The Sept. 14 election in California, which they will recall, could change the balance of the U.S. Senate.
Larry Elder, the Republican best placed to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, would have the sole power to nominate 88-year-old Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein to replace the uniformly divided body, and hinted that he could do just that. .
“God forbid, Governor Elder should replace Dianne Feinstein whom no one has seen in weeks,” Elder, who leads Newsom’s group of possible replacements, said Friday.
Feinstein, a six-term California senator, is the oldest member of the Senate. In recent months, she has faced strong criticism from fellow Democrats for her mental acuity, teeth that have forced her to leave her perch as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in December.
“I’m told he has a worse mental condition than even Joe Biden,” Elder told conservative radio presenter Mark Levin, Fox News reported.
“They fear he would replace her with a Republican, which he would surely do and it would be an earthquake in Washington DC,” he said.
Democrats control the Senate by as little margin as possible. Only Vice President Kamala Harris’s tiebreaker vote keeps majority leader Chuck Schumer in his role.
In a poll released this week, Elder was electing 26 percent of California voters who were in favor of expelling Newsom, whose pandemic policies have been very unpopular in the golden state .
None of the other 45 candidates on the long board got double digits in the poll, which was conducted by the California Institute of Public Policy, the Los Angeles Times reports.
But the same poll found that only 39 percent of potential California voters were in favor of removing Newsom from office, with 58 percent in opposition, meaning the governor could retain office once they finished. elections by email.