Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 18 Days Kamala Harris goes on Fox News for a hostile interview on an unfriendly network and makes her starkest pledge yet to not be Joe Biden.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 19 days  Kamala Harris joins Charlemagne Tha God in Detroit to hold a national radio town hall and make a huge appeal to black voters, many of whom have been wavering in their support for Democrats.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 20 days  The normal minis are back! Donald Trump holds a town in PA that goes off the rails and Trump appears to be lost, in an alarming fashion.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 21 Days  A little break for the regularly scheduled mini episodes because Grant's out sick. This is the extended conversation with Mike Madrid from the episode from September 27th, "Trump and Harris in the Borderlands" comparing the immigration policies of Trump and Harris.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes...

Election Day Countdown: 22 Days  Kamala Harris releases her physical report while Trump has yet to release his. If he doesn't, he'd be the first candidate not to do that in 50 years. But the president's health is about more than just whether they take blood pressure medicine or have back pain. It's about what their health says about the rest of us.  Support the show Follow alon...

Election Day Countdown: 23 Days  JD Vance sits down with the New York Times and trots out a new line to avoid saying Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, this time with different, but just as dangerous implications   Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 24 days  This one is all about the almighty dollar. Who's got what, who's giving it and why is it so hard to know those things as the 2024 election looks like it's on pace to be the most expensive election ever.  Grant talks to Brian Boyle from American Promise, a non-partisan, non-profit group looking to put guard rails back on campaign spending to make elec...

Election Day Countdown: 25 days  Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida, killing 9 people so far and stranding thousands of others. While rescue and recovery efforts are happening there and across the US Southeast, the conspiracy that the US Government created the hurricanes is still swirling. Let's do a little more debunking.   Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @Grant...

Election Day Countdown: 26 Days Bombshell stories are out about Trump this week. One abotu his declining mental abilities and what that might mean if he becomes the oldest president in history. The other is a few stories from Bob Woodward's new book about how Trump deals with foreign leaders, including secretly giving Vladimir Putin COVID tests when Americans needed them most.  Support the sh...

Election Day Countdown: 28 Days Lies and misinformation have been running rampant surrounding the rescue and recovery work being done in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Let's do some debunking.  HELENE AID Florida: https://www.volunteerflorida.org/donatefdf/ Georgia: https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/hurricane-helene/ https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/hurricane-helene/ North Carolina:...

Election Day Countdown: 28 days Kamala Harris kicks off a two day whirlwind of media appearances and interviews including Call Her Daddy, Howard Stern, The View, The Late Show, Univision and 60 minutes. It's a blend of traditional media and and not so traditional that are all signals to where the campaign is focusing its attention with less than a month to go.  Support the show Follow along o...

Election Day Countdown: 29 Days.  Trump returns to Butler, PA to the same place where he was nearly killed by a shooter back in July. He struggled to find the right tone and then picked up right where he left off. He was also joined on stage by Elon Musk, who made his first appearance on the campaign trail.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta...

Election Day Countdown: 30 Days With just a month to got before election day it's time for a breakdown of where the polling is, where voters are, where the money is and where it's going. Plus a couple of curveballs that could be headed the candidates' ways in the next 4 weeks.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes...

Election Day Countdown: 31 Days  For months election workers and officials have been worried about attempts to undermine the 2024 election from Donald Trump, the GOP, their supporters and foreign actors. Trump and Republicans have continued to sew doubt and fight in courts while foreign adversaries target the campaigns. On the local level, thousands of election workers have called it quits after 2...

Election Day Countdown: 32 Days  Jack Smith is allowed to unseal his latest version of the January 6th/2020 Election case against Trump and it's shocking.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 33 Days Tim Walz and JD Vance met on the debate stage last night. JD Vance was a very different kind of candidate than we've seen before and Walz was a bundle of nerves. So how did it all shake out... Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 34 Days JD Vance and Tim Walz meet on the debate stage tonight in what looks like the last debate the campaigns will have before election day. There will no doubt be some fireworks between the two as they fight over the other's record, their pasts and the future they're promising. It will also be a display of two vastly different kinds of masculinity which is impo...

Election Day Countdown: 35 Days Dockworkers up and down the East Coast and Gulf Coast are preparing to strike which after negotiations have stalled for months. The strike would mean billions of dollars in shipping lost and could mean weeks of backlogged goods. It would also impact the race for the presidency in a big way, just weeks before voters head to the polls. Support the show Follow along on...

Election Day Countdown: 36 Days After hurricane Helene the storm has killed dozens, stranded thousands and cost billions of dollars in damage. But as it was bearing down on the gulf coast, Congress removed funding for disaster relief from its bill to keep the government open, failing millions of Americans. HELENE AID Florida: https://www.volunteerflorida.org/donatefdf/ Georgia: https://www.directr...

Election Day Countdown: 37 Days  Kamala Harris visits the US Southern border in the swing state of Arizona and gives a speech that has the potential to upend the race and how Americans understand politics.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 39 Days While Kamala Harris is visiting the border to talk immigration, Grant breaks down what both candidates are proposing to do on immgration and border security.  Plus, an interview about winning over Latino voters with Mike Madrid, Co-founder of the Lincoln Project and author of the new book The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democr...

Election Day Countdown: 39 Days Kamala Harris reframes her economic proposals and sits down for her first network interview.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant__Hermes Tiktok: Grant_Hermes

Election Day Countdown: 40 Days  President Joe Biden gives his final address as president to the U.N. General Assembly where he focuses on peace, climate change and A.I. He talks about reaffirming support for Ukraine, holds back on Israel as things ramp up in the middle east and has a call to legacy for other world leaders.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @...

Election Day Countdown: 41 Days  Trump gets some of the best polling numbers he's seen in weeks in AZ, GA, and NC. A breakdown of what they mean and the state of the race in those states. Plus a little bit about how to and how not to understand polls and what we mean when we say paths to victory.  Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Gra...

Election Day Countdown: 42 Days  Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) says the House will be voting on a new bill to fund the government until December with just a week to go before a government shutdown in a close election. What could go wrong? SAVE ACT primer episodes Mims Mini 34 Mims Mini 29 Support the show Follow along on social media  SaySo: @GrantHermes   X: @GrantHermes Insta: @Grant_...