Hour 2 - Reagan's Warning

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 2 – Reagan's Warning

Date: November 6, 2025
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

In this hour, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton dive into the aftermath of recent elections, focusing on ideological divides, leadership in major cities like New York, and broader national themes of government overreach versus individual responsibility. Central to the conversation is the symbolic exchange between Ronald Reagan’s iconic skepticism of government and the progressive counter-narrative, brought to life by recent NYC mayoral statements. The hosts analyze policy debates, reflect on political personalities, and engage with their listeners about the future of the Republican Party and conservative governance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Holiday Air Travel & Potential Shutdowns

[02:06 – 04:57]

• Buck Sexton highlights breaking news: the FAA is expected to cut air traffic at 40 airports due to staffing and shutdown threats, right as holiday travel approaches.

• Clay warns listeners to check flight statuses and possibly reconsider non-essential travel.

• Noted that Thanksgiving is the busiest and most compact travel period of the year.

  “There’s nothing worse than being stuck in a place you don’t want to be, waiting to see whether you’re going to get on an airplane or not.” – Clay Travis (03:10)

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2. Clay’s Book “Balls” & Media Tour

[04:57 – 06:19]

• Clay and Buck engage in light banter about Clay’s new book "Balls", encouraging listeners to support it for a shot at the NYT bestseller list.

• Clay discusses the arduous process of recording the audiobook.

  “It’s really in your best interest to have a copy of Balls.” – Clay Travis (04:57)
  “You have to be shameless... anything on his [Hannity’s] radio show. If you guys would please go buy it... I deeply appreciate it.” – Buck Sexton (05:55)

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3. Sports & Pop Culture Side-Talk

[06:19 – 07:43]

• Discussion on sports team allegiances, nostalgia for the Miami Dolphins’ Dan Marino era, and the cultural shift in what’s acceptable for movies like “Ace Ventura.”

• Nod to how society would react to older comedy storylines today.

  “They have not found a quarterback basically in 30 years since Dan Marino. And every Miami Dolphins game you go to, there’s a guy in the number 13 Dan Marino jersey.” – Buck Sexton (06:54) “That [Ace Ventura] would never ever be allowed these days, that’s for sure.” – Clay Travis (07:43)

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4. Reagan’s Warning vs. Progressive Government

[08:51 – 09:53]

• Clay introduces the core theme: the fundamental clash over the role of government.

• Plays Reagan’s famous quote:

  “I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” – Ronald Reagan [08:51]

• Contrasted with the newly-elected NYC Mayor Mamdani’s speech:

  “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” – Mayor Mamdani [09:17, replayed at 09:45]

• Buck frames this as his “worst nightmare,” seeing a direct repudiation of Reagan’s skepticism about government.

  “This is just like he distilled, in essence, my worst nightmare.” – Buck Sexton (09:24)

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5. New York City Politics, Tax Policy, & Progressive Mayors

[10:16 – 14:05]

• Clay and Buck analyze the potential and pitfalls of New York under progressive leadership, predicting outmigration of high earners and budgetary issues.

• Discuss how a small percentage of ultra-high earners pay the majority of NYC’s taxes.

• The pattern of progressive mayors in cities such as Minneapolis, Portland, and Chicago leading to declines.

  “Without their earnings to tax, you can’t have the socialism that these people are advocating for.” – Clay Travis (11:00) “They can’t point to one who’s a real lefty and say, well, look at what a great... city that is.” – Clay Travis (13:09)

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6. Anti-Trump Rhetoric in Progressive Victory Speeches

[12:22 – 13:09]

• Clip from Mayor Mamdani highlighting his city as poised to "show the nation how to defeat Trump."

• Both hosts lampoon the melodramatic rhetoric and fantasy narratives of progressive politicians.

  “This is not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.” – Mayor Mamdani (12:30) “If he was really a despot, you wouldn’t have crowds of people cheering for you, you little twerp.” – Buck Sexton (13:09)

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7. Chuck Schumer’s Party Disconnect & AOC’s Ambitions

[14:05 – 15:20]

• Buck speculates on Chuck Schumer’s waning influence, fear of being primaried by AOC, and the generational shift in Democrat leadership.

