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Ep.37 CA primary day is over…primary MONTH begins! · The Orange Report with Kira Davis

• Kira Davis: Well, hello everybody. It's post-primary day. Primary day is over here in California, and now primary month begins. I'm Kira Davis. Welcome to the Orange Report. All the news and views you can use from around California, Orange County. And America, because California news is America news. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about what happened last night. ⁓ I did go over to Hilton headquarters to watch some of the results come in. Why don't I just start with a little brief explainer for people watching outside of the state? We do have a national audience. ⁓ about I'm sure you've heard a lot about how it works here, but we have these jungle primaries. It's a top two finish, so. It's regardless of party, it's the top two go. ⁓ we have a month of early voting, which ends on election day, June 2nd this year. ⁓ and then we have seven days to receive ballots. Okay, so you we we ⁓ by law, we accept mail and ballots up to seven days after election day. Which seems absolutely absurd because it is. And I'm pretty sure it's unconstitutional. I'm not sure if you know what's going on with legal battles and all of that. I'm sure the Trump administration, DOJ, has their eye on this because that is absolutely absurd. And we're gonna change that. We're not leaving it like that. We will change this. When we win, we're gonna change everything. But that's how it goes. We have seven days. To get ballots in from what out, you know, what I guess they have to be postmarked by election day. ⁓ and so so you have that seven days. Secretary of State here in California has said it will take 37 days to certify the results. Thirty-seven days to certify election results. The Secretary of State also said that it might be two to three weeks before we know solid. results. So we're still in a guessing period here to a certain extent. ⁓ but some candidates have to move like they've already won officially. And Steve Hilton is one of those candidates. And ⁓ so it's good news and it's typical crappy news here in California. The primaries are not over. They are not over. They don't end on June 2nd. This is something we have to fix. We we yes it is ridiculous. I did an explainer yesterday, go back and watch yesterday's show. I talk about how why it takes so long to count votes here. One of our issues is that we don't have voter ID. The only way to verify a vote is to compare signatures to your signature that's on file to the ballot, the signature that's on your ballot. That's a one-to-one comparison. If you think about it, well all of the results that we got last night the people who are counting are working pretty fast. I mean, considering what they have to go through. So I don't really think this is an issue of the people who are counting the votes. I never have. It's not that they're not it's not that they're incompetent. It's not that they're purposefully slow, although there are plenty of people who are trying to throw wrenches into the machine, ⁓ working at registrar's office across the state. We know this. But I don't really think that it's it's a personnel problem. It This isn't this is a system problem. This is a system issue. And this is the feature, not the bug. So ⁓ typically what happens is, and this happened in 24 as well. Typically, what happens is Republicans have a strong showing on election day. And then as the ballots come in, they'll fall further and further behind because those ballot drops never break for Republicans. They never break for Republicans. They never break for Republicans. So we'll see because here's what's different. Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna eat, I'm gonna, I'm gonna address some of your fears, the concerns, the the the criticisms I've gotten this morning after the results last night. I'm gonna address address some of that, but let's just break down what we have seen in the results. Let's pull up the Secretary of State. I'll just break down some of these numbers. Again, numbers are coming in, but we've got 65% reporting by this morning. 65% reported. by this morning. ⁓ okay, here we go. All right. Let me just pull this up on mine. All right. So you can see here. Okay, first of all, we have sixty-two people on this ballot, everybody. We have sixty-two people ⁓ running for governor. That's how crazy it is. So I you'll see at the top here, Xavier Bacera is at the top. This is not in order of how they finish. This is just how the Secretary of State lists them. So ⁓ Xavier Bacera, ⁓ Javier Bacerra, excuse me. the top with 25.4 percent are at the top of this. ⁓ we've we moved down Matt Mahan, you saw a lot from him. He is the candidate from San Jose, the mayor for yeah, he's the current mayor of San Jose. ⁓ running as one of the more reasonable Democrats. And as you can see, he was not rewarded for it. Because in this day and age, being a Democrat means being as far To the left as possible, running to the left of Karl Marx. That's that's what it means to be a Democrat these days. All right, so let's move down a little bit. You see these other random names. Katie Porter, Katie Porter at 4.6%. She garnered 231,000 votes last night. And ⁓ she did come out and give a concession speech. So I will ⁓ I'll give Katie Porter that. And She didn't have an election night party, so she already knew that the writing was on the wall. She knew that a long time ago. She really should have dropped out. But I'm gonna guess that some of these Democrats that stayed in the race are getting some other kind of guarantees from somebody. Star campaign, Vacera campaign, something just to stay in and split the votes for the Republicans or for the top Democrat. And I just think Katie Porter was is staying in it for the next job. Because she's not a stupid woman. We don't like Katie Porter, but she's not dumb. And I do think she's she's working for the next position, and that's why she didn't drop out. And you know what? I hope she gets a job. I hope she gets a job. She's useless to me, but Democrats seem to like her. ⁓ let's scroll down a little bit. We see Tom Steyr polling. He's currently in third place at nineteen point six percent, nine hundred and seventy nine thousand votes. And you'll see An eight eighteen thousand idiots voted for Eric Swalwell. So he pulled 0.4%. Tony Thurmond. you don't know who he is if you don't live in California because he's a complete moron, and I'm not sure why he was ever running on that ticket. ⁓ Via Ragosa, the former mayor of LA, only managed to get 1.3%, 66,000 votes. And given that the Los Angeles race is such a heated race and su is such a turnout race, Villarragosa is the former I mean, he's he's the last mayor. He's the mayor before Karen Bass. We don't we haven't forgotten about him. And that's that should show you how much people respect Antonio Villarragosa, Tony Villar. His name isn't Villarragosa. He joined his name with his wife's his ex-wife's name when he was running for office. So sort of like a first partner thing. ⁓ so anyway, thanks for pulling dem votes, Tony. ⁓ boring Betty Yee. Again, you know, this is hilarious. Betty Yee actually ⁓ actually dropped out of the race and endorsed Vicera, and she still won 25,000 votes. Next, we have couple of other meaningless people and Chad Bianco, the other big Republican in the race. Strong showing for Chad. ⁓ a little bit too strong for my comfort as a Hilton voter. I think this the this is a lot of votes to pull from that top ⁓ finisher. Chad Bianco, this is putting him in fourth or fifth, I think I think at eleven eleven point three percent. Not enough. Not enough because Tom Steyr is in third at 19%. It's hard to imagine any ballot drops coming in between here and July. I I can't even believe like saying that blows my mind. Between here and July, that's gonna put him up to Steve Hilton still polling in first place this morning. 