You would think that ca,ifornians would be fed up with the massive high prices to live there, and vote him out- but they arent. And like you said, illegals voting pretty much means democrats in power for ever there. It has gotten so that in some states, conservatives need not even bother voting because they have no chance at all. We still vote, but it’s useless really. It would be one thing if the split were near equal, but in some states, ghe split is so massive, Republicans have a near zero chance of winning.
Vote harvesting is legal in California - and all “voters” are sent a mail-in ballot. My neighbor got three, including someone who hadn’t lived there in 10 years.
This is how Newsom was elected, although there are a lot of illegals voting and California is chock-full of massive numbers die-hard, dumb Democrats in SF, LA and parts of San Diego. In my area, they live in the hills in the richest part of the city.
Vote harvesting flipped parts of deep red Orange country to blue in 2018 (I understand this has been reversed as of the last election).