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Welcome in the day before the election.Election Eve is upon us.The numbers are looking good.We are going to dive into them.We will run through a lot of different battlegrounds.Let me give you a little bit of a roadmap.
Bernie Marino, next senator from the great state of Ohio, will join us at 1.30.Senator Marsha Blackburn of my home state of Tennessee, up for re-election tomorrow. And then, fresh out of prison, Steve Bannon on with us.That is it.
Marsha Blackburn at 2 Eastern, Steve Bannon at 2.30 Eastern.That is the direction the program is going to go, but today is all about a simple message, which we will continue to hammer home tomorrow.We are leading at halftime.
The early voting numbers are all in. I hope many of you took our advice and went and got your vote banked already.Over 75 million of you, that's basically half of the expected electorate, have already voted, including both Buck and me.
We have asked you for some time, hey, get out there, go vote if you haven't done it yet. You don't have any other options.It is time to pour the steam on.It is time to flood the polls figuratively, not literally.Remember you Fulton County.
We want all of you out there everywhere. let's turn new hampshire red let's turn virginia red let's make this election decided early on the east coast let's get this done buck i am fired up you and i have seen a lot of data
that is coming in on the early voting in the battleground states.It is very, very positive, but you can't rest on a halftime lead.We have to make this too big to rig.We need to sprint through the tape, the finish line.
When the polls close in your respective state, you can tip back a brew, you can kick up the feet, you can relax, but right now is the time to get friends and family who haven't voted out to the polls.
If you have friends that are maybe low propensity voters, that would be voting Trump, but you're not really sure whether they're reliable.Get them in your car, drive them directly yourself.It is winning time.We've got the lead, Buck.
I feel really good about it, but we have to finish strong and make sure that we don't let Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Tim Walz up off the ground and give them a chance to come back like the villains in a horror movie and try to steal this.
democrats are in a quiet panic right now i can see it i can see it in their eyes beyond the chardonnay and xanax haze on morning joe and wherever else like i i can actually see that they are very nervous at this juncture the only uh... the only way that
uh... they could end up pulling this off at this point and it's still possible to be clear but they would have to defy the odds dramatically now trump defied the odds dramatically correct twenty sixteen that doesn't mean it's impossible it just means that right now the momentum is very clearly on the side of the republicans lessons were learned from twenty twenty and from the midterms in twenty twenty two about getting the vote out earlier about mobilizing
uh... now the lower propensity voters are able to be here to have been able to be tracked down by the g l p more efficiently and i'll tell you this to bring out barack obama Yeah.
At this stage of the game, we even mentioned that Kamala was on SNL, violation of the FEC or FCC and probably FEC.But she's not supposed to be able to appear a couple days before the election without Trump getting equal time.Clay, I saw your tweet.
I agree.Trump should ask for the most. favorable 90 seconds or whatever it is.
I think they gave it to him, Buck.I think they gave him an ad during Sunday Night Football last night.I saw, I was watching, I think they gave it to him and I think they gave him a NASCAR.I don't know if that's publicly.
Team in New York, can you look that up and see if it's been publicly confirmed?But I believe NBC panicked and gave him two different spots during sporting events this weekend on Sunday to make up for it.
Yeah, I mean, but it just goes to show you they had to know, but with Kamal, they're desperate, okay?There's desperation now.Again, I want to be very clear.Desperation does not mean that they can't win.
They can, but they are very concerned because right now the indicators are going against them.But we mentioned the SNL thing. Which was also a ripoff of Trump's appearance on SNL in 2016, so they're not even being creative about it.
Beyond that though, Clay, to bring out Barack Obama, to have him really lean into the very fine people Charlottesville hoax.
The lie that Trump said there are fine people on both... I don't know what greater act of desperation you could have as a Democrat than this, but I want you to listen.
Barack Obama, who's supposed to be above the fray, and he's a genius and he's perfect.Here he is with slander of Trump at the last minute.Play two.
Maybe you're Muslim American or Jewish American and you are heartbroken and furious about the ongoing bloodshed in the Middle East and worried about the rise of anti-Semitism.
Why would you place your faith in somebody who instituted a so-called Muslim ban?Who sat down for pleasantries with Holocaust deniers? who said that there were very fine people on both sides of a white supremacist rally.
