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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: It is KFI is special election night coverage with Michael Monks.

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Speaker 2: I'm Chris Merril KFI AM six forty more stimulating talk,

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Speaker 2: NBC News projecting, And this comes as no surprise. We

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Speaker 2: sort of expected this would happen right out of the gate,

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Speaker 2: NBC News projecting. Californians have passed the measure to change

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Speaker 2: the congressional maps. Prop fifty is an effort fronted by

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Speaker 2: Governor Gavin Newsom aim to gain more Democratic seats in Congress.

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Speaker 2: Joining us right now is our KFI twenty four to

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Speaker 2: seven correspondent at the election desk, Michael Kastner. Michael, thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for joining us. The NBC calling us this

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Speaker 2: can't come as a surprise to you either.

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Speaker 3: No, as a matter of fact, I can tell you

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Speaker 3: now it's ABC, NBC and CBS, and and who is

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Speaker 3: not telling us that the Secretary of State's website because

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Speaker 3: we keep hitting the fresh fresh not a single vote,

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Speaker 3: but with all of the polling that all the networks

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Speaker 3: have done, this, as you said, comes as no surprise.

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Speaker 3: And I think what's going to be interesting now is

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Speaker 3: what we hear and see from Governor Newsom because this

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Speaker 3: is clearly going to be the launching pad for him

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Speaker 3: to run for the White House, and that's what we're

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Speaker 3: going to be looking at. I'm going to be looking

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Speaker 3: at the type of podium he's in front of. I'm

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Speaker 3: going to be looking at the official seal, the American flags,

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Speaker 3: because that's the next step.

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Speaker 4: Michael, We've been talking a lot about five congressional seats,

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Speaker 4: five congressional seats in California maybe being yanked from Republicans

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Speaker 4: and Democrats wish members. Maybe we haven't spent enough time

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Speaker 5: Who are we looking at losing here?

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Speaker 3: At this point, I don't have them nailed down. I

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Speaker 3: can tell you that it doesn't necessarily mean it's going

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Speaker 3: to happen. And here's why the President has said throughout

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Speaker 3: the day that he is going to be challenging this,

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Speaker 3: that he is not going to let it move forward.

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Speaker 3: Governor Newsom brought it up as well, and also Caroline

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Speaker 3: Levitt at the White House had pointed out and she

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Speaker 3: says over and over and again, this is without this

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Speaker 3: is without evidence that there are many flaws in the

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Speaker 3: mail in voting system and that they are going to

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Speaker 3: be investigating us, and the governor is going to go

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Speaker 3: toe to toe with the president, so I wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: counting anybody out yet.

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Speaker 2: Michael Kasner, okay, if I corresponded at the election desk

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Speaker 2: with their latest numbers in the early returns and as

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Speaker 2: he's pointed out, refreshing the Secretary of State's website, their

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Speaker 2: web portal, which gives us the unofficial early results that

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Speaker 2: are more official, I suppose, than exit polling results. Although

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Speaker 2: as Michael pointed out, the three major networks have already

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Speaker 2: called the race four prop fifty going through. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I believe I've got Caroline Levitt talking about exactly what

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Speaker 2: you've said there, Michael.

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Speaker 5: This is what she said.

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Speaker 6: Tolhouse is working on an executive order to shrink in

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Speaker 6: our elections in this country and to ensure that there

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Speaker 6: cannot be latant fraud as we've seen in California with

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Speaker 6: their universal mail in voting system. It's absolutely true that

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Speaker 6: there are fraud in there's fraud in California's elections. It's

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Speaker 6: just a fact.

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Speaker 4: It is just a fact.

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Speaker 6: They have a universal mail in voting system which we

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Speaker 6: know is ripe for fraud.

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Speaker 2: As you heard the reporter that said, what what evidence

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Speaker 2: do you have of that? The President's made a number

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Speaker 2: of claims that he makes without evidence, and so when

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Speaker 2: he approaches this from a legislation, excuse me, from a

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Speaker 2: legal standpoint, what is the basis that he's going to

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Speaker 2: I've already seen this play out.

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Speaker 3: We've already seen it, and this is something that's interesting

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Speaker 3: because we got a whole new world. That's why these

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Speaker 3: these nights, even in these funky off year are interesting.

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Speaker 3: You've not only got this, but you have the New

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Speaker 3: So I'm not sure that the president is going to

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Speaker 3: and just because you pound your chest, the governor pointed out,

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Speaker 7: So it's election day here in California, with the polls

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Speaker 7: closing at eight pm tonight, and of course Donald Trump

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Speaker 7: He just came out with the statement saying that the

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Speaker 7: election results already are being investigated by the Department Addresses

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Speaker 7: for criminal activity. He suggests that the election has already

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Speaker 7: been raped.

