Will: ‘Political Earthquake’ Coming to California After Massive Wildfires
Charlie Kirk Staff
01/10/2025

Longtime political analyst and nominal conservative columnist and author George Will joined NewsNation on Thursday to discuss the utter destruction from the wildfires gobbling up entire neighborhoods around Los Angeles to warn that a “political earthquake” is likely coming to the Democrat supermajority state.
“Thousands of families watched their American dream burn to the ground on live television. The fires killed five. That number will go up,” host Leland Vittert said to begin the segment.
“Insurance companies will pay tens of billions of dollars in claims, which means rates for all of us around the country will go up. So now is exactly the right time to ask hard questions, and the stonewalling tells us everything we need to know. The utter destruction in California is the predictable result of policies and politicians that have prioritized all the wrong things and gotten their way,” he added.
“Fairness check. Am I being fair in that analysis?” Vittert asked as he brought in Will.
“You are, and there’s going to be an earthquake coming in California, the big real earthquake, every once in a while. I mean, we’ve built a major metropolitan area in a desert on a tectonic fault. We’re risking things,” Will began.
“You ask for trouble in this naughty world, you get trouble. But there’s going to be a political earthquake from this, Leland. The California government is so busy micromanaging life from algebra classes in schools to the names of the schools, you name it, just protecting endangered species, doing all these things,” he continued. “And people are going to say, can we get the basic things right? Public safety, basic elementary…”
Vittert interrupted to play a video clip of comedian Adam Corrolla who had thoughts about the ‘political earthquake’ that Will mentioned. Carolla said in the clip:
All these people who were deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild. And they’re going to get the 28-year-old b**** from the Coastal Commission telling them to go f*** off. And then they’re going to vote for Trump or whoever’s Trumpian next.
“California really is not going to go red,” Vittert claimed after playing the clip.
“It’s not going to go red in presidential elections, but this is a tremendous opportunity for someone. And if Kamala Harris thinks that she can now, with her funding base and her name recognition, waltz into Sacramento as governor of California, she might want to think again,” Will cautioned.
Vittert responded, “They were not testing fire hydrants because they didn’t have the money, but they kept their DEI office and other things. There is going to be a special session of the California state legislature in the coming days, not to deal with the wildfires, but to authorize more money to fight Donald Trump. What is going to be the consequence, you said one for Kamala Harris, but for Gavin Newsom?”
Will concluded: “This is really just the last straw, but there’s a mountain of straws about his record in California that has produced this enormous flight away from California. California, after the 2030 census, is apt to lose four, perhaps five electoral votes, five congressional seats. Leland, this is for the first time ever, California, since the 1840s, is losing population. And it’s not just losing it, it’s hemorrhaging population.”
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