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Guy Marzarotti

Guy Marzarotti

Guy Marzorati is a politics correspondent on KQED's California Politics and Government Desk, based in San Jose, and a contributor to NBC Bay Area.

Oct 7, 2026

4:44
Guy, can you talk a little bit about some of the dynamics of this race? Have things changed? Have people changed their positions on any key issues trying to pick up and increase their coalition's breadth? I would say the
4:55
biggest change in dynamic is Nancy Pelosi deciding to be a main character in this election.
5:02
The question of how she would weigh in and at what point, as Scott said, late in the primary, her endorsement helped boost Chan into the top two.
5:09
But it really that was the start for her.
5:11
She decided to continue her involvement in the campaign.
5:14
rallying financial support for Chan, had a key staff member go work on Connie Chan's campaign.
5:20
And I think you really saw this crystallize most when Scott Wiener made what was perhaps his biggest misstep in the campaign to date, which was when he rolled out this AI chatbot that mocked Connie Chan, basically to show that Chan stands in the way of housing and other things.

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37:04
Guy, do you want to take this one on? Yeah.
24:40
What do you mean by that?
24:41
Well, certainly Newsom in his first term and I would say into his second term was antagonistic towards the oil industry, called multiple special sessions, called out oil industry executives for price gouging.
24:53
Now, he's somewhat shifted on that.
24:54
He's said, you know, in the wake of refinery closures, that that's an industry that the state needs to make sure doesn't completely fall out in California.
25:02
He's, you know, signed a bill last year that opened the door to more drilling in Kern County and included a provision that allowed him to enact like changes in their fuel blend, which he actually did this week.
25:12
So Newsom is somewhat pivoted in that.
25:14
I think Democrats broadly have viewed these issues of climate as one in which when it comes to gas prices in California, sometimes is on a collision course with affordability.

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45:10
So what do you anticipate the moderators are going to ask about? What are the issues nationally that will probably draw the kind of attention and then as a result, the questions that they want?

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