“You all know that last year I got to run against the real Donald Trump,” Biden said making the sign of the cross on his chest. “Well, this year, the Republican leader running for office is the closest thing to a Trump clone I’ve ever seen in your state.”
Biden added, “He’s Donald Trump’s clone. Can you imagine him being governor of this state? You can’t let that happen.”
Biden, speaking in California, also stated the importance of the withdrawal election, arguing that the results will reverberate beyond the Golden State.
“The decision you’re about to make will not only have a big impact in California, but it will have an impact across the country, and frankly, it’s not a joke around the world,” Biden said.
Newsom continued this message against Elder shortly before the Democratic leader appeared on stage Biden, Trump’s successor.
“It surprises some of you that we have someone on the other side who is to the right of Donald Trump,” Newsom said.
Newsom went on to say that while 2020 was the “most important election of our lives,” Elder represented the fact that “Trumpism is still at the polls in California.”
“We may have defeated Donald Trump, but we have not defeated Trumpism,” Newsom said.
Trump has not approved the recall in California, but Elder has followed the line of many of Trump’s policies. And the former president has reinforced some of Elder’s unfounded claims of election fraud before the election was decided.
For Newsom and his top agents, the decision to talk about Trump was made to increase participation. Democrats worried early in the summer that out-of-year and out-of-month elections would surprise Democratic voters, which could lead to depressed turnout among the party’s most trusted voters and help Republicans overcome their disadvantage. important in the registration of the party in the state.
A number of recent polls show Newsom and the anti-withdrawal effort in a strong position towards election day. The most recent poll by the California Institute of Public Policy found that 58% of likely voters were in favor of keeping Newsom in office, compared to 39% who would like to remove him.
Withdrawal is primarily an election by email, and all active voters in the state receive a ballot by mail before election day. And for these ballots to be counted, they must be returned in person before the polls close on Tuesday, or they must have the postmark on election day and must be received by county officials on Sept. 21.
According to data from Edison Research, more than 8.4 million pre-election votes have been cast in California, representing approximately 47% of the total votes cast in the state in 2020. Approximately 52% of the vote on which Edison has party data were issued by registered Democrats and 25% were issued by registered Republicans.
It is those poll numbers, along with the ballots that have been returned, that have injected the Newsom campaign with unmitigated confidence.
“There’s no scenario we lose tomorrow,” Newsom chief strategist Sean Clegg told reporters Monday in Long Beach, where Newsom met with Biden.
Clegg said the Delta rose as a “real turning point in this campaign” that encouraged voters to not only pay attention to the race, but to the position of each Covid-19 candidate.
“It was a turning point for us,” Clegg said of the Delta rise. “What Delta made clear and clear was the stakes in these elections when a party has basically become an anti-science, anti-vaccine and anti-public health party.”