Speaker 1: And we continue at twelve oh seven in the West
Speaker 1: on the John Phillips Show, mister Randy Waggs in Culver City.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can say, and we continue because we were
Speaker 2: here last night.
Speaker 1: And I was up early in the morning doing a
Speaker 1: hit on the radio talking about the election.
Speaker 2: John. It looks like, as we're still counting ballots, that
Speaker 2: it is a short thing that Javier Bessera is going
Speaker 2: into the runoff in November. And here's one thing you
Speaker 2: may not have known about Javier Besera. He's kind of creepy.
Speaker 3: The California Dream It's alive tonight and you see I
Speaker 3: get to hug it and kiss.
Speaker 1: It every night. Oh whoa, I don't want to know
Speaker 1: what that means. What do you think Tom Styer's doing
Speaker 1: at night?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean he definitely needed to to relieve some stress.
Speaker 2: His speech was very angry. He was very upset at
Speaker 2: all the corporations that spent against him, even though he
Speaker 2: spent way more than they did, so he probably needed
Speaker 2: to go get to Koreatown.
Speaker 1: And I'm Tom Steyer. I'm about to ride the team.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that all that guy does is
Speaker 1: go off on rich people and he's a billionaire. He's
Speaker 1: a self hating richie. He's like Clayton Bixby. Remember him.
Speaker 2: Oh, was that the the Dave Chappelle sketch the black
Speaker 2: white supremacist.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he is the billionaire Clayton Bixby.
Speaker 2: Well, Johnny, we have a lot of electure results as
Speaker 2: the counting continues, and the counting will continue for several days.
Speaker 1: How do we allow this to happen? I guess it's
Speaker 1: not just our roads that are third world? So is
Speaker 1: the way we count ballots. How do they do this
Speaker 1: in one day in Brazil but we can't do it here. Well,
Speaker 1: we allow people to sign up at the last minute,
Speaker 1: and we allow people to show up at the last minute,
Speaker 1: and then it takes a month to figure out who
Speaker 1: went wins the election.
Speaker 2: I mean, yes, the election gets certified in a month.
Speaker 2: That's true, and it's been true forever. It's been true everywhere.
Speaker 2: But the projections you can usually see out because most
Speaker 2: of the ballots are counted before the last minute. But
Speaker 2: from what we have right now, and these numbers will update. Currently,
Speaker 2: in the California governor's race, Steve Hilton in first place
Speaker 2: with one point three to eight million votes, Javier Bakaria
Speaker 2: in second place with one point two six million votes
Speaker 2: twenty seven percent Hilton twenty five percent Bisera, and then
Speaker 2: below him it's Tom Steyer with under a million votes
Speaker 2: so far at nineteen percent. Could those numbers change, possibly,
Speaker 2: but probably not.
Speaker 1: Well, go back to the LA Mayor's race the last
Speaker 1: time around, when we all went to bed thinking that
Speaker 1: it was Rick Caruso who was going to be the mayor,
Speaker 1: and then it was like a ten point swing.
Speaker 2: Well, if we had a ten point swing for Tom Steyer,
Speaker 2: then that would knock Besera out right. Now, Steve Hilton
Speaker 2: with the percentage of votes that he has, we'll see
Speaker 2: what happens now. It is true that these smaller, more
Speaker 2: Republican counties count their ballots faster. So maybe what was
Speaker 2: we're waiting to come in is a lot of Los Angeles,
Speaker 2: which is a heavily Besera area, the Bay Area, which
Speaker 2: is also a heavily Besera area. The only places where
Speaker 2: tom Styer has been leading so far is like Eureka.
Speaker 1: Okay, so think about this though for a second. Let's
Speaker 1: just assume that there's some avalanche of ballots that exist
Speaker 1: that we don't know about right now. In theory, the
Speaker 1: Democratic vote is going to be split between Bessarah and
Speaker 1: Steier and to a lesser extent, Mayhan, Porter, Vira Gosa,
Speaker 1: and Thurman.
Speaker 2: I mean barely.
