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[McLovin @JHHama45]

Donald Trump after losing reelection to Joe Biden in 2020 and then facing criminal convictions and then defeating Kamala Harris in 2024.🇺�

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Imagine how many would watch the round of 8 or the round of 4 games if we ever got truly good. A World Cup title game with the US would be a Super Bowl like number. Pretty incredible how much the country is all in. Even, btw, for non-US matches the audience is huge.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Plus, and you all know this is true, if the race stays close come October a bunch of Democrat shadow groups will show up and buy ads for him. These political parties have no morals, they just want power. Platner has ALL the leverage and denies these allegations. Stay in the race.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

And I disagree with Platner on almost everything. I just don’t like the move to force out a nominee the party picked in a contested primary hundreds of thousands voted in. He ran with lots of red flags in his past and he won.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

“Oh, they’re not going to buy ads and he’s going to lose!” So what? If anything, he should say screw the Democrats and run a 100% rogue campaign and say he’ll be an independent if he wins. I don’t get why he would drop out. He denies all the allegations. I’d 100% stay in.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Explain to me why Graham Platner doesn’t have all the leverage here. He’s the Democrat senate nominee. They can’t take that from him. He’s not a senator now so if he loses he’s still not a senator. Unless Democrats pay him millions of dollars, why would he step down?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Democrat voters have already baked in that he’s a bad dude in many ways — he had a Nazi chest tattoo for almost 20 years! — and they didn’t care. They won’t care about this either.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

I don’t think that’s true. 45% of Maine voters, at least, are voting against Republicans no matter who the nominee is. Lots of Dems have been working against him from the start. He may well lose, but it would likely be pretty close. And some indy voters may pick him as a rebel.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Kamala is going to be the 2028 Democrat nominee. Stop fighting it! What can be unburdened by what has been.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

3. I think it’s development. We still lack skill. Top Euros have millions more touches at young ages than our top players do. We need Euro style academies for our best players. Bring them in camps & give teams contract rights to young players future earnings for the talent they develop. Incentivize excellence. Right now parents pay for travel soccer and, frankly, that’s expensive and exclusive. It leaves out top talent that can’t afford it and doesn’t really produce the skill the Euro model does. Plus, it costs a ton. That’s a bad combo. I’m not saying travel soccer shouldn’t exist, just that the funnel from travel soccer to college programs isn’t creating the skill we need to compete at the top levels.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

2. We have 350 million people. Belgium has 12 million. They smoked us. We have plenty of great athletes to be good at football, basketball, baseball, hockey, swimming, track, tennis, & soccer. We dominate in all sports at the Olympics. We can be great in soccer too.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Three big takes from me. 1. Athleticism is not the issue. If we did a combine that tested speed and verticals, our team is more athletic than most teams in the tourney. Skill is our issue. Many of you will argue athletics. That’s not it.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

24 years ago US men’s soccer went to the World Cup round of 8. We haven’t been back since. Why not? What needs to change for us to get back to the round of 8 and beyond? Genuinely interested in your takes. Fire away.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

1. It’s soccer.
2. If the US wins a World Cup before England, will England become a US colony? If so, can I hire you as my butler?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Extremely lazy — and common — argument. We have the luxury of wealth and a huge population in a sports obsessed country. We can — and should — be great at every sport we play in decent numbers. And millions of kids now play soccer every year. Way more 14 year olds play soccer here than in Belgium.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

No candidate, Democrat or Republican, should drop out of races because of sexual assault allegations. It’s easy to make these up, if you’re charged with crimes, that’s different. But allegations shouldn’t end anything. Let voters decide if they believe them or not.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

I don’t think that’s true. Viewership for these final eight team games will be massive. If we get France-Argentina in a World Cup final, I think over 50 million will watch.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

42 million people watched the US-Belgium game on Fox — 30 million — and Telemundo — 12 million. Staggering number — that’s more people than have ever watched a college football, NBA, MLB or NHL game in history. Only the NFL playoffs can beat it this century.

[Inside Fandom @InsideFandom]

9 years ago today, Robert Downey Jr. made his 8th MCU appearance as Tony Stark in ‘SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING’.

[Marvel Updates @marvel_updat3s]

4 years ago today, Jane Foster became The Mighty Thor in the MCU.