Hour 3 - Texas Primary Breakdown

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show – Hour 3

Episode Title: Texas Primary Breakdown
Air Date: March 4, 2026
Hosts: Clay Travis & Buck Sexton
Podcast: iHeartPodcasts

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Brief Overview

In this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton provide an in-depth analysis of the recent Texas primary elections, discuss broader national political narratives, and share their views on the political landscape as the midterms approach. With their usual blend of candid commentary and humor, they address the key upsets in Texas, critique media coverage, explore Democratic Party dynamics, and riff on ongoing culture war topics.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Texas Primary Rundown

• Democratic Upset: Talarico vs. Crockett

  • James Talarico defeated Jasmine Crockett in a closely watched, highly funded contest.
  • The hosts argue this result reflects internal contradictions within the Democratic Party, highlighting "blatant racism" as Clay puts it, due to a white man defeating a black woman.
  • Talarico outspent Crockett 5:1, allegedly due in part to media maneuvering, particularly CBS/Colbert’s crew, which may have "rigged it for him" (06:03).

• Republican Shakeup: Crenshaw Ousted, Cornyn vs. Paxton

  • Dan Crenshaw lost his seat, surprising given his high profile as a "combat veteran, Navy seal," but which Clay notes came after "the base turned on him" (02:23).
  • John Cornyn and Ken Paxton are nearly tied and heading into a runoff; both are seeking Trump’s endorsement, which hasn't yet been given (03:29).

• Other State Notes

  • Minor mentions of primary outcomes in Arkansas and North Carolina, with Michael Watley set for a key contest against Roy Cooper.

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2. Media and Political Dynamics in the Texas Race

• Media Interference Alleged
  • The show criticizes CBS and Stephen Colbert’s team for "setting up a fake story" by inviting only Talarico and not Crockett, suggesting equal time doctrine was misused to stack the deck for Talarico (09:46).
• Kamala Harris's Endorsement Flip
  • Kamala Harris endorsed Crockett shortly before the election, then switched to Talarico after his win, which the hosts mock as poor political opportunism (11:49).

Notable Quotes:

• Clay Travis: “It pains me... to see the Texas Democrat Party engage in such blatant racism... for a white man to beat a black woman like this.” (00:57)
• Buck Sexton: “I just wish these Republicans weren’t so stupid... the very person whose message scared them is the very person who they helped win this race.” (Joe Scarborough, as quoted at 08:49)
• Buck Sexton: “Republicans had nothing to do with this… This was all a Democrat operation. They desperately wanted Talarico.” (09:46)

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3. James Talarico’s Positions & Progressive Rhetoric

• Identity Politics and Religion
  • The hosts play clips highlighting Talarico’s progressive stances, including equating biblical consent with justifying abortion (15:00), and stating “God is non-binary” and “our southern border should be a giant welcome mat” (07:56, 16:43).
• Campaign Messaging
  • Buck argues Talarico is "way too radical to be elected in Texas," pointing out that highlighting his open-border comments effectively ends the race for him (16:54).

Notable Quotes:

• James Talarico (clip): “Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.” (16:43)
• Buck Sexton: “I don’t even think you need to run any other ad other than ‘the southern border should be a giant welcome mat.’” (16:54)
• Clay Travis: “He’s just saying, America should stop being America.” (16:49)
• Buck Sexton, on Talarico’s rhetoric: “This guy’s whole spiel is to tell lunatics who have no room for an actual God... that the Bible justifies their every urge to please Moloch.” (15:29)

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4. National Implications & Democratic Strategies

• Democrats’ Economic Messaging
  • Clay and Buck predict Democrats’ line of attack against Trump will focus on short-term spikes in gas prices and inflation, blaming them on foreign policy and military actions, despite historic lows over the past four years (21:26).
  • They note this type of economic blame game ignores the Democratic Party’s actual record: “They have no shame, which means they have no limits. They can say whatever in order to achieve power.” (21:50)
• Obamacare & Class Warfare
  • Buck recaps that Democrats will avoid boasting about Obamacare and instead focus on “class warfare”—blaming Republicans for economic distress, despite data showing the opposite.

