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An effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was launched in February 2024. The California Secretary of State's office approved the recall for circulation on March 26, 2024.
Sep 15, 2021 · About two-thirds of voters backed Gov. Gavin Newsom in a recall election that cost taxpayers an estimated $276 million, with the campaigns spending millions more. How much was spent on the...
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- Vimal Patel
Sep 14, 2021 · California Gov. Gavin Newsom survived a historic recall election Tuesday, winning a vote of confidence during a COVID-19 pandemic that has shattered families and livelihoods and tested his...
- Covid Precautions Can Help Democrats
- GOP Revives Baseless Fraud Claims
- No Light at End of The Tunnel For California GOP
- Newsom Steps Back from The Brink
- Muddled Signs For The Midterms
Republicans intended the recall to be a referendum on Democrats’ rule of California, and the homelessness, crime, high housing costs and energy problems that accompanied it. But in a bit of political maneuvering — and with the help of the spreading delta variant — Newsom turned it into a referendum on Republicans’ opposition to precautions against ...
Republicans’ groundless claims of election fraud aren’t going away anytime soon. Even while ballots were still being cast, Republicans were claiming the election was “rigged.” It was a baseless allegation — and a strange one considering Republicans performed relatively well under the same California election system in November, gaining four congres...
The recall offered California Republicans their only plausible shot at statewide office in one of the bluest states in the nation. The recall is a way to dodge a head-to-head match that would send voters to their regular partisan corners. That’s what happened in 2003 when Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger won a recall against Democratic Gov. Gray Da...
There’s no question that Newsom won the recall election. But he might not have emerged unscathed. When he was elected in 2018, Newsom was riding an anti-Trump wave in a state that saw itself as the heart of the “resistance” to Republican power in Washington. The former San Francisco mayor was mulled as a possible future presidential candidate. Thre...
The recall is the first significant election of Joe Biden’s presidency and served as something of a political stress test for both parties ahead of next year’s midterms. Democrats showed they could turn out their voters even as their party held the White House — a traditionally tough feat that is why the party in power usually loses seats in Congre...
Sep 14, 2021 · SACRAMENTO — A Republican-led bid to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom of California ended in defeat late Tuesday, as Democrats in the nation’s most populous state closed ranks against a small...
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- Shawn Hubler
Sep 15, 2021 · The recall election that could remove California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is coming to an end. Voting concludes Tuesday in the rare, late-summer election that has emerged as a national battlefront on issues from COVID-19 restrictions to climate change.
Sep 13, 2021 · Mail-in ballots for California’s gubernatorial recall election are going out now, and notably absent from the roster of candidates to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom are any prominent Democrats.