Speaker 1: But he's not going to get one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the Democratic votes like he would if it was one
Speaker 1: on one. Just because a Democratic ballot comes in doesn't
Speaker 1: mean he's going to get that vote. It means he
Speaker 1: may get a portion of those votes, but he's not
Speaker 1: going to get all of them like he would into
Speaker 1: straight up Republican versus Democrat matchup.
Speaker 2: It could be one of the eighteen thousand people that
Speaker 2: voted for Eric Swalwell.
Speaker 1: That's true. Who the hell is voting for Eric Swalwell
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 2: You either have people that are so checked out they
Speaker 2: didn't know that story, or they took his side on
Speaker 2: the rape allegations.
Speaker 1: Imagine being that guy. Imagine taking up one morning. You're
Speaker 1: drinking your coffee, you're eating your cereal, you're looking at
Speaker 1: the morning paper, you have the Today Show on in
Speaker 1: the background, and you go, this state has a million
Speaker 1: in one problems. Homelessness, crime, the budget, affordability, you name it.
Speaker 1: We have a problem. You know who would be a
Speaker 1: great steward of this state to fix what's broken. A rapist,
Speaker 1: that's who. What California needs is someone who won't take
Speaker 1: no for an answer.
Speaker 2: I mean, currently it is zero point three seven percent
Speaker 2: of the vote, but that's something. And how about our
Speaker 2: poor girl, Katie Porter, who officially conceded last night, not
Speaker 2: even breaking five percent.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what do you think she's doing right now?
Speaker 1: Do you think she's punching holes in the wall or
Speaker 1: do you think she's watching more porn on the television
Speaker 1: in the living room.
Speaker 2: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots. Well, typically when
Speaker 2: you go through something like that, you got to let
Speaker 2: off some steam. And for some people the way you
Speaker 2: let off some steam is with some heated rivalry on HBO.
Speaker 2: Why do you have to watch porn in the living room?
Speaker 1: Well, in the old days, it would have been little
Speaker 1: Debbie to blow off some steam. But now that that
Speaker 1: is pharmaceutically prohibited, I don't know what she's gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm just glad I'm not Irvine right now.
Speaker 2: Also, one thing that at least as the as the
Speaker 2: numbers hold, and the numbers have been pretty close to
Speaker 2: what the polling has looked like over the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, it doesn't look like at least at this point,
Speaker 2: there's a whole lot of danger of a D lockout
Speaker 2: or an R lockout. No, No, And Tom Steyer though,
Speaker 2: claims that he is not dropping out of this election
Speaker 2: until he is officially knocked out of the race by
Speaker 2: the Secretary Area State. And you look at the betting
Speaker 2: markets which are still going on right now, and Spencer
Speaker 2: Pratt is certainly a heavy favorite to move on in November.
Speaker 2: Steve Hilton is a heavy favorite to move on in November,
Speaker 2: but they aren't at one hundred percent yet.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: And in fact, on Calshi, which this is what the
Speaker 2: news organizations do, we go to the betting markets. CNN
Speaker 2: does it, so we might as well. Tom Steyer currently
Speaker 2: still has a twenty six percent odds to advance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tell you something. If you really want
Speaker 1: to destroy public confidence in the elections here in California,
Speaker 1: you have two candidates who are up by like ten
Speaker 1: points on election night and then a month later you go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that guy lost.
Speaker 2: Well, it's been working that way for a while in California,
Speaker 2: and I don't see that changing anytime soon, but at
Speaker 2: least for right now in the California governor's race, with
Speaker 2: the amount of results that we have in Steve Hilton
Speaker 2: is in first place with twenty seven percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: That we'll probably go down a bit, but it looks
Speaker 2: like he's making the top two.
Speaker 1: Well, here's another thing to think about. If you're worried
Speaker 1: about shenanigans, like I know many of you are, and
Speaker 1: I am too, one of the things that would prevent
Speaker 1: that from happening in this particular cycle is that I
Speaker 1: don't think the Democrats want a Democrat on Democrat matchup
Speaker 1: in November, particularly against Tom Steyer, because what would you
Speaker 1: would end up with is a very rich Democrat spending
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to knock Besarah out and destroy his reputation,
Speaker 1: and then you'd have the unions and the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: interest groups all getting behind Besserah to try to keep
Speaker 1: him in the catbird seat, So it would cost them
Speaker 1: a fortune, it would result in his reputation being ruined,
Speaker 1: and it would be a never ending nightmare that would
Speaker 1: go on through November. So I don't even think they
Speaker 1: want that.
