A year ago, when California Republicans launched a recall of future Democratic star California Gov. Gavin Newsom, no one would have thought the small probability event would play out for real.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D)
Newsom comes from the prestigious Democratic Party of San Francisco, where the young talent was elected mayor of San Francisco at the age of 36, lieutenant governor of California at 43, and governor of California in 2018 at the age of 50. He is the Democratic Party’s favorite for future president and gets prime speaking Time at the Democratic National Convention in 2020, as he did in 2008, the year Barack Obama ran for president.
In June 2020, California Republicans launched a recall of Newsom, citing reasons not related to the Epidemic, but mainly California’s high taxes, high homelessness rate, sanctuary for illegal immigrants, and water resources, among many other leftist policies.
The Republican Party has only 24 percent support among registered voters in California, and Newsom’s popularity is soaring that the recall is generally considered completely unlikely to meet the referendum threshold. In California, a recall requires 12 percent of the electorate to sign on, or 1.5 million valid signatures, in order to get a statewide referendum.
But a year after the epidemic hit, Newsom’s approval rating has fallen from 66 percent last September to 46 percent today, and recall signatures have reached 1.3 million. If another 200,000 valid signatures can be collected by the March 7 deadline, the recall threshold will be reached. In November of this year, the option to recall Newsom will be in front of all Californians.
In order to get 1.5 million valid signatures, recall sponsors believe they need a total of 2 million signatures, but the data shows that the recall co-signers have a very high rate of valid signatures, as high as 85 percent. According to current estimates, even the leftist media is alarmed that the recall bill is going to be a real game!
Although Newsom has launched a number of left-leaning policies in California that have upset the Republican Party, California is a Democratic stronghold and no one thinks the recall motion will shake his foundation. With the development of the epidemic and Newsom’s mishandling of the epidemic, resulting in a current death toll of over 40,000 in California, overcrowded hospitals, and the spread of the epidemic, as well as causing small businesses to be hit hard during the shutdown, Californians are complaining.
To add insult to injury, on November 6 of last year, under a decree from the Newsom administration prohibiting people from partying and keeping social distance, Newsom was caught by the media in a party with 12 friends at a high-end French restaurant in Napa County, Northern California’s wine country, and made headlines. Newsom initially denied it, and even made it worse, and finally had to come out and apologize to Californians. This inconsistency in his words and actions has hit his reputation hard, and since then, his popularity rating has been dropping.
In the current epidemic, the Democratic Party states to take tougher measures to close the city to prevent the epidemic, from April last year to now has been nearly a year, small businesses suffered serious impact, shutdown and closure phenomenon abound, Newsom last week suddenly reversed the closure of the epidemic strategy, announced that all of California can open, the outside world that he is yielding to external pressure, but Newsom himself does not admit.
Newsom supporters have been unimpressed by the Republican recall, but have recently begun to have to make moves, privately began to raise funds to gather forces in an attempt to fight back, hoping to curb the recall action that turned Newsom’s ship over.
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