Joe Biden spoke in California: “You can have Gavin Newsom as governor or they will have a Donald Trump.”

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, Gave strong support to the California governor this Monday, and warn state voters they run the risk of having a Donald Trump-style president if they don’t defend Gavin Newsom at the polls.

California, which represents the world’s fifth-largest economy, culminated in a vote Tuesday to determine whether it wants to keep the Democratic governor, or whether he should be fired and replaced by another candidate, in a referendum that costs $ 280 million in public funds and is driven by the Republican Party, which is trying to capitalize on dissatisfaction with the restrictive measures by COVID-19.

“You can have Gavin Newsom as governor or you will have a Donald Trump,” Democrat Biden also said at a hearing in Long Beach, California.

Newsom’s main rival is Larry Elder, a right-wing radio announcer who has openly supported Republican Donald Trump, who is not enjoying popularity in California.

The lawyer leads the polls among the 46 opponents who hope to vote in the event that Newsom is revoked in Tuesday’s referendum, which asks on the same ballot whether the governor should be ousted and who should succeed him.

Newsom needs a simple majority to hold office, Thus leaving the question of succession ruled out. But if more than half revoke him, whoever wants to get the most votes becomes the governor of California automatically until the end of the term, in January 2023.

It is the second time in state history that Californians go to the polls for a recall referendum. The first time resulted in the election of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who took over in 2003.

Republicans, who since Schwarzenegger have no control of the state, were outraged by Newsom’s orders to control the pandemic, deemed unnecessary confinements and the shutdown of face-to-face classrooms, and held him responsible for the economic problems of small business owners. .

The request to remove it gained momentum after the governor was seen at a dinner at a luxurious California restaurant in November, in the midst of a pandemic, without a mask and with other people., In what was read as a contradiction of his own recommendations.

After an uncertain start, at the end of the campaign, Newsom seems to have put things in his favor.

Fires and climate change

The Biden stop in California closes a day of national tour of the western United States, focused on highlighting the dangers of climate change.

Thousands of square miles of forest have been charred in this fire season.

Biden, who met with firefighters in Idaho before flying over parts of northern California that were engulfed in flames, is promoting multimillion-dollar legislation for investment projects that aims to infrastructure and better prepare the country for the devastation of the state. ‘climate change, caused by human action.

“Every dollar we invest in resilience saves up to $ 6 later, when that investment prevents a fire from spreading so widely. These investments save lives,” Biden said Monday in Sacramento.

“When I think about climate change, I don’t think about costs, I think about the well-paid jobs we’re creating. But also in the jobs we lose due to the impact on the supply chain and in the industries, because we have not acted wisely enough.“, He commented.

President Biden is focusing on an already familiar issue: recalling the urgency of taking action to combat global warming and associated disasters, such as forest fires and storms.

“The reality is we have a global warming problem,” Biden said earlier in Boise, Idaho. “Things will never be the same again. Going back to the past is not an option, and the situation is not improving“, He added.

Forest fires have increased this boreal summer, particularly in the west of the country, including the states Biden will visit.

Biden, who broke with the skepticism of his Republican predecessor Donald Trump about climate change, said last week that the world is facing a “red alert” for the danger of climate change, and called on the union, transcending partisan divisions.

The president recently said the world is facing a “red code” on climate change and called on parties to put aside their political differences to work on it. “We have to think big,” he said earlier Monday at a hearing near Sacramento, the capital of California. “Thinking small is a formula for disaster. We will fight this climate change“, He added.

(With information from AFP)

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