27.8% of the vote. he has garnered so far. 1.3, almost 1.4 million votes. ⁓ that's an incredible showing. So he, so here is our field so far. ⁓ the field that matters, Steve Hilton at the top with 27.8. ⁓ Javier Becerra next at 25.4%. And then Tom Steyer trailing at 19.6%. So Steve Hilton's at the top. I also just want to look, let's scroll down a little bit. And look at some of these other ⁓ random people that I know you don't know, but sometimes it's fun to look. We have all right, Leo Zacki, he ran as a Republican. Leo Zacki's a spoiler. He's he does this quite a bit. And it's hilarious because I I've heard from Leo Zacki voters over the last few weeks who are telling me what Chad Bianco voters are telling me, which is don't believe the polls. You know, ⁓ Leo Zacki is the most conservative candidate. He's winning. Don't believe the polls. And he was, he's not even close to winning. Chad has a better case for that than Leo Zacki. and I said early on, because Leo Zacki announced early on, and he's been making the rounds here in Orange County. And I said early on, no, he can't. I'm not having him on my show. I'm not wasting time interviewing this guy. I don't know anything about him personally. I'm sure he's a nice guy. Like I have no personal ⁓ judgments about him, but just I knew what was at stake. And we're going talk about that today. And why I have gone so hard against Chad Bianco in the last couple weeks. ⁓ but I knew what was at stake. And so I have been the person, everybody, in ⁓ in previous election cycles, who have said to other Republicans, don't, you know, vote who you want to vote for. This is the system we have. You do you do it. But after twenty-four and seeing what we're what we're up against, my attitude and after Charlie really is what happened to me. After Charlie, my attitude about all of this change and I realize we're at war and we need to act like we're at war. And that means we need to consolidate and make decisions that aren't always comfortable and don't ⁓ meet the needs of every voter. But we we have to make compromises and we have to Be decisive. I guess that's what I'm trying to say. We have to be decisive. And I said that from the start. And from the beginning, I've said, look, there should be no other people we are looking at or talking to, ⁓ except for Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco. They are the top two ⁓ vote getters, they're the top two candidates in the Republican Party. I said that from the start. As we got further along and I realized that Chad's campaign has stalled out, I obviously switched to, no, this top two thing is not gonna happen. You've got to get behind Hilton. ⁓ let's Go down a little bit further. I don't even know who. Let's see. Somebody named Serge Fiankin ran as MPP that's no party preference. Serge Fiankin got 305 votes. Polling at statistics zero. Wow. And living for God in Country DeMont. Okay, that's amazing. I mean, this is the other fun thing you could do in California. Anybody can get on the ballot if you want to pay the money for it. And I think it's like 10% of ⁓ I think it's 10% of the salary for that given office. That's what you pay for registration. So we get a lot, and because of our primary system, we get a lot of crazy people. So this guy got creative or this person, living for God in Country DeMont, statistically zero, but still garnered 1,345 votes. And I'm just wondering who are those third. 1,500 people that that wasted spent their vote on that. Again, I don't know. Some people choose to make statements with their votes. Again, I have been that person in the past, ⁓ but but my mind has changed about a lot of things after Charlie died. ⁓ and then like going down to the bottom, yeah, it's all a lot of MVPs, everybody. Polling at, let's see, Nancy Young, I guess, is the best MPP. She garnered 4,500 votes. So congratulations to you, Nancy. I'm not sure what use that is, but to you, it probably is of use. And here's interesting. I just scrolled back up. Ramsey Robinson, what's the P and F party? Party preference P and F. ⁓ 21,000 votes, not a bad showing for a complete nobody. Better than the libertarian candidate Tom Woodward, who got 5,800 votes. Just incredible. ⁓ we also have a Barack Obama on the list. Let's see if I can find him. Let's see at the Yeah, there he is. Barack Obama's at the top underneath Matt Mayhan. Let's see what Barack D. Obama Shaw. 10,906 votes polling at 0.2%. So somebody fell for that. Barack D. Obama, clever, clever, but not clever enough. I don't even know if Barack Obama's name is is that meaningful anymore in Democrat politics after the stunt he pulled in 2024. All right, so that's how it's looking for the governor's ⁓ race so far. So Last night I went to Hilton HQ in Huntington Beach and joined a ton of other people who were there ⁓ to celebrate or cry if you know things went differently. And I gotta tell you, walking into that place, it was at the Hyatt at the waterfront Hyatt in Waterfront Hilton in Huntington Beach, walking into that place. The there was a buzz like I have never seen in California politics. And I'm I'm not a California native, so I've only been here about 20 years or so, but there was a buzz. It wasn't usually I've been to plenty of these things in the past, and usually you're sort of going in with a resigned excitement. Like we're happy to be here together, we're hoping for a miracle, but we kind of know what the results are gonna be. And we're here to just be together and have a good time and encourage each other. And maybe strategize for the next shot. But last night was different. When you walked in there, it just felt electric. People were excited. They were nervous, but also hopeful. ⁓ I had never seen it like that before, I have to say. And ⁓ I met some friends there, and ⁓ my friend Tamara was there with her little baby, Gabe, and he was all dressed up in Steve Hilton colors. He was so cute. He was he was the draw of the night. Actually, I I'll say that. I don't feel like I'm talking out of turn by saying that baby Gabe, he he really was the biggest star of the night. So Steve's got some competition out there, but Gabe's not eligible to run for office for quite a while, so you're safe, Steve. But ⁓ it was a a great atmosphere. The entire golden ticket was there. ⁓ I got to see Herb Morgan. ⁓ Gloria Romero came in a little later, Michael Gates was there with his whole family. Guys, if we don't Elect the Gates family to Sacramento. What a gorgeous family. Like what a st absolutely stunning family to look at up there. I have to say, I felt like this is how an American family should look. ⁓ and so he was up there with his children, his