WEBVTT - California’s Post Recall Future Part 2 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.880 The last few months in San Francisco have been honestly 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:06.200 better than you expected. Still hot and dry, but now 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.639 that you're in fall, the heat has become manageable. In 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.720 the Bay Area, at least, staying with your brother has 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:16.560 been actually really nice. The first few showers felt like luxury. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.720 Recently he's had less of a good time. He found 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:22.680 out he was getting laid off right before the school 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.520 year started. He told me. Over fifteen thousand other teachers 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.440 have been fired as a part of the governor's new 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.800 reform schools program. The teacher's union is fighting it, but 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.080 your brother isn't too optimistic of regarding the outcome. He's 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.479 been looking for new work, and meanwhile, you've gotten a 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.680 shitty retail job to help with bills while you decide 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.920 on what hospitals you want to apply to. You don't 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.040 really miss your old MS job in Redwood Valley. When 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.520 you finally do get back into medical care, you really 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.600 prefer something in a hospital or clinic setting as opposed 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.720 to the extra stress inherent in emergency services. The one 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.240 chance you have had to use your medical skills it's 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.440 moving was during the fires last September and October. Back 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.440 up north, they got really bad and hundreds of thousands 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:11.800 of people evacuated down south. Some old activist friends of 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.400 yours from college made their own fire relief slash mutual aid, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.000 set up to give out clothes and food and to 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.760 help people displaced by the fires. You haven't talked much 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.080 with your old college buddies in the past few years, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.199 but upon hearing of the relief effort, you happily offered 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.679 up your skills to help with minor medical issues in 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.240 a small medic tent they set up. It was the 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.200 first time you've helped with anything related to protests organizing 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.520 since he moved up to Redwood Valley ten years ago. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:41.920 It was oddly refreshing. Politics hasn't been a major part 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.319 of your life since college. But speaking of politics, mid 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.280 terms are finally this month. The past year has felt 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.960 like it stretched on forever. Your brother and his union 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.520 buddies have been doing canvassing for a few progressive city 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.440 council candidates that might actually get a shot at getting in. 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:02.000 You haven't had time to adjust to San Francisco's local 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.880 political scene, and honestly, you're not sure if you really 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.680 care to. You have been keeping half an eye on 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.519 the big state electoral races, though, which feels kind of weird. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.400 You know, there's no way the Republican government will get 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:18.000 re elected, not here in California. One thing that has 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:21.520 gotten you worried is the weekly anti election fraud rallies 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.240 that have been happening in l A ever since October. 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.239 The governor, surrounded by state troopers, has made it down 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.640 himself a few times to drop up support from his 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:33.280 fan base, and after the rallies, roving gangs of far 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:38.000 right extremists have gone around randomly attacking homeless encampments. You 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.239 heard that just last week after a Sunday rally, three 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.320 people had to be rushed to the emergency room. It's 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.040 now just a week before election day. You're on the 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.280 bus home from your job at the vintage clothing store 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.320 when you receive a message on signal from one of 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.720 your old college mutual aid buddies you met up with 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:58.320 again during the fire relief effort. The message reads, hey, 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.200 are you free on election Day? You hadn't really thought 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:05.880 about the day itself, You respond, maybe nothing really planned yet. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.520 Your friend replies with a fat wall of text, My 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.720 affinity group and I are heading down to l A 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.720 on Tuesday. There's a big stop, the Steel type rally happening, 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.960 and where it is. Lots of Proud Boys are going 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.480 to show up. Comrades and l A have put out 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.840 some calls for support, So my crew is going to 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.880 go down and probably bring some medical stuff. If you 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.040 want to come, we got an extra seat in the van. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.840 The thought of driving down to Los Angeles to deal 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.720 with Proud Boys doesn't excite you, especially on an already 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.880 stressful day. You think about it for a few minutes. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.160 Images of the people maimed during and after the recent 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.520 rallies floods your mind. Your buddies no more about organizing 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:51.080 and protests than you do, but you have more medical training. 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:55.280 You decide you'll do it. You reply, I'll come with 0:03:55.840 --> 0:04:04.320 and pack some extra iFACTS and tourniquets. Among the issues 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.400 of Republican recall, challengers have raised to attack Newsom force 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.560 mismanagement has leomed large among the recent complaints. This type 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:14.920 of thing hearkens back to Trump's old habit of blaming 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:19.320 the governor and not raking enough leaves for California's fiery plight. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.080 On a larger scale, this can be seen as part 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.880 of an effort to push all the blame of wildfires 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.120 off of oil gas and our transformation of the climate 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.400 and onto a simple lack of fire prevention measures. This narrative, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.159 of course, makes the fossil fuel industry more happy. The 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:39.159 thing is, all of these things are contributing factors for 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.359 California's wildfire problem. Climate changed caused hotter temperatures and droughts 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:49.000 makes fires easier to catch and spread, and inadequate force management, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.560 plus above ground power lines do the same. Just because 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.640 there are bad faith attacks on Newsom doesn't mean there 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.320 aren't actual failures he's made as governor, especially in relation 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:05.040 to the forests. An investigation from CAP Radio and California 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:10.200 MPR published last June found out Newsom had grossly misrepresented 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.320 and fled out lied about his promises of new wildfire 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.000 prevention efforts. Elements of the piece were of course used 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.719 by Larry Elder and the Right to push for support 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.440 of the recall, but the article itself is a very 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.279 fine piece of journalism. Back when Newsom first took office 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.440 in January, one of the first things he did was 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.440 signed on the executive order overhauling how California handles wildfire 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:38.240 prevention and forest management. The measures included removal of hazardous 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:42.280 dead trees, vegetation clearing, creation of fuel breaks and community 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:47.560 defensible spaces, and creation of ingress and egress corridors. In 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.760 January twenty a year after Newsom's initial announcement, the Governor's 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.240 office claimed in a press release that under the Executive 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:58.799 Orders Priority Projects, nine acres got treated with these fire 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.000 prevention measures, But according to data attained by CAP Radio 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.160 and MPR, the actual number of acres treated by these 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.279 priority projects was only eleven thousand, three hundred and ninety nine, 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.640 just thirteen percent of the number Newsom boasted about, quoting 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.320 the piece by CAP Radio. Quote data shows cow Fire's 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.920 fuel reduction output dropped by half and twenty twenty two, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.560 levels below Governor Jerry Browne's final year in office. At 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:29.040 the same time, Newsom slashed roughly one hundred and fifty 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:33.680 million dollars from Cowfire's wildfire prevention budget. In twenty twenty, 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.520 four point three million acres burned, the most in California's 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.080 recorded history. That was more than double the previous record 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.000 set in twenty eighteen, when the camp fire destroyed the 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.320 town of Paradise. Ultimately killing eighty five people. A decade ago, 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.880 cow Fire was treating a poultry seventeen thousand acres annually. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.080 That number has steadily climbed, though Newsom misrepresented the number 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.600 of acres treated in his priority projects. The overall amount 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.039 of wild fire mitigation work carried out by CalFire spiked 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.520 in his first year of office to sixty four thousand acres, 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.240 but in fuel reduction totals plummeted to less than thirty 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:16.440 two acres, a roughly fifty drop unquote. Multiple factors contributed 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.680 to twenty twenties subpar fire prevention and reduction efforts in 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.560 the year with the large number of akers treated in 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.960 recent history, the state budget allotted for three hundred and 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.440 fifty five million dollars for wildfire prevention and resource management, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.640 but after the COVID nineteen pandemic hit California in early 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.800 Newsom cut the budget down to two hundred and three million. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.600 On top of the budget cuts, the fires themselves made 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:49.520 prevention work more challenging. Twenties wildfire season started out early, 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.360 which resulted in less time to do prescribed burns and 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.640 thinnings because the same teams that are tasked with prevention 0:07:55.680 --> 0:08:00.440 and fuel reduction often also service firefighters once the fires. Account. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.080 As of MAE, cal Fire has treated over twenty three 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.000 acres throughout the year. This puts California on a trajectory 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.720 better than last year's total, but not as high as 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:16.680 the sixty thousand plus acres treated in Newsom has been 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.440 trying to make up for his missteps and gross exaggerations. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.480 Quoting the Cap Radio report again quote, Newsom is trying 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.200 to play catch up with the state enjoying an unexpected surplus. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:33.760 Newsome proposed two billion in spending on wildfires and emergency preparedness, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:38.160 with one point two billion going towards wildfire resiliency in 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:42.480 the upcoming budget. Experts say the increase in prevention spending 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.880 could help the state get closer to a less dangerous 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:50.160 wildfire season over time, but they also expressed concern over 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:55.520 whether the state will sustain that commitment for years to come. Unquote. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:59.760 Revelations about Newsom's and cow fires lies in lackluster force 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.720 man innagement were quickly jumped on by Larry Elder and 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.319 other Republican challengers as an easy way to attack Newsom 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.560 and to move the conversation about wildfires away from climate change. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.440 Elder has said he has quot unquote no idea why 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.360 more prevention and reduction measures aren't being done, and when 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.040 he becomes governor, he'll be quote implementing these common sensical 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.280 kinds of plans so that we can reduce the severity 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.720 of these fires unquote. Elder has given no concrete plans 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.000 on what measures he'll be shooting to implement, or any 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.520 indication on how much money will be directed to prevent 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.600 or fight fires on the noted budgets. Elder has said 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.600 that the more recent spending on wind and solar power 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.200 has left quote less money for removing trees and putting 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.880 power lines underground, the kind of things that would make 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.880 these fires less intense unquote, and he promises to drastically 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.960 cut spending on renewables while also investing more in oil 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:59.320 and gas. To be clear, Newsom's upcoming budget contains billions 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:03.760 for both prevention, slash fuel reduction and renewable energy such 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:18.600 as wind and solar. Whoever ends up governing California is 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.320 not only in charge of local politics like a governors 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.640 in other states. What happens in California affects people across 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.760 the country. And even globally, whether that's wildfire smoke traveling 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:33.640 across continents or changes to supply chains and industry rippling 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:37.240 across the world. California is, after all, the world's fifth 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:42.080 largest economy. There are also political ramifications that could affect 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.920 the States as a whole if Elder gets in office. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.160 The Senate is currently a fifty fifty split between Republicans 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.679 and Democrats, with Vice President Kamala Harris getting the tie 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.920 breaking vote. One of California senators is eighty eight year 0:10:56.960 --> 0:11:01.160 old Diane Feinstein, the oldest act of editor. If she 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.600 dies in office or has to step down due to 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.880 medical reasons before her term is over, the governor of 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.760 California gets to appoint her replacement. If Elder appoints a Republican, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.520 then the Senate will be back under geop control and 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.000 give it his connections to the far right media sphere. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.599 The list of potentials that Elder could appoint is frightening. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.880 This is by no means inevitable even if Elder gets 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.200 into office. If he does, Finstein does have the brief 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.360 opportunity to step down and put a replacement in before 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:36.320 the new governor has sworn into office, However, Feinstein has 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.800 said she has no plans of doing so. Reports of 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.280 her declining health have become only more common in recent years, 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.360 but like many politicians and judges, she's not keen on 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.400 stepping aside, even to possibly help prevent a disastrous outcome. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.840 Changes in the Senate are not required for horrible outcomes. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:58.040 In the wake of an even brief Elder governorship, his 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.800 anti vax sentiments and planned to open up the state 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.640 and remove basically all COVID restrictions will result in hospitals 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.680 being pushed to max capacity. Elder has said he has 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.280 plans to appoint education officials similar to former Secretary Betsy Divas, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:16.680 and judicial appointees like conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.800 Elder has stated his intention of declaring states of emergency 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:25.160 and using executive orders to push through otherwise unpopular legislation. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.280 He has discussed plans to declare an education emergency in 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:33.640 order to fire upwards of twenty one quote unquote bad teachers. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.040 Elder blames teacher unions for quote protecting bad teachers, and 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.280 in a recent interview stated, quote someone told me that 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.280 between five percent and seven percent of public school teachers 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.440 need to be fired. An emergency declaration would give the 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.760 power to get rid of bad teachers faster than the 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.920 system allows. Once you did that automatically, education would improve 0:12:55.040 --> 0:13:00.240 overnight unquote. Now, Elder is not specified who had eased 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:02.840 him on teacher terminations or how he plans to weed 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.440 out the so called bad teachers out of the three 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.240 thousand in the school system. He's also touted plans to 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.360 declare a homeless emergency, but his solutions have nothing to 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:17.560 do with actually helping homeless people. His homeless emergency declaration 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:22.360 would allow him to suspend the California Environmental Quality Act, 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:27.160 the longer requiring environmental review of building projects. Elders stated 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:32.600 goal is to unleash developers and contractors without environmental regulation, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:36.160 which he claims to quote trice developers and contractors like 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:40.760 criminals unquote, and allows building projects to get suspended indefinitely, 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:45.240 ultimately raising the cost of housing in his opinion. One 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.560 of the more frightening aspects of Larry Elder is his 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.000 close ties to many far right propagandists. He's done work 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.080 for Praker You, Epic Times, and has been a guest 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.040 on Fox News at least two hundred and twenty times 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:00.920 in the past five years. In the last episode, we 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.360 discussed his friendship with Dennis Prager. Also, Dave Reuben just 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.640 recently campaigned for Elder at a recent rally, and a 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.080 month and a half ago, Elder was on Candice Owen's 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:15.040 show discussing how the descendants of slave owners deserve reparations 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.800 for having their property i e. Black people stolen from 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.440 them when the slaves were freed. Those are his words, 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:26.280 not mine. What's probably most concerning is Elder's connection to 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.600 Stephen Miller. In fact, we wouldn't have Stephen Miller if 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.280 it were not for Larry Elder. Back in the late nineties, 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.720 a conservative student from Santa Monica High School would call 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:43.160 into Larry Elder's show to rant about his school's liberal culture. Reportedly, 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.320 the student would go around demanding staff and fellow students 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.960 regularly recite the Pledge of Allegiance. He railed against condom 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:56.160 giveaways and called Spanish language announcements quote a crutch preventing 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:01.240 Spanish speakers from standing on their own unquote. Young Californians 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.320 calling into Elder's show and agreeing with him wasn't very common, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.280 and Elder ate it up he loved talking with the 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.960 students so much that he let the kid on basically 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.640 any time he wanted a platform to rant and rave. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.720 You know where this is going. That student was Stephen Miller. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.800 According to Miller, he appeared on Elder's show sixty nine 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.960 times throughout his time in high school and university, and 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.840 calls Elder quote the one true guide I've always had unquote. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:34.400 Miller's appearances on Elder's radio show made him a recognizable 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.240 figure in the larger conservative media world, helping him connect 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:43.200 with Steve Bannon and eventually President Trump. By extension, Elder 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.360 was Stephen Miller's on ramp to the White House. In 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.200 an email to Miller in twenty sixteen, Elder told him quote, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.280 I hope to live to see the day when you 0:15:52.360 --> 0:16:06.520 become president. When media has brought up his friendship with 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.400 Stephen Miller, Elder tries very quickly to change the subject 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.160 when pushed on the topic. In a recent interview, Elder 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.720 shot back with quote, why would you bring up Stephen Miller? 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.000 I'm just wondering what the agenda here is. What's the point? 