California Elections: What's Actually Happening

[00:00:01] President Trump says it was stolen. Steve Hilton says he sees nothing wrong, yet ballots are still being counted seven days later after the primary election here in California. Is it cheating, fraud, or is it just a broken system here in California? We're going to discuss that more on this episode of the California Underground starting right now.

[00:00:37] What's going on, everybody? Thanks for tuning into another episode of the California Underground. I am your host, Phil. We have a lot to get to tonight regarding breaking all of this stuff down because there's been a lot of claims of what is happening with the election. So without further ado, I want to bring in my trusty cohost, the best, the fastest researcher in the West, Camille. How are you doing tonight? I'm good. Thanks. How are you? I'm good. We have a lot to get to. This is one of the longest outlines we've had to go over tons of information.

[00:01:06] This is an interesting episode. And I will preface it with this. I'm going to put out a disclaimer now for anybody who is watching this episode or tuning into this episode. Disclaimer now, if you are a person who just believes that it's rigged, that it's all cheating, that it's there's no point in voting in California, that it's just completely rigged in against everybody or whoever that everybody is, or in favor of the Democrats.

[00:01:33] Democrats, this episode is probably not for you because we're going to be looking at all the evidence. We're going to be looking at claims that we're going to be fact checking some stuff. Some of the claims and conspiracy theories that have been flying around since last week. So if you're someone like that, no offense taken. If you want to dip out of this episode, you don't want to listen to this episode. That's fine. If you want to listen and hear what we have to say, because we've been researching and looking into it when we've compiled a lot of information about what's going on.

[00:02:03] Why California elections suck. What are the claims? Is there actually evidence of fraud from last week and updates as of like an hour or so ago about where the race stands right now? That's what we're going to be getting into tonight. And also another disclaimer right off the top of the bat, because I know people are going to say it. We have a lot of disclaimers. When we texted about this, I was like, this could be a very fraught episode.

[00:02:28] But the point of our show has always been to bring you the facts, to let you decide for yourself. You can disagree with us. That's the point. We look at stuff through a factual based evidence based lens because. That's who we are. That's you know, that's why we do this show is we provide you the facts and the evidence you can decide for yourself. You can disagree with us. You can agree with us. You can partially agree with us.

[00:02:52] The other disclaimer is that Camille and I are absolutely 100 percent in agreeance that California elections suck. They're not great. We're not defending them by any means. I think universal mail and ballot is horrible. I think same day registration. All of this stuff is crazy and it brings on a lot of claims and ideas of fraud.

[00:03:16] And we're going to get into that. So in no way are we defending California elections or saying, oh, don't worry, there's nothing wrong with California elections. There's a lot that could be fixed about California elections. We're also going to get into how all of this could be fixed in the near future. Like this year, there's going to be stuff that could fix a lot of what's wrong with California elections. So you're going to have to stay tuned for that as well. Did I get that right, Camille? You think California elections are horrible as well?

[00:03:46] Yes. Yes, that's correct. Okay. Okay. So as long as we're all clear, we all think California elections suck and this is not great. So let's look at what is going on right now. As of today, like this morning, the decision desk, decision desk HQ called the race for a savior of a Sarah and Steve Hilton. They are moving on to the general. They held on. Yeah. Savior of a Sarah jumped into the lead from last week.

[00:04:15] Steve Hilton is still there at like 25%. And as of like an hour or so ago, it's really, really official because Tom Steyer conceded and threw his support behind Xavier Becerra. I didn't even see that. Yeah, that was that came out. Ashley Zavala tweeted that out like an hour or so ago that Tom Steyer officially conceded. So it's over. It's over in the gubernatorial race. Steve Hilton and Xavier Becerra are going to be going into the race for November.

[00:04:43] Let's check out some other races as well. What was where did I have Nithyar? This is the one that everybody we're going to talk about what happened here with Bass, Raman and Pratt. You know, Pratt was in a comfortable 10 point lead. We can get into that as well. We're going to talk about the claims of fraud in that. A lot of the congressional districts. So like 48. Like still holding strong. That hasn't really changed.

[00:05:13] Kevin Kiley still holding strong. Young Kim has advanced the general election. So she's going to lose to Ken Calvert. But, you know, they were hopeful. Like that was one of the redrawn districts that they were obviously hoping to get a Republican out. But it's Republican Calvert versus Republican Kim. And so still Republican. Mm hmm. Yeah. So a lot of the races that we talked about last week, I think the only one that radically changed was the L.A. mayoral race.

[00:05:44] Everything else has stayed the same. You know, basically last week we talked about the gubernatorial race and Steve Hilton. And we basically said last week it's going to be Hilton versus Becerra. All the congressional races are still holding. A lot of the tax proposals are still losing, which is great to see. There was a Bay Area one for Muni. That lost. There was another one for the Bay Area with a billionaire's tax. That lost.

[00:06:11] There's a measure down here in San Diego for a renewed tax on second homes. That is losing. They haven't called it yet. It's down by like 20 points. I don't know why they haven't called that one yet. So all the stuff that happened last week is still holding. The only thing that really radically changed, I think, that the entire country is focused on, including President Trump, is this L.A. mayoral race. So let's get into the nitty gritty here.

[00:06:39] OK, so this is from Cal Matters. Let me pull this up because I think it's important to kind of break down what we're looking at. Again, the system sucks. And I'm not afraid to say it sucks because it's bad. Like, it's not great the way California runs its elections. This is from Cal Matters. It says, California voting ends Tuesday. The results don't expect them anytime soon.

[00:07:04] It says the delay is due in part to a ways California has endeavored to make it easier to vote since the COVID-19 pandemic. Every registered voter gets a mail-in ballot and ballots are valid as long as they're postmarked by Election Day and arrive at county election offices within seven days of the election. California is one of the eight states that allow all elections to be conducted by mail with varying grace periods for ballots that are postmarked by Election Day. Those grace periods are at risk for the U.S. Supreme Court rule waiting.

[00:07:33] And we're going to get into that later in the episode that would require ballots to arrive by Election Day for mail-in ballots that arrive before Tuesday. Election officials can begin certifying signatures and preparing the ballots for counting. And those that come in later, election clerks must do this work delaying results. So that's probably the biggest problem with California elections.

[00:07:56] Universal mail-in ballots that was ushered in around COVID because they didn't want people to go to the polling stations. They thought it was safer for everyone to stay home and mail their ballots. That was part of that push. Every registered voter gets one. And now it's as long as it's postmarked by Election Day, it gets counted. Why is it taking so long for ballots to actually get to the county registrar? Talk to the post office why it takes so long.

[00:08:26] But as long as it's postmarked by Election Day, it gets counted. So as ballots come in slowly but surely through the U.S. Postal Service, California still counts them. What are your thoughts on mail-in ballots, Camille? I've never voted by mail, but I'm not going to lie. Prior to this, I did do the absentee ballot because I appreciated the ballot showing up and being able to fill it out and then go drop it off.

[00:08:57] But I also see how that's part of the broken system. And I've taken advantage of it, and I'm certainly part of that. I like that I can take my time at home and fill out as I do my research. And then now where I live, I have constant trouble. My local post office is like the worst, and it has like a one-star rating on Yelp. And it should be negative if that were allowed.

[00:09:25] So I don't even trust, like I don't get a lot of my mail half the time. Like I'll subscribe to magazines, and I don't even get my mail. Trying to do outgoing mail is always an issue. And so I don't even trust in that as it is. So I have done the drop-offs, and I've not had an issue with the drop-offs. My ballot has always been counted. You know, I get the text and email updates that it was received, and I can easily check that once, like, it's in the system. I can see if it's been counted, and that hasn't been a problem.

