Call. Obviously there is a ton of people in this primary. Why are we showing the pictures of adam schiff and is that relevant or is that just too early to call, that is a better representation. Thank you, adam schiff, steve garvey, other candidates, as well. We were all competing in the california upper left of your screen, it was not ft of your representational as to the way this is too early to call. I just wanted to make sure we clarified that. That i clarify that right . Important clarification. I thought were getting a clever occasion, as well. We were not. Thank you. No, i am done. That is all i can do. Right now we since had the news that nikki haley has won the republican president ial primary. On the very very outset of this republican president ial primary says looking at the demographics and the kinds of voters that were seemed to be attracted to each of this candidates, it looks like nikki haley can win d. C. , maybe vermont. Said exactly those things and we have now seen nikki haley win d. C. And vermont but no additional contests because that make you feel about this overall debate that we have been having her onset tonight that you have been hearing so much from the media recently about nikki haleys raison djtre . I guess there is a external question about why she is doing it. I cant speak to the latter, right . I think the point is that you run into you cant anymore. The thing that makes her different than most is that i think she should continue to fund her campaign because of the intensity here, i think this is actually sort of the intensity for question is actually a really useful analytical one to think about with respect to donald trump and it goes like this. There are people out there and there is lots of them who will crawl over broken glass to vote against donald trump. You throw him on any ballot, they will hitchhike across america to do it. They will forward a river, they will climb a mountain, they will go anywhere to vote against this man. Some of those people are traditionally liberals, they have been lifelong democrats. Some of those people used to call themselves republicans and some of them are the most invested in stopping him are people that even rather recently call themselves republicans. I know a lot of them, we all know a lot of them. Michael still still calls himself. So you got this, so what we have seen and i think this actually kind of cascades out. This is true for a lot of the people in the larger centerleft prodemocracy majority, we see it in special election after special election when people will show up because they view him as such a threat and because they view it the Republican Party under his threat. Nikki haley occupies an interesting position right now as a sort of, she is receiving that energy. It is being channeled into her in a way that breaks the normal rules for how this goes. The normal rules for how this goes is if once it becomes it is clear you cant win, all the energy goes away and the donors dry up and you got nothing to do. You dont get to make the choice to keep running. There is nothing to do, known as funding your campaign. Oh yeah, you cant put gas. But what were seeing with her and one that things that steve has been talking about is keeping these analytical categories clear in our head, there is this almost Unprecedented Group of americans that are just so opposed to donald trump and what he represents to the future of the country, they produced this kind of incredible heat of activity. That is right now sort of finding its locus in her. I think that because necessarily who she is or because of what she represents in this context i think that makes it possible for her to sort of defy the normal gravity. I talked to a lot of those donors and really, they dont want to officially turn the light off and say this is the party of trump. Right, you can give an example after example and they still want to desperately believe their Republican Party, even if there is ultimately hope for it, and she is still young and it is this, there is all this optimism and money behind her right now. And so it is why she is staying in. But if you look at donald trump, state after state he is losing 30 of the vote to her. That is a really big number, even if she is not getting the delegates, this is not a party united. Whereas, yes, people are getting worried about the uncommitted voters for joe biden. They are just uncommitted. They are raising a flashlight to joe biden. Think about it, listen to michigan. That group of uncommitted. They are not saying never biting, they are saying listen to us if you want our vote in november. Trying to change his post. And i say one thing, though. Is not that nikki haley is just criticizing donald trump if she is criticizing joe biden if not more. The only thing that matters in terms ofs stopping donald trump is whether nikki haley can get some votes to joe biden. Nikki haley is not going to stop donald trump that nikki haley is out there trashing joe biden. We are talking about the utility of her campaign, right . Why is she in it . If she is in there to truly stop the republicans, stop donald trump, if that is what we can assume, her work is to stop donald trump. For her own success. Okay, fine, if she is in it for her own success, does she think that the criticism she is leveling at donald trump is sufficient to actually have the Republican Party turn the page if he loses in november . Absolutely not. But he has taken over the party. And i think if you really are looking at the long term or mediumterm prospects for the party, you have someone in their who is really going to be challenging. One more thing just from the perspective of how you are reading this, the Biting Campaign what calculations you want to make it is striking to me that what they have said