237. Election Eve: Trump Seizes on Michigan

But listen, what would it take for you To be on somebody's team and to have that team help get you elected to the Congress, what would it take for you on the day before? It's like your GPS telling you where you're going to go, but you already know where you're going to go.

So she's like the human GPS now.

She's endorsing Rogers at the last minute, but it's probably already too late.

So what would it take you to do that? Okay.

And then and then secondarily, did it have any impact?

So the story that Anthony is referring to is the fact of Haley Stevens having said she was a Democrat, even though she lost to Abdul El-Sayed in the primary, but she only lost by 15,000 votes on Sunday, shocked everybody by saying she was endorsing the Republican opponent opponent.

I actually in all of my years of covering midterms and election campaigns i can't remember this happening anthony i mean i can remember candidates switching sides i can remember elected officials switching sides but i can't remember somebody saying okay i can't support this guy and indeed i'm going to support his opponent.

I mean, there's lots of speculation and you've heard members of Congress and other people who are up in Michigan say she has this fiance who had already come out in support of Mike Rogers and he has a lot of influence over her.

Maybe? seems a bit of an odd reason to me for somebody who's been a member of Congress and is clearly a kind of forceful woman in her own right that she would just listen to her boyfriend and he says, okay, you've got to come out and support Mike Rogers and that's the way it goes.

It seems weird.

But this whole situation is pretty weird.

Okay, here's the equivalent in my household.

I was talking to Tom about this.

My husband, Tom, has been a Man City supporter since he was seven years old.

This is like on the eve of a Man City, Man United match, Tom suddenly coming out saying, actually, no, I support Man United.

I mean, that's what this is, right? It's like switching sports teams on the eve of the big match.

So I think that's an amazing analogy, but the reason why I think this is so much worse is like if the sports team paid you money to be a part of them.

I mean, literally the infrastructure around-

So you think that's what's going on?

The Democratic Congressional Committee gave her money to win that seat

so she you're not suggesting that mike rogers's team has given her money i don't know i mean

anything's possible in american politics that may be true i don't know but i'm what i do know to be a fact is that democratic donors democratic traditional national donors came into her district gave her the money to run for that seat and to pay them back She switched allegiances at the last minute.

I don't know if you caught Chuck Schumer's tweet, but that's the most animated I've seen Chuck Schumer since his birth, I think.

I mean, the guy finally came out of the crypt and was pissed off about something.

Bumpy518, by the way, is asking us, did Stevens get paid to endorse Rogers? I...