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Elizabeth Barcohana | Los Angeles County GOP Central Committee Member | 06-03-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, so big, big happenings in California last night.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys know that I've got a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: folks in California. But my favorite, our girl is Elizabeth Barkohona,
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  Speaker 1: who I met at the Republican Jewish Coalition dinner years
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  Speaker 1: and years ago when Wisconsin, right before President Trump was
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  Speaker 1: nominated as our presidential nominee. And she's terrific. Elizabeth. She
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  Speaker 1: called into this show about two weeks ago. So I
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  Speaker 1: texted her a little after two am this morning, California time.
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  Speaker 1: I was not expecting to get a text back. Literally
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  Speaker 1: two seconds later she texted me back. I said, did
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  Speaker 1: Steve Hilton win? That was my way of making sure
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  Speaker 1: she was still awake. So here she is just after
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  Speaker 1: three am locally in Los Angeles, to help us with
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  Speaker 1: what's going on in California, the great Elizabeth Barkohona. Liz,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you are representative of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Californians, but you are still up in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night. Would you say that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: your friends and people that you talk to are doing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I think little by little everybody's been going to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: But I think some of us are still up.
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  Speaker 1: It is a big deal. That's how big it is.
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  Speaker 1: After three o'clock in the morning, some of you folks,
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  Speaker 1: including you, Elizabeth, are still up. And look, we wanted
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  Speaker 1: the same thing here. We wanted Spencer Pratt to make
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  Speaker 1: it to the runoff for the mayor's race. We wanted
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  Speaker 1: Steve Hilton to make it to the runoff for the
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  Speaker 1: governor's race. And it looks like both of those things
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  Speaker 1: are going to happen. Out all of your votes are
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  Speaker 1: not in yet for about sixty percent counter but it
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  Speaker 1: looks like both Pratt and Hilton are in great shape
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  Speaker 1: to move to November.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's what we're seeing. So in the mayor's race,
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  Speaker 2: it's a non partisan race, which means that if Karen
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  Speaker 2: Bath had gotten a majority of the vote tonight, then
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  Speaker 2: she would have won and there would have been no
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  Speaker 2: runoff in November. So going up against an incumbent is
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  Speaker 2: very difficult, and so it's a great result that Spencer
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  Speaker 2: was able to force a runoff. And part of that
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  Speaker 2: also was because Nithia Rahman, who is the DSA Progressive
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  Speaker 2: council member that we have on the city in the
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  Speaker 2: City Council in La. She ended up challenging Bath at
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  Speaker 2: the last minute and ended up splitting the vote on
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  Speaker 2: the left, and that also contributed to us having a runoff.
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  Speaker 1: Now it looks like a solid second place finish here
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  Speaker 1: for spens of Pratt. In fact, the in Today's New
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  Speaker 1: York Post out early this morning, just after five am,
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  Speaker 1: he's already talking about his strategy to beat Karen Bess
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  Speaker 1: come November. So it looks like it will be in fact,
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  Speaker 1: the incumbent Karen Bess and Spencer Pratt. The governor's race.
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  Speaker 1: Also looking at these numbers, about sixty percent, Elizabeth and
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  Speaker 1: you're out there again. Looks like Tom Steyer is in
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  Speaker 1: a distant third. So but Sarah and Steve Hilton, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like the big matchup coming up in November.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, So the big headline out of the governor's
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  Speaker 2: race is this is the first time in twenty years
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  Speaker 2: that a Republican has finished first in the governor's race.
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  Speaker 2: And so not all votes have been counted, so we
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  Speaker 2: still have a ways to go. But it's election night
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  Speaker 2: and everyone went to bed with a Republican in first place,
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  Speaker 2: and that is really exciting. It means that change is
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  Speaker 2: you know possible in California that that people are ready
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  Speaker 2: for a new direction. That right now a majority of
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  Speaker 2: Californians believe that we're moving in the wrong direction. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, that opens up a path for you know,
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  Speaker 2: beating this this one party rule that we have here
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  Speaker 2: that has given us horrible result speeing. Now the voters
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  Speaker 2: are finally ready for change.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I hope so. And of course you
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  Speaker 1: have to date back to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and his name
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  Speaker 1: kept coming up last night. Steve Hilton put him up
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of times. He may even been wearing an
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  Speaker 1: Arnold jacket. I don't know, but that was the last
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  Speaker 1: time that a Republican won. And you know, for me
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  Speaker 1: back here in New York and again, this is Elizabeth Parkerhona.
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  Speaker 1: She's still up. She's been up all night watching these
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  Speaker 1: mayor and governor results. It's just after three am in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles. She's a real trooper, this kid. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this gives people like me hope in New York because
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  Speaker 1: you've got this dsa Democrat, disgusting, anti Semitic mayor in
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  Speaker 1: mom Donnie the governor Kathy Hokel is really not much
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  Speaker 1: better in fact, she's right there with him. So if
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  Speaker 1: in fact these results come back the way it looks
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  Speaker 1: like now and both Pratt and Hilton have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to win in November. And if one of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: if not both, actually wins in November, that gives places
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  Speaker 1: like New York, which is dying, it is dying a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of hope. So it's not just you guys
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  Speaker 1: out there, Liz. Maybe you guys will set the pace
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the country.
