There's no upside for the GOP from the California recall
Asked if they wanted to boot Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) from office more than a year before he’s up for reelection, California voters on Tuesday had a flat, uncomplicated response: Nope.
It’s generally the case that losing an election amounts to a near-complete waste of resources for the candidate who receives fewer votes but, in this case, there wasn’t much benefit to the winner, either. Newsom was governor Tuesday, is Wednesday, and will be in a month, with the hundreds of millions of dollars spent vanishing into various consultants’ pockets and local TV station bank accounts, and to pay state workers for what amounted to asking voters the equivalent of “are you sure?” They were sure, by about the same margin they were sure they wanted Joe Biden to be president last year.
The exceptional election has spawned some pontificating on what it all means, as such things tend to do. For example, is it the case that, even though the recall effort failed by a wide margin, it happened at all that should give Democrats pause? Isn’t the fact that the Democrats had to defend Newsom an indicator of a threat that exists even in deep-blue parts of the country?
The answer, once again: Nope.
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