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Ryan Gardusky
Talk about New York City first. It's the top of my sheet of my cheat sheet of numbers for you guys. So New York City, the Mayor's election obviously on Tuesday with a three way race between Cuomo, Zora Mandani and Curtis Lewa. The polling has been fairly consistent, right? It shows Mandani with an average of a 15 point lead overall depending on which poll you look at, but it's about 15 point lead. Early on there was an article by the Gothamist giving some glimmer of hope to Cuomo and his supporters. Is that the electorate so far in this election in the early votes has been very, very old. There are more people between the ages of 70 to 75 voting than people between the ages of 18 to 24. That was not happening in the Democratic primary when Mandani won. The electorate has been Progressively becoming younger as the days have gone on, though. When the voting began, voters under 40 were just 28% of people showing up in the early vote. Now they're up to 35%. And what's giving some anxiety to Cuomo supporters is Sunday is the New York City Marathon, which runs through the, quote, unquote, commie corridor of the big socialist blocks of New York City where people vote. It's going to be good weather. People might go and vote right afterwards. The elector has been slightly older, slightly blacker. Some of the outer boroughs have been showing up in bigger numbers. Aside from Brooklyn and Manhattan, Staten island and Queens are showing up in big numbers. The Bronx, which is Cuomo's best county, is having horrific turnout, though. They're not showing up, you know, in the numbers that they need to for Cuomo. So that's certainly got to give his supporters a lot of anxiety. What Cuomo really needs right now are two very big things, Republicans to start showing up. Republicans are. Only 5% of all registered Republicans in New York City have shown up to go vote so far in the early election. That's compared to 8% of all Democrats. Just 3% of registered independents have shown up. But this electorate is much more Democratic right now than the 2024 election, when Trump got surged in New York City, did much better than people expected him to. So he's going to need a lot more Republicans to show up and then to break against Curtis in a big way. They need Curtis to underperform and for Republicans to show up. And really for seniors in the far parts, the Attleborough, southern Bronx, western Queens, northern northern Bronx and southern Brooklyn, to really pick up momentum as this goes on. This is going to be a gigantic turnout election, probably the biggest election since the 1993 mayor election when Rudy Giuliani won against Mayor Dinkins. He was not. Sorry, yeah, Mayor Dinkins. He was. It was a 1.4 million person turnout. This could get closer to 2 million, is what I'm hearing from people analyzing on the ground. A lot more people are showing up. We are at 33% of the 2021 numbers within just five days of early voting. So immense turnout in New York City. Republicans just really got to start picking up and they got a break for Cuomo for him to have a chance. And more seniors have to show up. And seniors have been showing up, but they have to show up. That's the New York City thing right now. It still looks like a Mandani victory. There is a small pass for Cuomo. He just has to really get on the ground to get these older voters out to support him.
Clay Travis
We had Curtis Lewan yesterday, Ryan, and if Curtis Lee was dropped out, Let me just ask it to you this way. What do you think the chances are we wake up Wednesday and a majority of New York City voters will have actually voted against mom Donnie, but that is split among Cuomo and Sliwa. Do you think that's likely? Do you think that Mamdani will get an overall majority? Or do you think more people will vote against mom Donnie, but in a three way he's going to end up as the likely winner that direction.
Ryan Gardusky
So in all the polls, Mandani has only gotten a majority in one poll out of all the polls taken in New York City. No one really expects him to get a majority. Now. Things could change, especially with this is going to be a real question of is there a ceiling for these socialist candidates? Are they so toxic that they can't get past in New York City's case, Moormandani, 7, 8, 900,000 votes. If he gets over a million votes, it really shows the ceiling isn't there. And this is the conversation that Democrats used to have about Trump. He can't get more than 47% until he got close to 50. If there is a ceiling for Mandani, if they say his policies are too unpopular or he is too unlikable, and certainly his favorable ratings have dropped in all the polling I've seen. And that shows that, that, that hurts people like aoc, who wants to run in the future. That hurts the far left who want to run nationwide in the future for the presidency to say, hey, listen, there's a cap on how many people really are willing to sit there and go to the far left.
