The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Election Finale: Harris’s Star Power, Trump’s Mic Moment, and MAGA’s Conspiracy Web

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

Jordan Klepper recaps the candidates' final pushes, from Kamala Harris’s star-studded send-off to Trump’s oddly intimate mic moment. Michael Kosta reveals how Peanut the Squirrel’s death could sway niche undecided voters. Grace Kuhlenschmidt dives into the world of election prognosticators, consulting experts and even an astrologist to see if they can predict the winner. Journalist Adam Serwer discusses Trump’s MAGA conspiracy universe, Republican “snitch states,” and his book “The Cruelty Is the Point,” analyzing the culture of blame and cruelty in Trump’s rallies.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is The Daily Show with your host, Jordan Klepper. Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Jordan Klepper. We got so much to talk about tonight. Kamala makes her final arguments. Trump gives a final BJ. And if you're nervous about who's going to win the election, don't worry. We're just gonna tell you. So let's get into it. Indecision 2024.

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For Kamala, it's a message of unity, hope, and check out who my friends are. A megawatt all-star lineup on the trail. You can see some of the scenes right there on your screen. Performances from musicians like Mumford & Sons and Gracie Abrams. She has Glowrilla out here. She has Cardi B, who wasn't even gonna vote four months ago.

Making a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live. Playing the mirror image of actress Maya Rudolph's version of her. She is leaning on some big names like Katy Perry, Oprah, Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, The Roots, and others to help get her across the finish line. Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ricky Martin, if you stole their album on LimeWire, they're probably endorsing Kamala Harris.

She's coming for every last SoulCycle vote. Now, while Kamala's ending the campaign on a note of joy and celebrity hype, Donald Trump's closing argument is that he's pissed at basically everyone. Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage? You're gonna get a bunch of crooks and horrible people. She's a dumb person. Guys like Adam Shifty-Shifty, he'll probably be a senator, can you believe it? Watermelonhead.

What an ugly guy both inside and out. It's a very demonic party. I have this piece of glass here, and to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don't mind that so much. Just... Oh!

And I don't mind that so much, because... Oh! He's just casually joking about reporters getting shot. You know, I guess you'd be grouchy, too, if you had to do all your campaign events encased in glass like a stick of deodorant at Walgreens. But Trump wasn't just giving off dark vibes. He was also giving off a weird sexual energy. I came in today, I said, and you know this is after four of these things, I've been in

no fairness, I mean, I'm a human being, right? I come in, and here's the problem. I said, oh man, it's too low. I said, it's too low. I said, it's too low. Way too low. Way too low. What are we doing here, people? I hate to say it, but can we please go back to the handjob routine, please? You know a campaign has gone off the rails when you go to watch C-SPAN and it asks if

you're over 18. But blowing a mic stand isn't even the weirdest part of his closing message. The weirdest part is that with just a few days to go, he's now telling us, oh, by the way, RFK Jr. is gonna do all the president stuff. And I told a great guy, RFK Jr., I said, Bobby, you work on women's health, you work on health, you

work on what we eat, you work on pesticides, you work on everything. The one thing you have to let me do, Bobby, I got to work the liquid gold. You're not going to touch that? You're not going to touch that, no. Let me work the liquid gold, Bobby. Let me work it. Let me work it. Okay, okay, let me get this straight. So you're gonna give RFK Jr. women's health, regular health, food, pesticides, and, quote, everything, and in return, you're just gonna suck all the oil out of the ground?

This is a lot of new shit to drop on us the day before Election Day. all the oil out of the ground? This is a lot of new shit to drop on us the day before Election Day. You spent two years talking about tariffs, and now you're like, oh, by the way, the guy with brain worms is in charge of everybody's health. You need me? I'll be in Texas working the drills. You know, you might be thinking,

Trump is just talking out of his ass, but R.F.KK Jr. doesn't think so because unlike getting rid of a bear corpse, he's put a lot of thought into this. Over the weekend, Kennedy tweeted the Trump administration would quote, advise all US water systems to remove fluoride from public water on day one.

