00:00:37.280He says he has a secret plan to break the glass.
00:00:41.040Rob, if you want to play this clip for the audience to see, and I don't know if he's talking about you.
00:00:46.540I don't know if he's talking about, you know, whatever, because, look, a candidate running Republican, that smile that he has, he looks like he's up to something.
00:00:55.100But you've spoken about accountability.
00:00:57.080Do you think Democrats will hold you accountable for standing by this principled neutrality by withholding your endorsement in this non-possible scenario where two Rupkins take the ticket?
00:01:06.220Yeah, look, my focus has been making sure that doesn't happen, and I've exercised not just a focus, but I've exercised through some action efforts to encourage that doesn't happen by making my case and will continue to make my case.
00:01:23.260I do not see that scenario taking place.
00:01:26.620I've said this before, so I'll repeat it.
00:01:28.840I don't anticipate this need to be the case,
00:01:31.200but there is a break-the-glass scenario,
00:01:33.380and there's many people that have a deep understanding
00:01:36.500of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out,
00:01:39.920and we're going to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.
00:02:40.940If I'm in the top two, if there's a Republican in the top two,
00:02:43.660then there's a chance, of course, that I'll win.
00:02:46.720I believe I can when we haven't really talked about my path to victory,
00:02:50.140But I can see it because and it starts with the fact that you've now got a majority, a clear majority of Californians who think it's time for change, who think the state's on the wrong track.
00:03:00.040That's the starting point. And then if you look at the numbers of votes that you need, even President Trump in California, without campaigning there in 2024, got more votes in California than I would need to win in a midterm year.
00:03:11.580And there's there's other things, the fact that we've got voter ID on the ballot in November in California.
00:03:16.940That's going to bring out a lot of Republican voters, and so on.
00:03:19.960So I can see a path to victory, and that's Newsom's worst nightmare.
00:03:24.320Imagine if this is the scenario in early 2027.
00:03:28.900Just as he's launching his presidential campaign, you've got a Republican taking over as governor.
00:03:36.780He's just lost California to Republicans.
00:03:39.640that is it and and as i'm cleaning up the mess that he's left behind i will be exposing what
00:03:47.080he's done um as in the process of cleaning it up which will be a disaster for his presidential
00:03:52.640campaign so he wants to avoid that at all costs what he wants is stya becerra so i think what's
00:03:58.760going on here is that he is raising the specter of two republicans in order to continue to give
00:04:05.420republicans hope that that can happen in other words encouraging republicans to try and get to
00:04:13.000republican voters to try and get two republicans in the top two by voting
00:04:17.300by continuing to vote for chad bianco i think that's what's going on here so you're okay got
00:04:23.640it so the more bianco goes up you go down then the top two will become democrats exactly that's
00:04:30.780their strategy yes because he's desperate to see two democrats what do you know about steyer because
00:04:37.840he also came out of nowhere what i know you're steyer you know the billionaire climate for here's
00:04:42.860a couple of things first of all we talk about costs and he keeps going on about affordability
00:04:48.260yeah most of the climate stuff that i'm talking about that's given us this insane gas prices
00:04:54.740electric bills and so on housing costs it goes back to a piece of legislation passed in 2006
00:05:01.100AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act.
00:05:04.800A lot of this framework was set up then,
00:05:07.280the cap and trade system, all of this.
00:05:09.760In 2010, four years after it was passed,
00:05:12.480there was a ballot initiative to overturn it.
00:05:16.020And the main funder of that ballot initiative,