Hello and welcome to a very special bonus episode of Why is this happening with me, your

host Chris Hayes.

Alright, so you've already figured out, are you with Pod heads out there?

They'll listen to us every week.

I love you.

That this is a new format because you didn't get the teaser clip at the top because it's

a Thursday and you're listening to a new with pod.

How cool is that?

We're trying to experiment this week.

This is a special pop-up show, little micro bonus show that we're doing peg to election

night in America.

That's happening on Tuesday night.

You may not have heard this.

We're having midterm elections Tuesday night.

It's a big deal.

We covered on my TV program.

But what I wanted to do was we will, on election night, if you're watching MSNBC and

you should, we'll be covering the house, who controls the house and the Senate and the

big gubernatorial races.

But there are so many things on the ballot on election day beneath that level and many

of them super important state ballot initiatives, local races where really, really important issues

are at stake, like coordination with ICE for sheriff's offices and things like that.

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