Clay Travis and Buck Sexton discuss the World Baseball Classic between the United States and Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, and much more. Buck also talks about the latest in the Iran situation and talks about a possible strike on Iran.
00:00:21.100Big baseball game happening in Miami tonight
00:00:24.280between Venezuela and the United States.
00:00:28.440Buck, I might talk about this in the third hour a bit, but the scene if Trump went to this game and threw out the first pitch from all of the Venezuelan expats and all of the pro-America fans that are going to be at this game, if you're a sports fan at all, I'm telling you, put it on tonight.
00:00:47.280This World Baseball Classic has been awesome in Buck's backyard in Miami.
00:00:53.520I'm watching it tonight going to a sports bar with a couple of buddies down here and my kids.
00:00:57.780Okay, let me hit you with this. President Trump just now with the prime minister, is it the prime minister, I think, of Ireland, answering questions from the media. And here are a lot of what he has said. Let's see. Trump, I wanted to play this. This is cut 34.
00:01:18.120trump said years ago that you have to attack attack karge island that is the primary uh
00:01:26.440deposit or departure point of iranian oil and he just addressed that uh again he's been saying
00:01:33.740this for decades so anyone out there saying oh the only reason trump's doing this is israel
00:01:38.180cut 34 listen i said you have to attack karg karg island you have to attack them years ago
00:01:45.080where they were acting up. They've been acting up for 37, 47, I guess now 48 years. For 48 years
00:01:52.560they've been bad players, vicious players, and you can't let them have a nuclear weapon. If they got
00:01:57.560a nuclear weapon, I would say they would have used it within 24 hours after having it. And they would
00:02:02.700have had it if we didn't bomb them out from a great raid with the B-2 bombers eight months ago
00:02:08.580or so. You would have had a nuclear war in the Middle East and maybe beyond. I think it would
00:02:15.060have hit europe maybe not ireland but it would have hit europe i think you would have been a
00:02:19.740nice piece of it it all gets you it's big enough that you would have been effective they would
00:02:24.020have hit europe all right uh and then trump says we're not ready to leave yet but we'll be leaving
00:02:30.620in the near future uh not putting an exact timetable on iran but letting everybody know
00:02:36.480this is not a forever war cut 35 we're not ready to leave yet but we uh we'll be leaving in the
00:02:43.720near future. We'll be leaving in pretty much the very near future. But right now, they've been
00:02:49.500decimated from every standpoint. And again, we've had great support from countries in the Middle
00:02:57.060East, great support. But we've had no support from essentially no support from NATO. And then
00:03:03.440he's there with the prime minister of Ireland. He teed off on the current leader of the UK,
00:03:08.640england's uh starmer and he said look he's no church he'll cut 33
00:03:14.100well he hasn't been supportive and i think it's a big mistake you know
00:03:20.200they make a lot of money on trade with the united states i i did i went out of my as you know they
00:03:26.640couldn't make a deal with with biden because they had no real administration to make a deal
00:03:31.920biden but we made a deal we made a good deal for them and frankly uh probably wasn't appreciated i
00:04:06.860OK, so President Trump just moments ago in the Oval Office, Buck, I think it's going to be hard to attack Trump very long on this, because to your point, if you were setting an over under of when major operations cease in Iran, I think you said yesterday, April 1st, thereabouts, I would be stunned.
