November 6, 2024 • 33 mins
ICYMI: Hour ONE of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Live Coverage of the 2024 Presidential/General Election with conservative political strategist, writer, and CNN Commentator Shermichael Singleton, 3X Emmy nominated TV Reporter/Host/Anchor Jo Kwon & KFI News Reporter Corbin Carson - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KIM six forty is the election desk of Moe Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Let's get right
to it. You know at this point that Donald Trump,
former President Donald Trump, is leading in an electoral count
sense depending on which network you're looking at, he's leading
on all of them, but the totals may vary. But
I want to start off tonight with someone who I
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respect personally, professionally, politically, who knows a little bit about this.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
He is Shermichael Singleton.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, Trump administration veteran
and appointee serving under HUD's secretary, doctor Ben Carson. Shermichael Singleton,
How you doing, my brother?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Hey, mo, I am doing well, man, Thanks for having
me on your program. I am watching these numbers which
are truly impressive.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
When you say impressive, obviously, I think all of us
are so prize. And I say that respectfully because you know,
not that anyone was following the polls, but given the
history of former President Trump, given the obstacles in front
of him, given the commentaries about him, I think a
lot of people would have thought tonight would have gone
at least a little bit differently.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I don't think so, mo. I think a lot of men,
specifically men of color and younger men, exerted their autonomy.
I think the arguments that you should vote for the
vice president, I think, as Obama said, because black women
have always had our backs, that failed. I think the
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idea of painting Trump as a racist or a bigot,
I think those arguments failed. I think most men, and
I'm saying this and some way disagree with me, but
I think most men, regardless of ethnicity, are principally concerned
with different things. I think the Trump campaign ads talking
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about the gender issues after during football events, I think
that was very effective. I think the arguments about the
Democrats being more feminine in nature and Republicans being more
protectors or representatives of traditional masculinity, that is, for men
who work with their hands, men who are comfortable with
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just being a guy and embrace those things and care
about those things right, it's a part of their identity.
I think people who agree with those things made a
very clear decision, and the decision was that they believe
the Democratic Party at least a modern party, because this
certainly isn't representative of all Democrats, because clearly there are
a lot of men of color who clearly voted for
the Democrats overwhelmingly. But Trump. If what we're saying is
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true from Santa and I work percent and I've been
watching them for the past couple hours now, if it's
true that Trump has increased in margins and places like
Wisconsin by twenty five percent, I mean, these numbers are
unheard of. The last Republican to do this well with
people of color was Richard Nixon. So so you're you're
talking several decades ago, and so when I say it's impressive,
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that's that's what I mean. I think now the question
becomes if Trump does when it appears that he's going
to Windy Mo, the Republican Party transition on the whole
hosting that simple impactment of color from an economic perspective
will have to be addressed. We have seen trends change
in some pretty drastic numbers for Latino men and black
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men in terms of academic attainment. We're not going to
college mo at the same rates as the women in
our community. We're not graduating with couge degrees at the
same rates of women in our community. We're seeing an
increase and suicidal dereliction from men of color. That there's
a lot going on with men that no one is
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appearing to put a spotlight on. And so when you
have Jadie Vance in some of his commentary talk about
men in some very unique ways and their importance of men,
and the role of men and their families and their communities,
this stuff has a lot of resonance to a lot
of people. I'm writing a book on this topic. I've
been talking about this for months on CNN, and a
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lot of people have been skeptical of me, and we're
seeing the data. Even if Trump were to lose this thing,
the fact that he's increased his number so significantly with
these groups cannot be ignored.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Let me jump in there, because there is what is
happening on the presidential level, and I'm also seeing what
is happening on the senatorial level, where where I see
the Republicans now basically have fifty seats locked up. It
looks almost a fatal complete that they will have control
of the Senate. It's just a matter of by how
many seats. How do you read that map?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm not surprised by it. I've always believed that there
was a pretty good chance that Democrats may take the House.
I thought the flint of the Senate was going to flip,
and I thought it was going to flip essentially and
reverse to what it currently is. Can Republicans win an
extra seater too? I think it's possible. But if Trump wins,
you have a Republican vice president that will be the tiebreaker,
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essentially fulfilling the same role that Vice President Harris currently
has with President Biden. So that's not unrealistic. No surprise there.
You would think if Trump wins, Republicans might be able
to keep the House, albeit a very slim margin, if
he were to run up the numbers that much. I mean,
I was looking at the New York Times. Even the
New York Times have the possibility that Trump could win
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the popular vote. I mean, mo, can you imagine that
a Republican even the possibility Let's say he doesn't win it,
but even the possibility is unheard of. I can't think
of the last Republican to win the popular vote.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
What I could take?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No, no, no, George W. Bush two thousand and four a Bush.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So this is this is just impressive. This is impressive.
And mo I would just say quickly, it's impressive because
of your opening question to me about Donald Trump. Donald Trump,
that's a lot of laws. I'm not going to pretend
that he doesn't. And he says a lot of outrageous
things that turns a lot of people off. And yet
despite all of those things, this guy appears to have
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increased his margins from twenty sixteen from twenty twenty across
the board. And what that tells you is that what
propelled him in twenty sixteen, what barely lost him the
presidency in twenty twenty. People forget he lost by less
than eighty thousand votes. I mean, it was very slim
in terms of electoral college. That that grievance that people
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are still feeling is still there. I think the issue
this time around, though, is that that grievance isn't just
with only a certain class of white Americans. I think
this grievance are starting to percolate among communities of color,
whether it's an economic grievents, whether this idea that a
class of sort of technocratic elites has sort of left
behind everybody else and has been good at pointing a
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spotlight critiquing these issues of people, whether it's immigration, and
people say, oh, Trump is racist because there's views of immigration. Well,
one only needed to read local news reports MO in
Chicago or New York where black residents there were angry
at the resources being reshuffled to immigrants away from them.
And I remember one thing where Mayor Adam's out of
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New York a couple months ago at town hall, and
it shocked me by the complaints by some of the
people there and how they felt about new individuals coming
into their city and how new resources were being redirected.
