Trump Admits It's Over as Voter Turnout Surges!

Behind closed doors reality is setting in. We're four days away from Election Day, and Donald Trump's own team is now privately admitting what everyone else can see already. The writing is indeed on the wall. According to a White House official, Trump say it's convinced him to cancel his weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa because they feared his candidates might lose. And they didn't want even election photos that could end up being humiliated. Trump then blew up in less than 24 hours later the rallies were back on. But that's not the only issue. Between Republican turnout numbers across the country being down in critical states like Texas, Florida, and elsewhere. And democratic and independent turnout surging specifically in Hispanic communities that are rebuking the president for all of the ice raids. Privately the president, and now publicly, he is conceding that he's not expected to do that well. And while Trump scrambles, the administration is actively losing in court, escalating against election workers and getting caught by a federal judge who now wants to know whether his lawyers lie to her. We're now just days away from election day. If you haven't yet voted, make sure to vote. I voted today. If you can support this work, we're running through the tape. Subscribe today, like, comment, share your subscriptions, fuel this. And remember Tuesday night from 6 p.m. Eastern time to midnight, we will be live on here and everywhere you can find me. We're with guests like members of Congress, governors, and so much more. But let's start talking about the admission. Because we know that Donald Trump canceled his rallies in Kansas and Ohio. They planned on doing tele rallies instead. But here's the reason why is really simple. Trump's team told him that Senator Roger Marshall in Kansas and Ashley Hinson in Iowa might lose. And being photographed with them right before loss could be potentially humiliating. AIDS are also now uneasy about something else. Growing numbers of protesters at his rallies and shrinking crowds that required smaller venues. Republican campaigns across the country actually breathe the sigh of relief from the president canceled the rallies. But then everything switched. He's now back on after he was called out publicly. And while even Ted Cruz, a Republican Senator, is saying Kansas is in deep trouble. - Got him vote. - Well, let me finish the last state on this run, which is Kansas. So I'm in Kansas right now. I'm in Wichita. We're going to do a big rally tomorrow morning. Roger Marshall is the incumbent Republican Senator. This is an exceptionally close race. If you look at Republicans who have a real possibility of potentially losing, Kansas is near the top of the list. Now, I like Roger. He's a good friend of mine. He's been a good senator. He's a conservative. - It's tough race. Donald Trump today, for the first time publicly, is saying, you know, it may not go as well as I think it is. - Monday is going to be exciting, but Sunday is going to be a very exciting day. And then Tuesday, we're going to see how it all works out. I think we're doing well. Typically, a president, whether he's good or bad, Republican or Democrat, loses the midterms. Nobody's ever explained why. But I think we have a shot at doing well. It may be. - He's saying the quiet part out loud. And he's not expected to win now. He's saying, that's what's going to blame. If he does lose, it's going to be well. Republicans were never expected to win because historically, presidents don't have a winning Congress after being elected. But the numbers really don't explain why. Pew research has trumps approval rating at just 30%. That's the lowest of a second term. And the worst for any president leading into a midterm since Harry Truman all the way back in 1946. 40 million Americans have already voted. They've made their voices hurt. So when you can't win the argument, what do you do? You try to change the rules. And this week, the courts kept saying no. Just moments ago, before we hopped on, this order was handed down by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The federal court rejected the Trump administration's attempt to stop California from counting ballots from more than 20,000 voters. It claims are likely non-citizens. One of the two judges in the majority of the Trump appointee, Mark Bennett, they wrote that there is a material risk that granting the United States its requested relief would lead to disenfranchisement. Followed as a federal judge who said that the request would wreak havoc and disrupt the election. The losing court hasn't stopped them. They're escalating. Los Angeles County election workers received federal grand jury subpoenas. That's on November 4th. That's a day after the election. And I'll ask at the top federal prosecutor today set a criminal investigation into the Senate race is now ongoing with a quote, "surg" of FBI resources four days before the vote. And what all happens, as right now members of Congress are expected to lead the Judiciary and Oversight Committees of Democrats win, Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, are demanding that Trump preserve his conversations with Elon Musk's AI chatbot after their reports that he may have used AI to determine whether to go into Venezuela to capture Nicholas Maduro. Trump's own team right now is privately admitting his candidates could lose, his canceled rallies, and reverse course rather than admit why. His approval is at a historic low. His administration is losing in court, but is escalating against election officials anyway. The writing is on the wall, but it only really becomes real if people show up. I spoke to Governor West more about this and so much more. Make sure to like, comment, share, subscribe, support this work, but a quick word from our sponsor. With just days to go into election day, you need to get out and vote. But voting isn't always easy, knowing who to vote for, where to vote, how to vote. And making sure that where you go to find this information doesn't actually sell your data is something that is so important to me. So I partnered with Next Gen America to bring you vote-eat. It's a free, non-partisan voting assistant. Voters can check their registration, register to vote, find their polling place, see everything on their ballot and set up text reminders for deadlines and election day. It literally works in every state no matter where you live. It never sells or shares your data. 