Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Elizabeth Barcohana | Los Angeles County GOP Central Committee Member | 05-08-26
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- 0:20Speaker 2: A couple of days ago, I had my friend Samantha
- 0:22Speaker 2: Edis in studio as I said, I don't really deal
- 0:25Speaker 2: much these days with the influencers anymore. I think it's
- 0:29Speaker 2: starting to go the other way on us, I really do.
- 0:31Speaker 2: I think that whining and yelling and screaming every day.
- 0:34Speaker 2: You know, look, if there's a swastika on a shool,
- 0:37Speaker 2: that's worthy of mention. With mom Donnie does the things
- 0:40Speaker 2: he's doing with the lack of buffer zones, that's worth mentioning.
- 0:43Speaker 2: When two people are murdered in London because they're Jewish,
- 0:47Speaker 2: that's worth mentioning. But every single day, you know, it's unfortunate.
- 0:52Speaker 2: But we live in a.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Society where a lot of people.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Think that hating Jews is chic and it's cool, especially
- 0:59Speaker 2: in sanctuary cities and sanctuary States.
- 1:03Speaker 3: So I believe you gotta be careful. Okay.
- 1:06Speaker 2: So some of these influencers that find something to talk
- 1:09Speaker 2: about every day, they've annoyed me.
- 1:11Speaker 3: I've moved on, okay, so only.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Talk to a select few, and Samantha is one of
- 1:15Speaker 2: them because she was a Democrat who claims she's seen
- 1:20Speaker 2: the light, like my friend Alan Dershowitz, who for eighty
- 1:23Speaker 2: six years was a Democrat and last week shared an
- 1:27Speaker 2: award with me at a Republican club on the Upper
- 1:30Speaker 2: East Side of New York City. I've convinced Michael Rappaport
- 1:34Speaker 2: she'll never admit it, but I convinced Lizzie Savetski there's
- 1:37Speaker 2: a lot of people out there who have come to
- 1:39Speaker 2: our side. And sam said she did too. Yet she
- 1:44Speaker 2: still lives in Los Angeles, and when she talked about
- 1:47Speaker 2: the mayor race and governor race getting a lot of
- 1:49Speaker 2: play across the country, she brought up a couple of Democrats.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Next thing you know, I'm getting text messages and phone
- 1:56Speaker 2: calls for my Republican lady friends who live in California,
- 2:01Speaker 2: who say, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa Sammy, slow down.
- 2:06Speaker 2: One of them happens to be my next guest. I
- 2:09Speaker 2: love this girl, she's great. Met her at the RJC
- 2:12Speaker 2: in Wisconsin the night not later on that night, President
- 2:17Speaker 2: Trump was nominated for president for our party. Again, that
- 2:22Speaker 2: was RJC Wisconsin. So this is Elizabeth Barkahona live from
- 2:27Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Liz, good morning, how are you.
- 2:30Speaker 4: Hi, said, good morning, So happy to be back with you.
- 2:32Speaker 4: Great to have you back California.
- 2:34Speaker 3: From Cali baby.
- 2:36Speaker 2: And look, you know the CNN carried these debates, the
- 2:39Speaker 2: governor debate two nights ago, the mayor debate last night.
- 2:42Speaker 2: So people here in New York are becoming familiar with
- 2:45Speaker 2: some of the names that are involved in this.
- 2:48Speaker 3: And for what it's worth, maybe because he.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Was on Joe Rogan last week, Sky Spencer Pratt, let's
- 2:53Speaker 2: start there. He's running for mayor in Los Angeles. He's
- 2:56Speaker 2: getting a lot of play here in New York. People
- 2:59Speaker 2: here seemed so like him. You give me what you're
- 3:02Speaker 2: looking at, handicapping the mayor's race and why people were
- 3:06Speaker 2: upset with Sam and others who brought up Democrats in
- 3:10Speaker 2: both races.
