Speaker 1: And very happy Thursday to you with twelve oh six
Speaker 1: in the West, it's the Giant Phillips Show, mister Randy
Speaker 1: Weggs in Culver City, John.
Speaker 2: It looks like now two days after election Day, that
Speaker 2: overall turnout for this June primary, which had national coverage,
Speaker 2: is around twenty six percent support. That includes twenty eight
Speaker 2: percent of Democrats, thirty three percent of Republicans, and eighteen
Speaker 2: percent of the nppiece. But we won't know what the
Speaker 2: final number is for sure until the state of California
Speaker 2: stops counting ballots, which will happen right around the time
Speaker 2: that your grandchildren graduate from college. I believe the alert
Speaker 2: that came out from La County yesterday was they've counted
Speaker 2: about one point four million ballots and they have another
Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty thousand to get through.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Now, when it comes to the latest drops in the ballot,
Speaker 2: to use the term that they love to use, the
Speaker 2: ballot dumps, the races really haven't changed much. Steve Hilton
Speaker 2: still in first place with twenty seven percent support, Javier
Speaker 2: Bakaria and second at twenty five percent support, and Tom
Speaker 2: Steyer is still under twenty percent. He did crack a
Speaker 2: million votes, but he's still three hundred thousand below Bisera
Speaker 2: and four hundred thousand below Hilton.
Speaker 1: Every time I hear you say ballot dumps, I think
Speaker 1: it's a new age form of depression.
Speaker 2: Now in the La Mayors race, which everyone was getting
Speaker 2: all crazy yesterday with these gambling websites that you have
Speaker 2: to take with a grain of salt that people were
Speaker 2: assuming that all of the late ballots are going to
Speaker 2: break for Nythia for some reason, and the betting markets
Speaker 2: still say that Nythia has a six ft three percent
Speaker 2: chance to advance to the runoff. That hasn't in the
Speaker 2: vote dump that happened yesterday at four point thirty changed whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Karen bass is at thirty four point nine percent, Spencer
Speaker 2: Pratt is at twenty nine point nine to one percent,
Speaker 2: so pretty much thirty percent, and Nythia Rahman is at
Speaker 2: twenty two point eight percent. Nythia is still about forty
Speaker 2: thousand ballots below Spencer Pratt, so they would have to
Speaker 2: start breaking for her in an extraordinary way, and so
Speaker 2: far we just have not seen that.
Speaker 1: So you had an interesting theory as to why the
Speaker 1: betting markets went haywire. Are two pm. Hour yesterday and
Speaker 1: you trace it back to a Steve Kornaki report on MSNBC.
Speaker 2: We actually got a couple of emails about this. So
Speaker 2: there were people who were counting late into the night
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, and La County put a couple of ballot
Speaker 2: dumps excuse my language, late into the evening, like there
Speaker 2: was one at a less seven pm and there was
Speaker 2: one at midnight. And those two broke heavily for Nythia.
Speaker 2: So anyone that's trying to make a quick buck in
Speaker 2: the gambling game looked at that and thought, oh well,
Speaker 2: if they all go that way, there's a big advantage
Speaker 2: to putting money on Nithia right now, because if you
Speaker 2: bought Nythia when she was at twenty percent support to advance,
Speaker 2: you're going to cash in if she actually makes it.
Speaker 1: And sometimes the news can contribute to a mass psychosis
Speaker 1: like that. We've seen it happen before. I mean, go
Speaker 1: back to the COVID days. Remember when everyone was fighting
Speaker 1: over toilet paper in the grocery store, and then when
Speaker 1: that gets reported, everyone starts fighting even more over toilet
Speaker 1: paper in the grocery store. There are households mine included,
Speaker 1: that are still auto shipping toilet paper every single month,
Speaker 1: just in case. So I think it was doctor Kelly
Speaker 1: who had the theory as to why people were fighting
Speaker 1: over toilet paper because COVID was not a gastro problem.
Speaker 1: There's no reason for you to need more toilet paper
Speaker 1: than normal if you're going through a COVID nineteen pandemic.
