recall and forced a huge cost on the state in order to administer and were trying to overturn the 2018 election. a recall is best used when somebody does something that is corrupt or shows that they are incapable or does something that is even surprising. gavin newsom has been the governor they elected to. trace: which is not to say he s done everything right because he s made significant mistakes over the course of the pandemic. he made significant mistakes when it comes to fighting fires in california. the state is in many people s opinion, a mess. i think the voters of california strongly disagree. we are the ones in california. we are talking 65% rejecting this recall. trace: $80 million put towards it and bringing the president in the period 24% republicans in california. dub votes were cast before
was sane and magnificent win but a bellwether for the rest of the country. i m not sure that is true, but what do you think? will we see more candidates across the country painting republicans as trump, as trumpism? absolutely i don t think that beto o rourke and ted cruz will be much as close as we thought it was. you saw a lot of liberal californians fleeing the state and fling places like new york to go to red states. unfortunately, i m worried about making them purple, going to purple states and making them blue. i think there is deftly a part of the trump base of the republican party but as we have seen in california for many years, even pretrump era, california is not typical bible belt where i m from kind of republican. and we need to be focusing like i mentioned on school choice holds incredibly well in this
really never defended his record. it was all about painting larry elder as a clone of trump. trump if you vote for larry elder, and a lot of people said no, that will not work, well, it appears maybe it was effective. your thoughts. yeah, we have seen a lot of conservative recall referendum on democratic efforts to end the pandemic, which i suppose, now that newsom has won in a landslide, but this is also a referendum on republicans. i mean, elder is a lot like trump who is unusually unpopular in california and a lot of the rest of the country. and following trump s playbook of pretending that the election is unfair because he was likely to lose. californians and americans across the country frankly republicans only believing in
republicans to make this election coming up in 2020 about the future, but what is to come. if they can do that, they will be successful. trace: what about the future of gavin newsom? he will run again and is em bolded because we have a democratic consultant who says the following the republicans have gone after newsom for the last year and a half and have field. what makes them think they will have a better chance in the general election when the governor has convinced voters to let him stay? does may be the prospect of other democrats challenging him seem more appetizing to them after this recall or not? i don t know the challenge will come from democrats. i do think it is the case one should not misunderstand what happened tonight. tonight was not some glowing endorsement of everything that is going on in california. to the extent there are candidates next year willing to carry forward a message. listen there are things to
california recall is that republicans really only believe in democracy when they win. trace: what about recalls, elisha, the whole concept here is they have a bunch of recalls right now and they want to get the d.a.s left-wing d.a.s george, they want them out because they see crime rates going up. they see people nominees, by the way. trace: being put back on the streets, not only that but they see people walking into, you know cvs and grabbing armfuls of stuff and walking out with no consequences. yeah, because unfortunately propositions which cost if not more than a recall by the way for democrats to say that democracy, you know, the democratic process. i think is a wonderful thing cost too much money. i would like to check on those