Election Night Cheat Sheet (feat. Steve Kornacki)
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🗓️ 3 November 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
With just two days to go, Dan sits down with Election Night guru and NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki for a pre-election deep dive. Steve breaks down the state of the race, shares insights on key battleground states, trends among key voter groups, and which counties he's watching to signal election night outcomes. Then, Steve and Dan dig into close Senate and House races, plus some quirks in ballot-counting that could affect how quickly we get results.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another special episode of Pod Save America. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Dan Pfeiffer. |
| 0:24.5 | This is the final bonus pod I'll be hosting on Sundays in the lead up to the election. |
| 0:28.8 | If you like these episodes, I highly recommend you sign up to get my subscriber show, Polarcoaster, |
| 0:32.2 | by subscribing to Friends of the Pod at Crooked.com slash Friends or through the Apple podcast feed. |
| 0:37.4 | It's where we really dig deep |
| 0:38.5 | into polling and political trends. It's a great way to support crooked media. And we have a 25% off |
| 0:43.6 | discount for annual subscriptions right now. In today's episode, we're going to dig deep into |
| 0:47.9 | the state of the race as we approach the final days of the election. And I can think of no better |
| 0:51.0 | person to join me in this conversation than Steve Kornacki. He's national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC and the man behind the magic wall. |
| 0:59.9 | Steve, welcome to Pod Save America. |
| 1:01.7 | Thanks. Great to be here. |
| 1:03.4 | So before we get into the nuts and bolts of the race and what we're going to see in this election, |
| 1:07.9 | I do have to ask you, what is your plan for how to get |
| 1:12.6 | ready for election night? Do you have one big meal early on? Do you stop drinking water at like three? |
| 1:18.3 | How much caffeine do you take? I mean, you are on call for days potentially. How do you get ready? |
| 1:24.1 | It's not too elaborate. The excitement of, you know, everything gets me easily |
| 1:29.2 | through the night. I don't have to do, you know, anything artificial for that. I guess the big thing is I |
| 1:34.1 | always, I carve out like two hours in the middle of the afternoon to go take a walk. Just clear my head. |
| 1:39.9 | You know, you get all those anecdotal turnout reports. They're useless, so, you know, just ignore it. |
| 1:45.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.1 | I know you guys have game-planned a whole bunch of different scenarios about how this election |
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