Well, folks, we are now less than two weeks out from Election Day. Donald Trump appears to have the lead going into the home stretcher, and that means it has come. The October surprise. We'll get to that in one second. First, your reminder, in five days, am I racist? The decade's number one documentary streams exclusively at DailyWire Plus October 28th. But you need a DailyWare Plus membership to watch. Join right now at

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All righty. So the state of the race. We need to explain the state of the race because otherwise

the October surprise doesn't make a lot of sense. The state of the race is that Donald

Trump appears to be ahead going into the home stretch.

In fact, poll analyst, reporter Mark Halperin yesterday said as much.

He said that if the early voting numbers hold up the way they are right now, and if the same

day voting, the day of voting, goes the way that it did in 2020, Donald Trump will have

wrapped up this election before the election day even

begins. Because basically, Democrats need to win it in the pregame or they're going to lose it day of.

Here's Mark Halperin explaining just yesterday.

Good morning, everybody. Let's lead with the lead, as they say in journalism. If the early

vote numbers stay the way they are, and that's a big if, we'll almost certainly know before

Election Day who's going to win the election. We're going to talk a lot about that. The reasons

why Democrats might be underperforming, the prospect that they'll recover. But again, make no mistake,

if these numbers hold up in the states where we can understand even partially what the data is like,

we'll know that Donald Trump's going to be president on Election Day.

And Halperin's not the only one saying this. The Washington Post reported yesterday,

dozens of states have opened in-person early voting locations. Turnout has been robust. In Georgia,

more than 1.6 million people had cast in-person ballots by mid-morning

on Tuesday. Nearly one-third of the total vote from four years ago. North Carolina hit 1.4 million

on Tuesday to the sixth day of early voting in Nevada. Republicans voting in person have outnumbered

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