Republican John Cox and Democrat Gavin Newsom, the candidates for California governor, begin by talking to CALmatters’ reporters and editors about how they’d run the Golden State differently from the current officeholder, Gov. Jerry Brown.

Other Covered Topics

The two also discuss at these timestamps:

— Improving schools (1:20)

— Confronting climate change (2:50)

— The death penalty (3:55)

— The one book they’d recommend to all Californians (4:39)

— The California housing crisis (6:03)

— And the hardest thing they’ve ever done (7:47)

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