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California Recall
Aired September 26, 2003 - 07:39 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, now for your daily dose of California politics, to California's recall race now. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to pick up a key Republican endorsement today. In the meantime, Governor Gray Davis may be hinting around that he would like to go one-on-one with Schwarzenegger. Hmmm.
Bob Franken is covering the race for us live in Los Angeles -- interesting developments, Bob.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Daily dose?
COSTELLO: Daily dose. You need to talk about it at least once a day.
FRANKEN: Well, I don't know -- we just have no idea how this medicine tastes. But let's go through it anyway. You're right, Daryl Issa is the Republican congressman from San Diego who put up the money for the recall effort and now, even though he's probably closer ideologically to Tom McClintock, he is going to be announcing today that he's going to endorse Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You can see Schwarzenegger there with Bill Simon, another Republican who had pulled out of the recall race, had actually run and lost against Gray Davis last time around, saying he, too, will endorse Schwarzenegger. Peter Uberoff, by the way, is going to tell us who he's going to endorse next week.
As far as McClintock is concerned, he's saying that no matter what, he's in the race to stay. Of course, there's a little less than two weeks for him to change his mind, if he's going to. But at the moment he's quite adamant.
But, Governor Gray Davis, who is the man, of course, who is trying to avoid the recall, is beginning to try and formulate this as a race between Schwarzenegger and Davis, and he's suggesting, just suggesting the possibility that there just should be a debate.
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GOV. GRAY DAVIS (D), CALIFORNIA: I'm going to make sure that the record is set straight and if Mr. Schwarzenegger won't set the record straight, then I'll just have to debate him because I believe this state is too important, your future is too important to have the rest of the world misunderstand the opportunities, challenges and progress that we have made together.
(END VIDEO CLIP) FRANKEN: Meanwhile, aides to Schwarzenegger, who is still probably licking his wounds a little bit after the debate on Wednesday night, their response, well, we could probably characterize it this way, Carol, fat chance.
COSTELLO: I think that's a good characterization.
Bob Franken live from Los Angeles this morning.
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Aired September 26, 2003 - 07:39 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: All right, now for your daily dose of California politics, to California's recall race now. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to pick up a key Republican endorsement today. In the meantime, Governor Gray Davis may be hinting around that he would like to go one-on-one with Schwarzenegger. Hmmm.
Bob Franken is covering the race for us live in Los Angeles -- interesting developments, Bob.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Daily dose?
COSTELLO: Daily dose. You need to talk about it at least once a day.
FRANKEN: Well, I don't know -- we just have no idea how this medicine tastes. But let's go through it anyway. You're right, Daryl Issa is the Republican congressman from San Diego who put up the money for the recall effort and now, even though he's probably closer ideologically to Tom McClintock, he is going to be announcing today that he's going to endorse Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You can see Schwarzenegger there with Bill Simon, another Republican who had pulled out of the recall race, had actually run and lost against Gray Davis last time around, saying he, too, will endorse Schwarzenegger. Peter Uberoff, by the way, is going to tell us who he's going to endorse next week.
As far as McClintock is concerned, he's saying that no matter what, he's in the race to stay. Of course, there's a little less than two weeks for him to change his mind, if he's going to. But at the moment he's quite adamant.
But, Governor Gray Davis, who is the man, of course, who is trying to avoid the recall, is beginning to try and formulate this as a race between Schwarzenegger and Davis, and he's suggesting, just suggesting the possibility that there just should be a debate.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GOV. GRAY DAVIS (D), CALIFORNIA: I'm going to make sure that the record is set straight and if Mr. Schwarzenegger won't set the record straight, then I'll just have to debate him because I believe this state is too important, your future is too important to have the rest of the world misunderstand the opportunities, challenges and progress that we have made together.
(END VIDEO CLIP) FRANKEN: Meanwhile, aides to Schwarzenegger, who is still probably licking his wounds a little bit after the debate on Wednesday night, their response, well, we could probably characterize it this way, Carol, fat chance.
COSTELLO: I think that's a good characterization.
Bob Franken live from Los Angeles this morning.
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