Hold onto your seats, Californians — this week’s political rollercoaster could change the future of the Golden State forever. From a scandal that toppled a Congressman's career in just four days to the California GOP's confusing endorsement process, Phil and Camille break down the shocking details that every Californian must know. Plus, what does the chaos mean for the upcoming primary and the entire political landscape? Tune in for all the jaw-dropping revelations.
In this episode:
- The rapid downfall of Eric Swalwell in just four days — the full timeline and shocking allegations
- The importance of social media and press conferences in shaping political scandals
- What the California GOP's decision not to endorse any candidate means for the race
- The impact of Swalwell’s scandals on the 2024 gubernatorial race
- How California’s voting laws and low information voters influence the outcome
- The behind-the-scenes process of party endorsements and delegate voting explained
- The potential for a Republican red wave in California amid chaos on the Democratic side
- The bizarre history of California GOP primaries and endorsements, including Travis Allen and John Cox
- The implications for California’s political future if two Republicans make it to the general election
- The desperate Democrat plans and possible shifts to a Kamala Harris write-in strategy
- How scandals and internal chaos could finally push California into a new political era
Resources & Links
- Eric Swalwell Allegations San Francisco Chronicle
- California GOP Convention Process
- California Primary Election Dates
- The House of Cards Netflix Series
- Katie Porter Controversies
- California Proposition 50 — Voter ID Law
Connect with the Hosts
Timestamps:
00:00 - The shocking four-day career collapse of Eric Swalwell
02:08 - Social media’s role in outrage and breaking news
04:43 - Allegations: Swalwell’s sexual misconduct and investigative details
07:43 - Corroborated evidence and legal responses
11:16 - Public reactions and victim advocacy—timing and victimories
14:03 - The press conference with a disturbing eyewitness account
17:58 - The disturbing allegations paint a picture of political rot
21:18 - The possible influence on the California governor race
25:44 - GOP delegate process and what it means for endorsements
30:26 - Inside California GOP convention voting practices
36:55 - The chaos causing Democrats to consider radical options like Harris write-ins
41:08 - How voter support could fracture and change the California political landscape
44:50 - The desperate Democrat strategy and fear of a Republican sweep
50:17 - Past primary campaigns and what history teaches us
58:25 - The potential for California to become more red—what’s at stake
66:26 - The influence of party endorsements and low-information voters
70:39 - How political chaos might finally shake up California’s one-party rule
75:59 - The outrageous end: Swalwell’s farewell and the real story behind the scandals
This week’s scandal and political upheaval could signal a turning point—a chance for Californians to push back against long-standing one-party dominance. Whether this chaos ushers in reform or chaos remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: California is no longer boring politics—it’s explosive, urgent, and truthfully shocking. Stay tuned, share this episode, and keep your eyes open—you won’t want to miss what’s coming next.
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This past week, we got to see Eric Swalwell's entire political
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career collapse. In just four days from Friday to
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Monday, he went from I'm not getting out of the race to I am
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not only getting out of the race to completely resigning from
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Congress. We're going to walk through the
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entire timeline to explain what happened.
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Plus, new developments today, including a new accuser who came
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forward and had a press conference.
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Also, this California GOP had a convention this past weekend in
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San Diego and they didn't endorse anybody.
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And we're going to explain what that means, how that happened,
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what the actual procedure of an endorsement means, Break it down
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for everybody. And whether or not this is
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actually good news for two Republicans moving on or it's
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bad news. We're going to get to all that
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tonight on this episode of the California Underground, starting
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right? What's going on, everybody?
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Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the California
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Underground. We have a big story that has
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been developing over the past four days.
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Well, it's developing, continuing happen, whatever you
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want to call it. It's the Eric Swadwell store
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going to be talking all about that, the timeline, news videos,
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everything that's happening, breaking down the timeline.
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Also, we want to talk about how the California GOP did not
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endorse anybody and why maybe that's a good thing that they
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didn't do. So.
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And as always, I'm going to bring in my Co host, the best,
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the fastest researcher in the West.
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Camille, How are you doing tonight, Camille?
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I'm good. What a what a fun few days this
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has been for California politics.
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Yeah, I mean, if you're, you know, it was Friday afternoon,
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usually a quiet, if you don't own political news, like usually
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Friday nights are quiet or it's either one or the other.
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Either they're quiet or they do like a Friday news news dump.
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When they want to, like, put out a salacious story or they kind
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of want to get people to not pay attention to a story, they drop
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news on Friday. This was not the case because
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everybody paid attention to it. And it, like, lit social media
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on fire with Eric Swalwell in the San Francisco Chronicle
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story. And then it just kept going,
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like over the weekend, it just kept developing.
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I kept getting breaking news. I have my ex.
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I keep calling, try and call Twitter, my ex set up with
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certain alerts to certain reporters like Rob Pryor's,
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Ashley Zavala, some other people.
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Bill Malujian is another one. So you get these updates of
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California politics. And yeah, it just kept going and
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going and going. I mean, like it.
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It was a lie and has big implications which we're going
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to talk about. I guess the question is where
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were you when you found out this Eric Swalwell story?
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On Friday night? I was hanging out.
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We were about ready to go out and get some some take out.
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What were you? What were you doing, Camille,
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when the the news of Eric Swalwell dropped?
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You know, I lead such an exciting social life as a mom
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before, so I was definitely on my couch.
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I was actually, yeah. We were hanging out on the couch
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watching something. So.
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It was, yeah. It was just so interesting
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because, you know, you and I are both very active on social
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media, sharing up to Even on our episode just a week
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ago where we had the round table and we had both Susan and Kyle
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as guest on the show, which was so fun.
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You correctly predicted that the DNC is trying to push Eric
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Swalwell out. I said I think he, you know,
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makes it to the general and wins and becomes governor.
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Obviously I was very wrong and you were very right.
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And so and I but I did, I did clarify on on that episode a
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political illness analyst or expert.
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So hey, you know, I just share my opinions.
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Clearly they were wrong that time.
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So yeah, it was very interesting to see all the incoming messages
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and responses of, oh, he won't drop out, he won't drop out.
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And then, of course, he says I'm not dropping how he's gone.
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He's gone. Yeah.
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He just like that. He was the the Democratic front
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runner. I know there are some people
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like Emerson poll put out something 3 weeks ago in middle
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of March that said he was the front runner at 17%.
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I mean, polls are all over the place, but he was the front
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runner. You could say he was the
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Democratic front runner. He was basically the odds on
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favorite to probably make it through.
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And if he made it through then that would mean he'd likely be
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the next governor of California. Very lucky we all dodged the
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bullet that we didn't get a creep like Eric Swalwell in up
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in Sacramento. I, I was reading something.
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Was it an ex post? Somebody said if you want an
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idea of how little time Eric Swalwell actually spends in
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California, he was visiting Sacramento and he looked up at
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the Capitol building and he looks at the new capital annex
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and goes, wow, look at that. They're building condos right
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next to the Capitol. And someone had to correct them
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and go, Sir, that's the capital annex.
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It's part of the Capitol. Oh, OK.
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And that just gives you an idea of how little Eric Swalwell
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knows about California governance.
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And and like that was, we were very close to having him as the
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governor of California. We were.
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He was definitely the front runner of the Democrats and
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always in the top two or three in all the polls.
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Yeah, so we're going to get to like, obviously how this all
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plays out and and what the fallout is.
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I do want to pat myself on the back and say I did smell that
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something was happening. I didn't know it was going to be
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this bad. I knew there were rumors earlier
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last week when we had the Governor's Table round table,
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which you should all go check out, is one of our longer
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episodes because we were having such a good time chatting.
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Kyle and Susan were amazing. Susan, who is our first Democrat
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on the show, made history on the show.
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Both awesome guests. We're going to be doing a lot of
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roundtables coming up because it's just going to be a lot of
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fun having people on and having those roundtables.
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There was a story from someone like an influencer who was kind
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of saying, yeah, there's people coming out and we have the
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receipts and they're coming out. And she was kind of prefacing
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it. And I, I told some people I was
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like, I think Eric Swalwell might be headed for a disaster.
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So ended up he was, he went for the worst disaster and it got
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worse. Like the news got worse over the
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weekend. Even today more there was like a
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fifth woman has come forward. Yeah, we're going to watch that
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today too. The breaking news this morning
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was it this morning? I think, Yeah, this morning she
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had a press conference all about it.
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We're going to watch a small clip of it.
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It was like a 19 minute press conference.
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We're not going to watch all of it, but there is a small clip of
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a highlight. So let's go back to the
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beginning. If there's anybody who's like,
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what the heck are you guys talking about?
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So this is from the San Francisco Standard.
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This is not the original article.
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So if San Francisco Chronicle, let's start there.
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San Francisco Chronicle broke the story on Friday afternoon,
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So this was April 10th. They were just kind of
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piggybacking off of this, as in a bombshell piece from the San
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Francisco Chronicle, a former Swalwell staffer alleges that he
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pressed himself on her sexually while she worked for him and had
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sex with her twice while she was too intoxicated to consent.
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The woman told the paper that Swalwell began pursuing her soon
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after she was hired at 21 to work in his district office in
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the East Bay. Swalwell, who is married and has
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three children, sent photos of his genitals to the younger
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staffer on Snapchat and pursued her sexually, the report says.
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OK, real quick. Yeah, this is this is disgusting
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and terrible. But men, boys, males.
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No. No woman wants that.
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Even if they're into you. Don't.
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Nobody is interested in that. Do not send photos of your
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genitals to anybody. Ever.
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Just just don't. Keep, keep that, Yeah.
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Seriously, nobody wants that. There is a great rule that
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someone said if you would be too ashamed to show your grandmother
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it, don't post it on social media.
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So it depends on what type of grandmother you have, but that
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you get the idea. Like if you're too ashamed to
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show your grant, maybe you have a grandmother who's like, they
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think they're like a cool grandma or something, or they
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were a hippie and into nudist colonies or something.
