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Chad Mayes
Episode 22

Chad Mayes

Once the head of the GOP in the largest state in the country, now running as an independent, California Assembly Member Chad Mayes has a warning for Republicans.

Radio Atlantic

August 21, 202029m 9s

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Show Notes

Only a few years ago, Chad Mayes was the Republican leader in the California Assembly. Now, he’s out of the party. Ahead of next week’s Republican convention, he joins Isaac Dovere to discuss the state of the GOP, running an independent, and the long impact of Donald Trump.


“California really was the canary in the coal mine. If you go back to the 1990s, where California was then—it's what the country is going to be 20 years from now. I've tried to tell my colleagues across the country that if you think that somehow this is a winning strategy today, the brand, the toxicity that will come of this is going to last not just for five years or ten years. It's going to last for generations to come.”


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