- 3:12Speaker 4: So the LA mayor's races is very important because we
- 3:16Speaker 4: have a very weak incumbent mayor Karen Bass And obviously
- 3:22Speaker 4: what happened last year with the fires was kind of
- 3:24Speaker 4: the straw that broke the camel's back. But we have
- 3:26Speaker 4: other problems here as well, including you know, the homelessness
- 3:29Speaker 4: issue home building, which you know, the Plicaanes fire exposed
- 3:36Speaker 4: a lot of the corruption and failures of the government.
- 3:41Speaker 4: It wasn't just you know, the fires is not just
- 3:43Speaker 4: about these two thousand homes that burned down in the Polisades.
- 3:47Speaker 4: It exposed what's going on city wide and why our
- 3:51Speaker 4: city books the way that it does. And so, you know,
- 3:55Speaker 4: we had a long time of no serious challengers after
- 3:59Speaker 4: the fires coming for Bath, and finally at the very
- 4:04Speaker 4: last minute she drew two serious challengers. One was Spencer Pratt, who,
- 4:10Speaker 4: as you mentioned, you know, has been has been very
- 4:13Speaker 4: high profile in exposing not only her but stuff at
- 4:17Speaker 4: the state level as well, dealing with Gavin Newsom. And
- 4:21Speaker 4: then from her left she drew a challenger named Nicia Rahman,
- 4:26Speaker 4: who is a sitting city council member and she is
- 4:29Speaker 4: part of you know, the Democratic Socialist of America, similar
- 4:33Speaker 4: to Zorn Mundami. So we are all very you know,
- 4:37Speaker 4: intensely watching this this race, and because Spencer has you know,
- 4:44Speaker 4: he's not been elected to office before, and he was
- 4:47Speaker 4: late to the game. He's at a disadvantage, but he
- 4:51Speaker 4: is incredibly popular and people are very excited about him,
- 4:56Speaker 4: and despite being an inexperienced petition, I think actually that's
- 5:01Speaker 4: to his benefit because we all watched the debate last
- 5:04Speaker 4: night and Roman kind of looked like, you know, she
- 5:07Speaker 4: sounded like a robot, and Karen Bass just her record
- 5:11Speaker 4: is indefensible, and she kept saying that she's doing a
- 5:14Speaker 4: good job. And then he comes on, you know, it
- 5:17Speaker 4: talks like a normal human being. He's a dad with
- 5:20Speaker 4: young kids. They burned down his life and he's coming
- 5:24Speaker 4: to save the city and that and he's bringing so
- 5:27Speaker 4: much hope. And what's been going on is on the
- 5:31Speaker 4: left people are nervous about him because they're afraid that
- 5:35Speaker 4: they're going to lose power in you know, and control
- 5:39Speaker 4: of all the money and everything that goes on here
- 5:42Speaker 4: in La. You know, we have a huge population and
- 5:45Speaker 4: we control a lot of what goes on in the
- 5:47Speaker 4: whole state of California here. So it's a Republican. Spencer's
- 5:51Speaker 4: a Republican. If he comes in, then you know, the
- 5:55Speaker 4: game over for a lot of the fraud that's going
- 6:00Speaker 4: on here, and they know it. And so there's been
- 6:05Speaker 4: like these these subtle operations basically to get people to
- 6:10Speaker 4: believe that Spencer cannot win, which is not true, and
- 6:15Speaker 4: that bas may not make it through the primary, which
- 6:20Speaker 4: is also highly unlikely because she is an incumbent candidate,
- 6:25Speaker 4: she has a lot of money raised, she's supported by
- 6:28Speaker 4: the Democrat Party and all the political establishments. She's endorsed
- 6:31Speaker 4: by Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff, she's endorsed by all
- 6:34Speaker 4: the major labor unions in Los Angeles, and so even
- 6:38Speaker 4: if the DSA is not supporting her, there are other
- 6:41Speaker 4: games in town that are going to get her pass
- 6:44Speaker 4: the line. And because it's a nonpartisan race, if she
- 6:48Speaker 4: wins in this June's second election, then she wins outright.
