Hour 3 - Red State / Blue State

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Hour 3 – Red State / Blue State
Date: February 2, 2026

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Overview

This episode, hosted by Clay Travis (with Buck Sexton away at a NASA event), examines the shifting demographic and political landscapes of the United States, focusing on migration from "blue states" to "red states," recent dramatic decreases in crime in Washington D.C., and failures of local governance—particularly in Nashville's response to a major ice storm. The show also features an extended conversation with Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on local infrastructure, utility management, and the advancement of Trump’s policy agenda. Throughout, Clay delivers his characteristically sharp, humorous, and candid commentary on the political and cultural news of the week.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Show Updates and Expansion (02:42)

• The show will debut on SiriusXM satellite radio (Triumph channel 123) on February 9, expanding access beyond AM/FM and podcast platforms.
• Plans to introduce three hours of daily video content via YouTube and other platforms later in June, underscoring the show's commitment to multi-platform reach.

2. Positive Crime and Lifespan News (04:01)

• Clay highlights positive news from recent government data:

  • Washington, D.C. crime statistics for January:
    • Homicides down 80%
    • Robberies down 58%
    • Burglaries down 28%
    • Motor vehicle theft down 57%
    • Total crime down 26%.
  • The U.S. average lifespan hit a new record last year.
  • The U.S. murder rate reached a 125-year low.

  Clay's Observation:

  "Data from Washington D.C. during January... all crime down 26%. ...People are voting with their feet as well to support good government." (04:04)

3. Red State vs. Blue State Migration (06:00)

• Census data shows Americans are migrating to states won by Donald Trump ("red states") and departing states won by Kamala Harris ("blue states").

  • Top 10 inbound states: North Carolina, Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Nevada—all Trump states.
  • Top outbound states: Connecticut, Hawaii, Colorado, Maryland, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, California—nine out of ten are "blue".

  Clay’s Take:

  "People are moving... to red states. Where are people leaving? Overwhelmingly states that Kamala Harris won." (07:00)

• Dispels myth that blue-state transplants are “ruining” red states by bringing left-wing politics; in fact, red states are becoming “redder.”

  "Data doesn't support it. The red states are actually getting redder. The people that are the most fed up and are relocating tend to be redder even than the states that they are going to." (08:25)

4. Critique of Local Governance: Nashville Electric Service and DEI (11:12)

• After a major ice storm, many in Nashville remain without power for weeks. Clay blames local leadership and overemphasis on DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) initiatives rather than practical infrastructure.

  "Nashville electric service had over a hundred DEI meetings and trainings last year... What I care about is turn the power on and get it back flowing." (11:50)

• Personal anecdote about leaving Nashville for neighboring Franklin, TN due to frustration with Covid-era policy and poor city management.

5. Cultural and Political Frustration (16:00)

• Clay empathizes with listeners feeling “frustrated by the stupidity that you see at the Grammy Awards” or dealing with blue-state policy failures.

• Predicts an enduring cycle where red states grow stronger as more Americans relocate, while blue states further decline due to failed governance.

  "My big thesis is post Covid, a lot of people realize they can live anywhere ... people are fed up with government that doesn't work." (15:12)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Red State Success:

  "Republicans make choices and govern in a way that makes everybody's lives better. And all of these blue states are starting to fall apart even more." (09:45)

• On Electoral Shifts:

  "Florida is a prime example... Now we know about three hours after the votes are cast, overwhelmingly red state voters have flowed into Florida." (08:48)

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Interview: Senator Marsha Blackburn (25:14–34:55)

1. Nashville Power Outage & Infrastructure (25:14)

• Status: About 40,000 in Nashville metro still without power, over a week after the storm.

• Causes:

  • 50% of NES (Nashville Electric Service) grid failed during the storm.
  • NES admitted to “preparing for a snowstorm, not an ice storm,” despite ample warnings.
  • Poor communication systems: outage notifications incorrect, phone and online systems down.
  • Senator points to NES prioritizing 102 DEI trainings over practical tree and line management.

  Blackburn: "They have one job and it is to keep the lights on. And the communication was terrible... They were just focused on DEI and WOKE policies and not paying attention to infrastructure." (28:13)

  "You prepare for these things. And it seems that there were no lessons taken from the 1994 storm." (31:12)

• Relief Efforts:

  • National Guard, Highway Patrol, emergency agencies, and neighbors identified as critical responders.
  • Federal (FEMA) and local resources activated for aid.

