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Gavin Newsom Lasts Effort to Block Trump From California Ballot: 'We Defeat Candidates at the Polls'
Fox News ^ | December 23, 2023 | Sarah Rumpf-Whitten

Posted on 12/24/2023 1:04:28 PM PST by nickcarraway

Gov. Gavin Newsom critized fellow Democrats for considering blocking former president Donald Trump from California's 2024 presidential primary ballot, saying that, "we defeat candidates at the polls."

"There is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy," Newsom said in a statement. "But in California, we defeat candidates at the polls." "Everything else is a political distraction," Newsom said.

The effort to boot Trump off the ballot has been gaining momentum after Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis sent a letter to California Secretary of State, Dr. Shirley Weber, and urged her to "explore" all legal options of removing the former President from the state's ballot.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
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1 posted on 12/24/2023 1:04:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He meant in the vote counting rooms.


2 posted on 12/24/2023 1:05:39 PM PST by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: nickcarraway

Should be “blasts” in the title.


3 posted on 12/24/2023 1:07:38 PM PST by Blennos ( Byaasea)
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To: eclectic

...and the mail boxes.


4 posted on 12/24/2023 1:08:02 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: nickcarraway

Tell that to the Californians who approved Prop 8.


5 posted on 12/24/2023 1:12:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

First Fetterman breaks with Dems to argue against Hamas.
Now Gavin defends Trump on the ballot.

I knew those yuge solar energy waves against the Earth would have an effect.


6 posted on 12/24/2023 1:13:55 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

Geez Louise , Gavin Newsome is bending over backwards to show America that he is not one of those knee-jerk radical liberal Democrats. He wants to show that he’s actually a reasonable Democrat.


7 posted on 12/24/2023 1:16:57 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickcarraway

or rather, in the vote counting room


8 posted on 12/24/2023 1:17:32 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: nickcarraway

DJT is not a threat to democracy. Democrats need to stop blaming Trump for their own attacks against democracy that undermine our electoral process. And we are a republic. Communists and fascists use the word democracy.


9 posted on 12/24/2023 1:20:38 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: nickcarraway

Never believe he has the good of the country at heart.


10 posted on 12/24/2023 1:31:23 PM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: faithhopecharity
In 2024 every poll worker will do something hinky on purpose, just so they can sue anyone asking about it for $143 million dollars. Possibly insulting DMV clerks too. Insult a public sector employee and you will be ruined.

The new "Rudy Rule".

11 posted on 12/24/2023 1:34:31 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: frank ballenger

Only because Newsom knows H@ll will freeze over before Trump wins CA.


12 posted on 12/24/2023 1:35:32 PM PST by rbg81
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To: nickcarraway

What is this bull puckey about “our” liberties and “our” democracy? California liberals, and liberals in general, seem to have an entirely different definition of what constitutes “liberty” and “democracy”.

Maybe Donald Trump IS a threat to those “liberties” and that “democracy”, but from where I stand, Trump has consistently defended the liberties and governmental representation that I consider to be essential to good civil order and peaceable enjoyment of the enumerated rights to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”.


13 posted on 12/24/2023 1:37:10 PM PST by alloysteel (Most people slog through life without ever knowing the wonders of true insanity.)
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To: rbg81

I have to keep hoping....

https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=593473706&q=hell+michigan+freezing&tbm=isch&source=lnms


14 posted on 12/24/2023 1:40:50 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: nickcarraway

We except defeat at the polls more like it California went down the crapper after Regan left and never returned.

It’s a shithole state if there ever was on it doesn’t have gravity it just sucks.


15 posted on 12/24/2023 1:47:44 PM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: nickcarraway

NOTE TO NITWIT NEWSOM:

1. THE USA IS A REPUBLIC-—NOT A DEMOCRACY

2. CALIF HAS MORE LAWS RESTRAINING CITIZENS THAN ANY OTHER STATE

3. CALIF USES TOTAL CHICANERY TO GET THE VOTING NUMBERS THEY WANT.

4. NEWSOM TOOK A STATE WITH A SIZABLE SURPLUS INTO A MULTI_MILLION $$$$ DEFICIT.

5. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PRODUCTIVE CALIFORNIA PERSONS HAVE VOTED WITH THEIR FEET-—AND LEFT THE STATE. THAT MONEY ISN’T COMING BACK.

Wouldn’t trust him with piggy bank $$$$$$


16 posted on 12/24/2023 2:11:41 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Has he EVER accounted for the vast amount of $$$$$ he spent on Covid masks that were never received????


17 posted on 12/24/2023 2:12:38 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: nickcarraway
Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis sent a letter to California Secretary of State, Dr. Shirley Weber, and urged her to "explore all legal options of removing the former President from the state's ballot. . . .

Another fine moment for Chicks in Government.

I guess I understand why they passed that 19th Amendment: There there weren't enough ugly, air-head socialists trying to re-purpose our government as a tool to destroy better-looking women's families.

18 posted on 12/24/2023 2:16:05 PM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: nickcarraway

I despise the use of cliches in writings because it’s lazy, and news coverage is drenched in them. I live here in CA. The rat Lieutenant Governor made that statement a few days ago, and I’ve not heard of any coverage of other leaders
Agreeing with her. The use of “gain momentum”
In this article is cliched, and the vice of that in this particular instance is that it’s false


19 posted on 12/24/2023 2:16:13 PM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: nickcarraway
But in California, we defeat candidates at the polls.

He is saying that because he figures that the insurrection angle won't work for now. The solution is in counting the ballots.

20 posted on 12/24/2023 2:25:37 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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