wife, and in fact, let's go. Let's look at the attorney general race right now. Let's do that. ⁓ just to look at those numbers real quick. And you'll see at the top of this. 37 days left. Unofficial results. Results will be certified by July 10th, 2026. This is a primary race, everybody. And the state of California sees fit to make primary candidates wait over a month to know what they need to be doing with their candidate. So ⁓ Rob Vonta, he's going through. and Michael Gates is at at 42.7%. So that's a really good showing. So he's the Rob. Bonta is the incumbent. ⁓ Michael Gates is the leading challenger, 42.7% of the vote, two million vote. Look at what separates them, though. That's what I want you to focus on right now. The difference that separates Michael Gates and Rob Bonta, who is our attorney general and isn't even a lawyer. How do you like them, Apples? Just a newsome appointee. And he was gonna run for governor, and he ended up ⁓ Squashing that campaign because he couldn't break, he couldn't break zero percent in ⁓ in pre-election polling. So he decided to run again for attorney general. Again, he is not a lawyer. And Rob Bonta's wife is Mia Bonta. She sits in the California Assembly and she's the woman who gave us the Stop Nick Shirley Act. So you don't see a conflict of interest there. When I say we live in a banana republic, y'all, that's why I'm so serious about this race. That's why I am so serious and I'm taking no prisoners. Not just this race, but I mean this election cycle. Because we really are under duress here in California. There's a lot of illegal stuff happening when just in our election system, you know, off the top. And we have to stop it. And we can't stop it if we don't win. And so we have to win. So if I seem like I'm a little harsh, yeah, we ⁓ I'm I'm not a soldier. I'm being a general. We gotta we gotta win. All right, so It's about 500,000 votes, less than 500,000 votes that separates Bonta and Gates. This is a primary election. That's a low turnout, the lowest turnout you're gonna get in California is a primary election. I'm not sure what the turnout rates are. I think we probably find that somewhere on this site. But it's not very good. I think it's something like two percent or something of California. So all what I'm saying is there's a ton more votes out there to get. And here's the good news. For Michael Gates and every other Republican who pushes through primary month, ⁓ voter ID is on the ballot in November. And that's gonna make this a turnout election because people are gonna come out, Republicans in particular, are gonna come out to vote for voter ID. Republicans who wouldn't necessarily be coming out in a midterm election. They're gonna come out to vote for voter ID, and while they're there, they're gonna vote down the ticket for Republicans. That bodes well for Michael Gates. The let's look at this ⁓ third person, Marjorie Mickles, the from running from the Green Party, pulled a respectable 4.8% of the vote. That's 232,000 votes. That's 232,000 votes to go get right there. That are ostensibly independent votes. Michael Gates can do this, everybody. And by the way, I'm not convinced that Rob Bonta isn't going to prison. I I had a conversation with a friend last night and we were just sort of chatting lightly about it. And and she was like, Look, and she works in government. She's like, I don't have any information, but I've been looking at what's been going on with Bonta. And as somebody who's been doing this job for a while, I think this guy's going to jail. I think he's going to jail too. So there's that. At the very least, there are a lot of very precarious legal situations that Bonta is caught up in that are now now in the heat of a general race, they're gonna come up. And he's not gonna have any response to them except MAGA, MAGA. And Californians aren't buying that. At least right now in the primary election, we're just not buying the MAGA thing. We're over it. Because what does it mean for you to look at us Republicans every time we say something that makes sense and scream, MAGA, MAGA? What does it mean for you to do that if everything still sucks? If it's still shitty here, what does your MAGA mean to us? We need change, and the only other change is the Republican Party. So again, I just don't think people are buying it. They think they're not buying this. This election cycle. You know what? You know what? Let me say this. ⁓ remember that in that debat in the LA Mary Oral debate with Spencer Pratt and Nithya Rahman started accusing him of being MAGA? This is like a MAGA dream, MAGA Republican dream of what LA should be. Which that always I think that line is hysterical. What LA should be, you mean like clean and safe, potholes filled and schools working and reservoirs filled like that. That's a MAGA Republican's vision. See, that's what we mean. That's what I mean when I say after Trump's gone, the MAGA movement's just gonna be the America movement. Cause that's all MAGA is make America great again. But anyway, when Nithya said that you'll recall Spencer Pratt's face when he was like, I think that's the general electorate's view in California of MAGA accusations. ⁓ like we're over it. Yes, the TDS base, they're always gonna have TDS. They're not gonna change. Of course, you can't get those people, just let them do what they're gonna do. But there's a ton of other people who are like, ⁓ they're like Spencer. Like, you know what? Don't don't try to trigger me with the word MAGA if you're not going to fix things. Because right now everywhere that manga is working, America is working. So there's just there's a lot more out there to get. And I don't think that Bonta is going to escape some legal troubles. And I'll tell you this, I think Bezerra has the same problem. I think we're gonna see some legal action against Bezerra during this race. I really truly do. And what it's gonna come down to then is his base claiming that this is like a weaponization of the Justice Department versus the actual facts of what's happening. But I and I can't predict how that's gonna shake out in the generals, but I do think that Brissera has a whole hell of a lot more trouble coming. ⁓ legally speaking. To my mind, Pisero was the guy I wanted Steve to face. I I think Steve maybe would have liked to have faced Steyr and we'll see. You know, maybe Steyr will make some leap here. I don't know. I'm not sure why. I just kind of got I've never talked to Steve about this. I just kind of got that impression that maybe Steyr might be the easier opponent for him, because Steyer, yes, will have lots of money, but also he's just so far to the left. He's so far to the left. That's like a great contrast. But I wanted Becerra because I think Becerra's Becerra's got legal troubles that are going to be helpful to Republicans in the general election. But we shall see. But what do the numbers indicate? What do the numbers indicate last night? No matter what happens from here. Like let's say, okay, let me address some of your concerns that I've been seeing on the internet. One concern is that the counting is not done. This is primary month, not primary day. ⁓ there's still plenty of room for shenanigans, as I like to say. And we know Democrats cheat. And what's to stop Newsom from cheating? Nothing, I mean. In