this time tomorrow we could know which of those two would be the next president or not. and -- >> we don't get to sit this one out. >> star power. kamala harris counting on oprah and other celebrities to push her over the finish line in the final hours. also donald trump's one time primary opponent now an outspoken supporter. vivek ramaswamy joins us live on this election day 2024. the seconds are ticking up to 6:00 a.m. here on the east coast. this is a live look at a polling site. there it is at 6:00 a.m. they are opening right now in new york. other sites opening in new jersey,

connecticut, virginia, portions of other states here in the east on this election day. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. wonderful to have you with us. we made it, finally. election day is here. voters are voting on this first tuesday after the first monday in america. election day at this very moment polls opening up and down the east coast. in a presidential race that will mark an extraordinary moment in american history. the events of this year, let's put it simply, they've been stunning. donald trump facing a felony conviction. then an assassination attempt. kamala harris at the top of the ticket for just 107 days after president joe biden stepped aside. the way each is framing this race, the way each talks about america, sharply illustrates the choice facing our country this morning. >> i'll start giving you some beautiful things to listen to. and some terrible things to

listen to. >> after nearly a decade of politics dominated by trump, the former president held what might have been his final campaign rally ever in grand rapids, michigan. it went like this. >> kamala is, i mean this is known. she's a very low iq person. and we don't need a low iq individual. crazy. horrible human being, nancy pelosi. she's an evil, sick, crazy -- oh, no. but these are bad people. adam shifty schiff. they have to cheat. they have to cheat and they do. they do it very well, actually. >> his opponent, kamala harris choosing a different tone. deciding not to mention donald trump by name in the closing days. she ended her last day on the trail in philadelphia. [

music ] >> lady gaga, oprah, the final headliners for harris. the rocky steps nearby invoking the ultimate underdog. the symbolism of the location designed to illustrate how harris and her team view the stakes of this election. >> it's good to be back in the city of brotherly love. where the foundation of our democracy was forged. and here at these famous steps, a tribute to those who start as the underdog and climb to victory. we have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics that has been driven by fear and division. we are done with that. we're done. we're

exhausted with it. tonight, then we finish as we started. with optimism. with energy. with joy. >> all right. on this election day our panel's here. reporter for the wall street journal. alex thompson, cnn political analyst. bakari sellers. and brad todd, republican strategist. welcome to all of you. thrilled to have you. we made it. it's here. >> d-day, baby. >> god bless the constitution. alex, let me start with you. i want to get everyone's sense of how in your two cases your sources are feeling, that you are talking to your candidates are looking at this. alex, what are you hearing from the harris campaign? >> there's -- they say

optimistic. they always caveat it. >> isn't nauseously also one of the ones? >> yeah. most of them say they feel that i've talked to they feel they'll win but narrowly. there's some that think they have a chance to win more. there are also some that still just sort of don't want to even predict because they don't want to jinx it. i think most of the harris people i've talked to just feel the blue wall will hold and that if the blue wall holds she wins 270-268. >> how does the trump team feel? >> i've talked toment soft trump people. they were flat out optimistic a week ago. i mean, people i was talking to were saying he is the president. vance is the vice president. there was a confidence. that has shifted in terms of the staff members you talk to over there. but on the harris side there is this sense that donald trump has basically made her closing argument for her. some of the things he's said over the past ten days and so they've sort of sat back a little bit. i think that if at

the end of the day and we don't know what's going to happen. but if at the end of the day she prevails he really would have lost this election rather than the other way around. >> what are you seeing and hearing for viewers who may not know? you're really involved in that key center race in pennsylvania. you're seeing a lot of data on the ground. does what you're seeing line up? >> the democrat performance in it early voting and absentee voting has been way off. they have to do something today they haven't done in 20 years which is to get a massive performance on election day. democrats through the obama campaign, they shifted their voting to early voting 20 years ago. they became masters at it. they have not succeeded at that this year to the level they wanted. they have to do it today. can it happen? of course. they've done it before. but it's been a long time. >> is that true? >> no. i mean we actually hit all of our numbers in early voting we wanted to hit. if you look at georgia, north carolina, we came on strong late. particularly in georgia. but i mean we're going to be looking at -- we still need, he

