The Trailer: Democrats are feeling better about California’s recall. Republicans are feeling cheated.

“After 2018, it clicked in my brain that they’ve been cheating us here in California for years,” said Leah Kabaker, 62, who supported the recall. In that race, Newsom had won the endorsement of most elected Democrats and labor unions, and easily dispatched former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in an all-party primary. “Newsom is a White elitist from San Francisco. Villaraigosa was the mayor of Los Angeles. Now, I didn’t like him. But in a state that’s 40 percent Hispanic, you’re telling me that Villaraigosa got buried by Gavin Newsom?”