theory, nothing, you know, this is how it is here in California. We know Democrats cheat. But there's a few different factors that are working. Again, I think this is a perfect storm for Republicans. There's a few different factors that give me hope. Not that there will be no cheating. There will be. We've already seen it. Ballot boxes on fire. Yeah. But one thing that gives me hope is that the whole world is watching, or at least the whole country, you know, the whole world to us. And everyone is watching California because of these two men, Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt, because of what they've been doing. And there's been this palpable buzz across the nation about what if California could flip red? What if some of these stalwart Democrat areas flip red? ⁓ whether or not the larger electorate in America believes that can happen, they're all watching California right now. And they all saw what happened last night. And what happened last night. was a change election. So if we see, and what happened last night is almost every major Republican on the ballot had a leading showing or a strong showing. Again, if you show up in second place anywhere near the top Democrat, that's a win for Republicans right there. The way we count ballots and the way things go. So already Republicans have had a strong showing last night and surprised a lot of people. Already it's positive results. So that means that people from across the country are really watching closely. And to them, not understanding how this month of election counting is going to go, not understanding how it works here, to them, those people have already won. In the rest of the country, to them, Spencer Pass already won. In the rest of the country, to them, Steve Hilton has already won. So if Democrats want to pull the typical shenanigans and these ballot drops are going to come back for the next month and they're all going to break for Democrats and not a single one is breaking for Republicans. Yeah, that's gonna look suspicious to everybody. Maybe Democrats won't care and they're just gonna go for broke. Either way, I think they're gonna have legal problems if they do that. The other thing is that Repu California Republicans, for all the complaints that I have about them, they did learn some lessons in 24 and 22. And county party heads are doing their part to ensure election integrity. ⁓ they are sending observers. There's a huge push for observers. You can stand and observe the count. We need that when in an electoral system where we don't have voter ID, the only way to verify a ballot is to compare signatures on what's on file at the state and what was signed on the ballot. That's a one-to-one process. ⁓ and so They you know, because we have that process, ⁓ They don't understand people don't understand that I I lost my train of thought on that. So I'm thinking five miles down the road. Any anyway, I guess what I'm I'm saying that gives me hope about that is that ⁓ when you need you need observers to witness these signature comparisons and it's exhausting work, it is, but the GLP has been recruiting those people very, very well. Here in Orange County, we have a huge recruiting effort, but also there have been other election integrity efforts going on, purging voter rolls. We have managed to purge quite a few voters in the state so far. We need to do millions more, but so far so good. And then they've got teams of lawyers working and observing. So that is going on under the radar. That's not the sexy stuff. That's not the stuff you see on the cable news or you even see people like me talking about. But that is work that is going on. So there's that. Those are things that give me hope for these returns. ⁓ and we also have quite a bit return. A lot of people returned early. ⁓ and so those votes were available to count. The what what we're waiting on are excess ⁓ mail in ballots. So if you anything dated June second, that's where a lot of the ⁓ fraud comes in dating the ballots. So we still have a lot and then absentee ballots come in, but sixty-five percent that's a respectable. Amount to be returned. So Republicans did quite well, better than expected in returning the early ballots this year. So I I just think all of that bodes well for whatever tricks are coming. And there are tricks. And our governor warned us. He he said, you know, ⁓ we've got a break glass option. I don't know if we've seen that yet, but the world is watching. That means something, I think. All right. ⁓ let's Let's play this Steve Hilton video from last night. Scott, just a few seconds of what we were looking at on the stage. And I did not get a chance to talk to Steve last night. I mean, he was doing media all night and then he went immediately to do media after his appearance. ⁓ but ⁓ I talked to a lot of other people on the golden ticket and everyone was really excited. But let's just hear from Steve and see what he had to say after the initial positive result. So about a week ago When we were planning this event, I wanted to put a message on the stage here and I wrote these words and I thought, Is that a little premature to write the words change is coming? I don't think so because change is coming. Change. Change is coming to California. Change is coming to California and it's long overdue. So about a week ago when we were planning this event. Really fun in there. ⁓ again, you know, right when we got in, the polls opened immediately, Steve shot to the top. So we were just super excited watching those numbers come back. ⁓ Herb Morgan for controller, it looks like he's gonna hit that top two. Jennifer Hawks for treasurer, that's incredible. You've not heard or seen anything from Jennifer Ox. She's been doing stuff out there. I've been focusing on the golden picket, so I hadn't had her on this show. But as we move towards general, I'll get her on this show. But ⁓ again, and just Michael Gay and Sonia Shaw for superintendent of public instruction, she's going through to the generals. She had a fifty plus one. That means if she it Spen Spencer did too, so ⁓ that means that she could have maybe Eliminated. Let's look at her results actually. Let's go back to that page. Scott, Secretary of State, and we will go back to Superintendent of Public Instruction. So the top two finishers are Richard Barrera and Sonia Shaw. Okay, so Richard Barrera, 795,000 votes, 18.9%. Sonia Shaw, a dominating, dominating 24.9%, 1,044,000 votes. Anthony Rendon actually was the next in line for this job. That was the guy that we thought. was gonna be s ⁓ Sonia's biggest competition. 