Speaker 1: And her theory was that when COVID first started and
Speaker 1: they started shutting down society, they started shutting down commerce,
Speaker 1: and people didn't know when their state would shut down
Speaker 1: because they did it in waves. Initially, only certain things
Speaker 1: were shut down, and then oh, let's shut down the
Speaker 1: parks and the beaches and the golf courses too. And
Speaker 1: we went through that hysteria well when people thought that
Speaker 1: they were going to shut down the costcos and the
Speaker 1: supermarkets and all the places where you regularly shop. Everyone
Speaker 1: was acting like an idiot when they were shopping. And
Speaker 1: there were these two hags that were shopping at a
Speaker 1: Walmart and they ended up getting into a fistfight over
Speaker 1: toilet paper. That was the item that they were both
Speaker 1: trying to buy. And they got into a fistfight at
Speaker 1: the Walmart, and someone was recording it. Because someone's recording
Speaker 1: everything that goes on in society at any point in time,
Speaker 1: and then of course put it on social media, because
Speaker 1: why not. That video was used all over the news,
Speaker 1: and that video was shared all over social media, and
Speaker 1: because it was toilet paper that they happened to be
Speaker 1: fighting over, that's what people took away from from it.
Speaker 1: They thought, Okay, there's a shortage of toilet paper, let's
Speaker 1: go out and buy toilet paper. Had they been fighting
Speaker 1: over avocados, there would have been a run on avocados.
Speaker 1: If they were fighting over batteries, there would have been
Speaker 1: a run on batteries. It just so happened that they
Speaker 1: were fighting over toilet paper. So that's what led to
Speaker 1: no one being able to get toilet paper for about
Speaker 1: eight When fear gets into your brain, you stop making
Speaker 1: rational decisions. And whether you saw the video or not,
Speaker 1: I remember the feeling of going to my local Ralphs
Speaker 1: right as the lockdowns began. It was the first time
Speaker 1: I had ever seen a grocery store with nothing on
Speaker 1: the shelves.
Speaker 2: It freaked me out. I was like, hey, youar And
Speaker 2: no nobody knew what was going to happen at that point.
Speaker 2: We weren't sure the world was about to end.
Speaker 1: And here's some good advice that you could just generally
Speaker 1: use at any point in the future. If you see
Speaker 1: two overweight women with curlers in their hair throwing haymakers
Speaker 1: at one another, never assume that they know something you don't,
Speaker 1: because I guarantee you they don't. You know, it's wild
Speaker 1: about this panic Nithia betting that's going on on Calshi,
Speaker 1: which again we report it because it's literally a news
Speaker 1: partner now for CNN, So people take this stuff way
Speaker 1: more seriously than they should. But the amount of money
Speaker 1: that's been dumped into the who will advance in the
Speaker 1: LA mayoral election in the last twenty four hours, it's
Speaker 1: almost doubled. The cap on that right now is about
Speaker 1: two point four million dollars has been spent, and it
Speaker 1: was at like one point four million yesterday. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to explain where the numbers are. Randy,
Speaker 1: you I think set the table well as to where
Speaker 1: we are right now with the LA Mayor's race. That
Speaker 1: being said, I do have to warn you this is
Speaker 1: going to be a drunk man driving down an icy road,
Speaker 1: because when it comes to math, I'm extremely remedial so
Speaker 1: let me do my best to try to explain where
Speaker 1: we are and what's what the future holds. So, according
Speaker 1: to the latest numbers, Nitya. Rahman is running well in
Speaker 1: the late ballots so far. So any ballot that was
Speaker 1: turned in at the very last minute is likely to
Speaker 1: be more pro Nithea than the ballots that were cast
Speaker 1: early on. Remember when the voting started and we kept
Speaker 1: talking about how Republicans were overperforming, they were doing better
Speaker 1: than Democrats. Well, the late ballots they benefit the Democrats.
Speaker 2: It's a term. There is actually a new word for this.
Speaker 2: They call it the red mirage.
Speaker 1: Okay, So of the ballots that they're counting right now,
Speaker 1: the late ballots, she's winning thirty one point two percent
Speaker 1: of them, so just under a third. Spencer is winning
Speaker 1: twenty point eight percent of them, So that means that
Speaker 1: she's doing better than him by ten point four points.