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5. Crime, ‘Soros Prosecutors,’ and Conservative Outcomes

• Crime & Public Safety
  • The hosts highlight studies showing “Republican DAs put bad guys behind bars longer and it actually makes everybody safer” (27:22).
  • They criticize “Soros-backed prosecutors” for undermining law and order, arguing most major city crime could be curbed by incarcerating a small, repeat-offender population (27:56).
• Trump’s Federal Surge Success
  • Trump's recent law enforcement surges are credited for significant crime drops in Washington, D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans—and the hosts claim the media downplays or ignores these successes (29:56).

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Memorable Moments & Lighter Exchanges

• Clay jokes about his newfound allegiance to “Crockett gear” during Jasmine Crockett’s campaign (01:21).
• Friendly ribbing over Clay’s enthusiasm for self-driving Teslas and Pellegrino sparkling water (“living in the future and some of y’ all are living in the past.”) (33:58–34:54).
• The show teases anniversary plans and responds to talkback messages with characteristic humor (32:24–34:54).

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Key Timestamps

• 00:57 – Clay decries alleged racism in the Texas Democratic primary outcome.
• 02:23 – Dan Crenshaw’s loss and his standing in the party discussed.
• 03:29 – Cornyn and Paxton head for runoff; Trump’s role examined.
• 06:03 – CBS/Colbert’s alleged impact on the Talarico/Crockett race.
• 07:56 – Talarico’s “God is non-binary” and open-border comments.
• 08:49 – Scarborough/MSNBC’s take on the Texas outcome.
• 09:46 – Buck clarifies the roots and significance of the CBS/Colbert controversy.
• 15:00 – Talarico’s biblical consent-based argument for abortion played and critiqued.
• 16:43 – Talarico’s open-border quote aired.
• 21:26 – Projected Democratic economic attack narrative outlined.
• 27:22 – Crime data and “Republican DAs” effectiveness discussed.
• 29:56 – Trump’s crime surge impact recapped.
• 33:58–34:54 – Clay and Buck riff on Teslas, sparkling water, and generational divides.

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Conclusion

This hour of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show provided an engaging, pointed exploration of the Texas primaries and the state of national politics. With their trademark wit and willingness to call out both sides, Clay and Buck blend serious political analysis with playful banter, offering listeners a comprehensive yet entertaining update for anyone tracking the 2026 election cycle.

Transcript

[Clay Travis]

This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.

[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back in our number three, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton show. It is a significant news Wednesday, as many of these days often are. Let's take you back into exactly what has transpired. We had a very powerful press conference, as we discussed earlier in the show, from Pete Heth on the situation in Iran. We will update you on that. But the big takeaway is that we are close to complete and total air superiority in Iran and that I do believe things are going better and faster than anticipated. If they had tried to forecast how this attack was going to go. We'll come back to that in a sec and play a couple more of those cuts from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. But in Texas, as we told many of you, was likely to be the case. We had James Talarico beat our good friend Jasmine Crockett. It pains me, as we said earlier in the program, to see the Texas Democrat Party engage in such blatant racism, Buck, for a white man to beat a black man like a black woman, like this.

[Clay Travis]

Can I just point out.

[Buck Sexton]

It's painful to my heart.

[Clay Travis]

Can I just point out that Clay suddenly wearing his Crockett gear a whole lot more? All, all I'm seeing Crockett T shirts, Crockett sweatshirts. He says it's for the coffee company that we own. But I thought it was a little suspicious that right when Jasmine Crockett was in the political fight of her life, Clay was Mr. Crockett all of a sudden, I'm just saying.

[Buck Sexton]

So Jasmine Crockett goes down. We talked about this earlier in the show. We had some deep dive into it. Buck, I think the reality is this is kind of what you wanted. And MSNBC or Ms. Now, whatever the heck they're called, cnn, the View, they're all going to be throwing money at Jasmine Crockett to become a television personality. Her congressional career is over. And the other big name, I would say that went down as we discussed earlier in the program as well, Buck, is Dan Crenshaw. I did not know Dan Crenshaw well, but he had quite the public profile. Have we ever had him on the program? I think maybe we did.

