WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.480 Gather around, folks, It's time for election winners and losers. Yes, 2 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:09.839 we know who the chief winner is, Donald Trump. We 3 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:12.640 know who the chief loser is, Kamala Harris. But I 4 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.880 want to go through just kind of mentally, the other 5 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:19.359 folks in the whole cast of characters of the twenty 6 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:26.640 twenty four election, statewide, maybe even locally, and talk through 7 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:30.760 who are the big winners, who are the big losers. 8 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:35.359 So let's go through it. We'll start at the national level. 9 00:00:35.399 --> 00:00:36.280 Maybe as we. 10 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:38.520 Go on through the show, we'll get some local people 11 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:42.600 for the losers segment especially, So. 12 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:45.600 Let's start with big winners. 13 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.359 I mean, obviously Donald Trump, but I don't want to 14 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.399 dwell too much on the obvious of Donald Trump. I 15 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:57.960 want to kind of look at other folks in the 16 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:03.679 cast of characters. I think one big winner coming out 17 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:04.239 of this. 18 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:07.319 Is JD. Vance. 19 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.560 Vance turned out to be after kind of a bit 20 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.879 of a stumble at the gate, Democrats were able to 21 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:20.159 make some hay out of Vance's old comments Vance had 22 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.920 made about you know, childless cat ladies and blah blah blah, 23 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.280 and that got about a week's worth of a news cycle. 24 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:28.519 But I feel like. 25 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:37.040 The campaign really shifted when Vance really started going on 26 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:42.799 the offensive, and Vance was on every Sunday morning show. 27 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:51.000 He was the lead communicator for the Trump campaign. Out 28 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:54.079 of all the Trump surrogates, he was certainly first and 29 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:58.120 foremost right front and center, and I think the vice 30 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:05.000 presidential debate wound up being incredibly consequential to the course 31 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:09.639 of the campaign. The contrast between him and Walls. Walls 32 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:15.599 looked incompetent. Vance absolutely beat the brakes off of him. 33 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:21.960 And I think that the picture that people had been 34 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.840 trying to paint of Vance he's some sort of wild 35 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:31.240 eyed lunatic who's you know, hates women or something, that 36 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:36.039 picture was really shown to be silly, and he was 37 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:41.919 actually so relatively civil to Walls while completely dismantling him, 38 00:02:43.039 --> 00:02:48.840 that actually, I think it really changed people's attitudes. I 39 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:51.639 think he comes out of this looking smelling like a rose. 40 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:54.639 And I think Trump comes out of the you know, 41 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:58.840 the debate about whom should Trump have picked for his 42 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:02.719 vice president? You know, when he picked Mike Pence, that 43 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:07.000 was clearly a we need to shore up the in 44 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.960 twenty sixteen, we needed to shore up the more traditional 45 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:15.520 Republican coalition. We needed someone who the establishment was comfortable 46 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.280 with because Trump was obviously so opposed to the Republican establishment, 47 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:22.479 so different from the Republican establishment, they needed someone to 48 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.360 represent that. Camp and Pence would sort of picture perfect 49 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.680 for that. The debate about whom Trump should pick as 50 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:35.039 vice president, you know, there were a lot of different options. 51 00:03:35.120 --> 00:03:38.319 There were some people like Marco Rubio was kind of 52 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:41.840 on the table as a possible pick, and you know, 53 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:48.520 some people were floating Doug Northam, the governor of North Dakota, 54 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:55.319 or Christy Nome. And apparently the argument for Vance was 55 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:00.759 coming from Eric and Don Junior, who we're trying to 56 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.360 make the pitch that no, no, no, no, no, we should 57 00:04:04.400 --> 00:04:08.319 double down on trump Ism, we should double down on 58 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:13.520 we don't you are the establishment of the party at 59 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.839 this point. We don't need to play kate that wing anymore. 60 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:23.000 Let's get someone who will carry on the legacy of 61 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:31.959 trump Ism, put an intellectual context to it. Let's get 62 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:36.199 someone like that. Let's go for Broke, let's swing for 63 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:38.680 the fences. At that time, you know, they were looking 64 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.639 at an incredibly weakened Joe Biden, and they were like, well, 65 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:46.639 why make a pick based on politically trying to you know, 66 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.240 there are two factors you can weigh when you're picking 67 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:52.360 a vice president. You factor in either will this person 68 00:04:52.399 --> 00:04:55.680 help me win the election or will this person help 69 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.879 me govern? And there's a lot of thought that, you know, 70 00:05:01.079 --> 00:05:03.800 Bill Clinton picked Al Gore more. 71 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:05.240 For the will he helped me win. 72 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:07.959 He was another Southern senator to you know, take away 73 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:09.240 Republican votes. 