relieved. california didn t just say no to the recall. we said no to stamping on women s rights. no to denying climate change. no to ignoring science and being a conspiracy theorist. this was huge for california. california s values and people in oakland are ecstatic. well, i can tell. as i said, you have got a big smile on your face. we know from the exit polling that the pandemic was the biggestish you for voters in this recall election. how do you think that impacted the race? i, first of all, am glad that people were so distracted by the wild fires, by our pandemic that they actually got out and voted. and i can tell you democratic mayors we were on phone banks, and it s because gavin newsom has been in our communities. he was in oakland for one of our
back. our real estate rental properties, we re booming right now. people want to be here and we re going to create that environment for them to stay here. i appreciate your time, eric adams. if you do, quote, bring their butts back. i appreciate your time. and thanks to all of you for joining us. ac 360 starts now. and good evening. it is a big night in california where polls in the gubernatorial re-election recall election close in exactly three hours. in a moment we ll have new exit polling and talk to senator bernie sanders who campaigned for governor newsom in california. the race not only will determine whether democratic governor gavin newsom holds on to his job but as president biden said last night, the eyes of the nation are on california, in part for what this election said about the mood of the electorate but also the shadow the former
vote with, you have to get $83 million, unbelievable. 3 million from the ceo of netflix? you got to be kidding me. embarrassment. ainsley: 750,000 from priscilla chan the wife of the facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. also got money from uber, walgreen s, nbc universal, anheuser-busch, air b and b, warner brothers. tat and anthem blue cross. steve: voters sided with newsom on coronavirus. even though coronavirus was the reason they got 1.5 million signatures to have a recall, people actually sided with him on that. 45% in the state said newsom is about right on coronavirus, about a third said too strict. and 18 percent said not strict enough. and what s interesting and we re talking about masks on kids in school all the time, 70% of the people nbc polled in their exit polling, 70% say they are okay with their kids going to school in california wearing a mask.
strong advocacy for mask usage. seeing in exit polling and raw results in california is overwhelming support from the voters there for wearing masks, vaccinations and of course for the strict protocols, the health safety measures that governor newsom has put in place in california. mike murphy, elder is a trumper, just state that plainly, no other way to put it. is there a danger to running a trumper in a he was statewide frontrunner among republicans. could it hurt or erode republican chances for suburban vote in 2022 in california? yeah, the truth is again this is such a democratic land here, republicans are no longer viable statewide and we have lab
even though this recall election took place because of the governor s tough covid policies. michael genovese, what does that tell you about what california voters want to see in terms of vaccine and mask mandates going forward? for the governor, it was a mandate to continue doing those things, maybe even to ratchet it up. it was very, very clear that both the no and the yes folks took very seriously the covid question. but the no votes were overwhelming, and they were overwhelmingly in favor of more of the same from the governor. you saw in exit polling the no voters. the number one issue they said they voted on was covid at 42%. so it was a big issue, and it was a confirmation that the governor s policies were acceptable and that they would go on. john phillips, as a