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

Speaker 3 I'm John Lovett, Tommy Vitor.

Speaker 1 On today's show, the prosecution's witnesses in the Manhattan trial, including Hope Hicks, deliver damning new testimony against Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 We're also going to talk about Trump's donor retreat at Mar-a-Lago, where he compared the Biden administration to Nazis, offered attendees a turn at the mic if they donated a million dollars, and held live auditions for his running mate, including Every Puppy's Worst Nightmare, Christy Noam.

Speaker 1 Then later, Vote Save America's fearless leader, Shaniqua McClendon, will be here to talk about the big launch of Organize or Else, which is the easiest and most effective way to get involved in this election.

Speaker 1 But first, some big developments in Gaza over the last several days. Hamas said they agreed to a ceasefire deal drawn up by Qatar in Egypt.

Speaker 1 It's unclear what the terms of the deal were, but the Israeli government rejected it and then announced that they were striking Hamas targets in eastern Rafah, where they've also begun evacuating more than 100,000 Palestinians in preparation for an invasion.

Speaker 1 They also said they'll send a delegation to keep negotiating a deal. The sticking point seems to be the length of the ceasefire.
Hamas wants it to be permanent. Israel does not.

Speaker 1 Biden spoke to Netanyahu just before all this happened and warned him against invading Rafah. And then a U.S.

Speaker 1 official told Reuters that Washington is committed to stopping the invasion and that Netanyahu has not approached these negotiations with Hamas in good faith.

Speaker 1 Obviously, a lot we still don't know, but Tommy, what's the reason Bibi doesn't seem to want a permanent ceasefire if it would mean getting the hostages back?

Speaker 3 Because

Speaker 3 getting the hostages back is a priority, but not the sole priority or probably even his first priority.

Speaker 3 I mean, he said repeatedly that he believes that they need to destroy Hamas and that he thinks that requires a ground invasion into Rafah because that's where the remaining battalions of Hamas fighters are and where the Hamas leadership is.

Speaker 3 The more cynical version or read on this is that Netanyahu is facing some political pressure from the families of hostages, but he faces even more existential pressure from the right-wingers in his cabinet who want a Rafah invasion.

Speaker 3 For example, Itmar Ben-Gavir, the National Security Minister, said, we did not attack Gaza and we got October 7th. We didn't attack Rafah and we got a precision attack.
Netanyahu go to Rafah now.

Speaker 3 So this is a guy who could pull his coalition support and topple the government, which makes Senyahu out of power.

Speaker 3 So there's a lot of people that think Bibi is perpetuating the war because it will help him stay in power for as long as possible.

Speaker 3 And maybe you can use that power to evade some corruption charges down the road, but that's the kind of more cynical read.

Speaker 1 I mean, it sure seems like he's putting his own political future and his job, maybe his own freedom, I guess, ahead of the lives of hostages at this point.

Speaker 1 I mean, I just like, I saw someone say, well, you know, if you, if you do that deal and then you promise to end the war, it rewards Hamas for taking hostages.

Speaker 1 But like, I don't, I don't know what kind of reward that is after this war already has taken so many lives and also like destroyed a lot of Hamas.

Speaker 1 And then I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think that like you have a chance. You have a deal to get the hostages back.
I don't understand why you wouldn't take it.

Speaker 1 It's like pressure from the families, also pressure from like thousands of Israelis protesting now. Tell me, what do you think Biden should do if this deal falls apart and Israel invades?

Speaker 1 I mean, they've already started to strike, but.

Speaker 3 I mean, I look, it hasn't started yet. I think they've been hitting Rafah targets for a very long time, and they've told people to evacuate, but there's no way.
They're not evacuating people.

Speaker 3 You know, you're just told to go somewhere else, essentially.

Speaker 3 I think it's absolutely critical that they use every bit of leverage they have now to get a ceasefire and prevent this large ground invasion into Rafah.

Speaker 3 Again, the statistics are 34,000 people are already dead, including an estimated 13,000 children. And now the World Food Program says there is a full-blown famine happening in northern Gaza.

Speaker 3 One aid crossing in northern Gaza is closed now because Hamas shelled an area near it over the weekend. The other main aid crossing is Rafah.

Speaker 3 So you have to assume that would get shut down during a Rafah invasion. So the question is, where are people going to get food from?

Speaker 3 There are people who have now been asked to evacuate five, six, seven times with their families. They don't have clean water.
They don't have sanitation. They can barely find food.
now,

Speaker 3 let alone fuel to evacuate or go somewhere.

Speaker 3 So you'll have people who I talked to someone who leads a NAID organization today, this morning, and she said, some people are just saying, no, I'm not going to evacuate this time.

Speaker 3 You told me to evacuate so many times, and I'm just not going to do it. So these people are going to be in the line of fire.
So I just think that at this point, you cannot justify expanding this war.

Speaker 3 It is a moral and strategic and humanitarian disaster. Thousands more kids will die.

Speaker 3 And so even from the Israeli standpoint, I think a Rafah invasion is more likely to kill the hostages than rescue them. I think it will lead to Israel being being more isolated.

Speaker 3 And I also think that this military effort is based on a false promise from Netanyahu that you can eradicate Hamas entirely through a military means. That is just, I don't think that's true.

Speaker 3 Even the Israeli military says that Hamas will exist after the war as a guerrilla group, as an extremist group. They're an idea.
They're a resistance occupation.

Speaker 3 And so we've learned in Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, that you can't find a military solution to a political problem, and there will have to be some sort of political talks or accommodation that gets to a two-state solution.

Speaker 3 And so my priority, if I were sitting in the White House, would be to do everything humanly possible to get a ceasefire immediately and then flood aid into Gaza and then figure out the rest later.

Speaker 1 I also understand like the Israelis want to, you know, root out Hamas's leadership and defend themselves from another October 7th style attack.

Speaker 1 But it does seem like you could do both of those things, or at least you have the chance to do both of those things, particularly defend yourself without doing a full ground invasion of Rafah, right?

Speaker 1 Like, couldn't you just have a ceasefire and then, you know, there's targeted operations down the road and you've, you know, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 Yes and no. I mean, listen, I think a couple of things.

Speaker 3 One, you just have to imagine to put yourself in the Israeli mindset, I do think you have to try to imagine how we all felt six months after 9-11.

Speaker 3 And there's a piece of this where they want, do you want to take out al-Qaeda or you want to take out Hamas? But there's also just, I think, a desire for vengeance.

