he's at the larry elder.t they're calling a victory party down there, chris, it's been called already and apparently they're still hanging on to hope that they can somehow pull this out. >> that's a good possibility. can i think the mood is still very festive. an optimistic down there. we do have a camera inside the ballroom inside the hilton hotel here in so hopefully we can punch up that scene for you and show you the crowd. there were still waiting for larry elder to take the podium and address his supporters. they have been very optimistic throughout this recall effort throughout this campaign. and as you said, it's already been called a major news agencies. local and national are saying this california recall effort has failed and gavin newsom will remain in office. we can tell you the la times reports that early data revealed that 58% of orange county voters chose not to recall. gavin newsome, while about 42% were in favor of removing him and larry elder is still leading the pack of replacement candidat

the republicans defeated themselves with larry elder.obviously gets in there. he does have name id. and he's the leader of the republicans in the state. and the problem is they were only focussing on the base of the party. what they -- the victory there -- >> that's a good message. >> there are democrats and independents signing on to this recall and they were fine with having newsom step down. but the idea that it being larry elder instead of newsom turned them off. >> just how farcical this all is is three months ago caitlyn jenner was going to be the republican nominee. and caitlyn jenner was going to open the republican party so folks would be more inclusive of transgender. >> that was like -- >> if you look at where she ended up tonight, it goes to show you the destruction of these political parties. caitlyn jenner as of a few minutes ago received 52,000 votes, 1.2% of the vote. there are a lot of people out there who just got about the same amount of votes. >> talk about name recognition. that didn't help caitlyn jenner. >> you had

earlier today, a reporter asked me about the fact that larry elder was going after latee know votes. the fact is that, you know, half of seniors have already cast their ballot, so their ballots are in. the elder campaign has to campaign and try to win among those votes that are still outstanding. so if i was the elder campaign, i'd be trying to go after those voters. the challenge is, is that that is really kind of the democratic base electorate. and the voters that still have outstanding ballots, you know, young people, latinos, other minorities, those are not the kind of voters that would be fertile ground for a conservative republican running in california. >> okay. that's going to be interesting to see. larry, something interesting from larry elder, saying he wants to be pro-business, vote for him. that's something where he's going to get all these small businesses hurt by the pandemic by governor newsom's rules to perhaps flow them over to larry elder. >> well, he's certainly aiming for them. there's been an awful lot of ppe money coming into california. $75 billion has flowed in

so larry elder made it about himself, and gavin newsom obliged him and made it about larry elder andnergized and animated the democratic base. >> and, michael, back to you. despite the loss, republicans have of course succeeded in threatening the governorship of a democrat at a time when democracy in this country is looking increasingly fragile. newsom himself calling it an antique vase, not a football. how flawed is a political system that allows less than 2 million disgruntled voters to mount a recall election on a governor who originally won by a landslide? >> well, you hit the nail on the head, rosemary, because california has the lowest bar, the lowest threshold for getting on the ballot with a recall. 12% of the voters from the last election. most other states that have a recall have 20% or 25%. the state of kansas, 40% threshold. so that's one lesson that i think we will learn and we may reform that. but i think it goes way beyond that. i think it goes to -- i think what john had said, and that is that in california, running against trump really sells. that was the gift to the

here we are at larry elder's election night watch party. we expect mr. elder to be here shortly. we will keep you updated on any announcements. >> trace: claudia cowan told us we are going to hear from the governor, governor newsom, maybe sometime the next hour. we anticipate hearing from larry elder? >> so far, no word on whether or not we'll hear from him or whether he's here yet but we will be here throughout the night into the morning and keep you updated. >> trace: will go back to u.s. news breaks. matt finn in orange county. thank you. joining me now to help break it all down, former utah congressman jason chaffetz and democratic strategist jessica tarlov. newsom is going to speak in a little while. we don't know what he's going to say. does it exude confidence? if they were so confident, why spend $80 million in campaign ads? why bring the vice president of the president out? what do you make of this? >> statistically democrats have such a stronghold on their liberal bastion of california. statistically they shouldn't but there were 2 million people who went out and forced

but of course it's larry elder. we're going to be hearing lots and lots about. >> we know he's speaking. we'll go back to him when we get the sound fixed. but what's he going to panelists are going to start flinging lawsuits around. is it going to concede. david, what do you want to go into. yeah, he's going to go >> lawsuits is going to file. and the question is what he does in the next 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours between now and friday. he's got some time to do this. the certification process. that's the run for months and you got vote ballots still county, you've got all of these elements still in the election that happened over the next 7 to 10 days. he's got some time to do this. he can string out as long as what 17 days, something like that. and as part of that, what that means is he has a lot of opportunity to keep fomenting this idea of voter fraud. so i would anticipate that will keep happening and we would that take a page from the trump playbook. i don't know that it goes anywhere, but it gives them a lo

