WEBVTT - ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE (HOUR 2) 0:00:00.540 --> 0:00:02.550 You're listening to KFI AM 640 On Demand. 0:00:07.810 --> 0:00:09.350 Live from Los Angeles. 0:00:09.530 --> 0:00:11.910 I think you have a lot of people that are disgruntled. 0:00:11.950 --> 0:00:16.820 There are powerful forces aligned to darken our life. This state, 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.419 how desperately is it changing? 0:00:18.660 --> 0:00:23.640 Votes and tallies, propositions, candidates, unique positions. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.180 Which precincts are now reporting? 0:00:26.260 --> 0:00:28.820 Election night is never boring. 0:00:28.980 --> 0:00:30.160 On the air. 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:31.140 AM 640. 0:00:31.140 --> 0:00:32.450 On the air. 0:00:32.510 --> 0:00:35.330 Make us a preset on the free iHeartRadio. 0:00:35.350 --> 0:00:36.170 Preset pad. 0:00:36.250 --> 0:00:37.410 No dirty back. 0:00:39.610 --> 0:00:43.040 This is KFR Election Night. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.860 And now your hosts, Gary Hoffman and Shannon Farrell. 0:00:49.570 --> 0:00:51.690 Could be getting a preview of the next two years 0:00:51.750 --> 0:00:55.690 already in Pennsylvania. It's KFI election night here, Gary and Shannon. 0:00:55.770 --> 0:00:59.130 Josh Shapiro has just given his victory speech. And as 0:00:59.170 --> 0:01:02.440 we've talked about all week long, really, the campaign for 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.700 president 2028 begins tonight officially. And he took to the 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.880 stage tonight. And you got a precursor of what you're 0:01:09.900 --> 0:01:12.100 going to hear from Josh Shapiro in the next two years. 0:01:12.540 --> 0:01:15.160 He appeared on stage. Tom Petty's I won't back down. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.500 His opening remarks were, it's been 250 years since Americans 0:01:19.540 --> 0:01:23.280 declared their independence from a king, and so on and 0:01:23.380 --> 0:01:24.970 so forth. 0:01:25.050 --> 0:01:29.190 Polls just closed a short time ago. Montana, Nevada, Utah. 0:01:29.230 --> 0:01:32.630 Some polls actually closed in the eastern portions of Idaho 0:01:32.650 --> 0:01:35.810 and Oregon, but that's getting specific. The things to watch 0:01:35.990 --> 0:01:37.910 this hour that we'll keep our eyes on when we 0:01:37.950 --> 0:01:40.139 start to see some of these rolling totals coming in. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.589 The House races in Montana, Nevada, and Utah. Congressional and 0:01:44.650 --> 0:01:49.020 governor's races in Arizona. The polls actually closed at six 0:01:49.060 --> 0:01:52.120 in Arizona, but they hold their results until this hour. 0:01:52.190 --> 0:01:53.780 So we'll start to see some of those come out. 0:01:53.890 --> 0:01:57.150 So, yeah, in the Senate, where Republicans do right now 0:01:57.210 --> 0:02:00.290 have a majority, as we mentioned, Democrats need a net 0:02:00.330 --> 0:02:02.790 gain of four seats to take control. Now, the seven 0:02:02.850 --> 0:02:06.650 competitive races that could decide the balance are almost all 0:02:06.730 --> 0:02:09.910 in states that Donald Trump won in 2024. And that 0:02:09.990 --> 0:02:12.310 is why he had such a packed travel schedule yesterday. 0:02:12.530 --> 0:02:16.940 heading into tonight to try and sew up victories in 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.519 those places. Sacramento we want to go to now where 0:02:21.580 --> 0:02:24.040 it seems like a victory is all but sewn up 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:25.740 there for Javier Becerra. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.700 Delaney Joyce is joining us now with the latest on 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.600 Javier Becerra's watch party for this evening. 0:02:31.620 --> 0:02:32.600 Delaney, how's it going? 0:02:34.230 --> 0:02:36.790 It's going great over here. I'm currently at the Sarah's 0:02:36.870 --> 0:02:39.950 election night event here in Sacramento. The man of the 0:02:39.990 --> 0:02:42.550 hour has not arrived yet, but speakers are set to 0:02:42.590 --> 0:02:44.320 begin in a little less than 30 minutes. 