00:04:25.960what are we sitting at right now the 17th i would be stunned if a month from now we're still engaged
00:04:31.780in acts so look we're talking about relatively short-lived uh process at this point in time
00:04:37.200hopefully trump won't end it on march 31st and then announce a full-scale ground invasion
00:04:43.500on april 1st psych april fools that would be quite an april fools joke i'm just saying
00:04:52.300i don't think trump will do that but he has been known to make some jokes oh yeah yeah i'm just i'm
00:04:58.980just laughing at the stock market reaction uh if we actually had trump my fool's reactions can you
00:05:04.520imagine like oh my goodness it would be the fastest crash and the fastest rebound in the
00:05:10.060stock market we've ever seen if he's like we're going in heavy we're sending in a hundred thousand
00:05:14.320soldiers into iran just kidding april fools you could see it in real time like just completely
00:05:19.860go nuts um but i i look trump is very clear on what the mission is here he's going to finish
00:05:25.500this up and it will be done and i i suppose clay that um the idea is there'll be a different tone
00:05:33.960of negotiation from the iranians going forward like do you guys do you guys want this kind of
00:05:38.640stuff or do you want to you know you basically trump says you got the easy way and the hard way
00:05:42.760and the iranians were like hard way because they didn't think he would do it and he's trump so he
00:05:48.200did it and now i think he'll go back to them again and it will be do you want the easy way or hard
00:05:52.700way part two and maybe since he's taken out so much of the existing leadership whoever is in
00:05:57.960charge going forward will say we're willing to be a little bit more constructive in these negotiations
00:06:03.160on a whole range of things i think that's the best that's the best possible outcome as i see
00:06:08.440it right now i don't see anything else um i know we talked something about yesterday about the
00:06:12.580Gayatola little Mo as I called him did you see the report that came out I think I saw it this
00:06:18.620morning I'm not sure initially when it came out that they said he happened to go for a walk
00:06:23.600moments before the attack happened which is the only reason he's still alive right now that's
00:06:30.180the first explanation I've seen because it has felt strange that his dad his wife his son and I
00:06:39.440think his brother all died in that attack and somehow he survived we don't know very much about
00:06:44.560him we don't know very much about his condition but that is a bit strange that he managed to go
00:06:51.400for a walk at the exact moment that the attack happened just tossing it out there um that is
00:06:58.260the report about how he survived now he may be dead uh because we still have not heard him talk
00:07:03.760we still have not seen any video of him at a minimum as we played for you yesterday there
00:07:08.020have been reports that he was severely injured but i do think anytime like you were in the cia
00:07:14.040so anytime somebody happens to go for a walk right before a major bomb goes off a part of my i'm just
00:07:21.340gonna say my alarm bells go on that that's either an incredibly unbelievable coincidence if that
00:07:28.360report is true or maybe maybe he had a little bit of a heads up about what might have been happening
00:08:57.420No, he was Two-Face. He was Two-Face, right, guys?
00:08:59.680I don't even know. He was in one of those
00:09:01.460Batman movies that I'm pretty sure the studio
00:09:03.460that owns the rights to it lit all the
00:09:05.460copies on fire so but Tommy Lee Jones back in the day was was fantastic Clay you're very optimistic
00:09:11.420about all things in Iran right now super I and then look I tend to be optimistic in general
00:09:17.640but I trust Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth I just think they've been phenomenal on most of their
00:09:25.240foreign policy and I think if you look at how well things are going in Venezuela and if you
00:09:29.960question how well things are going in venezuela you know they're going well because there's no
00:09:35.900media coverage we have a predisposition in the united states for negative media coverage across
00:09:42.300the board things go poorly they get more coverage things go well they get less coverage we just
00:09:47.200opened back up the embassy in venezuela for the first time i think since 2013 ish was what i saw
00:09:53.280and we've now raised the american flag there um i think we're going to be out of iran quickly
00:09:58.740I suspect that we're going to eventually figure out who we can negotiate with and deal with.
00:10:04.220I think one of the challenges in Iran right now the president's dealing with is who actually has power and who can make promises and who can engage in any court, any sort of rapprochement as it as it currently exists.
00:10:17.700And Cuba, which we're going to talk about at the top of the next hour.
00:10:23.860What's going on in Cuba would be a top story.
00:10:27.160I remember, what was it, four or five years ago when we first started on the program together, if I'm remembering the math correctly, there were protests in Cuba, and we talked about that as the lead story.
00:10:37.640Remember when they had the huge protests, people were waving American flags, then the Cuban government rose up and pushed back against them?
00:10:43.300That was during Biden's administration, but the fact of where we are right now with Cuba is kind of extraordinary by itself, and I think it's directly connected to Venezuela and to Iran.
00:10:55.540Here's one other thing as we go to break here to think about, Buck.
00:10:59.140Russia and China have done nothing for Iran.
00:11:02.520Remember when everybody out there was like, World War III will start.
00:11:05.940China's not going to let Iran get wiped out.
00:11:08.380Russia's not going to let Iran get wiped out.
00:17:09.040Do you think 23andMe, like every human being in this country?
00:17:12.220I did 23andMe, and I was hoping that I would be part black so I could start saying as an African-American,
00:17:20.500I was entirely entirely English and Irish like my entire there was maybe a little bit of a little bit of North French, you know, because there used to be a lot of cross pollination between for those of you who are history nerds between England and France across the English channel there.
00:17:40.040And so all that a lot of names that we think of as as Anglo or British like Fitzgerald, it's like Fitzgerald that actually comes from northern France.
