This California Sheriff Has Lost His Mind | NLP Replay
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 29 March 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
California Sheriff, and candidate for governor, Chad Bianco, is chasing clout with Republican voters by launching a phony investigation into California’s 2025 election. He’s confiscated more than 500K ballots from his own Riverside county.
California’s 2025 election saw the passage of Prop 50, which redrew electoral maps in Democrats favor. The Sheriff says the confiscated ballots will show vote-count discrepancies. More likely, all they will show is how normalized undermining democracy has become amongst Republican candidates chasing viral fame.
Join hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers, along with guest-host Cari Champion, for this segment from episode #124 that aired on 03-26-26
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| 0:38.2 | Yeah, I think that what we're seeing is states across the country are emboldened by what we are |
| 0:44.0 | witnessing Republicans do, which is to make it more difficult to vote and to intimidate voters. |
| 0:50.5 | So the Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who also happens to be a frontrunner on the |
| 0:54.8 | Republican side in the California governor's gubernatorial race, is trying to seize more than |
| 1:01.9 | 650,000 ballots under the auspices of conducting a recount effort. I believe he already |
| 1:10.1 | sees. Yeah, he did. |
| 1:11.2 | He already sees them. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:13.1 | And I think that what is fascinating here is the attorney general, |
| 1:18.0 | Rob Bonta, said that this sheriff has no probable cause for such an investigation. |
| 1:25.5 | The court actually did not agree with the attorney general. |
| 1:29.0 | What I think this does is put people in harm's way. They are afraid about what is happening. |
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