Newsom should be recalled, removed as governor of california. If no wins that, then newsom remains in office and will hold on the seat for democrats and dodge a huge defeat in Deep Blue california. If yes wins, then newsom is gone. Hes removed from office delivering a major victory to republicans behind the recall drive, and the second question on the ballot asks who should replace newsom if recalled. A whopping 46 candidates are on that ballot, including republicans. Larry elder emerged as the top. The firsttime candidate supported former President Trump and is borrowing from his playbook. For instance, making baseless claims of Election Fraud before one vote has been counted. Other prominent republican candidates including former Olympian And Reality Tv Star Caitlyn jenner and former nominee John Cox and San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulkner and kevin kylie. There are some democrats on the ballot, as well with you Tube Personality Kevin considered the leader of the democrats. Top democrats
State campaign where normally it just plays out on the airwaves. all right. thank you. let s go to josh campbell now in san francisco. how are local officials prerps to keep the votes secure as they count the ballots? yeah, despite this barrage of conspiracy theories that we ve heard, officials have been working for months to prepare for the security and the integrity of election. officials tell us for example, the by mail and in-person voting, it all has extensive tracking logs. a paper trail. so from the scanning to the tabulation to what comes after, all of that has data that surrounds it. we re told after election day, a manual count is actually done to ensure that the records posted on election day and shortly there after match what happened to the ballots. we re told, jake, what we will see here shortly, sheriff s deputies escort all the ballots from the 580 locations where the votes were cast in the city to this location. unheavy security to ensure the
With the riot on the capitol. nobody was stopping president trump from doing that and that s what prompted milley to do this. 100%. he knew china was rattled. he knew what he had seen on january 6th, but he had also now been through months, years of trump s explosive behavior, and woodward and costa write they were worried trump was after the election suffering serious mental decline and that he was unpredictable and unstable. the book also talks about then vice president mike pence reaching out for advice on what to do in the house of representatives on january 6th. trump was suggesting that he had some sort of magic power to overturn the election, which he does not have. what does it say, the book? so what the book recounts is a rather striking scene between mike pence and he reaches out to former vice president dan quail. dan quail.
Kylie. there are some democrats on the ballot, as well with you tube personality kevin considered the leader of the democrats. top democrats supporting governor newsom. president biden and harris stumped with him on the closing days of the campaign warning this election has national consequences and it does. we have correspondents in newsom headquarters as we track the votes being cast today and millions of ballots already cast by mail during early voting. first, let s go to kyung lah covering governor newsom. kyung? reporter: jake, the message we re getting from team n uewso is confidence. the team is feeling confident and a top advisor is telling me quote, the blue tide keeps rising. what is he talking about? he s talking about turnout. the campaign is seeing strong turnout across this state, and
Because this is all about making the democrats who are the vast majority of the electret in california anxious and worried enough to get out and actually vote, to counter the anger that is very real and very palpable for people in california to counter the anger for all of the reasons we know about and it seems as though, it was the steepest of hills to climb. in the anger initially around this recall was over covid and his handling of covid covid restrictions, right? bpeople thought he was going too far dinner at the french laundry. clouting the rules personally. this is how it gained steam and the delta variant came along and things changed all of a sudden and larry elder emerged. that is interesting to me. this, again, as was 2020, this seems to be a covid election and