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Yeah. You never.
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Know. Yeah.
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I mean, you know, boomers are grandparents now, so there are
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plenty of hippies who are nudists anyway.
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Not the point anyway. Just don't put that stuff on
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Internet and the internet's. Forever.
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It's literally forever. You think Snapchat disappears?
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People are taking screenshots of that stuff and there are people
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are logging it. So in response to the claims,
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OK, so this is also important. The Chronicle corroborated her
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claims with medical records, by speaking with friends and by
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speaking with friends she had confided in and a former
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boyfriend. So the Chronicle to kind of Fact
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Check this, this is actually an example of very good journalism
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where the Chronicle said, OK, here's your claims against Eric
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Swalwell. We're going to go ahead and
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corroborate your story based on medical records, which she they
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found or either she produced or they found and shows that yes,
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she did check for, I think it was STD in a pregnancy test a
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week later, which shows that she was concerned about this.
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And she also produced communications showing that she
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had told her friends this back at that time.
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So there was a corroboration of evidence.
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Contemporaneous in legal terms, this was called contemporaneous
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conversations. Conversations that happened
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close to the time of the event are usually very good examples
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of evidence because it is, it's clear in your mind, it's fresh,
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you're reacting to it. So all these are good things
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that the Chronicle did, good journalism.
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In response to the claim, Swalwell's attorney sent a cease
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and desist letter to the counsel for the accuser and raised the
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possibility of a defamation suit.
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We're going to get into Eric Swalwell's attorney a little
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bit. Get found a clip of her, which
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should put your hair on edge. Quote, these allegations are
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false and come on the eve of an election against the front
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runner for governor. Swalwell said in a statement.
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For nearly 20 years I have served the public as a
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prosecutor and congressman and I've always protected women.
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I will defend myself with the facts and where necessary, bring
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legal action. My focus in the coming days is
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to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of
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service against these lies. All right, so that is the
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beginning of the story. Any comments on Friday nights
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story I. Can real quickly comment on
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something else that I didn't discuss with you whatsoever and
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I just feel like I need to say it.
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Sure, I feel like this could be dangerous, but go ahead.
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I know, I know you weren't going to tell me no, but there's,
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there's a lot of people who will question and I, I don't, I'm not
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part of the me too movement or anything like that.
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Like I, I wasn't down with that, but there's a lot of people that
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will say, well, why now? Seems the timing is suspicious.
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This woman kept quiet and suddenly she's bringing this up.
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And this often happens when someone's about to win something
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or be, you know, elected to something, put in a power, more
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powerful position, etcetera. And they're like, well, why then
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are they coming forward? Now, there's a million and one
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reasons why a woman might go through this and not come
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forward. Maybe, maybe she did tell
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somebody who told her to stay quiet or she was in a position
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where she knew that she was powerless and it would turn her
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life upside down while that person would just go on to
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continue to do whatever. Sometimes there isn't any
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evidence or they feel to blame or guilty because they did go
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out drinking with this particular person or they did,
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they were in a situation where they were alone with this person
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and maybe whatever happened and they they didn't say no, they
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didn't stop it, all the things. And so then it's like, Oh, well,
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now he is about to become the governor of California as the
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tea leaves were showing. And now they decide to come
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forward. That's suspicious.
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Well, that's when women tend to get brave and say, wait a
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second, I'm not going to allow this to continue to happen to
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other women. And so then they will come
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forward. And so I don't I'm sorry.
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I don't like when people are like, oh, well, you kept quiet
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all this time, therefore you're lying, you're guilty, you're
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you, it was consensual, whatever, whatever.
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And sure, all that is possible, yes.
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But if that's how we're going to act, then more women are going
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to continue to stay silent. And so, you know, when they're
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treated that way, they, they won't say anything.
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And again, there's a million and one reasons.
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And then if this has happened to you and you didn't come forward
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or you did come forward, you have to remember that everyone
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deals with everything differently.
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And so just because you acted a certain way and the situation
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doesn't mean that the woman next to you is going to act the same
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way. And so I'm saying this because
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I've seen some online discussions and it did kind of
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trigger me. And I just, I really just want
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to say bravo to the women for when they do speak up,
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regardless of how much later it was or if the timing is
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suspicious. Good for them.
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Good, good for you, good for coming forward.
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And now we're finding out this isn't even the the only woman to
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be coming forward in the situation.
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So sorry that was. No, I think that's a.
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That's a really well said point. Yeah.
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I think it's a great response to people who say, oh, they're only
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coming forward now because of, well, he could become governor
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and we're trying to, whatever they try and put it on the what
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are they victim shaming? Is that the word they say?
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It's victim shaming or it's the impetus to know that he's going
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to become one of the most powerful governors in like in
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the United States. So now you have to do it now
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because you the primary was weeks away.
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We're looking at June 2nd is the primary Mark that in your
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calendars, everybody, June 2nd. I'm going to keep saying June
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2nd is the price. Mailing ballots are dropping
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soon, like June. 2nd is the also deadline.
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I'm sorry, keep interrupting you.
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Yeah, June 2nd is Election Day. So for those of you who like to
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go and vote in person, the primary is June 2nd, meaning
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show up, vote for who you want as governor, to run for
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governor, and then who you want to run for assembly, all that
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stuff, public service and that. So maybe there was the impetus
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of these women to go. We have to stop him because he's
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likely going to become the governor of California.
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And then he's even more powerful, as we'll see in the
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clip from one of the accusers who came forward today.
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One of the things that she was scared of why she kept secret
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for so long is because he was a congressman.
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And congressman have a lot of connections and and political
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power. And it's kind of terrifying.
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I mean, you go up against someone who has a lot of
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influence, a lot of political capital, a lot of money.
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Why would you go after a congressman, not go after him,
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But why would you put yourself in that position where a
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congressman can retaliate? So I think maybe that was the
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impetus to say this is the time to come forward.
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And it it all bubbled up and I guess he thought it would never,
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ever come forward. It did all at once.
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So all right, so Friday after all of this, Eric Swalwell in a
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hurried way try to release a statement by video saying I
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didn't do nothing, I'm innocent, I'm going to keep fighting this.
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So this was. Sorry for the lapse in
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judgement. Yeah, so this is the video him.
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It's about a minute long, so we're going to watch that so you
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can see what he said. A lot has been said about me
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today through anonymous allegations and I thought it was
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important that you see and hear from me directly.
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These allegations of sexual assault are flat false.
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They are absolutely false. They did not happen, they have
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never happened and I will fight them with everything that I
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have. They also come on the eve of an
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election where I have been the front runner candidate for
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governor in California. I do not suggest to you in any
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way that I'm perfect or that I'm a St.
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I've certainly made mistakes in judgement in my past, but those
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mistakes are between me and my wife.
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And to her I apologize deeply for putting her in this
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position. I also apologize to you if in
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any way you have doubted your support for me.
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But I think you know who I am. For over 20 years, I have served
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the public as a City Councilman, as a member of Congress, and as
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a prosecutor who went to court on behalf of victims,
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particularly on behalf of sexual assault victims.
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That's who I am and have always been.
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This weekend I'm going to spend time with my family and friends
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and I appreciate those who have reached out to me to show
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support and I look forward to updating you very soon.
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He's a creep. There's really nothing else to
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say. I mean, we talked about that
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last week. He's, he's a creep.
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The way he leans on while I was a prosecutor.
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And you saying you're a prosecutor and you went to court
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on behalf of women who were victims of sexual assault makes
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this even worse in a way, because you've seen it.
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You've seen the evidence, you've seen what criminals do to women
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and you put them behind bars. Hopefully you were successful in
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putting them behind bars as a prosecutor and you went ahead
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and did it anyway. Like that's what makes it even
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more sickening is that you saw it and you said you couldn't as
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a prosecutor, you couldn't figure out there's a line of
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like what's right and what's wrong.
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That's kind of terrifying as a prosecutor that you, you saw
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that and said, well, now I'm going to do it.
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Like I, I'm putting guys behind bars.
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Likely he's probably going to be in jail.
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I I think his year is going to go from likely being the
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governor of California to he's probably going to be in jail
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soon. The Manhattan DEA opened an
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investigation this past weekend. DHS is now looking into him
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because he hired a Brazilian nanny without paperwork.
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Who else is kind of jumped in here?
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I think they even are alleging he used campaign funds to pay
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her or something. Gosh.
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Which there's maybe a fine line where that can be considered
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legal. Yeah, the whole campaign funds
00:19:24
for childcare, yeah, that can be.
00:19:28
That's a fine line of what it is, what could be used.
00:19:32
But still, if she doesn't have the correct paperwork, you're
00:19:35
obviously evading paying taxes. So that's an issue.
00:19:39
It's unbelievable, this man who put on a persona and a mask and
00:19:43
a face and said, this is, you know, his, he is this moral,
00:19:50
higher, holier than thou guy when it came to impeaching
00:19:55
Trump. The way he put himself out there
00:19:58
talking about the Epstein files and stuff like that.
00:20:01
And and now all of a sudden this is all coming to light that he
00:20:05
was the creep who used his power and influence to assault these
00:20:11
women and abuse these women. It's it's truly sickening.
00:20:14
And I mean. There was smoke though this.
00:20:18
I mean, there was the Chinese spy.
00:20:20
Fang Fang, how? Long ago was that.
00:20:22
Several years ago, yeah, there was Fang Fang.
00:20:24
Several years back and I apparently that wasn't proven.
00:20:28
I don't know why that he got away with that, but people
00:20:31
continued to re elect him, which come on people, not our
00:20:36
audience. I we know our audience is much
00:20:38
smarter than that but come on people stop re electing these
00:20:41
people because they get more powerful and then and they just
00:20:46
become creepier like their their creep persona just implodes.
