Hour 1 - They Stole Our Cookies!

Buck Sexton (0:00)

Welcome everybody, Friday edition of Clay and Buck kicks off right now. We've got a lot to discuss with you, and we're gonna dive right in. Jensen Huang is out at Nvidia.

The story of a third affair while he was a CEO came out. There's a lot going on here which we can spend some time working through. First of all, he is an incredibly important CEO of an incredibly or former CEO of the most valuable company in the world and one of the most valuable companies for the future. So and particularly of America, it's an American company. There's that. There's the whole Chinese spy girlfriend situation which the DOJ has pointedly not confirmed. We sit here talking to you about the most powerful CEO maybe in the world, maybe just after Elon. I mean, he's certainly in that top five conversation and he's gone and everyone's saying, oh, because there was this Chinese spy. And you go, well, hold on a second. We don't know that it was a Chinese spy. And then you say, well, there's a second and there's a third affair. Okay, that's bad. But shouldn't that be between him, his wife and his priest or him, his family and his, you know, his rabbi, so to speak, or, you know, whoever, right? I mean, this is a personal, why is this a moment to oust somebody who is a national security asset for the United States? Let's be very clear about that economically and on national security grounds. So I think that's absolutely worth a discussion, Clay, and we'll get into some more of this. Some other stuff has come up, a little bit of the post midterm analysis continues.

Clay, there's some bad news out of Alaska, you may have seen.

It really does look like... I think this is the only one that has not yet been called, as I was reading in this morning. Correct.

Clay Travis (2:01)

In the Senate, yes.

Buck Sexton (2:01)

It's still for the Senate. It's the last one standing.

And we have lost a seat in Mississippi, which guys, this is why this time is different. This is not, this was a, is it four alarm or five alarm fire is the biggest five?

Clay Travis (2:21)

Five alarm is the biggest. This is, it might be, this might be a six alarm fire.

Buck Sexton (2:25)

Yeah, yeah, this is a six alarm. This is as bad a midterm result as was humanly, theoretically possible really, short of there just being no Republican Party at all anymore. Mississippi has gotten, has gone red with that, oh sorry, blue with that one seat. And now Peltola is a few thousand votes ahead.

And yes, Decoy Dan has gotten a few thousand votes, which almost certainly were meant to be real.

Clay Travis (2:50)

Yesterday afternoon, Decoy Dan was the difference in the race. That's how, I think it's, there's been a few more. It's maybe a little bit over the number that Decoy Dan got. But for most of the counting, as it was going up towards 88, 89 percent, it looked like the difference was going to be Decoy Dan.

Buck Sexton (3:10)

So here is what I've got Clay. And again, so we read in all morning and we try to update it as we go. So there might be slightly newer numbers in this. But Peltola in Alaska currently leads Sullivan by over 5,000 votes. 5,800 was the number that I saw this morning. It might have changed a little bit since then. With 88 percent counted, there's a big batch of votes that is expected to be counted officially tonight. Clay, if she gets past, she's at 49.2 percent. If she gets past 50 percent, she wins outright. If not, the race goes to ranked-choice counting, which preliminary data suggests she'd still win. This ranked-choice thing, Alaska, what are you doing to me?

I love Alaska. Beautiful place, beautiful big Alaska, beautiful place, lovely people. This ranked-choice voting thing is not the way. The final count, Clay, should be in by November 18th. If Democrats win, they will be at 56 Senate seats. Now remember, that 56 Senate seats includes a South Carolina seat for six years, a Texas seat for six years, and a Mississippi seat for six years. They went right into our kitchen, my friends, and stole our cookies right off the sheet, right out of the oven. They went right into the Republicans' stronghold and walked out with these seats, which means that 60 for them is going to be the goal play in the next election. Everyone keeps saying they're going to get rid of the filibuster. I think they would if they need to, but this is even scarier. They may not need to. So this is the situation we find ourselves in here.