- 6:52Speaker 4: If she gets a majority on June second, she wins outright.
- 6:55Speaker 4: We don't go to a runoff in November like you
- 6:58Speaker 4: guys did in New York. So there's just a lot
- 7:01Speaker 4: of message mixed messaging going on here. And what you
- 7:06Speaker 4: know we were upset about is people telling voters that
- 7:12Speaker 4: in order to vote, in order to get Spencer elected
- 7:15Speaker 4: in November, you should vote with that. Now, that is
- 7:18Speaker 4: not that is not a correct message to give to voters.
- 7:24Speaker 4: It's also very demoralizing. And so you know, thankfully, you
- 7:28Speaker 4: know when Samantha came back on your show, and also
- 7:31Speaker 4: she corrected herself on Monday, she you know, came out
- 7:37Speaker 4: and said, I'm voting for Pratt. Vote for Pratt, and
- 7:41Speaker 4: that was the right thing to do.
- 7:43Speaker 2: No, And look, he's got a lot of momentum. You
- 7:46Speaker 2: talked about the debate two nights ago, and you guys
- 7:48Speaker 2: watched it, and for what it's worth, there was a
- 7:50Speaker 2: poll that came out this morning and he was winning.
- 7:53Speaker 2: He was ahead of Karen Bess. And you're right, you
- 7:55Speaker 2: cannot minimize what she means to loss A. Even though
- 8:00Speaker 2: she's a complete nightmare and a disaster or freddie rational person.
- 8:05Speaker 2: She is the incumbent, Like you said, she's got a
- 8:07Speaker 2: lot of money in unions and folks behind her. So too.
- 8:11Speaker 2: To think that she's not going to be there in
- 8:13Speaker 2: the end is somewhere between silly and still. But it's
- 8:16Speaker 2: going to be Pratt versus pass. I know the other lady,
- 8:20Speaker 2: the DSA person who's being compared to Mom Donnie is
- 8:23Speaker 2: getting some support but I expect it to be Pratt
- 8:26Speaker 2: versus Pass And in the end, how do you make
- 8:30Speaker 2: sure that Pratt gets to win?
- 8:32Speaker 4: Well, she's weak, and like I said, you know, there's
- 8:36Speaker 4: a lot of excitement around him that we haven't seen
- 8:39Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. I mean, I've been doing elections now
- 8:43Speaker 4: since twenty twenty, and I haven't seen this kind of
- 8:47Speaker 4: enthusiasm to vote early on our side of the isle,
- 8:52Speaker 4: you know. Ever, so people are very, very excited to vote.
- 8:58Speaker 4: We've already got our ballots, they came earlier this week,
- 9:02Speaker 4: and then we're going to get the early vote numbers,
- 9:04Speaker 4: and if there is a high enthusiasm, then then he
- 9:09Speaker 4: can win for sure. So what I'm telling people is,
- 9:13Speaker 4: you know, to get your ballots in as soon as
- 9:15Speaker 4: it comes in the mail. Do not wait this election
- 9:17Speaker 4: to vote in person, because by then it's too late.
- 9:20Speaker 4: We need to build the momentum early.
- 9:22Speaker 3: I like that.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Elizabeth Barkahona Johinning Us live right now from Los Angeles.
- 9:26Speaker 2: They got two major races going on which can shape
- 9:29Speaker 2: the country. It's been a brutal, brutal long stay for
- 9:33Speaker 2: California with Karen Bess as mayor and this moron Gavin
- 9:38Speaker 2: Newsom as the governor, and both of those races are
- 9:41Speaker 2: going on at the same time. In fact, the two
- 9:44Speaker 2: of the last three nights I had debates on both
- 9:47Speaker 2: of those. We just talked about Spencer Pratt being our
- 9:50Speaker 2: choice for mayor. I'm not sure did President Trump get
- 9:53Speaker 2: involved in that discussion in mayor.