Buck Sexton
Speaking of Ryan Garduski, it's a numbers game. It's his podcast on the Clay and Buck network. Go check that one out. Go make sure you have the iHeart app and you're checking out what's in the feedback. Ryan, talk to me about Citarelli in New Jersey. I'm seeing some things that make me feel kind of warm and fuzzy about it, but I'm getting a little ahead of myself. I'm sure you're here to set me straight. What's really going on? Is this the best chance for a Republican shock win?
Ryan Gardusky
Yes, this is 100%. Aside from Jason Muir is the best chance for Republican. So here's the, here's the, here's the thing that the good thing going for for Cittarelli is that There's a lot more registered Republicans than there ever have been for Cittarelli. He ran like I think 80,000 more Republicans than there were the last time that he ran. And a lot fewer Democrats. People have switched registrations and people have just stopped voting or they passed away or they just, you know, didn't. They're no longer keeping up their registration, becoming independent. Here's the bad thing for Cittarelli. In 2024, at this point, Republicans had a lead for Trump in the presidential election in in person voting. Right? There were more Republicans showing up to vote in person in the early voting than Democrats. Even in a state, Jersey has such a big Democratic lead. That is not the case for Citarella. Right now, Democrats have a 7,300 person lead in the early vote. Now that's not a ton. That's not unimaginable to sit there and break because in 2021, Cittarelli won election day votes by over 2, by about 200,000 votes. What gives me anxiety is that the mail in vote lead for Democrats is substantially large. 221,000 more Democrats have submitted a mail in ballot than Republicans. But the craziest thing is for this buck, 72,000 Republicans in New Jersey have received a mail in ballot and have not returned it. There are 72,000 votes for Jack Ciattorelli on people's kitchen tables and they haven't returned those ballots yet. That's a lot of catching up to do to chase those ballots and make sure they are returned. Now once again, he's going to win election day of in front. He may win it by a lot. There are two different questions when it comes to how are these voters sitting there and breaking objectionarily has the support of all the orthodox Jewish communities in New Jersey, which is substantial, especially like in Ocean county where there's Lakewood in it. That's bringing a lot of votes. Many of them are registered Democrats. There's also the question of what is going on with these non white voters who have been Democrats their whole life and broke for Trump. Remember in 2020, in the 2020 election, Trump won just 26% of Hispanic majority precincts in New Jersey. In 2024, Trump won 39%, a 13 point bounce in New Jersey in Hispanic majority precincts. How are they going to vote? Because they voted just. They voted for Jack Cittarelli at the same rate they voted for Trump in 2021. So Trump received 26%, Cittarelli received 26%. If Cittarelli gets 39% or anywhere close among these Hispanic people who have mostly stayed registered Democrat, that could be a big, big difference. The New York Times was questioning where are these non white voters who broke substantially in Trump's favor. Trump got 43% of all nonwhite voters in New Jersey up from. Sorry, he lost them by 27 points. He lost by 43 points. Previously there was a 16 point bump in non white communities in New Jersey from 2020 to 2024. Cittarelli needs to see it similar bump because Cittarelli does better than Trump in the white suburbs. He needs to get Trump like numbers among the Hispanic areas. Overall in New Jersey there have been 490,000 Democrats who have voted and 261,000 Republicans and 165,000 indies breaking down percentage wise, 53% of the electorate so far has been Democrat, 29% have been Republican and 18% independent. Jack Chiarelli needs these Republicans to show up. He's probably going to need about a quarter of a million to 300,000 on election day to show up advantage towards him in order to sit there and win this. And he's going to need some of these Hispanics, especially Hispanics in northern New Jersey who voted for Trump to sit there and vote with him.
Clay Travis
So we think that he could win in New Jersey. Challenging path. What about Virginia? It seems to me like Jason Miar is based on the polling that I'm seeing, the Attorney General candidate that we've had on this program, the Republican running against Jay Jones is in very good position. Seems like Abigail Spanberger is in a solid position. On the flip side going up against the win some Sears. Is that an accurate read? What would you say about the data right now in Virginia?
