Getting the recall on the ballot initially felt like a win in rural Northern California, where conservatives have long felt they would be better off seceding to form their own state called Jefferson.
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But there was no symbolic, emotional victory in forcing an election.
The result was a walloping that displayed, in the harsh bright lights of a lopsided scoreboard, who is firmly in control of CA — putting the urban-rural divide on stark display.
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Christopher Cole, the former chairman of the Lassen County Republican Party, called the election “a disaster” by a disorganized state GOP that never threw its support behind any particular candidate.
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Jessica Newton, who owns a Main Street dance studio in Susanville, said she has mixed feelings about the expensive election.
She voted to recall Newsom, but she did not choose a candidate to replace Newsom because she wasn’t thrilled with the choices.
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Moving forward, it will be incredibly difficult to bridge the cultural divide between red and blue California, said Kim Nalder, director of the Project for an Informed Electorate at Sacramento State University.
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In Lassen County, a remote outpost bordering the Nevada state line, the small towns that backed the recall are hurting.
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