[00:09:55] But at the same time, there was something, too, in-person voting that was so fun and community-like. Like, I mean, I used to do that. And it was, you know, when you show up and you see a bunch of your neighbors and friends, and you guys are all just chatting, and you're in line, and just, you know, predicting. And there used to be friendly discord. It was, I feel like elections have become so much more divisive.

[00:10:22] But back in the day, because I'm old, but back in the day, it was so fun. You could chat with your, oh, I didn't vote for that person. How come you did? Oh, okay. I, you know, cool, cool. We'll see what happens. And it was, it used to be, like, friendly and community-like. And obviously, I don't know, now maybe it is better that we're not doing it all in person together, because there used to be such, or now there is such division.

[00:10:47] But I see why mail-in and drop-offs and this delayed counting are, obviously, they're just contributing to the problem. And not only just the problem of taking forever, but the problem of not trusting the elections. It's just one more thing for people to speculate about and not trust. And so. Yeah.

[00:11:10] Just for some context, we talked about when it was made permanent, every active register voter, 23.1 million gets a ballot mailed to them. That means they have to go through each mail-in ballot, must be individually matched to the signature on file. So that takes time.

[00:11:32] Also, in 2024, about 13 million of the 16 million votes cast in 2024 were mail-in ballots. Oh, gosh. I wonder if it was going to be this year. Oh, yeah. It's probably going to be a higher percentage at this point. I agree with you. I keep saying I'm old-fashioned this way.

[00:11:53] I keep saying that I am old-fashioned in the sense that I think if you can't get off your butt to go vote, I think I posted about this on Instagram the other day. I think if you can't get, I think if you can't be bothered to get up and go vote somewhere, like care about like where your polling location is, where you have to go register, all that stuff.

[00:12:23] I don't know if I trust what you're voting for because if you can't be bothered to do the simplest act of actually getting up and doing what you're supposed to do to vote, are you actually researching what you're supposed to be voting for? So that, I guess to me, that is old-fashioned. It sounds kind of, I don't know. Yeah, it sounds old-fashioned, but I think that's just the way it should be. If it's that important to you, you'll figure it out. You'll figure it out and go vote. You'll go get up and vote.

[00:12:55] The mail-in ballots, like, it just seems like it's so easy. And then with the ballot harvesting, that's a whole other issue as well, which has been legalized a couple years ago. That was legalized actually back in 2018 prior to the universal mail-in ballot. That was back in 2018. So you were allowed to go and get ballots that were out there. So if you were a campaign activist or somebody, you could go knock on doors and say, hey, have you voted yet? Oh, you haven't voted?

[00:13:23] Okay, well, if you want, you can fill it out and I'll take it to the voting location for you. So I'll just collect your vote. And then they just happen to also help them fill it out. So there's issues with that as well. I just think it seems like they've taken a lot of the responsibility out of voting in California to the point where you don't really have to try. You don't really have to research. You don't have to get off your couch. Eric Swalwell, I was thinking about this today.

[00:13:50] Before he dropped out of the race, one of his ideas was he wanted to follow in Gavin Newsom's footsteps to modernize elections by allowing people to vote by text. That was something. You can go look that up. He said, I think we should be allowed to vote by text.

[00:14:11] And I'm sitting here going, well, that doesn't sound like that could be, you know, that won't be problematic of like, okay, how many people have phones and what they it's just that sounds like a whole other mess. I mean, we can't even the mail in ballots are a problem. Now you want people to vote by text. That seems even lazier. Like you don't even have to sit upright to vote anymore. That's what they want. They want you laying on your couch. Text will come in. You pick who you vote for and you move on. Sounds kind of nice. No, I'm just kidding. No, that is ridiculous. I totally forgot about that.

[00:14:41] And that is, it is absolutely ridiculous. I just want to give a quick shout out to people in the chat who are here. Thank you everyone who hangs out with us in the chat. Somebody said hello. Drumroll420 said hello from Palm Desert. What's up, Palm Desert? Hello, drumroll. Good to see everybody in the chat. Make sure you let us know your thoughts and comments. We keep an eye on the chat. I'll show. That's why we do this live so that you guys can be a part of the conversation, not just observe us. All right.

[00:15:10] I just want to say something quick too that where I live, it's a smaller city, if you will, but we're not rural by any means. And so I understand that different, you know, there's different areas and everything's different. But I know for me, when in-person polling was the thing, in-person voting, there were so many places around that I could go vote. And my local voting center is, was literally in walking distance of me.

[00:15:39] And then there was a few others that were just a very quick drive away. So I, for areas like that, again, I'm not even, we're a smaller city, but for areas like that, it's just like, there's, there's really no excuse unless you're deployed military or you're actually disabled. And I totally understand those, you know, absolutely reasons to absentee vote, mail in, whatever. I get that for sure.

[00:16:10] I just want to say hello. Hello, Sacramento. Candace checking in from Sacramento. Palmdale. What's up, Palmdale? San Bernardino. What's up? TBWY studios. Greetings from San Bernardino. Everyone checking in from all over the state. Love it. Love that we get a good cross section. Speaking of San Bernardino, we have a candidate coming up soon, soon for San Bernardino. So just keep an eye out for that. So if you're in San Bernardino. Okay.

[00:16:41] Got to keep rolling here because we have a ton of stuff. Yeah, sorry. What's up, Merced County? AB5. This was, I want to preface that this may be shocking, but I think Sacramento is aware of the fact that people don't trust elections here in California. So they passed last year AB5, which would require election officials honored before the 13th day following election to finish counting all ballots with certain exceptions, including

[00:17:08] provisional ballots and ballots for which the voter must verify or provide a signature and release a vote count for those ballots. If an election official will not meet that deadline, they would be required to file a notice of extension, including the reason for the extension with the secretary of state by increasing the duties of the county election officials would impose a state mandated local program. So they tried to pass this law that said, hey guys, you got to speed it up. You got to move this along here.

[00:17:35] You can't be sitting on these ballots for 30 days because people are starting to get a little antsy about why it takes so long to get all of these votes in. And not to miss an opportunity to try and make his own state look better before his presidential run. Gavin Newsom, before this election, he sent out a letter that says, Newsom urges county clerks to count ballots quickly to prevent election lies.

[00:18:02] Governor Newsom wants 58 counties to count election ballots accurately, but faster to prevent election lies from taking hold. So basically he's even calling out county clerks and saying, guys, you got to speed it up because this looks really bad. The fact that it takes about 30 days. Here's the whole letter. I'm not going to read the whole letter because that's going to take a long time. Of course, he says at the bottom, we're being tested like never before. We face an assault on our democratic values, unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes. And so our job to safeguard those values.

[00:18:33] Okay. Right. Even though everyone's questioning whether or not they have a democratic voice in California. So we got some more people checking in. What's up, Ventura County, LA County. So question that has nothing to do with politics for the chat. Today was really hot where I live. I'm just curious about your weather. Has nothing to do with politics. Um, so that, I think that kind of phrase that, that people in Sacramento are also worried

[00:19:02] that this looks really bad and it does look really bad. Again, we're not fans of the California elections. That's why, but we're doing this show because I think it's important that people also get informed about what is really happening because we have always been advocates of like, one, it's important to know the facts of what's going on so you can make your own decisions.