from even last, i guess it was after South Carolina were like, they want a forced choice between joe biden and donald trump. They very much yeah, the Biting Campaign wanted to be a worse choice between two individuals, donald trump and joe biden, talk about nikki haley, she doesnt exist in the world of statements they make. Sure as heck not going to talk about anybody else that is floating around the ballot in and various other states. Two them the key to them getting back to 50 1 and re created the Majority Coalition is that the starkly binary choice. It is a forced choice between two men, the two men that we kept putting up on our screen tonight and that is their talk elation of a key part. Do you think for the concert that you just described a moment ago, do you think that nikki haley being a sink for some of that antitrump heat is hurting the Biting Campaign because it means that republicans who were repulsed by trump and there are some. Are not yet, and maybe never will move their energies to donald trump, to biting, which is the only way to actually stop donald trump. I think for a lot of that depends on what develops. Like i really do think it matters what she does. Because i think at the end of all this, after being that sort of heat sink and after getting the people who are coming out across the country going, why are they coming out of here . Not because they are long time nikki haley stands. So the question becomes what you do with that energy that you have got and what your reflect back when you make whatever decision you make or when you go up to the convention with your delegates make your stand . The question is, what is the messaging about that forced choice . Again, that first choice is going to be that forced choice barring some clear exactly what shes going to do. Go to the Yellowstone Club in montana, the most expensive ski resorts in the country and give a speech for millions of dollars. Please her minimum price of the ticket to entry as she has got to keep criticizing biden. It is a pragmatic thing, she is a republican and sober her minimum price of entry is to keep criticism of biden and i dont think the biden people necessarily care. Materially and commercially. More than delaying. Please see was asked by a very Young Kristen welker the sunday which she endorsed trump . Which she was on stage to do as the republican primary candidate and didnt really answer. And that, the answer to that question, how nikki haley goes down in history. Whether or not she helps or hurts the republic. She joins three corporate boards, she is going to say i am not allowed to comment. While we have been talking and having this conversation along these lines. I believe we have just got in a whole ton of a vote in california, is that right, steve . The reason were looking at california is that because of the president ial race that has project and winners but it is really because of that california democratic, excuse me, that california u. S. Senate primary. Exactly. I just want to show this because we did cause off the exit poll. We do have boats coming in that are consistent in this republican primary with the exit polls that is what it was showing that is why it was called without any votes. You can see what is coming and now is confirming that. What is happening in california, i will call the senate race. What is happening in california, those votes can be reported out is have all that early voting, all that vote by mail in california, these counties can begin, jacob was to showing you, they can press a button when these polls closed and they can get a whole bunch of boat that was cast before election day. They get it tabulated and reported out right away so you are going to see in county after county, this hour they are going to start lighting up and what you will see, Orange County, we have already got, in one fell swoop, have the vote in Orange County. Big, massive Southern California county here, Orange County, we have got half the vote in so here is an interesting, katie porter, of course, from this region of the state. You can see if we can, there you go, we can go down and you can see representing Northern California and the house, this is not her natural political territory but garvey, the main most prominent republican candidate in this race. There is an extent there is a republican vote out there. This suggests he will be gobbling up that republican vote here and you can see Adam Schiff Running In Second here in Orange County. Katie porter about three points behind him and everybody else here well into single digits. That is half the vote in Orange County. Sonoma county, up north, also coming in here. Very democratic county here adam schiff with 35. About a third of the vote in Sonoma County comes in right away shift jumps to a big lead reporter in second and you can see garvey here, the republican candidate just behind katie porter. Again, closer to barbara lees little told her. And she still is running under 10 here. Very discouraging early sign for barbara lee. Getting into the sierras here. And again, about half the vote coming in, some big snow here in the last couple of days. At about half the vote coming in, steve garvey for first place here, corralling that republican vote, chef running behind him and look at the gap there to katie porter and again, look at the gap much further back to barbara lee. You start to add this together, just these three counties, more than 5 of the statewide vote now has been recorded. Again i expect these counties to be continually lighting up in the next several minutes but while we are in a bit of a lull here for a second i will explain that from this point forward and a lot of these candidates, we will go back to Orange County, we need a huge massive chunk. The Vote Counting after this first