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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Don’t have time to read the whole post? Jump to a specific recall election scenario:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#wins\">Newsom defeats the election by a lot.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#little\">Newsom survives — but by a small margin.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#loses\">Newsom is removed from office.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For nearly 25 years, Gov. Gavin Newsom rose through the ranks of California politics without ever losing an election, buoyed by connections to powerful San Francisco Democrats and a willingness to take risks — like sanctioning marriage equality — that put him at the vanguard of his party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attention-grabbing style — implementing the nation’s first stay-at-home order in March 2020, then dining at an exclusive wine country restaurant as he told people to stay home to avoid a winter surge — rubbed enough Californians the wrong way that 1.7 million voters launched the second gubernatorial recall in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight back, the Democratic leader of one of the nation’s bluest states returned to what helped him succeed in the early days: connections to fellow Democrats and well-calculated policy risks — this time, to fight COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign rally in Long Beach on Monday night, President Joe Biden heaped praise on Newsom’s management of the pandemic. Newsom this summer made California the first state in the nation to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-vaccine-requirements-workers/\">require vaccines for health care workers and state employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom has had the courage to lead, to stand up for science,” Biden said. “He’s been one of the leading governors in the nation protecting people and vaccinating his state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing Newsom’s campaign message framing the GOP-led recall as an act of “Trumpism,” Biden described the leading Republican candidate — talk radio host \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-candidates-larry-elder/\">Larry Elder\u003c/a> — as “the clone of Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine him being governor of this state? You can’t let that happen,” said Biden, who beat Trump in California last year \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/sov/18-presidential.pdf\">by 30 points\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom, waving, smile as they stand stand before an American flag.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden and Gov. Gavin Newsom wave to the crowd as they campaign to keep the governor in office at Long Beach City College on the eve of the last day of the special election to recall the governor on Sept. 13, 2021, in Long Beach. Forty-six candidates, mostly Republicans, ran to overthrow the governor in the recall election a year ahead of the regularly scheduled gubernatorial vote. \u003ccite>( David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hosting the president the day before the election is just one sign of how much the power of incumbency has boosted Newsom in this race. With no legal cap on his fundraising against the recall, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\">raised five times as much as all his opponents combined\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s team managed to haul $5.5 million from the Democratic Governors Association, $3 million from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and more than $7.6 million from public employee unions. He ran ads featuring nationally known Democrats including former President Barack Obama and U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the governor used the trappings of his office in unusual, attention-grabbing ways. He blasted critics “promoting partisan political power grabs” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/03/newsom-pandemic-response-voters/\">during a State of the State speech\u003c/a> on the field of Dodger Stadium that served as an unofficial campaign kickoff. He \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">used an enormous $76 billion state budget surplus\u003c/a> to address pandemic-induced hardships, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-retirees-stimulus-payments/\">sending $600 stimulus payments to most Californians\u003c/a> — checks that landed just before the election.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nIn the final days of the campaign, Newsom leaned into COVID even further, contrasting his vaccine and mask requirements with his GOP opponents who say they’ll repeal them — and hammering a message of fear. “What’s at stake in the Sept. 14 recall? It’s a matter of life and death,” \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/8DbZC0alxSE\">one Newsom ad says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Rob Stutzman, Republican consultant\"]‘One of the ironies of this recall is that COVID got him into trouble and COVID is going to … probably help him defeat this thing in a landslide.’[/pullquote]Having persuaded prominent Democrats to stay out of the race to replace him, Newsom finished the campaign betting that the pandemic that fueled populist angst to take him down will also stimulate the support he needs to keep his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the ironies of this recall is that COVID got him into trouble and COVID is going to, in the end, probably help him defeat this thing in a landslide,” said GOP consultant Rob Stutzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Newsom’s strategy work? We’ll find out after polls close tonight at 8 p.m. It may take elections officials a few days to determine the results, depending on how close the race is. Here’s a look at the three possible scenarios:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888552 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Newsom throws a few small lottery balls into the air in front of the Universal Studios globe statue.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-2048x1361.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom attends a press conference marking the official reopening of the state of California at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15, 2021, in Universal City. At the press conference, Newsom also selected 10 state residents to receive $1.5 million each as part of the final cash prize drawing in the state’s Vax for the Win program. \u003ccite>(Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"wins\">\u003c/a>Newsom defeats the election by a lot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s effort to win reelection in 2022 kicks off as soon as the recall votes are tallied. If the governor beats back the recall by a double-digit margin — \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/california-recall-polls/?cid=rrpromo\">as recent polls indicate is likely\u003c/a> — he could claim an authority that could empower him in at least two ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he could continue governing the final year of this term with the same priorities he’s had all along — for enacting progressive social policy and taking a relatively strict approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic. Second, he could coast toward the 2022 campaign without fear of a credible challenger from his own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888162\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS51414_005_Oakland_ItzelDiazandFamily_09092021-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]An overwhelming victory also could demonstrate to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/the-california-recall-could-be-a-road-map-for-democrats/620020/\">other Democrats on the ballot\u003c/a> next year that leaning into COVID vaccine mandates — and painting GOP resistance to them as a public health danger — is a successful strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great thing when good public policy winds up with good politics,” said Ace Smith, Newsom’s longtime political strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stutzman agreed, saying that a big margin for Newsom would show that voters favor his strict approach on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His team figured out that once a majority of voters were vaccinated, it becomes a popular idea to put forward policies that are in the best interest of those who are vaccinated,” said Stutzman, who worked on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful campaign in the 2003 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They figured it out before the White House did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-joe-biden-business-health-travel-a1670ffa08f1f2eab42c675d99f1d9ad\">required federal government employees to get vaccinated\u003c/a> days after Newsom’s first announcement. He then followed it up last week with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-vaccine-federal-workers.html\">broader mandate for employees at private companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Newsom pulls through by a large margin, a show of strength now does not guarantee long-term political success. Any ambitions Newsom may have to run for president will be shaped by a lot more than defeating this recall, said Democratic strategist Paul Maslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What he does on a host of issues that are very difficult over the next year — or the next five years if he has a second term — will be much more important to how he is judged,” Maslin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Paul Maslin, Democratic strategist\"]‘If [Newsom] does win by a significant margin, it will reinforce [his] status … what it says about the rest of his career is unknowable.’