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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:43):
Welcome to Tuesday, the twenty fourth of September. Six minutes
after the hour, This is your morning show. I'm Michael
del Johno. Jeffrey Lines on the controls and if you're
just waking up the golf coast making preparations for what
is likely the next season surricane, and the US is
setting additional forces to the at least, and former President
Donald Trump raising doubts about early voting. Two superstar performances

(01:07):
from two superstar quarterbacks. There's a Titans fan in the studio,
and I'd like to remind him, superstar quarterback, you win. Yeah, no, quarterback,
you lose. They go to the Titans, the Tennessee Titans
right there. Wow, what do you say about Josh Allen?
What a first half? Four touchdown passes, Bills roll the

(01:30):
Jags remain undefeated. Jags go to oh to three, forty
seven to ten last night in Orchard Park. Then the
Commanders with Jayden Daniels dazzling, running, throwing, doing it all
outscoring the Bengals in Cincinnati thirty eight to three. Not
one but two Monday n football games, and I think

(01:51):
we have two next week. The Titans are one of them.
Oh great, Yeah, that'll be the early one. Should have
put that one late when I'm sleeping, I'll be I'll
be calling in late. We are working on a proper
introduction for Sounds of the Day. Yes, I don't think
we should go with like Simon and Garfuncle the Sounds
of the Day, but we'll come up with something really

(02:13):
cheesy to do Sounds of the Day.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Where to begin?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Well, this was Joe Biden, with a simple task, introduced
the Prime Minister of India.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I want to thank you all for being here.
And now whom I introducing next?

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Who's next, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, the Prime Minister
of the Republic of India.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Oh, I think we're just found open for sounds of
the day.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
So all right, you know, and you go, we don't
make fun of the elderly. Well, okay, that's Joe and
then here's Kamala. Because you know we're turning the page.
Turn in the page. We put Joe in a trunk,
put me.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
On my short feel I got an oversized coat, slack suit,
and I'm coming from Marine one and I'm walking on
khaki up to the reporters who say I don't.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Talk to them. I'm going to talk to them. Are
you ready, I'm about to talk to you. Don't do it?
There comes Have.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
You heard I would like another debate?

Speaker 4 (03:28):
So I'm hoping with your former vice.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
So we're all thinking to ourselves when you stifle your dear.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Go get the meathead out of this chair. So I'm like,
wait a minute, I got to hear that again.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
You have heard I would like another debate, So I'm
hoping with former.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Vice She walks up all Khaki, so you've heard I
want another debate. She's a regular Apollo Creed, isn't she.
And I'm I'm hoping Mike Pence.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I thought that's what she said, which got me thinking,
I will swamp the fly off that.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Wig in a second if I see that flag fly
on that light wig.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Donald Trump is not the former vice president. He's the
former president. That is a bad sound of the day.
All right, I have a I've been wanting to get
to this. This would be a good time just to
quickly insert it. Top donors contributors to Harris Biden versus
top donors to Trump. The amounts are staggering. Number one

(04:44):
one point five million from Google to Harris, seven hundred
and forty three thousand from Microsoft, two hundred and twenty
five thousand from Apple, two hundred and eighteen thousand from Oracle,
one hundred thirty seven thousand from Boeing. Listen, put that

(05:05):
into design, please, Netflix one hundred and twenty five thousand,
Amazon ninety eight thousand, Facebook ninety seven thousand.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
When you go through.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Trump's American Airlines, Walmart Boeing, Lockheed, Martin, United Airlines, FedEx,
Wells Fargo, Johnson and Johnson, Southwest Airlines. Ah see, flying
Southwest Airlines is just but he's smart.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
But I mean costco. We can go through them all,
not nearly as much.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
In fact, Microsoft gave Trump forty one thousand, seven hundred
and forty two. Microsoft gave seven hundred and forty three
thousand to Kamala Harris. So but what you see is
when it comes to technocracy, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, that

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money is all flying to the right. There is an
extraordinary media bias. Journalism is dead' it's they're at the
table of the cabal. The media is not the press
holding elected officials and candidates accountable on your behalf. They're
representing one side of the aisle. And then technocracy wasn't

(06:14):
much better Social media, of course, that got all upset
when Elon Musk bought X and balanced that playing field.
But you know, we kick around these numbers and these
really in essence platitudes. Journalism is dead. What does that mean?
Because I often said the most significant thing that happened
in twenty sixteen was not Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton.

