This is an I-Heart podcast. I'm super excited today, folks, to be joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Governor, great to be here, important day, Prop 50, Election Day. What are you seeing right now across your state?

Just unbelievable energy and the turnout already has been extraordinary. What I mean by that is election day has been going on for weeks and weeks,

and it ends at 8 o'clock tonight.

And we've just seen a remarkable number of ballots that have already been dropped off

and drop boxes have been sent in mail in the registrar's office.

So this is going to be, we think it's going to be a big, big night.

It's going to be a big, big statement about not only who we are in California,

but a statement about who we are across the United States, since this is really galvanized

folks from all 50 states in a way that I never, be candid with you, never fully could have

imagined.

Well, I mean, I guess I got to ask you, Prop you, never fully could have imagined.

Well, I mean, I guess I got to ask you, Prop 50.

What's Democratic turnout like?

I mean, are you seeing enough right now in early voting trends?

Do you think we got this in the bag?

Yeah, look, I mean, you don't want to ever say that.

I don't want to fix that on election day.

I'm not naive.

But I also, you know, it's not just feelings not just intellectual i mean it's we've we've really stress tested this and we kick the tires we don't

screw around with these elections and so we're looking at every angle where you know if we see a good

poll we're like no what are we missing about this and and you you know, so we've, we've really, you know,

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