2. Trump’s Policy Agenda & Senate Status (32:03)

• Trump agenda:

  • 11 of 12 appropriations bills completed, moving off “Biden budget” and onto a “Trump Republican budget.”
  • Ongoing confirmations and legislative efforts on AI policy, child savings accounts, and financial literacy.
  • Emphasizes bipartisan support for Trump initiatives.

  Blackburn: "We've done 11 of 12 appropriations bills... This gets us off of the Biden budget and onto a Trump Republican budget. That helps us bend the spending curve." (32:36)

3. Civic Participation and Cultural Appeal (20:58; 43:02)

• Clay references James Carville criticizing Democrats' loss of men due to cultural messaging and “feminization” of the party.
• Caller Ryan (43:02) affirms that Idaho is becoming redder, supports primary participation:

  "All the heavy lifting happens in the primary. By the time we get to the general, it's mostly too late if you want to make a change." (43:47)

• Clay: "You need to vote in primaries. Idaho was the ninth most popular state for people to move domestically... All 10 of the most popular states were won by Donald Trump." (44:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:42] - Show expansion, satellite radio news
• [04:01] - Positive national crime and lifespan statistics
• [06:00] - Red state/blue state migration census breakdown
• [11:12] - Nashville electric power crisis and DEI critique
• [16:00] - Cultural and political frustration, future predictions
• [25:14] - Interview begins: Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Nashville infrastructure and response
• [27:53] - Blackburn presses NES on preparation failures and priorities
• [32:03] - Trump’s agenda in the Senate; Blackburn’s campaign updates
• [43:02] - Caller Ryan from Idaho: Red state primary importance

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Overall Tone & Style

Clay Travis delivers with a mix of data-driven analysis, humor, and impassioned commentary. The conversation is candid, full of personal anecdotes, and frequently leans into criticism of progressive governance and cultural drift among Democratic leaders and states. The show maintains its mission of mixing realism with optimism, highlighting success stories and the importance of civic engagement.

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Summary Takeaway

The episode paints a picture of America in motion—a populace voting with its feet and its ballots, seeking competence in governance, and tilting the country’s demographic and political scales. The failures of blue cities and states, contrasted with red state appeal, frame not just a political movement but a culture war over common sense and practical priorities. The extended interview with Sen. Blackburn underscores these points through the real-world lens of a state struggling with infrastructure and leadership.