(06:36):
It was the death of blatant death of journalism for
all to see, and they didn't care. They just completely
got in bed. Whether you were watching Late Night. Used
to remember when Late Night used to talk to celebrities
and we'd laugh and do comedy. Oh it was great. Yeah,
that's all you know. That's why Fox went with Guttfeld
that night, doing what I hate the left doing with
Late Night. So I guess more wrong will make it right.

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But I digress. How does it play out well? That
brings us to this Sound of the day. You would
think that jd Vance, a candidate for vice president, could
just sit down with the journalist and have a conversation.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
But you can't.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
If it's Oprah and Hollywood with Kamala softballs, if it's
Dana Bash with Kamala and her emotional support, Vice President
Tim Walls softballs JD Vance. He's got to get roughed
up at a cage and that be called a conversation

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and an interview.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
But that's okay because JD's up to it. Listen.

Speaker 8 (07:45):
But I think the reason to think the DHS is
underestimating whatever the real number is, it's way too high, right,
It's millions upon millions of illegal immigrants that have come
in just since Kamala Harris became the Bordizar a few
years ago.

Speaker 9 (07:56):
You were pret in charge of the causes of micration, the.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
Root causes of migration. I would say Christian is the
Kamala Harris refuses to do her job as borders are
and let's just start there. I want to answer your question,
but I think it's important to sort of sequence this
in the right way. So if you want to get
control of the illegal immigration problem.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
You have to stop the bleeding.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
You have to stop so many people from coming here
illegally in the first place, and that means undoing everything
that Kamala Harris did practically on day one of the administration.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
You have to reimpose deportations.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
You have to stop catching release, stop braining asylum to
every single person who comes in here and says that
they need asylum, and stop braining mass for all these
policies are why we have the immigration crisis that we have.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
So I think focus on fixing the problem.

Speaker 8 (08:37):
Before we even fix the problem, we've got to stop
the problem from getting work.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
And as you know, President Biden passed a.

Speaker 9 (08:42):
Series of executive actions and illegal Board acrossing are now
at their lowest levels in about five years, so much
so that Greg Abbott is no longer busting people to
other cities. Let me ask this fundamental questions, please, fundamental question.
Will families be separated under your mass deportation?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Get it? Because you made a pla here.

Speaker 8 (09:00):
I do want to answer this question about families and
about deportations. But you made this point that border crossings
are lower. Border crossings at the southern border are lower
because the Harris administration is sending more immigrants through the
ports entry, so instead of coming through the southern border
and not being flown a taxpayer expense to the ports
of entry all over our country. The number of illegal

(09:20):
crossings Christian, this is a really important point. They're not
any lower. They're just shuffling how the people are coming
into the country in the first place, and this is very.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Efficiently.

Speaker 8 (09:31):
But Greg Abbots not setting I don't what the borders are.
Who makes it more efficient for illegal immigrants to come
to the country. I may.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Buries her, absolutely buries. By the way, somebody needs tell
Kristen she's not running for president. She's a reporter that
should be asking questions, not debating guests.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
But what an embarrassment. Now. I can't tell you what
tomorrow holds.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
I can just tell you that this Yale graduate, a
legal graduate, will.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Be debating Tim Walls next Tuesday. Can't wait to listen
to that.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, you often hear me say things like, I see
some problems on the horizon. Number one, Look at the
Black vote. It's not in the ninety percentile, it's in
the fifties. Look at the Hispanic vote. Look at the
Jewish vote. I haven't even been tracking the Muslim vote.
But on CNN here is a Democrat analyst telling a

(10:42):
former Obama operative Van Jones the truth. There's trouble on
the horizon for this campaign because the base is way down.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Listen.