is correct in the fact we need turnout today. everybody is really confident about where we are. georgia is ripe for a harris victory particularly in these three areas where people need to come out. in georgia in particular, republicans have exhausted all of their votes in republican rural counties. they exhausted 98. still in these areas like fulton county. chatham county. richmond county. savannah. augusta, atlanta. there's so much room there. you're going to see those people show up to the polls. in north carolina we get 300,000 black voters today to show up at the poll wes win north carolina. is that a lot? no. >> one thing about georgia though. the fact that rural republicans have already turned out in waves in early voting records tells you the republicans don't have an enthusiasm problem. the way democrats haven't come out. >> enthusiastic votes count as

much as unenthusiastic. >> that's the story of 2012. >> democrats on the ground in georgia i've talked to. the one thing that does give them anxiety is in 2020 you had rafael warnock on the ballot. you do not have a senator that's been there. >> or a stacey abrams that's organizing. >> you do not have them on the ballot this time. not necessarily can atlanta and the immediate suburbs but what do rural black voters do. there's also a little bit of concern. trump finally made nice with governor kemp down there. belatedly for sure, but he does have a little bit of that machine behind him. does that make a difference? bakari is not wrong. >> brad, how much does the way trump is closing impact. how much does that rhetoric hurt him here in the final days?

>> it's not as much what trump says what he didn't say. i thought his rally yesterday was devoid of ideology. i think the way to beat kamala harris to say she's a california liberal. i didn't hear near as much of that as i would have liked from donald trump. i think that he's not an ideological person himself and so therefore -- >> i appreciate your honesty. >> he doesn't project that the voters are going to be ideological in their decision making. that's kamala harris' vulnerability. if i were donald trump that's what i would have been saying. >> what would you be doing differently if running the harris campaign? >> no, you started july 21st. you're here. you raised and spent $1.2 billion. you built this plane while you're flying and you're running against -- the unique thing about donald trump is he outside of 2016 he hasn't won anything. i mean you can put donald trump in any light you want to put him in. 2018, walloped. 2020, got beat. 2022, you guys had us on here

talking about this red wave that was coming. you know what happened to the red wave? it never showed up at the -- >> in fairness in 2016 you would have been telling me clinton was going to win. it happens. >> my point is he's won one out of the last four cycles. >> nikki haley might argue he's won another one. >> actually one of the things we saw last night that no one is talking about is the dixville notch voters. >> there's six of them. it was 3-3. split right down the middle. >> who did they vote for in the primary? >> what's that? i don't have at hand. >> nikki haley. >> right. >> to be fair if you look at how they voted -- i did examine the results this morning from dixville notch. four of them voted for the democrat in the congressional race. so there's a lot of ticket splitting going on. >> yes,. >> four registered. >> they voted for biden in 2020

and now they're split. >> four registered republicans and two unregistered. there's not a singular registered democrat of those six. you know what that means. >> they are new england republicans. >> this tells you how desperate we are to talk. >> we have so much ahead on this special election day. donald trump landing a last minute endorsement from joe rogan. is it going to help him win over voters who weren't already leaning his way? plus. >> every single vote. every one is going to matter. >> kamala harris turning to famous friends in the closing hours of her race. the gender gap. one last look at how this mars versus venus selection could determine who wins the white house. >> we're running like everything's on the line because it is. >> he will be a protector of women and it's why i'm voting for him.

they gaslight you. they manipulate you. they promote narratives. the only one not doing that is robert f. kennedy jr. >> you a fan? >> yeah, i am a fan. he's the only one that makes sense to

me. he doesn't attack people. he attacks actions and ideas. >> an about face from joe rogan. just three months ago thought rfk jr. was the only option in the race. on the eve of the election rogan formally endorsing donald trump. he announced that decision after his interview with elon musk. rogan wrote in a post on x last night that musk quote, makes what i think is the most compelling case for trump you'll hear. i agree with him every step of the way. and for the record, yes, that's an endorsement of trump. rogan's support comes as the trump campaign has pushed to win over young male voters. the former president making numerous appearances on podcasts popular with that demographic. >> there's no reason not to think that mars and all these pls don't have life. is cocaine a stronger -- >> oh, yeah. >> up? >> yeah, yeah.

