Welcome to another special episode of Pod Save America.

I'm Dan Pfeiffer.

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discount for annual subscriptions right now. In today's episode, we're going to dig deep into

the state of the race as we approach the final days of the election. And I can think of no better

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.

Steve, welcome to Pod Save America.

Thanks. Great to be here.

So before we get into the nuts and bolts of the race and what we're going to see in this election,

I do have to ask you, what is your plan for how to get

ready for election night? Do you have one big meal early on? Do you stop drinking water at like three?

How much caffeine do you take? I mean, you are on call for days potentially. How do you get ready?

It's not too elaborate. The excitement of, you know, everything gets me easily

through the night. I don't have to do, you know, anything artificial for that. I guess the big thing is I

always, I carve out like two hours in the middle of the afternoon to go take a walk. Just clear my head.

You know, you get all those anecdotal turnout reports. They're useless, so, you know, just ignore it.

Yeah.

I know you guys have game-planned a whole bunch of different scenarios about how this election

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