And people were saying, well, we've been fighting for these
things for years, and you guys always say there's not
enough resources, and all of a sudden, you're opening up
new buildings for new people. I don't say this as
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a flight against anyone attempting to come into the country
fleeing any type of persecution. The point I'm attempting to
make sure, though, MO, is that those things are very
real for people, and I think there's just been a
disconnect from a lot of folks in the media and
a lot of folks in the Democratic Party and it
appears you're seeing in real time.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Tremachael.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I got thirty seconds with you, and I'm going to
make you answer an impossible question. I know it's a
both and, but what do you attribute it to be
more of? Do you see tonight as more of an
embrace of Donald Trump and specifically what he was offering,
or more of a repudiation of Kamala Harris and the
Democratic Party and what they were offering.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I think a repudiation of the Democratic Party, and I
think an embrace of the critique that Donald Trump has
brought to the forefront in terms of economics, in terms
of immigration, in terms of foreign policy. People are struggling
out there. They want to secure border and they do
not want to send their sons and daughters to another
long war that's going to cost over a trillion dollars,
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and Trump is saying, I'm going to provide a solution
to all of that. Sure, he may be light on
the specifics, and I'm a specifics kind of guy. But
when you provide a spotlight and a critique of something
that people are saying, this is a problem and no
one else seems to listen, They're going to open their
ears to the guy who's pointing out that issue, and
I think that's why Trump is potentially doing so well
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and they actually win this.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Then he is Shermichael Singleton, Republican Strategists, CNN contributor, Trump
Administration veteran and appointees serving under HUT Secretary doctor Ben Carson,
and a friend of mine. Shermichael has been too long.
Make sure we do it again sometime soon.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Let us do it soon. Mo, Thank you, my friend,
and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Absolutely have a great night. It's the election desk at
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We'll have more.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We'll check in with Spectrums Joe Kwan about some of
the issues and some of the measures locally. As the
polls are now closed here in California.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Pop o' Kelly coming to you from the KFI AM
six forty and iHeartRadio election Desk.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
And joining me right now is Spectrum News SoCal reporter
anchor and KFI anchor Joe Kwan with the latest on
Measure A and Measure G. Joe Kwan is good to
talk to you, the saying how are you my friend?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Good?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Measure A g big La County issues. Measure A has
to do with money for homeless services and affordable housing.
This is asking whether voters wanted to increase the sales
tax a half cent to pay for those things. Now,
keep in MIMO. Back in twenty seventeen, sixty nine percent
of voters past Measure H, which raised the sales tax
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a quarter cent, but that expires in twenty twenty seven.
This Measure A, the half sent sale test has no
sunset date. You know, there are some exemptions for things
like groceries. The other interesting thing about this is we're
seeing just about I think single digit percentages of the
report reporting districts coming back. Now, this is only going
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to require a simple majority for this to pass because
this was a citizen led initiative. So if this was
proposed by somebody on let's say city council or Board
of supervisors, it would require two thirds vote. The yes
side said that this will raise a billion dollars annually estimated,
and they say that letting Measure H expire without some
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sort of revenue stream again that one expires in twenty
twenty seven, that the homeless numbers could go up, But
the opponents of this say that tax periers haven't really
received their money's worth was Measure H and in fact,
you know, some of the opponents say that homelessness has
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gone up about thirty seven percent. And also just looking
at the economy in general, with inflation and the cost
of things going up, affordability, that doubling the tax rate
just isn't something that people can afford at this time.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I know, Ron, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I know, a reasonable person would probably say, hey, we
have to do more for the homeless, we need to
do something about the homeless.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We should do whatever we need to do.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But I've lived in California to know that we've applied
more and more taxes, We've thrown more and more money
at this issue, and it has not seemingly made a
dent in the problem. In your reporting, in your coverage,
did you get any sense that there was measurable support
for Measure A and adding to our sales tax?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Just like anything, it depends on who you ask, right,
But we have seen time and time again just historically
with these types of sales tax, like in twenty seventeen,
it Measure H, a quarter cent sales tax, passed with
sixty nine percent support. So based on history, you know,
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you might expect potentially this to pass, but you know,
in this type of unprecedented election, you just know ever
know how it's going to go. But based on history,
it wouldn't surprise me if it did pass.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Let's get into Measure G and if for people who
don't know, Measure G would expand the size of the
La County Board of Supervisors and making the county CEO
and elected position. Me as a person who lives in
La County, I know that how a supervisor, a county
supervisor is responsible for two million people each on average,
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and it can be unwieldy. I know the argument for it,
but there has been some pushback as far as making
the county CEO an elected position and making all the
supervisors subservient or subordinate to that elected position. Do we
know where this might be trending to the best of
your knowledge.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yeah, again depends on who you ask. You know, just
anecdotally talking to people who live in the county, they
like parts of this. For example, like you said, it
would expand the Board of supervisors for buy seat to
nine seats, so they like that portion of it. But
as you mentioned, the CEO would become an elected position,
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and that's actually something the opponents of this have concerned with,
saying that the CEO position, who kind of runs the
day to day kind of stuff, should be nonpartisan and
shouldn't have to maybe cater or whatever word you'd like
to use Ford voters. And you know, this does create
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some sort of ethics commission. While some people support the
idea of having an ethics commission, there's the other side
of it too that you know, is there going to
be added costs to this? What about the transparency with
the CEO? Yeah, and you know a little history about
the Board of Supervisors. You know, the system was created
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back in nineteen twelve when the population of La County
was closer to five hundred thousand, and now it's up
to about ten million. So it's a it's a situation.
I wait, sure we have a larger population, but if
it comes along with these other things, the CEO really
is a thing that has even people who say, yeah,
I'd like to have more Board of supervisors have told
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me that CEO being elected is a concern for them.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Joe Kwan, Spectrum News SoCal reporter anchor and KFI anchor Joquan.
I appreciate you coming on on a short notice. It's
a long day and night for everyone, but I appreciate
you you staying up late with us.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Anytime. Nice to speak with you.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I'm O Kelly, coming to you from the KFI AM
six forty and iHeartRadio Election deaths. We'll have some updates,
some actual numbers when we come back. As of this moment,
Measure A and Measure G, which we were talking about,
no voting returns have come in no vote tabulations of totals,
so when we come back, hopefully we'll have that for you.
