's happened is the Democrat Party as an institution has become severely radicalized. I'm not using that term as an insult, although they deserve it. I'm using it clinically. I'm saying they've clinically become radicalized the way that a closed society or a cult or some other social group does. That lacks any kind of outside input, any kind of exposure to alternate points of view. And the more time they spend with each other, and you sort of alluded to it in their closed social media circle as well too, the more extreme, the more radical they become. To the point in which, here's a good example. Mark Warner, Senator Mark Warner was on TV recently. He had accidentally said something good the day before about President Trump's work on the border. And then he went on TV the next day to take it back and apologize for ever even implying or suggesting that President Trump had done anything good on the border. Again, this is the same political party, as you know, that has venerated criminals for years and years and years, that has venerated people who have engaged in violent contact like Black Lives Matter rioters for years. And they couldn't even stand for the family of Lakin Riley, who was barbarically murdered by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. It really, it just, it's a crystallizing moment in terms of where we are as a country. We have one political party, the Republicans, led by Donald Trump, that is broadly fighting for issues that 80, 85% of Americans agree on. Then we have another political party that is just lost in the wilderness and has gone completely mad.
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Clay Travis
We're speaking to Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff. And Stephen, give us, if you can, I know you can. So give us, if you will, a sense of what is coming next here on the agenda. We've seen a lot of the executive orders. We didn't get to it earlier today, but a federal judge decided that he could determine on his own that $2 billion must be paid for a USAID contract. Supreme Court 54 has come down and is essentially mandating that payment. So we know that the courts are going to be a battleground. What are you expecting with regard to that? And also, what can we expect when it comes to immigration enforcement and some of the major operations that have certainly been hinted at?
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Daniel Cameron
Well, I mean, the district court judge issue is a very severe one, perhaps one of the most severe. So it's important to understand there's 700 more or less district court judges nationwide, or about 700 like 680 district court judges nationwide, a larger number than many people might imagine. And so when you hear the term federal judge and join something, you're talking about one person from a pool of almost 700. So largely the number of House Democrats by significant margin, for example, a subset of those federal judges are equally as radical as, say, Al Green, who was escorted from the chamber last night, or Ilhan OMAR or an AOC, etc. And so we have a situation now as a country where, again, these are people that Biden or Obama forced through on a party line vote that got zero national attention because, let's be honest, very little national coverage of a district court judge being appointed to, say, San Francisco. And so you have a single district court judge that represents 1% of the American population ideologically, that gets to assert the powers of the presidency for themselves and says, I'm going to be president now. I'm going to decide what our foreign policy is. I'm going to decide what foreign aid we're going to fund or not going to fund. It's breathtakingly unconstitutional. The Founding Fathers would have been horrified that anything even resembling what I just described could happen. And clearly the Supreme Court is going to need to establish new rules and procedures for district court injunctions because it deprives the American people of their ability to exercise democracy. In other words, you vote for a change in policy, you elect a new president. You can't have district court judges preventing that president from executing the policies that he campaigned on.
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Stephen Miller
We're talking to Stephen, very real and.
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Daniel Cameron
A very serious, very direct threat to democracy and our democratic system of government. And clearly there's going to need to be reforms.
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Stephen Miller
We know that you are walk working. Stephen Miller with us now, White House Deputy Chief of Staff hours that are probably extraordinary. I know you have three young kids as well. I know your wife has also been working like crazy. Take it outside of the policy world for us for a moment. What is your average day like right now? There's a lot of parents out there that have serious jobs. What are you doing on a day to day basis? What is your day like? And then second part of this, and I texted you about this because before in the four years when you were on with us regularly, we established your affinity for Karate Kid and the Cobra Kai series, which I sat around on February 13th and watched with my three boys. Have you had any moments of just non work basically since January 20th or frankly even since November 5th? What's your day to day life like right now?
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Daniel Cameron
Yes, well, so unfortunately I have not had the chance to watch the last installment. So no spoilers here, please.
