Gavin Newsom: “The President of the United States made a phone call to a…”

“And I'll just remind everybody very briefly before I introduce our special guest. This was not the fight we wanted to fight. This was not our battle. This is in reaction to something unprecedented that happened. The President of the United States made a phone call to a sitting governor and said he was, quote, unquote, entitled to five seats in an unprecedented effort to rig the 2026 election. before a single vote was cast. So reminiscent, of course, to what happened in Georgia. Dialing up for 11, 12,000 votes. He hasn't stopped there.” (01:45–01:52)

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