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Karen and Georgia
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now. The sun is in fact after a dark night and I'm in New York City and it is certainly a very dark morning in New York City. We will dive into, as you might well imagine, mom, Donnie's huge win. The wins in New Jersey and in Virginia for the Democrat candidates. It is the one year anniversary of Trump's big win. Um, and certainly the Democrats who hate Trump, well, they have not stopped hating Trump. And to me, Buck, there are two big takeaways that I have. Um, and then I'm curious whether you co sign or whether you have different takeaways. And to me, let's start with New York City. This is not an upset. Momdani won a majority of the vote in one of the highest turnout elections that New York City has seen in most of the listeners lives out there. So all of our W O R people open phone lines by the way, producer Greg will open them if all of you Curtis Sliwa people would like to call in and apologize to me for correctly pointing out that he had 0% chance of winning and that honestly I do think if he had dropped out earlier and it had been a Cuomo against Mamdani straight up election, I think that Cuomo may have been able to win. The latest numbers that I saw, Buck, unless more have come in, is that mom Donnie won right around 50.4% of the vote. That is just barely over a majority and that the rest was split between Sliwa and so New York City starting there. What was your take? My biggest take is like this is what New York wanted.
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Buck Sexton
The polls were all correct. Let's take a moment because we get a lot of oh, you can't trust the polls. You can't. No, the polls were pretty much spot on. The people that were leading all one and the margins were more or less what was expected. Virginia might have been a little bigger than expected. But look, we lost the governor's mansion in Virginia. We lost a. Well, we didn't win the contest for the governor's mansion in New Jersey. We've got a Communist mayor of New York City inbound. Clay, I am wearing Soviet Union red today in solidarity with Comrade Zoran. But the political consensus, the wisdom of the chattering class, whatever you want to call it, was locked in. Correct. And everything that we told you to be fair was also correct. None of this. I was hopeful that maybe we would steal something from New Jersey, but we didn't. So it was not a strong night. Look, these are very tough races in very tough spaces for not just a Republican, but for sanity. I mean, this is like the heart of darkness. When you're talking about New York City, you're talking about, you know, the northern part of Virginia, which now dominates the state. Clay, I will say, and we're going to get into the demographic data, too, here that also completely aligned with what we thought. If you thought some group was going to vote Mamdani, they did. By the way, Mamdani got over 90% of the black vote, something that was not talked about very much in advance of the election. So that was the single strongest demographic for Mom.
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Clay Travis
Donnie.
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Buck Sexton
But there are many, you know, young women, millennials, Hispanics, Asians. There's all these breakdowns of the data. We'll see. Clay, I think that at the biggest level at the 30,000 foot view, this is a reminder that economics is still the dominant political issue in America. Wherever you are, people are worried about prices, they're worried about cost of living, they're worried about their future and their children's future or even their ability to have children because of the future that they see and the political party that addresses that with more aplomb, not just more accuracy. Zoron was more fun than the other guys. Yeah, he's a communist. He's going to ruin New York. We all get that, right? But Clay, who was more entertaining, who was more engaging, who seemed like he wanted it more? It's not even close. Cuomo barely showed up.
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Clay Travis
New York City's in trouble with Mom. Donnie. But they voted for him for sure. The turnout was huge. Here's what I would say about Virginia and New Jersey. And I think this is where not only do we look at the results, but we have to spin it forward and we have to do it honestly. Trump got more votes in New Jersey and in Virginia last year than either of the winning candidates did. Mickey Sherrill or Spanberger. Okay, why do I say that? Yes, it was a presidential election. Yes, it's a off year election. But that always happens in New Jersey and Virginia. 600,000 Trump voters, Buck did not show up and vote in both New Jersey and in Virginia. 600,000. Some of you are listening to us right now and you didn't go vote even though we told you to go vote.
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Buck Sexton
Ok, Shame.