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Speaker 5: Sounds familiar.

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Speaker 7: When he kicked off the campaign for Proposition fifty, he

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Speaker 7: sent out border patrol with masks to intimidate our kickoff rally,

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Speaker 7: to surprise of no one but chilling.

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Speaker 5: Nonetheless, it's that type of.

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Speaker 3: Fight that I think people are tired of, and it's

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Speaker 3: good that the governor has decided he's going to go

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Speaker 3: toe to toe. I think a lot of that obviously

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Speaker 3: has to do with politics. It just depends. I mean,

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Speaker 3: this is a president who seems to do really, really

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Speaker 2: Michael Caspi, KFI, correspondent at the election desk, Michael, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much.

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Speaker 5: A great reporting time. Absolutely appreciate that, my friend.

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Speaker 4: You know, Chris, Michael's right that this is a fighter.

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Speaker 4: The president is a fighter. He loves a fight. There's

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Speaker 4: really no fight that's too small for the president. If

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Speaker 4: you're an entertainer of some degree, he's a'll butt you

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Speaker 4: on blast. It does not matter. He does not rank

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Speaker 4: his opponents into divisions. But Governor Newsom has not just politically,

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Speaker 4: not just electorally, decided to go toe to toe with

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Speaker 4: the president. He's also shifted his communication style on social

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Speaker 4: for Governor Newsom here in California. This is somebody who says,

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Speaker 4: somebody's got to fight back against Trump the way Trump fights,

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Speaker 4: and that is what Governor Newsom has done.

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Speaker 5: Tonight he has won.

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Speaker 4: I think Michael Kasner's correct to say we should be

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Speaker 4: looking at what Governor Newsom looks like tonight. Does he

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Speaker 4: look a little more presidential just generically superficially, does he

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Speaker 4: bit more swam because this, as Governor Newsom sees, it

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Boy, that's a great point.

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Speaker 2: And does he try to ride any momentum that he's

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Speaker 2: try to take that victory lap. We'll get to we'll

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Speaker 2: get word from some of the opposition from PROMP fifty

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Speaker 2: in just a few moments as well. We'll continue with

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Speaker 2: our KFI special election night coverage, and then also this evening,

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Speaker 2: want to give you an opportunity to weigh in as

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Speaker 2: we get your reaction to what looks like a foregone

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Speaker 2: conclusion that Prop fifty was going to pass, favoring adding

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Speaker 2: more Democratic seats and an already very blue state. More

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Speaker 2: like it was going to be very uphill from the beginning.

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Speaker 5: That is next. I'm Chris Meryl.

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Speaker 2: He's Michael Monks KFI special election Night coverage live everywhere

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Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio APPFI Election Night Coverage. Michael mut I'm

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Speaker 2: Chris Merrill more stimulating talk. A number of people are

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Speaker 2: very frustrated. In fact, I grab one of the talkbacks

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Speaker 2: I feel free to hit that talkback button. Let us

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Speaker 2: know how you're feeling about the election results. Good, bad, indifferent?

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Speaker 2: You know what you predict this is going to mean whatever,

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Speaker 5: Let us know what you think.

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Speaker 8: President Trump needs to get more involved in California. There's

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Speaker 8: no reason why our gasoline prices are so fine. Same

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Speaker 8: for our cars. Conway earlier today said that his daughter's

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Speaker 8: insurance for her car is eight thousand dollars a month. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: that seems legit, and his home insurance more than doubled.

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Speaker 8: That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 2: It's ridiculous that Conway's daughter can afford ninety six thousand

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Speaker 8: To squash this now, because we can't afford to live

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Speaker 5: What does Conway's daughter do for a living? Do you know?

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Speaker 2: Michael what is she doing that she's got ninety six

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Speaker 4: You know, Conway's a bit of a degenerate, and I

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Speaker 2: All right on, yeah, okay, all right, I just wondering

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Speaker 4: Regardless of you know that anger you're hearing in that

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Speaker 4: by people of all political stripes. That's what's so confounding

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Speaker 4: what we are seeing is not a heavy focus on

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Speaker 5: It doesn't always come download to the economy.

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Speaker 2: It's the economy, stupid, And as we pointed out, as

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there could be a successful Democratic candidate who

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Speaker 4: but we don't need to do this. The democratic socialist

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Speaker 4: We're going back to that because of voters approving this,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yes, I've seen the rats up close and personal.

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Speaker 5: Everything that you said, is correct.