Clay, Biden premised his entire campaign around this. Fact checkers who don't want to be laughed at have had to say, yeah, no, it's a lie.It's not true.That's not a fair version of what Trump was saying.
For them to put Barack Obama out there and to tell a lie as blatant as if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.I remember that one.I think this is evidence of just how desperate straits they find themselves in.
Yeah, and look, this is disappointing from Barack Obama.And there are some people who are dumb, and I think genuinely don't know what the truth of a story is.Sadly, there are lots of dumb politicians on both sides.
but barack obama is not a dumb democrat politician to me to lie this blatantly is a sign of the panic that is setting in that we have talked about on this program for some time buck which is how does joe biden now kamala harris win the state of michigan when if you go look at her margin
and his margin in 2020, it was basically huge majorities of Jewish and Arab voters in Michigan.
And I started hitting on this early because my wife is from Michigan, Buck, and I've spent a lot of time in Southeast Michigan, and I know how many Arab voters and how many Jewish voters there are.
This is a uniquely sort of polyglot region of the country in a battleground state where Joe Biden owes his victory in Michigan to a huge win with Arab voters and to a huge win with Jewish voters.
And given what's happened in the Middle East since October 7th, I think it's going to be very hard to reconcile those two.
And Trump, I believe on Friday, was in a Dearborn Arab-owned coffee shop, and there were a lot of people cheering for Trump there.
So there are, Buck, I think lots of people out there who are Arab voters who are Jewish voters that have changed their minds. And if I'm right about that, that's the panic that's setting in.
It's trying to figure out a way to traverse that middle ground where you still run up big margins in both parties.I think both parties honestly do believe Trump would be better at bringing peace to the region.
And I think that's why we saw Hamas attack.
after Trump was out of office as opposed to when he was in office and to have Barack Obama trotted out to try to feed that lie that has been roundly debunked everywhere is just a continuation of Kamala Harris's lie during her convention speech and Tim Walz's lie during their convention speech.
I'll also tell you this, everything, because as you know I spend a lot of time reading enemy media and watching enemy media, so I know what's going on, and Clay, all of their arguments about what the last minute change up is here.
It's the comedian's joke about Puerto Rico, or the Madison Square Garden rally, or, you know, they're picking things
that nobody is actually focused on in any meaningful way in the election but they're desperate they're looking for something oh because they want to encourage their side they say people are breaking for kamala independence hugely bring for kamala because of the comedians joke at the madison square garden really we're really going with that that's that's our best last minute pitch
And I think that one of the problems that the Kamala campaign has had all along here is that their primary motivator is hatred of Trump and fear of the future, but they've tried to also simultaneously tell everyone that they're about joy and happiness and unity.
and these are things that are in dramatic this uh... you know the the these are in contradiction to each other you can actually have the center of your campaign be both trump says democrats a screw this up by instincts i'm gonna make things awesome it's not about you know all com was the worst person in the history of the world it's like the democrats haven't done a good job i'll do a better job you guys remember what i did before let's go game on
I think that's just objectively, to the degree I can be objective, I'm obviously a Trump partisan, but objectively as much as I can say so, I think that's a more positive message and I think it doesn't run into, well, which is it?
Am I voting for you because Trump is Hitler or am I voting for you because you know something about the economy?You know, Kamala, to this day, I still don't even know what her policy, what she plans to do.I will actually, I think I do know
I just know that she's lied about everything that I think she's going to do.The whole thing is a bait-and-switch.The whole thing is meant to be a head fake.
As basically their closing argument, Democrats have elected to go with, you're garbage, you're a Nazi, you're an anti-Semite, some overlap there, you are not smart, you are not strong if you're a woman, and you are voting for
Joe, I mean, Joe voting for Donald Trump.These are not messages of joy.This is just a direct attack.And let me say this. There isn't anywhere near the same attacks to any degree on Kamala voters.
I haven't really seen any Republicans running for office ripping to shreds Kamala voters personally over the choice that they're making.
Now Kamala gets attacked, that's fair game, and certainly other candidates get attacked, but have you seen anything the equivalent? from Republicans of alleging that people who vote for your opponent are Nazis.I haven't.