00:18:42.860I don't know. You may have some knowledge on this, that green eyes are uniquely connected to the DNA from people who lived in Ireland.
00:18:55.100I don't know if this is true at all. Some of you may be super smart when it comes to eye color.
00:19:01.860She said that, again, this is my mom, so I don't want to throw her under the bus, but my mom is not 100% accurate on things on the Internet that she sends to me.
00:19:10.500as i'm sure maybe some of your moms and grandmas are not are not as well but she sent me something
00:19:16.740yesterday in honor of saint patrick's day saying green eyes are incredibly rare which is true
00:19:21.820and that they have primarily derived from people who are of irish descent and so if you see someone
00:19:29.740with green eyes hazel eyes that that is primarily connected to ireland um and it was a cool kind of
00:19:36.040little take uh that she sent me that it's to be fair gone mega viral i think on instagram uh but
00:19:43.060it had me thinking about it in advance of today being st patrick's day i like you have not spent
00:19:48.060time in ireland i have been to england i have been to scotland uh i would like to go to ireland
00:19:54.160and actually be able to do a good visit at some point in time i love guinness i have heard that
00:19:59.780one of the coolest uh the tours you can take if you are a fan of guinness is they have the great
00:20:05.860Guinness factory where they produce all of this I believe in Dublin I've been a bunch of you
00:20:10.640who are listening to us have been there I am a big fan of Guinness um I'll probably have a few
00:20:15.380pints today uh as I watch the U.S. hopefully beat Venezuela in the WBC but we'll see on the eye
00:20:23.360color uh argument whether my mom is correct or not on that according to the internet which take
00:20:28.880that as you will Ireland has the greatest concentration of green-eyed people and red-haired
00:20:35.040people in the country i mean the world in the world per capita in the world yes so and your
00:20:41.320son has got red hair he's got fiery red hair he's a little redhead he's he's like uh he looks like
00:20:47.060jamie from uh outlander for those of you who are outlander fans he's got that fiery red hair
00:20:52.120um but clay unfortunately the leadership of ireland when it comes to love of their country
00:20:58.660and heritage not as fiery as some of us would want or rather sounds a bit more like you're at
00:21:03.860davos lecture here is the irish president using the story of saint patrick to tell everybody
00:21:11.620we know what we need in ireland more globalism and more uh migration from countries all over
00:21:20.080the world that have nothing to do with ireland or have no similarity or commonality with ireland
00:21:23.920play 15 the story of patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage
00:21:31.760of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made and continue to make to the
00:21:38.500countries they now call home, sometimes even in the face of great adversity. As we recall the life
00:21:46.380of Patrick, we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as global citizens.
00:21:54.260Patrick's story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering
00:22:00.860the consequences of war and displacement those fleeing their countries because of persecution
00:22:07.960or violence i mean he's initially captured and as as a slave from britain brought to ireland to
00:22:16.780work there and then he escaped and then he came back later as a missionary but he didn't he didn't
00:22:23.480show up from um like bangladesh and say hey i want a lot of free stuff pay for all my things
00:22:29.920and I don't plan to learn their language.
00:22:32.220Things have changed quite a bit since migration in the 5th century.
00:22:36.220That, yes, that also sounds like a guy who's playing the role of an Irish guy.
00:22:44.000Listening to that audio, it doesn't sound like a real person.
00:22:48.180It sounds like he's playing the role of an Irish guy in a movie.
00:28:19.580And again, this is the underlying impetus under which all of this immigration is happening.
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00:29:23.060podcasts. Welcome in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show, hour number three. We have talked a great
00:29:30.380deal on the program over the past several weeks about Iran and what the future may hold there
00:29:37.040as the American military operation continues. And we have taken a lot of calls from people
00:29:43.240of Iranian descent who live in the United States now to give us an idea of what their friends and
00:29:48.820family back in Iran are saying and what they think the appropriate outcome is here. Many
00:29:54.920different perspectives on that. We are excited to bring in now a man who has a lot of thoughts
00:29:59.900on exactly what should happen. His name is Shervin Fishfahar, an advisor to Iran Prosperity Project
00:30:07.580and venture capitalist. And let's start with this. Thank you for coming on the program.
00:30:13.180What is the latest you are hearing from friends, family connections in Iran about the on the ground situation and what the average person's life is like inside of that country right now?