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Speaker 9: You know, we saw this several years back with proposes

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Speaker 4: Time, Hector you mentioned that this could all be for

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Speaker 9: You know, one of the things that we've been pushing

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Speaker 2: Here from the other side, the side that was pro

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Speaker 2: Election Night coverage along with Michael Monks on Chris merrild'

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Speaker 2: KFI Special Election Night Cap range Michael Monks, I'm Chris Merril,

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Speaker 2: but a pleasure talking with you tonight. It looks like

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Speaker 2: It was the question of would it be a more

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Speaker 4: He was the spokesperson for the no on Prop fifty campaign,

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Speaker 5: Steve.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, it's a good night for you and your team,

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Speaker 10: Well, it's actually looking like it's somebody a blowout, and

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Speaker 10: I don't think too many predicted that at the beginning.

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Speaker 10: You got to remember on the fifty basically overturned two

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Speaker 4: So Steve, what is it do you think that propelled

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Speaker 10: Well, I think the Yes campaign did simple arithmetic. They

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Speaker 10: Newsom led the tip of the spear on this one.

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Speaker 10: the No campaign, which basically fell apart and was not

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Speaker 2: Steve Maviglio is the Democratic political strategist joining us for

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Speaker 2: Right Now. You know, we talked with Hector Barajas in

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Speaker 2: his opinion, this is going to backfire on California because

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Speaker 2: California responding to Texas is causing other states to respond

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Speaker 2: to California, which could end up benefiting more Republicans in

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Speaker 2: the House. Are you seeing strategies in other states to

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Speaker 2: try to counter what they're doing? In other words, does

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Speaker 2: this race to the bottom have an end?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's going to be full out more

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Speaker 10: nationally and Hector's corrector and more Republicans states without governor

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Speaker 10: and legislature that are Republicans and Democrats. But Democrats are

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Speaker 10: going to go into a war themselves. I think at

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Speaker 10: the end of the day, it's probably going to be

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Speaker 10: a draw, which is a lot better for Democrats than

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Speaker 10: louisiting five states in Texas and I've sat back and

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Speaker 10: done nothing.

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Speaker 4: What about for Governor Newsom, Steve, this is somebody who

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Speaker 4: has chosen to take the fight to President Trump in

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Speaker 4: a similar fashion away President Trump fights. We've seen the

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Speaker 4: way Governor Newsom's campaign team and his official governor account

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Speaker 4: team has shifted their perspectives on social media policy and

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Speaker 4: have started to talk in the style of President Trump

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Speaker 4: on social media. We've seen this more consequential decision to

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Speaker 4: ask voters to approve Prop fifty and send more Democrats

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Speaker 4: to Congress. Likely, what does this mean for Governor Newsom

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Speaker 4: and his national profile.

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Speaker 10: Well, I think tonight is the apex of his career.

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Speaker 10: You know, you have to remember that some Democrats were

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Speaker 10: counting him out just a few months ago when he

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Speaker 10: started doing his podcast and had Steve Bannon and Charlie

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Speaker 10: Kirk and some Republicans and made some states statements about

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Speaker 10: certain issues that Democrats were not happy with at all.

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Speaker 10: And you know, he's had reversed himself. I mean, he's

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Speaker 10: had more lives than a cat, this guy, and he's

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Speaker 10: certainly come back right now, has moved from I think

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Speaker 10: it was like forty four percent to fifty seven percent

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Speaker 10: popularity in the late of state wide pole just in

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Speaker 10: a few months by basically neglecting his duties as governor

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Speaker 10: but running this campaign full frattle and running against Trump nationally.

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Speaker 2: Steve, talk to me about what could potentially happen here

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Speaker 2: in the future as we go back to the nonpartisan

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Speaker 2: committee to decide. I mean, at that point, we could

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Speaker 2: see the Democrat lose five seats in just five years

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Speaker 2: from now. That's got to be something that's on your

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Speaker 2: radar already, because nobody wants to give up seats.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and so when the s campaign said repeatedly, this

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Speaker 10: is just temporary. You can almost see them winking their eyes,

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Speaker 10: because there probably will be that emergency in a few

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Speaker 10: years when we lose congressional seats because of population shift

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Speaker 10: across the country and Republicans gain many more in states

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Speaker 10: like Texas and others where they've had rapid growth. In Florida,

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Speaker 10: so we're going to lose our number of seats we have,

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Speaker 10: and I don't think the Democrats running the state at

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Speaker 10: that time if they are are going to allow two

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Speaker 2: All right, Steve Mavilio, the Democratic Political Strategy. Steve, thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for taking time being with us tonight. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you with welcome and your input.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Michael. How does that play out?

