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Published: September 13, 2021

The California recall: How we got here, how it works, and why Newsom needs to go

By The Editor
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Mon Sep 13, 2021 – 10:14 am EDTMon Sep 13, 2021 – 10:15 am EDT

(LifeSiteNews) — Gov. Gavin Newsom is fighting for his political life.

Such a declaration would have seemed utterly ludicrous at the outset of the summer. Even a month ago, the thought that Democrats would be at risk of losing not just one, but both of their “Big Blue” governors (Andrew Cuomo, we hardly knew ye) within three weeks’ time would have seemed like a conservative pipe dream at very best.

Yet today, on the eve of the much anticipated California recall election of 2021, such an outcome seems just as possible now as it would have seemed unthinkable just a few short months ago.

This would not be an unprecedented move for California: In fact, many Americans were first introduced to the idea of a gubernatorial recall back in 2003, when then-Gov. Grey Davis, a Democrat, was removed from office in an off-year election spurred by his handling of the California electricity crisis of 2001, and the widespread voter furor that arose over the corresponding economic turmoil.

Davis was replaced by a candidate who, perhaps more so at the time, seemed

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