00:30:27.160absolutely this is a historic moment for all iranians what we're hearing uh on a daily basis
00:30:36.460is iranians are cheering from the balconies as this uh precision liberation campaign uh is is
00:30:45.040is proceeding uh in this kind of second half week uh we are seeing the the drones coming in
00:30:52.160And going after the Beshiji militia that were responsible for killing over 43,000 Iranians on January 8th and 9th after President Trump bravely told the Iranian people to come out in the streets and protest, we'll have your back.
00:31:10.480And the Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi called everyone to come out on January 8th and 9th at 8 p.m.
00:31:18.380And that created a moral contract and the Iranian people, there's many videos of them that posted videos saying this is going to be my last post.
00:31:29.240So these Iranians who sacrificed their lives for liberty have more in common with the American revolutionary fighters who fought for the creation of America and liberty here that we're so blessed to have than they do with this evil regime.
00:31:46.620So they're now cheering the Basijis being killed by these drones.
00:31:55.640And they're calling it, by the way, popcorn.
00:32:03.720They're also playing sounds of drones from their speakers to scare the Basijis.
00:32:09.680So there's videos of Basijis running from their stations because they're hearing over the loud speakers the drone sounds from Iranian citizens who are against them.
00:32:21.720They're also reporting the Basiji locations. So in many ways, the Iranian people are unarmed soldiers in this fight for liberty.
00:32:32.060and we have a whole plan that i'll talk about the crown prince's leadership has been absolutely key
00:32:41.400the iranian prosperity project is 175 page plan that goes into detail about the reconstruction
00:32:48.780of iran we'll talk about that as well but on the ground there is a whole movement of
00:32:57.500of people who are wanting their freedom, wanting a new Iran, wanting a democracy.
00:33:05.440And this plan is in the emergency phase of the plan is to have a 100-day plan to a referendum
00:33:12.260for the people to vote on a new form of government.
00:33:52.760People like Dara Khosrowshahi, who joined – I helped – I was on the board of Uber and helped build Uber as well with Travis Kalanick and Emile Micah.
00:34:04.400I helped recruit Emile Micah, who's now the Undersecretary of War for R&D, and he's leading this whole AI war.
00:34:13.540But Iranian-Americans have built companies like Uber, Google, Omid Kordesani, eBay, created millions of jobs in America. Just imagine 93 million of these brilliant Iranians were trapped there unleashing on the world. It's going to be the biggest piece and economic dividend that we've seen.
00:34:34.860The team at the Iranian Prosperity Project has estimated the economic impact just to America is over $1.2 trillion of trade in a free Iran without sanctions and a democracy would happen between America and Iran.
00:34:53.180So the impact is going to be massive. It's very similar to what happened in Europe after World War II, when you had Germany, Poland, etc., beginning to develop. So you have basically the kind of Poland-level underinvestment, Germany-level industrial sophistication and Vietnam-style labor arbitrage available in a near run.
00:35:16.520and shirvan if i could ask you uh thank you for being here and shirvan is with the he's an advisor
00:35:22.420rather to the iran prosperity project um where are we on getting rid of the uh tyrants who are
00:35:30.060already in charge um it's great to hear that people are happy about the trump airstrikes
00:35:34.840and i think the plan for a future iran would be exciting not just for people in that country but
00:35:41.160for people all over the world because of how much could be done there that's fantastic but
00:35:45.940In the meantime, how do we get rid of the MOLAs, the IRGC, the besiege, all of the above?
00:36:04.320The precision lethality that we're watching happen over the last couple of weeks is really stunning.
00:36:10.300I was talking to a friend of mine who's in the intelligence world and specifically about this.
00:36:18.060And the reason why this is important, if you can go 30,000 feet above just the Iran situation, which people can have different views on,
00:36:28.180but above that is this reality of nuclear deterrence is actually not as important as what's happening now.
00:36:36.700We need to deter these evil regimes, these mafia states, from being able to use the very same technologies that we're all seeing, this precision lethality, these drones, this AI-powered warfare.
00:36:50.120If that gets into the hands of an Iran, if it gets into the hands of Russia, China, and North Korea, our future in America is at peril.
00:37:02.920People don't need nuclear bombs to cause absolute mayhem.
00:37:06.700They could use AI to build new viruses that basically assassinate political leaders,
00:37:15.440take out the whole Congress and the Senate by building a virus that specifically targets the genes of individuals.
