Bob Woodward reports that General Mark Millie contemplated handing over American security to the Chinese to thwart Trump

and the California recall effort against Gavin Newsom is a dud. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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of preliminary notes. First,

the greatest comic of our generation,

Norm MacDonald died yesterday. He had

been battling cancer, apparently, quietly

and secretly without making that public.

And he passed away. If you just

want a day filled with laughs,

go to YouTube and just watch old clips of Norm McDonald. He's an underappreciated genius. And as Jeremy Boring, my business partner put it, the great genius of Norm McDonald's is that every single Norm MacDonald fan feels like they're the only Norm MacDonald fan. In fact, pretty much everybody was a Norm MacDonald fan. His stuff is just hysterically funny. His memoir is one of the funniest books ever written. Go check out some Norm MacDonald today. In more generally political news, the California recall effort was a complete and total dud. Newsom won with an extraordinary percentage of the vote. He survived the recall effort by a margin of 64 to 36. That's with 70% of the vote in. And in the question of who

was going to replace him, Larry Elder was leading with 47% of the vote. The California Governor

recall exit polls via NBC News show that the desire to recall Newsom was not held by a majority of Californians anywhere

in the bowl, right? Only 47% of males, only 46% of males wanted to recall them. Only 38% of

women wanted to recall them. Only 44% of white voters wanted to recall them. Only 19% of black voters wanted to recall them. So this is just a textbook blowout, and that is because California is a completely blue state. So the bad news for California is that California is apparently irredeemable and now in an inevitable state of complete collapse and decline, because there is no desire to actually reverse any of that. That's been true for a while.

The good news is I don't have to think about moving back, so I guess that's good news.

That is pretty much what the recall effort shows.

They did ask folks about some of the issues that had come up on these in the recall effort,

particularly COVID policy.

And what they found is that a large percentage of Californians are very comfortable with

COVID policies that were put forward by Gavin Newsom.

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