Matt Mahan

23 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 13 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2026 by Matt Mahan · said 7 times in 4 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 23, 2026 positive
Opinion
Mahan advocates immigration grand bargain: border security and legal status pathway
“The only practical and ethical solution is for parties to put the hyper-partisanship aside, come together, and come to a grand bargain in which we secure the border. We deport those committing violent crime who are undocumented, and we create a pathway to a le…”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:10:02 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mahan: At least 90% of California homeowners can be affordably insured
“90% of homeowners, maybe more, can be covered by private insurance affordably”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 40:27 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Mahan: California Democrats reflexively demand more revenue over outcome accountability
“As Democrats, we have to own the outcomes we're getting in this state, and for too long, our reflexive answer has been, we need more revenue. If we just have more money, we'll solve this problem. I just don't believe that”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 10:21 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Mahan: California has suffered over $1 trillion in capital flight
“We've seen over a trillion dollars of capital flight.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 56:12 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Mahan: San Jose reduced homeless unit costs to $85,000 using sleeping cabins
“In San Jose, we had to move away from spending a million dollars a door to build a brand new apartment to get someone off the streets and pivot to buying sleeping cabins that can be deployed in small communities on publicly owned land, hooked up to utilities, …”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 17:44 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Matt Mahan: State-run single-payer healthcare is not realistic for California
“I don't think it's realistic for California to create a single state-run free healthcare for all system.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 52:49 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Mahan promises to veto more legislative bills if elected governor
“Yeah, and I would, just to be clear, as governor, veto even more of these bills”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 7:52 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Mahan: Both parties are complicit in failing to fix illegal immigration
“So my sense growing up in an ag town that historically has probably been about a third undocumented is that the primary incentive for the parties to not solve this problem is that a lot of people became very wealthy. A lot of industries did very well by having…”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:12:07 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Matt Mahan predicts CA wealth tax will burden middle class, not billionaires
“The dirty secret of this proposal is that it won't be the billionaires who pay Higher taxes. It'll be middle class and working families who are left holding the bag.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 56:18 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Mahan proposes temporarily suspending California's gas tax
“My proposal is that we, to start, temporarily suspend our gas tax to provide immediate relief to working families who are paying the price for a war that they didn't ask for, and they're disproportionately paying the price.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 38:24 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Opinion
Mahan: Government must involuntarily hold individuals for addiction and mental health treatment
“In short, I think you have to be able to involuntarily hold people for addiction treatment, mental health care.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 31:41 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Mahan: Rivals Swalwell, Steyer, and Porter share the same platform
“Those three other Leading Democratic candidates are vying for the same lane. It is the more of the same lane. It's a platform that says that the answer to our problems is more revenue.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:14:27 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Mahan opposes step-up in basis tax loophole for Elon Musk's wealth
“I don't think Elon Musk should be able to pass on five hundred billion dollars of appreciated but untaxed stock wealth to his children.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 57:09 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Mahan: California's housing issue is fundamentally a regulation crisis
“I think that's fair. I think regulation, Bureaucracy. A set of codes and laws that don't work for people and work for the special interests in Sacramento.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 22:02 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Mahan was the first California Democratic mayor to endorse Proposition 36
“With Prop. 36, I was the first Democratic mayor in the state to come out in support of Prop. 36.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 34:13 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mahan: San Jose operates on one-third less revenue than neighboring cities
“Our revenue is about a third less than some of our neighboring cities, and we're delivering huge increases in sheltering people, getting housing built, reducing crime”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 11:00 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026
Disclosure
Mahan: San Jose launched public dashboards targeting 10% annual homelessness reduction
“I came into office running on dashboards. I mean, I put up public facing dashboards and said, here's our baseline. Here's how we compare to others. Here's the goal we're setting. We're going to reduce homelessness by 10% year over year.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 24:19 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Mahan: Most Californians spend over a third of income on housing
“Most Californians are spending over a third of their income on housing, many spending over half of their income on housing”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 57:53 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Mahan: San Jose added 2,000 shelter beds and led California in reducing unsheltered homelessness
“We've added over 2000 shelter beds in my first three years as mayor, and led the state in reducing unsheltered homelessness”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 18:02 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
Assertion Supported
Mahan: Defect liability laws prevent California from building condos
“We're not building condos in California, partly because construction defect liability allows a trial lawyer to come in in year nine of a project And if they see that the paint is starting to bubble, they'll file a suit, and they care about the fees.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 20:09 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Mahan promises to protect law-abiding undocumented residents as governor
“I will absolutely stand up to protect undocumented residents who are playing by the rules, who are doing the most American thing, and I get all the arguments around lawful immigration.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:10:40 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026 negative
What-if
Mahan: Targeted China tariffs would have made more sense than broad inflation
“Tariffs, yes, I do believe China, this is something I think he's gotten right, has been competing unfairly with the US. I think a targeted approach to tariffs, focusing on that issue, would have made a lot more sense than the general inflation we've seen.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 1:03:42 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
Mar 23, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Mahan: 50,000 people died on California streets over past decade
“Over the last decade, we've had 50,000 people die on our streets in California about Half from overdose and suicide.”
Matt Mahan Mar 23, 2026 ▶ 17:23 How Matt Mahan Thinks He Can Save California
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