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Our number three Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you. Buck is out. He is with the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. He is with the head of NASA, Jared Isaacson. Isaacman Isaacson, something like that. And he has spent the day at Kennedy Space center as we prepare for a major launch into space. Another tour, I think it's Artemis 2 that is planning to head to the moon and engage in many different aspects of that space mission. And I believe he said that we have been invited to potentially watch a rocket ship take off which would be pretty cool. So hopefully we can we can find that and be able to to share some more experience with you. Buck will have some good stories I would imagine. Tomorrow when he is back, we're going to be joined by Senator Marsha Blackburn at the bottom of the hour. We've already talked with Senator Eric Schmidt of Missouri and Chicago Cubs Co owner Todd Ricketts. Really enjoyable conversations. Encourage you to go subscribe to the podcast. Search out my name, Clay Travis. Search out Buck Sexton. Go give us five stars. While you're there, write a funny review. Going to give producer Greg a new job. If you see funny five star reviews of the show on podcast then can you please grab it and we will share some of those with you. So make us laugh and your review can end up on the program for the podcast. Also good news. A lot of you have been asking about this for a very long time. Starting next Monday, that is the 9th, on February 9th, this show will debut for the first time ever on satellite radio, the Triumph channel, channel 123. So for those of you out there that are traveling, people maybe that don't have consistent great reception of the 555am FM stations nationwide, maybe your particular area doesn't pull it up. You will be able to find the show in addition to the podcast, in addition to the 555 stations in all 50 states. You will be able to listen to the program starting a week from Today on Sirius XM channel 123. The show has never been on satellite radio before. We are continuing to expand and grow across all of the platforms because people consume shows so many different ways now than compared to the 80s and the 90s. We want to be everywhere. So starting in June we will have three hours of video every single day that you'll be able to see that hopefully will look pretty good. That will be on YouTube and other locations will be on satellite radio starting Monday. In addition to all of the ways that you are already experiencing this program. So something to look forward to there. I want to give you a positive story. I've been teasing this a little bit. Two super positive stories that I think are connected. Data from Washington D.C. during the course of the month of January. Homicides compared to last year down 80%. Robberies down 58%. Burglaries down 28%. Motor vehicle theft down 57%. All crime down 26%. Washington, D.C. is on pace to be the safest it has ever been in the history of any of our lives. Last year was the safest year in the history of any of our lives. We had 125 year low. When it comes to the murder rate. All of this is stacking up in a very significant way and people are voting with their feet as well to support good government. Lots of times people say, oh, it's also negative. I near never hear anything positive. Just in the last two weeks, two of the greatest stories that I've ever seen. We hit a new record for average lifespan in this country last year and we also hit a 125 year low for murders. Both of those are connected. Do you think maybe ICE deporting violent criminals has been impactful there? Do you think maybe having a secure border has been impactful there? And all associated with that good government is actually winning. This is the data from the census in the last year. Where are people moving? Overwhelmingly two states that Donald Trump won. Where are people leaving? Overwhelmingly states that Kamala Harris won. Let me give you some of this. Top 10 places people moved in the United States. North Carolina number one. Texas, number two. South Carolina number three. My home state of Tennessee, number four. This is in the last year according to the census. Arizona number five, Georgia, six, Alabama, seven, Florida, eight, Idaho, nine and Nebraska, sorry, Nevada, 10. What do all 10 of those states have in common? Donald Trump won all of them. So people are moving. They are choosing to move to red states where people leaving. Connecticut, Hawaii, Colorado, Maryland, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois, New York, California. Only one of those states was won by Donald Trump. People are leaving blue states and they are moving to red states. Now I know some of you who live in those states. You're already blowing me up. I don't even have to check my mentions. I don't even have to check my emails. Clay they're locusts. They destroy the blue state. You're in California right now. It's a perfect example. They vote for awful things and then they bail and they go and they bring their politics with them. I understand that argument. Data doesn't support it. The red states are actually getting redder. The people that are the most fed up and are relocating tend to be redder even than the states that they are going to. Florida is a prime example of this. You remember when Florida was a toss up state. Remember we had to sit around for hours, weeks, months, Even back in 2000 to find out who won the state of Florida. Now we know about three hours after the votes are cast, overwhelmingly red state voters have flowed into Florida. My state of Tennessee has gotten deep red because people are coming to Tennessee and they are voting even redder than the people that are already there. What we are seeing is there are a lot of people making reasonable, rational choices based on the governance of where they are and saying, I'm done with this. I'm moving Census data. Top 10 movers, all Trump states. Top 10 losers, nine of them Kamala states. What we are seeing is Republicans make choices and govern in a way that makes everybody's lives better. And all of these blue states are starting to fall apart even more. Over the weekend. We got a lot of people with the show that work out of New York City. They've had a snowstorm in New York City and right now Mom Donnie can't get the streets clean and he can't get the garbage picked up. We're going to talk with Marsha Blackburn, senator from Tennessee, here shortly. Unfortunately, Nashville has got a moron Democrat mayor. They also have got a electric service that had over a hundred D E I meetings and trainings last year. If you're sitting around and you're thinking to yourself, why does the electric service need to have DEI instruction? I think you're asking good questions. Because the electric service where I am has to serve everybody. I don't know why you would need to be trained in diversity, equity and inclusion over a hundred different times. What I care about is turn the power on and get it back flowing. I grew up in a part of Nashville called Goodlettsville. Maybe some of you are listening in goodlettsville right now. Zip code 37072. It's on the north side of Davidson County. I lived my entire life in Goodlettsville. Right now, the Nashville electric service has put out a projection of how long it's going to take to turn the power back on after the ice storm in Nashville. Goodlettsville, Tennessee is the last place, the last zip code to get power. Three weeks. Let me repeat three weeks. We're not talking about a epic hurricane of unimaginable detail and destruction. We're talking about a winter storm that was on the forecast for weeks that everybody knew was coming. And this left mayor and this NES DEI obsessed electric