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

Welcome back in hour number two, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.

Appreciate all of you hanging out with us as we are rolling through the Monday edition of the program.

And by far, the biggest story of this Monday from a political perspective is that Tim Scott, Senator from South Carolina, has officially dropped out.

And we've been having the conversation now because you can see it where we could in theory have a 1 v1 Donald Trump against whomever the top contender ends up being.

It's almost as if there is a playoff to get into the championship against Donald Trump in the final Republican primary.

And I think what we're running into, and a lot of you want to weigh in, is trying to assess, as

everyone drops out, is there even a 50% plus a vote that would be opposed to Donald Trump in any of these primaries, or as, for instance,

Tim Scott drops out, and let's say he's got 7, 8, or 9 percent, does his support actually

filter out to a variety of different candidates?

That is, some go to Trump, some go to Nikki Haley, some go to DeSantis,

some go to Vivek. And I think the answer is yes. And if that is going to be the case,

Buck, it's hard for me to see how anybody else gets over 50%, even one-on-one against Trump.

And this matters because if one remaining candidate,

be it Nikki Haley, be it Ron DeSantis,

does not get to over 50%, then there is no pathway to beat Trump.

And I think what we're looking at is maybe the reality being, I think I said on July 17th,

I remember because I think we flagged it, that to me I didn't see a pathway where Trump was going to lose this nomination.

As we sit here roughly, what, four or five months out from when this nomination will officially be

decided it's hard for me to see a pathway where niki haley or ron desantis can beat trump

head to head if i had to pick i think ron dsantis probably has a better chance because i

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