[Clay Travis]

I don't think so. I think that Clay, before you and I teamed up, I might have interviewed him one time early on. And I remember, look, I'm just going to say it. There was so much enthusiasm around because you go, oh, gosh, this guy is, is a combat veteran, Navy seal, wounded veteran. You know, this is just like what you would create in a You know, Conservative Laboratory of Congressional Excellence. Like, well, this is the guy we want in Congress. And I have tremendous respect, obviously, for what he did as a seal. And I. None of that changes. But, man, the base turned on him. And we had. And neither you nor I have. Look, you guys know when we don't like somebody, I try to, you know, I try to be honest about it, but also be fair about it. You know, if we don't like somebody, I. I never met the guy. I have no beef with him, no problem with him. So many people I know in politics and in media despise that guy. And I. It's just strikes me as how, you know, I mean, I. We asked Michael Berry. Michael Berry was not holding back on it. You can go back and listen to the interview.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, so that's the big upset, I would say, that came out of the Republican primary. We told you that this was likely to happen as well. And, man, get your two by fours. Cause I think it's gonna get even nastier. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn basically ran dead even in the Texas Republican Senate primary. So Talarico has advanced it. He is the Democrat nominee. He's way more radical. Go figure. Than they have let you know. And we will certainly dive into that race as it gets closer to November. But in the meantime, John Cornyn, current incumbent senator, and Ken Paxton are going to go, both of them around 41, 42% of the vote. Wesley Hunt, who we had on the program yesterday, got around 13 or 14% in third place. So he is eliminated. And now tons of money will get spent. I would imagine both Paxton and Cornyn are going to be asking President Trump for an endorsement. So far, President Trump has not endorsed anybody in this race. We'll see what he does in late May. So a little over two months from now, we will officially have a Republican nominee. So I was texting with Buck some as these results came in. No big surprises in Arizona, sorry, Arkansas or North Carolina. Our friend Michael Watley is going to run against former Governor Roy Cooper. We got an invite out. We almost had him scheduled the other day. I'm sure Michael Watley is going to be hugely important as we look towards the Senate, because that is a Republican seat in North Carolina, and Democrats have to flip four Senate seats given JD Vance having the tiebreak. Buck, in order to be able to take back control of the U.S. senate.

[Clay Travis]

We had Cornyn scheduled and they just said they had a schedule conflict. Maybe that is the case, but you would think he would come on this show at Some point, given the primary that he's in now, you know, the extended primary. And if he doesn't, I think it's telling us something that I will say, look, schedule stuff comes up, even if it's very last minute and even if it's after our good friend Michael Berry throws a roundhouse kick with his cowboy boots on right to the face of your campaign. However. However, maybe it was just a little change, but we'd like him to come on at some point. We have some questions for Mr. Cornyn.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, it's only fair. And again, we also invited Talarico and Jasmine Crockett because unlike cbs and I do think this is a big story buck in general, again, the CBS attempt, it may well have been the difference maker for Talarico, who I outspent jasmine Crockett by 5 to 1. I think it was 25 million to 5 million, something like that. And that added raise of money that he got from the censorship that they claimed on Colbert might have been what propelled him to the victory. I mean, he won by a relatively slim amount. I mean, it was very close. And I know some of you flipped over and voted in the. In the Democrat side, but tell Rico won by about 6, 7 points with 93% of the vote in at least. And, and I do think that that is maybe the part of the result is that they helped rig it for him in the Democrat Party.

[Clay Travis]

I would say, Clay, that in the interest of fairness, because we, we have invited Talarico on. I still would love to have Jasmine Crockett on. I believe if Jasmine Crockett comes on, unless there's some ethics thing with. She's in Congress. There's all these weird, you know, ethics rules in Congress now. You basically can't buy someone more than a coffee and it causes a problem. I was going to say I'll send her a Crockett sweatshirt. Like, I would love to have Jasmine Crockett on the show. We would have a very fun conversation. But for James Talarico, I'll even give him the questions in advance. It's like he's getting a little sneak peek of the test. I would first want to ask him, is the future female James? I just want to hear what he has to say to that. And then, Clay, if you wanted to follow up with can a Man become a woman? I feel like we'd have a robust conversation with James Talarico about this. And then you could ask him about whether God is non binary, which also came up recently.