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Speaker 2: Because the other states are changing legislative ours is changing

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Speaker 2: through this vote, but the vote does have a sunset

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Speaker 2: on it, is there to what he just said. Are

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Speaker 2: the Democrats ever going to relinquish these seats in the future.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's possible they might have to ask the

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Speaker 4: voters again. And if the map is threatening to any

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Speaker 4: type of potential Democratic majority, you may see voters come

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Speaker 4: out of the woodwork the way they did again today

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Speaker 4: to support national Democrats. That's what California voters did tonight.

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Speaker 4: Whether they have to do that again in twenty thirty

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Speaker 4: two is yet to be seen, but they may be

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Speaker 4: willing to do so. We're a little bit farther out

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Speaker 4: than just five years. The census happens in twenty thirty

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Speaker 4: and then usually the redistricting happens a couple of years

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Speaker 4: that you might see people running in whatever new districts

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Speaker 4: there are. And that's true for most places across the country.

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Speaker 4: So with California one likely to lose population, you will

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Speaker 4: see one less seat, maybe two, maybe three fewer seeds

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Speaker 4: because of the population loss. That's going to be a

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Speaker 4: complicating factor, along with the sunset of Prop fifty in

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Speaker 4: the Independent Redistricting Commission getting together to draw those maps.

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Speaker 2: I've got a notice from Representative Barra has already announced

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Speaker 2: a run in California's new third congressional district, running for

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Speaker 2: re election to that and saying right now he's in

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Speaker 2: Congressional District six. I believe he would now be in

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Speaker 2: the new third congressional district after it gets redrawn. He's

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Speaker 2: already announced he's running. So that's happening. That didn't take

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Speaker 2: very long, did it. No, you're going to send a

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Speaker 2: proposition past forty five minutes ago unofficially, and we're already

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Speaker 2: getting announcements of politicians running.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's no doubt that behind the scenes there have

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Speaker 4: been Democratic power brokers maneuvering for these seats, whether they

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Speaker 4: are currently state lawmakers or whether they're LA County supervisors.

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Speaker 4: There's been some reporting that La County Supervisor hill To

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Speaker 4: Slease might like to get back to Congress in the

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Speaker 4: Washington game. So I mean there have been a lot

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Speaker 4: of handshakes going on behind the scenes while while this

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Speaker 4: was being worked. Doubt you can bet those seats are

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Speaker 4: spoken for, all right, Michael Monks. I'm Chris Merrill.

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Speaker 2: Continuing coverage the election night here KFI Special Election Night

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Speaker 2: coverage continues, and we'll get more of your calls and

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Speaker 2: reactions as well.

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Speaker 5: We've got a few of you on the talkback.

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Speaker 2: If you're listening on the iHeart Radio app, feel free

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Speaker 2: to hit that talkback button and let us know you

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Speaker 2: know what your vibe is tonight. Some people not very

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Speaker 2: happy we've heard from a few of you that are

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Speaker 2: ready upset, just curious as to what your vibe is

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Speaker 2: right now. Michael just said we could lose more population.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if this is the sort of thing that

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Speaker 2: is going to be a final straw for anyone. But

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Speaker 2: people have been saying that's the final straw for a

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Speaker 2: long time. What really is the final straw? This is

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Speaker 2: the question.

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Speaker 5: We'll get more of your talkbacks next. I Chris Merril.

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Speaker 2: He's Michael Monks KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on

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Speaker 2: the iHeart Radio appf I AM six forty special election

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Speaker 2: night coverage. Michael Monks, Chris Merrill hosting. We've got to

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Speaker 2: Governor Gavin Newson.

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Speaker 5: Is speaking now. We want to go to do that

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Speaker 5: press or live ja Sam. Is it possible to pull

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Speaker 5: up the governor talking? All right? We got to coming

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Speaker 5: right now. We're on there right now? All right, all right?

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Speaker 5: I won't wait for him to say something I thought

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Speaker 5: it wasn't.

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Speaker 7: Why else is he trying to rig the midterm elections

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Speaker 7: before one single vote is even cast?

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Speaker 11: He understands.

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Speaker 7: His position at this moment in the United States of America.

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Speaker 7: One thing he never counted on, though, was the state

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Speaker 7: of California. Instead of agonizing over the state of our nation,

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Speaker 7: we organized in an unprecedented way.

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Speaker 11: In a ninety day sprint, people from all.