[/pullquote]“Ultimately I don’t know that it will mean that much in the story of Gavin Newsom or California. It will be sort of a diversion that he had to respond to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maslin, who worked on campaigns against the 2003 recall of former Gov. Gray Davis and for the failed recall of Republican former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, pointed to the example of Walker, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/06/05/154384654/live-blog-wisconsin-decides-governors-fate-in-recall-vote\">beat back a recall in 2012\u003c/a>, won reelection in 2014 and was seen as a strong contender for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Walker’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/21/442313437/reports-scott-walker-ending-presidential-campaign\">presidential campaign flopped\u003c/a>. And then in 2018, he ran for reelection as governor — and lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Newsom was always going to be the huge favorite for reelection, and if he does win by a significant margin, it will reinforce that status,” Maslin said. “What it says about the rest of his career is unknowable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888553 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-scaled.jpg\" alt='Gov. Gavin Newsom stands at a podium with a stern look, a large lighted sign beyond him that says, \"Vote.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242314-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a campaign event with President Joe Biden at Long Beach City College in Long Beach on Sept. 13, 2021. “If [Newsom] limps out of this, there will be some blood in the water,” said Steve Maviglio, a Democratic political consultant. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"little\">\u003c/a>Newsom survives by a little\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Defeating the recall by a narrow margin — \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2018-general/sov/21-governor.pdf\">significantly less than his 24-percentage-point\u003c/a> win over Republican \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-candidates-john-cox/\">John Cox in 2018\u003c/a> — could weaken Newsom as he heads into reelection next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he limps out of this, there will be some blood in the water,” said Steve Maviglio, a Democratic political consultant. “Another Democrat will think they could do better and they can take him on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11888182\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Capitol-1180x787-3-1020x680.jpeg\"]Republicans who backed the recall could claim a kind of victory from weakening the governor, even if they failed to throw him out of office. Some of them already are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s spent $80 million, he’s in the fight of his life, he’s called in the president and the vice president,” said Anne Dunsmore, a recall campaign manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s taking it seriously and he’s using a lot of resources to combat us … We’ve already won. We’ve made our point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A narrow win would also likely trigger lawsuits over the validity of the election results. Conservative commentators have already begun saying, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/08/newsom-recall-election-fraud-myths/\">with no evidence\u003c/a>, that voter fraud \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/gop-voter-fraud-california-recall.html\">will be to blame if Newsom\u003c/a> remains in office. Former President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LATSeema/status/1437461490232037380?s=20\">issued a statement\u003c/a> Monday calling the recall “another giant Election Scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder has said he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/larry-elder-claims-california-recall/index.html\">plans to file lawsuits over election irregularities\u003c/a>. His website \u003ca href=\"https://stopcafraud.com/\">links to another site\u003c/a> that asks voters to sign a petition “demanding a special session of the California legislature to investigate and ameliorate the twisted results of this 2021 Recall Election of Governor Gavin Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called Elder’s stance “an extension of the Big Lie” that Trump stoked about his loss last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The election hasn’t even happened and now they’re all fanning election fraud,” Newsom said Friday. “I encourage voters to come out in overwhelming numbers … So we can put all this nonsense to rest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888537\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888537 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-scaled.jpg\" alt='Larry Elder stands near a podium sign that reads, \"Yes on Recall, The People v. Newsom.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-800x467.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1020x595.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1536x897.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-2048x1196.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1920x1121.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder looks on as he is introduced at an event in Monterey Park, California, on Sept. 13, 2021, the last day before the Sept. 14 recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"loses\">\u003c/a>Newsom is removed from office\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>More recent polls have consistently indicated that it’s unlikely the recall will prevail. If voters do throw Newsom out of office, it will show\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/newsom-recall-poll-campaign/\"> how difficult it is for pollsters to predict an unusual election\u003c/a> such as a gubernatorial recall, where it can be hard to measure how many voters will turn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, older and white voters are returning their ballots at a higher rate than other demographic groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politicaldata.com/2021-special-election-tracker/\">according to tabulations by Political Data Inc.\u003c/a> If the recall is successful, it may be because \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-young-voters/\">younger voters\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-latino-voters/\">Latino voters\u003c/a> — key blocs in the Democratic coalition — don’t cast ballots, or vote to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11886134\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-2586310-1020x740.jpg\"]A successful recall would be a huge victory for the California GOP, which has been beleaguered and shrinking for many years. If Newsom is recalled, the new governor — most likely talk radio host Elder — would be sworn in by the end of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though a Republican governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/08/newsom-recall-republicans-govern/\">would face many hurdles enacting new laws\u003c/a> because of the huge majority Democrats have in the Legislature, he could have the chance to make a significant political appointment, should Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is 88, become unable to finish her term. Elder has said he would appoint a Republican to her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Democrat Christine Pelosi said that if Newsom is recalled, California lawmakers should immediately call a special session and change the rules for how political vacancies are filled in the Senate and state constitutional offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, there are few limits on whom the governor can appoint to those positions. Pelosi, the daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and an officer with the California Democratic Party, said the rules could be changed to require replacement by someone from the same party as the outgoing official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature can do that,” she said. “And in my view they should.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every governor since 1960 has faced an attempted recall, but most efforts fell short of the signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. Would liberal activists try to recall a Republican winner of this recall?