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Pod Save America

A Strong Close—And an Iowa Poll Shocker

Pod Save America

Crooked Media

News, Politics

4.683.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live, Kamala Harris closes on optimism, unity, and lower prices—while Trump fantasizes about reporters getting murdered and says he regrets leaving office after losing reelection. With just one day to go, Jon, Lovett, and Tommy sort through the latest from the trail and the final batch of high-quality polls, including a stunning result from Ann Selzer in Iowa showing Harris up three points in a deep-red state. Then, the guys reflect on what we've already learned from the campaign—regardless of the outcome.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm John Favarro. I'm John Lovett. I'm Tommy Vitor.

0:23.8

We are coming to you with a special episode with just one day left before the results start coming in.

0:29.3

The final polls have arrived, including an atomic bomb from Anne Seltzer.

0:33.5

And this race is either headed towards the closest finish we've seen in our lifetimes or a landslide

0:39.8

or a million different outcomes in between, none of what should really surprise us because of the last

0:45.0

decade in politics. We're going to get into all that a bit later on. But first, the three of us,

0:50.5

Dan, Votes of America's own Nina Harris, were out canvassing in Arizona and Nevada over the weekend.

0:56.8

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

1:02.4

Absolutely. I mean, the best part is meeting all the folks who were there from Votesave America.

1:07.2

There were people who lived in Nevada or Arizona and just came over to do a shift. There were people that traveled from out of state. I talked to a guy who had come to a Pots Save America Live show in Las Vegas in 2018 with his daughter who was in high school at the time. She asked a question later got so interested in politics that she worked for intern for Jackie Rosen, now is getting advanced degree out here in California. And those are just, you know, the best part of doing the show

1:32.4

is meeting people like that who are, you know, taking action and getting off the polar

1:37.4

coaster that last weekend and knock some doors. Yeah. So first of all, one thing that was

1:42.7

two hopeful signs.

1:53.5

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

1:57.2

And a lot of these people have either said, please do not knock on my door again.

1:59.3

I already voted or I'm planning to vote.

2:02.6

But we were on to these last few doors and there's one person that answered the door again. I already voted or I'm planning to vote. But we were onto these last few doors and there was one person that answered the door wall. I was walking the door with Nina and she was like,

2:08.0

I'm, I'm going to vote sometime next week. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You have to vote on Tuesday now.

2:13.3

She didn't know how to vote. She didn't know where to vote. We got her that information.

2:17.2

And there were other people I know you guys knocked on a door of somebody who was truly undecided. Yeah, she was a 73-year-old Asian-American woman in East Las Vegas. And we knocked on her door and there was a very large barking dog that she was that she was barking

2:37.8

while she was trying to talk to us and it was sort of broke you know we're trying to understand

2:41.0

her and um she basically was like she's like president trump trump and we're like no no trump and she's

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