Speaker 3 And we should just be honest about that. There is also this tunnel infrastructure where they think Yaya Sinwar is hiding and the other leadership of Hamas.

Speaker 3 They believe that Sinwar is surrounded by 15 or so hostages to protect himself from some sort of military operation or airstrike. And so it's very complicated.

Speaker 3 Like, I'm not saying any of this is easy,

Speaker 3 but I do think six months, seven months into this war, like we've seen the death toll. We've seen

Speaker 3 how badly it's gone for everyone involved. And it's time to just get to a ceasefire.
I hear you on the White House ought to put as much pressure as possible on getting to a ceasefire.

Speaker 3 How are they meant to do that when Israel's interests and Netanyahu's interests don't align? Right? Like that, that's what I,

Speaker 3 I'm not saying

Speaker 3 you don't understand that too. I'm just that is to me like the challenge in this, which is, you know, Biden calls BB just today, right, to make sure that they open this crossing.

Speaker 3 And they're clearly trying every way they can to get to a ceasefire.

Speaker 3 But when net, when there is a a wide recognition that Israel's interest is in a ceasefire, that this is not serving the long-term security and

Speaker 3 strategic interests of this country, but Netanyahu has his own equities in this. I guess I just don't understand how you kind of cut that knot.

Speaker 3 Aaron Powell, I mean, I think what a lot of people want to see is more of a carrot and stick approach where there are real consequences for defying U.S.

Speaker 3 requests like this that include conditioning aid or cutting off weapons shipments or fill in more recognition of Palestinian statehood at the UN. There's a lot of ways to put pressure on Netya.

Speaker 3 None of them are comfortable for someone like Biden, who's a

Speaker 3 longtime self-professed lover of Israel and supporter of the Israeli project and government. But I think a lot of Democrats want to see more of that pressure track.

Speaker 1 Trevor Burrus: Well, and Biden, I mean, in the White House readout of the call today, they said he reiterated his clear position on Rafah, which is don't invade Rafah. Rafa.

Speaker 1 And when he had said that previously, he also said, you know, or the White House had said, like, there could be a rethinking of support for Israel, right?

Speaker 1 So like, I think if they go through with this invasion, he's got to, he can't just like have drawn that line and then not do anything.

Speaker 3 After the IDF struck that World Central Kitchen convoy and killed seven aid workers, Biden made a call to Net Yahoo that sounded like it was very difficult.

Speaker 3 He demanded several things, and, you know, Netyahu went out and said that they would accede to those demands.

Speaker 3 I think a lot of people saw that example and thought, okay, the pressure track has been effective where six months of requests have not. So let's emphasize that more.

Speaker 3 And I think that is the right path, clearly.

Speaker 1 Totally. All right.
Let's talk about the latest in Trump's criminal trial.

Speaker 1 On Friday, Hope Hicks delivered some of the most damning testimony yet against her former boss when she revealed that Trump told her that he knew about the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and was glad the story didn't come out before the election.

Speaker 1 Trump also said that Cohen made the payments on his own, which Hicks said she believed was a lie. She then broke down into tears on the stand.

Speaker 1 On Monday, the prosecution moved on to the falsifying business records part of the crime.

Speaker 1 They called the Trump organization's former comptroller to the stand, who admitted that Trump's reimbursement to Michael Cohen was falsely recorded as a legal expense and that Trump signed the checks.

Speaker 1 Oh, and Judge Mershon held Trump in contempt of court a second time for violating his gag order again and threatened incarceration again, saying, quote, the last thing I want to do is put you in jail, but at the end of the day, I have a job to do.

Speaker 1 And here's what Trump had to say about that after the trial.

Speaker 4 Our Constitution is much more important than jail. It's not even close.

Speaker 4 I'll do that sacrifice any day.

Speaker 3 That's why that juror number seven is a real sow.

Speaker 3 And I'll say it if I have to for the country.

Speaker 3 I've gone from thinking Trump was terrified to go to jail to wondering if he wants to to seem like a martyr for his people now.

Speaker 1 I keep going back and forth on it. And today, after that, I'm like, I'm a little more on the side of, I'm where you are, Tommy.

Speaker 3 I don't, I still, I still don't believe it. I still think he's putting on a show that he doesn't want to go.
What if he wants to sing in the J6 choir?

Speaker 3 Well, yeah, I guess I don't know if they're taking a view.

Speaker 1 He's a hitmaker. He's also probably asking, you know, he's asking his lawyers, like, well, how long would I spend in jail? Right.
Would it be like a day? Would it be a couple days? Right. Upstate or

Speaker 1 rich.

Speaker 3 I think that, like, the, I think the, the, the lack of control over face, hair, body, I think it's like a big deal. I think it's a big deal for him.
He wears a hat when it's windy.

Speaker 3 Now he's going to go to jail.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Although he's not, he knows he's not going to get thrown in a cell with other, uh, with other inmates, you know? Right.

Speaker 3 Tim and his secret service buddies. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So he's probably... I can't even move for talking about that.
This is wild. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Living a fucking carnival.

Speaker 1 Stupid. So the whole thing's stupid.
Usually we have guests with actual law degrees with us to talk about these developments.

Speaker 1 But from everything you guys have seen and read, how are you feeling about how this trial is going for Trump?

Speaker 1 Should he start measuring the drapes at at Rikers or what?

Speaker 1 It's not going particularly well.

Speaker 3 The Hope Hicks testimony is interesting.

Speaker 3 There's two parts that stood out to me. One was when she first gets the emailed transcript of the Access Hollywood tape and she goes and she brings it to Trump.

Speaker 3 Trump's like, that doesn't sound like me. I wouldn't say that.
And then minutes later, they had the video, which I thought was great. Just, you know, anyway.
He's a liar. He's a fucking liar.

Speaker 1 But that's the point of that.

Speaker 3 But there's the part where she describes Trump telling her after it becomes public about Michael Cohen making the payments, where Trump tells Hope Hicks something like,

Speaker 3 I just talked to Michael. I just talked to him.
Michael did it out of the goodness of his heart.

Speaker 3 And he did it without my knowledge. He did it out of the goodness of his heart.
And that's what Michael did. I just talked to him.

Speaker 1 And also a good thing it didn't come out before the election. And a good thing it didn't come out before the election.

Speaker 3 But just that kind of

Speaker 3 fucking dime store mafioso, like getting the story straight thing just comes across.