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Clay Travis
What does that mean going forward? The people buck who hate Trump, they show up, their brains are broken. They will show up at a school board vote because they hate Trump. The people who love Trump, they don't show up when Trump's not on the ballot. And so that is ominous for 2026 and candidly, it's ominous for 2028, which is why I have told you the pivot is coming very soon to Trump's voters won't show up in 28. And they're going to say Trump's voters won't show up in 26. And that is to me the biggest, most impactful thing about what happened last night. 600,000 people less showed up in New Jersey and Virginia. It wasn't that somehow these Democrats won and turned out unbelievable numbers. The numbers in New York City were unbelievable. They were good.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, they actually did do a good job of turnout, I think in New York particularly, but in New York, New York City.
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Clay Travis
But that's why I, I said it's two different takes. New York City, they said, we want Kami Mamdani, he's our guy. We are excited to go to the polls and make this guy the next mayor. You said it's because he's exciting. I mean, I think that he ran, I think you got to give him credit, a great campaign and he delivered based on an awful, awful pitch, reality wise. But in New Jersey and Virginia, the biggest story to me is Trump's people didn't show up.
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Buck Sexton
There is a fundamental reality that the GOP is going to have to address. Look, this is an off year election. This was Democrat home turf, really across the board. I mean, Virginia is a purple blue state. I know we had that, that nice, that nice off year win before with Youngkin Winsome. Sears seems like a, a, a wonderful lady and just a very good person. A completely unmemorable campaign. Not to be mean. I think she's very impressive and I obviously would have voted for her if I lived in Virginia, but just not a campaigner. You know, you can be a good leader, you can be a good decider, but not really a campaigner. Zoron is kind of funny, Clay, he's the opposite. Zoran created a show. Zoron remembered the lessons of Saul Alinsky. Go back and read Rules for Radicals, everybody. Alinsky. There is an evil brilliance to so much that is in that book. One of the things is make it fun.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Make it an activity. Make activism something people want to show up to because they'll feel cool and they'll laugh and they'll be with their friends. And Zoran managed to do that. Now, Trump has had that same effect on the right. Trump is both a political and a cultural phenomenon. People show up with their MAGA hats. People show up feeling like they are part of something. The big question for 28, more so even than 26, I think Clay, is how does the MAGA movement coalesce around an heir apparent? How does Trump play into that? And this is going to be something we talk a lot about in the next year. But in the meantime, the economy, and that means health care, that means inflation, the cost of rent, the cost of groceries, the cost of everything. You gotta have messaging on this, everyone, or else the commies will be in charge.
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Clay Travis
Here is a funny tweet on this because we are going to try to have some humor because sometimes you get your ass.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, look, it's all going to be fine.
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Clay Travis
Have a little bit of black sense of humor, right? A dark sense of humor.
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Buck Sexton
I told my parents, just make sure that go bags are by the front door. I'm here in Florida. If you got to flee, you know where to go. They're fine.
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Clay Travis
Brad Chadlington, I don't know who he is, but I saw this and I thought it was so funny. The richest, whitest, most sheltered girl, you know, from the wealthiest suburb in the country is posting a picture of Zoran Mamdani on her story right now, captioned Power to the people from her SoHo apartment. That's paid for by her wealthy conservative father. There is a lot of truth to this because the more recently you arrived in New York City, I saw a breakdown based on length of time that people have lived in New York City, the more likely you were to vote for Mamdani. Overwhelming majority, I think it was 82% I saw of people that have gotten to New York City in the last decade. Now, a lot of those are immigrants, right? Which is a whole big discussion in general. But a lot of those people are actually just young college kids, like the girl probably that I just described.
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Buck Sexton
Well, we gotta slow immigration down in general. There's another conversation that everyone needs to have. If you have the largest city in America with being largely determined, its future being determined by people who have been in America for Only a couple of years. That's. That's a problem. That's actually not what you want. No other country would allow that. Yeah, I know that we're supposed. We've been brainwashed to believe that. That's all. You know, if you just came across the border, even if you're illegal, you're as American as everybody who's ever been here. And even if their family's been here for generations. That is not true. True. And we have to have a discussion about that as well. We're good. We've had a lot of immigration, you know, we've had a lot of legal immigration, a lot of illegal immigration. It's time to tighten up some of these numbers a little bit and let assimilation and Americanism and Americanizing take place for everybody. It can't just be this wide open door and you get people coming here from all over the world who are saying, you know what? I want communism. That's not good. That's not going to help us very much here. By the way, the country went through this before. The city of Chicago in particular, Clay.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
Right around the turn of the 20th century, there were all kinds of commies and socialists and anarchists who were showing up. And it was a real concern then.
