WEBVTT - CA Is On The Wrong Track (10/23) 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.240 KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Kobelt Podcast 0:00:04.300 --> 0:00:13.850 on the iHeartRadio app. KFI AM 640. More stimulating talk radio. 0:00:13.910 --> 0:00:16.920 Hello there. It's the John Kobelt Show. How are you? 0:00:17.190 --> 0:00:20.470 We are on up until 6 o'clock. After 6 o'clock, 0:00:20.530 --> 0:00:23.909 John Kobelt Show on demand. That's the podcast. Same as 0:00:23.930 --> 0:00:26.349 the radio show. It's for what you missed. And, of course, 0:00:26.530 --> 0:00:28.410 you can still listen to the Karen Bass interview today. 0:00:28.850 --> 0:00:31.670 a standalone podcast hour on the iHeart app, also a 0:00:31.710 --> 0:00:37.250 standalone video hour on YouTube. We have been telling you 0:00:37.330 --> 0:00:42.809 that the Trump administration has taken aim at the California government, 0:00:43.850 --> 0:00:49.170 saying that there are tens of thousands of ineligible voters 0:00:49.229 --> 0:00:53.470 on the voter rolls. Immigrants who may be here legally, 0:00:54.270 --> 0:00:58.130 but they have no right to vote. But they've registered anyway, 0:00:58.350 --> 0:01:00.709 and some of them have been voting. Now, the other 0:01:00.750 --> 0:01:05.530 day there was a roundup, and they tried to arrest 25. 0:01:05.530 --> 0:01:08.740 I don't know ultimately how many they were able to 0:01:08.780 --> 0:01:12.399 put into custody for being registered or for actually voting. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:18.679 And there's more coming. Now, we're going to talk with 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.770 Royal Oaks from ABC News, the legal analyst, about that first. Royal, 0:01:22.810 --> 0:01:23.190 how are you? 0:01:24.350 --> 0:01:25.369 I'm doing great, John. How are you? 0:01:26.220 --> 0:01:32.820 I'm good. So the Trump administration wants any ballots filled 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.600 out by somebody on this list, wants those ballots to 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:44.400 be set aside and investigated, I guess. How is this 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.700 going to work? What's the likelihood that the Trump administration 0:01:47.740 --> 0:01:50.520 can follow through and win a case in court? 0:01:52.750 --> 0:01:54.570 Well, it's going to be tough because you first have 0:01:54.610 --> 0:01:58.250 to convince a trial court judge, federal level, that this 0:01:58.330 --> 0:02:00.890 is a good idea. And, you know, Trump doesn't have 0:02:00.930 --> 0:02:02.720 a great track record when it comes to that. He's 0:02:02.750 --> 0:02:06.380 already been shut down in related suits a bunch of times. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.899 I mean, the essence of what he's saying, of course, 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.880 makes sense. How could you object to the idea of 0:02:12.020 --> 0:02:15.149 trying to figure out if somebody who is voting really 0:02:15.190 --> 0:02:18.150 shouldn't be voting because they're not citizens? You can't be 0:02:18.290 --> 0:02:21.130 a registered voter. Now, if you believe the Trump administration figures, 0:02:21.350 --> 0:02:24.180 there are X thousand people in California and other states 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.880 who fall into that bucket. But good luck with, you know, 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.490 time pressure, getting a federal judge to say yes. And then, 0:02:31.500 --> 0:02:32.830 of course, if you lose and you go to the 0:02:32.850 --> 0:02:35.209 Court of Appeals. And boom, now you're up against a 0:02:35.230 --> 0:02:37.610 glass ceiling with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which 0:02:37.669 --> 0:02:40.650 also has ruled against Trump a whole lot. Obviously, the U.S. 0:02:40.669 --> 0:02:45.840 Supreme Court, 5-4, 6-3 majority, a lot of conservative decisions. 0:02:46.070 --> 0:02:49.660 They could reach down and get involved, but they're pretty busy. 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:51.060 You can't count them in doing that. 