带走里克·克莱因
加州州长加文·纽瑟姆从提供一个警示故事到描绘民主党人可能想要遵循的路线。
乔·拜登总统正在帮助他实现这一目标，也希望纽森在这一过程中帮助他。周一，在投票结束的前一天，总统将在长滩与纽森一起竞选，召回行动因对新冠肺炎限制的反弹而受到鼓舞，但这可能取决于对这种反弹的反弹。
就像罢免支持者利用对授权和关闭的愤怒作为取代州长的理由一样，民主党人也在用新冠肺炎作为为什么纽森应该留下来的例证。
纽森的竞选活动提高了选票回报，人们担心共和党州长会像纽森上周所说的那样，像德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州等共和党领导的州一样，“带领我们走出同一个COVID悬崖”。领先的共和党替代候选人拉里·埃尔德承诺，如果他宣誓就职，将立即撤销疫苗和口罩授权。
拜登抵达加州，刚刚公布了深入私营部门的全面联邦疫苗接种授权。这些举动引起了保守派的愤怒，包括约19名共和党州长发誓要在法庭或舆论法庭上挑战他的权威。
在这一点上，拜登和纽森都指望一个直言不讳的少数群体会被淹没，并被绝大多数人超过，他们不希望在抗击大流行方面出现更多倒退。加州可能会有一个不完美的测试案例，但是在那里学到的经验将在2021年和2022年带入其他比赛。
与...的关系阿维·哈珀
当涉及到3.5万亿美元的民主党人专用的“人力”基础设施计划时，参议院民主党人并没有按部就班这是一个困境这可能会破坏预算和解和参议院上个月通过的较小的两党基础设施协议。
弗吉尼亚州民主党参议员乔·曼钦扔扳手在大部分地区拜登议程，呼吁对预算和解计划进行“战略暂停”，这将允许民主党人在没有共和党支持的情况下单干。在参议院50比50的情况下，民主党人需要步调一致才能坚持到底，曼钦已经明确表示，在这一点上，他与党内其他人不一致。民主的两院领导人国会议员拒绝了曼钦的“战略暂停”
曼钦说:“紧迫性——我不明白为什么我们不能花时间来考虑这个问题并开展工作。”告诉美国广播公司“本周”主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯在周日。
在众议院，一些民主党人威胁要延期两党计划的通过，直到和解计划通过。参议院预算委员会主席伯尼·桑德斯，I-Vt。，警告说持续的分歧可能会让美国人失去迫切需要基础设施改善。
桑德斯周日对斯特凡诺普洛斯说:“我认为我们会解决这个问题，但如果这两项法案都被否决，这对美国人民来说将是一个可怕的耻辱。
参议院是回到会话中星期一和星期五暂定截止日期参议院委员会将于周三提交立法草案。
小费梅格·坎宁安
尽管加州罢免选举的投票要到周二晚上才结束，但一些共和党人正准备应对基于2020年总统选举谎言的选举诚信问题。
特朗普已经声称选举“可能被操纵”。可能接替纽森的主要共和党人埃尔德上周警告了“恶作剧”——尽管他周六告诉美国广播公司新闻，“这么多人要投票召回它，我不担心欺诈。”
埃尔德此前曾表示，他相信乔·拜登总统“公平、公正地”赢得了2020年大选但他现在鼓励他的支持者拨打热线电话，在召回中出于诉讼目的报告选民欺诈问题，他说，他担心会出现类似于2020年选举的诚信问题——尽管11月份没有广泛的选民欺诈证据。
“我们将及时提起诉讼，”埃尔德上周表示。加州共和党也有一个律师网络随时待命。“我不知道是否有欺诈行为，”该党主席告诉《洛杉矶时报》。“我们没有乱搞。”
Biden, Newsom team up seeking COVID-19 momentum: The Note
The TAKE withRick Klein
California Gov. Gavin Newsom went from offering a cautionary tale to charting the kind of course that Democrats may want to follow.
President Joe Biden is helping him get there -- and also hoping that Newsom helps him out along the way. The president will campaign alongside Newsom Monday in Long Beach, the day before voting ends in a recall effort that was emboldened by backlash to COVID-19 restrictions, but that might be decided by backlash to that backlash.
Just like recall proponents have used anger over mandates and shutdowns as an argument to replace the governor, Democrats are using COVID-19 as a case in point for why Newsom should stay.
Newsom's campaign has juiced ballot returns with concerns that a Republican governor would, as Newsom said last week, "walk us off that same COVID cliff" as GOP-led states like Texas and Florida. The leading Republican replacement candidate, Larry Elder, has promised to roll back vaccine and mask mandates immediately if he is sworn in.
Biden touches down in California having just unveiled sweeping federal vaccination mandates that reach deep into the private sector. Those moves brought outrage among conservatives, including some 19 Republican governors vowing to challenge his authority, in court or the court of public opinion.
On that point, Biden and Newsom are both counting on a vocal minority getting drowned out and outvoted by a broad majority that doesn't want more backsliding in fighting the pandemic. California may make for an imperfect test case, but lessons learned there will carry into other races in 2021 and 2022.
The RUNDOWN withAveri Harper
Senate Democrats don't have their house in order when it comes to the $3.5 trillion Democrats-only "human" infrastructure plan andit's a predicamentthat could tank both the budget reconciliation and the smaller bipartisan infrastructure deal passed by the Senate last month.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who hasthrown a wrenchin much of theBiden agenda, has called for a "strategic pause" on the budget reconciliation plan that would allow Democrats to go it alone without Republican support. With a 50-50 Senate, Democrats need to be in lockstep to see it through and Manchin has made it clear he isn't with the rest of his party on this. Democraticleaders in both chambersof Congress have rejected Manchin's "strategic pause."
"The urgency -- I can't understand why we can't take time to deliberate on this and work," Manchintold ABC "This Week" anchorGeorge Stephanopoulos on Sunday.
In the House, some Democrats havethreatened to delaythe passage of the bipartisan plan until thereconciliation plan is passed. Senate Budget committee ChairmanBernie Sanders, I-Vt., warned that theongoing dividecould leave Americans withoutdesperately neededinfrastructure improvements.
"I think we're gonna work it out, but it would really be a terrible, terrible shame for the American people if both bills went down," Sanders told Stephanopoulos Sunday.
The Senate isback in sessionon Monday and thetentative deadlinefor Senate committees to turn in a draft of the legislation is Wednesday.
The TIP withMeg Cunningham
Although polls for California's recall election do not close until Tuesday night, some Republicans are preparing for issues with election integrity based on lies about the 2020 presidential election.
Trump has already claimed that the election is "probably rigged." And Elder, the leading Republican to potentially succeed Newsom, warned of "shenanigans" last week -- though he told ABC News Saturday, "So many people are going to vote to have it recalled, I'm not worried about fraud."
Elder had previously said that he believed President Joe Biden won the 2020 election "fairly and squarely." But he is now encouraging his supporters to call a hotline to report issues of voter fraud for litigation purposes in the recall, saying he fears there will be integrity issues similar to those of the 2020 election -- despite there being no widespread evidence of voter fraud in November.
"We're going to file lawsuits in a timely fashion," Elder said last week. The California GOP also has a network of lawyers standing by. "I don't know if there is fraud or not," the party chairwoman told the Los Angeles Times. "We are not messing around."
