donald trump wants to lock you up, kamala harris wants to lift you up. >> we've talked about the vice president pivoting her closing argument to the american people. week ago she talked about character and that democracy. a new poll revealed those are only 6 % of importance. the internal polling from the harris campaign says this is not the message most voters want to hear. i think it was strategically smart for her to pivot. will it make a difference ? i'm not sure. >> what voters want to hear about is kamala harris and my rudolph's tiktok they did after s and l. the reason it was so phenomenal, i found out about it for my 17-year-old daughter who the next day said look and loved it. one of those people will be the next president of the united states. >> i think it's maya rudolph.

welcome to a special countdown to election day edition of laura coates live, two days left and there is a curious question that is now come up, did an eight swing state pop up on the map? democrats got a lot like this today. >> is this heaven? no. it is iowa. >> this poll of dreams from des moines register has been shocking, kamala harris leading donald trump 47-44 in kevin costner's iowa, all within the margin of error, more importantly, perhaps, the poll shows momentum for harris being driven by women breaking her way by big margins. donald

trump has praised legendary pollster behind the survey before, right? when they were giving him favorable results. this time sources tell cnn he is fuming privately and in public little bit too. >> one of my enemies puts out a poll, three down, everybody called me they said you are r killing in iowa, farmers love me and i love them. they just announced fake poll, think of it, right before the election, that i am three points out y. am not down in iowa. >> maybe the poll is off the mark, but donald trump doesn't appear to be helping himself right now. with the baseball analogy for a moment on this sunday night, instead of closing this thing out like his friend, mar yawna rivera, trump appears to be throwing wild pitch after wild pitch with bases perhaps already loaded. listen to what he said in pennsylvania today. >> this piece of glass here, but all we have really over

here is the fake news, right? [ cheering and applause ] and to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and i don't mind that so much, because-- i don't mind that. >> his campaign tried to clean that up by saying nothing to do with the media being harmed, and recall added trump actually meant the press were "protecting him and therefore were in great danger themselves." and then there was this from the same rally. >> america is ready-- >> well, just a bit more, we don't have that sound, but a bit outside for a moment, that, of course, playing into democrats efforts to remind the public about trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. harris is getting attention for

what she is not saying in these closing hours, she was in east lansing michigan at a rally where she threw the crowd a curve ball, for the first time since becoming the nominee, harris did not mention donald trump's name. instead, after weeks of constant attacks her campaign says the goal is to close "fully positive." >> america is ready for a fresh start, ready for a new way forward, where we see our fellow american, not as an enemy, but as a neighbor. [ cheering and applause ] >> commentator and senior spokesperson for pacific northwest hillary clinton's campaign, senior advisor, republican strategist, adam, and democratic strategist, chuck, former republican congressman, adam, endorsed kamala harris for president. good to have you all here. i want to dwoe to iowa with you,

chuck, if we can. this new poll showing three-point lead for vice president harris, trump says outlier, but how to you see that? >> iowa is a unique place, there is something about iowa, very white, flat, lot of corn. giving us lot of hope because it is not a place normally democrats do real good. i have been working there back to 2004, how old i am, real gray hairs on my face. the thing that it shows is there is momentum there with women, we assume women were mad at donald trump, this just in, they are mad at donald trump. but in iowa what we found is independent and republican women have to be breaking his way, in this particular poll, i know brian will come out and tell me it ain't no good. in this i would rather have good news than bad news showing we are ten points down. momentum i think really matters with women, one thing pollsters can't tell you in any state that is how many of the solid, not solid women vote, we have been talking about that on air, for weeks, but we can't prove that this kind of proves that. >> i think to the point in the

iowa poll, donald trump is going to win iowa and there is certainly an outlier nature to this poll, but when you look further into it, especially 65-plus demographic and towards independent women you are seeing a break towards democrats. i would argue that is a bit more generational break, we have to stop thinking voters 65 plus and more to generations with which they come. this is the boomer generation, this is the same generation that elected ronald reagan, brought bill clinton, brought barack obama, supported george w. bush twice, for them there is a regular fluid movement, i don't think pollsters have taken on to because they are stuck on age and gender instead of more broadly. >> let me add, i remember running against ted cruz, the poll showed donald trump i think winning 9 or 10 points over ted cruz, two days later ted cruz won by half a point. i also looked at this poll, i won't criticize ann, she has gautden the right, we have proven she has gotten it wrong, but one thing i notice it said 65 or older white men, that is

