The race between Newsom and Dahle was a forgone conclusion as soon as the two cleared the primary election in June.
FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks on Oct. 7, 2022, in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom was elected to his second term in office Tuesday in a race that was called two minutes after polls closed statewide.won his second term as the state's top executive on Tuesday in a race that was called just two minutes after polls closed statewide, illustrating just how much of a stranglehold Democrats have on the reins of power in the Golden State.
Things possibly could have been different had independent candidate Michael Shellenberger cleared the primary. Some analysts thought the popular author from Berkeleyat unseating Newsom, but he finished with just 3% of the vote in the primary. Newsom himself clearly wasn't worried about Dahle. Instead, he spent a majority of the last four months focusing on national politics. He used precious re-election funds to buy attack ads in
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