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Yeah, so we're really excited about not just our re-election, but also the response to question three because I think people realize that what Donald Trump is doing and his ability to be able to go completely unchecked by this Congress. And he knows that. And he knows his policies are not popular. His policies of wars we didn't ask for, and tariffs that are causing crisis to go up and kicking people of health care is not popular. So what does he do? He cheats. And he tries to rig the rules. And this is Maryland's way of saying enough that you are not going to be able to rig elections and redraw congressional maps in other states and think that Maryland is just going to sit on our hands. So question three is basically asking a simple question. Who does our democracy belong to? Does it belong to Donald Trump? Or does it belong to the people of Maryland? And if you believe it belongs to the people of Maryland, you vote yes. And so that's what I'll be doing. That's where we're thankful that the people of Maryland will be doing that we'll be voting yes on Tuesday because our democracy belongs to us and not to Donald Trump. What happens if question three passes? What does that look like in 2028? So what it looks like is that our constitution is now changed. So we can then move on and do mid decade redistricting because that is not something that we have the legal authority to do. However, it was something that we were pushing for that I knew that we could actually get done. And then I call the General Assembly back for a special session. We had the votes. We got the votes to get it done. And then even when we were sued by the Republicans, the Supreme Court sided with us in a 5-2 ruling that we do have the authority to put it in front of the people and alter the maps. And so once question three passes, our constitution will then be changed. And then we will have the legal authority to be able to be able to look at our maps. Let's say Democrats sweep the House of Representatives sweep the United States Senate on Tuesday. If you were giving advice to Democratic leadership and Congress, would you tell them to A, go down the investigations path, maybe towards impeachment, or B, go past policy and force the president to veto it? I'd say C, both. I think there needs to be accountability. I don't think-- I don't see how we could watch a president use a constitution like as a suggestion box for the past two years and think there's no accountability for it. In fact, frankly, I think that was part of the problem that got us here in the first place. Is I think the president was led off too easy? Him, his family, and the other people around him. However, I also think that we need to have an aggressive and a sort of plan about how we're going to address the pain that is being caused to the American people. So for example, I think that once we win on Tuesday, I think they need to be very careful about how they're spending there the lame duck period with this old Congress, and they need to get together. They need to get there-- they need to get in the lab and say, what are we going to do in the first 100-- not 100 days, 100 hours of Congress opening back up. And that includes things like stopping a war that no one asked for and that is illegal. That includes things like stopping tariffs, which even the courts have shown is illegal. That includes things like not kicking people off of health care. We need to have an aggressive agenda that focuses on things like ending the war, ending the tariffs, ending these health care cuts and being able to have an aggressive approach. We've got to stop being the party of no and slow and start being the party of yes and now. I do want to ask you because I asked folks what they want to me to ask you before hopping on. And a lot of them were saying, tell me how you're going to lower costs for Marylanders because I don't just before we hopped on literally five minutes before we got a report out saying that Obamacare premiums next year are up 13 percent. Everything's going up. It's getting more expensive to live. So how are we going to lower costs? Yeah. I mean, it's one of the biggest challenges that I and I know other governors are on the country faces that so many of these increased costs are things that are happening on a federal level when it comes to the impact they're having on the states. And so there is nothing that I will not do to make sure that we're lowering costs for the people of our state. That's why we've done things like we became the first day in the country that bands surveillance pricing at supermarkets. So supermarkets cannot randomly increase the price and increase the costs on you simply because they know your data and they're using your data against you. You know, it's why we've done things like being able to make sure we're putting hundreds of dollars back in people's pockets for utility relief and actually making sure we're investing in in state clean energy generation because it's the cheapest and it's the quickest way to get more in state energy generation, which is going to then decrease the cost of you know, decrease the cost of energy and why we've actually forced PJM our grid operator to be able to cap increases