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:25.320 Am I somehow what a Nazi? A fascist? Unquote? I 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.840 think that says enough. The reason we haven't discussed the 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.360 other candidates in the recall election is because at this point, 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.680 if Newsom is recalled, it's absolutely certain that Elder will 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.200 be the one to succeed him. He has a twenty 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.800 point lead ahead other challengers, but that lead is still 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.360 only a tiny fraction of the total electorate, which demonstrates 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:49.640 the part of the problem in California's recall process. There 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.640 are other Republican challengers with concerning pasts and beliefs, lots 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.920 of anti mask, anti trans, anti vax, total disbelief, and 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:02.720 climate change people spouting q and originated conspiracy claims advocating 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.760 the lie that the presidential election was stolen. And there's 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.399 even a Democrat challenger that plans to use the National 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.399 Guard to round up all homeless people and put them 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:15.639 in concentration camps. But Elder himself shares a lot of 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:18.840 those views and uses the fact that he's black as 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.760 a shield for criticism against his racist and nationalist policies 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:27.040 and ideas. We haven't even mentioned that last month Elder's 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.280 ex fiance came out and said that Elder was extremely 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.800 abusive and had threatened her with a loaded gun in 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.400 early August polls were showing pretty much neck and neck 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.760 for the first question on the ballot, yes or no 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.040 on the recall itself. A Serve A USA pull from 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.960 that time even had respondents vote no on the recall 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.119 and fifty one percent vote yes to remove Newsom. Throughout 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.560 August and September, results started to flip the other direction 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.800 as ads against the recall hit the airwaves and internet. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.760 The latest Survey USA poll has fifty four percent voting 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.359 no and the RICO and voting yes. Other polls hover 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:08.479 around the same ten to fifteen point lead for Newsome 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:13.040 staying in office. Now, with pools not going the way 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.000 Elder in the GOP would like, we're starting to see 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:21.040 a new, yet familiar narrative being prepared on on my 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.880 on my website elect elder dot com. We have voter 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.920 Integrity project, we have lawyers all set up, are ready 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.919 to go to foul lawsuits in a timely fashion. The 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.200 reason the lawsuits did not did not work in the election. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.560 We know what happened there is because the lawsuits were 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.320 filed too late and many of them were dismissed. One 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:40.760 procedural around cors don't like to overturn an election. So 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.240 when did you hear of anything suspicious. We've heard a 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.240 lot of things that have been suspicious so far. Go 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.760 to elect golda dot com. We're gonna sick our lawyers 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.879 on them, foul lawsuits right away. They're gonna cheat. We 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.240 know that, and I'll tell you why. So many people 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.199 are angry about the crime, about the homelessness, about the 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.240 way he shut down this state, About the fact that 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.480 one third of all small businesses, many of them are 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.000 owned by black and brown and Asian American people that 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.639 they care about, but the declining following the schools, but 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.840 the fact that people are leaving rolling BrownHouse, black of water. 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.720 So many people are angry. The number of people that 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.919 are gonna vote to recall this man is gonna be 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.360 so overwhelming. So then even when they cheat, they're still 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:21.120 gonna lose. That's Larry Elder saying that if he doesn't win, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.320 that means the election must have been stolen. Fox News 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:29.760 has been promoting the same idea the past month. All 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:31.840 of it is in the vein of the Stop the 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:37.280 Steel movement postidential election, culminating with the attempted insurrection on 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:42.359 January six. Here's Elder again on Fox News in early September. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:45.320 But you're right, I am concerned about voter fraud and 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.159 that's why I'm asking people to go to elect elder 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.880 dot com. That's my website. We have a voter integrity 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:52.960 project set up with a bunch of lawyers ready to 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.760 foul lawsuits if anybody sees anything suspicious. Big election fraud 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:02.239 conspiracy proponent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was one 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.600 of the first people to chime in to stoke disinformation 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:08.520 about the recall election. And I think this may well 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:13.520 be the most rigged stay wide election we've seen probably 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.120 at least a half century. And I think people should 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.560 look carefully of this because it's pretty good evidence that 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.320 if Newsom is in a straight, honest count, he