0:02:44.380 --> 0:02:44.800 I'm told. 0:02:45.740 --> 0:02:48.720 Are there any other big name Democrats that are going 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:52.739 to show up there that you're anticipating being there, being 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.910 it in Sacramento? Any big names? 0:02:56.590 --> 0:02:58.510 We've heard some rumors, but I know that there's a 0:02:58.530 --> 0:03:01.090 few different watch parties happening tonight. Some people are saying 0:03:01.110 --> 0:03:03.850 there's a potential Newsom could show up, but we haven't 0:03:03.870 --> 0:03:07.519 really gotten any major confirmations. It's been pretty quiet. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.260 Yeah, I was wondering because of that very thing on Saturday, 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.150 we saw them kind of make their final case for 0:03:15.190 --> 0:03:19.340 Javier Becerra being Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris. all appearing 0:03:19.380 --> 0:03:22.190 together at the Hollywood Palladium, was wondering if there might 0:03:22.270 --> 0:03:25.570 be another three-pronged event type of a thing at the 0:03:25.610 --> 0:03:28.190 victory party tonight, but I guess we'll just have to 0:03:28.230 --> 0:03:30.770 wait and see. I'm assuming that you'll be able to 0:03:31.350 --> 0:03:35.500 notice the high-profile nature of the security sweep should that 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.220 thing get kind of closer to reality. 0:03:38.910 --> 0:03:42.110 Yeah, the police have been out in full force. As press, 0:03:42.150 --> 0:03:43.910 we had to go through full security. We had a 0:03:43.930 --> 0:03:46.850 dog sniff all of our stuff. So they're definitely making 0:03:46.870 --> 0:03:49.550 sure that things are locked down over here. But music 0:03:49.610 --> 0:03:53.440 is playing. Fire pits are going. People are laughing, having fun, 0:03:53.500 --> 0:03:56.880 getting ready for the speakers to come out soon. So 0:03:56.980 --> 0:03:57.920 it's a good vibe over here. 0:03:58.020 --> 0:04:01.580 Delaney Joyce there at the Javier Becerra campaign headquarters or 0:04:01.740 --> 0:04:03.180 campaign watch party for tonight. 0:04:03.220 --> 0:04:08.560 Thank you, Delaney. The issues of polling... that we've talked about. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.000 Many times in terms of watching the polls, which polls 0:04:11.060 --> 0:04:13.460 are right. How do you determine, how do you define 0:04:13.700 --> 0:04:16.180 when a poll is right or not right? This is 0:04:16.260 --> 0:04:18.960 one of those where it doesn't matter. This is one 0:04:18.990 --> 0:04:22.029 of those races. At this point, most of the polls 0:04:22.270 --> 0:04:27.670 have Javier Becerra in double digits by 20 points. 27 0:04:27.670 --> 0:04:30.990 points was the latest LA Times Berkeley Institute of Government 0:04:31.029 --> 0:04:33.750 Studies poll that came through. And the real clear politics 0:04:33.850 --> 0:04:36.960 average has him at about 24 points. And As we 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:40.700 heard previous, he heard in the news, Steve Hilton told 0:04:40.860 --> 0:04:43.810 Heather Brooker basically that he knows the polls aren't great, 0:04:44.230 --> 0:04:46.430 but he likes the attitude. That's what he's got to say. 0:04:46.930 --> 0:04:50.030 And I don't know what his future is politically, if 0:04:50.050 --> 0:04:52.510 there is one for him, if he goes back to 0:04:52.770 --> 0:04:55.500 hosting a television show, if he becomes sort of an activist, 0:04:55.820 --> 0:04:58.740 I don't know. But this is one of those, this 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:03.120 is one of those races that is also, don't forget, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.300 It was not that long ago that Javier Becerra couldn't 0:05:07.420 --> 0:05:11.620 pull a hand sandwich. And I mean, even with mustard 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.450 and mayonnaise, he was getting zero support. He bumped himself 0:05:15.529 --> 0:05:18.110 up to somewhere between three and four percent. And it 0:05:18.190 --> 0:05:21.120 wasn't until Eric Swalwell dropped out of the Democratic primary 0:05:21.150 --> 0:05:24.799 for governor that that anybody paid Javier Becerra any attention. 