Less than half of the registered voters polled said they would vote to keep Governor Newsom in office.
The earlier 36 percent held steady in polls conducted by the Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and SurveyUSA between late January and early May. Those polls found between 45 percent and 49 percent of respondents said they preferred to keep Newsom in office so he could complete his term. Between 15 percent and 19 percent of voters polled said they were undecided.
A new poll released Wednesday found 43 percent of California voters intend to vote in favor of removing California Governor Gavin Newsom from office in September's recall election. Above, Newsom hosts a press conference for California's official reopening at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15, 2021, in Universal City, California.
A majority of voters said that if Newsom defeats the recall, they do not intend to vote him into a second term in office. In addition to gauging support for the recall effort, voters were asked about Newsom's job performance on a handful of issues key among Californians. Newsom carried a 49 percent overall approval rating in the poll, though less than half of respondents said he did an"excellent" or"good" job handling the COVID-19 pandemic.
California's ongoing experiences with the pandemic, homelessness and wildfires have been hotly debated among Newsom and his recall challengers in recent months as the recall effort gained steam. After confirming recall organizers submitted the minimum number of valid signatures in support of the recall to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber this spring, the state's lieutenant governor set the recall election date earlier this month.
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