Washington, D.C. – With most polls showing California voters split evenly on the issue of whether Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsome should be recalled, a surprising endorsement in favor of his removal has the potential to tip the scales against him.
A video released Wednesday featuring former California State Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero has the Democratic politician speaking out strongly against the embattled governor and in favor of his replacement by conservative commentator Larry Elder.
“Yes: I’m a Democrat. But the recall of Newsom is not about political party. It’s about Newsom,” Romero, who occupied the top job in the California State Senate from 2001 to 2008, said in her message which, presumably, is targeted at Democrats, independents, and Hispanics who the Elder campaign thinks can be persuaded to vote Newsom out of office.
“Our public schools need big change. I’m Gloria Romero; I was the majority leader of Democrats in the state senate. I believe in charter schools and school choice. So does Larry Elder — but not Gavin Newsom. He shut our public schools while he sent his kids to private schools,” Fox News reported.
The race is close. The website FiveThirtyEight, which has been tracking the polls since the beginning of the recall period, finds that “Keep” is narrowly ahead of “Remove,” 48.8 percent to 47.6 percent, well inside any potential margin of error.
Early voting in California has already begun. Romero’s endorsement may help Elder with support among Hispanics who, polling data finds, tend to be supportive overall of initiatives like school choice. Polls have show Elder with a considerable lead over the other 45 candidates on the recall ballot. Voters are being asked first to choose whether Newsom should be recalled and, if a majority opt for “Yes” then the leading vote-getter among those vying to replace him will become the state’s next governor.
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Peter Roff is affiliated with several Washington, D.C. public policy organizations and is a former U.S. News and World Report contributing editor who appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
Newsom CATHOLIC TRAITOR will get several million write in votes from the cemeteries of the CATHOLIC DEAD.
You haven’t answered my question: Who was Trotsky?
1) A Polish guy who always ran near the back of the pack during marathons.
2) An early Russian Communist who was exiled to Mexico and killed by a Stalin henchman (or so the story goes).
Take your pick.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, a Bolshevik who later turned moderate, fell out of favor with Stalin’s goons and was brutallyassassinated in Mexico.
Bronstein. That’s a good Catholic handle..
I picked someone else. It seems that media types and other celebrities are only good at making noises. A conservative governor in King Newson’s Court will find that they’re isolated, attacked from all directions by the media, courts, legislature and the liberal ‘base’ of dependent constituencies. Any phrase a conservative official makes will mobilize these forces to inhibit their efforts to reverse liberal laws and policies. California needs a Reagan-type leader who’ll function effectively in such a caustic environment. More importantly, that leader will need to mobilize Californians to adopt the form of government that will save our state from the crushing regime we’ve installed in Sacramento.
You forget Reagan was a Hollywood actor and again the left said he couldn’t do the job.🤔🤭🤭
So was Ahnold, but you must admit Reagan was a born politician who had the ability to convince even stalwart democrats to accede to his viewpoints. When he was president–for two terms–Americans were more optimistic. Liberals doom us to suffer from Climate Change and Anti-Abortion Xenophobes, when they’re not waving multitudes of illegal aliens over our border.
Illegal aliens? Isn’t that democrat/communist voters?
They’re definitely socialists, and the worst kind of Socialists–they migrate to other countries to start the process of sucking the natives dry. Those people made their nations poverty pits with their form of social ‘justice’. Notice please that Numb Nuts is advertising our social programs south of our border to draw illegal aliens across. The man is not only a traitor, he’s a Globalist traitor who’ll ignore their domestic gentry to compile voting blocks from gerrymandered, non-citizen districts.
also he was a democrat once just like trump!
No matter. Soon the San Andreas fault will buckle and send all the Communists and corrupt-a-zoids into the bowels of the earth and entomb them in rock, sand and brine. Good riddance!
Stone Faced Liar, just like his kin peelousi. They have so much money, it’s a pay for the way. Deport newsom, and peelousi to Afghanistan. I poop on these lowlifes
Newsome will stay in office…Auntie Nancy will rig the vote in his favor, and it will be Trump’s fault.
HATE like Hell to hafta say it, but Larry Elder has NO chance. DON’T even get your hopes up.
He’s a WONDERFUL human being and a Devout Christian and a Republican…. ya’ think the SCUM, EVIL people that ARE IN CONTROL NOW would EVER Allow HIM in?!!!
THINK AGAIN
He don’t preach the globalist agendas . . . . .
globalist puppet ca put 2 holes in the envelope and if the ballot is inserted according to the directions the demonrats can tell if the vote is to recall globalist puppet newsom or not and they know which ballots to throw away and which ballots to submit to count .
Meanwhile, a policeman found several hundred ballots in a Newsom campaign worker’s car. A ballot was mailed to every registered voter. How did that campaign worker get them? Registering hundreds of times, or collecting them at cemeteries and nursing homes?
This kind of cheating was precisely the reason California Democrats insisted on universal mail-in balloting.
Newsom should be inducted.
“Inducted”?!!! Into WHAT? The Hall of Shame?
Now if you mean indicted___ like YESTERDAY!
Hispanics for Elder .
BOOT OUT NEWSOM
Cant see how the race is close? Surely all genuine Californians have had a GUT Full of Newsom regardless of their Political leanings? This has now come down to being a Patriot of your Country, belief in God , Law and Order and saving future generations Not about which Party you choose to belong to. This 2 Party system is tearing Countries apart. Go back to small Government, local Businessmen or women administering their own Communities and parents having more say in their children’s education, not School Boards
DREAM ON, dear. HOW do you think California GOT TO BE the Hellhole it IS?! They REJECT all of those GOOD things you mention__don’t mean a Thing to most of them! They are Clueless hedonistic Losers at Life.
One step at a time to remove all communist democrat cult party members from all offices!
Larry Elder would be a great Governor. He doesn’t agree with everything that comes out of the GOP and supports freedom from government tyranny.
👍 CORRECT, Sir!
Justice arrives in strange ways unexpected.
Make sure voter ID is properly used. They found a man who committed a traffic infraction with over 300 ballots in his car all for Newsom to retain his job. This FRAUD must be traced to supplied him the ballots and “follow the money” to see who backed this and other fraudulent acts, and for God’s sake, PROSECUTE him or her. It’s the ONLY way to STOP the ILLEGAL VOTING that has been and is STILL going on. Good Luck Larry Elder. God Bless You.
Please all California’s vote for LarryElder
Newsom’s just as bad as Biden. If you throw money at it, it will go away. I just learned that NOW “they” want to give drug addicts money to go clean. Yeah, right. Addicts have enough problems trying to do it WITHOUT any money! California’s on fire, they have no water, their streets are sewers, their election system totally corrupt & their laws & mandates “are for thee & NOT for me”. Too boot they have scant electricity & high gas prices. Who wants to live like that? Vote the bum out “if” you want a decent life!