Hi, this is Jonathan Riley from Oklahoma. I just jumped out of a plane and I'm

skydiving to earth. No, just kidding. I'm just sitting in my house. But wouldn't that be cool?

This podcast was recorded at...

206 pm on November 5th. Things may have changed for the time that you hear this. So enjoy the show.

That's a great time. That may be one of my all-time favorites. I feel the scene. I feel like he's caught

onto us. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. It's finally here. The midterm elections are tomorrow,

Tuesday, and Republicans and Democrats are out making their final pitches to voters. I'm Tamer Keith.

I cover the White House. I'm Scott Detro. I cover Congress. I'm a Smakhol as political reporter.

And I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent. All right guys, are we ready for this?

I am so excited about the election being tomorrow that I'm currently regretting the amount of coffee

I drank this morning. And on top of that cocktail is that everyone brought in the extra Halloween

candy. So there's a lot going on there. Sometimes when I drink too much coffee, I am over...

I commonly have miskept barbecued chips here in the studio,

along with my sparkling clementine juice. We've punctuating every point of analysis with a crunch

of a chip. Good snack to keep things calm. Okay, so we are going to dive into what candidates in

both parties are saying in these final hours. But first, let's talk about the big guy. The person

who isn't on the ballot, but who is making his case very loudly and in multiple rallies. Trump

is the wallpaper of this election. All midterm elections are referendums on the president and

the party in power. But no president has embraced that role as enthusiastically as Donald Trump.

He has gone out on the campaign trail and said, I'm not on the ballot, but I am on the ballot.

Go out there and vote for me. He has made the election all about him. And I do think that this

election is a referendum on him and his style of leadership. You could think of it almost as a

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