But we do have an update in the race for
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Senate between Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Will tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3 (16:09):
Listen KFI elect your bests. I'm O Kelly.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and I'm going
to go with Fox News. They have been the most
aggressive as far as calling states to give you some
sense of where we are in the presidential race and
what's happening on the Senate side and the House. Right now,
Fox News has Donald Trump up over Harris two sixteen
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to one ninety three. California has come in. If you
wonder why I got closer. California, Oregon, and the state
of Washington were all called for Vice President Harris.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
For Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Idaho, and I think that's the last state that's been
called for Donald Trump. There are some reports which are
calling North Carolina for Donald Trump, so that number may change.
If you're watching Fox News, you're getting one number. If
you're watching CNN, you're getting a different number. If you're
watching NBC, you're getting a different number. Or if you're
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watching online and various news sites, you may get a
different number. That's because each election desk for each media
outlet is going to be very different. Some are going
to be more conservative in their projections and their calls
than others. I'm going buy Fox News. I can give
you a consistent number for the rest of my time
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with you. But right now it is Donald Trump to
sixteen Kamala Harris one ninety three. And that's not including
North Carolina, which is just being called by various sources
and outlets for Donald Trump, which will be another sixteen
Electoral College votes for Donald Trump. If you're a hair supporter,
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it's really getting nervous time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's getting desperation time.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
If only because the blue Wall, which any Democrat would
need to become president states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Presently Kamala Harris trails in all three of those states. Obviously,
if she loses one, definitely two of them, she would
have no pathway to becoming president.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So that's what we're watching right now.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It all depends if those states are projected tonight whether
the race would be called tonight. That's what most people
are waiting and watching for. But it's still trending in
the direction of Donald Trump. More locally, they have called
the Senate election here in California and Adam Schiff has
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beaten Steve Garvey and will be our next US Senator,
representing our next junior senator. And honestly, that should not
have been any surprise to anyone who is paying attention.
We know that Steve Garvey made a lot of appearances
here on KFI, but that was basically the extent of
his campaign. From what I know from the people that
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I talked to up and down the state, he did
not have any real ground presence. He was not going
to the different counties. He was not doing the retail politics,
which is just necessary in a statewide race. And I
said from the very beginning, and this is not Spike
the football, but I think it does bear mentioning for
all the criticisms of why California has called this so
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called one party state. You have to have a presence,
you have to have credible candidates, and you have to
develop relationships with different coalitions and constituencies if you want
to actually win a statewide race. And although Steve Garvey
may have been very popular within certain quadrants of the state,
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definitely Orange County, he was not popular elsewhere. He was
not well known elsewhere, and he was not doing the
things to build those inroads. And it wasn't realistic at
any point that he would become senator. So if you
were disappointed that Steve Garvey lost, just know that the
Republicans have work to do here in California if they're
going to win statewide races or even certain congressional races.
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We'll find out how that pans out and plays out
the rest of the evening. But if you're just tuning in,
they have called the race for the US California Senator
and Adam Schiff will be the next Senator, triumphing over
Steve Garvey. And we're still waiting on some of these
results to come in for some of the local races
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and the different measures. And Twala, you gave me some
information about Proposition thirty three, how it's losing the last
I looked almost two to one. Yeah, And if you
don't know, we have talked on my show later with
Mo Kelly about the idea of rent control and how
when I say we, you know, regular people, you and me,
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We complain about how high the rent is or how
high the rent has been, how the cost of living
is here in California. And each and every time there
is an opportunity to vote in some semblance of rent control,
almost universally, it's always voted down. We as Californias, can't
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have it both ways. Now you can say that Prop
thirty three wasn't perfect, it was an issue with this
or issue with that. All I'm saying is you can't
complain about the rent being high and also say that well,
we're not going to do anything about it that which
is in our control. I'm not renting, So this is
not like I personally have a dog in this fight.
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I'm just saying historically California has always voted down rent control,
and also historically, Californians have complained about the cost of
rent every single year. So there's a disconnect because we
know that there are more people renting than there are.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Landlords.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So I don't know what the disconnect is, but that
is something that we'll be watching the rest of the evening.
Proposition thirty six is going to win overwhelmingly. Some seventeen
percent of the vote is in, and it is winning
with seventy three percent of the vote. Of the seventeen percent,
which is in two million, two point one million to
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eight hundred thousand, that's Proposition thirty six.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And let me just give you some specific differents. We're
talking about Proposition thirty three.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Seventeen percent of the vote is in, and the nose
have it sixty four to thirty five percent of that
seventeen percent ends so far, no real surprise. Now they're
listing zero percent of the vote in being reported in
that highly watched race between George Gascone and Nathan Hackman
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for the LA County District Attorney. But I don't think
it should be any surprise that Nathan Hackman from every quadrant,
every person that I've spoken to, every elected official, every
person on the street, have said that it's going to
be Nathan Hockman's race to lose, that he should win
probably three to one if I'm not mistaken, And if
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Nathan Hackman should prevail, we will have his victory address
come to you live, will probably talk to Steve Gregory,
who is on location at Nathan Hockman's headquarters, and we'll
be able to hopefully get some sound from him as
to what the mood is like. And here is my question.
