2024 Pre-Election Coverage – PART ONE

that time. And if anyone says, well, we should know on Tuesday night, you just don't understand how the process works. We have more than eighty million mail in ballots last I saw that are already in the possession of various states, and they can't even start counting them yet. I think, with exception of Florida and a few other states, legally they cannot start tabulating. Some states they can't even open

the ballots. Some states they can, but they can't for the most part, count any of those mail in ballots until the polls close in their respective locations. Meaning if you hear someone say, hey, so and so is leading and mail in balloting, they are lying they are lying or wish casting. Let's just say wish casting. There's no

way to know who is leading. Now they can try to surmise looking at registrations, what counties they're coming from, historical data, how that person, excuse me, that area might have voted, and then they'll make some educated guesses. But there's no way to know. Nobody knows what is going to happen. Billions of dollars has been spent in advertising. Nobody knows. And I know you probably look put it

this way, from the messages that you sent me. You said, Hey, me and all my friends, we're voting for Kamala Harris. Doesn't mean a damn thing. You and all eight of your friends you know, or even eight relatives. It doesn't matter. Twenty twenty four, it's a done deal. No it isn't. No, it isn't. Nobody really knows what's going to happen, not only tomorrow, but well into Wednesday, I would say even Thursday. Because the more mail in ballots you have, the longer

the process it's going to take. It doesn't mean that it's illegitimate. It doesn't mean that someone's cheating. It doesn't mean that the election is stolen. It just means that there's a higher turnout and it's going to take longer to count the ballots. If you know the process, this will not surprise you in any way. If someone Wink wink should declare themselves the winner on Tuesday night, just know that getting out in front of things and getting

ahead of themselves. But I will say this, and we're gonna be talking just about politics tonight. This is one of those rare occasions. I'm just doing straight politics the bumpers. The music will be featuring the rich legacy of Quincy Jones, either as a songwriter, producer, or a ranger. Be nothing but Quincy Jones music tonight, obviously in light of his passing yesterday at the age of ninety one. But all the content in between the bumpers will be just about politics,

local and national. And I will say this, these two presidential candidates could not be more disparate in nature, not only who they are, but also they're closing arguments. And I don't understand a lot of things that former President Trump does. I just don't understand it. It doesn't seem like he's trying to raise his ceiling of voters. It doesn't seem like he is reaching out, calling out, trying to entice voters that he didn't already have to come

in to his tent. It doesn't seem like it. When I was watching his rallies, and I watch as many of them as I can, When I was watching his rallies, it just seemed like he was speaking to the same people. It doesn't seem like he was saying, hey, you know, come with me, even though you may not have considered me before. It just seemed like he was talking about something completely different. And it's an unconventional campaign. He's an

unconventional candidate. He was previously an unconventional president. And if it turns out that all this works for him, then it wouldn't be the first time that I was wrong about something. And you know, kudos to him. It just seems like he's not giving himself the best chance to win. When he, for example, when he said that he shouldn't have left the White House recently, that's rather odd thing to say.

talking about the bulletproof glass in front of him. How it's not completely contiguous, it's not completely connected, there are some gaps in it, and he's explaining in between the gaps, line of sight and the fake news media. That's just setting up the clip.

not going anywhere. But I don't know if that message is going to bring more to his base or his base of support, which he needs to win. I'm just talking about the analysis of it all. It's a strange closing message when you're talking about you're being okay, if someone shoots thequoe nquote fake news media.

to ours in disrespect. Have you ever like walked into the office and there's a group of people and they act like they want your opinion on politics, but actually they just want to give you their opinion on policy. They may say, hey, tuwala, you know the the elections coming up, and it's really crazy out there. All these strange things are happening. I can't believe that they might elect Kamala Harris. Oh there's the bab. There's the bab.

It's the bate. And how you respond is going to dictate how the next thirty five minutes are gonna go in your office, or it could be it'd be like, gosh, you know this country, I wish they would just get over itself and just go ahead and elect a woman. Is there a counselor is there a question in there? It's because you're because you're sitting at my way. You want me to respond so you can gauge where I am on the political spectrum, so you can then launch

in with your opinions. I get it all the time, and I, if at all possible, I never take the bate, especially if I'm out in public, if only because sometimes I'm recognized. Some people know what I may do when I go to my hangouts and everything, and sometimes this well intentioned they may want my opinion. Like someone will ask them like, hey, what do you think about this judge? What do you think? And I said, I haven't gotten into that yet. Or they may ask like what do

you think is going to happen? And I say to them what I say to you, No one knows what is going to happen. That's why you have former President Donald Trump going to four states today. If he knew what was going to happen. Do you think it'd be in four different states. No, do you think Kamala Harris will be spending her whole month in Pennsylvania if she knew. No, nobody knows. They're just doing all that they can to