till the end of the decade. And so, you know, we are focusing on, you know, really creating pathways to work wages and wealth, right, getting more people employed, making sure we're raising wages as we've done and giving more people a chance to own more than they owe. That is going to be the plan that we're going to have from Maryland and there is nothing that I will not do to be able to bring down costs for the people of our state and push back against what we're saying from the federal government. There have been genuine fears about the Department of Justice intimidating voters and the Trump administration intimidating voters both before Election Day and on Election Day. Have you all seen any voter intimidation efforts in Maryland yet? And if people do see, for example, a DOJ official poll watching on Election Day, what should they do? Should they be scared? Give them advice. Yeah, I would say the people in Maryland should know that we believe and we have free, fair, safe and secure elections. And it's because the federal government is not in charge of our elections. You know, in fact, the presence on the charge, the governor's not in charge. We actually have an independent, independent elections commission that's actually in charge of our elections that has successfully administered elections for generations inside of the state of Maryland. It's also like that in other states where, you know, it's not just an individual law within the state. It's actually the Constitution. It's the 10th Amendment, right? States are in charge of our elections. And so people should feel comfortable, feel safe, know that their vote is going to be counted, but also know that we have been working for months, not just within the state of Maryland, but I've been working with other governors around the country to red-team any possibility that we could see and know how we will respond to ensure that we have free, fair, safe and secure elections in our states. After Tuesday, there's going to be a real conversation about the future of the Democratic Party, given the fact that the Democratic brand right now remains pretty toxic. I mean, if you ask a voter, they hate Democrats, but they hate Trump a whole lot more. What do you see as kind of the future for the Democratic Party and where do you see your place in it? Well, I'm really proud of the results we've been able to see inside of the state of Maryland because I think it does offer a sense of direction on how we should think about this work. We move fast in our state, and we make sure we're not dealing with the false choices that people oftentimes are given. When we said we wanted to address the issue of violence, we said we are going to work with our local officials, we're going to work with local law enforcement, and I signed a largest mass pardon in the history of the United States of America, where I pardoned over 175,000 misdemeanor cannabis convictions to give people a second chance of life that we work with community groups and community violence interrupters to make sure that we could stop this retaliatory violence before it happens. And we've now seen about a 60 percent drop in violent crime since I've been the governor. That's amongst the fastest drop in the United States of America that we've been able to see, that we said we wanted to focus on being able to support our economy, get our federal workers cared for, when we were 31,000 randomly fired by the federal government. And we've now been able to have a job growth rate that's almost double the national average over the past six months, and our unemployment rate right now is lower than the national average despite taking more hits from Trump than any other state. So we're really proud of our ability to move fast, to be creative, and to deliver results because that's the thing I think people are looking for. One last question, and it's about the results you've delivered, Maryland's enough program has done something that really no other state has in terms of reducing childhood poverty. I know that is a real issue for you. Can we do something like that on the national level? Can we really end childhood poverty in the United States of America? We can, and we must, you know, this is the reason why I ran for governor. I ran for governor because I cannot accept how our society allows children to grow up in poverty, particularly because we have to understand that poverty is a choice, but it's not a choice of the people who are living in it. It's a choice of the society. How much pain are you willing to tolerate in your neighbors? That's the choice. And so by doing what we've done here in Maryland around enough about saying that the solutions should not be done to the community, but the solutions are going to come from the community, that the communities don't need us to save them. We need the communities to save us, that they have the answers. And what we need to do is provide the supports and the infrastructure and the resources and move things out of their way. And so what we've been able to see now in over 20, and 30 different communities all throughout the state of Maryland, urban, rural, and suburban, the ability to decrease childhood poverty in these communities has been remarkable. But it's not been because government said, do X, Y, or Z. It's because the community has said, if you let us lead, we will lead you to a better place. And I think that's exactly what's happening with our, with our enough initiatives in Maryland. And I do think it is a scalable model that we are now already seeing other states around the country that are adopting it. Governor Moore, thanks so much for the time. Thanks so much. Hey folks. Thanks so much for watching. Feel free to add this podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you watch, or the latest breaking news and daily hits throughout the day. Make sure to follow, subscribe, see you soon for more.