as far as the other side goes, what about larry elder? we don't know. he could be a one-time flash in the pan. he's going to have to earn his spurs, so to speak. he's going to have to show people he can win. i suspect there will be a lot of republican contenders, especially if that newsom race is close. >> professor lee, not just conspiracy theorists here, there are some very smart people who are concerned about the potential of voter fraud. should we be concerned generally speaking here? >> you know, you just did a story about the transparency the registrar has. i don't think it is a valid concern. elections are secure. and i think that calling out voter fraud is just a strategy to set up for when, i'm sorry, if, the republicans lose then they set up the strategy for lawsuits and a recount. >> larry, you agree? >> yeah, you know, you got to be of this whole thing when they call voter fraud. it discourages republicans from voting. these are the votes that the folks who call vote are fraud need their case. so they're really kind of cutting themselves off

and we hear everything larry elder is saying. you hear him saying he would like to eliminate the minimum wage. that is not going over in my community at all. so, when it comes down to it, it's a matter of either getting them to mail it in, drop it in a drop box, or go into a voting site on election day. and we're going to do it this next week. >> david plouffe, the newsom side has massively more campaign money than larry elder does. but is it in the interest of the newsom side of this campaign and democrats to actually amplify larry elder's voice and actually get the word out there about what he wants so that they can get a rejection of that at the ballot box? >> i think it is important. so, lawrence, you know, the campaign, the newsom campaign, they believe that almost 80% of the people that are going to vote in this election are going to be vaccinated, much higher than the vaccination rate in california, which is already quite high compared to many states. so, yeah, i think you want to drive that. so, you're in the last week of

larry elder, 46 percent, versus kevin falconer, the moderate candidate, at only 9%, larry ce. of the general election next year? first, there will be a primary. you think republicans will go with someone like elder, who seems insurmountablett, ar maybe falconer? -- kev kev kev steve: they have not won statewide office in nearly 15 years, the governor's office being the exception before that, but the campaign, reason why the youtube star was isse teplican voters who were the no vote or the yes vote onhe t recall, they were enthusiastic over larry elder, and, unfortunately, that is what the republican party of california has ie such a smallr that it is not nearly enoh ugtod who actually have governi experience off the ballot was key. and then there y woutubeas star. but what about in 2003, when governor davis, whom you were working,or f he had the lieutenant governor on the ballot, and do you think that really hurt him, or do you think because of schwarzenegger, it did not really make a difference? steve: a little bit of both. i think if we had that lieutenant governor on the bal

so very impressive for larry elder. a grant lotus joins us now in the studio to closer look, if can dig deep and a lot of numbers here over the state. the numbers that really matter, newsome 66%. and when he won in 2018. >> he won with 62% of the easy victory over john. you know, none of the polls had him exceeding that 62% mark and that is exactly what happened. we have our map here showing where things stand. it will zoom in on the bay area show you how the bay area voted san francisco is the local county where the most voters percentage wise said no to the almost 87% in san francisco again, green means they voted no. the majority yellow means the majority voted yes to the recall. the san mateo county that 80% said no. santa clara county, 76% no alameda county more than 83% said no to the recall nearby contra costa county 74% said no to the recall solano county now solano county was the one local county that i guess had the most yes votes. but even so, the majority, 67% said no to the recall napa county. 70% no to the

and this coming from a website that is funded by the larry elder campaign. larry elder campaigning late yesterday, still pushing for the recall of governor newsom, still asking voters to choose him as successor. >> will gavin newsom accept the results of the election when he loses? >> reporter: even as he said that, this website funded by elder's own campaign has already stated that newsom had been reinstated. >> this is an embarrassing moment. they're already preparing to lose and preparing to lose in a way that is so problematic. >> reporter: jessica levinson has served as president of the l.a. ethics commission and notes that the claim by the stop ca fraud site, that they have detected fraud in california is false on its face, because no vote counting has yet begun. and yet the elder-supported site goes on to name an analytical tool that purportedly was used. >> it shows that they're claiming here, and it's not based on anything in reality. it's not based on anything that actually happened. they're saying we lost because there's voter fraud before any vot