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible. But it seems unlikely, given the time involved in mounting a recall and the regularly scheduled gubernatorial election next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Timing wise, it doesn’t make sense,” Pelosi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>And no matter what …\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Expect California lawmakers to begin working on possible changes to the recall process. Whether there will be bipartisan support for an overhaul is unclear. But Democratic leaders said they intend to start examining the recall rules later this year or early next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='recall-election']“We’ve heard that people want change, and we in the Legislature will take a look at that,” state Senate leader Toni Atkins told reporters on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon echoed her view, saying the recall system “was set up a century ago. The extent to which it’s still valid in its current form … merits discussion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveys have shown that California voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.igs.berkeley.edu/research/berkeley-igs-poll\">support changing the recall rules\u003c/a>. Potential changes could include a runoff if no replacement candidate receives a majority of the vote, making it harder for recalls to qualify for the ballot and limiting recalls to situations where a public official has broken the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such changes would require approval from voters. So any plan that lawmakers come up with would likely go on the ballot next year in the form of a statewide initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right: Voting in the recall election ends this Tuesday. But recall rules may be on the ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Mikhail Zinshteyn contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Gavin Newsom rose through the ranks of California politics without ever losing an election, buoyed by connections to powerful San Francisco Democrats and a willingness to take risks — like sanctioning marriage equality — that put him at the vanguard of his party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor’s attention-grabbing style — implementing the nation’s first stay-at-home order in March 2020, then dining at an exclusive wine country restaurant as he told people to stay home to avoid a winter surge — rubbed enough Californians the wrong way that 1.7 million voters launched the second gubernatorial recall in state history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To fight back, the Democratic leader of one of the nation’s bluest states returned to what helped him succeed in the early days: connections to fellow Democrats and well-calculated policy risks — this time, to fight COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a campaign rally in Long Beach on Monday night, President Joe Biden heaped praise on Newsom’s management of the pandemic. Newsom this summer made California the first state in the nation to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2021/07/california-vaccine-requirements-workers/\">require vaccines for health care workers and state employees\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gavin Newsom has had the courage to lead, to stand up for science,” Biden said. “He’s been one of the leading governors in the nation protecting people and vaccinating his state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Echoing Newsom’s campaign message framing the GOP-led recall as an act of “Trumpism,” Biden described the leading Republican candidate — talk radio host \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-candidates-larry-elder/\">Larry Elder\u003c/a> — as “the clone of Donald Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you imagine him being governor of this state? You can’t let that happen,” said Biden, who beat Trump in California last year \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2020-general/sov/18-presidential.pdf\">by 30 points\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888533\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888533 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235242589-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden and Gov. 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Gavin Newsom wave to the crowd as they campaign to keep the governor in office at Long Beach City College on the eve of the last day of the special election to recall the governor on Sept. 13, 2021, in Long Beach. Forty-six candidates, mostly Republicans, ran to overthrow the governor in the recall election a year ahead of the regularly scheduled gubernatorial vote. \u003ccite>( David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hosting the president the day before the election is just one sign of how much the power of incumbency has boosted Newsom in this race. With no legal cap on his fundraising against the recall, Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-recall-money/\">raised five times as much as all his opponents combined\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s team managed to haul $5.5 million from the Democratic Governors Association, $3 million from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and more than $7.6 million from public employee unions. He ran ads featuring nationally known Democrats including former President Barack Obama and U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the governor used the trappings of his office in unusual, attention-grabbing ways. He blasted critics “promoting partisan political power grabs” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/03/newsom-pandemic-response-voters/\">during a State of the State speech\u003c/a> on the field of Dodger Stadium that served as an unofficial campaign kickoff. He \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">used an enormous $76 billion state budget surplus\u003c/a> to address pandemic-induced hardships, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-retirees-stimulus-payments/\">sending $600 stimulus payments to most Californians\u003c/a> — checks that landed just before the election.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Having persuaded prominent Democrats to stay out of the race to replace him, Newsom finished the campaign betting that the pandemic that fueled populist angst to take him down will also stimulate the support he needs to keep his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the ironies of this recall is that COVID got him into trouble and COVID is going to, in the end, probably help him defeat this thing in a landslide,” said GOP consultant Rob Stutzman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did Newsom’s strategy work? We’ll find out after polls close tonight at 8 p.m. It may take elections officials a few days to determine the results, depending on how close the race is. Here’s a look at the three possible scenarios:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888552\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888552 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Newsom throws a few small lottery balls into the air in front of the Universal Studios globe statue.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1701\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-2048x1361.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1323741590-1920x1276.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom attends a press conference marking the official reopening of the state of California at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 15, 2021, in Universal City. At the press conference, Newsom also selected 10 state residents to receive $1.5 million each as part of the final cash prize drawing in the state’s Vax for the Win program. \u003ccite>(Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"wins\">\u003c/a>Newsom defeats the election by a lot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s effort to win reelection in 2022 kicks off as soon as the recall votes are tallied. If the governor beats back the recall by a double-digit margin — \u003ca href=\"https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/california-recall-polls/?cid=rrpromo\">as recent polls indicate is likely\u003c/a> — he could claim an authority that could empower him in at least two ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, he could continue governing the final year of this term with the same priorities he’s had all along — for enacting progressive social policy and taking a relatively strict approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic. Second, he could coast toward the 2022 campaign without fear of a credible challenger from his own party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>An overwhelming victory also could demonstrate to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/the-california-recall-could-be-a-road-map-for-democrats/620020/\">other Democrats on the ballot\u003c/a> next year that leaning into COVID vaccine mandates — and painting GOP resistance to them as a public health danger — is a successful strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a great thing when good public policy winds up with good politics,” said Ace Smith, Newsom’s longtime political strategist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stutzman agreed, saying that a big margin for Newsom would show that voters favor his strict approach on vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His team figured out that once a majority of voters were vaccinated, it becomes a popular idea to put forward policies that are in the best interest of those who are vaccinated,” said Stutzman, who worked on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful campaign in the 2003 recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They figured it out before the White House did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Biden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-joe-biden-business-health-travel-a1670ffa08f1f2eab42c675d99f1d9ad\">required federal government employees to get vaccinated\u003c/a> days after Newsom’s first announcement. He then followed it up last week with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-vaccine-federal-workers.html\">broader mandate for employees at private companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if Newsom pulls through by a large margin, a show of strength now does not guarantee long-term political success. Any ambitions Newsom may have to run for president will be shaped by a lot more than