President Joe Biden Denounces Governor Newsom Recall Campaign
Biden’s support for Newsom came in the form of a tweet by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
By Evan Symon, February 9, 2021 8:14 pm
President Joe Biden formally came out against the recall movement of Governor Gavin Newsom this week, citing his commitment to numerous policies in California, including his control of COVID-19.
President Biden’s support for Newsom came in the form of a tweet by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, which was released only hours after she was asked about the recall during a White House briefing.
“In addition to sharing a commitment to a range of issues with Gavin Newsom from addressing the climate crisis to getting the pandemic under control, [President Biden] clearly opposes any effort to recall Gavin Newsom,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a tweet.
In addition to sharing a commitment to a range of issues with @GavinNewsom from addressing the climate crisis to getting the pandemic under control, @POTUS clearly opposes any effort to recall @GavinNewsom
— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) February 9, 2021
Although Biden’s support of Newsom had been little in doubt due to their similar stances on numerous issues and both Newsom’s and Biden’s close working relationship with Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden’s announcement of support is largely thought to be in response to the growing campaign to recall Governor Newsom.
Since November, Newsom has faced numerous controversies, such as breaking and lying about state guidelines that he himself touted to attend a dinner, not acting promptly on a $31 Billion unemployment fraud incident, unveiling a controversial school reopening program, and not handling the COVID-19 crisis in California competently on either a health or economic level. This has caused his popularity to plummet in the Golden state, going from 64% to 45% in favor his Governorship in four months.
The recall movement, which started late last year, has seen a flood of new signatures in recent months, going from 1.3 million to 1.4 million in a week in late January. 1.495 million signatures, or 12% of the Gubernatorial vote for Newsom in 2018, are ultimately needed for a recall election to trigger. With the Secretary of State’s office reporting that 84% of the signatures being valid so far, and the March 10th signature deadline still more than a month away to give ample time to collect extra signatures, supporters and opponents alike have come to the conclusion of it’s inevitability of succeeding.
According to Anne Dunsmore, the campaign manager for one of the organizations in support of the recall, Rescue California, Biden taking a stance on the recall movement now only shows just how poor a position that Newsom himself is in now.
“They’re calling in the big guns,” said Dunsmore on Tuesday. “That says a lot. It means game on.”
“From the very beginning, Newsom tried to make it political. These are practical problems people are having. It’s not about Biden versus Trump.”
Biden and the Newsom recall
Other experts also noted that Biden’s announcement may have also been an attempt at rallying Democrats in California to not sign the recall petition.
“There’s a significant number on non-Republicans adding their signatures,” former lobbyist Harry Schultz, who had helped lobby during the 2003 Gray Davis recall, told the Globe.” 10% of the signatures have been Democrats, with Independents signing even more than that.”
“And remember, this is the last thing Newsom wants right now. But he’s made Californians angry, especially in the last six months. Many feel that he doesn’t care and does what he wants. And now we see Biden defending him. That’s a last resort measure to try and stop something, like when a lot of prominent Democrats tried to stop the Davis recall in 2003. But it’s a sign, especially to Newsom who has been blowing the recall question off the last several weeks. This is real, and a significant number of Californians don’t like him. Many would rather have Governor Ted Danson at this point than him.”
“Biden coming in brings that point home to Newsom now, even after a week of Democrats in California trying to stop this. For months they didn’t think it was happening after four other failed attempts before, but Biden saying that. We’re serious now.”
On Tuesday, Governor Newsom gave another public dismissal of the recall at a press conference outside of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, explaining that he was not focusing on it at this time.
“I’m not focusing on that at all,” said Newsom. “I’m focusing on increasing the administration of vaccines, getting these vaccines out of the freezers and refrigerators and into people’s arms.”
As of Tuesday, the recall petition around 1.5 million signatures, 300,000 short of the 1.8 million wanted for validation safety. Should enough signatures be collected in time, final validation is expected by the end of April.
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Awww, Peppermint Patty is rushing to Governor Greaseball’s defense…
Isn’t that special…..
Comrades
Commissars stick together…..peasants must defer…..your duty-
That’s weird, I posted a response here and now it seems to have been edited out/deleted. Is California Globe becoming like Facebook and monitoring free speech? Disappointed in the CA Globe!
They do delete posts.
Who is “they”? Any idea?
This is not a good sign.
I was beginning to think it was my mind/memory, good to know another has experienced this. So disappointed…
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Thanks Katy for the clarification.
Manchurian Joe has no pull with anyone.
“There goes Uncle Joe and he is a moving kind of slow at the junction”. http://www.recallgavin2020.com
Who cares what this fake Joe says. No one is noticing this isn’t the real Biden this is a fake. Compare pictures we have decades of Biden pictures to compare. Not the same man. Newsom is GONE we will make sure of it I’m working non stop until March 17th on this recall…
I think the voters need to understand that they share culpability here. I was screaming for years since NewScam was Mayor of San Francisco that this guy was a crook, a fraud, and corrupt. Anybody in California could have seen the “red flags” with this Mafioso pretty face. They didn’t. They just saw a (D) and an endorsement and didn’t think. My dad always played the “state of the state” address and taught me that state politics are very important (even though it’s hard to good good journalism on it). If California voters made a mistake with NewScam, it’s their own fault for not doing their homework.
Comrades
A chill, a stillness…..the fat lady is coming to center stage wearing Dorothy shoes, it’s about midnight, the serfs and peasants are out of the wooden carts. Assembled in social distance order…..
They hear: Karma Chameleon by Culture Club
I’m a man (a man) without conviction,
I’m a man (a man) who doesn’t know
How to sell (to sell) a contradiction.
You come and go, You come and go.
@Queeg, well done!
Considering “POS” biden is consistently renders incorrect decisions, it appears the recall of minion Newsom will succeed. https://recallgavin2020.com/petition/
No doubt puppet Biden was still asleep when his DNC and CCP handlers sent the Tweet about Newsom on his behalf?
Please do not refer to the occupier as president. He is no more president than a thief who steals your car is the car owner.
You’re right. I second that sentiment.
Nobody cares what you think, Xiden. Everything comes out of your mouth via teleprompter, with Jarrett and Obama writing the script. Your ‘administration’ is the product of a military backed coup promulgated by the Pelosi witch, and we consider it illegitimate.
All the more reason to PROCEED with the recall!!!
The worse Governor ever, poverty everywhere, homeless people and tents everywhere, we have trailers along Ventura Blvd and a bus on the street and no one moves them, on the sidewalk on ventura blvd more tents. There is no end to the mask mandate even though every other state has normal living! The Governor enjoys mandates and that is going to be his downfall besides the fact that he does nothing!!