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[cheering]
What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to The Daily Show.
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We've got a great show for you tonight
with all the big, post-Election Day news.
Republicans won, but somehow also lost.
Donald Trump is throwing Melania under the bus.
And slavery is now illegal almost everywhere.
So let's do this, people.
Let's jump straight to all the results in another edition
of Votedemic 2022.
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[cheering]
So going into last night's midterms,
almost everyone was expecting a huge night for Republicans,
a red wave that would wash away the Democrats in Congress
and yank off Joe Biden's swim trunks
so everyone could see his old-man butt.
But now the votes are in, and already--
already people are realizing that although there's still
a lot left to count, it's clear that the red wave did not
show up.
REPORTER: This morning, control of Congress
up in the air with both the House and Senate still
hanging in the balance.
Republicans acknowledging the expected red wave
never materialized.
REPORTER: With five races still to call,
it's unclear who will control the Senate.
Control of the House is leaning Republican, but only barely.
Democrats overall are doing much better than expected.
That predicted red wave only appears
to be a splash if you will.
REPORTER: The word wave has no application
yet to what we're seeing.
This might feel more like the edge of a lake.
This really looks much more like a red whisper if that.
This wasn't even a red wave.
It's not even a red little ripple in a pond.
I've heard it called, you know, the red sprinkler.
I've heard it called the red splash, the red puddle.
The red drizzle, the red spritz.
Yeah, you know, when you're peeing,
and then a little bit comes out after you're done,
it's a red one of those.
You should probably go get that checked out, by the way.
And, like, some of these didn't even make sense.
You know?
Like, I'm sorry, but what is a red whisper?
What is that like, ASMR for conservatives?
Is that what that is?
It's just like, (WHISPERING) now I'm crumpling
up the Voting Rights Act.
Oh, yeah.
But, yes, last night was not the red wave that many people
expected it to be.
And to be clear-- to be clear, Republicans
are still in good shape to take control of the House.
And they may even take control of the Senate
when it's all said and done.
Now it's too early-- it's too early to tell because, you
know, America counts its votes as slowly as George
RR Martin writes the books.
But it's definitely not the huge win
that they were expecting.
So it feels like a loss, which is really
strange to me about politics.
You know?
It's the only place where you can technically
win, but still lose because people thought
you were going to win more.
Basically, Republicans got the handjob version of winning.
[laughter]
Yeah, like, it got the job done,
but no one's really happy about it.
[laughter]
You know?
It's like, (IMITATING MCCONNELL) bah,
I could have done this to myself.
Bah.
[applause]
And, again, lots of races are still undecided.
Arizona and Nevada won't be done counting
votes for a few more days.
We won't know who won Alaska's races
until the dog sled arrives.
And the big Senate race in Georgia
looks like it is headed to a runoff in December.
Yeah, which is only going to screw up Herschel Walker's
brain even more, right?
No, think about it.
Like, (IMITATING WALKER) another election,
has it been six years already?
Oh, man, that means I got 35 children now.
What's happening?
Oh, wow.
[applause]
But one big race that was decided last night
was in Pennsylvania, where John Fetterman defeated Dr. Oz.
[cheering]
Which you've got to admit is exciting for the Capitol
because nobody in the Senate looks like this guy.
I mean, huh?
Have you seen this?
He doesn't look like everyone.
He's massive.
He's got the bald head, the goatee,
the hoodie, which is dope.
Normally, Senators look like your dad's boss from work,
you know?
John Fetterman looks like he can physically
raise the debt ceiling.
[grunts] 37 trillion!
[grunts]
And, look, now one of the reasons
so many people were surprised by last night's results
is that for weeks-- for weeks, pundits
have been saying that there are only a few issues that really
matter to Americans right now, like inflation, crime,
and whatever the hell is going on
with the Twitter checkmarks.
And in particular-- in particular,
the experts are saying that voter concerns about abortion
had faded since the summer.
Well, I guess all those experts have been fired
and will never be allowed back on television
because it turns out they were just a little bit wrong.
The issue of abortion turned out to be a massive factor
yesterday, with the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs
case to overturn Roe v. Wade playing
a much bigger role than polls before the election suggested.
REPORTER: In California, Michigan, and Vermont,
voters chose to enshrine reproductive rights into
their state's constitutions.