Speaker 2: There is a finite amount of money that can be
Speaker 2: raised that can be spent on all kinds of races.
Speaker 2: As we go into November, nobody wants to spend any
Speaker 2: money if they don't have to on the California governor's race,
Speaker 2: and if it is Besara versus Hilton, they don't really
Speaker 2: have to spend a lot of money. The more I
Speaker 2: watched Bessera, and I watched him on television last night,
Speaker 2: and we've certainly been watching him throughout this election, he
Speaker 2: is the California Joe Biden. You go back to twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: when Joe Biden initially won that Democratic primary, he was
Speaker 2: not the guy who looked like he was going to
Speaker 2: win when that thing started. Oh and in fact, he
Speaker 2: came in fifth place in the Iowa caucus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifth place in the first one. Then he went
Speaker 1: and got wiped out in New Hampshire, and then he
Speaker 1: got wiped out in Nevada, and then it all came
Speaker 1: down to South Carolina. And what saved him in South
Speaker 1: Carolina was that Jim Clyburn endorsed him and through the
Speaker 1: black vote to Biden, which in South Carolina is a
Speaker 1: sizable portion of the Democratic primary. And then after that,
Speaker 1: a bunch of Southern states voted also with large black populations,
Speaker 1: and it was black voters that saved Joe Biden. They
Speaker 1: voted for him over Kamala. By the way, Well.
Speaker 2: I think Kamala had dropped out before the first vote
Speaker 2: was even cast.
Speaker 1: But yes, that is true. Yes, so he was just
Speaker 1: the sole survivor. He was last man standing. He wasn't
Speaker 1: the one that they wanted. He was the one that
Speaker 1: they ended up with. And you look at Besserah. Nobody
Speaker 1: wanted him. The people who have worked with him throughout
Speaker 1: the years in Congress, in the Biden administration, they all
Speaker 1: think he doesn't have two brain cells to rub together,
Speaker 1: and they're perfectly happy to tell that to any reporter
Speaker 1: with a pen and paper, and those stories you've been
Speaker 1: all over the place ever since Besarah became the guy.
Speaker 1: But go back to the beginning of that election. They
Speaker 1: all thought Kamala was going to run and it was
Speaker 1: going to be a coronation, and then she took forever
Speaker 1: because she's selfish, and then decided that she wasn't going
Speaker 1: to do it. And then Alex Padilla was the guy.
Speaker 1: Everyone thought he was going to jump in the race
Speaker 1: and he was going to be the next governor, and
Speaker 1: then he took forever to decide that he wasn't going
Speaker 1: to do it. And then it became Eric Swallwell, and
Speaker 1: he ran as the guy who knew nothing about California
Speaker 1: but was the number one Trump hater in the country,
Speaker 1: and that was good enough for them. And then we
Speaker 1: found out that Eric's Well has some let's call them
Speaker 1: personal problems, and we had story after story after story,
Speaker 1: and it became such an avalanche that he had to
Speaker 1: get out of the race. And now he might go
Speaker 1: to prison if he gets charged with one of these allegations.
Speaker 1: So then the Democrats go, okay, well, what do we do.
Speaker 1: We have Tom Steyer, we like his money, but we
Speaker 1: hate his guds, and we have Katie Porter, who you
Speaker 1: think might kick you in the crotch at any given moment.
Speaker 1: And they knew they didn't want either one of them.
Speaker 1: So your options were Mayhan, Bessarah Thurman, or via re Goosa.
Speaker 1: Viaa Goosa was too long in the tooth. Tony Thurman
Speaker 1: never got beyond one percent, and Matt Mayhan is a
Speaker 1: moderate and competent which the Democrats have no tolerance for.