Speaker 3 And And the fact that she's breaking down as she tells us, and I'm sure is a very compelling witness, I don't think it was a good day for him.

Speaker 3 I also like that we learned that I think Trump apparently asked Hope to hide the newspapers that got delivered to Trump's home to keep Melania from seeing a story about his affair with Karen McDougal, which is a technique that didn't work before the internet.

Speaker 3 Because other people get newspapers and they can call your wife.

Speaker 1 It's so funny.

Speaker 3 You assume Melania has a phone?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't know if she has a phone. But that was interesting.

Speaker 1 Whether Trump directed Michael Cohen to do it or whether Michael Cohen actually did it out of the goodness of his heart, Andrew Weissman was saying that it doesn't actually matter for this case because Trump knowing about the scheme after the fact and knowing about it, like that's all they need to prove that he knew about it.

Speaker 1 He knew that falsifying the business records was in furtherance of covering up the campaign finance violation. So that's what they have to prove.

Speaker 1 It is more damning if what Hicks said is is true and what Michael Cohen surely will say is true, which is of course Trump directed Michael Cohen to do it. But it's not absolutely necessary.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, look, I'm sure that's right legally

Speaker 3 because he's the lawyer. Yeah.
And we're nothing. Right.

Speaker 1 That's why I follow Andrew Ouisman.

Speaker 3 But just in terms of like the story.

Speaker 3 Like for people hearing this, like I do think it is actually important in terms of the seriousness of it to know that like from the beginning he was directing this, that he wasn't just after the fact trying to kind of

Speaker 1 fuck up the ledger. And I think that's why they started with Pecker, right? Because they wanted to lay the predicate that this started in 2015, 2016.
Trump was there.

Speaker 1 Trump entered into the deal with them and said, let's do this catch and kill thing with any kind of story that comes up.

Speaker 1 And so now you have to believe that Trump wanted to do that with Karen McDougal, the negative stories on his opponents, all this other shit.

Speaker 1 But when it came to Stormy Daniels, then it was just Michael Cohen acting on his phone.

Speaker 3 Some people think it's a better strategy to start with Pecker. Some people finish with Pecker.
But I think in this case, you were right. I think starting with Pecker was nice.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 3 big picture. Hope seemed to confirm that

Speaker 3 Trump ran a, micromanaged everything that happened in his little family business.

Speaker 3 And the idea that Michael Cohen would catch and kill an article out of the goodness of his heart does not ring true to anybody.

Speaker 1 Well, and today, Monday, was all about the business records falsification. And that seems like a pretty airtight case.

Speaker 1 Not just because of the testimony, but they also have documents. They introduce all kinds of evidence.
And it's like Alan Weiselberg writing on it, like, this is for Stormy.

Speaker 1 Caught and killed. Love A-dubs.
So, you know, and it's like they had this whole thing where like Trump signs all the checks. And then Trump's telling people, like, I want to look at every invoy.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's just, it's, there's a lot of evidence, lot of evidence that he knowingly falsified the business records.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, I also just, we went into this. It's obvious the evidence was there.
The facts were there. It was always just the the question about

Speaker 3 how novel the case was, which a bunch of liberal lawyers decided was

Speaker 3 novel. Then it became the only case going forward.
Then it became iron fucking clad.

Speaker 3 And then also how serious it would be for people.

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Speaker 1 So Trump spent the weekend at his beach club speaking to his richest donors and potential running mates.

Speaker 1 The New York Times got a hold of an audio recording and wrote that Trump, quote, delivered a frustrated and often obscene speech lasting roughly 75 minutes, where he compared the Biden administration to the Gestapo, called Jack Smith ugly, mocked Bill Barr, and said that Democrats start off with 40% of the vote because of federal employees, union members, and people on welfare.

Speaker 1 The insinuation there is that Democrats give government assistance in exchange for votes.

Speaker 1 Jake Tapper asked VP contender Doug Bergham about the irony of Trump making this accusation while promising tax cuts to his rich donors. And here's what he said.

Speaker 10 Donald Trump telling a room full of donors, wealthy people, millionaires, billionaires, that he's going to cut their taxes?

Speaker 10 Is that buying votes any different?

Speaker 11 Well, first of all, I just reject the whole premise of this idea of wealthy donors. I mean, the room of people that were there yesterday are all people that were job creators.

Speaker 11 These are Americans that took risks that,

Speaker 11 you know,

Speaker 11 sometimes risk everything they had to start a business.

Speaker 8 Well, they're wealthy now.

Speaker 3 I was hearing that for the first time, and that's good stuff.

Speaker 1 That's great. That is good stuff.

Speaker 3 I don't understand why you're using the W word, Jake.

Speaker 1 I will just say, there's too many clips, so we didn't use this one.

Speaker 1 Doug Bergam, just a couple days ago on Fox, when he was getting interviewed by Laura Ingram, he said that she was asking him about some Trump policy.

Speaker 1 He's like, you know, billionaires, billionaires should want to vote for Trump because he's going to help them succeed.

Speaker 3 Sure.

Speaker 1 Why not?

Speaker 1 I'm hoping now. Doug Bergam,

Speaker 1 he he should pick Doug. My boy, Doug.

Speaker 1 You're on the Doug Street. Think how great it would be to have Doug Bergham walking around talking about how billionaires have rights, too.
I just think that's a great.

Speaker 3 Big bushy eyebrows.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anyway, it sounds like a real fun event. Wish I could have been there.

Speaker 1 The Biden campaign responded with a statement that hit Trump for the Gestapo comments, but interestingly, they led with the welfare comments.

Speaker 1 You guys think those are more damaging, or what were your thoughts on all that?

Speaker 3 I think Trump has done a version of the Gestapo thing.

Speaker 3 It might be new. It's one of those things where I heard.
It didn't shock me. It didn't shock me for even a second.
It should have. I mean,

Speaker 1 it should upset us, but it doesn't.

Speaker 3 Well, sure, it no longer does because Trump's killed that part of us.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 3 yeah, the welfare comments to me, I saw people comparing it to the Romney 47% comment. Oh, the welfare stuff.
The welfare stuff. And whether or not that comparison is accurate or not, I think

Speaker 3 anytime Trump is in a room full of plutocrats decrying the welfare state, I think you're kind of in a good zone.

Speaker 1 That's where I want to live. I like that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think whenever you have a gaffe that reminds a press corps of a previous gaffe, you have a good shot at leapfrogging a couple stages of analysis right to like, oh, this is damaging.