If I had a chance to speak to Nathan Hackman,
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how soon might we as people who live in Los
Angeles County, how soon might we feel a difference, see
a difference?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
What is going to be the difference.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's one thing to say I'm going to enforce the law,
I'm going to be tougher on crime, But what does
that mean for people like you and me who are
dealing with the street takeovers every day, who are dealing
with the looting of the seven to eleven. What does
that mean for the person who's running up and punching
elderly people. Yes, you may prosecute them to the fullest
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extent of the law.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But how are we going to.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Start feeling the change in this elected official position? That
would be something that I would ask Nathan Hockman. And
we're going to continue to watch that race and so
much more. When we come back, I'll be joined by
kfi's own Corbyn Carson, who's going to give us an
update on the congressional races in Orange County and more.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
It's the KFI Election Desk.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I'm Mo Kelly, KFIM six forty, Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
This is KFI Election Desk. I'm O Kelly. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Let's check in with Corbyn Carson,
who has an update on the congressional races in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Corporate, how are you sir? Well?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
First of all, Mo, how are you?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
I just left the Republican watch party here at Muldoon's
in Newport Beach. I spoke with the chair of the
Orange County Republican Party who said that they're you know,
there's a lot. There's some races they're winning, and there's
some there's not, but it's too close.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Here's his latest most of.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
The Republican voters. If you look at our turnout right now,
county wide, we have forty three thousand more Republicans have
voted than Democrats.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's turn ins, that's.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Not the votes, right, So the votes as they're getting counted,
we're going to see those in the returns later this evening.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
And then about the Steve the Scott Ball race.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Yeah, so in baw we have ten thousand. As of
three o'clock today, we have ten thousand more Republicans have
voted than Democrats. And so as the returns come in
later and later tonight, you're going to see us having
great results in that race.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
So they're real confident out here, MO.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
And this matters because we're couple of Republicans and Democrats
both have about two seats safe in Congress, and the
winner of these two congressional races in Orange County could
decide which party controls the House of Representatives. The first
is the forty fifth district, which includes So Rito's, Bueno
Park and those That seat is currently held by Congresswoman
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Michelle Steele. She's in a tight race with Democrat Derek Tran. First,
let's talk to Derek Trant, who talked about how important
this this local race is to Democrats nationally.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
This is the closest rage race in the country. Every
single poll has US neck and neck. Republicans control the
House by just four seats, so it's not just about
electing me, but it's the difference between a Republican Congress
and a Democratic Congress. A Speaker Johnson or a speaker
Jeffries another January sixth are protecting our democracy?
Speaker 8 (26:48):
And then, of course I asked Congresswoman Michelle Steele, she
is the incumbent. I asked her the same question, how
important is this for Republicans.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We have a very unique perspective nationally because we understand
that what it's like live in a state with high passes,
you know, person in contacts thirteen point three percent, and
spend policies, and how that's failing, how funny of families
and our families are really suffering with the high inflation
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rate and gas prices. And I think that's the reason
that we are working really hard and get me lucky.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
The other close race is the forty seventh district that's
Newport Beach Lake Forest, Irvine. The seat's been vacated by
Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter. It's now in a tight heat
between former Republican Assemblyman Scott Baw and Democratic State Senator
Dave men I talked to Ball also, I got a
one on one with him to talk about how important
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this district is for Republican.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
Jerrymandering throughout the entire country has left only about twenty
seats that are up for grabs. The rest of the
seats are relatively safe, either Republican or Democrat, and this
is one of four open seats in the entire country
where there's no incumbent running for reelection in a purple
district that is winnable. As you know, I ran last
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time and got really close, notwithstanding being outspent nine to one.
This time, I'm still being outspent, but it's closer to
three to one, so it's more of a fair fight.
But it's an important seat for our party because we
want to make sure that we maintain control of Congress
and see if we can grow it a little.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Bit, and then he's going against State Senator Dave Min.
He says this is a toss up that Democrats must win.
Speaker 12 (28:30):
This race is seen as one of the most important
House races in the country. Katie Porter, who currently represents
this area but is leaving the seat behind, won her
race by only three points in twenty twenty two, despite
significantly outspending her opponent, Scott Ball. Scott Ball is running again,
of course, and he is my opponent in this race.
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And because of that close margin in twenty twenty two,
both sides, the Democrats and the Republicans, have made this
the top battle round race in the country, in the state,
one of the top battleground racers in the country.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
So there you have it, mo.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
You know these are so tight we should be getting
some more. Election results are just starting to trickle in
as to who is gonna win. But I gotta tell you,
as you heard Weddeker say in California, there's so many
ballots that are still being tabulated, there's a good chance
we might not know who won in either of these
races tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
We may not know, But here are the latest returns
that I am getting in Congressional District forty five Tran,
the Democrat is leading Steel the incumbent Republican, fifty one
point six to forty eight point four percent with forty
six percent of the vote in. And in Congressional District
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forty seven Men, the Democrat is leading Ball the Republican
fifty five point two to forty four point eight with
fifty two percent of the vote in. So at this point,
given that we know, yes, there's gonna be more of
a Republican vote which is coming in, but both the
Democrats are leading in those respective congressional races with about
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forty seven to fifty two percent of the vote in respectively.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Yeah, so a lot of a lot still to decide here,
but it remains to be seen as these as these
as these numbers trickle in over the night.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Mom, Now where you are right now, describe for me
the mood. Is it jovial? Is it concern? What is
it you're seeing and hearing?
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Absolutely jovial.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
There are as you would imagine at a Republican watch party.
There are multiple American flags and make America great again.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Obviously they're hearing.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
The feeling in here is that many of the voters
that I've talked to is that Trump is gonna take
this election. That's what they think. And then again they're
also very excited as they.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Hear they just won.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I think it was another Senate seed that that was
what mister Whitaker was talking to me, the chair of
the Orange County Republican Party. So a lot of positive
energy in here. They did, like I said earlier, admit
that they are trailing in some races. The two that
you mentioned, the two key that could mean the difference
for the House of Representatives. But again, there are so
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many votes that still need to be counted.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Gorvin Carson, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I know you have a long evening still ahead of you,
so try to get some resks, try to get.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Some food in why you can. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And before we go to this break, just want to
give you an update in the presidential race. And again
I'm following Fox News. Trump is up two hundred and
thirty two to Harris's two hundred and twelve. The state
of North Carolina has been called for Donald Trump. Arguably
that's the first battleground state which has been decided and
called for one of the candidates. Vice President Harris was
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also projected to win Virginia, so that keeps her in
the running. But it still comes down to what, as
they say, is the blue Wall Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
In Wisconsin, there's seventy five percent of the vote which
has been reported and Donald Trump leads by about four
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percentage points. In Michigan, forty three percent of the vote
has been reported and Donald Trump leads fifty one to
forty six.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'm just rounding off for right now.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And in Pennsylvania, eighty three percent of the vote is
in for Pennsylvania and Donald Trump is winning forty excuse me,
fifty one point three percent to forty seven point seven percent.
I'm just going out on a limb here. If Pennsylvania
is called tonight for Donald Trump. If it's called tonight,
then we probably will have a projected winner of the
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election tonight, because without Pennsylvania, I don't see. I may
be wrong, but mathematically there may not be a path
to victory for Kamala Harris if she loses Pennsylvania. We
will continue to follows KFI election desk on mo Kelly.
