Post primary wrap, what’s the takeaway?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
California’s billed as the heart of “resistance” to President Trump. But in this month’s Golden State primary, young and Latino voters stayed home. That’s produced a clash of voices between Progressive Democrats and Clinton-era Centrists. What will that mean come November with control of the Congress at stake?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, I'm Warren Alney. |
| 0:05.0 | The biggest primary day of 2018 has produced somewhat more clarity about the issues that will be important come the November general election. |
| 0:14.0 | Will it be a referendum on President Trump? We'll get back to that in a moment and other issues as well. |
| 0:20.0 | In California, Democrats build the Golden State as the heart of the United States. We'll get back to that in a moment and other issues as well. |
| 0:26.6 | In California, Democrats build the golden state as the heart of the resistance to President Trump, |
| 0:33.9 | but despite claims of great excitement, the turnout was lousy, 21% of eligible voters. |
| 0:39.9 | Jank Yugar is host and creator of the online news program, The Young Turks. Good to have you on our podcast. Thank you, Warren. Appreciate it. Before the election, you were very critical about the way the |
| 0:44.6 | Democrats operated and they gave the Republicans an opportunity with the top two election system in |
| 0:51.6 | California. It was possible there were so many Democratic candidates that they |
| 0:56.4 | might cancel each other out and leave only Republicans on the ballot. Yeah, well, I said that that |
| 1:01.7 | wouldn't happen, and it didn't happen. I think there was a lot of hysteria around that. |
| 1:05.9 | One is for understandable reasons because hypothetically it could, but two is for reasons that I think are part of the group think of media, which is, hey, you |
| 1:18.7 | don't want all these upstart Democrats in these races. |
| 1:22.0 | Just make sure you bow your head and vote for Feinstein and just eat your broccoli |
| 1:25.9 | and move on with your life. |
| 1:27.9 | So we told you guys not to do these kind of crazy primaries. |
| 1:31.0 | Just let the incumbents win. |
| 1:32.8 | Well, it turns out, no, they went fine. |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah, the voter turnout was disastrous, and I'm very disappointed in that. |
| 1:38.9 | But there's Democrats in all the races, and a lot of the races have two Democrats. |
| 1:45.6 | So the hysteria over-j general primary was not warranted. |
| 1:47.5 | I should say that all seven of the targeted Republican districts did, in fact, to get |
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