Harris v. Trump: The Week Before with Tressie McMillan Cottom

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Trevor and Christiana call on Tressie McMillan Cottom to help them make sense of the final week before the US presidential election. Together, they unpack Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, why certain groups are planning to vote against their own interests, and how Tucker Carlson’s web browser history may be impacting his politics. Fortunately we can all exhale next week. Or not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Maybe I'm too halloweemed from everything that's going on.
0:05.0	But I feel like you can apply it to everything right now.
0:08.0	Because what you've just said applies in the same way.
0:12.0	Politics used to be about a moment in time.
0:14.0	You wear your costume. What are you going as?
0:17.0	Right? Oh, I'm going as a ghost. Oh, I'm going as a whatever.
0:26.4	Right? And then now it's people are wearing their costumes 24-7, 365.
0:31.3	And then America wonders why it feels so spooky and eerie all of the time.
0:39.2	This is What Now with Trevor Noah.
0:51.4	So, Tracy Macmillan Cottom, Christianambuque and Medina.
0:53.3	Who's winning the election?
0:56.1	Not us.
1:13.0	Can I tell you, I know that America is always on edge when it's election time, but it feels like, and I don't know if this is true, but it feels like it's becoming more and more on edge from election to election.
1:14.0	Like this is the strangest lead up to an election ever because I don't think anybody knows
1:20.4	what's happening or not happening who's winning or who's not winning.
1:24.9	Every poll has Trump up or down.
1:27.2	Kamala Harris like like, winning everything or
1:29.9	losing it all. Like, in this moment in time, in this moment in time, I just want to know, let's start
1:34.8	with this. How are you feeling? I've got so many messages in my phone from the last few days of people
1:40.0	texting me to tell me how stressed out they are. And I would point out to the audience,
1:46.7	I'm a sociologist. That's not what I do at all. But that's how desperate people are.
1:52.9	They're just like contacting anyone that they think can help. You know, some of this is the
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