California Gov. Gavin Newsom will continue his job leading the nation’s most populous state.
The Associated Press projects that the majority of Californians have voted no (i.e., against the removal of Newsom) in Tuesday’s election of the Democratic governor in the first place.
Newsom, who was overwhelmingly elected governor in 2018 in the heavily blue state, was facing a withdrawal push sparked last year mainly by accusations that he mismanaged his state’s response to the coronavirus, the worst pandemic that attacked the world in a century.
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Last month, ballots were sent to 22 million registered voters in California and they had to register or hand in when the polls closed at 8 p.m.
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Voters were asked two questions at Newsom’s withdrawal polls.
The first question was whether the governor should be removed from office. If more than 50% support the removal of Newsom, the second question offers a list of candidates running to replace the governor. If the governor had been remembered, the candidate who got the most votes in the second question, regardless of whether it is a majority or just a small plurality, would have succeeded Newsom.
At a stop on Tuesday afternoon in a San Francisco union hall, the governor defended his actions against the COVID crisis and told supporters that “we cannot let this progress be paralyzed. We cannot allow the economy, not just our public health, will remain affected by a wrong decision tonight. “
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The withdrawal began in June 2020 due to the frustrations of many Californians about the governor’s restrictive response to the coronavirus. The effort was fueled by state COVID restrictions on companies and houses of worship, school stoppages and even opposition to state high taxes.
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks with volunteers in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Withdrawal elections that could oust Democratic Gov. California Newsom are over. (Photo by AP / Jeff Chiu)
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Recovery recovered last fall after Newsom’s dinner at an exclusive restaurant, which, at best, bordered on the rules imposed by the governor to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The governor’s actions were widely perceived as hypocritical and the optics made Newsom seem out of touch when many Californians were in trouble.
State election officials announced in April that the withdrawal effort had garnered more than about 1.5 million valid signatures (the equivalent of 12% of the votes in the 2018 California government election) needed to vote .
The California lieutenant governor announced in early July that the withdrawal election would be held on September 14th. And the state Department of Finance estimated it would cost $ 276 million to hold the election.
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Newsom, his political team and allies spent the summer trying to nationalize the retreat, characterizing it as a Republican “takeover.” The governor clashed over the past two months with well-known and influential Democrats and progressives, including Vice President Kamala Harris, a former U.S. senator and state attorney general in California, former President Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts: to help inform and motivate California Democrats to vote.
The effort culminated in a rally on election eve in the southern California city of Long Beach, with the largest Democratic surrogate of all: President Biden. “The eyes of the nation are set on California because the decision you make will not only have a big impact on California, but it will have an impact across the nation and frankly, it’s not a joke, all over the world,” the president stressed. .
Over the past two months, Newsom has also highlighted the coronavirus pandemic – the problem that caused the withdrawal effort last year – to promote its efforts to vaccinate Californians and warn of the morbid consequences if a Conservative Republican replaces it. when it comes to running the state and quickly scrapping the state vaccine. and mask mandates.
“These elections are a life-and-death election,” Newsom accused in an act in the Bay Area with Harris last week.
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The governor also repeatedly targeted conservative radio presenter Larry Elder this summer, who quickly became the leader among the 46 candidates for government replacement in the withdrawal vote after jumping into the race in mid-July. Newsom compared Elder to former President Trump, who outside his conservative base is very unpopular in California, a state he lost to Biden by five million votes last November.
Newsom stressed last month that it is “important to focus on Larry” because he argued that Elder’s “is even more extreme than Trump in many ways.” And the governor told a crowd at a recent rally that while Trump was defeated by Biden in the November presidential election, “we didn’t defeat Trumpism … he’s still alive all over this country.” And highlighting his struggle, the governor said he “has reached the state of California.”
Newsom’s strategy was simple, in the blue state of California, where Democrats far outnumber Republicans, a state that won the gubernatorial election by 24 points in 2018, he and his allies acknowledged that they needed a strong participation among Democrats and independents to counter Republican voters. motivated to vote in hopes of ousting the governor.
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Republicans saw the by-election as their best chance to overthrow a politician who has never lost an election during his years as mayor of San Francisco, lieutenant governor of California and now governor, and his first chance to win a contest. across the state since the victory of the 2006 then-governor governmental re-election. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was a moderate Republican. Three years earlier, Democratic Gov. Gray Davis became the second governor in U.S. history to be successfully remembered and succeeded Schwarzenegger, who won the by-elections.
But 18 years later, history did not repeat itself and Newsom’s efforts to save his job were successful.