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  Speaker 2: I've been saying that all day, that California is going
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  Speaker 2: to set the tone going into the midterms. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we looked at what happened to you guys in New
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  Speaker 2: York as a cautionary tale. We took very seriously our
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  Speaker 2: mayor's race, and we made sure that we kept out
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  Speaker 2: the DSA candidate, Nathia Rahman again, who at first we
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  Speaker 2: thought was like a Mom Donnie two point zero and
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  Speaker 2: she is in her policies, but she does not have
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  Speaker 2: the personality or the charisma or the campaign that Mom
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  Speaker 2: Donnie was able to wage in New York. And the
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  Speaker 2: other difference is that you guys had Eric Adams, your incumbent,
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  Speaker 2: and the establishment in New York abandoned him. In California
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  Speaker 2: and in LA in particular, the establishment did not abandoned
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  Speaker 2: Karen Bath. Gavin Newsom, you know, supported her, and the
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  Speaker 2: party endorsed her, the unions endorsed her, So she had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of infrastructural support. But Spencer Pratt has the
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  Speaker 2: support of you know, the moms, the dog lovers, the
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  Speaker 2: business community, all kinds of different minority groups like the
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  Speaker 2: Hispanic community, the Korean community, the Jewish community. So there
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  Speaker 2: is a lot of enthusiasm for Spencer, and we saw
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  Speaker 2: it in the early vote. In particular, there was an
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  Speaker 2: excitement to vote early in California and especially among Republicans
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  Speaker 2: that we had never seen before. So this is going
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  Speaker 2: to definitely reverberate around the nation and you're going to
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  Speaker 2: see it in the headlines today.
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  Speaker 1: Agree. This is our good friend Elizabeth Parkerhona, she's THEIIC.
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  Speaker 1: She really is here on Box News quite a bit
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  Speaker 1: on this show, quite a bit. Lovely young lady. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So you know you mentioned Eric Adams. It's funny. He
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  Speaker 1: was hanging out with my friend Bruce Blakeman, he's running
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  Speaker 1: for governor here in New York yesterday and I called
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  Speaker 1: Bruce to caution him, because you're right, the party did
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  Speaker 1: abandon Eric. But you know, Eric did a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff that to this day is still very questionable. And
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  Speaker 1: at one point he had nobody, you know, no Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: no Democrats. I mean, it's very very strange from an
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  Speaker 1: incumbent and drop out of the race. Now he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: blame Joe Biden and oh my god, the DJ came
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  Speaker 1: after me. That's a bunch of nonsense. The truth is,
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  Speaker 1: for the better part of three years after the war
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  Speaker 1: started in Israel and all the issues we had here,
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  Speaker 1: he had a corrupt police department, a corrupt administration. He
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  Speaker 1: blew it. He was bad. He was a terrible mayor.
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  Speaker 1: And I would caution Bruce Blakeman be careful and always
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  Speaker 1: got money people behind them, but be careful. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a popular guy. So you're right about Eric Adams. Let
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  Speaker 1: me get to the meet of this. I let you
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  Speaker 1: go to bed here, Elizabeth again, it's just after three
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  Speaker 1: am in Los Angeles. I know you know Spencer Pratt,
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  Speaker 1: you have spent time with pract the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks while it was campaigning. If you sat down with
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  Speaker 1: Spencer pratte today what would be your advice moving forward
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  Speaker 1: in his attempt to beat Karen Bass come November.
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  Speaker 2: I have no notes for Spencer Pratt. I have never
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  Speaker 2: seen a politician. I mean, he's not a politician, That's
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  Speaker 2: part of why he's so successful. But I have never
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  Speaker 2: seen a politician as skilled as he is, especially when
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  Speaker 2: he deals with media. The people around him are incredibly talented.
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  Speaker 2: They have dealt with every issue flawlessly. I have no
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  Speaker 2: criticisms of him at all, whatsoever. What we do need
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  Speaker 2: to focus on is competing with the Democrat machine's ground game,
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  Speaker 2: and that means ballot harvesting, and I think everybody is
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  Speaker 2: on the same page now about that. There has been
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  Speaker 2: a really big resistance that when Rick Caruso ran four
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  Speaker 2: years ago, he dedicated no resources to that, and even
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  Speaker 2: today he voted today on election day, whereas Spencer Pratt
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  Speaker 2: voted like weeks ago by mail. These are systematic changes
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  Speaker 2: that need to be made in order for us to
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  Speaker 2: win elections. And it's not just things that need this
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  Speaker 2: kind of reprogramming, it's everyone who doesn't really understand how
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  Speaker 2: the party machine works.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 2: The unions get like they pay their union members to
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  Speaker 2: go out and canvas all the time, not just during
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  Speaker 2: the election. And then once they get to you know,
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  Speaker 2: the election, they've already knocked on that door that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to many times. And so the next time, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when the ballots are out, and they knock on the door,
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  Speaker 2: and it's familiar faith and they say, hey, do you
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  Speaker 2: need help with their ballot? Can I help you return
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  Speaker 2: it for you? It's much easier for them to harvest
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  Speaker 2: ballots this way, and it's legal, and up until now,
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  Speaker 2: Republicans have not really developed a ground game for that.