8.2%, 30, 3, 344,000 votes he managed to get. Listen, we knew that Sonya was a threat when months ago Gavin Newsom came out and said, ⁓ we don't need this position, superintendent of public instruction. I'm gonna, I'm gonna pull out the teeth out of this. We don't need this position. That's how this position actually is one of those Democrat positions. We don't we actually don't need it. If we have it, we might as well have a Republican there, but we don't need it. In California, one of the ways, and you should beware in whatever state you're in, one of the ways Democrats build a supermajority is when they get into office, they make up more offices to run for. And because they're Democrat appointed offices or they're Democrat structured offices, they are structured to win. For they are structured so that only Democrats win. So this office that's tucked into the Department of Education that most parents don't even know exists, you know who does know it exists? Unions. And unions are union voters are millions strong here in California. And one of the reasons why, like a candidate like Karen Bass, I know you're looking at that result and going, How the hell did she get that many votes and the city looking the way it is? Those are union votes, people. They're automatic votes. Half of I'm gonna bet half of them aren't even real. I'll say that. I don't even think a lot of them are real votes. But what when it comes to the unions, this is how it works in education, too. The teachers union only has to issue a memo. And then they send the memo around, they go, This is who we're voting for, and boom, that's a million votes. Automatic. So that's what people like Sonia Shaw are up against. The fact that she ran away with this the way she did last night. That says something, A, about Sonia as a candidate, of course, which I have said all along, but B about the electorate. And we're starting to become informed. This is the Democrats' worst nightmare. Because they make up offices like this that operate on the assumption that you will never inform yourself about it. And they can kind of run roughshod over. They can do whatever they want with it. But we might be opening a bit of an overton window here, if you ask me. It's like what the California Democrats have done to ensure never ending Democrat elections is the table is actually opening It's actually opening the field for defeat for Democrats. Okay, you can take that away now. ⁓ it's actually having a backlash effect, if you ask me. They took so much for granted. They pushed so hard. Do you know? As Gavin Newsom is out there blaming Donald Trump for the price of gas in California, do you know that on July 4th? ⁓ July first we're getting another two percent or excuse me, two cent tax gas tax raise. Like this is this is how stupid they are and cruel they are. In the midst of all this, as they're telling us Trump's making your life, Trump, Trump, Trump, Maga, Maga, Maga. Trump's making your life more expensive. These Republicans are making your life worse. In the midst of all that, they are still pushing their agenda. Tom Steyr is still out there flirting with teenage boys dressed as girls in mini skirts who who steal track and field medals from high school girls across the state. Tom Steyr is still out there saying that trans kids are more important than young girls. You know, they they're still pulling all the way to the left. This is their Achilles heel. This is what I'm saying. When I tell you, I think we are in a moment, people, and you need to take that moment seriously. This is not the typical election where we're just like, we're gonna lose anyway. And so, you know what? Just Vote for who you feel like it. Don't make any hard decisions. No, this is the time we do have to make hard decisions because we're in a moment. And moments call for hard decisions, decisive leaders, and and brave choices. And calls for people who understand the 30,000-foot view, not just the 3,000-foot view. But here in California, Republicans have been forced. To take the 3,000 foot view. That's what jungle primaries do. And what I've been saying, this is what my book is all about, drawing lines. Go buy that book. This is about getting in where you fit in, doing what you can where you are. But what I have been saying is everyone needs to change their mindset about what it means to die for your country. What it means to die for liberty. ⁓ And the weapons of war and losing your life for freedom, although that that is part of it. It means dying to a lot of other things. It means dying to yourself, dying to your schedule, dying to your old notions of how elections work in this state, dying to your assumptions. It means dying to a lot of things. Because victory is uncomfortable and it takes uncomfortable choices. And I was talking to Steve the other day, and you know, we've been quite frustrated over this Bianco thing. And I I will tell you that. ⁓ I I as I held my fire for a long time out of respect for my friends who were Bianco voters. But as we neared the end, I realized, and it's not over yet, by the way, but as we neared the end of primary day, I realized I didn't believe Chad anymore. I I was believing that he was a good man who just wanted to do the right thing for California, but I realized I didn't believe him anymore as we got to the end. the things that he was saying about Steve, you listen to people who are saying n going negative on Chad, people like me, I'm only saying the things that are out there, right? Like the BLM kneeling thing. You can argue about context, but that's a to me it's not up for debate, but it's still debatable. Or, you know, his comments about amnesty. Like I wasn't saying like, look at his wife. Look at what a horrible person she is, or like, look at his personality. Like He's a liar. He's a Democrat plant. Like none of that. But the Bianco camp was coming so hard after Steve. I thought this doesn't feel like team player because you're gonna have to support this person after they win. You know? And so you can only go so hard. Anyways, I've just changed my mind a lot about Chad Bianco ⁓ over the last couple of weeks. And that's one of the reasons I went so hard. But I'll tell you what, my mind changed permanently about him yesterday. Because I have friends that are ride or die for Chad Bianco. They are so mad at me today. They've been so mad at me for the past few weeks as I've been doing my job and coming, you know, and and coming with my opinions and supporting Steve, which I have done from the beginning, which I've done for ten years now. ⁓ But they're not mad because, or or maybe they are, but they're not mad, you know, because they hate me. But they're mad because they really believed in Chad Bianco. They still believe in him. And they were the people who up until the last moment were saying, Don't believe the polls. Chad is telling us don't believe the polls. They're not real. And they fought for him. These are people who went out there, were doing all the volunteer work, knocking on the doors, making the phone calls. What has Chad said in the last 24 hours? Nothing. Nothing. Even Katie Porter released a statement to her followers. That's when I decided that Chad, we dodged a bullet with that one. He's not the guy. That's some Hillary Clinton stuff. You know, like these people fought for you. These people went to the mat for you. They broke relationships for you. And you can't at least come out on election night, at least make something up. You know what I'm saying? You know, I'm not even telling you to be honest anymore. Just like go out there and keep lying to them. Tell them, at least say something. You know what? Don't believe the polls. We've got 30 days accounting left. There's more to come. You know, say something to encourage your people. At least this morning when I got up, first thing I did was go to Bianco's accounts. Did he say something to them? Did he come out and do a video like, thank you for your support? Don't give up yet. I'm still in this. Anything. That's what he thinks of you, Bianco