Ryan Gardusky
Right. So Virginia is one of these states that doesn't register voters by party, which makes it very hard to kind of like parse through the information. In the last 20 days there have been 13 polls in New Jersey. Sorry. In Virginia Rather in the 13 polls, Miariz has led in 10 of them. It's been tied in 2 and Jones has led in just 1. Overall the average has MIARS with a 4 point polling advantage. Spamberger has somewhere around an 8 or 9 point voting advantage. But the interesting thing, and the interesting question is is the Lieutenant Governor's race which isn't really receiving much, you know, spotlight the Republican Reid, his name is John Reid who's running. He is only down about four points in the polls if the, if the generic ballot because no one knows. They're just basically voting for who they like by party. If the generic ballot shows that lieutenant governor's race is within four points then really Spamberger shows that she's either a very popular or Winston Sears is very unpopular and people are voting one direction for governor and changing their vote down ballot. That may be the case. What Winston Sears has to do is not necessarily win but make sure the gap doesn't get to double digits. Because if the gap gets to double digits, if she's leading by 10 sorry. If Winston Sears is losing by 10, 11, 12 points, getting the Aras over the finish line becomes very, very difficult. We're seeing this, we're seeing when we look at the counties of who is showing up where deep Republican counties are having some of the best turnout and some of the worst. And it's really the area around Richmond Virginia that is having gang bus turnout which is very heavily Democrat, very college educated. What Southwest Virginia, which loves Donald Trump voted 80% for Donald Trump. What they need to do is start showing up because they are being the lagging indicator in this entire election. Fairfax doesn't have great turnout so far. Neither does Virginia beach which is the swing part of Virginia. But if they want to counter Richmond they start need to see, start start seeing Southwest Virginia coal country Virginia really bring up good numbers and so far it's been definitely on the lower end of turnout.
Buck Sexton
So you think New Jersey just to recap here is mom Donnie basically a shoe in is it pretty, pretty realistic for New Jersey to be good to go? Realistic is I guess the best way to say it to go red and then you're Span Burger is probably going to pull this out. Like how would you just if you're.
Ryan Gardusky
Forced to Spamberger's got probably a 90 something percent chance of winning. 95% chance of winning. Over in New over in New York I would say Mandani is probably around 85% or 80% chances. There's a small window for Cuomo actually probably 90% chance Mandani is going to sit there and win. Cuomo has a path and he's had some good things break in his favor. He just needs that to continue overall early voting and we need to see if there is a ceiling for socialist candidates in New York City. Over in, over in Virginia Miarez I would say probably is a 55% chance. A lot of it going to depend on if Winston Sears keeps her loss margin tight and if Republicans sit there and pick up down ballot. And over in New Jersey I would give chitterelli around a 4040 about a 40% chance of winning. Chitterelli has a lot of things looking good in his direction. He just needs them all to break. And the narrative right now across the country is this. I don't know if Republicans are waiting for election day, but they have not shown up in the numbers they need to in these early votes to not give Democrats a giant lead. I know Republicans are nervous of voting early, but on election day over in, over in New Jersey, Mickey Sherrill is going to start off the day with a quarter of a million more banked votes. And that's votes that Cittarelli needs to show up and needs that break in his favor on election day.
Clay Travis
Ryan, your podcast up on YouTube. We also can you can find Ryan if you want more detail on the numbers game inside of the Clay and Buck podcast network. And occasionally he makes great beeper jokes that make people at CNN very sad. Ryan, we appreciate you, my man.
Ryan Gardusky
Appreciate you both. Thank you.
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1989, my 20s maybe.
Clay Travis
Oh, okay. So you weren't anti costume guy as an adult.
Buck Sexton
I mean I was single guy who liked seeing the ladies in my General Milieu of D.C. or New York dressed up as various nurses.
Clay Travis
You know, so I just didn't know because I could see you being like I don't do costumes. I don't go to costume parties.
