really never defended his record. it was all about painting larry elder as a clone of trump. trump if you vote for larry elder, and a lot of people said no, that will not work, well, it appears maybe it was effective. your thoughts. >> yeah, we have seen a lot of conservative recall referendum on democratic efforts to end the pandemic, which i suppose, now that newsom has won in a landslide, but this is also a referendum on republicans. i mean, elder is a lot like trump who is unusually unpopular in california and a lot of the rest of the country. and following trump's playbook of pretending that the election is unfair because he was likely to lose. californians and americans across the country frankly republicans only believing in