defeating this recall, said Democratic strategist Paul Maslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What he does on a host of issues that are very difficult over the next year — or the next five years if he has a second term — will be much more important to how he is judged,” Maslin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Republicans who backed the recall could claim a kind of victory from weakening the governor, even if they failed to throw him out of office. Some of them already are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s spent $80 million, he’s in the fight of his life, he’s called in the president and the vice president,” said Anne Dunsmore, a recall campaign manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s taking it seriously and he’s using a lot of resources to combat us … We’ve already won. We’ve made our point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A narrow win would also likely trigger lawsuits over the validity of the election results. Conservative commentators have already begun saying, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/08/newsom-recall-election-fraud-myths/\">with no evidence\u003c/a>, that voter fraud \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/politics/gop-voter-fraud-california-recall.html\">will be to blame if Newsom\u003c/a> remains in office. Former President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LATSeema/status/1437461490232037380?s=20\">issued a statement\u003c/a> Monday calling the recall “another giant Election Scam.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder has said he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/politics/larry-elder-claims-california-recall/index.html\">plans to file lawsuits over election irregularities\u003c/a>. His website \u003ca href=\"https://stopcafraud.com/\">links to another site\u003c/a> that asks voters to sign a petition “demanding a special session of the California legislature to investigate and ameliorate the twisted results of this 2021 Recall Election of Governor Gavin Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom called Elder’s stance “an extension of the Big Lie” that Trump stoked about his loss last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The election hasn’t even happened and now they’re all fanning election fraud,” Newsom said Friday. “I encourage voters to come out in overwhelming numbers … So we can put all this nonsense to rest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11888537\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11888537 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-scaled.jpg\" alt='Larry Elder stands near a podium sign that reads, \"Yes on Recall, The People v. Newsom.\"' width=\"2560\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-800x467.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1020x595.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-160x93.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1536x897.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-2048x1196.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/GettyImages-1235237923-1920x1121.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder looks on as he is introduced at an event in Monterey Park, California, on Sept. 13, 2021, the last day before the Sept. 14 recall election of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. \u003ccite>(Frederic J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"loses\">\u003c/a>Newsom is removed from office\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>More recent polls have consistently indicated that it’s unlikely the recall will prevail. If voters do throw Newsom out of office, it will show\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/09/newsom-recall-poll-campaign/\"> how difficult it is for pollsters to predict an unusual election\u003c/a> such as a gubernatorial recall, where it can be hard to measure how many voters will turn out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, older and white voters are returning their ballots at a higher rate than other demographic groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.politicaldata.com/2021-special-election-tracker/\">according to tabulations by Political Data Inc.\u003c/a> If the recall is successful, it may be because \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-young-voters/\">younger voters\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-recall-latino-voters/\">Latino voters\u003c/a> — key blocs in the Democratic coalition — don’t cast ballots, or vote to recall Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla was confident in June about the ability of his company’s vaccine to protect against the highly contagious delta variant, as it marched across the globe and filled U.S. hospitals with patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel quite comfortable that we cover it,” Bourla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks later, Pfizer said it would seek authorization for a booster shot, after early trial results showed a third dose potentially increased protection. At the end of July, Pfizer and BioNTech announced findings that four to six months after a second dose, their vaccine’s efficacy dropped to about 84%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bourla was quick to promote a third dose after the discouraging news, saying he was “very, very confident” that a booster would increase immunity levels in the vaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s one hitch: Pfizer has not yet delivered conclusive proof to back up that confidence. The company lacks late-stage clinical trial results to confirm a booster will work against COVID variants including delta, which now accounts for 93% of new infections across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfizer announced its \u003ca href=\"https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04955626?term=Pfizer&cond=Covid19&draw=3started\">global phase 3 trial\u003c/a> on a third dose in mid-July. That trial’s completion date is in 2022. Phase 3 results generally are required before regulatory approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are confident in this vaccine and the third dose, but you have to remember the vaccine efficacy study is still going on, so we need all the evidence to back up that,” Jerica Pitts, Pfizer’s director of global media relations, said Monday. The financial stakes are enormous: Pfizer announced in July that it expects \u003ca href=\"https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2021/PFIZER-REPORTS-SECOND-QUARTER-2021-RESULTS/default.aspx\">$33.5 billion \u003c/a>in COVID-19 vaccine revenue this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Pfizer recently said that if a third dose couldn’t combat the delta or other variants, the drugmaker is poised to come up with a “tailor-made” vaccine within 100 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this has sown a sense of confusion about what exactly will work, and when. The pharmaceutical industry’s rush to recommend boosters for the public is “a little frustrating,” said Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adviser to the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Even if a booster is found to be safe, he said, the U.S. effort should focus on “vaccinating people who are unvaccinated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, decisions about boosters do not rest with vaccine makers, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pharmaceutical companies aren’t public health agencies. It’s really not theirs to determine when or whether there should be booster dosing,” Offit said. “That is the purview of the CDC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA ― the federal agencies overseeing the authorization of COVID vaccines ― said \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s-07082021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in July\u003c/a> that fully vaccinated Americans do not need a booster shot. Currently authorized vaccines ― from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson ― are working as they should: All three lower the risk of COVID severe enough to hospitalize or kill a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If hospitalization and death rates increase among the vaccinated, then it would be time to talk about boosters, Offit said, but “we’re not there yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House has added to the mixed messaging: Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that the U.S. will buy an additional 200 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for inoculating children under 12 and for possible boosters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at Emory University in Atlanta, said the confusion is not necessarily the fault of any one institution but rather that “there is genuine scientific uncertainty about how well [existing] vaccines work against the new variant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are piecing together information from observational studies, outbreak investigations and analyses of antibody responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Americans ― especially those who struggled six months ago to find any dose, frantically using \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinehunter.org/\">vaccine hunters\u003c/a> and driving hours-long distances for their first jab ― the confusion has set off a feverish search for an illicit third dose just in case it’s necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I snuck in a dose of Pfizer last week,” Angie Melton, a 50-year-old mother of four, shared on Facebook. Melton received the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot at a mass vaccination site in April and feared the highly contagious delta variant could infect her and, then, her unvaccinated 10-year-old son, who has asthma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After consulting friends and doctors and seeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/delta-people-are-mixing-and-matching-covid-vaccines-over-concerns-about-variant.html\">reports\u003c/a> about mix-and-match approaches in Europe, Melton signed onto a local pharmacy site and made an appointment to get a Pfizer shot. She’s scheduled for a second shot as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m trying to keep my family safe,” Melton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CDC advisory panel was set to meet Friday to consider updates on whether additional vaccine doses are necessary for immunocompromised people. A presentation about boosters is also on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/agenda-archive/agenda-2021-08-13-508.pdf\">agenda\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immunocompromised patients like Sarah Keitt, who has multiple sclerosis and Crohn’s disease, expressed relief that federal regulators planned to recommend a third dose. Keitt, a disability rights activist who lives in Connecticut, said her neurologist told her to get a booster even after she had received two doses of Moderna. On Thursday, she said she was eager to get another dose but still frustrated about a lack of confidence in how much protection it would offer.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Natalie Dean, biostatistician at Emory University in Atlanta\"]'There is genuine scientific uncertainty about how well [existing] vaccines work against the new variant.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone could definitely say there is a 95% chance you are protected” by a booster, Keitt said, “I would love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite widespread media reports of so-called “breakthrough cases,” a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/\">recent\u003c/a> data analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that hospitalizations and deaths are extremely rare among the fully vaccinated ― well below 1%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offit points to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outbreak\u003c/a> in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in which only four of the 346 fully vaccinated people infected with COVID were hospitalized, two of whom had underlying medical conditions. And no one died. “This vaccine still does an excellent job in the face of the delta variant at protecting people against severe, critical disease,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine against variants is still under debate. This month a new preprint study by the Mayo Clinic found that the product’s effectiveness against infection dropped to 42% from January to July ― as the delta variant’s prevalence markedly increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pfizer and partner BioNTech announced they \u003ca href=\"https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-provide-update-booster-program-light-delta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are developing\u003c/a> an updated version of their vaccine in Germany to target the genomic features of the delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the idea that a new formulation could work better is “mostly hypothetical at this point,” said Vaughn Cooper, a professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Vincent Rajkumar, a hematologist at the Mayo Clinic who closely studies his patients’ immune responses and antibody levels, said trying both strategies of using the current vaccine and testing a new version sounds reasonable.[aside tag=\"vaccines\" label=\"More COVID coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is one hypothesis that if “breakthrough” infections are due to a drop in antibody levels, boosting those levels will be enough, Rajkumar said. But the more worrisome hypothesis is that the delta variant, or any other variant, might respond considerably differently to ― and be less threatened ― by the antibodies the current vaccine generates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So unless you boost [antibodies] with a vaccine that is specific to delta, it won’t work,” Rajkumar said. He said testing both hypotheses is the “right thing to do in the interest of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, though, the push for giving booster shots to healthy populations is premature, said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist and cardiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. 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And, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/\">HealthCare.gov\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace-in-your-state/\">the state marketplaces\u003c/a> there are free “\u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/plans-categories/\">bronze plans\u003c/a>” — the lowest tier of plans — that might be available with zero-dollar premiums depending on your income. Both of those have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/millions-of-uninsured-americans-are-eligible-for-free-aca-health-insurance/\">options for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, there’s also a new free plan option open to a new category of people. The American Rescue Plan included \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/04/22/989448586/health-insurance-for-10-or-less-a-month-you-may-qualify-for-new-discounts\">a lot of changes\u003c/a> to help make it easier and more affordable to enroll, including new and more generous subsidies for premiums, cost-sharing support for low-income people and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major change: If you’ve \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/more-savings/\">received unemployment benefits\u003c/a> at any point this year, you might qualify for a comprehensive silver plan through the end of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Put it all together? There are zero-cost premium plans available to 13.3 million Americans — nearly half of the 29 million or so uninsured. Yet puzzlingly few have enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are millions of people who are passing up free health insurance,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/person/cynthia-cox/\">Cynthia Cox\u003c/a>, director of the Program on the ACA at the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, who authored a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-affects-subsidies-for-marketplace-shoppers-and-people-who-are-uninsured/\">recent brief\u003c/a> on the topic. “That free health insurance — most of the time — actually comes with very low deductibles, too. So a lot of times, people could have all — or the vast majority — of their health care costs paid for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the uninsured, 5 million are eligible not for free plans, but are for subsidized ones, and an additional 10.7 million people are not eligible for either, because they live in a state that has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/07/01/1011502538/12-holdout-states-havent-expanded-medicaid-leaving-2-million-people-in-limbo\">not expanded Medicaid\u003c/a>, are undocumented immigrants or have access to an affordable plan through their employer or the ACA, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/how-the-american-rescue-plan-act-affects-subsidies-for-marketplace-shoppers-and-people-who-are-uninsured/\">according to KFF’s analysis\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why would millions of people pass up the chance at free health coverage? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still hear constantly that people have no idea that this was an option,” says Jeremy Smith, a health insurance navigator at the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://acanavigator.com/wv/home\">First Choice Services\u003c/a> in West Virginia. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/navigator/\">Navigators\u003c/a> give free advice to people who want to enroll in ACA plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1612\" height=\"1084\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11883600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM.png 1612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-800x538.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-1020x686.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-03-at-3.42.12-PM-1536x1033.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1612px) 100vw, 1612px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bad experiences trying to sign up in the past, or plans with high out-of-pocket costs and deductibles might have turned people off, Smith says. Even though many plans are available that have zero-dollar premiums, some may still have other \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthcare.gov/choose-a-plan/your-total-costs/\">out-of-pocket costs\u003c/a> to be aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He finds most of the people he’s enrolling are still paying something every month, but it really varies. “For one family, it might make sense to take the zero-dollar plan that’s got a little bit higher deductible,” he says. “The next [family] can dig in, and they may be willing to pay $100 a month if it means their deductible’s lower and their co-pays are lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, he thinks a lot of people are missing out. “Even though everybody’s trying to do all they can to say there’s these new options, a lot of people just think they don’t qualify, therefore they don’t look into it,” Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inertia is also a powerful force, says Louise Norris, who co-owns an insurance brokerage in Colorado. Or maybe people are concerned about documentation or having to make \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/11/01/775391311/open-enrollment-is-here-6-tips-for-choosing-a-health-insurance-plan\">complicated choices\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Louise Norris, owner of a Colorado-based insurance brokerage\"]‘There are so many little reasons that somebody might be hesitating, and when you put them all together, you end up with at least a few million people who are leaving these benefits on the table.