Does Biden hate Governor Newsom?
Why do I ask that question? Because I can’t believe that even in California this visit would be considered a plus for the Newsom campaign:
President Joe Biden will campaign for Gov. Gavin Newsom in California ahead of the Sept. 14 recall vote, Newsom said Thursday.
“I’m humbled by the fact the president will be out here soon,” Newsom told reporters during a campaign stop in San Francisco’s Chinatown district.
Get it? He’s humbled by the emperor’s resplendent suit of clothing.
The article goes on to say that VP Harris as well as Biden were originally scheduled to come and help him campaign – Harris being another dubious plus – but that Afghanistan caused a cancellation by Harris. My guess is that the real reason is she doesn’t want to subject herself to the heckling.
Polls in California:
Biden’s numbers have also fallen in California, though he still enjoys strong ratings. A Public Policy Institute of California poll released Wednesday night showed 58 percent of Californians approve of Biden, down from 70 percent in January and 66 percent in May. Still, 83 percent of Democrats back the president, and his support could help motivate the governor’s base.
Or not.
And of course, Republicans pounced – like the predators they are:
Republicans jumped on Newsom’s comments Thursday.
“Dozens of California school children remain stranded in Afghanistan, abandoned by this Administration,” California Republican Party Chair Jessica Millan Patterson tweeted.
The students live in Sacramento and are from families of Afghan ethnicity, and their families are trapped with them, adding up to about 72 total.
Sacramento apparently is home to a lot of Afghan immigrants. This is the sort of story that would be on the front pages of every newspaper had Trump been in charge, but the Democrats’ great concern about children – particularly immigrant children – seems to have pretty much evaporated at the moment. After all, these children are probably the offspring of legal immigrants.
I make no predictions about what will happen in the Newsom recall, except to say that the Democrats will do everything they can – including a sufficient amount of vote fraud, if possible – to keep him in office.
Newsom may be in trouble. George Soros just pumped another half million dollars into his campaign. Maybe they just want to be sure but he already had raised over $50 million. As an aside, Newsom can take contributions in unlimited amounts but his recall opponents are limited by traditional campaign rules.
On the topic of the recall in California, there exists little reason to hope that the spectacularly incompetent Newsom will fail. At AmericanGreatness, Dan Gelernter has posted a sobering piece entitled “California’s Recall Election Has Already Been Stolen”. Even if one believes the title to be somewhat hyperbolic, the entire electoral process has been so thoroughly corrupted in our moribund republic (not only at the level of national elections) that any optimism about the fairness of the vote in California (stretching over many weeks, with a massive amount of mail-in voting) would seem ill-founded. As always, the Democrats wish to maximize the possibility of fraud.
My wife, who monitors CNN from time to time, says Harris changed her mind again and will be campaigning for Newsome in CA.
The only positive thing I’ve seen recently about the recall is a video clip of Newsome from the last day or so, and he looks quite agitated. Possibly panicked.
The demonkraps have learned how to reliably steal elections.
The electronic voting and universal mail-in forms, combined with no validation of signatures or cleanup of voting rolls and the motor-voter registration through the DMV have ensured that lots of fraudulent votes will be counted.
And do not forget “sanctuary states” and “sanctuary cities” combined with open borders, and lots of “free” stuff for illegals.
In Shitfrancisco, they are paying felons NOT to shoot people.
The peasants are revolting.
Wonder if something, which I hope does not, happens next Sat that might change minds. (I really mean when I say I hope nothing happens. I have lived through JFK,RFK,MLK along with 9/11, and other terrible things.)
tcrosse,
They certainly are.
Until the peasants are literally willing and eager to kill their ‘betters’… nothing will really change. That’s because history consistently reveals that it’s not in the nature of oligarchies to submit to the will of the people.
If a political miracle happens and Larry Elder is elected, the legislature will block him at every turn. His office will be subjected to constant lawsuits. The bureaucracy will engage in unending passive/aggresive obstruction. The media will unendingly crucify him.
Elder’s legacy would be as “a voice, crying in the wilderness”. But one who will have gained a few converts.
California’s legislature is the most accurate barometer of its citizenry’s mind set.
According to the “LA Times” Harris may have poor poll numbers but she is good at raising cash. Plus since she’s from the Bay Area she may be effective there for votes in the recall election.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2021-09-01/essential-politics-why-kamala-harris-will-be-hitting-the-campaign-trail-essential-politics
The article mentions an interesting wrinkle. If Newsom loses and Larry Elder wins, Elder will be able to choose Diane Feinstein’s replacement in the Senate, should she fall ill or retire. That would give Republicans 51-49 in the Senate and Harris’s tie-breaking vote would be nullified, as along the Senate Republicans hold firm.
There’s much at stake in the Newsom recall election. The loss of the California governorship, on the heels of Cuomo’s resignation in New York and Biden’s problems in the White House, would show a party on the run, not on the march.