Why California's Election System Is Broken
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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First, Jim and Greg complain about California's inefficent vote counting. We are still waiting for results in the governor's race involving Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton, and Tom Steyer, and the Los Angeles mayor's primary with Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt, and Nithya Raman. They also discuss disappointing results in other contests.
Next, they dig into a new report revealing an estimated $25 billion in fraudulent Obamacare subsidy payments, along with additional Medicaid fraud uncovered in Ohio. How widespread is government healthcare fraud across the country?
Then, they react to former First Lady Jill Biden’s claim that Joe Biden would have defeated President Trump in 2024 had he remained in the race. Jim and Greg strongly dispute that and wonder whether the Bidens will ever face reality.
Finally, they focus on Alaska, where Sen. Dan Sullivan may have to share the ballot with another candidate named Dan Sullivan in the August primary. Is it a legitimate campaign or an attempt to create voter confusion? Greg and Jim also rip Alaska's convoluted voting system.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:05.1 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.8 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.3 | So glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.1 | And Jim, it was just two days ago in our chaser where we said, hey, don't forget in a lot of states, Tuesday's primary day, make sure you get out there and vote. |
| 0:24.0 | And Jim joked, yes, and in California, we'll know the results in six weeks. Well, sadly, that's largely where we stand right now. Hopefully it'll be a little bit sooner than that. But, you know, if you look at all the other states last night, the amount of |
| 0:37.6 | the vote counted is, you know, well into the 90s, usually right at 99% or something. But in |
| 0:42.6 | California, no. In the jungle primary for governor, only 57.5% has been counted so far, according |
| 0:49.2 | to NBC. Steve Hilton leads with 27.8%. Javier Becerra, 25.4%, Tom Steyer in third at 19.6%. |
| 0:59.3 | And nobody else is really in contention here. |
| 1:02.1 | And so you're thinking, oh, well, Steve Hilton has, gosh, more than a 400,000 vote lead over Tom Steyer. |
| 1:08.2 | It looks pretty safe to make it to the runoff here, right? |
| 1:11.1 | Well, no, not necessarily. Here is Steve Kornacki last night, probably the most sane person who works |
| 1:16.4 | for MS now, number cruncher over there, explaining how all of these late arriving mail votes |
| 1:22.5 | are usually tilted pretty heavily left. |
| 1:24.9 | But is this. How many total votes have been cast? Look, over a million for Hilton, over a million for Bessera. |
| 1:29.4 | That's over two million. |
| 1:30.7 | You know, you're looking at nearly about four million votes right now with not quite half |
| 1:35.7 | the vote in, meaning there are still four million votes to be counted in California in a very |
| 1:42.4 | significant chunk of those are going to be late arriving |
| 1:45.1 | vote by mail that are going to be tabulated, you know, maybe tomorrow, maybe in the coming days, |
| 1:50.3 | maybe over the next week, whatever exactly it is. But that size of a pool, okay, we're talking |
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