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No Other Democrat: The Potentially Fatal Flaw in Democrats’ Recall Strategy

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No Other Democrat: The Potentially Fatal Flaw in Democrats’ Recall Strategy

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--- Quote ---Earlier this year, prominent Democrats across California, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have urged other Democrats not to enter the recall election, focusing entirely on the first part of the recall ballot keeping Governor Gavin Newsom in. To date, no major Democratic candidates have joined in the second part of the ballot that allows Californians to select a new candidate, a list that currently includes former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, former Congressman Doug Ose, 2018 Gubernatorial candidate John Cox, and reality TV star and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner.

Recent polls show that while, if the election were held today, Newsom would most likely stave off the recall, he would likely not win by as high a margin as people would think.

And for many experts watching the 2021 recall, this puts Newsom and Democrats in a dicey position.

“It’s confounding that the Democrats didn’t put some sort of candidate in,” former lobbyist Harry Schultz, who helped lobby during the 2003 Gray Davis recall, explained to the Globe on Monday. “They think that that by standing with Newsom as the only candidate, people in the state would have a straight ‘Newsom or Republican’ option. They think this gives him more votes, and granted, it may. But what they have done is put all their eggs in one basket. And they don’t really want to acknowledge what would happen if that basket falls.”
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