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And now your host, Logan Sekulow. Welcome to Sekulow. It's Friday, and what it seems like always when election season comes, there's one thing that can now feel like since 2000, really. Unless it's some sort of landslide victory, like maybe we saw in the 2024 election, or maybe that we saw in a couple previous elections, but really for the most part in general. Whether it's local, Whether it's state, whether it's federal.
it feels like there's only one thing that can be assured, and that is that voting will never go as planned, and it certainly will not go as planned as is the this is really the counting of all the votes, Will. And what we have here once again in California, You immediately had about 50% of the vote come in. Feels like things were moving along. Yeah, it's a great job. And then.
It took a standstill, and here we are. That's right.
So, once again, if you look at recent elections, look back at 2024, when we had a Presidential election, it took them 10 days. To get to 95% of the ballots. Yeah, they were able to call it earlier. Right. Because of the discrepancy was there.
But Of course we can go back to 2020. Of course we can go back to even before then. This has become a real issue in this country. That's right.
And once again, you're talking about the most populous state, but you're also talking about the center of kind of the advancements in tech in our country, and they can't. Count even just one city, a mayoral election, without having to go for over a week, potentially longer. And that's what you look at. You still see that Steve Hilton is leading for the governor race with Javier Becerra and then Tom Steyer below that. And really, these proportions.
I haven't changed much.
So it probably will be Steve Hilton versus Becerra, and it probably will be Karen Bass versus Spencer Pratt for the mayoral election. But it's too many that are outstanding to call. And I love they still say too early to call. No, it's not too early to call. It is because you have not decided to do this properly.
When you only have 56% of the vote that comes in, as of the last time that I checked. 56%. The election was on Tuesday. We're now on Friday. How is this still possible?
How are these issues still being consistent every time? It feels like they should have called it quickly. We should have known. And look, like you said, the problem is you also have these states like California and other states that have all of these rules, or really lack of rules, I guess you'd say, in the different options that you have to vote.
So not only is it mail-in, it's mail-in that can be stamped by the day, not arrived by the day. Things can come in late, ballot boxes that you can drop off in. It is not all digital like it should probably be at this point. We are still dealing with a lot of paper mailed in ballots. But still, not all that many.
It shouldn't be all that many.
Well, especially when you see how low the participation was for like the mayoral race in Los Angeles, you'd think that they'd be able to get to that 95%. That's kind of the threshold. They never officially know how many. That's an estimated, but it's based off of how many ballots were requested, et cetera. But you're looking at this and you're laughing almost.
You're like, why? Can't they also realize this is why people don't trust their elections? They don't get to 100% when, well, I mean, once it's over. But no, normally it has a greater than 99% have been counted. Because you never know if you've counted every vote.
Yeah, maybe you've counted a few a couple times. Who knows? Who knows? Hey, we want to hear from you. Let me know in the comments what you think about this when you see a state like California.
Does it give you more reassurance in your own local area? Maybe they're doing a better job in some of these other states and these other cities. We know Los Angeles is a mess, and maybe it is just proving the point that it's a mess, the fact that we are. Multiple days since this election for again, really the primary for mayor. It's not like we're even talking about the general election at this point, unless you were to hit that threshold, which we knew that wasn't going to happen.
And they still can't figure this out. A lot of calls for reform on the election side of it. We obviously always have an ACLJ petition. About different election integrity issues. I want you to get involved that way.
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We're going to be joined by Rick Rinnell, who's been really heavily working on California. I think that they may not be quite there just yet. But these results are at least showing there is some change of tide there in California.
Now, I have to say, California's had Republican governors. We know historically, Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, these are people who were running as Republicans that have won in the gubernatorial race. Always gives there's a little bit more of a chance, I feel like, than just Los Angeles. Yeah, that's that's right.
I mean, when you look at the numbers so far with uh Karen Bass, with all of the negatives on her, she is the only one right now that they're looking at saying she's made it in based off the statistics that she's performing in. And as you said, Yetip, all those other people that voted dim, well, they're not all going to necessarily go and vote for Karen Bass because they voted against her, they voted against her.
