His Election Nightmare Gets Even Worse After This

All right, your election day brain trust is assembled. We are ready. We are all about to vomit. Nervous AF. The longer the day goes on, the more my nerves are spiking. But I have Josh Welch. I have Angie Pumps Sullivan. And I have Charlie Goldinson here. And we are just going to do what we do best. Bash Maga. And then see, how big is this going to be? Are we talking blue Nami? Are we like it's jover, Maga? We did it. Joe, are we that level? Or is it just a little white wind? But before we do that, let's watch this hilarious clip where Fox went to interview the youth about Donald Trump. Play the clip. The opinion of President Trump. Donald Trump is the fascist old that can get out of office. I don't think you passed the test. Oh, that's fine. I love to see it. I love to see it. Love to see it. Okay. All right. Here are the Fox news power rankings. Pop this up. Just to show that we are we're going to go by their rules. Okay. So they are showing you guys Michigan, Maine, South Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, in Texas, in Alaska, as toss ups. All right. Charlie, let's talk about Susan Collins, and Troy Jackson and Maine. And let me just say that the most recent polling shows Jackson up by six. Yeah. I mean, there's something to remember here for everybody, of course, is this is the Grand Platinum state, which I know we're not supposed to say his name anymore. But let's think about what happened here, right? Grand Platinum built a movement behind him, a grassroots movement when he was forced to drop out as you should have as we were all happy. He did Troy came in. And there's been a lot of discussion out there whether the Troy campaign has successfully or not kind of like integrated the Grand Platinum organizing infrastructure. So what's amazing about these about the polling so far is that even if they have not done a great job of of integrating that Grand Platinum infrastructure, they are still up in the polls, right? And so again, I'm going to be saying this the entire time right now. I don't want to jinx anything. I think we all have experience feeling optimistic based on polling and then having our fucking hearts destroyed right after. But I do think this feels relatively good for the moment. It feels good. Susan Collins always does a poll as well as she always ends up winning. And Pumps, Susan Collins is a vote that people in Maine don't really get harmed as much by her vote for all of these radical Republican policies because they have a blue state government that protects the women and girls in that state. But she votes for people like Brett Kavanaugh and with Donald Trump and obscene amount of times. And that leaves women in red states dead, harm and injured because of Susan Collins. Well, I mean, Oklahoma is not a great place for women to live. We now have the Susan Collins vote for Brett Kavanaugh, overturning row. Now we have the DOBS decisions. And it is the 50th state in the United States to live for women. In addition, poverty is higher in a red state. You have no access to health care. We have maternity deserts, meaning that even if you are a raw raw maggot cheerleader, there is nowhere for you to have the baby in certain counties in Oklahoma because a OBGYN does not want to face criminal charges for advising their patient. So this is a very serious matter. And like Jennifer said, of course, in Maine, in Massachusetts, they don't have to worry about it as much as people in the Bible belt who are affected most profoundly by this woman who votes with Trump. I think it's over 90% of the time she does her finger wag. Like, well, I don't know what I'm going to do. And then she votes with him every second time. Sit down, shut up, let somebody else that gives a shit about other people. And I've read in this election corruption is on the mind of the American voter. Let's talk about, I mean, I slate that down. I know it's hard in this administration, but Susan Collins FBI investigation. I mean, she was looking at major corruption. Trump, of course, killed it. But that's who we're talking about. Susan Collins harms women. She is corrupt. Doesn't give a shit. Right. And her, and the point is for the listener is that these votes where she is able to cosplay a moderate in Maine because that blue state government pretty much protects its citizens from mega policies federally. And then she's able to be a key player in a Christian nationalist game plan that they have been machinating on for decades, as we all know. So she's able to assist in these red states by cosplaying as a moderate in Maine. And then let's move to Josh Welch in South Carolina. He's not on the ballot, but we do have Darlene. Unfortunately, we do have Darlene Graham, the sister of the lady Graham. And she has sworn to pick up right where Lindsey left off. And I will leave all sexual jokes out of this because this is a very serious broadcast about the election. But she's running against a formidable opponent, Annie Andrew. And I read this morning, they've spent $300 million on anti-trans