face of a movement that we ve seen nationally in cities and counties around the country of progressive prosecutors who emphasize the term he would use was the car summation, who emphasized a different approach to criminal justice. we ve seen a number of prosecutors get elected in jurisdictions around the country. there was a backlash, here in san francisco from pretty early in boudin term. that backlash. but we know in california, as opposed to some other states that the threshold you have to clear to get a recall on the ballot is lower in california than it is in other states. , so here it is. a recall got on the ballot here. just update, he was elected in 2019. here we are now in june of 2022. he will be out of office. he, a stunning verdict indeed. steve, we re just kicking off two hours of special coverage this evening. what else are you looking at right now before we come back to you throughout the course of the next two hours? yeah, so, a lot of attention here in california.
emphasized a different approach to criminal justice. we ve seen a number of prosecutors get elected in jurisdictions around the country. there was a backlash, here in san francisco from pretty early in boudin s term. that backlash. but we know in california, as opposed to some other states that the threshold you have to clear to get a recall on the ballot is lower in california than it is in other states. so here it is. a recall got on the ballot here. chesa boudin, he was elected in 2019. here we are now in june of 2022. he will be out of office. yes, a stunning verdict indeed. steve, we re just kicking off two hours of special coverage this evening. what else are you looking at right now before we come back to you throughout the course of the next two hours? yeah, so, a lot of attention here in california. we said that this is probably the marquee race, a lot of people nationaly looking to see with voters in a place like san francisco recall and progressive prosecutor. , now we v
start tonight of a campaign that culminated in november. that s the other marquee race in california. and the final thing in california, we ll be keeping an eye on, a number of house races in california. remember, they do a top two primary system. democrats, republicans, everybody is on the same ballot. the top to advance to the general election. a couple of we can flags for you. i think this might be the most interesting right here, republican incumbent david valadao is an essential volley of valadao a republican who voted to impeach donald trump following january six. and, so here is the, dynamic you will, see there is a democrat and there are several republicans in this. race what s amicus nationally have been hoping for here is that valadao would get knocked off by one of these are the republicans. one of these are the republicans to jump up, finish in second place, and then valadao would lose on the spot. he would not advance to november. in fact, democrats have spent
maybe a little bit longer than that. what they are starting to do now is to count up the same day vote. the people who went up to the polls and voted today. of course that raises the question, is there a difference in how those folks voted in how the folks voted by mail. you ve already seen caruso take up about half a point as we started counting the same day vote. is there any possibility he did much better in the same day vote, it is 41. 2 starts to rise and he can get into the mid or high 40s when we start to talk about that 50%? it will take an awful lot for that to happen. but that is one thing we want to look at as that same day vote starts to get reported. but caruso, bass, very possibly this could be the start tonight of a campaign that culminates in november. that s the other marquee race in california. and the final thing in california, we ll be keeping an eye on, a number of house races in california. remember, they do a top two primary system. democrats, republicans, everyb
as as you ve been talking about, this is the mystery. this is the wild card. the one that i suspect tonight in georgia we ll spend the most time watching. we don t have a ton of polling, as katty kay mentioned. despite the drama around the count in 2020, these candidates don t have the kind of name recognition and profile you have in a gubernatorial race. so there is a lot of suspense. but raffensperger and then two other candidates, david belisle who ran for secretary of state in 2018. so there is a couple of questions here. one, does this end up in a runoff? do we end up in a situation where nobody gets 50% and hice and raffensperger becomes a marquee race that then plays out over the next several weeks as the lone statewide runoff in georgia. that is one possibility. again, we re kind of going into this with some mystery here because we don t really know what the polling looks like in