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Wealthy donors help fund Newsom's anti-recall campaign. Here are the top 5 givers FacebookTwitterEmail San Francisco Mayor London Breed, left, and California Governor Gavin Newsom are seen after a press conference at the COVID-19 mass vaccination site at City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, California Tuesday, April 6, 2021.Stephen Lam / The Chronicle SACRAMENTO — A few weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a campaign to keep himself in office, his recall defense team says it has raised $3.1 million — nearly half of it from a dozen wealthy individuals and groups that have writ...

California Gov. Newsom, Democrats Launch Campaign in Response to Recall Effort California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s Democrat party have launched a campaign in opposition of ongoing efforts to oust the governor. The California Democratic Party announced on Monday that it is contributing $250,000 to what they have dubbed the “Stop the Republican Recall campaign,” making the party a major donor. The anti-recall campaign is to counter a grassroots movement seeking to recall Newsom. Organizers of the recall campaign have said their efforts are not partisan and have been driven...

Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP toggle caption Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pictured on March 10, has come out swinging at Republicans leading the charge to remove him from office in a recall bid. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday broke his relative silence on what he called a partisan, Republican recall, directing supporters to a newly launched anti-recall campaign website that asserts his opponents are "anti-vaxxers, QAnon conspiracy theorists, anti-immigrant activists and Trump supporters." "I won't be distr...

Democrats give Donald Trump a starring role in Gavin Newsom recall effort Phil Willon © (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Former President Trump, speaking at the California Republican Party convention in Burlingame, Calif. in April 2016. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies are dragging Donald Trump center stage in their fight against the Republican-led campaign to recall the governor, banking on the overwhelming distaste Californians hold for the former president to sink the effort. But recall supporters want the spotlight...

"Let's call it what it is: it's a partisan, Republican recall — backed by the [Republican National Committee], anti-mask and anti-vax extremists, and pro-Trump forces," Newsom said Monday.