Speaker 1: There's seven hundred thousand ballots remaining in La County, but
Speaker 1: not every La County ballot gets a vote for the
Speaker 1: mayor's race. If you live in Long Beach, for example,
Speaker 1: you vote on Long Beach issues, you don't vote in
Speaker 1: the city of La So while that ballot is sitting
Speaker 1: in Norwalk, and that ballot is an LA County ballot.
Speaker 1: That ballot will not impact the LA Mayor's race because
Speaker 1: they don't have a say. Same thing with Pasadena, same
Speaker 1: thing with Manhattan Beach, same thing with Calabasas. None of
Speaker 1: those cities get a say in the LA mayors race. So,
Speaker 1: of those seven hundred thousand ballots that remain that have
Speaker 1: not been counted yet in La County, according to the numbers,
Speaker 1: we should expect about two hundred and sixty three thousand
Speaker 1: of them to come from the city of La So
Speaker 1: from the point of view of Spencer and Nitia, they
Speaker 1: have two hundred and sixty three more ballots that are
Speaker 1: going to be counted that could impact that race. If
Speaker 1: current participation rates hold, Ramen will likely need to beat
Speaker 1: Pratt by about fourteen percent to leapfrog him. That's what
Speaker 1: she'll need of those remaining two hundred and sixty three
Speaker 1: thousand ballots to beat him. Currently, with all of these
Speaker 1: batches that are so pro Nthia, and she's doing so well,
Speaker 1: she's winning them by ten point four percent, So she
Speaker 1: needs to do better than that. She needs to beat
Speaker 1: him by fourteen points and right now she's beating him
Speaker 1: by ten point four. So according to this, according to
Speaker 1: the numbers as they exist, assuming I did it right,
Speaker 1: if the batches of ballots are won by Nythia at
Speaker 1: the rate that Steve Kornaki was talking about, which is
Speaker 1: better than what she did before, which is better than
Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt, it's still not enough to get her there.
Speaker 1: So for her to win, she either needs to clean
Speaker 1: his clock in the remaining ballots, something she has not
Speaker 1: done so far, or they need to find more ballots
Speaker 1: because she is beating them. So if you find more
Speaker 1: than two hundred and sixty three thousand, that gives her
Speaker 1: a chance, or if she beats them by more than
Speaker 1: fourteen points in each batch, that gives her a chance.
Speaker 1: But so far neither one of those two things has happened.
Speaker 1: So given the fact that those are the numbers, there
Speaker 1: is no justification for the betting markets to do what
Speaker 1: they're doing right now to my eye.
Speaker 2: But the thing with the betting markets is they can
Speaker 2: be manipulated. You can put your if you're a mythea supporter,
Speaker 2: you can start spending a bunch of money on there
Speaker 2: to put out this illusion that she has a chance here,
Speaker 2: or you have a bunch of people who again, this
Speaker 2: is a gambling platform. This is not a poll that
Speaker 2: see an opportunity to make some good money because the
Speaker 2: margins looked really good, like any other underdog that you
Speaker 2: bet on in sports Angels fan Well, and here's something
Speaker 2: else to think about too. This is not like a
Speaker 2: general election where there's a binary choice between a Republican
Speaker 2: and a Democrat.
Speaker 1: This is a primary, which means every time a Democrat
Speaker 1: ballot gets counted, that ballot isn't necessarily going to go
Speaker 1: for Nythia because Karen bass is doing better than Nythia overall.
Speaker 1: In fact, she's doing a lot better than Nythia, and
Speaker 1: some of those Democrats are going to vote for Pratt.
Speaker 1: And then you also have those also ran candidates who
Speaker 1: are generating their own support. So unless I'm missing something big,
Speaker 1: I don't see how she leapfrogs him. Now. The mail
Speaker 1: which is coming in today can alter the number of
Speaker 1: ballots that La County has left to count, but their
Speaker 1: estimate is that it's going to be just over seven
Speaker 1: hundred thousand county wide, and they've done this a long time,
Speaker 1: so I assume that they're basing it on some kind
Speaker 1: of modeling that's worked out for them before in the past.