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.440 Because the way it works, the states have control over 0:02:56.460 --> 0:03:02.380 their own state elections, right? But what the Trump people 0:03:02.410 --> 0:03:07.889 are saying, there is congressional races on the ballot. So 0:03:08.110 --> 0:03:10.850 this makes it within the purview of the federal government 0:03:12.090 --> 0:03:14.830 to try to regulate what's going on here. Now, is 0:03:15.590 --> 0:03:18.500 that true? Do they have a say because of the 0:03:18.580 --> 0:03:20.220 congressional races on the ballot? 0:03:21.330 --> 0:03:25.389 Well, it's murky. The states control their elections, even the 0:03:25.490 --> 0:03:28.750 federal ones, like for House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. 0:03:29.130 --> 0:03:32.899 But there are federal laws, like the National Voter Registration Act, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.060 that can also come into play. So it's murky. And 0:03:36.260 --> 0:03:39.260 a classic example of this murkiness is up in Alaska, 0:03:39.540 --> 0:03:43.630 where you've been reading about this guy, GOP Senator Dan Sullivan. 0:03:43.890 --> 0:03:46.590 He's running for his third term, right? A few months ago, 0:03:47.090 --> 0:03:50.200 Two days before the deadline for his opponents to run, 0:03:50.220 --> 0:03:53.700 a guy who's also named Dan Sullivan announces, hey, you 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.710 know what? I'm a Republican, even though he'd never been 0:03:56.750 --> 0:03:59.290 a Republican before in his life. He's a retired elementary 0:03:59.330 --> 0:04:02.030 school teacher, and he files to run for the Senate 0:04:02.150 --> 0:04:05.010 as well against Dan Sullivan. So the Republicans up in 0:04:05.030 --> 0:04:07.240 Alaska say, nice try, dude. You just want to confuse 0:04:07.540 --> 0:04:10.420 enough GOP voters. So you split their Republican vote so 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:13.240 the lady who's running as a Democrat can win, which 0:04:13.500 --> 0:04:16.080 virtually never happens in Alaska. Democrats don't win. So the 0:04:16.100 --> 0:04:20.120 Republicans sued. They lost because the Alaska Supreme Court ruled and. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:20.779 They said, you know what? 0:04:21.060 --> 0:04:25.330 There's no law that says. it's illegal to confuse the voters. 0:04:25.810 --> 0:04:29.150 And the Trump administration is now saying, okay, we lost 0:04:29.210 --> 0:04:31.690 in state court, but we're now filing in the last 0:04:31.750 --> 0:04:34.900 day or two in federal court, hoping to find a 0:04:34.940 --> 0:04:37.760 federal judge in Alaska who will say, this doesn't make 0:04:37.820 --> 0:04:42.180 any sense. If the purpose of a guy go running 0:04:42.500 --> 0:04:45.060 is to confuse the voters so the democratic can win 0:04:45.310 --> 0:04:47.890 and then they are confused see what trump wants is 0:04:47.930 --> 0:04:50.950 that if the incumbent dan sullivan loses they're going to 0:04:50.970 --> 0:04:52.530 do a big study and figure out if people were 0:04:52.570 --> 0:04:56.070 confused and have either a redo or say dan sullivan 0:04:56.110 --> 0:04:58.490 wins so it's a huge mess i'm just kidding. 0:04:58.290 --> 0:05:00.010 How are you going to prove what's going on in 0:05:00.060 --> 0:05:01.940 the second dan sullivan's mind. 0:05:03.970 --> 0:05:07.090 Well, you can't know for sure, but the fact that 0:05:07.170 --> 0:05:09.350 he had never been a Republican for his whole life 0:05:09.430 --> 0:05:11.510 and two days before, he claims he was. 0:05:11.540 --> 0:05:17.150 I'm sure it's a trick, but if he shuts up, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:20.340 I don't know how you investigate this. 0:05:21.460 --> 0:05:23.479 Yeah, I think what they want to do is if 0:05:23.500 --> 0:05:27.060 the incumbent loses, then they canvass thousands of people. They 0:05:27.100 --> 0:05:30.430 come up with some fancy, sophisticated survey and conclude that 0:05:30.500 --> 0:05:32.950 all sorts of Republicans in Alaska thought they were voting 0:05:32.990 --> 0:05:35.950 for the incumbent, Dan Sullivan. But by mistake, they voted 0:05:36.190 --> 0:05:39.330 for the other Dan Sullivan. Good luck with that. I mean, 0:05:39.529 --> 0:05:42.599 I guess this is Trump's Department of Justice being aggressive, 0:05:43.660 --> 0:05:45.740 but it does seem kind of sneaky what they were 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:46.560 trying to do up there. 