CLAY: Good news, I think, for those of you who want the Republicans to take back the Senate in 2022. There are gonna be a lot of battleground states, and one of them is certain to be the state of Georgia where Democrats were able to sweep through and win two different elections to get it to a 50-50 Senate. And one of those wins was the Reverend Raphael Warnock who was going up against Kelly Loeffler.

And it was an incredibly tight election. And remember one of the big difficulties of that election was there was a lack of faith in the outcomes in Georgia and, therefore, the Republican overall number of voters was down at a lower level than maybe you would have anticipated. And so this is pretty exciting news.

Herschel Walker, legendary former Georgia running back, also big-time NFL star — a guy who is as beloved in the state of Georgia as any athlete is in any state in America — has officially announced that he is going to be running for that Senate seat against the Reverend Raphael Warnock. The hope would be that by the time that actually gets decided next enough, that Hershel Walker is going to be able to punch back and retake that seat for the Republicans. So, Buck, when you hear the name Herschel Walker, I know you’re not a die-hard sports fans.

BUCK: Like the sports. I’m an American. I just don’t follow the spread for the game and all this stuff.

CLAY: Would you know Herschel Walker if you saw him?

BUCK: Of course. Herschel Walker is one of the two greats. I know Herschel. I’ve seen clips on YouTube like compilations of Herschel Walker doing amazing stuff.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: People just talk about his level of just physical giftedness as though it’s one of the greatest the game has ever seen.

CLAY: Yes. He’s also a guy who is in many ways self-made and that’s why I think he’s such a good Republican candidate is he believes in individual excellence and individual freedom. Sso the big question that is going to be out there is, “Can he help to bring back…?” Because there’s a lot of different races out there that are going to be incredibly challenging, and, frankly, the board — if you look at the overall seats that are up in the states where they’re available — is not necessarily wildly favorable for the Republicans. Whereas the House, it’s pretty easy to forecast, I would say Senate control is gonna be 50-50, and you need to flip back some of these places.

BUCK: Clay, it’s gonna be a tight election and having somebody that will all, as you say, just get buzz, get attention on the Republican side is clearly gonna be helpful. The Democrats, I think, recognize right now the razor-thin margin that they currently have to get anything done, and how they’re not looking good at all for what’s gonna happen here in the next cycle. That’s part of why I think they’re still pushing to get budget stuff done.

While Afghanistan is happening right now and people are saying, “Why isn’t the Congress all hands on deck?” Democrats are going, “Oh, we better do this stuff now,” because they want to, one, get it through. But I think they’re also trying to control the optics. They have very few people they can lose in either the Senate side or the House side to get things done right now.

CLAY: Yeah, and I also think the interesting thing about Herschel Walker and Warnock is — and I’m not a hundred percent sure on this. But I don’t think we’ve ever had a Senate race, certainly not in the South, to my knowledge, that was two black candidates. So when you think about the Democratic Party’s entire campaign being “everything is racist,” seems like it’s kind of hard to argue everything is racist when you got a black candidate on both sides.

BUCK: But you saw Tucker did a great job with this on his show last night where you had Larry Elder being called the —

CLAY: Yes. That’s true.

BUCK: In the Los Angeles Times, folks, there was a piece that referred to Larry Elder as, quote, “the black face of white supremacy.”

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So you can imagine the kind of racist crap that the Democrats ’cause they feel so safe doing this —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — because if you’re not part of the Democrat progressive machine, all the sudden, they get to negate things about you like your race and ethnicity which as we know and race ethnicity is so central to Democrats. So as you can imagine there’s gonna be a lot of nasty, ugly stuff said about Herschel Walker on this specific issue —

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: — with no consequences for the cancel culture left ’cause it’s all about power and control.

CLAY: That’s right. But the easy take-away here if you look at the breakdown of voters is, if Herschel Walker can get 20% of the black vote, just the 20%, then he will win the state of Georgia by a substantial margin against the Reverend Raphael Warnock. So, to your point, they are going to try to paint him in the same way that is happening with Larry Elder. That is an unbelievable headline in the L.A. Times, “The black face of white supremacy.” Man, we talked about this a little bit yesterday and I’m sure we’re gonna talk much about this in weeks ahead. What’s gonna happen in that recall election?

BUCK: Oh, man.

CLAY: That will be a seismic win.