Speaker 1: And then some ballots, I guess will trickle in tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And then maybe you have military ballots that are coming
Speaker 1: from overseas or people who are business people who are
Speaker 1: traveling in different countries around the world. Maybe those ballots
Speaker 1: will come in late. But you're just talking about a
Speaker 1: handful of ballots. And again, not all of them will
Speaker 1: have a say in the La City elections. Some of
Speaker 1: them will be LA County residents. But if you live
Speaker 1: in Long Beach again and you can't vote for mayor
Speaker 1: of LA So I don't think anything's going to change.
Speaker 1: But according to the betting markets, I'm in the minority.
Speaker 2: Well, this is the opportunity if you happen to be
Speaker 2: a degenerate gambler who bets on politics. There's some really
Speaker 2: good odds to put behind Spencer Pratt right now.
Speaker 1: Yes, but then you're relying on me to do the
Speaker 1: math correctly, and that's another that's another thing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if i'd bet.
Speaker 2: On Well, it's a bet. And by the way, you
Speaker 2: think some people are putting like twenty dollars on this,
Speaker 2: they they have a live ticker of how much money
Speaker 2: is being spent on this thing. Someone just put twenty
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars on Nitia. All right, this might actually
Speaker 2: be the end of society.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the end, it is the end for
Speaker 1: one Katie Porter.
Speaker 2: Katie Porter, we have covered extensively from her time as
Speaker 2: the congresswoman representing Orange County, her Senate race where she
Speaker 2: did not make it past the primary.
Speaker 1: I call it the shift gift, all.
Speaker 2: Of her viral videos in Congress. What I haven't heard
Speaker 2: about is anything about dishwashers, and of course her gubernatorial campaign.
Speaker 2: Out of my shot is over. Katie has conceded, and Johnny,
Speaker 2: when we come back, you're going to hear what Katie
Speaker 2: had to say to her supporters in a video that
Speaker 2: she shot. I believe before she went to that bar
Speaker 2: in Newport Beach.
Speaker 1: So she wasn't slarn her words.
Speaker 3: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.
Speaker 2: We will have Katie Border's swan song, her goodbye for
Speaker 2: now at least coming up in moments.
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Speaker 1: we get a report on how many people so far
Speaker 1: have voted for Eric Swallwell?
Speaker 2: Why, yes, yes we can. As of today, June fourth,
Speaker 2: nineteen thousand and six, Californians went to the polls and
Speaker 2: cast their ballot for accused rapist Eric Swallwell. That's enough
Speaker 2: to fill a hockey arena. Nineteen thousand people either have
Speaker 2: not been attention to the news at all in the
Speaker 2: last three months and still voted, or nineteen thousand people
Speaker 2: are pro rapist alleged.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that line from Dumb and Dummer when
Speaker 1: Jim Carey was asked why a guy was doing so
Speaker 1: well with the ladies, and he said, well, he has
Speaker 1: a rapist s wit. Maybe that's it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you want to go back and listen to yesterday's
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Speaker 2: all the crazy theories as to why all of a
Speaker 2: sudden Nitia was doing so well.
Speaker 3: It's not so uh?
Speaker 1: I all right? Coming up next, it's Katie Porter's concession
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Speaker 1: you're keeping an eye on the mailbag.
Speaker 2: You know, we've got a lot of creativity in this audience.
Speaker 2: And Al from NAPA has decided to get into some
Speaker 2: poetry and I'm here for a poetry reading. Poor Porter
Speaker 2: do Katie. She went to the bakery and all she
Speaker 2: could get was a carrot kky, I'm pulling in to
Speaker 2: the bakery.
Speaker 1: Generally speaking, she does like to cut her own carrots.
Speaker 3: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.
Speaker 2: That was when she was making that Instagram live video
Speaker 2: by herself, because she was setting up the camera and
Speaker 2: she had it backwards for a while, and it was
Speaker 2: all about while she was holding a knife. How pissed
Speaker 2: off she was that all the money Tom Steyer was
Speaker 2: spending on his campaign. And that's back when he was
Speaker 2: only spending like fifty million.
