The number is assumed to be higher, as the total is still being calculated. “Gavin Newsom brought this upon himself. He didn’t have to lock down 40 million Californians for a year. He chose to do so. He let out the inmates and put us all under house arrest during this pandemic,” Randy Economy, senior advisor for Recall Gavin 2020, told NTD Television.
“He created the problem; we’re going to fix the problem. And we’re going to fix it by having an election be held, and we’re going to let the voters decide how they want this thing to end,” he said.
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The grassroots campaign has over 1.9 million signatures that were pre-verified from an independent third-party device. About 1.5 million are required for a special recall election to be carried.
The governor responded to the recall with his counter-campaign, “Stop the Republican Recall,” on March 15. That same day, the California Democratic Party also stated it will throw in $250,000 to stop the recall campaign.
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“You look at the original sponsors of it, you have someone who is a member, proud member of the three percenters, an alt-right militia group; others that are devout conspiracy theorists, that believe in QAnon,” said Newsom during a press conference on March 16.
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However, the campaign’s leaders say that isn’t the problem.
“We’re every name in the book they can come up with, trying to label us. And that’s nonsensical,” Economy said. “We’re Californians. Thirty-eight percent of the people who’ve signed our petition are Democrats, Decline to States, Third Party, Green members, Libertarians, reformed party—this is a California movement.”
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“Governor Newsom is now having Democrats, such as Elizabeth Warren and Stacey Abrams, as well as Bernie Sanders to attack The People’s Recall here in California, so bring it on,” lead co-proponent Mike Netter said in a press release.
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“They may try to delay this. We doubt they may have any effective route to challenge the signatures, so they may try and delay this to next year. But we’re going to fight every day to make sure this election happens this fall,” Tom Del Beccaro, chair of Rescue California, told NTD Television.
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Beccaro thinks the state needs someone who can create consensus among the many different cities, counties, and citizens.
A lot are conflicted, some support Newsom, while others stress his defects.
One comment under his tweet says “Framing this as a ‘partisan, Republican recall’ won’t do you any favors, given that people both sides of the aisle want you gone.”
Another posted, “Stop making everything right vs. left. This is actually incompetence vs. competence.”
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