California Governor Gavin Newsom was half an hour late to his own party on Monday. Scheduled to speak at a Covid-19 news conference at 11:30 pm, he didn’t appear until noon.
That’s unlike the governor, but this is an unusual time for him.Newsom is the target of a statewide recall effort, and activists working to put his removal to a vote say that they have garnered 1.3 million of the estimated 1.5 million signatures needed.
Also on Monday, new Republican challenger declared his intention to challenge the governor if he makes it to reelection: Businessman John Cox, who Newsom beat handily in the last election.
Cox again threw his hat into he ring on Monday with an ad painting himself as an outsider. “I’m a businessman, not a politician,” he
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