…the Democrat strategy was to NOT let any serious challenger run against Newsom if the recall is successful, but there were a dozen Republicans running against him. Conservative votes were split enough that Newsom was still elected even though he got less than 50%, because he was the only Dem on the ballot…there were a dozen Republicans running against him.”
Every word CDL posted above is FALSE!
Here is the TRUTH:
FACT - the recall election was in 2021, not 2022.
FACT - there was no Democratic strategy to not let any serious Democratic challenger run against Newsom if the recall was successful.
FACT - Conservative votes were NOT split. There were NOT a dozen Republicans running against Newsom.
FACT - Newsom got 61.9%, NOT “less than 50%.”
CDL obviously did not vote in the Newsom recall election because he doesn’t know anything about how a Cali recall election works.
There were TWO separate ballot votes in the recall:
1. Should Gavin Newsom be recalled as Governor of California - Yes or No?
2. Vote for one of the following candidates for Governor:
(list of candidates)
The second vote only counted if the majority voted “Yes” on Question 1. Otherwise, the results would be irrelevant and ignored.
The result of Question 1 was NO - 61.9%, YES - 31.8%. This was the exact same percentage of the vote. Newsom got when he won the election for governor in 2018.
Assuming, arguendo, that the majority had voted YES on Question 1 to recall Newsom, his name would not have been listed among the candidates in question two. You cannot get recalled in Question 1 and then get reelected in Question 2.
Yet that’s exactly what CDL is claiming - Newsom ran against a dozen Republicans and won with less than 50% of the vote because the dozenRepublicans split the vote. Pure fiction - Newsom’s name wasn’t listed in Question 2.
Therefore, he did not run against a dozen Republicans. There was no splitting of the Republican vote. Newsom did not get “less than 50%” of the
vote because his name was NOT on the ballot in Question 2.
CDL has contempt for this discussion board and he has the utmost contempt
for his fellow righties. He thinks they are so stupid that they will believe his lies. And he’s right!! Has any righty ever questioned CDL‘s posts? NO!! ROFLMAO!!!
Any “reasonable and intelligent” righty would have to know that you cannot get recalled and then reelected on the same ballot.