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You've got a great show for you, can I Kamala Harris drops her medical records, Donald Trump throws a one man dance party, and Lewis Black tells undecided voters where they can shove their ballots. So let's get right into it with another installment of Indecision four. With the election in just three weeks from today, the latest polls are as close as they can possibly be without touching, which makes it just that much hotter.

And the candidates are doing everything they can to gain an advantage.

Kamala Harris just taunted Donald Trump by releasing her medical records, and then Trump tried to turn those records against her.

According to your doctor's report, she suffers from urticaria to find as a rash of round red welts on the skin that it'ch intensely, sometimes with dangerous swelling. She also has allergic rhinitis and allergic conjunctividis a very messy and dangerous situation. These are deeply serious conditions that clearly impact her functioning.

Oh my god, she has allergic rhinitis and conjunctivitis. The medical term for hay fever is they're a priest on call.

She doesn't have long That is how healthy Kamala Harris is.

Donald Trump is reduced to calling her allergies a very messy and dangerous situation. Although, in fairness to Trump, in this case a woman, it's a woman sneezing, so that makes it more disgusting.

A sneeze is the period of the face. Now we.

Now we all know Donald Trump suffers from epidermal fragility, but we don't know anything more because he's never released his medical records. Perhaps one of his minions could explain why that's not a problem.

I saw that Kamala Harris issued her medical records. Congratulations. Donald Trump's health is on display for the entire country every hour of every day. He has more stamina and mental acumen and strength than any political figure probably in the history of the country that I can remember.

I'm sorry, Donald Trump has more strength stamina than any politician in history.

I'd put one hundred bucks on Jimmy Carter taking Trump in a push up concept to day to day. I don't know.

Maybe no.

Riz Harry Potter over here has a point. Trump doesn't need to release his medical records because his health is on full display every day. So let's see him whip out that mental acumen and wag it all around this weekend.

We also, we have many Azuasians in our room. We have some incredible people in our room as Easians.

I can't believe Trump is inventing new races. He doesn't even like the old ones.

Man.

This is just what we needed. Another chance for Ronnie Chang to be in a movie.

Guys in everything, everything.

But obviously I don't want to hinge Trump's mental health on one word at a rally.

He also did a town hall last night, one of the most notable.

And honestly strange stretches of the campaign. We have seen a Trump town hall that essentially just stopped in the middle.

With him playing music and dancing on stage.

She had only taken about four questions of what was supposed to be a town hall, and instead it was just him on stage, requesting various songs to be played and dancing for over half an.

Hour, dude, d.

I literally have no idea what just happened. I don't know if he's on edibles or if I'm on edibles. I'm just kidding. I know I'm on edibles. But let me just take a few minutes to walk you through this town hall, because, trust me, it's worth it. Trump was doing a town hall with puppy shooter Christy Nome

They're both okay, Yes, they're both.

They're both in good shit.

That's wonderful.

Would anybody else like to faint?

Anyone else want to pull focus with their medical emergency?

Get it out of the way.

Calm down, Donald, No one was trying to fake trust me. No one wants to have a meal episode in front of Christy. No, she's just looking for an excuse to take you to the gravel pit. She cocked her shotgun when she heard Kamala had allergies, but while the staff was attending to the situation, Trump decided to play some music to keep up morale. And this guy, this guy really knows what the people want.

So we had a beautiful evening and I don't know if they could get this song up quickly, but if they could play Ave Maria, if you can get it justin, let's go if you can.

It's so beautiful. Arrh, listen to the We have nice music with together, not bad.

Yes, not bad.

Thank you, mister president, Thank you everybody very much.

Wow Ave Maria?

Huh?

You sure you don't want to get the crowd hyped with some Gregorian chants instead? All right, trumming up the crowd, easing them into it. Then you hit him with the banger, a different version of the same song.

If my guys can hear me, let's listen to Pavarotti sing Ave Maria. Can you hear that?

They gave me the.

Ave Maria with no voice?

Put on Pavotti singing Ave Maria, nice and loud.

