加文·纽瑟姆州长只剩下九天时间来说服加州人，他应该保住自己的工作。现在，一些全国最大的民主党人正在前往金州，帮助州长为自己辩护。
纽森在执掌美国人口最多的州的第一个任期已经过去三年，他正努力保住这份工作罢免投票他被共和党人批评为党派之争。
为了给自己的基地注入活力，马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦周六在卡尔弗市为州长开启了一个周末的竞选活动，而明尼苏达州参议员艾米·克洛布查尔(Amy Klobuchar)将于周日在南加州的一次集会上加入纽森。在取消了上周的竞选之旅后，副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯准备去旅行根据哈里斯首席发言人西蒙·桑德斯(Symone Sanders)的说法，周三前往湾区。
“我很荣幸，但更重要的是，她们是这些坚强的女性，我认为这是这三个人的一个共同点，”纽瑟姆在周五接受美国广播公司新闻频道(ABC News)记者Zohreen Shah的坐下来采访时说。
州长补充说，沃伦的支持表明召回的风险有多高。
纽森说:“就参议员正在推进的议程而言，加州变成红色而不是蓝色的后果是深远的，(乔·拜登总统)正在推进的议程。
罢免的结果——由两部分组成的投票，询问选民是否想罢免州长，如果想，与谁一起罢免——可能像纽森的执政记录一样取决于冷漠。
“说到底，如果你能让更多的民主党人退出，他会没事的，”米歇尔·琼，民主党战略家和女性领导的政治研究公司MJE战略的合伙人，告诉美国广播公司新闻。“他们需要全国的数据，因为他们不一定觉得加文本人有很高的积极性。”
保守派电台主持人拉里·埃尔德领先纽森的反对者中，根据五点三十八分的民调追踪尽管他的支持率只有22.6%。但是在纽森的替补阵容中，包括29岁的YouTube明星凯文·帕夫拉特;商人约翰·考克斯，他在2018年的大选中输给了纽森;如果超过50%的选民投票罢免州长，前奥林匹克和现实明星凯特琳·詹娜-埃尔德仍然可以当选州长。
埃尔德的通讯主管马滢严厉批评了纽森号召国家增援的努力。
马告诉美国广播公司新闻，“让其他人试图营救他仅仅表明他有麻烦了，非常害怕很快被踢出办公室”。
促使纽瑟姆周围的加州人兴奋的同时，最近的民调显示，竞争非常激烈——根据FiveThirtyEight的平均民调，只有52.1%的选民说他们会投票留住他。
尽管如此，这位四面楚歌的州长本周还是享受到了一些有希望的消息。加州公共政策研究所的一项新民意调查显示，58%的可能选民将对召回投反对票。
“我们没有把任何事情视为理所当然，”纽森告诉美国广播公司新闻。
沃伦和克洛布查尔、哈里斯一样参加了2020年的总统竞选，她认为自己在加州是因为“州一级正在发生争斗。”
沃伦说:“看看德克萨斯州——一位州长正在努力剥夺女性对自己身体做出决定的权利，并阻止堕胎。”新颁布的针对堕胎的法律。“看看佛罗里达州正在发生的事情——一位州长说，当公立学校想用口罩保护孩子和老师时，他将切断他们的资金。”
州长和参议员都确保强调，这次召回的结果不仅会影响居住在加州的4000万美国人，还会在全国范围内产生深远的影响，因为民主党人将在参议院分裂、众议院微弱多数的情况下展望2022年。
“这关系到民主，”沃伦解释道，并警告加州人不要有投票的动机，因为他们认为纽森一定会获胜。“如果他们不出现，加州的人们可能会在明天醒来，拉里·埃尔德(Larry Elder)可能会成为他们的州长，而长期以来定义加州的权利，就这么消失了。”
当被问及他可能做出的不同决定，这些决定可能会阻止比赛如此接近时，纽森说，“过去的18个月对每个人来说都很艰难。...我正努力关注我们的弹性，让人们知道我们支持他们，他们很重要，我们很关心。”
他补充说，“我们所有人都需要在我们所做的工作以及我们对仍在挣扎和落后的人们的支持方面提高期望值。”
Big-name Democrats join Gavin Newsom's fight to remain California governor: 'It's democracy that's at stake'
Gov. Gavin Newsom has just nine days left to convince Californians that he deserves to keep his job. Now, some of the biggest Democrats nationally are traveling to the Golden State to help the governor make his case.