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Stephen Miller
I will.
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Daniel Cameron
You're safe for Kai because, because I have not had that kind of time, but maybe I'll be able get a chance to catch an episode here or there in the near future because obviously I've invested a lot into the series personally and emotionally, so I'm definitely going to finish it. But to answer your other question, look, when you work in the White House, when you work more specifically in the West Wing as a senior, age of the President, you know, you're on 247 and so and you're on wherever you are, there's no such thing as being off the clock. The notion of Working hours and non working hours doesn't exist. If you're awake, you're working. And frankly, sometimes if you're asleep, you're about to be working because you're going to get a phone call while you're sleeping. But that's exactly what we signed up for. That's what the American people expect of us. That's what the taxpayers expect of us. That's what the president expects of us. The people who work in these jobs is to be on call 247 and do everything possible to advance the agenda. And if you look at the scope and the pace of activity over the last six weeks, President Trump has crammed eight years of action into six weeks. But even that understates it, because name any president in the last decades, generations, who's done anything this good in eight years, let alone in six weeks, right? In other words, other presidents come in, they just tinker around the edges or make things dramatically worse. We went in under President Trump's leadership and fundamentally reformed this government at every level in six weeks. But that is just the beginning. As you said last night, we were just getting started. And you're going to continue to see a flurry of transformative actions that are going to change this government forever. The changes that America has been wanting their entire lives, our whole lives, the bureaucracy has been untouched, unbothered, doing whatever they want to do. He's imposing democratic control over the bureaucracy. And you're just seeing the beginning of that effort, completely rewiring our whole US Immigration system to establish a policy of absolutely no unlawful entry into the United States, combined with the mass removal of those who are here illegally right now, and having the military be at the front and center of that mission, as we have seen, and by the way, you and I talked about that probably a year, maybe more ago about how central the military is going to be in this operation. And now you've seen how true that is. And President Trump is the first president since Eisenhower to use the military to secure the homeland of the United States from illegal immigration. And on issue after issue, you're going to continue to see that level and scope and pace of change. And so I would just say, as excited as you've been these last six weeks, just wait till you see what happens the next six weeks.
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Stephen Miller
Outstanding stuff. Stephen Miller. Keep up the good work. I hope at some point you get to watch a television show to dial back a bit, but we appreciate everything you and your family are doing.
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Daniel Cameron
Thank you.
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Clay Travis
God bless.
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Daniel Cameron
Talk to you soon.
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Stephen Miller
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Buck Sexton
Oh, Clay, I mean, you know, this is a, it is a wild atmosphere here. I mean people I've gotten invites to March Madness parties like, you know, four and five months ago. I mean, this is like, you know, the time in Kentucky for sports enthusiasts, in particular, basketball enthusiasts. So, yeah, it's going to be, it's going to be wild, man. People take off work, you know, people pull their kids out of school, you know, everybody's watching, they're tuned in to TV and, you know, all the different games that are happening. So it's going to be, I mean, it's going to be crazy. I imagine that, you know, there's going to be a lot of folks that are calling in sick to work for the third of it, that's for sure.
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Clay Travis
So, Daniel, thanks for being here with us. We know you're the former AG of Kentucky and you're now a Senate candidate. What do you think would be the most important thing you could get done if you were to join in the next, next Senate group the next time that Congress is seated? Given what you've already seen from the Trump administration, essentially, what are your top priorities? Why do you want to be the next senator from the great state of Kentucky?