Speaker 1: So that left them with Besarah. It was a marriage
Speaker 1: of convenience. It wasn't that they fell in love with him.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that they thought that he had the answers
Speaker 1: to California's problems. That's how they ended up with him.
Speaker 1: And now that he's the guy, and he just kind
Speaker 1: of got there by being the last man standing, the
Speaker 1: same way Joe Biden did. I get the distinct impression
Speaker 1: they're going to run him like Joe Biden. They're going
Speaker 1: to put him in the basement and you're barely going
Speaker 1: to see him the next several months, and they're going
Speaker 1: to come up with all kinds of excuses as to
Speaker 1: why he can't debate, as to why he can't sit
Speaker 1: down for interviews with reporters, because every time the guy
Speaker 1: does that, the needle goes off the record. Don't forget.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't let him speak at the press conferences in
Speaker 1: Washington when he was Secretary of Health and Human Services
Speaker 1: because they thought he was more prone to gaffs than Biden.
Speaker 1: Scrub it. So they looked at him right the eye
Speaker 1: and they go, you're too dumb to talk. We're gonna
Speaker 1: let Joe do it. And now this is the guy
Speaker 1: that's the nominee. So in a democratic state. To get
Speaker 1: him over the finish line, what you have to do
Speaker 1: is portray him as the generic Democrat. If you just
Speaker 1: say he's a generic Democrat and he's going to do
Speaker 1: and say whatever it is Democrats are doing and saying
Speaker 1: that's good enough for him to win. The risk for
Speaker 1: him in his campaign is if you put him out there,
Speaker 1: if he sits down in these interviews and delivers performances
Speaker 1: like his performance with KTLA, and he goes out there
Speaker 1: and makes a fool of himself, then he opens up
Speaker 1: the door for criticism. Then he starts creating liability that
Speaker 1: otherwise wouldn't exist. So my guess is the way they're
Speaker 1: going to run him is they're gonna put him in
Speaker 1: front of small crowds, very friendly crowds. He's not going
Speaker 1: to debate, or if he does, it'll be one and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on a Saturday when I don't know,
Speaker 1: a Sunday when the super Bowl's going on or something,
Speaker 1: and you're just not gonna see him. That's what I
Speaker 1: would do if I was running him. Do you think
Speaker 1: they're going to put him out there in a blitz Randy.
Speaker 2: Well, it opens you up to strange statements like this.
Speaker 3: The California Dream. It's alive tonight and you see I
Speaker 3: get to hug.
Speaker 1: It and kiss it every night. And if you're Steve Hilton,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you drag him out of the
Speaker 1: basement and force him to sit down interviews and debates.
Speaker 1: But that's what he's going to have to figure out.
Speaker 1: He's going to have to figure out how to get
Speaker 1: Besarah out there as much and as often as possible.
Speaker 1: And maybe you play on his ego and you're get
Speaker 1: in his head and you start putting stories out there
Speaker 1: that it's his handlers that don't trust him, so they
Speaker 1: don't want him doing interviews, and you make sure that
Speaker 1: he reads that in the paper. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: that is the sixty four thousand dollars question that the
Speaker 1: Hilton people are gonna have to wrestle with, assuming that
Speaker 1: a month later they don't find votes that knocks him
Speaker 1: in the third place. So that's what we know about
Speaker 1: last night's election. If you went a weigh in on
Speaker 1: what you saw and heard last night, give us a
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Speaker 1: both Spencer Pratt and Steve Hilton. If you missed those interviews,
Speaker 1: you definitely want to check out the podcast and find
Speaker 1: out what you missed out on.
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Speaker 2: can see what they sounded like right before the votes
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Speaker 4: Kirk, Hello, Hello, gentlemen. Yeah, I was calling about the
Speaker 4: presumptive winners and a change, a slight change of the
Speaker 4: format for the debates. First of all, I think that
Speaker 4: they need to challenge them. They can't double dog dare them,
Speaker 4: but they can challenge them if they just invite them
Speaker 4: to do it, they can say no. But Sarah doesn't
Speaker 4: have excuse not to go. He doesn't even have a job.
