Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Here
Speaker 1: the Monday Countdown headlines. There is a day in each
Speaker 1: failed presidential campaign where the losing candidate wakes up with
Speaker 1: his chances of becoming presidents still intact, but goes to
Speaker 1: bed with them irrevocably destroyed. I think for Trump that
Speaker 1: day was yesterday. The viability of his candidacy has largely
Speaker 1: depended on his growing support among Latinos. This was Trump's
Speaker 1: warm up act yesterday at the rally at Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 2: These Latinos they love making babies too. Just know that
Speaker 2: they do. They do. There's no pulling out, they don't
Speaker 2: do that. They come inside, just like they did to
Speaker 2: our country, Republicans of the Party with a good sense
Speaker 2: of humor. I don't know if you guys know this,
Speaker 2: but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the
Speaker 2: middle of the ocean right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's called Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: That is a self described, inaccurately self described comedian named
Speaker 1: Tony Hinchcliff. It is literally possible that Tony Hinchcliff just
Speaker 1: clinched the election for Kamala Harris hours earlier, ABC News
Speaker 1: had reported polling, while giving the vice president a national
Speaker 1: lead of four points among likely voters, that her support
Speaker 1: among Hispanic voters had been twelve points fifty five to
Speaker 1: forty three at the start of this month, but that
Speaker 1: it had now grown to sixty four percent to thirty
Speaker 1: four percent, thirty points over Trump, the lead nearly tripling
Speaker 1: in three weeks before or that idiot said what he said,
Speaker 1: and Latinos or Hispanics, or more accurately and respectfully, the
Speaker 1: various groups that make up a diaspora of connected heritages
Speaker 1: are hardly a uniform voting block, but this moron Hingecliff
Speaker 1: managed to offend them all and single out Puerto Ricans.
Speaker 1: Four hundred and fifty thousand residents of Pennsylvania self identify
Speaker 1: as Puerto Rican, one hundred and twenty seven thousand, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen of them in Philadelphia, thirty three thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty one of them in Allentown. One
Speaker 1: hundred thousand residents of North Carolina identify as Puerto Rican,
Speaker 1: sixty five thousand in Wisconsin, fifty thousand Michiganders, to say
Speaker 1: nothing of one million Floridians and a quarter million Texans.
Speaker 1: And of course there's that other issue. Twelve percent of
Speaker 1: likely voters nationwide are Hispanic and by the way, about
Speaker 1: that one million in Florida. Within four hours of this
Speaker 1: bonehead Hinchcliff's career ender, and I mean career ender for Trump,
Speaker 1: Miami Congresswoman Maria Salazar and Florida Senator Rick Scott repudiated
Speaker 1: Hinchcliff and the joke and the insult. Rick Scott, Voldemort's
Speaker 1: less well known brother. Even Rick Scott realized what a
Speaker 1: disaster this was for Trump and MAGA and the Republicans
Speaker 1: and this election. As to everybody who is not Hispanic,
Speaker 1: don't worry. Trump hates you too. You are still part
Speaker 1: of the enemy within which he mentioned yesterday again and
Speaker 1: again and again and again. You are part of that group,
Speaker 1: along with the Latinos and Blacks and Jews and Muslims
Speaker 1: and transgendered and Democrats and injured military and media and
Speaker 1: critics and judges. Because the final masks all fell away
Speaker 1: yesterday and they all reveled in their racism, and the raging,
Speaker 1: murderous hate came pouring out in a way that would
Speaker 1: have shamed the previous American Nazis who soiled the stage
Speaker 1: at the previous Madison Square Garden in nineteen thirty nine.