So it would, if, if. Pratt is able to get through and it's not two dims. Um His job will be. Going to those voters who didn't vote for him, but also didn't vote for Karen Bass. And you can look at and say, okay, you know, you don't want her again.
Here's what I can offer, and here's what my goals are. It's not to fundamentally transform the moral makeup of this city, of this county. It's really just to get to basics of security, police, get people back in their homes. Kind of like the basics of what you do as mayor. Right.
Not flying around the world meeting with other people when you've got crises going on at home.
Well, and to that point as well, the councilwoman Rahman had a lot of comparisons almost to Mandami. That she had a personality that was kind of charismatic young. She also, policy-wise, was much more in line with someone like Mondami.
So if you think about that, it's not like if Mondami had lost the primary to Mayor Adams before he was out of the race, it's not like all those people that were really excited about him would all of a sudden be like, well, we got to hold our nose and go vote for Mayor Adams.
So that is kind of what you're looking at. Even though I think that Karen Bass is much more liberal, much more progressive than Eric Adams was, that is kind of the dynamic that you're seeing play out in Los Angeles.
So it's not all of a sudden that you're like, okay, well, yes, you know, Pratt may have done well, but then there's going to be another 110,000 people that are going to go vote for Karen Bass. It'll be a blowout. It still may be, but you can't necessarily count on all those people even caring to show up. But it's whether the Democrat establishment, Jordan, that's something that's going to happen here. They're going to flood.
The money into this ad campaign against Spencer Pratt.
So you're going to have, you're going to have a. The wildest amount of, I feel, negative ads running towards him to get all of those people who were voting against Karen Bass to now try to get them on board. Yes, I would imagine if he is in, it could become the most expensive mayor's race in our history. Yeah. If Republican and Independent donors, we're talking about the big groups too, the 527s, start dumping the tens of millions.
They usually don't in many oral races, but because we're talking about Los Angeles here and kind of the whole idea that if you can win in LA, You should be able to win anywhere when those who've been elected to do their job take the DNR out of their name. Aren't getting the basics done, like roads, like having enough water ready if there's a fire to put out that fire. Again, and if you find out that that's happening in a place where you oversee, you know, whatever international trip you're on, you need to get back as quickly as possible and not joke about, well, I'm not there right now, especially when you knew it was a high potential to happen. And then, second, I think clearly, as you pointed out, the Spencer Pratts of the world are the Republicans that have been able to win in California. Ronald Reagan, movie star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, movie star.
So, and again, who we agree with on the social issues may be very different than where most Republicans are. A Republican in that sense. I mean, it's a tendency, right? Isn't tended to be the mayor's not a partisan position? The race is not even listing partisan.
Yeah, because it's just people run. Karen Bass obviously was a member of Congress as a Democrat, but that's also part of the confusion, maybe for some people, maybe not for most people. But when you go into the ballot box, or if you're getting a ballot, it isn't listing Republicans and Democrats or party preference. Right. And so I think, again, It's one to look for, first, of course, to see as the votes come in, does he maintain the second place?
And then, two, if he does, do Republican and Independent donors, both at the grassroots level, So that means for me, even outside of LA, outside of Los Angeles, do they then. Decide, you know what? We're going to treat this like a Senate race because this would send a signal. Does it really? Even if the House is tougher for us this cycle, this would send a huge signal about the power of the Republican vote in places that look like they've been completely lost.
And maybe that's actually where we need to go and look to run more Republicans in places that have been so mismanaged by the left.
Well, and I think what we also see is you see the governor's race there where we have Hilton, who has actually taken the lead, has the most votes. He has 1.3 million, almost 1.4 million votes with 58% of the votes in. Javier Becera, who was the former Attorney General of California, was also the Secretary of Health and Human Services under Biden, was chosen for that role because of how progressively pro-choice he is in all the processes and all the things that he put in place in California under his attorney generalship as he has. Help pave the way for the governor there to make more liberal laws as far as it comes to being pro-choice, but also going after like pro-life pregnancy resource centers, things like that. And then you have Tom Steyer, who's the billionaire, but not like a Michael Bloomberg billionaire running for office.