Speaker 4: And I don't know if there's going to be any
Speaker 4: kind of a wedding reception in Uganda for bas to
Speaker 4: go to. But the change would be there'd be five
Speaker 4: topic three debates and have five topics that only the
Speaker 4: moderators will know, and they get to have a half
Speaker 4: hour to concentrate on that particular topic. So that way
Speaker 4: it tests the knowledge of the candidates on each thing,
Speaker 4: so they don't stand their And but you've got to
Speaker 4: get us some strong moderators who don't let them go off.
Speaker 4: And well there's all Trump's falters this is that. No,
Speaker 4: this is what we're asking because this is what you're
Speaker 4: gonna do.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, I don't see that happening. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you why. Last time around, when Newsom ran for reelection
Speaker 1: against Brian Dolly, I think Dolly got one debate and
Speaker 1: Newsom wasn't even willing to do that until he really
Speaker 1: got pressured by the news media. And if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: and Randy you can look this up to fact check me.
Speaker 1: I think what they did was they did a debate
Speaker 1: at a public radio station on a weekday morning.
Speaker 2: I think it was on Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a debate over whether or not they'd
Speaker 1: even let cameras in there. He did not want it
Speaker 1: on television. He only wanted it on public radio. And
Speaker 1: that was it. And I believe he did the same
Speaker 1: thing against John Cox. And when you have a Democratic incumbent,
Speaker 1: either in the Senate or in the House of Representatives
Speaker 1: here in California, where it is a heavy the Democrat
Speaker 1: is a heavy favorite most of the time, they just
Speaker 1: refuse to debate altogether.
Speaker 4: Well, to get to that point is a sense it's
Speaker 4: going back to grade school. But what Pratt and Hilton
Speaker 4: have to do Basically, if they say they don't want
Speaker 4: to debate, just say, what are you chicken? What are
Speaker 4: you afraid of? You? You don't want your inadequacies exposed.
Speaker 4: You're here to serve the people. The people have to
Speaker 4: know what you think needs to be done, not just
Speaker 4: your platitudes and your canned answers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is the pickle that they're in.
Speaker 1: How do you get in their head to get them
Speaker 1: to debate in front of the people California so you
Speaker 1: can expose their flaws? My guess would be to appeal
Speaker 1: to their narcissism and hope that that works out. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the call, sir. All right, let's dip into
Speaker 1: Steve Hilton's speech last night before a very warm audience
Speaker 1: in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 2: This was Steve Hilton after it looked like he was
Speaker 2: definitely making the top two. It's not one hundred percent sure,
Speaker 2: but it sure is looking that way.
Speaker 5: Thank you. We're not quite there. He's got a hat
Speaker 5: saying Governor Hilton, that's November. Right. So, so about a
Speaker 5: week ago, when we were planning this event, I wanted
Speaker 5: to put a message on the stage here and I
Speaker 5: wrote these words, and I thought Is that a little
Speaker 5: premature to write the words change is coming. I don't
Speaker 5: think so, because change is coming.
Speaker 2: Change except for pennies. We're in a shortage.
Speaker 1: Signs all over the bank.
Speaker 5: Change is coming to California. Changes coming to California, and
Speaker 5: it's long over due.
Speaker 2: I want to just say, did this rally have a
Speaker 2: two drink minimum?
Speaker 1: Listen? When you go to these parties, you never know
Speaker 1: when your candidate's gonna get on stage, and you have
Speaker 1: to kill a lot of time. And I don't kill
Speaker 1: time at hotels without hanging out at the bar. I
Speaker 1: can promise you that.
Speaker 5: I want to just say something from my heart to
Speaker 5: every single person who's voted for me.
Speaker 1: We're not.
Speaker 5: We're not they yet, but it's looking good.
Speaker 1: It looks bad.
