Newsom soundly defeats recall attempt
Source: Los Angeles Times
Newsom soundly defeats recall attempt
BY PHIL WILLON, TARYN LUNA, JULIA WICK
SEPT. 14, 2021 UPDATED 11:35 PM PT
SACRAMENTO -- California Gov. Gavin Newsom survived a historic recall election Tuesday, winning a major vote of confidence during a COVID-19 pandemic that has shattered families and livelihoods and tested his ability to lead the state through the largest worldwide health crisis in modern times.
The recall offered Republicans their best chance in more than a decade to take the helm of the largest state in the union. But the effort was undercut when Newsom and the nation's leading Democrats, aided by visits to California by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, portrayed the campaign to oust the governor as a "life and death" battle against "Trumpism" and far-right anti-vaccine activists.
Conservative talk show host Larry Elder led the 46 candidates on the second question on the ballot hoping to become governor, but that became meaningless after a majority of California voters decided to keep Newsom in office.
Moments after national television networks called the election for Newsom, the governor walked into the California Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento to talk with reporters, forgoing a victory celebration as is commonplace in traditional campaigns.
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Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-14/recall-election-california-newsom-results
I know that there are many other threads at DU about the recall vote, but this one goes right to the main course:
"Newsom wins."
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