WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.719 Two struggling out of work Democrat politicians. They're just looking 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:07.360 for a job. That's all they want. They're just looking 3 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:15.880 for something to do. This is the situation for Kamala 4 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:21.960 Harris and Pete Bodhajid, as well as a little bit 5 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.719 Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. So I'm going to talk about these 6 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.920 three politicians today and they're sort of stuck political places 7 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:36.240 where they seem to be. And I think I'm going 8 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:38.759 to start with Kamala Harris. 9 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:44.240 So there are. 10 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:48.439 Several different stories coming out about Kamala Harrison. 11 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:49.719 What's she going to do? 12 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:54.920 Kamala Harris seems to be stuck with some indecision. She's 13 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.479 not sure if she wants to run for governor of 14 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.640 California in twenty twenty six or if she wants to 15 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.640 run for president in twenty twenty eight. 16 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.879 She's unsure. I think you have to do either one 17 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:11.519 or the other. 18 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:13.719 I don't think you can credibly run for governor and 19 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:17.920 then immediately turn around and you know, you get sworn 20 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.719 in and you know, I guess January of twenty twenty seven, 21 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.680 and then you immediately say no, I'm trying to run 22 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:24.439 for this office where I'll get sworn into something else 23 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.760 in January twenty twenty nine. Doesn't seem credible. So she's 24 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:29.239 she's got to kind of pick one or the other. 25 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:37.879 So how would she do? Interesting little piece in National 26 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:39.319 Review by Jim Garrity about this. 27 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:41.760 Now. 28 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.120 He also notes that there are similar sort of efforts 29 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:50.280 and rumblings about Pete Bootajige that Pete Bootagige might run 30 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:54.359 for governor of Michigan, at which I think is by 31 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:57.840 the way, completely hilarious. So you know, I'll talk about 32 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:03.439 Bootajidge and Kamala kind of to other here. I have 33 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:05.799 a little bit more of a history with Pete Bodhagic 34 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.439 because I used to be a resident of the city 35 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:14.159 of South Bend, Indiana, where Pete was once the mayor. 36 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.639 He was seemingly an okay mayor. He was a huge 37 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:27.479 abortion zelot, and he blocked efforts for zoning for sort 38 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:31.520 of the useful zoning thing for a pro life pregnancy 39 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:35.599 center in South Bend, which was ridiculous and obviously motivated 40 00:02:35.719 --> 00:02:42.680 motivated by his hyper abortion politics. But you know, it 41 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.120 seemed like a whatever mayor of South Bend. For some reason, 42 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:50.360 his job performance as mayor of South Bend vaulted him 43 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.159 to some kind of national prominence. I don't think he 44 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:54.960 was a bad mayor of South Bend, but I just 45 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.319 don't know that he was like the greatest mayor in 46 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:01.360 the history of the United States of America. South Bend 47 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.280 was growing and developing regardless of him. It was growing 48 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.759 and developing because the University of Notre Dame was growing 49 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.479 and developing, and more people and more investment were coming 50 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:16.039 around the university and more tax revenue. And you know, 51 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:20.199 there's a gazillion new condos that have been built with 52 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:24.639 a gazillion, you know, dollars worth of probably property tax 53 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:28.400 revenue pouring in. That's all within the South Bend city limits. 54 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:33.080 And I think the positive developments that have happened in South. 55 00:03:32.879 --> 00:03:35.240 Bend would have happened with or without Pete bootajigch. 56 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.599 Nonetheless, boutajij was the mayor of South Bend, and everyone loved, oh, 57 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.479 Mayor Pete. But the problem was he had no future. Indiana, 58 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:47.560 while it did go for Obama in I believe at 59 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:51.800 least in two thousand and eight, reverted back to its 60 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:57.800 sort of more or less permanent Republican status. The local 61 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.719 House of Representative seat where Boodhage was more or less situated, 62 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:09.599 became a fairly reliable Republican seat. Jackie Wiloorski, the late congresswoman, 63 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:15.360 came to kind of dominate it, and Bootajig had no 64 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:24.480 options for realistically winning the governor's seat in Indiana or 65 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:29.399 a US Senate seat from Indiana. Indiana was just too Republican. 66 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:36.319 It was electing guys like Mike Pence. So Bootajig very 67 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.920 sneakily changed his place of residence from Indiana to Michigan. 