advertisements, $300 million on a non-issue, a genuine non-issue. The trans issue is 100% made up just like the litter boxes and all of that shit. Josh, who do you, who do you think is going to win here? First of all, and secondly, for everybody that really wants a good signal tonight, South Carolina closes, I believe at seven eastern. And that is going to be, if that goes to Annie, it is jover, put a fork in it. It is a blue nommie ride the wave, skinny dip on the wave. It is magnateers that will be drinking for a very long time. Well, Darlene had me at hello when she said she didn't know anything about foreign policy. Do you remember that? Yeah. Like, right when she got in the race, somebody asked her questions about foreign policy and she said, I'm sorry, I don't know anything about that. Or I can't remember exactly what she said. But, you know, in South Carolina, I think one of the important things is to look at the black turnout, the black motor turnout in that state because that's going to be key in this race. And we also know with Darlene Graham that when Trump waved these sanctions recently against Russia, she was asked how she felt about that because that peace of legislation was named after Lindsey Graham. He sponsored that. It was important to him. And she didn't have the balls to defend her brother in that answer. I mean, totally. And so all of this stuff has come out about her. She is one of the worst candidates. I don't want to say the worst candidates for the Republicans because there's a couple more that get below her. Yeah. If you can believe it. But she's not a very good candidate at all. If she did not have that last name, this would not even be a race. So I think she's going to, when I think it's going to be a close race, I think we're going to have to look at the last polling. Charlie has it two points. Yeah. So within the margin of error, this is really, here's the Trafalgar poll that was taken on Halloween has a Lady Darlene two points. Sister of Lady Graham. Yeah. I mean, something back on the the Republican spending on trans issue stuff. Something for folks to know too is Elon Musk is a major backer of that. If a lot of that is his money. Another part of it is, I know we'll talk about Texas later, but big oil executives are also deeply tied to the funding of these anti trans ads all over the country. The Jones point. It's all they have. They can't run on policy. They can't run on wins. As we've seen, JD Vance say, as we've seen Republicans all across the country and and and pundits and surrogates say everywhere. We haven't had the chance to succeed in the last two years. So give us another two to prove ourselves. When you hear the trans messaging, know that's what that is. That is I'm admitting that they have failed to do anything to run on. And so they're trying to fear monger against one of the most vulnerable populations among us. And let's just talk about for a second. How pathetic it is that Elon Musk who has a beautiful trans daughter in Davidian. Instead of having a relationship with her and enjoying life and his wealth and and things that he could do, he gets on television all the time and says that she's dead. And that is a real window into the brokenness of this political movement that they are incapable of loving their children unconditionally. The magazine party is incapable of supporting children as we've seen with the cover up in the Epstein files. But even on a personal one-on-one basis, they can't even support their own kids. And that to me, the fact that I see so many people like Mark Cuban interacting with him on Twitter, like their asshole buddies. I saw Rom and not Rom and Manuel the brother. Ari and Manuel said he's friends with Elon. That's such a turn off to me. It's such a disqualifier. If I knew somebody that had a trans kid and looked at me and said, "My kid's dead." I'd be like, "Well, you're fucking dead to me." You know, that's what I think about that. It's just disqualifying. But in America, we allow these wealthy people to to do immoral things simply because they're wealthy and it's really disgusting. Okay, let's move to Michigan. Michigan, to me, is the most important political race for the Democratic Party. Because we have Abdul El Sayed who is a progressive Democrat. He's a capitalist, not a member of DSA, but very progressive. Most importantly, where he draws iron and criticism from both the left and the right, is that he is critical of Israel. And so for me, out of all of the races, this one for the future of the Democratic Party. And then we have that C, U, N, T, Psycho, Haley Stevens, main character syndrome, batshit galore with her hat, running around a day at the, just nut job city. Who, it was clearly never a Democrat, has always been a Republican in my opinion. Charlie, speak to how important this race is for the future of the Democratic Party. - Sure, there's an infinite amount of things we could talk about Michigan, but what you said is very important, which is one of the things to think about why Michigan is so important. It's because in two years, the presidential