California Gov. Newsom blames ‘anti-mask and anti-vax extremists’ for recall effort

More than 2 million Californians have signed a petition to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Now Newsom says it’s all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy.

“And let’s just call it what it is: it’s a partisan, Republican recall – backed by the RNC, anti-mask and anti-vax extremists, and pro-Trump forces that want to overturn the last election and have opposed much of what we have done to fight the pandemic,” said the governor, referring to the Republican National Committee.

“If they are successful, it would mean risking the progress we are making to end the pandemic,” Newsom wrote in an email to supporters. “We can’t let that happen.”

He also said he will not take the recall effort against him “lying down” and urged his supporters to sign a different petition to oppose the “far-right Republican recall effort.”

Randy Economy, a spokesman for the Recall Gavin 2020 campaign, told Fox News that the governor calling the effort part of an extremist movement was “pathetic.”

“Gavin Newsom is resorting to political desperation. He now, finally, has accepted the fact that there will be a recall election being held this year to decide the direction of California and his political fate,” Economy said. “For him to continue to label the people’s campaign as extremist is sad, pathetic and just goes to show how out of touch he really is.”

The California GOP responded on Twitter.

“The highest poverty rate in the nation, the largest number of homeless, some of the highest gas prices, unemployment checks going to death row inmates, and up to $31 billion in unemployment fraud,” wrote the California Republicans. “The recall is gaining momentum because of your failed leadership.”

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