hour or so, a lot of these counties gets very slow. Some of them you will get more and get a considerable amount overnight. A lot of them, we are talking about not getting a significant chunk tomorrow, two days from now. A week from now. If you remember back in 2020 2022 midterms, control of the House Of Representatives was actually called by a california district, it was the 27th District which is in the outer reaches of Los Angeles County. That was called for Republican Mike Garcia and gave republicans their 218 seat. One was that race called . It was called eight days after election day and there was still other california districts at that point that were uncalled for so i think the thing to keep in mind here with california and the results that come in the next hour, which will be very fascinating, it takes something fairly decisive and the returns for there to be a call tonight because there is so much that will come in later. So again, garvey as the lone republican, is he building a big big number here, a big pad over thirdplace. Will that allow this, will be clear in the next hour or so, that garvey would be in one of those two spots going into the general election and based on what schiff is doing in the three counties so far that we have seen here. Again, a bit of a geographic range here, as well, in terms of what is coming in here. What schiff, if this continues in other counties, big, but would there be enough there potentially for shift to do a video to say hey, schiff and garvey, we are not sure of the order but there is a big enough gap to third that it would be those two that is not clear tonight it might be a while before that is clear. But again, there it is. About 6 from those three counties and patting a little bit here because i was expecting more to light up at i do think within the next few minutes we will have a lot more by the end of this hour. Well have a ton of colored in counties. Steve, stand by with that. We are going to go live to somebody whose vote Processing Center in california. I have a feeling those votes come in while we are talking to maddie, we will come back to you and get an update. Joining us now from a belt Processing Center in Los Angeles County, gotti schwartz. What are you seeing . We are just talking with steve about the speed of the vote, the expectation in terms of what were going to see returned . Yeah, a lot closer to the source but we dont really have very many answers. Actually have some questions ourselves so let me just paint the picture of where we are right now. This is the nerve center for the largest county in the country. This is Los Angeles County. The brandnew Bunker BallotProcessing Center. Used to be an old Frys Electronics warehouse and now you can see this massive warehouse where they process all of those ballots. We understand 5. 7 million registered voters in l. A. County, all of them are the ones with mailing addresses got their ballots mailed to them and now it is a matter of seeing how many of those ballots came back today or how many people voted when those ballots start coming in, all the different polling sets will be coming in through those doors escorted by all across the county from different sheriffs departments. There has been a helicopter that will be landing in the parking lot and a little bit. When it comes to the numbers, we know there have been a lot of ballots that have already been tabulated. Last election cycle, Something Like 80 of the ballots came back for early voting this thing is making us question what is going on here. Just in terms of when the Refresh Button is going to be pressed we are looking at the tally system. We know at 8 00 it looks like there was some sort of tabulation event there is a number up there, 1. 6 million. There is the number of ballots up there, 672,000. We dont know what those correspond to. We have had somebody to come over and explain it to us and so far we are waiting for a supervisor to come because the first person couldnt really explain it but what you do know is this is the your lock center. This is a place that is not connected to the internet. This is where all that tabulation happens. There is no cell phones allowed in the people that go in here are cleared through an extra secure set of doors over there and everyone is standing on that side of the wall as this is somewhat the calm before the storm, we are waiting for those ballots to come in all the ballots have came in from same day voting here in los angeles this is where they will be sorted, they will be extracted and the signatures will be compared over there and then those will go into the tabulation room. The tabulation room, as we understand it, has already tabulated possibly the bulk of the votes you will see out of Los Angeles County because most of the ballots have been sent out, mailed in, and many of them have been returned mail in so you know earlier in the day, Something Like 1 million that have already come back and now we are just hoping for that Refresh Button, hoping for that Tabulation Button to be pressed so that we can get some solid answers. We may get them a few seconds before steve mackey but i would not be surprised if he has some sort of crystal ball that goes straight over here. Let me ask you, you mentioned that you are expecting some of the ballots to arrive by helicopter. I just asked why youre expecting that . Who gets the privilege . Catalina island, oh, of course. Rowing it across. Exactly, exactly. Yes, and apparently that is the place to be on Election Coverage so if you guys want to send me to Catalina Island for the next. A wind mixer. That is very very thoughtful of you, very generous. Gotti schwartz for us. In Southern California we are getting or vote in california. Steve is polishing and tuning the offer mentioned crystal b