larry elder emerged as the top. the first-time candidate supported former president trump and is borrowing from his playbook. for instance, making baseless claims of election fraud before one vote has been counted. other prominent republican candidates including former olympian and reality tv star caitlyn jenner and former nominee john cox and san diego mayor kevin faulkner and kevin kylie. there are some democrats on the ballot, as well with you tube personality kevin considered the leader of the democrats. top democrats supporting governor newsom. president biden and harris stumped with him on the closing days of the campaign warning this election has national consequences and it does. we have correspondents in newsom headquarters as we track the votes being cast today and millions of ballots already cast by mail during early voting. first, let's go to kyung lah covering governor newsom. kyung? >> reporter: jake, the message we're getting from team n uewso is confidence. the team is feeling confident and a top adv

larry elder, in gavin newsom. all of us want to remove and democrats want to stop wearing her. the democrats tv ad campaign is about gavin newsom, in larry older. but they don't mention larry elder's name. >> here's what you need to know about the september 14th recall. voting yes an anti-vaccine trump like public. and voting no keeps gavin newsom fighting the pandemic. based on science, compassion and common sense. and here's the thing if you don't vote, we could have an anti vaxxer republican governor of california. so do your part to stop the spread, every voter will receive the bell in the mail. mail your ballot or go in person, by september 14th. vote no on the republican bill. >> with one week left before election, day the latest poll shows 53% of likely voters, want to keep gavin newsom, and 43% want to remove him with 4% undecided. that actually weaves gavin newsom, only three points above, the recall threshold. of 50%. that is much too close for democrats, trying to hold on to the most important governorship in the country. and that is why vice president kamala harris i

then the democrats got scared of larry elder. not just larry elder. republican stuff on choice that they've been doing, on voting that they've been doing, being nowhere on climate change. it scared democrats. you have republicans scared of gavin and democrats got scared of larry elder. most californians are frustrated because we wasted all this time and all this money and we're in the same place with no progress. >> $270 million. $276 million for what? >> you talk about newsom being humbled. the fact is it was that lack of humility that wound him up in this battle. he went to a restaurant in the middle of the pandemic and defied his own guidance. it was really the jet fuel behind the movement to recall him. it turned out to be the most expensive meal anybody ever had. towed spend $80 million to win this race. the dessert was pretty good for him here. and people will look at this. i think democrats are going to look at this and say, is this a formula? and you're right. it is not just about vaccines. that clearly worked for him here. but there is this t

it was all about painting larry elder as a clone of trump. trump if you vote for larry elder, and a lot of people said no, that will not work, well, it appears maybe it was effective. your thoughts. >> yeah, we have seen a lot of conservative recall referendum on democratic efforts to end the pandemic, which i suppose, now that newsom has won in a landslide, but this is also a referendum on republicans. i mean, elder is a lot like trump who is unusually unpopular in california and a lot of the rest of the country. and following trump's playbook of pretending that the election is unfair because he was likely to lose. californians and americans across the country frankly republicans only believing in democracy when they win. but we also have to remember, yes, gavin newsom might have stepped up a couple of times but it was not a good look to eat at an expensive restaurant. but overall, he's done a good job handling the pandemic. california the infections has the lowest of all states. and he was able to use to send stimulus checks to help during

his name is going to be governor larry elder. >> reporter: conservative radio host larry elder not shyingy from national implications. >> god forbid he replace dianne feinstein. >> reporter: on the campaign trail elder talking up local issues. >> homelessness is up, crime is up. where has this man done anything right? >> touting that as a support. it's the personal appeal. >> he's like donald trump. i voted for donald trump guys. >> reporter: the former president has refused to concede the 2020 presidential election making false claims it was stolen and fraud. elder taking a page from that. >> the 2020 election in my opinion was full of shenanigans. i'm afraid they'll try this. we'll file lawsuits in a timely fashion this time. >> reporter: california democrats out number republicans two tot is the name of the game. >> let me be explicit. either we vote no on this recall or in a matter of weeks the next governor of the state of california is larry elder. >> we're joined now. there's some new voter data just released today? >> reporter: that's right, anderson. it seems governor newsom's st

larry elder has one 0.7 million votes. but again, these 3 million short of people saying no, we don't want governor newsome to remain in office. and so actually it really doesn't matter how many votes larry elder gets. if governor newsom is voted to stay in it's a moot point. so what do these numbers mean and are there enough votes out there left to flip these results. kron four's catherine heenan is here with a panel of political experts some light on all of this for us. yeah. these numbers of enrolling in a pretty fast and strong. >> and let's go right away to our analysts and find out what they think. michael yaki. >> you're watching what are your thoughts. >> even even if the election day votes are overwhelmingly against him for this lead to be able to come. the mail in ballots ballots surged as we thought they would. how much of a redshift there will be. time will tell. but i think it's going to be a very likely have a clear cut, a win for the governor on the recall. >> i'm jonathan does a good night for newsome. tran