Republicans by and large have actually been the party reaching out and saying, hey, we think we can fix this no matter what your background is.And crazily, Trump has had the far more positive closing message.
And that's why if all of you run through the tape, We're going to win and buck.I think we're going to know who won by midnight on the East coast.If Republicans run through the tape, I don't think this thing is going to drag on for days.
They may not officially announce it, but I think the numbers are going to tell us the story.
So, you know, I had my mom's a birthday weekend in Savannah and, and Savannah never disappoints, man.I love that town.I don't know.I've just always been such a, such a fan of it.
I think it's probably my fifth or sixth, maybe more a weekend I've spent there just to go hang out.
and and i was talking to my family and talking to friends who were texting and calling over the weekend and the one question they keep asking is well they say is from going to win yeah i think i'm gonna running joke because they know that i've been saying for months without fail yes he's going to win he's going to win go vote don't do this thing don't say he's going to win your
No one's thinking to themselves, oh, my team's going to win.I'm going to stay home.No, you want to be a part of taking back the country.You want to make sure that you do your part for putting points on the scoreboard here.
So but I think Trump's going to win.But here's the part of it also, Clay. You know, no matter what, I don't think our side can have any anxiety about it.What Trump did is incredible.
And what he's done up to this point, the campaign he's run, the messages that have been at the center of the campaign, the standing on stage after being shot, yelling, fight, fight, fight.
The showing up at McDonald's and the being the truck, you know, doing the garbage truck thing, all of it.
left it all on the field man you know i've been a coach you've been a coach i would say that this was my high school soccer team again i'd be like i'm proud of you boys no matter what and that's how i feel about the right at this stage and that's a good place to be because we've done what we can and if the country is full of very unhappy and very emotionally unstable people by a slight majority will deal with it you know that's how i feel about it i i have i have a total serene confidence going into tomorrow come what may
I'd also add the Senate, even if Trump were to lose, I feel really good about the Senate.And it's important for everybody out there to remember the importance of voting down ballot, because we could still have the House.
We could still have the Senate.It's going to be close.But I feel the most confident of all in Republicans taking back the Senate.
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck.We are on election day before duty right now, which it definitely feels like the calm before the storm.
Clay, you ever see those videos, the very eerie of like when a tsunami is coming and the water all pulls out before the deluge, right?
That is to me what today feels like, even in the news media, because everyone's just looking at all of the early vote and tabulating, but It could all change tomorrow, right?I mean, this is where we are.
All of a sudden, you could have a huge surge or swing in a different direction.So I feel like right now, we feel good about it, but there is this, hey. Is there an election tomorrow, guys?Because you need to get out there and get it done.
I'm planning to get some sleep tonight.I want to go to bed at a decent hour, try to get seven, eight hours, which is somewhat rare.
And then I don't know when I'm going to sleep again, because I'm confident that I really am that we're going to potentially know based on the numbers.But you know this.I love looking at the data.
I like diving into it, trying to glean what you can gather from it.
And I think we're going to have enough East Coast data, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, and New Hampshire, maybe Virginia as well, that gives us a really good idea of where things are headed, even if the networks are all a little bit nervous to put their fingers on the scale and tell us exactly what they expect to happen.
You know, I also am hopeful that we'll get some close calls that go the way of the Republican.You know, our friend Hung Kau, for example, in Virginia, he's running a close one there in that Senate race.I mean, that's an uphill climb.I get it.
It's not like Montana, where I feel like it's felt like that one has been in the bag for a little while for Tim Sheehy.Although, go vote.Don't listen to any in the bag stuff.Go vote.
But I think that it's looking as good as it can under the circumstances right now.If you had offered me this, Clay, if you could have gone forward in time, in the time machine, and given me this data, I would have said, home run three months ago.
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The program on the eve of the election, and Buck, I don't know about you, but this election has felt a bit like Christmas to me when you're a kid, where you get the advent calendar out, and every day you pop it, and you're like, Christmas is never gonna get here, and then finally you get to Christmas Eve, and you're just so excited to see what the actual results are going to end up being.
