#CA: Winner and Loser Adam Schiff vs the Winning Dodger Steve Garvey. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
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#CA: Winner and Loser Adam Schiff vs the Winning Dodger Steve Garvey. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/californias-primary-results-polemics-1-policy-debates-0
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is CBS I on the World. |
| 0:24.0 | This is CBS I on the World. |
| 0:27.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:30.0 | This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Bachelor. A week past the primary in California and what do we learn? |
| 0:38.0 | Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution is here. He's the host of Politics and Policy Podcast and Goodfellas, the podcast, video cast TV show with his colleagues at Hoover. |
| 0:50.0 | Right now, Bill is taking on the role of a columnist at California on your mind to look at the best |
| 0:58.2 | we can discern from a blue-blue state. |
| 1:01.2 | How do you read inside of a state where when it begins it's clear the |
| 1:05.3 | Democrats are going to be favored? |
| 1:07.2 | Bill, a very good evening to you. The governor of the state, Gavin Newsom, is |
| 1:11.4 | not now a presidential candidate but the expectation is that he is in the future |
| 1:17.8 | and it's difficult to judge somebody who leads the most powerful of all democratic states. He advanced however a proposition |
| 1:25.9 | proposition one that looks common sensical it's about the homeless it's a burden |
| 1:31.3 | for all states but especially California. However, your |
| 1:35.2 | column indicates that it was a disappointment, Proposition 1. How so? |
| 1:39.6 | Well, John, good evening. It was a disappointment in this regard. Prop one, which was a 6.4 billion dollar bond, which will build homeless housing around the state. This is for mental health facilities and also drug treatment facilities. |
| 1:52.7 | But more about a month before the primary John it was at about 59% in the polls. I just |
| 1:58.8 | checked this morning. My apologies to our listeners but California takes forever to votes, and this will go on for about another 28 days. |
| 2:05.6 | But it is at about 50.5%, so it underperformed on primary days. |
| 2:10.6 | So the question is why. And two, I have two theories here, John. One is Democratic |
| 2:16.2 | turnout, plain and simple. About 5.7 million Democrats turned out to vote in the |
| 2:21.0 | 2020 March primary that featured |
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