Speaker 1: Well, if she was pissed off back then, can you
Speaker 1: imagine what she's like right now?
Speaker 2: No, Katie Porter has conceded in the governor's race as
Speaker 2: the numbers stand right now and not all the ballots
Speaker 2: have been counted, but Katie Porter is in fifth place.
Speaker 2: Two hundred and thirty eight thousand Californians cast their ballot
Speaker 2: for Katie, which is currently four point six one percent.
Speaker 2: Pictures have emerged of Katie Porter drowning her sorrows at
Speaker 2: a Newport Beach bar where nearby Steve Hilton was having
Speaker 2: his victory rally, and Katie Porter, before she went to
Speaker 2: the bar, put out a video to her staff and
Speaker 2: to her supporters telling them that it was over. Turn
Speaker 2: out the lights. The Porter's over This was posted to
Speaker 2: Katie Porter's YouTube page that yes, I am a subscriber
Speaker 2: to Hi.
Speaker 4: It's Katie Porter.
Speaker 3: Tonight is elected.
Speaker 1: We're not doing high pitch for this one. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's not a high pitch kind of night.
Speaker 4: Hi, It's Katie Porter. Tonight is election night. The votes
Speaker 4: are still being counted and it may take a few days.
Speaker 4: Here in California, it.
Speaker 2: May take a few months.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about a few days? We're now
Speaker 1: two days after the election and they're telling us it's
Speaker 1: going to go on for another Monthornia to have fight.
Speaker 2: And by the way, this whole process sending everyone a
Speaker 2: ballot a month in advance, allowing you to register up
Speaker 2: until two weeks before the election, putting in provisional ballots,
Speaker 2: letting you sign up at the last possible minute, putting
Speaker 2: in your ballot at seven point fifty nine into the
Speaker 2: mailbox and have beg outed seven days later. It has
Speaker 2: not increased turnout. It has not increased people who want
Speaker 2: to use their right to vote. It is all at
Speaker 2: this point. It's only gone down.
Speaker 1: But if you think about it, this is just how
Speaker 1: we run shop across the board in the state. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a year and a half since
Speaker 1: those homes burned down on the Palisades and people still
Speaker 1: can't get permits to rebuild a year and a half.
Speaker 2: A lot of them still haven't settled their insurance claims
Speaker 2: a year and a half later.
Speaker 1: Well, think about this too. How often do we do
Speaker 1: crime blodder stories where someone drives a stolen Hondai through
Speaker 1: the wall of a seven to eleven, The clerk is
Speaker 1: scared to death, calls nine to one one and they
Speaker 1: tell them to fill out a form online and they'll
Speaker 1: get to it when they get to it. How about
Speaker 1: in downtown LA when you have the squatters lighting bombs
Speaker 1: off and abandoned buildings and blowing up not just the
Speaker 1: buildings that they're in, but the buildings nearby where people
Speaker 1: actually pay to live in. And then the people in
Speaker 1: the neighborhood complain to the cops to kick them all
Speaker 1: out because there are more squatters and more abandoned buildings,
Speaker 1: And what does the city say, We'll get to it
Speaker 1: when we get to it. There is no sense of
Speaker 1: urgency anywhere in this state to do anything. And it's
Speaker 1: a hell of a way to live, It's a hell
Speaker 1: of a way to run a state. But I can't
Speaker 1: for the life of me, I really truly don't understand
Speaker 1: this why Democrats don't seem to have a problem with this,
Speaker 1: Because they're in charge. This date can be run anyway
Speaker 1: they want to, And across the board, it's like you
Speaker 1: deal with an obstinate DMV clerk everywhere you turn, and
Speaker 1: they just shrug their shoulders and they go, well, that's
Speaker 1: the way it is. I seriously wonder if they run
Speaker 1: their own lives this way. I mean, imagine, imagine if
Speaker 1: everyone in your neighborhood is painting their house and it
Speaker 1: takes the painters three days to paint a house in
Speaker 1: your neighborhood, homes roughly of the same size, and you
Speaker 1: contact a painter and the painter comes over and goes, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take about a month and a half, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna take off all the holidays, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: off all the weekends. We're gonna be real thorough with
Speaker 1: how we do it. But it's gonna take much longer
Speaker 1: than every everyone else on your block. I wonder if
Speaker 1: they just say, Okay, yeah, fine, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not surprised with the poor performance of our government at
Speaker 2: the local and at the state level because they know.