service can't turn the power back on for people. I made the decision in my life after Covid. I was so angry. I was a born and raised Nashville kid. I went to public school K through 12. I lived in Nashville for much of my life. A decade ago we moved out to Franklin, Tennessee, which is Utopia, one of the greatest cities on the planet. We just moved again. My wife was looking, she said, where do we want to move? We're going to be closer to the kids school. We want to be able to live in a better, closer place to where we had to go every single day. I said, I will not leave Williamson county because I am so angry still over how Nashville handled Covid that I won't give them my property tax dollars. I made a conscious decision that I want to live in a better run community based on political decisions. And I think a lot of you are making those choices too. Now I also understand, I talked about it earlier. I'm in LA 2020. More people in California voted Trump than voted for Trump in 2020 in Texas. One of my favorite stats. I understand a lot of you are still behind enemy lines and you're having to deal with the incompetence and you can't move because you got K school or you got jobs that aren't easily able to translate. But increasingly more and more people are saying, I can't put up with this anymore. So if you're out there and you feel frustrated by the stupidity that you see at the Grammy Awards, if you're out there and like Todd Ricketts who just talked with us, you sometimes think, how in the world can people believe the things that they do? There are tens of millions of people thinking like you and every single day more and more people are moving to red states and strengthening those red states and making them better. And the blue states are going to get worse. And this is a cycle that is going to repeat itself. And I think it is going to become one of the biggest stories that exists out there in all of the country's history. Because my big thesis is post Covid, a lot of people realize they can live anywhere in the country they want and people are fed up with government that doesn't work with government that fails them and they are going to take their dollars like I did to places that make good decisions and they're going to pay their taxes in places that are going to make good choices and more people are going to move there and they're going to make better choices. And the flip side is going to be true. When you're making poor choices, things are going to continue to get worse. I think that's what the data is reflecting. And by the way, Donald Trump is making it better even for blue cities. That story on DC Is incredible. Murder rate may hit an all time low this year in Washington D.C. do you remember when they said, hey, this is not going to be effective. Oh, what is Trump going to do? It is going to be a disaster. It's going to be a disaster. That's what they said. Oh, there's no way to make it safer. Guess what? Everything got better. Trump was right yet again. Take some of your calls. Marsha Blackberg gonna join us at the bottom of the hour. We will discuss the latest on all the different issues dealing with power in both Mississippi and Tennessee as it continues to be awful in the wake of a ice storm and a failure, especially in the state of Tennessee by left wing government to be able to actually turn the power on for people out there who are increasingly fed up with the poor leadership that they are getting and that's why red state overall is surging in population and why blue states are losing again. That is data that just came out in the last couple of days. 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Back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us. Couple of things that are out there as we get ready for Marsha Blackburn James Carville is an old school Democrat. That is, he actually understands in some way how to talk to normal men. The Democrat Party has lost that ability. And he had this to say, I believe it's cut 27. James Carville on Democrat Culture Democratic culture became very feminized and very judgmental and that is why we push so many of these males away, particularly younger males. They were telling them, they sit there and they says, okay, so a guy works at a tire shop in south Atlanta. He's in a July heat, he's changing tires all day, he's aligning wheels. And he goes home and he says, don't drink beer, don't eat hamburgers, don't watch football, don't have sex. Like, God damn, what do you want me to do? I've been out there working my ass off. I want to have a beer and watch the game and, you know, smoke dope and have sex with my girlfriend. Well, there's nothing wrong with that. He would love balls. I need to get James Carville a copy of Balls. There aren't very many Democrats like that anymore. There aren't very many Democrats who look at the culture and just say, hey, it's okay to be a dude. I've got three boys. I spend a lot of time thinking about this because I'm trying to raise three boys, turn them into men. And they see the Democrat Party as constantly hectoring them, as lecturing them, as telling them, hey, you can't have a beer and watch a football game. And the Democrat Party, by and large has become so insanely feminized that they've lost men. And I don't know how they get them back. Now we're talking about big turnout elections because sometimes it's hard to get these guys to pay attention. I mean, I actually think Jelly Roll is a good example when he says, hey, I'm busy, I'm not really paying a lot of attention. There are a lot of hardworking guys out there that would never go vote because they're worried about making money, putting food on the table for their family. But when they hear Democrats lecturing them for not being pro trans enough, they're not rushing out to the polls for that. I think the Democrat Party has a profound feminized issue that I don't know how they fix. I think they're going to have to lose a couple of different elections or they're going to have to rely on getting 80% of the female vote to be able to win a nationwide election. I think that's where we are. I think James Carville actually got that dead right. We come back, we'll talk to Senator Marsha Blackburn. But I want to tell all of you prize picks. I said I'd give you a pick. I'll give you a pick tomorrow. Prizepix.com for the Super Bowl. I'm going to be up in San Francisco. Prizepix.com Code Clay. You get $50 when you play along. You can play in all 50 states. California, where I am right now. Texas, you're feeling left out. Georgia, all 50 states. You go to prizepix.com right now, you get $50 when you play. $5. You can make the Super Bowl a little bit more fun. Over 100 million people are going to be watching, probably around 125 million and you will get hooked up. All you have to do is go to pricepicks.com code clay. That is prizepix.com code clay and all 50 states. You'll be glad that you did it. Prizepix.com code Clay. Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Monday edition of the program. Buck will be back with me tomorrow. He is down at Cape Canaveral at Kennedy Space center hanging out with secretary of War and the head of NASA. Not a bad way to spend the day. Have some good stories for us tomorrow. We are joined now by Senator Marsha Blackburn running for governor of the great state of Tennessee, my home state. Senator Blackburn, appreciate the time. We were texting about this the last several days and I wanted to get you on to talk about it. There are still Way too many Tennesseans and frankly, Mississippians as well that don't have power after this ice storm. This is just a failure of the, in my opinion, the mayor of Nashville and the Nashville Electric Service. What have you seen what should happen? What kind of update can you give us?

