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Gascon Recall Effort Had Good Winning Chance: Poll

L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon faced a recall petition over what critics considered progressive policies that resulted in too few arrests, more crime.

  • Recall campaign would have started off with a 41% to 20% lead countywide, per new UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies poll.
  • Still, poll showed 39% of voters undecided on the recall, so outcome would have been far from certain.
  • This was second recall effort. Campaign needed 566,857 valid signatures by mid-July but got only 520,000 of the signatures submitted were valid.
  • Effort failed just weeks after San Francisco resident ousted progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a ballot initiative.

 

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