Turn it up louder. We want a little action here, Turn it up louder.

Trump is just laving it up. Why does Trump know so much about Ave Maria? Was it used in a mc donald's commercial and he really loves that song, Who's gonna tell him it's about a virgin?

And look at poor Christy Nome.

I gotta say, I gotta say, this is the most I've ever related to her, because we have all been in a situation where a guy man explains his Spotify playlist to you.

So that was the Pavarotti version.

Now let me play you a live version Fish did at Red Rocks. Then poor Christy tries to get things back on track so she can ask more questions, but Trump was just in full DJ mode.

Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into her for music. Who the hell wants to hear questions?

Right?

I love how everyone's always criticizing Kamala for not being specific with her policies. Meanwhile Trump's like, no questions, no talking, We're just gonna vibe for a while, just gonna let my body do the talk. And if you're wondering after forty minutes of this, did they ever actually get back to answering questions?

Almost?

So this has been an honor tonight.

We could do another question or two if you'd like, but probably do.

You want to do one? Do you want to let's go, let's go.

You know it's but it ends so beautifully.

How about this, We'll play YMCA and we'll go home.

Probably a good idea to shut down questions, since I'm pretty sure the next one would have been Heiser, what the fuck is going on?

For more on the.

State of this race, Let's turn to The Daily Show Election Center with Michael Costa. Michael, how can Trump be acting this unhinged and not be dropping in all the polls?

It's simple. It's what we in the polling business call the scary to funny ratio. You see, everyone can tell that Trump is clearly losing his mind, which can be scary, but as long as HiT's more funny than scary, then it's fine. For example, last week, Trump lied about FEMA's hurricane response, and now armed men are trying to murder FEMA workers, terrifying. But he also jerk off dance to Ave Maria for forty minutes, which is pretty funny, so it balances out all the murder.

No, that shouldn't balance out.

He also threatened to shut down the entire entire news outlets if he gets elected.

Yeah, yeah, and that's so scary, right He wants to ban networks like ABC, but then he called that reporter George Slopedopolis, which is hilarious, So maybe we should ban ABC. See the ratio works.

How can voters think like that something can be funny and scary at the same time.

Well, actually, no, voters can only handle one feeling at a time. We're simple creatures. It's like when I saw baboons at the zoo this weekend. Man, they're scary, but then you see that their butts are red, and that is so funny.

So Trump just gets away with all this.

Oh no, no, it works for Biden too. Remember for a while it seemed like he was cognitively impaired, which is super scary for a president, right, but then he fell off a bike, and not even a moving bike, a parked bike, and that is undeniably hilarious. So we let them keep the nuclear codes. Maybe he'll nuke that bike, right, it's just fun. But then at the debate, Biden stopped being funny and that threw off the ratio, and that's when it got scary.

Okay, okay, so what if Kamala Harris told a few jokes.

No, the ratio doesn't work for women. The voters. Voters won't accept that.

Yuck.

Okay, But last week Trump threatened to use the military against Americans, calling them the enemy within. I mean, surely that's only scary.

Yes, in our model here showed that that made him lose the swing states and then lose the election. But then he said the word azure Asians. So the model now shows Trump winning the election by nine hundred electoral votes.

No, no, all is crazy, Costa.

It is crazy, but in a funny way. I mean, look, I put Greenland in it. That's so funny.

I mean, yeah, that is kind of funny.

Right, It's like, how did it get there? Anyway, I gotta go to the hospital and get my MPAX vaccine. I got. I got bitten by a baboon at the zoo.

So, oh my god, Michael, that's so scary.

It is scary until I saw my big red button.

You're right, that's hilarious. Michael.

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Falls through the crack, Wi Black catches it for a segment we call back in Black.

I hope you've all registered to vote because like Matt Gates in a high school dance, the election is ominously approaching. I for one, I for one am excited. With twenty one days to go.

We still have no idea who the puck is gonna win.

And that's all thanks to one berry special group of morons.

