Buck Brief - Who Will Win the California Governor Race?
The Buck Sexton Show
Premiere Networks
4.7 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Priya Patel joins to break down the shifting California governor’s race after major shakeups, who’s gaining ground, and whether a surprise contender could emerge, while also examining how policies on taxes, housing, and business are impacting residents, plus what’s happening in New York as similar debates over cost, safety, and leadership unfold.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.6 | You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:14.6 | Back by popular demand, Priya Patel. |
| 0:16.7 | And we're going to talk about Kami Mamdani here for a second because he's running around. |
| 0:22.6 | He's causing problems for New York. |
| 0:24.6 | Similar problems. |
| 0:25.7 | I know you're a Californian. |
| 0:27.3 | Similar problems to what is happening on California, particularly on the housing side of things. |
| 0:33.9 | But I mean, let's start with this. |
| 0:36.5 | Democratic socialism. Now we have Mam mom donnie who is an open |
| 0:40.7 | democratic socialist in California how far are we from I don't know the mayor of of Los Angeles |
| 0:48.1 | maybe whoever's going to be the next governor of California just going with the truth |
| 0:54.1 | which is that it's a Democrat |
| 0:55.3 | socialist government in California. Why don't they just say it? Why don't they just admit it? |
| 1:00.1 | Well, because I think they're still trying to pander to the large, to be honest with you, |
| 1:05.6 | moderate Democrats that just kind of believe everything that they hear in the media. But if they |
| 1:10.5 | come out and start throwing around words like socialism, that's definitely going to scare off a lot of their base. But that's exactly what it is in reality. I mean, that's what they advocate for constantly when it comes to housing, when it comes to government subsidies, everything. So I don't know why they just can't be honest with themselves. It would do us a large favor. So that's probably why. Yeah, it would be way better if they would just, I think, come. That's one thing I will say about Bernie Sanders. I mean, he's laughable and that he's a, he's a millionaire socialist with three houses, um, who's always talking about the rich. You got to get the rich. You notice he also now no longer says millionaires and billionaires because he only hits |
| 1:47.7 | the billionaires because people point out, they're like, hey, Bernie, you're a millionaire. |
| 1:51.1 | You know, he's worth like 10, 15 million bucks himself. |
| 1:54.1 | So that's like a tough thing to be like those evil millionaires. |
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