A Strong Close—And an Iowa Poll Shocker

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Speaker 1 Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favreau.

Speaker 16 I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy Vitor.

Speaker 1 We are coming to you with a special episode with just one day left before the results start coming in. The final polls have arrived, including an atomic bomb from Ann Seltzer.

Speaker 1 And this race is either headed towards the closest finish we've seen in our lifetimes, or a landslide, or a million different outcomes in between, none of which should really surprise us because of the last decade in politics.

Speaker 1 We're going to get into all that a bit later on, but first, the three of us, Dan, Votesave America's own Nina Harris, were out canvassing in Arizona and Nevada over the weekend.

Speaker 1 You guys want to talk about what stuck with you out of all of our door knocks and canvas kickoffs?

Speaker 16 Absolutely. I mean, the best part is meeting all the folks who are there from Vod Save America.

Speaker 16 There were people who lived in Nevada or Arizona and just came over to do a shift. There were people that traveled from out of state.

Speaker 16 I talked to a guy who had come to a Pod Save America live show in Las Vegas in 2018 with his daughter who was in high school at the time.

Speaker 16 She asked a question, later got so interested in politics that she worked for, interned for Jackie Rosen, now is getting an advanced degree out here in California.

Speaker 16 And those are just, you know, like the best part of doing the show is meeting people like that who are,

Speaker 16 you know, taking action and getting off the polar coaster that last weekend and knock some doors.

Speaker 17 Yeah. So first of all, one thing that was two hopeful signs.

Speaker 17 One is we were knocking on, we'd have to walk a bunch of doors before getting to the next door that we would knock, in part because we've hit a lot of these doors.

Speaker 17 And a lot of these people have either said, please do not knock on my door again. I already voted, or I'm planning to vote.

Speaker 17 But we were onto these last few doors, and there's one person that answered the door while I was knocking on doors with Nina, and she was like, I'm going to vote sometime next week.

Speaker 1 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 17 You have to vote on Tuesday now. She didn't know how to vote.
She didn't know where to vote. We got her that information.

Speaker 17 And there were other people, I know you guys knocked on a door of somebody who was truly undecided.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she was a 73-year-old Asian American woman in East Las Vegas. And we knocked on her door and there was a very large barking dog

Speaker 1 that she was

Speaker 1 that was barking while she was trying to talk to us and it was sort of broke. You know, we're trying to understand her.
And she basically was like, she's like, President Trump, Trump?

Speaker 1 And we're like, no, no, Trump. And she's like,

Speaker 1 and we held up our lit and it said Kamala Harris, you know, and and we're like, Kamala Harris. He goes, did she let in all of the

Speaker 1 migrants?

Speaker 1 And we're like, no, no, no. Yes, but it's good.

Speaker 1 And we were like, look, if she becomes president, here's what she's going to do on the border. And she's already done this.
And it's going to close.

Speaker 1 And people who are here and working have a path to citizenship. And also, and then Tommy's in the background.
Tommy goes, and she's going to lower your taxes, lower your taxes.

Speaker 1 And then Nina and I are like, and your prescription drugs and also your health care and stuff like that. And she starts looking at all us and she goes, yeah, okay.
I'm voting Kamala.

Speaker 1 She's going to be in. And then Nina's like, Really? She's like, I promise.
I promise, Kamala. And we're like, yeah.

Speaker 16 Shout out to Nina, who is absolutely fearless about talking to everyone.

Speaker 16 Like the trumpiest person we walk by, the dude next to her on the plane that she then had to sit next to for an hour when he turned out to be a Trump fan. Every waitress we had.
We got one.

Speaker 16 We got two waitresses. We lost the hostess.

Speaker 1 That's right. We lost the

Speaker 1 hostess. We got the waiter.
Which is tough.

Speaker 17 I didn't get any of my dealers.

Speaker 1 I will say, and

Speaker 1 blackjack, not drugs. Don't look at me like like that.

Speaker 1 I will say the people,

Speaker 1 even the people who were voting for Harris, especially in Vegas, were like really enthusiastic.

Speaker 1 They were like, yes, of course, Kamala. There's a lot of, of course, of course.
We kept saying that the vibes felt better in

Speaker 1 Vegas than they did in Phoenix. Part of that, though, when we talked to a lot of the folks who have been on the ground in Arizona, I don't know if it's necessarily like...

Speaker 1 the vibes aren't as good because we're losing as it is it's really tense yeah in Arizona.

Speaker 1 Like the like people are afraid to put Kamala Harris signs up and there's a lot more Trump signs this time and there's like people talking about you know threats and harassment and stuff and it was very it really gives you a window into like what it's like being on the ground in a highly contested swing state yeah we the other the other point to note is that like we didn't see any Trump or Republican canvassers out on any of the we were in like look we have we have knocked on doors in college towns we have knocked on doors in Madison Wisconsin and that's a breeze yeah that's when you get uh people who aren't aren't on your list and they're walking their dogs and they're like, oh, friend of the pod.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's, yeah.

Speaker 17 You open the door. It's a, it's a call Congress sweatshirt.
Like, I think we got this person in the back.

Speaker 16 A stop Project 2025 button.

Speaker 17 But these were the really, um, these were the really closely divided and like last kind of persuadable areas. And so you do feel that tension.

Speaker 1 How about the guy in Henderson? We were in a suburb of Vegas, Henderson, and it was like a. pretty divided neighborhood, Trump and Harris.

Speaker 1 And one guy opens the door and we were actually like looking for his wife. And And he's like, she's voted.
And we're sort of nervous. We're like, well, what about you? Are you voting for Harris?

Speaker 1 He's like, yeah. And they're like, what about your neighborhood? He's like, it's a tough neighborhood.
He's like, half of us are voting for Kamala and the other half are treasonous assholes.

Speaker 1 We're like, okay, we got him. We got him.
Joe Biden's message worked on it.

Speaker 17 Yeah. That was the other thing, too.
It's like, there were so many people turning out to knock on doors. We, like, in all these places, there was like more people than we expected to see.

