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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/gavin-newsom-the-Anext-head-of-the-california-resistance

"Newsom, the state’s lieutenant governor, was far ahead in the polls, and, if his position held, he would come into office with a budget surplus of nearly nine billion dollars."

+$9 billion surplus