00:20:52
They just go drunk on power. Yeah, I did want to check in
00:20:55
with the chat real quick. People who are checking in.
00:20:58
We have people checking in from Inland Empire, South Bay Area,
00:21:02
Vallejo, CA. What's up, everybody?
00:21:04
Thank you for tuning in. Ling Ling.
00:21:08
His, I don't think his name was. Her name was Ling Ling.
00:21:10
Her name was Fang Fang. Fang Fang.
00:21:13
That just makes it even funnier that her name was Fang Fang.
00:21:16
I know. Yeah, someone said after the
00:21:19
allegations of him dating a Chinese spy, why did the
00:21:21
Democrats still allow him to sit on the Intelligence Committee?
00:21:23
They knew all this information until they couldn't benefit from
00:21:26
him anymore, right? It's true.
00:21:30
I mean, yeah, it's almost like Democrats will allow, well, both
00:21:34
parties will. I mean, both parties will say we
00:21:37
got to promise both parties. Let's not just pretend it's
00:21:39
Democrats. Both parties will allow you to
00:21:43
get away with horrible behavior and depravity until you're no
00:21:48
use anymore. And once you become a political
00:21:50
liability and you become a political hot potato, they throw
00:21:53
you out as fast as possible. So absolutely.
00:21:55
So yeah, if. You're going to get into
00:21:58
politics and have a really clean slate.
00:22:01
Have a clean slate, don't send your genitals through Snapchat.
00:22:05
Just basic things. I know people who are candidates
00:22:08
and stuff like that. Listen to the show.
00:22:10
Just words of advice from us. If you're going to get into
00:22:13
politics, don't do that stuff well.
00:22:15
So he had the the Chinese spy thing, there's Spang Pang and
00:22:18
then there was the possible it was either mortgage fraud or
00:22:21
voter fraud because he bought a house in DC and claimed it as
00:22:24
his main residence. He allegedly lives in California
00:22:29
and so and he's like registered to vote here.
00:22:31
So it was he either committed one or the other.
00:22:33
Either way, there was which, which crime do you want to
00:22:35
confess to? Because it was one of them.
00:22:37
And now of course, all of this, all of this coming out.
00:22:43
And then? Just to go back on my earlier
00:22:45
rant and people will say, oh, well, now all these women are
00:22:49
coming forward and how come, you know, they all, all so many were
00:22:52
quiet? Well, there's also strength in
00:22:54
numbers. When one comes forward and sees
00:22:56
that there's actual backlash going on, the other's going to
00:22:59
come with and they're going to stand together.
00:23:01
I mean, yeah. It's the, it's the first over
00:23:03
the wall that kind of breaches and gets people going.
00:23:06
And once somebody does it, then the rest of them kind of say,
00:23:09
OK, I can do this too because someone else was brave enough to
00:23:13
do this. Someone said Eric Swallow's
00:23:15
story is literally an episode out of the Netflix show The
00:23:17
House of Cards. Yeah, sometimes I, I think like
00:23:21
the house, House of Cards was very indicative of what it's
00:23:26
like in Washington, DC, all the stuff.
00:23:29
All right, so continuing on with the timeline.
00:23:31
So we have Friday night moving on to Saturday.
00:23:35
This is when Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg said he's going to open a
00:23:38
criminal investigation into the 2024 New York incident.
00:23:44
Have to confirm this just for our edification.
00:23:47
I'm pretty sure there's no statute of limitations for
00:23:50
sexual assault in California anymore after the Me Too
00:23:53
movement. I think they got rid of that.
00:23:55
If there was sexual assault, it doesn't matter how long ago it
00:23:58
happened. It's he can be in trouble for
00:24:00
that here. So in Saturday and Sunday, key
00:24:04
Democratic allies begin to break.
00:24:06
Representative Jimmy Gomez resigns as campaign Co chair and
00:24:09
calls on him to drop out. Nancy Pelosi then steps in and
00:24:12
calls on him to exit the race. When Nancy Pelosi tells you to
00:24:14
get out, that means get out, you're done, go home.
00:24:17
That's like the bouncer saying like you, you're, you're drunk,
00:24:21
go home. We're ordering you an Uber.
00:24:22
You're out. California Teachers Association.
00:24:25
These are the big ones you and I were watching like in texting
00:24:28
back and forth in real time as this was happening.
00:24:30
Like California Teachers Association, which is the
00:24:33
biggest one, dropped them almost immediately.
00:24:36
SEIU both suspend their endorsements.
00:24:39
Those are like the two most powerful unions in California.
00:24:43
So to have them in at your back basically guaranteed you were
00:24:47
going to be governor. So when they dropped him, that
00:24:50
means, yeah, we're done. We're not even going to stick
00:24:52
around for this and defend you. They did pick their new puppet
00:24:56
or I mean candidate Tom Steyer, who I guess is going to be,
00:25:01
which is interesting that they picked Tom Steyer.
00:25:03
Wouldn't you pick the professor, Katie Porter?
00:25:05
Wasn't Katie Porter a teacher? So why wouldn't they go with
00:25:08
someone who's already been AI Don't know because she's a mess.
00:25:11
Which? I'm sorry you want to comment on
00:25:13
that since you did bring him up. The CTA, like you said, has
00:25:17
endorsed Tom Starr and. If you're a Democrat and you
00:25:23
watch. Her show thank you but if you're
00:25:25
a Democrat and you saw the CTA was supporting creep, Eric
00:25:29
Swalwell has pulled their support obviously because things
00:25:32
came out but they knew things they knew they like we just
00:25:37
mentioned you know the parties do protect each other.
00:25:39
They protect their own, but they knew this was not like this.
00:25:43
This is not a surprise. It's just a surprise that it
00:25:46
came out, I guess. But so now the CTA endorsing Tom
00:25:48
Steyer, like maybe you need to not follow who these people or
00:25:52
organizations, associations, unions, whatever the packs.
00:25:58
If they went from supporting Swalwell to Steyr, then maybe
00:26:01
Steyr is not your guy either. You don't like really.
00:26:04
They fool me once, shame on you fool me twice, shame on me kind
00:26:09
of situation. Let's let's maybe go with
00:26:11
someone else, Maybe let's do a little.
00:26:14
Background research little before we jump to one or the
00:26:17
other, this is a funny comment. Speaking of Katie Porter, Katie
00:26:22
Porter tweeted the swallow news and then got community noted for
00:26:25
her abusing her then husband. So she tried to make it all
00:26:29
thing about assault and domestic abuse and then they said
00:26:33
actually you were accused of pouring hot mashed potatoes on
00:26:37
your husband's head. So, and we've seen the video.
00:26:39
Of her verbally assaulting, maybe Maybe.
00:26:42
Katie Porter, just sit this one out until it blows over.
00:26:46
There was something I was going to say about Katie Porter.
00:26:50
Oh, somebody said that this was a conspiracy.
00:26:54
That would be interesting to find out that the influencer who
00:26:59
started to break the news last week had ties to the Katie
00:27:02
Porter campaign. Now, I'm not saying this was
00:27:05
motivated by Katie Porter, but that would be an interesting
00:27:08
story if that actually came to light, that she was the one
00:27:11
behind all this. I could see that with Katie
00:27:13
Porter. All right, so sorry.
00:27:15
Sunday, we talked about that. On Sunday, more than fifty
00:27:18
former staffers sign an open letter saying the allegations
00:27:21
are serious, credible and demand accountability.
00:27:23
We stand unequivocally with our colleague Sunday night.
00:27:28
Swalwell suspends his governor's campaign, does not address
00:27:32
Congress. Just for those who wonder, why
00:27:35
do they always suspend? Because they can keep the money.
00:27:39
That's the bottom line. If they end their campaign, then
00:27:44
they have to give all the money back.
00:27:45
If you suspend your campaign, you can hold on to your money.
00:27:49
Bernie Sanders is very good at this.
00:27:52
He's run for president. How many times he raises all
00:27:55
this money? Doesn't, you know, folds.
00:27:58
As soon as the Democratic machine tells him to get out and
00:28:01
he's raised millions and millions of dollars, he suspends
00:28:04
his presidential campaign. And under FEC rules, you can
00:28:08
transfer money between campaigns.
00:28:10
You can't pay yourself, but you can transfer between PACs and
00:28:13
campaigns. So then he transfers it to his
00:28:16
Senate campaign. And then he's sitting on a huge
00:28:19
war chest that basically he's running just to make money.
00:28:25
I believe too there's a certain depending on the type of
00:28:29
lawsuits, you can use some of the campaign funds for the
00:28:32
lawsuits. So this could save him
00:28:35
financially, yeah. So I don't know if that's his
00:28:39
plan is to do that. So that's why they suspend.
00:28:42
For people who wonder why they always say suspend and they
00:28:45
never end their campaign, because you can hold on to the
00:28:48
money. If you end it, you have to give
00:28:49
the money back. And I'm sure there's a lot of
00:28:51
people as of Saturday who were frantically trying to stop a lot
00:28:55
of transfers going. There was something like 1 union
00:28:58
had just dropped like $1.5 million on Eric Swalwell
00:29:02
commercial ad space like literally on Friday afternoon.
00:29:06
And I'm sure they were frantically trying to call their
00:29:10
bank and be like, cancel the payment, cancel the payment.
00:29:12
We changed our mind Monday. House Ethics Committee opens a
00:29:16
formal investigation into whether he engaged in sexual
00:29:19
misconduct toward an employee under a supervision Monday
00:29:22
afternoon. Senator Ruben Gallego, his
00:29:24
longtime close friend who chaired his 2020 presidential
00:29:27
campaign. That's right, he ran for
00:29:29
president. There was a weird time 2020 says
00:29:34
public says publicly Swalwell is, quote, no longer to be a
00:29:37
fit, fit to be a member of Congress.
00:29:39
And on Monday, Swalwell announced his resignation from
00:29:42
Congress says he's aware of the expulsion push.