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KIM six forty is the election desk of Moe Kelly.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Let's get right
to it. You know at this point that Donald Trump,
former President Donald Trump, is leading in an electoral count
sense depending on which network you're looking at, he's leading
on all of them, but the totals may vary. But
I want to start off tonight with someone who I
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respect personally, professionally, politically, who knows a little bit about this.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
He is Shermichael Singleton.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
He's a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, Trump administration veteran
and appointee serving under HUD's secretary, doctor Ben Carson. Shermichael Singleton,
How you doing, my brother?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Hey, mo, I am doing well, man, Thanks for having
me on your program. I am watching these numbers which
are truly impressive.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
When you say impressive, obviously, I think all of us
are so prize. And I say that respectfully because you know,
not that anyone was following the polls, but given the
history of former President Trump, given the obstacles in front
of him, given the commentaries about him, I think a
lot of people would have thought tonight would have gone
at least a little bit differently.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I don't think so, mo. I think a lot of men,
specifically men of color and younger men, exerted their autonomy.
I think the arguments that you should vote for the
vice president, I think, as Obama said, because black women
have always had our backs, that failed. I think the
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idea of painting Trump as a racist or a bigot,
I think those arguments failed. I think most men, and
I'm saying this and some way disagree with me, but
I think most men, regardless of ethnicity, are principally concerned
with different things. I think the Trump campaign ads talking
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about the gender issues after during football events, I think
that was very effective. I think the arguments about the
Democrats being more feminine in nature and Republicans being more
protectors or representatives of traditional masculinity, that is, for men
who work with their hands, men who are comfortable with
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just being a guy and embrace those things and care
about those things right, it's a part of their identity.
I think people who agree with those things made a
very clear decision, and the decision was that they believe
the Democratic Party at least a modern party, because this
certainly isn't representative of all Democrats, because clearly there are
a lot of men of color who clearly voted for
the Democrats overwhelmingly. But Trump. If what we're saying is
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true from Santa and I work percent and I've been
watching them for the past couple hours now, if it's
true that Trump has increased in margins and places like
Wisconsin by twenty five percent, I mean, these numbers are
unheard of. The last Republican to do this well with
people of color was Richard Nixon. So so you're you're
talking several decades ago, and so when I say it's impressive,
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that's that's what I mean. I think now the question
becomes if Trump does when it appears that he's going
to Windy Mo, the Republican Party transition on the whole
hosting that simple impactment of color from an economic perspective
will have to be addressed. We have seen trends change
in some pretty drastic numbers for Latino men and black
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men in terms of academic attainment. We're not going to
college mo at the same rates as the women in
our community. We're not graduating with couge degrees at the
same rates of women in our community. We're seeing an
increase and suicidal dereliction from men of color. That there's
a lot going on with men that no one is
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appearing to put a spotlight on. And so when you
have Jadie Vance in some of his commentary talk about
men in some very unique ways and their importance of men,
and the role of men and their families and their communities,
this stuff has a lot of resonance to a lot
of people. I'm writing a book on this topic. I've
been talking about this for months on CNN, and a
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lot of people have been skeptical of me, and we're
seeing the data. Even if Trump were to lose this thing,
the fact that he's increased his number so significantly with
these groups cannot be ignored.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Let me jump in there, because there is what is
happening on the presidential level, and I'm also seeing what
is happening on the senatorial level, where where I see
the Republicans now basically have fifty seats locked up. It
looks almost a fatal complete that they will have control
of the Senate. It's just a matter of by how
many seats. How do you read that map?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I'm not surprised by it. I've always believed that there
was a pretty good chance that Democrats may take the House.
I thought the flint of the Senate was going to flip,
and I thought it was going to flip essentially and
reverse to what it currently is. Can Republicans win an
extra seater too? I think it's possible. But if Trump wins,
you have a Republican vice president that will be the tiebreaker,
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essentially fulfilling the same role that Vice President Harris currently
has with President Biden. So that's not unrealistic. No surprise there.
You would think if Trump wins, Republicans might be able
to keep the House, albeit a very slim margin, if
he were to run up the numbers that much. I mean,
I was looking at the New York Times. Even the
New York Times have the possibility that Trump could win
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the popular vote. I mean, mo, can you imagine that
a Republican even the possibility Let's say he doesn't win it,
but even the possibility is unheard of. I can't think
of the last Republican to win the popular vote.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
What I could take?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No, no, no, George W. Bush two thousand and four a Bush.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So this is this is just impressive. This is impressive.
And mo I would just say quickly, it's impressive because
of your opening question to me about Donald Trump. Donald Trump,
that's a lot of laws. I'm not going to pretend
that he doesn't. And he says a lot of outrageous
things that turns a lot of people off. And yet
despite all of those things, this guy appears to have
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increased his margins from twenty sixteen from twenty twenty across
the board. And what that tells you is that what
propelled him in twenty sixteen, what barely lost him the
presidency in twenty twenty. People forget he lost by less
than eighty thousand votes. I mean, it was very slim
in terms of electoral college. That that grievance that people
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are still feeling is still there. I think the issue
this time around, though, is that that grievance isn't just
with only a certain class of white Americans. I think
this grievance are starting to percolate among communities of color,
whether it's an economic grievents, whether this idea that a
class of sort of technocratic elites has sort of left
behind everybody else and has been good at pointing a
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spotlight critiquing these issues of people, whether it's immigration, and
people say, oh, Trump is racist because there's views of immigration. Well,
one only needed to read local news reports MO in
Chicago or New York where black residents there were angry
at the resources being reshuffled to immigrants away from them.
And I remember one thing where Mayor Adam's out of
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New York a couple months ago at town hall, and
it shocked me by the complaints by some of the
people there and how they felt about new individuals coming
into their city and how new resources were being redirected.
