Tension in California Rise as Trump’s Lies Rigged Election Echo Among Recall Supporters
At the height of the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom in California, days before California voters decide to put Newson in the office, previous US president Donald Trump falsely accused the state of distributing ballots to “people who aren’t citizens, illegals” and “anybody who is walking or breathing.” Citing no proof, he warned that people would print fake ballots and send them in “by the hundreds of thousands.
“When that starts happening, you have a rigged system,” he said in the White House Rose Garden. “And that’s what would happen.”
Ed Brown, a supporter of the recall election, describes Newsom’s supporters’ efforts, “They’ll probably do something to cheat.” He added that he will vote for Larry Elder because “he’s more like Trump; he’s for the people.”
The Republican-backed recall election could be most advantageous for the GOP due to the current state of affairs in the country.
At the height of the pandemic, with areas burning from wildfires, and relentless droughts that left fields and faucets barren, it issued a beneficial venture for the Republican Party to govern the most populous state in over a decade.
According to a report published in MSN, the most fervent support for the recall has come from Northern California, where rural conservatives say that their voices are drowned out in Sacramento by urban Democrats and that they would be better off seceding to form their own state called Jefferson.
In relation to the recall election, Trump’s accusation that the governor won because of mail-in vote-buying echoes through the recall supporters as they refuse to cast their ballots by mail believing Trump’s claim that mail-in voting leads to voter fraud.
Democrats and voting-rights activists accused Trump of deliberately sowing mistrust about the integrity of U.S. elections and turning ballot access into another partisan flashpoint as Americans worry about how they can safely participate on Election Day.
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Newsom’s administration has found an apotheosis for the Democratic Party and everything they hate about it – an opposition to many of the things they hold dear, including Trump.
“In many ways, the recall was never really about Gavin Newsom in particular,” said Kim Nalder, a political science professor at Cal State Sacramento.
Rather, she said, recall supporters are fueled by a “laundry list of complaints that Republicans had about liberals.”
“If you’re a Republican, especially a Trump-supporting Republican, in California, it’s a rough time in state politics,” Nalder said.
“You feel really disenfranchised, and [if] you combine that with the high anxiety we all have about the fires and the pandemic and homelessness, you get a high level of motivation to do something about it.”
However, despite the intense efforts of the recall supporters, the campaign lost so much momentum in the past month as bettors now say there’s over an 85% chance that the effort fails.
According to political betting website PredictIt, the Democrat’s odds of staying in office after the recall election on Sept. 14, reached their highest mark last week since early July.