74 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:11.959 George W. 75 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.279 Bush meanwhile picked Dick Cheney, who was clearly a help 76 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.480 me govern person. Like he had picked Cheney to help 77 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.199 him select his vice president. Was so impressed by him 78 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:23.240 then he was like, well, why don't I just pick 79 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:25.519 you like you're You're clearly more competent than any of 80 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:32.720 these people. So I think Vance comes out of this 81 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:38.120 looking like clearly the successor to Trump. Well, you know, 82 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:40.120 you'll need to We'll need to wait and see how 83 00:05:40.199 --> 00:05:42.800 Vance performs as vice president over the next four years. 84 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:47.560 I have enormous confidence he's going to be at very 85 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:53.160 least a more able vice president than Kamala Harris was, 86 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:58.519 So I I'm really looking forward to that. I think 87 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.720 he will be a much more the undisputed leader with 88 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.959 much more of the party's confidence over the next four 89 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:12.319 years than Kamala Harris was coming into this election. Consequently, 90 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:16.319 maybe the biggest losers just the flip side of this, 91 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:21.319 the biggest loser on the Democrat side, and there were 92 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:25.519 a lot of losers. Maybe the biggest loser of them 93 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:29.879 all though, might be Tim Walls. There are maybe some 94 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.519 bigger losers. I mean, I think one of the big arguments, 95 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.199 the overwhelming case for why did Harris lose, I mean, 96 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:41.959 failure has a thousand fathers. Probably the overwhelming reason why 97 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:45.360 Harris lost is because Biden was a terrible president and 98 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:50.399 had a very unpopular president. His administration was not very good, 99 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:54.160 and she basically had nowhere to go with it if 100 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:58.720 she had to be continuity with Biden because she's his 101 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:02.120 vice president. But at the same time, she wanted to 102 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:05.000 be new, different from him because he was so unpopular. 103 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:07.720 But she can't throw him under the bus completely. But 104 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.319 so I think she was in an impossible position. So 105 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.920 Biden's maybe overriding the biggest loser. But the person who 106 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:20.040 proved himself to be a total waste of space was 107 00:07:20.079 --> 00:07:27.879 Tim Walls. Walls had like a good first week and 108 00:07:27.920 --> 00:07:33.600 then from that point on was a train wreck. He's 109 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:40.959 just weird. He's just a very strange guy with strange 110 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:49.560 mannerisms and a strange affect, who was constantly lying about 111 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:56.560 himself in odd, bizarre, self serving fashions, like, oh, saying 112 00:07:56.600 --> 00:07:58.720 that he was a football coach, he was kind of 113 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.360 an assistant coach because he was just teaching at this 114 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.519 high school, and then you know, proved himself to not 115 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:07.800 really know anything about football in various comments like a 116 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.680 AOC like they had some kind of oh, we need democrats, 117 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.120 we need to appeal to young men voters. So they 118 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:20.439 had Tim Wall's play Madden the NFL football game online 119 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:25.199 over the Internet against Alexandria Okazio Cortes. Of all people, 120 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.560 I guess she was the most masculine man they could find. 121 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:30.160 Maybe they think, okay, well AOC's pretty, so young men 122 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:32.200 will want to watch her, and then we'll have her 123 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:34.879 with Tim Walls and oh build up his his man 124 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.440 bona fides, which if that was actually their thinking, well 125 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:41.480 that's kind of sexist towards AOC, that she was just 126 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:45.799 there as eye candy. Anyway, so he's playing against AOC 127 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.519 and afterwards he tweets about it and says, AOC runs 128 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:54.000 a mean pick six. It's like a pick six is 129 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.120 a football term. But it's not like a play that 130 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.600 you run. A pick six means an interception that the 131 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:04.480 defense returns for a touchdown six points. Pick interception six, 132 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.519 it's not a play that you run. So he clearly 133 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.960 had for someone who was quote a football coach, had 134 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:19.840 seemingly less familiarity with football lingo than I do. I've 135 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.759 never played a snap of organized tackle football, and I 136 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:25.639 didn't play football in high school or anything. 