• Clay forecasts a potential Newsom/AOC ticket and emphasizes AOC’s growing role.

  “He lives in constant fear that AOC is going to decide she’s going to primary him because he’ll get smoked in the primary...” – Buck Sexton (14:14) “She represents the real vanguard of the Democrat Party today.” – Clay Travis (15:20)

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8. Listener Calls: GOP, Trump, and Party Disaffection

[20:01 – 21:34]

• Caller Betty (Virginia) shares that Trump supporters stick with him because he keeps promises, unlike the broader GOP.

• Buck recaps Trump’s agitation with Republicans over filibuster and legislative gridlock.

  “Donald Trump voters vote for him because he makes promises... The Republican Party repeatedly doesn’t keep their promises.” – Betty (20:27) “We have majorities. The problem is we don’t have substantial enough majorities, according to Republican leaders, to really enact substantial change.” – Buck Sexton (21:18)

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9. Progressive Election Strategies & Media Reactions

[22:42 – 28:00]

• The hosts dissect Sunny Hostin’s ("The View") call for Democrats to fight political battles “lower” than Republicans, especially in redistricting.

• Highlight the double standards in media and among progressives regarding tactics like gerrymandering, prosecution of political enemies.

  “When they go low, you go lower. I’m sorry, but that is where we are now.” – Sunny Hostin, quoted by Buck Sexton (25:43) “Prosecuting your political enemies, a good thing, a worthy thing when Democrats do it… Republicans even think of doing it—it’s the end of the republic.” – Buck Sexton (26:43)

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10. Bernie Sanders and Health Care Blame

[28:00 – 30:46]

• Bernie Sanders is played discussing election losses as rejections of “Trumpism” and blaming Republicans for health care woes.

• Buck notes the “cognitive dissonance” as Democrats blame the right for the failures of policies they themselves implemented.

  “Everything is going to get worse. And they turn around and they say it is your fault or rather it’s Republicans’ fault.” – Buck Sexton (29:30)

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11. NYC’s Future under Mamdani; Learning the Hard Way

[30:46 – 36:00]

• Buck expresses skepticism that a progressive mayor like Mamdani will be held accountable for failures—blaming Trump will remain the playbook.

• Historical reference to de Blasio’s tenure, inherited prosperity, and slow erosion of city governance standards.

• Senator Ted Cruz’s warning that Mamdani represents “an actual communist jihadist” and that while some on the right see this as politically advantageous, it is “terrible for America.”

  “MamDani’s just going to blame Trump. As absurd and childish and irrational as that is, it’s going to be effective for a lot of people.” – Buck Sexton (31:49) “We have an actual communist jihadist… I think it’s terrible for America. It’s a bad look that we’ve got this guy in charge of our largest city.” – Sen. Ted Cruz (35:35, paraphrased by Buck)

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12. Listener Engagement – Women and Voting

[39:41 – 41:08]

• A call from Paula jokes about women not voting and copying her husband’s ballot, sparking playful banter on-air about controversial out-of-context headlines.

  “I agree with Allison. I don’t think women should be voting, we put too much of our hearts into it... I copy my husband’s ballot each time we vote.” – Paula (40:01) “You and I are going to end up the headline on this... Clay Travis and Buck Sexton call for women’s right to vote to be taken away.” – Buck Sexton (40:22)

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Notable Quotes

• [08:51] Ronald Reagan:
  “I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
• [09:17/09:45] Mayor Mamdani:
  “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.”
• [13:09] Buck Sexton:
  “If he [Trump] was really a despot, you wouldn’t have crowds of people cheering for you, you little twerp.”
• [14:14] Buck Sexton:
  “He [Schumer] lives in constant fear that AOC is going to decide she’s going to primary him because he’ll get smoked in the primary...”
• [20:27] Caller Betty:
  “Donald Trump voters vote for him because he makes promises... The Republican Party repeatedly doesn’t keep their promises.”
• [25:43] Sunny Hostin (audio):
  “When they go low, you go lower.”
• [35:35] Sen. Ted Cruz (audio):
  “We have an actual communist jihadist... Mondami is not a socialist – he is a full-on communist. He has called for seizing the means of production in our economy. He is a Marxist. That is profoundly dangerous.”

