Speaker 1: The last few months in San Francisco have been honestly
Speaker 1: better than you expected. Still hot and dry, but now
Speaker 1: that you're in fall, the heat has become manageable. In
Speaker 1: the Bay Area, at least, staying with your brother has
Speaker 1: been actually really nice. The first few showers felt like luxury.
Speaker 1: Recently he's had less of a good time. He found
Speaker 1: out he was getting laid off right before the school
Speaker 1: year started. He told me. Over fifteen thousand other teachers
Speaker 1: have been fired as a part of the governor's new
Speaker 1: reform schools program. The teacher's union is fighting it, but
Speaker 1: your brother isn't too optimistic of regarding the outcome. He's
Speaker 1: been looking for new work, and meanwhile, you've gotten a
Speaker 1: shitty retail job to help with bills while you decide
Speaker 1: on what hospitals you want to apply to. You don't
Speaker 1: really miss your old MS job in Redwood Valley. When
Speaker 1: you finally do get back into medical care, you really
Speaker 1: prefer something in a hospital or clinic setting as opposed
Speaker 1: to the extra stress inherent in emergency services. The one
Speaker 1: chance you have had to use your medical skills it's
Speaker 1: moving was during the fires last September and October. Back
Speaker 1: up north, they got really bad and hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of people evacuated down south. Some old activist friends of
Speaker 1: yours from college made their own fire relief slash mutual aid,
Speaker 1: set up to give out clothes and food and to
Speaker 1: help people displaced by the fires. You haven't talked much
Speaker 1: with your old college buddies in the past few years,
Speaker 1: but upon hearing of the relief effort, you happily offered
Speaker 1: up your skills to help with minor medical issues in
Speaker 1: a small medic tent they set up. It was the
Speaker 1: first time you've helped with anything related to protests organizing
Speaker 1: since he moved up to Redwood Valley ten years ago.
Speaker 1: It was oddly refreshing. Politics hasn't been a major part
Speaker 1: of your life since college. But speaking of politics, mid
Speaker 1: terms are finally this month. The past year has felt
Speaker 1: like it stretched on forever. Your brother and his union
Speaker 1: buddies have been doing canvassing for a few progressive city
Speaker 1: council candidates that might actually get a shot at getting in.
Speaker 1: You haven't had time to adjust to San Francisco's local
Speaker 1: political scene, and honestly, you're not sure if you really
Speaker 1: care to. You have been keeping half an eye on
Speaker 1: the big state electoral races, though, which feels kind of weird.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no way the Republican government will get
Speaker 1: re elected, not here in California. One thing that has
Speaker 1: gotten you worried is the weekly anti election fraud rallies
Speaker 1: that have been happening in l A ever since October.
Speaker 1: The governor, surrounded by state troopers, has made it down
Speaker 1: himself a few times to drop up support from his
Speaker 1: fan base, and after the rallies, roving gangs of far
Speaker 1: right extremists have gone around randomly attacking homeless encampments. You
Speaker 1: heard that just last week after a Sunday rally, three
Speaker 1: people had to be rushed to the emergency room. It's
Speaker 1: now just a week before election day. You're on the
Speaker 1: bus home from your job at the vintage clothing store
Speaker 1: when you receive a message on signal from one of
Speaker 1: your old college mutual aid buddies you met up with
Speaker 1: again during the fire relief effort. The message reads, hey,
Speaker 1: are you free on election Day? You hadn't really thought
Speaker 1: about the day itself, You respond, maybe nothing really planned yet.
Speaker 1: Your friend replies with a fat wall of text, My
Speaker 1: affinity group and I are heading down to l A
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. There's a big stop, the Steel type rally happening,
Speaker 1: and where it is. Lots of Proud Boys are going
Speaker 1: to show up. Comrades and l A have put out
Speaker 1: some calls for support, So my crew is going to
Speaker 1: go down and probably bring some medical stuff. If you
Speaker 1: want to come, we got an extra seat in the van.
Speaker 1: The thought of driving down to Los Angeles to deal
Speaker 1: with Proud Boys doesn't excite you, especially on an already
Speaker 1: stressful day. You think about it for a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Images of the people maimed during and after the recent
Speaker 1: rallies floods your mind. Your buddies no more about organizing
Speaker 1: and protests than you do, but you have more medical training.
