Rise and shine fever dreamers. Look alive, my friends. I'm V. Spear. And I'm Sammy Sage. And this is American

Fever Dream, presented by Betches News, where we explore the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely

American experience. Happy Election Day, everybody. Happy Election Tuesday. We made it. It's the day of the show, y'all.

It's the day. You know what my favorite part of election season is that I forget until the next one comes up?

It's that we get to be with our perennial faves. Like each state kind of has their own election season gems

and you, they reemerge around the vote counting days. You know, you have Ben Wickler in Wisconsin,

John Rawson in Nevada, Stacey Abrams in Georgia, Ann Selzer in Iowa, who we're going to talk about extensively

today. I have much to say. And a new person this year is Anderson Clayton. A rising,

the breakout perennial faith. Anderson Clayton in North Carolina, 26 years old and an already

iconic. She's a legend. She. I got to watch her in person.

You know how we talk about like there's, when we think of code switching, sometimes we think

of people who are like more gay and then they're less gay sounding in front of straight

people or like black folks who have to code switch, you know, for whatever reasons.

Anderson Clayton can code switch from Hillbilly to Ivy League in a way that you've never seen

because she's got to talk to all of North Carolina.

So when we were outdoor knocking, she could go from Appalachian to Duke in like a split second.

She knows all.

What's her background?

She's just from North Carolina.

I mean, she's...

That could be so many things.

Well, I'm pretty sure that she went

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