>> a lot of wrestlers want to be. they want to do the ufc thing. but they can't take the shots. i played football too. i didn't particularly like it. >> what position were you? >> i played tight end. trump is going to keep tiktok going. >> it looks so much more natural on tiktok when you see it being from the outside. the tiktok dance looks conspicuously out of place. i'm not in the camp of someone -- i don't really think endorsements tend to matter that much. i do wonder about joe rogan. do you think this moves the needle? >> donald trump's opponent is not so much kamala harris as it is the xbox. he needs people who are young males who might not think voting matters and they think the xbox more fun to get off that couch and go to vote. >> it's a very sharp way to put that. >> i think joe rogan is important in that demographic. i think elon musk is important in that demographic. john

fetterman says a lot of young males think elon musk is tony stark. that's an important endorsement for him. it's -- i do think it's been a unique strategy. donald trump's interview with joe rogan has been down loaded 90 million times. that's a third of the country. that's a big reach. >> what do you think? >> i don't think it matters, especially yesterday. the timing of it. having joe rogan maybe go on college campuses and do those type of things. simply sitting in your studio and saying go vote for donald trump, i don't think really matters much while you're talking to elon musk. frankly speaking this is personal for me. i'm ready to turn the page on the elon musk, the david sacks, the people who have saturated this new campaign propaganda site known as twitter and x. we'll see if that brings any value. i don't know if that gets young people out to vote. what we are seeing with people voting is young

women. young women are over indexes. they understand what's at stake. >> in an election this close everything matters. and i think if you're trump, i mean, you wanted this endorsement a week ago and you wanted joe rogan to be talking about his endorsement for a full seven days. you know, that being said i think trump better late than never. these are the voters that are low propensity voters. it's more difficult for them to vote. they tend not to. everything matters in this moment. >> i was just going to add that rogan has put his hand on the scale for trump not just as of yesterday but the last two weeks. not only did he interview trump, then he interviewed jd vance and also just interviewed elon musk. i'd also say their relationship has been sort of interesting in 2022 joe rogan said he was not a trump supporter in any way, shape or form and he never wanted to have him on the podcast. the combination of the assassination attempt and also just like the ufc dynamic is

what convinced joe rogan to change his mind apparently, that's what joe rogan has said. the way they came to this place, to annie's point, any small thing can matter if like we see young men come out in droves. >> let's also talk about how populist joe rogan is. joe rogan literally wanted the vice president of the united states to come to austin, texas to sit in his studio when she said and agreed to do an interview but they had to do it for an hour in washington, d.c. because she literally is the vice president of the united states. call her daddy actually created an entire studio in a hotel room to make sure that worked. for somebody to have the audacity to believe that the vice president must come to me i think is a pompous footnote that needs to be added. >> democrats are always saying we meet voters where they are. if that is not meet them where they are. >> it was a convenient way for her to get out of the interview. she's got a plane. >> just one thing. she was

already in houston around that same time. austin. i understand. >> they're not the same city. >> if she wanted toot the interview, she could have. >> this is my point. >> first of all, let's back up. kamala harris is not a candidate for president of the united states alone. kamala harris is also vice president of the united states of america. and we can't say oh, well, that, well, she could. it doesn't work that way. >> 90 million people. >> i'm just saying. donald trump is also the former president and he went to austin. >> i guarantee -- >> he's currently unemployed. >> okay. >> not a lot of duties. >> he doesn't have a job. >> we're taking a break. will rain depress turnout in some of the blue wall states? your election day forecast up next. the trump campaign. vivek ramaswamy joins us live as voters head to the polls.