He's the type of billionaire that decides: I have so much money, I can be as liberal as I want. And it doesn't matter. And so he it takes the Extreme far left on every single position. He has just under a million votes. And then there is a second Republican with half a million.
So. You look at this, they haven't called any of it yet. Steve Hilton is the leader, Jordan, with 27.8%. It looks very much like it could be Steve Hilton versus Becera. It would be pretty big for someone like Tom Steyer to overcome a 300,000 vote deficit if the way that things progress, even with right-end, I'm sorry, the mail-in voting.
But they haven't called any of those as moving forward yet. But it does look like it's going to be Steve Hilton versus Becerra. I could imagine there's 400,000 plus because Steve Hilton's going to get more in too with the 56% that's reporting.
So how does Tom Steyer?
So it looks like, again, we're not there yet, but it's close that we're going to have a Republican choice. This jungle primary system is actually backfiring on Dems in California as we speak because it's not just finishing up with, well, we're such Democrat areas that we know that they're going to vote in. At least the two Democrats are always going to be the choice. It looks like that may not be the case when you're talking about the LA mayor as well as the governor. And again, then it goes to does the Republican Party, the apparatuses, the outside groups, do they go in and spend the big dollars to try and make a stunning victories?
In both the mayor's race and the governor's race. Also, a big shout out to Good, very close with us. He was a former U.S. Attorney, just recently former U.S. Attorney in Montana, Kurt Allmay.
He, again, to replace Steve Daines in the U.S. Senate, won his Republican primary by 76% as the votes are coming in right now.
So it'll be close to 80%. And excited then about, again, general election. Montana, you have to take seriously. They do elect Democrats occasionally, but we'll certainly want to get behind him. I know he's going to be on the broadcast soon.
Very good. One other thing, and I think, sorry, we can go to we should talk about because once again, we're looking at California a lot. We're looking at some of these places that had positive results for more conservative candidates. You're also seeing things like in New Jersey. where there was a Democrat who won the primary there to run for Congress.
who has ties to Al-Qaeda. Oh, yeah. And this is what is so shocking: is that this individual, Adam Hamawe, was an Egyptian-born former combat surgeon. Who volunteered and interned with a nonprofit that was linked to al-Qaeda in Bosnia? As well as he was called as a defense witness.
For the trial of the blind sheikh. He has now become a nominee for the Democrat Party. Back up in who that is. Blind Shake. Big time terrorists.
There you go. That was Al-Qaeda that we have prosecuted in the United States and really dominated kind of even the New York political scene, like the trials around the blind shake for so long. Yes, I mean, this is, again, it's pretty shocking. You said that these kind of individuals are getting through the process. It just shows you kind of where the left is right now.
New Jersey's so weird. I feel like it should not be these kind of candidates out of New Jersey. Not spend any time in New Jersey. They just not feel. It doesn't sound very Bruce Springsteen, the boss, having the blindness.
I don't know about that. That's the worst example you could get. There's definitely a lot of. Of kind of like labor union-type Democrats winning. But not again, not guys who were tied to terror attacks that impacted a lot of people in New Jersey.
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Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-68-430-110. Over the next few segments, we're going to take some of those calls. And also, right ahead to ACLJ Jerusalem with Jeff Balabon. But now we are joined by one of our attorneys out of, you know, right now in Washington, D.C., Christy Capagnone.
We have an update, Will, and I think you can help set this up. This, of course, has to do with our case in Massachusetts. And again, if you're tuning in, if you want to hear about Iran, don't worry. We're going to get back to that. But I think it's always important to discuss the work of the ACLJ, especially when we have some big news that coming out.
That's right.
And this is the Your Options Medical versus Massachusetts and Wren case that we've talked about for quite a while here. This is where the state of Massachusetts was targeting pro-life pregnancy resource centers with an attack campaign, an ad campaign across the state, trying to call them deceptive, saying don't trust them. And we filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts to end this, essentially. We had that go on for a very long time because we got to refile, we got to amend our complaint, and all to have a judge say, agree with the state and the Commonwealth saying, This is dismissed. They granted the motion to dismiss.
