What Went Down At The California Recall Election: Live Results

As we’re doing our final takeaways from the night: I know we’ve been rightly cautioning people against reading any national political lessons into the California results. But I do wonder whether there’s something in the relatively high turnout — for an off-cycle race. Namely, that Democrats are willing to go to the polls (or the mailbox) to defend masking, vaccines and other measures to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic.

That’s determinative in a super blue state like California, but if it holds true it could also really matter in more competitive states and districts.