Gorman said Democrats would only get so much mileage out of demonizing Republican nominees and trying to tie them to Trump. “It’s like us boasting about beating a recall in Alabama,” quipped Matt Gorman, a former strategist with the National Republican Congressional Committee. Still, it’s hard to draw too many conclusions from a single election in a state so liberal that Democrats held every statewide office even during Republican wave years of 20. “We’re pretty excited about California, and it’s not because we thought we’re going to lose it - it’s because the margin is better than expected and it shows the Republican message is failing badly in swing districts,” Mahoney said. Newsom and his Republican opponent John Cox essentially tied in the county in 2018.Įven the incomplete the results buoyed Democrats. The recall was failing in Orange County by 5 percentage points on Wednesday, although the vote count in California will go on for weeks and the final margins may change. In Orange County, long a GOP bastion, racial and ethnic diversity and the growing distaste higher-educated, wealthy voters have shown for Trump have opened the door to Democrats in the county - although the GOP won back two House seats there last year. McAuliffe has been hammering Youngkin as too extreme for a state that has been growing more diverse, more suburban and more Democratic for years.Ĭalifornia has similar demographic trends at play. In November, voters in Virginia will choose between Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former governor and longtime Democratic operative, and GOP businessman Glenn Youngkin. “This vote is a resounding win for the approach that he and I share to beating the pandemic: strong vaccine requirements, strong steps to reopen schools safely, and strong plans to distribute real medicines - not fake treatments - to help those who get sick,” Biden said in a statement.īut there will be better test cases coming on how these messages play with voters.
On Wednesday, Biden embraced Newsom’s victory and his message.
2, he does not have a singular opponent.” 1, Biden himself is not going to be on the ballot and No. “Gavin Newsom had one opponent who he was able to define in the minds of enough swing voters,” he said. They argue they were saddled with a flawed candidate - talk radio host Larry Elder, the Republican frontrunner whom Democrats likened to a Trump clone in a state the former president lost by 30 percentage points and did little to appeal to moderate voters in swingy suburbs.īut President Joe Biden and his party won’t have it as easy next year as Newsom did, said Ron Nehring, a former chairman of the California Republican Party who was harshly critical of Elder and worked for one of his rivals Losing badly in a liberal stronghold isn’t much of a prediction of the party’s performance in battlegrounds like Florida or Georgia, they said. Republicans said they saw nothing to worry about in the California results. Sean Patrick Maloney, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. A healthy turnout, spurred by some late anxiety, showed Democrats remain eager to vote against the former president, even when he’s not on the ballot.Ĭalifornia voters rejected the “Republican brand that is centered around insurrection and denying the pandemic,” said Rep.
But they were pleased with how he did it.īy making the race into a referendum on former President Donald Trump and his supporters’ “extreme” resistance to coronavirus precautions, Newsom offered a formula for survival that could translate to dozens of races in next year’s midterm elections, Democrats said. Gavin Newsom swat down a Republican-driven recall campaign in bright-blue California. (AP) - Few Democrats were surprised to see Democratic Gov.
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