happening no where else in the country. that is sort of anomaly, maybe iowa is different, flat, too many radio wires confusing everybody but you are right, i think we win iowa, this is outlier when you look at data it doesn't make sense. sometimes you get it wrong, sometimes right. 20 times get it right and once you get it wrong, we think this is wrong. >> not one of you mentioned field of dreams, i am offended. i will go to youshgs you compliment-- >> i believe in a place called hope. >> now you can go. >> go ahead. >> bill clintonism and iowaism. there is so much the polls can't actually measure, i will give an example, you know, taylor swift endorses kamala harris, 300,000 young people register to shoat, they are not in any poll because they are not in the formulas that most of the pollsters are using. so, my advice to people is just stay focused, the way we are going to win is by turning out our vote. if you, what i have been looking at more is where

the trurnout is happening, early vote, how many, in terms of vote by mail, what is still out there, what ballots need to be-- we are chasing ballots. that will happen until the polls close on tuesday. and things look good, but we are clear right about the fact there is plenty of work to be done between now and the time the polls close. >> do you see this as trajectory or extrapolate how this would play in other midwest state, battle ground, it is not nothing. >> we haven't seen it mimic in other statesism midwest voters, different voter than anybody air else, they are different and we haven't seen that reflected in michigan polls, vast majority of late women breaking or 65 or older plus white men breaking towards harris, we haven't seen that in wisconsin, we haven't seen that in michigan. what we have seen is republicans, you talk

about early vote, recent republicans winning early vote in arizona, back to normal the way it used to be. republicans winning early vote in nevada, never happened since early vote taken place. >> not who they voted for. >> we see registration numbers, we see north carolina-- >> republicans will be-- >> that is fair. >> good point. before you, especially congressman kensinger, we don't know early votes are coming in and where they are going. it seems policy, but part of the conversation for what motivates voters, it is character, recollection of what happened recently, and rhetoric and what is being said. when you look at his comments from today, congressman, the idea of someone could shoot through reporters to get to him, he shouldn't have left in 2021, talks about that as well. how do you think that is weighing on voters' minds in places where they traditionally would not have been looking at democrats? >> everybody's mind is basically made up at this point but that doesn't help donald trump. look, some of his base loves it because it is like, it

makes people like me mad. so they love it. but the realty is he is saying things like, wouldn't mind if some bullets went through the press box there. i think people are tired of it. feels exhaustion setting in. the one thing about iowa, by the way, we don't know, is what is unique about it compared to everything else. michigan, wisconsin, they have been inundated with political ads, i think the trump campaign has done a good job with political ads this cycle. iowa hasn't been. so, what they are basically consuming is just news, just raw news, because they are not being hit with all the ads. that could be a unique difference there but one thing i loved about the iowa poll, regardless of right or wrong, it set donald trump off. >> except the one portion of iowa that was probably inundated, if you buy to iowa, you have to buy into omaha, nebraska, goes into the

first/second seat. the don race. >> omaha is one spot, it could go-- >> democrats take all. >> not worth a lot of money-- >> winner takes all, democrats playing heavier on dollars on air in nebraska. that really, i mean, in iowa, nebraska does actually play in iowa lot of ways. >> the biggest question in iowa, the poll i think showed 11% of republicans for kamala, that would exceed the goals of republicans for harris. i think biden got six or 8%. if it is 11% of republicans going for kamala, this will be a blowout. >> interesting to see this congressional district my friend aaron is talking bout there in omaha-- >> because we still campaign. >> we campaign for a living. it is seat where don bacon is, that particular seat, this week, in the last two weeks, moved from toss up seat to lean democrat seat by the cook report, not partisan, moved three races more republican. can't say it is partisan thing. something happening in

