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The Morning Briefing: California Is Probably Too Stupid to Recall the Tyrant Newsom
[PJ] Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. My free time is spent adapting Swan Lake for Jean-Claude Van Damme and Charles Barkley.We look westward for our kickoff discussion today, to my once-beloved California. I say "once-beloved" because the California that brings on bouts of fond reminiscence no longer exists. Sadly, I remain deeply skeptical that it will ever make a return. As we get closer to the recall election in the Golden State, the eternal west coast weirdness that I miss makes it too difficult to call. I still have a lot of conservative friends who are active in California politics and they all seem to be cautiously optimistic. If you put a gun to my head right now and asked for a prediction I would say that Newsom survives. Then I’d tell you that we really could have done that without the gun. My RedState colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell is in California and has an update on a lot that’s going on leading up to the event. I wrote last week that Newsom and his team were nervous about a big Latino turnout for the recall because they are no longer a reliable Democratic voting bloc. That was so early September though. Yesterday, Axios cited a poll saying that Latinos were opposed to the recall. On the same day, however, The New York Times lamented the fact that so many Latinos are sitting this one out. Nobody knows what’s going on. Newsom is getting a little help from the top of the party, or what is meant to be anyway. Matt wrote yesterday that Joe Biden will go to California while everything is crumbling around him in an effort give Newsom an assist with the faithful. This will follow a trip by our rarely seen vice-president, which is generating a laugh or two: Related: Newsom: 2021-09-01 Woke L.A. teacher's union boss who didn't want to reopen schools Newsom: 2021-08-29 Biden vows 'diplomacy first' with Iran over its nuclear program Newsom: 2021-08-28 Good Morning Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-08 |
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