00:37:21.620So we're at the dawn of a very scary time.
00:37:26.480And this lethality, we have the advantage right now.
00:37:30.220But in five years, those types of drones and drone swarms could be coming on American cities.
00:37:36.180And so we have to wake up and realize we can't live in a world where you have a terror state that is continuing to try to build not just nuclear bombs, but drones, and then shipping those drones to Ukraine and Russia to help the Russians.
00:38:13.300This isn't Israel affecting America's policy.
00:38:16.920This is an American president who's had this vision for a long time of getting rid of these types of evil regimes
00:38:23.880that are an absolute existential threat to our American way of life and freedom.
00:38:29.240This is an immune response to a world that is full of peril if we don't start to wake up and get ahead of it.
00:38:38.780And the Iran war and liberation is the first, I think, signal.
00:38:43.480And Venezuela was important, and it was very fast.
00:38:48.120But the precision of the Iranian war is a signal of what's to come.
00:38:52.820And we have our advantage right now. We have to press it in Iran and against other regimes that are going to use these same technologies on us in the future.
00:39:04.140A couple of questions that I'd be curious to get your read on.
00:39:07.980And we're talking to Shervin Fishfahar, incredibly successful venture capital, among many other things that he has done, venture capitalist here in the United States.
00:39:16.220What is the impact of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, all these other different places in the Middle East that used to be far smaller and less successful economically, suddenly becoming far more successful than Iran, if you look at relative economic size and per capita income?
00:39:40.540How much does, in other words, the neighborhood of the Middle East rising up as Iran has been falling down?
00:39:46.220How understood is that inside of the country of Iran?
00:39:49.940And what do you think the percentage is of Iranians that support just the physical overthrow of the government?
00:39:58.360In other words, what percentage support the existing power structure?
00:40:03.300Kind of take us into the world of the Iranian mind as you see it.
00:40:08.240That's a great question. Basically, Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer from Georgia, I think was the worst president in modern history.
00:40:21.280He affected the Middle East and the world and America in a way that we're all suffering from that huge mistake.
00:40:28.340The Crown Prince's father, Muhammad Reza Pallavi, the Shah, was working on modernizing Iran, was way ahead of everyone else, had the fourth largest army, an economy that was booming, was modernizing Iran, and he allowed these mullahs to come in and cause absolute mayhem in the Middle East and the world.
00:40:52.380They've been our enemy using proxies. They've been the enemy of Israel, trying to destroy Israel.
00:40:58.160And we've been living in a new reality since 1979 for 47 years.
00:41:04.960And the poor Iranians have been the ones that have to have to suffer the brunt of it.
00:41:12.680Those countries in the Middle East, to their credit, have advanced in the last 25 years.
00:41:18.940I was in Dubai in 2001, 2002, and there was a smattering of buildings.
00:41:25.240These are basically nation states that have accelerated in the same way in America in the 1950s after World War II.
00:41:33.680You know, we spent unbelievable amounts of our GDP modernizing America and advancing our economy after World War II,
00:41:41.460built the interstate highway and and all of the defense capabilities and then also if you look at
00:41:50.260putting a man on the moon in the 1950s those moon shots that was like 250 billion dollars
00:41:55.860of investment in those dollars back then it was a significant the courage it took to invest
00:42:01.700that kind of capital paid dividends for all of our lives we're all beneficiaries of that
00:42:06.900The Middle East learned from that and they've invested billions of dollars in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and UAE and have advanced, you know, far ahead.
00:42:16.860Now, the reality is everyone thought that they didn't, no one expected, as President Trump said yesterday, they didn't expect to be attacked.
00:42:26.760You know, they weren't attacking Iran, but 14 nations got attacked by the Iranians.
00:42:31.340That shows the insanity of this cult mafia state, this Shia Islamic mafia state that is like a cult, that is a terror organization that's taken over a nation state.
00:42:45.300Their insanity is to then attack 14 countries.
00:42:50.900And so we're in a completely new Middle East.
00:42:54.960The countries that didn't sign the Abraham Accords are going to rush to sign it because you know why?
00:42:59.700They want the Iron Dome technology. They want to be able to shoot down missiles with lasers.
00:43:06.160So this kind of new reality is going to reshape the Middle East and our world in a way that is advantageous to America's national security.
00:43:16.680One thing I wrote when I went to Berkeley years ago is in colleges, our moral security presages our physical security.
