“Gavin Newsom waited with his family Tuesday night as polls closed across California for the state’s second-ever gubernatorial recall election, with early returns showing the Democratic governor beating the recall by double digits,” the Sacramento Bee reports.
“Just minutes after polls closed, the recall was trailing, with 30.6% voting yes, and 69.4% voting no.”
Based on these early returns, CNN, NBC News and CBS News project Newsom will easily defeat the recall attempt.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.