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

Welcome in, happy Friday. Hope all of you are having a fantastic start to your weekend and we

hopefully will make that a little bit better over the next three hours

appreciate all of you hanging out with us we have got a lot of interesting stories

to dive in with you we certainly want to thank all of our veterans out there that are

listening we will have special veterans related We certainly want to thank all of our veterans out there that are listening.

We will have special veterans related activities and events that will be taking place during the course of today's program.

And so we thank you right off the top.

The news that we broke yesterday of Joe Manchin not running for re-election in West Virginia

has continued to reverberate throughout the political landscape.

We will not only think about what the impact of Joe Manchin not running in West Virginia is going to be,

but also what that means for the Senate map and what that could mean for Joe

Manchin as he explores potentially running as a no labels candidate as a third

party. Jill Stein, many of you will remember Jill Stein, formerly of the Green Party, still of the Green Party, I guess.

They kept her off the ballot for 2020.

She may well have cost Hillary in 2016 the election in many close

states. She's now going to be running back on the ballot theoretically. We'll see

whether she can make it on in any contested

states it's starting to look like everyone's presidential ballot is going to have

maybe more options than we have seen in most of our lives. We'll talk about that but

Buck I wanted to start we talked earlier this week about the New York Times swing

state poll,

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