{"id":39957,"date":"2021-09-14T21:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39957"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:23:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:23:30","slug":"newsom-easily-beats-back-recall-effort-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39957","title":{"rendered":"Newsom easily beats back recall effort in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">California voters soundly rejected an attempt to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday in an historic rebuke that amounted to a ratification of Newsom\u2019s aggressive approach to combatting the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday became the second governor in U.S. history to defeat a recall aimed at kicking him out of office early, a contest the Democratic governor crafted as part of national battle for his party\u2019s values in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and lingering threats from \u201cTrumpism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The victory cements Newsom as a prominent figure in national Democratic politics and preserves his prospects for a future U.S. run. It also ensures the nation\u2019s most populous state will remain in Democratic control as a laboratory for progressive policies on immigration, climate change, representation and inequality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2019No\u2019 is not the only thing that was expressed tonight,\u201d Newsom said at a news conference. \u201cI want to focus on what we said \u2018yes\u2019 to as a state: We said yes to science, we said yes to vaccines, we said yes to ending this pandemic.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California voters soundly rejected an attempt&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39959,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39957\/revisions\/39959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}