that area. eight of the counties are in the dmv. shows something happening on the ground there. >> why do you think harris chose not to mention trump? >> because they made the decision and they got a lot of feedback, to be perfectly honest, it was more important to talk bout herself and what she is going to bring to the table than to talk about him. in part, because, what the congressman just said, you don't need to, because by the way, he is doing our job for us, quite nicely. if we thought people were having a little amnesia of what it was like to have trump as president, he has totally done that job for us, quite nicely. the fact that, just what he said today, that is also a reminder to people of, that is what it was like, governing by tweet. what was the last retched thing he said that will put our national security in jeopardy or make us anxious? i think she felt let me make my case, straight forward, let me talk about what

i-- also, her vision for the country is the other piece she is trying to talk about. it really started with her speech last week, that has been the goal through tuesday. >> i would argue the ellipse on had speech, she put a lot of emphasis on trump and then pivoted. her closing message really did have so much focus on donald trump, it wasn't until really today and in the last 24 houratize or so, right? 72 hours used to be the get out the vote time in the olden days of politics, where she finally decided to pivot back to this unity uplifting message, but i think if there is any persuadable voter she heard her denigrate republicans and call the people at the rally nazis, there were so many tother noiseful things that happened. >> she agreed with something somebody else asked her. >> okay, well-- semantics. >> not the same as say-- >> affirming somebody else's position on that. >> general kelly. >> semantics. >> trump did call her fascist,

she did say kamala was fascist. >> and stupid. >> to be fair-- >> for the record olden days of politics was june. stand by, everybody, because still ahead, one more day of campaigning left, where are harris and trump headed? what might it tell us about their path to victory? plus, looks like trump is benching nikki haley, it is not stopping her from giving one last parting message to voters. the question is, did she do more harm than good?

because what do we always say? keep kamala and carry on-ala. >> i am going to vote for us. >> great. any chance you are registered in pennsylvania? >> nope, i am not. >> well, it was worth a shot. >> kamala harris joking with mya rudolph on snl pleading for a vote in pennsylvania, the keystone state could very well

decide the presidential election. the margins could not be tighter between harris and donald trump, the final new york times poll shows them tied, tied at 48%. it is why harris will chris cross the common wealth tomorrow for the final full day of the campaign, ending her journey with a star-studded rally in philadelphia. her campaign will cross paths with trump in redding and pittsburgh but trump will spend time in two other battleground states, raleigh, north carolina, and grand rapids, michigan where he held his final rallies in 2016 and 2020. my panel is back with me. karen, what do you make of harris's decision to go to pennsylvania again tomorrow? and that this is obviously a must-win area for her in the march of 270 but do you think this is the right place for her to be? >> absolutely. look, she has done a very good job over the last few days of really spending the time, putting in the time in the battleground

states, in 2016, just the pain of hillary not going to wisconsin, right? and not going to some of the places where we knew she needed to get to just from what we were hearing on the ground. you are not hearing that. what you are hearing on the ground is excitement, enthusiasm, activity, i was in detroit today all day and it was exhilarating, quite frankly. so, i think pennsylvania is absolutely the right place to be, but, again, i think that is in part because she has put in the time in the other states, and that matters to people in closing days. >> what do you make of the fact trump is going to other states in addition to that? it is it showing he is either, a, confident he has pennsylvania? or he feels there are other places he has to be to try to address possible short comings? >> in politics you are running hard or running scared. the only option is to run hard. you hit everything you can. let me point out about pennsylvania where we are, republicans changeds, it swung 20 points in

republican's favors the early vote. you have the black vote that is significantly down in pennsylvania. you have the dynamics of the early vote, the republicans are looking positive towards that. we have seen polling of the early vote. that doesn't have the same break down iowa poll has. from a republican standpoint, we are very happy with the progress with respect to earl veets, tremendous ground. black votes, african american votes where it once was, probably why kamala harris is spending time there, i can't speculate to her campaign. we have to be everywhere. we are sending surrogates everywhere. >> let me connect to iowa, there may be some underperformance, but white women and white folks in the suburbs back to iowa poll, looks like we over perform, have been over performing, something brian is not mentioning is his candidate made effort, like he didn't do four years to get the vote out to vote, they are showing up to vote. i give credit. the real question is how many will be left by election day if they already early voted? what is the collar counties and lastly,

