Long Beach, California-After a year of debate, the most populous state in the United States has apparently divided. On Tuesday, the Californian will decide whether Governor Gavin Newsom will continue his work or whether the state will move further. Conservative direction.
Newsom ended his campaign to remain in the recall election in the recall election later on Monday. President Biden warned that the outcome of the campaign could affect the country’s fight for pandemics, reproductive rights, and climate change mitigation. Direction.
Democrats who defeated Republican President Donald Trump less than a year ago said that the issue defining the 2020 campaign has been resurrected in California, and that if Newsom is removed in the election that ends on Tuesday, it could have disastrous consequences.
At an evening rally in Long Beach, a coastal city on the southern coast of Los Angeles, Biden addressed hundreds of cheering supporters, calling the leading Republican candidate Larry Elder “a clone of Donald Trump.”
“Can you imagine that he is the governor of this state?” Biden asked, and the crowd chanted “No, no!”
“You can’t let it happen. There are too many stakes,” the Democratic president said.
“The eyes of the whole country are on California,” he warned. The recall vote “will have repercussions throughout the country and the world.”
Newsom’s election results that require a majority of votes to keep his position may affect the midterm elections in 2022, when Congress will again gain control, and the party that controls the White House will always lose seats. They can determine how prominent the Democratic campaign is in COVID-19 restrictions, which many Republicans consider unnecessary and overly burdensome.
Because of the great influence on the results, Biden was one of the last Democrats to appear in person or in an ad, including Vice President Kamala Harris, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and former President Barack Obama and the Massachusetts senator. Elizabeth Warren.
Newsom’s ouster will be the Democratic Party’s largely condemned California, where the party controls every office in the state, dominates the legislature and congressional delegations, and has nearly 2 to 1 among registered voters. The advantages. Less than three years ago, he was selected as a landslide.
Biden’s visit later in the campaign was intended as a final effort to inspire more than 10 million Democratic voters in the state. At the same time, Newsom’s advisers expressed growing confidence that the governor would oust him more than a year before the end of his first term. Over the weekend, 25,000 volunteers took to the streets and 31 million text messages were sent to voters.
Recent public opinion polls show that Newsom is in an advantageous position to keep his job.
Newsom strategist Sean Clegg said: “We will not lose the game tomorrow.”
Elder held his summit rally in nearby Orange County, where he urged his supporters to contact friends and neighbors and urge them to vote. The Republicans will need a heroic election day turnout to catch the Democrats who have been mailing ballots in large numbers. Nearly 8 million Californians have voted by mail.
“Make sure you have your friends vote, vote, vote, and try to get 10 other friends to vote and click on every phone, make every phone, knock on every door, if we vote, we will win this thing,” Elder said in a hotel banquet hall in Costa Mesa.
The chairman of the California Republican Party, Jessica Millan Patterson, said that when some Californians were still trapped in Afghanistan, Biden participated in a political event, which was “confusing and insulting.”
“It’s clear protecting those they were elected to serve comes second to politics,” she said in a statement.
Although Newsom tried to nationalize the campaign, Republicans ruthlessly criticized him for increasing taxes, the crisis of homelessness, the rising crime rate, and the unaffordable housing prices of many working class. The motivation for this recall is mainly because Newsom’s COVID-19 restrictions have closed schools and businesses and caused the loss of millions of jobs.
Elder said earlier on Monday: “I can’t think of what this man did well-not the school, not the homelessness, not the way he shut down the state.”
Voters were asked two questions: whether Newsom should be recalled, or not, and if he is removed, who should replace him? If the majority of voters support keeping Newsom, the outcome of the second question is irrelevant.
In recent days, Elder said that the results of the recall election may be affected by unspecified “hoaxes”, which echoes Trump’s unfounded vote fraud claims in the 2020 campaign with Biden.
There is no conclusive evidence of widespread fraud. Elder’s campaign website has been linked to the “Stop California Fraud” website, where people can sign a petition requesting a special legislative meeting to investigate “distorted results” before any results are announced. It stated that “instances of undocumented ballots were discovered before the September 14 election date.”
When asked to provide evidence of any suspicious voting activities, Elder campaign spokesperson Ma Ying said, “We all hope that every correct vote will be counted.” A governor.”
Before the rally, Biden visited the wildfire damage in Northern California. He praised Newsom’s leadership in tackling climate change, which has caused California’s wildfires to become larger and more destructive. Elder and Republicans said that Democratic leaders failed to properly manage California’s forests, leaving more fuel for the fires.
Other prominent candidates in the campaign are Republicans Kevin Falconer, Kevin Keeley, Caitlin Jenner and John Cox, and Democrat Kevin Pafrath.
Newsom is the fourth governor in American history to face a recall and the second governor of California to face a recall. The Californians ousted Democratic Governor Gray Davis in 2003 and replaced him with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.