Speaker 17 And you go look on some of these Republican candidates and they're putting up their pictures of their Kimfis kicks off. And they don't have the bodies.
They don't have the people.

Speaker 1 I will say, just in case you're thinking, like, oh, well, door knocking is about reminding voters.

Speaker 1 There's some people who still aren't super tuned in. Remember the guy who is like a

Speaker 1 late 20s? He's washing his car. And Henderson, we go by, we start talking to him.
He's got his headphones on.

Speaker 1 Are you going to vote? Who are you going to vote for? And he's like,

Speaker 1 probably, Kamala. Love it.
It's like, probably? What else can I say to you? What else can I say? Do you want to talk about politics here on a Sunday morning?

Speaker 1 Please go away.

Speaker 17 And then I also just found myself too, like, there was somebody that answered the door and he, he, he was not on the list, but I think his two members of his family were on the list.

Speaker 17 And he's like, I don't vote and I'm not registered to vote. And it's already passed the deadlines.
We're like, well, we'll get you next time. And

Speaker 17 I just found you realize like at the end here, like, you just want to go to something so simple. I was like, commo's for lowering costs.
Trump's for a national sales tax. Tell your family.

Speaker 17 Tell your friends. Tell everybody.

Speaker 16 You also realize just how divorced the kind of cable, news, Twitter conversation about politics is.

Speaker 16 And we're in a very working class neighborhood, and I guarantee you those people were not up to speed on

Speaker 16 whether Liz Cheney should be out on the trail or how many interviews Kamala Harris had done or Call Her Daddy versus Joe Rogan.

Speaker 1 Squirrel assassination.

Speaker 16 We were so busy. I kind of have missed that.

Speaker 1 So I don't want to go anyway.

Speaker 16 But yeah, it was like a lot of people living in some tough, you know, economic circumstances and a reminder of who we as Democrats are supposed to be helping.

Speaker 16 We want the government to help and and you know, some motivation.

Speaker 1 And then, on the flip side, all of you, all the volunteers, are so consuming all of the information.

Speaker 1 We got off the plane last night. Tommy and I are walking into the car, and this is like, I mean, I didn't even know who the hell Ant Selzer was.

Speaker 1 I haven't tell all my friends about the Seltzer poll.

Speaker 1 Hopefully, a lot of you guys were out there on the doors too, making calls to your friends in the battlegrounds. You know who else was making calls to his friends? Who? This guy.

Speaker 1 Hello.

Speaker 18 Aaron, tim here what's up man how are you hey i'm good anything going anything yeah not much going on right now just two days to the election so uh hey nothing bad hey i'm calling we got it we got an operation going we're getting folks that are pushing to get make sure their friends have voted and got somebody else to vote you guys done already voting yes we have all right

Speaker 18 you take anybody else to poll

Speaker 19 well i made sure wolfie voted That's good work right there, man.

Speaker 18 We're going to win this thing, Aaron, and I'm

Speaker 18 grateful for that support. If you get anybody else to the polls, I know you got all the kids to vote and everything, but call somebody else, get them.
We're making a chain of this stuff.

Speaker 18 Pod Save America listeners, hey, I just made my call to friends, to my three friends. Get out there, make the difference on this thing.
We got two days. Let's win this thing.

Speaker 1 All right, Tim Walls. Tim.

Speaker 1 You know what, guys?

Speaker 1 If Tim Walls, Tim Walls can do it, who is doing a million rallies a day, can find the time to call his friends, you can find the time today and tomorrow morning, whenever, right up until polls close, to call your friends in swing states and get them to vote.

Speaker 1 Three friends.

Speaker 16 Also, according to our folks over at Votes Ave America, the Votes Ave America volunteers have made nearly 12 million voter contact attempts, including 215,000 door knocks and nearly 5 million calls made.

Speaker 16 So people have been putting in the work. So thank you, everyone.

Speaker 1 I'm proud of you guys that did that. You should be proud of yourselves, too.
All right, let's talk about the candidates' final weekend.

Speaker 1 Kamala Harris clearly believes every swing state is still in play because she was everywhere from Georgia and North Carolina to Michigan over the weekend.

Speaker 1 Today alone, the campaign has a series of rallies and concerts in Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, and one final event in Philadelphia that will feature Lady Gaga, The Roots, Oprah, Ricky Martin, and Fat Joe, which is always how you end a campaign.

Speaker 1 What a coalition. What a coalition.

Speaker 17 Get Liz Cheney up there. Joe's looks like George W.
Bush as a surprise guest.

Speaker 1 George W. Bush and Taylor Swiftwalker.
Joe looks like he lost a few. You know? No.
He's looking like a healthy Joe. I haven't seen him.
I just want to give him some credit.

Speaker 1 The big celeb cameo this weekend came from Kamala herself. Thought he made it too.

Speaker 17 I say he thought of it too late.

Speaker 1 The big celeb cameo came this weekend from Kamala herself, who made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live. Let's listen.
It is nice to see you, Kamala. It is nice to see you, Kamala.

Speaker 1 And I'm just here to remind you, you got this because you can do something your opponent cannot do. You can open doors.

Speaker 1 I see what you did there like to a garbage truck, right?

Speaker 1 Kamala, take my pamala.

Speaker 1 The American people want to stop the chaos and end the drama

Speaker 1 with a cool new stepmamala.

Speaker 1 Kick back in our pajamas and watch a rom kamala.

Speaker 1 Like legally blandala. Because what do we always say? Keep Kamala and carry on a la.

Speaker 1 What did you guys think about SNL? Just really funny. It was good.
It was well done.

Speaker 16 I mean, I'm really going to miss Dana Carvey as Joe Biden. That is just

Speaker 1 hilarious. I didn't get to watch the entire skit until last night we got home.
Once again, he just nailed it.

Speaker 1 It's also

Speaker 17 pretty intense that they did that Joe Biden bit in front of Kamala Harris, who's sitting there in that chair,

Speaker 1 which was great.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 17 I mean,

Speaker 17 I appreciated that. It was pretty on message.

