cover of episode 40. The Surge for Kamala Harris

40. The Surge for Kamala Harris

2024/11/4
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Key Insights

Why are women in Iowa supporting Kamala Harris?

Women in Iowa, particularly those over 65 and independent women, are supporting Kamala Harris due to the state's six-week abortion ban, which they oppose. This issue has driven a significant shift in support towards Harris, with women turning out at a rate of two to one in her favor.

Has Kamala Harris made a mistake by using celebrity endorsements?

Some critics argue that Harris' use of celebrity endorsements, such as a star-studded concert in Philadelphia, could alienate non-elite voters. This mirrors concerns raised during Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign about the effectiveness of such events.

Why is Donald Trump often late to his rallies?

Trump's lateness to rallies is partly due to his focus on retail politics, spending extra time with attendees to maximize engagement. This approach, while effective, often leads to delays in his schedule.

What impact did the Madison Square Garden rally have on public perception of Trump?

The Madison Square Garden rally, where Trump's supporters made controversial statements, may have highlighted the extremism of his inner circle, causing unease among voters who were previously immune to Trump's rhetoric.

How does the machinery in states like Nevada and New Hampshire influence election outcomes?

In states like Nevada and New Hampshire, the Democratic machinery, including unions and organized labor, plays a crucial role in mobilizing voters. This machinery can significantly impact voter turnout and election results, often favoring Democratic candidates.

Why might Republicans in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin oppose early ballot processing?

Republicans in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin may oppose early ballot processing to create a delay, allowing time for potential legal challenges and claims of election fraud, which could benefit their candidate, Donald Trump.

What is the significance of the Supreme Court's decision on Pennsylvania's provisional ballots?

The Supreme Court's rejection of the Republican emergency appeal against provisional ballots in Pennsylvania ensures that thousands of ballots will be counted, potentially affecting the tight race in the state.

Chapters

Kamala Harris is showing momentum in Iowa, particularly among women, according to a recent poll by Ann Seltzer.
  • Kamala Harris leads in a recent Iowa poll with 47% to Donald Trump's 44%.
  • The poll indicates a swing towards Harris since the summer, especially among women.
  • Ann Seltzer's poll methodology is highly regarded in Iowa.

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Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Politics U.S. with me, Katty Kaye, on Election Eve. And me, Anthony Scaramucci. You know, we're just one day out from Election Day. And I just want to remind you that I'll be covering the U.S. presidential election through the night.

On November the 5th, live in studio from New York City, I'll be joined by Rory and Alistair from The Rest Is Politics, Dominic Sandbrook from The Rest Is History, and Marina Hyde from The Rest Is Entertainment. What a blockbuster lineup. We'll be live on YouTube from 3 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday afternoon and back again at midnight through to the early hours of Wednesday morning.

For those of you in the UK, that's 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening and back again on Wednesday morning at 5 a.m. UK time. So don't forget to tune in. Just search The Rest Is Politics America Decides on YouTube.

The shows will also be available to watch afterwards on Spotify. Search the Rest is Politics election video special. Okay, Katty, if you're cool with it, I'd like to get right into it with the Iowa polls because I think you just interviewed Ann Seltzer who did that poll. And obviously, she's a well-regarded pollster, too.

What are your thoughts on the Iowa poll that came out? And of course, for viewers and listeners, that was a surprise poll. Vice President Harris, 47, Donald Trump, 44. A lot of pushback from the Trump campaign on that. What are your thoughts on it, Katty? Yeah. So we'll talk about this Des Moines Register poll. And I did just interview Ann Seltzer, so I've got a bit more detail from her. It's a

Poll has surprised people because Iowa, as you've been hearing, if you've been following Anthony and me for the last few months, is not on anyone's list of battleground states. People are not expecting Kamala Harris necessarily to win Iowa. Barack Obama won it in 2008. He won it again in 2012, but a Democrat hasn't won it since then.

But why people are focused on this Des Moines Register poll, which was conducted by Ann Seltzer, which is a very reputable poll. Ann Seltzer is a very good pollster. She's widely recognized as somebody who understands Iowa very well and has very thorough methodologies. People are focused on this poll because it shows a swing towards Kamala Harris since the summer and even since September, and now has Kamala Harris ahead of it.

in Iowa. So it's not necessarily that people think Kamala Harris will win Iowa. What Ann Seltzer is showing is momentum towards Kamala Harris. And I think that's what you and I have been feeling when we've been texting over the last few days, right, Anthony? That's what we've been feeling is that Kamala Harris seems to be closing this with momentum. And I can tell you a bit more about Seltzer's poll in a second, but I want to hear what you've been hearing about momentum.

