'BradCast' 9/15/2021 (Guest: The American Prospects' Harold Meyerson on lessons from the GOP's failed CA Recall)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom resoundingly defeated Republicans who forced the state's taxpayers to waste nearly $300 million to run a special recall election on Tuesday night. Early results indicate Newsom won by a landslide, with nearly the same margin by which President Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020.\xa0 The day before, before any results were known, the GOP's top candidate, far-right radio talk show host Larry Elder, unveiled a website demanding a special session of the state legislature to investigate his baseless claims that the results were rigged. Despite his repeated lies about 'fraud' in the election and threatening use of the 'ammo-box,' Elder quickly conceded on Tuesday night. HAROLD MEYERSON, longtime Editor-At-Large of The American Prospect, analyzes the results from Newsom's landslide win and what lessons may be learned from the recall election for both Democrats and Republicans in California and across the nation, as we head into the 2022 mid-term elections. He also discusses how and why California's 100-year old, well-intentioned progressive Recall and Ballot Initiative process needs to be overhauled in the state. Also today: new details on the many crucial voting reforms in Senate Democrats' newly-unveiled election reform compromise bill, the 'Freedom to Vote Act' - - which, for the first time, includes a long-overdue federal mandate of hand-marked paper ballots for all, plus much more...