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Memorable Moments & Tone

• The juxtaposition of Reagan’s “nine terrifying words” with the new progressive mantra is underlined with alarm, sarcasm, and dismay.
• Listeners’ quirky, sometimes controversial calls spark humor but also reflection about the possibilities for media misinterpretation.
• The hosts’ tone swings between outrage at political developments and joking camaraderie, including self-effacing commentary about their media appearances, books, and podcast ambitions.
• Recurring references to the theme of consequences—whether for cities under progressive rule or a party that fails to deliver for its core supporters.

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• [02:06] FAA holiday air travel warning
• [04:57] Clay’s book “Balls” and bestseller push
• [08:51] Reagan quote on government
• [09:17/09:45] Mayor Mamdani’s speech and ideological clash replayed
• [12:22] Anti-Trump rhetoric in mayoral victory speech
• [14:05] Chuck Schumer and AOC speculation
• [20:01] Caller Betty on Trump and the GOP
• [25:43] Sunny Hostin on Democrats fighting dirtier
• [28:00] Bernie Sanders on health care, blaming Trumpism
• [35:35] Senator Ted Cruz: “Communist jihadist” warning about Mamdani
• [39:41] Paula calls about women’s voting and playful controversy

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Conclusion

This episode underscores the growing ideological divide over the role of government in America. Through the juxtaposition of Reagan-era warnings with today’s progressive confidence in government solutions, Clay and Buck interpret contemporary political events with a blend of skepticism, humor, and conservative insight. The show is energized by listener interaction, sharp media criticism, and an unflinching commentary on personality-driven politics in both parties, setting the stage for ongoing culture war battles and 2024 election stakes.

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[Buck Sexton]

Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We are rolling through the Thursday edition of the program. Big story right now is that the FAA is looking to reduce air traffic by 10% at 40 different airports. CNN says the Trump administration is considering a 4% cut cut overall in the number of flights. This is potentially going to be the thing that gets the government shutdown fixed. Buck I Think is when a lot of so called normal people trying to go about their day to day existence show up at the airport and can't manage to go anywhere. To say nothing of Buck. The fact that Thanksgiving is typically the busiest travel time of the year basically. I know Christmas travel season is substantial as well, but there are more days that people travel on for holiday travel around Christmas. The Thanksgiving holiday is more compact as makes sense. And so I would just say in general put a safety pin in this. If you like me are going to be traveling tomorrow, I would say be hitting refresh quite frequently to see what might or might not be happening with your air travel. And, and I don't know about you Buck, if I didn't have to travel, if I'm out there and I'm like, hey, I'm thinking about taking this trip but maybe it makes sense to go another, I would cancel it. I just. There's nothing worse than being stuck in a place that you don't want to be waiting to see whether you're going to be able to get on an airplane or not. Hotels fill up. You can't. You have to consider, especially if you have kids, you have to consider trying to sleep somewhere that you don't want to be. Inevitably for all of you have had this happen. If you have an evening flight, they try to schedule you for a flight at 5:30 in the morning or something so they don't tell you your flight's canceled till 11 and then you gotta be back in like three or four hours. Everybody's miserable. I'm already nervous about being able to get out of here tomorrow. But this is the lead story right now on Fox News, MSNBC and cnn. Everybody is covering the potential airport related issues. So I want to update you on all of that, just make you aware of it as it could continue to be an issue going forward. We are continuing to break down what happened on Tuesday. We got a bunch of you who want to weigh in. We'll take some of your calls. I would like to say thank you to everybody who has been buying my book. It came out two days ago. We got a call, Buck, saying we have been flagged to be surveyed by the New York Times, which has never happened before. So if you guys will continue please to go buy the book. I think we got a good shot to get on the New York Times bestseller list.

[Clay Travis]

It's really in your best interest to have a copy of Balls.

