As Democrat Budget Bills Stall, All Eyes Turn to Virginia

CLAY: We were saying yesterday that Nancy Pelosi was going to try to get the infrastructure bill in the House done. She can’t. Biden is in Europe right now. They wanted to give him a victory and at least not embarrass him. Instead, they were unable to give him a victory, and I think the whole budget process is an embarrassment at this point in time.

We are weeks, I would say — just based on the numbers — away from some form of resolution there. The failure to get the infrastructure bill voted on — the failure of, so far, the Biden budget to also be implemented — has become a bit of an additional weight in the Virginia governor’s race. If you have not been following this, we are gonna be, I think, leading on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday…

This is my prediction. Crazy same things can happen. But I think on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday we are going to be focused on this Virginia race and how many different directions it could go and all of the messages that it is potentially going to be sending. Fox News yesterday came out with a poll that showed Glenn Youngkin up by eight points. Now, I think that is a widely out of whack possibility that he could be up eight points.

But the numbers are moving — from gambling perspective — in the favor of Republicans in a big way. All right? I had Dub who works on the show with us — you may remember earlier this week, he was looking at what the odds markets were showing overseas, and so you can gamble political results in England at many of the biggest places over there.

And we told you that Terry McAuliffe was a decent favorite in that race. Much of his dollar value from a gambling perspective is now gone and we are moving basically — in a gambling perspective, Buck — into a dead heat. Are you with me that you’re a little bit skeptical of the eight-point lead —

BUCK: Yes.

CLAY: — that the Fox News poll showed?

BUCK: Yes.

CLAY: That would be an 18-point swing since the 2020 election.

BUCK: I want our Virginia Clay and Buck audience to know that this will be a razor-thin race and you better show up and vote.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Every single one of you listening to this right now in Virginia, do not get complacent. Do not think, “Oh, there’s a poll. It’s fine. Oh, it’s deer season; I got other things to do.” Get out there and make sure you vote so that Terry McAuliffe, the slimy Democrat, is not the governor of your state. Now, look. What Clay is saying is right. Obviously, the numbers and all this are looking good right now.

I don’t care. Go into this with the mentality that only crushing victory is acceptable. A two- or three-point victory for Youngkin is not good enough. Our Virginia listeners right now, you have it in your hands to send a message for the entire country to see about the failure of Democrat policies, about the failures of this administration all the way down to the state level, because the Democrat Party calls all the shots from D.C., as we know. Clay, we gotta get our people out there. It’d be huge to have a Youngkin win.

CLAY: Monstrous. It would change the American political calculus overnight if Joe Biden, who won Virginia by 10 points, if in the first year of his administration we saw a 10-point swing or more in the state of Virginia. If Glenn Youngkin wins, there is going to be a five-alarm fire bell going off right now in the entire Democratic Party. I think it’s happening already because they’re terrified of what this lesson might be going forward into the midterms. But Virginia, you have in your power an unbelievable opportunity. Get out and vote in a big way for Glenn Youngkin.