Hey, everybody, Welcome back to a late show.

Let's say hello to Gian Battista.

Hello, John.

Hello, Stephen.

What's the word?

What's the word?

The word is I'm really looking forward to hearing you and Elvis Costello performed tonight.

Man.

He had incredible songwriter and I had a great time working with him.

He he is a genius.

And he had some very nice things to say about you when we talked earlier.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, Yeah, he glowed.

He glowed.

John, you know what?

I'm also excited about Tuesday, We're live on Showtime.

We're gonna take the whole caravan and drive it over to pay cable for one night because I think Nora's gonna be sitting in this chair, right?

Is that what's going on?

Yeah.

So it's it's gonna be It's gonna be great.

And, uh, John, are you prepared for any eventuality?

Cause we gotta steal ourselves.

We were too raw.

We were raw nerve in 2016.

That was a lot.

That was It was a lot to process.

That was a big old meal of gravel and and tar.

Yeah, Yeah, we we we have to prepare our spirit, but I think we're on the right track.

So, you know, we just go into it and believe in the people.

That's right.

Do you have any believe in the people music for us?

Oh, my goodness, I would play this other thing, but we'd have to pay for it.

Gian Battista!

Ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you, John.

Yeah, come tomorrow, folks.

Trump has trailed in the polls pretty much since he was elected, but the GOP has a plan to get Mawr.

Trump votes have fewer voters.

They've been doing everything they can to make it hard for Americans to vote during the pandemic.

For example, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, seen here trying to make out over Zoom Abbott, recently issued a ruling that limited election drop boxes to one per county.

Texas is big and in heavily Democratic Harris County.

That essentially means one ballot box for 4.7 million people.

But I'm sure it all stay very orderly as long as voters remember to take a number.

And that's just one state's voter suppression plan.

In 36 states, including Georgia, voters are expected to show photo idea in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Republicans are fighting to restrict mail in votes in Mississippi absentee ballot envelopes must be stamped and signed by a notary public and in Alabama to cast a ballot, black people have to pull the sword from the voting stone.

This is a coordinated effort to stop people from voting all over the country.

The Washington Post released a Siris of videos of closed door conservative machinations in which one speaker told the group, This is a spiritual battle we are in.

This is good versus evil.

We have to do everything we can to win.

And another said, Be not afraid of the accusations that you're a voter suppressor.

You're a racist and so forth.

Yes, be not afraid.

Clearly, a biblical quote from the Book of Deuteronomy.

So is voter suppression just part of the game, or is it inherently evil here to explain the GOP's position?

Is Republican election strategist, Fox News contributor and founding partner of Judicial Watch?

Cobra Commander, Thank you for being here, Mr Commander.

Thanks for having me, Steven.

Hope you and your family are staying safe.

Thank you.

I'm glad to see you're also wearing a mask.

Of course, Donald Trump is a super spreader.

He's Cobra's most powerful biological weapon, perhaps if we dropped him in Houston's water supply.

Focus.

Sorry.

So how do you respond to critics who say the GOP selection strategy is to suppress as many votes as you can?

Stephen, I'm hurt.

My colleagues and I believe every American has the fundamental right to vote as long as they could present to forms of photo ID, a recent utility bill and a video of their last colonoscopy.

Bernie Sanders could be hiding up there.

Okay, but don't restrictions like photo I d unfairly targets certain groups of voters.

No, we're merely trying to prevent voter fraud.

Every study has shown that there is no voter fraud.

See, it's working because the best way to prevent votes of fraud is to skip the fraud and just prevent voter.

Ooh, what if we put up signs directing them to a polling place, which in fact lead them to the edge of a pit full of cyber scorpions who are trained in the art?

Mr.

Commander, stay with may stay with May.

If you're just trying to protect the vote, then how do you defend Senator Mike Leigh's tweet?

Who said democracy isn't the objective?

We want the human condition to flourish.

Ranked democracy can thwart that.

Behold by death.

Ray.

What does that have to do with anything?

Nothing.

Just trying to change the subject that might lead.

Guy sounds like a cartoon super villain.

I mean, I want to crush the will of the people under my boot, but I'm not a jerk about it.

Cobra Commander.

Everybody, we'll be right back with South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison, Mr Commander.