One day out from the midterm elections

Millions of people across the country have already voted and cast their ballots. Here in California, one of the biggest decisions is who will replace Governor Gavin Newsom. Governor Newsom's completing his second and final term as governor. The race is between Republican, former Fox News host Steve Hilton, and Democrat Javier Becerra, the former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, and... California Attorney General. Both candidates say the cost of living is the focus of their campaigns. You think gas prices can't get any higher under Javier Becerra? You'll get $8 gas. With me, $3 gas. You think taxes can't get any higher under Javier Becerra? Your taxes are going through the roof, starting with his mileage tax. With me, your first $150,000 tax-free. The cost of living is hitting us hard. And Trump's war tax and tariff taxes make the hit even harder. But this is California, where no problem is too great to solve and no person too small to matter. That's why I'm running to deliver a California we can afford. Now, another closely watched California race, the race for mayor of Los Angeles. Incumbent mayor, Karen Bass, is battling city council member, Nithya Rahman, a former political ally. And to talk more about all of this, we're joined now by David McEwen, political science professor at Sonoma State. David, good morning. Always good to have you on Mornings on 2. Pleasure to join you. Happy Monday. Happy Election Eve. Yes, it is. And talk about a full plate of things to talk about. Early voting in the multi-millions and so much more. What's your take on things so far? All right, so if we look at the early vote, which we monitor, largely summed up this past Friday, we see a few trends. One is we see more younger voters appearing. Younger voters tend to be emerging voter sets, not as regular as we would see or as habitual in the language of kind of voting behavior. So we see younger voters. We see a lot more Hispanic voters, especially in Texas, especially in North Carolina, Georgia, African-American vote. Also way up. So the early vote is up quite a bit. As you look at that early vote, you juxtapose it against the other broader theme going on here. And that broader theme that we also see is related to how much money is being spent this particular election. And then we kind of dive in and look at specific districts, see what's going on. This is a big wave that's building for Democrats. So if you're looking at kind of the ocean, the mix here of what's going on, as you look at that, Democrats have to be happy with how well they're doing at this point. And I think they are also apprehensive. They're wondering if President Trump were to and the Republicans were to lose and lose by a lot, how might he react? What might he do? What do you suspect? Yeah, I mean, look, we're not going to have every race settled on election night or even the next day. It's going to take a long time. In Alaska, for example, ballots can keep coming in up to 10 days after E-Day, after election. So the counting process takes a long time. In California, it takes 38 days to certify the ballots. So if you're President Trump, if you're the Republicans and you lose the House, maybe you lose the Senate. The data, there's a little more mix. If you lose, what do you do in terms of recognizing those ballots? New members, the 120th, doesn't come in until early January, January 3rd. But there's a lot that happens between now and then in terms of recognition of the vote, in terms of the lame duck session. There's a lot of events here. So kind of strap in and kind of let's pace ourselves. Let's celebrate that Valkyries win on Wednesday as opposed to settling all the races because we won't exactly be there on Wednesday. I hear you, David. David McEwen, our political science professor at Sonoma State. Always good to see you. Oh, morning's on too, David. Always a pleasure, Dave. Thank you. All right.