Team 47 - This Will Make You Smile
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Clay and Buck analyze a major New York Times article highlighting a dramatic decline in Democratic voter registration across 30 states, with Republicans gaining over 4.5 million voters between 2020 and 2024. They emphasize that this trend spans battleground states, deep-blue strongholds, and red states alike, signaling a nationwide political realignment. Key states like Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are spotlighted as examples of this shift, with Nevada experiencing one of the steepest drops in Democratic support. A critique of Democratic leadership, with Clay and Buck asserting that the party has failed to adapt post-2024 and is instead doubling down on unpopular policies. They suggest that President Trump’s political instincts and messaging have become more refined, helping him consolidate support across key demographics.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The Team 47 podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers. |
| 0:08.5 | Making the American Farm strong again. |
| 0:13.0 | Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now. |
| 0:18.0 | This is one of those days where it pays off to be me, where you start off your morning |
| 0:22.5 | with a nice Crockett coffee, sitting down in front of the newspaper selection, opening |
| 0:29.4 | it up, usually the New York Times, not exactly renowned for its positive stories relating |
| 0:35.3 | to the Republican Party. |
| 0:37.1 | Can I just say drinking Crockett Clay is like putting on the leather bib before you get the x-ray at the dentist. |
| 0:43.2 | Like if you're drinking Crockett, the communist New York Times doesn't infiltrate you the same way. |
| 0:49.6 | No doubt. |
| 0:50.1 | And by the way, I just want, I do it so you don't have to. This is me taking the bullet. I meant lead, not leather. Sorry, leather. Lead bib, lead bit. I was thinking, what does the leather do? But I was the leather with the Davy Crockett connection. I thought I might be missing something. I do it so most of you do not have to. But this is a headline in New York Times today. |
| 1:12.8 | And I'm looking at what the headline is in the digital right now because sometimes it's |
| 1:17.4 | different than the newspaper. Headline digital. Not a positive headline. Democrats. |
| 1:24.2 | flashing red alert. What the voter registration data shows subheading and there's a big |
| 1:31.1 | graphical accompaniment story for this the party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box |
| 1:38.2 | a new analysis shows this is a big article this is the feature for the New York Times. And listen to this |
| 1:47.1 | open buck. You don't hear opens like these. And I thought it was interesting because the Sunday |
| 1:51.3 | New York Times basically wrote an entire editorial on behalf of the paper saying, yeah, Clay and |
| 1:58.0 | Buck were basically right about everything on COVID and basically right about |
| 2:02.8 | everything on crime. And maybe we should have been smarter about the way we covered it. |
| 2:08.5 | That's basically what the New York Times said in their editorial. Here's the open. The Democrat |
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