larry elder as we said, just got off the stage a few minutes ago. elder did not congratulate the governor. he did admit though that they lost the battle but immediately followed it with, we will certainly win the war. >> we are forcing them now to pay attention to the problems. we are forcing them to do a better job on schools. we are forcing them to do a better job on clearing our forests. we're forcing them to do a better job with energy. to pay attention to what they should have paid attention on two years ago. >> elder who made claim of unsubstantiated fraud before the campaign began made no mention of that in his speech. with a hint of a possible run in the next election, he finished his speech by saying stay tuned. >> we will stay tuned. >> despite warnings of voter fraud, election officials wanted to be very trans apparently with the ballot process. how they're keeping your vote safe. >> let's bring in nbc bay area ian, what are you seeing? what do you need to know? >> i'll tell you in the south bay, they're just wrapping up. have in the last

he compared larry elder to donald trump. he talked about the nationalization of this race, what it would mean to have a republican leading a state like california. and that really proves a point to democrats that you can talk about donald trump, you can talk about trumpism in the united states, and have it be an effective message both for democrats and independents. this was not a close race. there were some polls that showed that it would be close over the summer, that began to widen as people began to focus on this race. and what we saw tonight is that governor newsom won a resounding victory here in california. >> yeah, he did. dan merica, many thanks. >>> republican larry elder made claims of election fraud in the waning days of the race. well before the votes were even counted. but he ultimately admitted defeat tuesday night in front of his supporters. lucy kafanov is at elder campaign headquarters. >> reporter: it has been an interesting evening. the campaign has billed this event as a, quote, victory party, all night

it about larry elder and larry elder is exactly the candidate gavin newsom wanted to run against, a very conservative republican as opposed to a moderate alternative. dion: president biden is coming to california tomorrow and will campaign for newsom in long each. top republican candidates have been focusing on southern california as well as the central valley. larry elder today held a news conference with actors and activist rose mcgowan, who has accused first partner jennifer siebel newsom of trying to broker a deal with her and harvey weinstein's lawyer in 2017. mcallen was one of the women who accused weinstein of sexual assaults. -- rose mcgowan was one of the women who accused weinstein of sexual assault. this is the same from where the newsom's brother-in-law works, he is also the son of the co-founder. >> you don't think jennifer siebel newsom went home that night after making contact with me and talking to her husband? and if her brother-in-law they are in it together. dion: we reach out to the governors team and neither the governor or first partner responded. a spokespers

he said, if you do recall me, you're going to have larry elder as the governor, larry elder is for all intents and purposes, the choice for governor, at least among the republicans, and certainly among those who are fighting against loose. and i think larry elder is a fantastic candidate. i disagreed that he's not a good campaigner with your other my other guess here. i think he's fantastic. i happened to know larry elder, he's a good friend of mine and i think he's almost exactly the right issues. he's speaking to the issues that the people are very concerned about. and the very thing that cost them to seek a recall 1st place, we're going to wind us, i feel about it and i feel it's very much like the breaks it ceiling where it went off. that was going to lose. but sure enough, one that might be very well the situation here. ok, well let's look over though to brock. you to ruben's point at this point, right. i mean to, to room, to brock's point president biden came in at the in and campaign. now he treated even out today, so do you think that either he was coming in because of desperat

in a primary between faulconer and larry elder, kevin faulconer loses.arty doesn't want your dude, they don't, that's not what they're interested in, that's not what's else. i'm just telling you, man. it's plain as day, there could've been a longer process, but that's not with the republican base wants, they want larry elder. >> we have to have a conversation within the republican party of whether not we want to win or whether or not we just want to have arguments. there is a model out there in states like maryland, massachusetts and fremont, all three states are heavily democratic, and in massachusetts democratic outnumber republicans by 3 to 1, maryland is overwhelmingly democratic, and yet larry hogan, are consistently, not only republican governors and democratic states but they're among the most popular governors in america, so it can be done, but we have to have a conversation about what it really takes in order to win in the state that we live, and not the state in 1970. not the state which ronald reagan run for governor, but the state of californ

right now, larry elder is at a rally in orange county. the conservative talk show host making stops in monterey park and san pedro and talked with nbc news. >> you don't believe in mask mandates or vaccine mandates. that makes a lot of parents of young children very nervous. >> well, parents who want their kids to wear masks and who want their kids to be vaccinate asked do that. i'm talking about mandates. i've been vaccinated because of my age and underlying co-morbidity. i believe in vaccines but a lot of people feel differently. >> john cox paid a visit to bay area. the french laundry restaurant in yountville to remind voters of the governor's ill-advised dinner at the french laundry last year that helped jump start this recall process. according to the data, it looks promising for governor newsom, because a large number of democrats have already voted, which might indicate a large democratic turnout in the final 25 hours, but nothing's final until it's final. joining us, melissa colorado as the president arrived on the ground, and we'