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.300 Yeah, I mean, it just seems like it would be 0:05:51.320 --> 0:06:00.710 a very long, long, arduous case. And it's really gotten dirty. 0:06:00.930 --> 0:06:03.210 And I also have realized, like in the case here 0:06:03.230 --> 0:06:06.409 in California, the law is murky on this stuff. Because 0:06:06.450 --> 0:06:10.230 you would think that if there are legal voters on 0:06:10.290 --> 0:06:14.870 the rolls, it would be automatic. to get them kicked off, 0:06:14.930 --> 0:06:17.909 had their votes not counted. But it looks like it's not. 0:06:18.510 --> 0:06:21.130 It's looked like states can't get away with this. Probably 0:06:21.150 --> 0:06:24.020 California has been getting away with this for a long time. 0:06:25.150 --> 0:06:27.330 Yeah, and it's no surprise. I mean, politics is a 0:06:27.370 --> 0:06:30.990 dirty business with all the gerrymandering and so on. But 0:06:31.029 --> 0:06:33.310 I think at the end of the day, when you 0:06:33.350 --> 0:06:36.270 have statutes that are murky or like a federal and 0:06:36.310 --> 0:06:38.940 a state statute that are kind of contradictory, what you 0:06:39.020 --> 0:06:42.080 need is a common-sense, fair-minded judge to cut through it 0:06:42.140 --> 0:06:45.219 and say, all right, don't talk to me about parsing 0:06:45.260 --> 0:06:48.440 all the semicolons and the paragraphs. The fact of the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.360 matter is if you are not an American citizen, you 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.410 are not entitled to vote in an election. And as 0:06:55.450 --> 0:07:00.790 a result, it may seem unfair that we're disenfranchising people, 0:07:00.870 --> 0:07:04.450 but these are folks who are not entitled to be enfranchised. 0:07:04.730 --> 0:07:08.550 And it's a very messy, murky situation trying to call 0:07:08.690 --> 0:07:11.890 out votes. But as you know, John, we're really good 0:07:11.990 --> 0:07:14.170 at taking a lot of time after Election Day to 0:07:14.470 --> 0:07:17.230 figure out what the heck happened and who voted for 0:07:17.270 --> 0:07:19.230 whom and what the numbers are. So I think that's 0:07:19.310 --> 0:07:21.990 ultimately what the Trump administration is asking for. 0:07:22.110 --> 0:07:23.690 Seems like this one's going to be a big mess. 0:07:24.450 --> 0:07:26.490 Figuring out who didn't, who shouldn't have voted. Yeah. 0:07:26.570 --> 0:07:27.890 This is going to be a big mess. This one 0:07:28.310 --> 0:07:31.260 just seems like it's heading there for a lot of reasons. 0:07:31.540 --> 0:07:32.160 Absolutely. 0:07:32.180 --> 0:07:32.500 All right. 0:07:32.540 --> 0:07:32.780 Royal. 0:07:32.820 --> 0:07:37.380 Thanks for coming on. Royal Oaks. ABC news, uh, the 0:07:37.420 --> 0:07:42.240 legal analyst. When we come back, um, there was more 0:07:42.300 --> 0:07:47.370 polling out today. Uh, two things. One is just how 0:07:47.460 --> 0:07:52.970 unpopular Gavin Newsom is among Californians. When asked, uh, do 0:07:52.990 --> 0:07:56.640 you want him to be president? And secondly, you are 0:07:56.740 --> 0:08:00.220 not going to believe who Democrats in California do want 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.060 to be the nominee. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:03.360 Really. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:09.910 And I, I, I, I, I always think, well, I 0:08:09.950 --> 0:08:12.330 can't get worse. And it actually gets worse. 0:08:13.290 --> 0:08:17.710 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:08:17.710 --> 0:08:20.010 All right. 0:08:20.090 --> 0:08:26.250 California Post and McLaughlin and Associates have, uh, collaborated on 0:08:26.310 --> 0:08:30.420 a poll. I think McLaughlin and Associates did the poll, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.240 and the Post paid for it, and now they're running 0:08:32.260 --> 0:08:37.939 a series of stories on it. And I've got several 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.679 of their questions to go through. But the first one is, 0:08:43.340 --> 0:08:48.790 what California voters think, specifically Democratic voters, about the Democratic 0:08:48.830 --> 0:08:53.240 presidential primary? Who do they want? Well, the number one 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.730 choice is not Gavin Newsom, and the number two