And I feel like we are finally at long last there.And to your point, as we went to break, you said if you could have said, hey, where are we going to be three months out?This is where you would have wanted to be.I agree.
I think it's important to put in context for everybody out there, although many of you will remember it. Trump has never in his political career been in a stronger position to win an election based on all the numbers out there than he is right now.
I think he is stronger than he was in 2016, he is definitely stronger than he was in 2020, and significantly Kamala is much weaker than both Hillary and Joe Biden were.
Best case scenario for her right now, when you look at all the polls, it's dead even.And a part of me feels like, Buck, a lot of these pollsters are just afraid to really come out and say what they think is gonna happen.
I mean, what are the odds that all these would end up tied 48-48, 49-49, and so on, where basically neither side wins?I understand it could be extremely close, and maybe that's gonna be the final result, and all the polls were incredibly accurate.
I think a lot of these guys just don't want to get savaged for being wrong on social media based on the results.
three or four, three or four, depending on, yeah, a handful, but Kamala up substantially in Iowa.And look, you know, I, I spoke to a few of our friends, spoke to Ryan Grodowski about this one right away.I was like, come on, man.
He says, look, she's got, she's got a hootspa to put it out there. Kamala Harris is not winning Iowa because if Kamala Harris wins Iowa, it means she's going to win every swing state.It means Trump is going to get absolutely annihilated.
That's just not happening.OK, so I think Trump Trump won Iowa the last time around by, I want to say, eight points.
I think seven or eight.Yeah, it wasn't really close.Substantial.
I mean, it was a substantial win.It wasn't like a point or two. There's no reason to believe that there would be a call it a 10 to 12 point swing in favor of Kamala Harris in Iowa this time around.Absolutely no way.
So I think there's a lot of wishful thinking going on on that side.To your point, though, Clay, about how it's tied, it's tied, it's tied.That's what the pollsters are saying in all these different places.
It is within the margin of error, probably in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.And I think that's a lot of these polls have a margin of error of.
two to four percent depending and so given that that's what they're stating as their margin of error depends on the poll obviously you know i think if trump wins michigan and i i michigan's gonna be tough but you know maybe let's say trump wins i feel very good about pennsylvania right now if nothing else based on the fact that you have 700 000 less early votes in for democrats compared to 2020 if he wins pennsylvania he's probably going to win it by a point or two right i mean it's not going to be that much so
I spent the day Saturday in Pennsylvania.I flew up to Pennsylvania on Friday right after we finished the show, and I hung out with Dave McCormick, who all of you need to go vote for.
He's going to be on with us, I believe, tomorrow as part of his closing argument in Pennsylvania.And I went to the Ohio State-Penn State game.Congratulations to all the Buckeyes out there.Bernie Marino is going to be on with us at 1.30.
JD Vance, I bet, was watching that game in some way. And I always just, everything is anecdotal at this point.Unless you're citing direct early voting data, all of your experiences in what you see, how you feel, it's all very anecdotal.
So with that in mind, Buck, I didn't see Kamala flags, I didn't see Kamala shirts, I didn't see Kamala supporters anywhere around the Ohio State-Penn State game. I saw Trump flags everywhere.I saw MAGA hats everywhere.I saw Trump apparel everywhere.
Now, fuck, this is 110,000 people going to that game inside the stadium.Probably another 50,000 or 60,000 people who are outside the stadium.
Now, I'm not saying that that is a 100% reflection of what's going on, but I do think it is an interesting snapshot that I experienced on Saturday.Personally, here's something else I'll tell you.I was with Dave McCormick all day in Happy Valley.
We went out to dinner the night before.Not one negative word did I see from anyone in his direction. Now, Buck, I go on the road for college football games all the time.
When you're wearing opposing team gear, it's pretty common for fans to kind of raz the other side to let them have it a little bit.Nothing.Not one person heckling us.
Not one person running by with a video trying to embarrass us by screaming something posted on social media.Didn't happen. I think Dave McCormick's going to win Pennsylvania if you guys show up and vote.And I think Trump's going to win Pennsylvania.
And Buck, I think he may win Pennsylvania in a way that's somewhat similar to John Fetterman.If you guys show up in big numbers on election day based on the early voting, By the way, Democrats have about a 400,000 lead right now.
