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Boy James, we got a lot to talk about this week.

And I think at the top of the list was the Tuesday, huge victory in California and the

California recall for Governor Gavin Newsom.

Thank you and I agree.

California is a deep blue state but there's import and a message from that decisive outcome.

One is that the right-wing attack on Newsom, which focused on his pretty good and tough

rules on COVID, it backfired.

California's recognized the damage and they rejected this nonsense.

I hope you hear that in Florida, which has a much worse record than California on COVID.

The other James I think is that Newsom pulled away when his campaign didn't just focus on

what he had done but they made the election a choice between what they're doing and Trump

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