距离加州州长罢免选举还有两天，但现任州长团队和他的主要对手拉里·埃尔德(Larry Elder)都已经表示，他们已经准备好迎接法律挑战。
周六，在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，艾尔德被反复问及是否会接受周二的选举结果，但他回避回答，暗示只要州长被召回，选举就是合法的。
他说:“这么多人要投票召回(纽森)，我不担心欺诈。
但埃尔德本周早些时候在一次竞选活动中对可能存在的欺诈行为提出了未经证实的指控，他表示，尽管没有证据表明选举欺诈行为普遍存在，但召回可能会出现类似于许多共和党人声称的去年总统选举中发生的“恶作剧”。
埃尔德的竞选团队在他的网站上有一个选举诚信部分，选民可以填写一份表格来报告所谓的选民欺诈事件，并签署一份请愿书来调查召回结果。
加文·纽瑟姆州长的竞选团队表示，他们已经为潜在的诉讼做好了准备，但不会在周四的竞选活动中详细说明细节。
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在对沙阿的采访中，埃尔德还回避了关于他过去发表的一些有争议的言论的问题，比如说奴隶主应该得到赔偿。
“掩盖我所说的关于选举的话，”他说。“选举之所以举行，是因为人们对过去两年加州的治理方式不满。”
如果他当选，埃尔德已经计划好了他的第一批生意。他说:“我要做的第一件事是废除对国家工作人员的要求，即他们必须每周接受一次检测，并且必须戴口罩。“我不认为科学支持这一点。”
以前困扰纽森政治生涯的是新冠肺炎提出的问题，而最近几天，这些问题又支撑了他的政治生涯。加州公共政策研究所报告称，在本月早些时候发布的一项调查中，60%的受访者认可纽森处理疫情的方式。
最近关于罢免选举的民意调查对纽森来说看起来很有希望，据《五·三十八》报道，56.2%的选民表示他们会投票保留他，比上周报道的平均投票率增加了4%。
纽森告诉美国广播公司新闻，“民主党人甚至没有认真对待这件事，直到字面上，我甚至不会说几个月前，我会说六七周前。“人们开始意识到这个现实，我们每天都在缩小这个差距。我们要把这东西拔出来。”
这一消息传出之际，美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)将于周一前往加州与纽森(Newsom)一起竞选，这是激励选民的最后一步。
但是纽森在最后阶段面临新的争议。女演员罗丝·麦高恩最近指控纽森的妻子詹妮弗·西贝·纽森试图贿赂她，让她不要公开对哈维·韦恩斯坦的性侵犯指控。西贝新闻网的一名发言人告诉美国广播公司新闻，这一指控“完全是捏造的”，并补充说，“看到政治对手就在选举前几天发起这些虚假攻击，令人失望，但并不奇怪。”
麦高恩将于周日在洛杉矶与埃尔德一起竞选。
Larry Elder, Gavin Newsom gear up for California recall battle
There are still two days to go before California’s gubernatorial recall election, but the current governor’s team and his leading opponent, Larry Elder, have each already indicated they’re ready for legal challenges.
In a sit-down interview with ABC News’ Zohreen Shah on Saturday, Elder was asked repeatedly if he would accept the results of Tuesday’s election, but he avoided answering, suggesting that as long as the governor is recalled, the election is legitimate.
"So many people are going to vote to have [Newsom] recalled, I'm not worried about fraud," he said.
But Elder earlier this week made unsubstantiated claims of possible fraud at a campaign event, saying the recall could see similar "shenanigans" as many Republicans claimed happened in last year’s presidential election, despite no evidence of widespread election fraud.
Elder's campaign has an election integrity section on his website, where voters can fill out a form to report alleged incidents of voter fraud and sign a petition to investigate the results of the recall.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign team said they were prepared for potential lawsuits but wouldn’t elaborate on specifics during a campaign stop Thursday.
In the interview with Shah, Elder also deflected questions about some of the controversial statements he's made in the past, such as saying slave owners should get reparations.
"Cover what I said about the election," he said. "The election is occurring because people are unhappy with how California is being governed the last two years."
If he were to be elected, Elder already has his first order of business planned. "The first thing I'm going to do is repeal the requirement for state workers that they have to be tested once a week and they have to wear a mask," he said. "I don't think the science supports that."
It's the issues brought up by COVID-19 that previously plagued Newsom’s political career and now, in recent days, have bolstered it. The Public Policy Institute of California reported that 60% of respondents approve of the way Newsom has handled the pandemic in a survey released earlier this month.
Recent polling about the recall election looks promising for Newsom, as 56.2% of voters said they’ll vote to keep him, a 4% increase from last week’s reported polling average, according to FiveThirtyEight.
"Democrats didn't even take it seriously until literally, I won't even say a couple months ago, I'd say six or seven weeks ago," Newsom told ABC News. "People started waking up to this reality, we're closing that gap every single day. We're going to pull this thing out."
The boost comes as President Joe Biden is set to travel to California to campaign with Newsom on Monday as a final push to motivate voters.
But Newsom is facing new controversies in the final stretch. Actress Rose McGowan recently alleged Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, tried to bribe her against coming forward with her sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. A spokesperson for Siebel Newsom told ABC News the allegation "is a complete fabrication," adding, "It’s disappointing but not surprising to see political opponents launch these false attacks just days before the election."
McGowan will campaign with Elder on Sunday in Los Angeles.