larry elder is so optimistic he's planning this victory party already right here at this hotel.campaign trail all day yesterday making stops across southern california. this was his final stop last night where he actually had a rally last night. we were here. take a look. take a listen. good. our one on one with california gubernatorial candidate larry elder was interrupted when a supporter so excited to see him tripped on a curb and felt. >> he embraced her and made sure she was ok and both forged ahead with a rally at a hotel in costa mesa. the 2 of them serving as examples of determination really, really the reason i'm bringing in the heavy lumber. obama. >> bernie sanders, senator warren of all to commercials for him coming here is wait in plos. he's waiting because they're scared to death. they know that i'm going to break that jet. i mind trick that democrats have had over black and brown voters. the latest polls suggest newsome is in a good position to defeat republican challengers, however, voters who want to unseat him have 46 other choices. >> elder is by far the front

but newsom faces a key challenge from right-wing candidate larry elder. race is leaning? >> reporter: right now it's just a turnout race. california is a two-to-one state. it's a blue bastion gavin newsom has won before. really this is all going to be decided by who actually comes out to the polls. now what we don't know who people are voting for, we do have the return ballots' data. what they have found is that democrats are performing pretty well in the state in terms of returned ballots. 53% of all ballots returned have come from democrats. 24% from republicans. and 22% from independents. that's about 6 million ballots returned as of saturday. we expect to get more updated data soon hopefully on how many other ballots have been returned over the weekend. and a big part of this race is how both sides are nationalized in it. national candidates make their way out here. tomorrow he will campaign with vice president kamala harris. larry elder has also nationalized this race talking about the national implication of electing him. here's what he had to say i

but first, we're going to head to southern california will check in with the campaign of larry elder, governor newsom's chief rival in this sort recall. >> we are back now with our political roundtable. we're going to check in with the elder campaign in a moment. but we've been hearing the governor blasting holder all we can for several weeks basically the perfect foil for governor newsome as it turned out. >> let me all of you, you know, elder is already hinting at lawsuits for god's sake and maybe we shouldn't be surprised. so michael, is he just using the trump playbook here. >> i mean, that is has been the gift that keeps on giving to gavin newsom for the past month and a half has been doubling down on the trump playbook, whether it's starting a shuns of ballot fraud before the election even begins. to the to all the statements over the past. the fact that heat. doesn't believe that trump lost the election. the vaccine issue, all those things that just. we down to 2 nooses benefit. and i think that the attention of people began. and as the emerson poll showed is that your 27% made

and then along came larry elder. so i agree, they have executed an excellent campaign from the point elder came into the race. he almost didn't make the ballot. he wasn't going to be let on. and the judge put him on the ballot. case of wine to that judge from the neuwsom campaign. >> more tonight. don lemon picks up our coverage after a quick break. think of what peanuts have given humanity! fuel for vast migrations! sustenance for mountaineering expeditions and long journeys across the world! but most importantly? they give us something to eat when we drink beer. planters. a nut above. (brother) hi sis! (sister) you're late! (brother) fashionably late. (sister) we can not be late. (brother) there's a road right there. (brother) that's a cat. wait, just hold madi's headpiece. (sister) no. seriously? (brother) his name is whiskers. (bride) what happened to you? whose cat is that? (brother) it's a long story. (sister) oh my gosh. (farmer) whiskers! there you are! (avo) the subaru crosstrek. the adventurous s-u-v for adv

larry elder joins us now. larry, happy recall election day to you. i know that you're hoping to be a winner tonight. what do you say to that line of attack from both the governor and the president last night? >> well, notice they didn't talk about his record on the rise in crime. violent crime up 41% in los angeles. shootings and murders. they didn't defend his record on homelessness. when gavin newsome ran for mayor, he promised to end the homelessness in that city in ten years. have you been to san francisco? they haven't defended his record on the declining quality of public schools. he was at the famous french laundry restaurant and getting a $12,000 wine tab. i don't know what he order but it wasn't mad dog 20/20. he's family enjoys private education. let me finish, this it's why gloria romero crossed lines and is now supporting me. people cut commercials for gavin newsome is they're afraid this kid from the hood that went to public schools is going to break that spell that the democratic party has had over black and brown supporters. i will imp