Speaker 1: America is for Americans and Americans only. That was Stephen
Speaker 1: Miller Gurbels without hair, Trump's personal fountain of hate, screaming
Speaker 1: America is for Americans and Americans only. Had this been
Speaker 1: true in nineteen oh five, when Stephen Miller's ancestors were
Speaker 1: trying to escape Paul Grom's in Russia, yearning to breathe free,
Speaker 1: they would have died tempest, tossed, or at the Cossacks sword,
Speaker 1: and Stephen Miller would never have existed. Incidentally, America is
Speaker 1: for Americans and Americans only. Stephen Miller just called for
Speaker 1: the deportation of Milania Trump, of Elon Musk, of exsuming
Speaker 1: and removing Trump's dead mother, oh On. Just to make
Speaker 1: sure everybody was a speaker made a joke about for Halloween,
Speaker 1: how African Americans were carving not pumpkins but watermelons, and
Speaker 1: the music they've played right before introducing Congressman Byron what
Speaker 1: the FM I doing here? Donald's it was Dixie, the
Speaker 1: Civil War anthem of the Confederacy. The most racist lines
Speaker 1: in the most racist song of the nineteenth century, there
Speaker 1: are no more masks. It is an absolute fact that
Speaker 1: each losing presidential candidate has an expiration day. Often it
Speaker 1: is election day itself, obviously, sometimes days or weeks after
Speaker 1: ask Al Gore or Governor Sam Tilden from eighteen seventy six.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it won't be identifiable for weeks or months until
Speaker 1: after it happens. Mitt Romney made his remarks about the
Speaker 1: forty seven percent on May seventeenth. David Korn published the
Speaker 1: tape on September seventeenth. Romney still seemed viable as a
Speaker 1: candidate on October seventeenth, No, he was done on May seventeenth.
Speaker 1: McCain lost on September twenty third, when he inexplicably suspended
Speaker 1: his campaign in a stunt in which he claimed he
Speaker 1: had to instead go deal with the two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight fiscal crisis, as if he were not confident enough
Speaker 1: to do both at the same time. The same day,
Speaker 1: he bailed out of a free hour of one on
Speaker 1: one network TV publicity with David Letterman and lied to
Speaker 1: Letterman about what he was doing instead, and wound up
Speaker 1: watching in horror as Letterman could find only one other
Speaker 1: political guest at what was literally the last minute before
Speaker 1: the taping started, and that guest was me if Yesterday's
Speaker 1: was Trump's swan song, It came with the most bitter
Speaker 1: of ironies, although that too is part of the tradition of,
Speaker 1: to paraphrase the film the sweet smell of success. Your
Speaker 1: campaign is dead, son, get yourself buried the ironies Here
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, a two minute Trump commercial during the telecast
Speaker 1: of the Eagles football game seen by all of those
Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans who live in Philadelphia. That two minute commercial
Speaker 1: was about how the country had gone to hell under
Speaker 1: Biden and Harris and their presidency. The video was of
Speaker 1: protests during the Trump presidency and the irony back at
Speaker 1: the garden. Trump didn't really say anything unusual for him,
Speaker 1: didn't say anything outlandish, didn't say much noteworthy, probably didn't
Speaker 1: say the worst things said all day. But there is
Speaker 1: a danger when you change the background, when you alter
Speaker 1: the colors, when you swap out the venues, when you
Speaker 1: in effect improve the lighting. For nearly a decade now,
Speaker 1: the Trump rallies have got less and less shocking each
Speaker 1: time because to the majority of America, why would it
Speaker 1: still be shocking that Trump could fill the stage behind
Speaker 1: him with hateful trash in Tupelo or prayer to Sheen
Speaker 1: Wisconsin or zebulon North Carolina. After a while, the parades
Speaker 1: of local politicians who have prostituted themselves to touch the
Speaker 1: hem of Trump's garment all blend into one. Of course,
Speaker 1: they did that They are racists now, racists tomorrow, racists forever.
