Badlands Daily: 11/2/26 - Palm Beach Learjet Crash, Secret Ballot & Decoy Dan

Badlands Daily for Monday, November 2, the day before the midterms. The show opens on the weekend Learjet crash in Palm Beach County. It plays the air traffic control audio as the pilots of N722BD report ice and turbulence before declaring an emergency, and walks through the dash cam stills, the flight path and the plane's past trips near Mar-a-Lago. Next comes a run of election-integrity stories: DOJ prosecutions of non-citizen voters, USCIS flagging tens of thousands of suspected foreign voters, the SAVE system, and the DOJ warning election officials that they can face jail for destroying records. The host makes a long case that the secret ballot should go. Then a judge throws out the Trump administration's Alaska suit over the second Dan Sullivan, nicknamed Decoy Dan; Kris Kobach sends a cease and desist in Kansas; and Jim Himes blames Elon Musk in advance for unrest. The show closes on Haley Stevens endorsing Mike Rogers, Trump calling Rogers "apple pie" in Iowa, and the Polk County sheriff's sting arrests.