[00:19:26] And two, because I said this last week, I got tired of people who were national influencers or political influencers who are crapping on California and saying all this stuff about how it's rigging the elections. And I told them very plainly, I said, shut up, shut up. We don't need your input, Benny Johnson. We don't need your input on why you think everything's rigged. Um, Eric Doherty or all these different national influencers who don't live in California, don't

[00:19:55] understand what's going on here. Also shut up because you're just as bad as the leftist because you're talking down and demoralizing all the people who are voting and trying to get rid of leftists and status in the state. Because if there's anything that's even more powerful than any sort of fraud, which we're going to get to whether there is or isn't. And what's more powerful is having people with big platforms and voices go out there and say, well, it's all rigged. They all cheat. There's no way of getting it. That's it. California is done. It's lost.

[00:20:25] Forget it. Let it fall into the ocean. Talk about demoralizing a population so they can't actually go out and vote and change something. That that's what gets me infuriated is like, you know what, Benny Johnson, why don't you just go campaign for Nithya Raman? Because you're doing basically the same thing. You're promoting Democrats because if you tell everybody who's not a Democrat or right of center that it's rigged and there's no point in voting, guess what? People aren't going to show up and vote and you can't change anything. So good job.

[00:20:53] And I'm picking on Benny Johnson because he's a clickbait, ragebait artist and he drives me nuts. Yeah, I think he needs to be picked on. I think he does need to be picked on because he's nothing more than a clickbait artist. And I hate when he shows up in my feed. Like I should just block him because I just, um, there's, you guys probably all know this, but there's just been a lot of, um, misinformation out there too. Like there's an account, Buzz Patterson, who I used to follow until this happened. And I'm not, I'm not the type that's just going to unfollow someone if they put out

[00:21:22] something I don't like, you know, they post one thing and I didn't like it. And I'm like, oh, canceled, not giving you my time. But I want to follow people who I can learn from. Um, and when they're just sharing stuff that makes no sense or is absolutely wrong. I'm like, man, that's not what I don't need to see that. Like that's so Buzz Patterson had, oh, thanks to everyone who voted for Chad Bianco. Um, I'm paraphrasing, but now we're going to have a runoff and okay.

[00:21:49] California was always going to have a runoff regardless of whatever. And I'm going to stand by the statement that it was our primary and getting out and voting in our primaries, which, you know, typically have a lower voter turnout, but getting out and voting in the primary is how we can get the best to the general. And, um, I would not say that Becerra is the best, but that's, you know, we have Becerra, we have Hilton in the general now.

[00:22:17] And, um, that's who obviously we are a primarily Democrat state and they, they voted for Becerra and the Republicans and a few others, probably independents and whatnot, voted for Hilton. Okay, fine. So that's who we have in the general. And, um, I'm not going to argue and complain about that because the people voted. This is fair. People voted, but to, uh, put down Chad Bianco voters and put down Chad Bianco and say,

[00:22:47] that he ruined anything. He didn't ruin anything. And clearly he didn't mess with Steve Hilton. And, um, even those who voted for Tom Steyer, I don't know why, but you did and cool. You had that choice or anyone else that was, you know, on the ballot. And again, this is why we have the primaries because people get to decide who they want to send to the general. And we're always going to have the runoff because that's the way that California works.

[00:23:12] And so, um, it wasn't about if Steve Hilton got a certain amount of votes, if he exceeded a certain percentage, whatever, that he was going to be, you know, the guaranteed winner. That's, I think people confuse that with the mayoral race because cities have a right to, um, determine how they elect mayors. My city doesn't even, we don't vote for a mayor. We vote for city council and then city council decides who the mayor is.

[00:23:36] LA, if you get 50% plus one vote in the primary, then that's who wins. That didn't happen. So it does go to a runoff. Fine. Um, but that's not how our statewide elections operate. It's the top two, regardless of party, the top two with the most votes. So I just, it's just seeing this misinformation out there and blaming people who voted for whomever is that's also really like really disheartening. Your vote does matter.

[00:24:05] And if you voted for Chad Bianco or anyone else who didn't win, you know, good for you for going out and voting and making the, your decision based on what you know. And that's the best that we can do. I think is, you know, this is the information that I have, and this is the person that I feel most comfortable voting for. And now we're going to face the general and, you know, obviously at this, you have to choose who you think is the better of the two. It's not about who you wanted to, to win.

[00:24:33] So I hope you guys still show up and vote in the general, regardless if you don't like either candidate. Sorry, that was my little segue, my little side. That was your soapbox. I had my soapbox. Now we, you had your soapbox. Um, somebody brought up in the chat. Really? You don't think it's off. Okay. Again, this is, this is not black and white in the sense of like, it's either absolutely legitimate or it's absolute fraud. And that's what we're trying to get here is.

[00:25:04] Yes. The implication of it taking forever to count votes and why it takes forever and all the things that they do seem off. And all these ballot dumps that happen because of these mail-in ballots, it all seems off. And that's the perception that people get around the country, including people like president Trump. Um, but again, you still have to go with what they found. As far as I know, Bill O'Saley did send in an investigator.

[00:25:33] I think as of today to look into and observe what's going on in the Los Angeles polling system. So you have people like Bill O'Saley, who is the acting U S attorney or whatever title he has now, cause he's not the acting U S attorney anymore. Head of head U S attorney, senior U S attorney or whatever. Um, people are looking into this. Yeah, it'll keep changing. Um, there's a clip of Chad Bianco. Uh, this was from last week.

[00:26:00] So let me pull this up and this is what he had to say about what's going on. If it comes up, give it a second. So far, so far the leader in the primary vote count for governor of California, Steve, congratulations for that showing last night. Um, what do you think about my proposal? Well, you're completely right. And first of all, Laura, thank you, um, for your engagement in this fight to save California. Really, really appreciate that.

[00:26:29] Um, it's insane. Uh, this, this election system that they've created here is just another monument to their uselessness. Another version of high speed rail. Um, and just to, to really underline the point that you made about the corruption. I remember last time around last elections we had here. Um, I was, I had a whistleblower that contacted me from a post office describing that there they had different buckets they were supposed to put the ballots in after they come in after

[00:26:59] election day. And they were explicitly told that it didn't just, uh, didn't just have to be a postmark that was on or before election day that qualified. If the date was handwritten, that would be okay as well. And you just think, what? It's just unbelievable. And of course that, that's why so many people don't believe the results, but it just undermines confidence. So I completely agree with you.

[00:27:23] There is a case, um, out of Mississippi that I think might help with this that, uh, before the Supreme Court. Um, but the whole thing is insane. I mean, the fact that you're sending out mail ballots to every single person on a voting roll that is wildly inaccurate. Um, even though it's being cleaned up because, uh, the Trump justice department thankfully is, is, is, is bringing lawsuits against California to clean up the voter rolls. There's still a long way to go there.

[00:27:50] The whole thing is a joke, just like pretty much everything else they try and do here. Yeah. Steve, I just think call hauling them up before Congress and forcing them to answer real questions about the chain of custody of these ballots, how they're processed, how they're counted. All of this will be illuminating. Okay. It's like a tin pot dictatorship out there. All right. Spain has about what? 10 million people more than California has in population. Somehow Steve, they managed to get their last general election ballots counted by 2 AM the next day.