- 9:55Speaker 4: No, And honestly, it's not helpful if he did, because
- 10:00Speaker 4: we are trying to We are framing this election as
- 10:04Speaker 4: just common sense. This is not politics. This is you know,
- 10:08Speaker 4: Spencer's platform is no more doing meth and fentanel and
- 10:12Speaker 4: having sex on the sidewalk in the street and terrorizing
- 10:14Speaker 4: mothers and children, and no more you know, stealing tax
- 10:18Speaker 4: payer money. None of that is partisan and we don't
- 10:20Speaker 4: want to and it's not federal either. What they are
- 10:24Speaker 4: trying to do, especially with immigration, is make everything about
- 10:29Speaker 4: Trump and it's and people are set up with hearing that,
- 10:33Speaker 4: and it's the same thing going on in the governor's race.
- 10:35Speaker 4: They want to get elected because they they want to
- 10:38Speaker 4: tell the voters that I'm the only thing that's standing
- 10:40Speaker 4: between you and President Trump coming and you know, rounding
- 10:44Speaker 4: everybody up in the darkness, and that's that's not what
- 10:48Speaker 4: that's not what is on normal people's mind. What's on
- 10:52Speaker 4: normal people's mind is the crime, the homelessness, the high prices.
- 10:57Speaker 4: You know, we have the highest gas, highest taxes, every
- 11:00Speaker 4: highest home crisis. I could go down the line, and uh,
- 11:06Speaker 4: you know, we don't want to federalize the election. We
- 11:09Speaker 4: want to keep it as local as possible. And Spencer
- 11:12Speaker 4: has been amazing at messaging that and we don't want
- 11:15Speaker 4: to interfere with that.
- 11:16Speaker 2: Well, the problem is, and no one loves Trump more
- 11:19Speaker 2: than me. You know, a door on my love.
- 11:21Speaker 4: Actually I might said I might.
- 11:22Speaker 3: No, no, no, he called me up on stage.
- 11:24Speaker 2: Hanukah. That's a big deal there, Lizzie, I know, but no,
- 11:27Speaker 2: I know you love him too. But in all honesty, Mom,
- 11:30Speaker 2: Donnie ran against Trump, not Calmo or Curtis anyone, and
- 11:34Speaker 2: one relatively easily. In New Jersey, Mikey, Mohammad, Cheryl, she
- 11:38Speaker 2: ran against Trump, not Jack Chittlrelly. She killed him. So
- 11:42Speaker 2: when you say it may not be helpful. And again,
- 11:44Speaker 2: we both love Trump. In the sanctuary city sanctuary States Blue,
- 11:50Speaker 2: it hasn't been proven that Trump's endorsement helps.
- 11:53Speaker 3: So on the governor's side, I want Steve Hilton. Why
- 11:56Speaker 3: I don't live there, know nothing about the guy, but
- 11:58Speaker 3: because Trump likes him well.
- 12:00Speaker 2: And I've given you examples in New York and New Jersey,
- 12:03Speaker 2: other blue sanctuary cities and states where the Trump Bruce
- 12:08Speaker 2: Blakeman right now is getting a ton of support from Trump.
- 12:10Speaker 2: He was in the Oval office just two days ago.
- 12:13Speaker 2: Is that going to help him or hurt him against
- 12:15Speaker 2: Gonnothy Hochel. We're going to find out. And it seems
- 12:17Speaker 2: like in La or in the state race with Steve Hilton,
- 12:22Speaker 2: when we may not help, I don't know.
- 12:23Speaker 3: What do you think?
