Tweet Last week there was a poll of likely California voters which showed a pretty surprising result: 47% of respondents wanted to recall Gov. Newsome compared to 50% who wanted to keep him in office. That was within the poll’s margin of error. A few days later Newsom himself seemed to be hitting the panic button. In a possible bid to gin up state Democrats, Newsome warned that if he were recalled the effects would be felt “all across the country.” Even more surprising, in the same interview with a group of newspaper editorial boards, Newsom sounded a bit resigned. “I‘m a future ex-governor. It could happen in a few weeks, it could happen in a few years, but I love this damn state,” he said.