68 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:45.079 Now he was from South He was living in South Bend, 69 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.839 which is, you know, like a ten minute drive away 70 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:54.759 from the Michigan border. But now Bootajig has positioned himself, Oh, okay, 71 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.759 I could be a Michigan resident. And so he seems 72 00:04:57.759 --> 00:04:59.959 to be positioning himself to try to run for God 73 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:05.319 of Michigan. But again, I think with Boodhajij he has 74 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:07.360 to make this calculus. Do I want to run for 75 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.879 president maybe in twenty twenty eight. Do I hold on 76 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.120 to some sinecure between now and twenty twenty eight so 77 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:17.160 that I can run for president against not Donald Trump, 78 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:27.000 against jd Vance presumably. Now let's talk about Kamala if 79 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:30.399 Kamala decides to run for governor. There is reporting out 80 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:34.920 there that some of the prominent people who are planning 81 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:38.480 to run for governor might drop out. I don't think 82 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:40.759 all of them will drop out, but some of them might. 83 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:48.319 And I think it's a question of how much goodwill 84 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:52.120 with the donor class Harris has been able to retain, 85 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:59.000 because that's the fundamental truth about running for a statewide 86 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.319 office in California. Do you have the goodwill of the 87 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.800 donor class. That's what determines who wins the Democrat nomination, 88 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:14.079 the Democrat primary process in California, and that determines who 89 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:19.040 will win. It's part and parcel of why I think 90 00:06:19.079 --> 00:06:21.560 Harris was not ready for primetime, why she was a 91 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.680 bad presidential candidate both in twenty sixteen and in twenty 92 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:31.319 twenty four. To win a statewide office in California, what 93 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:38.519 you really need is the money to run television ads 94 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:44.480 within the Los Angeles media market. That is kind of 95 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:49.040 the key thing. The LA media buys are crazy expensive, 96 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:53.480 and so if you're well funded enough to do that, 97 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:57.319 that helps you win a lot of the kinds of 98 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.120 traditional things that you'd think of as like essential or 99 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.720 a politician to win office, winning a debate, you know, 100 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:07.560 having debate chops, interview chops, one on one chops. A 101 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:10.439 lot of that stuff is not as important in California 102 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:17.439 for statewide office. I think people just kind of you know, 103 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:21.720 a lot of California politicians tend not to get very 104 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:28.800 many reps as a debater, and as a result, when 105 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:32.199 they then get to primetime, like Kamala Harris, they don't 106 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.680 look that great. They don't look that great in a 107 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:39.319 lot of different kinds of situation, in interview situations and debates. 108 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:39.279 Et cetera. 109 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:45.040 Let's not forget how Kamala Harris got absolutely skewered in 110 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:47.560 the twenty sixteen Democrat debate when she went up against 111 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:55.319 Tulci Gabbard. So what you need to win is the 112 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.000 goodwill of the donors, and Harris has always had that. 113 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.759 Harris has always had the good will of the donors 114 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.240 more so than anybody. She has been a creature of 115 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:08.800 the California donor class. She got introduced to that class 116 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:14.360 by Willie Brown, who took her from the obscurity of 117 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:18.639 being just another attorney in the Alameda County Prosecutor's office 118 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:23.439 to all of a sudden, you know, big fancy job 119 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:26.319 within the San Francisco DA's office and then running for 120 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.680 DA of San Francisco and then Attorney General of California, 121 00:08:29.720 --> 00:08:33.519 and then Governor Willie Brown introduced her to that magic 122 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.480 circle of San Francisco area donors as it's sometimes referred to, 123 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:44.039 and they were the ones who propelled her advance. I 124 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:46.600 think people saw her after she won attorney general and 125 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.639 people were already starting to think, is this the next 126 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:55.039 Barack Obama? They thought, Okay, she's Attorney General of California. 