LARRY with Larry O'Connor

A new AARP poll of Michigan likely voters has the Senate race in a dead heat — Democrat Abdul El-Sayed at 48% and Republican Mike Rogers at 47%. Larry O'Connor sits down with AARP's John Hishta and pollster Bob Ward of Fabrizio Ward to break down the generational split driving it: Rogers up 9 points with voters 50-plus and 13 with seniors, El-Sayed up 14 with voters under 50. With voters over 50 projected to make up at least 59% of Michigan's midterm turnout — and a 15-point motivation gap in their favor — this race may come down to who actually shows up.

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Jill Biden has a brand new theory about what happened to Joe Biden on that debate stage, and podcaster Jamie Kern Lima handed it to her: maybe somebody laced his drink. It flatly contradicts what she said two months ago when she claimed she thought Joe was having a stroke, and it contradicts her own claim that she hadn't seen him for weeks. Larry O'Connor walks the entire June timeline she was standing right next to him for, then rolls the Obama Library footage of her leaving her dying husband alone on stage.

Chuck Schumer got asked about the DSA takeover of his party and called it a "big tent" — right before Western Lensman's side-by-side paired his praise for Abdul El-Sayed with El-Sayed's own threat to him. Then El-Sayed posted a clip of himself telling Detroit he learned what it means to be a person of color by reading Malcolm X, while Wayne County's black voters keep breaking toward Mike Rogers. Plus Florida's new Democrat Senate nominee Angie Nixon on Charlie Kirk, ICE, and why she says Republicans are "literally trying to kill us."

Karen Bass got so desperate for cash that she went on camera and revealed LA's dirty little secret: a "Super Match" program where the city turns your $5 donation into $35 — with taxpayer money. Fox News broke down how the match quietly went from 1-to-1 to 6-to-1 without voters ever approving it, while Nithya Raman got grilled over hiring the same firm that ran Graham Platner's collapsed Maine campaign. Plus a Michigan whistleblower says the state's software auto-registers non-citizens, and Ed Markey calls photo ID an impeachable offense.

Gavin Newsom was asked point blank in Detroit whether he'd make a good president — and he couldn't say yes. The California governor who's campaigning for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan then bragged about expanding taxpayer-funded health care "regardless of immigration status," while Don Beyer admitted on camera he didn't know Abigail Spanberger had already rescinded Glenn Youngkin's ICE cooperation order. Plus the UK's new nine-page behavioral guide for asylum seekers, which explains consent and child protection as things that might affect an asylum claim.

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Abdul El-Sayed went on a podcast and compared himself to Jesus Christ — and the reaction on camera says everything. Meanwhile, CNN's Boris Sanchez cornered the DSA co-chair over the group's praise for Fidel Castro by bringing up his own grandfather's 20-year sentence in a Castro prison, and MSNBC tried to hand Angie Nixon an escape hatch on socialism that she refused to take. Plus: El-Sayed's "I'm also African" answer on black voters, and the double standard Mike Rogers has to navigate in Michigan.

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Abdul El-Sayed went on a podcast and compared himself to Jesus Christ — and the reaction on camera says everything. Meanwhile, CNN's Boris Sanchez cornered the DSA co-chair over the group's praise for Fidel Castro by bringing up his own grandfather's 20-year sentence in a Castro prison, and MSNBC tried to hand Angie Nixon an escape hatch on socialism that she refused to take. Plus: El-Sayed's "I'm also African" answer on black voters, and the double standard Mike Rogers has to navigate in Michigan.

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CNN wasn't done with Jon Ossoff's smear of White House aide Natalie Harp, so Erin Burnett booked Harp's estranged brother Preston Harp as her primetime witness, a man whose only photos with his sister are from Disneyland roughly 25 years ago. Burnett prefaced her own big scoop with a line admitting he almost certainly knew nothing about it, then asked him to explain Secret Service protocols and why Donald Trump relies on his sister. Scott Jennings was the only voice on the network willing to ask what would happen if he read off the names of Ossoff's female staffers and speculated the same way.

Alexander Vindman raised $16 million with Chuck Schumer and the Democrat establishment behind him, outspent his opponent 13 to 1, and still lost the Florida Senate primary by nearly ten points to DSA socialist Angie Nixon, who didn't even raise a million dollars. Nixon has defended taking her own kids to drag shows and doubled down on abolishing prisons in a CNN interview while the anchor visibly reeled. Senator Ashley Moody tore up the speech she'd written for Vindman and went straight at the socialist nominee instead.