choice 0:08:57.929 --> 0:09:01.210 is not Gavin Newsom. Who do you think the number 0:09:01.309 --> 0:09:09.850 one choice is? It's not Kamala Harris either. It's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 0:09:11.790 --> 0:09:16.260 She got 18% of the respondents saying that they would 0:09:16.300 --> 0:09:22.470 pick her to be the Democratic nominee. So that is 0:09:22.610 --> 0:09:27.610 truly the insane wing of the California Democratic Party. In 0:09:27.630 --> 0:09:31.480 case you wonder how many people are truly off their rockers, 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:45.980 she's even dumber than Kamala Harris. Have you ever heard 0:09:46.020 --> 0:09:52.090 her try to talk at length about real issues? She 0:09:52.140 --> 0:09:55.010 always talks herself into a cul-de-sac and eventually has to 0:09:55.090 --> 0:09:59.970 stop dead. Very much like Kamala Harris or Nithya Raman. 0:10:02.429 --> 0:10:09.170 Second place was Pete Buttigieg, who has some wacky views 0:10:09.210 --> 0:10:13.670 but does not seem like a complete idiot. Newsom is third. 0:10:15.030 --> 0:10:17.640 He's only got 14% of the vote. Newsom did not 0:10:17.740 --> 0:10:20.280 fare well in this poll at all. Again, these are 0:10:21.059 --> 0:10:29.600 California voters. And his disapproval rating, 50%. 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:29.840 50. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:34.920 41% strong disapproval. Yeah, I think he's done. He may 0:10:34.990 --> 0:10:39.900 charm people for five minutes outside of California, but... These 0:10:39.940 --> 0:10:42.840 are the people who know him best. And these are 0:10:43.020 --> 0:10:49.200 diehard Democratic voters who voted for him five times. In 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:54.060 some cases, seven times. Because he won two terms as 0:10:54.100 --> 0:10:57.319 San Francisco mayor and turned that place into a sewer 0:10:57.360 --> 0:11:01.070 along with George Gascogne. Then he had two runs as 0:11:01.300 --> 0:11:04.969 lieutenant governor. And then he had three times he ran 0:11:05.010 --> 0:11:06.790 for governor because there was a recall in the midst, 0:11:07.030 --> 0:11:10.440 in the middle of it. So that's seven times he 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:16.840 ran and seven wins, and he's got a 50% disapproval rating, 41% 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:21.740 strong disapproval. Now, listen to this. You know probably 90-plus 0:11:21.780 --> 0:11:24.460 percent of the Republicans don't like him, right? But independent 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:33.440 voters disliked him. 62% of independent voters disliked Newsom's performance. Now, 0:11:33.700 --> 0:11:40.280 if you have over 90% of Republicans and 62% of independents, God, 0:11:41.059 --> 0:11:45.440 do most Democrats still like Newsom? And what is that? 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:50.400 What kind of mental disease is that? Then again, some 0:11:50.460 --> 0:11:53.210 of them want Kamala and some of them want AOC 0:11:53.630 --> 0:12:00.069 as president. This is an alternate universe. And unfortunately, this 0:12:00.170 --> 0:12:04.620 crowd has been able to steer the ship here. for 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:09.170 the last few years. The most extreme progressive whack job 0:12:09.309 --> 0:12:16.550 elements of California society. 56% of California voters say the 0:12:16.590 --> 0:12:24.310 state was on the wrong track. And, of course, most 0:12:24.370 --> 0:12:28.170 of them are going to vote for Javier Baccaria. This 0:12:28.250 --> 0:12:33.380 wrong track number is consistent in all the polling. People 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.520 don't like what's going on. They don't like Newsom's policies. 