Speaker 2: Everyone who wanted to speak to the crowds that went
Speaker 2: to their watch party is are like, well, we're not
Speaker 2: going to really know for like a week, but this
Speaker 2: is what we think.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's address that here for a second. Because when
Speaker 1: Shirley Weber went on TV yesterday our obstinate California's Secretary
Speaker 1: of State, and she had the surly look on her
Speaker 1: face and she essentially said, I am not going to
Speaker 1: rush myself counting these ballots, and it's going to take
Speaker 1: as long as it's going to take. And that's the
Speaker 1: way it's going to be. And that's the attitude that
Speaker 1: they have in California. Don't rush me, I'm going to
Speaker 1: do it my way. Okay, they're doing that in the
Speaker 1: name of democracy. We love democracy so much, we're going
Speaker 1: to take forever to count all the votes. Well, how
Speaker 1: is it democratic? How is it saving democracy to wait
Speaker 1: a month to tell people who won the election? Because
Speaker 1: what you're doing is you're undermining the democracy. If they
Speaker 1: could do it in third world countries in one night,
Speaker 1: why can't they do it in the home of Silicon Valley.
Speaker 1: The answer is they choose not to. And what happens
Speaker 1: when you do that is you undermine confidence in the system.
Speaker 1: You think that people respect the fact that you're taking
Speaker 1: this long account the votes, and that that will make
Speaker 1: people believe more in the democratic institution. Know what happens
Speaker 1: is you make people think that you're up to no good,
Speaker 1: you're up to funny business and you're trying to pull
Speaker 1: a fast one. I would also add that if you're
Speaker 1: a candidate like Steve Hilton or Spencer Pratt or any
Speaker 1: other underdog that put their name on the ballot yesterday.
Speaker 1: Having immediate results, having reasonable results come out hurts you
Speaker 1: a lot. Why because if Steve Hilton had the front
Speaker 1: page of the La Times Today and the San Francisco
Speaker 1: Chronicle and the Sacramento b with his picture on it
Speaker 1: saying Bessarah and Hilton move on in November, guess what
Speaker 1: happens to his fundraising. It shoots through the roof. People
Speaker 1: get excited, people write checks, people check him out on
Speaker 1: his website. People are feeling very generous because they're caught
Speaker 1: up in the emotions. They're caught up in the mood.
Speaker 1: They feel optimistic, and when you say we're not going
Speaker 1: to know for sure for a month, that makes people think, well,
Speaker 1: I'll check in later on and if he gets there,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll write him a check. But thirty days from now,
Speaker 1: you're worried about something else and the election was forever ago.
Speaker 1: So you deny them that moment in the sun that candidates,
Speaker 1: particularly underdog candidates, rely on to make things work, and
Speaker 1: they never get that back. They never get that back.
Speaker 1: You can't recreate this. This is something that happens organically
Speaker 1: where everyone just gets excited all at once. But just
Speaker 1: think about the election on Friday. On Friday, it's going
Speaker 1: to feel like forever ago. Well, imagine what it's going
Speaker 1: to feel like thirty days from now, or thirty seven
Speaker 1: days from now, or however long it is they have
Speaker 1: to count all the votes. I would also add this,
Speaker 1: if you have a purple district for state assembly or
Speaker 1: Congress or whatever. I live in a purple district. My
Speaker 1: assemblyman barely gets by by the skin of his teeth
Speaker 1: every single time. And the first time he got elected,
Speaker 1: it took the full thirty seven days to figure out
Speaker 1: that he won. So what happened So he didn't get
Speaker 1: to go to orientation, so when they all picked which
Speaker 1: office they want, he got the broom closet. When they
Speaker 1: were all picking what committees they got to go on,
Speaker 1: he wasn't in the room to say I want that
Speaker 1: one because he wasn't elected yet. When it comes time
Speaker 1: to hire staff, he doesn't get first pick because he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the authority to start giving people jobs. So
Speaker 1: then what happens. Everything gets started and he's trying to
Speaker 1: figure out where the bathroom is because he didn't get
Speaker 1: all the time in the world to do that like
Speaker 1: everyone else. How is that democracy. What you're doing is
Speaker 1: you're disenfranchising everyone who lives in that district because you
Speaker 1: can't do your job in a timely manner. This has
Speaker 1: to get fixed. And I know the Democrats benefit from this,
Speaker 1: but it has to be driving them crazy too, because
Speaker 1: you can't plan on anything. There's a district in northern California.