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it's election day in america. some battleground voters are going to need an umbrella. let's get to our meteorologist derek van dam. in a race this close, quite literally anything could make the difference including turnout in detroit or milwaukee. >> if you're in michigan or wisconsin, two battleground states there's a lot of wet weather to contend with. you might have to go a little early this morning heading to the polls. we have an area of low pressure that's racing through the midwest. this will bring rainfall to those locations. cold front extends as far south as the mississippi rally. that'll bring rainfall as well. let's get more specific. grand rapids, michigan. my hometown and home state. yeah, getting wet right now across the big lake michigan, milwaukee anticipating rainfall. election day weather forecast for grand rapids to detroit will be wet. you'll be battling rain drops falling from the sky. heavier though

the further south you travel. check this out. st. louis to little rock. we have flash flood watches and warnings in place that are valid through this morning. anywhere you see the shading of red, that includes st. louis. downtown as well. so this cold front advances eastward. maybe you're hitting the polls for your lunchtime this afternoon. cold front impacting places like chicago, memphis. east coast stays dry. other battle ground states into pennsylvania, georgia, the forecast looking fantastic. in fact, no reason to get out and vote this morning for philadelphia, atlanta. temperaturesvery tranquil in the upper 70s and low 80s depending on where you're located. out west, a different story. nevada will be a bit on the cool side. arizona also cool but stays dry. >> i think you mean no reason to not get out and vote. most of these battleground states it's a beautiful day to cast your vote. >> do it. >> thank you very much. really appreciate it. polls of course already starting to open across the east coast. at the top of the

hour, they'll open in the critical swing state of georgia. they of course have already been dealing with threats and misinformation swirling around this election. cnn's isabel rosales joins us live with more. i know you're at a polling place. tell us what you're seeing there. but then there's also this question about misinformation and what impact they may have on people coming to the polls. questions perhaps in the aftermath as well. georgia the epicenter of donald trump's challenges to the 2020 election. what are you hearing? >> yeah, they were battling that back in 2020 and still today in 2024. the republican-led secretary of state's office working around the clock to counter disinformation campaigns. a lot of the deeply held mistrust coming from within their same party. so let me talk about georgia. the peach state that is so critical for both parties here. democrats hoping to keep it blue after managing to flip it back in 2020. the first time they've been able to do that in nearly 30 years since bill

clinton. i'm in fulton county. the most populous county in the state. this is what we're looking at. 177 polling locations at this library. about 30 minutes out to polls opening. six, seven people in line so far starting to trickle in. at 7:00 on the dot all 159 counties here in the peach state can start tabulating early voting. 12 hours later by 7:00 p.m. polls close. we are anticipating here in georgia to get an early indicator of which way this battleground state possibly could be swinging depend on how close those margins are. they count the votes so quickly. there's in fact a new state law that aimed to speed up the counting. secretary of state saying by 8:00 p.m. we should have 70 to 75% of all votes cast in georgia tabulated. of course that might not be the case for

the rest of the country. that could take days more. >> yeah, well, georgia is really going to provide us an interesting indicator there at the beginning of the evening. it could be a long one. for whatever reason georgia showed signs harris was going to overperform it might be a shorter night. donald trump trying to make up ground with women voters. however, that didn't stop him and his allies from using choice words to describe his female rival in the final days of the campaign. former presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy spent this election cycle pitching donald trump to younger voters. he joins us next.

this is a six pack under the leadership of kamala harris. this is a six pack under the leadership of donald j. trump. let's make america great again. >> okay. the trump-vance campaign taking their final pitch to social media. i'll

let you decide whether you think that's effective. their goal for months has been to reach generation z voters. our next guest has spent a lot of time making a case on college campuses. these students have a wide range of opinion about the candidates. >> i'm not a fan of trump. i think it's all a show. i think he truly does not care about anything other than himself. >> i'm voting for donald trump. for me it's really just the threat of rising global conflict. >> there's just some things you can't play with. the economy stretches. goes back and forth all the time. abortion is gone, it's gone. >> past four years haven't been great. >> i think january 6th was one of the most unacceptable attacks on democracy. >> people i'm friends with i'd say it's the cool thing to vote for trump. >> cool thing to vote for trump. entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy who is now backing