Speaker 10 (10:55):
She is the worst polling Democrat against Donald Trump in
history on national polls. No one is performing worseener, no
one's forming worser among Blacks, among his banks, the worst
wing Democrat in modern history among the summer graphics, worst
performing polling wise among Jews. She is losing key factions
of the Democratic based Muslim voters. She's under fifty in

(11:15):
the latest care poll among Black Muslims.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
She is not doing well. And can you imagine how
that plays in Michigan. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's in a grocery
store talking to the owner of the store about how
inflation is impacting his business. Then on his way out,
like Monty Hall, starts handing out one hundred dollars bills
and telling everybody, well, here's one hundred for you. I'll

(11:40):
fix the rest of this for everyone.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Later. He's going to go down a little bit. He
just went down one hundred. We'll do that fee for
the White House.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
All right, nice seeing everybody beautiful there?

Speaker 2 (11:56):
You get him?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Perfecto perfect? Why do I play this every time?

Speaker 1 (12:06):
And we saw this early, Remember the famous one we
did with Kamala Harris coming out of the record store.
This was the whole thing. Look, I understand. I can
do a Google search, I can read Wikipedia. A India
Indian mother had a baby with an African man of color,

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not one hundred percent black, but a man of color,
and they produced Kamala Harris and then the Indian mother
raised her alone. Kamala has always identified with her Indian culture. Now, suddenly,
for political convenience, she wants to be seen as a
first woman of color and potential president.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Identity politics.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't have a lot of patience for it, but
that whole thing comes up with Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
And what is she do? And it's so staged.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
The very next day, she's coming out of a record
store with all these black artist albums.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
Who does this?

Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's so staged, it's so awkward, it's so fake, and
it's always that way. It's why you don't see very
much interaction with Kamala Harris in the public. He's not
a very likable person. And yet Donald Trump it's a
daily occurrence, whether he's stopping for fast food and getting
to know the person taking his order, whether he's walking

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around a store handing out hundred dollar bills. And you
just wonder, because there's like two realities right mainstream media
and social media, and we don't know. I can tell
you there are more millions on social media than watching ABCNBCCBS,
Fox News, CNNMSNBC combined. You wonder how videos like this

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that go viral, the role they're going to play in
the outcome of this election. These are the kind of
things in post mortem whenever one will say for history
what happened, they'll miss and you'll wonder if they're missing everything.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
This is your morning Show with Michael del Chona.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
The Gulf Coast is making preparations for what will likely
be the season's latest hurricane. The US is sending additional
forces to the Middle East the bombing more than five
hundred killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon and Iran, vowing
to retaliate and to continue to support hesbalav And. The

(14:36):
Washington Post identifies eight paths to victory for Kamala Harris
and Donald Trump. I think when Rory and I left off,
we were at about eight or ten, weren't we? And
in all the scenarios for the Washington Post, it is
absolutely equally likely that Harris or Trump would have win
the presidency. And meanwhile, the United Nations is meeting today
in New York. I suspect Ukraine Middle East war is

(14:59):
going to to be a big topic.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Rory O'Neil has that story. Good morning, Rory, Yeah, good morning.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
We've also got President Biden addressing the General Assembly today,
so is the President of Iran.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
So those are a couple of the interesting speeches in
the works.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
Benjamin and Yahoo will speak to the GA on Friday.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
And historically we would note this will be the last
address from President Biden.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, you know he could run again. I guess in
four years. I think that's you know, hell, you want
to make that do you want to make that Bowl prediction?
I don't think that happened. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Boy, can you imagine the Iranian president, well, you know,
and our president in the same room with what's going on.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Through this.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Proxy proxy war with Iran and Hesbala and Amas.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Interesting, You've been covering news how many decades now? I mean,
these these UN meetings not what they used to be
in terms of interest.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Are they?

Speaker 6 (15:58):
No, they really aren't. I mean, there just doesn't seem
to be I don't know the level of intrigue. And yes,
the Iranian president speaking the same day as Joe Biden,
I guess that's intrigued. But without the Cold War, I
think it's the UN has lost a little bit of
its punch.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yeah, I mean it used to be, especially when we
were little and before we were born, a really big deal.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
All right.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
So I did a report earlier and this is Alex
Thompson by the way, from Axelos. So I'm not accusing,
you know, right wing people of conjuring this up. This
is a very left news source and reporter saying, you know,
this is kind of all smoke and mirrors. He brings
up something very astute, and this is on a CNN

(16:41):
panel show. And that is the interesting bedfellows that Biden
and Kamala Harris ended up being. We've often talked about.
Joe was fourth in Iowa, seventh in New Hampshire. The
campaign was basically done, and then the deal was cut
in South Carolina. As for Kamala Harris, she was the
first one out many credit tall gabbered after her attacks

