San Francisco Chronicle: “The campaign to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a conspiracy theory problem, and it just might siphon off votes that could aid its cause. In an illustration of the fallout from Donald Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, California recall supporters have unleashed streams of unfounded allegations on Facebook and other forums, suggesting the state will continue in mass voter fraud to keep Newsom in power.”
“‘We all know 2020s [sic] election was stolen from President Trump,’ a woman wrote last month in a private Facebook group run by the pro-recall campaign to rally support in Orange County. ‘If we can’t guarantee election integrity, the Dems will cheat again.’ ‘We can vote all day but if it’s in a corrupt voting system it’s not going to matter!’ a recall supporter from San Bernardino County wrote, also last month, in the campaign’s public Facebook group, which is statewide and has 25,000 members. These views are anything but isolated, according to a Chronicle analysis of two months of posts and comments on the recall’s official Facebook pages.”