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Clay Travis
The biggest issue, I would say, with illegal immigration and immigration now is back in the day when we had, you know where I am right now in New York City, huge Irish populations, huge Italian populations, huge numbers of immigrants. A lot of them still came from a Western civilization culture that recognized that Western civilization and yes, Christianity, although it might have been Catholic, remember the big battle there was between Protestants and Catholics. There was a common floor of agreement on some level. A lot of the people coming now, which is certainly incredibly ironic, are arguing America's an awful place. Oh, and America's history is awful.
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Buck Sexton
And this. Well, I think it's even worse, Clay, because there's also. This is a spoils system that people now arrive. And you see this in Minneapolis and you see this in New York, and you see this in cities where there is a particularly increasingly obvious tribal, newly arrived political attitude.
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Clay Travis
Right.
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Buck Sexton
Like I have arrived, I'm going to vote as a voting bloc to dispossess the natives, the ones who have been here. And by the way, to be very clear, that's all Americans. That's white, black, Asian, Latino. But it's people that were born here, people that were raised here, people that are American. There's now the new arrivals that are saying, why do I even have to. Why do I even have to conform. Why do I have to learn English even or do any of this stuff? I'm just going to stay with my voting block here. By the way, if you want to look at a version of this, Sweden, the Netherlands, they've got big problems. These people show up and they say, I just want the welfare state and I'm going to have nothing to do with your culture and your society. Now look, there's a very complicated, broad discussion with a lot of things going on. But in New York, it is very stark. People who are college educated and young who have been brainwashed, I will just say it. They have been brainwashed. They do not know. The other problem on this though is they are getting screwed by not having assets because of the inflationary policies of both Democrats and Republicans and the way that we've created a system that unfortunately is intergenerational theft. No one wants to hear that, but it's true. $37 trillion of debt. This is a problem. We do actually have to deal with this. So there's a lot, a lot of lessons I think you can take from this. But there's nothing dire here. It's an off year election. We expected all these results, Clay.
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Clay Travis
We told people that these results were coming and a lot of people out there said, I don't believe the polls. Remember Hillary, Clay, you're the reason Slee was going to win. When I said, okay, I'll wear a beret for like. He got seven and a half percent of the vote. Yeah, seven and a half percent of the vote.
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Buck Sexton
I think I could have gotten seven and a half percent of the vote, honestly.
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Clay Travis
I mean, you know, I think you would have gotten more than seven and a half percent of the vote.
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Buck Sexton
So, you know, a native son of New York, formerly of the nypd, he's got some, he's got decent hair. No beret, but decent hair. Yeah, it was not a good showing for Sliwa.
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Clay Travis
You fled the city just in time, by the way. A lot of people are gonna say buck, you know, got out.
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Clay Travis
You're listening to Team 47 with Clay and Buck. I would like to say thank you to everybody who has been buying my book. It came out two days ago. We got a call, Buck, saying we have been flagged to be surveyed by the New York Times, which has never happened before. So if you guys will continue, please, to go buy the book. I think we got a good shot to get on the New York Times bestseller list.
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Buck Sexton
It's really in your best interest to have a copy of Balls.
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Clay Travis
And if you know somebody who doesn't have balls, it's a great Christmas gift to just say, hey, got you a pair of balls for. For Christmas. But in all seriousness, I think you'll enjoy it. I also read it. Buck, you were saying part of your Christmas break is now going to be spent. I looked at my reading of the book is over six hours now. That probably double the amount of time that it took at least to make a six hour recording. You got three days scheduled in the recording studio. Is that what you've got right now?