is gonna run right through Michigan. And what I mean by that is if we can show that not just a progressive, not just a Democrat, but a person of color, somebody who advocates for the liberation of Palestinians who says that we want peace, who says that we need universal healthcare. If that person can win in a state like Michigan, it's going to cause a wake in all of these other states, both in the South, but also in the Midwest, in the Rust Belt everywhere over the country to say that, oh, we can actually run some of these candidates because these are genuine populace. The other thing I will say, as I've said many times on this show, I'll say it again as a Jewish person. I am a Jewish person who deeply and personally defends a dual say ed. I do view what he's fighting for as deeply tied and absolutely connected to the Jewish fight against oppression, against discrimination, against fascism, something that so many Jews like myself has been raised on. That is something that I'm dual is running on. And if he wins this election with the support of men, women, Jews, people of color, queer people all over the state, it'll be a huge, huge monumental win for people all over the country. - And it will help us as the Democratic Party that wants to get rid of corporate politics, that wants to get rid of all of the A-PAC purchased, big lobby purchased politicians. We will start to have a template, a Zoran template, an Abdul-Elsaid template, to push back against these corporate Dems and these strategists that say, no, no, no, we've got to run to the center. This is what we have to do. - The same corporate Dems and consultants who let us, who gave us Haley Stevens. - Exactly. - Remember that. And so I also want to make this connection for folks too, going to Haley Stevens on this is the Haley Stevens-esque candidate. When we talk about neoliberalism leading us to Donald Trump, that is what Haley Stevens is. That is what Haley Stevens represents. That is what the consulting class behind Haley Stevens is. So for a lot of folks like us on this call, it is not a surprise to me what she did because she is completely aligned with the Democratic or Democratic movement that led us to Trump in the first place. So Abdul-Elsaid is the perfect symbol and moment for us to overcome that failed Democratic project. - Yep, all right, Josh and Pops. - Let me add one thing to that. I think that race right there is also going to be a referendum on corporate Democrats. - Yep. - And they're refusal to back Abdul-Elsaid. And the second thing is she spent or the super PAC, pro-Israel super PAC spent approximately $55 million in that race against Abdul-Elsaid. And we had Trump and others spewing this Islamophobia, this hate. And so if we can put an exclamation point on this win tonight, I think we can take down both of those facets. We can take down the Trump-Maga hate Islamophobia and we can take down the corporate Democrats being for lack of a better word pissies to get behind, to broaden their tan and get behind parties that embrace things that are different amongst us. - Let's call it the Merit Garland wing of the Democratic Party. We need to have a referendum on the Merit Garland wing of the Democratic Party. They lead us, it's a centrism, is a death march to losing elections. And we have to stop with these candidates that play Kate to their donors before they play Kate to their people. - And if we can. - And if we stick to death of not being able to criticize a country that's committing a genocide, you get to criticize Israel. Go ahead. - If we can win that race, then we can shut down these Democratic leaders next time they say, they say things like Schumer and others have said where they won't embrace these candidates. 'Cause to me, that's a disqualifier. When you're trying to get majority at the Senate, and he's in a race like he's in a tight race fighting for his lie, and you've got someone like Chuck Schumer, or Cory Booker, does not automatically embrace and endorse you, that is a disqualifier. Get out of the Democratic Party leadership out. You're done. - And if we remember, Schumer was the one who handpicked Hayley Steele in the first place, right? We are here because of him. So we can't forget that part of it either. - All right, Pups, let's go to Texas. Now, I was born in Texas. I have a strong affection for the state. It borders the state that I grew up in, and lived in up until last year, Oklahoma. And Oklahoma, Texas share like a similar culture and rivalry in football games, et cetera. Texas has been trending purple for quite some time. And this final New York Times poll, which just makes me sick to see this, 'cause it seems like the pollsters say when you hit 50, it means something totally different than when you hit like 44. That that shows that this is a very legitimate poll. That's what they say. I don't trust these people. I don't trust anybody, I'm about to vomit, okay? I'm about to throw up, and then I'm going to hit Charlie over the head with my microphone. Not that he's done anything wrong. Just forget how much anxiety we're going to take