Three years into his first term in charge of the nation's most populous state, Newsom is fighting to hold the job in the face ofa recall votehe's criticized as a partisan effort by Republicans.
In a bid to energize his base, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off a weekend of campaign stops for the governor in Culver City on Saturday, while Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar is set to join Newsom at a rally in Southern California on Sunday. And after canceling a campaign trip last week, Vice President Kamala Harrisis set to travelto the Bay Area Wednesday, according to Symone Sanders, Harris' chief spokesperson.
"I'm so honored, but more importantly, they're these strong women, and I think that's one thing those three have in common," Newsom said in a sit-down interview Friday with ABC News' Zohreen Shah.
The governor added the support from Warren showed how high the stakes are for the recall.
"The consequences of California turning red not blue are profound in terms of the agenda that the senator is advancing, [President Joe] Biden is advancing," Newsom said.
The results of the recall -- a two-part ballot asking voters if they want to recall the governor, and if so, with whom -- may depend as much on apathy as Newsom's record in office.
"At the end of the day, if you can get more Democrats out, he'll be fine," Michelle Jeung, a Democratic strategist and partner at women-led political research firm MJE Strategies, told ABC News. "They need the national figures, because they don't necessarily feel highly motivated by Gavin himself."
Conservative radio host Larry Elder is the front-runneramong Newsom's opponents, according toFiveThirtyEight's poll tracker, though he's polling at just 22.6%. But in a fractured field of alternates to Newsom -- including 29-year-old YouTube star Kevin Paffrath; businessman John Cox, who lost to Newsom in 2018's election; and former Olympian and reality star Caitlyn Jenner -- Elder could still be elected governor if more than 50% of voters vote to recall the governor.
Ying Ma, Elder's communication director, panned Newsom's effort to call in national reinforcements.
"Involving others to try to rescue him merely shows that he's in trouble and are desperately afraid of being kicked out of office very soon," Ma told ABC News.
The push to excite Californians around Newsom comes with recent polling showing a tight race -- just 52.1% of voters say they'll vote to keep him, according to FiveThirtyEight's polling average.
The embattled governor enjoyed some promising news this week though. A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California showed 58% of likely voters will vote "no" on the recall.
"[We're] taking nothing for granted," Newsom told ABC News.
Warren, who like Klobuchar and Harris ran for president in 2020, made the argument that she's in California because "fights are happening right now at the state level."
"Look at Texas -- a governor who is working hard to take away a woman's right to make decisions about her own body and to block access to abortion," Warren said, referring tothe newly enacted law targeting abortion. "Look at what's happening in Florida -- a governor who's saying that when public schools want to try to protect kids and teachers with masks that he's going to cut off their funding."
Both the governor and the senator made sure to emphasize the outcome of this recall wouldn't just affect the 40 million Americans that live in California, but would have profound consequences across the country as Democrats look toward 2022 with a split Senate and narrow majority in the House.
"It's democracy that's at stake here," Warren explained, adding a warning to Californians not motivated to vote because they think Newsom has a surefire victory. "If they don't show up, people in California could wake up tomorrow and Larry Elder could be their governor and the rights that have so defined California for so long, just gone."
When asked about the different decisions he could've made that might've prevented the race from being so close, Newsom said, "The last 18 months have been hard on everyone. ... I'm trying to focus on our resiliency, let folks now we have their backs, they matter, we care."
He added, "All of us need to raise the bar of expectation in terms of the work we do and our support for people that are still struggling and falling behind."
