Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Boxe-Sexton Show Podcast.

The most worst mayor we could say is soon to be the former mayor of Chicago, a crushing defeat from 73% of the vote in her election win to getting 17% of the vote.

Now, granted there was a pretty big field, but you would think the sitting mayor could do better than less than a fifth of the overall vote.

Chicago, you're coming back to San Diego and we welcome you, which is great. We'll discuss more of this, of course.

Big, big loss for the progressive prosecutor, we can crime. Let's just blame the cops left. That's because that's been at the center of Lightfoot's time as mayor.

And it was also how she ascended to the mayor's office in the first place. And Clay will explain in a couple moments here what she's blaming for her loss, spoiler alert, not her incompetence as mayor.

Just going to put that out there. That's, I think you might know where this is going. Also really interesting breakdown in the Washington Post about the debate in advance of the Mar-a-Lago document raid.

Remember the FBI, the guys and windbreakers FBI, special agent Johnny Utah, they showed up and they seized those records at Mar-a-Lago.

And we were saying this is outrageous. It was outrageous. And from the reporting in the Washington Post, which Clay and I both believe comes from direct FBI sources who wanted to get this on the record, they knew it was outrageous.

They knew that there was a political impetus behind all. We'll break that down for you too. Important stuff going on there. Also being joined by Congressman Jim Banks of Indiana in the second hour of the program, who's going to tell you all a bit about this hearing or having on China and what to do about it.

I think they may ban TikTok, which Clay, where am I going to learn the best way to steer a stake or how to do the perfect role technique with my filet mignon. I guess I'll have to get it elsewhere.

And then 2.30 p.m. Betsy DeVos, former education secretary. We'll talk to her about. It was prize school choice education. What's going on in that world. I think she got a book out as well. Am I correct in that one? She did have a book out.

So, Clay, let's start with Laurie Lightfoot. We could sit here and go into some at some length about what's going on Chicago. I broke down the basic numbers yesterday. Call it roughly an average of 700 murders a year over the last few years, which is just completely unacceptable. And then you also look at shooting incidents. You look at theft. You look at criminal sexual assault. You look at robbery. Overall crimes.

Through the second month of the well through February, according daily mail here, overall crimes.

Are up 52% which is just I don't even know how that's compared to 2022. I think about that. A 50% year over your increase in overall crimes.

There's Laurie Lightfoot said everybody, you know what? I'm just not good at this. No. What does she say, Clay? She blamed her loss on racism and sexism, which is so par for the course on identity politics. But last night when I saw these results coming in, I felt compelled buck to congratulate Laurie Lightfoot.

They made such a big deal about the fact that she was the first black lesbian to be mayor of a major American city. And I have to congratulate her on being the first black lesbian mayor to lose 83 to 17 in a reelection bid. She's the first Chicago mayor in over 40 years, who wasn't incumbent not to be a reelected buck.

I mean, this was to me a seismic repudiation of everything that we reject on this show on a daily basis. And one of the things that we've been upset about, and I'm curious if this reckoning is actually going to boomerang back around in 24 is none of the people who got everything wrong on COVID have had to bear the cost for getting everything wrong on COVID. Right.

Grech and Whitmer gets reelected. If you're listening to us in Michigan, you remember when there was literal crime scene tape over your ability to buy some things in a department store. Right. I mean, they literally shut down and said only certain essential products could be bought.

You couldn't buy for instance, if I remember correctly, seeds for your garden. If you went out to the grocery store, they had that part of the store taped off with crime scene tape to disallow people from being able to go in there.

And so Lori Lightfoot Chicago, I believe alongside of LA, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC drastically awful decisions were made there. And the leadership was indefensible and all the masking and all the social distancing and all the stand in your circles. All of it.

I think finally led to someone Lori Lightfoot having to pay the price. And I just I looked at it and I said, Hallelujah. Chicago is our third largest city in the country. What were you talking about yesterday, Buck? Illinois is the only reliably blue state in the center part of the country. And I just want you to think about that from a geographic perspective.

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