00:29:44
His name will still appear on the June 2nd primary ballot.
00:29:47
And we're going to talk about why that can make a big
00:29:49
difference. California law deadline to
00:29:52
remove it has already passed. So that's the timeline and where
00:29:57
we are up until yesterday. There was breaking news as of
00:30:01
today, more stuff that came out today.
00:30:03
I want to show you this clip of his attorney.
00:30:06
And if this attorney makes your skin crawl, I don't blame you
00:30:11
because I watched this while we were getting ready for the show
00:30:14
and I said we got to include this because it made my skin
00:30:16
crawl. So now you all have to endure it
00:30:17
as well. Great.
00:30:19
OK. All right.
00:30:20
Let's pull this up. It's not.
00:30:23
Behavior. It's not about appropriateness.
00:30:27
These are serious crimes. Undoubtedly, I mean, I don't
00:30:31
dispute the severity of what is being alleged here, you know,
00:30:35
being alleged that he committed rapes, one person was allegedly
00:30:40
drugged. But the issue and that
00:30:42
underscores sort of why we can't hash this out in the court of
00:30:46
public opinion and why I'm here because as you know, Chris, you
00:30:49
know, it's not my style to, you know, litigate my own cases in a
00:30:56
media. But I'm here because these
00:30:58
allegations are false. And he's been advised not to
00:31:01
make any statements. So I'm doing that on his behalf.
00:31:05
How do you deal with the? Fact.
00:31:06
That the congressman would have been the first one to say the
00:31:08
women should be believed, that is.
00:31:11
Who he is? He remember, he was a prosecutor
00:31:14
before he was a congressman, before he, you know, for 20
00:31:17
years was a public servant. That is who he is.
00:31:20
And I don't care if you don't like him.
00:31:22
I don't care if you are passing judgement because of
00:31:26
inappropriate sex or immoral sex.
00:31:29
The issue that we're talking about here is whether it was
00:31:33
unconsensual sex. That is criminal sex.
00:31:36
And, you know, two adults consenting, which is our
00:31:39
position is is not against the law.
00:31:42
And So what I say to jurors, I'm going to tell your audience,
00:31:45
regret is not rape. So the fact that, you know, a
00:31:50
day later, years later or whatnot, you maybe had shame
00:31:54
around what you did or maybe you were in a relationship and
00:31:57
shouldn't have done what you did doesn't make it rape.
00:32:00
Do you feel any differently? When you watched the accuser
00:32:04
come out today and give her name and show her face and tell her
00:32:07
account, I didn't. Yeah.
00:32:13
That's his attorney basically like you were saying, victim
00:32:17
shaming, saying that no, now all of a sudden they're coming
00:32:21
forward because they regret what happened and that it was
00:32:23
consensual that this was I'm trying to figure out the.
00:32:27
Angle of years later a woman coming out and saying I was
00:32:33
raped. Like.
00:32:37
If it was consensual, it's not like they were caught and then
00:32:41
she gets ashamed and is, you know, when she's married, she's
00:32:44
in a relationship or whatever. And it's like, no, I was raped.
00:32:47
I'm a, I'm a victim here. Like they're coming out years
00:32:52
later to say this man has to be stopped.
00:32:53
So what do they gain from the story years later?
00:32:58
Again, I understand there are women who will lie about this,
00:33:01
but I what if, if all this is unknown until they come out with
00:33:08
it, then what do they have to gain by saying I was raped, I
00:33:12
was sexually assaulted, I was XY and Z?
00:33:14
That doesn't make any sense to me.
00:33:17
Like if they're ashamed of it because they possibly cheated or
00:33:21
knew that he was married and, you know, didn't want to be home
00:33:24
wreckers, well, nobody would have known.
00:33:26
And they could have just kept it quiet and carried on with life.
00:33:28
But I'm sorry, I Yeah. And the, the fact that there is
00:33:33
multiple women and it's all the same pattern, I think that's
00:33:37
most important that she's leaving out is that it's a it's,
00:33:41
it's a documented pattern with Eric Swalwell with usually
00:33:45
getting these girls highly intoxicated and then taking
00:33:47
advantage of them. Force is another thing which
00:33:51
we're going to watch a video. So if this video didn't make
00:33:54
your skin crawl, this next video is going to make you really
00:33:56
upset as well. I'm sorry.
00:33:58
You know, this is all just as a preface.
00:34:00
This is sort of what we're talking about.
00:34:02
These allegations, What happened to these poor women is a
00:34:05
serious, serious issue. So if it is a little
00:34:08
uncomfortable, we apologize. But we are just kind of talking
00:34:11
about what the story is and what the facts are.
00:34:13
And we can't do that without actually explaining what
00:34:15
happened here. We should have put a trigger
00:34:17
warning. On this episode, we should have
00:34:18
put a a. Warning on this and and I do
00:34:20
want to say because I know. When I first started speaking on
00:34:23
this episode and I was like, what a wild and fun time.
00:34:26
And I was sincerely, I told Phil before we hopped on like, I
00:34:31
don't, I don't want this for anybody.
00:34:33
Like I don't think that this is fun.
00:34:34
You know, I don't think that for these women, these victims
00:34:38
involved, this is, this is very serious.
00:34:43
I was just. Implying like.
00:34:45
Combined with the GOP. Events which we haven't even
00:34:48
caught to it was it was a wild weekend.
00:34:50
But again, like for these women, for these victims, this is I
00:34:55
don't think that this is like, oh, it's so fun.
00:34:57
It's like, yeah, we're not, we're not getting.
00:34:59
Enjoyment out of these this woman, this woman suffering.
00:35:02
We're we're saying it was in terms of people who comment on
00:35:06
California politics like we do. There was a lot going on this
00:35:10
weekend. Usually weekends are pretty
00:35:12
quiet. So there was a lot of stuff
00:35:13
going on. Yeah.
00:35:14
And I do want to add I'm sorry before you.
00:35:16
Share the video. I want to add real quick when
00:35:19
you said, you know, a lot of these, the patterns are the
00:35:20
same. Their stories are very similar.
00:35:23
And people might argue, well, yeah, the one woman came out and
00:35:26
said XY and Z. So then all of a sudden another
00:35:27
woman's like, oh, yeah, that happened to me too.
00:35:29
But there's often in these kind of cases, there's information
00:35:32
that it's not available to the public.
00:35:35
That is usually something that the authorities will use to
00:35:38
actually confirm these stories where there's usually like a
00:35:42
something that happened to all of them that the public isn't
00:35:45
aware of. And that way, if a more women
00:35:47
can forward and happen to say and this this particular thing
00:35:50
happened or, you know, like some detail that matches all the
00:35:54
other stories that weren't released to the public, then
00:35:56
they're like, OK, this all these stories are literally adding up
00:36:00
there that all these women are talking about the same thing and
00:36:02
they don't they don't know each other, but yet they all had a
00:36:04
similar situation with something that he maybe said or did or
00:36:07
where they were or whatever that we don't know about.
00:36:12
Iceman in the track said better, better public facing damage
00:36:15
control would have been In America, we believe someone is
00:36:18
innocent until proven guilty. I mean, that would have been the
00:36:22
damage control PR attorney statement.
00:36:25
But for her to go well, it's these women are just they're
00:36:28
regretful now. So that's why they're coming
00:36:31
forward and they just want to embarrass him.
00:36:32
So all right, this next video, we're going to wrap this up this
00:36:37
story up because I think we've covered the whole timeline and
00:36:41
we'll get to our thoughts about how this implicates the race in
00:36:45
our opinion. So this last video was from an
00:36:50
accuser who came forward today, a woman who came forward and had
00:36:54
a press conference. This is just a short clip of it.
00:36:56
So my delay in. Taking action against Eric was
00:37:00
driven by fear, not doubt, fear of his political power, his
00:37:06
background as an attorney. And his family.
00:37:10
Law enforcement ties. I have never doubted.
00:37:15
What happened? I stand with the other women who
00:37:18
have come forward and I will be making a report to law
00:37:23
enforcement shortly with my attorneys.
00:37:28
Yeah, So that was her genuine reaction.
00:37:32
I think she also said that she was in the in the further press
00:37:38
conference, they said she was choked to the point where she
00:37:42
thought she was going to die. That's how hard he choked her.
00:37:45
So powerful, terrifying. And that's what happens when
00:37:51
people like Eric Swalwell get drunk on power is they just
00:37:55
think they can do anything. And I guess the good news is
00:38:00
that he will face justice. He will face justice in numerous
00:38:05
ways. Like I said, I think he'll
00:38:08
likely end up in jail. I think there's just such a
00:38:12
mountain of evidence that's starting to just pour out of
00:38:15
everywhere against him that it's, it's almost unbelievable.
00:38:20
He wouldn't face jail. If he doesn't face jail and go
00:38:22
to prison, I'd be shocked. I'd be shocked at whoever is
00:38:25
prosecuting him that they weren't able to to, to prosecute
00:38:31
him and convict him of these crimes.
00:38:33
So any comment on any of those videos or anything before we
00:38:37
discuss our predictions of what we think could happen.
00:38:41
That last one was tough. To watch.
00:38:44
Yeah, it's that's why I said that.
00:38:46
That last one's tough to see an actual accuser in person
00:38:51
explaining why. And again, that just reinforces
00:38:54
your statement before, which is a lot of women are just scared
00:38:58
to come forward because he's a powerful man, because he was in
00:39:01
Congress, because he's well connected.
00:39:04
He'd been Congress for a long time.
00:39:06
He wasn't like a one off congressman.
00:39:08
Usually the longer you're in Congress like Eric Swalwell and
00:39:11
the more name recognition you get.
00:39:13
He ran for president, now he's running for governor.
00:39:16
It's scary because you have no idea what people of that power
00:39:22
are capable of doing. And it's clear he's basically a
00:39:27
sociopath when he does something like this and he has no regard
00:39:30
for people's feelings. He's he's a sociopath.
