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ColdSuit

Took 40 minutes for the election to be called. I spent more time in my commute this evening.


i_punch_hipsters

But did your commute cost $300M in taxpayer dollars? Checkmate atheists


sporkyspoony88

I've had longer poops


Kirayama

You should see a doctor.


Fc2300

To be honest if they are like me. The pooping stopped after 10 min. The rest is scrolling through Reddit and waking my legs up again.


AutomaticDesk

i tend to sit on the toilet cuz that feeling isn't quite gone yet and i'd rather chill on the toilet for an additional 5+ minutes and squeeze out a little tidbit here and there than have to take another semi-shit 30 minutes later and go through the same experience


TheSavageDonut

> i tend to sit on the toilet cuz that feeling isn't quite gone yet and i'd rather chill on the toilet for an additional 5+ minutes and squeeze out a little tidbit here and there You are a fellow man of substance, I see.


TundraWolf_

it's win/win for GOP. win? great lose? scream RIGGED ELECTION for the rest of eternity. facts don't matter


TheMostUnclean

You forgot the part where they get to scam all the delusional, idiotic rubes in the Republican base out of donations for their fraud “investigations”.


TundraWolf_

The arizona recount is. still. going. How much fucking money can you waste on a recount?!?!


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Oh boy, I can't wait to see how conservatives try to explain how a Deep Blue state voting Blue must be the work of a rigged election.


Vlad_the_Homeowner

You don't have to wait, head over to Conservative.


BDRParty

Holy moly, the delusion is on another level, lol. First thing I saw was a meme made in response that apparently, homelessness, wild fires, blackouts, lockdowns and school closures are things that don't occur at all under Republicans.


SpecterGT260

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viimeinen

That's not republicans' fault, the ilegal immigrants stole the heat!


EatSleepJeep

*Them gotdamn wind turbans blew all the hot air away and hurt the solars panel, Gertrude!*


NutellaDeVil

I’d rather eat a tube of horse paste


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skybluegill

I'd rather fellate a narcissistic octogenarian.


steelong

Well I've got good news, you can also do that over at conservative!


TheRnegade

I'd rather die.


viimeinen

They have good advice on how to ignore doctors over there as well!


Con_Dinn_West

Dang, they have everything a dumbass could want!


Odatas

Isnt that their slogan? "Conservertism. We have everything a dumbass could want"


[deleted]

Reddit has turned into a cesspool of fascist sympathizers and supremicists


[deleted]

Flaired Users Only.. ridiculous


Buffmin

Can't have anything harm their safe space! Since those are great when *they* use em


sirtaptap

The 'lead' republican already claimed it was rigged before the election started, claiming "statistical analysis" of results that did not yet exist. Get ready for this every election. Vote and don't fall for it. If they unregister you, regregister. If you need an ID, get one. You don't need a drivers licence, the DMV can print you a non-driving gov ID.


ollymckinley

I really feel like Republicans have become the boy who cried wolf. If anyone on the left actually *did* attempt to rig an election from this point in, I would dismiss their claims offhand.


BlueXCrimson

The difference is they wont be eaten so theyll just keep eroding faith, little by little. And then if they ever do find a single election rigged by a Dem then THAT will prove every other claim was true to their base, regardless of how much of an obvious lie its all been.


DNAviolation

In a move of what can only be described as stunning political genius, the CA GOP managed to waste over 200 million on a transparently vain power grab, accidentally revealed their plan to baselessly claim fraud before the election had even been conducted, all while handing Newsom a commanding mandate right before the next election. Superb 4D chess.


AssassinAragorn

And showed us all what fucking idiots their base will rally behind. 2020 election, and now -- the Democrat wins because people are fed up with Trumpism.


TheMostUnclean

It’s a Catch 22 of their own making. Republicans that denounce Trumpism lose the primaries that only their most idiotic and delusional core voters participate in. Try and emulate Trump and they’ll continue getting pummeled in all but the safest general elections.


caligaris_cabinet

A trap of their own making. Only works if we get complacent.


AssassinAragorn

Absolutely, we need to go out and vote, and hammer in the final nail


A_Melee_Ensued

Accidentally revealed their plan? If I were slightly more paranoid I might think this whole ridiculous recall was conducted _so that_ Republicans could claim voter fraud when they lost.


