Clay Travis (2:35)
Welcome in our number three Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Buck is in Taiwan and he is he'll be back next week but he is as far away almost as either of us have been. I think I went to Australia. But so many different moving stories out there. Buck will be back next week. We are awaiting the press conference which we will go to live in the event that it happens before the show is ends today. That press conference scheduled to start any moment with Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump relating to potential Middle east peace agreement. Obviously very big deal. If you are just now joining us, we've been following a lot of different stories. The church attack on the Christian Latter Day Saints facility in Michigan continues to be followed, is being looked at as a terror attack. Uh, Eric Adams has dropped out of the New York City mayor's race. Continued fallout from the Comey charges over the course of the weekend. And our friend J.K. rowling weighed in and I'm gonna read some more of what she had to say about the situation surrounding trans debate. Do men who identify as women become women again? We are waiting in real time spinning plates here a little bit to see when or if that White House press availability between Netanyahu and Trump is going to begin. The Fine bomb Paul Feinbaum news that I have shared with you guys. I'll be on Will Kane show talking about this on Fox News in a little bit as there is, I think, a very real chance that Paul Finebaum of ESPN and the SEC network is going to soon announce that he is running for Senate in the state of Alabama. We played some cuts for you of that and many of you are continuing to react. Let me hit a couple of your emails. They came in directly to me. We had one of our callers down there saying that he was, that he was interested in the fine bomb situation and it was of the Allison family. And this is a note from, from one of our listeners. That was awesome. You may not realize the older gentleman, 89 years old, listens to the show every single day that called from Alabama. He's a part of the Allison family, the first family of NASCAR in Alabama. That gentleman was literally part of the living legends of that are part of the Allison family and the Hueytown gang. He was the racer that got into a fight at the conclusion of the first Daytona 500 that was ever televised from start to finish. Nice little treat to my day. Thank you guys. Keep up the great work. That was positive. Email. Gary is upset. Did you know who you were talking to? Eddie Allison, the older brother of the famous Allison brothers of nascar. You didn't give him much time. Look, I didn't know. All I get is a first name and a state. Um, and so I appreciate him calling. He's welcome to Call Back anytime. I loved the call. 89 years old, said he listens to the show while he's out in his backyard on his swing. That sounds amazing to me. And we appreciate him calling. We appreciate all of you who are listening all over the place. Dean is upset with me because I said that, that I've got friends, and I don't talk about politics with Dean from South Florida says he can't be friends with anybody, whoever voted for a Democrat. Ff I don't have any liberal friends. They're just not ethical, they're not moral. I would never be friends with anybody that voted for Harris or Biden. These guys are lowlife scumbags. And if you vote for Trump, I can be friends with you. I can never be friends with anybody that votes for a Democrat. They're just scumbags. I disagree. I dis. I understand. Some people are like that. First of all, that's what a lot of left wingers do. They're the ones that are more likely, I think, to just cut off relations. Oh, you voted for Trump. You can't come to Thanksgiving anymore. Oh, you won't wear a mask everywhere you go. Good luck coming over for Christmas. I don't think that's healthy. I really don't. I've got a ton of friends that frankly, disagree with me on everything politically. And I know those people long before Trump, and I'm going to know them long after Trump. So I just, I don't believe in the idea of cutting people out of your life who have different political opinions than you. I actually think we need more people who are willing to be friends with people across the aisle. And just think about this. I think it's hard to demonize Trump supporters. If you, like me, are an admitted Trump supporter and people in your life who may vote on the left are have to think about you as that Trump supporter, as opposed to just this amorphous idea they've created of, oh, the Trump supporters are all dumb, ignorant, stupid, redneck, racist, transphobic, whatever the homophobic, whatever slurs you want. Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, bootstrapping, awful human beings. I think that you can only believe that if you don't actually know Trump supporters in your life. And I gotta tell you, there's lots of people who vote Democrat. Almost every single day I hear from somebody who says, you know what, Clay? I'm a little bit like you. Go back and listen to what Bill Clinton said in 1992. It is nothing like what the modern Democrat Party believes. Bill Clinton, 1992 would be a Republican right now. Bill Clinton, 1996 Republican. I'm not saying he's right on every issue, but Donald Trump used to be a Democrat and then he saw the light and started to recognize how crazy everything was going. Donald Trump gave money to the Clintons back in the day. Trump is just sane. And there are a lot of us out there that are just sane and we look around and we say there's a crazy party and that's the Democrats and there's a sane party and that's the Republicans. It's my opinion. But I bet a lot of you in your lives, you know people who are voting Democrat just cuz they decided they were on the Democrat team when they were 16 years old and they may be 66 now. And the democrat party of 50 years ago is nothing like the Democrat Party today. And every day a few of them see the light, they get red pilled. And I think one way they do it is, is by interacting with normal, rational, reasonable people who they actually have a moment of thought and think, wait a minute, Clay's not crazy. Why is he a Trump guy? And they start to work through. Not everybody, but there are enough people out there that start to think that through. And that's how Trump won in 2024, that's how he won the popular vote. So I understand the frustration out there of how do they not see everything that I see. This is why I read everything. I am very confident that I could make the arguments they make in the New York Times as good or better than they do, but could too. We are aware of all of their arguments. We're making the ones that we think are better, which is how we ended up a Trump supporter. But I don't think you help your arguments by just running in the corner, covering your ears and being like, I only wanna be surrounded by people that agree with me on everything every minute of every day. To me, that's what Democrats do. That's how their party has become toxic. That's how it's become such a shrinking tent. You have to interact with arguments with which you disagree to understand why you agree with the ones that you do. So look, I love the fact that Dean is a listener, but I don't understand and don't think it's helpful to just say what a leftist would. I'm cutting everybody else off who doesn't agree with me 100% on everything. I don't think that's healthy. I would never cut off friends or family personally because of their politics and I wouldn't want you to either. I don't think that's healthy. Moreover, you can't win doing that. The way you win is by expanding your coalition. There aren't enough die hard right wingers to get anybody elected in any competitive state. You have to appeal to reasonable, rational people out there that might be super busy. They got real things going on in your life. I got three boys. Do you know how much time we spend scheduling getting those boys to all of their events? I got a 9th grade football game to get to. I really believe that my son's games. It's almost like they're pranking us to try to play the games in the most difficult places to get to at the most difficult place at times. 5:30 kickoff, an hour and a half from my house. We live in a major American city. There's nowhere they could have gone close. No, we got to drive all over the place. People are busy. I appreciate y' all who are listening every single day and following and being super attentive with the politics of the moment. You guys are what we should want from an enlightened electorate. But if only people knew what was going on every day in the country voted, there wouldn't be very many voters. Most people are really busy trying to get their kids to and from sporting events, trying to make sure they're making enough money to pay off their mortgage. They don't have time to get enmeshed in every issue. A lot of people just vote the way they have for a long time. You gotta be there when suddenly their antenna go up and they think for a minute, wait, this doesn't make very much sense. That doesn't sound like something that a Democrat would have said in 1988 or 1998. In fact, a lot of the arguments Trump's making right now, democrats made em 25, 30 years ago. So that's my argument of how you win. Politics is the art of persuasion. It's about communication and making the right decisions. And if you decide, I don't want to communicate with anybody who is persuadable or willing to listen to you, I think you guarantee that you're perpetually in the minority. Chris from Tampa. 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