get to the community of the unvaccinated through pastors and local press and community leaders and tried to do it quietly not from the white house rose garden or the press briefing room but to have people in their own communities. it was successful on the margins but not materially. we are looking at a community of people that have lost people in their community, that lost relatives. they ve lost radio talk show hosts. they ve lost ministers. they know this virus kills them. and they refuse to get vaccinated. at this point it is very hard to say that trying to educate the public on vaccines and the benefit will help us with regards to omicron. it is terrible what this does. people who choose to let themselves get sick or their family and communities get sick and to die of this virus impact everyone of course and therein lies the problem. how do you spare the cancer patient, the stroke patient, someone giving birth to a baby
when it comes to casting a ballot in this recall election from republicans. i caught up with one california native who says she has voted across party lines in the past, but this time around she wants republicans take a listen. reporter: what stands out about larry elder to you? i have known him for a long time. i have seen him around for a long time, so he s familiar to me, and he speaks the truth and he, you know, prides himself on that but with humility. reporter: still, a steep challenge for the right. remember, here in california democrats outnumber republicans two to one. alex. okay. emily ikeda, thank you so much there from north hollywood. three conservative radio talk show hosts, staunch critics of covid vaccines, are now dead from coronavirus. will their deaths be enough to convince their listeners to get vaccinated?
still out there, protect yourself, protect your family, roll up your sleeves. neil: it s still become a political point more than anything, doctor, we have seen sadly conservative radio talk show hosts that perished and gotten the virus died from it earlier on saying it was a waste of time. now i know that you try to skew politics but that sentiment that still build among plurality of americans some for quite other reasons, is that affecting our progress here because i did notice in doing my homework which i always do, doctor, that this labor day weekend, the vaccines we have but it s a worst outbreak than we had last year at this time? what do you make of it? doctor: well, i make of it two things, one is delta which is much more contagious than what we had a year ago. it s almost like we have a new pandemic because this virus
incumbent. he wasn t from politics, he ran a business. i m like a campaign is county fairs and dairy breakfasts and shaking hands seven days a week 24 hours a day. reporter: but she helped him make in roads with conservative operatives and radio talk show hosts. coupled with his accounting background. he won, ousting fine gold in a gop wave election. we need to restore fiscal sanity to this nation. reporter: they ran finegold again in 2016. and johnson notched another victory. this time alongside donald trump. what do you say when people are, like, what happened? well, i get two kinds of questions. one is what happened to ron johnson, and the other is, like, why is he saying and doing all this stuff. reporter: craig gilbert has been covering politics since the 1980s and following johnson
government is not serious business. and the other is people are saying things they know not to be true and that are repeating and internalizing things that are not true. that s what madeleine albright would say that is how it starts. i don t understand how they could still support a guy and still take roger stone s side. all the right wing radio talk show hosts will all be chirping today for roger stone and be talking about, oh, he made a mistake or, oh, come on, they re taking this all too seriously. but again, this is what they do. it s about in part at least and mainly it s about dehumanizing the other, it s about dehumanizing those who