CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto September 14, 2021 13:24:00
Governor newsome himself needs 50% of voters to keep his seat as governor. if he doesn't meet that threshold and is, therefore, recalled, the challenger who has the most votes of those 46 then becomes governor. that's even if that challenger gets far less than 50% of the votes. and in a race with such a huge field as you see here, it's pretty likely, in fact, if the votes were more or less evenly split among those 46 candidates, someone theoretically could become the next governor of california with just over 2% of the vote. those are the facts. the math is interesting. here's a reminder. cnn'...