Transcript of Democrats Secure Huge Win and Newsom Threatens to Jail ICE!

Lots to cover this afternoon. If you can, make sure to subscribe, support this work, like, comment, share—the more you do, the more people see. We are going live from 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time until midnight, starting in just over an hour, and I hope to have each and every one of you with me as we do. But first, as promised, I want to run through all the news you missed today, because it is heating up and Americans are showing up. Early voting has blown past the 2022 midterm numbers. Election officials from North Carolina to Georgia to Michigan all report strong turnout right out of the gate.

In Dearborn, Michigan, the only Arab majority city in the entire country, the mayor says turnout has surpassed 2022 levels. An NBC News analysis found roughly twice as many Black voters cast ballots early in Louisiana and South Carolina compared to 2022. And look at Florida: overall turnout is tracking closer to 2022, and Democratic-leaning counties like Alachua and Osceola are running 13 and 22 percent higher. In Georgia, the Secretary of State says the state is on pace for about 1.2 million Election Day votes; Republicans thought they needed at least 1.5 million to make up for weak Election Early votes.

People are showing up, and the issues are driving them. Right now, though, at the polls, there have been some issues. The Department of Justice has sent out election monitors, thousands of them, across the country, and we have reporting today confirming that Liz Landers—from Liz Landers, New Mexico's Secretary of State—tells her that verified DOJ monitors have been asking some, quote, "unusual questions" and doing things that are not allowed by law, such as questioning voters.

In Michigan, DOJ monitors reportedly acted outside of their legal scope in Dearborn-Flint. In Dearborn and Flint, the Michigan Department of State in its 1:00 p.m. update said that DOJ monitors in Dearborn and Flint reportedly acted outside the scope of their jobs. According to Kim Bush with the Michigan Attorney General's Office, in Dearborn, monitors were requesting copies of training materials. In Flint, monitors asked poll workers how they were trained, neither of which is acceptable. But heading overseas, to Guam, Democrats did flip their first seat of the election cycle.

Alicia Anne Garrido-Limataco has defeated James Moylan, a shift—a flip—from red to blue. Guam's non-voting delegate in the United States House of Representatives will now be a Democrat. The governor of Guam did flip from red—from, sorry, from blue to red—but even that flip, there was a major Democratic undertow, and the entire race actually shifted to the left. Now, Governor Gavin Newsom is threatening ICE officials this afternoon: "If you show up to the polls illegally, we will find you.

We will track you down, arrest you, and prosecute you. There will be no escape." And Donald Trump, for his part, has been yelling at The Daily Mail over his reflecting poll joke for not covering it correctly, and then yelling at Ted Liu, calling him a lightweight, for once again talking about the reflecting poll. So this is where Donald Trump's head is at. Now, I spoke with California Governor Newsom about his threat to jail ICE agents and so much more. Make sure to subscribe, keep me caffeinated tonight, like, comment, share—get the word out—and here is my conversation with the California governor.

Great to be with Governor Gavin Newsom this afternoon. Now, Governor, I got to jump right in: polls close in California in a few hours. How are you feeling? How are things looking right now?

So it's—it's everything we had hoped for, and candidly, more. It's been incredible.

I was at an event, and it was really amazing. Just asked—everybody was about, I don't know, 200, 300 people in the room—how many had voted. Every single hand had gone up. But everybody still showed up after they had already voted, which says everything you need to know. I mean, I've never been in a room where—usually it's half the room has voted, or maybe, you know, three-quarters. But there wasn't a hand that hadn't voted, and everyone was there to lend a hand to someone else because they recognize what's at stake. All of them running through the tape tonight.

So we'll have 10-to-1 people monitoring the monitors. And then we also have 130 election law attorneys that are ready to be deployed. And we created that 1877 number, kind of old-school, but 1877321vote, and we've got 54 people that are doing operations to make sure that anyone that sees something, that we can do something about that by descending and sending our strike teams down. So we're seeing nothing yet, but we have seen his monitors deployed, as you mentioned, to all 50 states and about 1,000.

But again, nothing to chance, particularly here in California, where the assault tends to happen first.

And so eyes wide open as it relates to the National Guard, eyes wide open as it relates to that group of masked men and women, primarily men, that seem to have sworn an office to Trump, not the Constitution of the United States. Again, Bovino was a California resident first, and obviously we were the first state that saw the federalization of the National Guard a year and a half ago. So, you know, again, I'm not naive about this moment, I'm not naive about what happens even moments before the election or the polls close, nor in the next few days as we count every single ballot and make sure everybody's vote is honored and we continue to celebrate this cherished fundamental right to vote and not see it vandalized by Trump.

And I think we're barely scratching the surface of our understanding when it comes to tungsten minings in Albania, hotels and resorts, to golf courses in Vietnam, to how the tariff policy has been used to pad the pockets of the Trump administration, the $130,000 gold bar that was delivered by CEOs coming from Switzerland, the gold clock by the head of Rolex. Same time they rolled back those Swiss tariffs from 39 percent to 15 percent. We could talk about the $1.4 billion and the meme coin, the $4.3 billion that his followers and supporters lost, and all the other grift that's going on with 1789 Capital and the Trump Sons and the $6.3 billion they've received in federal contracts for companies that were just conceived and just started.

There's so much to mine, and we can never allow this to happen again. And that's why I think the biggest mistake Democrats could make is just to turn the page completely. We have to hold this corruption story and family members that are associated with it accountable, and be accountable to the American people on addressing affordability.

We've got to be more focused on what people want and tell them over and over that that's what we're focusing on 24/7. To the extent that Trump, you know, plays whack-a-mole and pushes back, that's fine. We keep coming over and over. You got to take the fight to Trump. We do not—look, if there's any lesson going back to Prop 50, any lesson, you know, that brought those knee pads you see behind me, the Trump signature knee pads that I was sending out to CEOs and corporations and to universities and others that were selling—they're sold to Donald Trump, bending the knee—is that the only thing he respects is strength.

And he's going to—and he's going to have to respect the outcome of this election. It's going to be by a margin that even Donald Trump can't steal. And so we have to be steely in our resolve now to deliver the goods that we have been promoting and promising. You do that, we do that, brand blue, brand Democrat, we'll be back on top where it belongs. But I'm not naive to your point in closing, that this was not necessarily a victory of party. This is a repudiation of the Republican Party and Donald Trump.

That victory of party has to come from progress, not just promotion, now that we'll be back in the majority, hopefully in the Senate, not just the House of Representatives.

That's—that's why I think I'm here. That's my why: to stand up for ideals, strike out against injustice. It's what, you know, flows through me as a father, as a husband, as a businessperson, and as a governor, and as a former governor, as you say, in just a few months. And then fate will determine if there's another elected office in the horizon.