0:12:37.540 --> 0:12:40.660 I had a poll specifically on Newsom's policies the other day. 0:12:42.650 --> 0:12:46.490 And Becerra has promised to continue all Newsom's policies. I'm 0:12:46.750 --> 0:12:54.160 completely at a loss here, except for the T word, Trump. And, 0:12:54.179 --> 0:12:55.780 you know, it makes you want to grab these people 0:12:55.820 --> 0:12:58.800 and sit them down and say, you really want this? 0:12:59.900 --> 0:13:05.750 Look outside. You really want this? But Trump, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:13:06.090 --> 0:13:09.160 Do you want this, though? You're voting on what's outside 0:13:09.179 --> 0:13:13.640 your window. You're not voting on him in Washington. You're 0:13:13.660 --> 0:13:16.319 voting on what's outside your window. You're voting on that 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:23.420 $ 6 gas you just paid for. Here's the issues they 0:13:23.490 --> 0:13:29.790 care most about. Cost of living. Budget and taxes. Well, 0:13:29.850 --> 0:13:34.790 for God's sakes, the cost of living. Well, when you 0:13:34.830 --> 0:13:39.450 have $ 6. 50 gas, yeah, the cost of living is going 0:13:39.470 --> 0:13:45.230 to be really high because everything, we've got like, diesel 0:13:45.290 --> 0:13:46.849 is going for. 0:13:46.510 --> 0:13:48.370 $ 8, $ 9. 0:13:47.750 --> 0:13:51.199 Everything has to get delivered. Everything that gets delivered has 0:13:51.220 --> 0:13:57.160 to use fuel. The original sin for a bad economy 0:13:57.980 --> 0:14:07.030 is excessive fuel prices. That bleeds into everything. They don't 0:14:07.090 --> 0:14:15.020 like the budget. The budget has more than tripled in 0:14:15.059 --> 0:14:20.480 the last 15 years. And you show me one category 0:14:20.500 --> 0:14:24.500 of government where things are better. One aspect of government 0:14:24.540 --> 0:14:28.140 services that is better in the last 15 years. 0:14:30.500 --> 0:14:30.880 You can't. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.510 Housing costs are upset with. Well, what do you think? 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:40.210 What do you think that's about? That's about excessive government regulations. 0:14:40.950 --> 0:14:44.750 Makes it difficult for developers to develop. So you end 0:14:44.790 --> 0:14:50.410 up with a lot less housing. It's simple. Everybody's prattling 0:14:50.470 --> 0:14:53.910 about affordability of housing. There's one way to fix that. 0:14:54.150 --> 0:14:58.780 Build more homes. We've got more people than we did 20, 30, 0:14:58.780 --> 0:15:03.130 40 years ago. People aren't dying as quickly as they 0:15:03.250 --> 0:15:05.770 used to. You know, people used to be done like 0:15:05.790 --> 0:15:09.290 at about 70. Now they're going to 90, many of them. Well, 0:15:09.470 --> 0:15:13.420 every one of those people needs a house. Then you 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.760 got at least a million illegal aliens living in the state. Actually, 0:15:17.820 --> 0:15:22.220 more than that, probably two, three, four million illegal aliens. 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.560 I haven't looked it up in a while. I think 0:15:25.580 --> 0:15:27.580 there's a million just in L.A. County, so it's probably 0:15:27.620 --> 0:15:32.250 four million across the state. Well, they take up homes too. Like, 0:15:32.290 --> 0:15:35.760 if you took the million illegal aliens out of L.A. County, boy, 0:15:35.780 --> 0:15:37.520 that would open up a lot of real estate, wouldn't it? 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.400 A lot of apartments. Then the price would go down. 0:15:43.420 --> 0:15:47.300 And they're upset with health care costs. Well, again, we're 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:55.390 spending $ 13. 5 billion on illegal alien Medicaid. Or California. What 0:15:55.430 --> 0:16:00.230 is it? Medi-Cal. $ 13. 5 billion. There you go. That explains 0:16:00.290 --> 0:16:05.370 high taxes. Higher health care costs. Like, you can't get 0:16:05.410 --> 0:16:08.330 a break. But the illegal aliens are getting it for free. 0:16:10.530 --> 0:16:12.950 That's all Newsom. I don't know what to tell you. 0:16:13.730 --> 0:16:26.720 And Becerra is going to keep all those policies. KFI 0:16:26.790 --> 0:16:30.780 AM 640, more stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt Show continues. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.640 We're on until 6 after 6. John Kobelt Show on demand, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.200 the podcast. We're live on YouTube and live on X. 0:16:38.980 --> 0:16:42.280 And we got the Moistline coming up tonight at 520 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:48.290 and 550. Okay, so here is more of this California 0:16:48.330 --> 0:16:56.880 Post-McLaughlin Associates poll. And somehow, after all this... Karen Bass 0:16:56.900 --> 0:17:01.270 has become the Republican candidate for mayor. I will explain. 