Ali Mercado

Well, the Democrats are very scared because what do we know?

We know that Californians have fled blue states, large in part because of things like what Elaine is talking about.

The cost of living here is unbelievably high.

The quality of life goes down by the second that Gavin Newsom is in office.

And then in the state legislature, you have Democrats who want to gaslight us into believing that it's not happening.

Well, the truth is when the census comes in 2030, we are going to lose seats in California simply because we've lost population.

So how can they prepare for that?

They can make it Donald Trump's fault rather than our own fault and make this sham of a special election that I'm glad you were talking about retail crime, Elaine, because Prop 36 that was out in California on the ballot

passed in every single county and passed by 70% overwhelmingly with Democrats, Independents and Republicans.

What was Prop 36?

Prop 36 was voters cleaning up the mess that the legislature couldn't and it ensured that retail crime and homelessness and drugs were going to be illegal again in California.

How did we get there?

Prop 47, which was also on the ballot years ago, was labeled the safe schools and communities.

So guess what?

People didn't read what it was.

People only saw the title.

And what that did is it basically said you can steal up to $950 worth of merchandise on any given time and not go to jail.

You can...

refuse resources as a homeless person and not have any type of repercussions, or can law enforcement do anything for you?

And you can be caught with drugs, but as long as it's not that much or it's not that bad, we're just going to slap you on the wrist and let you go.