The CDC recommends fluoride in water as a cost-effective way to improve oral health. Trump telling NBC News the fluoride removal idea, quote, sounds okay to me. Does this sound okay? Again, this is two days before the election. We haven't talked about this at all in the last 700 days, but suddenly the thing that's been normal

in this country for 80 years, it's like, we're gonna get rid of that on day one. Where did this come from? Even the people who wrote Project 2025 were like, fluoride, did we put that in here? This whole campaign, I've been prepping for the worst-case scenario, but not the weirdest-case scenario.

Now I got to worry about soft teeth. You know how many Trump rallies I've been to? Do you know how many? Do you know how many? Not once did I ever hear him say, people's teeth are too hard. We're gonna fix that. Never! Look, look. Trump campaign, this is your last chance

to get your message out. Surely there is someone who is staying focused on the important issues and not getting distracted like some idiot dog when it sees a squirrel? Have you seen the videos of this squirrel? No. No. I haven't seen the videos of the squirrel. Why is that an issue?

Maggot Republicans are up in arms after Peanut the Squirrel, a pet squirrel famous on social media, was seized by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and later euthanized for biting an official. I know Don's fired up about Peanut the Squirrel. We were on the way down here from Cincinnati. He was like, you know, is it really the case that the Democrats murdered the Elon Musk of squirrels?

But if someone adopts a baby pet squirrel... Oh, yeah, no. Justice for Peanut. Okay. Again, everyone, we are mere hours before election day, and Republicans' final message is, we must avenge the death of Peanut the Squirrel. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Republicans finally care about police brutality, but here we are

with all of MAGA world mourning the death of Peanut the Squirrel. Well not RFK Jr. He already has Peanut marinating in his fridge. So to sum up, we are an hour from election day. We have a presidential candidate descending even further into madness, a legion of his supporters ready to follow him into battle. The Capitol's all boarded up and ready for a final showdown.

Our kids' teeth are about to fall out. The police are executing squirrels, and tomorrow is the climactic day when we discover whether Earth continues existing in its muddled mess or we all go screaming into hell. I guess what I'm saying is, don't forget to vote. For more on the Trump campaign's closing messages, we go live to Trump Campaign Headquarters with political analyst Michael Kosta. Michael. Michael. It feels like during this final weekend,

Trump was totally spiraling out of control. Wrong again, Jordan. Out of control? Donald Trump is totally spiraling in of control. All right? He's not rec-less. He's rec-full. He's not the mayor of crazy town. He's the sheriff of San Diego.

You following this? No, I'm not following that at all. Are you saying Trump is being rational here? He spent the final weekend of the campaign just ranting about issues that voters don't care about. Well, issues that most voters don't care about. Think about it, Jordan. Voters who care about normal issues

have already voted early. Some of them voted weeks ago. At this point, their I voted stickers are more torn up than my nipples after yesterday's marathon. You ran the marathon? No, but I like to watch it like this. The point is, there are still people who haven't voted yet.

People political science academics refer to as the freaks, okay? They're the ones with hyper-specific freaky single issues, fluoride in the water, civil rights for squirrels, a man's right to give a consenting microphone a blowjob, and Donald Trump is speaking to and or sucking off these issues. There can't be people who decide a president or decide who they want to be the president based on those weird issues. Jordan, it's no different than people who vote

based on the price of eggs. I mean, to me, that's weird. Why eggs? There are a million other foods. There's Jell-O or... Jellell-O or I can't think of other foods but you get what I'm saying. Michael, if this is such a good strategy, why isn't Kamala doing it?

She is. She's at an event with Katy Perry as we speak. Why? To lock down the two or three freaks who like Katy Perry's new album. Jell-O, Jell-O. Did I say Jell-O? You only said Jell-O. Jell-O. Did I say Jell-O? You only said Jell-O.

Good. Good. My point is, the voters who wait until the very end, by definition, have the most leverage, so they can say whatever they want and get it from the candidates. That's why, Jordan, to make my vote be the most powerful, I'll be voting after the election. No, then your vote won't count.