DSA New York City co-chair Gustavo Gordillo preaches anti-capitalism and demands rent freezes while living rent free in a $1.5 million Bed-Stuy rowhouse his parents bought through a shell company called Chuckie LLC. Martha MacCallum couldn't get a straight answer out of him on why landlords shouldn't earn double-digit returns. Plus Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's $72,000 county consulting contract, landed eight days after he resigned from the department he'd been running, with no record the Wayne County Commission ever approved it.

The poll showing Karen Bass up 12 points over Nithya Raman — and collecting 85% of Spencer Pratt's primary voters — was completely fake, and the firm behind it just admitted it was a social experiment. Nobody in the media caught it. Same story with James Talarico's lead over Ken Paxton.

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A 2020 Chris Cuomo CNN rant resurfaced after Adam Carolla posted it with three words — and it blew past 1.4 million views. Cuomo texted Carolla privately to complain, so Carolla took it public. Then there's the Joe Rogan ivermectin clip Cuomo dared them to play.

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Jon Ossoff used a scripted, movie-lit campaign speech to drag White House aide Natalie Harp's name into a Bluesky rumor — and CNN's Kristen Holmes instantly used it to ambush Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Then Ossoff refused to explain himself to Jen Psaki.

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Newly declassified FBI memos show the bureau had evidence Eric Swalwell took illegal donations from suspected Chinese spy Fang Fang — and Jake Tapper and Jim Sciutto never pressed him on it. Plus Todd Blanche shuts down Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, and Chuck Todd melts down over the answer.

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Kristen Welker asked Hakeem Jeffries five straight questions about the socialists taking over his party — Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, packing the court — and he wouldn't answer a single one. Plus Scott Jennings drops the drug pricing number Democrats can't touch.

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Gavin Newsom brought Gretchen Whitmer onto his podcast to relitigate Covid — and she bragged about slipping Donald Trump her phone number and landing Michigan a fighter mission. Plus Nancy Pelosi praised Newsom to a room full of Democrats and got zero applause.

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Joe Scarborough handed the mic to Chris Matthews, who went on MSNBC and told every Democrat in America they have to publicly renounce the DSA checklist — no ICE, no border, no prisons, no Pentagon — before Election Day. Good luck: Hakeem Jeffries and Kathy Hochul campaigned with Zohran Mamdani and Adam Schiff called him the future. Then CNN's Harry Enten pulled up the Fox News poll showing Mike Rogers up four in Michigan with Abdul El-Sayed 13 points underwater — the first Democrat down that far in a Michigan Senate poll since 1994 — and El-Sayed's newest surrogate is his sister, who posted a "see you on the streets" video right after October 7th.

Peggy Flanagan is Tim Walz's lieutenant governor and the Democrats' new Senate nominee in Minnesota — and in her first round of national interviews she threw Walz straight under the bus over the fraud scandal, saying "the buck stops with him" and "more should have been done sooner." She was then asked twice whether there should be any age limit on gender-affirming care for a ten-year-old, refused to answer, dodged whether she wants to abolish ICE, and attacked the Laken Riley Act. Her first big fundraising email claimed no Native woman has ever served in the Senate, which is news to Elizabeth Warren, and Scott Jennings summed the whole thing up on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip.

Hakeem Jeffries was asked point-blank about the Democratic Socialists of America on the midterm ballot — and his answer boiled down to "just win, baby." Then Wisconsin's new Democrat nominee David Crowley went on CNN with Kaitlan Collins, refused to be called the man who stopped progressive momentum, dodged the gas tax question twice, and told America his sister-in-law makes the best Thanksgiving "chicken dressing." Francesca Hong lost the primary over Thanksgiving, and the photos from her victory party that never happened are something else.

AARP's John Hishta joins Larry O'Connor to explain the 2032 Social Security cliff — the year benefits get slashed 22% across the board if Congress doesn't act. Hishta also reveals how many Americans over 50 still haven't opened their SSA.gov account, what this October's cost-of-living increase is expected to be, and the one phone call that fixes most Social Security problems. Everything you need to know about your benefits, your work history, and when to claim.

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