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George Skelton It's Christmas in May and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is playing Santa Claus. The tree where all his gift-wrapped packages are piled is the state vault. The vault is overflowing like never before. Santa is flying around California promising expensive presents to voters who very likely will be deciding in a fall recall election whether to keep or toss him. Support local news coverage and the people who report it by subscribing to the Napa Valley Register. Special offer: $1 for your first six months! "It's easier being Santa Claus than the Grim Reaper," notes Democr...

SACRAMENTO — It’s Christmas in May and Gov. Gavin Newsom is playing Santa Claus. The tree where all his gift-wrapped packages are piled is the state vault. The vault is overflowing like never before. Santa is flying around California promising expensive presents to voters who very likely will be deciding in a fall recall election whether to keep or toss him. “It’s easier being Santa Claus than the Grim Reaper,” notes Democratic consultant Steve Maviglio, who was Gov. Gray Davis’ communications director when he was recalled in 2003 and replaced with Republican Arnold Schwarzenegge...

Opposition to Newsom recall grows as Caitlyn Jenner, GOP generate little support, poll finds Phil Willon © Provided by The LA Times California Gov. Gavin Newsom gives a thumbs-up to friends at Hanzo Sushi in San Fernando on April 29 after attending a news conference in which he signed legislation that will provide a $6.2-billion tax cut to the hardest-hit small businesses in the state. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom has failed to gain momentum in recent months as significantly more California voters favor keeping him in office...

Opposition to Newsom recall grows as Caitlyn Jenner, GOP generate little support, poll finds Phil Willon © Provided by The LA Times California Gov. Gavin Newsom gives a thumbs-up to friends at Hanzo Sushi in San Fernando on April 29 after attending a news conference in which he signed legislation that will provide a $6.2-billion tax cut to the hardest-hit small businesses in the state. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom has failed to gain momentum in recent months as significantly more California voters favor keeping him in office...

“Most of his decline appears to have been about the pandemic and now that we’re emerging out of that, voters are giving the governor generally better marks on the pandemic. He still doesn’t have great job performance numbers,” DiCamillo said. “If the focus then shifts away from the pandemic to the other issues facing the state, he’s gonna have some work cut out for himself.” The poll found that leading the Republicans in the race were former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Rancho Santa Fe businessman John Cox, who lost handily to Newsom in the 2018 governor’s race, althoug...