California Republicans didn't draw the huge turnout they needed in this week’s recall election to remove Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2021 file photo people wait in line outside a voting center to cast their recall ballots in Huntington Beach, Calif. California Republicans needed a heroic turnout in Tuesday's recall election to have any chance of ousting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, but preliminary vote tallies, Friday Sept. 17, 2021, show overall turnout in the state was around 55%, far below the 80% that voted in the 2020 presidential contest.
Early polling in the recall contest suggested Republicans were highly motivated to remove Newsom in the rare, late-summer election. The party represents only 24% of registered voters, so the GOP needed an enthusiastic turnout and a robust showing from conservative-leaning independents to reach the majority vote required to oust Newsom.
Going into Tuesday's election, Northern California's Placer County is the kind of place where pro-recall forces would have expected strong support. Democrats hold a nearly 2-to-1 registration edge statewide, but Republicans have a 10-point advantage in Placer. In the one-time Republican stronghold of Orange County, an epicenter for resistance to Newsom’s COVID-19 restrictions that helped drive the recall effort, voters were rejecting his ouster by about 4 percentage points, incomplete returns showed.
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