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Clay Travis (0:00)
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Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now. Okay, so I know a lot of you are going to say, wait a minute, Clay. We just had an election. We just had November 5th. We just celebrated, won the presidency. We won the House, we won the Senate. But the House majority is tenuous. Comes down to a few seats Tuesday. Two of the seats are being filled by guys who step down. Matt Gaetz in Florida one is going to be replaced by Jimmy Petronas. I know Jimmy. He's done really good work in the state of Florida. All of you out there in the panhandle, Florida one, you need to get out and vote. But I want to Talk about Florida 6 here. This is the seat that was relinquished by Mike Waltz when he decided to join the Trump Cabinet. The Trump administration. It is a very comfortable Trump district. But I want to hit you with these numbers. Buck, you were also just reading this. The Democrats, in an effort to try to steal this seat, have spent $9.7 million in Florida 6 compared to the $560,000 spent by Randy Fine, who is the Republican candidate. This is a very pro Trump district, you guys. I understand you just voted. You need to get back out and vote. Because they're concerned enough about how tenuous this House majority is that they just pulled Elise Stefanik's UN Ambassador role over being concerned about her New York congressional seat. And then you've got two different seats that are available for the remainder of the term that are up on April 1st. That's Tuesday. I think a lot of you listening to us in Florida right now may not even be aware this is going on, because so many of you right after the election, you're taking a breather, you're kicking back, you're enjoying the results of the Trump victory, but you need to turn out again, because if Democrats can whittle down and take back the House, they're not passing anything that Trump wants to get done. And this is gonna be the risk next year in the midterm when all 435 House seats are up for grabs. And we'll have to see how that goes next year. But in the meantime, we got to preserve what we've already won. And so if you're listening to us in Florida right now, or you've got friends and family, these are very Trump districts. Trump won Florida one by 37. He won Florida six by 30. But a lot of the people that voted for Trump may not be coming out. They may not even be aware of these special elections. So this is, I think just, hey, pay attention, keep your head on a swivel here.
Buck Sexton (3:15)
Yeah. I mean it would be, it would be a disastrous state of affairs for the Trump agenda if we were to lose control of the House. Even with the very narrow control that we have, it still is effectively there. So that's something that we need to keep an eye on. And it's interesting to see how Democrats are able to funnel. I'm sure, Clay, if you looked at, it's public information, right. I'm just guessing, but the, of the almost $10 million the Democrat has raised in this district, remember a district that Trump won by 30 points, OK, $10 million for a congressional seat that you are minus 30 in the last election, which was just a few months ago, just goes to show you Democrats, they will funnel cash in. I bet a huge percentage of it is money out of the, out of the district from, you know, it's money that's coming in from New York and Los Angeles. And you know, people are giving money to whatever they have to, to try to sneak this congressional seat into the Democrat column. So, you know, we sit here, we talk about the Democrats have no messaging, which is true. They do have a lot of money, though. They totally outspent Trump the last time around. They totally outspent Trump the first time around and they will do things like this, which is something we have to be prepared for. So if you're listening, you know, we're, we're on in this area in the 6th district of Florida. We have a huge Florida audience. Thank you very much, Floridians. Our Florida audience has grown by I think overall like 25 or 30% in the last couple of years. So we have a lot of Floridians that are listening and I know some of you in that Daytona beach area. Right. That's, I think that's roughly, roughly what this. So if you're listening to us in Daytona beach area, you cannot let the Democrats take this one. Get out there. This is where also yard signs, I mean the basic stuff, right. This is going to be a small number overall of people who are determining this congressional seat. So if you're listening to us and you're in this district, whatever you can do makes a difference. This is not, you know, oh, but do I really? Does the president need my vote? Randy Fine needs your vote. Get out there.
