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<title><![CDATA[Clay Travis - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23636.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Clay Travis]]></description><category domain="23636">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[10 Yrs of Democrats De-Normalizing Donald Trump &amp; MAGA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/09/11/clay_travis_responds_to_obamas_statement_on_the_assassination_of_charlie_kirk_you_caused_this.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clay Travis, "Outkick" founder and co-host of "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show," reacts to President Obama's statement on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Trump Is Already Narrowing America's Racial Divide]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/clay-travis-how-trump-already-narrowing-americas-racial-divide</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump's election victory win has done something his most'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ardent critics never thought possible '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' he's produced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' least racially polarized presidential win since before'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Civil Rights Movement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What If Dems' Diversity Mandates Rocked Sports World?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/what-would-happen-democrat-diversity-mandates-rocked-sports-world</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Democrats ran an NFL team, their diversity guidelines would mean their players would never win]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Modern Day Heirs Of Muhammad Ali]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/novak-djokovic-kyrie-irving-aaron-rodgers-are-modern-day-heirs-of-muhammad-ali/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Novak Djokovic, Kyrie Irving and Aaron Rodgers are modern day Muhammad Alis, using their platforms to speak inconvenient truth to power.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ESPN Lost 8 Million Subscribers in '21, 10% of Subscriber Base]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/espn-lost-8-million-subscribers-in-2021-10-of-its-overall-subscriber-base/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last year ESPN lost eight million cable and satellite subscribers, finishing 2021 with around 75 million total subscribers. That eight million subscriber]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[College Football Moves From Communism to Capitalism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/college-football-moves-from-communism-to-capitalism-overnight-chaos-ensues/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As fans gleefully dissect the public attacks being levied by Alabama'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Nick Saban to Texas A&amp;M'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Jimbo Fisher and vice versa, the larger context of their college athletics battle is being lost. Saban vs. Fisher, while wildly entertaining, isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t just a personal feud,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump, Obama &amp; Bush Would Not Be Standing for This]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/08/27/clay_travis_you_need_to_confront_terrorists_bush_obama_and_trump_would_not_be_standing_for_this.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Clay Travis on his OutKick show: "You need to confront terrorists, not with negotiation strategies. Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump - they would not be standing for what is happening right now in Afghanistan. Heck, I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t even think Hillary...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hunter Biden's N-Bombs Show the Media's Double Standards]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/hunter-bidens-n-bombs-illuminate-medias-political-double-standards/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hunter Biden, the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s son, used the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' n-word several times in text conversations with his $800 dollar an hour attorney to celebrate the fact that the media wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t covering his latest failures very aggressively. As I write this column the New York Times, the Washington...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rapinoe's 'Equal Pay' Canard vs. Law of Supply &amp; Demand]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/03/26/clay_travis_on_megan_rapinoe_calling_for_equal_pay_for_female_athletes_supply_and_demand_matters.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA["Outkick" host Clay Travis commented on U.S. Olympic women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe visiting the White House on Equal Pay Day this week, after she snubbed an invite to the White House from President Trump. Rapinoe is an advocate for professional female soccer players to be paid as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[FL vs. CA State Covid Data Proves Lockdowns Don't Work]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/florida-vs-california-state-covid-data-proves-lockdowns-dont-work/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the past year, we'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve had an intriguing COVID experiment taking place in two of America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s biggest states: what would happen if one state essentially locked down because of COVID and another state essentially kept things open? All the mainstream media experts have told us...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Florida and New York Data Prove Lockdowns Make No Sense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/florida-and-new-york-covid-data-prove-lockdowns-made-no-sense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of March, which means we now essentially have a full year of COVID data from the four largest states in the country: California, Texas, Florida and New York. Thanks to the fact that we have federalism in this country, we can look at the factual COVID data and begin...