my son is 35-year-old steam fitter in pittsburgh, pennsylvania with two beautiful grand boys, every day they have been knocking on doors in western pennsylvania, that is what you don't see from the campaign, other groups at is the doors. >> the change in electorate in the republican party the last decade has moved us more from regular high propensity voters to lower propensity, that gives us larger block to play with. so, while republicans might be performing well now, the overtures and campaign strategy the trump campaign has had is to a lower propensity voter. those are people going to show up on game day, election day. not only is a good sign they are showing well in early vote but if this turns out to be true, republicans will do better in the long term and high turn out elections, including trying to run up the score on election day and for kamala it is smart to be in pennsylvania, in philly she has to be up by half a million on election day to look at that state. >> you know who we are not seeing? nikki haley, could have been head way trump had he

included her, she has been saying she had different dates and she wrote in the wall street journal today "will mr. trump do some things i don't like in a second term? ier am sure he will, if that was the question before voters, i imagine mr. trump would lose." well, that might very well be the quote and maybe question for voters. >> yeah, it is, look, i like nikki haley, so this pains me to watch her begging for donald trump's approval. that is what is happening. keep in mind, donald trump said he doesn't want her or her voters, he said that. i just, my thing is, okay, oblige him. it is interesting, good point, from her perspective she is kind of, lukewarm op-ed, that probably gives some of her voters on the fence, that gives them permission to now vote for donald trump. it is beneficial to them. but i don't understand, like, putting on my political analyst hat, why the trump campaign has not tried to enlist her. the one thing i can

say about donald trump is if you ask him for forgiveness and come back, he is usually if very quick to bring you back. that is kind of his super power, but for whatever reason he never did with her. ? if only just to try to humiliate you when you come back. she got 158,000 votes in the pennsylvania primary, that is after she dropped out. those are important votes if you are the trump campaign, wanting to get pennsylvania, why not just take the low-hanging fruit? >> listen, i think at the end of the day we made the decision we are getting 92-93% of the republican vote. so nikki haley vowing the republican vote is not necessarily going to help. where she would have helped in value would have been some of the suburban women but we are driving up the turnouts in other areas, decision for trump has been i will do it my way, at the position, jump on because we have done it his way. we trust his gut. it got him in the white house once and we feel we are on the path again. >> what about-- i want to hear your play, remind me, what

about rfk? rfk, jr. has more value than nikki haley? >> i think the important thing rfk is getting votes in some states-- >> not the same level nikki haley did. >> yeah, but donald trump is getting 92 of the 93% of the republican votes, 140,000 people who voted in the pennsylvania primary, already lined up behind trump. her voice maybe make as difference, maybe doesn't. i think trump is willing to take a risk it won't. >> permissionship structure was built in when she endorsed donald trump. i don't think this moves anybody else with permission but i understand what you are saying, i would say she is out campaigning down ballot, out for senate candidates, crisscrossing, she is still out in pennsylvania campaigning for someone like dave mccormick. i imagine ifioyou are out and persuadable republican who could have considered that, i can't imagine you are going for kamala harris and dave mccormick. if you saw nikki haley and might have been persuadable, she is going to help those races as well. >> i went door knocking in pennsylvania in a blue collar

majority white community and undecided voters i talked to three weeks ago said literally, to me, my husband and i have been talking about the fact we voted for donald trump once before but now we don't hear him talking about us, we hear him talking about himself and his grievance and about tax cuts for the rich and not us. they had questions about kamala, which, i was able to answer, but they are republicans, registered republicans, so, again, i will come back to this point. we can't judge by the turn out we are seeing, we don't know how the republicanerize voting. it may be the case, if looking at the data saying these counties, these people voted republican last time, you can't say that this time because you don't know and i do think the power of someone like kamala harris standing with someone like adam kinzinger is powerful. if donald trump would have put his ego down two seconds and stood with nikki haley, i think it would have been very powerful. >> on this point, i mean,

permission structure, how compelling do you think it is to republicans like yourself, that harris is saying she wants to have and give republican a seat at her table and cabinet in going forward? is that enough, you think, to compel people? >> i think what is compelling is her message of saying unity. i am not sitting here saying she will win a quarter of republicans, not going to happen. republicans are pretty faithful to their party. our identity is now tied up in our political affiliation for some reason but that is what we do now. i think, again, if you can break one or two percent above what joe biden got, and keep in mind, joe biden did not make a real obvious effort to republicans, kamala harris is. i do think it is effective. again, this idea she is going to win a quarter, she is not. but it is a little bit, because every republican that votes for kamala harris, it is kind of like a delta of two. it is one less voting for trump, and one voting for her. >> i would say none of the data