[00:28:20] That's in Spain. I know what in the heck is wrong with California? It's just incredible. I mean, look, even during the day today, like we've had a sort of, you know, put some ballots out by the end of last night. It was something, I don't know, around 50% counted with nearly a whole day later. It's about 55%. Like, what have they been doing? What is going on? It is an absolute humiliation, an abject failure. Just, you know, around our country, Florida, exactly as you pointed out, they have early voting too.

[00:28:49] They managed to get it done. There's no excuse for it. Except this is the kind of thing I think you get with 16 years of one-party rule, this corrupt Democrat machine in power for so long, they just lose touch with reality. They don't realize how ridiculous this all seems to normal people. And there's no pressure on them. There's no sense of accountability to change. But that's actually why I think we're going to get a good result this year, not just in this primary, but in the general election, because we're done with all this. I think it's gone to a point where people are really sick of it.

[00:29:19] Yeah, I think people have become so cynical. I mean, even if it's not true, you can kind of not blame people for being cynical about it, thinking they're not counting votes, they're finding votes. You can understand that, given this process, because it leaves too much room for funny business. Now, Steve, you outperformed among Hispanics last night. I was very heartened in the New York Times rundown of how well you did among mostly Hispanic

[00:29:48] districts. They also showed that you overperformed in areas with smaller cities in various suburbs. You'll need to replicate that and then some in the general. Okay, that's basically the point. Quick question. Right before that clip, you said Chad Bianco and then it was Steve Hilton. So I'm assuming you just missed. Okay. I just wanted to make sure you played the correct clip.

[00:30:16] He and we're basically all saying the same thing, which is, yes, the system sucks and it is ripe with people. There's I completely understand and I understand and get why people are frustrated with this. And it looks very fraudulent and cheating. And Steve Hilton stopped. He didn't say anything about that. There was fraud. I think he said that they had people on the ground. They were watching all of this stuff.

[00:30:43] And I'm sure there'll be more people on the ground come the general election, people watching this stuff. You don't understand that they have poll watchers. Usually they have organizations. I was part of it back in 2020. They have. Usually they send out armies of attorneys to watch the polls to make sure there's nothing funny going on. So if something funny goes on, you can basically call a war room of attorneys and they will have ex parte injunctions ready to go to like to file this.

[00:31:11] They should have done a little bit better in Arizona in 2020. But that's a whole different story. To their point, Florida. The reason Florida counts so much faster is because they allow for pre-canvassing of all of these early votings and any sort of mail-in ballots is now Florida doesn't have universal mail-in ballots. I'm fine with early voting if it's in person. If you want to let people give them more opportunity like, oh, we're open.

[00:31:37] The polling centers are open these weekends leading up to the election day. I think that's fine. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You want to go in person and actually vote and vote early because maybe you're not around. Maybe you're not in the country. Maybe you have travel plans or something the day of the election. I'm fine with that. I don't think anyone, people in the chat can let me know whether they're fine with that. So I'm fine with that.

[00:32:04] It's just, again, it's this issue of the perception gives off a lot of distrust and not knowing what's going on. Now, I do want to talk about this issue in Los Angeles because this, I think, needs to be clean. I had to look into this because when I first heard it, I said that's statistically impossible. Okay. That's mathematically impossible that they had a voter ID or a voter drop.

[00:32:33] People keep dropping voter ID. We're going to get to voter ID. So people in the chat, make sure you stay tuned. We're going to get to voter ID towards the end of this episode. We're going to leave you with some good news because we always like to give people hope and leave them with some good news. So this was from PolitiFact. And they actually quote, this is from Bill Asaley. There was a claim circling on social media about election night ballot update at the Los

[00:33:00] Angeles registrar where one candidate received zero votes. We reviewed official county records. The claim is false. Each can't receive votes in every update. So what happened just to kind of explain what happened is that there was this 24 ballot claim that popped up on the news sites and it showed all the votes, but Spencer Pratt didn't get any votes. And it didn't include all of the results.

[00:33:29] Basically, they partially dumped these 24 ballots, 24,000 ballots, and it looked like Spencer Pratt didn't get any votes. Then a minute later, they finished updating that whole ballot drop. And then it showed, yes, Spencer Pratt did in fact actually get votes during that. So I don't know where it shows the actual number, but that's what happened there. So that was, let's see. It doesn't include. Okay.

[00:33:58] So they don't really tell you what the vote counts were. I feel like people are just going to whine about stuff just to whine about stuff. And I'm sorry to say that, but even going back to the GOP convention just in April when the electors, the electorates, what are they called? The delegates. The delegates. The delegates. The delegates. Well, the delegates did not end up endorsing Hilton or Bianco or anybody else for that matter.

[00:34:26] But, you know, and there was a vote to endorse that neither candidate got the two thirds necessary for them to go ahead with that because the bylaws. And then people on the, they kind of freaked out about that. Like, oh, that's because Republicans don't do anything. The GOP is useless and on and on and on. And it was like, no, they have bylaws. They have a set of rules and order. The delegates showed up and voted and there wasn't a set two thirds.

[00:34:53] And so they're just going to let, you know, again, and not that the people couldn't decide anyway, but it was one of those things where it's like, okay, we didn't endorse, but the people will show up in the primary and, and decide no big deal. We're just not putting out our name on either candidate. Obviously they're both popular amongst the GOP and Chad Bianco wasn't the winner in that

[00:35:18] case, but, um, you know, it was like, people complained about that. Like, they, you know, oh, well they didn't endorse therefore their shenanigans going on. And, and, and then there was a whole, like, we saw a bunch of comments where people were like, well, we need to let the people decide. Well, that's what they did. That they let the people decide. The people didn't endorse. And now the broader people will decide. And Hilton was the decision.

[00:35:47] Which will be interesting if they were, they're able, because that is in the works that it's a bipartisan push to get rid of the jungle primary. So that will be interesting if California gets rid of the jungle primary and that won't be until like 28, 2030. But if California gets rid of the jungle primary, a lot of this stuff is going to like, it won't, the primaries won't look like this going forward.

[00:36:13] Basically it will be each party nominates somebody. And then you go vote for that party, your party person in the primary. So if there was no jungle primary in this election, just use this as an example, we wouldn't be worried about whether or not there was, you know, whether there was any sort of shenanigans

[00:36:40] with Xavier Becerra or Steve Hilton or worried about whether Tom Steyer is going to catch Steve Hilton. It would basically be, okay, the Democrats nominated and the Democratic Party nominates this person and everyone goes and votes for that person. And then that Democrat is the person because they voted in the primary. It'd be who would, it would be Steve Hilton versus Chad Bianco head on head. And that would just be the big question. And, um, in LA it would be, I'm assuming it would have been, uh, I mean, he ran as an independent.

[00:37:10] I don't think there were any other independents running in Los Angeles. So Spencer Pratt could have went in as an independent, made it to the general election. And it would have been Nithya Raman versus Karen Bass. Cause they're both Democrats fighting for one spot. Technically it's supposed to be nonpartisan. Yes. Sorry. Um, okay. Just, yeah. But my point stands to get technical. Uh, yeah. So like you wouldn't see all of this back and forth with the gubernatorial election about all of that.

[00:37:39] Uh, the votes were 21,000. Okay. So this makes this claim even more crazy is that the claim that he didn't receive any votes a minute later, all the updates showed that 21,870 votes went for Pratt. 12,850 went for Bass and 9,521 went for Raman. So it was actually the complete opposite that he actually got the most votes out of that update, not zero. It's just the lag. All right.

