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I've heard about the joke. I haven't actually seen the joke that you mentioned, but I think that it's

telling that Kamala Harris's closing message is essentially that all of Donald Trump's voters

are Nazis and you should get really pissed off about a comedian

telling a joke.

That is not the message of a winning campaign.

Some might say it's not the argument of a winning campaign to try the Three Wise Monkeys'

defense of see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.

J.D. Vance was at Madison Square Garden and was oblivious to this particular joke about

Puerto Rico being an island full of garbage.

There's a lot going on. Like, I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating

island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah. I think it's called Puerto Rico.

Okay. All right. I hate it when that happens. Yeah. I think it's called Puerto Rico. Okay. All right.

I hate it when that happens. Nobody told him about the joke that was coming from a stage in the center of one of the biggest concert venues in the city.

I just hate it when that happens. Welcome to the newsagents USA.

It's John. It's Emily. And Madison Square Gardens seem like such a brilliant idea. It's huge. It was going to get

headlines. It did. It's kind of iconic. It was, it is, and Donald

Trump would be centre stage, except he's not quite. The whole fallout from Madison Square

Garden is not what Donald Trump said on stage, it's what everybody else said on stage.

And it's beginning to feel like a PR disaster for him. And yet,

all the usual health warnings, these great conflicts, these great dramas end up helping Trump in the

end. I'm not sure about this one. Yeah, we're recording at half-past one. And Donald Trump is

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