WEBVTT - The Polls Show A Possible Karen Bass Knockout 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.400 And we continue at two five in the afternoon on 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.880 the John Phillips Show, Mister Randy Weggs and Culver City. 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.520 Here we are, John, just a couple of days before 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:13.960 the end of election season, and California voters are finally 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.119 in the double digits with twelve percent of ballots return. 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:25.120 The city of Oakland is at eight percent. Let's see 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:27.160 how the city of la is doing, because they just 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.440 put an update out about an hour ago. I get 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.960 these updates texted to my phone. Let's go to the 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.239 city of Los Angeles and see how many ballots have 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.000 been turned in, because this is the race that everyone's 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:42.040 paying attention to. With Spencer Pratt ten percent. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.879 All right, Let's just pick a few cities here and 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.920 see which cities are performing better than others. Let's start 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:54.440 out with Danville, which is an affluent, white collar portion 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:58.600 of the East Bay in northern California. How are they 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.680 doing compared to the state numbers? 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:07.319 All right, in Danville, California, DA. And where is dan 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:12.680 Where is Danville? I'm not saying Danville. Is Danville a city? 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:18.480 It is? I mean I've heard n Creek that's nearby. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.399 All right, Let's try Walnut Creek all the way at 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.600 the bottom of the list. You know, Danville might be unincorporated. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.600 Let's see Walnut Creek. You say Walnut Creek in the 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.400 East Bay. Sometimes you have to click on it twice. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.160 Come on, give me Walnut Creek. Everyone, give me Walnut Creek. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.920 Walnut Creek is at nineteen percent of ballots returned, way 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:42.920 above the average. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.040 Okay, so they're doing pretty good at Walnut Creek. Let's 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.000 check a town in Orange County. How about Huntington Beach. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:54.200 That's a very politically active city, a big city in 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.800 Orange County, certainly one that frequently pops up in the 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.600 news on a regular basis. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:02.200 How is turnout there? 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:08.080 Let's check in Orange County in Huntington Beach. The current 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:12.680 turnout numbers are nineteen percent. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.600 All right, they're doing pretty good. Now, Let's check one 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.240 in the Inland Empire. How about Rancho Mirage right outside 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:21.360 of Palm Springs. 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.600 All right, the city of Rancho Mirage got to hit 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.200 it twice, because that's the way this app works. But 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.920 we're scrolling down to the RS and we go to 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:36.120 Rancho Mirage and we're at twenty nine percent. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:38.320 Okay, that's pretty good. 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.600 All right, what portion of the electorate in Rancho Mirage 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.679 is in sixty five plus. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:48.680 One hundred percent? And then me it's actually eighty percent. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.800 All right, So that's how turnout is looking statewide. And Randy, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.640 a whole bunch of polls just dropped, not just for 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.280 the gubernatorial race, but the LA Mayor's race as well. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.200 And for more on these polls, we go to NBC LA. 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.560 So new polls are sizing up races for California governor 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.760 and LA mayor and the results take a look at 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.120 this may surprise you. For the mayor's race, challengers Nithia 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.440 Rahman and Spencer Pratch closed the gap dramatically on Mayor 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:23.400 Karen bass. 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.960 It's pretty much according to this latest poll. And there 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.320 hasn't been a lot of polling in the LA Mayor's race, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.360 but the latest poll shows pretty much all three top 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.760 candidates within the margin of each other, which is dangerous 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.800 because a flip of a coin could cost you being 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.880 on the November ballot. Well, and here's what's interesting, at 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.120 least according to this poll, this poll has Karen Bassett 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.320 like twenty five, and then Nitia and Spencer Prattle like 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.880 a twenty two and twenty one. The other Socialist in 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.200 the race, Ray Huang, who is the other DSA member, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.840 She's we got nine percent. So if she wasn't in 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.960 this race, is it possible that Nythia would be the 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:06.640 front runner. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.920 It also goes to show you what kind of uphill 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.400 climb Spencer Pratt would have if he makes the November ballot, 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.680 because he's going to have to go out and get 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.160 votes that went to other candidates in the primary. And 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.640 if other candidates in the primary who are generating support 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.719 are to the left of Nythia Rahmen, that's going to 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:27.680 be a tall order. 