voters. Again, even Katie Porter released a statement and she thanked her supporters. So I just think yesterday, hey, Flavug, good to see you. good morning. I released a statement, or excuse me, ⁓ even Katie Porter released a statement, and I think you don't have to concede. She conceded. Matt Mahan released a statement, she conceded. I can understand. If Chad does not want to concede right now for a lot of reasons. And I can understand if he doesn't even want to like come out on video or if he doesn't want to do an interview. But at least do an Instagram post. Thank your supporters. Thank you for their steadfast support and all the work they did on your behalf. Thank them. and he hasn't done that. So that's really disappointing to me. So I think all of my criticism of Chad has been justified. And when I look at the amount of votes that he has pulled, you know, almost he's done quite well. I by the way, a decent showing for a guy that wasn't really known outside of Riverside County six months ago. Really decent showing. ⁓ but that's 500,000 votes. Steve would be cruising to the top right now. cruising. I'm not that doesn't mean that every Bianco voter would be a Hilton voter. I understand that. But a majority would be. Steve would be cruising to the top. So I think ⁓ hey Flav, let's see. I was looking for you all weekend long. Good seeing you. Yeah. You know what, Flav, ⁓ my mother-in-law passed away. ⁓ and so we've had it's been a rough go for the past little bit. So I've been real sporadic with my social media. So thank you for looking for me. And here I am. You look great. I'm happy we're moving in the right direction with Steve Hilton and Spencer. Me too. ⁓ I'm right on about you are right on about Chad. Yeah, I am. I am. And I'm right about a lot of stuff. I did a couple of videos last night that were I told you so. Not I told you so because Steve has not officially won yet. We're in primary month, but it's looking good. It's looking good. With 65%, he's moving ahead as if he's won. ⁓ but just to say, like, you can believe me. Proof is there. You can you can believe me. I am not one of those people that says things in hopes of making it be true, or is even I'm not one of those people to be cruel for cruelty's sake. I just really genuinely did not see the path for Chad. And the longer he stayed in, the worse I knew it would be for Republicans. That being said. Chad has every right to be in this race. He had every right to stay in this race. And I think this speaks more. I I talked about this on the show yesterday. I think this speaks more to an issue of leadership in the GOP than it does Bianco, Bianco supporters, Hilton, Hilton supporters. Because we're up against. Very dastardly beast in the jungle primaries. It's just communism. I just can't believe that we have these jungle primaries. They're ridiculous. We have to get rid of them. But thank you for your condolences, Slave. ⁓ but if we can't change the jungle primaries and we're not in control, so we can't, if we can't change them, then what we have to do is game them. We have to strategize. And I have never seen a real strategy from the California GOP. about jungle primaries. We have my in my opinion, we have to figure out a way to run our own internal primaries before we get to the actual primary season. And yes, I know that this adds then more election time to candidates. But we at least got to do maybe we make the month before we print ballots or something like that. Like our our own unofficial primary. And that doesn't mean that every Republican's gonna be on board with that, you know? But maybe what you do is you have Republican candidates sign a statement like, you know, saying, like, I'm gonna, I'm not going to continue with this campaign if I don't have the proper support of the delegates. ⁓ if I don't rate with the delegates at the convention, something like that. But we need we need something. We need to change. What we're doing as Republicans until we can change the system itself back to something more sensible. But that takes leaders with vision to do that. And a lot of times when you talk to people in charge anywhere in the California GOP, they will tell you the same thing. Well, you can't change it. This is just how it is. We can't do it. No, it's impossible to do that. And you after after 2024, no, I don't believe that anymore. After 2025, no, I don't believe that anymore. I don't believe that anymore. I watched John Donald Trump march into office and immediately change things. Immediately. Things that they told us, Congress told us, you can never change this. It can never be fixed. Some things were changed just by us knowing about it. You know, the work that Doge did, I know Elon left frustrated, as he should have. He's not a government guy. So of course the way government works is going to disturb him. But Trump was right. When he said, look, Doge is going to be a mindset. It's going to be a system of governance. The Doge Committee is one thing, but Doge is like MAGA. It's going to be a lifestyle and it's going to end up seeping into the bones of government. It's going to be slow and it has slowly happened. But Doge is a mindset. And ⁓ and that is That's how we have to move forward. You know, it all of this has to be a mindset that yes, you can change things if you choose to change things. But guess who changes things? Leaders. Leaders change things. Somebody made an interesting comment on one of my ⁓ threads the other day. And I was saying this, you know, we need leaders right now at California GOP, in my opinion, is asking the followers to lead. And somebody said, ⁓ so what are you saying, Kira? You know, that the people shouldn't be leading. The government is by the people. The people should be the leaders. I I hear you, actually, I hear you. I know you're being, you know, sarcastic and and mean, but ⁓ but I I I hear what you're saying. And of course, government is for the people by the people. But there are there are no movements without leaders. That's that. That's that. That's why we elect politicians to be lead. Otherwise, we would just let elect all the people. But why do we elect one person to represent all the people, right? We need leaders. You have a leader in your home. You have a leader in your business. You have a leader in your church. Your political movement needs a leader too. And a good leader can change everything. Hello, Donald Trump. Hello, Charlie Kirk. Like some a good leader can inspire change. Look at Spencer Pratt. Not a polished leader, but that's a leader. George Washington, you know, John Adams, pick your favorite founding father. Like good leaders are necessary not because people are dumb or dull, but because good leaders galvanize followers who understand leadership and who are leaders in their own lives. That's what I mean. Kira, do you think the money and support will start flowing into the campaigns of Pratt or Hilton? Absolutely. Great question. That's another ⁓ great thing about primaries, is that there are a lot of donors who are holding back their donations, holding back their support and even endorsements until they saw, you know, how things were going to pan out. And to be fair, yeah, I get that. You know what? Shout out to all the donors who contributed to the primaries because that's a risk. No matter who you donated