MidDays with Gerard Gibert 2026-06-03

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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Get ready to go beyond the headlines and join a meaningful conversation with people from around the state. You're listening to MidDays with Gerard Gibert here on SuperTalk Mississippi.

**Gerard Gibert** (1:01)
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to MidDays, SuperTalk Mississippi. I'm your host, Gerard Gibert, along with Rhino in the Element Wealth Studio, guiding you through the middle of your day with facts, fodder, and fine music on this hump day. Man, yeah, we've made it on in there. And wait, it's June 3rd, right? Well, that has some significance here in the great state of Mississippi. I'm sure you've got a musical selection or two lined up for us as a result. We're all buckled up, ready to go. It's Douglas Carswell, president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. At 11.05 today, at 12.05, Jeremy Vanderloo, vice president of business operations and strategy for Entergy Mississippi, will have more conversation about data centers. And of course, their consumption of electricity seems to continue to dominate the conversation in the state to a great extent with respect to data centers and the country. Mr. Carswell coming in at 11.05 will give us an update from the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. They just launched a brand new web tool that compares every public school in Mississippi. So the goal there being to allow parents to put in their kids' scores and see how they compare to others in the same district, same school, state, across America. Good stuff, little comparative analysis is what we would call it. So look forward to those conversations today. It was primary day yesterday. Many key races contested across these United States. I guess most of the focus was on California.
We got a governor's race, the Los Angeles mayor, and then there were some special elections for, I believe, four or five California house districts. But it looks like in a very, it's been a long time, I should say, that a Republican is going to head to the general election in November in California as governor. Now, California has an open, what's called a jungle primary. All candidates that are running for the office, regardless of their party affiliation, are on the ballot. How many were there, Rhino? Like 60 running for governor or something insane like that.
And many of those, most people couldn't tell you who they are.
But it looks like it's Steve Hilton. You know him? He... Fox News fame, honestly. It's kind of how he got his himself, his name known in the country and certainly in California. And he decided that he would try his hand at running for governor.
And currently, with 58% of the votes in, he leads that race. Again, remember, it's Democrats, Republicans, independents all together.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:30)
Only 58

**Gerard Gibert** (4:32)
58? Oh my gosh.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:36)
And some wild names.

**Gerard Gibert** (4:38)
I saw that.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:40)
Living for God and country, D'amat.

**Gerard Gibert** (4:43)
I saw that.

**SPEAKER_4** (4:45)
Got 1300 votes.

**Gerard Gibert** (4:46)
How about Barack D. Obama Shaw?
Got 10,000 votes. Man. Yeah, some of them I can't even pronounce, honestly. I'm looking at the list as well. It's so incredible.

**SPEAKER_4** (5:03)
Thunder Parley.

**Gerard Gibert** (5:05)
I see that one now.

**SPEAKER_4** (5:07)
Strong name.

**Gerard Gibert** (5:09)
Oh man. And then at the very bottom, an independent Serge Fiancon. 305 votes. How about that? But Mr. Hilton at the top with 27.8% of the votes.
And then Javier Becerra. He, of course, the Democrat used to serve under Joe Biden. What was he? Health and Human Services? Secretary, I believe. He is in second place at 25.4%, about 100,000 votes of 2.6 million between the two of those separate. In third place, it's billionaire Tom Steyer, who's already dumped 214 million of his own coin into the race. It doesn't look like he'll be competing in the fall after spending 214 million. Don't feel sorry for him. He's still got a few billion in the bank. He came away with 19.6% of the votes. The one I'm sort of celebrating, honestly, because she's a loon, is Katie Porter. Got 4.6%. That lady's crazy.
I'm not sure I agree with her on anything.
She's a left-wing nutcase loon. She going down. So it looks like it's going to be Hilton and Becerra.
And, of course, when you think about sizing up that runoff, aka general election, in November, I guess the question is, Ryan, is how do all these votes get split up that voted for the candidate that's not advancing? Do they throw their weight behind the Democrat or the Republican? But it looks like it's Steve Hilton.