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FiveThirtyEight Politics

The California Recall Election Wasn't Close

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this late night edition of the podcast, the crew discusses the results of the California gubernatorial recall election. The recall effort ultimately failed by a sizable margin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:05.2

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

0:11.2

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

0:15.4

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

0:20.1

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

0:34.5

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

0:40.4

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

0:46.8

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

0:51.5

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

0:57.2

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

1:03.6

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

1:08.4

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

1:12.6

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

1:18.8

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

1:25.3

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

1:29.6

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

1:36.1

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

1:43.8

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

1:47.6

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

1:52.0

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

1:57.9

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

2:04.1

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

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