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I'm John Dutch with Jeff Bliss, who's just back from travels well.
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He's still on the road, travels with Jeff during the his his domain, which is all of the
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West Coast plus Las Vegas.
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We come now to national politics repeatedly.
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I see Governor Newsom gaining very good media here on the East Coast, where there are
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critical states in balance for any electoral college, but a contest.
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I'm thinking of Virginia, certainly thinking of Pennsylvania.
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The governor continues to get really good media by what does John mean by that?
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It doesn't just give him straight A's.
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It's him looking engaged, talking to podcasters.
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I saw him with Katie Couric's podcast.
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A podcast I highly recommend.
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Katie Couric is a former TV star, but she does a wonderful job of being an at-home mom,
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At-home mom with a camera set up and somewhere is her producer.
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I don't think she's with Katie.
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They start at various times in the afternoon on sub-stack, and Katie talks to her friends
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or associates, and everybody shows up for Katie, and it's charming, because Katie doesn't
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She's not reading a toad board, you know, the way they do in television.
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So there she was with Gavin Newsom, and it was extremely warm, Jeff.
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It was a campfire meeting, telling stories.
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He can be charming, especially when he's humble.
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Is that what you see in California, too, when he speaks about his struggles in life?
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Yes, and no, there are a lot of contradictions when it comes to what he's talked about
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with his growing up years, and with his own battles with dyslexia and other issues.
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And it's something that he totes out quite a bit these days.
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It's a big part of his book, A Young Man in a Hurry.
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And of course, he's ostensibly going on this book tour to sell the books, but it's really
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You know, what started with, you know, in my memory, Profiles Encourage, it seems that
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every presidential wannabe comes out with their autobiography about their struggles and
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about how they are just like you and me.
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And of course, they've been doing this with Gavin's book.
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But, you know, California kind of looks at it and goes, okay, he's supporters.
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The people who are the blue folks who voted a man like him, the people who didn't dislike
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But he said some missteps along the way on this book tour.
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He was in Georgia when he told an audience that had quite a few black members in it said,
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you know, I'm just like you.
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I did poorly on my sat scores, I can't read, even though he got to the dyslexia part later.
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And then this week, talking about the situation in the Middle East, and he said some things
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that greatly upset the Jewish community.
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So I don't know how that's going to play with some of his supporters, but overall, you
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know, the reaction to Gavin's book and his book tour and his place on the national
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stage and even an international stage, if you hate Trump, you like what he's doing.
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If you like Trump or you dislike him, you don't like what he's doing.
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It's just like everything else in California, the rest of the nation.
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It just depends where you start from because that's what your answer is going to be.
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I noted on the second day of the war or first day of the war, depending on how you count
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We had a statement from a former vice president Harris against the conflict.
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There was no significant reason for that statement, except for the fact that she's close to
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going toe-to-toe with Gavin Newsom for the nomination.
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Is that something you read in your papers?
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Yeah, that's it, but you know, it left people scratching their heads and it did not advance
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She's running for president again.
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That didn't help her in the least, you know, for most people it's going to be a forgettable
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thing, but a lot of people thought really it was gold timed and she, you know, she seems
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to be pandering to one part of the base and it didn't come off well.
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Jeff Bliss is Pacific War to travel with Jeff.
