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

Third hour, Clay and Buck kicks off now.

Thanks for rolling with us. We both stayed up last night and

watch the debate. Sorry, makes it sound like we had like a slumber party

and we stayed up super late in our respective homes.

No, I mean it was, you know, 8 to 10 or whatever it was,

Eastern time, but we watched the debate last night.

And look, it was, I love watching good debate, right?

I mean, because I know some people are saying it doesn't matter.

It's already Trump.

Okay, maybe true, but it matters insofar as you have some very big name GOP figures on that stage

last night and they were giving it their all and it's clear they were they're in the you know leave it all in the field phase of

the of the debates it's you know in the early stages I think for some of the

bigger named candidates it's just do your thing you don't have to take any

big swings because you don't want to come across like you're being over eager

you're being nasty you know no one has to take a mean shot at Doug Bergham

everyone lets you know Doug B's a good guy, right?

So you can kind of let some of that stuff.

You don't have to worry about Aisa Hutchinson, you know,

catching a lot of wind at his back,

like he's gonna fade. so in the early debates I think

it's mostly like get to know you and and hang out a little bit but last night's

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