137 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:26.240 But I don't know. 138 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.720 I've watched football my whole life. I know enough about 139 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.320 football to know that you don't say, run. 140 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.360 A pick six. Okay, that's a that's not a thing. 141 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:44.519 So beyond that, I mean, Plus his bizarre thing about 142 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.200 whether he whether he actually carried weapons of war and 143 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.200 was using it in combat when he never saw combat, 144 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.200 lying about what rank he had, all these weird little things, 145 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:00.759 and just his general affect was so strange. He was 146 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:06.519 a total nothing burger, a total He totally contributed zilch 147 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:12.440 to the Harris campaign. And the contrast between him versus say, 148 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:20.080 Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who is a very 149 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.879 good speaker, I think the governor of the single most 150 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:29.919 important of all the swing states, I think the contrast 151 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.039 between him and Shapiro was so great, and what I 152 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.279 think a lot of people don't have to be a 153 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:44.440 brilliant psychoanalyst. Shapiro is just clearly more competent than Harris is. 154 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:49.000 I think he's smarter than she is. He's more accomplished 155 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:52.360 than she is. He's better at speaking than she is. 156 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:54.519 I think he's quicker on his feet than she is. 157 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.679 And what was the thought process for her picking Walls? 158 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:06.600 I think, again, maybe this is uncharitable of me, but 159 00:11:06.840 --> 00:11:09.960 I don't think you need a brilliant psycho analysis here. 160 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:15.039 Walls is much Walls is less impressive than Harris's. I 161 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.840 think she picked someone who wouldn't out shiner. I think 162 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.320 if she wound up picking Shapiro, a lot of people 163 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:24.240 would be looking at that ticket and saying, why the 164 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:27.120 heck isn't Shapiro at the top of this ticket. He 165 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.039 seems more impressive than she is. By almost any measure, 166 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:36.879 he's more impressive than she is. Tim Walls was such 167 00:11:36.919 --> 00:11:39.399 a nothing burger that, in fact, it looks like the 168 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.919 Minnesota State their lower House, like their version of the 169 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:50.679 State House of Representatives, is flipping Republican. This election or 170 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:55.720 may very well flip Republican sixty eight. It might be 171 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:58.720 sixty eight Republican seats to sixty six Democrat seats. Now, 172 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:00.799 Democrats might lose control role of one of the state 173 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:03.919 houses in Minnesota in the year when their governor is 174 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:10.000 running for vice president. Minnesota went for Harris, but by 175 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.399 a much smaller margin than it did in twenty twenty, 176 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.960 and Tim Walls has. 177 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:25.799 No future, no future in national Democrat politics. 178 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.639 I don't think I don't think anyone was impressed by 179 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:32.200 that guy. I don't think anyone's thinking, oh, man, this 180 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:34.279 this is you know, if you know, tough break that 181 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.320 we lost this election. 182 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:36.159 But you know what. 183 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.120 If if something happens down the road, like this guy 184 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:44.399 needs to be, you know, part of a next Democrat administration. 185 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:46.879 You know, maybe we you know, gear him up to 186 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.039 be the head of this or that. No, no, no, 187 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:53.960 no one. As a result of this race, there's nobody 188 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:56.759 looking at Tim Walls and saying, this is the man 189 00:12:57.159 --> 00:12:59.919 that we need to line up for future positions of 190 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.559 national Democrat leadership importance. This is the guy who should 191 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:08.279 run for president in twenty twenty eight. No, absolutely, no, absolutely, 192 00:13:08.639 --> 00:13:15.919 nobody has come out of this election thinking that, and 193 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.320 you know, it's hard to think that any presidential election 194 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.480 came down to the vice presidential picks. But I do think, 195 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:27.200 you know, as much as failure has a thousand fathers, 196 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:29.879 I think success has a thousand fathers as well. Very often, 197 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:36.360 I think the Vance versus walls divide. How much of 198 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:40.720 an asset Vance became to the Trump campaign over time, 199 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.919 how much of a liability Walls became to the Harris 200 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.799 campaign over time. And I think it was smart of 201 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.679 Trump to sort of limit the bleeding and not try 202 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:53.960 to have another debate with