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17 Nov 2022

Clay stopped by Jesse Watters Primetime to discuss the crime epidemic which continues unabated and the latest string of violent attacks on police officers.

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Keeping It Real: Lib Pines for Lockdown Again

16 Nov 2022

We all should live by the motto from Clueless.

You just have to understand that liberals are damaged people. We thought the covid lockdown was terrible, but they loved it!

Why I’m hoping for another COVID lockdown https://t.co/dyqHFfBIv1 pic.twitter.com/NP3DSHxNWX

— New York Post (@nypost) November 16, 2022

They want another one. Don’t think they won’t get it, either.

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Fetterman’s Wife Takes Over on First Day in Washington

16 Nov 2022

Have you seen the photos from John Fetterman’s first day in Washington? Gisele Fetterman cropped her husband’s head out of a pic she posted. Our buddy Jesse Kelly had a pretty funny take.

Is Senator Cucumber’s wife kinda hot? https://t.co/O2HvVtvsfX

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) November 15, 2022

Jesse’s used to having his head cropped out of photos.

But it brings up an interesting question: Who’s going to wind up being the senator from Pennsylvania, Mr. Fetterman or Mrs. Fetterman?

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How Sam Bankman-Fried Bought Off Democrats and Media

16 Nov 2022

This story is a morality tale of modern-day politics and media. FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried had the Democrat Party and the media in his pocket as allies to perpetuate his massive lies.

Nas Daily along with a whole bunch of influencers pumped FTX without any due diligence n whole debacle ended in a chaos with billions of dollars of average citizens going in dump, shame, what these influencers ll do for few bucks pic.twitter.com/VRND8vnent

— Dr Humma Saif (@HummaSaif) November 14, 2022

He bought off Hollywood celebs like Larry David.

Everyone should understand already Sam Bankman-Fried was far more dangerous than Bernie Madoff. Madoff mostly avoided small investors and picked up marks through word of mouth. SBF’s company RAN A SUPER BOWL AD – the definition of chasing retail money.https://t.co/nQqm7djYcc

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) November 12, 2022

And it’s still happening. The New York Times story on the FTX collapse covers up for him.

Word count NYT’s puff piece on SBF:

“Fraud”: 0
“Enron”: 0
“Crime”: 0
“Illiquid”: 0
“Stolen”: 0
“Hidden”: 0
“Criminal”: 0
“Back door”: 0
“He’s getting sleep”: 1 pic.twitter.com/htbte8IyPI

— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) November 15, 2022

Disgraceful reporting by the @nytimes on FTX. It portrays SBF as a charitable entrepreneur who went under and does not mention the words fraud, criminal, substance abuse, friends & family Bahamas KYC racket, hack, stolen funds or wiped servers anywhere.https://t.co/rBJ7O0L4sV

— Alex Krüger (@krugermacro) November 14, 2022

As more information comes out, this is going to look worse and worse. The left-wing journos are slow-rolling this story for that very reason, much like they’re doing with the Paul Pelosi story.

The lesson here is that if it looks too good to be true, it is.

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What Do You Think Chuck Schumer Wants Now?

16 Nov 2022

Emboldened by a better-than-expected midterm, guess what the Democrats are pushing now?

BREAKING: Chuck Schumer calls for amnesty for all 11 million or more illegal immigrants in the US because we are short of workers and says the American population “is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to.” pic.twitter.com/TvKdNbr7TL

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 16, 2022

That’s right. Amnesty. If Republicans get the messaging on this right, this is a winning issue for the GOP. What happens if Hispanics start voting 60-40 for Republicans?

Massive. GOP made huge inroads in deep blue territory with Hispanic voters, especially on immigration, adding immensely to its popular vote tally. Don’t let Democrats’ mastery of mail harvesting obscure the realignment. GOP has a clear path to dominance should it wish to take it. https://t.co/pq7TcTmSDm

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) November 10, 2022

Watch how quickly Democrats drop this.

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The Audience Weighs In on Trump’s Run

16 Nov 2022

We want to know what you think. In the audio link above, C&B talk with callers about the Trump announcement.