We are now, Christy, today filing an appeal at the Court of Appeals. Tell us what this action will do. Exactly.
So we had the district court dismiss our case.
So we're starting afresh in a new court, the Circuit Court of Appeals. And here, setting the stage on what this is, you have pregnancy resource centers who are simply giving free health care to women so that they don't perform abortions. And they also have abortion pill reversal options for these women, all free. And the state has now come and done this entire campaign to silence them, to chill them. This campaign isn't being done against Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood's not being investigated. They're not putting out, you know, these statements saying that Planned Parenthood is doing something wrong, but they have already stated that the PRCs are particularly trying to lie to you about what their services are and what they can do. And so we just on principle can't let that stand. And so we are filing our brief at the appellate court, and we're arguing that the state cannot chill the viewpoint. Of our client.
Our client, a Christian organization who is simply speaking out about other options, that women have choices. And the state can't just choose to silence their speech because they don't like what they're saying. And so that is what our brief is arguing here. And hopefully that this circuit court will take this up and really take it seriously. And Christy, one of the issues here, and what makes this important also for the audience to watch, is that we, one, we've been talking about this a while.
We knew that the trial court, the lower court, was the hardest hurdle because of where it is. It's in Massachusetts. We knew that going to district court was likely going to require appeals.
So we're not surprised by that. You always want to fight to win at those lower courts, but we also were prepared. because this is where we're at now. But what's also interesting about this, and even more so than just this case, is that we said from the beginning, we know this is going to be the abortion industry and Blue State game plan. They're going to go around, they're going to try to use the government to silence the speech of those trying to offer an alternative to abortion, that are trying to show people that life is a real choice.
When you look at this now, because of the timeline of how long we've been fighting it, There is a potential that this type of case Could be prime for the Supreme Court because of some other decisions. Can you give us a little bit of insight into one, we can either win at the district court or not, but There seems to be even more intrigue surrounding this as we move forward. It's You're exactly right. If we win at the circuit court, that's great. We'll go back and actually bring this to trial.
But if we lose, there's still another chance here because this is the first circuit that we're in, but the second circuit, which includes New York, just held in December. A very similar set of facts was indeed chilling the speech of these PRCs. And so this case is Nifla v. James. And Attorney General James had been coming after and bringing enforcement actions against these PRCs for very similar.
similar things that our own adoptor is under investigation for. And so they brought an injunction and it went up to the second circuit. And in December, the second circuit said, yes, we do believe that this is chilling your speech. And so we're going to give you an injunction to stop New York from bringing these kind of enforcement actions against you. And so that right there means that in the second circuit, we have a different decision from what the first circuit might decide.
So if the first circuit says, nope, there is not a chilling of your speech here. Then we can go on to the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court hears very often cases when there is a circuit court split, meaning one court is holding one way on a set of facts and a question of law, and another court is holding the other way, and it needs the Supreme Court to come in as the final decision maker to decide the question of whether this is chilling the PRC's speech or not. And Jordan, this is core ACLJ work. It's why we have some of the greatest attorneys in the country working on things like this, also knowing.
When we go into a case like this, that the potential, especially when you're in a contested area that doesn't really agree with your value system, like in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts here, but we know that we have to fight it all over the country. And if you get a split decision like this, It's it's we are uniquely positioned to keep fighting this all the way to the Supreme Court. Absolutely. In fact, that's what the Supreme Court is looking for, especially in cases that involve core constitutional rights. Because we can't have this set of states under the Second Circuit say this does impact your constitutional rights, and the First Circuit, just north of the Second Circuit, the Northeast, say this has no bearing on your constitutional rights.
So, again, that is where the court is almost, it doesn't force their hand, as Christy said, they don't have to take those. But when you've got a clear constitutional interpretation issue going on, that's where the Supreme Court is important to come in and clarify for all the states because this is in federal court because it involves federal issues that the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over. That's right.
And Christy, thank you so much for that update. We'll keep everyone updated as this moves forward. But we filed today. We will see their response due in, it looks like July 1st.
So just a little over a month or exactly a month from now. It's hard to believe it's June. And then we will reply to their response July 22nd.