So the campaign is saying yesterday in Pennsylvania, 807,000 doors were knocked. Wow. 940,000 people were called in Pennsylvania from their phone bank. Now, some people think those calls are annoying, but the campaigns believe that these calls are very effective. They actually pull people out and they get people to the polls.

you're laughing because you don't like those calls, right? You don't want to get a call. Those calls are up there with somebody trying to sell me a new dishwasher. I mean, you know, I don't want to take those calls, but I do know they think they are effective. I would, I would try to sell you a new dishwasher. I mean, I mean, I mean, you know, I mean, you probably hang up on me, but sell me a Lamborghini and I might buy one. There you go.

You know what? You looked a little bit too good in the Lamborghini. Okay. I'm getting a lot of feedback on this. Okay. It's a little crazy. And for those people who are listening in, our members only got treated to the Caddy K in Lambo special. Okay. This was a special episode that we did for founding members. And I got to tell you, Caddy, it was quite fun. And you were a big hit with Mama Scaramucci. I have to tell you that as well. She greatly enjoyed meeting you and

She said if she was feeling a little bit better, of course, she would have showed you the whole house and told you her whole life story like she does with everybody else. So you were lucky to have avoided that. It was a pleasure to meet her. The drive went well, mostly well. We have released a little bit on the general feed as well, so you can get a taste of it. But do tune in to hear us driving around Anthony's neighborhood because it was so much fun to come and discover where you grew up. All right. So there's a new 26 model out, Katty. I'll be sure to

message you on that, okay, to get you enticed by that. Well, I have a birthday soon. So if you want to send one over, then that's just okay. Yeah, there you go. You know, you have a big birthday coming up, but we won't tell people what your age is because they all think that you're at least 15 years younger than me. Yeah, let's not tell people I'm about to turn 60. That would be much better. Okay. So what have you been hearing from the Kamala campaign? I just think that they are different from the Hillary Clinton campaign. They are very cautious.

They don't want to sound exuberant, but they do believe that they have the momentum. They do believe that she's winning on normalcy. She's winning on value. She's winning on the open tent.

I think that she's losing white men. And so this is almost like a battle between all women versus white men that are going to show up for Donald Trump, particularly uneducated white men, people without college degrees. So that's really where the race is right now. But I will say this to you, I don't like the

the concert in Philadelphia. I thought you wouldn't. If you don't mind, I'll just explain that briefly. I texted five or six people from the campaign, said, guys, I don't like it. Three people came back defending it. Two came back to me and said, could you call this person? Could you call that person? Not text them. Could you call them? Right. Because I think you're right because you're going to have 20,000 people there that could be running their field operations.

Those are 20,000 loyal Democrats that are volunteering, that they're inviting to this concert. They could be in the field. Just for viewers and listeners, this is a concert that's likely going to be at the Wells Fargo Arena again in Philly. Hillary Clinton did something like this in 2016. The very famous Katty Kay, I think, was present at that concert. It was a star-studded affair.

But it doesn't play well with the non-elites in that state. And so, Katty, my family's from that state. The western side of that state feels like Ohio. The eastern side of the state down by Philly feels like New York. But the northeastern part of the state and the center of the state feels a little bit like Kentucky. I think it's a 10-year gap.

to be doing a star-studded concert again when that was not a great idea for Secretary Clinton in 2016. But that's just me. I want to point that out to people because if she loses, you and I are going to go through a whole list of things that they did. We're going to say this is probably why she lost. If she wins, of course, I have that list as well. And she's generally run a very good campaign for somebody that started on July 21st. So I like her odds here. But what do you think?

I knew that you wouldn't like the concerts. We don't like star-studded concerts on The Rest Is Politics. And I know that you have a little PTSD from that final night in 2016 when she was there. I was there at that big blowout concert in Philly and you were in a field with Donald Trump where he was saying, she's with the stars and I'm with you.

and it worked that time around. So I'm a little surprised that they're doing that again when they've been so keen to distance themselves as much as possible from all the messaging and the symbolism of Hillary Clinton's campaign. It felt like a little odd choice. Let's talk a bit more about that and Seltzer Poll, because one of the things she said to me, I interviewed her on Morning Joe this morning, and I asked her about the issue of abortion, because it seems to me that abortion is...