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.760 We have Team Courage for more context and reaction to 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.760 these new poll results. Want to check in with NBC 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.000 force Cornan Nolan and the race for La mayor Conan 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.120 to talk about it. Change here, Nythia Rahman, way up. Now, 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:41.120 what does this tell you? 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.280 Yeah, in that race and the race for governor are 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.320 very interesting. These are two highly respected polls. In one 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.240 that race for governor appears to be cementing. However, the 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.720 other pole indicates the race for mayor of La has 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.839 never been closer and could be an election day jump ball. Now, first, 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.760 the survey, which is. 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:01.719 Damned funny for a race that is an incumbents race. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:06.400 It goes to show you how everyone, well mostly everyone, 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.280 seems to understand that Karen bass is a complete train wreck. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.120 Now, first, the survey from the Public Policy Institute of California. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.880 Former HHS Secretary Javier Vsera now in first place, three 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.320 points ahead of Republican Steve Hilton, and more importantly for Vissera, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:25.320 eight points in front of rival Tom Steyer, the billionaire candidate. 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:30.279 Two hundred and thirteen million dollars buys you third place. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:35.599 But all of these candidates, statistically speaking, are within the 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.799 margin of era of one another, which means that race 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.799 is right now a three way tie. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.799 Billionaire climate activists has spent over two hundred million dollars 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:48.159 on his campaign. Styr seems to have stalled, which is 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.200 why he released two more new negative campaign adds today 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.359 in the effort to draw down Bessera's numbers. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.719 But in the race for mayor of la. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.760 You know, there's all these strategists who are you, coming 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.560 up of all kinds of idiot theories and social media, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.920 and they're all pretty much saying, now, what Styer should 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.960 have done instead of buying all these anti bisera ads 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.919 is he should have bought a bunch of ads elevating Bianco. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.279 Oh, that was the play for him. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.400 If he would have done that, It's very possible that 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.120 it could have been a double d. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:23.440 Well. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.640 It goes to show you how Silicon Valley screwed up 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.320 to because Silicon Valley should have done ads lifting Bianco up, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.640 and they should have done ads lifting Viera Gosa up 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.280 and Mayhan. So you end up with a Democratic lockout 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.280 on the November ballot. Once it became clear that Mayhan 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.680 wasn't going to work out, they needed to pivot and 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.880 move on to Plan B. And Silicon Valley never moved 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.320 on to Plan B. They just kept doubling down on 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.800 Matt Mayhan even when it became obvious that he wasn't 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.880 going to get elected. But poor Mayhan, that common sense 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:01.800 got you nowhere. 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.680 But in the race for mayor of la it is 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.640 stunned City Hall. This poll by the Center for Governmental 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.720 Studies at UC Berkeley, sponsored by The La Times, support 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.560 for Mayor Karen Bass seems to have stalled, and that 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:20.320 Councilwoman Nitia Raman has recovered from her uneven debate performance. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.560 That's a very nice way to put it. You are 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.880 in the room Conan, and. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.000 It's just a point behind. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.640 Spencer Pratt, the former reality TV star who has waged 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.920 a remarkable viral video campaign, is within striking distance at 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.360 twenty two percent, and if you factor in the three 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.560 percent margin of air, frankly, all three may have a 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.240 legitimate claim to first place. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.960 It is very possible. There are several different possibilities here. One, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.960 Karen Bass could be in the runoff but not be 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:53.800 the top vote getter. But it is also very possible 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:57.200 if you look at this poll, that Karen Bass could 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.600 get knocked out on Tuesday because it could be Basen Ramen. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.880 Excuse me, you could be Spencer Pratt and Ramen. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.400 That is a possibility, and it's also a possibility that 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.240 it could take us a month to realize that's what happened. 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:12.840 That'll be fun, of course. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.240 The goal is to survive to the general election by 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.000 finishing in one of the two top spots. Dan Schnerd 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:21.480 teaches political communication at USC and cal Berkeley. 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:26.800 Let's remember how boy everyone is doing statewide. Now. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.120 You can't just do one school, you gotta do two. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.800 You can't just do one radio station. You gotta do two. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:39.440 Let's remember how extraordinary a situation it is when an 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.400 incumbent mayor an incumbent office holder is drawing less than 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:44.560 thirty percent of the polls. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:49.880 Well, you say extraordinary, But this same scenario happened with 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.880 Eric Adams up in New York very recently, like last year. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.120 Well, and it happened in LA with Jim Hahn. Remember 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:01.600 when he ran for reelection and he was wildly unpopular. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.520 He did make it to the November ballot, but he 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.640 got blown out by Via Ragosa when he ran in 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:08.199 the general. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.040 Bass's poll numbers have not moved at all over the 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.120 last several weeks, which means. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.199 Well, and if you start in a lowe number and 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.199 you're the known entity, that's not good, no. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.960 Because people understand that she's a complete and total train. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.920 Wrack, which means that there is a very heart. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.480 It was different in twenty twenty two. Both Bass and 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.080 Caruso were unknown entities, and she could claim that she 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.920 had all this experience that would serve her in the job. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.320 But now we've had three and a half years of this. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.679 If you're feeling down, if you're feeling blue, let's get. 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.960 Help for you and She could say all she wants 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.520 that she's cut homelessness down, nobody believes it. She could 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.280 say crime is down, nobody believes it. And under her 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.440 watch the ten Freeway melted and the Palisades was destroyed. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.239 And no one went to jail for melting the freeway 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.360 even though it was done on tape. 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:04.720 Which means that there is a very hard ceiling on 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:09.080 her level of support and a very broad dissatisfaction with 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:13.800 her time in office. Bass is still a slight favorite 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.560 to make it into the runoff against either Ramed. 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.480 It would be as much as I don't want to 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.040 see a Ramen versus Pratt, because I think Ramen would 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.400 be a much more disastrous mayor than the one we 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.319 currently have. There is something that would be so delicious 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.760 about Karen Bass finding out that she's getting fired in November. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:33.760 In June. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.800 Well, and it also wouldn't be without president I mean, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.640 don't forget you mentioned Eric Adams. Okay, well, there was 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:45.960 another complete disaster democrat mayor of a big city, Chicago, 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.160 when that gremlin was mayor, and then she got voted out, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:54.240 But she got voted out by another socialist, Brandon Johnson. 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.800 Against either rama On or Pratt, but it wouldn't be 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.480 extraordinarily surprising this point if she were to finished third 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:03.880 and missed the runoff altogether. 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.480 This was Spencer Pratt. That would be a political earthquake, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.840 and by the way, she would deserve it. 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.560 This was Spencer Pratt in front of Tom Yamas on 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.520 nightly News. 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:22.920 We're done with these experienced politicians and living under what 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:23.520 that means. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.160 So, yeah, Pratt was doing a media blitz in New 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.320 York yesterday. I think he did Fox and Friends and 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.160 Jake Tapper and NBC News and probably five other things 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.920 that I haven't seen yet. I don't have a big 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.000 and we're like three days from the election. Where's Karen 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.240 Bess She's nowhere to be seen. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.760 Did you see, by the way, that Bessarah had a 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.960 rally in West Hollywood yesterday and they only had ten 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:53.000 people show up. Yeah, I'm very dubious about all of 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.240 this Besara support because you listen to him speak, there 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.800 is nothing inspiring about him, not a thing. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.960 I don't have a big pitch because I'm doing it 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.000 as an Angelina who's had enough. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.960 Well, once again, the talk has been who does mayor 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.400 Karen Bass want as her fall opponent now. Based on 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.440 this poll, Karen Bass is in the fight just to 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.440 make the top two and to finish so she can 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.840 fight to live, to fight another day in November. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.040 This race is a toss up back to. 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.360 You, it certainly is Conan. Thank you so much for that. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.520 Lalita Lopez continues our coverage. She's out in West Hollywood 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.880 tracking the governor's race. Lalita jaber Vesera held an event 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:33.400 there today. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.920 He's leading. This is the event you were talking about 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.040 ten people. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.680 There were more members of the media at his event 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.880 than supporters who were showing up to hear him speak. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.400 Luita kabir Vesere held an event there today. He's leading 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.760 the governor's poll and he's urging everyone to cast their ballot. 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.880 Now and remember leading the same way that Karen Bass 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.800 is leading twenty five. I know there's a lot of candidates, 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.480 but still twenty five percent support means seven twenty five 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.760 percent of the people that are pulled look at Besserah 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.720 and they say nope, yeah, Annabel. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.040 That is really the main message out here with every 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.360 vote is really really going to count. Take great. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.280 You think that guy's revving up on purpose because he 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.840 sees the news van. Probably I'm going to turn on 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.439 the YouTube, lad, and I'm gonna see my car reving 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:22.439 up right behind her. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:23.960 It's gonna be a Nie slapper. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.199 Yeah, Annabel, that is really the main message out here. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.760 But every vote is really really going to count. Take 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.040 for example, in the lasses. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.880 Seriously, you're revving your car like that with gas prices 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.200 as high as they are, you are burning so much oil. 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.360 Okay, back to the story. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:44.199 For example, in the last statewide primary election, only twenty 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.680 eight percent of voters here in La County came out 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.320 to vote. So really, every vote is really going to 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.840 be crucial in this very close governor's race influencing book. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.199 That's right, the primary. 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.760 Forget the governor's race, but the primary in La the 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:03.160 one between Karen Bass and Rick Caruso and Kevin Dallyone's 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.000 hot as hell and all the other people that were running. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.960 Only twenty eight percent people paid attention and voted in 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.439 the June primary. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:16.960 Turnout is so pathetic in this state. And I keep 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.960 saying this to Republicans. I understand that there are more 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.960 Democrats than Republicans in this state, and that's the primary 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:31.400 reason that Democrats win statewide elections. However, Republicans turnout is 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:35.520 almost as bad as Democratic turnout. If Republicans would just 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.480 fill out their ballots and turn them in, Republicans could 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:40.640 win things here and there. 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.760 I'll give you a perfect number that we have right 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.840 now in the city of Los Angeles, a few days 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.440 before the election is over. Of two point two million 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.560 ballots that went out, two hundred and fifteen thousand have 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.880 been returned. Ten percent of that is Democrats, fourteen percent 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.920 of that is republic weekends, to which means of the 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.880 three hundred and twenty six thousand Republicans that can vote 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.240 in this election, only forty four thousand half. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.880 That's pathetic. With Spencer Proud out there busting his ass 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.480 to try to save the city, the least you can 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.720 do is fill out that ballot and turn it in. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.040 The no party preferencers don't pay attention anyway. Of these 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.160 six hundred and sixty eight thousand of them, only forty 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.320 five thousand have voted. And yes, I finally voted yesterday. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.400 So really every vote is really going to be crucial 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.880 in this very close governor's race. Influencing voters. That is 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:37.920 the first question I asked jo Ba said out. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.400 For me, it's not about talking about inflated promises. It's 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.400 about talking how I have a record of experience. If 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.680 I tell you I'm going to increase the number of 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.560 homes and a housing that we build, is because I 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:51.960 have experience doing these. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.760 He is so generic, he is so bland, He has nothing. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.200 I can't believe there are people who are voting for 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:05.080 this because guess what, when an earthquake happens, when a 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:10.280 fire happens, when there's a flood, this moron is going 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.040 to be in charge of the state. So don't get 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.600 upset when the next round of flood aid or earthquake 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:23.680 aid or fire aid goes to nonprofits and buddies of 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.520 his or people who are robbing him blind. And he 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.720 doesn't even know about it, because guess what, there will 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:30.840 be no money for you. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.440 Haavi Ebasetta says he has dealt with large butty. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.400 Does it benefit Gavin Newsom if he's running for president 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.840 and whoever takes over for him as governor as a 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.560 total disaster on day one. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.600 Well, it could cut both ways. He could be replaced 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.240 by Bessera, and then California is going to be a 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.320 dumpster fire and people are going to point at what 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.320 kind of condition the state is in and say, why 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.680 would you want the nation to look like that? And 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.520 it could hurt him. He could also see it wasn't 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:05.600 this bad when I was governor, So I did something right. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.280 I mean, if Gavin and Javier are sitting at the bar, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:14.440 Bessera's the ugly friend, that's true. 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.640 Havevier. Bassetta says he has dealt with large budgets even 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:21.159 greater than California's, and confronted the Trump administration in his 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.399 past roles as US Secretary of Health and Human Services, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:28.560 former congressman, and former California Attorney General, all issues at 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:33.480 the forefront on voters' minds today Today, he took his 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.199 Basara tour to Mickey's Bar in West Hollywood, hosted by 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.560 the advocacy group Equality California. Bassetta has a record of 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.760 supporting the LGBTQ plus community, including. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.440 How many pluses showed up? How can this not make 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.080 the report? 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:51.280 Everyone on social media was commenting on the fact that 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:52.600 ten people showed up. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.560 Voting against the Defensive Marriage Act as a congressman and 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.840 defending LGBTQ plus and civil rights in court when he 0:17:59.880 --> 0:18:02.560 was the state's attorney general. Among the discussion in this 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.400 current race, California law on transgender student athletes allowing them 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:09.600 to compete based on their gender identity. I asked, but Sarah, 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:10.679 if he supports this. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.840 We want to make sure that we protect people's rights 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:14.800 under the law. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.320 I'm going to make sure, boy, we are really saying nothing. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.000 Of course, this is an issue that you don't want 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:21.560 to touch with a ten foot pall. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.160 Okay, but he's on the wrong side of an eighty 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.240 twenty issue. He's taking the position that transgendered athletes should 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.200 be able to compete with women. Why in the world 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.600 are you campaigning on this in the eleventh hour of 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:40.640 an election, an issue that you know is unpopular, and 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.920 this is what you're beating the drum on. And by 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:47.280 the way, no one showed up to hear it. There 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:50.680 were ten people there. How did that not make the report. 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.560 We want to make sure that we protect people's rights 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.440 under the law. I'm going to make sure I protict everyone, 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:03.040 including transgender uh California's rights under the law, and that's 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:03.800 the way it should be. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.760 Yeah, he is the emptiest suit that I have ever 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.800 seen in California politics. 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.800 And that is saying something he's an off the rack suit. 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:17.160 Yeah, you know, and Bassida is leading in that latest pool. 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.320 But this is a very tight gubernatorial race. Many candidates 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.639 they're vying for that position. You can find out more 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.440 about them on our website NBCLA dot com. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:30.200 I mean, if we go in to report the results 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.640 on Tuesday and we actually have results that we can 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:37.040 report on Tuesday, and the number one vote getter is 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:41.359 Javier Besera, with all the other people, forget Democrat or 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.960 a Republican. There are plenty of qualified Democrats that were 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:48.359 on that list. Well, then it's true the drop that 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.040 we play all the time of the average California voter. 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.880 No, I don't know enough to give you any good information, 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.600 but good luck finding someone who does. 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.080 Eight hundred two two two five two two two is 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.840 telephone number. 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