Rachel Maddow's lesbian quip had an entire MSNBC panel cackling

The other hosts erupted in laughter, with Wallace joking in response, "We're done, that's a wrap," and Joy Reid adding, "Best line of the night. No one's topping that."

The panel then returned to the topic of the Selzer poll, which has become a beacon among other polls showing a deadlocked race between Trump and Harris. In an interview with Selzer the same night, Maddow referred to the researcher as "a gold standard pollster who appears to be unaffected by larger dynamics that are making everybody whine about the polls," noting that her polls are known for their "uncanny predictive accuracy."

"If this is accurate — and if anybody is accurate, it's likely to be Ann Selzer and the Iowa poll — this implies that Harris might be winning Iowa," Maddow explained, though she noted that the implications of a conservative state seemingly shifting left could have bigger implications in other areas, such as swing states.

"The poll's internal numbers show dynamics in terms of women voters, particularly older women voters, that — again, if they hold — could have major implications beyond Iowa," she said, adding, "We have a very different race on our hands than we thought we did. If that dynamic is really happening in Iowa, there's no reason to think it might not be happening in other states as well."