0:05:24.820 --> 0:05:27.360 And then the entire party coalesced around him. Now, we 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.780 do know there is precedent in the Trump era for 0:05:29.860 --> 0:05:34.780 polls to overestimate Democrats. It is reasonable to wonder whether 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.900 the polls may be overestimating Democratic strength yet again. It's 0:05:38.940 --> 0:05:42.460 a real possibility. We do know that Trump supporters are 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:47.789 relatively unlikely to respond to polls, which introduces the risk 0:05:47.870 --> 0:05:52.590 of a misfire. So there are prediction markets you can 0:05:52.710 --> 0:05:55.730 keep an eye on. But in some of these battleground states, 0:05:55.750 --> 0:05:57.990 you really can't put too much credence in what the 0:05:58.029 --> 0:05:58.650 polls tell you. 0:05:58.750 --> 0:06:02.700 It's also important to remember, they cost money. Polls cost money. 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.599 That's why massive media companies like the LA Times, the 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.420 New York Times, ABC News, that's why they fund these 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.839 polling companies when they want to go through and try 0:06:12.860 --> 0:06:14.760 to come up with what should be an accurate poll. 0:06:15.140 --> 0:06:17.370 And if you're running into specific. 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:23.250 Areas, specific demographics and ethnographics, however you want to term it, 0:06:23.510 --> 0:06:27.270 that do not respond to polls regularly, you have to 0:06:27.310 --> 0:06:30.390 spend more money to make sure that you try to 0:06:30.430 --> 0:06:32.969 get them to respond to polls and then wait your 0:06:33.010 --> 0:06:33.350 poll longer. 0:06:34.290 --> 0:06:37.550 But the midterms often a referendum on the sitting president 0:06:37.650 --> 0:06:41.770 and a significant number of Republican leading voters do disapprove 0:06:42.029 --> 0:06:45.330 of his job performance, much less popular than he was 0:06:45.390 --> 0:06:49.099 ahead of previous Trump era elections, including the ones where 0:06:49.140 --> 0:06:50.140 Republicans lost. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.880 Just want to throw in Fox has projected that Annie 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.460 Andrews has defeated Darlene Graham for that Senate seat in 0:06:58.540 --> 0:07:02.900 South Carolina, which would be another flip. Four Democrats, another 0:07:02.980 --> 0:07:07.400 gain for them, a Democrat taking over a long-held Republican 0:07:07.460 --> 0:07:10.220 seat there. Lindsey Graham, of course, the longtime senator from 0:07:10.260 --> 0:07:13.900 South Carolina who passed away. His sister Darlene took over 0:07:13.940 --> 0:07:16.470 the seat. She was running for the full term. But 0:07:16.510 --> 0:07:19.230 she has been defeated again, about 87 percent of the 0:07:19.290 --> 0:07:22.850 vote in. But Annie Andrews has 51 percent so far. 0:07:23.230 --> 0:07:26.440 Again, it seems like a foregone conclusion that Democrats will 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.220 control the House. The Senate still still up for grabs 0:07:30.380 --> 0:07:34.260 at this time. Let us now check in with California, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.080 the California election desk. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.800 Multiple media outlets are reporting long lines tonight at in-person 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.660 voting centers in Los Angeles. In Koreatown, some voters are 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.830 waiting up to two hours to cast their ballots. The 0:07:45.850 --> 0:07:48.530 California Secretary of State says on their website voters can 0:07:48.550 --> 0:07:50.790 still drop off their mail-in ballots in person at voting 0:07:50.810 --> 0:07:53.780 centers until 8 p.m. Along with the governor's race between 0:07:53.820 --> 0:07:56.800 Democrat Javier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton, there are 14 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.440 propositions on the ballot tonight, including Proposition 39, which if 0:08:00.500 --> 0:08:03.080 passed would require a government-issued ID in order to vote. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.100 and Proposition 40, which would impose a one-time tax on billionaires. 