00:43:27.060If we don't actually take care of these principles and make sure we protect them, then our physical security will be at risk, like what happened in 9-11, like what's happened on 10-7, like what would have happened if we had allowed this regime to continue.
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00:46:28.820Welcome back in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
00:46:32.380We appreciate all of you hanging out with us.
00:46:35.180We are joined now by Lieutenant Colonel Clay Fuller, former district attorney, the Republican nominee for Georgia 14.
00:46:42.520uh as that is marjorie taylor green's former district um clay great name we appreciate you
00:46:49.000joining the uh the show uh what should people out there know as georgia is going to emerge
00:46:54.960as a major battleground senate governors but also your seat what do people need to know about this
00:47:01.420going forward yeah first off there's a a democrat in the race um this has gone to a runoff and the
00:47:10.540the person that we're up against for April 7th is a Democrat. He's done a really good job of
00:47:14.780running a race of not defining himself with any policy positions or with any party. So our job
00:47:20.280now is to let the voters of Georgia 14 know that there is a Democrat in the race that does not
00:47:25.640represent Northwest Georgia values. And so we're getting out there and telling the voters about my
00:47:30.580background. And obviously we've been supported by President Trump. So making sure people understand
00:47:35.260they understand they've got a choice between a MAGA conservative that's supported by President
00:47:41.220Trump or a radical or the radical left. Lieutenant Colonel, thanks for being here.
00:47:47.500Let's let's just get to it on what do you think about the situation in the Middle East right now
00:47:51.860with Iran? What's your view of it? Yeah, so I fully support President Trump decimating the
00:47:58.700Iranian military and all of their capabilities. Obviously, they're the number one state sponsor
00:48:03.040of terror in the region. And one of the mentors that I've had in my career is General Dan Raisin
00:48:10.880Cain. And he said it's very important that there can be no power projection at any point from
00:48:16.140the Iranian regime. So I fully support President Trump and what he's done in the Middle East
00:48:20.440and making sure that the Iranian regime cannot threaten the United States or our neighbors.
00:48:28.260You mentioned the race is on April 7th.
00:48:31.820I imagine the biggest challenge right now is just making people aware that the race is going on, right?
00:48:38.620We just had the same issue with a seat to fill in my home district in the state of Tennessee,
00:48:43.580and Democrats try to steal in, and they take advantage of the fact that Democrat voters tend to be very motivated on these special elections,
00:48:51.700and a lot of times Republicans are just busy and don't necessarily know.
00:48:55.220So is your biggest battle, given the district right now, just making people aware because it's a non-traditional time to be voting that they need to get out and get their ballots counted?
00:49:06.140That's exactly it. Job number one for us is getting out the vote.
00:49:09.920Obviously, it's a difficult time period because April 7th is right after Easter.
00:49:15.200Normally, we'd have five days of early voting, but that goes up to Good Friday.
00:49:19.980And so we're trying to make sure that voters understand that they need to get back out after the March 10th primary vote in the in the runoff year.
00:49:28.760And they need to make a plan. The other challenge that we have in a number of counties in the southern part of the district, they have spring break over that week of April 7th.
00:49:37.220So we really are trying to get that message out to every voter across the district.
00:49:41.620Please make your plan, because we cannot take this for granted.
00:49:46.240It would be a tragedy for Georgia 14 if a Democrat won the seat.
00:49:50.140It would be a tragedy for the MAGA movement and for President Trump.
00:49:52.660So we have to stay motivated because the Democrats are going to do it.
00:49:55.220The radical left is going to come out.
00:49:56.860And we just have to make sure that we're driving out our voters on April 7th.
00:50:01.020If I could ask you, Lieutenant Colonel, I know you're focused on your race, as you should be.
00:50:04.780And everyone listening, and especially everyone who lives in your district, is paying close attention to that.
00:50:10.180But you've also got some important things happening on the Senate side in your state.
00:50:15.080Just what can you tell us about the political trajectory right now in Georgia?
00:50:19.300Where do they stand vis-a-vis the administration?
00:50:22.160Are things looking better for Republicans since 2024, about the same?
00:50:26.920How would you, because you're obviously very plugged into the numbers and the sentiment,
00:50:31.560what's the feel, what's the vibe right now politically in Georgia?