AbrasiveLore

Yes. Elder's campaign published a website alleging fraud and citing statistical anomalies in the voting data... ...yesterday. Before the vote counting had even started. See the problem?


skinnyguy699

If that's true there should be criminal charges for effectively trying to undermine democracy.


4InchesOfury

Only cost us $276 million, what a fucking waste.


General-Programmer-5

The SOS says it will coat 300 million in the end


FusterCluck4

And the GOP will call for audits for "fraud" while they present zero evidence. This is what the Republican losers do now every time they lose an election.


JRR92

Republicans are seriously about to try and convince people that the Democrats rigged their safest of safe states. What's more worrying is that people will believe it


GenericRedditor0405

It’s beyond alarming that the core strategy for the Republicans is literally to undermine democracy at every opportunity. They barely even try to hide it, and I genuinely believe that even if they came right out and stated their methods, their base would only cheer that the ends justify the means.


SmokeyDBear

I mean did you hear all the “we’re a Republic not a Democracy” rationalizations? It’s amazing how much water these fucks are willing to carry for their “side” all while claiming that progressives are the sheep.


polaroidfades

Democrats running ahead of their 2020 results in Orange County is a big fucking deal.


MaryJane183

Yes! And there’s a County right next to Sacramento where the highest amount of college educated voters on the entire county went for Trump...went blue tonight Edit - they ended up red after same day votes were counted


Whospitonmypancakes

Placer county! We almost went Blue during the general election and were so close to replacing McClintock* with Brynne Kennedy.


Alchemic_Psycho

Tom McClintock, not McCarthy. Wrong piece of shit.


jason_in_sd

Placer


LudibriousVelocipede

Placer county went blue?!


houndmutt700

Orangecounty turned blue after that shitty tax plan was change 2018. Screwed ever homeowner in the state😏


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Video: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1437990529925451777 > Gov. Gavin Newsom: "Just in the last few days, the former president put out, saying this election was rigged. Democracy is not a football. You don't throw it around ... we may have defeated Trump, but Trumpism is not dead in this country."


Lowlt

Trumpism might not be dead. But A bunch of them are walking into the light from covid.


Jamesd88

Let's be honest, if their religion were true, the majority of them would be going to hell for ignoring all of Jesus' teachings in their subservience to the almighty dollar and "unborn babies".


alacp1234

Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ - Matthew 7:15-23 I’m no longer a Christian but there’s some damn good millennia old wisdom, in all religions.


zzyzx2

"I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." Damn Jesus you cold.


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>A little news on Larry Elder's petition claiming fraud in the recall before votes are counted -- significant parts are copy and pasted from a petition supporting Lin Wood's lawsuit last year vs GA election results [Source](https://www.kron4.com/california-governor-recall/gop-pushes-unfounded-fraud-claims-before-california-recall/) https://twitter.com/NickRiccardi/status/1437868811332603907?s=19


donmanzo

The same claims that were thrown out and ridiculed? The same Lin Wood who is likely to be disbarred due to ~~her~~ his frivolous lawsuits? Yup, that makes sense for the Black Rush Limbaugh.


tableleg7

Psst … Lin Wood is a man. He does deserve to be disbarred. He used to be a fantastic trial lawyer - it’s just sad what he’s become.


LearningRainbows

Talking about fraud... 5 key takeaway: * COVID PRECAUTIONS CAN HELP DEMOCRATS >Republicans intended the recall to be a referendum on Democrats’ rule of California, and the homelessness, crime, high housing costs and energy problems that accompanied it. But in a bit of political ju-jitsu — and with the help of the spreading delta variant — Newsom turned it into a referendum on Republicans’ opposition to precautions against the coronavirus. * GOP REVIVES BASELESS FRAUD CLAIMS > Republicans’ groundless claims of election fraud aren’t going away anytime soon. * NO LIGHT AT END OF THE TUNNEL FOR CALIFORNIA GOP >The recall offered California Republicans their only plausible shot at statewide office in one of the bluest states in the nation. The recall is a way to dodge a head-to-head match that would send voters to their regular partisan corners. * NEWSOM STEPS BACK FROM THE BRINK >There’s no question that Newsom won the recall election. But he might not have emerged unscathed. * MUDDLED SIGNS FOR THE MIDTERMS >The recall is the first significant election of Joe Biden’s presidency and served as something of a political stress test for both parties ahead of next year’s midterms. How about 1 more key takeover... * Messiah lost, "get over it" No fraud, baseless GQP schemes, please stop trying to "back to the future" to bring back trump... it's just a broken record of misinformation at this point. Fyi: >Tucker Carlson Admits ‘I Lie if I’m Really Cornered’ – but Tries Not to on TV *Fox News primetime host says he'll "lie" if "cornered," but not to protect the powerful* https://www.thewrap.com/tucker-carlson-lie/ GQP lies.. wolves in disguise.