Speaker 3 You kind of like manifest the thing into being a problem. The comparison to Mitt, right, who said 47% of the country is with Obama no matter what,

Speaker 3 I actually think Romney's comments were worse for a couple of reasons. He was scathing about the voters themselves.
He said they are, he said they think they're victims.

Speaker 3 They believe they're entitled to food. Yeah.
That was the part of the

Speaker 1 food. Yeah, they're entitled to food.

Speaker 3 Food and housing. People should be able to eat.
And then he said, my job is not to worry say, people should have food. Crazy, crazy talk.
Wild. Then he said, my job is not to worry about those people.

Speaker 3 I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility, which like solidified this narrative that we were pushing that he was a plutocrat and in it for his donors.

Speaker 3 Romney, though, has a conscience, and he felt bad about those comments, and he reacted in a way that demonstrated he felt bad.

Speaker 3 We later learned from his book that he thought about dropping out of the race.

Speaker 1 Trump does not have a conscience. Turns out Romney was a plutocrat with a heart of gold.

Speaker 3 Right, Trump does not have a conscience. I think he says worse things than whatever he says at his donor conference at rallies all the time because he's a narcissist.

Speaker 1 So he'll be fine. Also, if only federal employees plus union members, plus people getting government assistance added up to 40% of the vote.

Speaker 1 And if only all those people were voting Democrat, they are not.

Speaker 3 This is Richard Haley, Chicago. What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 But also, in fact, like much of Trump's base, the people who are getting federal assistance, probably a lot of Trump's base at this point. Civil service, very tiny percent of the population.

Speaker 1 Union members, wish more people were a part of a union. Not the case right now.
So it's just like, it's just such a, it's such an old school view of the electorate.

Speaker 1 And it is, to Lovett's original point, so damning to say all this in a room full of fucking billionaires who then he was like, by the way, if anyone, if anyone cuts a $1 million check to me right now, you can come up and have a turn at the mic.

Speaker 1 Ooh, you get to speak to the, first of all, what a shitty talk to the donors? What a shitty console. Like, oh, you get to talk to the donors.
Wow.

Speaker 3 A million dollars to do a toast?

Speaker 1 And apparently no one took him up on it for a little while. And then finally, he was like, the New York Times said he seemed annoyed.
He seemed upset. And then finally, someone said, okay.

Speaker 1 Is Jack Smith ugly?

Speaker 1 Where's this coming from?

Speaker 3 No, Jack Smith is a little bit more. What do you think?

Speaker 1 Jack Smith is handsome. Jack Smith is handsome.
You're a fan?

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 it's not.

Speaker 3 I wouldn't have brought it up unprompted.

Speaker 3 I don't have a poster of him my locker.

Speaker 1 I'm not trying to go all multiple time on you guys. He's there.

Speaker 3 He's a good guy.

Speaker 1 I do have a bobblehead on my desk. Someone sent us.

Speaker 1 One of you wonderful listeners sent us a Jack Smith bobblehead.

Speaker 3 I needed a gut check on that.

Speaker 1 I do think that the whole million-dollar check thing, it just sort of speaks to Trump's entire approach to politics, which is authoritarian in that like if you kiss his ass, you make him richer, you know, he'll do something shitty for you.

Speaker 1 Like you can get to speak to him in your donors. Yeah, and that is what's going on.
And if not, and if, yeah, it's all transactional. And if not, he'll come after you.
That's it.

Speaker 1 That's his whole, that's his whole shtick. So Trump's campaign team also gave a presentation at the event that reportedly included three different electoral college maps.

Speaker 1 The first one they called the media's version, which is the seven swing states we're all familiar with.

Speaker 1 The second they called, quote, actual current reality, which is just Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin as the three states in play.

Speaker 1 And then the third they called, quote, expanded reality, which said that in addition to those three, Minnesota and Virginia are also in play.

Speaker 1 I realize the Trump campaign isn't well equipped to give lessons on reality, but what do you guys think of their maps and their view on the race?

Speaker 3 So here's what I thought. I think if we're talking about Minnesota and Virginia, okay,

Speaker 3 I guess we can eventually, if we're talking about that, we got a lot of problems. So I want to focus on their, whatever,

Speaker 3 their middle scenario.

Speaker 3 Because what I saw it and I realized, like, oh, okay. So let's say

Speaker 3 they, let's just give them this. Obviously, it's spin, obviously it's bluster, but let's just give them this.
So you're giving them Georgia, giving them Arizona, you're giving them Nevada.

Speaker 3 You're giving them North Carolina, obviously.

Speaker 3 This is why they're focused on that Nebraska seat.

Speaker 3 Because if you punch those numbers in, if Biden wins Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Trump wins those other states, and Biden wins one electoral vote in Nebraska, that's 270, 268.

Speaker 3 If they stop that and it goes all red, it's 269, 269 and goes to the House. So it is, I think, I found it just, I saw it and I was like, oh, that's chilling.

Speaker 3 One of their most likely scenarios is the tie scenario.

Speaker 1 We haven't talked about it in a little while. It does seem like

Speaker 1 it is unlikely to happen in Nebraska because they just don't have the votes. And the governor basically said as much, too.
He's like, if we had the votes, we'd do it, but we don't.

Speaker 1 And then I saw that I think one of the Democratic leaders, either in the House or the Senate in Maine, did say that if Nebraska went forward with it, then Maine would go forward with

Speaker 1 it there,

Speaker 1 which would undo it, basically. And the other piece of it.
Sorry, because Maine

Speaker 1 has a split electoral vote as well. It's the only other state that does.

Speaker 3 But that does explain why they were going for it, right?

Speaker 3 They're looking at this map and seeing that it's not like a 270, 268 is a very reasonable outcome expanded reality is kind of a great term i know kind of an alternative facts kind of thing it's a good theme for the it's a good theme for the drum campaign actually very bush-esque yeah remember when they were talking they were the reality distortion field remember that whole thing unitary executive expanded reality it's all one fucking thing i think just on the general point though like i i would just approach this with kind of an occam's razor common sense view that this is a rematch of an election from four years ago and the map's kind of probably going to look like the map four years ago.

Speaker 3 And that doesn't mean Biden's going to win every state he won in 2020, but they'll be contested.

Speaker 3 And if Trump's team thinks that Minnesota and Virginia are in play, I would expect them to, one, spend money there and to go there when you're not in court.