00:39:34
So in four days, Eric Swalwell's entire career went up in flames,
00:39:42
and rightfully so if all these allegations end up being all
00:39:45
true and he goes to jail. So let's pivot now why we think
00:39:54
my opinion is, Do you want me to start with my opinion or your
00:39:57
opinion? No, go ahead let you.
00:39:59
Start, start us off. OK, there was one note about the
00:40:07
pattern I wanted to bring up. This was in my outline.
00:40:09
It said across. We were talking about the
00:40:11
pattern and how this isn't just one woman.
00:40:13
It says across all four accounts a consistent pattern Emerge
00:40:15
Swallow would initiate friendly mentorship style contact, often
00:40:20
with younger women interested in politics, before escalating to
00:40:22
personal and sexual messages, frequently via Snapchat.
00:40:26
In the cases involving physical contact, alcohol was a factor.
00:40:33
Swalwell's preemptive campaign statement for the Chronicle
00:40:35
story was false, outrageous, and he blamed MAGA conspiracy
00:40:38
theorists in flailing opponents. Nice.
00:40:42
That's good. Blame Trump.
00:40:43
It's Trump's fault. Trump was the one who made all
00:40:46
these women come forward. I'm going to bubble up.
00:40:49
All my daughters and never let them out of the house.
00:40:51
Just don't let them near. Congressman from California.
00:40:54
Well, there's some good congressman from California.
00:40:55
I shouldn't say that. We know several good
00:40:59
Congressman, Kevin Kiley, Vince Fong.
00:41:00
They're good people. Here's my thought.
00:41:04
How does this play out in the wider race?
00:41:10
I think if you were a fan of the idea of two Republicans moving
00:41:14
on to the general election, I think this bolsters the odds
00:41:20
that this is going to happen. And I say that because after
00:41:25
this all came out, I went to the one place where you can get the
00:41:30
pulse of the leftist community, and that is Reddit.
00:41:33
And I went there and I went on the post under California
00:41:36
politics, the subreddit California Politics.
00:41:39
And I looked at the leftist arguing in the comments section
00:41:43
under the post about all of this, about who they're going to
00:41:46
support. And they couldn't decide on one
00:41:49
person. They said so one person said,
00:41:52
well, I think Tom Steyer has good ideas.
00:41:55
And they were met with a bunch of down votes and comments
00:41:57
saying we can't support evil billionaires.
00:42:00
Then someone said, well, Katie Porter's probably the best
00:42:03
second option. And then that person was met
00:42:05
with down votes and comments saying, unless you like abusive
00:42:09
and mean bosses, sure, you can go for Katie Porter.
00:42:11
And then people would say, well, what about Xavier Becerra?
00:42:14
And people would be like who or Antonio Villaraigosa?
00:42:17
I don't know. So I think if yeah, Betty Yee,
00:42:21
I'm just going to. Go back to her.
00:42:24
It might be Betty Yee. Maybe Betty Yee is the dark
00:42:26
horse. Maybe she just hangs around long
00:42:28
enough to just make it through. But I think because Swalwell had
00:42:34
such a concentration, probably the most concentration of
00:42:36
support, he was the Democratic frontrunner.
00:42:40
Now you have to think about all of that support is going to
00:42:42
fracture into different candidates.
00:42:44
And I don't think it's going to move the needle that much for
00:42:47
all these other candidates, which means, you know, the
00:42:52
Republican sport is coalescing about around Bianco and Hilton.
00:42:56
And we're going to talk about the kind of even split support
00:42:59
both Bianco and Hilton having, as we saw with the California
00:43:02
GOP endorsement process this weekend.
00:43:05
So I think Democrats are really in trouble right now.
00:43:09
And I had posted something on Instagram where they were
00:43:11
floating an idea. They were just floating this
00:43:14
idea polling people about would you be interested in a write in
00:43:20
campaign for Kamala Harris? Like that's how desperate
00:43:23
Democrats are now. They're freaking out and they're
00:43:25
like, well, what? What if we what if we get Kamala
00:43:28
Harris? What if we get people to write
00:43:30
in Kamala Harris, which write in candidates.
00:43:32
He's never work in a state like California.
00:43:34
And it'd be one hell of a organization to get Kamala
00:43:37
Harris to be a write in candidate for those who don't
00:43:40
know if they're. Panic.
00:43:41
There's a panic if they're, if they're throwing that idea
00:43:43
around, if they're even floating.
00:43:45
That idea out in public on X, just for people who don't know,
00:43:50
there's no new candidates. This is it.
00:43:52
The filing deadline passed on March 11th.
00:43:54
There's nobody coming to the rescue for Democrats.
00:43:57
This field that you have, this is it.
00:44:00
They weren't. Just floating the idea on X
00:44:02
Independent and Democrat voters were actually getting texts from
00:44:05
the party or from Pax or whatever asking.
00:44:08
Yeah, the. Polling.
00:44:09
Would you vote for? Would you write her in if she,
00:44:11
if she were right in candidate? So it wasn't just like some
00:44:15
random idea on social media. It was like, I think they're,
00:44:19
they're serious about about their desperation.
00:44:24
Like they're, they're desperately, they're seriously
00:44:27
desperate. They're really desperate.
00:44:30
Yeah, they. Are really.
00:44:33
And this shows you the level of panic that they have.
00:44:36
Usually they wouldn't be this panicked.
00:44:39
We discussed a little bit last week with the Round Table why
00:44:43
there's just no one pulling ahead.
00:44:44
We have different theories. Maybe it's just no big names, no
00:44:48
star power. The political dynasties have
00:44:50
come to an end. The Newsoms, the Browns, all of
00:44:53
it have kind of come to an end. There's nobody to pick up the
00:44:56
mantle, no heir apparent. Like Newsom was the heir
00:44:58
apparent after Brown. Brown was also political
00:45:01
royalty. There's just nobody impressive
00:45:04
on the Democratic side that makes you go, yeah, this
00:45:06
person's governor quality. And I just, I think that
00:45:10
fracturing, if you take his, let's say, I think it's 13% if
00:45:15
we're going by the one where Hilton and Bianco are leading,
00:45:19
you fracture that 13 amongst 5 other candidates, they're all
00:45:22
not going to get a lot a huge bump.
00:45:25
So maybe someone picks up two, maybe someone picks up three,
00:45:28
maybe Matt Mahan picks up three or something like that.
00:45:31
You spread that out and the Democrats are still in the same
00:45:34
position, which is they're still trailing Hilton and Bianco.
00:45:37
So there's a, now they're really freaking out that this, this
00:45:41
could be it. This really could be the
00:45:43
doomsday scenario for Democrats where two Republicans head to
00:45:46
the general election in California.
00:45:48
And if that happens, I guarantee you next year there's going to
00:45:51
be a proposition on the ballot initiated by the legislature,
00:45:56
initiated by the legislature for a constitutional amendment that
00:45:59
they're going to get rid of the jungle primary.
00:46:00
I guarantee you if that happens, they are absolutely, 100% going
00:46:05
to get rid of the jungle primary.
00:46:06
So this never happens again. It will from for then on will
00:46:10
always be, it'll always be Democrat versus Republican.
00:46:13
It'll be back to the old school way of doing it.
00:46:15
So which changes how endorsements work and we're
00:46:19
going to get into that in a little bit.
00:46:21
Anyway, your thoughts on what this fallout means?
00:46:24
Well, I want to go back to 2020. 4 Real quick, when Katie Porter
00:46:29
was running for U.S. Senate with Adam Schiff and then
00:46:36
Steve Garvey. Is that his name?
00:46:38
My OK, so and Garvey was the Republican and Katie Porter came
00:46:45
in the third, I think at the on the primary.
00:46:47
So she did not make it to the general that did kind of show
00:46:50
where her popularity is or was at as as far as she's concerned.
00:46:56
I don't think she's a very likable person.
00:46:59
You know, she's pretty obnoxious.
00:47:00
We've seen her now since then. I mean, this wasn't even at the
00:47:03
time, but since then, we've seen now how she tends to treat
00:47:05
people in interviews, how she feels about Trump voters and
00:47:09
Republicans in general, and then of course, her staff.
00:47:12
And then the mashed potatoes story keeps getting regurgitated
00:47:15
of her allegedly dumping steaming hot mashed potatoes on
00:47:19
her husband's head, her ex husband's head.
00:47:21
And so I don't think she's like a popular person.
00:47:25
And she she was really, it was funny because her whole thing
00:47:29
was that she was spending all this money and attacking Schiff.
00:47:34
And yet Garby Kirby beat her like a Republican in California
00:47:39
beat her in that race. Now, he did not win.
00:47:41
Obviously, we knew Adam Schiff would take it and he did.
00:47:43
But, you know, going to the GOP. Are you ready to talk about
00:47:48
that? I might want to just bring that
00:47:49
up yet the convention. Yeah, two more things I want to
00:47:53
before we can move on to that. Why don't you do that and then I
00:47:56
can? Carry on, OK.
00:47:59
Just as a reminder, I think we brought this up before, another
00:48:02
thing that could hurt the Democrats is that his name, Will
00:48:05
is still on the ballot. So people can vote for Eric
00:48:08
Swalwell in this governor's race, even though he's suspended
00:48:11
his campaign. So think about every vote that
00:48:13
people vote if they're real Eric Swalwell stands.
00:48:17
I I don't know what to tell you. I mean, well, if you're really
00:48:21
not paying attention to the. News and just know his name.
00:48:23
When you show up like you're like, oh, I vote.
00:48:25
And then you show up to vote and you're like, Oh yeah, that guy.
00:48:28
That was the one. I'd be amazed.
00:48:30
To see how many people actually end up voting for Eric.
00:48:31
They will vote. People will vote.
00:48:33
Huge. But they will.