larry elder made donald trump an issue in this race by embracing him so closely, as larry elder has done for years now. the republicans can't get away from donald trump whether they want to or not. most of them do not want to get away from him, and in california there's no word that can lose elections quicker than that word trump. >> no question about it. and i have said larry elder is donald trump on steroids. i mean some of his stuff is even crazier. for example, he says his favorite minimum wage is zero. zero? he says he could make the argument that slave owners should get reparations or should have after the civil war because their property was taken. i mean this just turns my stomach. he said women, women don't understand politics, and he may -- as well as men, and he made that statement when california sent the first two women from any state in the union to the united states senate, and nancy pelosi was climbing the ladder of leadership towards speaker. so, you know, i could go on with all of that. i don't want to spend my time doing it, but the reason i say we will learn more abou

so larry elder, how do voters feel about elder? >> if they liked governor newsom, they did not like larry elder. in our exit poll, favorable rating for elder, just 34%. and i think it is important to make a historical comparison because everyone was saying that maybe we'll get a repeat of the 2003 recall where schwarzenegger then became the governor. but look at this, arnold schwarzenegger's favorable rating in the 2003 recall was 51%. elder very unpopular, very different than where we were 18 years ago when air tolrnold schwarzenegger was above water. >> and so this recall picked up steam really with covid issues and surrounding governor newsom's policies on covid. what did voters say about that? >> feelings on the governor's coronavirus policies and the recall vote, newsom's policies are about right or not actually strict enough, 63% of voters felt that way. 63. and of those who felt that way, how did they vote on the recall? 85% of them voted no. larry elder tried to make such an issue arguing that the governor's policies were t

he is not larry elder. i hate that guy. larry elder, it is. it is an absurd libertarian. talk show clown, it makes rush limbaugh, look like garrison dealer. everything. human got mean tude, everything. jennifer has criticized about newsome is even more true of elder gavin . know some is robert larry elder is lupe, unregulated. libertarian glue that will probably poison your shield. that was elder wants to immediately get rid of mask in vaccine mandate. we can have california be another florida. imagine losing disney world and disney land. that'll be too much for this country to bam. move like disney and boom. there will be a big for the fossil fuels he wants to cut health care education and he thinks california is minimum wage should be 0 dollars. well jennifer, i had gavin newsom as much as that. got it. but, well, i got to admit the elder guy is like a comic book. the only good thing about larry elder is that as a conservative talk show host in 2021. we know his days. remember, there's been an epidemic of it's, i've act and sort of talk, show host dying of i ready. i thi

>> he's already sort of promised it today, larry elder.e feinstein hasn't been seen and she's the same as biden. it was pretty trumpy stuff there. and he's pretty excited about it. it sounds a lot like the way trump talked about rbg. so, yeah, i mean, it's incredibly disgusting. he also said a lot of stuff. he's going to get rid of covid restrictions, he's going to get rid of a women's right to choose. and california is an enormous, enormous state. it's going to change america if this happens. >> molly, i did want to get your take on the texas abortion law because i know you've been writing about this. this is an earthquake that happened this week. >> it's a -- it's huge. basically, what happened is that on the shadow docket, the supreme court, these five justices, overturned roe in the middle of the night by not doing anything. and now you see so many red state governors are going to follow suit. we're going to have six-week bills that are going to end up being the thing these republican governors do to prove they are trumpier than trump.

back to larry elder and what he's planplanning. it's nice for him to telegraph his game plan if he loses. here he is explaining it. >> we have lawyers all set up, all ready to file lawsuits. they're going to cheat. we know that. >> he's already before the ballots are counted saying there's going to be cheating and obviously we have seen the impact those statements from donald trump from had on this country. the violence, the division. what happens in california if larry elds lder loses and makes big stink there's voter frauds. >> we see all of those lawsuits in 2020 get thrown out too. unless there's some compelling evidence that we're unaware of that elder has come up with, there's no reason to think that this election is insecure. i think if you talk to voting elections officials across the state, they will tell you that exact same thing. i think this is posing a big problem for the republican party here. they have spent most of this year trying to sort of fire up their base to boot newsom out and now you have to top candidate sa

larry elder is against vaccine mandates, he's against mask mandates.children, including many of our own, are going back to school. here's what he said. >> you said publicly you don't believe in mask mandates, you don't believe in vaccine mandates when it comes to covid. that makes a lot of parents of young children very nervous when they're sending their kids back to school. >> parents who want their kids to wear masks and who want their kids to be vaccinated can do that. i'm talking about mandates. i'm not anti-vax. i've been vaccinated. i believe in vaccines, but a lot of people feel very differently. >> reporter: so there you have it from larry elder himself. governor newsom, again, is on the ropes fighting for his political life. the president of the united states will be out here tonight campaigning on his behalf. one other thing larry elder told me, craig, amongst many of the other items that we discussed, is not just that he's against these mandates, not just that he says stephen miller won't become a part of his administration, but that across