127 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:58.000 Now could she become you. 128 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.039 Know, senator, you know, a US senator represent in California, 129 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:06.200 you know, if Barbara Boxer steps down, and she was 130 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:12.200 the anointed pick when that happened. The donor class liked her, 131 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:15.360 knew her. I think she has the ability to be charming, 132 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:17.879 particularly in social situations. There's a lot of sort of 133 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:21.639 reporting in history about her, the way that she was 134 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.480 able to effectively work the social circles within the San 135 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:33.200 Francisco glitterati class, and she rode those connections to getting 136 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:36.879 nominated senator and getting the backing of those donors to 137 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:40.480 win her attorney general, her state wide attorney general's race, 138 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:47.120 and then to win her statewide US Senate race. I 139 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:49.840 think this has always been my theory. I've never really 140 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.240 read much reporting on it. I to this to my 141 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:54.960 dying day. I will believe that Joe Biden only picked 142 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:57.720 her to be vice president because the donors forced her 143 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:02.039 on him. The donors wanted her. Biden sort of painted 144 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:06.000 himself into a corner by saying, our learned her practice 145 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:12.159 the first black woman, so he was restricted to black women. 146 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:23.039 And so what does he do well? He picks this 147 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:28.799 person with whom he had never worked. He never worked 148 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:32.679 with Kamala Harris. They didn't overlap at any point in 149 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:36.639 the Senate. She started in the Senate after he left 150 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:41.039 as Vice president. She didn't work for the Obama administration. 151 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:44.639 He had no track record of working for her, and 152 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.840 in fact, he had ample reason to dislike her. And 153 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.279 there's you know, been reporting, you know, whispers and rumors 154 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:52.720 and stuff. 155 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.679 Nothing substantiated, no one on the. 156 00:10:54.679 --> 00:11:00.399 Record that Joe Biden hated her guts because during one 157 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:05.080 of the twenty sixteen debates, Harris basically tried to suggest 158 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.679 that Biden was a racist because of his position on 159 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:13.840 bussing policies, like suggested right to his face that he 160 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:21.639 was a racist, so Jill never liked her. Biden has 161 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:23.879 no reason to like her, no track record of working 162 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:26.759 for her, he says, a black woman. But there were 163 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.519 other black females he could have picked, people like Susan Rice, 164 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:32.360 who went on to play a very prominent role in 165 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.600 the next Biden administration, sort of the quiet but extremely 166 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:40.399 influential role. There were other black women he obviously could 167 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:45.360 have picked. And it was also a thing of like 168 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.320 usually you figure, okay, you pick a vice president either 169 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.799 because they can help deliver you a critically important swing 170 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:57.559 state or because you think, you seriously think they would 171 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:00.840 be very good at governance. And Harris was neither. She 172 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.240 wasn't delivering an important swing state. Biden was never going 173 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:10.480 to lose California, And clearly she wasn't very good at 174 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:14.120 governance because Biden was clearly undermining her her entire time 175 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:18.840 as vice president. You know, as much as during the 176 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.759 campaign we wanted to criticize Kamala Harris for her performance 177 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:26.440 on the border, a really close examination would show how Biden, 178 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:29.480 I think, in just my opinion, Biden really set her 179 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.240 up such that there was no way she could have 180 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:36.120 succeeded the ambit of what he gave her responsibility for. 181 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:39.159 It sounded like she was totally in charge of the border, 182 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.120 but actually the things she was even able to affect 183 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:45.840 any change to were pretty darn limited and there was 184 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:50.679 no way she was going to fix anything. Now you 185 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:54.240 can look, she was a member of his administration, supported 186 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.080 his policies. I think she has to take the blame 187 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:00.799 for the failures of the Biden administration on the border. 188 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.480 But clearly Biden was not helped. He was not doing 189 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:10.519 anything to cover her with glory. So I'll always put so, 190 00:13:10.559 --> 00:13:12.360 why did he pick her if he hated her before, 191 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:14.919 hated her during, hated her after. I think it was 192 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:19.279 because the donor class really wanted her and made him 193 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:26.360 take her. They probably said, hey, you're old. We want 194 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:29.159 this person that we like and trust just in case 195 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:33.159 anything happens, and he said, all right, that's the condition 196 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:34.840 of you guys giving me a bunch of campaign money 197 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:40.679 and then I'll do it. So does she still have 198 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:46.159 that donor support? I mean, I gotta think that these 199 