[Buck Sexton]

And if you know somebody who doesn't have balls, it's a great Christmas gift to just Say, hey, got you a pair of balls for, for Christmas. But in all seriousness, I think you'll enjoy it. I also read it. Buck, you were saying part of your Christmas break is now going to be spent. I looked at my reading of the book is over six hours now. That probably double the amount of time that it took at least to make a six hour recording. You got three days scheduled in the recording studio. Is that what you've got right now?

[Clay Travis]

Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Oh, oh, Buck, it's Christmas. Think about family and Santa and trees and all that good stuff and, and yuletide cheer and three days in your home radio studio recording the book that you took two years to write. Ah, the things we do for content, my friends. The things we do to bring you the best.

[Buck Sexton]

And you have to be shameless. I was on Glenn Beck earlier. Thank you for Glenn Beck. I've been on Fox News all over the place. I'm going to be on with Sean Hannity tonight. And so anything on his radio show. I was on Sean Hannity last night. If you guys would please go buy it. Amazon Clay Travis, type it in. The book comes up. I deeply appreciate it. Okay, we didn't play this.

[Clay Travis]

Sean, as you said, he's a sports guy. Is he, is he a Yankees or a Mets guy or does he stay out of that? Cause that can get contentious.

[Buck Sexton]

That's a great question. I don't know what his actual sports team affiliations are. I mean, he lived in or has.

[Clay Travis]

He gone full Florida like now? I guess I'm supposed to root for the Miami Heat, which still feels like cheating given the Heat Knicks rivalries of the past, but here we are. Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

And unfortunately the Miami Dolphins are not a NFL franchise that anybody wants to be rooting for right now. They're kind of a mess.

[Clay Travis]

When was the last, were they the last time they were good with Dan Marino? Do we have to go back to the 90s? That's rough.

[Buck Sexton]

They have not found a quarterback basically in 30 years since Dan Marino. And every Miami Dolphins game you go to, there's a guy in the number 13 Dan Marino jersey. Still, it doesn't matter.

[Clay Travis]

It's also not really the Miami Dolphins.

[Buck Sexton]

Fault because the laces were out. You know what movie they would never allow to be made today? And certainly they would never allow it to be sponsored by the NFL. Ace Ventura. Speaking of laces out. Oh, yeah, that movie I watched with my kids, they loved it. But it had Dan Marino in it. It had Don Shula in it and the bad guy, which would Never be allowed today. Spoiler alert. Was actually a man pretending to be a woman. Finkel is Einhorn, if you remember the Einhorn is Finkel, if you remember that memorable discovery.

[Clay Travis]

The soundtrack from the Crying Game when the Revelation happened, which is another movie about a lady with a man. Surprise. And that would never ever be allowed to be made these days, that's for sure.

[Buck Sexton]

I just love the idea of if the NFL were involved in a movie that was considered in any way. By the way, this was what, 94, 92. I mean, it wasn't that long ago. And I'm surprised they still air it. You know, they have to give trigger warnings now before all different sorts of Disney movies. I would imagine there are trigger warnings on this thing probably many different places. And many of you are triggered in the New York City era area. I wanted to play this Buck, because I flagged it yesterday and we didn't get to it. We didn't play very much of Mom Donnie's victory speech because I didn't want to make all of you throw up. But I did think this was a really kind of useful contrast. First, let's go back to 1986. President Ronald Reagan said his nine most terrifying words were as follows. Cut 20.

[Clay Travis]

I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are. I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

[Buck Sexton]

Okay, well known Reagan line. Here is what Mamdani said last night, which is a direct repudiation of that iconic Ronald Reagan line. And it is cut 19. We will prove that there is no.

[Clay Travis]

Problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

[Buck Sexton]

This is just like he distilled, in essence, my worst nightmare. Puck, let's play that one more time so you guys can hear it. I mean, because it is a direct repudiation of what Reagan said. Cut 19. This is my concern about New York City. Do you think the government handles anything? Well, Mamdani says they want to do everything for you. We will prove that there is no.