- 12:24Speaker 4: Well, in the governor's race in California, we have two
- 12:28Speaker 4: very strong Republican candidates. One is Steve Hilton, as you mentioned,
- 12:32Speaker 4: and the other is Sheriff Chad Bianco. And when President
- 12:36Speaker 4: Trump endorsed Sheriff Bianco, it was the day after the
- 12:40Speaker 4: two of them kind of had a panel discussion with
- 12:45Speaker 4: Rick Grennell. And the issue in California is that, you know,
- 12:49Speaker 4: we have an open primary, which means that the top
- 12:52Speaker 4: two vote getters will so it's different than the nonpartisan
- 12:56Speaker 4: race and the mayor's race. What we were just talking
- 12:58Speaker 4: about in the partisan race is like for governor. It
- 13:01Speaker 4: is a primary, and it's the top two vote getters
- 13:04Speaker 4: will advance. And the fear was and it still is
- 13:07Speaker 4: on my mind that the Republicans will be so split
- 13:12Speaker 4: that we may not get eyes our guy into the primary.
- 13:16Speaker 4: And so I think what President Trump was trying to
- 13:20Speaker 4: do is put his thumb on the scale with Republican voters.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Because it also came a few days before the California
- 13:28Speaker 4: State Republican Party convention where we were voting on whether
- 13:33Speaker 4: to endorse one of the candidates, and so it ended
- 13:37Speaker 4: up where neither candidate received a threshold necessary for an
- 13:41Speaker 4: endorsement from the party. So now President Trump's endorsement stands
- 13:47Speaker 4: kind of, you know, on its own, and that's who
- 13:53Speaker 4: I also agree with President Trump. By the way, I've
- 13:56Speaker 4: also endorsed Utelton. I think that he is the strong candidate.
- 14:00Speaker 4: He's been pulling at the top consistently this time, not
- 14:03Speaker 4: only ahead of the uncle, but ahead of the field
- 14:07Speaker 4: of Democrats. He is the top of the polls, and
- 14:11Speaker 4: so I think it's very important and it sounds like
- 14:14Speaker 4: President trumple green is that you know, we all unite
- 14:17Speaker 4: behind him going into the primary to make sure that
- 14:21Speaker 4: Californians have a not only a Republican option to vote for,
- 14:25Speaker 4: but an alternative to the status quo. You know, any
- 14:30Speaker 4: one of the Democrats who are running. The top two
- 14:34Speaker 4: contenders are Javier Bessera, who is status quo, which is again,
- 14:41Speaker 4: highest taxes, highest unemployment, highest poverty rates, highest gas crisis,
- 14:46Speaker 4: highest utility costs, highest home crisis, most homelessness, were schools,
- 14:52Speaker 4: you know, crime rampant all over the place. When you
- 14:55Speaker 4: call nine to one one nobody answers the phone. That's
- 14:58Speaker 4: what's going on in California. And Javier Basera is status quo.
- 15:03Speaker 4: And then on the other hand you have Tom Steyer,
- 15:06Speaker 4: who is a communist. So it's either status quo, which
- 15:10Speaker 4: is very bad, or worse between the two Democrats. And
- 15:14Speaker 4: so in order to have an option on the ballot
- 15:17Speaker 4: for change in California, we need to have Steve Hilton
- 15:21Speaker 4: on the ballot. And so for anyone, especially a Trump supporter,
- 15:26Speaker 4: to go against President Trump's endorsement or to support a
- 15:30Speaker 4: Democrat for governor in California is unforgivable in my opinion.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Love it God, I agree with you one hundred percent.
- 15:38Speaker 2: I love your enthusiasm and your passion for our party,
- 15:41Speaker 2: Elizabeth park On, It's great final sixty seconds, and you've
- 15:44Speaker 2: done it in fremendous job here.
- 15:45Speaker 3: You clear know exactly what you're talking about.
