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The Megyn Kelly Show

Elon Musk Goes All In On Trump, and Predicting the 2024 Election, with Nate Silver, Bethany Mandel, and Karol Markowicz | Ep. 860

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Nate Silver, author of "On the Edge," to discuss his exit from ABC's FiveThirtyEight last year, how ABC didn't understand the value of the product, FiveThirtyEight's projections this year that overweighted Biden's chances, the challenge of seeing something you built turn into something you don't support, the excitement and opportunity in independent media, how he got into politics through gambling, how his election forecast considers all different polls, why Kamala Harris is currently leading, why Trump could still be the better bet to win, what's likely to happen in the final months of the election, Elon Musk's shift to conservative and supporting Trump as president, Silver's own political point of view as a moderate liberal and whether his position will evolve more in the future, the value of risk-taking, what poker tells us about the world, and more. Then Bethany Mandel and Karol Markowicz, authors of "Stolen Youth," join to discuss the massive conversation on X Spaces between Musk and Trump, some on the left calling for Musk to be censored and even arrested over his comments and platforming, the prescriptions for how Trump and his campaign need to get back on track, why he should focus on policies that resonate with swing voters and independents, questions about his COVID policies and his VP JD Vance's media tour, the threats against Douglas Murray for making honest comments about the rise of radical Islamists in Europe, the anti-Jewish Imam associated with Democratic VP pick Tim Walz, the anti-Israel college student protests starting again soon, Glenn Close's gross comments about Vance, and more. Silver- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/529280/on-the-edge-by-nate-silver/ Mandel-https://x.com/bethanyshondark Markowicz- https://x.com/karol Lumen: Visit https://lumen.me/MEGYN to get 15% off your Lumen Electronic Payments Coalition: https://ElectronicPaymentsCoalition.org

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Serious XM channel 111 every weekday at New East.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly.

0:13.5

Welcome to the Megan Kelly show.

0:15.3

Nate Silver kicks off our show today.

0:18.4

Nate first rose to fame back in 2008 when he correctly predicted the presidential winner in 49 of the 50 states.

0:26.2

He then took predictions and modeling mainstream with his massive 2012 best-selling book

0:32.3

The Signal and the Noise.

0:34.4

He would join forces with the New York Times and ABC News

0:37.1

before going independent last year, relaunching on Substack

0:40.9

with the cleverly titled Silver Bulletin. Get it? Publication, I like it. It works.

0:47.0

Along the way, he's received a lot of praise and made some major enemies, especially recently, for daring to state the obvious about President

0:53.9

Biden's cognitive decline, but you're not allowed to say things like that when the left

0:58.6

perceives you as one of their own. It's bad enough when they hear somebody like me do it. They really don't want to hear somebody

1:04.7

they consider part of their Cabal do it. And that leads to particular blowback for folks like

1:10.0

Nate. We'll get into where the 2024 election stands, including the one state we all should be watching,

1:16.4

but we're also going to talk about the importance of risk-taking and the habits of successful risk-takers, which he lays out in his new book out today on the edge the art of risking everything

1:29.6

it's rising up the Amazon charts and sure to be another bestseller, Nate Silver, is here for the first time.

1:36.4

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1:45.2

The app shows whether you're burning fat or carbs and provides tailored guidance to

1:50.9

improve your nutrition, workout, sleep, and stress management.

1:54.0

You breathe into your lumen first thing in the morning,

1:57.0

and then based on your measurements, lumen will give you a personalized nutrition plan

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