The biggest surprise came in Republican-leaning Kentucky,
where voters rejected an anti-abortion
constitutional amendment.
REPORTER: It was a huge night for abortion
rights across the country.
I mean, women voted in droves.
Yes, well, people said a few weeks ago that it didn't
matter, that it was fading.
It didn't turns out that wasn't right.
Yeah, it turns out abortion rights
didn't fade away as a concern.
And it's crazy that people ever thought it would.
You know?
Like, what women out there would be like, you know,
it really bothered me over the summer
when the state government wanted to take control
of my reproductive system.
But now I'm like, whatever.
Yeah, maybe my body is their choice.
I don't know.
So it looks like abortion rights
was a big winner last night.
And it looks like the big loser last night
was none other than Donald "Jumped the Shark" Trump.
[cheering]
Because so far it looks like many of the candidates
he endorsed ended up being unendorsed by the voters.
Here's what we know for sure this morning.
It was a disappointing night for former President Trump.
REPORTER: The biggest loser last night was Donald Trump.
In state after state, candidates that he brought
to the race, candidates that he endorsed
did not win or are losing right now.
REPORTER: But perhaps the worst result for Trump
is that his biggest Republican rival
had the best night of anybody.
REPORTER: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
might have moved closer to a possible 2024
presidential bid, with a commanding victory over
former Governor Charlie Crist.
That's right.
It was a bad night for Trump and a great night
for his rival, (IMITATING TRUMP)
Ron DeSanctimonious, who absolutely
crushed it in Florida.
I mean, crushed it, like, bath salts crushed it.
And judging by this post on his knockoff Twitter,
Trump is not taking it well.
Yeah, he wrote, (IMITATING TRUMP) shouldn't it
be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 million more votes in Florida
than Ron D got this year, 5.7 million to 4.6 million?
Just asking?
[laughter]
[cheering]
Oh, wow.
You see what you've done, Ron DeSantis?
Huh? You see what you've done?
You made Trump so mad, he's doing math. (IMITATING TRUMP)
4.6 plus 5.7.
[applause]
Even sounding like Shakespeare in that-- (IMITATING
TRUMP) shouldn't it be said--
[laughter]
And hitherto forth--
[laughs] and here's the thing-- here's the thing
that's exciting about this.
DeSantis's success combined with Trump's failures
is already causing chaos in the Republican Party.
Because now Republicans are asking themselves,
oh, what do we do?
Do we stick with Trump, who's screwed up two elections now
but still controls all of the hardcore Republicans
and is also completely toxic with everyone else?
Or do we go with Ron DeSantis, who's
clearly the upgrade of Trump?
But then you risk losing Trump, and then
he burns down the entire GOP.
What do you do?
And it's funny.
It's so funny to watch because all these conservatives,
they don't know what to do.
Right?
They're just like, uh, do I go with Trump or-- oh, oh,
do I go with DeSantis?
Oh, if I had principles, I would follow them.
But I just want to be on the winning side.
Oh, which one do I go with?
Oh.
[applause]
You know, right now conservatives in America
are like kids who can see a bad divorce coming.
And they want to pick sides, but they're
not sure which parent is going to keep the house.
[laughter]
But it's true.
Trump had a tough night.
You know, the poor guy was just at home,
watching his top election deniers lose
and crying into a box of classified
documents. (IMITATING TRUMP) [blowing nose] Nuclear.
[sobbing]
But because this is Donald Trump,
he's not taking responsibility.
In fact, it's being reported that he's blaming Melania
for pushing him to endorse Dr. Oz in the first place,
saying it was, quote, "not her best decision."
Yeah, and I'm sure in response, Melania was like, (IMITATING
MELANIA) yes, it's true.
I'm very bad at picking men.
[laughter]
[cheering]
But not everything about the election
was about Democrats or Republicans.
So let's take a moment to appreciate
all the historic moments from last night.
We want to tell you about several historic firsts
across the country.
In Alabama, Republican Katie Britt, the winner
in the race for US Senate.
She's the first woman ever elected
to the Senate in Alabama.
In Maryland, Democrat Wes Moore will be the state's
first Black governor.
And Massachusetts made history on two fronts.
Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey
will become the first female governor
in the state's history.
And she will also be the nation's
first openly lesbian governor.
Election history was also made in Florida.
25-year-old Democrat Maxwell Frost
is set to be the first member of Generation Z
to win a seat in Congress.
