Newsom faces a recall that is becoming more viable by the hour in the wake of his French Laundry scandal, excessive COVID closures, massive unemployment benefits fraud and most of the state’s students still not back to classroom instruction. At the publication of this article the recall effort has the required amount of signatures and has six days to reach their projected “safety zone” of 2 million signatures. The count currently stands at 1.92 million.
Despite the mounting opposition in his own state, Newsom said in a press conference on Thursday that he would not be relinquishing emergency powers or removing mask mandates anytime soon. In fact, the beleaguered governor recommended Californians begin wearing two masks instead of just one.