And people were saying, well, we've been fighting for these
things for years, and you guys always say there's not
enough resources, and all of a sudden, you're opening up
new buildings for new people. I don't say this as
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a flight against anyone attempting to come into the country
fleeing any type of persecution. The point I'm attempting to
make sure, though, MO, is that those things are very
real for people, and I think there's just been a
disconnect from a lot of folks in the media and
a lot of folks in the Democratic Party and it
appears you're seeing in real time.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Tremachael.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I got thirty seconds with you, and I'm going to
make you answer an impossible question. I know it's a
both and, but what do you attribute it to be
more of? Do you see tonight as more of an
embrace of Donald Trump and specifically what he was offering,
or more of a repudiation of Kamala Harris and the
Democratic Party and what they were offering.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I think a repudiation of the Democratic Party, and I
think an embrace of the critique that Donald Trump has
brought to the forefront in terms of economics, in terms
of immigration, in terms of foreign policy. People are struggling
out there. They want to secure border and they do
not want to send their sons and daughters to another
long war that's going to cost over a trillion dollars,
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and Trump is saying, I'm going to provide a solution
to all of that. Sure, he may be light on
the specifics, and I'm a specifics kind of guy. But
when you provide a spotlight and a critique of something
that people are saying, this is a problem and no
one else seems to listen, They're going to open their
ears to the guy who's pointing out that issue, and
I think that's why Trump is potentially doing so well
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and they actually win this.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Then he is Shermichael Singleton, Republican Strategists, CNN contributor, Trump
Administration veteran and appointees serving under HUT Secretary doctor Ben Carson,
and a friend of mine. Shermichael has been too long.
Make sure we do it again sometime soon.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Let us do it soon. Mo, Thank you, my friend,
and God bless you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Absolutely have a great night. It's the election desk at
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
We'll have more.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
We'll check in with Spectrums Joe Kwan about some of
the issues and some of the measures locally. As the
polls are now closed here in California.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
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Speaker 2 (09:52):
And joining me right now is Spectrum News SoCal reporter
anchor and KFI anchor Joe Kwan with the latest on
Measure A and Measure G. Joe Kwan is good to
talk to you, the saying how are you my friend?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Good?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Measure A g big La County issues. Measure A has
to do with money for homeless services and affordable housing.
This is asking whether voters wanted to increase the sales
tax a half cent to pay for those things. Now,
keep in MIMO. Back in twenty seventeen, sixty nine percent
of voters past Measure H, which raised the sales tax
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a quarter cent, but that expires in twenty twenty seven.
This Measure A, the half sent sale test has no
sunset date. You know, there are some exemptions for things
like groceries. The other interesting thing about this is we're
seeing just about I think single digit percentages of the
report reporting districts coming back. Now, this is only going
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to require a simple majority for this to pass because
this was a citizen led initiative. So if this was
proposed by somebody on let's say city council or Board
of supervisors, it would require two thirds vote. The yes
side said that this will raise a billion dollars annually estimated,
and they say that letting Measure H expire without some
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sort of revenue stream again that one expires in twenty
twenty seven, that the homeless numbers could go up, But
the opponents of this say that tax periers haven't really
received their money's worth was Measure H and in fact,
you know, some of the opponents say that homelessness has
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gone up about thirty seven percent. And also just looking
at the economy in general, with inflation and the cost
of things going up, affordability, that doubling the tax rate
just isn't something that people can afford at this time.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I know, Ron, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I know, a reasonable person would probably say, hey, we
have to do more for the homeless, we need to
do something about the homeless.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We should do whatever we need to do.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
But I've lived in California to know that we've applied
more and more taxes, We've thrown more and more money
at this issue, and it has not seemingly made a
dent in the problem. In your reporting, in your coverage,
did you get any sense that there was measurable support
for Measure A and adding to our sales tax?
Speaker 6 (12:31):
Just like anything, it depends on who you ask, right,
But we have seen time and time again just historically
with these types of sales tax, like in twenty seventeen,
it Measure H, a quarter cent sales tax, passed with
sixty nine percent support. So based on history, you know,
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you might expect potentially this to pass, but you know,
in this type of unprecedented election, you just know ever
know how it's going to go. But based on history,
it wouldn't surprise me if it did pass.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Let's get into Measure G and if for people who
don't know, Measure G would expand the size of the
La County Board of Supervisors and making the county CEO
and elected position. Me as a person who lives in
La County, I know that how a supervisor, a county
supervisor is responsible for two million people each on average,
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and it can be unwieldy. I know the argument for it,
but there has been some pushback as far as making
the county CEO an elected position and making all the
supervisors subservient or subordinate to that elected position. Do we
know where this might be trending to the best of
your knowledge.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
Yeah, again depends on who you ask. You know, just
anecdotally talking to people who live in the county, they
like parts of this. For example, like you said, it
would expand the Board of supervisors for buy seat to
nine seats, so they like that portion of it. But
as you mentioned, the CEO would become an elected position,
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and that's actually something the opponents of this have concerned with,
saying that the CEO position, who kind of runs the
day to day kind of stuff, should be nonpartisan and
shouldn't have to maybe cater or whatever word you'd like
to use Ford voters. And you know, this does create
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some sort of ethics commission. While some people support the
idea of having an ethics commission, there's the other side
of it too that you know, is there going to
be added costs to this? What about the transparency with
the CEO? Yeah, and you know a little history about
the Board of Supervisors. You know, the system was created
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back in nineteen twelve when the population of La County
was closer to five hundred thousand, and now it's up
to about ten million. So it's a it's a situation.
I wait, sure we have a larger population, but if
it comes along with these other things, the CEO really
is a thing that has even people who say, yeah,
I'd like to have more Board of supervisors have told
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me that CEO being elected is a concern for them.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Joe Kwan, Spectrum News SoCal reporter anchor and KFI anchor Joquan.
I appreciate you coming on on a short notice. It's
a long day and night for everyone, but I appreciate
you you staying up late with us.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
Anytime. Nice to speak with you.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
I'm O Kelly, coming to you from the KFI AM
six forty and iHeartRadio Election deaths. We'll have some updates,
some actual numbers when we come back. As of this moment,
Measure A and Measure G, which we were talking about,
no voting returns have come in no vote tabulations of totals,
so when we come back, hopefully we'll have that for you.
But we do have an update in the race for
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Senate between Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Will tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
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Speaker 3 (16:09):
Listen KFI elect your bests. I'm O Kelly.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and I'm going
to go with Fox News. They have been the most
aggressive as far as calling states to give you some
sense of where we are in the presidential race and
what's happening on the Senate side and the House. Right now,
Fox News has Donald Trump up over Harris two sixteen
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to one ninety three. California has come in. If you
wonder why I got closer. California, Oregon, and the state
of Washington were all called for Vice President Harris.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
For Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Idaho, and I think that's the last state that's been
called for Donald Trump. There are some reports which are
calling North Carolina for Donald Trump, so that number may change.