[Buck Sexton]

He said that he also said and again, this. He's. He's got a lot of clips, by the way.

[Clay Travis]

That's so I'm triggered by this. God is clearly trans. James.

[Buck Sexton]

We all know God is non binary. He also said that basically we should have a wide open southern border. So, again, the fever dream of the Democrat Party has been that they can flip Texas. They've been trying to do it for a long time now. They have not won a statewide race in the state of Texas since 1994. But that is at least worth contemplating how that's going to shake out. Your good buddy Joe Scarborough said, boy, Republicans really blew it. Here is cut three, how MSNBC is covering all of. All of this. The outcome in the Texas primary. Cut three.

[Joe Scarborough]

Here's yet another example. I swear, I just wish these Republicans weren't so stupid. I wish they'd listen to me. I'm trying to help them out a little bit here just to make it a fair fight in the fall. But what did we say? What did we say? First of all, when they took Colbert off the air, you're going to pay for it. They did pay for it with south park three or four days later deciding they're going to lean in even harder, Right? And so here they try to keep Talarico off the show. What happens? They give him a boost. If you talk to Jasmine Crockett, she'll say the same thing. I was ahead until that controversy. So the very person they were trying to defeat, the very person whose message scared them, is the very person who they helped win this race.

[Clay Travis]

His political analysis is what you would expect from a guy who told us in 2024 that Joe Biden was the sharpest he had ever been in his entire life. Clay, this is not, this is not a surprise that Joe Scarborough doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

[Buck Sexton]

This is so dumb that it honestly kind of blows my mind that either he is really, really legitimately not informed on this story or. Or he is intentionally lying. There's only two options here, because Republicans had nothing to do with this. Nothing at all. The Colbert show, for those of you have forgotten, set up a fake story, which was, we're going to have James Talarico on. CBS's lawyer said, hey, if you're going to have Talarico on, you need to have Jasmine Crockett on as well, because. Because she is a contender in this race on the Equal Time Doctrine. And maybe arguably you should also have Republicans on. But that's a whole nother debate. And they pitched a fit. All they had to do was put on Jasmine Crockett, too. This is one where I think Jasmine Crockett actually is legitimately had a rig job run against her. But this was all a Democrat operation. They desperately wanted Tal Rico. What he's got backward is a lot of us would have preferred Jasmine Crockett because Jasmine Crockett had a 0% chance of winning. I think Tal Rico has a 5 to 10% chance of winning. Still low, but 0 to 5 to 10. If you gave me a choice between the two options and I was wanted the Republicans to win, I'd take the zero.

[Clay Travis]

I'm with you, though. I just. I feel like I need to go find a safe space and to weep some liberal tears about all the mansplaining and the racism. I'm sorry, I thought the future was female. James Tallarico, Joe Scarborough, Stephen Colbert. Apparently not. If we're talking Jasmine Crockett, you know, you have a black woman who could be the, the next standard bearer of the Democrats. And they did everything they could. They. Bernie Sanders her. Bernie Sanders her.

[Buck Sexton]