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Buck Sexton
Well, Buck, look, let me first say you and I will, you know, obviously share this in common. I mean, we're going to, we care about our kids, right? And congrats to you guys on, on the announcement you just recently made. We care about the future for our children. And my wife and I want to see a colorblind society, a merit based society, one in which we uproot diversity, equity and inclusion and replace it with merit, excellence and intelligence and integrity. That's something that is core to who I am is fighting to preserve that colorblind society, fighting to preserve our constitutional rights, making sure that we secure our southern border. Look, I thought one of the best lines last night from the president was, you know, it turns out we didn't need new legislation, we just needed a new president. I want to help the president continue to fulfill that commitment and promise to secure our southern border. Because as a Kentuckian, I mean, we've seen what fentanyl does when it comes across a porous and unsecure southern border. It hurts our people. It hurts in the heartland of this country. I want to help fight alongside President Trump and support the America first agenda on securing the southern border, unleashing our economy, unleashing crypto such that folks can have an opportunity there, and then again, preserving our constitutional rights and getting rid of dei. And as someone who lives in a community and a economy that is fueled by buy fossil fuels, meaning coal and natural gas. We got to preserve that. We've got to have an all of the above or across the board energy strategy. And I want to promote that to main make sure that Kentucky in this country is maintaining our energy independence.
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Stephen Miller
You live in a state that has a Democrat governor. Unfortunately, as I know you're not pleased. But in that, in that address, when Democrats refused to stand for a girl who had traumatic brain injury because she was playing against a man in volleyball, when they refused to stand for the family of Lake and Riley, the family of Jocelyn Nungarry, the wife of a murdered police officer, a kid much less serious but gets admitted to US Military Academy. Mark Fogel, 95 year old mom who was imprisoned. The son Mark was mom gets him out. Corey Competary, the firefighter family, wife, two daughters there. What does it say about the Democrats and their political perspective right now that they lack the basic humanity to just stand and honor good American stories and heroes like that last night?
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Buck Sexton
I mean, look, it was absolutely absurd and crazy. You think about the Kamala Harris, Tim Walls campaign. I mean, the Democrat members of the House and Senate have basically said hold our beer because we're going to do you know what didn't work in the 24 presidential election. We're actually going to double down on that. We're not going to listen to the American people. We're not going to care about common sense and fair play in women's sports. We're not going to care about these American, deeply rooted American stories that President Trump presented last night when it came to DJ Daniel and the tragedy of Lake and Riley and others that you mentioned. They couldn't stand for that. They couldn't stand to celebrate the greatness of America. They couldn't stand for these heartfelt stories of people that have seen challenges and continue to persevere and are inspiring our nation in building that resolve. They couldn't stand for those things simply because Clay, your point, like they're scared of the far left of their base. They're scared of being called out on social media. I mean, it's absolutely absurd. But what it ultimately does, it reveals the nature of who they are as Democrats in terms of the members of the House and Senate. It reveals who they are. So we saw that on full display last night. But we also saw a president. It was completely in control of this vision of this country that is about unity. It's about protecting our southern border. It's about unleashing our economy and making it work for every American. That was the contrast last night. And let me Tell you, I couldn't be prouder to be a Republican and someone who wants to help President Trump enact his America first agenda.
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Clay Travis
We're speaking to Daniel Cameron, former Attorney General of Kentucky. He's running for Senate, I assume. I just always find this so interesting, Daniel. I assume that in your state, it will be something similar to other red states where Democrats try to steal a Senate seat. Whoever you're going to run against on the Democrat side is going to basically tell everybody in Kentucky they're not really a Democrat, right? Is that your expectation? I know you don't even know necessarily who you're going to be dealing with, but how else could they win in a state like yours other than pretending? Especially given where the Democrat Party is right now, I think it's at one of the lowest points in terms of overall favorability nationwide. It has been in and certainly living memory. So to run against you, is the person gonna have to just say, I'm one of those Democrats who's not really a Democrat?