It's only polled, Anthony, throughout the year number three after immigration and the economy. And I'm just wondering if actually it's more of a sleeper issue, particularly for women, than we might have known from the polls. So in July, Iowa introduced a six-week abortion ban. After six weeks, women can't get abortions. Most women don't know they're pregnant by six weeks.

Now, I asked Anne Seltzer this. Some of her polling after July, after that ban was introduced, didn't immediately show Kamala Harris ahead. So what is it? Is it just that this issue has taken a little time for people to hear about, to focus on? And she was right.

really interesting. She said that the majority of Iowa, if you poll people on the issue, the majority of the state thinks that abortion should be legal in most cases, and they don't like this six-week abortion ban.

And as the weeks have gone on, they've actually seen in a poll in September Kamala Harris closing the gap on Donald Trump. And now this final poll on the eve of the election, they see Kamala Harris ahead of Donald Trump. And what she's seeing is women, particularly women 65 years and older,

independent women turning out for Kamala Harris at a rate of two to one, which is a huge big bonus for her. And she does think that the whole issue of abortion and Iowa's draconian ban on abortion is what in these final weeks. And if you, I don't know if you've noticed in the press, there's been quite a lot of coverage just in the last few weeks, Anthony, of

women who have had reproductive health issues that have got dramatically worse, some women who have even died because they could not get the health care they wanted around the country. And Ann Seltz's view is that has filtered through to the Iowa electorate. And what's interesting about Iowa is the demographics of Iowa are quite similar to the demographics of Wisconsin and

And so the question then becomes in one of the big battleground states, is there a similar movement of women over 65 and independent women in these final days shifting towards Kamala Harris? So I think so. And I have a Roman Catholic mom who goes to church every Sunday and

goes to confession on Saturday. So if you're Catholic here, that's a very traditional thing to do. She's turning 88 in January. Who did you vote for? I voted for Kamala Harris. Why did I vote for Kamala Harris? I want women in this country to have the reproductive freedom. And I'm very, very worried about everything that you just said. Okay. So that's an 88 year old traditional conservative woman who

conservative in terms of religious theology, not in terms of her general politics. She's fairly progressive that way. But my point is a lot of women are looking at this issue and saying, whoa, I don't want to take that step. It's too draconian.

Something else happened. I was on a show this morning in Australia. I got up early, which is why I'm wearing my... We're not at a funeral yet, Kat. We're going to be at a funeral for somebody, metaphorically. But I got this shirt and tie on because I was on a show this morning. I hope you've got your outfit planned, by the way, for election night for your YouTube.

Because that's going to project. I know you message through your outfit. Black on black? Should I be wearing black on black? I don't know. Should I have the rosaries on my hands? But anyway, so the woman said something interesting to me I want to share with everybody. I was on a show with her.

You know, what's interesting is we're immune to Donald Trump's verbiage. I want to shoot people. I want guns pointed at Liz Cheney. The America is a garbage can. I'm going to go after my political adversaries using the American military. We're immune to him. But something happened at MSG, the Madison Square Garden rally.

We're not immune to his minions saying things. Interesting. So when Steve Miller says America is America for Americans, people are like, whoa. When the comedian says there's a pile of garbage floating in the ocean, it's Puerto Rico. People are like, whoa. When one of his donors says we're going to slaughter, we want the other slide slaughtered.

And she thinks that the MSG thing popped the bubble. That's so interesting. It's a very hard bubble to pop because Donald Trump has license to say anything that he wants publicly.

But there was his highest profile event that he's probably ever had in the eight or nine years that he's been running, 20,000 people in his hometown, Madison Square Garden. And his minions with the Trump mind virus were trying to out-Trump Trump. That's such a great point. I hadn't thought of it, that he can get away with saying stuff like,

that people around him cannot get away with saying? Is it just because he's Donald Trump and he's the showman and so people love him, but they don't know who that comedian is and they certainly don't know who Stephen Miller is. And so when they say things, are they seen as avatars for Donald Trump or what is that? I think so. But I also think people are like, wait a minute, those are his soldiers, right?

Right.