Speaker 1: But just as the German American Bund discovered in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty nine when they paraded the swastika into the old
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, here there is something about parading Trump's
Speaker 1: backed up sewer of hateful has beens where people can
Speaker 1: see them. Hulk Hogan is still alive, elon Musk, Doctor
Speaker 1: Phil Tucker Carlson. You brought them into the heart of
Speaker 1: bright blue New York City to scream their filth. Somehow
Speaker 1: that contexts that location underscores that they not only believe this,
Speaker 1: They not only see a future only for white people
Speaker 1: and others who have been approved by white people. They
Speaker 1: not only think they are a majority. They not only
Speaker 1: think Trump is beloved. They not only think the tens
Speaker 1: of millions of us who repudiate their best reality and
Speaker 1: their hatred and their racism are somehow just pretending to
Speaker 1: repudiate these things. But most of all, worst of all,
Speaker 1: these scumbags think they're going to get away with it.
Speaker 1: I mean they got away with it last night, police protection,
Speaker 1: private protection, guns and not what would have happened otherwise,
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, not one of them was dragged off the
Speaker 1: stage by New Yorkers and beaten senseless or better yet,
Speaker 1: gently escorted to Bedlow's Island and chained there overnight with
Speaker 1: their eyes taped open so they would be forced to
Speaker 1: read Emma laz poem in the pedestal of the Statue
Speaker 1: of Liberty. The essential point is, because of the context,
Speaker 1: there was an actual surprising quality to that thing. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: a corporate ethics expert once noted as Rupert Murdoch and
Speaker 1: his board of directors and executives and other whores publicly
Speaker 1: tried to avoid all responsibility for Rupert's hacking of the
Speaker 1: voicemails of a murdered child. The corporate ethics expert said,
Speaker 1: I don't think they realize we can see them. Ever
Speaker 1: heard of Charles Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh was the first man
Speaker 1: to cross the Atlantic in a solo flight from the
Speaker 1: day he landed at Le Bourge Airfield in Paris on
Speaker 1: May twenty first, nineteen twenty seven. He was the most
Speaker 1: popular man in America and probably in the entire world.
Speaker 1: Even as he began to speak out defending Nazism in
Speaker 1: the late thirties, he was still in the top five
Speaker 1: most popular at least. And then he went to Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden on October thirtieth, nineteen forty one, and he
Speaker 1: insisted the only threat to America was the Jews and
Speaker 1: their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press,
Speaker 1: our radio, our government. And Lindberg insisted there was no
Speaker 1: true threat to America by any foreign power. And thirty
Speaker 1: nine days later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and four
Speaker 1: days after that, Hitler declared war on us. And when
Speaker 1: Charles Lindbergh died, first off, there was applause and cheers,
Speaker 1: But secondly, the obituaries were all about his Nazism first
Speaker 1: and the airplane thing. Second. You know whose obituary is
Speaker 1: going to read like that, Elon Musk's. Lindbergh's hate was
Speaker 1: not born that night at Madison Square Garden, October thirtieth,
Speaker 1: nineteen forty one, and it was not born in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty nine when the German America and Bund went to
Speaker 1: that place, And it wasn't born in nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 1: What was born at Madison Square Garden and what was
Speaker 1: born at the new Madison Square Garden last night was
Speaker 1: something that had become dulled or paved over, or maybe
Speaker 1: we had never recognized it before, or we could no
Speaker 1: longer see it because the background was bluntly somewhere you
Speaker 1: and I would never go city. What was paved over
Speaker 1: was the shame, the shame that Donald Trump has brought us,
Speaker 1: the shame that these perverted, warped, barely sentient racists live here.
Speaker 1: The shame that we have to end on November fifth. Man, Look,
Speaker 1: it's not just shame and vibes and shock and blowing.
Speaker 1: Whatever margins you had among the Latino and Hispanic voters
Speaker 1: were at that easy, Trump would have been pushed on
Speaker 1: to the next down escalator in twenty fifteen, and by
Speaker 1: now he would have long since arrived in hell. There
Speaker 1: are also the practicalities. The ABC IPSOS poll yesterday did
Speaker 1: put her up by four. The Big Village poll closed
Speaker 1: last Wednesday, Harris by seven, and I don't believe that
Speaker 1: any more than I believe any of the Trump garbage poles. However,
Speaker 1: as I always suggest here, and I think the theme
Speaker 1: of the last two months follow the bouncing poles, confirms
Speaker 1: the interior numbers of poles can be of actual value.