00:48:34
People will vote and that. Kind of is sad about California
00:48:38
politics and the state of California politics that people
00:48:40
will vote for him. So that's something that I think
00:48:43
really needs to be emphasized is that his name isn't coming off
00:48:45
the ballot. It's there.
00:48:46
It's not coming off. The deadline is passed for his
00:48:49
name to come off the ballot. So he's going to siphon votes
00:48:51
away. Also.
00:48:53
The other thing is, is this is how fast politics moves.
00:48:57
Every time we think this story is the craziest story, there's a
00:49:01
new story that always comes out. It's endless, endless stuff to
00:49:03
talk about in politics. Last week at this time, we were
00:49:06
talking about how does the Trump endorsement change the field?
00:49:10
Because we thought maybe the Trump endorsement changes the
00:49:13
kind of political feeling in California of, oh, now the
00:49:16
endorse Hilton, Trump's toxic. Maybe that changes it.
00:49:23
Maybe that allows someone like an Eric Swalwell to catch up and
00:49:26
be in the top 2. Now you look, it's a week later
00:49:29
and like Eric Swalwell is the whole thing.
00:49:31
That's all people are talking about.
00:49:32
People have forgotten about the Trump endorsement story.
00:49:35
Eric Swalwell has basically just left a big steaming pile of you
00:49:40
know what in the Democratic primary and they're freaking
00:49:45
out. So somebody said Katie Porter
00:49:50
douses her enemy's heads in hot mashed potatoes like she did her
00:49:53
ex-husband. That's literally medieval age
00:49:55
type stuff. Yeah, if you don't agree with
00:50:00
her, she's just going to throw hot mashed potatoes on your head
00:50:03
anyway. Go back to what you were saying,
00:50:05
and then we're going to pivot to the California GOP.
00:50:08
Well. My my comments kind of had to do
00:50:10
with that. So I want if you want to talk
00:50:13
about the GOP real quick and then go ahead.
00:50:15
I want. You to finish your thought.
00:50:17
So can I talk about the GOP convention?
00:50:20
You could, whatever you were. Going to talk about before I
00:50:22
said my two things. OK, so the GOP.
00:50:24
Convention was this past weekend and so this year being an
00:50:28
election year, then they do vote to endorse.
00:50:30
So should I walk through this process real quick?
00:50:34
Yes, I think it's. Important because we posted this
00:50:38
Sun. Was it Sunday?
00:50:39
We had so much hate. Oh my gosh, people.
00:50:41
It was just a post. Of like this happened like the
00:50:45
sky. It was just Sunday.
00:50:46
We're like, hey, this happened. Do you wonder what he called the
00:50:49
sky like? OK, so at convention, no, I'm a
00:50:54
former delegate. So I have, I am not currently a
00:50:56
delegate, but I have, I have been through this process.
00:50:59
So the convention's from Friday to Sunday and then on in an
00:51:05
election year, on Sunday morning, the delegates all meet
00:51:09
for about 3 hours, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM and they vote on agenda
00:51:15
items and stuff and then with endorsements.
00:51:18
So what happens is you need 2/3 of the delegates to vote to
00:51:23
endorse a candidate for them to get the endorsement.
00:51:26
That's the bylaws. If you don't agree with it,
00:51:28
fine, join the GOP, become a delegate and then vote to change
00:51:32
the bylaws. OK, that's but otherwise that's
00:51:35
the bylaws and that's that's the rule and that's how this goes.
00:51:37
So you go into the room and there's you sit in your assigned
00:51:43
county and if you, if you want to go in and observe and be a
00:51:47
part of the convention and you're not a delegate, that's
00:51:49
fine. They just, they don't let you
00:51:51
sit like you have to stand. It's just a thing.
00:51:53
The seats are just for the delegates and like the board is
00:51:56
up on the stage and then they have these huge screens that
00:51:58
will have the agenda item. So whatever you're voting on.
00:52:00
And you get a little electronic device like, you know, like a
00:52:03
little cell phone kind of thing, and there's just a few buttons
00:52:05
on it. It's very basic and it's like
00:52:08
yes or no, one or two kind of thing.
00:52:10
They make sure that your little thing is working.
00:52:12
It's like, OK, everyone, please press 1 to vote yes and, and
00:52:16
that you make sure OK, is it working?
00:52:17
If it's not working, raise your hand.
00:52:18
They come to you, they, they help you like there's nothing
00:52:21
nefarious going on. They do not leave room for error
00:52:24
here. It's all OK, we're good,
00:52:26
whatever. So when it comes to the
00:52:28
endorsements, then they they list the candidates, you know,
00:52:33
123, whatever harmony there are. And so a lot of the candidates
00:52:39
were endorsed as far As for, you know, attorney general and
00:52:42
Secretary of State and all those when they get to governor, the
00:52:46
vote is almost evenly split. I forget the exact numbers, 496
00:52:51
for Bianco and like 452. So OK. 442 for Hilton, so 49 to
00:52:58
44. Percent now.
00:53:01
These things, like I said, it happens from 9:00 AM to 12:00
00:53:04
PM. People that have come from this,
00:53:06
what was in San Diego, so people that came from the north, they
00:53:09
have flights to catch. You have to check out a hotel
00:53:11
kind of thing like people are starting to leave the room.
00:53:14
And sometimes the agenda items because people can argue like
00:53:17
they can, you know, the debate over agenda items and sometimes
00:53:20
things can go long. And so now this is like the last
00:53:23
item and it's you kind of have to just keep moving.
00:53:26
So there has been like in previous delegate sessions there
00:53:34
they have then when the OK nobody got the 2/3 they will
00:53:38
then sometimes vote on a revote like should we revote yes or no.
00:53:42
Well, in this instance, there was no revote.
00:53:45
They just, they had to move on. Everyone had to leave and do
00:53:48
their thing. And again, because people have
00:53:50
flights to catch the delegates, the rooms start emptying out and
00:53:53
they show. So when you leave, you check
00:53:55
your out, your little electronic device, you're not allowed to
00:53:57
carry it out of the room to go to the bathroom, nothing like
00:53:59
that. So at any given time, they know
00:54:01
how many of these electronic machines are in action in the
00:54:03
room. So let's say that fifty people
00:54:07
have flights to catch and they leave and there's, you know, the
00:54:09
endorsement's not happening. Anyway, I just wanted to like
00:54:11
give that because I think a lot of people don't know that this
00:54:13
is how it works. 496. Bianco 442 Hilton and so nobody
00:54:23
won the endorsement and that's that's fine.
00:54:27
That's not a big deal. It just means OK, we didn't we
00:54:31
didn't have the popular vote, the votes needed.
00:54:33
And so we're not endorsing. That's OK.
00:54:36
Like that's literally OK Delegates are some are elected
00:54:39
politicians, others are just people like us who want to be
00:54:43
involved. It was, you know, this, there's
00:54:45
like a lot of learning when you see that to, to get involved, if
00:54:48
you're interested in politics and you want to become a
00:54:50
delegate because you really want the insider or like see how this
00:54:52
works and be a part of change and all that.
00:54:54
And that's what I did and it was fun and, and I hope to do it
00:54:57
again someday. I'm just not right now.
00:55:00
So it's everyday people who care about politics and they even if
00:55:07
the GOP had endorsed a candidate, it doesn't mean that
00:55:10
you had to go with their endorsement.
00:55:12
You were a a free human being who can vote for Bianca Hilton,
00:55:18
David Mercury, Leo Zaki, Berks, Walwell, Kate, you know,
00:55:22
whatever you can vote for anybody on the ballot that is
00:55:25
that whether or not the endorsement.
00:55:28
And then GOP central committees will endorse candidates as well.
00:55:31
And you even if your local GOP central committee endorses
00:55:36
candidate, you, you, you're a free person.
00:55:38
Like you don't have to vote for who they endorsed or didn't
00:55:42
endorse or whatever. Like it's you go vote how you
00:55:44
want to vote. So again, this is not a huge
00:55:46
deal. It just would have been like
00:55:48
name recognition. There probably would have been a
00:55:51
flyer, one of them if you know, had gotten the endorsement, then
00:55:54
they can share like endorsed by the and and you know, there's
00:55:57
name recognition there. Absolutely yes.
00:56:00
But that didn't happen, so now you all have to go and read
00:56:03
their policies and decide for yourself who to vote for.
00:56:05
But. Going back to.
00:56:08
Sorry, that was really long. Going back to what Phil had
00:56:10
said, you know, they're Democrats are kind of desperate.
00:56:14
It looks like their votes going to be really split amongst their
00:56:17
other 5 not so popular people and maybe they're going to bring
00:56:22
in Harris as a riot and who knows.
00:56:24
But. Being that.
00:56:27
Steve Hilton was endorsed by Trump.
00:56:29
A lot of MAGA loyalists will definitely go with that
00:56:32
endorsement. You know, that did boost
00:56:34
Hilton's name recognition, of course.
00:56:35
And I have in past elections seen people say, I'm waiting to
00:56:39
see who Trump endorses. I'm going to vote for the Trump
00:56:42
endorsement. OK, that's fine.
00:56:43
If you you want to go with that too, that's your decision, your
00:56:46
vote. And so Hilton obviously didn't
00:56:50
get the endorsement, but he did get Trump's endorsement.
00:56:53
So MAGA loyalist in California. Cool.
00:56:56
But I think that this then is going to boost Chad Bianco, who
00:57:00
even though he's been pulling high as well, he's kind of been
00:57:03
the underdog of the top of Steve Hilton versus Bianco.
00:57:07
I feel like Bianco has been the underdog, especially Hilton has
00:57:10
the name recognition. He's been on Fox News forever
00:57:12
and stuff. So I think that then like the
00:57:18
more conservative Republicans in California are going to vote for
00:57:22
Bianco. And then I think the
00:57:28
disenchanted said even a word, Democrats who are like more
00:57:32
middle and don't want to vote for a Democrat will probably
00:57:36
learn more towards Bianco because he's not Trump endorsed.