Wow.
[applause]
A 25-year-old Congressman, that's
going to be great to have a young person in Congress.
And by young, I mean under 85.
I mean, it will be tough though.
Will be tough being that young around that many old people.
Half his time is going to be spent helping
them with their phones.
He's going to be in the middle of a speech like,
and that's why my district and the people of it deserve the--
what?
What, Chuck?
No, just swipe up.
Swipe up to close the app.
No, swipe-- no, don't click that.
There are not really hot singles in the area.
It's a trick, Chuck!
It's a trick!
[applause]
And there are a lot of other cool firsts
too-- women firsts, LGBTQ firsts, immigrant firsts.
Honestly, I almost feel bad for anyone who won last night
and wasn't a historic first.
There was probably some straight white guy last night
giving his victory speech like, it's
an honor to be the first governor in state history
who can, uh, uh, do this.
Uh, pretty-- pretty sick, right?
Yeah?
Yeah, no?
Just me?
All right, that's it for the headlines.
But before we go to a break, it's
time to check in on the weather forecast with our very own
Desi Lydic, everybody.
[cheering]
Good to see you again, Desi.
You know, it's getting cold in the East.
There's storms everywhere.
What's the weather looking like?
Weather's great.
Look outside.
What I want to talk about is how
people came out and voted for abortion rights
all over this country.
[cheering]
Big deal, big deal, including my home state of Kentucky.
Yeah!
TREVOR NOAH: That was shocking.
Huge, Kentucky, Trevor, the state where women have
fewer rights than most horses.
[laughter]
It's true.
I mean, in college, I had to get my birth
control from a horse vet.
TREVOR NOAH: Wow, veterinarian, that's terrible, Desi.
Yeah, right?
I mean, they also had ketamine, so it wasn't all bad.
And that year I went on to win the Belmont.
Anyway, also, New York and Massachusetts
elected female governors for the first time.
[cheering]
Yeah, which is a win.
It is a win.
But if we're being honest, like,
how is this only happening now in New York and Massachusetts?
These two states have been states
since the beginning of states.
You know how long women have been around?
Like, at least that long, maybe more.
Oh, and how about that Ron DeSantis victory last
night, huh?
Oh my god, I almost feel bad for Donald Trump, you know?
He had to smile and clap for DeSantis
on the outside when he was fuming
with jealousy on the inside.
Trump finally felt like one of his beauty
pageant contestants.
[laughter]
And perhaps the best news is that the massive red wave only
hit Florida.
Oh, man, and I think all women can agree,
it's always a good thing when your red wave
is lighter than you expected.
[laughter]
[cheering]
I just want to say, I get how Republicans are feeling.
I mean, sometimes you expect your red wave to arrive,
and it doesn't.
And then you start to panic.
You consider your options, which
are suddenly very limited.
Yeah, plus--
[cheering]
Plus, with this runoff in Georgia,
you might not know if your red wave is
coming for another few weeks.
And by then, it might be too late.
The next thing you know, Herschel Walker
is sending you a get well card with a check in it.
TREVOR NOAH: [laughs]
Anyway, I just want to say to all of those Republicans
who are feeling this way, don't stress.
Trust me.
I've got a great veterinarian in Kentucky you can call--
top notch.
Desi Lydic, everybody.
[cheering]
Thank you so much for the weather, I guess.
All right, when we come back, we're
going to be talking about a surprising result
from last night that most people don't know about.
So don't go away.
[cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
You know, yesterday's election--
yesterday's election wasn't just about politicians.
People also voted on ballot issues.
For instance, Connecticut voted to implement
an early voting system.
California voted against legalizing mobile gaming.
And Maryland voted to legalize marijuana.
So, finally, you can buy drugs in Baltimore, right?
But-- but a big ballot measure in several states
involved slavery.
And I'm not talking about teaching slavery.
I'm talking about actual slavery.
Five states were voting on constitutional amendments
to ban slavery.
And not all of them passed those bans.
In all, five states were voting on removing slavery
from their constitutions.
Vermont, Alabama, Tennessee all voted to ban slavery
as punishment for a crime.
Louisiana, a former slave state,
rejected that amendment.
All right, America!
Four out of five states said no to slavery in the year 2022.
That's what I'm talking about!
That's amaz-- now we just need to invent electricity,
and we're living in the future, baby.
