Mike Murphy
speaker
1,603 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Mike Murphy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But nobody knew anything about him.
But the public polls showed him in front.
And then the Sacramento crowd said, well, he's not going to change anything.
Safe bet, pour money in.
And then he had Steyer, who's going to spend 200 million bucks or probably more.
It was like trying to put a cinder block into orbit.
You know, he's just not the most compelling candidate.
And then you had Katie trying to Katie Porter, who would come in third for Senate, trying to.
And Mayhem coming from the center.
And neither of them could really get the money they needed to break through and get famous in California.
So we kind of defaulted to the minimum sufficient.
That was never going to happen.
And that's part of what.
No, this is.
This spectrum of two Republicans, Steve Hilton and Sheriff Bianco, who's the handcuffed candidate, breaking through became a thing.
And the psychology in the Democrat electorate of the half that really pay attention at most was, oh, my God, oh, my God, whoever's in front in the polls, we have to vote for it.
So hapless Becerra kind of, you know, stumbled in with no money, no message, weak resume.
But.
you know, he had been known, he'd been Attorney General, and, you know, he had some name ID, and they said, we better vote for him to stop Republicans.
It's stupid herd behavior, but it happened.
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