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Buck Sexton
Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Oh, oh, Buck, it's Christmas. Think about family and Santa and trees and all that good stuff and, and yuletide cheer and three days in your home radio studio recording the book that you took two years to write. Ah, the things we do for content, my friends. The things we do to bring you the best.
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Clay Travis
And you have to be shameless. I was on Glenn Beck earlier. Thank you for Glenn Beck. I've been on Fox News all over the place. I'm going to be on with Sean Hannity tonight. And so anything on his radio show. I was on Sean Hannity last night. If you guys would please go buy it. Amazon. Clay Travis, type it in. The book comes up. I deeply appreciate it. Okay.
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Buck Sexton
We didn't play Sean. You said he's a sports guy. Is he a Yankees or a Mets guy or does he stay out of that? Cause that can get contentious.
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Clay Travis
That's a great question. I don't know what his actual sports team affiliations are. I mean, he lived or has he.
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Buck Sexton
Gone full Florida like now? I guess I'm supposed to root for the Miami Heat, which still feels like cheating given the Heat Knicks rivalries of the past, but here we are.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, and unfortunately, the Miami Dolphins are not a NFL franchise that anybody wants to be rooting for right now. They're kind of a mess. When was the last.
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Buck Sexton
Were they the last time they were good with Dan Marino? I mean, do we have to go back to the 90s? That's rough.
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Clay Travis
They have not found a quarterback basically in 30 years. Since Dan Marino. And every Miami Dolphins game you go to, there's a guy in the number 13 Dan Marino jersey still, it doesn't matter.
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Buck Sexton
But it's also not really the Miami Dolphins fault. Cause the laces were out.
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Clay Travis
You know what movie they would never allow to be made today? And certainly they would never allow it to be sponsored by the NFL. Ace Ventura. Speaking of laces out. Oh, yeah, that movie I watched with my kids, they loved it. But it had Dan Marino in it. It had Don Shula in it. And the bad guy, which would never be allowed today, Spoiler alert. Was actually a man pretending to be a woman. Finkel is Einhorn, if you remember. The Einhorn is Finkel, if you remember that memorable discovery.
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Buck Sexton
And they played the soundtrack from the Crying Game when the revelation happened, which is another movie about a lady with a man surprise. And that would never ever be allowed to be made these days, that's for sure.
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Clay Travis
I just love the idea of if the NFL were involved in a movie that was considered in any way. By the way, this was what, 94, 92, something like that? I mean, it wasn't that long ago. And I'm surprised they still air it. You know, they have to give trigger warnings now before all different sorts of Disney movies. I would imagine there are trigger warnings on this thing probably many different places. And many of you are triggered in the New York City era area. I wanted to play this, Buck, because I, I flagged it yesterday and we didn't get to it. We didn't play very much of Mom Donnie's victory speech because I didn't want to make all of you throw up. But I did think this was a really kind of useful contrast. Uh, first, let's go back to 1986. President Ronald Reagan said his nine most terrifying words were as follows. Cut 20.
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Buck Sexton
I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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Clay Travis
Okay, well known Reagan line. Here is what Mamdani said last night, which is a direct repudiation of that iconic Ronald Reagan line. And it is. Cut 19. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve.
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Buck Sexton
And no concern too small for it to care about.
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Clay Travis
This is just like he distilled, in essence, my worst nightmare. Buck, let's play that one more time so you guys can hear it. I mean, because it is a direct repudiation of what Reagan said. Cut 19. This is my concern about New York City. Do you Think the government handles anything well, Mamdani says they want to do everything for you. We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve.
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Buck Sexton
And no concern too small for it to care about.
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Clay Travis
This is awful. I think I read a big piece in the New York Times. They had their biographical sketch of Mamdani and his campaign. Thousands of words. I read it this morning. The only thing I can say about Mandani is the hope is that he just is going to abandon trying to deliver on the vast majority of the things that he claimed he was going to deliver on. Yeah, best case scenario, that's bad.