But I just think when they see his minions who are potentially going to be in the cabinet or working in the White House saying the same thing, that's when the fright starts. Or the event in Michigan over the weekend where his microphone didn't seem to work and he got really angry and he said, I'm seething up here. And I watched the bit of the rally. And at one point he says, do you guys want to see me go backstage and smash people's heads? The idea of him going and beating up the stagehands is,

because the microphone isn't working. I mean, yes, that's super annoying and he's complaining about how he has a sore throat and these things are so taxing on him and he's already done two and the least they could do is get the microphone working and does he want to see people's heads banged together? But the crowd behind him does laugh. You're right. You see all these people laughing. It's part of the show. Well, it's Worldwide Wrestling Federation. It's WWF. He's the WWF candidate

but the other people can't get away with it. And so, so again, if he loses, it'll be the abortion issue and it'll be, whoa, he's attracting people. Let me tell you something. General Kelly was never getting to a microphone in Madison Square Garden and saying what Stephen Miller said. Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, never saying that. Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson,

These men, okay, and even women, Nikki Haley, UN ambassador, not getting to a microphone, talking the way those people were talking at MSG, but now he's surrounded by people that will do that and they will try to out-Trump Trump.

And I think it's got people in the last week very nervous about him. Just before we take a break, I just remembered one other thing that I thought it was worth raising in our interview with Ann Seltzer this morning, because she pointed to the fact there are four congressional districts in Iowa. All of them are Republican at the moment, but in two of them, which are in the kind of more populated areas of the states, the Democrats are currently ahead of the Republicans. And she says this is the same phenomenon. It is women...

especially college-educated women and older women, turning out to vote Democrat right down the ticket. And she says you could have now a situation where in Iowa you go from four Republican members of Congress to two Democrats and two Republicans, which would be, that would help, of course, the Democrats in their bid to take back the House. And it was a sort of, I just mentioned it because it was a sleeper race. I hadn't really focused on the Iowa campaign

Full disclosure, I had not been focused on the Iowa House races, but I will now be watching those two on election night. So the most senior member of the House of Representatives that is on the Harris team, he's asked me not to give up his name, but I can share the information.

is super tight with the campaign, sees the innards of the campaign, very tight with Paris. Your people could probably guess who it is because also from California. I said, okay, give me the great scoop. They have her narrowly winning. They believe that she's going to win based on the data that they're seeing and what Plouffe has done in terms of the organization.

They see the House going to the Democrats, flipping, but they see the Senate. They see them losing the Senate. They see Casey beating McCormick in Pennsylvania, helping Harris in Pennsylvania. Again, that's them and that is 24 hours ago. I said, okay, give me the straight scoop. Pretend

I'm the vice president and brief me on what you know from inside the campaign. And that was his analysis. Okay, we're going to take a quick break. We'll come back with a little bit more on the final push and where the candidates are going to be and a little bit of what I'm getting from inside the Trump campaign, which is still insisting, at least publicly to reporters, that they are confident of victory.

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Hey, Valley peeps. So I get this question all the time. Pat, what's on your playlist? Well, depends on what I'm driving. If it's the crown, then it's the divas. Prius, smooth jazz. Tacoma, Viking heavy metal. Hey, rugged is rugged. Give your commute and your playlists an upgrade with a new Toyota. Stop by any one of 10 Valley Toyota dealers today or visit valleytoyotadealers.com and make sure you check out the all new, all rugged Tacoma.

Welcome back to The Rest Is Politics US as we look at the final push to D-Day. Well, actually, in a way, we say the final push, but you have to remember that 75 million Americans, which is an incredibly high number.

have already voted in this election. I love election day itself. Everybody in my family, I'm not an American citizen, but everyone in my family who is an American citizen in a voting age all go off to the polling booth. They really enjoy the actual election day and the kind of atmosphere around it. But

Clearly, millions of Americans have already decided to vote early. So where are the candidates? Kamala Harris, very focused on Pennsylvania. She has five stops that she's doing in Pennsylvania today in Scranton, Redding, Allentown, Pittsburgh, ending with a huge big concert that we mentioned earlier in Philadelphia itself.

Donald Trump is in North Carolina. He's got a couple of events in Pennsylvania. And then he ends in Michigan, where he's going to hold his final rally in Grand Rapids. That's where he ended in 2016 and 2020. Of course, 2016, you were there with him in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Is that a superstition thing for Donald Trump? We know that he is superstitious. Is that why he does it? Yeah, he's very superstitious. I think so. I think it was a great

way to end the campaign last time because it was super energized. He's gasping towards the finish line this time. As you pointed out, he's complaining about a sore throat. He's limited the number of stops. He's eight years older and you can clearly tell he was wobbling into the garbage truck. He's having a harder time moving around.

