National Republicans donate $250,000 to Newsom recall effort
Source: LA Times
National Republicans donated a quarter-million dollars to the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, a notable injection of funds as the campaign enters the final month to gather enough valid signatures to put the matter on the ballot.
Backers of the recall say the cash infusion shows the growing confidence that the recall will qualify for the ballot and the increasing national attention being paid to the effort.
“It’s now on the national scene, as it well should be,” said Anne Dunsmore, campaign manager for Rescue California, one of the groups leading the effort. “Everybody should be on notice — they can’t run over their citizens with poor policy. I think it’s a very good sign. We welcome their activity.”
The Republican National Committee’s donation to the California Republican Party, first reported by Politico, will be used on digital and texting programs to send links to the recall petition to GOP voters.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-12/national-republicans-donate-250-000-to-newsom-recall-effort
Why are the same folks who helped fund the QAnon conspiracy fueled insurgency now pouring money into a 2021 recall in California with about a year before the 2022 Gubernatorial election? Simple. Republicans hate democracy and turnout and the only chance they have of winning a Statewide election in a diverse California is to underwrite a recall campaign less than a few months before campaigning begins for the 2022 election.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-02-11/gavin-newsom-recall-republican-party
Unseating Newsom, however, will be far more difficult. The state GOP was on the ropes in 2016 when Trump was elected. Only 26% of the state’s voters were registered Republicans, and Hillary Clinton beat Trump by 4.2 million votes in California. Now, the state party’s registration has slid down to 24% and Joe Biden beat Trump by
5.1 million votes.
Still, a potential recall vote, being a special election sometime this fall, poses a threat to Newsom, so his campaign consultants are busily preparing for a battle. Although this is a heavily Democratic state, parts of California are as red as the most MAGA-embracing counties in the South. Indeed, Trump received more votes in California — 6 million — than in any other state.
The recall consultants are focusing on the red precincts that run down the Central Valley, through the Inland Empire and up through increasingly blue San Diego and Orange counties. They’re targeting households with at least one registered Republican, preferably two, or with a second voter without a party preference, said Dave Gilliard, a veteran consultant who is working on the recall and helped place the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis on the ballot.
Newsom is no Gray Davis, who was ousted by Arnold Schwarzenegger in that recall. A new poll shows a majority of Californians have a favorable view of Newsom despite the havoc wreaked by the pandemic on the economy and the lives of schoolchildren and their parents.
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