NBC News will put the 'Kornacki Cam' on the L.A. mayoral and California gubernatorial races
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After the polls close in California on Tuesday, NBC News data analyst Steve Kornacki will just be getting started.Since December, the khacki-clad vote-counting guru has been going live and uninterrupted on streaming platforms to provide results and analysis of every special election and even some state Senate contests.The stream — called the Kornacki Cam — provides unadulterated number-crunching without any pundits weighing in.Rather than getting updates that last a few minutes, Kornacki provides continuous real time results until the last available total is counted.“This all happens in full view,” Kornacki said Monday in a phone interview.
“The audience gets to see the whole thing.They get to see the buildup, the anticipation, the payoff.”In the 10 Kornacki Cam sessions streamed by NBC News so far, 20 million viewers have sampled on YouTube alone.
The coverage — consisting of Kornacki, his Big Board, his producer and a Stedicam operator — is also available on NBCNews.com, the NBC News app and the division’s social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.The Kornacki Cam will focus on the primaries for Los Angeles mayor, California and several Congressional districts, shortly after the state’s polls close at 8 p.m.Pacific.
In a Monday chat with The Times, here are the trends Kornacki says he’ll be looking for on the night.Polling in mayoral races is typically pretty unreliable.What do you make of the contest based on what you’ve seen?You don’t always have super-competitive mayoral elections and they’re not all created equal.
It’s not quite like a presidential election so you just don’t have a wealth of data to draw on for expectations either.I’ve seen the polling you’ve seen.It suggests that of the three candidates, (Mayor Karen Bass, reality TV star Spencer Pratt and City Council member Nithya Raman) Bass is in the best position to...