They totally. Bernie Sanders her. And you know what is actually also funny about this story on the national political stage? Kamala endorsed Jasmine Crockett on Sunday, I believe, this weekend, and did a robo call and said, everybody get out and vote for Jasmine Crockett. Jasmine Crockett then lost and Kamala now has flipped and endorsed. Endorsed Tal Rico. I. I just think it's when you endorse a person and then the next day you endorse the other person, basically, that's a tough. That's a tough situation to find yourself in. She could have just set out the whole thing. I'm sure that Kamala's advisors got in her ear and they said, hey, this is another black woman who's running for office. You need to, you know, continue to lock down black female support. Speak out for her, but do it late so the impact will be minimal. If she loses, people won't talk about it as much and then immediately flip and endorse the white guy once the black woman loses. I mean, it is very funny that we ended up in this situation. All of the people doing absolutely fantastic work at the ifcj, Air sirens going right now across Israel constantly, basically. Missiles coming in from Iran, from Hezbollah, lives lost as a result. The ifcj, they are committed to just trying to keep as many people safe in Israel as possible. They have large scale distributions of food for people who are in need. They have first aid. They are constantly building more bomb shelters. You know, if you're driving down the road in Israel, you get an alert on your phone that there are missiles coming in. This is how people live in Israel. You just pull off the side of the road as close as you can to the nearest bomb shelter and then you just find yourself clustering in that bomb shelter with tons of people you don't even know. That is the life that they lead on a regular basis. Just completely normal. Hey, there's about to be missiles that land. Go get in your bomb shelters. The IFCJ builds those for people of all different backgrounds in Israel. You can join Buck and myself and rush a gift to help during this time of war. 888488 IFCJ. That's 888488 IFCJ. You can also go online at IFCJ.org that's IFCJ.org if you're an H VAC

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[Clay Travis]

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[James Talarico]

I say all this in terms of, in context of abortion because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable. I mean, go back and read this in Luke. I mean, the angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something she wants to do. And she says if it is God's will, let it be done. Let it be. Let it happen. So to me that is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. And so that's why I, that's how I come down on that side of the issue.

[Clay Travis]

So there you had James talarico back in 2025. He's now the Democrat nominee for that Senate seat in Texas. The silver tongued and serpentine Talarico. Whose, whose special gift, it seems Clay, is to tell progressive Democrats that the Bible justifies. Hey, you want to tranny your kids? Well, check out Matthew 3:17. You want to. I'm making that up. Obviously, you know, you want to have abortion all nine months of a pregnancy. Obviously all you have to do is look up Corinthians 12. Like, this guy's whole spiel is to tell lunatics who have no room for an actual God or accountability for themselves in their lives that the Bible justifies their every urge to please Moloch. That is this guy's role in life. It's pretty disgusting, actually.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. Not only that, by the way. So that is a tough argument I would think, to make for most Texans. I know. This one is the southern border should be a giant welcome mat. This is from a debate with Jasmine Crockett just back a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, cut one, Cut one.

[James Talarico]

Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, I think solution of America that he's just. He's just saying, America should stop being America.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't even think that you need to hardly run any other ad other than the southern border should be a giant welcome ad. I think that ends the race in Texas. And so I understand people are saying, oh, this is going to be competitive, but I've heard it for too long. We heard it all about with Beto and how he was gonna beat Ted Cruz, and that didn't happen. And then we heard, oh, this is gonna be close in Texas. Trump's in trouble. And Trump won by 14, I think. I think the state of New York was closer to being a Trump state than Texas was to being a Kamala state. Now, everybody needs to show up, and you certainly are gonna have to deal with a lot of enthusiasm on the Democrat side because so many of the Democr has Trump derangement syndrome. But I gotta tell you, I just think this guy is gonna be way too radical to be elected in Texas. And I think as more and more people become aware of the things that he has said, and we just played a couple of cuts of that, I think, again, we're gonna have a real battle between Cornyn and Paxton, but ultimately, that's gonna be the. The result. All right, we'll come back. We're still efforting L. Eckstein out in Israel. We'll see whether or not we can make contact with her. But in the meantime, I want to tell you, look, if you want some fun, if you want some frivolity, if you just want to get away from the serious things in life, March Madness is here. And I know that a lot of you are going to be joining me and watching college basketball like crazy. We've got the World Baseball Classic that's about to start going to be a lot of fun to see what happens in that. And also the NBA, NHL, all of it firing on all cylinders. There's a lot of different sports that are being played. And you can all in all 50 states, sign up right now. For prize picks, go to prizepix.com code clay. You can also download the prizepix app. When you use my name, Clay, you get $50 in your account deposited. When you play $5, that's prizepix.com code Clay. You're going to get hooked up and you are going to love it. Trust me. All 50 states, you can play along. You play $5, you get back $50. Prizepix.com Code Clay. That's prizepix.com Code clay. Sign up today, truth after truth. You can handle the truth. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, welcome back in Clay travis, BUCK Sexton show. We are rolling through the Wednesday edition of the program. You just heard us breaking down all of the outcome in Texas, the big primaries there, the first real opportunity to hear from voters as the midterms move close, closer and closer. And Buck, let me give you a little bit of a storyline that I think is becoming paramount. We're efforting Yael Eckstein, our friend from the ifcj, as you can imagine, there's lots of challenges with communication going on there right now. She may or may not be about to to join us. But I was watching this morning as I was doing my prep to get ready for the show. I have not seen MSNBC cover gas prices in the entirety of the Trump era because they have been coming down and they are at historic lows. This morning I watched msnbc. I do it so you don't have to. And Buck, they have started to show oil prices going up. They this is going to be the primary line of attack. I think that's going to come from Democrats because they recognize it's hard to say, well, this guy is a terrorist who's killed, you know, a thousand or more Americans as well as tens of thousands of his own people, Khamenei, and he can't ever have nuclear weapons. But what Trump did is unacceptable. Right. That is a really difficult argument to make. And I think Democrats are recognizing it. So their pivot is going to be this is a bad decision and Americans are paying the price at the pump when it comes to gas prices. I'm just telling you this eventually, I believe is going to become their primary line of attack. Now, again, historically, oil and gas prices are at very record, near record lows over the last four Years, but they're going to look at how much they go up in the short term. Strait of Hormuz, the dangers there, Iran's attacks on other Middle Eastern oil powers, all of that as a sign that Trump is making things more expensive. That's going to become their line of attack. You buying or selling that, as eventually Democrats will decide that is their way to oppose what's going on in the war.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, absolutely. They're going to need an economic message, and it has to be an attack message. They don't have anything constructive to say about any of this, and they're just hoping that people forget that everything that Democrats do when they're in charge makes all of the problems that they identify worse. This is the part of it that's really maddening. They'll say, oh, well, you know, price of homes is high. Who do you think. Who do you think does more things to make it harder for people to afford homes? Republicans or Democrats? Price of gas is high. Oh, I'm sorry. The party that thinks that we should all live off of windmills and solar panels, they're all of a sudden so worried about the price of energy, the price of gasoline. It's absurd. But absurdity is an area in which Democrats excel. They have no shame, which means they have no limits. They can say whatever in order to achieve power. So I think you will see that kind of economic messaging from them. I think that they're going to try and attack. You'll notice, usually they'd be attacking healthcare. I think more people are starting to realize what an actual disaster Obamacare has been and how the whole promise of that, remember that huge fight we had and the John Roberts court, saved Obamacare by changing the language of an actual statute to match it up with something else. The whole thing was just such a debacle and it's made everything worse. And this is. This is the reality of it. So when you look at how they're going to try to attack the president and his administration on economics, it's just going to revolve around rewriting history and preying upon the ignorance of people who are understandably frustrated. Look, finances, paying bills, this stuff is always frustrating. This is stress. Everyone feels this stuff. People deal with it at varying levels. But you're always thinking, do I have enough for what I need? Am I making progress? Am I falling further behind? And the Democrats tend to get away with playing the envy game, or rather the class warfare game. Point the finger at somebody else, it's somebody else's fault. And in reality, it is actually the Democrat system, the Democrat Party, that makes all this stuff harder. They're the reason for your high taxes. They're the reason for regulations that make home building more expensive. They're the reason for energy prices. Look at the cost of gas in California. What else do you have to see? So I think that the Trump team is going to be able to put a lot of results on the scoreboard, Clay. But this is one of the great challenges we have in 21st century America. Sometimes reality is not enough. Well, Joe Biden became president, for heaven's sakes.

