Daily Review with Clay and Buck - Oct 30 2026

Buck Sexton (0:00)

Welcome back in to Clay and Buck. As promised, we have the Attorney General of the great state of Texas with us now, and he is in an absolutely critical Senate race from his great state. And Attorney General Paxton, appreciate you being with us, sir.

Take us right into it. What's it looking like out there on the front lines of this campaign in the very closing days before all the votes are cast?

Ken Paxton (0:26)

Well, thanks for having us. This is a big day. This is the last day of early voting in Texas. You can vote till 7 and then the only day left to vote is Tuesday, 7 to 7 So we've been all over the state. This is our 14th day of being on the road in a bus going across all of Texas from east to west, north to south. Today we're in Houston and we're in Pearland. Yesterday we were actually up in Weatherford, which is west of Fort Worth with the Vice President, and we came down here to go to a rally in Beaumont. So we're covering the ground. We are having great crowds. The Vice President, it was packed, 4,000 people, they told me, and standing room only plus people that couldn't get in. So I feel like the energy is there. Obviously, the Democrats voted, a lot of them voted early, early, and we've been catching up. But I'm pretty optimistic, at least if things continue on the trend that they're going.

We have more Republicans in Texas. They just have to vote. They have to take the friends to vote, they have to take the family vote. This is a critical election. If we lose it, we have a chance of losing the entire country. It couldn't be more consequential to the future, every single Texan, as to whether they're going to have a guy that believes in the Constitution, and a guy that believes in free markets, or a guy that believes in Marxism and doesn't believe in the Constitution.

Clay Travis (1:41)

Let's go in. I'm a data nerd. Buck was making fun of me some in the beginning of the show here. You can see some states that break down based on Democrat-Republican turnout, and nationwide, the numbers are nearly identical to 2022

I know you guys don't break down Democrat-Republican necessarily in Texas, but you can see where people are voting, and you have a sense for how certain counties vote. Where do you think you are right now? What do you need to see? And obviously, everyone in Texas get out and vote. And if we'd love for you to get in early today, but certainly on Tuesday, I think there's maybe some weather that might come in in Texas.

You can let us know if that's on the forecast or not. What do you actually see at this moment in time? What do you need to see happen? What's the data telling you internally?

Ken Paxton (2:29)

Yeah. So yeah, my understanding is that in a lot of texts, we're going to have rain on Tuesday. So clearly, it might be easier to vote today than it is on Tuesday. But either way, we need people to vote. The numbers are in our favor if the trend continues. We start out, as I said, slow. We can tell, basing on people voting in Republican primaries and Democratic primaries, who is showing up. And initially, it was a little scary. The Democrats showed up strong, but then they used up a lot of those votes.

So we'll see if new Democrats come out. It's not seeming like that many new ones are coming out. But the truth is, if we don't have enough of our Republicans showing up, it doesn't matter anyway. And our base has not been as motivated, at least initially, but it seems like. Now that they're understanding how consequential and how radically left this guy is, that he's basically Mondani here in Texas, New York mayor, AOC. They're starting, I think, to be motivated like, hey, this really doesn't matter. We cannot let this leftist be part of our Texas government and be part of the US. Senate.

Buck Sexton (3:33)

What are some of the key areas of the state, Mr. Attorney General, where we know what your strongholds are, right? We know where the base turn out is absolutely critical so that you can win this race. But what about the places, what are some of the areas where you think people, independency, even some swing voters, can be the difference makers that you know are critical in order to make sure that the very deep blue center of some of the cities in Texas doesn't pull off some upset with Tallerico?