That's stupid. Oh, nonfat jello. Jello pops. Strawberry jello. See, these are all totally different foods. Now who's stupid? Okay, very insightful. Michael Koste, everyone. We'll come back, we'll find out who's going to win tomorrow. Don't go away. and tomorrow they'll go away. And tomorrow they'll go away.

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And tomorrow they'll go away. And tomorrow they'll go away. And tomorrow they'll go away. John Stewart here, unbelievably exciting news. My new podcast, The Weekly Show. We're gonna be talking about the election, economics, ingredient to bread ratio on sandwiches. Listen to The Weekly Show with John Stewart

wherever you get your podcasts. sandwiches listen to the weekly show John Stewart, whatever you get your podcast. going to win the election polls are the only way to predict the future great school in schmick has more. The election is so close and the stakes are so high. I feel like I can't think about anything else. Ah! Can someone just tell me what's going to happen so I can chill the f*** out? Presidential race at a dead heat.

Deadlocked at exactly 48%. Got Trump up two points. Harris with a three point advantage. Maybe Trump up a point or two. Harris up by four. Everything you're about to see is within the margin of error. So what do these numbers mean? I could do the a beautiful mind thing,

but maybe it's just quicker to talk to an expert. Anthony, who the f*** is going to win this election? I can tell you that this race is effectively tied. Has been for a while in all the polls. There are so few undecided voters who say they may or may not vote and they'll probably decide this. Okay, thank you for all of this information. It's been really helpful.

I'm wondering who is going to win the election. I can't tell you that. Do you think that polls are the best way to predict elections? Well, polls tell you what people are thinking now and more importantly they show you why people are thinking it. But what do we know about people? They sometimes change their minds. 100%. So this morning for example I was at a diner I know what I want it's gonna be two eggs scrambled sausage potatoes right but it was 1130 so I was seriously tempted to get a chicken Caesar wrap

and that's basically exactly what you do. Not really, but it does underline the idea that people can make different decisions at different times. Can you just blink once if it's gonna be the person that I want it to be? Okay, that's a really bad sign. So despite that being their only job, the polls can't tell us who is going to win. Fortunately, there is someone who has called 9 out of 10 of the last elections using a

system of 13 questions about the economy and the electorate. I don't pay attention to the polls. They're snapshots, not predictors. My system, the 13 keys to the White House, examines the fundamental forces that drive presidential elections. So how did you settle on 13 keys? Using pattern recognition every election from 1860 to 1980. Why not 14? Could have been any number. Why not 15? I love all those numbers, but the big message is it's governing, not campaigning that counts, that the electorate as a whole ask whether the administration has done a good enough job for four more years or they want to make a change.

So Alan, what is your prediction for this election 2024? The keys indicate that Kamala Harris will become the first woman president of the U.S. Allen's track record is solid, but he did make one oopsie in 2000. People say I got Florida wrong because I was calling Gore and in fact Bush ultimately won. I say I was correct because Florida way disproportionately rejected ballots cast by African Americans. So your system works perfectly unless someone is stealing an election. Yes. Thank God that won't happen, right? Right?

Okay, so is there one other reliable method for predicting the election? So election results are a perfect thing for astrology to predict. The position of the planets when you're born influences a person's personality and how their life unfolds. And Amy has been amazingly accurate in some of her predictions, like naming the exact date that Joe Biden stepped down. There was a full moon coming up that was in Capricorn at 29 degrees, and 29 degrees represents an ending,

and Capricorn represents old age. So I just put together that he was gonna drop out. That's fair. That makes sense, actually. So what are your current predictions for the 2024 election? I predict Kamala is going to win the presidency. So basically, with this election, what you're saying is that Kamala's chart just looks more

powerful than Donald Trump's? Yeah, Donald Trump's chart is giving desire for power and control. And Kamala's chart is giving desire for power and control, and Kamala's chart is giving more following her life path than what she's meant to do. So is it real? Is astrology real?

Yes, it's very real. Okay. Very real. Mm-hmm. The stars had made a clear prediction for the election, but what could they predict about something that really mattered, like me? I do see a wealth aspect in your chart.