Speaker 1 Pretty on message. It was,

Speaker 17 I know that Trump wants to shut down NBC and put Lauren Michaels in prison for some sort of law breaking related to this, but it was a pretty good and kind contribution. I'll take it.

Speaker 1 Well, did you see they gave Trump?

Speaker 1 They gave Trump the same amount of time during a NASCAR event, a NASCAR race yesterday?

Speaker 16 Yeah, it was definitely a high-information skit.

Speaker 16 You had to know about Trump's stupid garbage truck driving press conference stunt, which, by the way, Politico found some voters, some Puerto Rican voters in Pennsylvania, who saw that and actually thought it was a continuation of the Kill Tony joke that kicked this hole off, calling Puerto Rico an island of garbage.

Speaker 16 So brilliant plan there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think it's the SNL's not changing any minds, but I do think it projects like confidence and optimism like in the final weekend and like she can hang.

Speaker 1 And I got a text from a friend who he was always going to vote for Kamala, but there was a, you know, like a month ago, I was really trying to convince him that like she's, she's good.

Speaker 1 She's a great candidate. She's going to win.
And he was like really down on it. And he texted me after that.
He's like, oh, she's going to win now. She's going to win.
That was amazing.

Speaker 1 I'm like, okay, well, let's not go too crazy, but I think it did give some people who were probably already on her side, like, all right, let's do this.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I mean, look, the message that, like, can't, we, we want to move on from this kind of politics and we want to just go back to watching rom-coms and not thinking about it so much.

Speaker 17 I think it appeals to us to a certain certain SNL watching.

Speaker 1 Who will be disappointed even if we win.

Speaker 17 But I thought it was good.

Speaker 16 I saw that, you know, I think SNL is primarily consumed on YouTube these days, and 9.3 million people had watched the opening skit. So it's pretty good.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Harris pretty much stuck to the closing argument she delivered in D.C.
over the weekend. The campaign also released two final two-minute ads.

Speaker 1 One that shows Harris talking to people she's met on the campaign trail, promising to be a president for all Americans, touting her economic plans.

Speaker 1 They also have like big giant block letters on the screen. Take on price gouging, bring down the cost of groceries, bring down the cost of prescriptions.

Speaker 1 If that was the prose version of the final ad, there was a more poetry version that just came out right before we recorded. That's sort of more sweeping.
It's got the movie narrator voice.

Speaker 1 It's doing freedom. It hits Trump and Elon Musk

Speaker 1 ties Trump to billionaires and politicians doing the same old shit. I like that one too.
Any thoughts on her overall final pitch in these last days, either with the ads or on the stump?

Speaker 17 Honestly, my overall reaction is that it's like, there's nothing particularly new in the video, and it's a testament to how just exquisitely on message this campaign has been from the moment she became the candidate until these final days.

Speaker 17 They are trying to hammer these key points that they think will bring along the last few undecided on things like costs, on common sense solutions, something that she said in her speech.

Speaker 17 And that is in both of these ads. Clearly must be something that tests very well amongst a narrow sliver of voters they're trying to get to.
And

Speaker 17 I like the ad. Look, I'm a sucker for

Speaker 17 this morning we rise kind of an ad. It works on me every time.

Speaker 17 That'll never change for me. But overall, it is just a reminder that like we're going to talk about what we know, like what we've learned over the course of this campaign.
And we have learned a lot.

Speaker 17 But I do think one thing we are going to find out on Wednesday is about the value of an incredibly effective campaign and a campaign that is on message, trying to reach people. And

Speaker 17 yeah.

Speaker 1 I will say at her rally on Sunday night, she didn't mention Trump's name once. It was the first time.
And

Speaker 1 in the first ad, it doesn't really mention Trump. Trump's barely mentioned in that second ad, the Freedom Ad.

Speaker 1 And I think that as I've been like listening to her message, the ads at the end of the week, Tommy and I had this, you know, like friendly debate on the last pod about the fascism and the economic stuff.

Speaker 1 The truth is, they did it all. You know, at the end of the day, they realized that you kind of, you have to, you have to raise the stakes of the election.

Speaker 1 You have to remind people what they don't like about Trump. You have to introduce her.
You have to make sure that she's defined in a way that she's acceptable to people.

Speaker 1 And then you also have to talk about her plans for those, you know, like I just, I think they did it all.

Speaker 16 They definitely did it all. I mean, I think the question, the challenge in politics is measuring inputs versus outputs.
And you can obviously put all of that in the speech.

Speaker 16 The question is what gets to people. And it is kind of funny that there's two final two-minute ads.

Speaker 1 Like usually you have one because you're making choices.

Speaker 17 It's a campaign that has a billion dollars.

Speaker 16 Right. There's got so much money.
But I think they're great. Like I like the, I love the clips of her talking with voters where she seems like a human being connecting to them.

Speaker 16 I like the policy stuff at the top. I hate the narrator voice stuff, but whatever.
That's fine. Like

Speaker 1 difference of opinion.

Speaker 16 Who knows

Speaker 16 what voter is going to see this ad that hasn't already seen a trillion ads? We don't know. But I did, like, usually these campaigns close on a positive message.

Speaker 16 At least Democrats close positive, close optimistically. I noticed, too, that they proactively released to press that they had not mentioned Donald Trump in that event.

Speaker 16 I don't know if that's undercut by then releasing an ad that very much does mention him. And there's like clips of Elon Musk looking like a goober.
I'm guessing no one gives a shit.

Speaker 16 But I like her like, you know, telling us that there is a different brand of politics that we can achieve on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 I also think the decision to do everything everywhere all at once is very reflective of the information environment we're in now and how there's just like huge segments of voters that they need to reach that aren't getting their news from the same place, that aren't watching the same media.

Speaker 1 And so it's like, all right, little

Speaker 1 cost for this group of voters, little freedom and abortion for this group group of votes, right? Like they kind of have to do it all.