donald trump. good to have you on the program. thanks for being here. >> morning, kasie. >> i don't think anyone would argue with more beer. my question for you big picture though. a majority of voters in america are women, straight up. if donald trump's going to win this election he needs men to vote for him in greater numbers than women vote for harris by greater percentage. is trump going to be able to do that tonight? >> i think he is. that's one way to cut. i also look at other demographic groups that have historically gone for democrats that are coming our way this time around. greater portions of the black vote and hispanic vote no doubt. you put your finger on an important one. where i have traveled college campuses, met with young people across the country and especially in swing states. and i think decisively we're going to see a greater shift in gen z towards voting for donald trump this time around. principally motivated by staying out of foreign conflicts, avoiding world war

3, growing the economy and bringing down housing costs. those are the issues most on the minds of young americans. those shifts are together going to comprise. i think a new coalition for republicans. reagan was the last republican candidate to do this to build a new coalition. i think that's happening in plain sight. if my experience traveling the country is any indication, it's going to be positive for donald trump tonight. >> i will say it's antic dative for sure, but conversations among moms, other women, i run into about young people not necessarily quite college age yet but they perhaps are showing especially men an inclination to be more willing to vote for conservatives than perhaps people would have assumed in the past. you mentioned wars, foreign conflicts. do you think that's the main issue for them? i mean what is driving that? >> if i had to boil it down to two issues one is the concern if there is a foreign war god forbid the united states is involved in that's going to fall on gen z's shoulders.

there's a lot of skepticism even from the millennial generations on down. people give donald trump a lot of credit for not being a partisan in the sense he was bucking the republican trend of supporting wars like the iraq war. i think that's carried a lot of credibility with young people who feel duped by a lot of the bases for entering those wars. you look at the results in terms of ukraine conflict and the middle east conflict. we didn't have that under donald trump. that's probably the number one motivator for young people. combine that with rising costs. what we've seen over the last several years and this is a hard fact that prices have gone up. wages have not kept up and that keeps the american dream out of reach for a lot of those young people. i think the top concern frankly for people graduating from college with debt is are they going to be able to start a family and own a home. it's a hard fact that about 4 million americans, fewer americans own a home now than they did under the trump years. those are the two factors, especially motivating young voters. especially young men. i see it

among some young women too. this is a real concern. >> all right. i want to play for you something that donald trump said at his rally in pittsburgh on monday about -- he called the election too big to rig. let's watch. >> i do believe it is too big to rig. i think it's too big to rig. they'll try. they are trying. it's too big to rig. this is a big movement. this is, you know, we did great in it 2016. we did much better in 2020. but a lot of bad things happened. this is that big powerful vicious party. no, it's a vicious machine. i mean they can take all these bad ideas and win elections. only way you can do that. one way. only one way. >> sir, if donald trump loses the election today should he concede? >> look, i think that one commitment i think republicans

can make is if donald trump loses this election and kamala harris becomes the president, god forbid in my case. i'm not rooting if their outcome. republicans are not going to launch some type of multiyear investigation that impedes the first two years of a presidency with false allegations of foreign election interference. we've seen that within the last decade in this country. >> it's a yes or no, question, sir. should he concede or should he not? >> whoever wins the election should win the election and whoever loses should concede. the fact of the matter is when we look at the last ten years. you and i both understand the subtext of this question. there's been this brewed up concern that i think is really designed i think in ways to mislead voters about what's happened. >> people attacked the capitol to try to interrupt the process to certify the last election. >> if i may just finish my point. that's no doubt been talked about ad nauseam. the presidency was actually undermined by donald -- by kamala harris and the democrats. the democratic party that kamala harris is a part