(17:01):
on Joe Biden failed as the one that knocked her out.
So two proven failures in the early primary, they end
up being the ticket and end up winning. That's the
story in and of itself. But behind Joe Biden is
the Obama apparatus. Behind Kamala Harris is the Clinton apparatus,
and they don't get along.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
In fact, they hate each other.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
So what he's making the profound point is the only
thing that's really holding up Kamala Harris right now is
how she looks in polls, and when you do your
two seventy to win map, she's formidable and right there.
But beyond that facade, there's a lot of holes, and
the minute these polls start getting shaky or start turning
against her, there'll be a lot of infighting because they

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have two competing factions working together in this campaign. Very transparent,
which is different for the left, but I think very accurate.
It's funny how this will all play out in the
next forty days. Is that the last forty day drama?
Or am I missing something.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
That should be it?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
I mean?

Speaker 6 (18:02):
And at least you know the Harris campaign has enough
money to hatch over most of their problems, which has
been a struggle now for the Democrat, for the Republicans
and the Trump team sharing the wealth with the rest
of the ticket.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Is I guess our October surprise was more June? I mean?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Or is there an October surprise coming? And if I
asked you, you've seen a lot of October surprises.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
What could it possibly be?

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Well, there may be a surprise, but it's not going
to be on the scale that we saw in June.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Well there's another one. Hey, why have ever going to
the bullpen again?

Speaker 4 (18:36):
No?

Speaker 3 (18:37):
Well, this is why the news.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
Yeah, we had fireworks in June, and this is going
to be a little popper maybe in October, but I
don't think it's going to be you know, foundation rocking
the foundation yet.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
But to Alex Thompson's point, though, it really is her
strength is the polls outside of that. And then another
person broke down on another talking head show and analyst
the shakiness of the numbers the Black vote. It's not
you know, Barack Obama. What was Obama was ninety six
and ninety two percent of the Black vote. Yeah, and
then Biden fell into the seventies. Now the polling numbers

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are closer to the fifties. I didn't realize this. Black
Muslim voting is down to fifty two percent for Kamala Harris.
These are foundational Black Hispanic voting. It's becoming this hasn't
talked about much, but it really the abortion play and
the strength of women's suburban women for Kamala Harris versus
men dominantly in support for Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's almost becoming a gender breakdown too.

Speaker 6 (19:35):
Yeah, well, but that's yeah, Well, they're trying to play
that to their advantage and that you know, historically women
vote more than men overall anyway, so they're hoping that
that if the you know, strong turnout in that segment
demographic they think might be enough.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
And the only thing that's been consistent throughout is, no
matter what happens in news cycles or in events, the
American State laser focused on the border and the economy.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Two things. Football But okay, sure, well that's good with you.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
If you put together an Alan Daniels ticket, I might
vote for it after those two quarterbacks performance last night.
But that seems to be consistent, and so I would think,
you know, things getting escalating in the Middle East would
probably favor Trump, the interest rates coming down. I'm trying
to figure out what would favor Kamala Harris in the

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next forty days, and I'm have a hard time.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
But yeah, I mean, I guess, yeah, the interest rates
coming back. I mean, it's not going to be big
enough of a change there. She isn't right now. And
don't screw it up mode.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Final question, This just struck Jeffrey and I want to
see if it strikes you Donald Trump, because we don't know.
The mainstream media is one side and one reality, and
then social media is another, and on any given news
cycle day, they're two different worlds. But if the social
media has legs, there's more people there and it's really
impacting voters. These viral videos, the absence of Kamala Harrison,

(21:03):
the viral videos of Donald Trump at his best, whether
it's in a fast food restaurant or yesterday in a
grocery store. I wonder how impactful in the end that
will be because they try to dehumanize him every day,
and then he looks so human and so good when
he's just interacting with the public, even yesterday handing out
a hundred dollar bill.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yeah right, Yeah, it's marginal.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
I mean again, you look at the polling numbers for Trump,
though they don't move, and so it really is just
a matter of who's going to be turning out. Yeah,
I think the support level doesn't change. It's just a
matter of who turns out on election day.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
New information is being released related to the attempted assassination
of Donald Trump, including a dear letter from the actual
accused assassin. Rory's gonna be back with that story next hour.
Thanks Rory. All right, forty three minutes after the out
for just waking up. Five stories of the day, former

(21:57):
President Donald Trump raising doubts about early voting.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Mark Mayfield has that story and a rally in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 11 (22:02):
Monday, Trump suggested that fraud happens, saying what happened last
time was disgraceful.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
We're going to.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Go after anybody that gets caught cheating on the election.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
We're going to go after them harder than anyone's ever
been sought before.