to, that's a risk. You're taking a risk in primaries and we appreciate that. So shout out to all y'all who supported in the primaries. And so, but I'm not mad at people who wanted to hold back their hefty donations or their influential support until they saw the primaries shake out. Cause they don't want their vote to go to waste. They don't want their voice or their money to go to waste. So yes, absolutely. I happen to know personally some donors who have been waiting. In the Republican Party for these primary results. So now we have them. They're in. And I do think that we'll see more money flowing into the coffers. ⁓ but again, this is why the Republican Party needs to do something differently in California. We need to circumvent the the jungle primaries ourselves, even if we can't do it totally, right? Like obviously it's still a free system. Anybody can register to run for Republican. And just because the California GOP says we don't want you to run, that doesn't mean anything. You can still run. I get that. But what we have to do because Chad and Steve both have wasted combined a combined millions on each other trying to pull through this. That's million less either one would have to run against a general candidate. That's another thing that the jungle primaries are set up for. Democrats know they have unlimited funds because they steal it from us. They have unlimited funds. So they know that they can cause us to drop our ⁓ to drop a lot of our financial strength in primaries. And we do, we do it a lot. And then it hobbles us. So I this is one thing I love about Steve as well. I think he is a great campaigner. He has a great fundraising apparatus. Michael Gates, by the way, for attorney general, he raised over a million dollars. That's incredible for an attorney general's race for a Republican, a million dollars before primary day. That's amazing. So he's gonna see more money coming in too, as well. A lot of people holding back. So we're gonna see the race now shift today as money shifts. That's probably gonna happen in the Democrat race as well. ⁓ which will make Becera more of a threat, of course. ⁓ but yeah. I I again I just want to say, 'cause I'm gonna move on from this after today, because after today, I think Bianco is meaningless. ⁓ but, you know, I'm going to reiterate my I told you so. I'm going to reiterate it. And again, I want to reiterate that I told you so, not because I didn't like you. And not because I don't like ch I didn't like that. I don't like Chad now. I actually don't. I I did all the way up until a few weeks ago. And then I realized I think I don't think he's on the up and up. He's lying to his supporters. That's not cool. He he lied to you guys. I that is not cool. It's one thing to be encouraging, right? It's one thing to be a fighter. It's it's quite another thing to say, hey, you're my opponent is a Democrat plan. He knows that's not true. That's a complete lie. And he knows that's not true. So it's a lie he made up to try to win. You can say whatever you want, like I don't like the Steve's from another country, or I don't like that I don't ever see his family, or like you you can say that stuff fair enough. But the other thing is a lie that he's a Democrat plan. So he's lying about that, but even worse than that, because I would expect someone who doesn't really care about that kind of stuff to lie like that. But even worse, he lied to his followers about the polls. About what the polls were saying. He lied. I I have it on good authority that Chad and I've been telling you this the whole time too. I said it the whole time. I have it on good authority in Chad's camp that he is polling in in at the bottom here, in last place of these top contenders. I have it on good authority. I've said it over and over again. And Chad and what I mean by that is I have it on authority by people in Chad's circle. So Chad did know. Telling you the truth, he has known for months that his campaign stalled out and he wasn't gaining in the polls. He's known that and he still told you don't believe the polls. So when I say like I don't like Chad, that's why I he and he still hasn't come again, he still hasn't come out to address his supporters who have not just Knocking on doors and doing all the footwork, but praying for him too. A lot of prayer people out there. I'm praying for you. I read Chad threads every day. People are ride or die for chat. Chat Bianco supporters are hardcore. They are hardcore. And you deserve they deserve at least ⁓ a a sentence, right? Just put it on a meme and put it out there. Just say something to them. I just I know it's tough when you're losing. It really is tough. I mean, Katie Porter didn't do it. She didn't even have a a a can ⁓ election night event. She knew she was gonna lose, but she did release a statement. You know, and I that was one of the things I thought about Kamala Harris too in 2024. I just thought all those lectures, all the Barack Obama sending Obama around to lecture black men and, you know, talking about you you don't you hate women if if you don't vote for Kamala, all just the insulting things that those people had to say. And ⁓ Had the election night event at Howard University of all places, and all those black folks came out, all those black students came out to support Kamala. She's a her ⁓ Howard grad. And she didn't even have the decency to release a statement that night. I just think that's poor form. So, ⁓ I would have supported Chad if he had gone through as a Republican. Absolutely. I my vote would have gone to him in a general election. And if he still manages to pull out some miracle, yeah, I'll cast my vote for Chad. ⁓ because I get what's at stake here. But ⁓ but that will be my version of a compromise. You see what I'm saying? We're all gonna have to make compromises to if you need if you wanna win. It's very serious what's going on here. But that would be my version of a compromise because I don't, I don't really respect Chad. And you know, I saw he gave one interview yesterday. Maybe some of you were at his event and you saw different. Maybe was there a lot of camera work there? Where that like maybe I didn't see inside the event because it's different inside than on the outside. ⁓ I didn't but he gave what I saw was he gave one interview and I just I don't know. I told my husband, I'm like that, he's not talking like a man who's assured of victory tonight. He really isn't. And I just felt again that was another missed opportunity to encourage your supporters, at least to make something up. You've already made up a lot of stuff in your campaign, you know, you made up all the stuff about Hilton. Well, not all the stuff. Like some of it some of it is fair criticism. Not all the stuff, but the stuff about his wife, the stuff about I d I just yeah, I find some of the stuff that he has said disturbing. And ⁓ so just keep making stuff up. At least say something to encourage your supporters. So I again I just think it was irresponsible of Bianco to stay in this long, however. Do I blame him? I don't know. Would I be di would I feel different? Like, what would I do in his situation? I don't know. Like, to be fair about it, I don't know. I don't know if if I just my pride would just not let me ⁓ move. And not just your pride, but then you're all again, this