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California Voters Turn to the Recall in Despair Over Being Ignored

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California governor Gavin Newsom speaks at St. Mary’s Center during a “Stop The Recall” rally ahead in Oakland, Calif., September 11, 2021.

Brittany Hosea-Small/Reuters

Recalls are back in the news in California.

The same groups that put an ultimately unsuccessful recall of Governor Gavin Newsom on the ballot in 2021 are trying again. They’re fueled by polls showing that less than half of likely voters believe the state is headed in the right direction or approve of Newsom, who increasingly travels outside the state seeking national media coverage.

John Fund

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John Fund

John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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