Posted on 01/06/2022 10:57:27 AM PST by nickcarraway
Conservative talk show host Larry Elder announced Tuesday that he won't challenge California. Gov. Gavin Newsom in the 2022 election despite receiving the most votes in a failed recall effort against the Democrat last year.
The radio host said in a statement to KTTV-TV in Los Angeles and Politico that he'll instead focus on launching a political action committee targeting legislative races in an effort to help Republicans regain control of the U.S. House and Senate.
"I ran for governor because I wanted to make a difference," Elder said in the statement. "While I may not know what the future holds for me politically, our campaign's ability to attract millions of votes and millions of dollars in a very short time demonstrates we have a message that resonates with Americans, and I believe we can put that to good use."
Elder received 3.6 million votes in a September recall election survived by Newsom. Of those who voted to replace the governor, 48.4% chose Elder, the top vote-getter of a large field of Republicans and Democrats.
His campaign, Elder for America, said it raised some $22.5 million in about eight weeks as part of the effort.
Elder had pledged to roll back the state's COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates if he won the recall election. He also spoke against minimum wage and access to abortions.
I love Larry and don’t begrudge him this decision at all. He’s at an age where he should do what he wants to do.
I don’t blame him. He could really be a lot better as the self-styled CA mountain sheriff type guy who roves back and forth along the sierras, establishing justice wherever he goes.
Stick with the Relief Factor, Larry.
As the remaining CA conservatives continue to flee the state in droves, it’s unlikely that Elder could win here. He made the right decision. He remains an island of sanity in an ocean of California socialism.
I voted for Kevin Kiley to replace Newsom in the recall.
Intelligent decision. California is a one-party Marxist dictatorship. The voters have rewarded Leftist California tyrants for 2 decades now. It would be monumentally stupid to run there as a Republican candidate. Pointless. Good decision by Elder. His gain is California’s loss however, as it continues to circle the drain on it’s way toward social and economic suicide.
Why choose to run and throw away millions of dollars in a rigged election state?
If Mr. Elder can help elect a patriot congress that will actually do its express constitutional duty to guarantee each state a republican form of government, then that will help California and other states imo.
"Article IV, Section 4 (4.4): The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
Kalifornia is vote rigging central and the state has been stolen by the communist democrats. The democrat’s John Lewis “Voting Rights Act” will guarantee communist Democrat control of this entire nation if it gets shoved down our throats. There is only one way out it if it happens.
Stick with the Relief Factor, Larry.
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LOL! Good one!
^^^this…
I don’t blame him, but he’d be the strongest candidate we could have.
He would be a better President.
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