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Buck Sexton
Honestly, Buck, I don't know what story they're gonna be able to share. Because, you know, what people in Kentucky care about, and President Trump won this state overwhelmingly, and what people here in Kentucky care about is are you going to help support President Trump's agenda? And the Democrats, whether it's Bashir, who just two weeks ago sued Donald Trump, whether it's him or any other Democrat who, you know, has aspirations of a different office, they're not going to be able to pass that litmus test, because they have shown repeatedly that they oppose the Trump agenda, an agenda that I should say that the majority of Kentuckians value and support. And so, again, I don't know what they're going to do on that side of the ledger. What I know is that when it comes to. Look, I was the first statewide elected office holder in Kentucky to endorse President Trump for reelection. I've been with him. I was fortunate enough to speak on his behalf in the RNC convention in 2020. I support the president and his agenda, and I want to stand up for the values in the men, women and children of our 120 counties, because, again, whether it's illegal immigration, whether it is the abuses of opioids that have come into this state because of a poor Southern border, whether it's helping unleash our economy, these are things that my wife and I care about because we've got two little boys, and we want to make sure that this country is the best and greatest version of it. So if you Talk about somebody wanting to help unleash the golden age or the golden era in America. That's me, because I know that that will ultimately benefit our kids.
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Stephen Miller
Talking to Daniel Cameron, running for the Senate in the state of Kentucky, you mentioned Trump and your endorsement of Trump. Do you expect for Trump to endorse in your race? And if so, what kind of timeframe might that look like? I presume you will certainly be seek his endorsement. What is that process like and what do you anticipate?
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Buck Sexton
Well, I certainly hope to earn his support and trust again. And obviously, you know, that's a judgment and decision that he has to make. But in conjunction with that, it's getting out and talking to as many primary voters as I possibly can. Obviously, in a very crowded Republican primary for governor, I won that with nearly 50% of the vote. There have been two polls that have come out recently related to this Senate race. I'm just shy of 40% in both of those polls. I've earned the trust of a lot of voters here in Kentucky. And I say I frankly, it's myself, my wife, and they've gotten to know our family and gotten to know a little bit of our story. And so we want to continue to keep that trust and relationship with the folks here in Kentucky. And it's been built out of the work that I did as attorney general and standing up and fighting against DEI and esg and so in trying to preserve constitutional rights. So these are things that, like, are core to who I am. It's not just a, you know, it's not a show for me. I believe in these things. I want to support the president's agenda and I want to stand up for the folks in our 120 counties. And, you know, I believe that, you know, folks, voters got to get to know the man and the family and all of those things. And my wife and I are committed to running hard in this race. We recognize there are about 15 months between now and the May primary in 26. But, yeah, we want to earn, heck, I want to earn y'all support. I want to earn the voters support. I want to earn President Trump's support. I want to unify the Republican Party such that like, we don't honestly, we don't even have a primary. Like, we get unified behind a candidate, get to that finish line of May of next year and be ready to go into the general strong, such that, you know, outside groups aren't even having to focus on Kentucky. They can focus on Georgia, they can focus on other battleground states. And so my, you know, my heart is, you know, let's get out and talk to as many people as we can. Let's share our message and our vision for what leadership looks like in the United States Senate. And again, let the chips fall where they may.
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Clay Travis
Daniel Cameron running for Senate in Kentucky. We'll be talking more about that as it goes along. And, and sir, you spoke about earning votes, including earning or earning support and votes, including ours here. I've got one thing for you that you could help me out with that would certainly go a long way. Okay. Clay and I are going head to head in a March Madness bracket. Who's going to win the whole thing. If you get this one right, I've got to support you no matter what for Senate.
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Buck Sexton
Let me. Look, look, look. You know, I'll either say it's an SEC school or ACC school. That way I cover UK and UofL. How about that?
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Clay Travis
I'll take it. That'll narrow it down for me because otherwise I'm doing coin flips myself on each way. I have no idea. I don't even know who's in Division 1 basketball. So I'll figure it out as I go. But I'm appreciate that.
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Stephen Miller
By the way, I'm expecting now based on that answer for the next Democrat left wing newspaper headline to be Kentucky. Daniel Cameron picks Duke to win title. You went acc. You tried to say Louisville, but you better say Duke's gonna lose. You better make that clear.
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Buck Sexton
I hope Pat Kelsey knows that when it comes to the acc, I'm all about U of L. I hope my years of football playing there. Folks know that when I say the ACC I mean U of L. So yeah, let's. Let's hope you know that U of L knows that.
