Transcript of Trump Melts Down as Closing Message Flops!

And there is so much to cover this morning. I am going to be with you every step of the way, because today is the day we've all been waiting for, and we have a lot to get to: Trump's closing argument, a Republican Party cracking, a string of court losses overnight for this administration, the war in Iran heating up on Election Day itself, and so much more. Here's how the next 48 hours are going to work. At 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time today, I'll have my final newsletter of the day featuring Gavin Newsom, California Governor. At 6:00 p.m.

Eastern Time, we're going to go live for Election Night Live, all the way until midnight. Then at midnight, you're going to get another newsletter in your inbox featuring where we are today, and then another tomorrow morning at 9:10 a.m. Eastern Time. I won't be sending every individual race call. I'll send an update the moment we know who controls the House, who controls the Senate. It's going to be a long 48 hours, but back when I practiced law, I once went 72 hours without sleep. Was that healthy? No. But I'm built for this 48 hours of nonstop election coverage. I'm excited.

If you can, subscribe, support this work, keep me caffeinated, like, comment, share, and let's—well, let's just jump right in, because we have some big news to cover this morning. Let's start with the map, because the numbers tell the story. Right now, Republicans in the Senate hold 53 seats to 47 seats. Democrats need a net gain of 4 seats to take control. In the House of Representatives, the margin is even tighter: 3 seats. Republicans can lose. If Democrats gain 3 seats, they will take control of the House of Representatives.

Every single election forecaster predicts the House will go blue. The Senate is going to be closer. Right now, we're seeing historic turnout: more than 57 million Americans voted early, blowing past the 46 million in 2022. In Texas alone, early voting has been up 41%. And while Donald Trump gave his closing argument to folks in states across the country today, his closing argument is: "If we have to bomb a lot of people and kill a lot of people, we will, and I may move to Israel."

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But what we did, we stopped Iran. Iran was.

Sullivan, Jr. is missing in action. He has totally disappeared, gone. Nobody has been able to find him," saying, quote, "Maybe he's been kidnapped by corrupt Democrat lawyers. They are scared stiff of being prosecuted for election fraud." And this morning, his Department of Justice announced a list of counties across the country, primarily blue counties, primarily counties that vote for Black majority counties, Latino majority counties, primarily blue counties across the country where there are going to be these election monitors.

Now, I want to talk about these election monitors for a bit, because I think it's important for you guys to remember that these election monitors are not FBI agents. They're not ICE agents. These are ATF agents, BOP agents, Bureau of Prisons, and others. They cannot go inside the polling sites. They cannot tell you who to vote for. They cannot meddle in your vote tallies. They cannot do any of that. They have to stand outside of the polling site, a certain distance away. They cannot. They cannot bother you. Now, I do want to address a couple of things, because this morning there were some issues in Westchester County in New York.

I am aware of those. The state of New York is aware of those. There are some issues with ballot tabulating machines. You can still go vote. Everything is fine. Everything is normal. The machines themselves may not be fully operable, but you can get a paper ballot. The only thing is, New York's 17th Congressional District, which is where Westchester County is, is one of the most swing districts in the country. And so it may just take a little longer tonight into tomorrow to get results from New York's 17th and figure out whether or not the Republican incumbent there, Mike Lawler, is able to hold on, or whether Kate Connelly, the Democrat, is able to defeat him.

But overnight, what we did learn is that loss after loss after loss piled up for the Trump administration in court. Yesterday and into the late-night hours, the United States Supreme Court rejected Trump's bid to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots with no noted dissents. We talked about that yesterday. And then the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals restored an order from Judge Trina Thompson barring the Department of Justice from threatening election officials with prosecution. So this order will run through November 16th. It'll cover today, Election Day, and the count afterwards.

In addition, Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., blocked the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice from sending lists of supposedly, quote, "ineligible voters" to states. The government had collected voter rolls containing tens of millions of people from at least 47 states, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, and party affiliation. Chutkan found that no law authorizes this program and that it likely will violate a privacy act. So every single election interference effort by the Trump administration in the courts has failed.

The Supreme Court of the United States has sent a really clear message to Donald Trump overnight with the no-noted dissents in the California case, essentially saying, "We're not going to set aside your 20,000 ballots just because you want us to." And on top of it, on top of it, don't come with any BS to the Supreme Court, because we're not messing around. That's kind of the message the Supreme Court sent to the Trump administration. Quick note, finally, this is kind of what we're going to be looking at tonight on our live. The first results are going to come in in places like Kentucky and Indiana and Virginia.

Kentucky, Indiana, parts of the state, has polls closing as early as 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. We're looking at Kentucky's 6th Congressional District. We're looking at the Indiana district where Victoria Sparks is currently a congresswoman. Those are going to tell us kind of where we are initially, because if Democrats are able to flip that district in Indiana and the Kentucky district, we would be looking at a blue tsunami. And then you go to Virginia, where polls close at 7:00 and ballots are counted quickly. We have swing districts up there. And then the big states like Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, the first Senate races that we're going to be looking at close shortly thereafter.