Speaker 1 And for us, it seems, because we are junkies who pay attention to this all the time, it seems like it's all over the place.

Speaker 1 But if you're one of these voters we talk to over the weekend and you just happen to turn on the TV or look on YouTube or wherever you get your news from, hopefully you see the right, uh, the right message.

Speaker 17 Yeah, you feel that, like you feel that, like you just, you just feel this ad, there's like a pen an inch above the paper, and they're just like trying to fucking drag the pen just down to get the fucking thing.

Speaker 17 I'm like, just get on the fucking thing.

Speaker 1 I don't quite know what what

Speaker 17 It's just like that that this is a this feels to me like ads aimed at people who are either

Speaker 1 trying to get them to vote Well look the people that are leaning towards Kamala that are open to Donald Trump and they're just trying to get people to just like that last little gap of like am I really gonna vote for this person What's what you were just saying about on the doors like the best thing about Talking to undecided voters is you don't have much time and you really do have to boil it down to just like, what's your, what's the thing you're going to say to them if you have five seconds?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Right.

Speaker 16 On the Republican side, it is like they're closing on a dead squirrel somewhere for some reason.

Speaker 1 I mean, look, and I will say their ad, we're about to talk about Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 Their ads are closing on the message, probably the right message, you know, at least if you're the Republicans and want to win.

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Speaker 1 Trump, on the other hand, he's taken a different approach to his final days on the trail, where he has openly fantasized about people shooting Liz Cheney and journalists, said he regrets ever leaving the White House after his failed coup, promised to put an anti-vax conspiracy theorist in charge of public health, mused that it should be illegal to release polls that show he's losing, called Democrats demonic, and deep-throated a microphone.

Speaker 1 Let's listen.

Speaker 22 To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news.

Speaker 22 And I don't mind that so much.

Speaker 22 I don't mind. This is a group of people, a large group of people, larger than people think, but it's a very demonic party.
We had the safest border in the history of our country the day that I left.

Speaker 22 I shouldn't have left. I mean, honestly.
Isn't this better than my speech? I love being off these stupid teleprompters teleprompters because the truth comes out.

Speaker 1 Isn't this better than my speech sounded like?

Speaker 1 If I didn't know that he didn't drink, I would think he was a little bit.

Speaker 16 He hates his prepared remarks.

Speaker 1 So Politico's headline about Trump's final weekend is Trump returns to his grievances for his closing argument.

Speaker 1 The Washington Post went with GOP's closing election message on health baffles strategists, worries experts.

Speaker 1 And the New York Times story out of the Pennsylvania event called Trump, quote, sluggish and aggrieved. That was in the headline.

Speaker 1 And the piece pointed out that Susie Wiles, who's running the Trump campaign, appeared to be giving Trump the wrap-it-up sign at some point in the remarks, I bet.

Speaker 1 What do you guys think is going on with Trump in these final days? And would anyone like to argue that any of it is strategic?

Speaker 16 No chance. I mean, I walked by the TV this morning and I heard him repeatedly mention Al Sharpton.
I was like, what?

Speaker 1 What happened here? Did Al Sharpton endorse Donald Trump?

Speaker 16 No, he was telling a long, whiny story about Van Jones being mean to him in, I believe, 2017. That's where we're at.
It's just like a grievance fest.

Speaker 16 And I think we don't know if he's going to win or lose, but there's just no question if he loses that part of it is because of this last, since, what is it, October 27th was the Madison Square Garden hate fest, which was so terrible that even Megan Kelly, like a...

Speaker 16 died in the wool MAGA person now,

Speaker 16 was complaining about it. Then he's talking about shooting reporters.

Speaker 16 I mean, the Bullworks just had a piece out where Trump came off stage after the event where he suggested that reporters might get shot, and he knew he had screwed up.

Speaker 16 He knows that relitigating 2020 is bad. So he seems just like an exhausted old man who is, you know, at the end of a process that would be brutal for someone half his age.

Speaker 16 And I think he also takes cues from the audience and he wants to entertain them. And he doesn't think his speech is entertaining.

Speaker 16 You know, he starts with, are you better off than you were four years ago? And then he's bored of that. And by the end, he's doing the weave for 96 minutes.

Speaker 16 And we're talking about, you know, squirrels or something.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 17 I mean, like, he jokes about, it's worth hearing the amount of like kind of a performative laughter from the crowd when he jokes about reporters getting murdered uh you know we went through a news cycle of uh actually there's an explanation for his weird violent fantasy about murdering liz cheney right the uh chicken hawk yeah the the snow's trying to call the journalists chicken hawks too yeah right yeah the snl part that people aren't talking about is part where with the trump impression and actually really kind of captures something about trump in the home stretch here which is like i don't want to keep doing this i don't want to be up here anymore there is a like i want to be with you people Donald Trump still wishes he would run against Joe Biden.

Speaker 17 He, I, I, I, you can see in how he is right now that he is like fundamentally like pissed off because if Joe Biden were the candidate, he thinks he'd be walking away with this thing.

Speaker 17 And now he's fighting it to a draw. I am sure he is seeing the actual internal polling from the Trump campaign showing how fucking close it is.
It's infuriating to him. And

Speaker 17 there's like just, he's angry. He's angry and he's tired.
And when he's tired, he can't help but be himself. And it's counterproductive.

Speaker 1 I've heard some people surmise that maybe all this RFK Jr. shit that's going on where he's like letting RFK Jr.

Speaker 1 out saying he's going to run public health and Trump saying I'm going to put him in charge of women's health and Trump's appearing with him in Michigan and all this kind of stuff has to do with like maybe they're trying to like get some RFK Jr.

Speaker 1 curious voters on board with Trump, especially places where RFK Jr. couldn't take himself off the ballot like Michigan, like Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 Like maybe, but I also think Occam's razor here is just like Trump says whatever the fuck comes out of his, what's on his mind.

Speaker 16 Yeah, and I don't know that RFK is the most loyal guy. I mean, he's always been kind of a narcissist in it for himself.