Speaker 11 (22:17):
He said there would not happen again and that this
election was too big to rig. The comments come just
a day after Trump said in virtual rallies that the
country was in big trouble and that you could vote
by mail or early in person. Trump returns to Butler, Pennsylvania,
next month, the side of an assassination attempt against him
in July.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
I'm Mark Mayfield, the Republican candidate for North Carolina governor,
is threatening to take legal action against CNN for a
story about alleged re marks he made online.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Brian shook as that story.

Speaker 7 (22:43):
The story, published by CNN last week, alleged Mark Robinson
made sexually explicit and racially charged comments on a porn site.
Robinson told reporters that a campaign event Monday that his
campaign is in talks to take CNN to task for
what they've done. The alleged comments were made over a decade.
Ago and include calling himself a black Nazi. Several key

(23:07):
aids for Robinson's campaign have stepped down following the allegations.
I'm Brian Shook.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
A potential hurricane could hit the Gulf Coast again this week.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Lisa Taylor has.

Speaker 12 (23:17):
More storm currently churning in the Western Caribbean is forecast
to become Tropical Storm Helleene by early Tuesday. Meteorologist VIOLETA.

Speaker 13 (23:24):
Gaz Once it gets to the Gulf of Mexico, that
is where the exact track becomes a little bit more blurry,
thinking this is going to head up into the Big
Bean area of Florida through the Florida Panhandle. Looking a
little less likely that this turns west towards New Orleans
or Mississippi, and a little less likely that this starts
to hook east.

Speaker 12 (23:42):
There is a risk it could become at least a
Category two hurricane by Thursday and hit the northern Gulf
Coast from Louisiana to Florida. I'm Lisa Taylor.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Marvel is giving fans their first look at the upcoming
Thunderbolts movie, the first dram of her Marvel Cinematic Universe
film that will feature anti heroes like Bucky Barnes. That
sounds like a minor league baseball player. Next up, number twelve,
Bucky Barnes, US agent Red Guardian Ghost. The movie will

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see an unlikely team forced to come together to conduct
missions on.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Behalf of the US government.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
The cast includes Kamala Harrison, Joino Harrison Ford, and Julia
Luis Dreyfus. Thunderbolts will hit the theater on May the
second of next year.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
I Can Wait.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Research show sloppiness may be genetics. Bree Thomas with the
tails on levels of mess and who you can really blame?

Speaker 14 (24:42):
The mess gene has been identified as HOXB eight. That
gene helps us stay clean and organized, and about sixty
percent of us fall into the area of managing the mess.
Maybe some piles of stuff but you know where it is.
But then there's the flat out slob with mess everywhere.
Experts say it's not bad, but it is one step
away from hoarding. But scientifically, some people are just more

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predisposed to be messier than others, a personality trait you
can blame on your parents. I'm pre tennis.

Speaker 8 (25:10):
Well.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
A pair of quarterbacks dominated the first Monday night football
double header of the season. How about Josh Allen maybe
his best performance ever. Four touchdowns in the first half.
Bill's forty seven to ten without feet down of the Jags,
who are now all in three. Then Jaydon Daniels dazzled
as the Commanders ran up the score. How it's scoring

(25:31):
the Bengals thirty eight to thirty three last night in Cincinnati.
That's your Monday night football double header. Next up Thursday Night,
Cowboys and the Giants.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Another good one.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
This is Paul David Patterson down in Toledo District Police
in My Morning show in Your Money Show with Michael
lill Jordan for President Donald Trump is raising doubts about
early voting day. Shavus, Sorry, I broke out into Dionne Warwick.
John Decker is our White House correspondent, and he is

(26:04):
a Supreme Court bar attorney. He joins us from oh
How with Michigan. I was back in Michigan, John, I
was born in Foot, Michigan. Where are you in Michigan today?