That's fabulous news. And Trump's a Gemini, and you have a lot of Gemini energy. So you would say Trump and I are similar? Yeah, actually, your Venus is on his son, so you might fall in love with him. My V is on his what now? This is a marriage aspect, actually. This changes everything.

I mean, are you gonna tell my girlfriend or am I? But for Trump, it's not outside the realm of possibility that he goes to jail. So my husband is going to jail? Yeah. But I'll is going to jail. Yeah. But I'll be wealthy. Yes. Okay, good.

I love you. You're gonna have the money. I am loving astrology. There you have it. But with both the stars and history predicting the future, do we even need to vote? Ah, here's the thing. The keys are based on history. And if people don't vote, you're gonna break the pattern of history. So I need to vote? Ah, here's the thing. The keys are based on history.

And if people don't vote, you're gonna break the pattern of history. So I have to vote. You must vote. I don't care who you vote for, but you must vote. You're such a Leo. I'm not a Leo, I'm a Taurus. Let's cut that part out.

Thank you, Greg. We'll come back. Adam Trudeau will be joining me on the show. Don't go away. John Stewart here. Unbelievably exciting news. My new podcast, The Weekly Show, we're going to be talking about the election, economics, ingredient to bread ratio, on sandwiches. Listen to The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

wherever you get your podcasts. whose piece in the latest issue is called The Right Wing Plan to Make Everyone an Informant. Please welcome Adam Serwer. -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪

-♪ Adam, I'm excited to get it. You're one of my favorite writers covering this strange moment we are in. And you had a new piece just dropped today. Is that what happens with new pieces? Do they drop? Is it like a new song? As a journalist, you say I dropped a new piece today?

Only when we want to sound really cool. I was going to say. Try it. I just dropped a new piece today. Okay. Good. This is the audience for it. Yes. Your new piece, Trump's followers are living in a dark fantasy. I just read it. You talk about going to Trump rallies.

I've been to a thousand Trump rallies. And you've gone to them over the years. I'm curious what you've noticed recently and if you've noticed any sort of change. Yeah, I think what's really different about the rallies now, and I think it's important to recognize we're coming out of a difficult economic moment because of high inflation, because of the end of pandemic.

But what's happened is there is a sort of universe of unreality that they're living in, in which everything bad that is happening in America at this moment is the fault of immigrants and illegal immigration. And that is primarily because that's what Donald Trump and JD Vance are telling them. And so they have this idea that, you know,

that if Trump comes in, he's going to take all this money that's being spent on these illegal immigrants that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are bringing in and spending all this money on. They're going to take that money, and they're going to spend it on them instead. And that's really not what the agenda is. And so to me, I thought that was interesting.

Do you find it different than what you noticed in 2016? Yeah, I mean, I think the sort of comprehensive universe of unreality that these people are living in is distinct. And I think we saw how dangerous that kind of conspiratorial universe can be on January 6, in 2020. But if anything, it's only gotten worse. People are in a kind of conspiratorial bubble where they think that they are being

victimized by things that are not happening. And this is not to say that people are not suffering from real economic hardships, but the reasons they are being given for those things are not the actual reasons. Now you talk about the three circles of the MAGA universe here. Did you notice it broken down in three kind of types of people who were becoming and are fervent Trump supporters? Yeah, I mean, I think there's the people who would staff a Trump administration, and they have a very specific policy agenda

that I think is actually distinct from what a lot of the people who go to these rallies think is going to happen, because when they go to these rallies, you know, what Trump says, what his warm-up speakers say is that Harris and Biden are spending all this money on illegal immigrants and your life is getting harder. But we're going to take all that money and we're going to spend it on you instead. And that's not really what their plan is.

So I think there's a sort of the circle around Trump, his sort of policy advisors, his activists, those types of people, they understand what the actual policy agenda is, which is a very traditional policy agenda of redistributing income upward, of cutting healthcare, of shrinking the welfare state in order to cut taxes for the wealthy. The ones who benefit primarily from it as well. That's like the Elon Musk live in that first circle.

Precisely. And there's this other circle, these people who are true believers, who show up to Trump rallies and they love Trump and they believe that he is fighting for them. And that when he deals with all these people, they have been told are their enemies, they're going to have much easier lives.