Speaker 1: You decide you'll do it. You reply, I'll come with
Speaker 1: and pack some extra iFACTS and tourniquets. Among the issues
Speaker 1: of Republican recall, challengers have raised to attack Newsom force
Speaker 1: mismanagement has leomed large among the recent complaints. This type
Speaker 1: of thing hearkens back to Trump's old habit of blaming
Speaker 1: the governor and not raking enough leaves for California's fiery plight.
Speaker 1: On a larger scale, this can be seen as part
Speaker 1: of an effort to push all the blame of wildfires
Speaker 1: off of oil gas and our transformation of the climate
Speaker 1: and onto a simple lack of fire prevention measures. This narrative,
Speaker 1: of course, makes the fossil fuel industry more happy. The
Speaker 1: thing is, all of these things are contributing factors for
Speaker 1: California's wildfire problem. Climate changed caused hotter temperatures and droughts
Speaker 1: makes fires easier to catch and spread, and inadequate force management,
Speaker 1: plus above ground power lines do the same. Just because
Speaker 1: there are bad faith attacks on Newsom doesn't mean there
Speaker 1: aren't actual failures he's made as governor, especially in relation
Speaker 1: to the forests. An investigation from CAP Radio and California
Speaker 1: MPR published last June found out Newsom had grossly misrepresented
Speaker 1: and fled out lied about his promises of new wildfire
Speaker 1: prevention efforts. Elements of the piece were of course used
Speaker 1: by Larry Elder and the Right to push for support
Speaker 1: of the recall, but the article itself is a very
Speaker 1: fine piece of journalism. Back when Newsom first took office
Speaker 1: in January, one of the first things he did was
Speaker 1: signed on the executive order overhauling how California handles wildfire
Speaker 1: prevention and forest management. The measures included removal of hazardous
Speaker 1: dead trees, vegetation clearing, creation of fuel breaks and community
Speaker 1: defensible spaces, and creation of ingress and egress corridors. In
Speaker 1: January twenty a year after Newsom's initial announcement, the Governor's
Speaker 1: office claimed in a press release that under the Executive
Speaker 1: Orders Priority Projects, nine acres got treated with these fire
Speaker 1: prevention measures, But according to data attained by CAP Radio
Speaker 1: and MPR, the actual number of acres treated by these
Speaker 1: priority projects was only eleven thousand, three hundred and ninety nine,
Speaker 1: just thirteen percent of the number Newsom boasted about, quoting
Speaker 1: the piece by CAP Radio. Quote data shows cow Fire's
Speaker 1: fuel reduction output dropped by half and twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: levels below Governor Jerry Browne's final year in office. At
Speaker 1: the same time, Newsom slashed roughly one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars from Cowfire's wildfire prevention budget. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: four point three million acres burned, the most in California's
Speaker 1: recorded history. That was more than double the previous record
Speaker 1: set in twenty eighteen, when the camp fire destroyed the
Speaker 1: town of Paradise. Ultimately killing eighty five people. A decade ago,
Speaker 1: cow Fire was treating a poultry seventeen thousand acres annually.
Speaker 1: That number has steadily climbed, though Newsom misrepresented the number
Speaker 1: of acres treated in his priority projects. The overall amount
Speaker 1: of wild fire mitigation work carried out by CalFire spiked
Speaker 1: in his first year of office to sixty four thousand acres,
Speaker 1: but in fuel reduction totals plummeted to less than thirty
Speaker 1: two acres, a roughly fifty drop unquote. Multiple factors contributed
Speaker 1: to twenty twenties subpar fire prevention and reduction efforts in
Speaker 1: the year with the large number of akers treated in
Speaker 1: recent history, the state budget allotted for three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty five million dollars for wildfire prevention and resource management,
Speaker 1: but after the COVID nineteen pandemic hit California in early
Speaker 1: Newsom cut the budget down to two hundred and three million.
Speaker 1: On top of the budget cuts, the fires themselves made
Speaker 1: prevention work more challenging. Twenties wildfire season started out early,
Speaker 1: which resulted in less time to do prescribed burns and
Speaker 1: thinnings because the same teams that are tasked with prevention
Speaker 1: and fuel reduction often also service firefighters once the fires. Account.
Speaker 1: As of MAE, cal Fire has treated over twenty three
Speaker 1: acres throughout the year. This puts California on a trajectory
Speaker 1: better than last year's total, but not as high as
Speaker 1: the sixty thousand plus acres treated in Newsom has been
Speaker 1: trying to make up for his missteps and gross exaggerations.