We’re also hearing from our VIPs, which we would love for you to be as well. We got this email from VIP Gbray:

Hi- Trump took your suggestion. Announced and looking forward. We will see a more serious and determined Trump. His campaign will be run like a Fortune 500 company. Libs and RINOS will explode. Will have to focus on his policies and platform. Not his quirks and mean tweets. I don’t know if Trump will win. However, he will spend two years exposing the swamp and corruption.

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Ryan Girdusky’s Reasons the GOP Lost: 2020 and Abortion

16 Nov 2022

BUCK: We’ve got our friend, the numbers man, the political wonk Ryan Girdusky, with us now. His very excellent Substack newsletter is the National Populist Newsletter, which you should all check out. His latest piece here is Midterm Post Mortem Finale, and the subheadline says: Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes. Ryan, great to have you back.

GIRDUSKY: Thank you for having me.

BUCK: All right. So, let let’s just start with what do we need to learn from this midterm, right? I mean, we, this audience, very up to speed, obviously, on, you know, who won, who lost, and some of the broad themes. What are the takeaways in that the data now and explain how the data does make it pretty ironclad.

GIRDUSKY: Okay, so first and most importantly, there was no youthquake. The media has had this narrative coming out that there was this giant army of young Gen Z people voting Democrat — didn’t happen at all. They did vote Democrat, but they came out at a smaller level than they did in 2018, and they actually voted more Republican. The data shows it. Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life, they are the ones who analyze the youth vote every year. They said it. David Shor, the brilliant liberal data analyst, looked at all the counties where young voting was down, all of them, didn’t happen whatsoever.

Secondly, abortion, major, major, major driver for independents and people who disliked Biden but didn’t hate Biden. So people who had a slight unfavorability were driven towards Democrats for two reasons: Abortion and denying the 2020 election — really, really, really drove them away in very strong numbers. And you can see it in the issue of Arizona.

In Arizona, there were nine statewide candidates, five of them Republicans won or are winning. Currently four lost. The four that lost all around the election was stolen. The five that won did not talk about the election being stolen. That was a major, major indicator. And that’s probably why Trump yesterday during his hourlong announcement, didn’t mention the election being stolen whatsoever.

A lot of people were also motivated to vote against Trump. More were motivated to vote against Trump than were motivated to vote against Biden, which is very, very, very unusual. And that’s why independents, while Republicans have larger turnout numbers, Republicans really did a good job turning out to win the popular vote, but it was swaying against a swing against independents and people who only lean Republican that really had a big effect.

Candidate quality. Let’s talk about that for a second. Candidate quality does matter to a point. So there’s a guy named Tom Horne. He’s currently winning and unseating an incumbent Democrat in the state of Arizona, for Superintendent of Public Instruction — used to be the superintendent for the whole state. He is a 70-something year-old man with a lot of history, a lot of baggage, a lot of negative stories about him in the media. He’s running against bilingual education, running against CRT, the EI, yada, yada, yada. Why? Because he talked about the issues that really affected people that were popular, that were conservative. He never ran away from them.

Trump needs to convince voters that although his candidates lost in critical swing states of New Hampshire, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Arizona as well as trailing in Georgia that he could somehow win in those places. https://t.co/OAUq65dtUp

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 15, 2022

But he didn’t delve into abortion and he didn’t delve into the 2020 election. Reverse that with the guy who ran in Pennsylvania for governor, Doug Mastriano, talked nonstop about the election that he won to imprison women and charge them with murder. If they had an abortion and said Jesus Christ himself would intervene in the election to make sure that he won. Huge mistake. And one other thing and then we’ll go to I’ll let you guys talk, but…

BUCK: It’s cool. It’s cool

CLAY: It is our show. But, yeah, I appreciate it.

GIRDUSKY: It’s your show, right? A lot of Republicans way overperformed in a lot of blue areas that didn’t matter. So Republicans had all-time highs in New York City congressional elections, all-time high. In the Los Angeles congressional election, they overperform Biden by ten something points in some of these places. It’s just in the places that they needed to overperform. They consistently underperformed. That was problematic.

