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“My campaign team is fully operational and so am I. I’m in this race to win for California because it’s worth fighting for,” Jenner tweeted Friday after The Advertiser reported that she had landed in Sydney this week with just two months to go for California’s recall election.
“I honor a work commitment I made before I even decided to run for governor. There is no pause at all in this race to save CA!” the Republican candidate and reality TV star tweeted.
Australia is forcing travelers arriving from overseas to self-quarantine for 14 days. That means Jenner will be gone during a critical final phase of the campaign, but her aides have said she can’t shy away from “an earlier obligation” and “will be back very soon.” They did not provide more details on the duration of her trip, but said she continued to do campaign work and interviews remotely.
Many political agents in California expected the recall election to take place this fall, through November. But the lieutenant governor announced earlier this month that she was calling the election for September after California Secretary of State Shirley Weber certified the recall effort.
Newsom’s approval ratings have been relatively stable throughout the spring and summer after the state ramped up its vaccination campaign after a rocky start, but some Democratic agents fear the governor’s political fortunes could be be affected by a resurgence of cases – as parts of the state, like Los Angeles County, are now seeing.
Voters will be asked two questions on the September ballot. The first will be whether they want to vote “yes” or “no” to recall Newsom, who was elected in 2018 with nearly 62% of the vote. The second question will ask who they want to replace Newsom with.
Jenner is one of many prominent Republicans vying to replace Newsom in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans.
Newsom recently sued the state in an attempt to get his party affiliation on the ballot, but a California judge denied the request.
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