Oh, I can't wait.
Yeah, as you heard, Louisiana, unlike those other woke
states, voted against ending slavery.
Yeah, and for more on that, we go live now
to Roy Wood, Jr., everybody.
[cheering]
Yeah.
TREVOR NOAH: Roy--
Hello.
What's going on, Africa?
Roy, the reason we're coming to you
is because you are in Louisiana right now.
No, no, no, no, no.
And I would love to know--
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm not in Louisiana.
I'm on the Mississippi side of the border.
And that's as far as I'm going.
But I'm definitely not going in.
I ain't going in that shit.
You can't tell me a place just voted yes on slavery,
then asked me to go there.
I'm too old, too tired.
I don't sing good.
I can't be a slave.
[cheering]
Well, Roy, this is bad.
This is bad, yes, but it doesn't apply to you.
This is about forcing prisoners to perform labor for free.
Oh, is that right?
I didn't realize that. My bad, man.
You-- you right.
You know what?
Let me just mosey on into Louisiana.
Boom!
Next thing you know, I walk around,
and then they got me for jaywalking.
Now I'm 12 years a slave, and I got to wait for Brad Pitt
to come and saved my ass.
No thank you.
I am safer here in Mississippi, which is something
no Black man has ever said.
[laughter]
All right, fair enough, Roy.
But Mississippi is better.
Fair enough.
Fair enough, Roy.
At least your home state of Alabama
voted last night to ban slavery.
And it won the vote by 75%.
Huh? That's amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah, but-- but that means 25% voted to keep slavery.
[laughter]
That's a lot of people.
Now every time I'm at the grocery store,
I'm looking around, trying to guess
who voted to enslave my ass.
I bet Ms. Patterson was the one.
She always saying shit to me like, oh, baby,
you grew up so strong.
Get your hands off me.
Squeezing my muscles, sizing me up.
Trevor, this is terrible for Black people.
Well, technically, Roy, under these laws,
it's not just Black people.
Everyone, even white people, could be enslaved.
[laughter]
You bullshitting.
Well, why didn't they just lead with that?
They gonna make white people slaves?
Now that's the most progressive thing I ever heard.
No, Roy, no, you're not hearing me.
- Talking about white slaves. - No.
No, Roy, I think you misunderstand.
They're not going to make white people slaves.
I know you can't make them. I hear.
You got to catch them on your own.
You know what?
[laughter]
I think I might head to Louisiana.
Go and get me a white slave, man.
I'll see you later, bro.
This is going to be nice.
OFFICER: Freeze.
You're under arrest for jaywalking.
ROY WOOD, JR.: No, no!
No, no, no, no!
No, now-- damn it!
They trying to get me, Trevor!
Help me, Brad Pitt!
Oh, shit, good luck with that, Roy.
Roy Wood, Jr., everybody. [cheering]
I'm going to have to go bail him out.
Well, stay tuned because when we come back,
Mark Leibovich will be joining me on the show
to chat about how the Republicans
are victims captured by Trump.
Don't go away.
[cheering]
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is a staff writer at The Atlantic, who's
here to discuss the midterm results and his latest
number one New York Times bestseller,
Thank You for Your Servitude, Donald Trump's Washington
and the Price of Submission.
Please welcome Mark Leibovich.
I'm learning everything.
Mark Leibovich, welcome back to The Daily Show.
Trevor, thank you for having me.
And congratulations on another number one New
York Times bestselling book.
This is really interesting for me,
because you're one of the best writers out there.
Not just because of how you write,
but how you capture the world that you observe
and its politics.
Talking about Trump, talking about the Republicans,
talking about the Democrats and how they respond.
But this book is really interesting,
because it's about the hold that Donald Trump
has on the Republican Party.
And you talk about it in a way that I
think few people understand.
Tell me why it's servitude and not just
him being the head honcho.
Because the Republican Party has
surrendered to Donald Trump.
I've lost my voice.
Last night, I was up all night, but--
I understand.
--they have surrendered.
And this is not another book about Donald Trump.
This is a book about the party that enabled him.
Right.
This is a book about the people who bowed down to him,
who could have stopped him, and yet,
continue to under-perform in elections
like they did last night.
And the reason is, Trump is sort of an anchor
around their necks.
And no one is standing up to that.
And I wanted to give readers a sense of what this looks like.