0:08:06.460 --> 0:08:09.420 There are several other closely watched races happening in California, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.460 including a Central Valley race in District 22 between Republican 0:08:12.500 --> 0:08:16.560 David Valadao and Democrat Randy Villegas, and the District 40 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.610 race where Republican Young Kim and Republican Ken Calvert are 0:08:19.650 --> 0:08:23.010 competing for one Republican spot after redistricting. The Department of 0:08:23.070 --> 0:08:26.270 Justice has sent poll monitors to several California counties, including 0:08:26.310 --> 0:08:29.050 Los Angeles, Alameda, and Sacramento, according to a map published 0:08:29.090 --> 0:08:31.570 by the DOJ. Governor Gavin Newsom has said he'll be 0:08:31.590 --> 0:08:35.250 deploying 1,000 state observers to monitor the federal monitors. That's 0:08:35.309 --> 0:08:36.970 the latest from the California Election Desk. 0:08:37.150 --> 0:08:37.890 I'm Rich Cassone. 0:08:38.630 --> 0:08:40.630 You're listening to KFI AM640 On Demand. 0:08:43.780 --> 0:08:47.219 The very latest Democrats projected to win the U S house. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.150 This has been predicted all along, but they have surged 0:08:50.210 --> 0:08:54.490 past the 218 seats needed to control the chamber. NBC 0:08:54.530 --> 0:08:57.970 news projects that they could take a total or will 0:08:58.010 --> 0:09:03.820 take a total of 244 seats. Um, CNN has called 0:09:03.940 --> 0:09:08.350 it for the Democrats controlling the house as well. Um, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.979 So the party now leaning towards flipping four Republican controlled 0:09:13.100 --> 0:09:17.100 Senate seats in Kansas, Ohio, Texas and South Carolina. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.380 Wow. 0:09:20.260 --> 0:09:24.130 As of right now, they have called about 170 races, 0:09:24.470 --> 0:09:27.990 House races out of the 435 total. So far, three 0:09:28.030 --> 0:09:29.929 of them have flipped. But as you mentioned, they are 0:09:30.030 --> 0:09:32.550 projecting that they're going to get a whole lot more 0:09:32.590 --> 0:09:36.069 than that. Democrats have also flipped at least two seats 0:09:36.230 --> 0:09:38.950 in the Senate so far. They need 51 for the majority, 0:09:38.970 --> 0:09:41.930 and they're currently at 46. So it's time to get 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.840 a look at some of the other important midterm elections 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:44.500 around the country. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.300 Team coverage from iHeart reporters around the nation. 0:09:47.820 --> 0:09:49.959 There's a big upset to tell you about in a 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.260 New Jersey House race. Democrat Rebecca Bennett is projected to 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.460 win over incumbent Republican Tom Cain Jr. Cain was criticized 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.840 for taking a lengthy leave from Congress only later to 0:09:59.900 --> 0:10:02.440 say that he was being treated for depression. But some 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.560 raised concerns about his reported stock trading during the absence 0:10:05.980 --> 0:10:08.850 in the governor's racist New York's Kathy Hochul and Connecticut's 0:10:08.900 --> 0:10:12.370 Ned Lamont, both projected to win reelection overall. It's been 0:10:12.390 --> 0:10:14.719 a good night for Democratic incumbents. Only a handful of 0:10:14.770 --> 0:10:18.440 Republicans overall have been projected to win. I'm Daria Albinger 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.360 in the Northeast. Now let's see what's happening in the 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:21.720 Southeast with Liz Kennedy. 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.320 NBC News projects Republican Byron Donalds will win the governor's 0:10:26.380 --> 0:10:29.860 race in Florida. He defeated Democrat David Jolly. Donalds was 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.770 endorsed by President Trump and is the state's first Black governor. 0:10:33.790 --> 0:10:37.510 NBC News is also calling the race for governor in Georgia. 