With twenty one days until election days, the race of the White House, it is getting tighter, and the candidates are putting a laser focus on undecided voters.

Undecided voters in battleground states could decide at all.

That small sliver of undecided voters they're gonna make or break this election.

Oh yes, undecided voters, the same people you see at the ice cream shop asking for twelve mini spoon samples. It's a three dollars cone, asshole? How is anyone still undecided in this election? At this point, choosing a candidate.

Should be easy.

Look, it's like a lube salesman deciding if he should swing by.

P Diddy's house.

He has all the information he needs, But after almost two years of campaigning, this election still comes down to winning over a few dozen Pennsylvanians with carbon monoxide poisoning.

Now, don't get me wrong.

Maybe these undecided voters aren't stupid.

Maybe they have a good reason for being idiots.

Has anyone asked them what the hang up is?

I just haven't.

I haven't seen enough of it yet. I need to pick closer attention and kind of do more independent research.

I just need to do my own research.

Have to do more research.

Oh good god, they all have the same hair.

Go ahead, do your own research.

Hopefully the library will let you huff paint inside.

What are you researching exactly?

We've known these candidates forever, one of them who spent the past four years as vice president and the other who's spent the past forty years as the worst person in America? What is left for you to learn about them? How they load a dishwasher. But I still have hope that some of you undecided voters will eventually make a choice.

Something has to force your hand.

We've just learned that Taylor Swift hasn'dors Kamala Harris. Okay, well, then will you vote for Kamala Harris because of Taylor Swift's endorsement? Anybody you would? Yeah, Julian ewit, I'll.

Have a musician, I mean, yeah, you're a musician.

You have to.

I'm gonna send it back to you guys in the CEO.

Well, even the reporter is like, can I please go cover a mass shooting?

This is depressing.

Forget the economy or abortion or immigration. He wants to vote with his fellow musicians. Don't tell him about kid Rock or his head will explode and there'll be nothing everywhere. I for one, am grateful for all these focused groups of undecided voters. They give us insight into the complex minds of America's most powerful people.

Oh, it is very important that we have expertise when making these decisions and policy right, and so him bringing the specifics to say that we need the expertise making these decisions. I believe that was very important.

Huh.

See, even that vampire magician agrees expertise matters, and he should know. He's voted in the last thousand elections.

And for his.

Final trick, he made my hope for gen Z disappear. But the good news is we don't have to listen to these idiots at all, because there's still another option.

I don't know, it still could change. There's still some time left. You never know.

Ope, So if I don't have a decision, yeah, I probably just won't vote.

Finally, someone talking sense.

I'm tired of my vote being canceled out by someone who's IQ's score only makes sense in Celsius. So for all you undecided voters, I have a special message.

Hi.

I'm Lewis Black, beloved comedian really and the only Daily Show employee who works less than John Stewart. I want to talk to you today about democracy. It's a big responsibility, a sacred right, and maybe not for everyone because if you're waiting for a Kardashian to tell you who to vote for, go.

Ahead and sit this one out.

Sure people have fought and died for your right to vote, but when those guys were lifting the flag over Iwujima, they weren't saying, come on, fellas, let's do this so someday a guy can fill out a.

Ballot so the make the shape of a penis.

If you are undecided come election day, do the right thing. Don't get out the vote, set out the vote, and just focus on picking out that ice cream. Might I recommend Rocky road Yum does the.

Block everyone well.

My guest Life is a voting right activist, host of Assembly Required, and best selling author whose latest children's book is called Stacy Speaks Up. Please welcome Stacy Abram.

Fine, what pleasure it is to have you on. I am so happy that you're here.

Thank you for having me.

Of course, of course, my pleasure, our pleasure. You are nearly a powerful force in Georgia politics. You had two historic runs. You're a large part for why Georgia flipped blue in twenty twenty. It feels like there's so much progress that's being made, and yet here we are again coming up on election on the election, and it's mandated that ballots must be hand counted in Georgia.

Is it as up as it sounds?

Yes, So let's great.

Well that's all the time we have.