Speaker 16 But yes, Trump's out there getting questions about whether he would ban vaccines. Not get rid of vaccine mandates.
Ban vaccines.

Speaker 16 And, you know, we're not just talking about like mRNA vaccines or COVID. You know, RFK Jr.
is someone who questions the polio vaccine, measles.

Speaker 16 I mean, things that, you know, put humanity in a much better situation. And by the way,

Speaker 1 Trump left it open when asked. Left it open.
Left it open.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, again, as you're making arguments to people in the last minute, RFK Jr. also

Speaker 1 decided to tweet, like, when Trump takes office in January, the first thing we'll do is remove fluoride from drinking water. It's like, what?

Speaker 1 Like, something that has helped people's dental health for decades now. Yeah, like,

Speaker 17 that's what America is going to go for, the polls. They want more cavities.

Speaker 17 It's time for America's children to have more cavities. That's what everybody's out for right now.
I do like, I think two things can be true, right?

Speaker 17 I think he is hearing, like, hey, there's some, the low-information RFK people still may be voting for RFK.

Speaker 17 Let's try to get something in front of those people, counting on the fact that in the last 72 or 48 hours of the election, the fact that Donald Trump is suddenly promising to end all vaccine mandates and maybe take vaccines off the shelves is not going to reach the other kinds of people for whom that might be persuasive, or at least

Speaker 17 another final proof point for how Donald Trump is unstable and dangerous.

Speaker 1 Tim Alberta in the Atlantic has a long piece about sort of the Trump campaign towards the end.

Speaker 1 And, you know, he makes a good point that based on all the people he talked to close to Trump, Trump just doesn't like calm and normal and disciplined. He doesn't trust it.
And he gets bored.

Speaker 1 Like Tommy was saying with his speech, he also just gets bored with everything seeming normal and going well for him. He loves the chaos.

Speaker 1 He wants to trust his gut and say whatever the hell he wants and all exactly all the kind of qualities you want in a president. Just a classic, look, look, the man needs therapy.

Speaker 17 You recreate the patterns you had in your childhood. It makes you feel safe.
You don't trust when things are going well. Trump, we've been there.

Speaker 1 We've all been there.

Speaker 17 Got to work through that.

Speaker 16 I can't believe that Tim Alberta piece came out this weekend.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was

Speaker 1 on our flight to Arizona. Yeah.
But look, I think he has closed horribly. Again, he might win, right? Because maybe

Speaker 1 a lot of the vote is already baked in, and a lot of people have already decided. And so maybe that's enough for Trump to win.
I just,

Speaker 1 it was not surprising to hear David Pluff and Jen O'Malley Dillon Dillon and folks on the Biden campaign saying that they are, in the last week, they won undecided voters by double digits because I don't think Trump has done anything to convince people in this last week who weren't already inclined to vote for him.

Speaker 1 Detroit Free Press front page, split screen.

Speaker 1 It says, VP Harris voices optimism for America in message to Michigan. And then on the other side, it says, Trump campaigns and swing states says he shouldn't have left White House.

Speaker 1 Like, that's the front page that Michigan voters are waking up to.

Speaker 1 Bad news. All right, so this weekend we also got the final dump of polls in this race.
The last round of Time Sienna swing state polls came out on Sunday morning. It was kind of a surprising mix.

Speaker 1 They have Harris up three points in Nevada, two points in North Carolina, two points in Wisconsin, one point in Georgia, tied in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and down four in Arizona.

Speaker 1 Nate Cohn wrote in his analysis that there's some evidence of late deciders breaking for Harris. He has it at 16 points, 58 to 42.
The gap is much wider in the Sunbelt states.

Speaker 1 And then Trump leads by about the same margin among late deciders in the Blue Wall, which is interesting.

Speaker 17 That was the, yeah, you want to stop and talk about that. No, you want to keep going.

Speaker 1 Let's keep going. All in all, it suggests that there's more movement in the Sunbelt and it's going towards Harris.
But basically... Everything tied everywhere, at least according to the Times.

Speaker 1 Their average now is one point or less in every battleground except Arizona. Want to stop and just talk about these polls? Yeah, let's do this first.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 17 overall, it's just another set of polls showing it's really, really, really close. And the fact that voters in the Sunbelts are breaking towards Harris comports with what David Pluff was saying.

Speaker 17 There is this one strange number out of these polls, which is that in the

Speaker 17 northern swing states, Trump led 60 to 40 among late deciders, which is in opposite of the three Sunbelt states and from what we've heard from the Harris campaign. So it was just strange.

Speaker 17 And it's just one of those like, well, that data point makes a narrative really hard to form.

Speaker 17 And that's all. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that, you you know, it's all tied up.

Speaker 1 I do think one explanation for her doing better in the Sun Belt and then slightly worse in the Northern Battlegrounds is it's just the electorate is starting to return to form to the 2020 electorate a little bit.

Speaker 1 And, you know, you saw this, some YouGov did, had done a series of polls of black voters.

Speaker 1 And Trump's share of the black vote has basically stayed the same over the last several months, but Harris's has grown in the lat in their final wave of polls.

Speaker 1 And so you're starting to see in high-quality polls that sort of focus on an entire demographic so that you don't get these like, you know, crosstab small samples.

Speaker 1 You see the black vote starting to look more like it did in 2020. You see the Latino vote starting to look more like it did in 2020.
The youth vote starting to look more, right?

Speaker 1 So you're seeing some reversion in some of these polls to like what the electorate was like in 2020, which would make sense of why the Sunbelt is getting a little better for her and then it's getting a little tighter in the northern ballot.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 17 I also, one of Nate Cohen pointed this out about late deciders that

Speaker 17 both of these things can't be true.

Speaker 17 It can't be true that in Pennsylvania, according to the Times, late breakers are going towards Trump, and according to the Harris campaign, they're going towards Harris.