[00:38:08] Before we head into why this can be fixed this year, I want to concede people in the comments, excuse me for a second. A lot of people are very, I see a lot of people in the comments saying, how can you not admit it? Somebody actually said, aren't you two, you guys seem like intelligent people. Aren't you embarrassed that you're not admitting that there's cheating? We're not saying that there is no cheating.

[00:38:34] I'm still questioning the, um, the paid for signatures that we saw going on. Like, what was that all about? And what do they do about that? There should be an investigation into that. Why is that allowed? Is that because our election system is way too broad and way too accessible where they can just go sign up anybody? I'm not saying there's no fraud, right? There's actually been evidence of fraud in California. Uh, this is from the heritage foundation. They have eight document cases of voter fraud in California in the 2020 election.

[00:39:05] Uh, a Costa Mesa woman was charged with five felonies for illegally registering her dog to vote. The dog's vote was caught and not counted. So the dog was not able to vote. I wonder who the dog voted for. Probably a Democrat. Uh, California Senate research bureau presented a full review of voter fraud 2020, 24, uh, in August, 2025 findings consistent that fraud does occur. It's rare and document cases are prosecuted.

[00:39:32] There was the California DMV voter role. Was that motor voter, whatever they called it back then, 2018 did produce real problems. A hundred thousand registration errors in the first year. Uh, the state fixed the system, but the audit process remains opaque. That's something they need to fix. Okay. This is also the, why we say before you vote, like when an election is coming up, check on your voter registration, because yes, this has absolutely happened where people are registered as one party.

[00:39:57] And then all of a sudden their registration is, um, not what they registered as. And they're like, I never changed that. And so we always encourage people check your voter registration, make sure that you're current, make sure all your, you know, your address is current and that everything on there is how it's supposed to be because technology does fail us. Um, or, or people. I, I still get, you want to talk about shenanigans.

[00:40:24] I still get updates from New Jersey. Back when I was a Democrat, like I still get, uh, texts. I still get emails. I still, I'm still shown as registered in the state of New Jersey as a Democrat. Um, want to talk about shenanigans. And like, I looked at the process to take myself off the voter roll in New Jersey. It's like, you have to sign and notarize a letter and sign it in blood.

[00:40:53] It's so hard to do to get your name off the voter roll in New Jersey. It's unbelievable. So it's just sitting there and I keep getting messages and stuff. Cause I'm on the voter rolls. Yes. People who know this show watch, I went back and forth. I was a Democrat a long time ago, much, much like a lot of people were when they were younger. Um, sorry. Camille's one of the consistent ones. Um, you know, snaps to Camille.

[00:41:20] I was a young kid who thought the Democrats are going to save the world and they didn't. So I have firsthand knowledge of how much they, they mislead you. Uh, and not saying both parties are not guilty of misleading you because they are, they both mislead you. So that's basically what's wrong with California. Um, Bill Isaley, who I trust, been on the show, met him in person, standup guy.

[00:41:47] It's got the power of the U S attorney and the federal government on his side. They have multiple investigations underway. So Bill Isaley is on it in Los Angeles County. If there's something that comes up, believe me, Bill Isaley is not going to hold back. If there is any issue of fraud or anything he finds, I mean, he's the one guy. No nonsense man. Yeah. I really respect him. I mean, he's the one guy who's cracking down on Rico and gangs and human trafficking.

[00:42:17] He's like the one person in California or in Los Angeles that's actually doing what should be done, uh, in Los Angeles County. So he's up there, he's doing that. Um, but I, we did want to go over sort of the facts of what's happening right now. And yeah, to sum it up, do the ballot dumps look shady? Yeah. Because you have tons and tons of mail on ballots, 13, you know, how many millions of 10

[00:42:41] millions over probably 10 million votes that came in, um, that are going to need to be counted. And if 90% of them are mail-in ballots, then what's going to happen? People will have to actually sit down and count all of them. Um, all right. I did want to get to how we change this because again, okay, wait, can I say something? Yeah, go ahead. Real quick before we move on to how we can change this.

[00:43:09] I also just want to add that, um, if the cheating was so large, um, prop 50 would not be failing because thus far, you know, we unfortunately voted yes for prop 50. Things were redistricted. The point was to get the likes of Kevin Kiley, James Gallagher. We talked about young kid, you know, they wanted to get all that out, but, um, they're not

[00:43:38] those districts. They were hoping to remove five Republicans from, it doesn't look like at least four of them. I could be wrong, but the majority of them, it looks like are going to remain Republican despite the efforts of prop 50. So, yeah. That was something we were talking about too, is if, if the, if the game was rigged, maybe it's because conservative, I mean, I guess because people who think that it is rigged can say, well, they're not going to rig every race.

[00:44:08] It'd be too obvious. Why would they want Steve Hilton to win? Why would they let Steve Hilton win? Why would they let a Republican be at the top of the ballot? Because having a Republican governor at the top of the ballot doesn't help down ballots, especially in these congressional races, because you're going to get more Republicans are going to show up. They're all going to go out and vote for the Republican candidate. If you really want to rig it, you'd make sure that a Republican didn't make it to the general because that would demoralize any Republicans to want to go out and vote.

[00:44:37] They're going to say, sit home and go, well, I'm not going to go vote for any of these Democrats. So what do I care? But if you have a Republican at the top of the ballot, it helps down ballot with state races, local races, congressional races. And to your point, a lot of these Prop 50 districts, which we covered last week, are not going the way Democrats planned it. Like they are actually losing a good amount of them. I think they're thinking about picking out five.

[00:45:06] And right now, three of them are not going to Democrats. So it's not going the way that they expected here in California. And they perform very well in all those congressional districts. So again, if it was completely rigged and it didn't matter, then why would they allow congressional candidates who they desperately want to get out, get rid of? Or why would they allow Steve Hilton on the ballot? Right. Well, especially with Prop 50, it would have been so easy to erase those five Republican

[00:45:34] districts just because it was voted on by the people. And so, you know, they could easily say when when these five districts then didn't get any Republicans, they could very easily say, well, the people voted and this is what they wanted. You know, we voted on Prop 50. They voted yes. And then they got out and voted for the Democrats in those districts. And, you know, it would just shrug its shoulders. And that's just how it is. And so I think that this is really evidence of, again, it doesn't mean that there's no fraud,

[00:46:03] but the fraud, it's just not as big as social media or any hype network is making it out to be. And we don't want any of you to be discouraged about voting because if you do become discouraged about voting and stop voting, then they don't even have to cheat. We aren't showing up or not doing anything. And they're just like, cool, cool.

[00:46:31] Make it all, you know, D districts. Drum roll for 20 commenting on how I'm still getting fundraising text from Mickey Sherrill, who's the governor of New Jersey right now. And I'm not lying. I actually did. So it happens. It's really hard to get your name off of voter rolls. It's not that easy. Change your number. That's why it's important that we kind of clean up our voter rolls. And I know that, who is it? What is it?

[00:47:00] What's the name of that Justice Watch or whatever? What's the name of that organization? Tom Fitton? Someone in the chat. I'm not sure. It's escaping right now. I have low blood sugar, so I keep eating. So I'm sorry. That's really annoying. But it's perfectly fine. All right. So let's get into the good stuff. So all the people who are still with us, thank you, everybody. There's a ton of people here in the chat. We love it. I'm trying to keep up with the chat and do this show. But I love it. I love seeing all the people in the chat. It's awesome.