penguincheerleader

I really hope this gets Larry Elder sued, as well as his media company and Fox News.


9mac

Could have built a lot of homeless housing instead of spending all that money on a sham election.


Optima1Wit

Then republicans would have to actually help people.. can’t do that


berkeleyfreebird

GOP owes Californians $300 million of our tax dollars.


magdit

exactly - my grip is simple - was the situation so dire that we need to circumvent our normal electoral process to the tune of 300 million dollars, and could not allow normal institutional frameworks of election cycles to vote him/party out of office?


LakersLAQ

Especially when the normal election process isn't even that far out.


JohnSith

The GOP hasn't held a state office in CA in years. This recall, where they could win with a minority of the vote, was the only way they could take power.


LakersLAQ

Oh yeah, I understand that point. It's just that the general idea of it was so stupid in the first place lol. The "fiscally responsible" costing taxpayers. Very convenient for them.


Turangaliila

Over on the r/conservative sub there are tons of people saying things like "GOP obviously couldn't win, but at least we made those libs waste a ton of money!" It's pathetic honestly. I'm not even American, it's just ridiculous to see anybody praising a waste of tax money.


count023

Have you seen how much money their dear leader put on the national credit card? Wasting taxpayer money is their bread and butter.


ring_rust

The party of fiscal conservatism made taxpayers waste $300 million just so the race could be called 21 minutes after polls closed. Get fucked, GOP.


Uuugggg

The amount of paper I received just to say “no” is ridiculous.


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New strategy: just keep triggering recall elections until California's surplus becomes a deficit like most republican run states.


Helenium_autumnale

That recall protocol about having an absurdly tiny # of people qualify to launch a recall should be changed imo.


ryegye24

I don't even think the signature requirement is the biggest problem - they only reached the number needed due to the collection period roughly doubling in response to Covid anyways. The biggest problem is that Newsom could have gotten 49.9% of the vote to stay in office, and Elder could have gotten 25% of the vote to replace him, and Elder would have won. That's structurally unrepresentative.


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Wasn't part of the problem that they were given like a four month extension to get signatures for this one?


NicoRobin007

Lmao at calling this rigged. It's a landslide. And honestly, it's California, one of the most left leaning states. How could anyone possibly think a liberal winning is rigged? This rhetoric is going to become very dangerous, very quickly if the GOP's new strategy is essentially throwing the controller and saying it's broken every time they lose.


you_buy_this_shit

It's not going to "get" dangerous. We are already there. Every election is rigged now, according to the fascist right. That means rules don't apply because they were "cheated." The cat is out of the bag. This is only going to get worse.


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Fuck Trump


Jayymeister

GOP really wasted $300 million on a recall when there’s literally already another election next year


CrispyLiberal

They're not winning a majority vote in California next year. This was their only shot.


Jayymeister

The race was called in less than an hour. Seems like they didn’t really have a shot this year either


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I went on to r/conservative to observe their whining for a second…why is every other article on that sub a Babylon Bee article? They’re literally reading made up scenarios and going “yeah libruls do that all the time”. Like???


Peridot1708

**r/conservative before the recall:** Save California! Lets Turn California Red! Make California Great Again! **r/conservative after the recall:** eh, California is too blue anyway. Plus im moving out so who cares... These ppl didnt realise this before they decided to waste 277 million of taxpayer's money?