You've given us more than just a sense, because we
saw a glimpse of this when the primaries
were still taking place.
You had all these Republicans who were like,
Trump is not the Republican Party.
All of them.
Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham.
He was on the show saying, Donald Trump
will never be the face, I will never support,
all these things. - Right.
Trump wins, and almost overnight everybody
falls into line.
Everybody becomes pro-Trump.
But what you show us in the book,
because of the interviews, some people anonymous,
but some people on the record, saying, no, we hate this guy,
but we care about winning more than anything else,
so we're going to work to keep him in power.
It's such a weird dynamic.
I was stunned by what they said
to me, both on the record.
And obviously, the dirty little secret inside Washington,
is that most Republicans who absolutely
just bow down to him in public, trash him in private.
And there are a lot of people last night
in the Republican Party who are saying Donald Trump did this.
This is another election he coughed up for us.
He's the first president in 100 years
to lose the White House, the House, and the Senate.
They under-performed in another election last night.
Right.
But they're only saying it privately.
I will think that the spell has been broken when I see
some people actually speaking publicly about what
he's doing to the party.
You know, it's interesting that you say that,
because as we read through these conversations
in the book, and I love how the book sort of starts
with the Trump Hotel and what it represents,
a moment in time, a moment where he's at his peak
and how people literally come and physically almost
bow to his shrine.
And then at the end where it's now
almost like the vacated version of its former self.
But the party seems different in that Republicans
are murmuring, but nobody's saying it.
You see what people are saying online.
Oh, it wasn't ideal that Trump did this, it wasn't.
They're scared of him though.
Because they've given him the party, or he's taken it.
But they seem scared of him.
And it's been depressing to watch
play out over all these years.
What I was scared about was yesterday's election
being the red wave that so many people anticipated,
which would have vindicated all of this.
It would have vindicated the character flaws,
the weakness, the patheticness that so many of them,
who could stop it.
And if there were 10 Liz Cheneys,
it would be different. - Wow.
But there's only one.
I think it also illuminates something that's actually,
I mean, I don't even know how to say this correctly,
but it's weird, because Trump is almost
more honorable than they are.
Because I mean, he says what he's saying,
he does what he's doing.
Yeah.
They say what they're saying in private,
but then they do what he's doing in public.
And so, you know what I mean?
Where does that leave a country where lawmakers don't believe
what they're voting for, don't believe
what they're kowtowing to?
Like, where does that leave America?
And how do they feel about the position
that they're putting the country in?
Right.
I mean, what does it say about a party
when Donald Trump is the honorable one, right?
And also, given how vulnerable Democrats were last night, how
unpopular Biden is, how bad inflation is, all
those issues, to still under-perform
to the degree they did gives you
an indication of how voters are saying like,
we don't like this either.
In fact, we like this worse.
So I think it's all again, it's all relative.
But where do you think this goes now?
Even not just as somebody who talks to them,
somebody who analyzes, somebody who's
been in many of the rooms where these discussions are being
held, it feels like you watch Fox News now,
and you can see people being a little more vocal,
saying DeSantis is clearly the future.
DeSantis is the guy we should be going with.
DeSantis, DeSantis, DeSantis.
But there's still a, you know, but Trump, but Trump,
but Trump.
And it seems like unless Trump steps down,
you have one of the craziest quotes I've ever seen
from somebody who's a lawmaker who said,
you say what is your plan for 2024.
And the person says, dead serious,
our plan is to hope that he's dead by then.
Right.
No, this is the quote.
- It's the quote. - It's a quote.
They're saying this.
They're like, we don't have another way,
we don't know what to do.
It's crass, it's depressing, but it
also goes to the passivity of what these folks are doing.
Someone else will take care of the problem.
And even now, no one has spoke up.
All of the, like I said earlier, all of the criticisms
of Trump have been private.
So I just don't think, and these are weak people, Trevor.
These are people who have sold, I mean whatever they've sold,
they have given up.
I mean, it's the price of submission.
Right.
But as Lindsey Graham said to me,
if you don't want to be reelected,
you're in the wrong business.
And at a certain point, you ask, is it really worth it.
Yeah, yeah, it really illuminates
I think many of the things that are
wrong with American politics in that it has become more
about staying in the job as opposed to doing the job
that somebody has put you in.
Absolutely.
