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And as we are one to do on the classicist, this is where we talk about things California and we've got this recall election coming out of us now in about two or three weeks, select to get pictures thoughts on anything new and exciting out there.

We're going to start with California, but we'll do that right after this message.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hansen show the classicist. It's Friday, August 27. Victor, I don't know that there's a lot of kind of political junky news about California in that there

is a new polls since we last spoke. I think that's about two weeks ago that CBS poll that actually had news some losing the recall by a checked earlier today. There's been nothing new, maybe you spotted something locally, the betting odds still have news and pulling this out 75 to 25

and we've given credence before to these online betting agencies that dabble in politics. I do think one thing worth talking about though is the increase the tax on Larry elder.

I think it's fair to say every other potential candidate who might prevail should news and be recalled Larry is the guy, but this week the L.A. Times and L.A. Times columnists went on a savage attack.

And Larry's essentially being cast as the black face of white supremacy. Also though Victor this week he came out the cabin news some, I don't know how you and I can't work these deals, but somehow he was gifted a house by his cousin and he did some mortgage deal and it ended up pocketing him $2.7 million.

Just what's available to you and me and every other normal citizen of the world. So anyway, this this kind of upper class game playing that's come out and the attacks on elder.

Would you like to talk about any of that or anything you may want to share about the recall that we don't know about yet.

Yeah, I think this election is going to be about turnout and I think Gavin Newsom assumed that because he controls the secretary of state, the registrar's it was going to be a shoe in and then he discovered that when he started slipping in the polls and he slipped in the polls was because the French laundry story that we're in a drought.

We had all these terrible fires, gas is the highest except for Hawaii in the country. COVID came back with the Delta variant after he assured us that this fall lockdown had prevented it in a way that crazy Florida and Texas had not.

And people got sick of it sick of the hypocrisy, especially when he puts kids in prep school and then shut down all the people in the public schools.

And so when Larry Elder came in because the other Republican candidates, why they may have been competent and professional, they were not known they didn't have name recognition and Larry Elder did because he's on TVs or radio talk show host, etc, etc.

And so they went after him, they made it very important, they said he didn't register property, they said his taxes were a mess, they said he, you know, showed off his gun and from of his girlfriend who happened to be working for one of his political rivals now, who happened to be a former call girl, they did everything.

And for a while, I think it's been working, but now as we get into this last two and a half weeks, I think people are going to say, wait a minute, I don't, I know what they're doing, I know what Gavin Newsom is.

And look at him, he is the epitome of what the left calls white privilege, he was a creature of the San Francisco wealthy left wing establishment, the getties, the polosies, the finesteins, the boxers and the money that supports those people.

He really didn't have no means himself, he wasn't known as an astute student or professional or business person, but he ended up with two very wealthy home, very plush homes.

If you go on the internet, you can probably find that he'll probably be late paying his property taxes.

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