of. for the first two years of donald trump's presidency on allegations of a false russia collusion hoax that was disproven. what do we want? we want a free fair election where the winner is decisively decided. americans can move forward as a country behind that. whichever candidate wins i'm looking forward to that happening for the country and i'm hoping that's donald trump. >> are you confident our election is going to be free and fair? >> i certainly hope so. i think i would ask the same question of you. i have every hope that the polls are -- the polling locations are properly monitored. that you see a lot of the cases that have worked themselves out this time around with respect to early voting. the time stamps that need to be on them. i think pennsylvania and their courts came down on the right side of that decision. one of the things that we have a great consciousness of is people being able to vote effectively on time. i'm hopeful we'll see an outstanding, well-run election with a great result. i'm supporting donald trump and rooting for that victory tomorrow. >> vivek ramaswamy, thanks for your time. i appreciate it.

>> thank you. let's turn now to this. both donald trump and kamala harris have spent several weeks looking to win over voters of the opposite gender. respectively. at the same time, in the final days of this campaign, trump and his allies have gone after harris and other democratic women in remarkably disparaging terms. watch this. >> kamala is -- i mean this is known. she's a very low iq person. >> in it two days we're going to take out the trash in washington, d.c. and the trash's name is kamala harris. >> kamala harris is a c word. you heard that right. a big old c word. >> that crazy horrible human being nancy pelosi. >> she's an evil, sick, crazy. oh, no. it starts with a b but i won't say it.

>> is it productive to use b and c words for women you'd like to vote for you? >> i think one of my business partners is fond of saying we've reached the groundling phase. appeals to the people on the ground who paid a nickel for the show and not the people in the boxes. it's not a wrong track appeal or economic appeal which is i think what would get donald trump more votes. but i don't think we're going to change donald trump or his vaudeville style. >> even nikki haley and megan haley are saying, be less of that. >> it's the economy. we do have a gender gap in this election. it sits right on top of a marriage gap. your segment points to something. single men really are important. because the male vote is definitely for donald trump but it's less so if you're single. the same thing reverse for kamala harris. that portion of what you saw with the beer and all that sort of stuff, i think that's productive for that xbox single.

>> i laughed at the beer. that's fine. >> one thing, there's two yeses here. one is the political effect of all of those things he's saying. honestly, a lot of what he's saying reminds me of what they did to hillary clinton in 2016. there's just we should call it out that there's been a large sexist campaign against kamala harris in the final days. you had hulk hogan making crude jokes. you also -- and kamala harris because she does not want this race to be about questions about is america ready for the first woman president has to had not respond and just take it and have the -- she's had the discipline not to do that. >> i think donald trump would be better off if he'd focus on ideology. much better off. i don't think he's going to get swing voters over personal insults. he can get them on saying she's too far to the left. >> he was in 2016 and 2020, if you looked at the last two weeks of his election campaign and those two races he was a much more disciplined candidate than he's been right now. 2016

he won. 2020 he way overperformed where the polls were saying he was at. there is a difference in how trump is behaving. >> i mean also, one of the things i hadn't really seen and we have all of these amazing papers and we work with journalists is talking about the double standard we've applied in this race. donald trump gets up there and makes no sense and calls it a weave. kamala harris and presents herself. you don't have to like the ideology. that's a sound debate. she has to be perfect. kamala harris and i've said this before is a woman in this country running for president, has to run the 110 hurdles in high heels and do a flip at the finish line just for the media to treat her with the same type of lens that they treat donald trump. there is no way that someone who goes up there and dances or does like this really weird fixation on microphones or loses his train of thought or is in georgia and thinks the senate candidate from pennsylvania is there. >> i think it was north carolina. >> was it north carolina? thank

you. thinks the senate candidate from pennsylvania is there and gets treated with some level of credibility. she has to be perfect. the crazy thing about that is she's talented enough to give herself an opportunity to be president of the united states today. i think that's a failure on all our parts. >> all right. annie, alex, bakari, thank you for being with us. you guys are going to be overnight with me. 2:00 a.m. we'll be in new york. we all have to go right after the show is over. brad's going to stick around for our next segment. straight ahead on this special edition. i'm joined by a panel of republicans, two ofment whom are voting for kamala harris. we'll talk about what it could mean for the gop if this is donald trump's last turn on the national stage. and how we got here. we'll take a look back at the events of the last two years. it's head spinning how this race has been transformed leading up to this election day.

