Primary Day in the Golden State
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The science is clear. Vaping saves lives and youth vaping is at historic lows. |
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| 0:11.0 | Establish predictable scientific guidelines for PMTA review, enforce against illicit products that fail those standards, |
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| 0:34.6 | Today on the Playbook podcast, six more states have their 2026 primaries today, including the biggest of them all. |
| 0:42.9 | California, along with Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, all go to the polls today. |
| 0:49.5 | And back here in D.C., we've got big hearings on the Hill to watch for with Marco Rubio and Todd Blanche, |
| 0:55.1 | both giving evidence. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Tuesday, June 2nd. |
| 1:03.3 | Dasher, a big moment, primary day in the Golden State. Do you kind of wish you were back home? |
| 1:08.0 | In my home state, oh my gosh. I don't know. I either want to be there or be as far away |
| 1:12.3 | from there as possible. It is chaos. It is chaos in my home state. |
| 1:16.4 | The biggest election is obviously the race to succeed Gary Newsom as governor of California. |
| 1:21.4 | We have a big team of political agency California. They never tire of telling us that |
| 1:24.8 | California is the fourth largest economy in the world, bigger than the UK. |
| 1:28.7 | They tell me with glee bigger than Japan and France. Like this is a really big job, not just in America, but in world politics. And Gavin Newsom has been such a big figure for such a long time. California is a BFD. Exactly. This race is super interesting. and especially because it has what we're obliged to call the jungle primary, |
| 1:45.9 | well just the top two go through from any party, which makes it even more interesting and makes what happens today kind of unpredictable, to be honest. |
| 1:52.6 | Yeah, that's exactly right. It's so funny because months ago, there was concern from Democrats that it could be two Republicans, ultimately. |
| 2:04.2 | Now it could be a Republican and a Democrat or potentially two Democrats. You've got Javier Bacera in the lead right now, which nobody expected |
| 2:09.8 | early on. Who saw that coming? And then Steve Hilton, the Republican and Tom Steyer, the Democrat. |
| 2:15.6 | It's looking like it's either Bacera and Hilton or Bacera and |
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