Speaker 15 (26:15):
I'm in Lansing, Michigan, capital city of the great State
of Michigan. I'm here all day. I'll fly back in
the evening. But this, as you know, such an important
state as it relates to presidential elections. Donald Trump won
this state and it's fifteen electoral votes back in twenty sixteen.
It was Joe Biden who won by one hundred and

(26:35):
forty thousand votes in twenty twenty, and it's going to
be an awfully close election in the state in twenty
twenty four. A new poll out this morning from USA
Today shows the Vice president with a three point lead.
That's within the polls marchin of Era. But I've seen
a few polls which indicate that Michigan appears to be

(26:56):
trending towards Harris for this election cycle.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Last one that I.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Saw on Real Clear Politics was Harris by one point seven.
So this latest one is USA Today and it was
at three.

Speaker 15 (27:07):
So it was at three with four percent undecided, Michael,
and there was.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
My point, the undecided. And by the way, one of
the big stories today is identifying those unlikely voters, unengaged voters. Now,
these are voters who are registered but don't often show up,
and the Trump campaign on the ground is really targeting them,
especially in Michigan. I find that very interesting. Look, we've

(27:34):
all done the map together and we have differing views
on it. I went ahead and already gave Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Pennsylvania to Harris, assuming that North Carolina and Georgia
and Nevada. That could be assuming in Nevada especially, but
in Arizona go Trump's way. It's two seventy three to
two sixty five if it's North If North Carolina should

(27:58):
turn blue without it, it's two eighty one to two
fifty seven for Trump. But you have any kind of
hiccup anywhere for Trump, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada or Arizona,
that changes everything. And I guess for Kondal Harris, she
can't afford a hiccup. And primarily I think we've narrowed
it down to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. Right, So you're
sitting right in the middle of what is key ground.

Speaker 15 (28:21):
Yeah, this is fertile ground. It's the reason why Donald
Trump will be here later this week. The Vice president
has traveled here. Often. You flip on the television here,
you can't help but see a lot of campaign commercials
for both political campaigns. There's also a competitive US Senate
race taking place in Michigan, so people are very much

(28:41):
attuned to what's happening and how important their vote will
be this election cycle.

Speaker 1 (28:46):
Well, Michigan is you know, surprised everybody in twenty sixteen
and went red for Donald Trump, went blue for Joe Biden.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
What's it feeling like on the ground this time, Well.

Speaker 15 (28:58):
It's feeling very close. I mean, that's the bottom line,
you know. I think that you know, in twenty twenty,
you always have to factor out, you know, what was
happening in twenty twenty. Well, the pandemic was happening in
twenty twenty, and so that fortunately is behind us, and
so we have different factors at play here. And what
the big issue often in Michigan is every election cycle

(29:21):
the issue of jobs, the economy, the issue of manufacturing,
you know. And that's the reason why when candidates come here,
when Harris comes here, when Donald Trump comes here, that's
all they talk about. They talk about the auto industry
because it's the lifeblood of this state. They know that,
and they know the importance that it has for the
entire Michigan economy, not just around Detroit.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
And what's interesting is what are the unions endorsing versus
what are the workers feeling now? Not necessarily with the
auto but we saw with other unions where the people
voted for Trump and they still wouldn't give an endorsement.
But the reality is jobs and who who who is
reaching them with the most security? I mean some of

(30:04):
these things that would support American automobiles over Chinese made automobiles.
How that's resonating. And the bottom line is the post
tells we just don't know. It's so close it will
come down. And you wonder, too, John, how much. And
maybe that's why Donald Trump's attacking it early voting because
I get a sense and it's just my opinion, and
maybe the Trump assumption too, especially knowing they're going to

(30:27):
hit the ground trying to reach these unreliable voters. Time
is not on Kamala Harris's side. Early voting is maybe
that's why Trump's speaking so against it.

Speaker 15 (30:40):
Well, look, early voting is the way they do voting
in Florida. I mean, I think well over sixty percent
of voters in Florida early vote, including Donald Trump, by
the way, So it's interesting whenever he criticizes early voting,
given that that's the way that he cats his ballot.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
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