Speaker 3 But, you know, yeah, to Lovett's point, I mean, Biden won Minnesota by seven points and Virginia by 10. So if those states go to Trump, it's a landslide anyway.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was looking into it. I think it's an odd two states to choose.
I mean, Biden, like you said, he won by seven.

Speaker 1 I think the reason they thought about it is because Hillary only won Minnesota by 1.5. I forgot that it was that close in 2016.

Speaker 1 But the reason that Biden did so much better than Hillary is because he mostly got the extra margin out of the Twin Cities metro area, which are all those suburbs around the Twin Cities, which are very college-educated.

Speaker 1 And like, if anything, Biden has only been doing better with college-educated voters. So like, could he do worse in like the Iron Range and some of the rural places in Minnesota?

Speaker 1 Yes, but like most of the population is Hennepin County, like right around Minneapolis. So like, I don't, I don't, I think that's wishful thinking on the Trump.

Speaker 1 And I think in Virginia, they're probably just thinking like, oh, you know, what's his face? Youngkin won, beat Terry McAuliffe. But I really think that was more about.

Speaker 1 I think we know now that that was more about Terry McAuliffe than it was about like Donald Trump or Joe Biden or national politics.

Speaker 3 This is the part of the campaign where the Democrats do a little wish casting. We talk about flipping Arkansas or whatever, and Republicans do the same on their side.

Speaker 3 And then, you know, we end up battling each other in Pennsylvania for... four grueling months or whatever by the end.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And like right now, the polls, you know, in Minnesota, there was one survey USA poll that had Biden only up two in Minnesota, but the rest have had him comfortably ahead.

Speaker 1 In Virginia, recent polls have had it closer than the 10 points he won by, but they're still mid-single digits. He's got a mid-single digits lead.

Speaker 1 In the current reality map, I agree with Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are the most important states. I think that Arizona should be in that category.
And then I think Nevada next.

Speaker 1 And then it does feel like North Carolina and Georgia will be tougher this year, but still doable.

Speaker 1 And our friends at 538 now finally have the averages, the polling averages for states, just so everyone knows. They have North Carolina at 6.6.
So Trump's up by 6.6. Georgia, he's up by 6.

Speaker 1 Nevada, he's up by 5. And then Arizona's 3, Wisconsin's 3, Pennsylvania's 2.
And Michigan is actually the closest now.

Speaker 1 Trump's only up by a point and a half there.

Speaker 3 So tight race. Tight race.
The only good thing about North Carolina is the Republicans decided to nominate Mark Robinson as their gubernatorial candidate. And he is a bona fide, just nutbag.

Speaker 3 And he, you know, he's, he called, most recent headline I read about Mark Robinson was he called Beyonce a skank so that's the kind of press he's getting so maybe i'll have some reverse coattails well the polls so far are showing josh stein really outpacing biden even in that state and beating

Speaker 1 and beating mark robins you truly have to beat that man he's frightening now there's been some national polls out lately it's still a basically a tied race but one thing to keep an eye on Few high-quality polls came out recently where they gave the results in terms of polling all adults, registered voters, and likely voters.

Speaker 1 And Biden's doing better with registered than all adults, and he's doing better with likely than either of them.

Speaker 1 And that has now been a pattern where every time they have a likely voter screen, Biden ends up doing a little bit better.

Speaker 1 So people who are saying that they're more likely to vote in the election are more likely to be Biden voters, which is not a pattern we've seen.

Speaker 1 We didn't see it in 2020.

Speaker 1 But one theory of this is, you know, the special elections and the midterms where Democrats have been outperforming.

Speaker 1 And we keep saying, you know, I've been saying that like, well, in a presidential election, it's a completely different electorate.

Speaker 1 And so you're going to get all these other voters who are much more Trump, you know, that tend to be more in favorable towards Trump. But,

Speaker 1 you know, if it could be a situation where if there's a lower, oddly enough, if there is a lower turnout election, lower than 2020, and it starts to look a little bit more like a midterm electorate, then it could benefit Biden, which would be wild.

Speaker 1 Something to keep an eye on.

Speaker 1 All right, Trump also did an episode of Apprentice VP Edition during the donor retreat where he auditioned several potential running mates who were in attendance and according to the leaked audio, made comments about each one.

Speaker 1 He even called puppy murderer Christy Noam, quote, somebody that I love, even though she keeps digging that gravel pit deeper with one of the most bewildering and damaging press tours I have ever seen.

Speaker 1 Here's a clip from her star turn on this week's Face the Nation.

Speaker 12 You talk about meeting some world leaders and one specific one. Quote, I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Speaker 12 I'm sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants. I've been a children's pastor after all.
Did you meet Kim Jong-un?

Speaker 13 Well, you know, as soon as this was brought to my attention,

Speaker 13 I certainly made some changes and looked at this passage. And I've met with many, many world leaders.
I've traveled around the world.

Speaker 13 As soon as it was brought to my attention, we went forward and have made some edits.

Speaker 12 So you did not meet with Kim Jong-un? That's what you're saying?

Speaker 13 No, I've met with many, many world leaders, many world leaders. I've traveled around the world.

Speaker 13 I think I've talked extensively in this book about my time serving in Congress, my time as governor before governor, some of the travels that I've had.

Speaker 13 I'm not going to talk about my specific meetings with world leaders.

Speaker 12 At the end of the book, you say the very first thing you would do if you got to the White House that was different from Joe Biden is you'd make sure Joe Biden's dog was nowhere on the grounds, Commander, say hello to cricket.

Speaker 12 Are you doing this to try to look tough? Do you still think that you have a shot at being a VP?

Speaker 13 Well, number one, Joe Biden's dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people. So how many people is enough people to be attacked and dangerously hurt before you make a decision on a dog?

Speaker 13 And what's the problem? Well, he's not living at the White House. That's the question that the president should be held accountable to.
You're saying he should be accurate.

Speaker 13 That's what the president should be accountable to.

Speaker 13 What is the number?

Speaker 3 She's an entire dog murder platform.

Speaker 3 I didn't realize that. I hadn't heard that part about Commander Mead Kuric in hell.

Speaker 1 It's not just one proposal. It's a whole thing.

Speaker 3 I didn't realize that she had a whole,

Speaker 3 I'm not retreating, I'm reloading, to kill more fucking dogs.

Speaker 1 That is insane. That is insane.

Speaker 3 I love this.