Speaker 2: You look at the turnout in this election, sixty percent
Speaker 2: plus of the population doesn't care. It doesn't matter. They
Speaker 2: do not even participate in the process to replace the
Speaker 2: buffoons that are in charge. That is a vote of
Speaker 2: confidence from the people that don't give a damn. The
Speaker 2: appay in this state is real, it is.
Speaker 1: What do you think they do? What do you think
Speaker 1: they do if let's say a squatter moves into their
Speaker 1: garage when they're on vacation and they come home and
Speaker 1: they go, oh, someone's living in my garage and they're
Speaker 1: doing math and occasionally lighting fires, Well, I guess I
Speaker 1: can't park the car there anymore. I'll park it on
Speaker 1: the street and we'll just leave our unhoused neighbor in
Speaker 1: the garage. Is that how they run their own own life?
Speaker 1: Probably not. Well. If that's not how you run your
Speaker 1: own life, why the hell do you run the state
Speaker 1: that way?
Speaker 4: Pornia to have final numbers, but we know tonight that
Speaker 4: we will not advance to the general election in November.
Speaker 2: Not even close.
Speaker 1: Baby, she was pulling much much higher than what she
Speaker 1: actually got.
Speaker 2: Currently, she's in the five now. The last polls that
Speaker 2: came out showed her slipping from the low double digits
Speaker 2: to the high single digits. But I believe one of
Speaker 2: the polls that came out right before the election had
Speaker 2: her at seven. But you're right now she is at
Speaker 2: five five percent out of my shot. And before that
Speaker 2: video she was the front runner.
Speaker 1: She was.
Speaker 4: But as I look back on this race, I am
Speaker 4: so incredibly proud of the campaign that we built together.
Speaker 1: All Right, she might be one glass of shard in
Speaker 1: what kind of bender do you think she went on?
Speaker 1: I saw the picture of her in that bar. She
Speaker 1: wasn't at the bar. She was at a table in
Speaker 1: the bar. So you have to order your drinks through
Speaker 1: the waitress.
Speaker 2: Oh that's a mistake. She should have been right there
Speaker 2: up at the bar and say leave it on the
Speaker 2: bar so I can pet it.
Speaker 1: In a skin tight dress, trying to pick up another
Speaker 1: one of our listeners.
Speaker 2: Well it wasn't one of our listeners. It was our
Speaker 2: listener's buddy.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Well, now that she's out, we may have to play
Speaker 2: that call one more time.
Speaker 4: But as I look back on this race, I am
Speaker 4: so incredibly proud of the campaign that we built together together.
Speaker 4: We talked about the issues that were important to California,
Speaker 4: particularly affordability and bringing down costs.
Speaker 2: And it did not cut through.
Speaker 1: No, it didn't. You also spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: talking about corporate pack money and earmarks, subjects no one
Speaker 1: cares about.
Speaker 2: Oh we'll get to that that's coming.
Speaker 4: Particularly affordability and bringing down costs, including making housing.
Speaker 2: She straight up admits that she ripped off Steve Hilton's
Speaker 2: idea and it still didn't get her anything.
Speaker 1: Might have gotten him to the runoff. We'll know two
Speaker 1: months from now.
Speaker 4: The top issue in our campaign because it's the top
Speaker 4: expense for most California families. Talking about taking on Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, here we go.
Speaker 4: Abolishing ice, standing up for the rights of every single Californian.
Speaker 4: That's what this campaign was about. It was a corporate
Speaker 4: free campaign, a campaign that took not one penny from corporations.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares Katie.
Speaker 1: What corporation wronged her. I really do wonder what happened.
Speaker 1: Did she try to take something back to Sears and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't let her do it, And she said, all right,
Speaker 1: this is now a Sicilian thing, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: spend the rest of my life trying to get back
Speaker 1: at corporations.