supports harris has been able to re-create the joe biden coalition, if you do look at the polling, p in pennsylvania and michigan you have not seen restructure of the biden coalition a lot-- >> assuming white voters, not black and brown. we are seeing very-- >> i think-- >> i think black and brown moving away from democratic. >> every campaign will have a different coalition and i think that is true of trump. look now, the overtures he is making to younger men, overtures to people zero, low propensity, trying to give new people to sign up. every coalition has to be different. >> this has been a different election cycle, thank you so much to all of you, great to hear you. new reporting tonight that harris is feeling confident in final hours before the election, harris surrogate, massachusetts governor mara healey to tell us what the campaign is seeing. plus, inside 2024 crystal ball, from the man who accurate predicted nine of the last ten

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what strong leaders do. sident kamala harris with her closing message in michigan today, a state that she has been concerned about. because cnn's latest average of polling shows no clear leader there, with harris at 48%, trump at 46%, and at this point in the race, it is hard to tell where harris maybe should be campaigning, because the new york times latest swing state poll before election day, harris and trump are closer than ever in every

single battleground. right to the governor of massachusetts, maura healey, she is a harris surrogate. governor, thank you. harris, throat her campaign, called herself and referred to her ticket as the underdog. but according to the washington post her campaign now is much more confident. if there is a win by narrow margins according to that prediction, why would that be? what is the campaign seeing now? >> well, i can tell you what i am seeing, i was on the ground in pennsylvania on friday campaigning in allentown, levi valley, and philadelphia, and it was next level in terms of the energy, the momentum, yes, this is an incredibly close race, we knew it would be. but i tell something by who i talk to at the various field offices and the people who have been out canvasing, i got to tell you, there is such a cross section of people who have been

out canvassing for kamala harris and tim walz, especially people who have never canvased before. i think that is why there is so much momentum and energy right now behind the vice president, and also, you know, i think she has been clear about her message, including everybody, including people who disagree with her in terms of her policy formulation going forward. i think that is another really clear difference in this race. >> the polls have shown that harris has a bit of weakness among male voters, are you concerned about that gap not being closed? >> i think we see that closing. i mean, i will just tell you an ecdotally, i was there the other day in a field office in pennsylvania with a fellow who is out canvassing for kamala, an independent, a business man, and he is trying to get out there to as many pennsylvanians as possible to talk about how devastating it would be to go back to a trump economy t. what trump did in terms of harming

this economy, he was speaking to directly as a business man, i also so was with another man, a republican, he was canvasing and he was going door to door to talk to neighbors and talk to voters about the fact that donald trump, if he gets in, we are all going to see prices go up on everything we buy at walmart or any other store out there, in contrast to what kamala harris is going to do for the economy. i think that is just an ecdotally, but an independent gentleman and republican gentleman campaigning for kamala harris. that is just anecdoteally but i hear the stories over and over. i also was struck, too, by the number of men i spoke to who were really focused in on freedom, right? i mean, kind of in the camp of dick cheney and other men who have stepped forward, including all the generals and men who served with trump in the white house,

who were out there supporting kamala harris. i heard many men talk about that, again, these are men who have never voted for a democrat before in their lives. >> that is exactly the area that harris campaign is hoping to target, and wondering always what the impact of statements like a milly and other have made or had on the independent or republican voters. we also, as you heard, we play adclip of harris today saying that she is going to be the president for all americans. but i want you to listen to what new york governor kathy hochul had to say. >> if you are voting for these republicans in new york, you are voting for someone who supports donald trump, and your anti-woman, you are anti-abortion, and basically you are anti-american. >> is this the message that you think a democratic governor should be sending this close to the election, calling trump voters, perhaps, anti-american? >> well, i don't know the whole context of governor