Speaker 1 She apparently just went on Fox and said that the reason that she told this story in her book about killing the puppy was to prove that she's, quote, not like other politicians.

Speaker 1 yeah okay mission accomplished yeah you did it christy dahmer over here is she intentionally trying to ruin her career what do you think i i like how she acts um offended on behalf of the confidentiality of her imaginary meetings

Speaker 3 i am not going to elaborate on my meetings that didn't have it i've like never seen anything like this i mean i can't believe why is she she continues to do the interviews because she's because she doesn't she only has so many time this is she's in the early this is this is training for in front of trump they are going out in front of trump and demonstrating that they can handle the the press, that she had to do it just to get out there.

Speaker 3 But man, the other thing, too, is it's okay to just say, yeah,

Speaker 1 we must it.

Speaker 3 Yep. It's a fuck up.
It's a fuck up. It combined two stories.
I didn't notice in the edit. Obviously, I didn't meet with Kim Jong-un.

Speaker 3 What I love about this, you chose to write the book.

Speaker 1 I know they're trying to blame the ghostwriter now, but she also read the audio book herself.

Speaker 1 By the way, I didn't hear that. That's so funny.

Speaker 3 By the way, are we being, is this, is this our own hubris?

Speaker 1 I know, I know. Because we have a book coming out that we all read and we can't blame it.

Speaker 3 We can try to blame Josh. Don't put that into the...

Speaker 1 I'm blaming Josh right now.

Speaker 1 I will say in my chapters that I read,

Speaker 1 I didn't notice anything. I can't speak for you two.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't know about you guys. When I read our chapters, I didn't disassociate.

Speaker 1 I heard what I said.

Speaker 3 And so if I caught a couple more typos that we fixed. And if I read about my meeting with Kim Jong-un, I might think to myself, huh, was I one of like a half-dozen living U.S.

Speaker 3 officials to ever meet meet with this guy was i the only member of congress to ever meet with kim jong-un did i accidentally get on a plane with dennis rodman and not realize until i landed in pyongyang no okay well let's fix it but to your point the lesson of the trump era is like you can't back down you can't let the liberal media see you sweat and she also so she can't cancel her interviews she can't apologize so she just has to do this abiotic

Speaker 3 her book is called no going back i guess that's right yeah it's a it's it really like it i don't it is also i think wrong right like I think it's a like an overlearned lesson like I think it would have been it's so defensive and kind of politician-y to be like well I've met with many world leaders and we're gonna go take a look at that path just say like oh yeah it was a it's an it's obviously a mistake I didn't meet with Kim Jong-un well she's like I was interrupted 36 times although even like admitting that the problem is exactly what Tommy just said with the audio book right like you can't be like obviously immediately like why did you say it right because I think then it starts to introduce like did she confuse Asian leaders like it's like what what is the what is the mistake

Speaker 3 because she says it combined Because she says it was like,

Speaker 3 there's some comment somewhere about like, oh, it was a combined with another part of a passage and they didn't notice it.

Speaker 3 Combined North and South Korea?

Speaker 1 We've been working on that project for a long time. I know.

Speaker 3 Well, easy to do in a fake book. Also, by the way, even when you, like,

Speaker 3 forget the obvious ridiculousness of claiming to have met the Korean dictator, but.

Speaker 3 That tone of these political books, these like fake bio books, like,

Speaker 3 oh, you think I, you know, you think I can't handle meeting with a foreign leader like putin well you haven't seen these six-year-olds when they've had too much kool-aid you know it's like that

Speaker 3 i know like you know we started off uh as we we started off as people who couldn't see eye to eye but over a local craft beer and two hours of good and difficult conversation we came to see each other's point of view like that kind of shit who's that for was that in hard choices

Speaker 1 i was not being specific

Speaker 3 did you see she put out a she tweeted that margaret brennan on cbs face the nation interrupted her 36 times or something like that. It just turned into just this whining grievance nonsense.

Speaker 1 Which is just mad libs, you know, like blame liberal media.

Speaker 3 And Margaret Brennan, she's like, wait, but did you meet with King Hunger? I'm like, now I'm confused.

Speaker 1 Politico reported that, you know, she wrote her first book. This was her second book.
And in the first book, her team got her to take the story of killing the puppy out. She put it back.

Speaker 1 She hired those people again. She demanded it go in the second book.

Speaker 1 And then she said, the reason that she put it in the second book is because opponents in past races have used it against her. So she thought she would get ahead of the story.
What?

Speaker 3 How do the opponents know she murdered her dog?

Speaker 1 Did she call them? Small place. Smallest place South Dakota.
Apparently it's been going around.

Speaker 1 They were at the funeral.

Speaker 1 You tell one person you killed your puppy, you know, and then all of a sudden it's all. Yeah, they tell two friends.

Speaker 3 And then the horses. She's killing everything.

Speaker 1 What do you guys think of

Speaker 1 Trump's reviews of his other potential running mates based on the audio recording that we read about?

Speaker 3 Let's do an impromptu quiz. All right, don't look at your notes.
I'm going to read you what Trump said about them. You'd say who it was.
Okay.

Speaker 3 His name is coming up a lot for vice president. Rubio.

Speaker 1 Rubio.

Speaker 3 That is Rubio. As a candidate, he did a good job, but as a surrogate, he's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 He wasn't a supporter of mine at the very beginning. He was saying things like,

Speaker 3 this guy's a total dude.

Speaker 1 Have you ever read the pref?

Speaker 1 Oh, you guys, I know you know them also by heart. All right.

Speaker 3 No, but you're picking up on what I picked up on, which was that there wasn't a single interesting or insightful observation out of the entire dozen or so that were listed here.

Speaker 3 I love your haircut and he's a good man too. That's Mike Lee.
That was a good one. Oh, and the best one,

Speaker 3 the best one is about, he said this about Byron Donalds, black member of Congress. Somebody who's created something very special politically.
I like diversity. Diversité, as you would say.

Speaker 3 I like diversité. Worth millions of dollars.
All want a piece of Byron. Diversité.
Diversité.

Speaker 1 Right out of beep.

Speaker 3 He's having a blast up there. He's having a, the guy doesn't drink.

Speaker 1 Doug Bergham. I didn't know this.
He was a supporter of my two campaigns. He's a very rich man.

Speaker 3 Again, it's just like he's just observations, trivia.

Speaker 1 Elise Defonic, a very smart person. She was in upstate New York when I met her.
Little did we realize she would be such a big factor.

