Gavin Newsom addresses reporters after beating back the recall attempt that aimed to remove him from office, at the John L. Burton California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Gavin Newsom addresses reporters after beating back the recall attempt that aimed to remove him from office, at the John L. Burton California Democratic Party headquarters in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. California voters were asked two questions: Should Newsom be recalled, and, if so, who should replace him? Newsom seized on Elder’s opposition to the minimum wage and abortion rights as evidence he was outside the mainstream in California. California’s electorate is less Republican, less white and younger than it was in 2003, when voters booted the Democratic Davis.
