state campaign where normally it just plays out on the airwaves. all right. thank you. let s go to josh campbell now in san francisco. how are local officials prerps to keep the votes secure as they count the ballots? yeah, despite this barrage of conspiracy theories that we ve heard, officials have been working for months to prepare for the security and the integrity of election. officials tell us for example, the by mail and in-person voting, it all has extensive tracking logs. a paper trail. so from the scanning to the tabulation to what comes after, all of that has data that surrounds it. we re told after election day, a manual count is actually done to ensure that the records posted on election day and shortly there after match what happened to the ballots. we re told, jake, what we will see here shortly, sheriff s deputies escort all the ballots from the 580 locations where the votes were cast in the city to this location. unheavy security to ensure the
with the riot on the capitol. nobody was stopping president trump from doing that and that s what prompted milley to do this. 100%. he knew china was rattled. he knew what he had seen on january 6th, but he had also now been through months, years of trump s explosive behavior, and woodward and costa write they were worried trump was after the election suffering serious mental decline and that he was unpredictable and unstable. the book also talks about then vice president mike pence reaching out for advice on what to do in the house of representatives on january 6th. trump was suggesting that he had some sort of magic power to overturn the election, which he does not have. what does it say, the book? so what the book recounts is a rather striking scene between mike pence and he reaches out to former vice president dan quail. dan quail.
kylie. there are some democrats on the ballot, as well with you tube personality kevin considered the leader of the democrats. top democrats supporting governor newsom. president biden and harris stumped with him on the closing days of the campaign warning this election has national consequences and it does. we have correspondents in newsom headquarters as we track the votes being cast today and millions of ballots already cast by mail during early voting. first, let s go to kyung lah covering governor newsom. kyung? reporter: jake, the message we re getting from team n uewso is confidence. the team is feeling confident and a top advisor is telling me quote, the blue tide keeps rising. what is he talking about? he s talking about turnout. the campaign is seeing strong turnout across this state, and
because this is all about making the democrats who are the vast majority of the electret in california anxious and worried enough to get out and actually vote, to counter the anger that is very real and very palpable for people in california to counter the anger for all of the reasons we know about and it seems as though, it was the steepest of hills to climb. in the anger initially around this recall was over covid and his handling of covid covid restrictions, right? bpeople thought he was going too far dinner at the french laundry. clouting the rules personally. this is how it gained steam and the delta variant came along and things changed all of a sudden and larry elder emerged. that is interesting to me. this, again, as was 2020, this seems to be a covid election and
recall. stephanie. you re right. part of the reason is what you see here. you see this long line of people. it s only gotten longer as people finished their workday and only getting longer. you have a lot of republican voters here and many of the people i spoke to said they want to make sure their vote was counted and they re showing up to do this in person. we talked to people who said they think newsom has done an awful job and want him out of office and one woman said this is a giant waste of time because they have an election next year for the governor s office and another person who just said overall, she thinks this is a good idea because this will make sure our elected leaders are held accountable. this line is now wrapping around the block. they will come through here just to show you what will happen here. these folks are standing in line to make it inside and based on what we seen before, it s about an hour long and go in here to the library. they go inside. they get their