If you're watching Fox News, you're getting one number. If
you're watching CNN, you're getting a different number. If you're
watching NBC, you're getting a different number. Or if you're
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watching online and various news sites, you may get a
different number. That's because each election desk for each media
outlet is going to be very different. Some are going
to be more conservative in their projections and their calls
than others. I'm going buy Fox News. I can give
you a consistent number for the rest of my time
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with you. But right now it is Donald Trump to
sixteen Kamala Harris one ninety three. And that's not including
North Carolina, which is just being called by various sources
and outlets for Donald Trump, which will be another sixteen
Electoral College votes for Donald Trump. If you're a hair supporter,
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it's really getting nervous time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
It's getting desperation time.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
If only because the blue Wall, which any Democrat would
need to become president states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
Presently Kamala Harris trails in all three of those states. Obviously,
if she loses one, definitely two of them, she would
have no pathway to becoming president.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So that's what we're watching right now.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
It all depends if those states are projected tonight whether
the race would be called tonight. That's what most people
are waiting and watching for. But it's still trending in
the direction of Donald Trump. More locally, they have called
the Senate election here in California and Adam Schiff has
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beaten Steve Garvey and will be our next US Senator,
representing our next junior senator. And honestly, that should not
have been any surprise to anyone who is paying attention.
We know that Steve Garvey made a lot of appearances
here on KFI, but that was basically the extent of
his campaign. From what I know from the people that
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I talked to up and down the state, he did
not have any real ground presence. He was not going
to the different counties. He was not doing the retail politics,
which is just necessary in a statewide race. And I
said from the very beginning, and this is not Spike
the football, but I think it does bear mentioning for
all the criticisms of why California has called this so
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called one party state. You have to have a presence,
you have to have credible candidates, and you have to
develop relationships with different coalitions and constituencies if you want
to actually win a statewide race. And although Steve Garvey
may have been very popular within certain quadrants of the state,
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definitely Orange County, he was not popular elsewhere. He was
not well known elsewhere, and he was not doing the
things to build those inroads. And it wasn't realistic at
any point that he would become senator. So if you
were disappointed that Steve Garvey lost, just know that the
Republicans have work to do here in California if they're
going to win statewide races or even certain congressional races.
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We'll find out how that pans out and plays out
the rest of the evening. But if you're just tuning in,
they have called the race for the US California Senator
and Adam Schiff will be the next Senator, triumphing over
Steve Garvey. And we're still waiting on some of these
results to come in for some of the local races
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and the different measures. And Twala, you gave me some
information about Proposition thirty three, how it's losing the last
I looked almost two to one. Yeah, And if you
don't know, we have talked on my show later with
Mo Kelly about the idea of rent control and how
when I say we, you know, regular people, you and me,
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We complain about how high the rent is or how
high the rent has been, how the cost of living
is here in California. And each and every time there
is an opportunity to vote in some semblance of rent control,
almost universally, it's always voted down. We as Californias, can't
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have it both ways. Now you can say that Prop
thirty three wasn't perfect, it was an issue with this
or issue with that. All I'm saying is you can't
complain about the rent being high and also say that well,
we're not going to do anything about it that which
is in our control. I'm not renting, So this is
not like I personally have a dog in this fight.
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I'm just saying historically California has always voted down rent control,
and also historically, Californians have complained about the cost of
rent every single year. So there's a disconnect because we
know that there are more people renting than there are.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Landlords.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
So I don't know what the disconnect is, but that
is something that we'll be watching the rest of the evening.
Proposition thirty six is going to win overwhelmingly. Some seventeen
percent of the vote is in, and it is winning
with seventy three percent of the vote. Of the seventeen percent,
which is in two million, two point one million to
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eight hundred thousand, that's Proposition thirty six.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And let me just give you some specific differents. We're
talking about Proposition thirty three.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Seventeen percent of the vote is in, and the nose
have it sixty four to thirty five percent of that
seventeen percent ends so far, no real surprise. Now they're
listing zero percent of the vote in being reported in
that highly watched race between George Gascone and Nathan Hackman
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for the LA County District Attorney. But I don't think
it should be any surprise that Nathan Hackman from every quadrant,
every person that I've spoken to, every elected official, every
person on the street, have said that it's going to
be Nathan Hockman's race to lose, that he should win
probably three to one if I'm not mistaken, And if
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Nathan Hackman should prevail, we will have his victory address
come to you live, will probably talk to Steve Gregory,
who is on location at Nathan Hockman's headquarters, and we'll
be able to hopefully get some sound from him as
to what the mood is like. And here is my question.
If I had a chance to speak to Nathan Hackman,
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how soon might we as people who live in Los
Angeles County, how soon might we feel a difference, see
a difference?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
What is going to be the difference.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's one thing to say I'm going to enforce the law,
I'm going to be tougher on crime, But what does
that mean for people like you and me who are
dealing with the street takeovers every day, who are dealing
with the looting of the seven to eleven. What does
that mean for the person who's running up and punching
elderly people. Yes, you may prosecute them to the fullest
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extent of the law.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
But how are we going to.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Start feeling the change in this elected official position? That
would be something that I would ask Nathan Hockman. And
we're going to continue to watch that race and so
much more. When we come back, I'll be joined by
kfi's own Corbyn Carson, who's going to give us an
update on the congressional races in Orange County and more.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
It's the KFI Election Desk.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
I'm Mo Kelly, KFIM six forty, Live everywhere on the
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This is KFI Election Desk. I'm O Kelly. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Let's check in with Corbyn Carson,
who has an update on the congressional races in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Corporate, how are you sir? Well?
Speaker 7 (25:01):
First of all, Mo, how are you?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
I just left the Republican watch party here at Muldoon's
in Newport Beach. I spoke with the chair of the
Orange County Republican Party who said that they're you know,
there's a lot. There's some races they're winning, and there's
some there's not, but it's too close.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Here's his latest most of.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
The Republican voters. If you look at our turnout right now,
county wide, we have forty three thousand more Republicans have
voted than Democrats.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
That's turn ins, that's.