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Yes, and we know that there are still about 40,000 people in the metro Nashville area that are serviced by Nashville Electric Service that do not have power. And Clay, one of the things we have to realize with this is Nashville Electric Service says they have 470,000 customers. That's businesses and residences. And out of that, they had about 235,000 people that were without power. So 50% of their grid failed. And when you have a 50% fail rate, you've got problems. That says you don't have resiliency, you don't have redundancy. And it also tells us that they did not properly prepare for this storm. They didn't take precautions that were necessary for an ice storm. And, you know, people were watching the weather. They were going to Kroger in Publix and getting food in the house to get through this storm. But for some reason, Nashville Electric said they prepared for a snowstorm, not an ice storm. So we're grateful that we've got so many people helping neighbors. We are the volunteer state. You've got the governor called out, the National Guard, Highway Patrol is out there, local law enforcement, emergency responders, and as I said, neighbors that are dragging out the chainsaws and helping neighbors and taking care of people that are stranded, elderly illnesses, people that cannot get out of their homes and trying to help get them to safety or get some warmth into those homes.

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We're talking to Senator Marsha Blackburn. We certainly want that to help get taken care of. You just hit on an important thing, seems to me, based on the fact that this storm was talked about coming for eight, ten days in advance. I mean, this is something that obviously hit many different parts of the of the country and everybody saw it coming. Shouldn't the Nashville Electric Service have prepared for ice given the fact that there was a substantial likelihood of ice hitting and I mean the frozen precipitation ice, as opposed to just kind of sitting back and waiting. You wrote a great letter to the National Electric Service, which six key questions. How did you find their responses to those questions to be?

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Well, the responses were inadequate and it was so disappointing that they couldn't answer specifically. You know, I got these answers like, we've got 230 NES linemen, 984 contract linemen and God bless them for being out there. 346 Vegetation Management personnel, which of course, that is people that are cutting trees, we call it cutting and tossing. They've got 177 doing field assessment. But here again, they didn't do the preparation on the front end. They were busy doing DEI training. They did 102 DEI training sessions last year. So the prep work was not done. They have one job and it is to keep the lights on. And the communication was terrible. People would get notices that their power was back on, but their power was not back on. People would try to call NESM and report an outage, but the phone system was not working. Their online reporting was not working. So there was a lot of communication. Even Mayor Freddie in Nashville said they were not equipped to handle communications. So they were. They just were focused on DEI and WOKE policies and not paying attention to infrastructure and making certain that the infrastructure, that the. The tree canopy had been cut so that the lines were not tangled up in branches. Just key things like that. And you know, as I say, the good Lord gave us great big beautiful hardwood trees. He gave us hills, he gave us valleys, and he gave us a lot of limestone. And you need to prepare your utilities, recognizing those opportunities and challenges and be ready when something like this happens. And I told one of the board members, they said, well, we've got limestone. It's hard to bury. It's hard to bury cables. I said, well, then you need to get over there and talk to one of the engineers at the boring company who is building a tunnel through limestone to go from the Nashville airport to downtown Nashville and then out into the hospital district. They're going to do a loop in Nashville like they've done in Las Vegas. So there are ways to handle this and to not have known for days. They were saying, we're going to get some snow, then we're going to get some sleet, and then we're going to get freezing rain. They should have prepared for this. In 1994, we had an ice storm. My husband and I went through that one. A lot of damage and had about three quarters of an inch of ice. A lot of trees broke. So you prepare for these things. And it seems that there were no lessons taken from the 1994 storm. And because of that, you have the deaths that are weather related. You have had a terrible issue with people being out of their homes. This is day nine. I've had emails and text messages and calls from people today that are still out of their home. And we are Doing all we can. The president has declared the emergency. They have gotten the second declaration from Governor Lee, who has activated state resources. We have activated fema. All possible resources are here. Individuals that are listening to you that need help and may qualify for FEMA support should contact contact the Office of Emergency Management in their county and find out how to receive those resources.

