Mel Gibson has emerged as a popular Republican candidate to run for California governor ... and while he appreciates that confidence from voters -- there's no way in hell he's running.
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00:00Well, Mel Gibson has his hands full right now.
00:04He's already an ambassador, right?
00:05He's been named an ambassador to Hollywood by President Clinton.
00:10President Trump?
00:11Where did Clinton come from?
00:12I don't know.
00:13There's a move to get his gun back?
00:14Yeah, but there is a role he does not want, and that is governor of California.
00:20But who knew that anybody else wanted him to be governor of California?
00:24Mel Gibson is polling strong.
00:27He is the highest polling Republican in a new poll that's out.
00:31Look at that.
00:32Yeah, this poll was done last week by a newspaper here in California.
00:36But Katie Porter is a congresswoman at 25 percent, Kamala Harris at 20 percent, and
00:42then right in the middle of the pack, Chad Bianco is a sheriff of Riverside County, Mike
00:49McGuire is a state senator.
00:51It's a weird poll to me.
00:53It is.
00:54And I'll tell you why it's a weird poll.
00:55We'll get into it in a minute, but it's a weird poll because this is very theoretical
01:02until people announce and they start campaigning and putting ads on TV, and then everything
01:07starts to shift.
01:08But the idea that Mel Gibson is the highest rated Republican, I think says something about
01:17MAGA?
01:18Yes.
01:19Because he's identified as MAGA in California.
01:22Because MAGA has been very prominent, has been very visible this year, partly because
01:28of tragedy and what happened in Malibu, his home burning down.
01:33But also with Trump.
01:34But also with Trump.
01:35Right.
01:36I mean, he's been named an ambassador.
01:37Right front and center at Mar-a-Lago.
01:38I know.
01:39I agree that he has definitely gotten more involved in the political discourse.
01:42I mean, you see him on cable news very frequently.
01:45I don't think that this indicates that Mel Gibson is the star player of the Republican
01:50or the MAGA movement bench.
01:52I think what it shows is that California is an unwinnable state for a Republican.
01:57The last time there was a Republican in office as governor was Arnold Schwarzenegger, which
02:01many people would say he was a Republican in name only.
02:05Many different values.
02:06Babcock, California is shifting some.
02:09It is.
02:10The whole country is shifting, I think.
02:12You're right.
02:13But I mean, Trump polled stronger in California than people expected.
02:18And look, there's this whole movement now against the left wing of the Democratic Party.
02:24And the Democrats are kind of in a mess right now, you know, with the whole Chuck Schumer
02:28thing and everything else.
02:29I agree.
02:30On where to go.
02:31So I don't know if you're Donald Trump and you obviously would love nothing more than
02:35to actually come out and campaign.
02:37You come out and you campaign for someone like Mel Gibson.
02:39But Mel has said he doesn't want this.
02:42I think it's pretty obvious why Mel Gibson would not want to get into politics.
02:45Oh, can you imagine?
02:46Right.
02:47You don't have to do too much opposition research to to, you know, to attack Mel.
02:52That would be a massacre.
02:54I think I just don't.
02:56It is shifting.
02:57I don't think that the Republicans are in a place yet where they feel like they can
02:59reliably reasonably win an election, maybe in eight years down the line.
03:05Maybe it's possible that at that point, I don't think they're there yet where they can
03:08actually win the California race.
03:11Everything is everything is so on its head right now that I don't think you can say that.
03:16I have no idea.
03:17But with the way things are going right now in the country, listen, Donald Trump is polling
03:22at his highest number in the most recent poll, forty seven percent.
03:26Harvey, you got to look, look, if you if you look at the right track, wrong track of the
03:30country, you've got to go back all the way to January of 2004 to find 44 percent of the
03:35people in the country who feel like the country is on the right track.
03:38That's where we are right now.
03:39And, you know, and you look at what's going on with the Democrats in California.
03:42Look at Gavin Newsom.
03:43Gavin Newsom has done a seismic change in terms of, you know, a podcast where he's bringing,
03:49you know, people in the right wing onto the podcast, taking a lot of heat for it.
03:54He's taken positions now that are way more moderate than clearly moving to the center.
03:59Clearly.
04:00But I agree, Babcock.
04:02I don't.
04:03It is shifting.
04:04I don't think California is there yet.
04:05Depends on who the Democrat is.
04:07Let's say it's let's say it's Kamala Harris.
04:09I still think a Democrat wins.
04:11I don't know.
04:13It's not as huge as I thought.
04:15I looked it up in twenty twenty two.
04:17Newsom got fifty nine point two percent of the vote.
04:19The Republican candidate got forty point eight.
04:22So it's an 18 percent difference.
04:25That's a big it's a big difference.
04:27But when was that taken back?
04:29That was twenty twenty two.
04:30OK.
04:31A lot has changed.
04:32Sure.
04:33A lot has changed in this country.
04:36My name is Andrew Washington and I'm from Long Island, New York.
04:40People are thrusting Mel Gibson into this political forum and he said he doesn't want
04:44to be in it.
04:45He's flattered.
04:46So I don't understand why everyone's pushing him.
04:49Just because Donald Trump named him ambassador doesn't mean he's going to be a good politician.
04:54Oh, no, no, no, no.
04:56Don't get us wrong.
04:57We're not saying he'd be good.
04:59We're just saying it's fascinating that he's that popular.
05:02I mean, good is no longer.
05:04It doesn't matter.
05:05It's not the that's not the standard.
05:07Absolutely.
05:10Yeah.