French laundry. It's gotta be like now the most famous restaurant in California.

Well, I don't know. Is that true? It already was, right? Well, in and out, I guess if you count in and out.

Yeah, I would say either in and out. I'm sorry, did you just say in and out?

Yeah, in and out probably is the most famous restaurant in California. Yeah, it's a big one.

Okay, so it's in and out then French laundry. Hello and welcome to this late night election night

edition of the 538 Politics podcast. I'm Gaelin Druke. It's about half past midnight on the East

Coast and the effort to recall California governor Gavin Newsom has failed. We're still waiting for

the final tally, but it's enough of a blowout that the networks were able to call the race

less than an hour after the polls closed. At the time we're recording, it looks like the no vote

on the recall is on track to be the yes vote by somewhere in the range of 20 points, but of course,

I want to also cure the panels way in on where they think this race is headed. So we don't know

exactly where it's going to land because there are still many more votes to count, but we're going to

talk about that right now. The race touched on initially in large part COVID restrictions, but

also got into debates surrounding the environment, housing abortion and election integrity. So

let's talk about all of that and hear what you need to do it. Our politics editors are Frost and

Sin. Hey Sarah. Hey, Gaelin. I don't think we've done like a late night podcast like this since

November 2020 that that fateful week that we spent in our apartments, recording videos and not

sleeping. So I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what kind of memories this brings back for

you, but hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully. I think this is earlier though,

right guys? Oh far far far earlier. Also here with us is senior elections analyst Nathaniel.

Raikah, chain of Daniel. Hey Gaelin. And also here with us is editor and California native Maya

Swiebler. Thank you for joining us. Hi Gaelin. Thanks for having me. And this is this is your

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