Episodes

  • Adam Schiff outlines his priorities as the California U.S. Senator-elect

    Adam Schiff outlines his priorities as the California U.S. Senator-elect
    Nov 7 2024
    This is the State of California with KCBS Political Reporter Doug Sovern. He sat down with Adam Schiff, who was recently announced as the California US Senate representative, as he defined his goals for the state.
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    7 mins
  • Harris has conceded—where does she go from here?

    Harris has conceded—where does she go from here?
    Nov 6 2024
    Vice President Kamala Harris conceded defeat this afternoon, congratulating President-elect Donald Trump but vowing to continue the fight that fueled her campaign It’s a somber day for many voters in the Bay Area, and for those who have known and worked with Harris for years. Of course, Kamala Harris was a county prosecutor in both Oakland and San Francisco, as well as working in the City Attorney’s office in San Francisco, before she became DA, and then state Attorney General before moving on to Washington. She has many friends and former colleagues here, many of whom worked tirelessly for the last 107 days to try to help elect her president. Today they are licking their wounds, trying to figure out what went wrong, and looking ahead to what comes next. For more on this, KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern, along with KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart, spoke with Debbie Mesloh. She was Kamala Harris’ press secretary back in the day when Harris was San Francisco District Attorney. They are old, dear friends and Mesloh spent the closing days of this campaign working to get out the vote for Harris in Wisconsin.
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    11 mins
  • What can we expect as polls begin to close on the East Coast?

    What can we expect as polls begin to close on the East Coast?
    Nov 5 2024
    It is Election Day in America, with tens of millions of voters going to the polls and probably even more than that anxiously awaiting the results. KCBS will have complete coverage with all the returns, beginning when the first polls close on the East Coast. The polls close in six states at 4:00 our time and we will probably be able to project some winners almost immediately. Those states include Georgia, one of the battlegrounds, and Virginia, which is not a swing state but could offer some insight into what’s going to happen. We don’t expect to be able to estimate the winner in Georgia right away, though. We are also watching the data from exit polls, of voters after they come out of the polling place and also some who voted by mail or early, and that could be illuminating as well. And of course, the polls don’t close here in California until 8:00, so get out and vote if you haven’t already, we may know by then who’s won the presidency….or it could take a couple of days to count enough votes. More on today's State of California, hosted by KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern, along with KCBS news anchors Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising.
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    8 mins
  • Polls are a useful snapshot in time, but it's still anyone's game

    Polls are a useful snapshot in time, but it's still anyone's game
    Nov 4 2024
    It's almost all over, as Kamala Harris, Donald Trump and candidates up and down the ballot make one last push to get their supporters to the polls. Meanwhile, anxious Americans are poring over the last-minute polls, trying to figure out what’s going to happen in this too-close-to-call election. But the poller coaster can leave you dizzy. We’ve seen some surveys trending toward Trump nationally, but others trending towards Harris. We’ve seen some swing state polls swinging toward the Democrats, and others swinging to the GOP. How do we know which ones are accurate? What can polling trends really tell us about what to expect tomorrow? For more on this, KCBS Radio anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart, along with KCBS insider Doug Sovern, were joined by Christian Grose, professor of political science and public policy at USC and the Academic Director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute, and an expert on polling and elections. This is The State of California.
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    9 mins
  • Arguments from both sides of South Lake Tahoe's Measure N

    Arguments from both sides of South Lake Tahoe's Measure N
    Nov 1 2024
    Doug Sovern is away today. Voters in South Lake Tahoe have a big decision to make before they turn in their ballots, and it's not only on who they decide to be the next president. Many people go to the mountain resort town to escape their day-to-day lives, oftentimes staying in their vacation homes or book through a rental company. But South Lake Tahoe has about 7,000 vacant homes, and the contentious measure is pushing to tax these properties that are empty for half of the year to address the town's housing crisis. For a better understanding of Measure N, we have two guests for you on each side of the issue. First, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with Amelia Richmond, Co-Founder of Locals for Affordable Housing, which is the group that collected the signatures to get the issue on the ballot. Patti and Bret then spoke with Steve Teshara, Director of Government Relations for the Tahoe Chamber of Commerce, who is opposing the measure.
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    10 mins
  • Your vote counts, and volunteers are trying to spread awareness of that

    Your vote counts, and volunteers are trying to spread awareness of that
    Oct 31 2024
    KCBS Insider Doug Sovern spoke with Emily Lee, Executive Director of Seed the Vote, on the importance of getting out there and voting.
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    7 mins
  • Harris runs the risk of alienating progressive Dems for this reason

    Harris runs the risk of alienating progressive Dems for this reason
    Oct 30 2024
    There is the risk that courting all those more moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats could alienate young progressives in particular, especially those who are unhappy with the administration’s support for Israel in its war in Gaza. In an election that’s this close, losing a few thousand votes here and there could make a difference in those razor-close battleground states. For more on this, KCBS Insider Doug Sovern was joined by KCBS Radio anchor Bret Burkhart, who spoke with Amanda Nichols, Communications Director for Our Revolution, the progressive political action organization that grew out of Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president.
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    9 mins
  • With one week left before the election, Harris is set to deliver her "closing argument"

    With one week left before the election, Harris is set to deliver her "closing argument"
    Oct 29 2024
    One week to go before the presidential election, and former prosecutor Kamala Harris will deliver what she calls her “closing argument” this afternoon in Washington D.C. It is expected to contrast sharply with former President Trump’s closing message, which he delivered at a controversial rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Nothing will illustrate better how different these two are, and how different their campaigns are, than what we see and hear from Kamala Harris next hour, in comparison to what we heard from Donald Trump and his supporters two days ago. Harris is running a more traditional, disciplined campaign, while Trump shoots from the hip, says whatever comes into his 78-year-old mind, forget about the message discipline his handlers try in vain to impose, and he doesn’t seem to care if he alienates any voters in the process. Of course he is determined to keep his base motivated and energized and they lap up his insults, grievances, outrageous statements and constant lying. Harris is trying not just to get her base to the polls but also to win over disaffected never-Trumpers, moderates from both parties, and the few remaining undecideds, who really are out there, even though it’s hard for most people to understand how anyone could truly be torn between these two nominees. For more on this, KCBS Insider Doug Sovern was joined by KCBS Radio anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart. This is The State of California.
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    9 mins