[00:47:30] Especially people from all over California. Tons of people, northern, southern, all the places. We love it. Deserts, coastal. Again, if you haven't checked in, let us know where you're from. Please do. Let us know where you're from because we love to shout out wherever you're from. Um, it's, it's definitely deflating. I know that the Spencer Pratt and the LA race is very deflating. And I think there's two choices here right now. If you are a California voter.

[00:47:59] It's one, you can accept that elections are completely rigged and they don't matter. That's option A. That's path A you can go is that they're completely rigged and it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, our vote doesn't mean anything. Two is that you can get involved because there's stuff that is happening this year that could very well help it.

[00:48:23] First, I want to talk about there is voter ID on the ballot this year. Let me repeat that. Everyone says the state would be so much better if there was voter ID. And it is on the ballot as of this year. And what it would do here are the highlights of it. This is a ballot proposition that is coming to us. You will be allowed to vote on it this year.

[00:48:49] What it would do would require government issued photo ID to vote in person. So it would be free. So all those people who were like, oh, people can't get them. It costs money. They have to go to the DMV. That's not fair. Well, it would require California to send out government issued photo IDs to vote in person. You'd have to verify that you can vote. Require the last four digits of a government issued ID number for mail and ballots.

[00:49:13] The state would be required to provide free voter IDs on request, meaning the poor people can't get ID argument is directly addressed in the initiative itself. Require the secretary of state and county officials to maintain accurate voter rolls and verify citizenship attestations. That is a big thing as well. That is also in the voter ID is that it requires county officials.

[00:49:39] Basically, I think it's every other year to make sure that their voter rolls are accurate and that there is no one who is on the voter rolls who is not a citizen. So that's a big issue as well. So in places like L.A., if that's a big concern for you or any other county, it would go in and clean up a lot of these voter rolls. So one, you get voter ID and two, you're going to get voter rolls cleaned up.

[00:50:03] So just as a background, public opinion strategies did a poll in 52 percent of Democrats, 70 percent of independents and 93 percent of Republicans support requiring government issued ID to vote. That's 68 percent overall. So if you are a person who says I no longer vote or I'm not bothering to register to vote because it doesn't matter. Or if you have friends and family that say that this is your chance.

[00:50:33] November is coming five months away. November is coming. And you can say, hey, this is our shot at making elections more fair, more less rigged, more right, more secure. And we can, you know, show up and vote this time. And, you know, and if fine, if voter ID doesn't pass and you all you all showed up and voted on it to pass.

[00:51:02] OK, fine, then you can I'll let you complain that your vote doesn't matter anymore and all that. But but get get everyone that, you know, all the the doomsdayers, the naysayers, yourself, whatever, show up and vote, even if just for voter ID, even if you want to ignore everybody else on the ballot, vote for voter ID. Because moving forward, then we can better trust the election process here in California.

[00:51:31] I think also I'm just thinking of this. Putting your last four digits of your ID verification on a mail in ballot or including that. Seems like a deterrent to want to mail in your ballot. That to me seems like a deterrent. Again, it's the last four of your ballot. I like your ID verification. So you'd have to put that on there. It's not like your social security number.

[00:51:57] But if it's any personal information, I wouldn't put the last four digits of my driver's license mail in ballot and send it out through the mail. I wouldn't trust that. I mean, don't you have to fill that out? Maybe not. I'm forgetting because, again, I did the drop off ballot. And so I know I have to sign the envelope. But. Maybe my license number is not on it. No, I just did this, but I forget. But, yeah, that's a good point. I think the three things together.

[00:52:26] So for a lot of people who are very upset about what's going on with with votes is definitely this is the first way it could change. And again, this is something that we as Californians can go out and enact and vote for this year. And for people who say, well, they'll just, you know, because they don't want it to pass. They'll again, if I'm steel mailing the other side that says it's rigged, they'll say, well, they won't pass it. They'll stuff the ballots and they won't let it pass.

[00:52:55] I would argue that that doesn't happen as much with propositions as you think or measures, because look at Prop 36. How much firepower did they put behind trying to knock out Prop 36? Gavin Newsom was on a all out war path to get rid of Prop 36 and not let it happen. They even did those bills. What was it? What did they call it? The poison bills? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:53:20] It was basically the poison pill bills that they were trying that were going to sign these, but they only go into effect as long as Prop 36 doesn't pass so that they could argue, well, if you vote for Prop 36, you're going to get rid of all these laws, which is technically correct. But they drafted them just to scare people. But it's still past 7030.

[00:53:39] So if, again, if they wanted Prop 36 not to pass and it was rigged, they wouldn't allow it to pass 7030 in every county, all 58 counties in California would have voted for it. If you look at measures, I mean, Bay Area has voted down several tax measures. Bay Area. The Bay Area. Let me say that again. The Bay Area voted down several tax measures. One that would have supported Muni. They voted that down.

[00:54:09] So tax measures are getting voted down up and down the state. So if they were rigging the election stuff in the ballot box to help themselves, they wouldn't allow people to vote and vote down a lot of these tax measures. So, again, we keep going through examples of like, why would they let congressional districts that they tried to flip? Why would they let them go to Republicans? Why would they allow for tax measures that they desperately want to be voted down? Right.

[00:54:39] It's hard. Even if you stretch the argument out and say, yes, they cheat in every single election. That is a ton of elections to cheat in because you got to think about city elections. It's county elections. It's a lot of things to cheat in. And yeah. Yeah. So if your voter ID is on the ballot coming up. So a lot of people in the chat were going and talking about voter ID. Voter ID needs to be mandatory. Guess what? You can make it mandatory this year. You got to show up and vote.

[00:55:09] So got to tell everybody they got to vote for it. Any other comments before I get to the next point? Yeah, you can go. You can move on. Okay. The next point that they brought up, which we referenced earlier in the episode and Steve Hilton did in that clip, not Chad Bianco, Steve Hilton. There is a case called Watson v. RNC, which is currently in front of the Supreme Court, and it's expected any day now. The ruling is expected any day now.

[00:55:41] Basically, here's the notes from it. It says the case originated in Mississippi. It ruled that federal law requires ballots to be received by Election Day, not just postmarked. So if the Supreme Court agrees, California's seven-day receipt window is struck down. So that's a big thing.

[00:56:00] So you can't get these, oh, as long as it's received within these seven days later, then that is going to close the window of how many of these ballots can kind of trickle in over the next three weeks or month. And that's something that I think will also help is if the Supreme Court goes. So is there a new timeline or is it just like on or before Election Day? Let's see.

[00:56:29] It says the Supreme Court actually issuing opinions and the lateness is a single artist. Let's see. It just says if they agree, it would be struck down. Shirley Weber says it's a direct threat to vote by mail. Okay. Shame on that. And of course, she thinks that. It would fundamentally change how California counts ballots potentially before November's general election.

[00:56:56] So that's the argument is that they can't extend it out forever. It has to kind of there has to be a time when there's an election. Here's the deadline. You have to meet the deadline. We're not extending election out for three weeks at a time. I have no idea how the court could rule on this. This is not a case that I dove into and looked at the arguments and all of that. Sometimes I do.

[00:57:24] Sometimes I nerd out on Supreme Court cases and I love reading this stuff. This is not what I usually... This is not something that I nerded out on, so I'm not sure what the arguments are. It could go one way or the other. I think with the court the way it is, I think they probably would lean towards striking this down so that it's not a long time for you to receive all these mail-in ballots. It basically has to be within a certain amount of time.