>> total initiative relative to what we're going to do with more border patrol and more asylum officers. >> i really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either.

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the republican party. trump completes his third presidential campaign. traditional conservative republicans like mitt romney and the cheney family are finding they don't have much of a voice in donald trump's republican party. back in june of 2016 where trump announced his candidacy for president. first floated the idea of a border wall. and then of course came trump's presidency. >> you also had people that were very fine people. on both sides. >> then president trump talking about protests in charlottesville, virginia that featured neo nazis chanting jews will not replace us. in those protests dozens were injured. a young woman was killed after someone drove their car through a crowd. to this day trump maintains those remarks were perfect. >> he's a war hero because he was captured. i like people

that weren't captured, okay. >> before that there were trump's remarks about john mccain's military service. the start of a pattern of derogatory comments directed at the former prisoner of war. in so many ways trump has transformed the gop. culminating in these closing remarks last night. >> we will defeat the corrupt system in washington. i'm not running against kamala. i'm running against an evil democrat system. these are evil people. >> joining us now, former congressman adam kinzinger and jeff duncan. they are part of republicans for harris and have been campaigning. and brad todd who is a more traditional republican, i guess shall we say. really not any more. you're a trump republican. gentlemen, i'm grateful to have you here on this consequential day. congressman, let me start with you. what do you think is really at stake here? certainly democrats seem

to be using the phrase nauseously optimistic about what's going to happen. put it in terms of what you think is at stake for the country and what it means for the party that you served in for so long. >> it's the future of con servetism. there is nothing conservative about the republican party today. there really isn't. standing with vladimir putin against your own intel services kind of throwing ukraine under the bus. a lot of spending. a future that's just based on dividing people against each other and not really showing any optimistic future. i think if the republican party loses, if donald trump loses it's a chance for the gop to kind of look inside and say what have we done with our soul. how many times. if they elected nikki haley you probably could have won the presidency and had presidency for eight years. instead there's this cult. so i think it's the future of conservatism. that's why i and i know jeff have no -- we have no regrets for what we've

done. i always jokingly say i'd do it twice as hard if i could go back in time. >> yeah, this isn't position a. i didn't get into politics and expect to be doing this. this is where i believe is the best place for us to be able to hit the reset button and create a gop 2.0. a party that focuses and defends on policies and uses empathy to grow the size of the tint and use a tone that invites and encourages. i think all republicans for the most part, including the ones voting for donald trump would agree he's not the future of the party. i think we're in this awkward spot where regardless of whether donald trump wins or loses, this party's got this short window of time to get it right to start taking our own medicine. if donald trump wins there's no doubt he'll wreck the car and continue to soil the brand of being a republican. and so i think you're going to watch entire herds of republicans look for somewhere else that's more respectable. that could mean we could start hemorrhaging to democrats by droves. if kamala harris wins and does govern towards the middle, she has a

chance to grow the net total of the party if she does govern towards the middle. not in the middle. she's a democrat. but if she governs towards the middle like on the campaign trail and ask our opinion on certain policies she has a chance to grow the party. >> if someone other than donald trump had been at the top of the republican ticket considering the approval rating of president biden and even the way some of harris' numbers have moved would republicans be running away with this election? >> there's an argument to say a candidate like nikki haley could have had lot more suburban voters who are skeptical of the way joe biden and kamala harris have run the country. a lot of former democrats, blue collar voters are a lot more comfortable in donald trump's republican party than they would have been in mitt romney's republican party. the data is pretty clear there's a good argument for that too. i didn't predict donald trump would win in 2015. i said the opposite plenty of times over and over. after that election i wrote a book on the

