How California Can Impose the ‘Strictest Voter ID Laws’ in the US | Elaine Culotti & Carl Demaio

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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California is notorious for its high cost of living, homelessness epidemic, widespread crime, and failing public schools. These are all “symptoms of a bigger problem,” argues Carl DeMaio, a member of the California State Assembly. “ The fact that we're worse in all those areas is because we are confronting the biggest problem. And that is California's political system is fundamentally corrupt,” DeMaio told Elaine Culotti, The Daily Signal’s California contributor, on her podcast. DeMaio explains that meaningful change requires a grassroots voter revolt, not reliance on party elites or national figures. “If you want true populist grassroots reform, then those of us in the streets, the grassroots, we have to narrow our focus on a couple targets and take out the establishment. Because you know what? When we focus, their money can’t compete with us. We’re an army. It’s a public uprising. It’s a rebellion. A revolt. And they can’t stop that.” 👉For more videos like this, subscribe to The Daily Signal’s YouTube channel and enable notifications to be alerted the second a new video drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	We can talk about the cost of living. We can talk about homelessness and crime and failing schools.
0:34.5	But you know what? Those are symptoms of a bigger problem. The fact that we're
0:38.1	worst in all those areas is because we are confronting the biggest problem. And that is California's
0:43.4	political system is fundamentally corrupt and broken. The Minnesota graft and drift and fraud.
0:50.8	It was invented in California. It was perfected in California. It was exported to places like Minnesota.
1:08.6	Hi, this is Elaine Collotti for the Daily Signal, and I have with me today an excellent guest.
1:13.5	I have Carl DeMio, who is one of my big, big, big heroes in California, especially when it comes
1:18.9	to Republican politics.
1:20.4	But not only that, he dies on the sword every time I see him in front of Congress, Senate,
1:24.4	and everything trying to figure out our budget and where the money went.
1:28.5	How are you?
1:33.6	Elaine, thanks for having me on. We're working hard. If you hear some background noise, it's because I am in a live campaign office. You know, there are not a whole lot of Republicans that have
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