decide how they want california to be ruled for the next few years. kennedy? kennedy: interesting place. beautiful day. thank you, peter. let s talk about this. gavin newsom obviously has grand aspirations here. he has taken a pledge he will not run for president in 2020 but he is certainly looking beyond the state house in sacramento. how do you think the race will play out and do republicans stand a chance? newt: they have a chance. more chance than they have had in recent years because the combination of the massive tax increase. gasoline is more than $5 a gallon in california. 65% of californians say the state is too expensive for the cost of living. newsom is running with a commitment to both raise the income tax and raise the property tax and proposing to have a government-run health system which will be wildly expensive. so i think if cox can penetrate with a message just about the cost of being in california and newsom is the
military bases. marie: that is right. everyone said dianne feinstein would have a serious challenge from the very, very liberal democrat that ran against her who got like 10% of the vote. so yes, california is liberal. but there is a more moderate democratic party that still voted almost 50% for dianne feinstein that will help newsom. there just aren t enough republicans. especially if cox aligns himself with donald trump who is unpopular, even among california republicans. kennedy: but i ll say this about cox. if he can run the campaign in the general he is talking about, which is civil, and it s issue-based, he can reach some of the more con symptive democrats and there are a lot of independents in california. abby: people who don t want to live in sanctuary cities and there are a number in california. i would love for this fight to be competitive between cox and newsom. it would be interesting for the country to watch. but i think the midterms speaker you can speak to this a
problem, and if he can take every newsom attack on trump and turn it back into let s talk about california, i think this could become a much closer race. abby: gavin newsom tweeted respond good good night for campaign. he says please come campaign for him, trump, as much as possible. harris: bill hemmer s interview this morning with mr. cox. i would say this. he can do the things you are talking about because we watched him do it live on fox news this morning. he talked all about the spending and the legacy of the spending and the problems with the spending right now in the context of questions about sanctuary cities and all of that start of thing. he did that pivot from the criticism on the president that you are talking about. i know it s one interview. it was the first one i ve seen of him live since kind of taking on newsom. but it s interesting. newsom is part of that apparatus in california that is very tough to beat so it