{"id":762617,"date":"2021-09-16T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762617"},"modified":"2021-09-16T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T17:44:10","slug":"schoolkids-give-energized-newsom-rock-star-treatment-after-recall-attempt-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schoolkids-give-energized-newsom-rock-star-treatment-after-recall-attempt-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolkids Give \u2018Energized\u2019 Newsom Rock Star Treatment After Recall Attempt Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschoolkids-give-energized-newsom-rock-star-treatment-after-recall-attempt-fails%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=762617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Newsom-Rock-Star.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In what a reporter on the scene <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxPhil\/status\/1438311810239664128\">described<\/a> as a \u201ccarefully orchestrated appearance,\u201d students from an Oakland elementary school gave California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom the rock star treatment the day after he survived a recall attempt to oust him from office.<\/p>\n<p>A staff photographer for the San Francisco Chronicle captured images of a masked Newsom outside of Melrose Leadership Academy on Wednesday as he was mobbed by masked schoolkids seeking autographs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5854430379747\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Students at Melrose Leadership Academy greet Gov. Newsom during a school visit in Oakland, California \u2014 a day after he survived the recall election.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenlamphoto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stephenlamphoto<\/a> <br \/>More on what&#8217;s next for Newsom: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W8ua4akjc5\">https:\/\/t.co\/W8ua4akjc5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kApKBF3bq2\">pic.twitter.com\/kApKBF3bq2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sfchronicle\/status\/1438250221444603906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Newsom, 53, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-09-16\/with-recall-behind-him-where-does-newsom-go-from-here\">said<\/a> he felt \u201cenlivened\u201d and \u201cenergized\u201d after his projected landslide victory on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>As The Chronicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/politics\/article\/After-Newsom-survives-recall-California-politics-16462064.php\">reported<\/a>: \u201cHe was not, however, a man who appeared to emerge from the experience transformed by the dissatisfaction with his leadership that fueled the recall effort. Newsom sounded ready, if anything, to double down on his current approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sharpens your focus about time,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cThings that you may have looked at on the rise and said, over the next two, three years, we want to get this done, you start looking at very differently and saying, well, what\u2019s possible in the next two or three months?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recall effort gained momentum last year after the pandemic emerged and Newsom\u2019s restrictive COVID-19 policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2020\/jul\/17\/california-governor-outline-plans-reopening-school\/\">including<\/a> mask mandates for public schools, went into effect. But on Wednesday, California became the only state to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/fresh-off-win-newsom-addresses-in-person-learning-at-east-bay-school\">move<\/a> out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s \u201chigh\u201d transmission category, and the governor bragged that the Golden State \u201cleads the nation with the lowest COVID case rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur students are back together in the classroom safely thanks to the progress we\u2019ve made together,\u201d Newsom tweeted, along with a video of himself from the school\u2019s playground spinning a basketball on his index finger like a Harlem Globetrotter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.512676056338\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CA leads the nation with the lowest COVID case rate. Our students are back together in the classroom safely thanks to the progress we\u2019ve made together.<\/p>\n<p>Great to be in Oakland today visiting students at Melrose Leadership Academy \u2014 we even got to play a little basketball \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wYk3YzlJ6Z\">pic.twitter.com\/wYk3YzlJ6Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1438330243811463170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More of Newsom\u2019s critics in California and across the country are beginning to realize that the recall campaign could backfire.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Kiley, a Republican state assemblyman who ran to replace Newsom, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevinKileyCA\/status\/1436798380248682496\">warned<\/a> before the election, \u201cNewsom says surviving the Recall will give him a \u2018mandate.\u2019 Make no mistake, he means a mandate for more mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.1531531531532\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is correct (though absurd given Newsom\u2019s HUGE advantages). And it was always my worst fear for the recall, which is now going to come true\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6AEXUHhzQR\">https:\/\/t.co\/6AEXUHhzQR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zigmanfreud\/status\/1437108727891447808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Newsom campaign strategist Sean Clegg said the governor\u2019s team used vaccine mandates as \u201cthe core contrast in the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GOP frontrunner Larry Elder, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/larry-elder-says-hell-suspend-statewide-vax-and-mask-mandates-if-elected-ca-gov-vows-to-fight-local-orders\">said<\/a> he had been immunized against COVID-19 and \u201cbelieve vaccines work,\u201d had promised to suspend Newsom\u2019s statewide mask and vaccine mandates if elected and vowed to fight local orders.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s anti-recall committee branded his Republican opposition as \u201canti-vax\u201d MAGA enthusiasts, a strategy The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-b6049fa972077f6baa2d0c9d3278debd\">said<\/a> distorted their positions. Still, Democrats and independents rallied around Newsom in the campaign\u2019s final stretch, largely because of his pandemic response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope what we\u2019ve shown Democrats\u2026is to embrace [mandates] as a partisan question, put up our dukes and get Republicans on the wrong side of the fence on this thing,\u201d Clegg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/14\/politics\/newsom-california-recall-covid-mandates\/index.html\">told<\/a> CNN.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5.8 million voters voted \u201cno\u201d to recall Newsom, which accounted for almost 64% of the vote counted on Thursday morning. The Mercury News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2021\/09\/15\/gov-newsom-talks-political-future-at-oakland-school-day-after-defeating-recall\/\">points out<\/a>, \u201cNewsom won the day in once-Republican Southern California strongholds like Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, President Joe Biden issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/09\/15\/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-california-governor-gavin-newsoms-recall-election-victory\/\">statement<\/a> calling Newsom\u2019s victory \u201ca resounding win for the approach that he and I share to beating the pandemic,\u201d specifying \u201cstrong vaccine requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that voters in both traditionally Democratic and traditionally Republican parts of the state rejected the recall shows that Americans are unifying behind taking steps to get the pandemic behind us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what a reporter on the scene described as a \u201ccarefully orchestrated appearance,\u201d students from an Oakland elementary school gave California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom the rock star treatment the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}