But yeah, I think that that's it. I think that Michigan looks like it's going to her. Wisconsin looks like it's going to her. It feels like a dead heat in Pennsylvania. And I would bet that his team is saying, hey, she's in Pennsylvania. You should be in Pennsylvania. But he's too superstitious for that. So he's going to end up in Grand Rapids. I had dinner last night with somebody who had been to his rally in

Pennsylvania yesterday, the rally where he said, you know, if you want to shoot me, you'd have to shoot me through the fake news. And this is a visitor over from the UK who's just here on a kind of political tourism week, which is a kind of extraordinary thing in and of itself. They queued for an hour and a half. They waited for him for three hours. She said that by the time he arrived at 11 a.m., the crowd was kind of flat. He did not manage to re-energize them.

hundreds of people were leaving early. They were kind of streaming out, you know, as soon as he arrived, basically they wanted to see him, but they didn't want to hang around for an hour speech because they'd already been waiting for four hours. Her takeaway, and she was quite surprised by this because she'd heard about, you know, Donald Trump rallies being great shows, was just how flat it was and how

Kind of down and low energy was her expression and rather kind of surly he was throughout the thing. She said it just wasn't the fun show she had been expecting. And yet you contrast that, and I wanted to get your take on this, Anthony, with her final days. She does Saturday Night Live on Saturday night, stopped mentioning Donald Trump on purpose. The campaign has decided they're going to end positive days.

and optimistic and upbeat. And it's in her demeanor as much as anything. If you took these two candidates just in a study of psychology and took this snapshot of time, it feels to me like there's a big difference. It does. And I agree with everything that you just said, but I want to ask you a question before I give you some of my analysis. If you're waiting four hours and you stream out when he arrives, if you're waiting four hours

To me, it still smells like you're going to go to the polls, right? If you're there waiting for the guy, it's not like you're leaving. No, that's true. The reason why Trump is late all the time is he is a little bit of a narcissist, doesn't care about your time. But the real reason is he pours it on with the people that he's with. And so he's a good retail politician. Again, you can hate him.

but he's a good retail politician. So when you're with him, the volcano is going, the lava is flowing, and he wants to stay to the last minute or overstay. And you and I both know that President Clinton did that, was great at that. But then it leaves the other people that he's scheduled to meet with waiting for him. But if they're going to wait four hours for him in cold weather in Northern Michigan,

Katty, they're voting for him. And you have to just know that, you know? I mean, she said there were a lot of car number plates from out of state. She felt that not everybody was from Pennsylvania. And it was a bit more of a cold shower than a hot lava show from him, that it was just a bit flat and down. So what are you going to be watching for tomorrow night? One thing, I had some text conversations back and forwards with a senior Trump campaign advisor just last night. And

By the way, they are still feeling confident or at least telling reporters like me they're still feeling confident. This advisor said, "Look, we have Nevada and Arizona basically locked up already.

We haven't actually had the final vote yet, but they say they've locked up Arizona and Nevada. They think they look good in North Carolina and Georgia. North Carolina is interesting because Trump has actually visited there quite a bit. He's there today. He's been there recently. And you wonder if they think that North Carolina is locked up, why is he still spending his precious time there? But anyway, so I wonder about North Carolina. But here's the state that this Trump official mentioned to me yesterday.

that I hadn't heard about and I'm still a bit skeptical about, which is that they are getting good numbers from New Hampshire, which

which of course at the moment is a democratically held state and they think that New Hampshire is in play. So it could be a fun one to watch for our viewers, you on YouTube, me on the BBC, just to kind of remind people if you're looking for tells, just if suddenly you see Trump doing super well in New Hampshire, then that would suggest that it was a good night for him. By the way, Colum is skeptical on that one, but it's interesting. Yeah, exactly. Because I just want to explain to, you know, like we see this and we see poll shifts and

But I want to talk about machinery because in the 24 years that I've been involved in presidential campaigns, six campaigns, there's machinery in place. Okay. So Harry Reid, do you remember Harry Reid? Yep. The great Paul from Nevada. Right. So Harry Reid was the Senate majority leader. He's passed now, but he was an old school silver miner from Nevada.

And he controlled that state with an iron fist and he had machinery in place that brought out the vote. It was unions and bus drivers and casino workers. And, you know, Trump is saying he's going to win Nevada, no taxes on tips. Harris incidentally said no taxes on tips as well, but I think Trump's voice is louder than hers.

But the Republicans think they're winning Nevada. Now, I'm going to tell you, Caddy, I believe that they're going to lose Nevada. You can call me out on this next week because of the machinery, the churn. And I think the same thing in New Hampshire.