trump coalition trying to understand a little more about how the populist coalition was reshaping it. it is a realignment. we have a working class coalition. the democratic party has become an upper class coalition. historically the working class coalition wins. >> i do want to make sure we end this show talking about what i think is one of the things that brought you to where you are and that is the sanctity of our peaceful transfer of power. and the stakes for the election here because there are already signs that if in fact donald trump were to lose there's unlikely to be a concession. you obviously personally experienced the violence that came with standing up to trump when he tried to convince georgia officials you included to change the election results. what are those stakes of that today? >> there's so much at stake. but i think -- and way more than a party. i mean just the ideology of a country. i can't

help but think how off base this country is right now. it all goes back to one person. and i think what's happened is we've lost -- we don't have any leaders. we don't have anybody standing up modeling the right thing to do. the job of president is the least important. it doesn't determine how much traffic you sit in. how safe your neighborhoods are. the job of president sets the north star and donald trump has set that north star in the gutter. we as republicans have said that's okay. it's not okay. >> i will say, congressman kinzinger i remember sitting with you as this was first unfolding and you saying leaders have to lead. of course, now here we are. i would love to have this conversation all morning. we're out of time. i do want to spend the last few minutes of this taking a little bit of a walk down memory lane. this election has been many things. unprecedented. unpredictable.

and really more than anything unforgettable. >> in order to make america great and glorious again i am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >> this is not a time to be complacent. that's why i'm running for reelection. >> his approval numbers are low. rivalling only jimmy carter who got slaughtered of course in that election. >> donald trump will officially become the first former president in the history of these united states to face a criminal trial. >> this is an assault on america. >> you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. >> except for day one. he says you're not going to be a dictator. no, no, no. other than day one. >> the first biden trump debate of 204 is now set for june 27th on cnn. >> covid, excuse me, with dealing with everything we have

to do with, look, if we finally beat medicare. >> we are effed. that reaction after watching president biden's performance in last night's cnn debate. >> sounds like you're actually open to the idea that it might be the right decision for him to step aside. >> i think what i'm stressing is it has to be his decision. >> it's up to the president to decide if it he's going to run. we're all encouraging him to make that decision because time is running short. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> donald trump injured but safe. 2024 election fundamentally altered. america'ing from a horrific act of violence.

>> congressman, do you think kamala harris at the top of the democratic ticket could beat former president trump in the fall? >> i think she would smoke him, honestly. >> for the first time in over half a century a sitting president who can still run for reelection will not appear on the ballot. president joe biden making the stunning announcement on sunday. >> kamala harris. >> do we believe in the promise of america? and are we ready to fight for it? the next vice president of the united states, tim walz. >> you know it, you feel it. these guys are creepy and yes, just weird as hell. that's what you see. >> it is therefore my honor to nominate ohio senator jd vance. >> the childless cat lady. would you like to comment on that? >> obviously it was a sarcastic comment. i've got nothing against cats.

>> in springfield they're eating the dogs. the people that came in. >> this weird obsession with crowd sizes. >> we are not going back. we are not going back. >> welcome to all of you. so grateful to have you here. you okay? >> yeah. >> caffeine. caffeine. >> i don't know where i am or what i'm doing but i'm apparently here. >> just a little concerned. >> first of all i am making a statement. >> hang on, hang on. here we go. bakari. >> thank god you could barely see that on camera. >> the trump campaign says shots were fired in in the vicinity of the former president at his golf resort. he is safe. >> a few days ago we had an incident. i have to say secret service did a hell of a job. they really did. >> arnold palmer was all man. he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there

they said oh my god. i'm looking for a job and i've always wanted to work at mcdonald's. how do you like my garbage truck? this is in honor of kamala and joe biden. >> are we ready to vote? are we ready to win? >> with your vote tomorrow we can fix every single problem our country faces. >> all right. on this election day, a final reminder that it is now up to you. it's in your hands. it's the beauty of the system that we have that no matter what we may or may not say here as we cover the candidates, it's your decision. it's up to you. voters are voting. get out there. don't miss your chance. thanks to all of you for being with us. as the famed political