[Buck Sexton]

Not only is reality not enough, people have so embraced their anti Trump delusion as their personal brand that recognizing that the choices you are making is actually leading to a disastrous outcome is I think, a function of just how broken our political system is. Because I think if you and I, I really mean this, and I think the vast majority of people out there listening to us right now, I think if you make a compelling argument that what we are arguing for is bad economically or bad culturally for the United States, I could look at it and say, hey, you know what, I'll reconsider my priors. I think Republicans as a group are more rational right now, certainly than Democrats now. It doesn't mean that there's not a lot of die hards who would refuse to look at facts no matter what. That's a challenge, I think, of our current political climate and also I think, frankly of social media, because a lot of people get locked into whatever algorithm they're on and they don't ever challenge their thinking because they're being fed constantly stories that reconfirm their priors. And I think if you go back historically and they look at social media, I don't think it's, I don't think it's a coincidence that suddenly Democrats went insane right as social media became popular and they started trying to curry favor with everybody on social media. I mean, I saw it happen in sports. I read a whole book about it. And, and that is a cultural impact that, that I think is significant. And Buck, if you know, I know we talked about this, but the US Men won their gold medals and then we saw crowds overwhelmingly cheer them in New Jersey, Pittsburgh and Toronto and also in New York City at the Saturday Night Live. Those are not places that are big Trump supporting audiences. Yet people want to cheer gold medals. And certainly we saw it in Washington, D.C. when they came out for the State of the Union. But if you had read social media, you would have expected in New Jersey, Pittsburgh and Toronto that the players were going to be drenched in beach booze, deluge of derision. It did not happen. And so I think to your point, unfortunately for Democrats they're in a situation where they believe a lot of things that make everything worse. In fact, I think we are going to have a conversation about this. You know, did you see the study that came out that said the number one way to make people safer is to put Republican district attorneys in office? Did you see that study? I mean it's not, it's not.

[Clay Travis]

I feel like that's been our mantra here for years. But now the data, but the data

[Buck Sexton]

says, and you know what the data reflects Republican district attorneys put bad guys behind bars for longer and it actually makes everybody way safer. And so it's not just that Democrats are making poor choices, it is that they are that, that, that tangibly those poor choices are resulting in worse outcomes. And, and unfortunately because of their anti Trump delusion, they're making poor choices. And not even recognizing that they are the instrument of their own demise.

[Clay Travis]

It's all true. Does make you wonder sometimes what would have to happen for Democrats on issues like crime, for Democrats on what would have to happen for them to admit that they're wrong. We have seen what happens and in all of these every Soros backed prosecutor and that's a real thing, they tried to shut this down like oh it's some, it's a scare tactic of the right. No, there are prosecutors who got money from Soros affiliated or Soros financed NGOs and they realized this was a very effective way to undermine law and order and bring about some form of anarcho tyranny in Democrat enclaves and even some non Democrat enclaves because they're able to sneak in some left wing district attorney. Right. And so we see what ends up happening. It's worse for everybody except the very small percentage of the population and I mean very small percentage that are effectively responsible for all of the major crimes. There have been articles claimed New York City, I think it was former Attorney General Barr did, did an analysis from the DOJ's numbers that in New York City if you would arrest, I think it was three or four thousand people and keep when I say arrest, if you would incarcerate three to four thousand people in the five boroughs which has 8.5 million people statistically violent crime would plummet 77 0. This is a huge win. Just waiting for someone to grasp it. But no, they won't do it. No, they don't like the demographics of who's going to be disproportionately incarcerated. And they ignore the demographics of the lives that will be disproportionately saved, which is the same, by the way, in these major cities.

[Buck Sexton]

I will just point out that everybody told Trump when he surged support in Washington, D.C. that D.C. didn't need it. Right. The D.C. was safe. That was the talking point that went out and that it would never work. And I'll look up the numbers and I'll hit you with them tomorrow to make sure. But through February, murders had declined by nearly 70% compared to last year. Memphis. I mean, we could probably, should probably talk about Memphis and take some calls from Memphians tomorrow. Put a star in this buck. Memphis is like a completely different city. New Orleans. What the President has done is kind of remarkable and no one is talking about it. And when the President does something that really has great results, you sometimes find out because the story just vanishes. Right? Nobody's talking about it all of a sudden.

[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

More truth and wisdom coming up from Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.

