Orlando, Florida – House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., Commented on the state of the recall effort against California’s Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, as well as how the left chose agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley as a “guinea pig” for enacting costly environmental actions regulations across the country in comments he made at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday.
Nunes was featured in a discussion moderated by Trent England of Save Our States, an organization that aims to protect the Electoral College.
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The Tulare lawmaker said there are essentially two questions in the next recall vote: Newsom should be revoked and, for voters who answer affirmatively, who should replace him as governor?
Nunes said candidates for the second question are not divided by party, as anyone can run to replace the struggling Democrat, who is being criticized for measures to contain the coronavirus that have hurt business in the state.
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The governor also attracted bipartisan ire when he was spotted dining indoors at The French Laundry in Yountville – one of the state’s most expensive restaurants – during a statewide ban on indoor dining.
“Newsom cannot be on the ballot,” Nunes told England at the conference. “We have to unite around a candidate.”
He explained that the turning point for whether Newsom is likely to lose his revocation vote will be when, if he does, a member of his own party joins the list of candidates seeking to replace him; the suggestion is that Democrats would not like to have to choose between a lot of Republicans and independents and would probably side with the incumbent.
“The thing to watch for is when the left starts eating its own,” said Nunes at CPAC. “As soon as a prominent Democrat announces that they are going to run, that’s when they are likely to slide and Newsom has a good chance of actually being called back.”
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California Democrats, he said, “are at great risk” if they decide not to have a prominent Democrat in the pile of potential replacement candidates.
Nunes went on to suggest that the revocation election would likely fall sometime in the fall of this year.
To date, two U.S. governors have been successfully removed from office: former California Democratic governor Gray Davis – who was replaced by actor who became Republican politician Arnold Schwarzenegger – in 2003, and North Dakota Republican governor Lynn Frazier in 1921.
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