hochul's remarks, what i will say is this, i speak as somebody w is a former attorney general, former prosecutor, i respect freedom and the rule of law in this country. i think, like many americans, what we see in this race is a very stark distinction. you may not agree with everything that kamala harris and tim walz stand for. but to be clear, kamala harris and tim walz are on the side of freedom, on the side of being for the people, and respect the rule of law and institutional norms. while you may not agree with everything that they are in terms of policy, on the other side, you have donald trump, who is only about himself, who is a convicted felon, many times over, who acts like a wanna-be tyrant and dictator and i do not use those words as a former law enforcement official, lightly,

that is what the evidence shows right now in this election. i think that is why you see, as polls, as we get closer to election day, and people are making up their minds, you see more and more people, particularly undecideds, breaking for harris and walz, democracy freedom, basic american norms and values are on the line. i also think that donald trump continues to spend time denigrating people, knocking people down, you know, as my colleague and friend, governor shapiro says, you know, s-talking down america. in contrast kamala harris very clear message, she about having everybody at the table, including those she disagrees with, that is democracy, and that is the kind of leader, strong leader, that she will be

for all americans. >> democracy will be in the counting, that begins just hours, frankly, from now, on tuesday. governor thank you so much. >> great to be with you, laura. next, he is the man who accurately predicted 9 of the last 10 elections but professor allan lichtman said she is nervous about this, the man with the crystal ball is my guest, in just a moment.

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one and only professor allan lichtman, she has correctly predicted nine of the last ten elections, the one he got wrong, 2000 he argues he got right since al gore beat george w. in the popular vote. ehow does he make predictions? he said follow his 13 keys to the white house. they include things like incumbency, third party candidates, say the economy and social unrest, if six or more go against the party in the white house, it is candidate will lose, fewer than six, its candidate will win. what are the keys saying today ? lets bring in allan lichtman to talk all about. professor, look, your keys are pointing towards kamala harris, has anything happened in the last few weeks that makes you feel more confident in your prediction? >> nothing has changed, by the way, i didn't say i was right in 200 close to popular vote, i said i predicted the right president based on the intent of the voters in florida as i

proved in my 2001 report to the u.s. commission on civil rights, but historians will be debating 2000 forever. nothing changed. the biggest myth that american politics is the so-called october surprise. i have always issued my predictions before then, and never changed them. in 2016, for example, we had the biggest october surprise, donald trump on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women and a lot of women coming out and saying, yeah, he did that to me, even republicans were saying he was finished. i did not change my prediction of a trump win, which, laura, you can imagine did not make me very popular in 90% plus democratic dc where i teach at american university. >> you usually have a lot of butterflies ahead of an election, even if you are getting back lash or otherwise but you have said this year you say you feel like you have a, i think, a flock of crows, not

just butterflies, in your stomach. what makes you so anxious this time? >> two things, number one, i have never experienced a kind of hate i have had heaped on me this time, which has made me very nervous, i got hate vulgar, threatening, violent, security of my family has been compromisedism we have had to notify the police, we had to fortify our home, it has been terribly upsetting. the other thing is, i believe democracy is on the line in this election. if i am wrong, so be it, you know, i think being wrong once is not going to spread up my system but i think if i am wrong our democracy is in very serious peril. democracy is precious. but it can be destroyed and it is almost always destroyed from within and unfortunately the trend of this century has been decline of democracy all over

our world y. am worried about our country. >> i am so sorry to hear what you personally had to go through in simply predicting, and losing your keys, the fact you get hatred is mind-boggling to me, even though i am not politically naive to where we are right now y. am sorry for your and your family on that point. for other intellectuals, though, you had a polling legend, nate silver, have been feuding over whose methods are more accurate, the fightvise gotten heated and you mentioned you are taking a break, from all corners, why do you think the climate has gotten so nasty this time around? >> it is donald trump, and i have never experienced this before donald trump. we have never had a candidate before who has dehumanized his political opposition, called them vermin, called them worse than the murderous dictator, kim jong-un, called for calling out military against u.s.

