Richard Grenell
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Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, Grenell, a former director of national intelligence and ambassador to Germany, launched an attack on Newsom and praised the recovery effort that is gaining momentum. in the Golden State.
“If you want to get the best possible case for a withdrawal campaign, look at my home state of California. California was the country of Reagan, the shining example of middle-class business innovation and success. But now, when you think of California, you think of wildfires out of control, continuous blackouts, schools still closed, businesses closed, fracking bans, and rich people skipping the vaccine line, ”he told a rudiment. crowd.
“In the three decades I’ve had in American politics I’ve never seen a better case for withdrawal than there is right now in California,” he added. “And, of course, if a public official still doesn’t keep his promises and if you can’t limit their tenure or get them back on time, there’s always another option: you can file against yourself.”
Mercedes Schlapp, another former White House official, praised Grenell after his speech and said on stage, “I don’t know, I think he would make a great governor of California.”
Observations come amid reports that Grenell is exploring a bid for the governor if the effort to recall Newsom progresses.
Grenell did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill following his CPAC speech.
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There is talk of a possible offer from Grenell when Newsom faces a withdrawal effort that seems to be getting more and more at the polls later this year.
Proponents of the withdrawal effort are setting a deadline of mid-March to gather the signatures needed to force the vote. The California Secretary of State’s office said that as of Feb. 5, it had verified 668,202 signatures of the 1,495,709 advocates for the withdrawal that must be filed to force the withdrawal. An additional 300,000 signatures were yet to be processed, but proponents of the report said they had collected about 1.7 million signatures in total.
Supporters need 1.5 million signatures, but often present hundreds of thousands more in anticipation that some will be rejected as invalid.
Newsom faces criticism on multiple fronts. Frustration has intensified among Republicans over its restrictions on coronavirus and its impact on the economy. It also sparked a firestorm when he ordered some businesses to close and urged Californians to stay home only to be seen in an elegant restaurant celebrating a political adviser’s birthday.
According to a survey by the Institute of Government Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, Newsom’s approval rating has dropped from 64% in September to just 46% in late January.
However, some observers speculate that Newsom will survive given the deepening of the blue hue of the nation’s largest state. No Republican with a massive following has officially thrown his hat in the ring to oppose Newsom in a withdrawal election, and registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by a margin of nearly two to one.
Grenell would certainly bring a lot of good faith pro-Trump to a government career and would probably excite the Republican Party base. Still, it’s still unclear whether support for the former president would pay dividends in California, which Trump lost by nearly 30 points.