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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

It's a Numbers Game: The Numbers Behind America’s Shifting Electorate & the 2026 Midterm Outlook

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Daily News

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ryan breaks down the numbers behind the latest political shifts shaping 2026. Using fresh data from Tennessee’s 7th District special election, he examines why Republicans continue to hold strong in gerrymandered districts and where Democratic “overperformance” may have hit its ceiling.

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This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:07.7

Welcome back to a numbers game with Brian Gurdowski.

0:09.9

Thank you guys for being here.

0:10.8

Happy Thursday.

0:11.7

Remember how I mentioned to you in my last episode that we're coming to the end of the

0:16.6

year.

0:17.0

So Spotify and Apple playlist where he's going to put their end of the year numbers.

0:21.3

Well, I said that on Monday and it came out on Wednesday that they said, you know,

0:25.9

your number one podcast and song and singer and all of us artists were.

0:29.9

And they had an interesting Spotify.

0:31.5

Had an interesting thing this year they've never done before was they guessed your age by what music you listen to they guessed my age

0:40.5

was 68 years old i am i am not hip i guess like i am i am i guess i need to diversify there's a lot

0:48.7

of classic rock on my playlist from azie osborne and linda r and Fleetwood Mac and The Carpenter's and

0:54.3

Bruce Springsteen. Like there's a lot of that going on. I might need to like just spruce it up with

0:59.2

some Taylor Swift or Sabrina Carpenter's. I don't know. But 68 was kind of rough to get the

1:04.4

social security numbers thrown at you. That's where you are, that's where your mind is. So I thought

1:09.9

it was funny hopefully my

1:11.7

podcast came into your top five list if it hasn't please like and subscribe to this podcast

1:16.8

on the iheart radio app apple podcast Spotify YouTube wherever you get this podcast I love to be

1:21.9

your top five come next year we have a lot of great end of the year episodes I'm so excited

1:27.3

about a big announcement coming next year at the end of this month, rather, and the game next year. Big announcement, but we have a lot of fun episodes because it's December. There's only so much politics. People can really sit there and take. So we're going to do a lot of politics, but we have an episode with a priest right around Christmas time. My priest, actually.

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