[Clay Travis]

Problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

[Buck Sexton]

This is awful. I think that I read a big piece in the New York Times. They had their biographical sketch of Mamdani and his campaign. Thousands of words. I read it this morning. The only thing I can say about Mandani is the hope is that he just is going to abandon trying to deliver on the vast majority of the things that he claimed he was going to deliver on.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, Best case scenario, that's bad. I wish I could say something better about how I think this is likely to go. I also, you're not going to see the huge outflow from New York. And I think that's largely because if Covid didn't drive you out of New York City, I don't think mom Danny will. And now that may be also because people are rooted there in ways that even if they wanted to leave, it's really hard. You know, they got their kids in school, their job, their family. And I get that moving is not as easy as I happen to be at a place in life where not only did I want to move, but I had my then fiance who was also like, let's move to Florida. And it was all, it all felt, it all came together. A lot of people, it's more complicated than that. This matters, though, for the budget of New York City, because a very small percent, it really actually mirrors the national tax reality, which is that 1% of New Yorkers pay 50% of the taxes. And you can break it down even further. 0.01% of New Yorkers pay a shockingly large, I don't know what the figure is, but a shockingly large amount of New York City's taxes. So it's not just the high earners, it's really the ultra high earners. And so all the complaining about millionaires and billionaires that Bernie Sanders and others do without their earnings to tax, you can't have the socialism that these people are advocating for. So there we have it, man. They're going to learn, I think they're going to learn the hard way about New York or about Mamdani, rather, in New York. This was also interesting. He very, this is cut 17. He very clearly from his victory speech here, made this about Trump. Play 17. If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling.

[Buck Sexton]

The very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.

[Clay Travis]

This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're.

[Buck Sexton]

Watching, I have four words for you.

[Clay Travis]

Turn the volume up. This will all look very funny in retrospect. When this guy has made a complete mess of New York and is a joke and everyone realizes that he has no idea what he's doing, because that's what's happened in every, every city that elects some super progressive, you end up with someone like. Who's the mayor? Frey, who just won. And again, barely won.

[Buck Sexton]

He had to. Barely. Minneapolis Somali guy.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, the guy was crying at the casket. He's in tears. The casket of George Floyd, the guy. Such a. Such a absolute clown. Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, all the. All these very progressive mayors are disasters. They can't point to one who's a real lefty and say, well, look at what a great. Look at how awesome that city is going. No, they always ruin it. So he's going to make a mess of things as well. But I think it's worth noting that he's just the mayor of a city and he somehow made this for his audience, at least about Trump and the fantasyland stuff, too, about a despot. You know, you wouldn't have crowds of people cheering for you, you little twerp, if he was really a despot. And they were all scared of what the evil king would do to you. Like, they just live in a fantasy land. The whole thing is make believe.

[Buck Sexton]

How about Schumer getting asked who he voted for and not giving an answer?

[Clay Travis]

I love. That was classic. The Chuck Schumer is.

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, if you just step back and don't overthink it, but you just take a step back and think about how desperate he must be every day. He's 75, or whatever the heck he is, he should be just comfortably becoming a grandpa. His time has passed. He has no resonance at all with his current party, and he basically just tries to avoid being noticed all the time, despite the fact that he's Senate Minority Leader. And I really think he lives in constant fear that AOC is going to decide that she's going to primary him because he'll get smoked in the primary and his political career will be over.

[Clay Travis]

That's going to run for president, I might add. And she's going to be, I think, a top contender for the Democrats. I don't think she will win the nomination, but you can just see how we've all. You and I agree here. Newsom at the top of the ticket, AOC as the vp, but she's going to make her own run. And it's because she represents the. The real vanguard of the Democrat Party today.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

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[Buck Sexton]

I think it's the up is that's a Yooper is someone who lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

[Clay Travis]

Ah, okay.

[Buck Sexton]

Which I look at, you could. Well, I may have a place up there.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, no, but I mean, you're making love happen with your NCAA swag tip here.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, I mean, that's what I do. I just bring people together. Bright ray of sunshine. That's me.

[Clay Travis]

Let's see, we have Betty in rural Virginia. Wants to call him. What's up, Betty? Hello. Sorry, I'm pumping gas. Let me get back in the car. No, it's all good. You're busy.

[Buck Sexton]

Appreciate it.

[Clay Travis]

Sorry. Thank you for taking my call. Okay. My husband took over, so I'm good now.

[Buck Sexton]

Tell him we said hi.

