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May 7, 2025 18 mins

Is Kamala Harris eyeing the California governor’s mansion as her next political move—and a potential springboard back onto the national stage? Buck Sexton is joined by California GOP delegate Elizabeth Barcohana to break down the chatter surrounding Kamala’s post-2024 plans. They dive into her shaky statewide election history, Gavin Newsom’s role in the drama, and what the California Democrat machine may be scheming behind closed doors. Plus, is the film industry on life support thanks to California’s tax and regulatory insanity?

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Is Kamala Harris going to be the governor of California?
Is that a stepping stone for her being the nominee
for the Democrats once again?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Plus?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Has Gavin Newsom killed the industry that we most associate
with California the film industry. We're going to discuss this
now with our friend Elizabeth barko'hanna. She is a California
GOP delegate, a lady who knows the pulse of all
things GOP in her home state. And Elizabeth, thanks for
being on the show.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Great to have you, absolutely, thank you so much. I'm
so glad to be here.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
So talk to me about Kamala because I'll tell you this.
My co host Clay Travis, I've been saying to him
that if Kamala lost, which she obviously did, she's going
to end up the provost of one of the UC schools,
making a million dollars a year to do nothing except
a show up at an occasional cocktail party. I am
seeing so I'm reporting that, Oh no, she is not done.

(01:14):
In fact, she may be the next governor of California.
You and I may think that's insane. Do California Democrats
what happens?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
The first time I heard that Kamala Harris after the election,
that she may run for governor, I almost fainted because
the idea of having to listen to her speak for
another however, many years, or even just through a campaign,
sounds very painful. Kamala Harris, Yes, there is talk of

(01:50):
her running for governor of California. Gavin Newsom is turned
out in twenty twenty six, as if California governorship is
some consolation prize for losing the presidency in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
She so, she spent, she lost.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
She wasted about one point five billion dollars on that
presidential campaign, and I read almost half of that money
came from California. So it would be pretty silly to
run a candidate again that, you know, flushed one point

(02:32):
five billion of your dollars down the toilet. But you
know that doing stupid stuff hasn't stopped them before, right, I.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Mean, they tell us that Biden didn't have dementia, and
that didn't work out so well for them In twenty
twenty four. But in terms of where the Democrats are
in your state and the Democrat you know machinery if
you will, like well Gavin, what will Gavin Newsom support
Kamala in your mind to be the next governor, because
if that happens, it feels like there's a very good

(03:04):
chance that she's going to try to I mean, if
she becomes the governor, why wouldn't she try to become
president again?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Well, we saw a very weird dynamic between the two
of them when Biden stepped down. They kept him away
and I don't there's a debate about whether they were
keeping him away from her or they were keeping him
away to as not taint him for his future run

(03:35):
for president. That's possible too. They may cut some deal
where if he supports her, she'll support him. You know,
we don't know, but we do know that Kamala Harris
has run for statewide office before in California, and she
honestly did.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Not do very well.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
She ran in a competitive race, and we expect that
the governor's race in twenty twenty six is going to
be competitive. She ran in a competitive race against a
Republican who was the former Republican District Attorney of La County,
so coolly she ran against him for attorney general and
barely won. She didn't even crack fifty percent of the vote,

(04:18):
and it was a one percent, very very close election.
That was the last time she ever ran against a
Republican in a competitive race. When she ran for US Senate,
she was running against another Democrat. So she is a
weak Democrat candidate, even for California, and their field is

(04:40):
already pretty crowded, you know, she did when there was
talk of her running, there were Democrats that were still
declaring that they're going to run for governor even if
she runs.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
One of them.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Is Javier Bessera, who was a secretary under Joe Biden.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
We have Katie Porter who's running.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
You know, she has said that if Kamala runs, she
may drop out, but who knows. So the feel distill
developing on both sides, the Republican and the Duncraft side.

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Gavin Newsom still the governor of California, which is quite
a shame because it's a beautiful state with many lovely people,

(06:18):
and yet it is poorly governed, as we all know,
and not just by the governor but by the entire
Democrat Party. The movie industry is getting attention right now
because Trump has brought up this idea of tariffs on
foreign made movies, the booby tariffs.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
What they've done is other nations we have been stealing
these the movies, the movie making capabilities from the United States.
And I said to a couple of people, what do
you think. I've done some very strong research over the
last week, and we're making very few movies. Now Hollywood
has been destroyed.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Now you have an.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Incompetent, grossly in competent governor.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
That allowed that to happen.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
So I'm not just claiming other nations, but other nations,
a lot of them have stolen our movie in this
strict and I'm saying, if they're not willing to make
a movie inside the United States, and we should have
a tariff for then. And not only that, governments are
actually giving big money. I mean they're supporting them financially.

(07:16):
So that's sort of a threat to our country in
a sense. And it's been a very popular thing. I
can tell moving movie makers love.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Before we dive into into into that more specifically, what
what is going on where I'm seeing all these interviews
and podcasts with actors and Hollywood people who are saying
it is too expensive to make any movies or TV
shows in Hollywood these days. How does that happen?

Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's been going on for a really long time. So,
and it's a really big problem not for you know,
the big name producers or actors, you know, the wealthy
elite in Hollywood. It's a problem for the crew and
the and the the people who are actually you know,
behind the scenes making the movies, the costumes designer, set designers,

(08:11):
like all of those.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
People, all of those.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Jobs are being sent out of state. That has been
going on for a really long time. The other states
in the nation offer tax incentives, and so they the
films get the movies get filmed elsewhere. And now that's
happening also on an international scale. And another thing that

(08:35):
really killed the film industry is the pandemic. So they
they with the mandates and you.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Know, the the yeah, the insanity of California. This audience
certainly remembers all that. But listen, why doesn't Why don't democrats,
i mean democrats like Hollywood at least they have for
a long time. Why don't they offer these tax credits.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
They're starting to talk about it. I think it's just
because they've had other priorities. Gavin Newsom is a Northern
California president. When he excuse me, governor when he ran
when he ran for governor, uh, he ran against Antonio
Vera gu Rosa, who was the former mayor of Los

(09:20):
Angeles who and he was.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
It was like a nor cal So cal fight.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
And obviously, you know, Gavin Newsom prevailed in that.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
And that's where.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
You know, the Silicon Valley, the San Francisco, the Bay
Area interests, the tech interests really took over in terms
of economic policy and focus of the Democrat Party to
Southern California's detriment.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it's been remarkable to see how the movie industry,
which you know, people think Silicon Valley. Obviously that's northern California, right,
So the two titans of industry in your home state
in California are the mo the industry and Silicon Valley.
And at the southern end of the state movie industry
is in. It has been a rough spot for a while.

(10:18):
I saw this podcast, I think it was with Rob
Low and Adam Scott, who actually some people say I
look like, but put that aside. Adam Scott and he
was saying that it's more expensive to film in Hollywood
than it is to fly everybody to Like, I think
it was hungry, he said, I think it was. I
think it was past and that to me is just

(10:38):
indicative of how crazy the the California policies are going.
By the way, one thing, you know, you know about
how is the the rebuild going after the terrible wildfires there.
There's been nothing in the media, at least the national
media about this for months. Member of Gavin Newsom showed up.
He said, Oh, we're gonna like, we're gonna make the

(10:59):
permitting faster and it's all gonna be so smooth. What's
really happening Palisades fire? You know, aftermath, right.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
There's a there is a lot going on, but it's
happening so slowly that it's not necessarily in the news.
What was just published in the news is that the
water reservoir that was empty, that was supposed to feed
the Palisades, you know, they didn't have enough water to
fight the fire, that's empty.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
Again.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
At about the one hundred daymark, I think Los Angeles
had approved four or six permits for rebuilding out of
the you know, thousands of structures that were lost. A
lot of people have moved down to you know, Orange
County or Manhattan Beach.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
They've like temporarily relocated.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
The schools in the area have been closed and they've
relocated to other places.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
There's talk about rebuilding.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Rick Caruso has been very involved in trying to get
this process to kind of have AI look at plans
to speed up the permit approval process so people are
basically self authentic.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Has governor knew some streamline the bureaucracy. Have they gotten
the Coastal Commission to back off all that stuff?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Not?

Speaker 1 (12:29):
No, not really. I mean that you need to do
a few things at the state wide level. You need
to get rid of SIQUA, you need to get rid
of the California Coastal Commission, you need to fix the
insurance industry problem.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And no, he hasn't done any of those things.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
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in just a second. What do you say we'll talk
about Latinos for Trump, because obviously California a very large
Latino population, and I want to know how they're feeling
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important for Trump in this last election. Some of that

(14:13):
data I think showed up in the exit polls in
California specifically, How are the Latino community that you're in
touch with, how are they feeling about Trump so far?
Given the focus of the administration, I would say great.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
I would say that, so President Trump moved the Latino
man vote in California, and this, I would say the
focus of the Democrat Party on lionizing and making heroes

(14:55):
out of you know, MS thirteen, Trenda Agua wife beaters,
those types of people holding men up like that as
their here that they are going to fight for and
flying you know, to El Salvador to check on do

(15:15):
wellness checks on them. I think that that really reinforces
that the Democrat Party looks down on the Latino Hispanic community,
thinks of them as these you know, downtrodden gangsters that
they need to protect America their rights, and they forgot

(15:38):
the the aments that are here and what this open
border has done to their communities.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
It has made.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
It has made all communities in America less safe. It
has drained social service resources. You know, the in California,
the Democrats voted to uh extend medical resource, medical welfare
resources so like health insurance basically to illegal immigrants, and

(16:11):
that basically bankrupted the whole system where it's cost over
ten billion dollars when it was supposed to cost much less,
which we didn't have to begin with. Anyways, they are
filling the schools and so it's creating a drain on
the education system for the dwell. I mean there's they

(16:32):
can see it all with their own eyes and their
own communities, and it reinforces that correct that they're voted
right way. It also, uh, Steve Garvey when.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
He ran you upset it.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
He had a huge surge with Latino population in California
becoming you know, less entrapped by you know, this Democrat
machine and more open to looking at alternatives. You know,
they these communities are more religious, they're they stand for

(17:11):
family values. They're much closer in their certainly their social
beliefs to conservatives than they are to liberals.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Elizabeth Barkerhana, appreciate you being with us.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Thank you so much, thank you, thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
All right, that was great and there will be a
podcast should be out tonight. I'll DM me the link
shared out and thank you for making the time good
to talk.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
To you amazing. Thanks that nice to see.

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