Trump Shows GOP the Way, Highlights Mess at Border

CLAY: I believe we have a cut of Donald Trump at the border.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I want to just thank the people of Texas, because we won in a landslide. It wasn’t even close. You know, they were saying, “Well, Texas is gonna be close.” I said, “Well, I’m in favor of oil, I’m in favor of God, and I’m in favor of guns, and they’re not.”

CROWD: (chuckling)

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “And if you’re in Texas and you don’t like guns, God, and oil, I don’t think you’re gonna do too well,” and they didn’t do too well. They didn’t do well at all. They did poorly. But we did well, and we did well in other states too. We did well in states that we lost. We did really well. Much better than we did. We got 12 million more votes than we got the first time. One of the media called up, and they said, “Could I ask you, what was the difference between ’16 and ’20?” I said, “Well, the big difference is we did much better in ’20.”

And they thought about; they said, “You know, you’re right.” But the vote counting was probably a little bit better for them in ’20, because what we’ve done was appreciated by the people. And we better get our elections straightened out, because you’re gonna have a runaway country. You’re gonna have a banana republic. You’re gonna have a Third World country here pretty soon, ’cause our elections are a mess.

BUCK: Certainly the election in New York City is a mess, which everyone’s admitting right now. And the president there at the border, I think, raising attention about something that Republicans should be much more on than they are, which is what a mess the border is. And anyone who understands what’s happening there will tell you that it is.

And I believe former president put out a statement, a written statement as well today that it’s the worst it’s ever been. He told us that yesterday, Clay, on the show, and this isn’t really in the realm of judgment call anymore. There’s data. There are numbers you can point to to suggest that the border is de facto open or the most open it’s ever been, as long as somebody understands…

As long as they essentially go through the cartel smuggling system and play the system once they get over onto our side of the border. And I think Republicans have to make a lot of efforts. They have to make a big effort here to raise this to the level of national attention that it deserves. It’s a huge problem. And this is directly caused, (chuckles) like so many other things, by the Biden administration and its policies.

CLAY: Yeah. I don’t think there’s any doubt about that. And I’m curious to see several different things by the time we come back on the show tomorrow. How will Trump’s trip to the border be covered, if at all? Will it be covered aggressively? How will it be compared to Kamala Harris’ visits to the border?