Hour 2 - Senator Johnson to Clay: As Wisconsin Goes, So Goes the Nation

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ground game key, says Senator Ron Johnson as he weighs in on whether he'd accept the VP nomination as a way to deliver his key swing state. Clay wholeheartedly recommends Johnson for a VP short list, as the senator joined Clay live in WI on the eve of the first GOP primary debate. Major news in Russia as missile shoots down plane carrying the Wagner Group commander who crossed Putin. Do you think Biden can handle this new, more publicly brutal Putin — and would whoever replaces Putin in the Kremlin be worse?

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0:00.0	Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show podcast.
0:05.3	Welcome in our number two Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Buck is in Scotland.
0:12.8	He would love to be here right now in Milwaukee in our studio because our friend Senator Ron Johnson.
0:19.8	Six more years representing the great state of Wisconsin is in studio with us right now as
0:26.4	everyone turns their attention to Milwaukee to his home state of Wisconsin.
0:31.8	A little bit of a preview for the Republican National Convention that's going to be up here next
0:36.7	year about this time. First of all, it's great to have you in studio. We've had you on the program
0:42.9	many times, but I want to say congratulations face to face on winning. I think one of the most
0:49.8	important elections in all of 2022. You get six more years to bring the truth and to actually
0:56.4	speak truth to power, which is supposedly what politicians are often supposed to do. It doesn't
1:01.7	happen very often. So congratulations. It's great to have you in studio with us here.
1:05.5	Well, first of all, welcome to Wisconsin. Thank you. I think you've already realized the
1:09.3	the real value of Wisconsin is just really nice people. Fantastic. Hopefully you got some fresh
1:13.2	cheese curds. Yeah. But and then appreciate the congratulations here. It was a tough race.
1:20.7	Wisconsin is not easy. I agree with you. This is pretty well the bell weather state. As Wisconsin
1:25.9	goes, I think as goes the nation. So people need to we need to win this today. So you won. I believe
1:32.0	by 26,000 votes and Trump won by around. You'll know better than me, but around 20,000 votes in
1:38.8	16. He lost by around 20,000 votes in 2020. In your mind, we're sitting here 16 months out roughly
1:47.0	from the 2024 election. How optimistic are you about Wisconsin going back red? Regardless of who
1:53.6	the nominee is, what needs to happen for Wisconsin to be in the Republican camp? Ground game.
2:00.4	It's really that simple. The Democrats have a very easy time of mining votes in Madison and Milwaukee.
2:07.6	Republicans, we have to get our votes from all over the state. It's just a much more difficult task.
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