Vance Bombs at Brutal Town Hall

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Welcome to Pod Save America. I'm Jon Favreau.

Jon Lovett (1:35)

I'm Jon Lovett.

Jon Favreau (1:36)

Tommy Vietor. On today's show, we'll talk about Donald Trump closing strong with a pro-Putin and pro-corruption message. That's how you bring it home. We got fun new details about the untimely demise of Katie Zacharia's career.

Some updates on the pivotal Senate races in Maine and Michigan. And JD Vance's latest 2028 audition at a CBS town hall. We'll get into how it went. Then you'll hear my conversation with Mayor Paige Cognetti, who's running to flip a critical house seat in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

But first, Crooked Con is coming up right after the election. And we have just added a bunch more great names to the lineup. We got Governor JB. Pritzker is coming, Senator Chris Murphy. And then over from the House side, Ilhan Omar, Robert Garcia, Sarah Jacobs, Jamie Raskin, Sarah McBride. We also have Carlos Eduardo Espina, Simone Sanders, Townsend, Eugene Daniels, David Packman, Jessica Tarlov, Heather McGee, and then all the other people that we've announced on the website. Plus more to come.

Tommy Vietor (2:33)

Great list.

Jon Favreau (2:34)

Anyway, check out the full lineup and get tickets right now at crookedcon.com. We'd love to see you there. That's crookedcon.com. All right, let's get to the news. Two weeks to go until election day. That's less than three Zacharias.

And Republicans are just hoping that Donald Trump can give their candidates another week that's as focused and helpful as last week, where the White House message calendar included firing their ambassador to Greece over a corruption scandal, firing their new White House press secretary after five days over her inability to read out loud, canceling a live streamed execution, violating a judge's orders by cutting down a bunch of trees to renovate a public golf course, another wild corruption scandal involving two Trump advisors, the Kennedy Center, a Turkish billionaire in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the fact that the president seems to have switched sides again in the Russia-Ukraine War. But, it's a new week and on Monday morning, Trump was at the White House just hammering his affordability message.

SPEAKER_4 (3:37)

The prices are coming way down. I'm seeing down, down, down.

Big improvement from the previous administration. And if I might, that stone is so beautiful. See the cushions? Those beautiful yellow cushions? They're supposed to be a half an inch high. I said, how about four inches? Don't they feel nice? They don't make them in four inches. I had them specially made four inches for everything.

Jon Favreau (4:01)

You think four inches feels nice?

Jon Lovett (4:02)

Yeah, it's sort of a nice, you know, just a little bit of a little, just gives you a little bit of something, you know? Not more than you need. Certainly not as much as you could use.

Tommy Vietor (4:12)

It's akin to him salivating over the rock hard asses of other candidates he was seeing out on the road. We have rock hard ass, you don't need the four.

Jon Lovett (4:18)

He's tried to show some of those asses his four inches.

Tommy Vietor (4:21)

Hey, here we go.

Jon Favreau (4:23)

Look, if you think that the ass thing is just something that us libs make fun of here on our podcast, made the New York Times, the headline in the New York Times about Trump, just spend in the last couple of weeks, just talking about men's physical appearance. Finally made the gray lady.