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| The Morning Briefing: California Is Probably Too Stupid to Recall the Tyrant Newsom |
| 2021-09-08 |
| [PJ] Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. My free time is spent adapting Swan Lake for Jean-Claude Van Damme and Charles Barkley. We look westward for our kickoff discussion today, to my once-beloved California. I say "once-beloved" because the California that brings on bouts of fond reminiscence no longer exists. Sadly, I remain deeply skeptical that it will ever make a return. As we get closer to the recall election in the Golden State, the eternal west coast weirdness that I miss makes it too difficult to call. I still have a lot of conservative friends who are active in California politics and they all seem to be cautiously optimistic. If you put a gun to my head right now and asked for a prediction I would say that Newsom survives. Then I’d tell you that we really could have done that without the gun. My RedState colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell is in California and has an update on a lot that’s going on leading up to the event. I wrote last week that Newsom and his team were nervous about a big Latino turnout for the recall because they are no longer a reliable Democratic voting bloc. That was so early September though. Yesterday, Axios cited a poll saying that Latinos were opposed to the recall. On the same day, however, The New York Times lamented the fact that so many Latinos are sitting this one out. Nobody knows what’s going on. Newsom is getting a little help from the top of the party, or what is meant to be anyway. Matt wrote yesterday that Joe Biden will go to California while everything is crumbling around him in an effort give Newsom an assist with the faithful. This will follow a trip by our rarely seen vice-president, which is generating a laugh or two: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #14 Ah California, font of bad ideas. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-08 18:28 |
| #13 Year's ago (longer than I want to remember) I worked in California. At one time, California was a great state before the cancer began. The cancer was corruption and the beginning of left-wing politics in California. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-09-08 18:14 |
| #12 Whatever happens, it appears Governor Ken Doll and his minions are so nervous as to appear desperate. Can't watch a baseball game without seeing fooking Fauxkuhauntass or Bernie Sanders. Now we're going to see Joe Dementia and Kamala U. Sailors? Weird. |
| Posted by: JHH 2021-09-08 14:14 |
| #11 The fix is in. Establishment Democrats will never lose another close election. Ever. Opposition will have to win by a landslide or not at all. |
| Posted by: Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-09-08 13:27 |
| #10 It's not up to Californians. It's up to Dominion. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2021-09-08 13:16 |
| #9 "...it's the people who count the votes." |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-09-08 12:36 |
| #8 OK, I will predict that Democrats will cheat every which way they can. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-09-08 12:30 |
| #7 Fact: Most people don't pay much attention to politics until it gets into their wallets and purses. Newsom has done just that, raising taxes, closing restaurants and squandering billions. There are other problems: rising crime and the junkies, bums and whack jobs doing drugs, littering, peeing and pooping on the streets. I would not venture a prediction at this point. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-09-08 12:29 |
| #6 Biden and Harris would not campaign for a loser, so I imagine the fix is already in. Probably. Cali is too big a prize to lose. Also, a lot of people make a nice living off of the state being dysfunctional. "Vote for me and I'll set you free!" |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-09-08 11:31 |
| #5 Real Clear Politics has Newsom up 8-10 pts. Biden and Harris would not campaign for a loser, so I imagine the fix is already in. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-09-08 09:32 |
| #4 California to change it's name to "Old Dominion" after the election. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2021-09-08 09:03 |
| #3 Newsom's recall desperation – whopper on California taxes shows he's in big trouble |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-08 09:02 |
| #2 They elected Kamala Harris. Just ponder that. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-09-08 08:56 |
| #1 Sounds like a left-handed cover story for the 1000's of Ballots that were already proven stolen and will never be counted. eg.. Aug 23, 2021 — Torrance police are investigating the discovery of hundreds of recall election ballots in a vehicle where a felon was found passed out. An this was just 1 guy, not the likely well organized process deployed by the Loony Left. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-09-08 07:17 |