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We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Logan Sekulow. Welcome to Sekulow. It's Friday and what it seems like always when election season comes, there's one thing that can now feel like since 2000 really.
Unless it's some sort of landslide victory, like maybe we saw in the 2024 election, or maybe that we saw in a couple previous elections, but really for the most part in general. Whether it's local, Whether it's state, whether it's federal. It feels like there's only one thing that can be assured, and that is that voting will never go as planned, and it certainly will not go as planned as is the uh This is really the counting of all the votes, Will, and what we have here once again in California. You immediately had about 50% of the vote come in. Feels like things were moving along.
That's a great job. And then. It took a standstill, and here we are. That's right.
So, once again, if you look at recent elections, look back at 2024, when we had a Presidential election, it took them 10 days. To get to 95% of the ballots. Yeah, they were able to call it earlier. Right. Because of the discrepancy was there.
But Of course we can go back to 2020. Of course we can go back to even before then. This is become a real issue in this country. That's right.
And once again, you're talking about the most populous state, but you're also talking about the center of kind of. the advancements in tech in our country and they can't. Count even just one city, a mayoral election, without having to go for over a week, potentially longer. And that's what you look at. You still see that Steve Hilton is leading for the governor race with Javier Becerra and then Tom Steyer below that.
And really, these proportions. I haven't changed much.
So it probably will be Steve Hilton versus Becerra, and it probably will be Karen Bass versus Spencer Pratt for the mayoral election, but it's too many. That are outstanding to call. And I love they still say too early to call. No, it's not too early to call. It is because you have not decided to do this properly when you only have 56% of the vote that comes in, as of the last time that I checked.
56%. The election was on Tuesday. We're now on Friday. How is this still possible? How are these issues still being consistent every time?
It feels like they should have called it quickly. We should have known. And look, like you said, the problem is you also have these states like California and other states that have all of these rules, or really lack of rules, I guess you'd say, in the different options that you have to vote.
So not only is it mail-in, it's mail-in that can be stamped by the day, not arrived by the day. Things can come in late, ballot boxes that you can drop off in. It is not all digital like it should probably be at this point. We are still dealing with a lot of paper-mailed-in ballots. But still, not all that many.
It shouldn't be all that many.
Well, especially when you see how low the participation was for like the mayoral race in Los Angeles, you'd think that they'd be able to get to that 95%. That's kind of the threshold. They never officially know how many. That's an estimated, but it's based off of how many ballots were requested, et cetera. But you're looking at this and you're laughing almost.
You're like, why? Can't they also realize this is why people don't trust their elections. They don't get to a trust when, well, I mean, once it's over. But no, normally it has a greater than 99% have been counted. Because you never know if you've counted every vote.
Yeah, maybe you've counted a few a couple times. Who knows? Who knows? Hey, we want to hear from you. Let me know in the comments what you think about this when you see a state like California.
Does it give you more reassurance in your own local area? Maybe they're doing a better job in some of these other states and these other cities. We know Los Angeles is a mess, and maybe it is just proving the point that it's a mess, the fact that we are. Multiple days since this election for again, really the primary for mayor. It's not like we're even talking about the general election at this point, unless you were to hit that threshold, which we knew that wasn't going to happen.
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Rick Rinnell's joining us. Rick, I want to get your just feedback from last night and where we stand right now. Thoughts?
Well, I think we've got mixed results here. Certainly, when you look at how many people voted in Los Angeles, I can't help but think. We have such a very small number of people determining the government of Los Angeles. And this has got to change. We've got to get much louder and much more poignant about registering people to vote and getting people to the polls.
You look at at what's happening, it's like 150,000 votes. is determining uh seats and determining who gets to become mayor and This is just, for a city as large as Los Angeles, it's just unacceptable. We really have got to get greater participation. By my calculation. The eligible voters in Los Angeles we had about fifteen percent of them show up to the polls.
And that's unacceptable for the direction that California is going, the direction that Los Angeles is experiencing with homelessness, And uh the high tax is and water not in the fire hydrants when there's a blazing fire in front of you. All of the just basic problems can be solved with common sense leadership. And we can't just have fifteen percent of the people living in Los Angeles determining the future of this great city.