Okay, So I've got two bits of good ish kind of news.

Okay.

So number one, so when they say hand count, what they mean is count the ballots, not the votes. So they're physically requiring each precinct to physically count each ballot. We've got about five and a half million voters.

Oh, is that all?

Yeah?

And so it's going to take some time. So the intend is to create chaos in the system. So when people hear, oh, well, why shouldn't you hand count the vote. They're not counting the vote, they're counting the physical ballots. But today Robert McBurney, one of the judges, he ruled that this was an ethical and irresponsible and that they

Are not too happy about.

And so what we need to watch is not what they're doing, but what we do about it. We can't get sucked into the mailstream of crazy. We've got to go around the mailstrom to the ballot box and have so many of us turn in our ballots that it doesn't really matter. We're still fight the fight, but we cannot let them convince us not to get out.

Okay, you've been very focused on voter suppression, and you define voter suppression as when as state or state actors interfere with the three parts of voting.

Can you walk us through that a little bit?

I can, and thank you for remembering.

I did my homework.

You're good.

So it's can you register and stay on the rolls? So can you register? And then can they take you off? So can you register and stay on the roles is? One second is can you cast your ballot? Do they have hoops and hurdles and id requirements that can't possibly me met or that are really difficult to meet? And

And this isn't just.

You're working on this, not only in Georgia, this is obviously happening on a national level. What advice would you give voters at this point?

What can be done?

How can voters be sure that their vote is counted?

First show up?

And it sounds it sounds easy, but too often the reason they put these hurdles in place is to convince us it's not worth it. The ministerial and administrative process becomes so complicated that just not voting seems like an easier choice than showing up.

And we can't let them do this. It's the nature.

It's like letting the d convince you not to get your license because you have to stand in line for a really, really long time.

Don't let them win, don't let the bad guys get you. So show up. But the other pieces don't vote alone.

Too often we think of voting as a personal issue, but we are part of a system. We're part of a democracy. We need to take people with us, and we need to explain what we've learned. We need to tell people here's why your vote matters. Because so many people think, well, my vote won't count. Yes, Georgia was decided by fewer than twelve thousand votes in a state of eleven million people.

It counts. It counts more than you can imagine.

Please God, vote, not vote.

I do want to talk about your book, Congratulations. This is such a beautiful children's book. Stacy speaks up. I read this to my son the other night. He was riveted. It's so inspiring. Why focus on a children's book? Have you given up on adults?

Look?

I believe in doing what I can, but starting as early as possible. So yes, I've got legal thrillers, but I kill a lot of people in those books.

So I go back.

Early and try to get the ones young so they can fix the stuff we're about to break.

Yes, Oh, great tactic. Great tactic.

The story is about a young Stacy who discovers that a friend of hers can't afford to buy lunch, and she decides to do something about it, speak up. And it's really like this beautiful, grassroots inspiring story of how children can get involved at even an early age.

What inspired you to write this?

I wanted to tell a story about advocacy and empathy. Empathy, how do you feel the pain of someone else? And then advocacy what do you do about it? But center it around and experience. It is universal to childhood, which is school lunch. But it's also because I live in a state that is refusing to offer summer lunches, refusing federal dollars. And it's not the only state, but Georgia's governor has refuse to accept taxpayer dollars that have already

I love this idea by anyway, thank you.

It's a childhood dream manifest in this book. Same but giving kids the sense that they too have the capacity. They're seeing a lot of dangerous things, They're seeing a

Thank you so much, Thank you for all of the work that you do every day. I am so grateful for all that you do. Thank you, and go out and get this book. It is so sweet. Stacy speaks up. It's available now, Stacy abrams everyone.

Everything.

Hey, Frank, we'll be right back after then.

That those jokes, but tonight.

Now here Now your moment of.

We're gonna go, we're gonna vote, we're gonna have a good time, we're gonna make our country get this is gonna be. I want this to be a really important evening. And those two people that went down our patriots and we love them. Yeah, because of them, we ended up with some good music, right right.

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