Aspiring governor launches video in Spanish calling for Gavin Newsom to be removed from office

Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego and Republican candidate against the Californian Democrat, addresses the Latino community frontally and criticizes his rival’s management of the pandemic

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Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego and Republican hopeful against Governor Gavin Newsom in the recall elections, launched its first campaign announcements last Friday. In one of them, addresses the Latino community frontally with a one-minute video in which both the voiceover and its final message are in Spanish.

The advertisement, which is a direct criticism of Newsom for his handling of the pandemic , resorts to the idea that ordinary Californians have promoted the special elections. With this argument, he opposes the governor’s strategy, which has associated the efforts to remove him from power to denialist groups and Republican pressure.

The Republican candidate’s campaign team mentions news derived from the problems generated by the pandemic such as the -which has sparked a great controversy in recent months- or the release of tens of thousands of prisoners to which, according to Associated Press , their sentences were reduced for good behavior and with the aim of reducing the population in the country’s largest prison system.

Faulconer also attacks the position of the California government towards the people who live on the streets , although it does not specify how to focus He was the problem posed by the lack of housing and the high prices for both buying and renting.

Looking at the camera and in Spanish, the former mayor of San Diego closes the Simple message video promising to simply “fix what’s wrong so Californians get back to work, kids get back to school, and homeless people are off the streets.” However, does not propose concrete measures to tackle the problems that he exposes in his video.

The proposals that Faulconer has launched so far have enjoyed a much more limited audience than the statements or actions of other aspirants to lead the most populous state in the United States and the fifth largest economy in the world. Announcement of its plan to eliminate state income taxes for people earning less than $ 50, 000 dollars matched the rollout of Newsom’s budget measures . And the Democrat had a state surplus up his sleeve with which he could, among other things, Send stimulus checks to two out of three Californians .

Cases of COVID infections – 19 continue to decline in the golden state and the governor has released a Unprecedented campaign for more people get vaccinated before the economic reopening , scheduled for this Tuesday 15 of June. The data and the California measures leave the governor well and, according to Los Angeles Times recall elections for late summer.

Economic and health optimism about the near future has played an important role for the majority of California voters (a 57%) oppose the recall of the Democrat, according to a survey published at the end of May . Yet despite Newsom’s seemingly good position, Faulconer’s recent campaign ad makes it clear that his rivals will continue to try to replace him.