00:57:40
And so the fact that, you know, he didn't get the any
00:57:44
endorsement of the GOP or or Trump, like I think that
00:57:50
actually boosts his popularity a little bit.
00:57:52
I could be very wrong. And now let's just say that this
00:57:57
happens and those two do make it to the general in November.
00:58:00
This is where we could and this is a lot of ifs, OK, But we
00:58:06
could see that red wave that people talk about because the
00:58:09
liberals and like the far leftist, they're not going to
00:58:13
want to show up to vote for either candidate.
00:58:15
If it's Bianca versus Hilton on the general, they're they're,
00:58:20
they're going to be like, no, I'm not, I'm not doing that.
00:58:22
And so they generally, you know, people tend to vote down ballot.
00:58:26
So when you don't have a governor that you want to vote
00:58:29
for, then you probably aren't going to vote if you're that
00:58:31
average or below average voter. When I say below average, that
00:58:34
sounds so insulting and I don't mean it that way.
00:58:36
And so that now gives us. They call them low.
00:58:38
Information voters OK. Low information voters see not
00:58:45
not a political expert over here.
00:58:48
That then can. Possibly boost our assembly and
00:58:52
maybe red wave wasn't the right word either, but that could
00:58:55
possibly be our opportunity to break up the supermajority one
00:59:00
party rule that we have had in California all this time.
00:59:03
And so I, well, I'm not necessarily, I don't, I don't
00:59:08
think that will happen. It's possible and I'm hopeful.
00:59:13
Yeah. I.
00:59:14
Hadn't thought about that as an excellent point that top of the
00:59:17
ticket and does impact down ballot.
00:59:21
It's basic political science. I had never really thought of
00:59:26
that. So that's an excellent point
00:59:27
that if both of them move on to the general, you're right,
00:59:30
there's going to be a lot of leftists who just sit it out and
00:59:35
they may, you know, let's be honest, there are a lot of
00:59:37
people who just go in, they say, OK, I want X person to be
00:59:42
governor because I like this person.
00:59:45
And then they just vote party down the ballot.
00:59:47
They don't care. So you're right, a good portion
00:59:52
of people will probably just not show up and be like, I'm just
00:59:54
not going to vote because who am I going to vote for?
00:59:56
I don't like Hilton or Bianco. And maybe they don't realize you
01:00:00
still have to vote for all these down ballot races.
01:00:05
There could be a possibility, maybe we get another statewide
01:00:09
office. That turns red, which would be
01:00:14
really. Funny, given the Prop 50 thing,
01:00:16
if the Democrats really don't show up to vote after passing
01:00:19
Prop 50 and all these races all. These new congressional races
01:00:23
don't see a huge blue wave and all these flip seats that would
01:00:26
be politics is crazy politics. This is why.
01:00:30
That's why I think it's got fun. Nothing to do with what Eric
01:00:33
Swalwell is accused of, but This is why politics just got fun,
01:00:36
yeah. It's, it's definitely, I hadn't
01:00:40
really thought of that. That's an interesting paradigm
01:00:41
and that could this could be like a once in a long time
01:00:45
opportunity for those people who we've talked about, you want to
01:00:48
push California more towards purple and not deep blue.
01:00:52
This might be the best opportunity to push it farther
01:00:57
back to the right as opposed to the left because you'll get a
01:01:00
lot of Republican. Not to mention, don't forget
01:01:03
it's very light. We pretty much know that the
01:01:05
voter ID thing is going to be on the ballot.
01:01:07
So if a lot of leftists don't show up and don't downvote the
01:01:11
voter ID thing, then you're going to get voter ID.
01:01:14
You could get voter ID and a Republican governor in
01:01:17
California in 2026. It is an absolute real
01:01:20
possibility those two things could happen in 2026 in
01:01:24
California. If I told you 4 years ago that
01:01:27
this could happen, I bet nobody would have ever guessed that
01:01:29
four years from now we're going to get, there's a good
01:01:32
possibility we're going to get voter ID and a Republican
01:01:34
governor. I would have thought, well, what
01:01:36
happened? Did like Trump come in and
01:01:38
deport every Democrat just because he could?
01:01:40
I like that would be the only way I could think of this.
01:01:43
So maybe that's why Democrats are really freaking out as they
01:01:46
know if it's two Republicans at the top of the ticket, it hurts
01:01:50
down ballots. And I, I appreciate your
01:01:54
explanation of the process, how this happens because I, we
01:02:00
posted that the other day and you and I were kind of telling
01:02:04
you like the backlash was like, guys, we're just, we're just
01:02:07
telling you, we're just reporting what happened.
01:02:10
Facts without an opinion. Literally like we didn't say.
01:02:12
Like we didn't add like a qualifier.
01:02:14
I didn't add like any opinion. I just hey, breaking our sources
01:02:17
had confirmed that they didn't endorse anybody.
01:02:20
Yes, we have sources. People who love the show and are
01:02:23
close to the show let us know this kind of information.
01:02:29
And we just said it and people were freaking out like, oh, we
01:02:32
the people should be deciding, blah, blah, blah.
01:02:33
Well, guess what? Good news.
01:02:35
We the people are still going to decide on June 2nd.
01:02:38
You still get to go. You still get to vote who you
01:02:40
want. This was literally just a, this
01:02:44
was just a formality. So when you parties, this is how
01:02:48
party apparatuses work. This is why you have political
01:02:51
parties. It's not just, hey, we're
01:02:54
running as this party or that party.
01:02:56
There's a reason you're part of a party is because there's a
01:02:58
formal process to get endorsed, which means maybe you get more
01:03:02
ads, maybe you get more money, maybe you get more visibility.
01:03:07
And they have to figure out, OK, how does the party figure out
01:03:10
who they're going to endorse? They're not just going to slap
01:03:12
endorsements on it. And that's what delegates are
01:03:14
for. And there's almost 1000
01:03:16
delegates who are voting on Sunday for this, and it's 496 to
01:03:21
442. I think it was close to 1000
01:03:23
people voted for this. That's a lot of people who voted
01:03:26
for this endorsement and it didn't happen.
01:03:29
Now their bylaws say it has to be 2/3.
01:03:33
That's the bylaws that again, the bylaws of any party are
01:03:39
usually voted on by delegates of the party or people in the
01:03:43
party, right, Is that delegates vote on the So they have to come
01:03:47
up with these bylaws of how the party operates.
01:03:50
And I can guarantee you the people who are showing up to
01:03:53
those delegate voting is not in the large numbers.
01:03:58
As for governor of California, there's also proxies.
01:04:02
People send in their proxy votes.
01:04:04
People can proxy and say like, hey, I won't be able to make it.
01:04:06
Here's my proxy vote, you can go vote for me.
01:04:10
So I've been a proxy for Phil. When he was a former delegate
01:04:14
and Phil just trusted that I would vote.
01:04:19
How he would or. Or that whatever I'm going to
01:04:22
vote for, he's probably going to believe in.
01:04:24
Like, you know, there's certain things that he had an opinion
01:04:27
on, but there's agenda items that you don't necessarily know.
01:04:29
And so if you're going to give your proxy to someone, you
01:04:31
definitely want to know that you trust that they're going to
01:04:34
either follow who you wanted or specific items, whatever, or
01:04:38
just trust that they are going to do, You know, you're just
01:04:41
going to be like, OK, you know what?
01:04:42
I trust that you're going to make the right decision.
01:04:44
Yeah. So that's how it works.
01:04:46
So that's just a clarification of what happened.
01:04:49
It wasn't like corruption or the higher ups or people were paid
01:04:52
off or there was cheating or anything like that.
01:04:54
Like this is a very thorough process.
01:04:56
We're just saying this as an explainer of the behind the
01:05:00
scenes, like inside baseball, of how parties pick who they
01:05:04
endorse. So we felt like we had to
01:05:08
explain that. But I think in a way this helps
01:05:14
Republicans. If you're looking for two
01:05:16
Republicans, move on to the general.
01:05:18
Not only does Eric Swalwell dropping out of the race make a
01:05:20
big deal, but also I think because they didn't endorse
01:05:23
anybody, it helps 2 Republicans get to the general.
01:05:28
Because not trying to disparage low information voters.
01:05:31
There's it's fine. You're voting, you're showing
01:05:34
up, whatever you want to call them.
01:05:35
Whatever, Camille. Wants to call them below
01:05:38
average, you know, whatever derogatory name she wants to
01:05:41
call them. There's a lot of people who
01:05:44
literally just they get the pamphlet in the mail from the
01:05:47
California Republican Party. They go who's endorsed by a
01:05:50
governor. Oh, OK, it's so and so for
01:05:53
governor. It's so and so for Secretary of
01:05:55
State. It's so and so for attorney
01:05:57
general. They don't know who these people
01:05:58
are, but they're like, well, I'm a loyal Republican voter or
01:06:01
Democratic voter and they say this is just who I'm going to
01:06:04
vote for. That's fine.
01:06:06
That's that's. Seriously, that's fine if that's
01:06:08
what you need to do. Yeah, that's fine.
01:06:09
Wait. I don't.
01:06:11
Yeah, you can just. Vote.
01:06:12
If you're a loyal party person and you just say, whoever
01:06:15
Republicans tell me to vote for, I'm going to show up and vote.
01:06:17
That's one thing. That's why it makes a big deal
01:06:19
to get this endorsement. But without that, it now forces
01:06:24
a lot of these people who are kind of, they don't, they're not
01:06:27
being spoon fed who they need to vote for.
01:06:30
Have to kind of look into it and go, hmm, there's Hilton, there's
01:06:33
Bianco, who do I like better? And people are going to show
01:06:38
out. And I think it invigorates both
01:06:41
camps, Hilton and Bianco, to show up because if either one of
01:06:46
them got the endorsement, like let's say Hilton got the Trump
01:06:51
and the California GOP endorsement, I think that takes
01:06:55
a lot of wind out of the sails of the Bianco camp.