Speaker 2: You know, technically there is another candidate that took no
Speaker 2: corporate money, Tom Steyer, because he only took money from himself.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny. I was thinking about Tom Steyer
Speaker 1: this morning. I'm sorry, and he really desperately wants to
Speaker 1: get elected to something because he ran for president before
Speaker 1: he ran for governor. And in this race, he branded
Speaker 1: himself as the communist billionaire and he thought that that
Speaker 1: would get him over the finish line. What if? What
Speaker 1: if instead of branding himself as the communist billionaire, he
Speaker 1: ran as just a partisan Democrat who is a businessman
Speaker 1: who will run the state more efficiently. Wouldn't that have
Speaker 1: more appeal? No, it wouldn't. This is California. At Mayhn's
Speaker 1: campaign was that Mayhen's campaign is below porter at mayhean,
Speaker 1: the mayor of San Jose, is at four percent. That's true.
Speaker 4: That's what this campaign was about. It was a corporate
Speaker 4: free campaign, a campaign.
Speaker 2: She ran the Senate campaign on this and lost, So
Speaker 2: she decided to run the governor's campaign on this and lost.
Speaker 1: Well, she really is a broken record.
Speaker 2: When she runs for president, will it be about corporate
Speaker 2: pack money?
Speaker 4: A campaign that took not one penny from corporations. It's
Speaker 4: the only campaign that we can say that about in
Speaker 4: this race. That's something to be really proud of. And
Speaker 4: it was only possible because so many of you believed
Speaker 4: in me, chipped in, helped us fund our campaign, helped
Speaker 4: me build an amazing team.
Speaker 1: Did you see last week that a bunch of Mayheen's
Speaker 1: donors wanted their money back? Oh? I saw that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well he went off like a lead balloon.
Speaker 2: Whoever ran that campaign, I don't know if he ever
Speaker 2: had a shot, because there really is no middle lane
Speaker 2: in today's politics in California. But whoever ran his campaign
Speaker 2: gave him just terrible advice.
Speaker 1: Well, one of the things that he needed to do
Speaker 1: if that was going to work the way he was
Speaker 1: branding himself, is he needed to get moderate and disaffected
Speaker 1: Democrats to vote for him. He needed independents who are
Speaker 1: furious at the poor way the Democrats run the state,
Speaker 1: and he needed to get some form of the Republican electorate.
Speaker 1: He needed to get some Republican votes, Republicans who don't
Speaker 1: agree with him on certain issues but believe that a
Speaker 1: Republican candidate can't get elected. So you might as well
Speaker 1: go with the Sanist Democrat. He needed a direct appeal
Speaker 1: to those people. And what's funny is the people that
Speaker 1: were running his campaign told him to have no association
Speaker 1: with anything right leaning. He used to do this show
Speaker 1: as a guest before he became a candidate for governor.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that.
Speaker 2: Yes, he came on this program when he was campaigning
Speaker 2: for Prop thirty six and when he the rumors started
Speaker 2: coming out that he was running for governor. Initially there
Speaker 2: seemed to be like somebody in the campaign that was
Speaker 2: trying to pitch him to come on this show, and
Speaker 2: then that got stonewalled. Immediately.
Speaker 1: He had people who work for him who were fans
Speaker 1: of the show, who listened to the show. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if it was in his office in San Jose,
Speaker 1: his mayoral office or his campaign, but someone in his orbit,
Speaker 1: in his organization wanted him on the show, and they
Speaker 1: reached out to us, and we had these conversations, and
Speaker 1: we went back and forth with the scheduling, and it
Speaker 1: looked like it was going to happen on any number
Speaker 1: of occasions. And then they just wouldn't pull the trigger.
Speaker 1: They he just wouldn't say yes to the date and
Speaker 1: the time, and then it finally got to a point
Speaker 1: to where they just stopped playing footsy altogether. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't just us, because look, he can do whatever show
Speaker 1: he wants to do. It doesn't have to be this one.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he did our competitors show. I
Speaker 1: don't think he did Fox. I don't think he did Newsmax.
Speaker 1: I don't think he did any of the conservative podcasts.