[00:57:55] So that's the... So, yeah. Okay. Just to clarify, it has to be received by Election Day, not postmarked. So that changes a lot of things. Okay. Okay. I just saw that in my notes. It has to be received by Election Day, not just postmarked. You probably... I probably read that and just totally forgot. Sorry. No problem. No, I think it's important to let everyone know that's basically the argument is that... Okay. So this is from an article.

[00:58:21] The Republican National Committee sued Mississippi over a state law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted up to five business days after election, provided they were postmarked by Election Day. The RNC argued that federal law, which establishes a single election day for federal offices, requires ballots to be received, not just postmarked by that date. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed, and Mississippi appealed to the Supreme Court.

[00:58:45] So, if the Supreme Court rules in RNC's favor, California would likely need to change the laws so that ballots must be received, not just postmarked, by Election Day. The USPS postmark rule changed compounds that risk voters who rely on the mail wait until close to Election Day could face a double jeopardy, a ballot that isn't reliably postmarked on time and can no longer be counted if it arrives late. So, there you go.

[00:59:36] Those are huge. Those are two huge things. Yeah. They are absolutely huge, huge things. So, for all those who are concerned about the fact that it seems like it takes forever to count these ballots, Supreme Court could strike all that down and change everything in California. Voter ID? Voter ID is coming up on the ballot. If you want to do that, you've got to vote for it.

[01:00:02] You've got to support it if you're a fan of voter ID and cleaning up the voter rolls. I think that's something that people overlook in this voter ID initiative is that it is not just voter ID. It's that they force the Secretary of State and county officials to clean up their voter rolls very frequently. So, again, for all the people in the chat, if you weren't here at the beginning of the show, I'm old-fashioned.

[01:00:26] I think if you can't get up and go vote in person, if you're able to, I should say that. If you're able to, there's people who can't get out and vote for health reasons or whatever. If you are physically able to get up and go vote, you should go vote in person because if you can't be bothered to get up and go vote, then you need to have something mailed to you. So, I think I'm old school like that. All right. Any thoughts, Camille?

[01:00:55] Because I want to look at the chat real quick. So, I want to get your thoughts. I don't think I have anything new to add. But, well, I will say, even though I know you haven't dove into this particular Supreme Court case, I know you typically, when it has an impact on California one way or the other, you typically do a video on it. And so, Phil will, at least on Instagram, but you can look forward to Phil definitely updating that whenever, whenever.

[01:01:24] We don't know what the day will be that they'll make this decision, but I'm sure that Phil will do something, at least two, three minutes, whether it's a short here on YouTube or on his Instagram page. So, be sure to just look out for that because I already know Phil will do that because it will have an impact on California. So, now you have to, Phil. No choice. Yeah. Now you've kind of committed me to it. Yeah.

[01:01:50] No, but I know you would have put out something, whether it's a statement or a quick video on it. You know, if it affects California, California politics, you'll definitely update us. I mean, if I'm going to ask the chat and I have an idea of what the response is going to be, how many people in the chat are going to vote to support voter ID, I imagine. Let me know in the chat. It's going to be a ton of people. Someone checking in from Lakeside, California. Albany, New York. Wow. Someone checking in from Albany, New York. What's up, New York?

[01:02:20] Go Knicks. So, I was thinking about this analogy. And if anyone's a basketball fan and has been watching what's going on with the finals, I'm a Knicks fan. Been watching the finals. Go Knicks. I've been thinking about how bad the officiating has been in the finals. And if people have been watching know what I'm talking about. Knicks have sort of been getting screwed on a lot of officiating calls and stuff like that. It seems like the refs in the NBA are against them.

[01:02:48] Um, that's what they're dealing with right now. But they still got to play better. And someone in the chat says something about too big to rig. And I think that's sort of the situation here is like, don't let the officials win the game or decide it. Like, you almost have to just blow out the other team and like, just win by just overwhelming the system. Kind of what the Knicks have to do is they kind of have to win by like 20 just to win by four because of the way the officiating is in this. So, um, not saying that the NBA is corrupt.

[01:03:18] Maybe the NBA is corrupt. I think they kind of are corrupt. Maybe NBA is as corrupt as, as the California state government. I don't follow sports, but you know, with sports betting and with just people. Yeah. Who knows? So, uh, let's see. Somebody said, yeah, people are responding. Yes. Thumbs up. A hundred percent. I don't watch the NBA because of the officiating. That is a big problem. I have a question then for the chat.

[01:03:46] Who of you is going to go out and get at least one other person to vote or register to vote to, uh, for the November election? Not that you can force someone. I mean, I realize that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't force them to drink. But are you going to encourage people or are you just going to kind of quietly just go ahead and go vote? If you feel comfortable answering, no pressure.

[01:04:13] Uh, one of our loyal viewers, old town Vallejo says voter ID laws and vote by blockchain. I've heard that blockchain voting. That is a, my husband is all for that because he, I don't know the mechanics of it. Yeah. That, that confuses me. And just because my husband's for it doesn't mean that I am, nor does it mean that I understand it whatsoever, but he claims it's actually one of the most secure ways. If they were to start doing that, that it would be like one of the most secure things you could possibly do for, uh, voting.

[01:04:42] But again, I'm not someone who even understands that by any means. That's my husband is a total tech guy, nerd. Like he, he, he does, he understands all that. He does all that, but I mean, I can't understand. We had a guest on a while ago who discussed, was that blockchain or Bitcoin? Well, he explained crypto, Bitcoin, um, got into blockchain, maybe a tiny bit. That's actually one of my husband's business partners. Hmm.

[01:05:14] Um, I'm just checking out voter ID, more people saying voter ID. Yes. Um, what would you want to see pass or on the ballot that would excite you to go out and vote? Like something that may, maybe doesn't exist or like what, when you, when you say voting isn't secure or what are like, what fraud you're worried about? What, what would you want to see outlawed?

[01:05:41] I mean, I think mail-in ballots would be one of the popular votes, but what, what would you guys like to see happen to make you feel better about voting in California? No. I like what problem with this chat is the way it is on our, on our side. Every time I keep scrolling up, it keeps going back down to the bottom. Um, someone said, why would they allow the shift to happen in 2024? If it was, I don't get why, if they are cheating, why would they allow the shift in 2024 to happen? Right. Why would they allow us?

[01:06:10] Again, I think that's why they panicked and did pop 50. Like they, they saw the writing on the wall and they were like, we're losing, we're losing our base. We're, you know, and so they started to just do crazy things. A voter ID and end sanctuary cities. Sure. Why not? Term limits. Yeah. Let's do it. For sure. Um, love it. Save Act. Um, I guess is making its way through Congress. I have no idea where it is.

[01:06:39] I think it's being stalled by the Senate right now. Yeah. I hear something different like every week. So I don't even, I'm like, Oh, tell me when it happens or doesn't it? Yeah. But you know, that's why I'm, I, we're emphasizing voter IDs on our ballot. Like you don't have to wait for Congress to come to the rescue. You can, we're going to vote on voter ID right now, like this year. So don't wait for Congress to come and save us again. This is part of.

