Right Now with Perry Bacon: Inside the Unpredictable California Governor’s Race

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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David Dayen explains how California’s unique "top-two" primary nearly locked Democrats out of the governor’s mansion—until a strategic endorsement from Donald Trump reshuffled the deck. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:05.0	Mom!
0:06.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:08.0	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:14.0	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.0	Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.6	So its phones down, forks up.
0:25.6	Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
0:28.6	Some follow the noise.
0:32.6	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:35.6	Because behind every headline is a bottom line.
0:39.3	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,
0:43.9	there's a money side to every story.
0:46.4	And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.
0:50.9	Get the money side of the story.
0:53.0	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:59.2	This is right now with Perry Bacon, presented by the DSR Network.
1:06.7	Perry Bacon, I'm the host of the New Republic Show right now.
1:10.6	We have a great guest who's really up earlier in the morning. This is David Dian. He's the executive editor of the American prospect, which is one of these magazines like the New Republic that is like left of center and trying to cover the news in a pro-democracy perspective. And David has done some great work.
1:28.9	If you follow him on Twitter or Blue Sky, one of the best chroniclers of about economic policy,
1:34.0	particularly, but he runs a great magazine. I'm really honored that Davis come on. So, David,
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