Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Bucks Xton Show Podcast.

Welcome back in.

Our number three Wednesday edition Clay Travis Bucks Xton Show,

appreciate all of you hanging out with us,

want to hit you with some news that just came down.

The Federal Reserve has officially lifted interest rates by another three-quarter point of rise.

These are a series of unprecedented, frankly, interest rate rises, which have led to the highest

mortgage rates in 20 years. Many of you out there think no of which I am speaking. Over 7% now,

on the 30-year mortgage rate with this rise likely to be headed towards 8% probably.

So that has just happened as we are speaking with all of you.

Also, continuing to track six days out, so many elections all over the country.

And we head up to the Empire State now where we are joined by Lee Zeldin,

who is giving Kathy Hoko all she wanted and more in the race for the New York Governor's seat.

And Lee, we appreciate you joining us. You've been on with us a few times before.

Congratulations on the momentum. What needs to happen between now and election day

for you to win and kick Kathy Hoko out of the Governor's mansion in Albany?

We need everybody to vote. And it seems so simple, but we're going into a midterm,

and we need presidential level turnout wherever we can possibly pull that out.

That means that everybody needs to tell everyone they know taking nothing for granted.

Friends, family, neighbors, strangers, co-workers,

on social media, emails, texts, word of mouth. For the next six days, these are long days.

If you start early and end late and actually dedicate the bandwidth to doing this,

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