The first governor of CALIFORNIA to be recalled was Gray Davis; and the elected successor was Arnold Schwarzenegger, October 7, 2003.
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Gavin Newsom is the 40th governor of California. [40]
Larry Elder is the frontrunner of 46 candidates to succeed Newsom. [4+6=10]
Elder would be the 1st black governor of California. [1]
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https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/the-gavin-newsom-recall-undermines-the-democratic-partys-plans-to-californicate-america/
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Others pointed out that, if the recall passes, Elder was more likely to win than Faulconer, who is a liberal Republican, and thus threaten abortion rights, the minimum wage, and higher fuel economy standards. Others worried that Sen. Diane Feinstein, who is widely rumored to be suffering from dementia, could leave office before her term ends, leaving it to a Republican governor to select her replacement.
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But if Newsom is recalled, the entire progressive Democratic project will be called into question, and not just in California. After all, California has explicitly been the model for what progressives and Democrats, including Biden and Harris, have been trying to do nationally. If voters reject that model in California, then what claim to legitimacy could it possibly have in battleground states like Ohio and Pennsylvania?
If the recall passes, Democrats will have no choice but to change course on homelessness, drugs, and crime. The shift is already underway in New York, where Democrats elected a moderate, Eric Adams, a former police officer who ran on a tough-on-crime agenda. If Newsom survives the recall, he will be forced to change course, or face defeat in 2022. And if a Democrat is elected Californiaโs governor in November 2022, she or he wonโt be the same kind of Democrat Newsom has been.
As such, the California model is dead, no matter what happens in the recall, and thus so too is the progressive agenda. This is partly because Democrats have succeeded in implementing so much of it, including tens of billions to reduce child poverty and subsidize renewables. But it is also because the progressive agenda has so manifestly failed in the state that has implemented it the most.
California has long been the harbinger of national change, and may be that once again.
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