Speaker 9 (25:29):
Not the votes, right, So the votes as they're getting counted,
we're going to see those in the returns later this evening.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
And then about the Steve the Scott Ball race.
Speaker 9 (25:39):
Yeah, so in baw we have ten thousand. As of
three o'clock today, we have ten thousand more Republicans have
voted than Democrats. And so as the returns come in
later and later tonight, you're going to see us having
great results in that race.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
So they're real confident out here, MO.
Speaker 8 (25:53):
And this matters because we're couple of Republicans and Democrats
both have about two seats safe in Congress, and the
winner of these two congressional races in Orange County could
decide which party controls the House of Representatives. The first
is the forty fifth district, which includes So Rito's, Bueno
Park and those That seat is currently held by Congresswoman
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Michelle Steele. She's in a tight race with Democrat Derek Tran. First,
let's talk to Derek Trant, who talked about how important
this this local race is to Democrats nationally.
Speaker 10 (26:26):
This is the closest rage race in the country. Every
single poll has US neck and neck. Republicans control the
House by just four seats, so it's not just about
electing me, but it's the difference between a Republican Congress
and a Democratic Congress. A Speaker Johnson or a speaker
Jeffries another January sixth are protecting our democracy?
Speaker 8 (26:48):
And then, of course I asked Congresswoman Michelle Steele, she
is the incumbent. I asked her the same question, how
important is this for Republicans.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
We have a very unique perspective nationally because we understand
that what it's like live in a state with high passes,
you know, person in contacts thirteen point three percent, and
spend policies, and how that's failing, how funny of families
and our families are really suffering with the high inflation
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rate and gas prices. And I think that's the reason
that we are working really hard and get me lucky.
Speaker 8 (27:23):
The other close race is the forty seventh district that's
Newport Beach Lake Forest, Irvine. The seat's been vacated by
Democratic Congresswoman Katie Porter. It's now in a tight heat
between former Republican Assemblyman Scott Baw and Democratic State Senator
Dave men I talked to Ball also, I got a
one on one with him to talk about how important
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this district is for Republican.
Speaker 11 (27:47):
Jerrymandering throughout the entire country has left only about twenty
seats that are up for grabs. The rest of the
seats are relatively safe, either Republican or Democrat, and this
is one of four open seats in the entire country
where there's no incumbent running for reelection in a purple
district that is winnable. As you know, I ran last
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time and got really close, notwithstanding being outspent nine to one.
This time, I'm still being outspent, but it's closer to
three to one, so it's more of a fair fight.
But it's an important seat for our party because we
want to make sure that we maintain control of Congress
and see if we can grow it a little.
Speaker 8 (28:23):
Bit, and then he's going against State Senator Dave Min.
He says this is a toss up that Democrats must win.
Speaker 12 (28:30):
This race is seen as one of the most important
House races in the country. Katie Porter, who currently represents
this area but is leaving the seat behind, won her
race by only three points in twenty twenty two, despite
significantly outspending her opponent, Scott Ball. Scott Ball is running again,
of course, and he is my opponent in this race.
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And because of that close margin in twenty twenty two,
both sides, the Democrats and the Republicans, have made this
the top battle round race in the country, in the state,
one of the top battleground racers in the country.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
So there you have it, mo.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
You know these are so tight we should be getting
some more. Election results are just starting to trickle in
as to who is gonna win. But I gotta tell you,
as you heard Weddeker say in California, there's so many
ballots that are still being tabulated, there's a good chance
we might not know who won in either of these
races tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
We may not know, But here are the latest returns
that I am getting in Congressional District forty five Tran,
the Democrat is leading Steel the incumbent Republican, fifty one
point six to forty eight point four percent with forty
six percent of the vote in. And in Congressional District
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forty seven Men, the Democrat is leading Ball the Republican
fifty five point two to forty four point eight with
fifty two percent of the vote in. So at this point,
given that we know, yes, there's gonna be more of
a Republican vote which is coming in, but both the
Democrats are leading in those respective congressional races with about
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forty seven to fifty two percent of the vote in respectively.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Yeah, so a lot of a lot still to decide here,
but it remains to be seen as these as these
as these numbers trickle in over the night.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Mom, Now where you are right now, describe for me
the mood. Is it jovial? Is it concern? What is
it you're seeing and hearing?
Speaker 8 (30:25):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:25):
Absolutely jovial.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
There are as you would imagine at a Republican watch party.
There are multiple American flags and make America great again.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
Obviously they're hearing.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
The feeling in here is that many of the voters
that I've talked to is that Trump is gonna take
this election. That's what they think. And then again they're
also very excited as they.
Speaker 7 (30:47):
Hear they just won.
Speaker 8 (30:48):
I think it was another Senate seed that that was
what mister Whitaker was talking to me, the chair of
the Orange County Republican Party. So a lot of positive
energy in here. They did, like I said earlier, admit
that they are trailing in some races. The two that
you mentioned, the two key that could mean the difference
for the House of Representatives. But again, there are so
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many votes that still need to be counted.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Gorvin Carson, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
I know you have a long evening still ahead of you,
so try to get some resks, try to get.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Some food in why you can. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
And before we go to this break, just want to
give you an update in the presidential race. And again
I'm following Fox News. Trump is up two hundred and
thirty two to Harris's two hundred and twelve. The state
of North Carolina has been called for Donald Trump. Arguably
that's the first battleground state which has been decided and
called for one of the candidates. Vice President Harris was
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also projected to win Virginia, so that keeps her in
the running. But it still comes down to what, as
they say, is the blue Wall Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
In Wisconsin, there's seventy five percent of the vote which
has been reported and Donald Trump leads by about four
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percentage points. In Michigan, forty three percent of the vote
has been reported and Donald Trump leads fifty one to
forty six.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
I'm just rounding off for right now.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And in Pennsylvania, eighty three percent of the vote is
in for Pennsylvania and Donald Trump is winning forty excuse me,
fifty one point three percent to forty seven point seven percent.
I'm just going out on a limb here. If Pennsylvania
is called tonight for Donald Trump. If it's called tonight,
then we probably will have a projected winner of the
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election tonight, because without Pennsylvania, I don't see. I may
be wrong, but mathematically there may not be a path
to victory for Kamala Harris if she loses Pennsylvania. We
will continue to follows KFI election desk on mo Kelly.
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