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In a recall election, Gov. Newsom could get more votes than his replacement — and still lose his job.

How California’s recall election rules could spell trouble for Gavin Newsom Ben Christopher CalMatters If recalls followed the rules of a normal California election — the person who wins a majority of the votes wins — then Gov. Gavin Newsom, an incumbent Democrat in a thoroughly Democratic state, would have nothing to worry about.  But unfortunately for him, a California recall is not like an ordinary California election.  “It really is its own animal,” said Ken Miller, a Claremont McKenna College political science professor. One part standard-issue candidate race, one part fre...

The White House for the first time weighed in this week on the recall campaign to oust California Gov. Gavin Newsom over his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A group of liberal Zionists based in Solano County is organizing against what its members see as an effort within the progressive wing of the state Democratic Party to ostracize supporters of Israel. The Progressive Zionists of California announced Jan. 26 that it had launched a petition and letter-writing campaign imploring the state’s Democratic Party leaders to oppose what it called “dangerous litmus tests.” PZC is a three-year-old activist group whose co-founders are residents of Vallejo and Fairfield. The group’s latest actions follow a controversial statement and questionnaire s...

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez California Governor Gavin Newsom is pretending the effort to recall him doesn’t even exist. When asked about it, he’ll only say he’s focused on dealing with the pandemic. But his political moves over the last month show the governor is starting to sweat as the recall petition nears the signature goal of 1.5 million. In truth, to account for invalid signatures, organizers must get closer to 2 million signatures. And they only have until March 17 to do it. But so far, county registrars have validated 600,000 signatures which put the anti-Newsom groups on track...