Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Wednesday June 8, 2022.

I'm John Potthoritz the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

A. Greenwald Hi A. Hi John. Associate editor Noah Rossman. Hi Noah. Hi John.

And joining us they contributing editor Eli Lake host of the re education podcast and

all around Man About Town, Bombay Vong and expert in many things. Hi Eli. Thanks for having

me John.

All right, so I don't know if it's fair to call what happened last night in California

a political earthquake, but it is certainly a a a harbinger of a potential national earthquake

to results that matter as I'm sure people listening already may have susd out.

Chesa Budin the progressive prosecutor of San Francisco and a story in his own right was

recalled last night by a colossal margin 60% of the voters in San Francisco voted to remove

Chesa Budin from office after two and a half years as the prosecutor in San Francisco

and in Los Angeles.

So the state can't count votes. The cities can't count votes. So we only have half the results

in but right now is a 20 point margin.

Right.

And you know the way these things go generally speaking that the margins don't change.

You know, you would have to have like a hundred percent of the rest of the vote going the other

way for anything to really change that much anyway.

And in Los Angeles where Mayor Gilgar City is term limited a fascinating contest between

representative Karen Bass, conventional liberal to leftist Democrat and a billionaire developer

named Rick Caruso who is Republican in name only.

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