So this is definitely not a rest on your laurel situation.We're actually behind in Pennsylvania right now.
But if you guys storm the polls on election day, and you show up in big numbers, I think we may have a situation much like with Fetterman Buck, where we expected that race to potentially drag on for several days, and then they ended up calling it that night.
I think we may know that Trump won Pennsylvania on election night. I think that may well end up happening if you guys show up.
And the reason why, and this goes into the data, in 2020, Democrats had 1.1 million early votes, absentee ballots, a 1.1 million lead there.This year, they're going to have a lead of about 400,000.So that means there are 700,000 less Democrat voters
that appeared in twenty twenty now democrats will argue buck all all those people are going to show up on election day those people are going to be out there they're going to show up okay maybe they're right and i end up being wrong i wouldn't bet on those seven hundred thousand ballots ending up in person with ideas uh... like i saw in twenty twenty so i like the numbers but we're down in pennsylvania right now and i also think that the the commentariat
catches its breath a little bit today i mean as we sit here talking but the commentary catches its breath because pretty much everyone's it's now all about getting people to just go right it's about the actual mechanics of yes voters showing up like you're not you're not really convincing anybody i think in any meaningful way that's right the day before the election
whom to vote for, I think you're just convincing them to go vote, or you're encouraging them, rather, to go vote.
That's a different, a different- Get people in your cars, get people in your cars and get them to the polls.
That, you're right, we're at the get people to show up and vote stage, the arguments for why you should show up, the October surprises, all of it is out the window now.
It's basically who can mobilize and get the votes in on election day with the understanding, Buck,
that already 75 million votes are in and many of them have been in for a couple weeks now this is basically two weeks ago you voted I voted like 17 days ago so my ballots been banked for a very very long time and now it's just the question of okay who's going to show and anybody who tells you they know 100% what's going to happen they're lying to you
And I also think it's worth saying to everyone, because we are very aware of the anxiety that's out there.We get all the emails.We get all of the messages, the talkback messages about, well, what if they cheat?What if they cheat?
We are more aware this time of how the system can be abused and how rules can be broken than we were last time.The Republicans have taken more preventive action.
and i'm not that's not just rhetoric they tried some nonsense in pennsylvania and this led to the the hugh hewitt uh... storming off that interview the washington post as he was right they tried some nonsense in pennsylvania did not allow people vote which have been allowed to vote g lp chairman what we have the rnc co-chair with laura trump
He brought a challenge right away.Judge came in, said, you're right.We need to extend this.We need to ameliorate.We need to fix this problem.And there we go.To me, that's an indicator of we're not asleep at the wheel this time.
We're also not in a country that is terrorized by ongoing Democrat BLM riots and everybody being told to double mask or they're going to kill grandma.Things have changed a lot since 2020. So let's not let anxiety be an unnecessary burden on our side.
What if they cheat?We know.Everyone knows.We're aware.We're watching.One of my only concerns, people bring that up, Clay, is if they get caught cheating in a big way,
things get ugly in a big way you know i mean i guess i'm just hoping that we get through this election without having to face a country uh... with other future this country where it's clear that there was a systemic effort to throw the election in some way that's caught and they're caught red-handed that i think could be a big problem i do think they'll be court challenges no matter what trumps margin of victory is and they will bring stuff and and they will bring a whole
a whole arsenal clay of election denial is and that's right and it'll be adam shift and it'll be kamala it'll be uh... you don't go go down the list all the names of the last uh... four years were all trump in january six in the insurrection liz cheney will be saying no we don't buy it we we don't we don't agree with this trump victories too much of a threat to the republic
Let me also hammer this buck.Men, I know a lot of you, I do a lot of Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve.Women tend to, in general, in general, I'm sure you've seen this buck now that you're a married man, be much better at planning than men are.
There are exceptions. But a lot of you men have been like me.You're out buying Christmas gifts on December 23rd, December 24th.You tend to wait till the last minute.Men are overwhelmingly voting for Donald Trump.Make sure that you vote.
And if you haven't voted yet, you didn't listen to us. I don't want to hear that you have a sniffle.I don't want to hear that you woke up and you don't feel that good.Oh, I've got a little bit of a tick in the back of my throat.