And it leaves the country in a place
where everything is for show, everything is for an idea.
So when you look at it now, just hearing the whispers,
hearing everybody, even the people speaking publicly
to you, is this the moment where the party says, OK, it's
going to be a Ron DeSantis?
Or are they still just waiting to see
what Trump decides to do with the Republican Party?
I've had a lot of moments where I've thought
the fever is going to break.
If January 6 didn't do it, if him losing to Joe Biden
didn't do it, I don't think this is going to do it.
Wow!
Wow.
And so as somebody then who talks to these politicians,
I would love to know where you see it all going from here.
Because on the one hand, you have the Democrats
who have Joe Biden, and I remember
you wrote an article by about Joe Biden, which really
blew up over the summer.
And it was about him being too old to run in 2024.
And you said, you said, hey, Joe,
you've done what you said you want to do.
I broke the story that he's old.
[laughs]
Full credit.
You know?
But you came out and you said something that
got you a lot of flak, but also had many people saying,
yeah, I didn't want to say that, but it's true.
Because I don't know if people remember,
Joe Biden said, I only want to run to beat Donald Trump
and that's all I'm doing.
And now it seems like he may want to run again.
But you were one of the first people
who said, don't run again.
My question to you then becomes,
what do the Democrats do?
Because on the one hand, yes, Joe Biden is old.
On the one hand, yes, he may have only been the person
to beat Trump, et cetera.
But on the other hand, an incumbent has a feeling
of it's the status quo.
People don't like presidents changing all the time.
That's why Trump losing was such an anomaly.
So what do you think the option is for the Democrats?
Is there not a risk that if they put someone else up,
that person is just now a toss-up in the election?
Yeah.
I mean, the thing about Trump is,
that he's not only made the Republicans scared,
he's made the Democrats risk averse.
They are afraid of trying someone
new or exciting or different.
I mean, Joe Biden, his most important contribution
to the Democratic party and arguably to the country,
was beating Donald Trump on November 3, 2020,
whenever it was, whenever Election Day was.
Fix it.
So the problem is, governing is a bit of a bitch
afterwards, right, as we sort of learned.
Right, right.
He might be called upon to do it again.
But it's not like the Democrats have
an obvious and deep bench.
But I did believe that if some of the people, like Tim Ryan,
were to somehow win last night, they would immediately emerge.
And maybe a John Fetterman.
Right.
Maybe a Pete Buttigieg, maybe a couple of others.
And to your point about being risk averse,
I mean, the history of the Democratic Party
has shown that they've often had the fresh
off the bench person.
Absolutely.
You know, Barack Obama was like the young Senator
and you know, and you look at all these other,
Bill Clinton was the young upstart
and people didn't expect it.
So maybe that is where the path lies,
is in taking a little risk.
But from your book, it seems like nobody
wants to take the risk.
And it seems that because of that,
the country is in a really scary place, because it feels
like it's risk averse, and yet heading
to the riskiest place of all.
Indeed.
Well, on that note, it's a really fun beach read.
It is an amazing book, I'll tell you that.
Congratulations again.
Thank you so much for joining me on the show.
Appreciate it.
I hope your voice gets better.
We'll see you again.
Thank You for Your Servitude is available now
wherever you get your books.
We're going to take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this.
Thank you very much.
[cheering]
Well, that's our show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
But before we go-- before we go,
I wanted to tell you real quick about our newest
Daily Show podcast, Jordan Klepper
Fingers the Conspiracy.
In this limited podcast series, Jordan
is going to step off the Trump trail
and dig into some of the wildest conspiracy
theories he's heard, and trace their origins
with journalists, experts, and anyone
who might know when JFK, Jr. is coming back from the dead.
Now new episodes are going to be available Wednesdays
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Now here it is, your Moment of Zen.
ANNOUNCER: Flashback.
On election night two weeks from tonight,
it will be a red wave election.
There is a red wave coming, and it's
going to be a tsunami.
Not a red wave, a red tsunami.
We're not just going to see a red wave.
We're going to see a red tsunami.
It's a red hurricane.
My mom thinks there's going to be a red wave.
That's how big it's going to be.
Wow.
Red wave, tsunami, red wave, tsunami.
Red wave, red wave, red wave.
It's going to be a massive red wave.
ANNOUNCER: Many unbearable hours later.
The state of play, no red wave.