Speaker 1: Quoting the Cap Radio report again quote, Newsom is trying
Speaker 1: to play catch up with the state enjoying an unexpected surplus.
Speaker 1: Newsome proposed two billion in spending on wildfires and emergency preparedness,
Speaker 1: with one point two billion going towards wildfire resiliency in
Speaker 1: the upcoming budget. Experts say the increase in prevention spending
Speaker 1: could help the state get closer to a less dangerous
Speaker 1: wildfire season over time, but they also expressed concern over
Speaker 1: whether the state will sustain that commitment for years to come. Unquote.
Speaker 1: Revelations about Newsom's and cow fires lies in lackluster force
Speaker 1: man innagement were quickly jumped on by Larry Elder and
Speaker 1: other Republican challengers as an easy way to attack Newsom
Speaker 1: and to move the conversation about wildfires away from climate change.
Speaker 1: Elder has said he has quot unquote no idea why
Speaker 1: more prevention and reduction measures aren't being done, and when
Speaker 1: he becomes governor, he'll be quote implementing these common sensical
Speaker 1: kinds of plans so that we can reduce the severity
Speaker 1: of these fires unquote. Elder has given no concrete plans
Speaker 1: on what measures he'll be shooting to implement, or any
Speaker 1: indication on how much money will be directed to prevent
Speaker 1: or fight fires on the noted budgets. Elder has said
Speaker 1: that the more recent spending on wind and solar power
Speaker 1: has left quote less money for removing trees and putting
Speaker 1: power lines underground, the kind of things that would make
Speaker 1: these fires less intense unquote, and he promises to drastically
Speaker 1: cut spending on renewables while also investing more in oil
Speaker 1: and gas. To be clear, Newsom's upcoming budget contains billions
Speaker 1: for both prevention, slash fuel reduction and renewable energy such
Speaker 1: as wind and solar. Whoever ends up governing California is
Speaker 1: not only in charge of local politics like a governors
Speaker 1: in other states. What happens in California affects people across
Speaker 1: the country. And even globally, whether that's wildfire smoke traveling
Speaker 1: across continents or changes to supply chains and industry rippling
Speaker 1: across the world. California is, after all, the world's fifth
Speaker 1: largest economy. There are also political ramifications that could affect
Speaker 1: the States as a whole if Elder gets in office.
Speaker 1: The Senate is currently a fifty fifty split between Republicans
Speaker 1: and Democrats, with Vice President Kamala Harris getting the tie
Speaker 1: breaking vote. One of California senators is eighty eight year
Speaker 1: old Diane Feinstein, the oldest act of editor. If she
Speaker 1: dies in office or has to step down due to
Speaker 1: medical reasons before her term is over, the governor of
Speaker 1: California gets to appoint her replacement. If Elder appoints a Republican,
Speaker 1: then the Senate will be back under geop control and
Speaker 1: give it his connections to the far right media sphere.
Speaker 1: The list of potentials that Elder could appoint is frightening.
Speaker 1: This is by no means inevitable even if Elder gets
Speaker 1: into office. If he does, Finstein does have the brief
Speaker 1: opportunity to step down and put a replacement in before
Speaker 1: the new governor has sworn into office, However, Feinstein has
Speaker 1: said she has no plans of doing so. Reports of
Speaker 1: her declining health have become only more common in recent years,
Speaker 1: but like many politicians and judges, she's not keen on
Speaker 1: stepping aside, even to possibly help prevent a disastrous outcome.
Speaker 1: Changes in the Senate are not required for horrible outcomes.
Speaker 1: In the wake of an even brief Elder governorship, his
Speaker 1: anti vax sentiments and planned to open up the state
Speaker 1: and remove basically all COVID restrictions will result in hospitals
Speaker 1: being pushed to max capacity. Elder has said he has
Speaker 1: plans to appoint education officials similar to former Secretary Betsy Divas,
Speaker 1: and judicial appointees like conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 1: Elder has stated his intention of declaring states of emergency
Speaker 1: and using executive orders to push through otherwise unpopular legislation.
Speaker 1: He has discussed plans to declare an education emergency in
Speaker 1: order to fire upwards of twenty one quote unquote bad teachers.