control that which they can't control. But I get a kick out of the folks who try to give you that little bait out there. It's like, hey, yeah, so what do you think about the election? I don't think anything. I know because you just want to tell me what you think. How do you avoid the bait? Though? The bait is alway so tasty. Look you look after you've tasted some nasty bait, then you realize, Okay, you know it's a trap. It's a trap. And what I will

do is I will hear conversations. People will talk politics around me, or they'll ask me a direct question, and it's like my response is usually the same. I'm off work. I don't, you know, don't I don't have anything I do. That's my job. That's I'm here to have a glass of wine. I'm not here to talk about Kamala and Donald. I'm just not. But it's always funny to me, especially in an office environment, it's a little bit different when we're here at CAFI because you know, we're not all

in at the same time. We're not passing each other in the halls, spending seven and eight hours around each other, Like I'm not going to cross paths with Gary and Shannon for the most part, because we're just not here at the same time. Every once in a while will pass John Cobelt in the hall depending on when he's leaving it when I'm getting here, but we're not talking about this, you know. So this is a very different

work environment. And I think, you know, the typical office with the water cooler and everything, and I just I avoid it like the plague, because it's not a three minute conversation. It's a forty minute conversation with you doing most of the talking.

a conversation start, not at all, Not at all. We'll talk about maybe if he's writing metro link and if he's had any type of issues. But I don't talk to I don't talk about the news just about anybody. I mean, I may talk about it on social media, but for interpersonal relationships, no, And it's not like you shouldn't talk politics in the office. It's like, no, it's just not. It's not interesting to me to have a conversation with someone about ish I do professionally. It just isn't.

did not make. I'm not responsible for trying to argue what you wish I said or believed. And I had a post on social media today on my personal Facebook, or I'm saying like, not a day goes by in which people try to tell me what I believe and who I support. Why not a day goes by someone is always trying to tell me, Oh, you're just a bleeding heart liberal stuck on that democratic. No, they say democrat plantation, Oh that is always a good one. Yeah, yeah, Oh do you say that to non black people or

only black people? Because when you say plantation, I'm thinking like slavery iconography. So you know, I'm thinking like you're trying to say something to me specifically. I know I sound like Bill Clinton, but I did not have sex with that woman on that plantation. Right.

It's going to be at the office. No, no, where are you going to lunch today?

and how they engage other people. I cannot wait for this election to be over. And it's not going to be over tomorrow, Like I said last segment, it's not going to be over to probably Wednesday Thursday. In terms of president now we'll know who's controlling the Senate and that'll probably be the Republicans. Well, mo, I thought you said you couldn't predict the future. No, but I know basic math, and let me just run this down for

you real quick. The Democrats are defending more seats in the Senate than the Republicans, and if you're defending a seat, you cannot add to your total. It's a virtual tie in the Senate. So the Democrats are mostly trying to protect what they already have. They won't really be able to extend or increase their margin in the Senate, which means they're more likely to lose seats. Basic math, I

know it's something pretty special. They're more likely to lose seats, which means they're more likely to lose control of the Senate as opposed to the House, where you have four hundred and thirty five races all tomorrow and that can go either way, but you can go by the general mood of the country, where there's more data to suggest that the Democrats will probably not definitely, but probably take the House and we'll still have divided government regardless of

who becomes president. But we won't know who's president tomorrow night. And if you're expecting that, you're going to be real upset, and it will be your own fault, because I'm letting you know right now, unless it's an absolute blowout, they're not gonna call it tomorrow night.

supervisor has. Early five LA County Supervisors, and I refer to them in terms ofm as like many mayors, because they're responsible for about two million people each one of them. And you can imagine how unwieldy that could be when you're asking one person to handle the services which are are required and necessary for two million people across municipal boundaries. And so there was a movement afoot to increase the number of supervisors, maybe from five to seven or even

when talking about Measure G to nine members. But there's been a split amongst the LA County Board of Supervisors

as far as supporting it. The measure as it reads would increase the board from five to nine, and I think most people would agree with that, but not everyone is on board with the other provision, where it would have like a CEO and it will be almost like a mayor of the county and what types of powers that mayor would have, and whether the other supervisors would be subordinate to that LA County supervisor mayor for lack

of a better word. I don't know what they would call the position, but it would be an elected official. I came across this really good conversation led by Conan Nolan of NBC love him, and he was talking to some of the LA County Supervisors about this, and you can get a good sense of some of the issues and some of the positives around Measure G.

think it would pass overwhelmingly. But since you've also included this elected position which would make all the other supervisors subordinate to and as Holly Mitchell said that there would be no term limits, that I believe is going to give a lot of people pause and look to see if this measure goes down tomorrow whether one of the main complaints would be about this new position, And I would say the lack of clarity arounding how it would govern and who would be able to keep that person

in check. So that's measured. Gee, That's something I'm looking at and I think you should look at as well as far as La County. It's Later with mo Kelly.