Harris. You know, he had 203 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:55.679 his one debate with Harris and he was like, all right, 204 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.639 I'm done, I'm not doing this anymore. And that gave 205 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:02.720 the vice presidential eight I think a lot more weight 206 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.000 and a lot more importance because that was the last 207 00:14:06.039 --> 00:14:09.360 debate we were gonna see between you know, these two tickets, 208 00:14:10.799 --> 00:14:17.960 and Vance just thumped them. So again, there were bigger, 209 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:24.080 overriding reasons for the Trump victory. I think huge events 210 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:30.480 like Trump's survival of the assassination attempt, these sort of 211 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:34.399 big media moments Trump was able to spin out, like 212 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:38.720 going to McDonald's and working at a McDonald's uh wearing 213 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.519 going around driving a garbage truck after Joe Biden does 214 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:47.840 this gratuitous, horrific knifing of the Harris campaign by saying, oh, 215 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:51.240 Trump's the only garbage I see. You're all of Trump's supporters, 216 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:55.279 and Trump capitalizes on it immediately. They immediately find a 217 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.759 garbage truck. They immediately paint a big Trump logo on 218 00:14:57.799 --> 00:15:01.360 the side of it. Trump puts on a garbage garbage 219 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.279 worker vest and drives it around on a tarmac. And 220 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:11.440 these big signal media moments that Trump had in the 221 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:17.320 context of a very unsuccessful Biden administration. That's maybe the 222 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:23.960 overriding thing that Trump had, these signal, tent pole significant 223 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.399 campaign moments that I think really impressed people and made 224 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.960 people like him, And it was in the context of 225 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:37.320 a terrible Democrat administration that Harris couldn't separate herself from. 226 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:38.480 That's the overriding thing. 227 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:41.279 All Right, when we return, we're gonna have more winners, 228 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:46.759 more losers, local winners, local losers, national winners, national losers. 229 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:48.519 That's next on the John Girardi Show. 230 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.320 Who's a big winner from the twenty twenty four presidential election. 231 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:59.039 Here's a winner you might not expect. I think. 232 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:05.000 Gavin Newsom is a little bit of a winner today. 233 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:10.600 I think this is my I hope this happened. There's 234 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:15.559 no evidence that it did. I feel like they should. 235 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:16.840 Have done this, the two of them. 236 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:24.080 You gotta believe that Newsom hates Kamala Harris, or at 237 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:29.000 the very least that there is obvious sort of envy 238 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:35.080 there Newsom and Harris. I've often said this, Newsom and 239 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.919 Harris are basically the same person. They took basically the 240 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:45.120 same route to national Democrat prominence. Harris and Newsome were 241 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.799 both proteges of Willie Brown. Willie Brown both appointed both 242 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:51.879 of them to their first sort of jobs in politics. 243 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:58.159 Brown was a backer of Kamala Harris as she became 244 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:00.720 a higher up in the San Francisco Diezo and then 245 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:07.599 ran for DA in San Francisco. Willy Brown appointed Newsom 246 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:12.279 to his first county supervisor post in the city slash 247 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.759 County of San Francisco. He was a backer of Newsom 248 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.480 throughout his political career, and the donor circle around Willy 249 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.839 Brown is what really propelled those two to prominence, and 250 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.119 they are the most It's Harris and Newsome are the 251 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:34.880 most significant branches on the Willy Brown political tree. 252 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:37.039 So they're identical. I think. 253 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.599 I think they are very very similar people, very similar. 254 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:46.839 I think they are similarly unimpressive people who have been 255 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:53.160 propped up by San Francisco Democrat donor money. How do 256 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:58.359 you win a statewide election in California. You win as 257 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:02.880 a Democrat. Here's how you win. You win a statewide 258 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:07.160 election as a Democrat in California by getting the most 259 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:11.200 money during the primary so that you can run television 260 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:16.720 ads in Los Angeles. If you get that money and 261 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:23.440 you win the advertising battle in LA, you win, You 262 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:26.599 win the Democrat primary, and then you steamroll over whatever 263 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:32.039 Republican you're facing. That's how you become a statewide elected 264 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:35.559 official in the state of California. If money is so 265 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.240 important to it because of the Los Angeles media market 266 00:18:39.279 --> 00:18:44.160 and how expensive those ad bys are, and by virtue 267 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:47.519 of knowing Willie Brown and their circle of donors. That's 268 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:52.720 what Kamala Harris had, That's what Gavin Newsom had, and 269 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.519 that's what's propelled both of them to success. 