- [43:01]
Clay Travis
Daniel Cameron, everybody. Daniel, thanks for being here with us. We'll talk to you again soon.
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Buck Sexton
Hey, thanks guys. God bless you.
- [43:07]
Clay Travis
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Stephen Miller
Politics, but also a little comic relief. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
We've got a lot to dive into. Still, the speech from last night, some news that has broken this morning. Overall, I think the speech is something that was very effective. I think the numbers show that. I think the perception on the right is that Trump is dialed in and is doing a fantastic job. And Democrats will never admit any of this, of course, but their opposition to him is so lackluster and ineffective that I think that speaks louder than anything they could say, which is proof, further proof that Trump is on the right track. America is back and we are in the dawn of the golden age of America. Clay, I don't think we played this one yet. If we did, apologies, but we could always hit it again. It is CNN's David Challenging. Did we play him in the very beginning of the show? We might have, but here he is. This is cut 8, and he's saying according to CNN's snap poll or whatever it is that they do their Insta poll, these are the numbers when it comes to positivity and reacting to Trump's speech. Play it to the results. What was your reaction to Trump's speech? 44% of speech watchers in our instant.
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Stephen Miller
Poll tonight say they had a very positive reaction to Trump's speech.
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Clay Travis
25% somewhat positive, 31% negative. 69% of Americans, this is what it says on the sheet, had a, had a positive or very positive reaction to President Trump's speech. So I don't know, is that incorrect, guys? Because that was the number added up.
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Stephen Miller
Strongly positive.
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Clay Travis
That's what I thought. So the point here is 69% thought that it was either good or great, which means that you're looking at a 70% approval of the speech overall. The tone overall. It's tough to get 70% of Americans to agree on much of anything these days.
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Stephen Miller
Trump has strung together a large coalition built around common sense, and Democrats have combated his Common sense revolution by going further over the woke waterfall and again, I think just delegitimizing themselves as a legitimate party. And I know this because I see and hear and meet so many of you out there. This audience for this show in particular is growing in record amounts because the rest of the media has totally lost its mind. And I do think this is significant. More Democrats watch Fox News than watch MSNBC or CNN now. And if you are looking out there, I mean, sometimes I saw Brett Baer's interview with zelensky, had a 75% new share. 75%. And if you are now a Democrat politician, you're like, hey, we should go on Fox News to actually talk to Democrats. I don't think that's crazy for this show either. If I were Eric Adams and I was running for mayor of New York City and I were trying to figure out how to address a huge audience of potential voters, I would be begging to come on W O R, our affiliate in New York City and talk to this audience. Same thing for Andrew Cuomo, if you're trying to talk to the biggest possible audience out there. It feels to me like Democrats have painted themselves into a corner and they keep painting themselves into a smaller and smaller corner. And Trump's speech, if you take away Trump's involvement from it, I thought he was great when he pointed it out with RFK Jr. Remember, they talked and wrote about what a masterstroke putting RFK Jr would have been for Obama in his cabinet. And, and Trump rightly pointed out during the speech that when he gave a shout out to RFK Jr. If Obama had done it, everybody would have cheered like crazy on the Democrat side of the aisle. And the way that this started, Buck. And we talked about this off the top with Al Green and his cane haranguing Trump and being forced to be evicted from the, the, the chambers. Remember, it wasn't very long ago that it was considered uncouth, unacceptable behavior. I believe it was in 2009 for the Republican in the, in the crowd to yell out, you lie to Obama. That was considered to be beyond the pale. He had to apologize. Democrats took a ton of flack for it. Basically, there were 30 or so interruptions.
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Clay Travis
Republicans took a lot of, a lot of flak.
