It is 11 days to go, and I'm thrilled today to be joined again by Tara Palmieri of Puck News,

who is one of the very best political reporters in America, has a real handle,

not just on what's going on in the race, but the people in the country that will decide the race,

which is often an ingredient missing in the mix with a lot of the

political coverage. Welcome, welcome, Tara.

Thank you, Steve, for that kind intro. It's such a pleasure to be on the show, really honored.

I was about 30 seconds late dialing in on our set time because I got a call from a freaked out, freaked out Democrat.

Wow.

Very well known in the party and bereft saying she's going to lose.

The mood was despair, hopelessness, depression,

a little bit of anger and bewilderment about what she should be doing,

could be doing, talking about the Nevada early vote numbers

are terrible, real rage towards Biden that I think is a, you know, that's just bubbling

underneath there. But my first question for you, like, is that, is he an outlier? What's the mood as you're

talking to people? What, what team thinks they're winning? What team thinks they're losing?

Who's happy? Who's sad? What's going on on the campaign trail with these campaigns?

Okay, I'll cut to the chase. Democrats definitely are anxious. They feel like they're losing.

Republicans are feeling amazing. Perhaps it's misguided, but they're really encouraged by these early

voting figures. Republicans are coming out in stronger numbers than ever before for a variety

reasons. You know, Republicans traditionally never voted early except for in Arizona,

right? And it was always Democrats. I'm talking about the battleground states. But now, you know,

there's vote by mail, there's early voting in these battleground states that some of them

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