probably 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.800 has a good chance of losing. But if they can 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.320 stuff every ballot box in California and they can cheat 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.200 in every way possible, and of course this type of 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.160 propaganda has made it onto the most watched cable news 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.760 show on air, Tucker Carlson. California does not get the 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.680 credit it deserves for the corruption that's endemic there. It's 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:43.199 a one party state and they act like it, and 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.959 you've got to have concerns about whether this recall election 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.159 will be free and fair. Are you concerned, Well, of 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.520 course I'm concerned, Tucker. I'm involved in election integrity efforts 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.720 throughout the United States, and I'm also member of the 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:57.800 Republican National Committee. So we have a team of lawyers 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.080 that is ready to deploy throughout the state here and 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.840 we are monitoring things every single day. Just a couple 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.720 of hours ago, I filed a lawsuit to intervene in 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:09.280 a challenge to the constitutionality of the recall statute because frankly, 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.119 I don't trust the Secretary of State or the Attorney General, 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.440 who are both appointed by the governor, to defend him 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.480 in this regard, and so we are going to be 0:21:17.520 --> 0:21:20.520 jumping on every potential opportunity to do that and fight 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:23.480 back against the Democrats. Of course, they are playing fast 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:26.280 and loose. We've seen some very alarming scenes of three 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.840 ballots bundled together in the car of a person with 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.119 a gun and some drugs, and so we are definitely 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.800 looking into all of these issues. But Tucker, ultimately it's 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.960 going to come down to how much do people want 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.200 to change in California. And I can tell you even 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:43.080 living in my latte, sipping avocado toast, eating you know, 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.520 Lululemon wearing neighborhood in San Francisco. People are fed up 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:50.399 with the crime, the drugs, the homelessness, the intermittent electricity, 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:53.800 and everything else that is wrong with California. So people 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:56.760 want to change here. It's just not working. And this 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.760 really is a test of whether our system works. I mean, 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:03.000 can people get better leadership? That's kind of the question. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.560 Will there be election observers on the scene so the 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:10.760 rest of us can know this was fair? Well. The 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:14.080 problem in California is that the voting doesn't just take 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:16.760 place on election day like it would in a normal place. 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.720 It takes It's taking place now on a rolling basis 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:21.879 through mail in voting. It's a hundred percent mail in 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.680 ballots this time around, and it is going to take 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:26.960 place for thirty days after the election if it's close, 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:28.800 because they have thirty days to count the vote. That's 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:31.159 sixty days of voting, and of course a lot of 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:34.600 shenanigans can occur and ballots can disappear. So we are 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.320 going to be observing it very closely and demanding accountability 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.879 and filing lawsuits wherever we need to to hold the 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:43.880 Democrats accountable because we cannot trust them. Yeah, I hope. 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:45.879 So people want to believe the system works, that it's 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.280 real that they have powered their vote matters. So I 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:51.199 appreciate what you're doing, Harmydale. Thank you. A lot of 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.440 what's said in that last clip is either extremely misrepresented 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.359 or just flat outlines. Those three ballots found in a car, 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:02.119 we're actually part of a larger mail theft thing not 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:06.480 related to the election at all. Voters have received new ballots, 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:10.640 and for this election, just like the last one, Californians 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.680 have the option to vote in person, to mail in ballots, 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:17.320 or deliver them in a dropbox. The deadline to drop off, 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:23.040 mail or place your vote is September. Counting cannot start 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:26.479 till the fourteenth either, and like every election, there will 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:30.680 be observers throughout the entire counting process. Obviously, this isn't 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:34.080 the first time conservative media has hyped up election fraud, 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:37.680 the last presidential election being the biggest instance to date. 0:23:38.119 --> 0:23:40.960 But what is concerning here is that they're setting up 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:46.199 a template to use for all future elections whenever Republicans lose. 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:50.520 Here's a Fox clip from September seven. The only thing 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.240 that will save Gavin Newsom is voter fraud. So as 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:56.240