Seemingly overnight, Larry Elder galvanized support from GOP voters in California, building on his decadeslong experience of connecting with radio listeners to energize Republicans in a way no statewide candidate has in a generation
OAKLAND — California voters’ staggering rejection of the Gov. Gavin Newsom recall was bad enough for the state's Republicans. Now the party has to navigate the meteoric rise of conservative Larry Elder, a defiant talk-show host who freely dispenses opinions far to the right of the broader electorate.
“The best thing the California Republican Party can do if Larry Elder shows up is to discourage him from running again," said GOP strategist Rob Stutzman, a Trump critic. Moderate Republicans see no future in embracing Elder's views, which include opposing a minimum wage and restricting abortion rights. Schwarzenegger in 2007 told attendees of the state Republican convention that their party was "dying at the box office" by letting its conservative wing dominate. After last week's result,Still, the state GOP convention could deliver a forum to Elder, who pronounced within hours of the recall’s landslide defeat that he was “a force” in the party.
But Heatlie also has an unapologetic criticism of the state party leaders, whom he says failed to fully back the will of 2.1 million grassroots voters, some of them Democrats and independents, who signed recall petitions in a call for change. GOP support, he said, was virtually "non-existent." Conservative national talk show host Jennifer Kerns, a former spokesperson for the state GOP, agrees that Republicans "lost control of the message."
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