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many little reasons that somebody might be hesitating, and when you put them all together, you end up with at least a few million people who are leaving these benefits on the table,” Norris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some new people have been signing up on HealthCare.gov and the state marketplaces. The Biden-Harris administration’s last report showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/14/health-care-sign-ups-surpass-2-million-during-2021-special-enrollment-period-ahead-of-aug-15-deadline.html\">2 million new people\u003c/a> enrolled in health plans, although it’s not clear how many of them enrolled in one of these free plan options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with these affordable options, years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/09/20/552094974/bemoaning-budget-cuts-health-care-navigators-say-feds-dont-get-it\">slashed budgets for outreach\u003c/a> under the Trump administration had an impact on how many people are aware of the insurance marketplace at all, says Katie Roders Turner, a navigator with the Family Healthcare Foundation in central Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the last four years, there was this vacuum of information — and misinformation in addition to that,” she says. “I think it’s a knowledge gap, and I think that a marketing response is really going to make a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has been putting some effort into marketing the plans and trying to get the word out about the fact that enrollment is now open and there are new discounts available. It’s running digital and TV ads and publishing community toolkits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kaiser Family Foundation’s Cox says that outreach is needed, not just to tell people the plans are there and they’re more affordable now, but also to explain the value of having health insurance, even if it’s not a top-tier plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One-hundred percent of the time, if you can get a free bronze plan, you are better off than being uninsured,” she says. Some consumers are put off by high deductibles — the amount you would have to pay for any health care you use before your insurance plan picks up the tab. But even a high deductible plan is better than no coverage, she says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you get hit by a bus or have COVID and need a hospitalization, that’s the difference between being $7,000 in debt versus being $50,000 in debt,” she says. “It can mean the difference between keeping your car or not, or keeping your house or not,” she adds. “That’s a big difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sunday, one of the people who has a free plan is Deborah Kagan. She just moved from New York state — where she was on Medicaid after being laid off during the pandemic — to Florida, where she’s not eligible for Medicaid. She was extremely stressed about the move and losing coverage, especially because she has Type 1 diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Deborah Kagan\"]‘Without my medication, I’m dead. And during COVID, I also found out that I had breast cancer and I had a brain tumor, and it was just one thing after the other.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without my medication, I’m dead,” she says. “And during COVID, I also found out that I had breast cancer and I had a brain tumor, and it was just one thing after the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she’s been on unemployment benefits, a navigator with the Family Healthcare Foundation walked her through enrolling in a free silver plan that will cover most of her health costs through the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The navigators “knew everything — all the updates — and guided me through every step of the way and were just beyond helpful,” she says. Having a free plan lined up, she says, is “a huge relief and it will help me focus on finding a job quickly.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Aug. 2, 2021 at 3:34 PM PT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration advocates who had been negotiating with the Biden administration to end a Trump-era rule that blocks most migrants from entering the United States have given up waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are going back to court. They plan to file a preliminary injunction to stop the continued use of the Title 42 public health law that has allowed border agents to swiftly remove tens of thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers arriving at the southern border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Biden administration has left us no choice but to go back to court. It's been seven months, and Title 42 is still in place,\" Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the ACLU, told NPR. \"We believe this is our only option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has kept the policy in place, citing concerns about the pandemic, including the explosion of cases of the contagious delta variant of the coronavirus. 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Those talks are at an impasse. Gelernt, from the ACLU, said the groups now plan to seek an immediate preliminary injunction to stop the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Biden administration asked for some time to fix what it said were problems created by the prior administration. We gave them more than sufficient time,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Biden Reversed Other Trump Measures But Not This One\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When Biden took office, he quickly reversed several of Trump's harshest immigration policies, pledging a more \"humane\" system. But the new administration kept using Title 42 to shut out most people seeking asylum, to the consternation of advocates who had sued the U.S. government to stop it. The administration made exceptions for unaccompanied children and some families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of Title 42 gave the Biden administration additional time to grapple with the largest surge of migrants to the border in recent history. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, border officials encountered migrants 188,829 times in June, the highest single month total in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OxfamAmerica/status/1418941579734233092\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration has pushed back on criticism that it would use Title 42 for any reason other than to protect the public health of Americans and U.S. residents. In March, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said: \"We are using it as the Title 42 authority was intended and not as a bludgeoning tool under immigration law that the prior president used.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates had expected the Biden administration to begin phasing out the program as early as last month, but the administration has since begun taking more aggressive steps against the delta variant. Gelernt said that's not a good enough reason to retain the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not believe that the delta variant is a basis for expelling people without a hearing,\" he said. \"The country is in a much better position than when we filed the lawsuit, given the availability of vaccines and testing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Polls Show Concern Over Biden's Handling of Migration Surge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Political opponents have used the surge in migration to attack Biden, and many Republicans see the issue as a potent weapon to use for the midterm elections next year. While Biden has high approval ratings for the way he has handled the pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/30/982434413/npr-marist-poll-biden-gets-high-marks-on-covid-19-its-not-the-case-on-immigratio\">polls show concern about immigration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has repeatedly defended himself against criticism of the border surge by explaining that the vast number of migrants were being returned — a defense made possible largely because of Title 42.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RepBarryMoore/status/1419686163426721800\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Thousands, tens of thousands of people who are over 18 years of age and single, people, one at a time coming, have been sent back, sent home,\" Biden said during a March 25 news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of the more than 900,000 encounters border officials have had with migrants between January and June, the public health measure has been used more than 575,000 times to return migrants back across the border. 