Weekly Review With Clay and Buck H1 - Is The Trump Era Over?

Clay Travis (0:00)

Well, that wasn't fun.

2024, coming in the day after the election, was lots of fun. Last night was a beat down of epic magnitude, epic proportion. We will have a lot of discussion surrounding it.

There are already, I would say, significant steps being made in the direction of 2028 We will talk about an incredibly viral already post from Vice President JD Vance, laying out exactly why Republicans lost. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had a press conference laying out exactly why we saw the losses take place. And to me, Buck, we will dive into all of this in detail. But I want to go in to what JD Vance said, because he said there are four answers as to why the Republicans lost last night, why people were angry and not supportive of the Trump-Vance administration. Number one reason, the Iran War. People want the Iran War over. This is according to JD Vance. Number two, a lack of focus on the cost of living and inflation. They want America put first, and they want a changed relationship with Israel on behalf of the Republican Party and the United States. These four reasons, according to JD Vance, are why many voters supported Democrats.

Okay, so Buck, I'm going to give a small measure of positivity. In the state of Florida where you are, congratulations to Byron Donalds, the Republican slate won top to bottom. In the state where I am, Tennessee, congratulations to Marsha Blackburn, the Republican slate largely won top to bottom. There's one congressional district that's down to a legitimate handful of votes that may or may not become a red seat, but eight Republican congressmen won. There is one tiny, I think it's separated by just a couple of hundred votes. So places like Tennessee and Florida, which are rock-ribbed red, maintained, Fortress Florida stood, Buck, and my home state of Tennessee stood as well, but they were exceptions rather than the rules.

Buck Sexton (2:41)

You are being kind to the situation. I think that that is important. Guys, last night was worst case scenario.

Last night was an absolute blowout.

I had been worried that it was going to be pretty bad for months. Some of you wrote a lot of emails. Why is Buck so negative about this? Trump knows what he's doing. Okay, we can get into some of the specifics of the different candidates and everything else. But we have an obligation here to ourselves and to all of you who bless us with your time, with your ears, with your family's time to always be honest with you. And last night was worst case. It was as bad as it gets. It was a massacre. We got annihilated. I didn't think it was going to be a good night. You'll notice I showed up saying red wall, meaning stop the wave from happening in, I thought, Florida and Texas.

That was too optimistic.

Last night was an electoral catastrophe. It was the worst election the Republican Party has had in 20 years. And I would argue in many ways substantially worse than even what we suffered in 2006 when you look at the Senate map and what the realities are here. Let's start with this clay. Again, we're just going to get all out there, guys. By the way, we're happy warriors. We keep fighting the country, the world, really, because America is the leading light still of the world and we are all blessed to be Americans. The world is in the balance here. Rather, this is about our future. This is about the lives that we live. We're never going to stop fighting. We're never going to give up, not even a little bit. We go back into the fight today. That's why we are here. But Clay, we got one day of honesty here. We lost Texas, everybody.

Clay Travis (4:25)

Texas was a disaster.

Buck Sexton (4:28)

We lost Texas bigly. We lost Texas huge.

Huge. Now, there's a lot of stuff that can be talked about here. I know people feel very strongly about the Cornyn-Paxson feud and all the rest of it. But we lost Texas to, let's just start on the Senate side, an anti-meat, effeminate communist who didn't even show up for two weeks in the final stretch of the campaign because he had a sniffle.

It's not, to the point, we didn't lose Texas to Beto, who, look, is, you know, cuts a good figure in his Wrangler jeans and wears the boots and talks the talk and all that stuff. We lost to James Tallarico. What was the final tally? I mean, it was a... 12

Clay Travis (5:14)

12 points. It's 12 right now.