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Speaker 7: Over the United States of America contributed their voices and

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Speaker 7: their support for this initiative. We stood tall, and we

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Speaker 7: stir stood firm in response to Donald Trump's recklessness, and tonight,

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Speaker 7: after poking the bear, this bear roared with an unprecedented

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Speaker 7: turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result. None

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Speaker 7: of us, however, are naive this is a pattern, this

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Speaker 7: is a practice. Donald Trump's efforts to rig the midterm

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Speaker 7: election continue to this day, and I'll reinforce that in

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Speaker 7: just a moment. You're seeing him take action all across

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Speaker 7: this country, not just in Texas. You saw what they

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Speaker 7: were successful able to do in Missouri, what they did

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Speaker 7: in North Carolina, what they're trying to do in Indiana,

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Speaker 7: and inevitably in Florida.

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Speaker 11: They are not screwing around. In June of.

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Speaker 7: This year, we saw four thousand National Guard federalized in

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Speaker 7: the state of California. We saw seven hundred active duty

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Speaker 7: marines not sent overseas, but sent to the second largest

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Speaker 7: city in the United States of America to militarize our streets.

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Speaker 7: We said in June, this was a preview of things

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Speaker 7: to come. What more evidence do you need than what

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Speaker 7: happened in Washington, d C. What's happening up in Portland

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Speaker 7: cities like Chicago. When we kicked off this campaign just

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Speaker 7: ninety or so days ago. In Little Tokyo in southern

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Speaker 7: California and La at the Democracy Center, Donald Trump sent

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Speaker 7: Greg Bovino. He sent his private police force that increasingly

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Speaker 7: appears to have taken an oath of office to Donald Trump,

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Speaker 7: not to the Constitution of the United States. He sent

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Speaker 7: them to our kickoff rally to chill free expression, to

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Speaker 7: chill free speech, to intimidate people from participating. Just today,

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Speaker 7: in Los Angeles, Donald Trump called up the Border Patrol,

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Speaker 7: sent them to Dodger Stadium and through a fastball at

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Speaker 7: free speech, right of the head, free expression, to suppress

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Speaker 7: the vote in America's second largest city. Just did that today,

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Speaker 7: people in tactical gears sent out to intimidate a community

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Speaker 7: that is all ready on edge. But you see, as

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Speaker 7: we speak, people are still in line, people waiting up

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Speaker 7: three hours to cast their vote, to send a message

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Speaker 7: to Donald Trump.

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Speaker 11: No crowns, no thrones, no kings.

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Speaker 7: That's what this victory represents is a victory for the

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Speaker 7: people of the state of California and the United States

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Speaker 7: of America. And this is a victory that's punctuated with

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Speaker 7: a sober reminder that it's not just the actions that

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Speaker 7: Donald Trump is taken to federalize our guard, to begin

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Speaker 7: the process of militarizing American cities, to intimidate free expression

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Speaker 7: But he also announced today right when polls were opening,

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Speaker 7: that this election was rigged, that this election was rigged.

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Speaker 11: Of course, those are familiar words.

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Speaker 7: It's exactly what Donald Trump said after January sixth, that

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Speaker 7: Day of Love, where he tried to light democracy on fire.

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Speaker 7: He tried to wrect this country. And he called in

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Speaker 7: to the Secretary of State in Georgia calling up for

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Speaker 7: eleven twelve thousand votes, just like he called Greg Abbott

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Speaker 7: saying he's entitled to those five seats. He said this

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Speaker 7: election was rigged, and he's moving to look for criminal

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Speaker 7: prosecution and investigations at the Department of Justice.

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Speaker 11: He is not screwing around.

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Speaker 7: So tonight I'm proud, but I'm very mindful and sober

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Speaker 7: of the moment we are living in. Donald Trump does

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Speaker 7: not believe in fair and free elections, period and full stop.

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Speaker 7: This is not complicated, and it's self evident to anyone

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Speaker 7: paying attention. You start to stack up all of these

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Speaker 7: actions that continue to this moment and will continue in

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Speaker 7: moments to come. If you think I'm exaggerating, consider his

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Speaker 7: announcement just a few weeks ago to send rapid response

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Speaker 7: teams all across the United States in all fifty states,

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Speaker 7: tens of thousands of members of the military prepared for

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Speaker 7: urban deployment, a preview of things to come. But back

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Speaker 7: to this state, our state of mind.

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Speaker 2: Good evening again, everyone.

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Speaker 5: I'm Trace Gallagher.

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Speaker 4: It is midnight on the East and we've been listening

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Speaker 4: to Governor Gavin Newsome celebrating victory tonight. Prop fifty passing

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Speaker 4: easily right now, according to the California Secretary of State's website.

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Speaker 5: And I think we can go back to the governor

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Speaker 5: now standby sawst us.