[01:07:03] Great point of why local elections matter and wife flipping the assembly and state Senate majority can be do wonders, but we can't do that without getting out and voting. And I don't even want to tell you guys like, Oh, we need all Republicans and everyone vote Republican. I mean, I'm Republican and I have no shame about that, but, but breaking up the Democrat supermajority,

[01:07:30] even if you have a Democrat in your district who tends to be more moderate, they're all voting together. They're all voting for, and we've heard the stories. In fact, Bill Saley was one that came on here and told us, you know, they will, if you are a Democrat, you're voted in as a Democrat, and then you even go against one thing, one bill, they take you out in the hallway and kind of rough you up. And, you know, they threaten you, they'll pull you from committees and they bully you

[01:07:58] into like, you will vote with us or we will make sure that you are out of here and that you have no voice. And so these Democrats, I'm sure there's plenty of really great ones that are more moderate that get in, they want to make a change, but they, because the supermajority is so big, they can't make that change. And that is why we have to break the supermajority is because then we can stop so much of the crazy bills that go to.

[01:08:25] So let's say hypothetically Becerra wins, but if we break up the supermajority of the state Senate and the state assembly, then he's not going to have a lot of crazy bills to sign because we're not letting them even get to that point. And so, yes, it's twofold, threefold, fourfold, like it's all the things we want all the things, but let's break the supermajority. Let's really focus on the local elections. Local elections matter.

[01:08:54] Your voice matters. Yeah. Yeah. We can solve our problems here. We don't have to wait for Washington to come save us. So that's the point we always try to make is don't wait for Washington or whatever president or president Trump to come and save us. These are things we got to solve on our own. We can't wait for Washington to come save us. It's up to people here in California to just get it done. So it'll be interesting. Voting is the way to get it done, you know?

[01:09:24] Voting is the way to get it done. Somebody said in the chat, probably the most scariest line from Ronald Reagan. I'm with the government and I'm here to help. Somebody said Trump is getting ready to lose it on Thune. Last thoughts. Now we have the general election set up between the gubernatorial candidates. It's going to be interesting. Here we go. We said this last week. It's going to be a sprint now.

[01:09:48] If you thought this was crazy, there is so much energy and focus just on the primaries right now. There is so much stuff that is coming up and we haven't. Gosh, we talked about voter ID ballot. There are going to be so many things on the ballot between propositions, which if you're new here, Camille and I, we break down all of the propositions. We go through them slowly but surely over the summer leading up to election day. So that way you have an idea. You can ask us questions. We break it down.

[01:10:18] We get the stats and all that stuff for you. So we got a lot going on. There's probably going to be a ton of candidates who we got to have on. It's going to be a busy sprint from here until November. It's practically summer. Yeah, it is summer. So yeah, we got a lot going on. So yeah, in Los Angeles, we voted against taxes. That's true. There was a... I don't think we mentioned that when you were mentioning the Bay Area one.

[01:10:47] Los Angeles did vote against, which I realize how that seems like, well, why did we vote against that but still didn't win Pratt? I realize that that does definitely seem questionable. You know, if the writing's on the wall of people don't want this anymore, so then how... What are the shenanigans with Pratt? I do believe that they just made him, even though it's supposed to be a nonpartisan race, they did make him to be the MAGA candidate.

[01:11:14] And then it is just a very Democrat majority in LA County. I mean, there's way more Democrat registered voters than any other party. And so I think it would have been a miracle to have Pratt. You know, I think he did well. It would have been wonderful to see him do better. People also, besides just being MAGA, I'm sure that they looked at him as inexperienced,

[01:11:43] that obnoxious guy from the hills, that sort of thing. You know, we can't take him seriously. Sure, he lost his home, but like, he's just a guy that lost his home and was a reality TV star who comes from ProVage and complains about that. You know, like, all those things combined, I think, really worked against him. And it's unfortunate that he has said that he's, you know, going to bow out of politics after this.

[01:12:08] But who knows, maybe hold one for city council eventually or something. If he's still in California, but he may leave. Somebody said Election Day needs to be a national holiday. I'm pretty sure in Mexico, I think it is a national holiday. I have to double check with my wife who knows what goes on down there. I think it's a national holiday. Everything's closed. And it's voter ID. There's voter ID in Mexico.

[01:12:35] So for all the people who say it's really racist to have voter ID, tell Mexico it's very racist to have voter ID. Also, I think they do the ink, too. Like, you do the 24-hour ink. Like, you ink your finger or whatever. It doesn't come off for 24 hours. I'm pretty sure that's how it goes. But that's how Mexico does it. They just might have a little bit of different issue with the cartels. So, all right. We're coming up on an hour and 15 minutes. I want to thank everybody who tuned in tonight. Camille, do you have any final thoughts before we log off for the night?

[01:13:05] Just the usual, you know, thanks for being here. Check out Telegram, Instagram. Get your friends. We are so, sorry, I'm going to do this. But I don't usually do this, and I did last week. We're so close to 30,000 subscribers, you guys, here on YouTube. And your chat, your comments all definitely help with the algorithm. But we do, I know Phil's already going to say it, but, you know, so close to 30,000. And it would be a huge accomplishment for us to reach that sooner than later.

[01:13:33] So, if you wouldn't mind sharing this episode with a few friends and family who live in California, and maybe they do or don't keep up with politics. If you enjoy the show, we would love it if you give us a shout out to some of your people. Yeah. And also check out the deep dives. I've been dropping on Thursday. The deep dives are longer videos, 20-minute long videos, kind of deeper look at what's going on. It may not, it may be current.

[01:14:03] Last week's episode has been doing really well. People really loved it. It was a whole video about the royal families of California, about how the Newsoms, Browns, Pelosi's, and Gettys are all connected. People have been loving it. So, go check it out. I don't, full disclosure, I don't always get to watch your deep dives. I just don't always have time. And I did watch that one. Okay, folks, you heard it here first. Camille does not support the channel by watching our own videos. I'm fired.

[01:14:33] I will not be on this podcast in longer. Okay. We'll be holding auditions for new co-hosts starting next week. You can email me at phil at californiaunderground.live. You really just continued carrying on with that. Wow. Yeah, I went for it. But yeah, check out the deep dives. They've been doing really well. So, and that one, here's the plug coming up. The plug is that is actually based on a chapter from my upcoming book, The Gilded State.

[01:15:02] You can go sign up for information at thegildedstate.com. Let me put the link in the chat. Okay, so while you put that, I was going to say I did watch that one. And despite knowing most of the information, there was stuff in there that I had either forgotten or just didn't know. And I found the whole thing absolutely fascinating. Watch, you know, it's short. It's like less than 20 minutes. I think I watched it without pausing. Really took it all in. And I was even, my mom was over today and I was like, I know you don't really have time to watch podcasts, but you have got to watch this episode.

[01:15:32] She grew up in California, lived here pretty much her entire life. But I think even she will like really enjoy that episode. And so I'm glad it's doing well because I think it was such an interesting, and again, it's less than 20 minutes. It's a short watch. Yeah. Absolutely fascinating. So there'll be more about that. So there'll be a difference of like, there'll be deep dives on possibly what's happening this month. And then some will be historical based off the book, the Gilded State. They'll be on different chapters.

[01:16:01] This week is going to be about the jungle primary, kind of breaking down where the heck the jungle primary came in and has it actually lived up to its promises. I'm going to tease next week's because there's been a lot of people in the comments of last week's video about the royal families saying I should do a deep dive on the power of unions in California. So I think that might be, there are a lot of people on it. So I think that might be next week's episode. But anyway, we're running a little bit over time.

[01:16:30] Like I said, there was a lot to get to tonight. I want to thank everybody for joining in the conversation, the chat and tuning in for us. Make sure you like, share, subscribe, review, all of that stuff helps with the algorithm. And the best thing you can do to support this show that is 100% free is share it with somebody who you think would enjoy this or get something out of it. And with that, we will see you on the next one. Later.