And then there's sort of, you know, people I would describe as a sort of medium Republican voter who, you know, they may not love Trump, but they are conservative, you know, they're anti-abortion, maybe they own a business, you know, they want lower taxes, they have conservative principles, and they sort of are talking themselves into voting for Trump by dismissing, you know, the things that he has done by saying, you know, Jan six, okay, fine OK, fine, it was bad, but the media is exaggerating. Yeah, he says a lot of colorful things, but politicians lie all the time.

And they sort of rationalize what Trump is. He is a uniquely dangerous person. I don't think every Republican is like Trump. But they sort of dismissed this because they want to give themselves permission to vote for him anyway. And I think those are the three elements of what I would describe as the Trump coalition.

And I think, you know, tomorrow we're going to find out just how big those three circles are. Now, you wrote a very influential and thoughtful piece called The Cruelty is the Point in 2018. Sort of articulated this MAGA movement and people finding community around the cruelty that Trump espoused and some of his actions that wasn't a byproduct of conservative values, but sort of the cruelty was what people did rally around. We are now years past that. Have we become comfortable with that cruelty?

How has that cruelty changed? I think that one of the attack lines that the Harris campaign has been using has been saying, oh, well, people leave these Trump rallies early. And this drives Trump insane. Now, to be clear, those people who are leaving, those are Trump super fans. The way someone else put it to me was like,

people with season tickets leave games early too. So these are people who really love Trump. Well, yeah, but traditionally those teams aren't winning very often either. That's true. That's true. But I think that part of it is just that they're not totally there for him. I mean, what he gives them is permission to act out

in ways that other people might judge them for, in a space where it's okay to do that, in a space where it's okay to be cruel, it's okay to be, you know, nasty about the people that you don't like or that you hate and fear. But I think that, you know, a lot of times people are showing up because they want to be around other people who think like them. or that you hate and fear. But I think that a lot of time people are showing up because they want to be around other people

who think like them. They want to feel less alone. And I think that part of it is very human and we're pretty much, we're all social animals, we're all like that. I think the problem is obviously that it's centered around this man who has authoritarian ambitions and is willing to create this sort of fictional universe in order to manipulate people into doing, you know,

justifying terrible things. I think you talk a little bit in this most recent article about the MSG rally and the comedian who came on and told a joke that belittled Puerto Rico, called Puerto Rico garbage, and there was an uproar around this conversation. But I think what it was speaking to was what the sensibility in that room was,

who he was appealing to. And I think, as somebody who goes to so many of these rallies, so many of these rallies, there's a trolling sensibility there. The T-shirts that you see are as mean as possible. They're belittling Kamala Harris, calling her... Uh... Uh... Joe in the Ho was a big T-shirt that they had.

Like, the idea of being a troll is celebrated there. That's part of the fun. There's an ecstasy in the cruelty that happens at these events. Right. They get to say the things that, you know, people might judge them for saying if they said them, you know, at their workplace or, you know, among their friends, depending on who their friends are. But in, you know, in this space, they get to say it and, you

know, Trump will encourage it and they'll laugh at it and everybody will have a good time. And so, you know, I just think, you know, that part of it certainly has not changed, but there is something different about the degree to which people are making decisions on the basis of things that simply are not happening. You know, when you talk about this, there's sort of this conspiracy about Harris and Biden flying in undocumented immigrants from other countries in order to sign them up to vote.

I mean, that's just not a thing that's happening. But they do not have any compunctions about telling people these things because that's what justify, you know, these sort of conspiratorial world that they've created justifies, you know, some sort of radical action, like say trying to overturn an American election, because after all, there are these shadowy elites who are trying to destroy, you know, the world as you know, some sort of radical action, like, say, trying to overturn an American election. Because, after all, there are these shadowy elites who are trying to destroy, you know, the world as you know it. Mm-hmm. Do you know who those elites are? Well, one of them is me, obviously.

