WEBVTT - The Final CA Governor Tracking Poll Is Out 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.000 John, we have our final update in the poll commissioned 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:08.039 by the California Democratic Party. This was the poll that 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.400 was commissioned to get all of the lower polling candidates 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.440 to drop out. The only one that took them up 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.200 on that was Ian Calderon and then he endorsed Swallowell, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:21.560 so that didn't work out very well. But here we 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:27.680 go the fourth tracker. This poll started in March seventeenth, 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.280 and now they finally have the last time. They will 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.519 be updating this in May sixteenth. And in first place 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.239 with twenty two percent of the vote it is Steve Hilton, 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.400 followed very closely in second place with twenty one percent 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.519 Javier bach Area. 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.200 And then you have Tom Steyer and Chad Bianco. Correct. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.160 Yes, but here's what's interesting. When you compare to the 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.720 last poll, which was early May. Hilton had a four 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.880 point bump, Bessarah had a three point bump. Steyer had 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.280 a three point bump. He's now at fifteen. Bianco had 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.720 a four point drop and he's been consistent at fourteen 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:14.840 the entire time. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.839 Okay, so if you add up the support of both 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.199 Republican candidates, what number do you get? 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:22.760 You get thirty two. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:29.600 Okay, here's why I think that poll is off. Polling 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.280 is based on modeling in terms of who you think 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.679 is going to turn out and vote, who is the 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:42.119 voting electorate, And you base that decision on a bunch 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.880 of different factors. First and foremost, you look at past 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:49.920 performance in the past, what did the electorate look like? 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:55.480 And then you also ask voters themselves. You asked a voter, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.480 are you extremely likely to vote? Are you likely to vote? 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.200 Do you think you may not vote? Those sorts of things, 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.240 and they tell you, and then you ask them questions 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.079 like have you voted in the last election, have you 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.160 voted in three out of the last four elections? Those 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.000 sorts of things, and you add it all up and 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.680 you figure out just exactly who you think is going 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:22.080 to vote. Well, if they have the Republican slice of 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:27.480 the pie at thirty two percent, that is out of 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.000 line with what we've seen in the past, because if 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:35.520 you go back to twenty eighteen, that's when Newsom ran 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:41.440 against John Cox, John Cox who was essentially a warm body, 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.520 not even really campaigning aggressively, and every time he would 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.920 go out and campaign, I think the guy lost votes. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.160 He ended up at thirty eight percent of the vote, 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.600 six points higher than what this poll is saying. In 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:01.720 twenty twenty two, it was Newsom versus Brian Dolly. Brian 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.480 Dolly did a better job than John Cox, but not much. 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.360 He really didn't raise any money, he wasn't up on TV, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.600 Knwsom at that point was almost universally known, and he 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.680 still did better. He did forty one percent. That was 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.320 the slice of the pie for Republicans. That was nine 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.919 points higher than what this poll is showing. And then 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.160 you look at ballots that have been returned so far 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:34.359 in California, and Republicans are turning their ballots in at 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:39.240 a better rate than they did four years ago. In fact, 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.880 even though we're a heavily democratic state. So far, of 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:47.040 the ballots that have been collected, forty one percent of 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:52.160 them belonged to Democrats, thirty seven percent belonged to Republicans, 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.760 and twenty two percent belonged to no party preference or 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:02.640 third party voters, which means Republicans are overperforming the slice 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.680 of the pie just from the ballots that have already 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:11.240 been turned in. So I think Hilton will likely do 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.440 better than what that poll reflects, And I think that 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.440 Bianco will likely do better than what that poll reflects. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.719 That being said, maybe the pollsters have it right, maybe 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.520 I have it wrong. I don't know, but based on 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.160 all the evidence I've seen, I think thirty two percent 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:30.600 is awful low. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.839 Now when you go further down below the ten percent 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.599 they have for Bianco coming in in first, second, third, fourth, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:46.280 fifth place is Johnny's girl kt Porter at seven percent. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:50.039 Well, that may be it. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.400 She started at ten, she dipped to seven, then she 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.440 went to ten, dipped to eight, and dipped again to seven, 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:01.359 So the debates haven't really done well for her. Matt 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.120 Mayhan is also an interesting story. Matt Mayhan, who got 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.560 into this race very late, started at three, then went 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.440 up to four, then went up to five, then went 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.760 up to seven, and now he's back at four. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.160 Which is funny because if you look at the performance 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:22.120 and the debates, he has probably had the best performance 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:22.440 out of. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:22.960 All of them. 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.880 It depends what you want out of those debates. But yes, 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.200 Matt Mayhan has had a very strong performance. But what 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.000 are people actually voting for. If they're voting for competence 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.760 in government, Mayhen would be polling more than four percent. 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.839 And I just don't think well, first of all, I 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.840 think Republicans are voting for Republicans, Democrats are voting for Democrats, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.520 and his message appeals to Republicans who aren't going to 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.240 vote for him anyway. And there's no one in the 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.680 Democratic Party who cares about any of the stuff that 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:55.640 he's talking about. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.000 When it comes to the former mayor of Los Aenne, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:04.120 Jelius Antonio Viaregosa, he went from a three to a 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:05.640 four to a two to a two. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:06.560 To a one. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.040 Boy, the bottom just fell out for him. 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.880 Tony Thurman went from a one to less than a 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:15.800 one to a one to a one to a one. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:19.200 You're number one. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.920 But of course, the one trend that everyone's holding on to, 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.120 and it's true with this poll as it has been 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:29.160 with many other polls, the Bakaia bump seems to be 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:34.599 here to stay. On March seventeenth, Javier Bessera had three percent, 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.480 and this is a tracker poll, so they pulled the 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:42.599 same people over and over again. He started three, then four, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:48.560 then thirteen, then eighteen, then twenty one, and this is 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.560 May sixteenth, So I think that would mean that this 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:58.080 is after the interview on KTLA, which has not damaged 0:06:58.160 --> 0:06:59.080 him significantly. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.440 By the way, this is a profile piece. This is 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:02.599 not a gotcha piece. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:02.840 Right. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.320 You know who has to be the maddest person in 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:11.080 the world is Katie Porter Because her losing her temper 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.120 with a reporter and a staffer knocked her out of 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:19.080 this race, and him doing the same thing had no impact. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.720 You're out of my shot, poor Katie. What are you 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.880 gonna do, Johnny? In two weeks, She's gonna be completely irrelevant. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.520 Oh no, I'm telling you, She's going to run for 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.840 something else. It's gonna be a while, though. She is 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:39.680 going to spend the rest of her life running for office. Meanwhile, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.720 as all of this is happening, Tom Steyer has been 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:49.320 accused of buying off online social media influencers to support 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.480 his campaign. If you're wondering why your favorite TikToker is 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.960 all in for Stier, it's because he was paid to 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.800 be and they're not disclosing it. For more on this, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.400 we go to ABC ten in Sacramento. 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:07.760 Tonight, the California Fair Political Practices Commission confirms Democratic gubernatorial 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:12.000 candidate Tom Styer's campaign is under investigation. The stire campaign 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:16.680 faces allegations of failing to properly disclose payments for campaign 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.040 related social media content. Take a look at this video 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:25.600 is in question. It features influencer Isaiah Washington, known as Zadante, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.760 who has been paid ten thousand dollars. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.920 Zay Dante is all in for Styre. Have you ever 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.000 heard of Zaidani? 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.200 I have not known as Zadante who, To be fair, 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.320 I don't think zay Dante has ever heard of us. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.240 There's a lot of famous people now. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.520 Known people known as Zadante, who has been paid ten 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:53.319 thousand dollars by the stire campaign, per campaign filing records. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:53.959 In it. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.959 Washington, who is also named in the FPPC complaint for 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.920 not disclosing he was paid, features an interview with Styre 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:03.680 discussing campaign points. 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:08.719 You don't pay to do an interview. So how does 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:13.079 this work? Does a Dante cover California politics? Or is 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.480 this just an influencer that talks about other subjects and 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.559 now he's going totally out of character to weigh in 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:21.760 on state politics. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.160 How do you think you spell ze Dante? 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:25.760 I have no clue. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:35.719 Let's just try Za Dante now, zydn Okay I found him, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:41.000 Za Dante, z Ay Why Dante This guy has got 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:46.480 one point eight million followers on the tiktoks, and his 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.800 latest tiktoks are listening to Drake's new album. 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:53.160 So it's a music influencer. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.040 I think he's a whatever's popular influencer. Oh he has 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:02.560 reaction shots to watching the roast of Kevin Hart, listening 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.599 to Tea. Most of these videos are him listening to 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.280 rap songs and how he feels about it. One of 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.640 them is reacting to an episode of The Boys. None 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:18.240 of this has anything to do with Tom Steyer. None 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.319 of it has to do with what's going on in 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:30.199 California politics. He reviews the latest episode of Euphoria. So 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:33.199 when this guy all of a sudden breaks from his 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:39.640 usual habits to interview Tom Steyer, Yeah, that would raise 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.600 a red flagger ten you think now? 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:47.400 The Instagram video is disclosed as a paid partnership, though 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.720 the now deleted TikTok version failed to provide that disclosure. 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.160 It's not clear if the disclaimer was added after the 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:58.079 FPPC complaint, and Washington did not respond to request. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.120 For Poor Tom Steyer. He has to pay people to 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:00.719 talk to him. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.439 He's a seventy year old billionaire. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:10.280 Who apparently is being talked about NonStop by the rap crowd. 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.960 And Washington did not respond to request for comment on Monday. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.520 Maybe it's some political reporter. Jenny Huh didn't speak with 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:18.959 Styer today though, here's what he had to say. 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.400 So just to be clear, Tom, you don't pay anyone 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:27.400 for endorsements, correct, content creator wise, No, Absolutely, what do 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:28.160 you pay them for? 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.800 Absolutely? We pay them for their time. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:41.600 Okay, let me explain how this works in the world 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.360 of news. Let's just take politics out of it for 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:48.720 a second. In the world of news, everyone looks down 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.280 their nose at the tabloids because the tabloids pay for stories. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:58.199 The National Inquirer will pay you for a story if 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.520 you have something that they think is if interest to 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.280 their readers. TMZ will pay you for a story if 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.280 you have a photograph or a video or information that 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.560 would be of interest to their readers. That's how that works. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.880 Then you take the other shows, then you take the 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:21.920 other publications, and they go, we are professional journalists, we 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:27.640 have graduate degrees. We don't pay for stories. We don't 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.360 pay our sources. But here's how they get around it. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.760 Let's say that you are in the middle of some 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.719 kind of tabloid story and the Today Show wants you 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.400 on the couch with Savannah. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.640 They can't quote unquote pay you for the story. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.559 But what they do is they fly you first class, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.800 they put you up at the Waldorf Astoria, and they 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.280 pay you to license your photographs that they will use 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.480 in the piece, and whatever it is that you gotiate 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.079 as the price of those photographs is what they're. 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.360 Willing to pay you, so you can then show up 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:08.080 on their. 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.199 Airwaves and talk about the story with the photographs running 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.280 his b rule. That's how they get around it. What 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.920 Tom Steyer is doing is he's doing the political equivalent 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.839 of that. I'm not paying Za Dante for his endorsement. 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.079 I'm paying him for his time. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.040 This is the same kind of semantics that people say 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.920 with prostitutes. I didn't pay her for sex. I paid 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:34.720 her to leave. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.280 And a couple of things she did before she left. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.240 Say we are complete. 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:43.760 That means that we pay them. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.560 Okay, maybe he is a cheap skate because he has 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:46.520 worse Internet than you. 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.679 That means that we pay them for doing work. They 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.800 choose what to do. They endorse us because they believe 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.440 in our platform or they don't endorse us. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.920 You have no way in on them. Did Dante and 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:00.439 endorse you? 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.920 I'm sure say Dante follows California politics very closely. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.520 You have no way in on the content. They are 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:15.360 independent businesses, independent small businesses. We pay them for their time. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.640 They do whatever they want to do. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.720 Yes, but shouldn't you have to disclose that? This is 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.120 It's like, you know, whenever you're watching the local news. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.960 I have KTLA up right here, and every once in 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.000 a while they'll deviate from the regular local news to 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.640 like be like, check out this new restaurant that's opening, 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:35.320 and in the little corner you can see sponsored content. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.560 You should be able to disclose that in those two. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:45.760 In twenty twenty three, California passed a law mandating content 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.880 creators to disclose if they have been paid by a 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.360 campaign or political committee. One Leg's out of analyst tells 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.800 us at ABC ten that this investigation could determine how 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.840 strictly the law will be enforced. Steyer maintains that his 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.120 campaign has been trans parent and disclosing. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.560 By the way, it'll be really funny if what the 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.080 FPPC decides to do is hand Tom Styra a fine, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:13.520 It's wild how often this happens, though, you remember a story. 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.040 And I'm not going to go through any of the 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.000 names because I don't want any of them to come 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.840 after me. But there were foreign governments who were buying 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:25.880 online social media influencers to tweet about their country or 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:30.480 to post content about their country, because they, in this 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:37.640 particular case, were conservative influencers, and these foreign countries believed 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.560 that they might influence the administration by tweeting about their countries. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:43.240 Oh, I remember all that. 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.520 He has paid Washington and multiple other influencers thousands of dollars. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.600 The two individuals who filed the complaint also content creators, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:58.520 argue that it's up to the stire campaign to explicitly 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.000 tell influencers that they must disclosed payments. They say they 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.320 noticed issues in multiple videos post tier content. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.960 It was all very pro styre, anti Bessera. They were 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.800 not disclosing on posts that they made about Tom Steyer, 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:14.920 and they were completely they were wait, you. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.840 Can get paid to bag on Bessara. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.520 Oh yeah, no, you can get paid a lot of 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.200 money to do that. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.040 And they were completely they were ignoring. 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.080 Think were working cheap, Johnny, Oh, we're working very cheap 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:28.200 compared to what these people are getting, and. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.160 They were completely they were ignoring the law, the political 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:32.120 reform Active count. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.400 Now the two content creators are Javier Besara supporters, which 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.240 Stier has questioned. They say that they're support. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.880 FORUL So how much was Besarah giving them? Oh, I 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:44.000 wouldn't be surprised if he's doing the same thing. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.320 They say that their support for Visara is independent from 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.120 their complaint against Democratic opponent Tom Steyer, and that they 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.400 are not paid by Bessara's team to post pro bossera content. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:59.120 You know what's funny. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.320 And this is another one of these quirks where we're 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.520 governed by the FCC because we're on the radio waves, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:10.600 we're on the AAM band. We have to take courses 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:17.320 in payola to understand what is legal and what is 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:21.400 not in this industry. If you were on the take 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:26.240 and you're promoting a band or you're promoting a product 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:30.680 or whatever, and you're not disclosing that they're paying you 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.680 to say that, you can get in big trouble. You 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:40.200 can put the broadcast license in jeopardy. Typically, and this 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.000 is something that used to happen a lot in the 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.600 old days on the FM band. What would happen is 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.440 the record labels would go to the DJs or the 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.080 program directors and they would give them suitcases full of 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.359 cash to play whatever songs it was that they wanted 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.440 played on the radio, so they would make more money 0:17:58.560 --> 0:17:59.600 with the record sales. 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.320 Well, in the eighties it was more than cash. Sometimes 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.760 they'd give you the record with a pound of cocaine 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:10.760 on it. You want to know why certain songs got 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:11.600 to number one? 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.040 That's how. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.120 All right? So that's the latest in the governor's race. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:19.959 Who are you voting for? For governor? 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.240 Ballots are out, people are voting who is your choice 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.440 to be the next leader of the state of California. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.560 Eight hundred two two two five two two two What 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.359 eight hundred two two two five two two two. If 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.080 you'd like to email the show, you can do so 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.280 at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. That's 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.679 Johnny don't Like show at gmail dot com. 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So if you want to hear 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.800 us react to the election results when the polls close 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.159 at eight o'clock, we'll be here seven to nine on 0:19:54.320 --> 0:19:55.000 June second. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.320 All right, the ballots are in the mail. Voting is 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:03.200 happening right now as we speak. Who are you voting for? 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:03.560 For? 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.880 California Governor. Let's go to the phones and welcome Jonathan 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:09.080 in Porter Ranch. 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.800 Jonathan, Hello, Hi, good afternoon, guys. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:13.159 Hi. 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.719 I'm definitely voting for Steve Hilton one hundred percent because 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.120 he said he's going to deport everyone here legally, which 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.440 is extremely important because I graduated high school two thousand 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:25.639 and eight. My whole adult life been looking for like 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:29.280 retail jobs filled with idiots, people who can't count currency, 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.160 they don't know how to tell analog times. It's pretty 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.879 stupid out there. So Steve Hilton one hundred percent and 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.320 Pratt is where it's at, all. 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.639 Right, thank you for the call, Sar. Let's go to 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:41.879 Mike in Hawthorne. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.960 Mike, Hello, Hey, hey, John, how are you doing. I'm 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:48.920 doing what you said, I'm voting for Bianco. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.399 And you're doing it because you want you want the 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.760 Republicans to be in the top two positions. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:03.520 Absolutely, yeah, I think that's the way to do. I 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:04.639 think it's a great strategy. 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.240 Here's the thing, and this is the question that every 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.680 Republican voter in particular in the state has to ask themselves. 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.440 If you think in the general election it is possible 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:21.720 for the Republican candidate to get over fifty percent, then 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.280 that's fine. Then you can go for a Republican versus 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:30.320 a Democratic matchup. However, if you think the likely scenario 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:34.000 is that the Republican candidate will do better than forty 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.960 one percent but can't get over fifty, then you need 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.720 to go for the top two. And I think the 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:44.959 likely scenario is the Republican candidate will do better than 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.560 what they did in twenty twenty two, but not get 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.399 over fifty percent, in which case your only play is 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:53.080 the top two. 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:56.560 Good call. 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.159 All right, thank you for the call, Sirt. You know 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:01.119 what it reminds me of. 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:07.960 It reminds me of twenty eighteen when the Democrats in 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:13.040 California won a bunch of congressional districts. That's when Katie 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:19.160 Porter won in Irvine. That's when Katie Hill won in Lancaster. 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.399 That's when a lot of these candidates, these Democratic candidates 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:28.560 were able to beat longtime Republican incumbents. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.199 How did they do that well in that election? 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:38.400 Ballot harvesting made the difference in a number of those 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:43.280 races because the laws had changed and they realized that 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:48.240 any district, let's say, with a big university gave them 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:53.000 an opportunity to harvest ballots, and that was the reason 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:58.400 that Katie Porter beat Mimi Walters in Orange County. You see, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:02.480 Irvine was in that day, and they harvested a bunch 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:06.080 of ballots at UC Irvine and that was the margin 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:10.960 of victory for Katie Porter over Mimi Walters. And Republicans 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:13.639 screamed and yelled about all the ballot harvesting and the 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:18.080 voter fraud and all of that. But the problem for 0:23:18.200 --> 0:23:21.720 Republicans back then was that the Democrats had changed the 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:26.639 rules so instead of the ballot harvesting being illegal, it 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:30.639 was perfectly legal. And they just exploited something in the 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:34.720 law that benefited them and they were able to knock 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:38.159 out a bunch of longtime Republican incumbents because of it. 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.399 They knew the rules better than the Republicans and they 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:47.080 used their knowledge and this quirk in the law to 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:52.000 be able to benefit. Right now, we have a situation 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:57.359 where Republicans can get into the low forties. Probably, I 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:00.280 would say the Republican candidate, if it's an R versus 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.520 a D, will do somewhere between forty one and forty 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:04.760 four percent, let's say. 0:24:05.400 --> 0:24:07.040