Speaker 17 Just one of those things has to be true. And the question is, what is the artifact of this polling that's pulling out that kind of information? It might just be that

Speaker 17 people saying that they are late deciders may have in a previous poll is what Nate pointed out, might have already have been saying they were voting for Harris had they been called a week or two earlier.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 16 There's generally just a mixed bag. I mean, we want her to win in the Midwestern states first and foremost because that seems to be the most likely path.

Speaker 16 But there was a surprisingly strong result out of Nevada that we hadn't seen in a while, which seemed to cut against the doom and gloom we've seen from John Rawlson about the early vote.

Speaker 16 So again, we're just emotional basket cases.

Speaker 1 That's right. Well, the poll heard around the world

Speaker 1 dropped on Saturday night as the legendary Ann Seltzer of the Des Moines Register came down from the mountaintop with a tablet that showed Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump 47-44 in the state of Iowa, a state that Donald Trump won by eight points in 2020, and where Seltzer June poll of this year had Trump leading Joe Biden by 18 points.

Speaker 1 In 2020, Seltzer final poll showing Trump up by seven was the first and only sign that the polls were underestimating Trump, like they did in 2016, when Seltzer's final poll showed him with a seven-point lead over Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 1 He ended up winning the state by nine that year. That was a terrifying moment for all of us in 2016 when we were like, oh, maybe this is not going to go the way we think.

Speaker 1 I remember when we were talking about it. Let's all ignore that.

Speaker 1 According to the poll, the shocking result this time around is based on a surge towards Harris among older and independent women.

Speaker 1 Trump, of course, called it a fake poll done by a Trump hater in a call with an NBC reporter. He had previously called it a really great poll, of course.

Speaker 1 The Harris campaign said on a briefing call, quote, We are seeing that we're closing strong. I would not read into it any more than that.

Speaker 1 Point taken, but let's do it anyway. Tommy, how should people be thinking about this poll?

Speaker 16 I mean, I think it's a shocking outlier, but one from someone who is considered one of the best pollsters in the business, if not the best.

Speaker 16 I personally cannot overstate how large Ann Selter loomed in my life because she basically called the Iowa caucuses in 2008, or at least she had Obama winning by basically the margin that he ultimately won by.

Speaker 16 So, you know, you explained how Selter got this result, which was older voters, independent women breaking for Kamala Harris.

Speaker 16 Oddly, she has Harris winning senior men, men over 65, by two points, which is just kind of like hard to fathom. Selter says she doesn't know exactly how, why this is happening.

Speaker 16 She thinks it's because of Iowa's extremely draconian six-week abortion ban and the impact that is having.

Speaker 16 The one thing that's just worth knowing is Selter's methodology is different from a lot of other pollsters because she basically just draws her sample by randomly calling Iowa phone numbers, landlines and cell phones.

Speaker 16 They contacted 1,000 adults to get 808 Iowans.

Speaker 16 They waited a little bit, but they're not doing all the kind of monkey business that a lot of other pollsters are doing, where they are basically asking respondents who they voted for in 2020 and waiting their sample that way so it looks like that electorate.

Speaker 16 So, you know, it's a gutsy poll to release because she knew, you know, she says in an interview with Tim Miller she did yesterday,

Speaker 16 one day my methodology won't work and I'll explode and like spread into little pieces over Des Moines or something very funny like that.

Speaker 1 But we'll see.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I mean, like my takeaway from the poll. So first of all, there's another poll out of Kansas that showed Trump only winning by five.

Speaker 17 And I bring it up only because these are polls that can't hurt because no one else is polling these states. And those polls could actually end up becoming outliers.

Speaker 17 And it turns out that the polls showing a tie or Trump ahead are correct.

Speaker 17 And we'll say, oh, these were outliers because maybe those voters were because of how she samples or because of the politics of those places slightly different. But all in all, it tells me, like,

Speaker 17 you know, Nate Cohen wrote up about these times, Sienna polls, that basically if there's a polling error like 2020,

Speaker 1 it could turn out that Donald Trump could run the table.

Speaker 17 If there's a polling error like 2022, it could turn out that Harris runs the table.

Speaker 17 And I think the truth is we just don't know because as Tommy pointed out, a lot of these polls are being weighted towards the 2020 sample, which is just a way to kind of basically have them all heard towards a result that kind of looks like 2020 with certain assumptions about how the electorate has changed baked in.

Speaker 17 But that's not really a poll, right? That's something else.

Speaker 17 That's a model.

Speaker 1 Yes. I also, and Salter said this to Tim, but

Speaker 1 her weighting, that, you know, she's defending her weighting, right? Which is not weighted towards recalled vote or party, even party ID or registration, but it is by demographic.

Speaker 1 And so she's getting enough of each kind of voter in Iowa and by region, right? So she's trying to get, so she's trying to avoid the the early congressional district.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just getting a bunch of excited libs, but who knows?

Speaker 1 I think there's just a signal in the poll. I think that's the best you can say, right? Which is that there is that Harris is holding up surprisingly well, maybe among older voters.

Speaker 1 Now, of course, the poll said that Biden was doing really well with seniors and then he did typical performance with seniors. He did a little bit better than Hillary had.

Speaker 1 And it's showing that women, older women, independent women, are really, really motivated to go vote. And that could have implications for Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 That traditionally, that has been what Selter's poll has told people.

Speaker 1 And this was the case in 16 and 20, like, oh, well, if Trump's doing that well in Iowa, then maybe Joe Biden or maybe Hillary Clinton aren't doing as well as we think, according to the polls in Wisconsin, which ended up being true those years.

Speaker 1 She could be wrong, of course. Her last miss, her last big miss on the presidential level was in 2004.
But even then, she had Kerry up by three. Bush ended up winning by 0.7.
So that was an, so like,

Speaker 1 this is, what she has in this result is an 11-point swing from the 2020 results. Margin of error at the 95% confidence level is 9.
Let's say that it's 9, right? Let's say she's off by 9.