it on. - He's standing in for me. Yeah, you know what I'm going to do. - I'm going to take that on Charlie. Normally I hit Josh, Charlie's going down. But anyway, Pups, this is the electorate. And I mean, no disrespect to all of my beautiful blue dots in Texas. The rural area is constantly fucking you guys over. And this portion of the Texas electorate has brought us Ted Cruz again and again and again and again and I have been this blue dot in a red state for so long and you get this hope if you live in a city where you're like, oh my God, we're going to win. Look at this. But the rural areas in Texas are so many and they add up to such big numbers. Is this going to be the year? Is are we finally going to turn this state blue Pups? - Okay, obviously like everyone else, I'm very cautiously optimistic but I'm kind of nervous to say because I don't want it to like jinx anything. I know that's so stupid, but here's the thing. I would not trust Texas at all because like you said, Ted Cruz continues to win elections. But Ken Paxden is a profoundly bad candidate. I mean, may be the worst candidate that we have in this whole election cycle. And I mean, when you think about all the other people, I think Ken Paxden's the worst. We've got fraud. We've got infidelity, which nobody gives a shit about but they pretend to give a shit about. So I really think this might be the time, but then I think, and I have to remember, his wife divorced him on biblical grounds for whatever that's worth to people. That matter, whatever that means for God of all. - Means fuck around, find out. Even Donald Trump says he's ugly. - Even Donald Trump says he's ugly. - His biggest, his biggest top surrogate is like, I mean, I've been checking out, Hestid because you know, I like to study anatomy. I don't think I can do that with Ken. - Yeah, I mean, he is. - And when you think about it, honestly, the incumbent senator that is running for the John Corbin or Cornin, he would have given a much tougher fight to Tallerika. - Oh, much tougher. - Totally. - Trump handpicked Paxton against the advice of the Texas Republicans. - 'Cause I like criminals. - I don't think for a second that Elon didn't have something to do with that. - Elon had a lot to do with the picking of Ken Paxton. A lot. Because Elon has started purchasing judges and attorney general, which is what Paxton is to set up all of his companies to where he can properly fleece taxpayers and subvert regulations. And so this is a major, major thing. If this happens, then Charlie, I think this allows combined with Kansas, which the Kansas polling is it shows Hamilton up five points, okay? If this happens in the heartland, if we've got two states going blue in the heartland, this shows the Democrats to stop, cut the crap and launch a 50 state strategy back in play immediately. - Yeah. - And immediately, if these two heartland states go blue with these Senate seats, there are so many wonderful blue dots in the Democratic Party that are willing to do work, not doors that are willing to fight because they live with the consequences of mega policies all day every day. What do you think? If these two states here, if these flip? - Yeah, I mean, I think let's think about the psychology with this, right, which is people feel more enthusiastic about engaging when they feel like there's hope and when they see hope. So again, similar to Michigan, if we can get victories in either of these states or both of these states, that has massive implications again for 2028. That means that we are going to unleash way more volunteers, way more donors, not just from in state, but other donors out of state will see that it's worthy to spend their dollars there. The other thing I will talk about, this is not unique to Kansas or Texas, but, you know, the generation right under me, let's say, Gen Z, like they have only existed in a politics of Donald Trump. They have never actually witnessed the Obama era. They have heard about it when we have Democrats running on Obama care. Let's remember, young people didn't feel that, right? The idea that there was a hopeful Democratic party running to change lives has not existed for a younger generation, so it's not just about unleashing, I think, like, you know, the blue dots, the money, the volunteers for 2028 in Kansas and Texas. It's about unleashing the entire generation of young people who will possibly for the first time say, holy shit, if we actually start weighing in here, if we start voting, if we start volunteering, if we start knocking doors, if we start posting more on social, then we can actually change things. So, again, like, there's just, there's so much I'm with you, I'm going to fucking vomit all over this table. There's so much on the line here, and it's not just about, of course, the, the atrocities that are happening because of the policies of Donald Trump as an administration. It's also about the potential of Democratic support in the next coming years. Okay, Josh, of course, we have Ohio where we have John Husted who Donald Trump has just been drooling over for I feel like