[Clay Travis]

Teamwork makes the dream work.

[Buck Sexton]

Only a few million people radio. Tell him that we're happy that we can be with you.

[Clay Travis]

Okay. I called in about the Republican Party is who Trump voters do not vote for when they stay out of elections. Donald Trump Voters vote for him because he makes promises. He makes clear what his issues and his policies will be, and he does his very best to try and keep his promise. The Republican Party repeatedly doesn't keep their promises. Democrats come in with a majority, even though a small one. They can bring some Republicans over to vote and get things done for their issues. Republicans get in and then they can't bring voter. They cannot bring votes over from the Democrats to do anything. Okay, I bet.

[Buck Sexton]

I think there's a lot of people out there nodding along.

[Clay Travis]

It is.

[Buck Sexton]

And this. Thank you for the call, Buck. This goes to the essence of what Trump is saying when he says repeal the filibuster. Trump is fed up because we have majorities. The problem is we don't have substantial enough majorities, according to Republican leaders, to really enact substantial change.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

Clock.

[Clay Travis]

2:00'.

[Buck Sexton]

Clock.

[Clay Travis]

Sorry, I was making. I'm just making sure I'm keeping the team on their toes and they are, in fact, on their toes. So good job, guys. You passed the stress test. Well done. You knew that the guest wasn't. Now, the guest was at 2 Eastern and I couldn't trick you, so thank you for that. So, all right, let's dive into a little bit more on. Oh, boy. Let's see the. The shutdown situation. Also, Momdani. I mean, I got a few things I want to get into here. I'll actually, I'M going to keep things spicy. I'm going to mix things up a bit. Sonny Hostin. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go for something. I know we're gonna have fun with Sunny Hostin over at the View, which I'm just going to tell you all, has not yet agreed to our incredibly generous invitation to have Clay and Buck. We will even fly to New York at our own expense. We will put ourselves up. They don't even have to. They don't have to do anything for us other than open the doors and leave a spot on the couch or two. Two spots would be nice. And we will enlighten the ladies of the View and their audience and also light up their ratings. But they seem unwilling. So far. They seem like they're not up for it. Sunny Hostin, though, certainly the most bitter member of the View, and that is pretty much universally understood by Democrats and Republicans. Here she is with the takeaway she had from the elections. This is cut 10. Play it. I don't think enough people are talking about is what happened in California with Prop 50. Yeah, we come into that. Yeah, that, that for me was a huge, huge takeaway because that is the roadmap for how Democrats become the opposition party. You meet energy with energy. When they go low, you go lower. I am sorry, but that is where we are now. We, that opposition. And I think we saw that last night. She straight up saying. She said it. You heard her. When they go low, you go lower. Now, understand this is in the context of redistricting. Okay. This is not something you generally think of as the dirtiest part of politics. It's definitely politics, but there's much nastier stuff going on. I would just add, though, that we're all paying attention to this and we see that Democrats, Democrats have been more aggressive and more ruthless about gerrymandering all along, and now they're trying to squeeze out the very last bits of political advantage they can from it. And Republicans are not going to have a second thought where at least they're in charge about doing things the way they need to. Notice, though. Why is it low? It's low for us to redistrict, but it's, you know, in what way? How is that going? How did we go low? They were doing. This is such a common thing with Democrats, like we said about the filibuster about so many things.

[Buck Sexton]

Oh, my gosh.

[Clay Travis]

If you prosecute some of the people who prosecuted Trump, next time around, they may try to prosecute Trump. They're. They're forgetting chicken and egg here, you know, which came first. Cause and effect. They already did this stuff that they're telling us we should be worried about them doing in the future. So that's not a very compelling argument, you know. You bet. You know, if you slap someone in the face and they're about to slap you back, it's tough to say you better not do that or I'll slap you in the face. Well, that already happened. And with the redistricting, Democrats have been doing this. But this is one of, this is the cognitive dissonance. This is what is necessary, the emotional over the rational that is a centerpiece of the Democrat party experience these days. You have to be willing to believe things that conflict and that make no sense together. Have to, have to be willing to do that. You have to think that it is a bad thing when Republicans redistrict. It is a worthy and necessary thing when Democrats do it. And this is, this is everything. Prosecuting your political enemies, a good thing, a worthy thing when, when Democrats do it, Republicans even think of doing it. It's the end of the republic. Oh, it's all the Democrat political consultant guys out there. So this is, we need to understand this is the way the game is played. These are the rules. And this situation. And then you got Bernie Sanders out there. Montani Takami is getting a lot of attention. Bernie wants everybody to know that there's been a commie on the block all along. And he comes from Brooklyn. Cut 11 here. Bernie Sanders weighing in on the Mamdani situation. There are many reasons why people win an election and lose election. What happens in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City, it's a difference.