0:10:37.610 --> 0:10:42.319 Democratic candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms beats Republican billionaire Rick Jackson. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.850 Bottoms is the former Atlanta mayor and Biden advisor. This 0:10:47.300 --> 0:10:52.270 race replaces GOP Governor Brian Kemp after serving two terms. 0:10:52.690 --> 0:10:55.150 I'm Liz Kennedy in the South. Now let's check in 0:10:55.190 --> 0:10:57.030 with Brian Combs in the Midwest. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.900 Democrats holding on to what was considered one of the 0:10:59.940 --> 0:11:03.320 races Republicans thought that they could flip in Ohio. First 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.719 District Congressman Greg Lansman from Cincinnati holds the seat he's 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.959 held for the last four years. Democrats picking up a 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.819 House seat in Indiana and Nebraska as well. 0:11:12.300 --> 0:11:13.760 Illinois has reelected J.B. 0:11:13.820 --> 0:11:16.540 Pritzker to a third term as governor, and he's predicting 0:11:16.580 --> 0:11:19.620 a big night for the Democratic Party, looking to Michigan, Kansas, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.730 and Iowa for what he says are going to be 0:11:21.790 --> 0:11:22.790 big victories as well. 0:11:23.210 --> 0:11:24.930 I'm Brian Combs in the Midwest. Let's go to Matt 0:11:24.950 --> 0:11:28.630 Mattinson in the Rockies. Polls are now closed in Utah, Nevada, 0:11:28.770 --> 0:11:32.090 and Idaho. Some races have been called. In Colorado, NBC 0:11:32.130 --> 0:11:35.350 News projecting Democrat Phil Weiser will be the state's next governor, 0:11:35.590 --> 0:11:39.589 and Democratic U.S. Senator John Hinklelooper will win re-election. In 0:11:39.630 --> 0:11:42.870 New Mexico, NBC News projects Democrat Ben Ray Lujan will 0:11:42.910 --> 0:11:45.590 retain his U.S. Senate seat, and the battle for Texas' 0:11:45.610 --> 0:11:49.170 Senate seat between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Tallarico 0:11:49.350 --> 0:11:50.890 is one of the most closely watched. 0:11:51.230 --> 0:11:53.510 I'm Matt Mattinson in the Rockies. Let's check with Jason 0:11:53.530 --> 0:11:54.859 Cambadonia in the Pacific. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.839 Voters will be choosing a governor in both California and Oregon. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.660 Both blue states are expected to have a Democrat win 0:12:01.700 --> 0:12:05.490 the race, despite some fierce fights from Republicans. Newly drawn 0:12:05.550 --> 0:12:08.910 congressional races are up for grabs across California. The effort 0:12:08.950 --> 0:12:13.150 from current governor and possible presidential candidate Gavin Newsom was 0:12:13.190 --> 0:12:16.410 intended to help Democrats take back the House following Republican 0:12:16.429 --> 0:12:20.260 redistricting efforts from across the country. And Los Angeles may 0:12:20.300 --> 0:12:23.500 have a Democratic Socialist of America member leading the city 0:12:23.580 --> 0:12:26.840 as mayor. But most polls say that Nithya Raman and 0:12:26.890 --> 0:12:29.840 current L.A. Mayor Karen Bass are just neck and neck. 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.239 That's a look at the Pacific region. I'm Jason Campadonia. 0:12:33.260 --> 0:12:35.380 Now back to you, Gary and Shannon. Thanks, Jay. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.739 The whole thing about redistricting is also an issue that 0:12:38.980 --> 0:12:42.920 is going to come up in the autopsy of what's 0:12:42.970 --> 0:12:46.870 going on today. And one of our reporters there mentioned 0:12:46.890 --> 0:12:51.410 what's going on in Florida. Republicans actually fell short in 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.410 their efforts to pick up four of the House seats 0:12:54.570 --> 0:13:00.099 in Florida through redistricting. Democrat Kathy Castor, Congresswoman, won re-election 0:13:00.179 --> 0:13:03.250 in a district there in Tampa. And Jared Moskowitz won 0:13:03.290 --> 0:13:06.270 reelection to a third term despite shifting to a nearby 0:13:06.790 --> 0:13:10.500 district that was Republican-leaning. So they said that these were 0:13:11.059 --> 0:13:12.800 one of the most expensive or two of the most 0:13:12.860 --> 0:13:15.580 expensive House races in this election cycle. 