Speaker 1: Elder blames teacher unions for quote protecting bad teachers, and
Speaker 1: in a recent interview stated, quote someone told me that
Speaker 1: between five percent and seven percent of public school teachers
Speaker 1: need to be fired. An emergency declaration would give the
Speaker 1: power to get rid of bad teachers faster than the
Speaker 1: system allows. Once you did that automatically, education would improve
Speaker 1: overnight unquote. Now, Elder is not specified who had eased
Speaker 1: him on teacher terminations or how he plans to weed
Speaker 1: out the so called bad teachers out of the three
Speaker 1: thousand in the school system. He's also touted plans to
Speaker 1: declare a homeless emergency, but his solutions have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with actually helping homeless people. His homeless emergency declaration
Speaker 1: would allow him to suspend the California Environmental Quality Act,
Speaker 1: the longer requiring environmental review of building projects. Elders stated
Speaker 1: goal is to unleash developers and contractors without environmental regulation,
Speaker 1: which he claims to quote trice developers and contractors like
Speaker 1: criminals unquote, and allows building projects to get suspended indefinitely,
Speaker 1: ultimately raising the cost of housing in his opinion. One
Speaker 1: of the more frightening aspects of Larry Elder is his
Speaker 1: close ties to many far right propagandists. He's done work
Speaker 1: for Praker You, Epic Times, and has been a guest
Speaker 1: on Fox News at least two hundred and twenty times
Speaker 1: in the past five years. In the last episode, we
Speaker 1: discussed his friendship with Dennis Prager. Also, Dave Reuben just
Speaker 1: recently campaigned for Elder at a recent rally, and a
Speaker 1: month and a half ago, Elder was on Candice Owen's
Speaker 1: show discussing how the descendants of slave owners deserve reparations
Speaker 1: for having their property i e. Black people stolen from
Speaker 1: them when the slaves were freed. Those are his words,
Speaker 1: not mine. What's probably most concerning is Elder's connection to
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller. In fact, we wouldn't have Stephen Miller if
Speaker 1: it were not for Larry Elder. Back in the late nineties,
Speaker 1: a conservative student from Santa Monica High School would call
Speaker 1: into Larry Elder's show to rant about his school's liberal culture. Reportedly,
Speaker 1: the student would go around demanding staff and fellow students
Speaker 1: regularly recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He railed against condom
Speaker 1: giveaways and called Spanish language announcements quote a crutch preventing
Speaker 1: Spanish speakers from standing on their own unquote. Young Californians
Speaker 1: calling into Elder's show and agreeing with him wasn't very common,
Speaker 1: and Elder ate it up he loved talking with the
Speaker 1: students so much that he let the kid on basically
Speaker 1: any time he wanted a platform to rant and rave.
Speaker 1: You know where this is going. That student was Stephen Miller.
Speaker 1: According to Miller, he appeared on Elder's show sixty nine
Speaker 1: times throughout his time in high school and university, and
Speaker 1: calls Elder quote the one true guide I've always had unquote.
Speaker 1: Miller's appearances on Elder's radio show made him a recognizable
Speaker 1: figure in the larger conservative media world, helping him connect
Speaker 1: with Steve Bannon and eventually President Trump. By extension, Elder
Speaker 1: was Stephen Miller's on ramp to the White House. In
Speaker 1: an email to Miller in twenty sixteen, Elder told him quote,
Speaker 1: I hope to live to see the day when you
Speaker 1: become president. When media has brought up his friendship with
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller, Elder tries very quickly to change the subject
Speaker 1: when pushed on the topic. In a recent interview, Elder
Speaker 1: shot back with quote, why would you bring up Stephen Miller?
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what the agenda here is. What's the point?
Speaker 1: Am I somehow what a Nazi? A fascist? Unquote? I
Speaker 1: think that says enough. The reason we haven't discussed the
Speaker 1: other candidates in the recall election is because at this point,
Speaker 1: if Newsom is recalled, it's absolutely certain that Elder will
Speaker 1: be the one to succeed him. He has a twenty
Speaker 1: point lead ahead other challengers, but that lead is still
Speaker 1: only a tiny fraction of the total electorate, which demonstrates
Speaker 1: the part of the problem in California's recall process. There
Speaker 1: are other Republican challengers with concerning pasts and beliefs, lots
Speaker 1: of anti mask, anti trans, anti vax, total disbelief, and
Speaker 1: climate change people spouting q and originated conspiracy claims advocating
Speaker 1: the lie that the presidential election was stolen. And there's
Speaker 1: even a Democrat challenger that plans to use the National
Speaker 1: Guard to round up all homeless people and put them
Speaker 1: in concentration camps. But Elder himself shares a lot of
Speaker 1: those views and uses the fact that he's black as
Speaker 1: a shield for criticism against his racist and nationalist policies
Speaker 1: and ideas. We haven't even mentioned that last month Elder's
Speaker 1: ex fiance came out and said that Elder was extremely
Speaker 1: abusive and had threatened her with a loaded gun in
Speaker 1: early August polls were showing pretty much neck and neck
Speaker 1: for the first question on the ballot, yes or no
Speaker 1: on the recall itself. A Serve A USA pull from
Speaker 1: that time even had respondents vote no on the recall
Speaker 1: and fifty one percent vote yes to remove Newsom. Throughout
Speaker 1: August and September, results started to flip the other direction
Speaker 1: as ads against the recall hit the airwaves and internet.