[Buck Sexton]

But I think there was a common.

[Clay Travis]

Theme last night and that is people all over place, the country are rejecting Trumpism. They understand that it is a horrific situation when 20 plus million people are going to see a doubling or in some cases a tripling in the health care premiums when they can't afford it. When 15 million people are going to be thrown off of their health care because of massive cuts to Medicaid. Notice how he says they can't afford their health care. This is the health care system that Democrats shove down all of our throats. You cannot keep your doctor, you remember from the Obamacare era, you, your plan is going to be more expensive, the network is going to be more narrow, your wait times are going to be longer, everything is going to get worse. And they turn around and they say it is your fault or rather is Republicans fault. All the Things that they have done have resulted in exactly what the right has said would happen. And the response from them is not, wow, we've learned a lesson. I guess we should. No, it's. It's your fault. It's your fault. And this is why I've said all along, I think, unfortunately, and I should wait maybe when, when Clay's back with me here in a second to get into this. But I think the Democrats are going to learn a harsh, or people are going to learn a harsh lesson about New York, and it's going to help the Republicans so much in the midterms. Montani's just going to blame Trump. He's just going to blame Trump. And as absurd and childish and irrational as that is, it's going to be effective for a lot of people and even people who maybe aren't that much into the left wing orthodoxy, but there will be people who just, they are absorbing casually the narrative out there, the media, what they're seeing on TikTok or whatever it may be. And it'll be, oh, if, if Mamdani fails spectacularly, and I want to be clear, it's really hard to fail spectacularly as mayor in, in the first year of doing the job. And some of you I know are gonna, you're gonna challenge me on that, and that's fine. But this was the argument. I saw this play out. This was the argument all along with de Blasio. People said de Blasio is an idiot communist. De Blasio works like 30 minutes a day, by the way. That's really what his own staff, I think they said, you get like an hour or less with him of actual work on any given day. De Blasio made the guy in office space who starts showing up in sandals and saying he doesn't want to do anything. He made that guy look like the people who are making iPhones at Foxconn over in China. I mean, you know, de Blasio had no work ethic whatsoever, but he was a left wing radical who believed that he should pursue policies that, and this is applicable to not just cities and Mayor. Mayor. Do we say mayoralties mostly or mayorships? Mayoralties. Right. Mayor's offices across the country. Because he had the ideology of the left that the Democrat that is ascendant within the Democrat Party right now. He did run for president. That was laughable. He also was known to, let's just say, smoke some of that wacky tobacco people used to say pretty frequently. He was a, he was a guy who spent some time thinking Deep thoughts, not about work, that's for sure. De Blasio was a terrible mayor, but it took a few years for that to really be apparent. And because what he inherited was the safest, wealthiest, best run version of New York in my lifetime. Remember, Giuliani cleaned it up, but it still had a ways to go. Giuliani essentially pushed the boulder to the top of the hill and then it was able to start rolling down, going faster and faster in the right direction. So he gets all the credit for that transformation. But the city, if you look at homicides, investment, all those things was getting better. Obviously, 911 was a separate historical moment for America or for New York City, period, for New York City. But New York actually rebounded economically and otherwise from 911 very quickly. Other than that, though, New York City was really just on an upward trajectory from about 1996, 1997 on. And I bring all this up because Mamdani is probably going to be less effective in all respects in this year than anticipated. And so that means it won't be as bad as we think and whatever is bad or hopefully it won't be as bad as we think. And no matter what they'll say it's someone else's fault and enough people will believe that, that they'll at least get away with it at some level. Here you. By the way, Senator Cruz weighed in on the election. Here's what he had to say. Play 12 last night was a disaster. It was an electoral blowout. The results in New Jersey were disastrous. The results in Virginia were terrible. The results in New York. Comrade Mondami is the face of the Democrat Party. We have an actual communist jihadist. And it's important to note Mondami is not a socialist. He is a full on communist. He has called for seizing the means of production in our economy. He is a Marxist. That is profoundly dangerous. And look, I know there's some Republicans who are saying, well, gosh, this will be good politically because it'll be the face of the Democrat Party. I think it's terrible for America. Interesting. I really agree with the end part there from Senator Cruz about, yeah, Mamdani is a commie. And I also think it's bad for America. It's a bad look that we've got this guy in charge of our largest city. The lessons learned part of it is a pretty thin silver lining, I think. We'll see. We'll see. I don't really agree with his initial assessment. It was a disaster. It was, you know, disappointing, but expected. I don't think it's a disaster because I also don't believe that anybody should start to buy into this narrative that this is somehow a rejection of Trumpism. Trump's not on the ballot and it's an off year election and he just crushed the Democrats in an election year where they tried to take him out. Well, by a whole different, whole bunch of different means. So we just had the biggest, the biggest political win. I think the Trump win is the biggest political win of our lifetime. This last one, I think it is bigger than 2016, even in significance for a variety of reasons. So I think this is the biggest win that I can remember. And so of course there's going to be a little bit of a sense of letdown and this. Look, even if we had won New Jersey with Cittarelli, you know, it's not gonna, it's not gonna blow your socks off if you live in California or Illinois or Texas or wherever, you know, Oklahoma, you name it. It's not, oh my gosh, Cittarelli's the New Jersey governor. Now. We know we're good, so let's all just keep things in context. And as Frank the Tank says in old school, we got to keep our composure. We got to keep our composure. 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[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