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Speaker 7: But we're seeing all across this country seven million people

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Speaker 7: strong standing up not just for themselves, but for each

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Speaker 7: other and for these enduring and historic principles of our

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Speaker 7: founding fathers, and I'll end on that next year is

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Speaker 7: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the best of

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Speaker 7: Roman republic, the best of Greek democracy, this fundamental notion

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Speaker 7: of a system of checks and balances, a popular sovereignty,

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Speaker 7: the rule of law, mister President, the rule of law,

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Speaker 7: not the rule of dawn. And I hope it's dawning

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Speaker 7: on people the sobriety of this moment. What's at stake tonight,

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Speaker 7: as I said, is an extraordinary moment for our party,

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Speaker 7: but again it's an extraordinary moment affirming those principles. Our

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Speaker 7: founding fathers did not live and die to see the

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Speaker 7: kind of vanalysm to this republican, our democracy that Donald

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Speaker 7: Trump is trying to perpetuate. And so my call tonight,

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Speaker 7: in the spirit of Whitman we talked about the powerful

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Speaker 7: play goes on. We all must contribute a verse and

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Speaker 7: so we need We need the state of Virginia, we

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Speaker 7: need the state of Maryland.

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Speaker 11: We need our friends in New.

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Speaker 7: York and Illinois and Colorado. We need to see other states.

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Speaker 7: But the remarkable leaders that have been doing remarkable things

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Speaker 7: meet this moment head on as well to recognize what

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Speaker 7: we're up against in twenty twenty six. And let me

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Speaker 7: make this crystal clear, we can de facto end Donald

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Speaker 7: Trump's presidency as we know it the minute Speaker Jeffries

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Speaker 7: gets sworn in as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 7: It is all on the line, a bright line in

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty six. And so I want to thank everybody

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Speaker 7: that stood up not just for our democracy, but stood

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Speaker 7: up for those that have feel bullied and intimidated, stood

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Speaker 7: up for this notion of co equal branches of government

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Speaker 7: and the system of checks and balances. And I want

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Speaker 7: to thank my wife, who reminds me every single day

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Speaker 7: that this is about those that feel those that feel isolated,

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Speaker 7: those that feel an anxiety and a stress that they

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Speaker 7: never could have imagined in their lives. This was about

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Speaker 7: saying to them, we have your back, we see you,

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Speaker 7: you matter, we care. And I'll just say this, I'm

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Speaker 7: confident as we move forward into twenty twenty six in

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Speaker 7: this country, the best is yet to come.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, kevinor Davin Newsom speaking after obviously

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Speaker 2: his project which is going to propel him even further

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Speaker 2: out of the national stage. Prop fifty passes pretty it

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Speaker 2: seems overwhelmingly but again, early results tend to skew toward

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Speaker 2: more liberal large city areas. We'll expect that that margin

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Speaker 2: right now showing about thirty points unofficially from the Secretary

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Speaker 2: of State's office, we'll tighten a little bit. Still, it

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Speaker 2: looks like it's a pretty wide margin of victory. Hey,

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Speaker 2: if I special election, I coverage Michael Monks, I'm smaryl

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Speaker 2: joining us right now is State Senator Tony Strickland, Republican,

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Speaker 2: in the State Senate District thirty six, And I was

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Speaker 2: just taking a look at your district, Senator, and it's

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Speaker 2: completely blown up. Your district is one of the one

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Speaker 2: that's going to be incredibly affected by this new map.

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Speaker 5: What does that mean to you?

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Speaker 12: You know, I get asked all the time how I'm

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Speaker 12: going to feel about having one of the most liberal

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Speaker 12: members of Congress, Robert Garcia, represent Huntington Beach in Newport

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Speaker 12: Beach conservative areas. And the biggest problem I have with

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Speaker 12: Prop fifty was That's my problem with Prop fifty is

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Speaker 12: now we have predetermined elections, people know who the winner

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Speaker 12: is before election day.

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Speaker 9: I think the biggest you know, obviously.

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Speaker 12: Gavin news Newsom's a winner tonight, but the biggest winner

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Speaker 12: will be Donald Trump and the House Republicans because what's

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Speaker 12: going to happen now is you're going to have states

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Speaker 12: like Florida, Missouri, Ohio, and everybody now is going to

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Speaker 12: rush to district and Jerry manner their states, and we'll

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Speaker 12: have predetermined elections across the country, which I think is

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Speaker 12: bad for Democrats, Independents, and Republicans. It's unfortunate. But the

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Speaker 12: Yes side did an effective job at China and say, hey,

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Speaker 12: you're going to stick it to Donald Trump by voting yes.

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Speaker 12: But I think he's one of the biggest winners tonight,

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Speaker 12: along with the Republicans in the House. A big reason

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Speaker 12: why Republicans in the House did not help in this

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Speaker 12: top fifty campaign, it's because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 12: they're going to actually end up it's a rallying cry.

