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    May 14

    After a slow start, California police agencies' use of gun violence restraining orders has tripled over the past two years. The varied adoption in five counties shows just how much the success of the law depends on the dedication of local officials.

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    14 hours ago

    Democrats gloat, Republicans ponder implications of recall results

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  3. 15 hours ago

    What did it all mean in the end?! Maybe nothing.

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    16 hours ago

    Newsom choosing to focus on California's first-in-the-nation school pandemic measures a day after he wins election feels like a victorious "told you so" moment. Just 2 months ago, he was criticized for making strict calls ahead of CDC:

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  5. 16 hours ago

    Legislators already pushing to overhaul California's recall rules after 's big victory last night. What changes would he want to see? "I'm going to leave that to more objective minds," he tells reporters in Oakland. "I think the recall process has been weaponized."

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  6. 16 hours ago

    Newsom's landslide victory on Tuesday night means he is unlikely to face significant political fallout from the recall. For California's Democratic leaders, it largely appears to be a signal to get back to business as usual.

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  7. 17 hours ago

    San Francisco is gonna San Francisco

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  8. 17 hours ago

    During postmortem, Newsom campaign manager Juan Rodriguez rejects question about how gov's own actions contributed to recall qualifying. Reminds me of my interview with Newsom this weekend, where he similarly declined to reflect on mistakes:

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  9. 18 hours ago

    The is LIVE talking California's recall Newsom campaign manager and political director , Elder campaign manager and Faulconer strategist

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    19 hours ago

    When I asked Psaki last month if the White House felt the recall was a referendum on their policies, she demurred. Didn’t take long today for Biden to declare it was — and declare it victoriously

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    20 hours ago

    With the recall attempt behind him, does Gavin Newsom have the wind at his back? The 2022 gubernatorial campaign starts now, say , and . Listen 🎧:

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  12. 22 hours ago

    So it appears not much more got counted last night beyond the early updates from mail ballots. is reporting 9.1 million votes, with recall losing 36%-64%. We should get a better sense today of how many millions more need to be tabulated.

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  13. Sep 14

    So the final night of the legislative session wrapped up by 9 p.m. and then the recall election got called before 9 p.m. The California politics gods were looking out for newspaper deadlines this past week.

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  14. Sep 14

    Republicans had a generational chance to win a governor’s race in California on Tuesday — and they blew it, writes. Which leaves a big question: Now what do they do

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    Sep 14

    Tomorrow's front page: RECALL FAILS RESOUNDINGLY Story by :

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  16. Sep 14

    Your hair looks so good, !

    peep me live-tweeting — and my pop socket — on the front page of the LA Times lol
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    Sep 14

    Larry Elder: "We may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war." Elder swipes at Newsom over French Laundry scandal, rising murder rate, rising cost of living in the state, wildfire prevention.

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  18. Sep 14

    After convincingly beating back a recall effort that came to dominate his third year in office, Gov. took an understated victory lap Tuesday night. It was an abrupt conclusion to the biggest threat of Newsom's decades-long political rise.

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  19. Sep 14

    Newsom evokes his political hero Robert Kennedy, says he is humbled and resolved “to make more gentle the life of this world.” Then he leaves without taking any questions. Speech didn’t even last five minutes.

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  20. Sep 14

    Newsom calls for unity after a divisive election. “Everyone wants to feel safe. Everyone wants to feel respected. Those are universal values,” he says.

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  21. Sep 14

    Victory speech in Sacramento from “No is not the only thing that was expressed tonight,” he says. “We said yes to science. We said to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic.”

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