Speaker 1: The latest Survey USA poll has fifty four percent voting
Speaker 1: no and the RICO and voting yes. Other polls hover
Speaker 1: around the same ten to fifteen point lead for Newsome
Speaker 1: staying in office. Now, with pools not going the way
Speaker 1: Elder in the GOP would like, we're starting to see
Speaker 1: a new, yet familiar narrative being prepared on on my
Speaker 1: on my website elect elder dot com. We have voter
Speaker 1: Integrity project, we have lawyers all set up, are ready
Speaker 1: to go to foul lawsuits in a timely fashion. The
Speaker 1: reason the lawsuits did not did not work in the election.
Speaker 1: We know what happened there is because the lawsuits were
Speaker 1: filed too late and many of them were dismissed. One
Speaker 1: procedural around cors don't like to overturn an election. So
Speaker 1: when did you hear of anything suspicious. We've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of things that have been suspicious so far. Go
Speaker 1: to elect golda dot com. We're gonna sick our lawyers
Speaker 1: on them, foul lawsuits right away. They're gonna cheat. We
Speaker 1: know that, and I'll tell you why. So many people
Speaker 1: are angry about the crime, about the homelessness, about the
Speaker 1: way he shut down this state, About the fact that
Speaker 1: one third of all small businesses, many of them are
Speaker 1: owned by black and brown and Asian American people that
Speaker 1: they care about, but the declining following the schools, but
Speaker 1: the fact that people are leaving rolling BrownHouse, black of water.
Speaker 1: So many people are angry. The number of people that
Speaker 1: are gonna vote to recall this man is gonna be
Speaker 1: so overwhelming. So then even when they cheat, they're still
Speaker 1: gonna lose. That's Larry Elder saying that if he doesn't win,
Speaker 1: that means the election must have been stolen. Fox News
Speaker 1: has been promoting the same idea the past month. All
Speaker 1: of it is in the vein of the Stop the
Speaker 1: Steel movement postidential election, culminating with the attempted insurrection on
Speaker 1: January six. Here's Elder again on Fox News in early September.
Speaker 1: But you're right, I am concerned about voter fraud and
Speaker 1: that's why I'm asking people to go to elect elder
Speaker 1: dot com. That's my website. We have a voter integrity
Speaker 1: project set up with a bunch of lawyers ready to
Speaker 1: foul lawsuits if anybody sees anything suspicious. Big election fraud
Speaker 1: conspiracy proponent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was one
Speaker 1: of the first people to chime in to stoke disinformation
Speaker 1: about the recall election. And I think this may well
Speaker 1: be the most rigged stay wide election we've seen probably
Speaker 1: at least a half century. And I think people should
Speaker 1: look carefully of this because it's pretty good evidence that
Speaker 1: if Newsom is in a straight, honest count, he probably
Speaker 1: has a good chance of losing. But if they can
Speaker 1: stuff every ballot box in California and they can cheat
Speaker 1: in every way possible, and of course this type of
Speaker 1: propaganda has made it onto the most watched cable news
Speaker 1: show on air, Tucker Carlson. California does not get the
Speaker 1: credit it deserves for the corruption that's endemic there. It's
Speaker 1: a one party state and they act like it, and
Speaker 1: you've got to have concerns about whether this recall election
Speaker 1: will be free and fair. Are you concerned, Well, of
Speaker 1: course I'm concerned, Tucker. I'm involved in election integrity efforts
Speaker 1: throughout the United States, and I'm also member of the
Speaker 1: Republican National Committee. So we have a team of lawyers
Speaker 1: that is ready to deploy throughout the state here and
Speaker 1: we are monitoring things every single day. Just a couple
Speaker 1: of hours ago, I filed a lawsuit to intervene in
Speaker 1: a challenge to the constitutionality of the recall statute because frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't trust the Secretary of State or the Attorney General,
Speaker 1: who are both appointed by the governor, to defend him
Speaker 1: in this regard, and so we are going to be
Speaker 1: jumping on every potential opportunity to do that and fight
Speaker 1: back against the Democrats. Of course, they are playing fast
Speaker 1: and loose. We've seen some very alarming scenes of three
Speaker 1: ballots bundled together in the car of a person with
Speaker 1: a gun and some drugs, and so we are definitely
Speaker 1: looking into all of these issues. But Tucker, ultimately it's
Speaker 1: going to come down to how much do people want
Speaker 1: to change in California. And I can tell you even
Speaker 1: living in my latte, sipping avocado toast, eating you know,
Speaker 1: Lululemon wearing neighborhood in San Francisco. People are fed up
Speaker 1: with the crime, the drugs, the homelessness, the intermittent electricity,
Speaker 1: and everything else that is wrong with California. So people
Speaker 1: want to change here. It's just not working. And this
Speaker 1: really is a test of whether our system works. I mean,
Speaker 1: can people get better leadership? That's kind of the question.
