Episode 973: Carl DeMaio on the California Governor’s Race
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Newt talks with Carl DeMaio, California State Assemblymember, representing District 75, and Chairman of Reform California. They discuss the California governor’s race and the “top two” primary election system. DeMaio describes the risk that Republican candidates may face by potentially being shut out of the general election if no Republican candidates receive a 35% share of the primary vote. After candidate Eric Swalwell dropped out of the race, establishment Democrats are coalescing their support around Xavier Becerra, while billionaire Tom Steyer continues to spend millions of his own money on his campaign. DeMaio urges Republicans to vote for the Republican candidate that is polling the highest to secure a position in the runoff election. They also discuss the details of the California Voter ID Initiative; a proposed 2026 constitutional amendment DeMaio co-authored that would require voter identification and citizenship verification in all future California state elections.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Newts World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:13.7 | I want to talk first about this California hospice care fraud case. |
| 0:19.1 | I mean, California has more fraud, stealing money from taxpayers in more ways |
| 0:24.9 | than anything you can imagine. Earlier this year, the California Attorney General's Office |
| 0:30.2 | filed charges against 21 people tied to a $267 million med-calf hospice fraudering. The defendants were accused of buying stolen |
| 0:42.8 | personal information on the dark web and rolling those identities in Medi-Cal through Covered |
| 0:47.8 | California and running 14 shell hospice companies that build the state friend of life care. The patients were not dying, |
| 0:56.7 | and many of them did not even live in California. And the specific examples are hysterical. |
| 1:01.7 | You cannot believe that the state of California has run so badly that it was sending out money |
| 1:07.5 | the way they were doing it. But it's something they've done before, most notably |
| 1:11.5 | when the criminals in the California prisons actually stole $20 billion using the prison computers |
| 1:19.2 | during COVID. You can't make this stuff up. It's just one more example why California is decaying |
| 1:25.6 | and why the idea of the governor of California running for |
| 1:28.8 | president is somewhere between a joke and a disaster. Now, let me give you another example |
| 1:34.6 | how the world's changing. There's been an enormous shift in West Virginia away from the |
| 1:40.2 | Democrats towards the Republicans. The West Virginia Secretary of State, Chris Warner, reported that 68,235 voters have changed |
| 1:50.7 | party affiliation since January 31st, 2024. |
| 1:56.3 | 16,910 switched from Democrat to Republican. 20,000 went from being |
| 2:04.6 | unaffiliated to Republican. So the Democrats had 12,229 more people leave the party to |
| 2:13.3 | unaffiliated while the Republicans only lost 7559 to become unaffiliated. So the result is, |
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