Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.

Welcome back to Clay and Buck. Clay already calling a shot early in the first quarter here of the 2024 election.

He's basically saying call out the mercy rule. Trump is running very that I'm falling back on my.

The world is a crazy place. Nobody can predict the future and we could have moving on the Democrat side.

We could have moving on the Republican side. I'm going to wait and see.

I'm also say this. I'm humbled by what happened in 2022 where and Tucker has said this publicly.

A lot of people have come out and said, you know, it seemed like, you know, I mean, look, I look I was so fired up about for me.

It was Lee Zeldin. I wanted Lee Zeldin to win so badly and even after COVID in New York.

And when I saw all the lunacy here, I was like the people of New York States.

I wasn't relying on New York City. I was like the people of New York States.

And look, they made it close. They, you know, they, but we're out number two to one.

And now at the end of the day when you're out number two to one as a Republican in New York state, it doesn't really get it done.

Or maybe it's, I think it's maybe a little less than two to one, but the point is we're obviously, you know, we don't really have.

I'm talking about registrations. We don't really have the numbers we need in New York City. It's like eight to one.

So there, I mean, that's just, that's just almost impossible.

Unless you go hang out with my friend, Joe Barrelli and Staten Island, the one enclave of sanity down there.

But here you go. DeSantis is realizing he's got ground to make up and in the polls. That's, that's for sure.

And he's saying things about Trump on policy. So far, none of this has landed at all.

There's what Ron said over the weekend. Play six.

We've been very frank at our differences with respect to the former president.

I mean, for example, he promised to drain the swamp. It got worse. He did not drain the swamp.

He promised to build have Mexico pay for a border wall. They did like 50 miles of wall.

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