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.840 not every single one of these donors from California is 200 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:56.480 jumping at the opportunity. I mean, she lost an election 201 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:02.039 where she outspent Donald Trump significantly. She ended her campaign 202 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:05.279 with twenty million dollars in debt. Her campaign probably had 203 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:08.879 to hit up some of these California donors to pay 204 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:13.000 off her campaign debt. You know, she was still sending 205 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:20.639 campaign donation emails after the election was over. How bad 206 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.360 do they want? So? Do they want to help her 207 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:26.360 out now that she's sort of looking for this consolation 208 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:32.559 prize of being governor of California. I also wonder, frankly, 209 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.799 does she actually want to be governor? 210 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:37.320 This is the reality. 211 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.120 Being governor is a much more difficult job than being senator. 212 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:47.039 You can tell Gavin Newsom is totally over it. He 213 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:51.440 doesn't want to be working right now. Being governor requires, 214 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.679 you know, traveling all up and down the state, overseeing 215 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.519 emergency efforts when bad things happen, making decisions about stuff. 216 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:03.080 I'm guessing Newsome, after you know, the two plus years 217 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:06.159 of COVID, is probably so exhausted. 218 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:06.399 From being governor. 219 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:11.120 He's just completely checked out to his two years of 220 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:17.840 managing COVID terribly. And I don't think Harris has given 221 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.840 much evidence. You know, a lot of reporting kind of 222 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.759 indicates that she doesn't. Really She was not always willing 223 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:27.559 to actually do the reading and do the briefing and 224 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:32.639 really study the issues, and not always seemed like she 225 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:34.759 was really willing to work hard and go the extra 226 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.639 mile does which he actually want to be governor. I 227 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:39.799 think being a senator is a much more natural fit. 228 00:15:40.240 --> 00:15:43.720 It's a much easier task being a senator. You go 229 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.360 to committee hearings, you get your information fed to you 230 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:48.360 by your staff, you vote on stuff. 231 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:52.639 You know. It's not that hard. 232 00:15:54.240 --> 00:16:00.559 Relatively speaking. But the Senate seats are unavailable. Adam Shift 233 00:16:00.639 --> 00:16:06.600 just got elected to the Senate and Alex Paedia got 234 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:09.799 elected in twenty twenty two to the Senate, so his 235 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:12.799 his Senate seats not open until twenty twenty eight. If 236 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:14.480 Harris is going to wait until twenty twenty eight, she's 237 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.559 not gonna wait until twenty twenty eight to run for Senate. 238 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:18.600 She's running for president. 239 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:25.600 If she waits that long. So and I would say 240 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:29.679 this if I were another enterprising, smart Democrat, I feel 241 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.919 like I could really make a name for myself in 242 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:37.679 a Democrat gubernatorial fight with Kamala Harris, make a pretty 243 00:16:37.679 --> 00:16:40.440 compelling case and say hey, why would we vote for 244 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:43.519 this person? She wasn't that effective a vice president she 245 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:44.799 lost to Donald Trump. 246 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:47.759 Our party. 247 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.919 Lost all this ground in California under you know, with 248 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:55.480 her as the presidential candidate in twenty twenty four, why 249 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:58.039 should I bowance scrape to Kamala Harris? 250 00:16:58.360 --> 00:16:59.120 Who the hell is she? 251 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:04.079 I think someone could make a pretty compelling case for 252 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.640 themselves as a Democrat to run against Kamala. Maybe the 253 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.200 donor class goes to all these people and says, get 254 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.559 out of the way, clear the field for her, or 255 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:17.079 else you'll never get a job in California politics. 256 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.680 Again. That's this is the thing with California Democrats. 257 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:22.720 They have the kind of money muscle to threaten people 258 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:24.920 to get out of the way like that. You know, 259 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:28.559 That's why Gavin Newsom didn't face any challenges when he 260 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:34.000 was recalled from the Democrats side. So it will be 261 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:39.960 interesting to see when we return. Whom might Kamala Harris 262 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:42.680 face in California if she runs for governor, and who 263 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.359 might she face if she decides instead to wait and 264 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:46.720 run for president in twenty twenty eight. 265 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:48.160 That's next on the John Girardi Show. 266 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.599 So if Kamala Harris pour out of where Kamala Harris 267 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.079 needs a job. If she runs for governor, who might 268 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.440 she face if she runs again for president in twenty 269 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:00.000 twenty eight. 