Buck Sexton
A lot of Lara Croft, a lot of Lara Croft Tomb Raider costumes in Tomb Raider costumes in my world, things like that.
Clay Travis
You know, a lot more slutty nurses costumes than slutty nurses ever in real life. Just, you know, tossing that out there. I've never seen that many, you know, nurse sexy. Also chambermaids, I don't think.
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I love clay throws like a clay throws like a wounded duck pass across the middle. Just wondering if Buck's going to catch that one and just get laid out. But you know what, I'm just going to leave your slutty nurse comment.
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To Clay and Buck. You know, the shutdown is still going on right now, which is pretty, pretty rough when you start to see, you start to line up some of the challenges, some of the problems here that we've got. And Senator Thune, who's the Senate majority leader, he's not a guy who you see getting a lot of headlines or viral clips for being angry about anything and being demonstrative in his outrage. But he's pretty ticked off. It seems this has cut 20 Senate Majority Leader Thune. Let's hear it.
Clay Travis
We are 29 days into a Democrat shutdown. And the senator from New Mexico was absolutely right. SNAP recipients shouldn't go without food. People should be getting paid in this country. And we tried to do that 13 times and you voted no 13 times. This isn't a political game. These are real people's lives that we're talking about. And you all just figured out 29 days in that, oh, there might be some consequences. There are people who run out of money.
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Clay. Let's get into some of these consequences. For example, really good piece from a friend of mine, friend of ours, Kim Strassel over at the Wall Street Journal laying out what's going on here. For one thing, air traffic controllers have, as of Tuesday, missed their paycheck. Now they have to show up, but in the past, they have started to call in sick. You know, because even if you're legally required to show up to work. Well, if you say you have the flu. Right. You're not legally required anymore. So that could be really rough for travelers. The American Federation of Government employees, they are four different unions for commercial pilots, Teamsters, etc. They're very, very agitated about the shutdown snap, which is food stamps, that runs out on the 1st of November. So that will leave 42 million people without food stamp benefits. And you got some, some real stuff coming together here. That could be a challenge. You know, Democrats, Clay, have started to break party lines a little bit. You've had Ossoff and Warnock in Georgia because they know those are, those are competitive seats. That, that's a purple state. They have voted with Republicans. Democrats like Fetterman, Angus King and Catherine Cortez Masto have voted with Republicans all along to reopen the government. So they're getting pretty close to the 60 threshold here, Clay. I don't think Republicans can blink on this one. This is. But this has turned into a real game of chicken.
Clay Travis
Yeah, look, I mean, you have to get to 60. We have 53 Republicans. You just laid it out. I think the number they've gotten the highest is 56 so far, depending on exactly what motion we're talking about. I also got this email from a listener. I thought it was interesting. I'm not going to name him, but listen to this. This email that he sent. Hey, Clay. We met in Omaha at the College World Series. Longtime follower and love the show. Here's something you may want to include. Federal employees who opted to work during the shutdown will be paid in full when the government reopens. I think everybody out there is nodding along and saying, yeah, that should happen. This is what he says. And I would be curious to read more about this. I haven't seen this reported very much. He says federal employees who opted not to work will also be paid in full when the government reopens. And he says here, you read that right. My wife, I'm not gonna say what she does, but she's been working during the shutdown because she's deemed essential and it's the right thing to do. However, several of her peers opted not to work and to take a fully paid furlough. And so while some federal employees are working without pay, there are others who are traveling, going to festivals, relaxing, doing nothing who will be paid exactly the same as those who worked during the shutdown. Most of those who aren't working are Trump hating bureaucrats who just wanna stick it to him. This is something that should be Looked into. Look, I understand some people have to go to work. Air traffic controllers, great example. Because we can't stop air traffic in the country. TSA agents, even I flew this morning. I mean, these guys and gals are showing up because without them we can't have security clearance. All those things. I respect anybody who goes to work and puts in a hard day's work. But yeah, for some of these government employees, they just are treating this as a one month paid vacation because they know they're going to eventually get back pay. And in the meantime, they just don't show up at work. So I think that's one reason you're not seeing this drumbeat of anger in some of the same way that you. Because they know their salaries are good. And if you don't have to show up, I wonder what percentage of federal employees are just not showing up at all, not doing anything and know they're basically going to get paid for a month's vacation. How many of you would like to have a fully paid month's vacation off in a row? I bet almost everybody listening right now would appreciate that. That.