forever now. It's only been a couple of weeks. We've heard a lot about his ass, and he's running against Sherrod Brown. It looks like this is going to go blue, but a couple of states ever, we have Iowa, another heartland state. And Iowa is showing Turek, or Turek, one point over Henson within the margin of error. And you may remember in the last election with Kamala in 24, there was that controversial Iowa poll that showed Kamala double digits. And I thought, oh my god, it's going to be, you know, a blue NAMI. Let's if I can go blah, blah. And we've all, we are all operating as our listener and viewer is right now under so much PTSD. But it just feels different. It feels like the dunking that the Trumpers felt after the fight, fight, fight, assassination. You could feel that movement kind of happened. That feels all but dissipated now. And I feel like the movement is on our side. I even feel like, I can't believe I'm going to say this out loud, but I want to get your opinion. Before there were these secret Trump voters, now I think there's going to be secret democratic voters. They might offset, I think I think they're still going to be secret Trump voters and make no mistake, the people who are voting for mag another voting for Trump, because everybody knows the claw he has. Josh, what do you think to our north in Kansas? We haven't talked very much about Adam Hamilton, but, but I don't know that you all know this, but he founded the country's largest United Methodist church. He's a pastor. So it's kind of hard to say he's one of those fucking crazy, you know, lib tart, blah, blah, the lib tart. He's down there, you know, he's down there preaching the gospel to the good folks of Kansas out in rural America. And I've seen interviews with him and he's impressive. Yeah, he's impressive and he's a candidate. I love a lot. So if there's room for growth like that in Kansas, that's practically Oklahoma. Really, I mean, we're a little bit worse, baby, as far as red, but I mean, it's right by us. So that's inspirational. If he can win that race, that's exciting. Yeah, I think this race in Iowa, you know, from what I've seen when they interview all these farmers in Iowa, they're fucking pissed. Yeah, like all of them are mad with these tariffs and everything else and the cost of business and they're all losing money and they all, they've interviewed three or four of them where they say, you know, we bought into Trump, we tried, we're, you know, but he just ain't doing it. I think they all just feel like that just real earthy matter of fact. It's just, you know, so if that's true, if that holds, then I think Turk is going to have a good chance. Charlie. Yeah, I mean, I also say I would encourage folks when we start to watch the, when the Iowa results start to come in, we talk a lot in politics and campaigning about the benefit of having like a top down ticket, right? You want a big name on that ticket and there's a big governor's race happening in Iowa to Rob Sand is a young gentleman running for governor there and I think, you know, it is rare. It happens. We've seen it with Trump, of course, but typically voters, if they're voting for Democrat on one line of one candidate, they're going to vote Democratic on the other not all the time, but that's that's stereotypical. So if Rob Sand does well, which we expect him to do fairly well in this governor's race, we can see that we can hope that that trickles down and has correlation with the Senate race. So pay attention to both pay attention to the governor's race and Iowa, but also is these Senate races as well. Okay, final race to talk about Alaska. As everybody knows, there's the controversy of the shopping for another Dan Sullivan, and I'll just say my piece on this. I believe that Democrats need to fight with everything they have against Republicans for me personally, even though the Republicans do this kind of stuff, this funny ballot stuff. I just think we can't ever gift wrap something and pass it on to them. I'm a fighter in the sense that I want to fight fair and I'm going to kick your ass on ideas. I'm going to outwork you. I'm going to outknock you. I'm going to out fundraise you. I'm going to, that's how I like to win races. I'm hoping that she's going to win, but no matter if she does win, they've already teed up that they are going to contest it. Even if we win 55 seats, and this is the 56, which I mean, that's total pipe dream, Blue Nommie dream in here, but I'm trying to manifest it. He's still going to call election interference their pumps. He's going to call election interference, anyway, no matter what. I mean, I just tomorrow I expect to wake up to just all these election conspiracy claims. I mean, every time I open my phone, I get a new article about it. But in terms of this particular race, here's the thing, and I know that this is not how I'm supposed to be. I understand that I should be better, but I'm like Donald Trump fucking lies steals corrupt fraud. So there's two dance Sullivan's Alaska is a stacking ballot. Like it's not going to hurt the Republican that badly. It's