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  Speaker 2: But that is now starting to change. And I'm very
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  Speaker 2: grateful for that, and I think Spencer Pratt and his
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  Speaker 2: campaign understand that as well, especially because we saw such
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  Speaker 2: a pathetic turnout in this primary election. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: losing right now, He's down by I don't know, thirty
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  Speaker 2: thousand votes or something like that. The last time I
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  Speaker 2: looked at it, two hundred thousand at least Republicans did
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  Speaker 2: not vote in this election. Okay, So just us alone
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  Speaker 2: could have helped to you know, push him over the edge.
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  Speaker 2: We certainly have the votes for him to have won outright,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with a majority. So we have the Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're just not actually getting them in the ballot box.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we fall down just across the board.
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  Speaker 2: And the campaign definitely understands that, and that's what they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be building going into November as they should.
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  Speaker 1: You got to beat them at their own game. They
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  Speaker 1: do it, Stacy Abrams. You know they do it, So
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  Speaker 1: why not do what they do. It's legal and beat
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  Speaker 1: them at their own game. And look, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt's and second, he's not the incumbent. Karen Bass
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  Speaker 1: issues in first. Now in the governor race, in the
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  Speaker 1: final sixty seconds, Elizabeth Gavin Newsom of course is done.
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  Speaker 1: There is no incumbent, and Steve Hilton is in first.
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  Speaker 1: He's actually beating butsera, so he would go in I
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  Speaker 1: guess Steve Hilton, even though he's a Republican, unlike Spencer Proute,
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  Speaker 1: who has to come back and beat Bass, Steve Hilton,
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  Speaker 1: I guess would go in as the favorite come November.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, let's see that there's still only fifty percent
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  Speaker 2: of the ballots have been counted, and so usually with
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  Speaker 2: the later drop they favored Democrats because they're mail bout.
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  Speaker 2: It's usually that are getting counted later as the days
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  Speaker 2: go on, so we'll see if Steve Hilton still holds
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  Speaker 2: the lead. But as you say, you know, there's no
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  Speaker 2: incumbent in terms of like Gavin Newsom is termed out.
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  Speaker 2: But the Democrats are the incumbent party. We have one
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  Speaker 2: party rule here in California. They have a super majority
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  Speaker 2: in the legislature and they've controlled you know, the executive
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  Speaker 2: for several terms now, and the results of that are
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  Speaker 2: a very poor quality of life. People are leaving California.
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  Speaker 2: We have highest home prices, highest taxes, highest gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: highest utility costs. Like, the quality of life here is
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  Speaker 2: deteriorating significantly to the point where you know, if you're
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  Speaker 2: a grandparent, your children or your grandchildren can't afford to
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  Speaker 2: live here and they're moving out of state, and it's
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  Speaker 2: breaking up families, and it's it's not the same place
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  Speaker 2: it was when I grew up. And now it is time.
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  Speaker 2: If you're ready for change, it is time to actually
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  Speaker 2: vote for change. And that means a new direction with
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  Speaker 2: a new party.
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  Speaker 1: It's really that simple, Liz, I can't thank you enough.
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  Speaker 1: This is yeomen's work, folks. Again. Just after three am
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  Speaker 1: local time in Los Angeles, the Great Elizabeth Barkohona has
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  Speaker 1: been up all night keeping her eye on these races,
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  Speaker 1: just like me. She lives out there actually not like me.
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  Speaker 1: And we wanted Spencer Pratt to win. Looks like he's
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  Speaker 1: made it. We wanted Steve Hilton to win. Looks like
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  Speaker 1: he did. Elizabeth, he sounded great this morning. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: to bed, get some sleep, and we'll talk later on
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  Speaker 1: this morning. This was a terrific job. I can't thank
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  Speaker 1: you enough.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much anytime said, have a good day.
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  Speaker 1: Good night, sweetheart. Take her. That's our good friend, Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Barkahona out in Los Angeles doing a great job for us.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Do we appreciate that? Big morning still a come of course.
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  Speaker 1: On this show, brook Rollins makes her debut. She got
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch of road trips coming out. She's in
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  Speaker 1: charge of agriculture here in the United States. Peter King
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  Speaker 1: will be here. Brian Geltzeiler from NBA Radio on Sodius
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  Speaker 1: XM as we get step from Nixon Spurs Game one
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  Speaker 1: later on tonight. Three big hours about to come your way.
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