So I think we've got mixed results there. When it comes to statewide, You know, I look at the statewide results, and I have to say, we really have a shot here for Attorney General. Um We have a great nominee on the Republican side And Michael Gates. And he is really Focused on the issues. He's not a partisan person.
He's really a common sense leader, and I think he got the best shot. statewide. And so we'll have to really get behind him. Steve Hilton, I think, had a really good night.
So did Gloria Romero, the lieutenant governor candidate. Let's see what they can do. I mean, the Democrats nominating Javier Becerra is just such a joke. Unfortunately, California is such a Democrat state. That he's going to have the inside lane.
But I think we finish by saying, Tom Sire, once again, At the worst night, he literally spent $250 million. and came in third.
So he is over. His political career, which we thought was over when he ran for President, is now truly over running for governor of California. Rick, one of the things I want to go back to is where you're talking about that the amount of people that voted in Los Angeles. And I think, while one, you say it's mixed results, I think there's also a positive silver lining to see about that for a tactic of someone like a Spencer Pratt that could be that insurgent candidate, that one that comes that no one expected to be doing what he is doing currently. But as you even said, the fact that reported votes right now are still under half a million votes.
in Los Angeles, one of the biggest cities in the country. Right now, clearly, they're still more outstanding, but we're talking about under half a million votes. That is what you see in mid-sized cities that get that for mayoral races. And the fact that That you're saying it is that low percentage. Does that almost to some degree give some hope as well that if the campaign can organize, can structure it in a way to get people that clearly just aren't voting to actually care about someone for a change instead of the machine that has run the politics there for so long?
Does that mean that there is an opening here to potentially see some sort of upset in November? Yes, there is an opening. I think we always have challenges for get out the vote, no matter where we are. But in California in particular, this is a state and I would say Los Angeles is even more so A city that prides itself are not being that political. They don't like politics.
They're too busy. The weather is perfect. We're outside. We're enjoying life. We're experiencing what California has to offer.
And I think a lot of Californians are really proud of the fact that they don't get involved in partisan politics.
However, we're at a point where we've got to shake them. And we're going to have to raise the money and get a get out the vote campaign because Spencer can win. people are not happy with Karen, but the very few organizations, union types of organizations that are on the ground, that do what they do best, they came out and they did their part for Karen. We don't have that system in Los Angeles for a common sense politician, a new politician, or Republican. And so we're going to have to create that and really begin to bring out the vote because this is doable.
Spencer can win in November. There's no question about that. And Rick, I feel like one of the major talking points that we have brought up today, which is if the election results stay, so if it's Spencer versus Karen Bass, I can't imagine the kind of money that is going to be coming in, especially from the left, to put in, hopefully from the right as well, but from the left to say, okay, we got to do whatever we can to stop this candidate. Yeah, for sure. They have already started sounding the alarms.
I think Mythia and Karen do not get along, but there's going to be a lot of pressure on Mythia just to get behind Karen. And then support her and try to unite the Democrats. But I have to tell you. that this is such a small turnout. That we must be able to spend and get the people involved who are just usually not involved.
How do you do that, Rick? When the sense of, I can't imagine a mayoral race getting more public attention nationwide. You know, nationwide attention comes in on this race to the point where everyone is talking about it, and you still only have such a small percentage of the locals engaging. What do we do from there?
Well, look, I again, I think I go back to the fact that part of this is just unique to California and that we pride ourselves on not being part of it. Look, I I'm a Trump A supporter all through and through, Trump appointments, multiple Trump appointments. I'm known as a Trump person, but I have really lefty friends. who are proud of the fact that I work in Washington, that I've had big jobs. They don't see a disconnect like we do on the East Coast where you want to cancel someone or you hate your neighbor or there's violence that arises because you have political disagreements.
I don't get that in Los Angeles. Never. I get people who disagree with me. But they don't go to the next step to think they got to cancel me or God forbid, do violence against me just because they disagree with me. That is a problem, though, because when there is a brand new person like Spencer Pratt on the scene, we've got to be able to mobilize and get people more engaged by turning in their vote.