- 15:47Speaker 2: Give me the odds end that Los Angeles ends up
- 15:51Speaker 2: with a Republican mayor that the state of California goes
- 15:54Speaker 2: back to a Republican governor. Do you feel pretty good
- 15:58Speaker 2: about one, Philly, pretty good about both? Or do you
- 16:01Speaker 2: feel like, hey, we got a shot. But the truth is,
- 16:04Speaker 2: like New York groups, we know how Californians vote. How
- 16:07Speaker 2: do you really feel about these two races?
- 16:09Speaker 4: I think that we definitely have a shot in both cases.
- 16:14Speaker 4: And what it's going to come down to is turnout.
- 16:18Speaker 4: And the way to drive turnout is by voting early.
- 16:22Speaker 4: In California, we have to learn from the Democrats, and
- 16:26Speaker 4: what they do is they blow us out of the
- 16:30Speaker 4: water in early voting to the point where we cannot
- 16:34Speaker 4: mathematically catch up to them in the ten days of
- 16:37Speaker 4: in person voting that we have for the one day
- 16:40Speaker 4: of election day. And I have been advocating for this
- 16:44Speaker 4: for a long time, and this is finally the first
- 16:47Speaker 4: election where I'm not getting so much pushback as I
- 16:51Speaker 4: normally do. It's day. Today is day four of voting,
- 16:55Speaker 4: and my phone does not stop ringing from people asking
- 16:59Speaker 4: me about voting because I have a voter guide. That's
- 17:02Speaker 4: my you know, you started talking about influencers. My coming
- 17:06Speaker 4: to be as an influencer was because I do these
- 17:10Speaker 4: very respected and widely used voter guides. My voter guide
- 17:13Speaker 4: now has probably been viewed almost probably you know, half
- 17:16Speaker 4: a million times and we're on day four. So I've
- 17:21Speaker 4: never seen this kind of enthusiasm. And we are going
- 17:24Speaker 4: to get the numbers in I don't know, in the
- 17:27Speaker 4: next week or so of you know, what the early
- 17:31Speaker 4: vote turnout is, and if that looks good, then we
- 17:37Speaker 4: really do have a chance. But if it's more of
- 17:39Speaker 4: the same kind of voter apathy, demoralization, feeling like what's
- 17:43Speaker 4: the point of voting, or you know the thing that
- 17:47Speaker 4: Republicans do where we're like, we only vote in person
- 17:49Speaker 4: on election day because that's the right thing to do,
- 17:51Speaker 4: not the safest.
- 17:52Speaker 3: Thing to do.
- 17:52Speaker 4: In broad blad andah blah blah blah. We're never going
- 17:55Speaker 4: to get ourselves out of this. We have to adapt
- 17:59Speaker 4: to what our opposition does, otherwise we will never beat them.
- 18:05Speaker 2: Well, said and true. Like they always say, Elizabeth, if
- 18:08Speaker 2: you can't beat them, join them, Let's join them. Let's
- 18:11Speaker 2: beat them at their own game. You're great, You really are.
- 18:14Speaker 2: What a tremendous conversation. I feel like I'm up to
- 18:18Speaker 2: date now. I mean, I can't vote, obviously, but I
- 18:20Speaker 2: know what's going on. So thank you for this great conversation,
- 18:24Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll continue to talk right through these two
- 18:27Speaker 2: major races.
- 18:27Speaker 3: There's a lot of folks that listen to me, believe
- 18:29Speaker 3: it or not.
- 18:29Speaker 2: They get up at three o'clock in the morning to
- 18:31Speaker 2: listen in California, and we've got New Yorkers to go
- 18:34Speaker 2: back and forth.
- 18:34Speaker 3: So thank you for this, Elizabeth. You are terrific.
- 18:36Speaker 4: Thank you absolutely said.
- 18:38Speaker 3: God bless you, Elizabeth Parkohona. Right now. You see her
- 18:41Speaker 3: on Fox News all the time.
- 18:42Speaker 2: She's actually a beautiful too. She's smart, she's beautiful, she's great. Well,
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