Buck Sexton
Well, what, what. There's very different versions of shutdown pain for federal government employees. Right. For example, you could be in the. And I know that there was that donor that now they've de. Anonymized. Right. They've come forward to say who the donor is. That's a Trump, Trump supporter who came Forward to pay $130 million for military salaries. So if you're a military family, I mean, for example, my wife's family, military family, you're generally living paycheck to paycheck. Right. I mean, that's a very, very common thing for people who are active duty. And, and, and that's very common thing for Americans in general, but it's certainly common for people who are on the military side of things. So now they've been covered for a period of time. If you're in one of these dual income DC Bureaucrat households, probably you went to gw, I lived in DC we know some of these. You're talking about households where now I know DC Cost of living is pretty high, but households where the combined income is quarter of a million bucks, pretty easily 250k, maybe 300k, maybe have somebody who works for the federal government, somebody else who's at an overpaid NGO post, you're making 300k between the two of them, something like that. So for some of those households, this is more of a. All right, put it on the Credit card for a week or two. We'll pay it off when all the, when the funds all get turned on. I think, Clay, the places where the real pressure starts to come together is air traffic controllers.
Clay Travis
They should be getting full pay. They should be getting full pay. Let's just be honest, like, and, and.
Buck Sexton
The idea that they're coming in and not getting paid and that some of them are going to say, you know what, this is bull crap and I'm going to stay home. And that means there's going to be shortages and that means long, difficult lines, my friends. How angry, how angry are people going to get if at some of the major airports. I love Miami, but I cannot say enough bad things about MIA airport. Miami airport is just one of the.
Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
It's horrible. It's like it's. They should honestly, if they could just start from scratch. I wish they would. It's terrible airport. But when you have to wait three or four hours because of air traffic control delays or maybe your flight even just gets canceled outright when you get.
Clay Travis
To the airport or you can't get through TSA because some of these people are not showing.
Buck Sexton
That's right. They get ticked off and they start calling, calling congressional switchboards. And you know that then you've got people that are really angry. And it all also hurts the airlines. Now the airlines have to rebook people and they got to pay people all this stuff. So I think that's a real pressure point. And my sense right now is the Democrats are just waiting till after the election. Right. I think that's, I think Democrats are going to, are going to cave, but they're going to cave after Election Day.
Clay Travis
I also think the, increasingly even the media, I saw Jake Tapper calling out Democrats and saying, actually you're the ones that shut down the government. Increasingly, it's hard for them to argue somebody else is to blame.
Buck Sexton
Really more of a gentle reminder from.
Clay Travis
But I mean, even CNN is saying, hey, ultimately this is your fault. Do we have the Harry and 10 clips? We're also politically. I know we had it yesterday. I don't know if we rolled it over today, but when CNN has got their polling and they're coming on and they're saying, actually now voters are starting to blame Democrats in a substantial way and this overall shutdown is benefiting to a large extent the Republican Party. When all that starts to stack up, then people are looking around and saying, I think we talked about this a little bit yesterday, Buck, what's the off ramp. How do you get out of this mess that you're in right now? What is the. What is the. The escape hatch for Democrats right now? There isn't a good one, which is why I think they'll wait till after, you know, five days from now when we have the. The 2025 elections, and then they'll find a way to. To step off of the government shutdown conveyor belt.