Speaker 1 That's still... Trump plus 6 in Iowa instead of Trump plus 8 would still be a shift to the left by two points.
Yeah,

Speaker 17 the takeaway for me, like stepping all the way back is, okay, okay, well, it seems like Ann is suggesting there's an error in the polls that looks a bit more like 2022, that there is this pro-choice, anti-Dobbs vote.

Speaker 17 And then the question becomes, okay, I was a place with a draconian abortion law.

Speaker 17 Wisconsin's a state that just elected a Supreme Court judge to stop them from having a draconian ancient abortion law in place, but it's a state where that was very much a fear.

Speaker 17 You have Michigan, where Gretchen Whitmer campaigned on protecting abortion access. You have Pennsylvania, where you have a Democratic governor that has been able to protect abortion access.

Speaker 17 The question is, what does that anti-Dobbs, pro-abortion coalition look like in states where abortion isn't as much under threat or in a state like Arizona where they have a ballot measure or Nevada where they have a ballot measure?

Speaker 17 And I guess that to me is the open question.

Speaker 16 For what it's worth, Tim asked Ann Seltzer about what this. result could mean for Wisconsin.
He's like, because there's a lot of white people in both places and they eat at Culver's.

Speaker 16 And she cautioned against that kind of analysis. I mean, I was...

Speaker 1 She just said she can't. She's like, I'm not qualified to know because I don't know.

Speaker 16 Well, she said, well, yeah, she said the only way I would agree to do that is if I pulled that state.

Speaker 16 But it's also just worth pointing out that Wisconsin is getting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of messaging every day. There's field teams.
There's people knocking doors.

Speaker 16 Iowa's got none of that because it's not a competitive state. So it's probably easier to reach people.
They're just not hearing the campaign messaging. So it's just like, it's a big, like, who knows?

Speaker 16 But the hopeful version is definitely like, okay, maybe this is a signal that something good is happening out there.

Speaker 1 Another high-quality, highly rated pollster, Marist, just came out with their final national poll, 5147 Harris.

Speaker 1 They are the other big, high quality pollster that does not wait by education or passed vote. So there's something, there's some split there.
And, you know,

Speaker 1 we'll find out.

Speaker 17 Yeah, we will find out.

Speaker 17 But I will say, I just want to be on, like, even if the election results end up mirroring the kind of cascade of ties, that will not mean that their approach was the correct one.

Speaker 17 It will just mean that they herded luckily, correctly. And we will run in in the next midterms and the next presidential, the same confounding, what do these mean?

Speaker 17 We will have no idea until the votes come in.

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Speaker 1 All right, we're getting to the end here. We said all along, rather be us than them.
You guys still feel like that's true?

Speaker 21 I think so.

Speaker 16 I would have had a different answer two weeks ago, to be totally honest with you. And now I feel hopeful because Kamala Harris is closing strong.

Speaker 16 And I think Trump has fumbled every bag he has been handed for 10 days now.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I would rather be us than them.

Speaker 17 It wouldn't have changed for me over the last couple of weeks, even with the ebb and flow, because the push to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris was just a bet on politics.

Speaker 17 And we are practicing politics. Donald Trump is doing something else.

Speaker 16 And I still would rather bet on politics.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I would much rather be us. I mean, I think the question

Speaker 1 is,

Speaker 1 what are we talking about when people head into the voting booth? And we are, what the Trump campaign would want people to be thinking about when they head into the voting booth is Joe Biden,

Speaker 1 whether or not you feel better off than four years ago, inflation, immigration, squirrels, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're not talking about any of the things that we know the Trump campaign wants people to think about because it's in their ads. And so now, again, maybe people have already decided.

Speaker 1 And so that doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 But they are not doing that at the end. And Trump's just saying crazy shit.
He's being off his rocker.

Speaker 1 He is anyone who's just tuning into this whole thing, think of what they have seen in the last week from Donald Trump. And because I think we'll be like, well, sometimes that works with people.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that works with his base, but not people who are just tuning in.

Speaker 1 And I think fundamentally, if you're zooming out, like

Speaker 1 her coalition is relying on more reliable voters than his, right? And now his base is certainly reliable. The turnout in the rural areas already, early vote is like through the roof.

Speaker 1 But he's betting on low propensity men to save the day for him. And it could pay off, but it's a, it's a riskier bet.

Speaker 16 Luck's army of incels.

Speaker 17 I just think about like, I will, for me, like the last week and a half has truly, to me, been about Trump on Joe Rogan versus Michelle Obama.

Speaker 17 And I just think like, Michelle Obama made a case not just to people who were going to vote for Harris, but for the people around those people, right?

Speaker 17 Like for them to go to their husbands, to go to their brothers and their sisters and to say, please come with me.

Speaker 17 I don't, Donald Trump has not given a message to his MAGA base or on that show that says, I know you're with me. Here's how to go get some other people.
He just has not done that.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, before we sign off for the last time, before results come in,

Speaker 1 while we're all in agonizing suspense, we thought it'd be a good time to talk about what we've learned from this race and any takes we feel confident about regardless of what happens on Tuesday.

Speaker 1 I'll run through a couple quick.

Speaker 17 Polling is broken. I hit that one.

Speaker 17 Candidates matter. Switching from Biden to Kamala is why we have a chance.
She has been an extraordinary candidate.

Speaker 17 She took on the mantle, and she deserves so much praise for that, no matter what happens. And I am sure there will be plenty of recriminations if we were to lose.

Speaker 17 And I just want to be on record saying that because I would like to not be a part of that.

Speaker 17 There will be not a perfect campaign, but if it required a perfect campaign to defeat this fucking moron, then America's got bigger fish to fry. Campaigns matter.
She ran a great campaign.

Speaker 17 The bigger points to me are the full takeover of the Republican Party by Trump is complete.

Speaker 17 And I don't know what comes next for Republicans if Donald Trump loses, but we cannot forget what these people fucking did.