00:50:34.840yeah unfortunately georgia is going to be the bell of the ball for every election it seems
00:50:40.320like coming up but i think the momentum's on our side and i think you saw what we did from an
00:50:45.300organizing organizing standpoint in 2024 to make sure that we're driving out the vote
00:50:49.580and also the really important thing which is has been a change not only in georgia 14
00:50:54.240but across the the state on on the right is trying to tell voters early voting is okay
00:51:00.840Obviously, normally we do so well on Election Day. But if we can get out there and bank those votes early, because I don't I don't know if you know much about Georgia weather.
00:51:10.680Last week we were at 70 degrees and then just yesterday we had snow. And so you never know what the weather is going to be like here in Georgia in the spring.
00:51:19.660So if you've got time to go and early vote, go and make that decision and knock it out.
00:51:25.400And if we do that, continue to drive out the vote because President Trump's policies are resonating in Georgia.
00:51:31.440The victory is there. The win is there to send a conservative to to the U.S. Senate.
00:51:36.880We just have to make sure that we're getting out our voters when when we make that choice.
00:51:41.500So April 7th, we want to make sure everybody listening in North Georgia gets out and votes.
00:51:45.460But then you'll be back on the ballot in in November.
00:51:49.020How does this work? I presume this is to fill out the remaining term of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:51:54.040So basically, you're going to be running for the rest of this year. Am I right?
00:51:58.840That's right, Clay. I'm in endless campaign season for the rest of my life, it seems like.
00:52:04.000So with the way that Marjorie stepped down, it created a special election.
00:52:08.300And in Georgia, that's a jungle primary. So that's why the top two vote getters in the March 10th primary won as a Democrat.
00:52:16.800So then that runoff for the special election, which will be to fill Marjorie Greene's, the rest of Marjorie Greene's seat until the end of December of 2026.
00:52:26.240That's April 7th. And then there will be another primary on May 19th.
00:52:30.360Obviously, we're hoping to be in that primary as as the incumbent.
00:52:33.800And then there will be the general election in November of this year.
00:52:38.960So we've got elections coming up. So, yes, sir.
00:52:41.540Yeah, May 19th, you mentioned, okay, so I want everybody to go vote for Clay Fuller,
00:52:45.640easy name to remember here if you listen to this show, on April 7th.
00:52:50.480I want you guys to go get to vote for him.
00:52:52.440But then May 19th, almost immediately we're flipping.
00:52:56.040We've got a hugely competitive Republican ticket and Democrat ticket,
00:53:00.800as Buck mentioned, in a state that is very much the center battleground state.
00:53:06.440What is the expectation for turnout in that primary?
00:53:09.740I know you got a contested decision on who the governor should be and the nominee for Republicans and Democrats as well, but also the Senate race.
00:53:19.440I mean, the amount of money that's going to be spent in Georgia is going to be off the charts.
00:53:24.640It really is. And the big concern for me in my race is making sure we don't hit voter fatigue.
00:53:31.380But we know voters in Georgia 14 and across the state of Georgia care about who's going to lead them.
00:53:37.460They care about the policies of getting regulations off their back, taxes off their back.
00:53:42.780They just want to they want it to be the free state of Georgia.
00:53:45.420So they're going to be very concerned about getting the right people in there.
00:53:48.600And I think they're going to be voting red both in May and then in November as well.
00:53:52.940So I think we're not going to have a problem as long as we continue to turn out the voters.
00:53:58.280All right. Clay Fuller is his name. Everybody in Georgia, 14, I believe is correct.
00:54:03.140right april 7th we need you to get out and vote for clay fuller and then you can show backup after
00:54:08.700he wins on april 7th with all of your support and vote for him again the next month in the primary
00:54:14.560and all of you should be engaged in voting uh in this georgia primary that is coming up because
00:54:19.200there's a lot of big decisions to make there too clay we appreciate the time uh and we want
00:54:23.960everybody listening right now to make sure that they're aware again that date april 7th if they
00:54:28.000want to help what can they do i go to clay fuller for georgia.com we can always use donations and
00:54:36.140then just if you know anybody that lives in northwest georgia just make sure that they're
00:54:39.680aware to get out there and vote you're going to have a number of opportunities to support a clay
00:54:43.800outside of the show there you go uh clay fuller april 7th get the vote in uh we appreciate the
00:54:49.860time thank you so much thanks for having me uh again that is a soon to be decision to fill out
00:54:56.960marjorie taylor green seat and then there will be additional election in what is going to be one of
00:55:02.160the ultimate battlegrounds so we make sure you guys are on top of that april 7th will be here
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