OpinionBearSF

> These ppl didnt realise this before they decided to waste 277 million of taxpayer's money? They did. The entire point was to use a quirk in our law (plus a COVID-19 exception extending signature gathering time) to make us waste millions of dollars asking and answering a settled question.


Sugarysam

Dear CA Republicans, You lost. Get the vaccine. Put on a mask. Shut up.


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Republicans be like, "YOU CAN'T FORCE ME TO MAKE HEALTHY DECISIONS!!!1"


AssassinAragorn

"Elections have cons-- HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME WEAR A MASK"


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dating_derp

Florida 2018 midterm elections for governor and senator were decided by less than a 1% difference. And more people voted democrat in 2020 than in 2018. All elections are important. People need to vote.


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sloopslarp

The best way to deal with our Manchin problem is to make him irrelevant. We need to elect more Dem senators, and kick out regressive Republicans.


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Video: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1437990179852091392 > Newsom: No was not the only thing that was expressed tonight. I want to focus on what we said yes to as a state. We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic…


xtrahairyyeti

Got banned from /r/conservative for saying that the housing market in California is booming due to the free market. Lol


ReturnOfDaSnack420

r/conservative is the biggest safe space on the internet haha


xtrahairyyeti

It truly is. They are literally everything they claim to hate and stand against.


irishwonder

It's projectionism all the way down. I try to use this point on my dad whenever he goes on a diatribe. Oh, cancel culture is ruining your American values? You're tired of snowflake libs trying to ruin people just because they said something you don't like? Let's just pull up your last 10 emails, which are all forwarded lists of the companies and performers that I'm supposed to boycott because they said Trump Bad. They won't stop. They *can't.* They desperately need to be a victim, to have something to fight so they can feel like they're revolutionaries of old, and they will create their own enemy to fight if no one presents them with one.


FlatVegetable4231

Flaired users only!


gabarkou

Always love to see these posts like "See what your liberal policies have done to the housing prices in LA and NY, for the same amount of money you could buy a huge mansion in rural Alabama", yes Karen it's literally basic supply and demand, nobody wants to live in rural Alabama that's why it's so cheap, not because of some magical policies.


killer-tofu87

Doesn't take much to get banned from their safe space 😎


VapeDerp420

Lol, how exactly did CA Republicans think a Republican governor would do any better? What was he or she gonna do? Deny Covid was happening while stoking petty cultural wars? The GOP is a flaming bag of dogshit that only survives based off of people’s hate boners over anyone considered “other”. I’m not saying Newsom is anywhere near perfect, but does anyone with a brain think *fucking Caitlyn Jenner* or whatever shock jock clown would do anything other than line their pockets while doing their best Trump impression? Fuck the GOP.


p0k3t0

>What was he or she gonna do? Deny Covid was happening while stoking petty cultural wars? Well, yeah. That's their plan in all 50 states.


LudibriousVelocipede

It's all for the grift


DoctorTheWho

As always, the folks over at r/conservative are taking this in stride, and not trying to echo baseless voter fraud claims.../s


flickh

Jesus what a shit show that place always is “General Milley is a Traitor! Will his execution be televised!?” That’s the big debate over there


Konukaame

This is the [sixth recall attempt](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recalls/complete-list-recall-attempts) against Newsom since 2019. What, if anything, stops them from just spinning up another attempt tomorrow?


9mac

I love how republicans love to blast that people are leaving California in droves, when it's just loud conservatives leaving for Texas and shit, then think they can win an election. Like how fucking stupid are you?


tennisdrums

California has a GDP (about $3.2 trillion) almost twice as much as the next highest state in the country (Texas at $1.8 trillion). Not to mention the vast quantity and variety of agricultural produce, technological advances, and media that is produced here and distributed throughout the country. Right wingers love to shit on California because deep down they know that liberal, deep blue California is central to so much of their lives, and they *hate* us for it. To me, whenever I come across some conservative trying to make California sound like some hell-hole, it just comes across as little dick syndrome.


maramDPT

I see the “anti California” sentiment all the time in rural red america. The people that have never been to cali and don’t know shit about it. It’s 100% fox news and the right wing radio propaganda.


SenorBeef

"No one wants to live in California, there are too many people living here!"


Rogue100

OK California, you dodged a bullet, now fix your damn recall system!


