My next guest served as the head speech writer to former President Barack Obama.

Since then, he founded the Crooked Media Podcast platform and host Pod Save America and offline with John Favre.

Please welcome to the Stephen A. Smith show, the man himself, John Favreau.

What's going on? John, how are you, man? Pleasure to meet you. How's everything the man himself, John Favreau. What's going on?

John, how are you, man? Pleasure to meet you. How's everything going?

Pleasure to meet you, too. I'm doing well, you know? It's election, uh, election Eve nerves,

but other than that, I'm feeling good. Well, I got to admit, man, you got a smile on your face.

What the hell is the smile about it? Because everybody else in the world look nervous and what have you. You got the smile in your face is looking for it.

It's like you can't wait.

I have been in politics for 20 years.

I've been doing campaigns since 2004, won some, lost some.

And I get so nervous before every single election day.

And I decided that this time around, my anxiety is not going to change the outcome. So I might as well just be calm. And if, you know, if the outcome doesn't go my way,

I have plenty of time to be miserable after the votes are counted. I got you. I got you.

That makes perfect sense. We're one day away from a consequential election, obviously.

You've had a very unique vantage point serving in the Obama administration.

Your thoughts on where the country stands right now?

I think it's pretty close. It's going to be a pretty close election. That's no surprise. That's

what all the polls are showing. But look, I think here's how I see it. The Kamala Harris and the

Democrats are facing a political environment that is pretty brutal,

which is, you know, post-pandemic, incumbent governments all over the world, incumbents have

been losing, partly because of the post-pandemic sort of malaise hangover from inflation. Price is still too high. Immigration issues.

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