we are real familiar with larry elder. he has been around for a couple of decades. >> a long time. >> he spent his career attacking civil rights leaders and other black leaders. i think he was helpful in terms of making sure that we turn in those ballots and defeat this recall. >> he is a big fan of stephen miller and also george zimmerman, the man who killed trayvon martin. not sure that was good within black voters. let's look at some exit poll numbers. homelessness is number two. then economy, wildfires and crime. coronavirus is number one. among recall voters, 32% have said that gavin newsom's coronavirus policies are too string. 17% say they are not enough. the vast majority want there to be strict coronavirus rules. among california recall voters, 34% say that getting the vaccine is a personal choice and 63% say it's a public health responsibility. do those numbers surprise you? >> one of the things we did in the state, we were on the forefront of really trying to bring the pandemic under control. nobody anticipated

. >> larry elder has been the gift that keeps on giving. the perfect foil for what they needed, somebody to be running against strength, and larry elder personified trump for that. liz: the recall begin a year ago when a sergeant with a choice's office filed the petition to begin gathering signatu at the time his efforts seem like a longshot, but frustrations over the stay-at-home order and address over newsom's dinner at the french largely, helped boost the campaign and seal the deal. now he tells us regardless of the outcome, he hopes newsom learned something from going through the recall process. >> homelessness, the spike in crime. our water supply issues. things that are important, near and dear to the people of california and what we need. liz: no matter what happens, it seems like you feel like you already won. >> the mere fact that we generated a conversation that needed to take place for so long, that is a victory in and of itself. liz: while the polls show that governor newsom will likely defeat the recall, the strategist who we s

he is not larry elder. i hate that guy. larry elder, it is, it is an absurd libertarian. talk. show clown, it makes rush limbaugh look like garrison dealer. everything here. i mean, everything jennifer has criticized about newsome is even more true of elder gavin newsome is. robert larry elder is blue, unregulated, libertarian. glue that will probably poison your shield. that was elder wants to immediately get rid of mask an vaccine mandate. we cannot california be another florida. imagine losing disney world and disney live. that'll be too much for this country to bamboo and like disney or will be a big for the fossil fuels. he wants to got health care education and he thinks california is minimum wage should be 0 dollars look job her. i a gavin newsom as much the next guy. but what i got to admit velander guy was like a comic book. the only good thing about larry elder is that as a conservative talk show host in 2021, we know which days remember there's been an epidemic of it's, i've act and sort of talk, show host dying of i ready. i think you mean dying of freedom? no, i don

even if that vote total is tiny, that person could be larry elder, republican larry elder of the losmentor. according to a recent poll, larry elder is leading the field with 23%. that 23% could be more than enough to make trump supporter larry elder the next governor of california if governor gavin newsom isrd. joining us is david plouffe, former adviser to president obama. he is an nalyst. it looks like a close call as to whether governor newsom will be renewed. >> if you look at the polls, i think they've opened up a little bit with newsom. almost 55% of the people who have returned ballots are democrats, which is a good number. still two long weeks to go in that and everybody in california that's a registered voter has been mailed a ballot. so you are worried about turnout in any nonpresidential year election, i think that helps a little bit. the question is let's say newsom has opened up a little bit. i think survey usa had him up 51 to 43. that's not a lot of comfort. so the question is the people who are still undecided are they all going to flop one way or another? are they no

larry elder made that easy for them to do that by being so trumpy. positions he's taking are provocative and way out of step with california voters. they were always going to make this about donald trump in some form, in some manifestation. larry elder made it really, really easy for them to do so by being sosync with donald trump. >> listen to dana's podcast and live special coverage of the results tonight starting at 10:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next, more breaking news, trump just responding to the explosive allegations in a book about the final days of his presidency including a report that mark milley called china twice because he was so concerned trump would start a war with china. >>> i'll speak to the republican governor of arkansas tonight, a state that has vaccine mandates for students so why is he against biden's vaccine requirements for businesses? >>> a heavy favorite in the race for new york city's mayor is bringing back the wealthiest new yorkers who ran the state during the pandemic but how does he plan to get them back? i'll ask eric adam