01:07:00
And a lot of donors will probably go, OK, we're going to
01:07:02
stop donating to Bianco. He didn't get any endorsements.
01:07:04
He's done. This kind of reminds me going in
01:07:07
the Wayback Machine back when this show first started, if
01:07:11
there's any Ogs out there who remember this in 2018 when the
01:07:15
show started, there was Travis Allen versus John Cox in the
01:07:21
Republican primary, and it was close.
01:07:24
There was a lot of people who were Travis Allen fans because
01:07:27
he was the more MAGA guy and I think Trump endorsed John Cox,
01:07:32
which put him over the top. But it was, this is an example
01:07:35
of what, yeah, that's what happened was John Cox got the
01:07:39
Trump endorsement. The California Republican Party
01:07:42
then endorsed John Cox, who went on to face Gavin Newsom for his
01:07:47
first term. He got crushed.
01:07:50
I think it was like 7030. It wasn't even, like, close.
01:07:54
He didn't have the bear that year, that was that was the
01:07:57
campaign. He did not.
01:07:59
That was the second campaign. If only the bear.
01:08:03
Oh my gosh, it's the bear. What was his name?
01:08:06
Klubek. Who gave the his bear pin to
01:08:08
Swalwell? My gosh, yeah.
01:08:11
They caught him outside his home.
01:08:12
They asked him about Eric Swalwell and he had some weird
01:08:14
thing about it. He said you don't bust the trust
01:08:16
or something. You're right.
01:08:18
No, but you guys didn't know what I'm talking about.
01:08:19
Obviously. Sorry I'm going way off and just
01:08:21
making jokes but we. Showed the fear on CNN how
01:08:25
cringe that was. He was like, I am now passing my
01:08:27
passing my pin, my governor's pin that I've been wearing on
01:08:30
the campaign trail to Eric Swalwell as like Klobeck was
01:08:34
running what? And people are like who are.
01:08:36
You. Why do we care?
01:08:37
What? Yeah.
01:08:39
Going back to that story. So in 2018, John Cox got the
01:08:42
endorsement from the California Republican Party, and Trump went
01:08:45
on to get slaughtered. Point of the story is, I thought
01:08:47
Travis Allen was the better grassroots candidate.
01:08:51
I thought he was more energizing.
01:08:52
He was younger. I thought he had people who were
01:08:55
actually invigorated. Travis Allen had the absolute
01:08:58
best. Drop the mic debate line against
01:09:02
Gavin Newsom in history where he said how can you trust if you
01:09:06
can't even trust Gavin Newsom with your your friend's wife,
01:09:09
how can you trust him with your state absolute killer line.
01:09:12
You can go look it up on YouTube.
01:09:14
Baller move. But that's an example of what
01:09:18
could have happened. But that didn't happen here.
01:09:21
So now you have no endorsement from the California Republican
01:09:24
Party. I think both move on and here we
01:09:28
are. I think there's, if you asked me
01:09:30
last week, my, my confidence in whether or not 2 Republicans are
01:09:34
going to move on, I probably would have put it around 20%,
01:09:38
like 2025% chance that I think 2 Republicans move on this week.
01:09:43
I think it's past 50. Like I'm just going to say that
01:09:46
I think it's past 50% chance that we actually get 2
01:09:49
Republicans moving on. So in a way, people got pissed
01:09:55
at our Instagram post and said all types of things about us and
01:09:59
saying that we thought people were cheating or somehow we
01:10:02
were, I don't know, doing the blame.
01:10:04
We're definitely to blame for what?
01:10:05
Happened, that's for sure. Like, like, it's individual
01:10:08
people. It was people, yeah.
01:10:10
People were like. Yelling at us.
01:10:11
They were blaming us like we did something.
01:10:13
I'm like, bro, I'm not even a delegate or a member of the
01:10:17
party anymore. Like what I have?
01:10:18
No, I'm still I'm still a member of the.
01:10:20
Party mill's still a. Member of the party I am no, but
01:10:23
like what like you're blaming us.
01:10:26
I we have nothing to do with this.
01:10:29
So anyway, I want to read some of the comments Laci said
01:10:33
regarding this was when you were explaining she said this was so
01:10:35
insightful. Thank you for this.
01:10:38
She's checking in from Santa Barbara beautiful area of
01:10:41
California. I was just going to say that.
01:10:43
I need to go there. I mean, I've been there, but
01:10:44
I've been too long since I've been in.
01:10:45
Santa Barbara, that's a great place to go.
01:10:47
Iceman says Bianco's mustache outranks Trump's endorsement.
01:10:51
Fairpoint. He's got a He's got a strong
01:10:54
mustache. Yeah, it's a good.
01:10:56
I think the Palisades fire has a huge role to play in the state,
01:10:58
turning purple, if not red. It's time.
01:11:02
Yeah, there's a lot of people who are pissed off about the
01:11:04
fires. I did see that Spencer Pratt
01:11:07
moved into the second position in polling.
01:11:09
They're facing their own primary in LA, So again, it's top 2.
01:11:14
That's how California works. So whoever the top two run off
01:11:16
in LA, if gas prices are still high by the election, it will be
01:11:21
a low turn out, which is good for us.
01:11:24
OK, SFA area native and I believe it's time for a change.
01:11:31
And that change comes from removing the party that has been
01:11:34
charged for the last 30 years in California.
01:11:38
The gentleman that said don't bust a trust had to know about
01:11:40
Fang Fang before endorsing Eric, yet acted surprised of the
01:11:43
current allegations because that puts his character in question
01:11:46
now, of course Yeah, wait to see who he and if he.
01:11:51
Does endorse anybody? Wait to see who he endorses and
01:11:53
don't vote for that candidate. Yeah, Kluebeck, who is a
01:11:57
billionaire, tried to buy our support.
01:12:00
That was interesting. I'm not ashamed to blow the lid
01:12:04
on that. They had messaged me personally
01:12:07
and asked if we would wear Kluebeck stuff on the show.
01:12:10
They were like, we'll pay you and give you Kluebeck stuff.
01:12:14
You just have to wear it on the show.
01:12:15
And I'm like, guess you've never watched this show before.
01:12:18
So all right, I think that covers everything.
01:12:24
It's about 914. We've got one a little bit over
01:12:27
any other thought I really long No I.
01:12:30
Should stop talking. Should.
01:12:32
We finish with I I do want to do this one video of how it how you
01:12:41
know, just just to say goodbye to Eric Swalwell one more time.
01:12:46
Let me see if I can pull this up.
01:12:49
Is this going to work? I've already I've watched this.
01:12:51
Video so many times because I made my own edit of it so I
01:12:55
think I'm going to share my edit on it like when we are done with
01:12:59
the show is it going? To load, that's the question.
01:13:02
Is it going to load? Let's see if it loads OK.
01:13:07
If not. You'll have to go to Kino's
01:13:09
Instagram. Absolutely not.
01:13:13
Could you think I could be going there?
01:13:15
Didn't cross my. Mind appreciate that confidence.
01:13:23
What has? Surprised you the most that
01:13:25
you're hearing from people? I would say just how proud
01:13:34
everyone is in every part of the state to be Californian, like
01:13:38
almost like you got to be crazy to live anywhere else.
01:13:42
But also how scared people are, like really scared.
01:13:45
Yeah, I'm scared. Fang Fang.
01:13:50
But what I see. Prostate is people are
01:13:53
optimistic and there's a way for us to get through it, I think.
01:14:00
You just got my interest. You got about the.
01:14:01
Mortgage fraud. You ready to do like a public
01:14:03
conversion? But even I don't think you need
01:14:05
mine. You have Adam Schiff.
01:14:09
So cringe. Not any longer.
01:14:12
So what do you think about me besides what they?
01:14:15
You know, only seen on TV that you're a really.
01:14:18
Great dad, you're a really good husband.
01:14:21
I think the kids that I truly. Can count on you.
01:14:26
For anything. And if I gave you?
01:14:31
The choice? I'm not sure if you would choose
01:14:34
to be governor of California or have the 49ers win the Super
01:14:37
Bowl. 49ers. Governor.
01:14:42
Definitely being. Governor of California.
01:14:44
And making a place where when we retire, it's a place where our
01:14:49
kids and everyone's kids can afford to live.
01:14:52
You're going to be a great governor.
01:14:54
Thanks. I don't think you're going to be
01:14:59
a great governor, Eric Swalwell. I don't think you're going to.
01:15:02
Ever be a governor? I don't think he's going to be.
01:15:05
I didn't know you were going to show my.
01:15:06
Edit Nope. I told you I was going to show
01:15:09
it on the show. Did I tell you?
01:15:11
No, I didn't tell you. Surprised you didn't tell me.
01:15:12
Surprised, I told. You I was going to queue it up
01:15:14
I'm. Posting on.
01:15:15
Instagram now because I think I'm hilarious.
01:15:18
All right, Eric Swalwell, I would say we barely knew you,
01:15:22
but we knew a little bit too much about you and we're finding
01:15:24
out more about you that we don't want to know.
01:15:26
So that was our send off video to Eric Swallow.
01:15:31
Who knows what next week will hold in California politics
01:15:34
because last week was crazy. This week is crazy.
01:15:39
Who knows? Yeah, I want to.
01:15:41
Before we jump off, please share your opinions on what you think
01:15:45
may happen in this race. Do you do you think Bianca and
01:15:50
Hilton will both make it to the primary?
01:15:52
Do you think only one of them? I'm sorry, the general only one
01:15:56
of them and which Democrat I don't just tell us, tell us all
01:16:00
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01:16:03
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01:16:09
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01:16:10
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01:16:13
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01:16:15
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01:16:19
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01:16:22
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01:16:23
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