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Buck Sexton
I wish I could say something better about how I think this is likely to go. I also, you're not going to see the huge outflow from New York. And I think that's largely because if Covid didn't drive you out of New York City, I don't think Mom Danny will. And now that may be also because people are rooted there in ways that even if they wanted to leave, it's really hard. You know, they got their kids in school, their job, their family. And I get that moving is not as easy as, you know, I happen to be at a place in life where not only did I want to move, but I had my then fiance who was also like, let's move to Florida. And it was all. It all felt. It all came together. A lot of people. It's more complicated than that. This matters, though, for the budget of New York City, because a very small percent, it really actually mirrors the national tax reality, which is that 1% of New Yorkers pay 50% of the taxes. And you can break it down even further. 0.01% of New Yorkers pay a shockingly large. I don't know what the figure is, but a shockingly large amount of New York City's taxes. So it's not just the high earners. It's really the ultra high earners. And so all the complaining about millionaires and billionaires that Bernie Sanders and others do without their earnings to tax, you can't have the socialism that these people are advocating for. So there we have it, man. They're going to learn, I think they're going to learn the hard way about New York or about Mamdani, rather. In New York, this was also interesting. He very. This is cut 17. He Very clearly, from his victory speech here, made this about Trump. Play 17. If anyone can show a nation betrayed.
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Clay Travis
By Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him.
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Buck Sexton
And if there is any way to.
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Clay Travis
Terrify a destiny, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.
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Buck Sexton
This is not only how we stop.
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Clay Travis
Trump, it's how we stop the next one.
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Buck Sexton
So, Donald Trump, since I know you're.
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Clay Travis
Watching, I have four words for you. Turn the volume up.
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Buck Sexton
This will all look very funny in retrospect. When this guy has made a complete mess of New York and is a joke and everyone realizes that he has no idea what he's doing, because that's what's happened in every. Every city that elects some super progressive. You end up with someone like. Who's the mayor? Frey, who just won and again, barely won.
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Clay Travis
He had to. Barely. Minneapolis guy.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, the guy was crying at the casket.
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Clay Travis
He's in tears.
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Buck Sexton
The casket of George Floyd. The guy's such a. Such a absolute clown. Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, all the. All these very progressive mayors are disasters. They can't point to one who's a real lefty and say, well, look at what a great. Look at how awesome that city is going. No, they always ruin it. So he's going to make a mess of things as well. But I think it's worth noting that he's just the mayor of a city and he somehow made this for his audience at least, about Trump and the fantasyland stuff, too, about a despot. You know, you wouldn't have crowds of people cheering for you, you a little twerp, if he was really a despot and they were all scared of what the evil king would do to you. Like they just live in a fantasy land. The whole thing is make believe.
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Clay Travis
How about Schumer getting asked who he voted for and not giving an answer? I love.
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Buck Sexton
That was classic. The Chuck Schumer is.
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Clay Travis
I mean, if you just step back and don't overthink it, but you just take a step back and think about how desperate he must be every day. He's what, 75 or whatever the heck he is? He should be just comfortably becoming a grandpa. His time has passed. He has no resonance at all with his current party, and he basically just tries to avoid being noticed all the time, despite the fact that he's Senate Minority leader. And I really think he lives in constant fear that AOC is going to decide that she's going to primary him because he'll get smoked in the primary and his political career will be over.
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Buck Sexton
AOC is going to run for president, I might add, and she's going to be, I think, a top contender for the Democrats. I don't think she will win the nomination, but you can just see how we've all you and I agree here. Newsom at the top of the ticket, AOC as the vp. But she's going to make her own run and it's because she represents the the real vanguard of the Democrat party today.
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Clay Travis
The best option that Chuck Schumer has is actually that AOC the best option is that she doesn't want his job, that she thinks his job is not significant enough. So she's going for the big prize.
