Right Now with Perry Bacon: Inside the Unpredictable California Governor’s Race

Perry Bacon· Host0:00

[upbeat music] This is Right Now with Perry Bacon, presented by the DSR Network. [upbeat music] Perry Bacon, I'm the host of The New Republic show Right Now. We have a great guest who's, who's really up earlier in the morning. This is David Dayan. He's, uh, the executive editor of The American Prospect, which is one of these magazines like The New Republic that is, like, left of center and trying to cover the news in a, you know, pro-democracy perspective. Uh, and David has done some great work, um, if you, if you follow him on Twitter or Blue Sky, one of the best chroniclers of about economic policy particularly, but he runs a great magazine. I'm gr- really honored that David's come on. So David, thanks for joining me.

David Dayen· Guest0:40

Thanks for having me, Perry.

Perry Bacon· Host0:42

So I wanna start with the big, uh... You know, you're, you're the rare nat- you're the rare person who writes about national politics who is based in California. I wish we had more people who are just in California because, as we know, it's the biggest and most important state. And so what I wanna talk about first is the governor's race there, and you- it's heating up. The voting is gonna start pretty soon.

David Dayen· Guest1:03

Mm-hmm.

Perry Bacon· Host1:04

And my first question is, like, a few weeks ago, the big worry was the two Republicans would finish ahead and Democrats would be kinda locked out of that. But I think that's no longer the problem in some ways 'cause Donald Trump solved that problem.

David Dayen· Guest1:16

Yeah. I mean, it's a combination of two things.

Perry Bacon· Host1:20

Okay.

David Dayen· Guest1:20

So one, uh, yes, Donald Trump helped solve the problem by endorsing one of the two Republican candidates. The fear was