270 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:56.960 Harris gets appointed Vice president. 271 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:02.640 Why because those San Francisco Democrat donors who are the 272 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:05.519 reason why Nancy Pelosi was the Speaker of the House 273 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.079 for so long and the Democrat leader in Congress. 274 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:11.160 Why she was there spokesperson? 275 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:14.279 She was the connection between the Democrat Party as a 276 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:17.759 political entity and the donors. She was the one going 277 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:21.640 to these parties in people's in the backyards of mansions 278 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:24.680 with all these people. She was the connection to the 279 00:19:24.680 --> 00:19:28.759 donor class. And that donor class liked Kamala Harris. They 280 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.880 wanted her. Why did Biden pick her his vice president? 281 00:19:31.960 --> 00:19:34.720 He had no reason to pick her. He never worked 282 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:37.559 with her. She called him a racist to his face. 283 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:44.480 Basically during the twenty twenty primary debate cycle. He picked 284 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:49.119 her because the donors wanted her, and Newsom probably in 285 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:51.599 twenty twenty, was like, boy, he could have picked me. 286 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:57.039 Newsom when it became clear that Biden was dropping out, 287 00:19:57.200 --> 00:19:59.000 I was like, well, really, we couldn't have had a 288 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:03.000 contested primary, and maybe I could have, you know, jumped 289 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.440 into a contested primary. 290 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:05.680 See if people wanted. 291 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:09.039 Me, how comes she gets picked to be vice president? 292 00:20:09.079 --> 00:20:15.799 I don't, And of course Joe Biden must hate Harris. 293 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.640 Harris was a useless vice president. She was forced on 294 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:23.440 him by the donors. She was nothing but a liability 295 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:26.839 for him his whole time in office, and ultimately the 296 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.240 donors shoved him out in favor of her. He's mad 297 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.640 about it. Biden still probably think Biden probably thinks right 298 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.440 now he would have beaten Donald Trump. He's probably so 299 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:41.160 ticked off right now. I like to imagine that Joe 300 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:45.279 Biden and Gavin Newsom watched the election results together, how 301 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:47.640 to party and watch the election results together, and we're 302 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.799 popping champagne after Fox News called Wisconsin for Trump and 303 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:52.400 put him over. 304 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:59.279 Why. Well, first, Biden's happy because Harris lost. He can't 305 00:20:59.279 --> 00:20:59.599 stand her. 306 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.119 He gets to to have these recriminations against the Obamas 307 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:05.440 and the Pelosis and the George Clooneyes of the world 308 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:07.880 and say, see, you idiots, you forced me out. You 309 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:10.519 put this moron in my place, and she got her 310 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:12.680 butt kicked. I'm the only one who's ever beaten Donald Trump. 311 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:21.200 And now Newsom is popping champagne because the seas are parting. 312 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:27.240 Gavin Newsom gets to run in twenty twenty eight. He 313 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:29.279 doesn't have to wait around for Kamala Harris. If Kamala 314 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:32.319 Harris won, well, he couldn't run in twenty twenty eight. 315 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:34.240 He'd have to sit around cooling his heels for another 316 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:37.920 four years at least do something to convene. And she 317 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:40.000 wouldn't have picked him to be her vice presdent. Well, 318 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:41.759 she didn't pick him to be her vice president. 319 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:44.759 She picked Tim Walls, So. 320 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:46.880 He would have had to wait around at least until 321 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:54.599 twenty twenty eight. Beyond twenty twenty eight, he would have 322 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:59.279 had to wait until twenty thirty two. Gavin Newsom now 323 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:04.839 becomes virtue of this election. Democrats will almost certainly not 324 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.559 have a majority in the House. They certainly do not 325 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:09.680 have the majority in the Senate anymore. They don't have 326 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:14.599 the White House. Guess who's the most prominent elected Democrat 327 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:19.599 in the United States of America. Now, guess who's left Well, 328 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.720 the governor of the biggest state in the Union. Gavin Newsom, guys, 329 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:30.480 is pretty much de facto the leading Democrat in the 330 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:35.000 entire United States of America right now, with the most 331 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:38.160 donors and the most donor dollars in his back pocket. 332 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:44.880 He is now lined up to run in twenty twenty eight, 333 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:46.559 and he doesn't have to run against Trump. 