citizens. not just criticizing liz cheney on her foreign pauly and which would be fine, but talking about her facing nine gun barrels shooting at her or saying he wouldn't mind if people shot at the so-called fake news, the press. this is what is different, this is what we have never seen before in american politicsism he said he would be a dictator on day one, to drill, drill, drill. drilling doesn't take one day, it takes months and years, and no dictator in the history of the world has ever relinquished power after being a dictator on day one. by the way, i didn't like trump any better in 2016 when i predicted his win. my predictions are totally non-partisan, i predicted the two most conservative presidents of our time. my first prediction was ronald reagan in april, 1982. 60% of americans said he was too old to run again. >> here we are, at the 11th

hour practically and your predictions, you say, stand. you are not changing your mind and what you have got from these keys, i will be intrigued to see what happens tuesday as, frankly, the entire globe is. allan lichtman, always a pleasure. >> my pleasure, the keys are the north star prediction, they don't change. >> thank you so much. first, it was cats and dogs, now it is an internet famous squirrel. how the animals of the world are finding themselves at thep center of political controversies, next.

before we go tonight, a tribute to all the animals caught up in a game they never asked to play. politics. starting with this little guy, peanut the squirrel, a social media celebrity in his own right, cowboy hat and all. peanut's owner says he took in the orphaned skirl seven years ago after the animal's mother got hit by a car in new york city. now peanut has found an even bigger audience after taking a tragic turn. last week officials with new york environmental conservation department seized peanut from his owner's home. the ageany says it received complaint about wildlife being kept illegally. at some point peanut bit someone involved in the investigation. the squirrel had to be euthanized and tested for rabies. then word got out. the memes spread, and peanut's story went in a direction you would not expect. or maybe you would, in 2024. case in point, a post from elon musk, citing

pe's death as example of government overreach, a view jd vance echoed at his rally today. >> if you have seen the videos of this squirrel, he is like, he is genius, or he was, unfortunately, but the same government that doesn't care about hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant criminals coming into our country doesn't want us to have pets, the craziest thing. >> okay, now whether peanut needed to be killed let alone kept as illegal pet is a valid debate, a question his owner cares about but to say the government dozen want you to have pets is, well, crazy. speaking of crazy, you know what it crazy, claims like this made with absolutely no evidence. >> in springfield, they are eating the dogs, the people that came in, they are eating the cats. they are eating-- they are eating the pets of the people that live there. >> not just squirrels and cats

and dogs that have fallen prey to politics, don't forget the geese. >> they are taking the geese. you know where the geese are? in the park, in the lake. and even walking off with their pets. my dog has been taken. >> don't forget the cows, either. >> i am six years old, i live on a farm, in massachusetts, what is your favorite farm animal? >> favorite farm animal. >> this guy grew up in the city. >> i will tell you what i love, i love cows, but if we go with kamala you won't have any cows anymore. >> domesticated animals, wild animals, no type of critter has been spared this political cycle. not even ones that departed this earth a decade ago. >> i pulled over and i picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because i was going to skin the bear, and it

was very good condition and i was going to-- put the meat in my refrigerator. i said lets put the bear in central park and made it look like he is on a bike ride. >> the poor bear cub didn't ask for a photo opwith rfk and it doesn't end there. animals overseas for american politics, vanity fair claims it was rfk eat agdog in korea in 2010. he says it was a different animal on a different continent. >> the picture they said is of me eating a dog, it is actually me eating a goat in patagonia, i am on a white water trip many years ago. >> so dog, goat, lamb, whatever it was, it is not a live to have say in this matter, neither is chrissy gnome's dog, that controversy feels it has been a thousand years, we are still playing the who will

trump choose as his running mate game? heaps of back lash after revealing she shot and killed her phrenmonth old puppy, why? she says it was untrainable and dangerous and less than worthless as a hunting dog, it may have cost her in the eyes of donald trump. >> you wrote no going back about shooting your dog, cricket, the blow back was intense there. do you think sharing that an ecdote, whether fairly or unfairly, cost you a shot at being his vice president? >> you know y would say that was a story 20 years ago about my protecting my children from a vicious animal. >> she suggested in her book that president biden's dog, commander, should suffer the same fate as cricket. commander was removed from the white house after biting incidents but with biding stepping away from had presidency his german shepherd will hopefully be spared from more political

battles. we can only hope the same for all the other animals out there. maybe both parties need a non-living mascot or imaginary one, because elephant and the donkey, they just called and said to leave them out of all of politics. well, i want to thank you all for watching, i will see you back here tomorrow night for another election eve special, anderson cooper 360 is next. down to the wire appeared both candidates spend the final sunday plea getting the battlegrounds. we will show you the