Buck Sexton
I don't see a way around it. And the Democrats, really, what they're hoping for is what they've been able to do in the past where they just have. They have a bigger megaphone and they lie more aggressively about what's going on. And so they can say, you know, it's not our fault. No, this is. The Democrats have absolutely full responsibility for this government shutdown. They chose it. They've made it happen. Republicans have been. Have been voting to open the government, and the Democrats now have just done this thing of. Well, Republicans could. No, you can't. You know, if you're holding up a deal, be honest about how you're holding up a deal. That's not what they're doing, Clay. You're trying to just change the narrative to, this is somehow the Republicans that have brought this thing to a halt, and it's just a lie, and they don't have the kind of media power that they're used to having where they can shout down the truth as effectively.
Clay Travis
Yeah. And ultimately, if they lose again, I think that's just raw political calculus. I think they've been nervous about Virginia and turnout in Northern Virginia, and they feel like if people are angry and they aren't working and they're overwhelmingly federal employees, as often is the case in Northern Virginia, that they're likely to turn out and vote Democrat. They couldn't bend the knee before the stupid no kings protest. I saw someone tweet this buck, but it is very funny. How funny is it to go from, we're not going to allow kings to please give me food.
Buck Sexton
It is like ultimate, please, king, give me food.
Clay Travis
It is the ultimate thing that you see historically. Kings, please. Everybody's starving. Will you please give us food? That's like the snap angle now. We're not going to allow a king, oh, king, please give us food. But. But I think they see it as politically beneficial in Northern Virginia. They can't bend the knee before no kings. Now they see it as politically beneficial before the midterm. As soon of the. Before the 2025 elections. As soon as that's over, they want people to forget about this before the midterms because I think politically it is turned toxic for them nationwide and it's.
Buck Sexton
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Buck Sexton
The worry in terms of climate change.
Clay Travis
Simply put, hasn't shifted.
Buck Sexton
It has not reached the majority of Americans. What are we talking about?
Clay Travis
Greatly worried about climate change.
Buck Sexton
You go all the way back to.
Clay Travis
1989, it was 35%, 20, 40%, 2020, 46%.
Buck Sexton
And in 2025, look at that, it's 40%, the same number as we had 25 years ago.
Clay Travis
Is it the biggest thing they're worried about? Yeah.
Buck Sexton
It is not anywhere close to being the biggest thing that people are worried about. Top issue facing United States climate change. It was 3% in 2021, 2% on average of polls in 2023 and this year the average of polls, 2, 1, 2. It is very, very low on the list of priorities to the bottom line. Line is not only are we seeing that the number has not really moved over the last 36 years, but in terms of being the top issue, it.
Clay Travis
Simply put, has not broken through.
Ryan Gardusky
All right.
Clay Travis
That was actually the climate change collapse, not the government shutdown collapse. In support. We'll see if we can get that in the third hour for you. Keith in Illinois, I was reading a email from a listener about federal furloughed workers and what exactly is going on. What you got for us?
Ryan Gardusky
Yeah, I'm a furloughed worker and because of my position description and my job, I am not allowed to go to work. I, in fact, if I even log on a government computer to check my email, I risk getting fired.
Clay Travis
Okay, but will you get paid for the full shutdown?
Ryan Gardusky
I will because of the law they passed. But it's not a vacation. I don't have a choice. I'm not allowed to go in.
Buck Sexton
Correct.
Clay Travis
But I, I would love to be told, I Can't check an email or I'll immediately get fired. And I mean, again, thank you for the call. I understand the, hey, they won't let me work. I think there's a lot of people out there who, if you told them, hey, if you check your email, you're going to get fired and you get a full month of pay without having to do anything. I would like to sign up for that.
Buck Sexton
This is a, this is a mindset thing really. A lot of our listeners don't like, like who, who are affected by the shutdown. And I get this. They don't like the implication that, you know, well, it's, you know, I'm being lazy and just getting paid to do nothing. They do have no choice. But another way to see this is if you know you're going to get paid when the government opens. It's not that bad of it not that bad of a situation. I have a friend who is on furlough who's working on a memoir.
Clay Travis
Yeah.
Buck Sexton
So, you know, it's not that bad.
Clay Travis
I mean I, if I knew I got full paid furlough, I wouldn't mind being on full paid furlough.