Speaker 17 Every single one who capitulated, every single one who sold their souls for him, they're not walking away from that. We will remember.
The last piece, too, is

Speaker 17 because Kamala became the candidate late because of a lot of headwinds around people being frustrated by the cost of living, an anti-incumbency trend that is global.

Speaker 17 It may not manifest in this election, but there is an there's not just an anti-Trump coalition out there.

Speaker 17 There is a pro-freedom, pro-democracy, economically populist coalition out there that we can assemble. We see that with Dan Osborne and the success he's had.

Speaker 17 We see that with ballot measures across the country.

Speaker 17 That movement, that majority is there for us, win or lose.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, I think I totally agree with that.

Speaker 16 Candidates matter a lot. I think that if this were Biden versus Trump,

Speaker 16 we would be on a path to Trump getting 400 electoral votes or more, and it would be very, very bad.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the good news there is there'd be less anxiety.

Speaker 16 There'd be less anxiety.

Speaker 16 There'd be more battening down the hatches,

Speaker 16 more applying for passports in other places.

Speaker 16 I think also we learned that abortion is not a secondary issue for people. It's not a quote-unquote social issue or one that declined in salience as we got further from Dobbs.

Speaker 16 It's an issue where the results of the Dobbs decision became more and more prevalent, and the stories became more personal and horrifying. And I think that drove voters.

Speaker 16 There's been a lot of polling where you've seen abortion tick up over the last few weeks in terms of its relevance.

Speaker 16 I also think like there was a very annoying kind of internet Twitter meme for a while when Trump would say something and people would be like, lol, nothing matters. You know, I remember that?

Speaker 16 And like sometimes that's true. You know, when you're in the kind of dregs of an off year, he can say something.
Most people won't see it. It won't matter.

Speaker 16 And I also think that ultimately, look, the fact that we're here suggests that January 6th wasn't the career-ending event like it should have been. But what he says and does matters on the margins.

Speaker 16 I mean, the Madison Square Garden rally has hung with him. Yep.

Speaker 16 There's a Univision poll of Pennsylvania Latino voters that found a lot of people personally offended by that joke, the Kill Tony joke about Puerto Rico.

Speaker 16 71% of respondents said the joke suggested there was racism in the Trump campaign, and 53% think Trump is very disrespectful to Latinos.

Speaker 1 So racism in the Trump campaign.

Speaker 16 Kind of shocker, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Yeah. Nick Fuentes.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I mean, like the flip side to Joe Biden would be down to Trump.

Speaker 17 We don't know what it would be like right now if they had run a normal Republican, like Nikki Haley versus Biden, but like Nikki Haley versus Kamala Harris.

Speaker 17 Like we don't know what it would look like that they had all the trends of anti-incumbency, all the anger at the economy, all the anger at the Biden administration behind a normal candidate running a strategic campaign.

Speaker 17 I don't think we'd be pretty happy sitting here either.

Speaker 16 Yeah. Divided country.
Anything could happen. Sucks that we got here, but feeling better.

Speaker 1 If she loses, I think the explanation to me feels pretty straightforward, which is that voters who don't follow news closely, who don't show up in every election, were still pissed about high prices and or

Speaker 1 the border,

Speaker 1 which is sort of the post-pandemic malaise that has, as you said, Lovett, just taken down incumbents all over the world.

Speaker 1 And trading our very unpopular incumbent for his vice president 90 days out from the election still wasn't quite enough to overcome that environment.

Speaker 1 I think if she loses, that to me is the most likely explanation.

Speaker 1 If she wins, it is because the anti-MAGA coalition that has turned out in every election since 16 to beat Donald Trump and beat MAGA politicians did it again. And it was fueled by women.

Speaker 1 who were pissed about Dobbs and people, an anti-MAGA coalition, very pissed about Donald Trump's threat to democracy.

Speaker 1 And what Kamala Harris did, which would be an incredible, like history-making achievement, is in 90 days, she reminded people of what's at stake and also defined herself in a way where she neutralized Donald Trump's advantage on the economy and on immigration just enough to make sure that that anti-MAGA coalition could propel her to the White House.

Speaker 1 And it's sort of why I'm like relatively calm, because I feel like we have done all we can

Speaker 1 to make sure everyone who's paying attention knows the stakes.

Speaker 1 And when I say we, it's like the other thing that makes me sort of proud and happy at the end here is like the anti-MAGA coalition got the assignment. We were saying that at the convention.

Speaker 1 Kamala Harris had to walk the highest, narrowest tightrope, and you can count on one hand the number of times that she stumbled.

Speaker 1 Jen O'Malley Dillon, who was the Biden campaign chair and now Kamala Harris's chair, and the entire Biden campaign, who's now the Harris campaign, plus all the new people who joined, they all got the assignment.

Speaker 1 They did everything they could. The left, AOC and Bernie did everything they could.
Liz Cheney and the Never Trump Republicans did. Like the legacy media clearly covered the stakes.

Speaker 1 A lot of people have complaints about the media, but like plenty of articles out there about what Donald Trump's planning to do if he wins again.

Speaker 1 And so if people choose that, then like that's what the country wanted. And I don't believe that's what the country wants.
And I think that we can overcome that.

Speaker 1 But that's, really, I'm proud of everyone for pulling together and doing everything we can to stop this guy.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 17 I will say too, though, even in that circumstance, even with all of us doing everything we can, if we lose, I do think like, will that be because this country wanted someone as awful and terrible as Donald Trump?

Speaker 17 Will that be because this country wanted tariffs and a national sales tax and mass deportations? I think some people really want those things.

Speaker 17 I think some people are pretending to believe he won't do those things or actually believe he won't do those things.

Speaker 17 But I also do think that like we can't always lay at the feet of the Harris campaign or Democrats or even the media, like what it means for someone like Donald Trump to be anywhere close to the White House.

Speaker 17 And those are deeper economic problems. Those are deeper social problems.
Those are problems with social media that will continue, that we have to keep figuring out how to fight back against.

Speaker 17 And that's true regardless of the outcome. And that is true regardless of the outcome.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's our show for today.
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