0:17:02.570 --> 0:17:08.050 John Fleischman wrote a really good piece in the California 0:17:08.109 --> 0:17:14.469 Post explaining the polling. Overall, according to this, Rahman is 0:17:14.530 --> 0:17:23.210 leading Bass 46 to 38. 13% undecided. Now, if you 0:17:23.230 --> 0:17:29.590 break down the demographics... See, Karen Bass leads among registered 0:17:29.630 --> 0:17:35.650 Republicans 44 to 14. She leads among Trump voters 45 0:17:35.650 --> 0:17:42.590 to 14. Conservatives, all these groups overlap, back her 42 0:17:42.590 --> 0:17:50.750 to 18. And the Democrats, most of them, have gone 0:17:50.810 --> 0:17:51.290 for Rahman. 0:17:51.290 --> 0:17:53.369 59 to 37. 0:17:55.430 --> 0:17:59.050 So Rahman is now the Democratic nominee, in effect, and 0:17:59.109 --> 0:18:09.690 Bass has become the Republican nominee. Because normal people in 0:18:09.730 --> 0:18:17.580 the middle don't have a choice. And obviously, a lot 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.740 of people are voting for Bass. They're also voting primarily 0:18:21.820 --> 0:18:28.869 against Rahman. The whole thing is exhausting, isn't it? Now, 0:18:29.700 --> 0:18:32.369 the Spencer Pratt voters, they've tried to identify them as 0:18:32.410 --> 0:18:41.510 a subgroup. Let's look just at the 13.5% who claim 0:18:41.530 --> 0:18:49.970 they're undecided. Two-thirds view Spencer Pratt favorably. They don't like 0:18:50.410 --> 0:19:01.340 either candidate. of the undecided view Bass unfavorably. 73% view 0:19:01.420 --> 0:19:09.900 Rahman unfavorably. And three quarters don't like the DSA. So 0:19:10.260 --> 0:19:18.280 this crowd is completely alienated from this election. They dislike 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.760 both candidates deeply. And they dislike this new party that 0:19:22.820 --> 0:19:38.930 has produced Rahman. and they also increasingly don't trust California elections. 78%, 0:19:38.930 --> 0:19:45.310 listen to this, 78% of the undecideds have concerns that 0:19:45.350 --> 0:19:49.970 California elections are fair and honest. I don't know how 0:19:50.220 --> 0:19:54.970 anybody could look at the elections in LA are fair 0:19:55.010 --> 0:20:00.449 and honest after Rahman cheated her way into second place. 0:20:03.250 --> 0:20:07.760 That was The most bogus election result I have ever 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.220 seen in my life. And believe me, I didn't buy 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:14.560 into any of the Trump stuff from 2020. But this 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:18.440 I saw happen with my own eyes. I saw Nithya 0:20:18.510 --> 0:20:23.810 Raman giving a tearful concession-like speech. I saw that she 0:20:23.850 --> 0:20:27.050 was down eight or nine points on election night in 0:20:27.090 --> 0:20:30.170 June in the primary. And I saw where the votes 0:20:30.230 --> 0:20:33.340 came from. A lot of them came from Skid Row. 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:38.370 A lot of them were nonprofits who had created ballots 0:20:38.750 --> 0:20:45.109 for the people laying on the ground, whacked out on 0:20:45.330 --> 0:20:50.609 fentanyl or running around screaming on meth. Those people voted. 0:20:51.380 --> 0:20:55.000 The nonprofits made sure they did somehow, even if they 0:20:55.020 --> 0:21:01.760 had to fake the ballots. And then we were told, oh, well, 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:06.469 that's legal. That's California law. You can do that. All 0:21:06.490 --> 0:21:08.810 those homeless people in the Skid Row area and other 0:21:08.850 --> 0:21:13.020 areas had no addresses. They used the nonprofit office as 0:21:13.060 --> 0:21:17.399 their address. And then the nonprofit people allegedly handed out 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:24.320 the ballots. And if the drug-addicted mental patient couldn't fill 0:21:24.380 --> 0:21:28.740 out the ballot, the nonprofit could have them draw an 0:21:29.100 --> 0:21:32.030 X for their signature. You remember all this, right? We 0:21:32.050 --> 0:21:35.250 went over through this in June. This is what happened. 