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Speaker 12: They're going to end up with another probably fifteen twenty

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Speaker 12: seats in response to California.

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Speaker 4: But Senator, those seats won't be in California at least

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Speaker 4: for the time being. And how do you view that

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Speaker 4: affecting those voters those areas that have long been represented

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Speaker 4: by Republican members.

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Speaker 12: I feel for the voters of California. I feel, you know,

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Speaker 12: I think it's bad for Democrats, Independence and Republicans and

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Speaker 12: not have competitive races. I actually be a competition and

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Speaker 12: great success. I actually believe that you should have to

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Speaker 12: campaign on your ideas and earn the vote and earn

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Speaker 12: the voice to go back to Sacramento or Washington, DC.

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Speaker 12: Most of these races now are already predetermined, as you mentioned.

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Speaker 12: In my area, I'm going to be represented by Robert Garcia,

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Speaker 12: one of the more liberal members of Congress, in a

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Speaker 12: very concertive area. But look at northern California. Those folks

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Speaker 12: up in Modoc County, the very rural area, they're going

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Speaker 12: to be represented by an urban San Francisco member. There's

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Speaker 12: a district in Coronado and San Diego that's going around

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Speaker 12: two different districts in the Palm Springs, and one hundred

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Speaker 12: cities got split up in this map, and so it's unfortunate.

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Speaker 12: But one of the things I always I always try

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Speaker 12: to take the positive side, the balls in my hand

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Speaker 12: now to make sure that we work as hard as

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Speaker 12: possible to grow the numbers in the legislature, because, as

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Speaker 12: Ronald Reagan once said, there's nothing more permanent than a

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Speaker 12: temporary government program. I firmly believe the Democrats want to

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Speaker 12: get apology in the power to have elections that are predetermined.

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Speaker 12: They're going to want to keep doing this, and so

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Speaker 12: my fight is to make sure that we're within that

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Speaker 12: one third and the state Senate and the State Assembly

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Speaker 12: so they can't do a Prop fifty for the twenty

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Speaker 12: thirty census. And so I'll be working tiresly on recruiting

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Speaker 12: good candidates up and down state. We did pick up

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Speaker 12: two seats and two Assembly seats the last cycle. I

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Speaker 12: do think that the state's on the wrong track. And

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Speaker 12: now the balls in my hand and many others to

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Speaker 12: try to get good Canada to run for office and

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Speaker 12: try to bring some balance to California, because clearly very

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Speaker 12: disappointed with the kind of results. But I'm not surprised

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Speaker 12: because again the ads on the S side, everything that

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Speaker 12: was said on the S side was a reason to vote.

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Speaker 9: Now the Yes.

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Speaker 12: Side said that they were going to take the power

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Speaker 12: away from the politician, when they actually empowered the politician

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Speaker 12: on the S side, and they said they were going

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Speaker 12: to get you preserve their redistricting commission, which they now

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Speaker 12: move it away from the next two to three cycles

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Speaker 12: in congressional seats. But even the chair of the Elections

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Speaker 12: Committee and the Assembly said, we need to look at

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Speaker 12: doing this in twenty thirty for not just the congressional seats,

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Speaker 12: but for legislative seats. And so I'm going to work

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Speaker 12: as hard as I can can recruit it to make

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Speaker 12: sure that does not happen.

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Speaker 9: In two thousand and thirty.

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Speaker 2: State Senator Tony Strickland, a Republican in the Senate district

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Speaker 2: to thirty six, joining us right now in response to

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Speaker 2: Prop fifty passing, and it's going to redraw everything a

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Speaker 2: is He just pointed out his district is going to

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Speaker 2: be now represented by a liberal Democrat. He, of course

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Speaker 2: is a Republican. Senator Strickland. The Prop fifty is in

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Speaker 2: response to what happened in Texas. As you pointed out,

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Speaker 2: from a national standpoint, it may benefit the Republicans more

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Speaker 2: than it does the Democrats. You also made what I

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Speaker 2: think is a reasonable assumption that the Democrats are not

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Speaker 2: going to want to see those seats when this sunsets

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Speaker 2: or during the next census, and then redistricting.

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Speaker 5: Look, is there a.

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Speaker 2: Solution that eliminates all of the tit for tat that's

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Speaker 2: going on between the different states. I mean, would you

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Speaker 2: support or push where or say, a national independent redistricting

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Speaker 2: commission someone that looks at differently.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely, I think it's important. We had the gold standard

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Speaker 12: here in California where you had hundreds of hearings and

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Speaker 12: full transparency input from the citizens throughout the state of California.

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Speaker 5: Again, hundreds of.