They did much better with Asians, somewhat better with Latinos and rural blacks, blacks who live in the black belt of the South. And I think that lastly, we got a lot of questions right now. Why are Republicans now reelecting all the people in leadership, McConnell, McCarthy, yada, yada, yada? How are they being rewarded?

There’s an organization on the left called ActBlue. ActBlue connects 21 million small dollar Democratic donors to campaigns. It’s how John Fetterman was able to raise $75 million for his Senate campaign on top of the hundreds of millions of dollars for other congressional campaigns, 15 million against Marjorie Taylor Greene in a super safe Republican district.

Republicans don’t have anything close to this on our side. And the only thing that the Republicans candidates have to lean on are Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell and their super PACs. And I think that’s one reason why they’re doing well, post a fairly not good midterm election.

CLAY All right, Ryan, that’s fantastic. I love when you come on and just break down the data for us, so let’s play it forward. If you were looking at the data that you have seen in 2022 and you were saying what needs to happen for a Republican presidential candidate to win in 2024? And we understand it’s two years away and that the issues can change and everything can evolve in many different directions. But would it be fair to say no one can talk about the 2020 election and denying it, that there needs to be some form of abortion policy that is put in place, whether it’s like, “Hey, I believe that you should be able to have an abortion, you know, up to 15 weeks or whatever it is.” I’m talking about a national candidate who’s going to win some of these purplish states.

What would have to happen for Republicans to win in ’24? Given what you’re talking about happened in Arizona, in Georgia, in Pennsylvania, in Nevada, in Michigan, in Wisconsin, all those states out there where this election’s going to be decided.

GIRDUSKY: Yes, the 2020 election can never be revisited. It’s just, it’s over. You could talk about ballot harvesting. You could talk about tracking. You could talk about whatever you want. But if you bring up, at this point — in anything close to a suburban district and you bring up the fact that the 2020 election was stolen — you’re going to lose. It’s just the case, you’re going to lose. That is it. It drives college-educated white voters away and there are more of them than there are of minorities.

CLAY: Ryan, basically sorry to cut you off, but they basically branded that so well. Democrats did for even independent, college-educated voters that, if you’re even touching that, it’s like a third rail for independent voters — you lose.

GIRDUSKY: Yeah, think of it like like privatizing Social Security, something that oh, I know candidates like Rick Scott and Blake Masters also campaigned on, another third rail. You could privately believe it. I don’t care. There’s a lot of things people privately believe but don’t talk about in polite society at this point. It seems so toxic to people, even people who dislike Joe Biden, that if you bring it up, there’s a good chance you will lose talking about it.

Only the idiots in the House GOP would give a promotion to the Congressman who’s hated by the base and screwed up the last election. https://t.co/leiOEF14nJ

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 15, 2022

That is why Donald Trump, in an hour-long speech, did not mention once that that 2020 presidential election was stolen because of the data that is out there. The polls have shown this. People that you need to win big elections do not believe that you do not like talking about that. And they really have believed the whole, you know, MSNBC lineup that democracy is under a threat. And it feeds into the narrative that and the abortion conversation that Republicans are against your freedoms. Republicans talk like they are all at a Trump rally or a CPAC conference. That definitely hurts them.

And, furthermore, about abortion. You mentioned abortion before. If a candidate says, I’m pro-life, without exception, it is as detrimental to a Republican as a Democrat saying I want to defund the police. That is how badly it polls. So when you hear somebody saying that, remember, independents are hearing defund the police, that is the same exact knee-jerk reaction, I think. And I think personally the federal government does not have any role to play in abortion law. It never did before in 1970-something. It never will, hopefully never will again. The states should decide. Just sit there and say, I don’t support. I do not want the federal government being involved in your abortions. I just don’t want it. You have to take a more libertarian stance. That is the way the public is on the issue and just back away from it. Pro-life governors did win, though, last week by huge margins in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Georgia.

BUCK: Yeah, Ryan, one more thing. This is running up against the clock and people should subscribe if you want to really see what’s going on in politics across the country, the National Populist Newsletter that Ryan has on Substack. And we’ll put it up at ClayandBuck.com so people can find it easily.