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ten Big Takeaways From the 2020 Election]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/ten-big-takeaways-from-the-2020-election/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It appears that the Democrats'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' fevered dreams are going to become a reality: they have replaced one old white man as president whom they alleged had a history of racist comments, self-dealing with foreign countries to benefit his family, and major cognitive issues with an older...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[5 Key Reasons Why I'm Voting for Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/why-im-voting-for-donald-trump/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.outkick.com/why-im-voting-for-donald-trump/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a preliminary, I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t believe in endorsements. I think all of you are smart enough to make your own decisions without needing to see what a newspaper, union, celebrity, athlete, or D-List opinionist like me is doing with his or her vote. The great thing about American democracy...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Are Playing Politics With Canceling Football]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkick.com/playing-football-this-fall-has-become-a-partisan-political-issue/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.outkick.com/playing-football-this-fall-has-become-a-partisan-political-issue/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Football should be something that unites us. In general, whether you are a Republican, Democrat or independent, if you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re a sports fan, you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re probably a fan of football. After all, when your favorite team scores you don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t think about the race, religion, ethnicity or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['FU' Email Highlights Far-Left Wing Sports Media Hypocrisy]]></title>
							<link>https://outkick.com/woj-fu-email-illuminates-far-left-wing-sports-media-hypocrisy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Friday morning Missouri Senator Josh Hawley shared a letter he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d sent to NBA commissioner Adam Silver with the sports media. The letter addressed a glaring hypocrisy: NBA players are making pre-approved political statements on the backs of their jerseys, but none of those...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Coronavirus Is Far Less Deadly Than We Were Led to Believe]]></title>
							<link>https://outkick.com/cdc-now-estimates-there-have-been-over-20-million-coronavirus-cases/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Coronavirus data has been, in a word, maddening since the initial outbreak began in China. Beginning with initial reports from the WHO and China, it's been very hard for the average person to know what is truth and what is fiction. Hopefully that's beginning to change.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Media Ignores 90% Coronavirus Death Collapse In Country]]></title>
							<link>https://outkick.com/media-ignores-90-coronavirus-death-collapse-in-country/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Sunday a major positive milestone was reached for the first time, coronavirus deaths declined by 90% in this country from the high set on April 21st. That's an incredibly positive story about our national battle with the virus. Yet, shockingly, it has received almost no media...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[WokeCenter on Steroids Is Killing ESPN]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-hits-all-time-41-year-ratings-low-as-wokecenter-on-steroids-takes-over/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday ESPN's studio programming, which has become MSESPN's WokeCenter on steroids 24/7, hit a 41 year ratings low. That is, in the entire history of the network existing, it has never had lower overall]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I've Bought My Last Nike Products for Me &amp; My Boys]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2018/09/04/colin-kaepernick-ad-boycotting-nike-column/1189989002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I'm not going to support a sports company that puts politics above sports.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ESPN Is the Sports Version of Blockbuster Video]]></title>
							<link>https://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-cant-afford-monday-night-football/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ESPN pays $2 billion a year to the NFL for Monday Night Football and one NFL wild card playoff game. I've written for the past couple of years that as ESPN's business collapses that ESPN's]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why ESPN Is Failing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-firing-over-a-hundred-employees-today-042617</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For several years I have been writing on this site about the coming business implosion at ESPN. Today, with the announcement that over 100 on air talent at ESPN were being let go, many will finally come to realize what Outkick readers have read here for the past several years -- ESPN's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[ESPN's Collapse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/espn-cutting-nearly-100-million-in-on-air-talent-030617</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years ago ESPN cut several hundred behind the scenes jobs to save hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly costs. Since that time ESPN's subscriber losses have accelerated, averaging over three million lost subscribers a year. Now new jobs cuts are coming, only this time you're...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Defense, Kaepernick Is a Flipping Idiot]]></title>
							<link>http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/colin-kaepernick-is-an-idiot-082716</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Clay Travis</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As a first amendment absolutist I support Colin Kaepernick's right to make whatever statement he wants about his political beliefs. But since I'm a full bore proponent of the marketplace of ideas, I also feel very comfortable saying this -- Kaepernick is a fucking idiot. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Let me...]]></description>
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