Speaker 1: In the ABC poll, likely African American voters are now
Speaker 1: hers by ninety to seven. CBS poll which came out
Speaker 1: yesterday has her up by one nationally, despite something curious
Speaker 1: In the very first interior number. She leads among women
Speaker 1: by twelve points. He only leads among men by nine points.
Speaker 1: If that difference is correct, she wins handily. And the
Speaker 1: New York Times Siena poll a month ago, its respondents
Speaker 1: gave Trump a thirteen point edge on handling the economy.
Speaker 1: The edge is now six points. The Times poll also
Speaker 1: claims that fifteen percent of the electorate is still not
Speaker 1: fully decided. Those leaners likely's probably's Harris forty two, Trump
Speaker 1: thirty two. I have already underscored the late decider data
Speaker 1: from the Emerson poll last week. This just confirms it.
Speaker 1: Late deciders are going sixty percent for Kamala Harris. Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is closing. Will this show up in all the polls. Probably. Not.
Speaker 1: If it does show up, don't worry, they'll wait it
Speaker 1: differently to make sure it doesn't show up. Will it
Speaker 1: show up in the election? Probably, there are paths to
Speaker 1: the electoral College in which it doesn't matter, and it
Speaker 1: didn't happen in time, and Trump still wins. But as
Speaker 1: I said at the start, not if enough people hear
Speaker 1: what Trump's minion said here in New York yesterday, not
Speaker 1: what Trump said, what that guy Hinchcliffe said, God, we
Speaker 1: have to build him a statue here outside Madison Square
Speaker 1: Garden at minimum, so the pigeons have something new to
Speaker 1: crap on. I have a friend on the campaign, and
Speaker 1: originally I thought to start this episode with a vaguely
Speaker 1: clouded up version of his optimism and confidence at this
Speaker 1: late date. And then I heard a clip from somebody
Speaker 1: else in the campaign, and I was genuinely surprised because
Speaker 1: this other person is not only one of my friend's bosses,
Speaker 1: but this person has from the start of the campaign
Speaker 1: been traying the Harris campaign as the underdogs, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, this person has switched her tone completely.
Speaker 3: It's very exciting the number of young people, you know,
Speaker 3: I've begun to really point out the first time voters
Speaker 3: who are there is now people are actually registered, and
Speaker 3: it's very exciting, and the momentum is with us.
Speaker 1: I know that voice from somewhere. A quick thought in
Speaker 1: passing on the cowardice of the owners of the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Times in the Washington Post LA, It's the Times.
Speaker 1: For more than half a century, this has been true
Speaker 1: about whoever has run the LA Times. They could f
Speaker 1: up a two car funeral. As to the Post. What
Speaker 1: Bezos kills the routine? Nobody but Trump would have even
Speaker 1: noticed post endorsement of Harris. Then Trump immediately gets to
Speaker 1: meet with Bezos's rocket company. Coincidence, no doubt. I have
Speaker 1: mentioned it many times, always in praise of Bezos, that
Speaker 1: he resisted the attempt to blackmail him into throwing the
Speaker 1: post towards Trump when they tried to blackmail him over
Speaker 1: Laurence Sanchez while he was still married. See now, I'm
Speaker 1: a pretty devious guy, at least in thought seldom indeed,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of ashamed of that. But I have to confess.
Speaker 1: What did not occur to me was what would happen
Speaker 1: if Trump's cronies were still blackmailing Jeff Bezos? Are still
Speaker 1: blackmailing Jeff Bezos? Well, he'd he'd bury a Washington Post
Speaker 1: endorsement of Kamala Harris. Wouldn't he back with a full
Speaker 1: edition tomorrow? Until good Night and good Luck Countdown with
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