really kind of a no harm no foul. And so it just the hypocrisy of well, they're trying to steal the election with this stand. I'm just like just because they're not as flagrant at cheating and not as good as you at cheating. It's not illegal, and I know he only likes to do illegal things, but I just my panties are not in a wad about. I mean, either I mean, and it's, you know, I think that they Democrats can win without Alaska, what it looks like Josh. Well, in MS now, I think today interviewed a couple of people that have voted in Alaska. And these candidates do happen are in a D by their names. And all of them said, no, it's not confusing at all. You look down and you see there's an R there's a D one of them says incumbent. Yeah. Exactly. So it's it's it's not and none of it's illegal. And let's not forget that the federal courts in Alaska have spoken on this and the Alaska Supreme Court has spoken on this. The courts aren't involved in this. It's DOJ threatening to bring another action. And we expect that. But, you know, unless the voters, the Republican voters in Alaska or that stupid. And I think it's a tale between the big deal scale. It's a one out of 10. We have a president that is incredibly accused of a lot of horrific felonies and sexual assaults in the Epstein files. Okay, let's just leave that there. And we have another one where he's funneling all this money into maggot ink and then using taxpayer money to pay these people back by giving them contracts. He is. He just stood up yesterday and goes, here's the one with algae. We have algae here. You know, we have to watch him takes taxpayer funded naps. The Alaska thinks not my favorite thing on the planet, but it's litter. We literally have criminal fascist racist pieces of shit running our country. So no bed wedding or pearl clutching with me on that. But we have some big announcements. All right, listen, on Fridays, Josh and Charlie have been doing I have news and everybody has just been so sweet about it and loves it. And so it's going to become a permanent thing. And we're looking for you all in the comments section to come up with names. So like, you know, we have I've had it, the one our flagship podcast. It just pumps in me and then we have I hit news, which we're all we all participate in. And then on Fridays, it's going to be the guys. So tell us what you think we should name it in my podcast that I have with Don Lemon on Fridays. The audience is the one that named it welches lemonade. The weekend read a welches lemonade production. So audiences are great at naming. A podcast and speaking of that in just a few hours, I will be live on the Don Lemon channel, starting at 6 p.m. Eastern time. And I really like to go to bed early, but we'll see how late I can stay up. If South Carolina goes and it's blue, mom is going home. And so because I want it, I know tomorrow is going to be a big news day. But anyway, I just want to thank all of you and thanks Charlie and final thoughts, Charlie on the race where you see it. Final thoughts. I'll say you just said something about mama. I want to say two things. One is my mom's birthday. Happy birthday, mom. Second is my mom reminded me and I think this is a good point for everybody. Everybody here, I know everybody watching a show is probably voting, but women's rights and women's reproductive rights have kind of fallen off the table in terms of the conversations and the messaging that Democrats have been having over these last few months for the sprint. And I just want to remind folks that that is unfortunate because women's rights and women's reproductive rights are absolutely on the ballot. Today at least four states are voting on abortion rights and women's rights are intertwined with everything else. When we talk about ice arresting our neighbors, there are women dying in ice facilities. When we talk about Israel bombing Gaza, there are women dying in Gaza. And so men who are listening, show up and vote for your mother's, your daughters, your sisters, let's also remember that white women, historically since 2004, as uncomfortable as it is, have voted Republican, have voted for Trump. So do not assume that all your friends are doing the right way. Check in with your friends, remind them to vote, remind them to vote for women for their families. You do not want to wake up tomorrow wishing you had done more. This is the moment. That's exactly right. And white women do fucking better. They are coming for you as well. Your complexion will only protect you until the very end. And then they're going to move the goal post. And then it will be the Christian nationalist, handmade till nightmare, fast. Anyway, we were nervous as shit. I'm still nervous as shit, but this was a good therapy session. Thank you everybody for joining us. Go join me on the Don Lemon channel at 6 p.m. Eastern. We're going to be at some bar in Manhattan, and I'm getting Don all liquored up. He's fine when he's drunk. And thanks everybody for joining us, please, please go vote. Go vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. (upbeat music)