California recall: Newsom nationalizes the race as he fights for his job
When California Gov. Gavin Newsom took the lectern from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren here at Culver City High School on Saturday, his warning to the audience took a markedly national tone.
"You saw the Big Lie, you saw what happened on January 6, you have seen the voter suppression laws all across the country and you saw what just happened in Texas," he said, referring to a number of Republican-led efforts that have infuriated Democrats. "We said last year, we all said this... the most important election in your lifetime was last November, defeating Donald Trump. But know this, we did not defeat Trumpism."
Then he turned to his own fight: "It is still alive all across this country and... it has come to the state of California."
The Democratic governor may be fighting for his job as the top executive in the nation's largest state, but his message in the waning days of the campaign has been national, warning Californians that what Republicans are doing in states like Florida and Texas could come to the Golden State if voters decide to oust him in favor of a Republican on September 14. And he's cast his leading opponent, Republican Larry Elder, as someone who will bring Donald Trump's Republican Party to the state that proudly stood against the former President during his four-year term.
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