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Speaker 12: Hearings, and they drew those masks in public in front

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Speaker 12: of everybody, and everybody who was on that commission had

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Speaker 12: to make a commitment that they would not run for office,

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Speaker 12: and so they couldn't draw the seats that they just

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Speaker 12: voted for for themselves. And so yes, I think we

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Speaker 12: should take the California system and make it a national

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Speaker 12: system because I think it's wrong for politicians to pick

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Speaker 12: their constituents. I think the constituents should pick their representatives.

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Speaker 12: And I believe that you should campaign on your ideas

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Speaker 12: and earned the votes of people instead of a predetermined

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Speaker 12: election where you know the winner before the election even starts.

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Speaker 4: Senator and our last minute here together, I just got

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Speaker 4: to ask you know, you're a Republican member of the

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Speaker 4: state legislature. This election, though it was to reform and

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Speaker 4: redraw congressional districts, likely in favor of Democratic candidates. This

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Speaker 4: was drawn up as a referendum on President Trump, but

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Speaker 4: that's what the campaign indicated. President Trump is a Republican

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Speaker 4: just like you. What is wrong with the Republican message

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Speaker 4: in California today? This was a blowout.

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Speaker 12: Senator Well, I contend that you know, we were winning

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Speaker 12: seats as Republicans. We picked up two seats in the

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Speaker 12: State's Family, we picked up seats in the state Senate.

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Speaker 12: We're doing extremely well. There's a district over in Imperial

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Speaker 12: County where it's a seventeen pointy Democratic advantage and we

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Speaker 12: won the seat. And I actually think more and more

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Speaker 12: people are come into our way. But let's not forget

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Speaker 12: time in California history since the Gold Rush, more people

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Speaker 12: are leaving the state than coming in. And I think

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Speaker 12: that's just based on the failed policies of our current

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Speaker 12: governor and our current legislature. Major companies have left the

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Speaker 12: state of California. And so, yes, was this a bad

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Speaker 12: night for Republicans in California.

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Speaker 9: Without question.

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Speaker 12: But I do believe that our best days in California

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Speaker 12: are in the future. And I do believe that we're

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Speaker 12: one leader away from prosperity in California. But we're clearly

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Speaker 12: on the wrong direction here in California. And the numbers

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Speaker 12: show that we have the highest energy costs. Our energy

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Speaker 12: electricity costs are fifty percent higher than the national average.

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Speaker 12: We have affordability crisis here in California. We have the

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Speaker 12: highest tax in California, highest gas prices in California. We

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Speaker 12: have the most homelessness in California, and more people are

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Speaker 12: leaving the state of California than coming in for the

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Speaker 12: first time since the gold Rush. I think we need

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Speaker 12: a different direction and I think we will get there,

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Speaker 12: and I think the best days of California in the future.

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Speaker 12: Bad night tonight, but I think the future is very

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Speaker 12: bright for the conservved message of Republican message in California,

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Speaker 12: because I think more and more people are seeing, especially

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Speaker 12: when you look at the fires that happened in Palisades,

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Speaker 12: the mismanagement that we've had in California, and I think

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Speaker 12: it doesn't mean they go to the Republicans. It means

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Speaker 12: that we can compete for those votes, and we've won seats.

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Speaker 12: We're overwhelming Democratic registration. A lot of districts in the

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Speaker 12: legislative races, and I think we're going to pick up

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Speaker 12: legislative seats in twenty twenty six, and I'm very optimistic

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Speaker 12: about the future.

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Speaker 2: State Senator Tony Strickland, Republican State Senate District thirty six

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Speaker 2: just got redistrict. As we would say, the Senator, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much. We do appreciate your time tonight. I

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Speaker 2: know it's been a rough night, but we appreciate you

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Speaker 2: taking time.

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Speaker 12: No, I appreciate you having me on as always and

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Speaker 12: very very grateful and I hope you have a wonderful.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, my friend. Thank you so much. Look forward

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Speaker 5: to talking to you again.

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Speaker 2: To see how I dropped my my national Redistricting Commission

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Speaker 2: idea right there in the middle of that interview.

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Speaker 5: I've been I've been sitting on that all night long. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: we probably don't mean that.

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Speaker 4: I think that's That's what we talked about very early

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Speaker 4: in our broadcast, was like, if you polled something like that,

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Speaker 4: I think it would do really well. Like let's just

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Speaker 4: get this stuff taken care of, let's have a national

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Speaker 4: standard and make people really campaign for their jobs.

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Speaker 2: Do you know it won't work. It won't work, And

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Speaker 2: I will tell you why it won't work. In just

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Speaker 2: a moment, we gotta check on news. First, it's a

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