270 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:00.880 Whom might she face? 271 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:02.920 So she might run for governor in twenty twenty six, 272 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:05.119 she might run for president in twenty twenty eight. She's 273 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.400 got to do one or the other. In all likelihood, 274 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.640 she can't do both. It would be insane to run 275 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:15.240 for governor, serve for like, you know, do a two 276 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:19.400 year two years in office, you know, with much of 277 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:25.160 the second year just being completely consumed with campaigning. Who 278 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.480 might she face in California, Well, there had been a 279 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:31.720 lot of rumblings that Javier Bessera might jump into the 280 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:36.720 governor's race. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Javier 281 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:38.839 Bsera kind of depends on a lot of the same 282 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:43.960 donors that Kamala Harris gets. Rob Bonta, the current attorney general. 283 00:18:44.519 --> 00:18:47.839 I don't know that there's a single attorney general for 284 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:50.640 any state in the country who doesn't think that he 285 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:54.880 or she shouldn't become the governor of that state. Rob 286 00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:58.839 Bonta seems to be intimating he wants to be governor. 287 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:01.319 I don't know that's a smart thing for Bonta. He's 288 00:19:01.359 --> 00:19:05.119 been involved in a couple of different alleged corruption scandals 289 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:05.880 for different things. 290 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:08.839 I think maybe if I was him, i'd sit this out. 291 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:15.079 Tony Atkins, the state Senate leader, the former state Senate 292 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:20.839 leader from San Diego area, former abortion clinic executive, huge lefty. 293 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.440 She is sort of intimated she might want to run. 294 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:29.640 Antonio Viiregosa, the former mayor of Los Angeles. There's some 295 00:19:29.720 --> 00:19:32.960 rumblings that he might want to run again. Viaregosa has 296 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:36.160 been in the past kind of a little bit within 297 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:40.680 the Democrat Party, the sort of non establishment character for 298 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:46.240 statewide races. He ran against Gavin Newsom back in twenty eighteen, 299 00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:53.279 didn't get it. Does he want to try again. I 300 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:56.000 think Harris would likely just beat out all of those 301 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:00.319 people just based on nothing more than name recognition. Okay, 302 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:02.720 I'm betting I'm rattling off these this list of names. 303 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:05.160 I don't think I'm guessing a lot of you listening 304 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:09.119 didn't necessarily know right off the bat who several of 305 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:13.359 those people were. So I think she's got a good 306 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:17.599 shot against any of those people. And there are also 307 00:20:17.640 --> 00:20:19.759 these news reports that there are some people who might 308 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:22.480 just decide not to run for governor in twenty twenty 309 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:27.119 six if she runs, So there's a possibility that her 310 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:30.440 very presence could clear out the field that maybe she's 311 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.440 still got enough donor support and strength that they could 312 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:36.160 threaten people to get out of them. Not physically threatened, 313 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:38.279 but like, you know, the way that Democrats are able 314 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:41.599 to do. The California Republican Party doesn't have enough money 315 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.160 to threaten people to get them not to run for 316 00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.920 things like hey, if you run for this, you're going 317 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:48.759 to screw this up. So if you run, we're never 318 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:50.519 going to fund you again for any other race. The 319 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.160 Democrats can do that, right, They've got the money, they've 320 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:55.160 got the muscle, they've got the means to actually make 321 00:20:55.240 --> 00:21:02.839 credible threats like that. Now what if she runs for president? 322 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:12.200 Who are the likely Democrats? Well, there's Pete Boodhagg. He's 323 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.519 definitely gonna be chomping at the bit. I think some 324 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:22.680 of the other twenty twenty twenty has beens might think about, hey, 325 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:28.240 maybe now it's my shot. Kirsten Gilibrands, the Elizabeth Warrens, 326 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:35.440 the you know several others might think, h you know, 327 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:40.079 what if it's my time. And of course Gavin Newsom, 328 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:44.839 Gavin Newsom's gonna run in twenty twenty eight, and I 329 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.279 think Harris needs to do the calculus here, of because 330 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.799 Harris and Newsom are I've always argued, basically the same person. 331 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:59.119 They're the same person, They came from the exact same 332 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:03.720 political universe, they have the same exact donor class, the 333 00:22:03.799 --> 00:22:06.559 same kinds of people support them, same kinds of people 334 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:10.000 have funded their life. They both are Willy Brown proteges. 