Speaker 1: I don't think he talked to the conservative newspapers. He
Speaker 1: spent his time on Morning Joe, which by the way,
Speaker 1: airs at three o'clock in the morning in California, because
Speaker 1: the people that work for him thought that going on
Speaker 1: MSNBC would be better. Well, what he did was he
Speaker 1: put his pull in a pond that didn't have any
Speaker 1: fish in it, and because they decided that it might
Speaker 1: scare democrats off if he had a ogociations with right
Speaker 1: leaning programs, he didn't acknowledge our existence. He didn't bring
Speaker 1: his message to our audience. Well that's a massive mistake
Speaker 1: because there are people in this audience who would have
Speaker 1: voted for him. I can almost guarantee you that what
Speaker 1: percent of the audience would have voted for him. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I think a certain percentage would have.
Speaker 1: But if you don't bring the message to them, then
Speaker 1: you're gonna get none of them. And so I would
Speaker 1: be surprised if he got more than one or two
Speaker 1: percent of this audience. But he could have done much
Speaker 1: better than that. And for him to win with the
Speaker 1: politics that he has, he needs some Republican support. He
Speaker 1: just does.
Speaker 4: Chipped in, help us fund our campaign, help me build
Speaker 4: an amazing team. I want to say thing to everyone
Speaker 4: on my team. Some of these folks have worked with
Speaker 4: me now for nine almost ten years.
Speaker 2: A decade of working for Katie.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine what kind of war stories those people
Speaker 1: must have.
Speaker 3: Sorry for the noise, I'm cutting carrots.
Speaker 4: Some of them have new or new and have worked
Speaker 4: with me for ten weeks that they've all been part
Speaker 4: of my life.
Speaker 3: They've been part of my journey, all.
Speaker 2: Right, who's writing the tell All book?
Speaker 1: Oh? It's coming.
Speaker 4: There are people that have made my experience in politics
Speaker 4: so much better. And so I just want to say
Speaker 4: so grateful to all of my staff in this race
Speaker 4: and impast races.
Speaker 3: Thank you for what you do.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to cheer you on in your future
Speaker 4: political endeavors. To watch you as you grow professionally.
Speaker 2: As they're all going to work for Bakaria.
Speaker 1: Huh, who was it? There was someone who was in
Speaker 1: Congress who said that they got her office after her.
Speaker 1: I think it was George Santos. I saw an interview
Speaker 1: you where I guess he said there were like dents
Speaker 1: in the walls, like people would punch the wall out
Speaker 1: of frustration and they would have to hide them with
Speaker 1: pictures and things like that. Oh, boy, to.
Speaker 4: Watch you as you grow professionally, as you start families.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to continuing to be in touch with all
Speaker 4: of you. I also want to say thank you to
Speaker 4: Californians who opened up their homes for me to come talk.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've heard one of those stories.
Speaker 1: We've heard a couple. Actually we never told that one
Speaker 1: on the air, did we know? And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to it's a good one.
Speaker 4: To come talk to their friends and neighbors about this campaign.
Speaker 3: To businesses who.
Speaker 4: Let me tour learn more about their industry, talk to
Speaker 4: their employees. To nonprofits who shared the challenges that they face.
Speaker 2: I mean, she did go up and down the state,
Speaker 2: even into the Tijuana River right here.
Speaker 1: Put a lot of miles on that many and the way.
Speaker 3: That they're solving problems.
Speaker 4: And I want to say thank you to the other
Speaker 4: candidates for running spirited races, for having good debates about
Speaker 4: important issues.
Speaker 2: None of those debates were good.
Speaker 4: That's really what democracy is about.
Speaker 3: Running a race like this isn't.
Speaker 4: Easy, and coming up short is hard, but democracy is
Speaker 4: worth doing hard things for.
Speaker 2: Stay I'm not making that a drop. Don't ask me.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just listen to it one more time and
Speaker 1: we won't make it a drop.
Speaker 4: But democracy is worth doing hard things for. Don't ask
Speaker 4: Stay in the fight, stay in touch, and thank you
Speaker 4: for believing in me.
Speaker 2: And that may be the last time we ever hear
Speaker 2: from kt porter Oh.
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