Speaker 1: You were following that last night, Randy, the Kevin Kylie
Speaker 1: district where right now the Democrats are locked out of that.
Speaker 2: This is very interesting if you look at District five,
Speaker 2: the race in Congress, the one where Kevin Kylie was
Speaker 2: set to be Prop fifty although he has reregistered as
Speaker 2: a no party preference. The thought was, well, there's two
Speaker 2: Democrats running, there's a couple of Republicans running. Kevin Kylie
Speaker 2: right now looks like he's in the top two, and
Speaker 2: then a Democrats in the second place, although Richard Pan
Speaker 2: could catch up, but no.
Speaker 1: Way Republicans in the second place. It would be a
Speaker 1: Democratic lockout. Use me, that's what That's what I meant.
Speaker 2: Michael Stansfield is in second place as a Republican, Richard
Speaker 2: Pan's right behind him right now. It could be a
Speaker 2: lockout in a district that was supposed to be one
Speaker 2: of the Prop fifty targets, which by the way, the
Speaker 2: Sacramento district attorney that ran Tinhoe ten percent, and.
Speaker 1: The Democrats have to be having heart attacks up there,
Speaker 1: and they are trying to figure out, okay, well, when
Speaker 1: is the next batch of ballot's going to be counted?
Speaker 1: And in those particular areas they only do it like
Speaker 1: once or twice a week.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a while. Even for LA We're getting
Speaker 2: like one update at four thirty pm every day for
Speaker 2: the next week or so.
Speaker 1: This is so stupid. And again, we choose to live
Speaker 1: like this. We don't have to live like this. We
Speaker 1: choose to live like this. Why I don't know, but
Speaker 1: we just do. Eight hundred two two two five two
Speaker 1: two two is the telephone number one eight hundred two
Speaker 1: to two five two two two the fixed California hour coming
Speaker 1: up after the news and one. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: back to Steve Hilton speech last night in Orange County.
Speaker 5: It looks very much, it looks very much as if
Speaker 5: Californias really will have the chance to vote for change
Speaker 5: in November.
Speaker 4: Un take.
Speaker 5: On, Take our state and take our state in a
Speaker 5: new direction, a fresh a fresh talk for US state,
Speaker 5: which is long overdue. But I just want to say
Speaker 5: something to every single person who voted for me, and
Speaker 5: every single person who voted in this election, whether.
Speaker 2: You which was not that many Californians. I think we're
Speaker 2: at like twenty three percent right now. Maybe that gets
Speaker 2: up to at best thirty maybe thirty five if there
Speaker 2: are really a lot of last minute votes. But think
Speaker 2: about that. Even if we're at thirty five, that means
Speaker 2: sixty five percent of eligible voters said nah, Love Island
Speaker 2: is on.
Speaker 1: And it also just goes to show you because in California,
Speaker 1: we're we're a blue state where Democrats outnumber Republicans and
Speaker 1: nothing Republicans can do about that. They're just they're outnumbered. However,
Speaker 1: if every single registered Republican voter just filled out their
Speaker 1: ballot and sent it in, they'd win elections.
Speaker 2: Currently, as the numbers stand out, you've got about almost
Speaker 2: thirty percent of Republicans at this point sent in their ballots,
Speaker 2: So seventy percent of registered Republicans would be if that
Speaker 2: was added right now, that would be double what the
Speaker 2: Democrats have turned in double. But no, they vote a
Speaker 2: little higher than the Democrats, but not that much higher.
Speaker 2: There is still a massive wave of apathy throughout the state.
Speaker 2: And don't get me started on my people. Those no
Speaker 2: party preferencers.
Speaker 1: Well, what's wild to me? No party preference people, some
Speaker 1: of them just have no politics. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: not if you don't have an ideology as to how
Speaker 1: the world runs, you're not paying attention to politics.
Speaker 2: Some people register that way because they think they'll get
Speaker 2: less mail, and it turns out they get more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because both sides want you, and most of the
Speaker 1: time it's a soft Democrat or a self Republican, but
Speaker 1: they break from the party on one or two things
Speaker 1: and because of that they don't feel comfortable associating with them.