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President Trump gave you a shout out from the stage last week. We were supposed to be Buck and I up there for the treasury event on that Wednesday. The travel situation was a mess because of the weather. What should we know about the current status of President Trump's agenda in the Senate? And what would you want us to know about your gubernatorial campaign with the election happening in November?

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Yes, and I was grateful for his very kind words and his support in his statements. His agenda is moving forward. You know, it's important that we finished the appropriations process or that we get it finished. We've done 11 of 12 appropriations bills. And Clay, this gets us off of the Biden budget and onto a Trump Republican budget. That helps us bend the spending curve. The first time in years that that has been done. And it is a vitally important step to take. So that is item number one, continuing to confirm judges, continuing to codify executive orders. You know, he did an executive order on artificial intelligence, and I have drafted the national policy on artificial intelligence so that we've got a discussion draft and a starting point, and it would codify much of what he says. So those are items that we are continuing to work through on his agenda, making certain that we take the steps that are necessary to support the good work that the president and Secretary Rubio are doing on the global stage. And I think that the president enjoys support and many times bipartisan support in these initiatives. Certainly the Trump accounts for children that are born between 25 and 28, that $1,000 savings account, and the ability of employers, parents, grandparents, to add money to that savings account so that children have access to capital, have they're learning financial literacy as they're working through this process, all of this. These are important parts and components of his agenda, and it is moving forward. I think the House will pass tomorrow the bills the Senate passed this past Friday, and we will then be off those Biden budget numbers.

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Senator Blackburn, appreciate the time. Thanks for coming on and give us an update and we'll talk to you again soon.

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You got it. Take care.

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Hey, thanks for taking my call. So are you there?

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Okay. So I just wanted to back you up on some of the things you're saying about refugees coming to red states. I'm an H VAC and refrigeration tech, and I. I meet a lot of transplants from California and Oregon and Washington. And for the most part, I'd say the majority of people I meet are here because they're escaping something. And, you know, most of them are very good people. And I do believe that Idaho is becoming a redder state for them. I do want to remind people that when you move to a red state that when you vote, most of the weight is carried in the primary. When you play for a team that's all red, you got to watch out for people who are less than honest and would normally have a D in front of their name. They will change to Republican. So all the heavy lifting happens in the primary. By the time we get to the general, it's mostly too late if you want to make a change. So, yeah, I just wanted to agree with what most of what you said, and that's. That's been my experience.

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Thank you for the call. He's 100% right. You need to vote in primaries. Idaho was the ninth most popular state for people to move domestically in the country into. According to the census, all 10 of the most popular states were won by Donald Trump. Nine of the 10 least popular states won by Kamala Harris. Worth keeping that in mind as we go forward. We'll break down more tomorrow. Get in a little bit to the Epstein revelations. Frankly, not a ton. We talked about that quite a bit on Friday. I'm sure Buck and I will weigh in a bit on that. But positive news out there. The Melania movie, biggest. Biggest documentary audience in a decade. So it made over $7 million. Third most popular movie in America last year. I have not seen it. Frankly, I doubt that I will see it until it ends up maybe on one of the streaming services. I'm not out to movies that often, but a lot of you did go and that is a fantastic result. Biggest documentary audience in a decade. We'll be back with you all tomorrow.

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