Democratic leaders are attempting to galvanize support for California governor Gavin Newsom as next week’s recall election approaches—only the second in the state’s history and fourth in U.S. history—with some of the party’s biggest names using their national platform to try to overcome the Republican threat. Vice President Kamala Harris, a former California senator, traveled out West to campaign for the first-term governor on Wednesday, a trip President Joe Biden is also expected to make sometime next week.
Biden and Harris are not the only Democratic allies heeding the call, the Los Angeles Times reports. Polls suggesting California’s gubernatorial recall election was surprisingly close for Newsom helped “cue the cavalry,” per the Times. Senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have cut anti-recall ads stressing the national implications of the contest. Warren, as well as Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, has been on the ground stumping for Newsom, who has also gotten a push from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Californians will receive a recall ballot with two questions, the first being whether they want to recall Newsom. If a majority of voters vote “yes,” Newsom will be removed from office and the second question—whom to replace him with— will decide the state’s next leader. Conservative talk show host Larry Elder, who has pledged to roll back statewide mask and vaccine mandates, has emerged as a front runner among the more than 40 candidates—24 of which are Republican—vying to obtain a plurality of votes for the governor’s seat. So a candidate such as Elder, even if receiving significantly less than majority support, could still win.
The high-profile cavalry has bolstered the “markedly national tone” that Newsom has harnessed at this stage of his fight, CNN reports, an argument grounded in the far-reaching implications of putting a Republican in charge of the nation’s biggest blue state. While a recent poll shows the recall failing, Newsom and his allies have highlighted Elder’s opposition to abortion and belief that the “ideal minimum wage is $0.00" as part of what’s at stake. Newsom, casting Elder as a disciple of Donald Trump, warned at a rally in Los Angeles this weekend that Trumpism “is still alive all across this country” and “has come to the state of California.” Warren, appearing alongside Newsom at the rally, had a similar approach. “Elder dreams of being California's own Donald Trump,” she told the audience,” noting that “if what happened in Texas or Florida or South Dakota makes you worry about the future of our nation...then Governor Larry Elder should absolutely terrify you.”
The duo reiterated their message in a joint interview with ABC News, as Newsom claimed the consequences of the recall “have impacts all over America.” As Warren noted, the governor’s primary challenger “has already said that if he gets the chance, he will replace any Democratic California senator with a Republican.”
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