I've got friends who don't even know where to go vote, and they're not even sure if they're registered, and they're kind of proud of it. And so that's the apathy that we have to really push back again. All right, Rick.
Well, I think this is going to be an interesting thing to see, whether the results stay steady. And the fact that we are still at a point where, not just California, this is a problem we've seen now, it feels like nationwide, where counting does not seem to be our friend. I mean, we know we've been focusing on California with Rick, but Rick, did you see a candidate in New Jersey who is linked to Al-Qaeda and was a defense witness for the blind shake? Is now a nominee for Congress for the Democrats. I mean, I thought that even the mayor of New York was an out there candidate, but it seems like they just can't help themselves when they're nominating candidates these days.
Yeah, we should make him the poster boy along with Graham Plattner. And now we also have Scott Wiener, who is going to be in Congress representing Nancy Pelosi-See from San Francisco. This guy is. Bazar Very far left. Problematic beliefs that mainstream America are going to just hate.
Nancy Pelosi endorsed his opponent, and he still won.
So he's coming to Congress. Look, the Democrats got a lot of problems with their people. We should make them all famous. Not unlike California, we were talking about this. New Jersey is another one that I just don't quite understand as someone who's spent time there, visited there, as family spent a lot of time in New Jersey.
It doesn't feel like a state that should be putting forward these kind of candidates. Sure, they're going to be Democrats. Yeah, but maybe they'd be more like a Pennsylvania Democrat, a Fetterman kind of guy, something like that. But instead, you're still getting these radicals, I guess, out of the tri-state area, if you will. Yeah, it's really crazy.
It's sad. The Democrats have a real problem with the radicals. But in Los Angeles here, we're going to have a Pratt summer.
So we should have ACLJ come out and do a whole week in California. Hey, you got to be a part of the Pratt Summer. We'll fight you on that one. Yeah, find us. We'll be there.
We'll be there. Happy to take some time. Rick, I appreciate you joining us today. And thanks for giving us an inside look of what's going on. We get back, though.
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Well, I wanted to comment on Netanyahu and Trump. I'm Jewish, was recently in Tel Aviv. I believe that both things can be true at the same time, that perhaps they Had a heated conversation. As we know, Trump can often be hyperbolic. I also support him, but I think he is probably More than a bit miffed that Israel is pursuing its own best interests by continuing to go after Hezbollah and in Lebanon.
And perhaps Trump thinks that that is interfering with the terms with Iran. I can hear him perhaps having that conversation with Netanyahu, and Netanyahu standing firm that Israel has to do what is in its best interest. And by the way, support Israel and thank you for supporting Israel as well. That's my comment. Ephraim, I think you're probably right.
Which is those two things can be true. You can have a supporter and a friend in Israel. It doesn't mean you have to agree with every political decision they make. It also doesn't mean you have to be not frustrated if you're trying to create an into an A war? And you feel like they've escalated it.
Now, again, that doesn't mean that the Israeli government or Benjamin Etanyahu or whoever it may be is wrong. They're just making a decision for themselves. They're making a decision for their own government interest, not the government interests, their own interest of their people. And it's interesting to hear that you're in Tel Aviv recently. Look, like I just said, I want to get back soon.
It's been a number of years and I miss it. I want to take my kids there. I want it to be a safe place that we can all experience. If you've ever been, you know it's a life-changing experience for those that are Christians, those that are Jewish, people that have those religious beliefs because you get to see, physically, touch all of these areas. And it's an unbelievable place.
Even take out the religious significance, it's an unbelievable place in this world. A beautiful place, beautiful people.
So I would love to get back there soon.
So, sure, do I want a war to wrap up? I do because I selfishly miss being there. And I would have loved to have taken my son there, who just turned 13 on his bar mitzvah, as I did when I first went. Um, during my bar mitzvah, so but unfortunately, we're in the middle of a pretty hardcore wartime. But you never know what's around the corner.
Hopefully, things can wrap up. I do want to take some more calls, though. We got a bunch of champions calling. I appreciate all those champs. Let's start with Marion and Texas.