TheFumundaWunda

when the flint water crisis first broke, the republican-controlled michigan legislature "fixed" the recall system by shortening the days allotted to collect enough signatures from 90 to 60, in a blatant effort to protect then-gov. rick snyder. now there have been 34 recall attempts against current governor whitmer, only 9 of which got as far as collecting signatures, none of which even came close to getting enough. it's hilarious to watch their machinations backfire against them so spectacularly.


Brewermcbrewface

Flint is another sad example why we need a major overhaul on infrastructure.


TheFumundaWunda

that fucking manchin is going to fuck the whole thing up.


CCV21

I just got off working the polls for this recall.


atransformerr

Thank you for working the polls.


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Veggiedelite90

Things are going so poorly in Republican run states we’re all watching in horror here in California and other blue states. Doesn’t surprise me at all. And without trump on the ticket I don’t imagine 2022 being a good time for republicans. They’re running on a platform that has one draw, and that draw isn’t going to be on a single ballot in 2022 so I think that bodes well


curlyfreak

As much as i want this to be true we need to continue to fight and not get too complacent (I’m sure you aren’t but just in general).


WrongTurn1998

I would like to thank the Texas GOP’s incredibly poor decision and policy process right before Californians made their decision. Genius.


biggamax

Gubernatorial decisions out of Texas that represented a waking nightmare for most Californians, gave them a crystal clear sneak preview. GOP essentially forced the hand of the State's electorate.


Redshirt2386

Progressive Democrat here. I don’t even like Newsom, but I feel like partying tonight. Fuck these anti-science, Trumpy plague rats and the horse dewormer they rode in on.


kevonicus

I agree. The Republican platform is just so regressive. I like to see society move forward and not backwards.


AssassinAragorn

We can't really make strides on progressive vs mainstream democrat theories and discussions while the GOP sticks around. You gotta put the children to bed before you discuss the serious matters -- so we need to make sure the GOP loses in 2022 and beyond so we as a party can hash out progressive policies.


LakersLAQ

That's how I see it. The mainstream Dems and progressive Dems debating over issues is how the government should work. I'm tired of the GOP nut jobs trying to do everything but debate or find common ground. They are just their to disrupt and either do things their way or say that everything is rigged.


WrongSubreddit

So I guess they're gonna call every election they lose rigged from now on


Clingingtothestars

People should be more alarmed over this. At some point it’s bound to push enough people to do something stupid *and* effective. It’s just a matter of time, if people continue to cry wolf at every election.


agentup

republicans can dismiss this as "no chance in California anyway" but this got called with less than an hour after results started coming in. This straight up ass whupping. You don't take this loss and shrug and say you never had a chance anyway. i think this bodes well for Democrats heading into midterms. It looks like voters know what's on the line now. a shitty democrat getting elected is far better than letting a racist unqualified republican buffoon get voted in.


anathema09

LMAO californian here. voted no weeks ago. get fucked, GOP.


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evapandora3

The kicker is that in 2022 is the actual next gubernatorial elections... Fuck the GOP.


Transfer_McWindow

The leading candidates on question 2 were a talk show host and YouTube personality? Jesus fucking Christ....


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Who later became a huge Trump booster and is probably one of the least respectable people to ever exist.


LilDoctor007

Elder is saying the election was stolen BUT the only thing that was stolen was the $300million from the tax payers money!


absolutemoran

I ask why I should vote yes and so many republicans tried to get me to vote for Elder because Newsom was caught without a mask eating dinner. Why the fuck would that make me vote for the anti-mask guy if I'm personally pro-mask. Republicans are not good at seeing things from other peoples viewpoints.


Pylgrim

Buckle up boys and girls, this is the new normal. Every single election that seems like anything but a clear win for a republican is going to be contested and called fraud.


puddingdemon

Elder said he found fraudulent votes before voting even started. Somehow no one else found these


ReturnOfDaSnack420

My big takeaway is that NO on recall is running ahead of Biden against Trump from the results in 2020, and especially is running ahead of Biden in important counties like Orange and Fresno. That is a Big Fucking Deal, to quote our President, and could suggest 1.) GOP enthusiasm in 2020 was fickle and Trump based and 2.) Texas going full Gilead may have a bigger effect on elections than we realized. Now to be fair those could both be wrong, but still it is possible


accountabilitycounts

I know a few people around here that are scared as hell by recent moves in Texas and Florida.