0:13:15.980 --> 0:13:18.460 Both of those two new. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:22.200 Districts were supposed to go to Republicans. That's why the 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.680 Republican state legislature in Florida redrew them that way. Of course, 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:29.880 all of that started with Texas. When President Trump encouraged 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:35.330 Republican-controlled states to redraw their congressional maps, other states came 0:13:35.380 --> 0:13:39.370 along and did the same as sort of a retaliation. 0:13:39.450 --> 0:13:40.150 California. 0:13:40.190 --> 0:13:42.890 California, one of them. So at this point, we do 0:13:42.950 --> 0:13:46.740 not know how that, in all of them, because there's, 0:13:46.790 --> 0:13:49.459 I mean, there's multiple states with North Carolina and Ohio 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.980 and Tennessee and Louisiana and Alabama and Missouri, and I 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:56.370 mentioned Florida. And then, of course, the Democrat response to 0:13:56.429 --> 0:13:59.630 those redistricting plans and how it's all going to play out. 0:13:59.770 --> 0:14:03.110 Just wanted to drill down for a moment on North Carolina, 0:14:03.170 --> 0:14:07.469 where every county so far has shifted toward Democratic Senate 0:14:07.510 --> 0:14:12.520 candidate Roy Cooper by huge margins. In counties with a 0:14:12.580 --> 0:14:17.000 median income of under $ 60, 000, Trump was huge. He won 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:21.480 by 26 points in this demographic in 2024. Cooper has 0:14:21.540 --> 0:14:25.720 swung voters in those counties, those voters, by 21 points 0:14:25.780 --> 0:14:26.400 to the left. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.610 That's what we're seeing in a lot of these races 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.290 so far, places where Donald Trump would win, either a 0:14:32.350 --> 0:14:35.010 state or in these individual districts, he would win by 0:14:35.070 --> 0:14:39.170 double digits, and they've gone Democrat just two years later. 0:14:40.190 --> 0:14:43.270 So I mentioned earlier the question of what do Democrats 0:14:43.330 --> 0:14:47.250 do with these wins? Do they take it as... A 0:14:47.370 --> 0:14:51.510 message that the electorate wants to see more progressive policies 0:14:51.990 --> 0:14:54.550 or is it nothing more than it? It's nothing more 0:14:54.610 --> 0:14:58.830 than a pushback against the Republican Congress and Republican White 0:14:58.870 --> 0:15:01.620 House that they don't want the pendulum to swing too far. 0:15:01.940 --> 0:15:05.760 But they're going to get more than that. They're going 0:15:05.780 --> 0:15:07.840 to get double digit seats in the House is what 0:15:07.860 --> 0:15:08.300 it looks like. 0:15:08.630 --> 0:15:08.830 All right. 0:15:08.870 --> 0:15:11.230 Coming up next, we'll be talking to the chair of 0:15:11.270 --> 0:15:15.610 the California Democratic Party about will this be a mandate, 0:15:15.810 --> 0:15:19.240 depending on how Democrats do across the country and here 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.740 in California in terms of which direction the party will go. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.820 You're listening to KFI AM 640 on demand. 0:15:28.670 --> 0:15:31.920 I do want to share this with you because prediction 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.160 markets are a new phenomenon. People putting big money on elections. 0:15:36.620 --> 0:15:39.859 It's almost like the Super Bowl. The Washington Post had 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.420 this story to share in the bathroom just outside the 0:15:43.460 --> 0:15:47.070 hotel ballroom where Vivek Ramaswamy is holding a watch party. 0:15:47.090 --> 0:15:52.270 29-year-old Sean Manin is stressing for two reasons. Manin told 0:15:52.330 --> 0:15:54.670 an older man washing his hands in the sink next 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.900 to him, I might need to call my girlfriend. I 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:59.320 put a lot of money on this race. He's a 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.470 committed Republican. He bet $ 5, 000 on an online gambling site 0:16:04.510 --> 0:16:08.410 that Ramaswamy would win. He is from Dublin, Ohio. He 0:16:08.450 --> 0:16:12.300 told the Washington Post reporter, I'm not feeling great. He 0:16:12.340 --> 0:16:15.740 says he's very surprised at how well Amy Acton is doing. 