334 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:50.680 Trump will be term limited out. He thinks he can 335 00:22:50.720 --> 00:22:53.079 take jd Vance. I can tell you that much. 336 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:01.599 So of all people, bizarrely enough, a big winner from 337 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:07.079 last night is one Gavin Newsom because the seas have parted. 338 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.119 Get ready for the Newsom twenty twenty eight campaign. And 339 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:13.039 by the way, if you thought Newsom's senioritis, I've been 340 00:23:13.119 --> 00:23:15.880 joking about this. Nobody has cared less about being a 341 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:20.559 governor for his second term than Gavin Newsom has. Gavin 342 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:22.680 Newsom is going to be so bored for the rest 343 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:24.759 of his term the next two years. Oh my gosh, 344 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:27.880 he is not going to give an absolute crap about anything. 345 00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:34.400 When we return more winners and losers in the presidential election, 346 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:37.880 we might shift to some local winners and losers. Next 347 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:42.920 on the John Girardy Show, let's shift to some local 348 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:47.839 winners and losers from the twenty twenty four presidential elections. 349 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:50.839 The twenty twenty four elections that saw we had elections 350 00:23:50.880 --> 00:23:54.680 for every member of the California State Assembly, every half 351 00:23:54.720 --> 00:23:56.839 of the members of the California State Senate. 352 00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:58.400 We had local races, et cetera. 353 00:23:58.799 --> 00:24:08.559 So let's go to a big local winner, which is 354 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:13.480 school bonds for terribly run school districts. And really I'm 355 00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:17.640 just talking about presdent unified. I will say, so, as 356 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:24.440 as we stand here, Clovis President Unified School Bond, Measure H. 357 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:27.319 Passed easily. 358 00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:30.039 You needed fifty five percent of the vote to pass 359 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:32.599 the Measure H school bond, which again, let's remember what 360 00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:33.599 is a school bond. 361 00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:35.839 A bond is a loan. 362 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:39.680 To a governmental entity. The governmental entity then pays back 363 00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:41.759 the loan over the course of thirty or forty years, 364 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:44.359 and they pay it back with interest. Where do they 365 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.279 get the money to pay back the loan. They get 366 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.039 it from you, from the taxpayers in the form of 367 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:52.319 property taxes, which you have to pay even if you 368 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:56.240 don't own your home, if you don't own your apartment 369 00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:59.599 and you're renting, the cost of property taxes gets passed 370 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:02.119 on to you through rent, so. 371 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:09.079 Measure That's why I've always sort of hated. 372 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:14.240 The bond mechanism as a means of funding anything. It's 373 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:17.720 the Measure H bond for President Unified specifically is five 374 00:25:17.799 --> 00:25:24.200 hundred million dollars that with interest will President Unified taxpayers 375 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:27.119 will really have to pay about a billion dollars, not 376 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.480 five hundred million. It'll be a billion dollars with interest. 377 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:35.079 Here's Measure H that they couldn't even hadn't even fully 378 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:39.799 decided what stuff they wanted to build with the Measure 379 00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:44.640 H funding before. They hadn't even decided on it. By 380 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.400 the time that people's ballots got to them for early voting, 381 00:25:48.680 --> 00:25:50.559 they hadn't decided on all the things they wanted to 382 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:54.759 build with it. President Unified does not have its permanent 383 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:58.960 superintendent yet, they have an interim superintendent, So they're making 384 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:02.440 all these decisions about what their priorities are for funding, 385 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:05.759 what they're going to fund, what they're gonna build without 386 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:11.920 having their full time superintendent. What if a new superintendent 387 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:14.240 comes in is like, well, why did we decide to 388 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:16.599 spend all this on this school in this school when 389 00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:19.599 we should have spent it on this and this and this. Well, sorry, 390 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:28.279 we're locked in so proposition to the statewide bond measure. 391 00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:34.440 It passes easy. Measure H, it passes easy and basically 392 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:40.839 everyone in California is duped by this idiotic mechanism of funding. 393 00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:43.480 I am so sick of these bonds. I was the 394 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:50.000 local razor campaigner against school bond measures, and people. 395 00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:51.960 Say, well, it's the only way we can fund the schools. 396 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.160 No, it's the only way California lets you. But they 397 00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:59.680 have other sources of funding as well. So I'm just 398 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:05.559 tired of this nonsense saying, oh that we need to 399 00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:09.359 tax people a billion dollars to get five hundred million 400 00:27:09.400 --> 00:27:11.119 dollars worth of benefit, that we need to tax some 401 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:13.720