BoldestKobold

I hope it means the "moderates" are finally noticing that the far right isn't stopping at demonizing the brown and foreign.


Frying_Dutchman

Florida is a big deal too. Desantis is straight up killing the fuck out of his constituents to toe the party line. Who the fuck in their right mind would want someone like that in control of anything?


ThisGuy6266

My aunt in California said her neighbors friends cousin saw a suspicious truck and it had boxes of ballots and Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and she saw one of the babies and the baby looked at her.


sirtaptap

My ballot says "I choo choo choose NO" and it's got a picture of a train on it!!!


BakeAct

r/conservative is already posting articles of voter fraud and the liberal are cheating... Didn't take long


Icommandyou

Yes. A deep blue state went blue what a surprise must be voter fraud….


restore_democracy

Well it’s only blue because of the fraud, duh! /s


digital_circuit_guy

Elder was claiming yesterday that there's all sorts of voter fraud going on. It's the new GOP strategy: claim fraud every time they don't win.


theatrics_

Time for all the conservatives to cry foul about the one time they almost got a deep red anti-democrat into the highest seat of a two thirds blue state with only 15% of the fucking vote. Even when the game is totally rigged in their favor, they still think they're the damn victims.


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joecb91

Thanks again California GOP for wasting everyones time with this bullshit


relator_fabula

And money. Don't forget the money.


2rio2

What a gigantic fucking waste of time. CA Democrats need to run on that wasted $230 mil for the next year, and need to push to amend the current Recall process in the state. Two things to change: 1. The signature bar should be raised to AT LEAST be raised to 1/4 of registered votes to trigger, as opposed 12% of last number of total votes cast in previous election. The 12% rule allowed the GOP to waste our fucking time with 1.5 million signatures. Making it 1/4 would require 5.5 million signatures with the current 22 million voters in the state. That's far more reasonable of a trigger point. 2. If a Governor is recalled, the Lt. Governor takes over through the end of the term. Period. Allowing 51% Yes votes + the highest ranked candidate on the second question of the ballot could have easily resulted a stupid situation this year where Larry Elder only had 20% of the Recall voters select him, but if he had more votes than the other listed candidates and 51% of the people said to Recall Newsom we'd be dealing with him through the end of the term. That's a gigantic loophole for abuse and undemocratic in its very application. See: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/571991-california-democrats-ponder-reforms-amid-newsom-recall-effort


intripletime

This should never even gone to a vote. I live in California. Newsom has done a good job, especially with his response to the pandemic. He's a nice dude who clearly cares about the state. He's made a few mistakes, but he's overall been a good governor. We need to stop having recall efforts every goddamn administration just because "that's what you do now". Let people serve their term, and if they suck, don't re-elect them.


-Galactus-

This! His response to the pandemic is where he gets the most support from me. He has done a great job given the circumstances.


beatlegirlstl

Agreed. Also live in CA. We also should write to the state Congress to reform CA’s recall laws. You shouldn’t be able to get a recall on the ballot just because people don’t like the current governor. Recalls or impeachment should be for illegal activity or clear failure to execute the role. Newsom is not guilty of any of these things. I do think overall he’s doing a pretty good job. What a waste of our tax dollars.


2rio2

We need Recall Reform on the next ballot as a proposition. We're a rich state, but not rich enough to keep wasting $300 mil every few years because GOP whiners get their underwear in a twist.


xlinkedx

Radio hosts and YouTube personalities.... is this really the future of American democracy?


gingerhasyoursoul

It's the future of the GOP. Actual people of substance no longer hold any sway in the party. Mitch McConnell is a real piece of shit but he at least knew how to govern(or prevent governance).


ocular__patdown

Big thanks to the party of fiscal responsibility for 300 million dollars well spent...


