‘Shove that ballroom up your…’: Trump can’t escape the hecklers

[0:00] Good evening from New York. I'm Chris Hayes. We are just five days out for Election Day. [0:04] And the latest polling day by day continues to point in a brutal direction for Donald Trump [0:08] and the Republican Party. Today, a fresh set of CNN polls have Democrats holding leads in the [0:14] Senate races in Texas, Michigan, Kansas and Maine. And of course, no one knows anything [0:23] until the votes are actually counted. I say this every time I mention the polls because [0:27] it really is true. We've learned that lesson over and over again. It's the data we have to work with. [0:33] But I will say this. Republicans, if you look at the way they're acting, are not acting like they [0:37] have a lot of confidence. They're not acting like they're in the driver's seat. Trump's closing [0:41] message to voters is a 1300 word rant about Bill Maher, of all people, that he reportedly dictated [0:48] directly to his very close aide, Natalie Harp, who seems to never leave the man's side. And we also [0:53] got this bizarre, it's also a long one, this bizarre post about, of all things, the East Potomac [0:59] golf course, which the president wants to redevelop and he's in a fight over and apparently is very [1:04] concerned with. And I'll quote a little bit here. I won't read the whole thing because we don't have [1:07] all night. Golf balls soar through the holes at high speed and hit unexpected golfers, including a [1:13] White House staffer who was, sadly, hit violently in the chest. The driving range building itself is [1:18] falling apart. Its structural stability is terrible. It should be closed immediately for safety reasons. [1:22] The exposed nails and disintegrating wood also endanger young golfers. Not a good situation. [1:29] Are you, dear median voter, is at the top of your mind too, right now down the stretch? [1:34] How is the driving range at the East Potomac course? I guess he thinks that is what voters [1:39] should care about five days before the midterms. Again, as we say over and over, no one can predict [1:44] the future. That said, it does feel a bit like the wheels are starting to come off the second [1:49] Trump term. MSNOW reporter Alex Tabat recently spoke to some young men, former Trump voters, [1:55] who were, remember all the stuff that we read in 2024, they were going to make up the president's [1:59] new political coalition. They aren't very pleased. [2:04] I'm angry and betrayed. I feel betrayed. Everything that he said has been an empty promise [2:09] and everything has just gotten more expensive. [2:12] I was a new voter. I kept out of politics growing up and so I didn't know too much. I was pretty [2:16] uninformed when I voted. I just feel like it's, with the Republicans, it was a lot of promises, [2:22] a lot of buildup, and then they just fell flat. [2:25] Today we also learned that the president canceled his second planned rally in Kansas, [2:29] opting to hold a tele-rally instead. And they're talking about his schedule being the issue, [2:34] but do you think there might be some growing frustration that every single rally he holds [2:37] lately is being constantly interrupted by hecklers? [2:41] I can tell by the voice they get paid. They get paid. They always hit me right in the middle of [3:07] my damn punchline. And you know, if you blow a punchline, it doesn't work the second time. [3:12] So let's go on to the next subject. [3:15] It is annoying when people step on your punchline. [3:18] Every rally seems to be like that. Really, this is like a phenomenon. In the last few days, [3:22] it's gotten really fun. You might remember this guy, Robbie Roadsteamer, the guy who got detained [3:26] while dressed up like a giraffe at an ice protest. Well, he managed to make his way into Trump's [3:30] Ohio rally yesterday to perform his hit song, Trump Was on the Epstein Plane, to the tune of [3:35] Ly MCA. [3:39] They speak and I'll stand usually over here. Or maybe over here. Or maybe over here. [3:45] Trump went on the Jeffrey Epstein Plane. [3:50] Trump went on Jeffrey Epstein Plane. [3:58] Trump went on the Jeffrey... [4:00] It is a little hard to get the melody, but just go with it. [4:06] Those are just a few incidents like this at Trump rallies we've seen in a long time. Maybe they're [4:11] just getting worse at telling the difference between the troublemakers and the real Trump [4:14] people. Fox News certainly wasn't much better with that today. [4:20] We got Tom right here, kind enough to answer a few questions. Tom, why are you here this morning? [4:26] Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to get involved and go to South America for the [4:33] Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get. So that's why I'm here. [4:36] Wait, the Jonestown Massacre? [4:38] That's right. See, there's nothing like being a cult right up front, man. [4:41] All right. So maybe this is not a Trump supporter right now. [4:46] Maybe