Buck Sexton
And you can't be, and you can't be punished. Right. One of the things about vacation of jobs is you think you take too much time. Even if people say it's okay, you're like, but is it really okay? Right. In this situation, everybody's, it's like being mandated to stay home during COVID Like it's not your fault and there's no punishment for this.
Clay Travis
I would also point out, and I've always thought this, if you cannot work for a month and everything's fine, your job's not that important. I'm just going to say like you can leave for a month and not do it and then you come back and you're just able to do it. All right, we got the correct Harry into it now. Buck cut 34. We heard Harry into talk about climate change collapsing which the support for it.
Buck Sexton
No, no, we got to play it.
Clay Travis
We come back.
Buck Sexton
We don't have, we don't have time.
Clay Travis
All right, we'll play it when we come back.
Buck Sexton
So everyone has to stay with us through the break. That's right. We call a tease.
Clay Travis
Also, by the way, breaking news for people in Omaha. Since I was reading an Omaha email, Buck, your head coach is staying present. Matt Rule is staying in Nebraska. Probably didn't expect to hear that. But kfab, which should be called kfab, I guarantee you that is big news there. When we come back, we'll play you the Harry into the fact that that's collapsing. We will talk with you about Gavin Newsom being caught in yet more lies about what he said about Charlie Kirk and J.D. vance on some UFOs. Plus, we'll be joined by the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana to talk redistricting in that state. All that and more. You won't want to miss it and we will be hanging out with you. Coming up with the third hour Thursday edition.
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Episode: Hour 2 – Trump-Like Numbers Needed
Date: October 30, 2025
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts
This hour centers on the latest developments in key political races in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia as the hosts are joined by political analyst Ryan Gardusky (“It’s a Numbers Game” podcast). The discussions provides granular, data-driven insights into voting trends, early turnout, shifting demographics, and how Republicans can hope for “Trump-like numbers” to flip expectations. The episode also delves into the ongoing federal government shutdown, its consequences, and the evolving blame game between Democrats and Republicans.
The hosts maintain their hallmark blend of sharp political analysis, on-the-ground data, and irreverent banter, giving listeners tools to make sense of the fast-approaching elections.
[04:16 – 17:53]
[15:59 – 17:53]
NYC: Mandani 90% favored, Cuomo has slim path.
NJ: Ciattarelli 40% chance; needs Republicans and Hispanics to show up.
Virginia: Miyares 55% chance; depends on down-ballot strength and turnout—especially if GOP LG candidate keeps margin close.
Spanberger (VA Gov.): “95% chance” of winning.
Quote (Gardusky, 16:17):
“Chitterelli [NJ] has a lot of things looking good in his direction. He just needs them all to break... The narrative right now across the country is this: I don’t know if Republicans are waiting for election day, but they have not shown up in the numbers they need to in these early votes.”
[25:47 – 37:16]
[43:30 – 46:44]
| Segment | Timestamps | |-------------------------------------------------|---------------------| | Ads, show intro/prelude | 00:00 – 04:15 | | Election analysis w/ Ryan Gardusky | 04:16 – 17:53 | | Sponsor/Ad break | 17:54 – 23:35 | | Shutdown and federal workers discussion | 25:47 – 37:16 | | Political/media narrative & public polling | 43:30 – 46:44 |
As always, Clay and Buck mix data-heavy insights with breezy, sometimes irreverent banter (e.g., joking about costume parties and government workers’ “paid vacations”), alongside sharp skepticism of mainstream media narratives and Democratic messaging.
This episode is essential listening for anyone tracking the 2025 election cycle, especially in states seen as bellwethers for GOP resurgence. Ryan Gardusky’s granular, numbers-based analysis stands out, and the discussion on the government shutdown pressures is directly relevant for federal workers and all politically engaged Americans. The overarching theme is that, for Republican hopes, turnout on Election Day—and mobilizing the elusive “Trump-like” voter base—is crucial to upending Democratic leads that may appear formidable in early voting.
For further detail and granular election analysis, check out “It’s a Numbers Game with Ryan Gardusky” on the Clay and Buck Podcast Network.