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Hour 1 - Clay's Message for Men

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

November 2, 2026

Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show focuses heavily on the eve of Election Day, with Clay and Buck emphasizing the importance of voter turnout in several key battleground states and arguing that many critical Senate, gubernatorial, and congressional races could be decided by razor-thin...

Speakers Clay Travis, Buck Sexton, Haley Stevens, Ross Douthat, Abdul El-Sayed, Dan Sullivan

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Clay Travis (0:00)

Welcome in election eve edition, Clay and Buck. All of the early voting is complete. It is now on all of you who said you would refuse to early vote to get out and flood the zone, flood the polls. I'll use a sports analogy to start off on Monday, Buck. I was spent all morning on the phone and texting with a lot of different people across the political landscape.

The numbers reflect that early voting is basically a dead heat from a Democrat-Republican perspective. Obviously, we don't know how the unaffiliated voters are going to break necessarily. But uniformly, whether it's Kansas or Texas or Ohio or Alaska or Maine or North Carolina, you name a state where there are many different battlegrounds being fought out on both the Senate, the governor and the House side right now. Everyone says it all comes down to how Republicans turn out on election day.

So Buck and I have tried to shame you, particularly me, have tried to shame you into early voting. Some of you have refused to do so, saying you want to vote on election day. Now, the ball is in your court.

Buck Sexton (1:24)

I've really tried to encourage. I've left the shaming to Clay. But honestly, given the prediction markets and the general vibe out there right now, maybe I should have been shaming too, because it's looking like it will be an absolute squeaker in all of the races that we have been talking to you about. It is within the margin of error in a whole bunch of these Senate races. Guys, Texas is going to be tight.

It's going to be tight. That's just, we knew Michigan was going to be, but Texas is going to be much closer than it should be.

And that just means that all of you who have not voted, I know that's a lot of you, a lot of you are old school with your election day voting habits. And I get it. Just make sure you plan appropriately for tomorrow. You are going to have Senate seats that are determined by less than 50,000, perhaps less than 10,000 votes in this election. That is how tight this is. Many, many, many more times people are listening in some of these states right now. There will be the margin of difference in this election. That is really how close it is going to be. So get ready for it. It's going to be a bit of a white-knuckle affair tomorrow night. It's going to be a bit like being on the roller coaster seatbelt that doesn't quite click. Get ready for it.

Clay Travis (2:53)

Okay. So that is 100% true. Everybody needs to vote. It is going to be incredibly, incredibly close.

Now let's give some positive news. Michigan, on Sunday, Haley Stevens, who narrowly lost to Abdul El-Sayed in the Democrat primary, she in a blockbuster move that's almost unheard of. She got, I believe, over 700,000 votes in the Democrat Michigan primary. She said, I'm endorsing Mike Rogers. I cannot vote for Abdul El-Sayed. This was her, a video she posted Sunday morning, right before she went to church with Mike Rogers in the Detroit area. Cut to.

Haley Stevens (3:38)

Hey, Michigan. As you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for US. Senate, Abdul, said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign and that I should stay away.

And he's right. And that's why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today. I don't belong in Abdul's campaign. I do not stand with Hassan Piker, who gets trafficked on our college campuses. Who we are as Michiganders is not hate and is not what we are getting out from our Democratic nominee right now.

Clay Travis (4:17)

OK, let me play a couple of more cuts. She was asked about this is Haley Stevens, who has turned into the most hated woman now, as you would imagine, in the Democrat Party. They revile her now for speaking the truth, which is Abdul El-Sayed is the most radical left wing anti-American candidate, frankly, that I think either party has ever nominated in my life, and that might work in California, that might work in New York. I have faith that it's not going to work in Michigan. Here is Haley Stevens explaining why she felt compelled to endorse Mike Rogers, cut for.

Haley Stevens (4:55)

This is just a weight off my shoulders. Okay, Abdul has been getting angrier and angrier. I was trying to help and I endorsed him. That ad was very painful. There are so many Democrats who want to vote for our Democratic nominee. And they're just being told, hey, this is a party you don't belong in or this is a campaign you don't belong in. And I've never cast a present vote in the Congress. I'm making a decision here. And that's just where I landed on this. I woke up this morning, clear-eyed, fresh, and focused on what was in my heart. And that's that.

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