00:03:21.000Well, California liberals and many others in these blue states say, let's do away with all that and vote purely based on popular vote.
00:03:28.200And what that gets you is, okay, whoever gets the most votes wins.
00:03:33.820And as of right now, according to the polling, it's two Republicans.
00:03:37.180So indeed, my friends, CalMatters says California Democrats could sabotage their party's race for governor.
00:03:45.260And the scary thing is, well, I don't know if it's scary in this regard, but in general, they say that California is five to ten years ahead of the rest of the country.
00:03:54.540And Gavin Newsom is the frontrunner for 2028, who is the current governor.
00:03:58.900Expect all of the worst things imaginable as California, which is, it's got a lot of problems.
00:04:04.540I'm going to go through a list of all their problems from homelessness, affordability, indeed, bubonic plague.
00:04:55.380And so you can see that Chad Bianco at 15% versus Steve Hilton at 15% are the two frontrunners, followed by Swalwell at 14, Porter at 13, Steyer at 10, Villaraigosa at 7, Becerra 5, Yee 2, and Thurmond 1.
00:05:14.280If half the Democrats dropped out, then you'd get two Democrats.
00:05:17.500So I think that that is a strong possibility.
00:05:20.180It just depends on how different do these people view themselves.
00:05:26.720And because the Democratic Party has progressives and moderates and corporate, elite, neolib, whatever, it may actually be that these candidates are so at odds with each other, they refuse to back down.
00:05:38.280And that would be fantastic if California got a Republican leader.
00:06:11.080California, you must do everything you can to go out and vote because right now, if nothing changes, it is going to be Republican versus Republican for the governorship.
00:06:24.160And this this kind of thing does happen.
00:07:18.440The evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election.
00:07:26.380And the complaint that I've heard from the evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election.
00:08:13.960And he might actually make it because he's getting these endorsements.
00:08:20.680Ultimately, every candidate has to make a clear right assessment about whether they can assemble the resources necessary to run a competitive statewide campaign.
00:08:38.140They do say the remaining eight candidates seem unfazed.
00:08:42.200Former Orange County Rep Katie Porter pointed to her position in the polls tied with two other Democrats and two Republicans.
00:08:48.960Former state controller Betty Yee was buoyed by support from party delegates at a convention last month.
00:08:54.320Superintendent Thurmond, polling at 2%, cast his campaign as bucking political elites and said by favoring those with higher polling numbers, party leaders were essentially telling every candidate of color in the race for governor to drop out.
00:09:05.380Meanwhile, L.A. Mayor Villarigosa singled out former state attorney Becerra, a fellow Latina, to drop out under the rationale that doing so would reduce the chances of two Republicans advancing.
00:09:19.840Becerra responded on social media that Villarigosa had never won statewide office before, but I have and I'll do it again.
00:10:00.480The point is, so long as they keep fighting with each other and refusing to drop out, you're going to get Republicans winning in California.
00:10:07.700Whatever the justification, seven Democrats have already met Friday's deadline to file the paperwork that officially puts their names in the primary election ballot.
00:10:14.620Billionaire entrepreneur Tom Steyer headed to file Thursday, but indicated he would remain in the race, making for an eight candidate Democratic field and raising the possibility of an all Republican gubernatorial election this fall.
00:10:27.960Concern has been percolating for months, prompting Democratic data guru Paul Mitchell to set up a website with the latest polling data.
00:10:34.920Let's let's see what he's got going on to run statistical models, predicting the chances of an all Republican general election.
00:10:40.520It's swung anywhere between 10 and 18 percent in recent weeks.
00:10:43.520And Tuesday, long shot Republican contender John Slavitt withdrew from the race, further consolidating support among the two GOP frontrunners.
00:10:49.660Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and former Fox News commentator Steve Hilton.
00:10:54.620The chances of Bianco and Hilton advancing shot up on his model to 28 percent.
00:16:38.180I see a Democratic Party that tends towards give the baby their candy and a Republican Party that tends towards tell the kid to do his chores.
00:18:15.420And then he makes a great point about all of these people protesting for climate don't even realize the clothing they're wearing is made of oil.
00:18:24.160They have no idea what's actually going on.
00:18:36.720Industrialists, corporatists will absolutely skirt environmental regulations, poisoning us to turn a profit.
00:18:41.660But that's not been so much the issue these days.
00:18:45.200Since the MAGA movement, the populist movement, came in, the MAGA people have been kind of a hybrid, anti-establishment with former disaffected liberals and conservatives, though largely conservative.
00:18:56.280In the future, my friends, I think the problem that we face would be if we get these policies from someone like Gavin Newsom moving into our national-level politics.
00:19:05.620And Emerson College poll shows that Gavin Newsom is leading the 2028 Democratic field.
00:19:13.080I can't say that I'm excited for what happens when someone like Gavin Newsom, who, mind you, told everybody he had to wear masks, but then walked around not wearing a mask, went to restaurants, did whatever he wanted.
00:19:24.680I view the Democratic Party as the party of, quote, you are too stupid to decide for yourself, so we'll do it for you and we'll deceive you.
00:19:31.400And the Republican Party is a bunch of stodgy, suit-wearing guys who couldn't sell, you know, they couldn't sell a NASCAR ticket to a NASCAR fan.
00:19:43.580Is that, you know, you say you could sell ice to an Eskimo or sand to a Saudi.