0:16:15.780 --> 0:16:19.180 He still hopes Ramaswamy will pull off the win. But 0:16:19.260 --> 0:16:21.080 if he loses, he says he's going to have to 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.090 tell his girlfriend they're going to cut back on their 0:16:23.130 --> 0:16:25.810 expenses for quite a while. They've got to move to 0:16:25.850 --> 0:16:29.690 San Francisco on deck and they need that cushion. If 0:16:29.730 --> 0:16:33.200 you're wondering how that race is going, Amy Acton leads 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.480 80 percent of the precincts reporting there. The AP has 0:16:36.540 --> 0:16:39.300 not called that one just 80 percent reporting. But Amy 0:16:39.420 --> 0:16:42.680 Acton does lead Vivek Ramaswamy. That race got a lot 0:16:42.740 --> 0:16:47.310 of national attention because of the ad Vivek Ramaswamy and 0:16:47.330 --> 0:16:50.990 the campaign chose to air, which was Amy Acton's mother reporting. 0:16:51.090 --> 0:16:54.250 who Amy Acton hasn't spoken to in 50 years because 0:16:54.690 --> 0:16:56.690 Amy was removed from the home with her brother. It's 0:16:56.730 --> 0:17:00.350 a family mess that was used for politics in this cycle. 0:17:00.870 --> 0:17:05.090 And it may just backfire with Vivek Ramaswamy here tonight. 0:17:05.490 --> 0:17:07.320 Vivek polling right. I'm sorry. 0:17:07.470 --> 0:17:10.669 The results in so far, he's at 46 percent and 0:17:10.710 --> 0:17:14.780 Amy Acton at just about 51, just shy of 51 percent. 0:17:14.820 --> 0:17:17.360 And like you said, 80 percent. And the girlfriend's like, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.100 why couldn't you just bet on the Cleveland Browns? 0:17:19.650 --> 0:17:20.110 Exactly. 0:17:20.130 --> 0:17:21.669 Well, yeah. There's also that. 0:17:22.690 --> 0:17:27.350 Rusty Hicks is the chairman of the California Democratic Party. And, Rusty, 0:17:27.430 --> 0:17:31.850 I'm anticipating quite the celebratory mood for Democrats, not just 0:17:31.910 --> 0:17:35.370 in California, but across the country here tonight with many 0:17:35.430 --> 0:17:38.750 news outlets calling the House going to the Democrats, something 0:17:38.770 --> 0:17:40.869 that we saw coming. But here we are. 0:17:40.890 --> 0:17:46.290 Well, certainly it's an exciting night to be a Democrat, 0:17:46.310 --> 0:17:49.060 whether you're in California or in another part of the country. 0:17:49.910 --> 0:17:53.410 Certainly what we see on the East Coast, I think 0:17:53.470 --> 0:17:56.300 in many ways, started here in the West Coast with 0:17:56.340 --> 0:18:00.780 Proposition 50 passed in 2025. And so tonight we've got 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.000 the opportunity to fulfill the promise of Proposition 50 and 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.810 put a Democratic majority over the top in the House. 0:18:08.910 --> 0:18:11.030 And that's what we hope to do shortly after 8 0:18:11.030 --> 0:18:11.629 o'clock tonight. 0:18:12.910 --> 0:18:15.870 How did we get to the point where Javier Becerra is... 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.560 Just absolutely mopping the floor with Steve Hilton. And I'll 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.480 phrase it this way. Back in April, I would have 0:18:23.530 --> 0:18:26.190 said that Javier Becerra was probably a few days away 0:18:26.230 --> 0:18:30.710 from dropping out until Eric Swalwell dropped out. How did 0:18:30.790 --> 0:18:34.540 he get, how did Javier Becerra get the entire Democratic 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.239 machine to line up behind him? 0:18:37.780 --> 0:18:38.320 It all worked. 0:18:38.850 --> 0:18:42.250 Well, Secretary Becerra has been a fighter for California for 0:18:42.450 --> 0:18:47.189 many decades, whether it was in Los Angeles or in 0:18:47.230 --> 0:18:51.230 Sacramento or in Washington, D.C. And so he has continued 0:18:51.270 --> 0:18:54.970 to be the experienced, steady hand at so many roles 0:18:55.050 --> 0:18:58.910 that he's had. And he began to surge at exactly 0:18:59.350 --> 0:19:03.629 the right time. And so You know, we're excited to see. Obviously, 0:19:03.650 --> 0:19:05.810 we've got to wait for some results to come in, 0:19:05.850 --> 0:19:08.580 but certainly expect him to be the next governor of California. 