Newsom Recall Update
The puzzling thing about the California recall election, scheduled for September 14, is how few polls have been made public. According to Five Thirty Eight , there have been only three since July, none well publicized, and they're all over the landscape. Yet establishment media seems to be prepping its audience for Newsom's removal. The Atlantic ran a story yesterday in which the reporter met with Newsom for breakfast in a San Francisco cafe: At the café, he quickly ate a banana and slurped the top of his coffee. He’d dropped his breakfast on the floor before I arrived. More bad luck, he said. “I was always that lucky one, too,” he said, shaking his head. “Just the whole damn thing flipped on me.” How did things go sideways for a governor who three years ago won his first term by the biggest margin in California history? Yahoo News reported Thursday: Every California governor since Ronald Reagan in the 1960s has inspired quixotic recall petitions. Prior to Februa...