We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And when we come back, we're going to tell you about what you can expect when you go to the polls tomorrow, if you haven't already turned in your ballot, what you should do, what you should not do, what you legally cannot do, and also what type of procedure does California have when it comes to county our votes will tell you about that.

finds both. Here's something that you cannot do. You cannot campaign for a candidate, and this is within one hundred feet of the entrance to a polling area or around a person waiting to cast his or her vote. You cannot ask a person to vote for or against any candidate or ballot measure. Do not display a candidate's name, image, or logo. You've probably seen some incidents around the country where someone may walk in with a Harris Walls T shirt.

Can't do that. Walking with a MAGA hat can't do that, or a FJB shirt can't do that, So don't be surprised if you try to do it and you receive resistance. You cannot provide any material or audible information for or against any candidate or ballot measure near any polling place, voting center, or ballot drop box. This is specifically for California.

You cannot distribute, display, or wear any clothing which includes hat, shirts, signs, button stickers that includes a candidate's name, image, logo, and or support or oppose any candidate or ballot measure. Like I said, you can't have the MAGA or FJB or the Harris Walls paraphernalia at the polls, even though you may not engage someone else, you may not have any intentions of talking to anyone else. That alone is against the law. And you can't obstruct. You cannot block access

to or loiter near any ballot drop boxes. You can't display any information or speak to a voter about that voter's eligibility to vote. And you would think a lot of this is just good common sense leave people alone. But as they say, common sense ain't all that common, and there will be someone who will want to flaunt the rules or laws and probably will try to put it on social media proving that they broke the law.

Don't do it. Don't do it because, as I said, doing any of the stuff that I listed and told you about is considered electioneering and it's punishable by fines and or imprisonment. And of course with an election like this, they're going to be cameras phones everywhere. You will be seen, you will be recorded, and it's really not worth it. You're not allowed to try to influence voters in any way shape form. It is illegal. Of course, you can't

bribe voters to vote for a specific candidate. You cannot take photographs or record a voter entering or exiting a polling, even though there will be cameras around, You cannot do that. As far as a voter, you can't obstruct the ingress, egress or parking. You can't challenge a person's right to vote or prevent voters from voting. It doesn't matter what you think about that person. Well, I don't think that person can legally vote. Well, you cannot intervene, and you

risk going to jail if you try. And let's say, all this goes swimmingly, and afterwards you wonder, well, what happens to a person's ballot? Well, for the folks who've already sent in their ballots, California is one of the few states in which they can start opening, processing and tabulating votes before the election. In fact, they can do it no more than twenty nine days before the election. But they can't reveal the totals or any type of results to any one, not to the campaigns, not to

the press, not to you, not to me. So Californi, they're counting ballots right now. That's part of the reason why when the polls close at eight o'clock and the polls will be open tomorrow from seven am to eight pm. That's part of the reason why they have an instant return information they were. They're most likely just telling you what the mail in ballot counts were at that moment, and you'll get a quicker sense of what's happening in

California as opposed to different states. Just know the process so it doesn't surprise you or they or if you wonder how did they count those so fast? Well, they've been counting for the past twenty seven days as it is twenty eight days.

and Kamala Harris. Why is this? Why is RFK junior? Or why is this person or why is this person I never heard of? Also, well, that's just stining she represents the Green Party or something, and I don't know

if they could give them that information. But if you have a question, yes, you can always ask an election worker if you're not clear how it's done, because there's some voting boosts which are electronic, and that can be kind of confusing if you've never done it before, as opposed to the paper balloting that we've all used, if

you've been a voter for any number of years. But a lot of people don't know the laws, and they just assume that you can walk in wearing whatever you want, saying whatever you want, and do whatever you want and may get surprised when they get rightful pushback from the election workers because the law is clear you can't do any of that. And if you do that expecting that there won't be any consequence where you're doing so at

your own risk. I can't say if you walk into a Trump County that there won't be maga hats on. I'm saying it's not legal to do and depending on where you go, you may or may not receive more pushback. But the law is clear you can't do it. Whether you get away with it, that's something different. But you can't. You can't try to influence, intimidate. You can't ask someone's like, hey, I don't believe that person over there is a legal voter. Can't do that, can't say that, don't try it, and

definitely don't try with me. Don't do it. Just leave me the hell alone. Bother Mark Ronner, he likes to be bothered, Like, keep me the hell out of this.