0:19:09.060 --> 0:19:13.160 And I think he's going to continue Governor Newsom's leadership, 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:17.240 California leadership, both at home and abroad. So I'm actually 0:19:17.290 --> 0:19:21.090 here at his election night party preparing to see some 0:19:21.109 --> 0:19:23.770 results and show there's good spirits all around us. 0:19:24.140 --> 0:19:27.449 Rusty, there's been a lot of talk about this blue tsunami, 0:19:27.530 --> 0:19:30.530 as it's been called, sweeping the nation tonight in the midterms, 0:19:31.010 --> 0:19:34.109 and how the Democratic Party may see this as a 0:19:34.570 --> 0:19:37.689 mandate that people like the way the party is moving 0:19:37.730 --> 0:19:42.830 in terms of closer to the Democratic socialist agenda. What 0:19:42.930 --> 0:19:46.169 do you hear up there in Sacramento in terms of 0:19:46.250 --> 0:19:47.810 the future of the Democratic Party? 0:19:47.830 --> 0:19:53.740 Well, my focus is on the California Democratic Party. I 0:19:53.780 --> 0:19:56.260 can't speak to what's happening all across the country, but 0:19:56.300 --> 0:19:59.780 what's happening here is a reflection of really the diversity 0:20:00.380 --> 0:20:02.580 of our party, which is in many ways the strength 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:07.020 of our party. And so certainly there are Uh, candidates, uh, 0:20:07.060 --> 0:20:10.570 that are more moderate that are candidates that are more progressive, 0:20:10.590 --> 0:20:12.429 but at the end of the day, uh, they are 0:20:12.470 --> 0:20:16.510 all pushing in the same direction of improving the lives 0:20:16.550 --> 0:20:19.629 of all Californians. Uh, and so I think that's the 0:20:19.670 --> 0:20:22.920 work that we're going to continue to do, uh, governor, uh, 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:27.629 to be a governor elect, uh, the Sarah. our state 0:20:27.670 --> 0:20:31.869 legislative bodies and big city mayors and local leaders up 0:20:31.910 --> 0:20:32.590 and down the state. 0:20:33.330 --> 0:20:37.560 Tonight is the unofficial start of the presidential race for 2028. 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.080 Javier Becerra was with Gavin Newsom over the weekend and 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.060 with Kamala Harris at the Hollywood Palladium on Saturday. Do 0:20:45.100 --> 0:20:48.869 we anticipate Governor Newsom making an appearance at that party 0:20:48.910 --> 0:20:52.330 there tonight in Sacramento? And do we anticipate him speaking 0:20:52.470 --> 0:20:55.369 in what could become his first speech as he runs 0:20:55.430 --> 0:20:57.530 for 2028? 0:20:58.270 --> 0:21:00.650 And I'll be honest, I'm not sure of what his 0:21:00.830 --> 0:21:04.690 what his plans are tonight or in the future. I 0:21:04.730 --> 0:21:07.650 do know that he's been a remarkable leader for for 0:21:07.670 --> 0:21:10.450 California and is going to continue to be a leader 0:21:10.510 --> 0:21:15.619 for our party, whatever he might do next. 0:21:15.730 --> 0:21:17.280 Quick final question. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.859 Is it good for one state to have control of 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.460 the governor's mansion, the state assembly and the state Senate? 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:29.619 At the end of the day, that's the decision for 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:32.600 the voters. And time and time again, certainly over the 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:38.830 last decade plus, voters in California have continued to want 0:21:39.750 --> 0:21:44.649 Democrats to serve in important leadership roles in government. We 0:21:44.670 --> 0:21:48.270 don't own these seats. We rent these seats every two years, 0:21:48.369 --> 0:21:51.389 and we have to work hard every single cycle to 0:21:51.510 --> 0:21:55.910 earn the support of voters. Democrats continue to do that 0:21:55.950 --> 0:22:00.910 here in California, especially while California Republicans continue to come 0:22:00.970 --> 0:22:04.170 up short. So we're going to continue to fight hard 0:22:04.210 --> 0:22:06.220