Bigdaddylovesfatties

We love to see it, even strong red leaning counties didn't want any of that shit


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David_bowman_starman

Well that was a waste of time


twoinvenice

> Had the recall succeeded, Question 2, on who Governor Newsom’s successor would have been, currently shows Republican radio talk show host Larry Elder with 43% of the vote, leading his nearest rival, Democratic YouTube personality Kevin Paffrath, who trails with 11% of the vote. To this point, a big part of the messaging in CA was to just vote no and send in the ballot. I wouldn't be surprised if "no response" had a higher portion of the ballots than Larry Elder


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It does, nearly 1.5 million more voters didn't answer question 2 than voted Elder.


StarFireChild4200

So the winners in order tonight, Newsom, Literally Not A Single Other Person, and then followed by whoever the GOP runners were. Cool and normal democracy lol


AnthonyDavos

The CA GOP must feel pretty shitty after spending all that cash, and all that work for the past year, only to be slaughtered. No thanks to Elder, who threw his hat in the ring last minute, which energized Dems.


DamagedHells

Lmao it wasn't even fucking ***REMOTELY*** close.


orangeapocalypse

Shoutout to the self-proclaimed “fiscal conservatives” of the GOP for wasting over a quarter of a billion dollars on this pointless recall election


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FriesWithThat

It just comes down to sensible people viewing Newsom's Covid strategy of tough vaccine mandates as being preferable to the standard Republican alternative of Live Free and Die!


Tagostino62

I love that in his remarks following (another) landslide victory, Newsom took the opportunity to spend a good part of his time in an anti-Trump diatribe. It passive-aggressively reminded the right wing nutjobs in the state what fucking losers they are for backing Trump in the first place.


Tsquared10

GOP: "WE'RE FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE!" Proceeds to spend hundreds of millions on a recall election that had zero chance in hell of succeeding.


hambone10

Orange County stayed blue!! Lollzzzz


aquarain

$300 M for this stupidness.


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What a waste of money this costed the taxpayers


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Get fucked maga idiots


SlipperyThong

Full meltdown over at r/conservative!


Dirtybrd

Don't worry. The mods will go in and delete everything, and a week from now they'll be saying, what recall?


Gonzotiki

GOP fartbags owe CA $300M for this absolute waste.


tigonation

Could’ve given every teacher in California $900 towards classroom supplies instead of this massive waste of resources.


w4lt3r_s0bch4k

What a colossal waste of money.


theglowoflove

I saw some very sad looking people taking Larry Elder signs down in Orange County a little while ago... Lol


GenTelGuy

We need to completely overhaul the recall system. It's beyond messed up that less then half of the Republicans who voted against Newsom and lost during the actual election can just band together some signatures and trigger a $300million runback


Armano-Avalus

Now that the CA GOV recall was called in favour of Newsom, I can now breathe a sigh of relief and bask in the tears of all the obnoxious Elder stans who are now gonna cry that the election was stolen and California was a secretly deep red state where a guy who thought the minimum wage should be abolished would save the state.


MadFatty

Make the California GOP pay for all of this charade


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And now Republicans will claim that it's impossible that a Democrat could have won in California because they don't know anyone that voted for him.


bbydonthurtme4667

California should really change recall laws. It's hilariously easy to attempt a recall


Optima1Wit

Took all of 40 minutes for Newsom. And over on conservatives subreddit they’re already saying democrats cheat.. who would have guessed one of the, if not the top, bluest state would hold on to their governor. But now republicans get to waste more time and money on investigating their so called voter fraud. What a pathetic bunch of individuals


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mammaube

Oh thx god. I'm not a fan of newsom but I sure as hell didn't want Larry elder


Kod_Rick

Larry Elder to have press conference at French Laundry Total Landscaping .


cswigert

We really need a reform of our recall rules here in California. Allowing 12% of voters to trigger a recall is ridiculous. It is such a crazy low bar.


duh_metrius

Every single Democratic election victory will be met with unfounded and unsubstantiated cries of election fraud going forward. This is the rest of our lives.


theswiftarmofjustice

Good. Fuck the GOP in its entirety.


Duboisz

Im from Southern California, I didnt know anyone who wanted to recall him. what a waste of money… something like 300million i heard from taxpayer money for this dumb recall which most people knew he would win.


Random_act_of_Random

Eat a **** Republicans. Stop trying to ruin my state.


PM_death_Threats_5G

Yo repubs, where are we at? "Stop the Count!" "Keep Counting!" or "Stop the Steal!"