[Clay Travis]

All right. We're closing up shop here on Clay and Buck. Thank you so much for being with us as always. We certainly live in interesting times and we are honored to be able to share those times with all of you because, well, we get to hear from you all the time. The talk packs, the emails. Hook us up with those. Also the YouTube, YouTube, Clay and Buck, my friends. YouTube.com clayandbuck Go subscribe. We have a, we have a whole new, I'm gonna give you a little sneak peek into something. We're gonna have a clay and buck 2.0, if you will. That's gonna be hitting on the five year clay, five year anniversary of the show.

[Buck Sexton]

It is crazy.

[Clay Travis]

Look at how much gray we have in our beards now. You go back to the beginning, we were just kids, man, five years ago. And now we got these gray beards. It's crazy. But five year anniversary of this show, which we're excited to roll out a whole bunch of new cool stuff. We've been telling you, teasing that there's going to be more on the video side of the program. And, and we're just so thrilled that we've really, We've reached almost 600 radio affiliates across the country. We're, we're on, we're on Sirius, we're on, we're on YouTube. We're just going wherever there's audience because we think what we do here is important and it's only possible because of all of you. So thank you so much for that. I will also say, Clay, my friend, man, I got lit up over Pellegrino. I didn't know that Pellegrino was like now the champagne of sparkling water. People like, if it was Saratoga water, it would be ok. I'm like, now I'm now my sparkling water taste from Costco is too fancy.

[Buck Sexton]

That is, that is really, really funny. I, we played a bunch of these earlier in the hours. But I'm going to, I'm going to, this is not going to surprise you, Buck. I'm going to die on the hill. That my Tesla take is going to age amazingly well. There's a lot of old people out there that are like, I'll never drive an autonomous vehicle. Primarily older. I am telling you, your grandkids are going to live in a world where most people do not drive vehicles. And I feel even more that's the case the more time I spend letting my Tesla self drive. It is absolutely incredible. And I'm telling you, I'm living in the future and some of y' all are living in the past. I'm gonna go to war on this one. You heard some of the talkbacks, they're very funny. But this is one that I'm 100% confident I am right on.

[Clay Travis]

I'm going to, I have to, I gotta, I gotta come check out your Tesla. I've never driven one or been driven by one. I've only been in one where somebody was actually operating. But see, this is my, my vision is that I'll be in self driving Tesla, drinking my Pellegrino, listening, perhaps do some Chopin or some.

[Buck Sexton]

Your Pellegrino argument is not helping me on the Tesla argument.

[Clay Travis]

But a lot of Tesla self driving people like Pellegrino, let's be honest, Clay. Okay, I'm sorry, you're getting, I mean, you're getting swooped in with this one a little too far to say that Clay is a pistachio creme brulee guy.

[Buck Sexton]

That's me.

[Clay Travis]

I take the heat on that one. But then again, he's a whis whippering angel drinker. So as Kayleigh McEnany, our good friend has had to point out to the public, Clay, Clay wears many hats. Sometimes he's SEC football bro, getting high fives, drinking out of a red solo cup. Sometimes he's drinking whispering angel out of a fluted glass.

[Buck Sexton]

All I will point out is that there was no other alcohol on the table. And as the gentleman that I am, I was pouring drinks for everyone else, including myself. Um, we will continue to update you on the Iran situation. The battle going on in, in Texas is going to continue to grow, but again, cautiously optimistic. As we talked about in the first couple of hours, the data is reflecting that Iran's ability to fire weapons is continuing to be degraded and as that occurs, more and more air superiority coming. And so I, I think things are going again, about as well as we could hope that they are going.

[Clay Travis]

And I think the Trump team is absolutely on it. They understand the implications here of what would happen if this went too far. We get too deep into this. I think they have, with so many things, earned a degree of trust. Let them cook. As they say, let Hegseth and Trump cook. They know what they're doing on this one. I have faith if that changes, we will certainly be the first to say that on this show. But until then, my friends, great hanging with you here we'll be back with you on Thursday. We'll talk to you then. This is an I heart podcast. Guaranteed human.