is another reason why it disturbs me so much that he hasn't said anything yet. It's not just your pride, but you realize like you've spent millions of dollars. You have asked people to sacrifice so much for you. You have asked people to work on your campaign, to give up their weekends, to, you know, hurt their feet to go knock on the doors and some of those people have given up their money. You've asked people to do so much for you. Like there's a part of you I can imagine that feels like, I don't want to let these people down. I don't want to quit on them. Because they've believed in me and I don't want to quit on them. So I do think that they're, you know, that's fair. I I I I think that is ⁓ it's a difficult situation. Again, that's what the jungle primaries do to us. And the again, my message to the California Republican Party is we have to figure out a way to circumvent the system because it's not just that we're draining resources, but we're also draining unity. These contests come along and they split us. And people take things personally and they hold grudges. And yes, that's just politics. But again, when we're in a state like California, we have to do everything we can to unite the base. We have to do everything we can to work against the typical ⁓ machinations of our jungle primaries. And part and part of that is eliminating as many avenues as possible for California Republicans. To hate on each other. I mean, again, it's just par for the course. It's gonna happen because politics are politics. But we have to eliminate all of the ⁓ as much opportunity as we can for for the California Republican Party to split. And we're how and we're we're supposed to be having these argument I said this during the GLP convention. Don't get upset about the people yelling at each other and hollering at each other. That's where that stuff's supposed to happen. But we should have things resolved at the convention before we go into the we should have things resolved there. So the party needs to do a better job. We need to change the bylaws. We need to change I mean, we need to do something. Again, I don't know what that something could be, but I do not accept the premise I do not accept the idea that there can be nothing. Because leaders who lead know how to change things. I don't know what happened in Bakersfield. ⁓ the bomb? The bomb threat? Or the bank ⁓ are you talking about the bank robbery? Somebody went into Bakersfield with a bunch of bombs strapped to them into a bank and hijacked a bank. I think that guy's dead now. That's what I think. Is what you're talking about? Or or did something electoral wise happen in Bakersfield that I didn't hear about? Because I admit, you know, my head was in the gubernatorial race all day yesterday. That's all I did. And it's it's today. Like I've gotta get off this podcast so I can do some other media hits and then work up my own ⁓ breakdown for the people. So ⁓ yeah, I think that's what happened at Bakersfield yesterday. But Flav, good to see you and thanks for hunting me down. ⁓ and my family's doing okay. We're doing all right. ⁓ We've got a lot more to come in. You can go to the California Secretary of State if you're curious ⁓ about election results as they move in. You can go right to the website. They've got a live election results update ticker on there, and you can click on any race in the state and see what's going on. So I suggest looking at that if you're curious about what's going on. ⁓ stay tuned to justcuredavis.com or the orange report for periodic updates. We'll keep you updated. Look, I'm very pleased with how yesterday went. No matter what shakes out from here, yesterday was a message. It was a moment. That was Californians saying, We're not really happy with the status quo. Is that Californians going, we want to be Republicans? We want to be a red state. No. No. Absolutely. I don't think so. I've said this before. This is not the ascension of the Republican Party. This is the ascension of the common man. Not the commoner man, the common man, the man that has things in common with his fellow man. This is the ascension of the common man. And what we saw yesterday was a fruition of that. We are not there yet. We are not there yet, but we are on our way. And we are on our way because Democrats have pushed so far and they have become so blinded to their own constituents that they they They are arrogant and they think that no one is ever going to catch them and no one's ever going to catch up to them. And we live in a country that is founded on the very premise of catching up to the top dog and overtaking them with passion. So can California turn red? Yeah. I don't accept the premise that it can't. I don't accept that. If you're saying that, then what you're saying is the way things are now or the way they always have been and always will be. And that's not true. They haven't always been this way. They did change. They changed to this. Why can't they change back? You know what mean? But again, that's the speak of leaders. Leaders talk about change, leaders talk about how to get there. And we need more leaders. We need leaders in the Republican Party in California to stand up and take risks. We need you to take risks. We need you to be decisive because that is what people respect and follow. And it's risky to It's risky to make a choice. It's risky to come down on, you know, I've got ⁓ you know, I have a number of friends out there ⁓ in regular in normie America who don't like my opinions and who get upset with me when I have certain opinions. But the opinion game is taking risks, right? That's what it is. You take the risk. You don't listen to people who give you the mealy mouth middle of the road. Hey, it's just like I just I respect everybody. You don't listen to those people. That's why so many of you love Candace Owens, right? Because she at least she has a point of view. Or that's why people like Candace Owens make millions of dollars, but people like Eli Steele make pennies. Do you know who Eli Steele is? No, because he's a reasonable guy. That's Shelby Steele's son, by the way. But you yeah, because he's a reasonable guy. And so he's not hot head hot and heavy. And so you don't listen to him. That's what causes people to pay attention. That's what galvanizes people, decisiveness. Risk taking. You take a risk by planting yourself in an opinion. Yeah, sometimes you're wrong. That's embarrassing. Been there. When I'm wrong, I I do a lot what I d like a lot of times I do what Chad did. Just disappear. But yeah, you you have to take risks in the same way in politics. You have to take the risk of being decisive. And yes, that means that you will alienate some people. But more than anything, it means you will galvanize people because people will will rally behind someone who has a distinct point of view and isn't afraid to stand for it. And you'll lose the people you don't need and you'll gain the people you need. I saw that with President Trump with my own eyes. I've seen that in my own life. And I think that this is the moment that we're in. So we need people to be risk takers. All right, follow me everywhere. I gotta go. I gotta go to the next gig. All right. I'm Kira Davis. This is the Orange Report. Don't forget that sunlight is the best disinfectant. So bring on the sunshine.