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Gavin Newsom: “It was a special election.”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM Talks California, ICE, New Book

Published | Video Starts at 43:02

But when you're on the receiving end of the humility of having a recall qualify when you literally, when you mogged, you did. No, but honestly, it was a non presidential election year. It was a special election. Special election. You won by a landslide. But enough people were like, I'm gonna go to the polls. I'm gonna go to the polls to be like that. (43:02–43:03)

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Asserts that the recall election was a special election.

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