What the Gavin Newsom Recall Means to America

CLAY: Gavin Newsom, the recall election is underway. And you know there’s a panic going on ’cause they’ve even brought Kamala Harris out of hiding to suddenly start campaigning for Gavin Newsom. And Larry Elder came out and said, “Hey, you know what? If Dianne Feinstein were to step down, I’d promote a Republican.”

And you know it was starting to get really contentious in terms of the likelihood of Gavin Newsom and whether he’s going to win this recall election because all of the negative press started to rain down on Larry Elder’s head. They found every person who has ever had any negative story associated with Larry Elder for the last 50 years of his life to suddenly write a negative article. I mean, the L.A. Times in one of the all-time…

You can’t even make this headline up. The Babylon Bee couldn’t even come up with this. They called Larry Elder “the black face of white supremacy.” That was their headline. Yes. A black man running for governor in California, they labeled him the black face of white supremacy in California. And I don’t, first of all, think there’s that many white supremacists in California. I’ve spent a decent amount of time out there.

I don’t think there are that many white supremacists, period, and certainly the idea… (laughing) This is like the old Dave Chappelle skit, I think it was Clayton Bigsby, the KKK member who was blind and didn’t realize he was black, which is a really hysterical — one of many really hysterical — Chappelle show skits from back in the day. But this is next-level craziness, and the numbers out there are alarming for Gavin Newsom.

But the betting markets have started to swing back a little bit in his favor, as the millions of dollars that have coming raining in in his favor. Over $30 million they’re now spending in the last few days of this recall election to try to assure that Gavin Newsom wins this race, including lots of Big Tech industry companies — and I’m counting Netflix as tech industry company. Reed Hastings, the CEO of — co-CEO, I believe it is — of Netflix, rolling in over $3 million in his favor.

Kamala Harris is running around campaigning for Gavin Newsom — and look. I know a lot of you are listening to us right now in California. And I have been hearing from a bunch of friends in California who otherwise would be Democratic voters who are so fed up with all the choices and decisions that Gavin Newsom has made that they are voting for in favor of his recall, and so what I would say is this. The likelihood of Gavin Newsom losing is an upset.

But what I would encourage all of you to be doing is even if Gavin Newsom wins by a slim margin — which I think is probably what’s likely to end up happening if I were having to bet on the outcome here — the message that is being sent is very clear, and it is this one. It’s time to get back to normal all over the country because Gavin Newsom has a massive advantage in overall Democrats that are registered in the state of California.

The fact that he has even found himself in this donnybrook, in this tight election race that is requiring him to spend tens of millions of dollars to avoid is a testament to his failure as a governor and to the failure of the one-party state that is Democrats in California. People are abandoning the state of California in record numbers, the likes of which have never been seen since California became a state.

And people are abandoning California and moving in big numbers to states where freedom exists. Listen to this. Listen to the top inbound cities in 2021. I was looking at this data. This is from Axios Tampa Bay. Orlando, Florida; Savannah, Georgia; Dallas, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee (my hometown here); Fort Myers, Florida; West Palm Beach, Florida; Fort Walton Beach, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; Melbourne, Florida (might be Melbourne, Florida, I apologize there); Raleigh, North Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina.

That’s the top 20. And I just ran through all of the southern locations where people are moving. If Florida and Ron DeSantis was really that dangerous as it pertains to covid, do you think people would be moving to Florida in record numbers and fleeing the states in the Northeast and in the West where freedoms are less significant and pouring into the states where freedoms are the most significant? I don’t think so, and I know some people get nervous there.

You’re like, “Hey, Californians are gonna be like locusts. They’re gonna move to Nevada. They’re gonna move to Arizona. They’re gonna spread their left-wing politics and it’s gonna be even worse.” What I am seeing in my hometown of Nashville is the people who are leaving are red voters who are fed up with the failed policies of blue states. And so I think what’s going to end up happening with the covid map as it changes in terms of where people are moving?

I think the red states are gonna get redder and I think the blue state are gonna get bluer, and what we gotta do is win as many of those purple voters as we possibly can. And the message in California… Even if Gavin Newsom wins, if he wins narrowly, the message I think is gonna have to be heard, and that is failed, far left-wing politics are destructive to your electoral chances even if you live in a deep blue state like California.