335 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:19.400 Their relationships with Willy Brown were only slightly different. So 336 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:26.960 I think that might weigh into her decision. You know, 337 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:30.720 is the donor class willing to roll the dice again 338 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:33.000 on another Kamala Harris presidential run. 339 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:34.279 I don't know. 340 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.920 Maybe those donors tell her, look, we'll fund you for governor, 341 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:39.920 but we want to give Gavin a shot. You had 342 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:44.880 your shot twice, you didn't win. We're going to fund Gavin. 343 00:22:46.519 --> 00:22:47.640 And maybe that's the thing. 344 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:50.519 I don't know how much agency, necessarily Kamala Harris has 345 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:52.279 in all of this, or how much of her decision 346 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:56.319 making is going to be made for her by the donors. Now, 347 00:22:56.319 --> 00:22:59.039 when we return, I want to talk about the the 348 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.839 political ambitions and future of a Democrat who I think 349 00:23:03.920 --> 00:23:07.039 will people thought was going to play a major role 350 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:10.240 in the Democratic Party going forward, and maybe will she 351 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:15.759 run for president in twenty twenty eight. Alexandria Ocasio Cortes 352 00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:21.960 next on The John Girardi Show. It's not a quinkie 353 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:29.160 dink that the most extreme and crazy partisans for either 354 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:37.279 party are in the safest seats. Bernie Sanders is a 355 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:41.079 senator representing Vermont. No Republicans going to win Vermont, So 356 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:46.960 Bernie Sanders is safe in Vermont. No. Marjorie Taylor Green is, 357 00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:50.279 you know, one of the more one of the harder 358 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:52.759 right people within the House of Representatives. A lot of 359 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:54.680 people on the left of side. How comes she's not? 360 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:59.039 How does she stay in office? Well, because she represents 361 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:04.079 a hugely right leaning district. It's not rocket science. 362 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:09.200 You know. 363 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:12.279 How does Maxine Waters continue to exist as a politician. Well, 364 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:16.119 she's in a huge, you know, massive Democrat majority district. 365 00:24:16.359 --> 00:24:20.759 And AOC is one of these people. I'm sure AOC 366 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:25.559 has driven Pelosi crazy over over the years, in part 367 00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:29.839 because AOC has the luxury of being able to say 368 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:35.839 the most unhinged, crazed, insane liberal crap possible with no 369 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:40.519 threat of repercussions to her political future. She lives in 370 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:45.640 a district that's like a plus twenty eight Democrat registration district. 371 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:48.519 I mean, she could murder someone in broad daylight and 372 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:55.000 she'd still win that House district. So and I'm sure Pelosi, 373 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:59.880 who for her years as Speaker had her eye towards 374 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:04.759 the broader picture of the party. Ironic because Pelosi is 375 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:08.160 in a super hard left district herself. But Pelosi, from 376 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.039 her leadership position, has to think about look out for 377 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.480 the interests of Democrat members of the House who live in, 378 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:17.759 you know, districts that voted for Donald Trump, or districts 379 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:21.039 that voted for George W. Bush or whatever, or John McCain, whatever. 380 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:27.079 And so AOC's bomb throwing from the far left I'm 381 00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:33.839 sure has driven Pelosi insane over the years. Now, AOC 382 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:38.319 is finally going to be old enough to run for 383 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:43.359 president in twenty twenty eight. You have to be thirty 384 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:46.799 five years old, and I think she's turning thirty five 385 00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:52.519 sometime between now and the twenty twenty eight election. So 386 00:25:52.640 --> 00:25:54.559 in twenty twenty eight, she'll be old enough to run 387 00:25:54.559 --> 00:26:02.519 for president, and I think she's gonna run. Now, some 388 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:07.200 stuff has happened recently with AOC that sort of might 389 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:10.720 indicate where she sort of stands within the Democrat Party, 390 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:18.039 and it's not super high. So right now, a lot 391 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:25.359 of sort of mini elections are happening within the House 392 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:28.880 of Representatives for basically they're sort of horse racing going 393 00:26:28.920 --> 00:26:35.119 on for committee assignments and who's going to be on 394 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:37.079 the Republican side, who is going to be the chair 395 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:39.279 of all the different committees in the House in the Senate, 396 00:26:39.480 --> 00:26:41.200 And on the Democrat side, who is going to be 397 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:45.160 the ranking member on all the different committees on the 398 00:26:45.160 --> 00:26:49.640 House and Senate. So each committee has a chairperson who's 399 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:53.000 from the majority party and a ranking member who's the 400 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:56.759 lead person from the minority party. In every committee, the 401 00:26:56.799 --> 00:27:03.680