0:21:36.990 --> 0:21:40.590 Now you come back with another election in November, and 0:21:40.609 --> 0:21:43.490 it's like, oh, do you trust the California election? Well, no, 0:21:43.650 --> 0:21:50.780 I don't. Not after that. I don't scream about this 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:53.080 every time an election doesn't go by my way. I 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.940 know what state we're living in. I also know that 0:21:57.020 --> 0:21:59.179 the two times we tried to recall in L.A. the 0:21:59.220 --> 0:22:04.119 past few years, Mike Bonin and George Gascon, that recall 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:06.060 should have gone to the ballot and didn't. 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:08.820 And I. 0:22:10.540 --> 0:22:18.050 Think that was corruption as well. But this? So Bass 0:22:18.109 --> 0:22:20.790 is now relying on the West side. She lost to 0:22:20.830 --> 0:22:25.170 Caruso on the West side. And now she's winning there. 0:22:26.730 --> 0:22:30.100 But the thing is, that's all she's got. A lot 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:35.140 of them are Republicans, independents, Pratt voters. Well, small number 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.889 of Pratt voters. But she's lost most of the Democratic Party. 0:22:39.940 --> 0:22:44.800 I don't know how you run in L.A. when you've 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:49.100 lost most of the Democratic Party when you're a left-wing Democrat. 0:22:53.770 --> 0:22:58.910 And I realize she looks moderate compared to Rahman, who's 0:22:59.630 --> 0:23:06.440 a stark raving lunatic. But Bass is still... a left-wing 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:15.400 progressive Democrat. Absolutely the strangest situation ever. There is nobody 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:18.450 to represent regular, normal people. And I blame it on 0:23:18.470 --> 0:23:20.930 the regular, normal people. I blame it on the Republican 0:23:21.250 --> 0:23:26.090 Party out here, too. There was plenty of votes for 0:23:26.130 --> 0:23:31.350 a Pratt, or there should have been another candidate, even 0:23:31.369 --> 0:23:35.340 a moderate Democrat, but there wasn't. A lot of Republicans 0:23:35.390 --> 0:23:38.260 didn't turn out, didn't vote for Pratt. They didn't vote 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:47.700 for Caruso either. You have a situation now where in 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:51.399 the space of four years, L.A. voters rejected a Rick 0:23:51.420 --> 0:23:57.560 Caruso and then Spencer Pratt, two wildly different people. But 0:23:58.820 --> 0:24:01.719 they were telling the truth about what was going on 0:24:01.859 --> 0:24:08.730 and what needed to be done. And then after the 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.409 election happens, especially if Rahman gets in, it's going to be, 0:24:12.420 --> 0:24:16.199 how did this happen? It happened because when good people 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:22.830 ran who made sense, you found some wacky reason either 0:24:22.890 --> 0:24:26.950 not to vote or not to vote for them. This 0:24:27.010 --> 0:24:30.250 is utterly predictable. And let me tell you something. There's 0:24:30.310 --> 0:24:33.859 so many people now in this nutty state, who vote 0:24:34.100 --> 0:24:48.820 based on gender, color, and ethnicity, and not things like accomplishments, intelligence, experience, 0:24:49.060 --> 0:24:55.170 common sense. As long as you don't factor those aspects 0:24:55.230 --> 0:24:57.530 into your vote, you are going to get what we 0:24:57.570 --> 0:25:01.750 have now in L.A. You have to vote on merit. 0:25:03.510 --> 0:25:08.190 People aren't voting on merit anymore. They think somehow one's 0:25:08.369 --> 0:25:12.150 skin color or one's genitalia gives you special powers. They 0:25:12.210 --> 0:25:17.280 think somehow one's ethnicity is significant when it comes to decision-making. 0:25:18.420 --> 0:25:21.000 And it's not. It's utterly irrelevant. The color of your 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:27.109 skin is completely irrelevant. Your sex is completely irrelevant, as 0:25:27.190 --> 0:25:31.140 is your ethnicity. You either got the goods... to make 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:34.540 executive decisions and have a coherent policy and be able 0:25:34.580 --> 0:25:37.280 to look outside your window and say, hmm, that's bad. 0:25:39.600 --> 0:25:42.100 Let's fix this. And then let's make the right decisions 0:25:42.140 --> 0:25:45.119 to fix it. If you don't have that capability, then 0:25:45.140 --> 0:25:49.220 you're going to get more of this. But that's mostly 0:25:49.260 --> 0:25:53.320 what the vote has been the last two election cycles. 