Speaker 1 That was my favorite one.

Speaker 3 The known one also is very much like she has no chance. It's done.
So he's just kind of throwing her some love.

Speaker 1 My love. It's a pity.
I love her.

Speaker 1 He'll be making fun of the puppy shooting thing, but he's not going to be able to resist that. No, it's not.
At some point, he's going to go on up.

Speaker 3 Do you guys follow magic johnson on twitter by any chance i don't 50-50 shot uh okay it's like so bad it's good he has these utterly he just tweets about the nba in ways that are like celtic shot more tonight got more points therefore won it it like that's what it reminded me from trump anyway

Speaker 3 i don't know why i even raised that at this audience i think you're gonna say that magic johnson tweeted about the uh the the puppy killer well hopefully he will with any luck what what this reminded me of uh when i had alyssa when alyssa guest hosted when you guys were in dc the other week, she talked about the VP selection process she ran for Kerry and Obama and how focused they were on confidentiality and making sure that these people who you asked to like tell you all their darkest secrets and do all this vetting information aren't humiliated by leaks and things.

Speaker 3 And then you have Trump, which is he's doing the exact opposite.

Speaker 3 But I wondered, could this be kind of a Machiavellian way to get as much dirt as you can from all your potential rivals so it's sitting there in a little folder in the future if they ever criticize you.

Speaker 3 Think about it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, I think Trump doesn't need any material to ruin someone's political career.
She makes it up. She's called Savi Pecker.

Speaker 3 She put one of the most damning things I've ever seen a politician get accused of in her own books. She made it easy.
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 Did it to herself.

Speaker 3 That's fair.

Speaker 1 Anyway.

Speaker 3 No, but I do, it is interesting that like... Trump has sort of steamrolled all these places where we used to have seriousness, and I think that's obviously been very damning.

Speaker 3 But I remember when Carrie was choosing between Edwards and Gephardt.

Speaker 3 Remember the New York Post ran a cover that said Gephardt is picked and they got it wrong and it was secret and it was important and everyone took it really, really seriously. And

Speaker 1 I don't know. And they realized that Gephardt killed that puppy.

Speaker 3 Right. And then he killed all those, but he just non-stop murdering.
It's libelist and it didn't happen.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a

Speaker 3 didn't happen. It didn't happen.
And then Trump does this with these people.

Speaker 3 I love it. What is brilliant about it, though, is he knows that he can distract the press with this until the day he picks.

Speaker 3 He can just do this little game and dance these people in front of the press corps and his donors and make them dance for him. And he loves it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll keep talking about it. It's a blast.
You know,

Speaker 1 if there's new stuff out there.

Speaker 3 And by the way, it's free to put somebody on the list and make them feel good. It's free.

Speaker 1 It is free.

Speaker 3 One note before we go to break, I just want to let everybody know I'm taking a couple weeks off, both on Pate America and Love It or Leave It.

Speaker 3 Are you being vetted?

Speaker 1 For the VP center? It's happening.

Speaker 3 I'm working on something. Can't say more now.
We'll tell you more about it when I'm back. But I just wanted to let everybody know we lined up some awesome guest hosts for Love It or Leave It.

Speaker 3 Andy Richter, Larry Wilmore, Maria Bamford, Matt Rogers, Louis Vertel, Ian Carmel, Langston Kerman, and Guy Branham. As it turns out, it

Speaker 1 takes a lot of people to fill these village.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I'm very worried that

Speaker 3 after I get back and these shows were really very, very good, that I won't be able to run through the office screaming, I am the indispensable person, I am the talent. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But other than that. We'll miss you.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Good luck with your Brazilian butt lift.
Sure.

Speaker 3 And you can get new, there will still be episodes Tuesdays and Saturdays. Cricut.com slash events.
Go to these special guest shows.

Speaker 1 Did someone say? There's lavender.

Speaker 3 Go to cricket.com slash events. Otherwise, I'll be back for our June tour swing starting in Charlotte and Asheville, North Carolina, and then Boston.

Speaker 1 Awesome. And when we come back, we'll have Shaniku McLendon on from Vote Save America to talk all about Organizer Else, which is our big 2024 volunteer operation.

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Speaker 1 We're back and we've got with us the president of vote save America, Shaniqua McClendon.

Speaker 3 Hi, thank you. Boss.

Speaker 18 Yeah. Oh, man.
Fiona came up with something really funny and I can't remember.

Speaker 1 It was like

Speaker 18 something princess. Politics princess.
No, you don't know.

Speaker 1 Politics princess?

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 We have brought you on today, not just because we like having you here and you're in town, which is always great since you're usually in DC, but because Vote Save America has launched...

Speaker 1 The largest electoral organizing effort, not just of the year, it says here in the air, ever. Ever.

Speaker 18 It is big.

Speaker 18 It is big.

Speaker 1 Called Organizer Else?

Speaker 18 Yes, it's Organizer Else. So most people probably remember Adopt Estate from 2020

Speaker 18 where we recruited 300,000 people to volunteer and raised $46 million that year.

Speaker 1 It's a lot of money.

Speaker 18 But this year, we're doing Organizer Else, and it's a little bit different because we should have focused on the house a little bit more in 2020. And so we learned our lesson.
And so

Speaker 1 don't blame yourself.

Speaker 18 You know, we did consult you all on what we would be focused on, but it's fine.

Speaker 1 It's fine. You know what? And Love it was like, don't pay much attention to New York.
I think New York's locked. New York, California is locked.
Don't worry.

Speaker 3 Look, if I said one thing, I said a thousand times, the New York State Democratic Party, they've got this.

Speaker 18 Well, we learned our lesson. But this time, we're not leaving anything.

Speaker 18 We're going everywhere. So Senate.

Speaker 18 caring about the White House, the House, but we're also going down ballot to state legislatures, gubernatorial elections, anything that matters.

Speaker 18 But in order to do that, we had to kind of change the way that we're doing the program.

Speaker 18 And so people can go to votesaveamerica.com slash 2024 and they basically tell us where they live and whether or not they want to do virtual or in-person volunteer events.

Speaker 18 And then each week we'll send them a high-impact volunteer event. But when they tell us what state they're in, they will be assigned to a team, Team East or West.

Speaker 18 And we just split the country along the Mississippi River, which I learned is how they do the NBA.

Speaker 18 Yeah. And so that's how it's all split up.

Speaker 3 Sometimes how they do radio stations. They do how they do radio stations.

