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two multiple times the floor is voting application can be process. talk about some of what you re hearing from voters, what kind of pitfalls are they facing trying to navigate this new law? would you said you re having to learn about on the way. absolutely, that store you mentioned. we all saw that firsthand here on the local news about the world war ii that trend who was always been mailing in his valid. of course the rules this year make it a bit harder. that s just one of many. there s so many rejections happening in counties. some of the largest counties across the state. and also, we haven t gotten to yet was the law that are forcing some of these rejections are also gonna impact return ballots. so just as there was confusion about whether or not to include your drivers license, or your social security number on your
know, is there a scenario where democrats are overconfident and don t show up tomorrow and then, could lose it? i think there s a case where it could get closer than it appears in the final polling because of that. the republican hope of winning this thing always depended on a low turnout. i mean, once you start getting up to 11 or 12 million voters, you literally run out of republicans. donald trump only got 6 million votes in an election where 18 million people voted in 2020. so democrats feel like they have an advantage of about 2 million banked in the return ballots so far. it would require a massive election day turnout to overcome that. but it is possible that it could get narrower than the final polling suggested, although right now, one last point, don, the in-person turnout which republicans are counting on was not super high over the weekend. while democrats may be projecting overconfidence, it s also possible that all of these claims of fraud are discouraging
extremely happy or satisfied with this governor and are going to vote no. david, the indications are so far that democrats have cast twice registered democrats have mailed in twice as many votes as registered republicans. does that tell a story? well, we still have a week to go plus election day voting. now, those numbers are a little bit behind the partisan breakdown in 2020. but 2020 was a blowout year for democrats. so, yeah, i think in terms of the return ballots, overall that looks good. there s some weakness amongst return ballots in the latino community, which has to be a focus not just the next week but i think for the next generation of the democratic party. i think, lawrence, the campaign and gavin newsom have done a good job of turning this into an elder-newsom race. as an incumbent, you want it to be a choice, not a referendum.