We are now just about one month away from California’s recall election.
The voter guides have been sent out and the mail ballots will be going to every registered voter in the state and then voting will begin up through the day of the recall election September 14th. Despite there being a lot more Democrats in California than Republicans, the most recent polls are forecasting a close call on the recall, with about half of those polled saying they favor removing Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom from office and about half of those polled saying they are against the recall.
The first signs of a recall effort showed up not long after Newsom became governor in the November election in 2018. It was soon after Newsom first took office that Republican commentators and some of the state’s GOP politicians were already talking about waging a campaign for a recall.
The campaign got enough voters to sign petitions to get two questions on the ballot: Should Governor Newsom be recalled? And, if he is, which of more than 40 candidates listed on the ballot should replace him?
The state’s Republican Party organization decided not to endorse any one of the candidates and with that many candidates on the ballot, the one who finishes in first place probably won’t have a majority of all the votes cast in the election.
The last time there was a recall election in California, a famous actor named Arnold became governor. No matter what happens on September 14tth, the election held every for years for governor will then be just over a year away and the campaign for that will start on the morning of September 15th.
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