There's no way in hell that Newsom survived the recall. Every state-wide office of the government is held by a democrat and they hold a super-majority in both the state legislature and senate. People supposedly voted for the jungle primary a couple elections ago and they flood every primary with a bunch of fake republicans so that we ALWAYS end up with 2 democrats running for every office.

Also the California legislature passed that ridiculous gas tax that contained a provision where they could raise the tax by whatever they deemed fit once a year. The electorate banded together and put Prop.8 on the 2018 ballot to repeal the tax and it lost with 57% of the people voting "NO". I've been around long enough to know that people who already pay the highest gas prices in the nation don't willingly vote for MORE taxes on gasoline. That's when I stopped believing that California elections had any legitimacy.

So, yeah, your right. It's rigged and it has been for awhile.