Republicans continue their long losing stream against Gavin Newsom as he maintains his flawless election record against them.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article291878525.htmlThe latest effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom from office failed to gather enough signatures, the campaign confirmed Tuesday, the deadline to submit the necessary 1.3 million signatures.
“We’re not turning in any signatures,” Anne Hyde Dunsmore, chief petitioner with the campaign, said in an interview Tuesday. “The process is time consuming and we felt that we had done what we needed to do.”
The group’s failure to gather enough signatures means Newsom will not face a second recall election. In 2021, he defeated a recall attempt with 62% of California voters opting to keep him in office. A year later he won a second term in office with 59%. Newsom is term-limited and will leave office in 2027.
>“Serial losers, losing,” Newsom campaign spokesman Nathan Click said. The latest recall campaign set out in February to remove Newsom from the highest elected office in California but Dunsmore said their mission quickly pivoted to keep him from moving further up, into the White House.
Newsom was actively campaigning for president Joe Biden’s reelection this summer before Biden dropped out of the race. Dunsmore and other critics of the governor saw it as an attempt for Newsom to raise his national profile and leverage himself onto the presidential ticket.
“You’d have to be blind and deaf not to recognize the fact that his trips to China, his active fundraising for candidates in other states — which he’s never done before — his constant acceleration of press opportunities around the world, weren’t designed with immediate presidential aspirations in mind,” she said.
Dunsmore said with another Democrat, Vice President Kamala Harris, now leading the party, Newsom faded into the background. Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee last month.