Speaker 1 Shiniqua, Eastern West.

Speaker 3 It's K on one side and W on the other. Mississippi.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Why K?

Speaker 1 I didn't know that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Schneekwa East Coast-West Coast rivalries have famously ended in tragedy. What's your plan to prevent that?

Speaker 18 You know, this could end in tragedy if Donald Trump is elected.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's on message. That's right.
And

Speaker 1 we are team captains. Yes, I was going to ask.

Speaker 18 You all live here, but what team are you on?

Speaker 1 It's the Johns.

Speaker 1 We're taking the Team West. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 3 Softies.

Speaker 18 I'm on Team East.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Yeah.
And Dan. And Dan.

Speaker 3 Tommy and Dan.

Speaker 1 Tommy, Dan, and Shaniko are team. Who else do we have on Team West?

Speaker 18 Alyssa is on Team West. No, Team East.
Sorry.

Speaker 1 She's on our team. She literally lives.

Speaker 1 She literally lives in New York. I wish we could have had a draft.
Yeah. Oh.
That's a good idea for next year. That's fun.

Speaker 3 Next.

Speaker 1 We'll do that in the next most important election of our life.

Speaker 3 We'll either do that in the studio or in the camps. We'll draft.

Speaker 3 We can draft some other people. We can think about some outsiders we want to draft.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 18 Yeah, yeah that's right that's a good idea that is aaron is on team west hell yeah nice nice okay great wow that yeah that's a really great idea so we're playing in 24 different states 71 target races yeah i know it's a lot i love that there's a lot to do and that's why we need everyone to sign up like if we could get anywhere near or more would even be better the 300 000 people that signed up in 2020 we can make sure everyone has the help they need and we've been talking to grassroots organizations across the country and they need volunteers like they really really need volunteers we're going to need volunteers here in California.

Speaker 18 Arizona and Nevada need volunteers. Everywhere needs volunteers up and down the ballot.
So we really need people to sign up.

Speaker 1 I will also say like volunteers have always been important to campaigns, right? And a good field operation with a lot of volunteers always makes the difference in very close races.

Speaker 1 And we are going to headed for another very close race.

Speaker 1 The country is very evenly divided, which means that even though that makes everyone nervous, that also means that whatever you do has a bigger impact.

Speaker 1 The other reason volunteering is so important now, probably more so this cycle than it's ever been, is the media infrastructure that campaigns are used to, that organizing is used to, has disappeared.

Speaker 1 It is very, very difficult for campaigns to communicate directly with voters, whether it's paid ads, whether it's media, because no one's paying attention anymore.

Speaker 1 And so what ends up being most effective is peer-to-peer, person-to-person organizing, either with people you know, people in your community, or perfect strangers.

Speaker 1 And then having these conversations with people, that is going to end up making the difference in this election. So, volunteering is just not like an add-on thing for campaigns.
It is central. Yeah.

Speaker 3 This is the hard pitch.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 3 You listen, and we love it. We're so glad that you do.

Speaker 3 But you did not do all this paying attention over the last several years to not do this one step, which is sign up to be part of Vote Save America. This is what it was all for.

Speaker 3 This is what all the paying attention gets us. It gets us to this moment.
This is why we podcast. This is why we do this.
This is why we pod.

Speaker 1 This is why. This is why.
Download.

Speaker 3 We do 1.5x.

Speaker 1 We skip ahead. That's right.
Can't skip ahead to November. Yeah.
I wish we could.

Speaker 18 That's good. You got to do the work in the in-between.

Speaker 1 You got to do the work.

Speaker 3 Also, speaking of doing the work, I'm really smart to pick 71 races because that just sounds like you put so much thought into it. We did.

Speaker 18 No, we really, really did.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 18 I am, I hate to use the word anal about this stuff, but what is a better word than that?

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 1 You really dropped it into it.

Speaker 1 Honestly, if you just go, I would just say it again. Just go through it.
Appreciate that you said it.

Speaker 18 I hate to be so.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're using this already, right? You're not getting it at it.

Speaker 3 Was the 72nd candidate Henry Twayar?

Speaker 18 You know, I don't care for that man.

Speaker 1 Neither does the FBI. Right.
We're learning that today.

Speaker 18 I hope he has fun with whatever happens.

Speaker 1 We all know.

Speaker 18 Sorry. You know, I want to keep the house all that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Anyway, sign up.
If you're listening to Pod Save America.

Speaker 1 And you're not signed up to vote Save America, unless you're just like hate listening because you're some right-wing MAGA person, that's fine.

Speaker 1 But if you're listening and you're, you know, you don't want Donald Trump in the White House, this is going to do a lot more than just listening or posting. Also, it's really fun.
It's fun.

Speaker 1 It's really fun. We'll meet fun people.
We'll have a good time.

Speaker 18 And you can do whatever you want. Like, if you don't want to talk to people face to face, you can send text messages.
Like, just tell us what you want to do, and we'll send you something to do.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 3 And I know, like, maybe you say to yourself, like, oh, but I'm not really political. I just listen because I like to write fan fiction about Dan and Tommy.

Speaker 1 Still. You think that's the most popular one?

Speaker 3 I think it's, I think it's, I think it's up there with the right-wing freaks.

Speaker 1 There's, there's me plus yes we Dan slash vic.

Speaker 1 There is now.

Speaker 1 There is now.

Speaker 1 You just manifested it. You just put that into the world? Wow.
You just put that into the world on my behalf?

Speaker 1 Man.

Speaker 1 Anyway,

Speaker 1 is this what you hoped for?

Speaker 3 It was a late night at the White House.

Speaker 1 Oh my gosh. Wow.

Speaker 18 You know what? If people sign up and we win the election, Lovett will finish whatever he's talking about.

Speaker 1 That's a deal. Honestly,

Speaker 1 that's a deal.

Speaker 3 There's a joke I'm trying to get at. It's something about how

Speaker 1 the P isn't always silent. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 This is terrible. Workshop that one, Bolivia's like, nope, nope, nope.

Speaker 1 Cut that. I don't know.

Speaker 3 The Pfeiffer. The P in Pfeiffer.
The Pfiffer.

Speaker 1 Well, that's all the time we have for today.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Shanniqua, for joining

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Speaker 19 Putting the soft P in Pfeiffer is the joke.

Speaker 1 I was thinking of P and the V.

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Speaker 1 That's like my best friend. Like Tommy said P and Pfe.

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