Shocker in New Jersey and More Good Virginia News

CLAY: We should update people, I think, Buck, on what’s going on. You can tell me if you’ve seen anything more recent. We still have an uncertain outcome in New Jersey. I’m looking. This thing can’t get any closer than it actually is right now. With 88% reported of the vote in New Jersey, according to the New York Times update, there is 120 votes separating the Republican and the Democrat. The Republican — who you can pronounce better than me — has a literally 120-vote lead with 2.4 million votes cast.

BUCK: Yes. Ciattarelli.

CLAY: This is crazy.

BUCK: Yeah, it’s Ciattarelli. I think if we were doing it Italian style, it’d be Ciattarelli. But it’s Ciattarelli is the Americanized version, right?

CLAY: All right. It’s Ciattarelli. You wonder whether if your vote matters? In New Jersey, 120 votes are separating the Republican and the Democrat now.

BUCK: Everyone who listens to us, I believe, or at least was listening at that point in the show, remembers, I think I said yesterday these are going to be the races. By the way, I believe Youngkin won by a little over 2%, what I said he was gonna win by, and I believe I said these are gonna be… Now, granted, I was really just talking about Virginia, but we’re seeing it in New Jersey too, where you can actually you go out and vote and it’s meaningful because the numbers are so tight.

You go, “Oh, wow. Me, my friends, my family members all together.” Think: 120 vote separation right now in a state the size of millions and millions of people in New Jersey. And this is a blue stronghold straight, friends. I know Governor Chris Christie years ago was the governor there, and you can have blue stronghold states with a Republican governor. But this just shows you once again, the other guy, Murphy, had all the Democrat power —

CLAY: No one even talks about this race.

BUCK: What?

CLAY: Hardly anyone even talked about this race —

BUCK: No one’s talking about it.

CLAY: — because nobody thought it was gonna be close.

BUCK: ‘Cause everyone thought that he was gonna get blown out. But Ciattarelli went around and said , “This is what we gotta do, this is what’s going on in our state, this is what I will do if you make me the governor.” Old school politics. You know, the other guy was going at this — Murphy was going at this — with the usual, “Oh, we’re gonna have a lot of men and celebrity and do a lot of stuff with the Democrat Party just carrying it along.”

No, right now people want to know what are you gonna do for me? ‘Cause the Democrat Party is coming up zeros for people in a lot of places, and the Biden administration’s, obviously, got Hidin’ Biden. Oh, and I promised people additional good news. Democrats in Virginia, Virginia Public Access Project had this tweet a couple hours ago. They wrote, “We have a corrected result in House District 85.”

This is for the state of Virginia. “Instead of a Democratic hold, Republican Karen Greenhalgh has a 202-vote lead over first term Democrat Alex Askew.” So Republicans are now on track in Virginia for a 52-48 lead in the majority in the house, the Virginia Statehouse. So you may have unified red government in the state of Virginia — which, as you have pointed out many times, went for Biden by 10 points a year ago.

CLAY: And they had not won a statewide race, Buck, since 2009, the Republicans in Virginia, and they may effectively be winning four. The control of the legislature. They’ve already won the AG, the lieutenant governor, and the governor, a clean sweep in Virginia. And as incredible as the results are in Virginia, New Jersey is the bigger story. Ciattarelli may not end up winning. Again, he’s up by about 120 votes of 2.4 million that have been cast. It’s almost impossible to have a closer election.

BUCK: New Jersey is the bigger surprise, maybe, but Virginia is the bigger story.

CLAY: Yes. But the bigger… I mean, look, we are now… Well, now they just flipped it. Murphy’s up like a little bit. So, anyway, this thing is, like, super tight. I think Murphy may end up fighting his way through before all is said and done. But regardless, no one, like we said, hardly even talked about New Jersey. But the sign there, Biden won by 16.

We’re talking about a state that’s effectively dead even right now. And, Buck, we talked about yesterday. We said if Virginia, if the Republicans win — and they have — it’s going to embolden… You asked this question as we were going to break here a second ago. It’s gonna embolden a lot of other states that may be slanted towards the Democrats to feel like if they could do it in Virginia, why can’t we do it here, especially in 2022.

BUCK: There’s so much here, and I do remember, because I got into conservative media right at the origins, Clay. I think we got in around the same time in the media, the origins of the Tea Party movement and how that was about people at the local level understanding, “Hey, we can come together and we actually have political voice. We actually can turn elections one way or the other if we get involved.”

And school board meetings and what’s being taught to your kids really matters to people, not just in Virginia, all over the country. And you heard Youngkin saying let’s not cede the public school system to the lunatics. Let’s not only have people on the right talking about homeschooling and taking your kids out of the system entirely. Let’s create more choice. Let’s create a better system. Let’s allow parents to pick where their kids are going. Let’s work to make the system better as it stands now with conservative principles instead of just abandoning it. That’s a message that can resonate, I think, across all 50 states.

CLAY: No doubt at all. I mean, it is such a fabulous day to wake up and be in favor of American exceptionalism. You talked about, Buck, sometimes we have to sit down; we have to talk about all the idiocy of Fauci or whatever the latest restrictions are. I’ll be damned if it didn’t feel great to sit down in front of this mic and start off this show the first hour talking about a huge, massive ass kicking that we put on Democrats in Virginia. More to come, Clay and Buck. Fun.

BUCK: I gotta say man, Virginia made us proud. Jersey? Hey, Jersey? You’re making us proud, Jersey.