Larry Elder carried with him three decades of provocative right-wing rhetoric that Gov. Newsom turned into a scary wake-up alarm for snoozing Democrats, writes columnist George Skelton.
Updated information about who has voted is readily available from county voter registrars.
California GOP Chairwoman Jessica Millan Patterson tried to promote early drop-off of mail ballots last year even while Trump was telling Republicans that mail balloting reeked of fraud.As of Friday, a third of the recall ballots mailed to every registered voter had been returned, according to Political Data Inc., which tracks voting.But of the total returned ballots, 53% were from Democrats and 25% from Republicans.
Steve Smith, communications strategist for the California Labor Federation, sounded the alarm after conducting some focus groups.“People have a lot of other things on their minds,” he told me then. “If there’s not a big turnout, things could get interesting.” Elder’s candidacy was a game changer. It switched the question in voters’ minds from whether Newsom should be recalled to Newsom vs. Elder as governor.
And only 58% of Democrats expressed high interest in the election, compared with 80% in the latest poll.
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