Speaker 1: But they know how they vote, and they vote that
Speaker 1: way more often than not. But what's wild to me
Speaker 1: is that you will have people who will wear the
Speaker 1: make America Great Again hat or put the sticker on
Speaker 1: their car or whatever, do those sorts of things, and
Speaker 1: then not fill out the ballot and send it in
Speaker 1: when it counts. I don't understand that behavior at all.
Speaker 1: It's like they understand that if they wear the hat,
Speaker 1: they send the message that's fine, but you also have
Speaker 1: to fill out your ballot and send it in. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people out there, seventy percent that
Speaker 1: just can't make that connection.
Speaker 2: Politics is not a spectator sport. It is a team sport,
Speaker 2: and you're all expected to play in the game, and
Speaker 2: the vast majority of people in this state from all
Speaker 2: the parties don't.
Speaker 1: But you think about it, though, how often do you
Speaker 1: open up your Facebook feed or one of your social
Speaker 1: media feeds and you see people putting provocative political things
Speaker 1: on there, And then you go back and you look
Speaker 1: at these numbers and you go, oh, seventy percent of
Speaker 1: those idiots didn't even fill out a ballot.
Speaker 2: Well, we've said it before and we'll say it again.
Speaker 2: Social media is not representative of real life, no, but.
Speaker 1: People think it is that. I think that's part of
Speaker 1: the reason. I think that is part of the reason
Speaker 1: that participation is so low in this state, because people think, Okay,
Speaker 1: I put the sign up in the yard, or I
Speaker 1: wore the hat, or I put the post up on Facebook,
Speaker 1: that's good enough. And maybe you're influencing what your friends
Speaker 1: and family think, or maybe you're pissing them off, and
Speaker 1: that's the point. I don't know, but the only way
Speaker 1: to have your voice heard officially is to fill out
Speaker 1: your ballot. I guess you can write a check and
Speaker 1: that counts too, But filling out your ballot is something
Speaker 1: that every citizen can do. Every time we have an election,
Speaker 1: and seventy percent choose not to, and we.
Speaker 2: Said we were going to make it easier. It has
Speaker 2: never been easier to vote in the state of California.
Speaker 2: Everyone gets their ballot, whether they're requested or not, and
Speaker 2: they have a month to fill it out. And that
Speaker 2: has not increased turnout.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 5: Whether you voted for me or not, I am here
Speaker 5: for you, for every single one of you.
Speaker 2: Because.
Speaker 5: I have to tell you, it's the greatest owner of mine.
Speaker 2: Even the Bianco bros.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're going to be best friends real soon. You watch.
Speaker 5: I have to tell you, it's the greatest owner of
Speaker 5: my life. To stand before you now, well over one
Speaker 5: million Californians have put their faith in me. The number
Speaker 5: is rising. But here's what I want to say, as
Speaker 5: someone who is a new American citizen, so proud, so
Speaker 5: proud to be an American, so proud to be a Californian.
Speaker 5: What an incredible honor the first time I've run for office,
Speaker 5: over a million people and rising voting for me to
Speaker 5: take this incredible state in a new direction.
Speaker 2: Well, and we heard it last night from our friend
Speaker 2: Phil Teresi over at KMJ. Like, Hilton campaigned up and
Speaker 2: down the state and went everywhere, and even Bianco didn't
Speaker 2: do that in places where he would have been very popular,
Speaker 2: like the Central Valley.
Speaker 1: No, Steve Hilton worked this race and worked it very
Speaker 1: hard for a very long time. And we asked Phil
Speaker 1: specifically about the Central Valley because that's where he broadcasts.
Speaker 1: But he was in San Francisco, he was in the
Speaker 1: East Bay, he was in the Coachella Valley, he was
Speaker 1: in the Inland Empire. He was all over this state
Speaker 1: and clearly that paid off well.
Speaker 2: And every single time he was booked on this show,
Speaker 2: he showed up.
Speaker 1: That's true. All Right, We've got two more hours coming
Speaker 1: up on the John Phillips Show, the Fixed California Hours Next,
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