Go ahead.
It's about California.
Okay. Yeah, I just wanted to talk about the elections that are being held for the mayorship, and I pray. Pratt wins and also in the governorship. The only problem that I have is that I believe that one of the reasons that the Democrats have been able to have such a stronghold there as through cheating and things like that. And that's the only thing that I fear.
I'm not sure it's going to be a fair election. And I just wanted to see if y'all had a comment on that.
Well, Marion, here's what I look at. I agree with you, but maybe not for the same reason. I don't necessarily think that, I mean, yes, I think wherever you go, there is probably people that do illegal ballots, things of that nature. But I think that they have created a system. That is so hard to defeat.
And that's when Rick talks about the machine. When you think about how much money they have, how much they control every aspect of the government, of the people's lives in California. I think it becomes very difficult to overcome that. And when you think about it as cheating, it may not be in the traditional sense, but it is an unfair advantage. And you even see that they'll tip their hand to that.
When they feel like they need to change the rules in order to benefit themselves, they will do it, such as their ballot referendum. Where they change their congressional maps, which was supposed to be done by an independent commission. As soon as they feel like, we're going to have an unfair advantage, we don't have a fair advantage or whatever, they go back and they redraw the maps because of what other states are doing.
So they tell you that they just care about control. And I think that it is hard to overcome that when they have had decades of control. And what you see is one, disheartened people. on the state level that think I'll never win, so they're just not motivated to go vote. And then, on top of that, you have the levers of power, and you have systems like a jungle primary, which make it gives the advantage to the controlling power as it is.
So, it is kind of a double whammy. It isn't fair, but it's not necessarily cheating in the sense of they are changing votes or they are stuffing it full of illegal votes, et cetera. I'm sure across the country, there are things like that that go on, but I think the primary reason is the complete system that they have built. All right. There you go.
And if you're not motivated to go vote, Unlike something you have to take Melissa in South Carolina. Melissa, go ahead. ACLJ champion as well. Hi, everybody. I just want to encourage every California resident and anyone listening in California to this broadcast to go and vote.
Please vote. Change California. Hey, Gumalissa, I appreciate you calling in. She loves California. She loves LA.
She's like a Randy Newman song, Will. That's right.
She's a longtime former California resident and also one of our Rumble Ranters that are. Are frequently in the chat there.
So you can join people on Rumble as well. Yeah. Hang out with Melissa. But I think to that point as well, it is hard to motivate people. And even when you look at the split in like a Presidential election, I don't think it's truly a 75-25 state or 60-40 state.
I think that just the motivation of people that have resigned to the fact that the Democrats are always going to win there, that they just don't go vote. And it's taking someone like Spencer Pratt to motivate people to do something different that maybe you'll see something different. Speaking of something different, let's swerve a little bit. Joe's calling about Iran. Joe and Texas, go ahead.
Yes, sir. I just got one question, man. I mean, I hear. that we own Iran's military, their navy's at the bottom of the ocean, and their ground forces were basically non-existent.
So, my question is, why do we have to ask Iran for anything? Why don't we just step up to the plate and tell them what we're going to do? If we really own everything if we really got them by the you know what? Yeah, Joe, we only got a minute left. There has been some strategic moves, and President Trump has talked about this, about not really going after Them specific military.
Right. While we sure they are thwarted, like you said, a lot of their ships are on the bottom of the ocean. We've gone after them. There has been an attempt to minimize actually the attack on the Iran's military in a bit due to the fact that they think that they may not be as radical. as the leadership was.
So, they may be people that we could actually utilize in the future.
Well, that's right. And Secretary Rubio was speaking, he was testifying before the Senate this morning, his former colleagues, and even said they still have a lot of drones. They still have them. Um, that's because of where they keep them. It's not like they are uh they are easy to spot on a satellite, per se.
And so, once again, you talk about the threat to the Strait of Hormuz. With one-way drones that don't have to come back. It's not a fighter jet that has to go drop a bomb and come back. That is still a threat where, if you're trying to keep even the shipping industry and all these things safe. You have to take that threat as a real threat.
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