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Stephen Miller
That's what I'm saying. Back in 2009. And now you've got. I don't think it's crazy to say the people who were in that chamber say that much of the disruption wasn't picked up by the audio, but there were constantly people Walking out the Al Green thing was impossible to ignore. Democrats have lost their minds and they lost the ability to even connect with their basic humanity when they're not standing up for a 13 year old kid who's being honored as a Secret Service agent because of his commitment, having overcome brain cancer to, to the police. And I loved that moment, Buck, for many reasons, but in particular because it finally feels. We were talking about BLM Plaza. We're swinging back away from. Police are everything that is awful in America. It used to be an aspirational goal to be a police officer for many young kids out there of all different backgrounds. And it feels like we're finally starting to recognize, hey, police are the good guys again.
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Clay Travis
Well, police in America, by the numbers are phenomenal. And given especially what they have to deal with in high crime neighborhoods, the numbers show that we have an incredibly well trained professional and humane and constitutional law enforcement. But that's not what Democrats want people to believe because it's easier to put the blame on the police than to look at other problems and challenges. But you know, I was thinking about this, Clay. You probably had this experience. We haven't talked much about our, I mean, you know, high school athletics, but do you remember when you were on a pretty good team and if you lost a close game to somebody when you're a kid, I mean, I'm thinking about, you know, basketball, soccer, sports I played. You were like, oh man, I can't. You were looking on the schedule and you couldn't wait to play them again. You walked off that field if it was a really tough game and you felt, you know, oh, we were robbed, we could have won. And I don't know if you ever had this. I've also had the other thing where you get so obliterated because you played like the state select team or something. When they're just in another level, you're like, I never want to see those guys again. That's really, that was a real tough one. I don't, I don't want to ever have to come up against. Democrats are looking a little bit like that these days in terms of where they are as a political party. You know, they look like they have been completely gobsmacked. Jake Tapper, who's busy promoting the book on the Biden lie, very suspect here he is saying over at CNN this is cut four, that the Democrats are totally demoralized.
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Stephen Miller
You can really sense Republicans with a pep in their step and Democrats rather demoralized. I mean, understood, understandably so given the fact that Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House, not to mention a conservative lean on the U.S. supreme Court. But beyond that, even when Republicans are out of power, you sense, like, an energy quite often when. And when. When Democrats are controlling things, the Democrats, not to be cliche about it, but.
- [52:06]
Daniel Cameron
They are in disarray.
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Stephen Miller
They do not know how to. How to be the opposition force.
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Clay Travis
I mean, here's the easiest way to put it, Clay. We can't. We sit here and it's not even clear who we should be publicly arguing with on the Democrat side to tackle whatever the opposition to Trump's policies may be. There doesn't seem. This is like in Troy when Brad Pitt defeats the giant guy, and then he's like, is there anybody else? And no one comes forward. There does not seem to be anybody else on the Democrat side.
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Stephen Miller
I like your analogy about the sports. I'll take it to coaching, because that's what I've done more recently. I was coaching 12U basketball a couple years ago, I think, and one of the team we played against, every kid had a mustache. And I don't know how that was possible, but. But any of you who have coached, like, Little league baseball or like, adolescent moving toward. As soon as a kid has a mustache, he's got some testosterone. It's not little boy ball anymore. Somehow we played against the team where every kid had a mustache. And I remember. I told you, I remember taking a timeout, and I don't know, we were down like 30 to 6 or something. I mean, these kids were just. I mean, it was like I was like, coaching the Washington Generals against the Harlem Globetrotters. Right now. I was the Generals. And. And the kids come over and. And, you know, as a coach, you just got nothing. Like, there is nothing. You got this. You got the board. You know, Buck, where you're like, hey, let me draw up a play. And the play's not gonna work. Like, they don't play's not gonna work there. You know, I was joking afterwards with one of their dads. I think some of these kids. I think some of these kids drove here. You know, it's 12U basketball kids, like, pulling up in their own. I think some of them have kids themselves and. And. And like, I'm sitting there with the dry erase board, and. And I feel like the Democrats right now are like, me in that game. Buck, they've got the dry erase board. Literally, they had the dry erase boards in the. In. In the House chamber, and they're just writing like, pay your taxes. Elon steals and, and, and these are not game plans that are going to work. But they're so utterly defeated right now, they don't even have a strategy to respond to the opposition. And to your point, they don't even have somebody who can step forward and you can be like, oh, that's the guy, or that's the gal who is going to elucidate their worldview better than someone else. I don't ever remember seeing a void like this. They're usually a way. I haven't seen it happen.
