Yes, Gavin Newsom, as much as it pains me to say Gavin Newsom won the recall effort in the state

of California. He's still a governor of the state of California. And this is a shame, right?

I tried not to get my hopes up in the lead up to this election. I really tried to stay emotionally

distant from it, but that doesn't work because I love California and I'm passionate about California.

And I think Gavin Newsom is an absolute tyrant. So it didn't work not getting my hopes up because

I am emotionally involved in this. And so yes, I was very disappointed that Gavin Newsom,

that he basically won the recall effort that the people of California did not recall him and that

Larry Elder is not the governor of California. And the natural question, of course, is why? Why

did Newsom win? Why did Larry Elder lose? What happened? What went wrong? And I've spent the

past day thinking about this as I think we often do. I mean, Monday morning quarterbacking is the

easiest thing to do, right? When you have a loss. But I've spent a lot of time thinking about this.

And I think sometimes you just lose. And there's a variety of reasons why that happens. And it's not

necessarily one critical error. It's not necessarily one reason why Newsom won. So my analysis here is not

necessarily, I'm not polypositive about this. And I'm not Debbie Downer about this either.

There are some practical reasons that what happened in California happened in California. And it is

important to understand what these reasons are so that we can do our best to prevent them from

happening again. And so here's what I would say. I would say looking at the state of California,

looking at the fact that this recalled effort has now been ongoing for more than a year. One of

my primary questions is where was the National Republican Party? Where was the GOP? Where was

Rhonda Romney McDaniels, who's the chair of the RNC? Where was the Republican Party? Because

if you notice in the state of California, this was very obvious to us even during the presidential

election in 2016 and in 2020, the RNC and the National Republican Party have essentially written

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