The People Have Spoken!

Nicki Minaj (0:00)

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Loren LoRosa (0:02)

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Bakari Sellers (0:05)

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Garrison Hayes (0:06)

You know she don't lie about that, right?

Bakari Sellers (0:07)

Lauren came in hot.

Loren LoRosa (0:09)

Hey y'all, what's up? It's Loren LoRosa, and this is another episode of The Latest with Loren LoRosa. This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all the conversations that shake the room, baby. We are here, the day after election day, the midterm elections, 2026, November 4th. So if you are tuning in to this episode on this exact day, you feel the feeling and the excitement that I feel as well. If you, I was going to say if you've been paying attention, but it's like you got to be living under a rock to not feel it. So historical wins last night in the midterm election. Checking in behind the scenes of the grind though, before we get into the latest with some of the election updates and all the stuff, let me just say that I've voted several times now. My first time voting wasn't, but I couldn't really remember exactly when, but I do remember voting when President Obama, his second term, and you know, and just voting since. And again, I told you guys an episode prior to this one that it has been just a part of my like, like my mom is always big on that. She don't play about calling, making sure we voted and all the things. But this year, I'm going to be honest, I really feel like this year is the first year where I felt the dire, dire need. Like, yo, I don't even know what affordability for me buying a home and all the things I want to do to set myself up to figure out what a level of comfortability in my adult life looks like, is going to look like if I don't participate in this election.

I was riding yesterday thinking about the fact that all the polling places were still open, and people were getting out the vote, and everybody's talking about it. I'm seeing people posting as they're getting their I-voted stickers, and I had some thoughts. So let me play this video for you guys. I recorded it because I was like, I want to get these thoughts in the moment. Take a listen. Good. It feels hopeful.

But one thing that I've learned from watching really, really closely since we did this in DC for Kamala is that on the Republican side of things, they're very like, they're not that afraid of anything. They set up all of these things and all of these like, I wouldn't say like traps, but like their strategy that they set up, they're very blatant about it. And even if they're not, they do whatever they need to do to get whatever across the board, regardless of who they have to stand next to. And I was thinking about the Haley Stevens incident and I'm like, man, what does that mean now? Like all this flipping and back and forth, what happens?

Angela Rye (2:42)

I think we saw that in Georgia, the last cycle when they ran Herschel Walker, Raphael Warnock was running, he's black, so they said, black guy from Texas, a football player who has no connection really to Georgia except he played football there decades ago. Let's make him a candidate even though he couldn't finish a sentence.

Andrew Gillum (2:59)

Man, this was crazy. I was in Atlanta for that.

Angela Rye (3:03)

You were there.

Garrison Hayes (3:05)

And this is how they see us.

Angela Rye (3:06)

I think you just put any old black person up there, we're going to vote for them, right?

Andrew Gillum (3:11)

That's about the wildest race I've ever seen in my life. So you got the commercial, Urshua Walker, vote for me, and the next one is his ex-wife. He put the pistol in my mouth. He just, I mean, this thing was like, we ain't never seen nothing like that in New York. That race there was great. I didn't understand it. I was like, yo, how is this guy?

No, this is crazy.

Angela Rye (3:37)

But I want to draw the comparison to you again, Andrew, because I keep talking about Florida, to what happened in George with Herschel Walker, to what happened tonight with Bryant Byron Donalds.

Because I feel like this is another situation. Byron Donalds is not Herschel Walker by any stretch. But Byron Donalds is a man who has a criminal record, nothing against him, but he voted against the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act. So he's somebody who supports-