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You can see right now more than 9 million votes have been cast in the recall race, the recall failing overwhelmingly. if you look at that replacement race, larry elder does lead the way here. but what is interesting is if you add up all the votes that have been cast so far in the replacement race, there are more than 4 million fewer votes have been cast in the replacement race than were cast in the recall race. that means that right now more than 4 million people if went to the polls in california, voted no on the recall, and just left this one blank. that was the democratic strategy. ignore i...

Voters will take what would be confusing elsewhere in stride today? >> yeah. it is interesting. one part of it is extremely simple, yes or no on the recall. as you say, the other part is about 50 candidates in the replacement race. the variable on this, and the chance democrats have taken in this thing, and the polling suggests it'll pay off for them, but the risk democrats have taken is ignore the second part. don't even participate. don't give it any oxygen. don't vote in the replacement election. just vote against the recall. we'll kill the recall. that'll be that. the risk they're taking, ...

Succeeded in recalling gray davis as governor, democrats played it differently in '03. there was an insurance policy in the replacement race. the lieutenant governor at the time, democrats' message in '03 was vote against the recall but also vote so there is another one. they voted for arnold for governor, so 0 for 2 on that one. >> polls in general. we talked about the recount polls in california. we had a poll on earlier, the last hour, about mandated vaccinations. it was, you know, the usual. it was 60% democrats are for it. 30% republicans are against it. that flips on most issues. 30% dem...

Week out by double digits. davis was recalled by double digits in 2003. now very different story in the polls a week out. hey, polls have been wrong. still a week to go. we'll see what happens. and one quick post script. if newsom were to get recalled, second thing on the ballot, elect the new governor on the spot. wide open race. democrat strategy is to ignore this, telling folks just vote against the recall, don't vote in this election, there's not a consensus democratic candidate. there's something close to a consensus republican candidate though, larry elder, conservative commentator, tv, ...

This election next week, simultaneously voters are voting on a giant list of candidates to replace newsom. whoever gets the most votes on the list would become the governor immediately. this is the polling average right now, these are not all of the candidates, these are some of the candidates but the headline here is larry elder who is a conservative comment nator, he leads the way right now in this very crowded field here in the replacement race. if it ever came to it, if gavin newsom did get recalled next week larry elder looks to be the front-runner. >> steve kornacki, thank you so much. >...