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The election will be California’s first gubernatorial recall in nearly two decades and is sure to be an expensive one. Here’s what you need to know about the effort to recall and replace Newsom.
The recall has enough signatures. What can we expect next?
The signatures are in the California Secretary of State says there are more than enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom
The election would be California’s first gubernatorial recall in nearly two decades and is sure to be an expensive one. Here’s what you need to know about the effort to recall and replace Newsom.
As of April 26, County election officials have verified 1,626,042 signatures more than enough to put a recall on the ballot. But a few things need to happen before an election is called.
How Gavin Newsom Landed in a California Jam
The campaign to recall the state’s governor shows that even a one-party stronghold like California can be rocked by the nation’s political polarization.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has been a target of recall attempts almost from the moment of his election.Credit.Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
April 27, 2021Updated 6:23 p.m. ET
SACRAMENTO For all the controversies and Covid-19 crises that now have Gov. Gavin Newsom of California facing a historic recall election, it was a pair of prosaic events on Nov. 6 a court hearing and a dinner that led to the current political instability that will grip the state for months to come.
There has been a bloodbath in the United States in the past few months.
From 2003 to 2020, there had been no federal executions, and only four going all the way back to my birth in 1959. In the 230 years since records began in 1790, we had averaged only marginally more than one federal execution a year.
However, in the last months of his tenure, President Donald Trump presided over the deaths of 13 prisoners, with six conducted after he lost the election. Typically for a president prone to excess, Trump broke various records, though none was particularly salutary: the most federal executions in seven months in history, and the first time a president had ever set executions after losing an election.