🚨 Election sale! 🚨
Well, we are (almost) there.
One thing I will say for everyone with November 5 circled on your calendar: It is an end but not, I think, the end.
The 2020 election, which Joe Biden won by almost 8 million votes, wasn’t called for four days.
This election, if polls are to be believed, is significantly closer than that one. And Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he will aggressively contest — publicly and legally — any swing state where he doesn’t win.
Add it up and I think we could be looking at 5-7 days before we know the identity of the next president. Maybe I will be wrong — which would be a good thing for our democracy. (The more time before a winner is called, the more Trump will attempt to cast the delays as evidence the election is being stolen from him.)
And, even after we have a winner, the fight over What It All Means and Where We Go From Here will continue to rage for months.
Which is why, from now until Monday at midnight, I am holding a sale on paid subscriptions to “So What”!!!!
Act now and you get 20% off of both monthly and annual subscriptions — making a subscription just $5 a month or $50 a year!
What does a paid subscription get you? In addition to access to ALL of my content you get:
My full, 40-minute weekly conversation with NBC News’ Chuck Todd
A 15-minute, one-on-one Zoom call with me. One on one. Me and you. No topics off limits!
Exclusive access to my post-election podcast “Name Your Mount Rushmore.” Every week we will pick a subject — candy, political slogans, ‘80s hair-metal bands — and debate who makes our personal Mount Rushmore in that category. Podcast is coming soon!
An exclusive Sunday email with a list of recommendations from yours truly — a podcast, an article, a YouTube video, a Substack, a song, a book, a TV show — that I think you will dig.
I promise you this: I will make it worth your while. I will make sure you are not just caught up on the seismic changes seizing our politics (and our country) but you know what’s coming next — and why.
I also pledge to always be authentic, transparent and honest. I don’t have an agenda — other than to get it right. I am not an advocate. I am a nonpartisan and independent journalist. And we need those two traits now more than ever in journalism.
If you want to support my efforts, now is the time to become a paid subscriber. The next week is going to be crazy. But, it won’t end there. I am in this for the long haul. I hope I can count on your support.
Chris,
I greatly enjoyed the so what clips you used to do for cnn, missed you when you were let go, and was happy to subscribe to your newsletter/substack/whatever when it popped up. To be clear, I was doing searches for you by name.
After being a subscriber for a while now, I seem to receive sales pitches all the time - NOT what I signed up for, they make you seem needy, and cheapen the brand, quite frankly.
Perhaps I’m on the wrong list? Or perhaps you need to have a separate send list, without the non-stop subscribe pleadings….
i keep hoping you will have a "founding member" (or 'floundering' member, whichever works) LIFETIME offer......