Organizers Hit Number Of Signatures Required To Force Recall Vote For Gavin Newsom: Report

Organizers behind the effort to recall California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom said late on Wednesday evening that they have reached the number of signatures required to force a recall election this year.

The multi-million dollar movement to oust Newsom from office comes in response to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. California has had nearly a million more cases than the state with the second highest number, and just recently passed New York as the state that has had the most deaths from the pandemic.

“Newsom recall leader @tomdelbeccaro says his team now has over the needed 1.5 million signatures to force a recall election this year,” FOX 11 Los Angeles anchor Elex Michaelson tweeted. “Those signatures have to be officially verified so organizers are hoping to get 2 million signatures by mid-March so they have extras.”

#BREAKING Newsom recall leader @tomdelbeccaro says his team now has over the needed 1.5 million signatures to force a recall election this year.

Those signatures have to be officially verified so organizers are hoping to get 2 million signatures by mid-March so they have extras

— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) February 11, 2021

Rescue California disclosed an additional $200K+ in in-kind contributions to the recall earlier this morning (likely to fund this week’s round of paid signature gatherers).https://t.co/RwV6iJjUsZ

— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) February 10, 2021

“Newsom’s approval rating has dropped from 64 percent in September to just 46 percent in late January, according to a poll conducted by the University of California-Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies,” The Hill reported. “While getting a recall measure on the ballot may be possible, experts have cautioned it is likely to be much more difficult to actually recall Newsom in the heavily Democratic state.”

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