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You're listening to team 47 with Clay Buck. I know that W listeners in New York City have been unhappy with me because I told you all that we were going to see an absolute destruction of Curtis Lewa and that occurred and that mom Donnie was going to win unless he was going head to head with only one person, even if it was the awful Andrew Cuomo. But those of you who have been listening for a while will remember that I said there was a shining better day to come for New Yorkers even if Mamdani won. And I said, because I really do think it will open the door to winning a more significant office, which is the governorship and the governorship of New York with the awful Kathy Hochul in office, who basically decapitated Andrew Cuomo over this sexual harassment scandal that wasn't actually in the grand scheme of things, that bad. I mean, what Cuomo did during COVID was infinitely worse than any of the allegations against him relating to sexual harassment. So now we have the awful Kathy Hochul as governor, maybe the worst governor in America, which is obviously J.B. pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, There's a lot of people I think we could toss out there and say are in that mix. But this morning on FOX and Friends, I don't think it's coincidental on her timing. Elise Stefanik, former New York congressman, she would have been the ambassador to the UN but she decided to go back to Congress to help because the majority was not very substantial there. She has announced that she is running for governor to make New York affordable and safe. She did that this morning. Buck, this was a positive. Let's listen. Cut one.
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Clay Travis
New York is the most unaffordable state.
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In the nation with the highest taxes, the highest energy bills, the highest utility bills. We also have a crime crisis because Kathy Hochul has brought us failed bail reform and has embraced the defund the police Democrats. And after this week, Ainsley, when we saw a raging anti Semite, pro Hamas communist who wants to raise taxes and.
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Clay Travis
Frankly, he barely won the majority of.
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New York City voters, Kathy Hochul endorsed him and bent the knee. She has failed New Yorkers.
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Clay Travis
I think that's right. And so if you are a frustrated New York voter right now, if you are a New York City area resident and you are thinking to yourself, oh my goodness, this is awful, next year the state gets the opportunity to punch back and react to what happened in New York City. And I do think that Elise Stefanik would be an incredible choice for New York. She is infinitely better than Kathy Hochul. She's going to be fighting an uphill battle, but oftentimes election cycles swing from one direction to another. And electing a communist in New York City, maybe you want to elect then a decently reasonable, rational person to be governor. So I wanted to start with that buck because I wanted to start with at least some positivity after a tough week. So there you go. The positivity is. I do think this helps Elise Stefanik a great deal that Mamdani won.
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Buck Sexton
It would be so nice for the Empire State to return to a place of sanity. You're never going to get Texas or Florida policies in New York, although wouldn't that be nice? But you will be able to, I think, have a very close contest in the next governor's race because one, Hochul is terrible and two, Stefanik is a pretty talented and solid choice.
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Clay Travis
That's right.
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Buck Sexton
To run on the Republican side.
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Karen and Georgia
So that.
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Buck Sexton
That is good. And also to your point about how this has been a tough week. We lost races we were supposed to lose. Yep. There was no big shock or surprise at all. And that's just the way it's gonna go sometimes. So we dust ourselves off, we move forward. Remember, Trump is still in charge. He's still doing great things. And one of them is just pointing out, this is cut three clay. That Nancy Pelosi's retirement is perhaps the greatest act of patriotism she has ever. She has ever made play three Nancy Pelosi's retirement. I think she's an evil woman. I'm glad she's retiring. I think she did the country a great service by retiring. I think she was a tremendous liability for the country. I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation. I thought she was terrible. Thank you very much. I like that he's just letting it rip. But look, she's retiring. She's not. He's not at a, at a, at a situation here where he has to say nice things and he's not going to say nice things because those would be untrue. I think Nancy Pelosi has been deeply destructive to the country. And I think it'll be a better place without her wielding the iron fist of Pelosi over the Democrats in the House. So let's see who the Democrats really are without Pelosi running cover and keeping them from being completely insane in public before elections.