We told you to vote for weeks.You better man up.You better woman up.You better get out and vote.
If you are physically capable of getting out of bed That's the reality if you wait until the last minute no excuses man up woman up roll in and get your votes in Uh, and we almost won last week.I'll give you pics on thursday
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Welcome back in the Klan, Buck.We got some calls we want to get to.We've got some great guests lined up. And we've got a lot to get ready for here tomorrow.It's going to be wild, folks, OK?We're going to be in 24 hours. Plus a few hours.
Seeing election day results come in.I couldn't do the math on the fly there, but you know what I mean.A little more than, a little more than 24 hours.We're going to see election results coming in.It's going to be very exciting.
And we want to take some of your calls here, have you all weigh in.I was looking, Clay, for who are, what times are, oh, we got Bernie Marino coming up next hour, 1.30.I just want to make sure I didn't tell you.
right next he's not up next he's up after that so one thirty also got senator marsha blackburn of tennessee one of the best accents of any senator maybe the best elite level accent senator marsha senator marsha blackburn and uh... we got steve bannon fresh out of the big house
out of prison, refused to bend the knee to the Democrat Witch Hunt Committee.Man who stuck by his principles on this.We will get into all that.John in Roanoke, Virginia, what's up?
Yeah, I was at the Trump rally yesterday and I gotta tell you, it was the most amazing thing I've witnessed in my life.My wife and I had already voted, as had my 21-year-old daughter, but she talked us into going anyway.The crowd was incredible.
But what really hit me was, first, the spontaneous diversity of these people who had driven some of the many hours to come was incredible.And on top of that, the average age of the people in the crowd, by and large, was under 30 years old.
It was unbelievable, the young people out there.And the venue held 8,500 people filled up.
there were enough people outside watching the jumbotron probably filled up twice again and it was electric it was it was and then that the uh... the counter-protest which they put down on the curb the counter-protest had eight people in it it looked ridiculous it looked like a parody almost
That's like the great line from Succession where they said it's actually way better if there's a lot of people protesting you because the fewer there are the more awkward it is.Which is actually probably true.
There are a lot of great lines in Succession but just one or two protesters makes it look awful. John, I appreciate that.Let me tell you this Buck, and we were talking about this off air for everybody out there.
Early states to pay attention to, New Hampshire.Granite staters, I think Trump could win New Hampshire.Latest poll has it 4 or 5, but almost everybody comes in and votes on day of in New Hampshire. So Kamala Biden won it by 7 in 20.
Hillary only won it by like 2,000 votes or something in 16.Trump almost won New Hampshire and Virginia. Biden won it by 10, seven in New Hampshire, 10 in Virginia.
Those margins as they come in on the East Coast states, I think will tell you a lot about overall Trump strength and turnout.
I expect it to be closer than it was in 20, which will be an important sign for not only the Midwest, but many other states out there as well.
I'm telling you, Fortress Florida, we're going 10 points or more for Trump in this win.I feel very confident in that one.Not quite at Tennessee levels of Republican dominance, but we're working on it, okay?We're getting there, slowly but surely.
I agree with you on the outlier state that I'm just, this is a gut feeling, also based on some of the polling, but a gut feeling that New Hampshire could be a big surprise to people. I would love to say Virginia, we just had that caller from Roanoke.
I think Kamala's going to win Virginia, which hurts me to say it, but I think that might be a little too steep of a climb for Trump.That all said, it's going to be close.
It's going to be a fight to the finish and we keep saying it because every 15 minutes or so we get a whole new bunch of people that will tune in.Some people tune out because they got to go do work or go hang out with the fam or whatever it is.
uh... we have bernie marino speaking of last-minute stuff bernie marino in a critical senate race let's not forget the senate let's not forget the house really for the trump agenda to be a reality we need unified control the house the senate and the white house i know that's asking a lot but it is very possible right now especially if those you in ohio play we're dominating many markets in ohio correct ohio wins
It is time for, I don't know, they come up with some kind of a cheer.Remember Thundercats when they had like the Thundercats?Oh, you know what I mean?They would yell.Oh, yeah.We need some kind of a cheer for our people to go out and vote.
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