he's not. [4:49] Well played. You got it. Just that's tip of the cap. Send it back to the studio. [4:54] You think maybe that guy isn't a Trump supporter? I got to say, it doesn't seem like things are [4:58] trending in the right direction. Polls are not votes. Neither are vibes. But they're both going [5:02] against Trump and the Republican Party very hard in the final stretch of this election cycle. [5:07] Joining us now is Ali Velshi, chief data reporter at the Big Board. Ali, just today, [5:11] MSNOW shifted our rating for the South Carolina Senate race between Darlene Graham and Annie Andrews from [5:16] likely Republican to lean Republican. Help us understand just what that means and what we're [5:21] seeing to probably change. [5:21] I'm going to go out on a limb here. All these states in yellow are the ones that we consider [5:26] toss ups. There are ones that, you know, Democrats have got to at least keep the states that they hold [5:30] and win four of these. But we've just moved two races, neither of which go into the toss up [5:35] category. And I'm just going to put something out there for all the people who are focused on a [5:38] particular state that they're interested in seeing the results of. I want people to look at [5:42] Mississippi, not because I think it's going to switch to do a Republican, a Democratic Senate [5:47] seat, but because it may be the most interesting story on Tuesday night. And I'll tell you why. [5:51] However, before I get there, let's go to South Carolina. You already saw this, [5:54] that the Siena New York Times poll has got Annie Andrews, Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic [5:59] challenger running neck and neck with Darlene Graham. Now, it's a four point three percent [6:04] margin of error. So lots of room here. But the idea that a Democratic candidate is running neck [6:10] and neck with a Republican candidate whose last name is Graham in South Carolina is kind of [6:14] remarkable. However, I will remind you that when the back before Lindsey Graham died and he ran his [6:19] primary, he got 57 percent of the vote, which is unusual for a United States senator, Republican [6:25] supporter of Donald Trump who's not crosswise with Donald Trump. Annie Andrews has just been [6:29] hammering away and hammering away and hammering away. Darlene Graham hasn't really been helping [6:33] herself in her debate performances. So this is a really interesting story. And I'm going to tell [6:38] you something else about South Carolina. In South Carolina in 2022, in the midterms, 561,000 people [6:44] voted. In this year, with five days left to go, 753,000 people have voted in South Carolina. Now, [6:54] again, Darlene Graham is not probably the reason a whole bunch of people have decided to suddenly vote [6:59] in South Carolina. I can't extrapolate what this means. But if I look at Louisiana, where we're seeing [7:04] massive increases in early vote turnout and massive increases in disproportionately massive increases [7:10] in black voter turnout, maybe there's something going on here at the same time. [7:14] Let's go back to Mississippi for a second. This is a really interesting race in which Scott [7:21] Cologne is challenging Cindy Hyde-Smith. Now, a lot of interesting things here. Like Annie Andrews [7:26] in South Carolina, Scott Cologne has been hammering away. He's a district attorney. He's sort of not [7:31] an easy guy to dismiss. But nobody would have thought many months ago that this was going to be a real [7:36] race. And suddenly it's looking a little more real. We've moved this from being safe Republican [7:41] into being likely Republican. Again, that does not suggest a swing. But what it does suggest is [7:47] that Mississippi does not have early no excuse voting. So those numbers that I showed you from [7:52] South Carolina, the numbers that I showed you from that I talked about from Louisiana, you can't see [7:56] that Mississippi. You won't see that. There's no such thing. Most people in Mississippi vote on Tuesday, [8:01] which is why I am saying all eyes should be on Mississippi on Tuesday, not because it's going to [8:05] change hands, Chris, but because you're going to see what happens to people who are fed up with you [8:10] trying to keep them out of the vote. There are people in general and black people in particular [8:15] in Mississippi who are going to say, OK, you want to keep on squeezing us out? We're going to show [8:19] you what that looks like. And I'm going to pay close attention to that. [8:22] Hey, it's Rachel. I am so glad to see you at the end of that clip, because this is where I get to [8:26] tell you about a new way to watch all our clips and all of our shows and everything on MSNOW on your [8:33] phone or your tablet or your laptop. You can watch things live or recorded. Plus, you can ask me and all the [8:39] other hosts and reporters questions in our weekly live chats. You can go to MSNOW membership or just click [8:48] below. Thanks.