You know what? You know how this is going to go, by the way, you and I are going to end up the headline on this. We haven't even stepped. We have not said anything controversial. And it's going to. The headline somewhere is going to be Clay Travis and Buck Sexton call for women's right to vote to be taken away. Then this is what's going to happen.

[Clay Travis]

The 19th Amendment, you know, it's a thing. It's there and some people are saying some things about it. I, we're just, we're just the, you know, the processing center for these sentiments. I'm not sitting here. You know what's funny sometimes is I look out of the studio to see it's like, is my wife walking by? Because I don't want to get in trouble. And then I realize she could also just listen to the show.

[Buck Sexton]

I, well, yeah, I, I think about that regularly.

[Clay Travis]

Do you ever have that, though? Like, like, oh, Lara's not there, the coast is clear. I could say something that would get me in trouble. Then you realize you're saying it to a couple million people.

[Buck Sexton]

So I could probably figure it out. Will sometimes say something and then think, boy, I probably could have phrased that better. In fact, it might be the story of my marriage. But look, we're having fun. We got a ton of calls lined up, a lot of people.

[Clay Travis]

By the way, Katie Miller's coming.

[Buck Sexton]

That's right. Katie Miller is going to be with us. We'll see what she thinks about women having the right to vote. I bet she has strong thoughts. And maybe we'll continue to make some more love connections as well as many people from Virginia and New Jersey who weighed in from hour one. If you voted Trump, why did you not? Plus, Trump continuing to take questions in the Oval Office. No telling what he will say there. Final hour, Thursday edition. Up next, we appreciate, appreciate all of you. Thanks for hanging with us.

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[Clay Travis]

Hmm. It's gotta be when I'm really craving it and it's convenient.

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[Clay Travis]

When it's cravinient. Okay, Like a freshly baked cookie made with real butter, available right down the street at am, pm. Or a savory breakfast sandwich I can.

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[Clay Travis]

I'm seeing a pattern here. Well, yeah, we're talking about what I crave, which is anything from am, pm. What more could you want? Stop by ampm, where the snacks and drinks are perfectly craveable and convenient. That's cravenience ampm. Too much good stuff. This is an iHeart podcast.