also asked if he is recalled who should replace the governor, conservative radio talk show host larry elder is way out in front when it comes to governor newsom's challengers. he's getting about 30% of those surveyed saying they would pick him and he's followed by john drake. kevin paffrath, kevin faulk there and kevin kiley. >> we have live team coverage all across california tonight from the state capitol to the central valley and all the way down to san diego. kron 4 is your local election headquarters. so stay with us all night long as we provide you with all the latest results. so first let's go and pick up our team coverage with proffers dan thorn who is live for us in sacramento tonight where governor newsom is also spending the evening as he awaits the results. dan. what's the latest? >> well, vicki, the newsome camp is probably feeling pretty good considering those recent polling numbers that you mentioned. but of course this race is not over yet. the biggest threat to getting the governor out of working out of the state capitol here in sacramento would be the conservative talk sho

larry elder, welcome. >> howard, thank you so much for having me.t slavery. howie: much of the national media is saying this is troubling, larry elder could win this thing. why do you think the press is being so tough on you? >> i think it's because the press oftentimes serves as public relations bureau for the democrat party and they're deathly afraid that larry elder, a black guy from the hood who went to public school might break the stranglehold. if it can be done in california, it can be done all a over the country and they're scared to death had. howie: on the radio you're paid to be provocative, whether opposing the minimum wage, calling global warming a crock, isn't it fair game for the press. >> i said global warming alarmism is a crock. i've been campaigning for five weeks. no one asked me about any of those things. they asked about the rise in crime, the way the governor shut down the state in a more severe way than did the other 49 governors, a third of all small businesses are gone forever, half the jobs have been recovered as opposed t

larry elder who calls it a myth. larry elder who says his solution, to the climate issue, is more offshore oil drilling off the coast of long peach. it's a remarkable moment, interstate in nation's history. with all the progress we have made. to define ourselves, not buyer differences but by the things that bind us together, to be a majority, minority states. california. to make the progress we have made over the course of the last number of decades, to lead the nation, in a series of issues, all of that is at risk, if we don't turn out in vote no on this recall tomorrow, you've heard this, you've heard it from others. you've not heard not just from my cheering section over, their you've heard, you've heard it from others. i love long beach. in i don't need to wind this crowd up for the president. long beach, long beach, and the other side of this recall, and the other side of this, recall if we fall short. >> derek i want to get your reaction on what we fall short. one of the concerns i've had at the beginning of th

larry elder would be no exception to that. he talks about becoming governor and replacing dianne feinstein which would tip the balance of the senate. but it's also bigger on a national level not just in terms of the politics of the senate, but look at climate change, look at choice, look at the pandemic. larry elder is against mask mandates or vaccine mandates. we're facing a health crisis, we're facing a climate crisis, and we're facing a crisis of democracy. if people like larry elder are allowed to grab power, which we're seeing happen all over the country, we're going to be tyrannized by the minority. and that's what's happening. so, you know, you say that the election is on the 14th, that's true, but people are voting right now. and the election actually ends on the 14th. and people have been mailed ballots all throughout the month. so people should be voting now. we cannot allow somebody who could get 20% of the vote to control, you know, one eighth of the country. and the fifth largest economy in the country. that can't

larry elder is working late into the evening. and newsom is working late as well. >> vote no on this republican recall. >>> govern newsom campaigning against the recall. biden to keep his job and getting some high profile help from president biden. >> since 2019, gavin newsom has had the courage to lead, to stand up for science. he's been one. leading governors in the nation protecting people and vaccinating his state. >>> nancy pelosi and london breed thanking phone bank volunteers for getting out the vote. after leading california through a pandemic and now an economic recovery, the governor deserves widespread support. >> by defeating this unreasonable, ridiculous recall that is on the ballot, to give gavin newsom the vote of assurance. >> as top democrats work to keep newsom in office the night before election day, republicans who support the recall say they see opportunity. >> that tells you that they're scared. they see this is not a strong candidate. they need to have reinforcements. >> larry elder in costa mesa tonight sa

larry elder was doing very well.you know, when you see a white woman twearg gorilla mask which is something that's outrageous, and they are cursing at larry elder when somebody goes over to tell her to stop throwing eggs at larry elder, she punches him. there is know law and order. they have no value. it's about them, only them. >> imagine if this was stacey abrams or cory booker in that video you are playing, being accosted by somebody with a gorilla mask. the apocalypse in terms of media coverage would be all over this. it's silence of the lambs right now. the president of the united states will travel to california monday to speak on behalf of gavin newsom at a campaign stop. but joe biden couldn't manage to give a speech today to honor 3,000 dead, and the first responders who exposed themselves to god knows what. instead he had a video released the dade before. why isn't every democrat and republicans shaking their head right now. defend the absentee president at your own peril. saying he didn't give a speech tod