Speaker 1: Will there be election observers on the scene so the
Speaker 1: rest of us can know this was fair? Well. The
Speaker 1: problem in California is that the voting doesn't just take
Speaker 1: place on election day like it would in a normal place.
Speaker 1: It takes It's taking place now on a rolling basis
Speaker 1: through mail in voting. It's a hundred percent mail in
Speaker 1: ballots this time around, and it is going to take
Speaker 1: place for thirty days after the election if it's close,
Speaker 1: because they have thirty days to count the vote. That's
Speaker 1: sixty days of voting, and of course a lot of
Speaker 1: shenanigans can occur and ballots can disappear. So we are
Speaker 1: going to be observing it very closely and demanding accountability
Speaker 1: and filing lawsuits wherever we need to to hold the
Speaker 1: Democrats accountable because we cannot trust them. Yeah, I hope.
Speaker 1: So people want to believe the system works, that it's
Speaker 1: real that they have powered their vote matters. So I
Speaker 1: appreciate what you're doing, Harmydale. Thank you. A lot of
Speaker 1: what's said in that last clip is either extremely misrepresented
Speaker 1: or just flat outlines. Those three ballots found in a car,
Speaker 1: we're actually part of a larger mail theft thing not
Speaker 1: related to the election at all. Voters have received new ballots,
Speaker 1: and for this election, just like the last one, Californians
Speaker 1: have the option to vote in person, to mail in ballots,
Speaker 1: or deliver them in a dropbox. The deadline to drop off,
Speaker 1: mail or place your vote is September. Counting cannot start
Speaker 1: till the fourteenth either, and like every election, there will
Speaker 1: be observers throughout the entire counting process. Obviously, this isn't
Speaker 1: the first time conservative media has hyped up election fraud,
Speaker 1: the last presidential election being the biggest instance to date.
Speaker 1: But what is concerning here is that they're setting up
Speaker 1: a template to use for all future elections whenever Republicans lose.
Speaker 1: Here's a Fox clip from September seven. The only thing
Speaker 1: that will save Gavin Newsom is voter fraud. So as
Speaker 1: they say, stay woke, pay attention to the voter fraud
Speaker 1: going on in California because it's going to have big
Speaker 1: consequences not only for that state but for upcoming elections.
Speaker 1: It's safe to assume that Stop the Steel Esque strategies
Speaker 1: will be used almost every time a Republican loses in
Speaker 1: an election going forward. We've seen exactly what this type
Speaker 1: of rhetoric and propaganda leads to, and it ends in blood.
Speaker 1: There were multiple attacks on state capitals during the Stop
Speaker 1: the Steel rallies prior to January six. In some places
Speaker 1: like Salem, Oregon, they succeeded in getting inside the capital.
Speaker 1: Even if Newsom gets to stay in office, there will
Speaker 1: still be many problems, election conspiracies, and the possibility of violence,
Speaker 1: like January six, just being one. We haven't wanted to
Speaker 1: righteously defend Newsom here. He's a politician and inept in
Speaker 1: many ways. He deserves plenty of criticism, especially on the
Speaker 1: issues of climate change. But the criticism levied at Newsom
Speaker 1: from the likes of Elder in the GOP are based
Speaker 1: on bigotry, nationalism, and climate denial. Newsom should be our
Speaker 1: punching bag, not theirs.