0:25:56.500 --> 0:25:58.480 I don't know who was voting for Garcetti, but Garcetti 0:25:58.500 --> 0:26:03.570 didn't have any opposition. If you don't have any independent candidates, 0:26:05.340 --> 0:26:09.219 moderate Democratic candidates, Republican candidates, if you don't have any 0:26:09.260 --> 0:26:14.340 other alternatives, we just keep sliding farther down into the abyss, 0:26:15.380 --> 0:26:20.909 which is what's happening. More coming up. 0:26:21.850 --> 0:26:28.150 You're listening to John Kobelt on demand from KFI AM 640. 0:26:31.780 --> 0:26:35.480 Can't buy AIM 640. More stimulating talk radio. John Kobelt Show. 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:39.619 Kenneth Schrupp and Christopher Ruffo have written a piece in 0:26:39.700 --> 0:26:44.650 City Journal about the bullet train. They looked at, believe this, 0:26:44.650 --> 0:26:55.720 130,000 pages of environmental review materials. This is one of 0:26:55.780 --> 0:26:59.280 the many reasons that high-speed rail is which has never 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:05.490 been built, 130,000 pages of environmental review. If you stacked 0:27:05.690 --> 0:27:09.830 all the pages together, it's 40 feet tall, weighs 1,300 pounds. 0:27:12.090 --> 0:27:16.790 These studies alone cost almost $ 700 million. We're going to 0:27:16.830 --> 0:27:19.620 talk with Kenneth Shrupp, who wrote this piece, to explain more. 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:24.619 We've been discussing the polling that came out in the 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:28.690 California Post today, done by McLaughlin and Associates. which found 0:27:28.770 --> 0:27:32.490 Rahman is ahead of Bass 46 to 38. And Bass 0:27:32.550 --> 0:27:39.190 is now relying on Republican, conservative, or Pratt voters. Again, 0:27:39.230 --> 0:27:43.310 there's some overlap there. And to try to eke out 0:27:43.350 --> 0:27:49.370 a win here. Because the Democrat voters have largely went 0:27:49.730 --> 0:27:54.250 with Rahman. In fact, very liberal voters are going to 0:27:54.300 --> 0:27:58.899 Rahman 80 to 18. Now, I guarantee you, very liberal voters, 0:27:59.260 --> 0:28:06.420 when Bass ran against Caruso, I'm sure she got 90% plus. Well, 0:28:06.970 --> 0:28:11.909 she's lost almost all of them, 80 to 18. Meantime, 0:28:12.730 --> 0:28:16.210 yesterday's Nithya Raman quote from her appearance with Alex Michelson 0:28:16.770 --> 0:28:20.909 was about, even though she wants Jim McDonald fired, As 0:28:20.970 --> 0:28:25.080 police chief, she couldn't name a single police chief in 0:28:25.300 --> 0:28:28.120 all the United States of America or even foreign countries 0:28:28.380 --> 0:28:32.060 that she admires. She just was saying, I don't know. 0:28:32.500 --> 0:28:34.060 I don't know. In fact, do you have that? Can 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:36.080 we hear that first? I'm going to start to put 0:28:36.100 --> 0:28:44.190 together a series. This is CNN, Alex Michelson, about who 0:28:44.250 --> 0:28:46.130 she admires as police chief. 0:28:46.490 --> 0:28:48.630 Who's an example of a police chief that you really 0:28:48.710 --> 0:28:49.670 respect or admire? 0:28:50.170 --> 0:28:52.030 Oh, I don't know. 0:28:52.050 --> 0:28:54.150 I don't know. 0:28:54.170 --> 0:28:57.180 All right, you. 0:28:57.170 --> 0:29:00.660 Can stop there. Now, here's another one. Do you agree 0:29:00.700 --> 0:29:04.320 with Alex asking Nithi about DSA policies? Go ahead. 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:06.060 Do you agree with abolishing the police? 0:29:06.100 --> 0:29:06.280 No. 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:07.940 Do you agree with abolishing prisons? 0:29:08.180 --> 0:29:08.360 No. 0:29:08.820 --> 0:29:11.900 Do you agree with getting rid of the Senate? No. 0:29:12.720 --> 0:29:16.270 Do you agree with capitalism? Are you a capitalist? 0:29:16.460 --> 0:29:19.230 I am a capitalist and I'm also a democratic socialist. 0:29:19.310 --> 0:29:20.910