- [54:42]
Clay Travis
Usually the leadership of a political party is in a moment like this, I would say, fractured between a few different competing voices. That would be far more normal. Right. You look back to Trump's first term. You had, you know, the Obama and Obama ites around him, obviously Joe Biden, you had Elizabeth Warren, you had Bernie Sanders. Now, I understand they're still around, but their potency as political figures has dramatically declined. And with Bernie Sanders, he's just so old, no one thinks he's going to be president. So they're, they're not, it's not just that they don't have a single person. They don't even have a stable of people who are trying to emerge. And it's not just about those individuals. It's about what the message may be when they do, when they do things like say, Elon is stealing. They're trying to make an argument to normal, everyday Americans that the richest man in the world has decided to put himself in the crosshairs of lunatics because he cares a little bit about the stock price going up on one of his many hundreds of billions of dollar value companies. I mean, they're effectively arguing, Clay, that a literal or soon to be trillionaire needs a 5% bump in a stock when in actuality he's taken on tremendous headaches. This is just an irrational argument, but it reminds me of if you've ever, I don't know if any of you have ever been this position where you've been right in an argument with somebody, maybe somebody very close to you, and you're right on the merits. And then all of a sudden it's, I don't like your tone. Their tone, policing Ellen with. Oh, but the way he's doing it isn't. I agree with the cuts, I agree with ending the fraud, but I don't like the way he's doing it. It's too haphazard. Clay, that's not a serious argument against it.
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Stephen Miller
Right.
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Clay Travis
This is not a. You either want it to happen or not. No one's ever done it before. Do you want it to happen, yes or no? They play this game of, oh, we want the same result. We would just go about it differently. Even though they've never actually done that, and all they do is make it harder to get to the result, I think people are seeing through it. So this is why I believe it's also getting increasingly pathetic for them, because with. With their arguments being made, it's backing them into a more difficult corner.
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Stephen Miller
The arguments are awful. They aren't supported by the vast majority of the American public, and you actually are ending up. I mean, we come back. I'll play audio clip of Jasmine Crockett, who somehow has become a prominent spokesperson for the Democrat Party. She's a moron, and she actually alienates far more people than she would ever bring in. And that's kind of where we are in terms of people clamoring to be the official spokesperson of the Democrat Party.
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Clay Travis
You know, you spoke about it as. From the coach perspective. Clay, just real quick. I remember I played in a. In a basketball tournament in the eighth grade when I was playing a fair amount of basketball. So I was very young. Young. I guess I'm 14 or something like that at that point, and someone dunked that we were playing against. Someone dunked.
- [57:46]
Stephen Miller
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
And I remember it's like, it's all over. Just with that, you're like, this is not gonna go well. It's a bit like Trump dunked on the Democrats last night. And they're at that phase of basketball where they like to just touch the bottom of the net and think that that's cool. No, no, no, no. You want to be able to dunk.
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Stephen Miller
It reminds me somebody yelling back door. You know, where like, somebody's. And then the. You're already dunked on before you can even react. But to your point, I bet that kid had a mustache. And I bet he was pretty far along on puberty.
- [58:15]
Clay Travis
15 or 16. You know what I mean? 15 or 16, big difference from 13 or 14.
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Stephen Miller
So, yeah, when you're slapping the backboard on your layup and then somebody else is dunking, you're at a competitive disadvantage. I think that's fair to say.
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Clay Travis
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Stephen Miller
You know them as conservative radio hosts. Now just get to know them as guys on the Sunday Hang podcast with Clay and Buck. Find it in their podcast feed on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.