My friend Scott Brown, you may remember him. He was a senator from Massachusetts. He lost to Elizabeth Warren. He moved to New Hampshire to run again. He said, oh no, I'm definitely going to win. He lost. I said, why'd you lose the machinery? The Democratic machinery in New Hampshire knocked him out of the box. Those states, in my opinion, are going to go to Harris. The flip side of it is, in Florida in 2016, we

We were waiting cautiously for certain precincts in Florida. DeSantis has taken control of that state. He's got the machinery up and running for the Republicans. That is now a red state. We don't even talk about Florida in terms of a toss-up anymore. But you do remember this. In 12 and 16, Florida was considered a purple state. And by the way, God bless Florida because they do something that they do not do in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. They prohibit

which means they open the ballots of members

mail-in and early votes early before election day, which means that by 9, 10 p.m. on election day tomorrow night, we will have the result for Florida. Because Pennsylvania and Wisconsin aren't allowed to touch those mail-in ballots, there are millions of them this year, until 9 a.m. on polling day, 9 a.m. tomorrow, of course it takes them a lot longer. That is why we may not get a result

I remember Congresswoman Dean, I remember, I think I mentioned it the other week when I went and visited her. She is...

predicting that we will get a result from Pennsylvania on Wednesday night. But it's possible that it takes longer than that in some of these battleground states. In a state like Arizona, it can take days. And of course, that is the window that we're all watching a little nervously because it's the time between the polls closing and getting the result that is the moment when somebody makes mischief.

when people start saying it's fraudulent, exactly as he did back in 2020 when Donald Trump came out and said that he had won even though the ballots hadn't actually been counted. So if election officials can speed up that process, and I know that in Pennsylvania they've got better machinery and better systems in place, and they hope that it's not going to take the three days that it took

in 2020, but it's a precarious time for American democracy, this time between the polls closing and the final result actually being tallied and announced. So let me ask you a cynical question, okay? Josh Shapiro says that he wanted...

them to be able to open the ballots early. The Republicans in the state Senate blocked it. Same in Wisconsin. The same thing happened in Wisconsin. Same in Wisconsin. So why would state senators in Wisconsin and state senators in Pennsylvania, Katty Kay, why would they block that? Can anybody sense my cynicism? I hope people can sense my cynicism. So I was on with the chair of the Democratic Committee yesterday.

who we were interviewing this morning on television, Ben Winkler from Wisconsin. We were talking about this and the move that there had been there. Actually, it was a bipartisan move in Wisconsin to try and get this to move faster so that you could start processing the ballots before election day.

It was a few Republican members of the state legislature basically killed the bill. And yes, you are right. The supposition is that they want the delay. The Republicans want the delay because they want that time for Donald Trump to be able to say, I won the election and stop.

start filing lawsuits or trying to prevent the count or saying we have to stop the count now, as he did in Pennsylvania. He said, we've got to stop the count. It's done. It's over. I've won. Anyway, I hate to be a cynic about this. I hate the idea that people are so cynical. And I think of all of these people in America, including my daughter, who will tomorrow give up their day and turn up at six in the morning to go and volunteer at polling stations. And what an incredibly

I find it a very moving experience, Election Day in America, and all of these old women and young people and young men who volunteer and spend their time and help people at the polling stations. And there's something very moving about it. So I find it very depressing that people are being cynical about the way they would do the count in order to cause mischief. Let me just say this. The Supreme Court on Friday said that they rejected the emergency appeal from the Republicans against

It could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted at Pennsylvania. So the Democrats won that point in Pennsylvania, and these things are only going to be decided by thousands of votes, Katty. And so that's important. Anthony and I will not be together for most of election night, but we will be getting together at 1 a.m.

on Wednesday morning, Eastern Time, and we will record an episode and it will be in your feeds when you wake up on Wednesday morning with the results as they stand and that snapshot in time. Goodbye and don't forget to tune in to The Rest Is Politics America Decides Live on YouTube. The shows will also be available to watch afterwards on Spotify. Just search The Rest Is Politics U.S. Election Video Special.

Hi there, it's Anthony here. I just wanted to let you know that on Tuesday, November 5th, I'll be covering the U.S. presidential election through the night. Live in studio from New York City, I'll be joined by Rory and Alistair from The Rest is Politics, Dominic Sandbrook from The Rest is History, and Marina Hyde.

from the rest is entertainment. We'll be live on YouTube from 3 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday afternoon and back again at midnight through to the early hours of Wednesday morning. The show will be totally interactive, so you can ask us anything you like in the comments section.

We'll cover the breaking news from all the swing states, as well as getting a ton of big guests to join us in the studio. For more information, just search The Rest Is Politics, America Decides on YouTube. Can't wait to see you there.