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Clay Travis
I do think it has to really gall Nancy Pelosi that she had to step down as Trump is at his most ascendant power. That's kind of a, you know, chef's kiss. If I were Trump adviser there, I would say, you know what, I love that Nancy Pelosi recognized that it's time for her to step down. And I couldn't think it's better for the country that she's leaving the fight right as she recognizes that I've won all the battles I wish Nancy well in retirement. And the biggest loss we're going to have with Nancy is I've been trying to figure out how to be as good of an investor as her. I don't know what we're all going to do without having the Nancy Pelosi stock tracker out there to make us all rich. She's the Warren Buffett of Congress and really kind of gigger, but I think Trump genuinely detests her. So that came across in certainly the answer that he gave in that press conference yesterday. They're also continuing to battle, by the way, on the government shutdown and we'll see. Buck, my thought is that when people get frustrated at airports, then it's Democrats, it's Republicans, it's Independents. A lot of people will put up with political shenanigans until it starts directly impacting their day to day existence. And for those of us who travel and those of us who are trying to pick people up at airports and those of us who are just trying to get around the country, this thing, can you imagine, Buck, if this thing extended for another few weeks and we moved into the Thanksgiving travel season? That would be absolutely bonkers. It's the most difficult time of year to be traveling anyway. And then you're gonna layer it on top of people not getting paid and all of the chaos. And really the Democrat objectives here have always been very difficult to explain in a succinct fashion. And they're the ones shutting down the government. And I feel like they got their no Kings protest, they got their election wins in New Jersey and Virginia. There's zero doubt that Virginia was aided because there's so many federal employees by the fact that the government shutdown happened. Now let's go ahead and just open the government back up. And in fact, he's the same guy. This is exactly what John Fetterman said. Buck, play cut 7 World Kitchen's feeding.
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Buck Sexton
Government workers in my neighborhood in Navy Yard. I mean, it's really impacting these folks. It's like, you know, we've all been paid, but all These people, workers haven't been paid. The Capitol Police that are protecting here haven't been paid. Our military, why, that's not controversial. Pay our military, pay all these folks, and make sure everyone's fed. Now, why would we put ourselves in.
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Buck Sexton
You know, we've had the election. Now we can all reopen and find a way forward.
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Clay Travis
Now, this is kind of crazy, Buck, when you really break it all down, that maybe the thing that we were most wrong on, on the show in four years, aside from the red wave, 20. I never would have ever believed, having watched the 2022 Senate campaigns, I never would have believed that John Fetterman would end up one of the most rational, reasonable, efficient and effective senators when it comes to just analyzing basic things like this. Would you have ever bought in? Like if we went back in time to when he was engaged in the debate when he was running against Dr. Oz? I never would have ever believed that this could be a situation where Fetterman were louding and saying, hey, this guy is actually one of the best truth tellers on Capitol Hill. But I mean, everything he just said was eminently reasonable, not particularly partisan and rational. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but we need five or six more John Fettermans in order to get the country back up and running, get the government open.
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Buck Sexton
What are the Democrats really achieving with all of it?
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Clay Travis
Well, that's the question.
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Buck Sexton
That's the thing that we're going to have to look back on when this eventually ends. What, what have they gotten? I do not think Republicans can give them what they want, because then you've set a precedent, I might add. The minority party can say, I just want billions of dollars that have nothing to do with the actual funding of the government, or else I'm going to take my ball and go home, or else I'm, I'm going to stop things from happening in D.C. you can't, you can't negotiate with terrorists, my friends. This is congressional terrorism, so to speak. This is not playing by the pre established rules. So eventually you're going to have to just see who's got the grit, who stays together as a, as a caucus. And I'm, I'm hopeful Republicans stay with it.
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Clay Travis
I do think the one thing Trump keeps saying, hey, we need the filibuster. You know, they've moderated the filibuster on ending the filibuster. They've moderated the filibuster on a great number of different aspects. To me, there is a decent argument to be made. And I think our friend Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin has made this argument publicly for some time. And in fact, if he's listening, he's welcome to call in and make it better than I'm about to make it. But can we just do away with the ability to shut down the government and require there be 60 votes to reopen it? That doesn't seem like the filibuster for many things makes sense. Should we have a filibuster when it comes to whether you can add Supreme Court justices or add senators from New Jersey, senators from New York?
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Buck Sexton
No, you can't have a minority of the Senate say, sorry, no government business till I get what I want.
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Clay Travis
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Karen and Georgia
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