Erin Aubry Kaplan: This is a Crazy Election

Ballot Brief is asking Southern California personalities and pundits how they would characterize the 2016 election cycle. L.A.-based journalist/columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan, who has covered African-American political, economic and cultural issues since 1992, tells us that in her quarter century of observing the political climate, she has never seen a time when people were so blatant in expressing racism and xenophobia.