I’ve been asked by everyone from pundits to consultants what happened in this election… I break it all down here. https://t.co/S1HyyxrK9n

— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) November 15, 2022

Ryan, one more for you on this. You know, I can’t tell you how many text messages I’ve gotten in the last week from people who are involved in campaigns. And what they all keep saying to me is we have to get the message to the top. If we tell people to just show up on Election Day, if we do not run mail-in ballot campaigns ourselves, if we do not use the rules as they are currently in place, it doesn’t matter who some of these candidates are or who the presidential candidate is, they will lose.

GIRDUSKY: Absolutely. That’s 100% sure as well. This romanticization that we have towards only voting on Election Day is very asinine. If you believe that they’re going to screw with the machines on Election Day, that’s fine. Go vote early. We give them sometimes months to vote early. I don’t agree with it, but as long as those are the rules in place, you need to take advantage of the rules.

If I was on Herschel Walker’s campaign right now, which I’m not, but if I was, all I would be doing is collecting early ballots and distributing them and dropping them off either at drop boxes or to the Board of Elections or whatever the case may be. But making sure people vote early and getting the numbers.

That’s why before the polls closed in Florida, DeSantis had already won. He won Miami-Dade a week before Election Day because they had gotten the Republicans out in large enough numbers that they knew Miami-Dade was over. They knew the whole election was over a week out. And it’s very nice to sit there and have that position where you’re comfortable enough to sit there nd know you’re going to win so far in advance. It’s a turnout method. It’s also swing independent voters. But the turnout method, don’t wait until Election Day. Vote early, vote often. And vote by any means necessary regardless.

BUCK: Ryan, appreciate you breaking it down for us. Great Substack piece on your midterm post mortem. Thanks so much.

GIRDUSKY: Thank you.

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Missile Strike in Poland Reminds Us Foreign Policy Matters

16 Nov 2022

So, it turns out that the missile strike in Poland was actually likely perpetrated by Ukraine, not Russia.

#NATO ambassadors met to address yesterday’s deadly explosion in #Poland. Allies expressed strong solidarity with our valued Ally Poland, and made clear that we will continue to support #Ukraine’s right to self-defence. We remain vigilant, calm & closely coordinated. pic.twitter.com/7LWd73xu6i

— Jens Stoltenberg (@jensstoltenberg) November 16, 2022

If it had been Russia, it would have triggered NATO article 5. It’s a terrifying reminder that this war could spiral out of control at any moment. Zelensky called for NATO retaliation before it was revealed that the Russians most likely didn’t do it.

Zelenskyy yesterday: “Terror is not limited to our national borders. Russian missiles hit Poland … NATO territory. This is a Russian missile attack on collective security — a very significant escalation. We must act” pic.twitter.com/zylfGdbwzw

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 16, 2022

We’re sending Ukraine billions. When is enough enough? When does this war end? Biden’s done nothing to find a diplomatic solution.

Since it was Ukraine’s missile that hit our NATO ally Poland, can we at least stop spending billions to arm them now?

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 16, 2022

We know President Trump’s foreign policy because we’ve already lived it. He didn’t start any wars and he kept America safe.

Foreign policy must be a major issue in the 2024 campaign.

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Nothing Changes in the Swamp: McConnell Loses Senate, Keeps Job

16 Nov 2022

After committing unforgivable political malpractice by refusing to back GOP Senate candidates who could have won, particularly in Arizona and Alaska, Mitch McConnell said he has the votes to remain GOP leader in the Senate. All we hear from our base is how annoyed they are with him and he’s got the votes?

McConnell: “I have the votes. I will be elected. The only issue is whether we do it sooner or later.” pic.twitter.com/wuuqp5povs

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 15, 2022

And he was right.

Mitch McConnell will remain Senate GOP leader, fending off a challenge by Rick Scott amid divisions within the party and disappointing midterms. https://t.co/S4a5UsGNEJ

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) November 16, 2022

This is incredibly frustrating to all of us, but it’s the way Washington works and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change any time soon. If you’re looking to blame somebody for this midterm performance, he’s the guy.

Mitch McConnell had one job — and he didn’t get it done.

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