You? I'm obviously a part of... the shadowy elite. I knew it. You win people over when you say you drop an article, and everybody thinks you're cool, and suddenly you have all that power. And suddenly, you know, I'm a member of the Illuminati. Yeah.

You have another article that's in the most recent print edition of the Atlantic that talks about this Republican informant state, turning everybody into an informant. What is this snitch state that you're speaking to? Well, I think, you know, before Roe v. Wade was overturned, there was this Texas ban that was passed. And I live in Texas.

I live in San Antonio. And this ban that was passed, that was based on the idea that if you had a, you could file a lawsuit in court over someone aiding or abetting an abortion, and you could get $10,000 for that. Now, that is a law that sort of incentivizes snitching. It's a snitch law. And what we found is like laws in Texas

and in other conservative states, I mean, you can look at Florida, they sort of incentivize this informing on people for things that conservatives think should not be acceptable. And whether that's, you know, in some cases, they, you know, in some cases, they, you know, you talk about school curriculums

or not just abortion, but discussing abortion. You know, a law like that is not just about making sure people don't have abortions, but it's about making sure people don't discuss them because you don't want somebody to sue you or sue someone you love on the basis of the fact that you, you know, paid for the Uber that took them to the airport that they then got on a plane and went to Colorado

to get an abortion because they couldn't get basic healthcare in their home state. And especially a couple years ago Abbott put out this executive order defining gender affirming care for children as child abuse, which led to people... One of the examples that was given to me was that a girl who was dressing in a gender-nonconforming way, somebody reported her, even though she wasn't even actually trans,

she was just wearing pants or something. And this is the kind of environment that those laws create, where it incentivizes, these laws incentivize people to snitch on their friends and neighbors in the hopes of recreating stigmas that I think are no longer in society in the way that they once were. Obviously, it was once very stigmatizing

to have had an abortion. It was very, you know, we're not that far off from where it was not all right to be out as a gay person in American society. You know, or for example, we are not too far, I mean, it's been four years, but the racial justice protests that happened in 2020 brought out a lot of ideas that some people would rather not discuss

and would rather be shoved back into the dark. And so what you can do is you can't necessarily argue people out of believing those things, but you can pass a law that says you're not allowed to bring a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates into the classroom, otherwise you might get fired. Although did you see this news about Peanuts the Squirrel? And finally, Republicans are standing up to police brutality.

Do you feel like that is, that's progress? You know, I love animals and I'm very sad about Peanut the Squirrel, but I really wish that the people who are very angry about Peanut the Squirrel could extend some of that empathy for, you know, someone like Tamir Rice who gets killed by the police. Okay. I don't know if you know this. Tomorrow's Election Day.

Everyone I know has been anxious. Yeah, you got to watch the news, man. I'm not paying attention. You got to pay. This is why I think they need to extend it. you got to watch the news, man. I'm not paying attention. You got to pay. That's why I think they need to extend it. They need to be running for president for longer than what they've been because informed people like you have no idea it's happening.

At least two and a half years of election. Three? Four? You know, what's bad is, like, that's sort of what we have now. Like, it's pretty awful. Yeah, I think Trump has been running for over 700 days for President of the United States. I thought you were going to say years, to be honest.

Feels like that. What do you think is going to happen tomorrow? I have no idea, and I don't think anybody else knows either. If people are telling you that they know, I think they're not telling you the truth. You have the polling, which is pointed towards a very tight race, and you have non-polling indicators that are saying maybe there's a little bit more of an advantage for Harris. But the fact is, you know, people are trying to read tea leaves from the early vote and that doesn't really work.

The truth is, we're not going to know what's going to happen until it happens. And everything, most of the things that are, you know, most of the things that we are seeing right now point towards a very close race where it could go either way. Even if that map ends up looking very red or very blue, it's going to be, you know, it's not going to be by a whole lot of votes, if that makes any sense. Unfortunately, the way the electoral college works

is a few votes in a few states can swing the thing one way or the other. Yeah, so who knows, but if you don't live in seven states, it doesn't f***ing matter what you do. Fortunately not. America, baby. Check out Adam's speech, the November issue of The Atlantic and the cruelty of the points available now.

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