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Smaller legislative packages that protected farmworkers and younger immigrants brought to the country illegally as children have also stalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finding a way to protect those younger immigrants has become even more important to Biden’s supporters after a federal judge in Texas ruled this month that the program created to protect them was unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/07/16/987132269/federal-judge-rules-daca-unlawful-but-current-recipients-safe-for-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vowed to appeal the decision\u003c/a> and also supports efforts by Democratic lawmakers to try fold the issue into a massive budget reconciliation package this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past week, however, Biden has twice questioned whether the Senate rules would allow such a move.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Supporters Want the Asylum System Restored\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Biden’s prerecorded remarks to the virtual conference are not expected to be lengthy. And it’s unlikely he will address the fate of a Trump-era pandemic rule that has been kept in place, allowing his administration to quickly turn away tens of thousands of people seeking asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That rule, known as Title 42, has angered some supporters who see it less as a public health measure and more of a convenient way to deter migration and keep political opponents at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the most damaging legacies from the Trump administration is the goal posts were moved in such a way that we further limited the rights of asylum-seekers and migrants at the border,” said Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if we don’t have the political courage to at least restore the modicum of rights that asylum-seekers have at the border, the moving of those goal posts and the eroding of those rights will be the new normal,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pandemic Relief Likely to Be a Focus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Those attending the virtual conference will, of course, be interested in what Biden has to say about pandemic relief as well. The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on Latino families, said Clarissa Martinez De Castro, deputy vice president of policy and advocacy at UnidosUS.[aside tag=\"immigration, migration\" label=\"More Related Stories\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While immigration packs a powerful punch and it is incredibly important for Latinos, we care deeply about the economy and jobs,” Martinez said. “We care deeply about how we’re going to recover from the pandemic and about health care, particularly the cost of health care, and all of those things are interconnected and they also intersect with the most vulnerable among us who are immigrants and the undocumented.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are obvious political reasons to address the fastest-growing population in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Barreto, a Democratic pollster who advised the Biden campaign, said political parties need to engage with the community well ahead of elections, noting the large number of first-time voters who are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of that churn of new citizens and young people, you can’t take the Latino vote for granted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the importance of child care, in-home care and support for the elderly as well as for members of the disability community across the nation. Now, one of the most contentious parts of negotiations with Republicans over President Biden’s infrastructure plan has to do with the administration’s inclusion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/why-care-work-infrastructure/618588/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$400 billion in spending for at-home care for the elderly and people with disabilities\u003c/a>, with the administration arguing that such domestic work is as essential to a functioning economy as roads and bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim spoke with \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/375509/ai-jen-poo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ai-jen Poo\u003c/a>, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.domesticworkers.org/press/spokespersons/ai-jen-poo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Domestic Workers Alliance\u003c/a>, about domestic workers and what it means to include this work in the infrastructure plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Why Care Work Is Best Described as Infrastructure\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> We’ve always talked about how domestic work, the work that happens inside of our homes to take care of our family members, our children, our loved ones with disabilities, our aging loved ones, really is the work that makes all other work possible. Having access to care makes it possible for all of us to go out into the world and do what we do every single day.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance\"]‘If you think about the definition of infrastructure, it’s really that which enables society and the economy to function. And what could be more fundamental than having the ability to take care of your loved ones as you prepare to work and participate in our workforce and economy?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think about the definition of infrastructure, it’s really that which enables society and the economy to function. And what could be more fundamental than having the ability to take care of your loved ones as you prepare to work and participate in our workforce and economy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you think about the traditional definition of infrastructure, roads, bridges, tunnels, all of the people who are rebuilding our bridges and fixing our tunnels, they need care, too. So maybe it’s the first form of infrastructure before anything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Single Greatest Opportunity in Generations’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What do you think about the fact that care work is now in a presidential infrastructure bill?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> I think it’s the single greatest opportunity we’ve had in generations to establish the kind of policies and programs we need to support our ability to care for our families as we work. It’s necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before the pandemic, many of us were simmering in a care crisis. We have a situation where the baby boom generation is aging into retirement at a rate of 10,000 people per day, turning 65 every 8 seconds. We’ve basically added an entire generation onto our lifespan and we haven’t adopted any of our systems or policy to support a quality of life and the care we need as we live longer. On both ends of the generational spectrum, we need more care than ever before at a time when we have less of it. Our default care infrastructure in previous generations was just expecting that women will stay home and be full-time family caregivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance\"]‘The fact that the work as a profession has always been associated with women of color has profoundly shaped the way that we’ve treated this work in law, policy and in culture.’[/pullquote]We need programs, policies, systems and a strong care workforce to support us. There are over 2.5 million [care workers], and they’re overwhelmingly women — 92% women and majority women of color, including many immigrant women. This is actually the part of the economy with the highest concentration of undocumented immigrants of any workforce. They are also majority primary income earners for their families and majority mothers of small children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a workforce who is essential not only to the families they support, but their own families and communities. And it’s also a workforce that has always been majority women of color. Some of the first domestic workers in the U.S. were enslaved Black women. And the fact that the work as a profession has always been associated with women of color has profoundly shaped the way that we’ve treated this work in law, policy and in culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting in the 1930s, when we were putting our foundational labor laws into place, this workforce was excluded intentionally as a result of racism and the legacy of slavery in our country. 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I remember in March of 2020, in the first weeks of the pandemic, we held a meeting on Zoom with some of our members and one of them held her phone up to the Zoom screen to show us that she literally had 1 cent left in her bank account.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Investing in the Care Economy Looks Like\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>When you say investment in care workers and the care economy, what does it look like?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> The Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/31/fact-sheet-the-american-jobs-plan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Jobs Plan\u003c/a> proposed a $400 billion investment in Medicaid, home and community-based care. What that money would do is expand access to home and community-based services and care for the elderly, and people with disabilities. And it would support raising wages and access to benefits for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the average annual income of a home care worker is $17,000 per year. I don’t know a single community where that is sustainable, let alone enough to raise a family on. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ai-jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance\"]‘If you’re a parent or you’re a primary caregiver for a family member who needs assistance with activities of daily life, you know that it’s an impossible choice between work and family members who need you for their basic human needs.’[/pullquote]What we end up seeing is high rates of turnover because people simply cannot survive and sustain themselves doing this work … because the wages are so poor and the conditions are so tough, we have huge parts of this country that we call home care deserts or direct care deserts because people can’t get the support that they need in order to live in their communities. They end up either having to go into a nursing home or having to rely on overstretched family caregivers who have to make impossible choices about whether or not they can work. The money to Medicaid would specifically raise wages for the home care workforce and strengthen that workforce so that they can stay and sustain themselves doing this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would expand access to the services for over 800,000 people who are on waiting lists and the millions more who don’t even know there’s a waiting list to wait on.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Cultural Shift\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What evidence do you have that there is a tangible cultural shift happening here?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> I do feel this incredible rage, we call it the “mom’s rage,” that incredible frustration that moms are feeling and have felt throughout the pandemic. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a parent or you’re a primary caregiver for a family member who needs assistance with activities of daily life, you know that it’s an impossible choice between work and family members who need you for their basic human needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kind of rage that I’m feeling, especially from women who disproportionately bear the brunt of caregiving responsibilities in our country, and especially women of color who’ve been pushed out of the workforce by the millions, almost 5 million women pushed out of the workforce in the pandemic because of caregiving challenges. That is an indicator that something is very broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we are to pull ourselves back from the regression to 1988 women’s workforce participation levels, we’re going to have to rebuild and build something really different. I think people know that in their guts. This cultural norm that we have around care being an individual responsibility and a responsibility of individual families is one that is very deep. It’s not like we’re going to move past it overnight. And it’s not that it isn’t the responsibility of women and families and individuals, but it is about what is our responsibility collectively to each other as a society to ensure that we have real choices and real agency when it comes to the people we love.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Protections for Undocumented Domestic Workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Can you comment on protections for undocumented domestic workers?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ai-jen Poo:\u003c/strong> There are a tremendous number of undocumented workers — essential workers in this industry. [aside tag=\"undocumented\" label=\"Related Stories\"] We’ve been working really hard to make sure that we seize upon this moment as we’re imagining an economic recovery that is inclusive and supportive of essential workers and includes undocumented domestic workers and care workers that have kept us safe through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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Hamas spokesman Hazem Al Qassem said the militant group is open to a cease-fire if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. insist a ceasefire does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stop coming out, resisting and raising our voices for Palestinian liberation until Palestine is free from the river to the sea,” said Wassim Hage, 26, a member of the Bay Area chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a> (AROC), a pro-Palestine group that helped organize Tuesday’s rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protester Jahmeih AlJahmi holds a sign that reads, ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free’ during a pro-Palestine rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators filled an intersection in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, chanting in English, Arabic and Spanish for a free Palestine. Many hoisted Palestinian flags and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh\">wore keffiyehs\u003c/a>, the colorful fabrics standing out against the grey palette of the city’s skyscrapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of San Francisco police officers were deployed in front of the building housing the Israeli Consulate, with a fence blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">had been killed in the now 11-day-old conflict\u003c/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not break the numbers down into fighters and civilians. At least 58,000 Palestinians have fled their homes, as Israeli bombs continue to wreak devastation on the densely populated region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas, meanwhile, has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, killing at least 12 people, including two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released during the protest, a representative of the Israeli Consulate said, “Israel remains committed to peace and stability and has made several attempts to de-escalate this crisis only to be met with thousands of Hamas rocket attacks, killing both Israelis and Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite mounting pressure from the U.S., Netanyahu has maintained that Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9b59e6d675531576e819b6b948eba99d\">will continue to bombard Gaza\u003c/a> until it has sufficiently disabled Hamas’ military capability and prevented it from firing more rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that there’s a series of actions over the course of weeks and over the course of time, because the violence and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is something that is not stopping,” Hage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during a rally in solidarity with Palestine in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current conflict, the first major flare-up between Palestinians and Israelis since 2014, has also shed renewed light on the vast military aid the U.S. has long funneled to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several prominent U.S. elected officials have strongly condemned Israel’s disproportionate military response. And \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-demands-biden-hard-171958106.html\">Sen. Bernie Sanders\u003c/a>, an independent from Vermont, this week urged Biden to take a “hard look” at U.S. military aid to Israel, suggesting that it be conditional on the country’s human rights record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"palestine\"]Israel, however, has long been one of America’s strongest allies, prompting Biden to proceed cautiously on the issue, with his administration this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/05/17/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-may-17-2021/\">reiterating its position\u003c/a> that Israel has the right to defend itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted on May 10, coalitions of Palestinian advocacy groups in dozens of cities across the U.S. have organized rallies, raised funds for displaced Palestinians and pushed for a boycott of Israeli commerce. Earlier this week, an Israeli-owned shipping company chose not to dock one of its tankers at the Port of Oakland, following pressure from activists in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the result of years of organizing,” said Hage. “It’s a tremendous testament to the organizing that the Palestinian movement around the world has formed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC and other organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinianyouthmovement/\">Palestinian Youth Movement\u003c/a> (PYM) have also in recent days produced social media content about the conflict to further awareness among those unfamiliar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palestinians and allies really took to social media full-on to counteract the silence that we’ve seen ever since the Nakba,” said Zeyad Elomari, 27, a member of the Bay Area chapter of PYM, referring to the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians shortly after the establishment of Israel in 1948.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874463 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Safa Choudhury holds a Palestinian flag during a rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safa Choudhury participates in Tuesday’s rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Her face is painted with the Palestinian flag over Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elomari says his grandfather was among those displaced from their homes in what is now Israel, and the painful legacy of that lives on in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born as a refugee, my grandfather was born as a refugee, and his descendants are refugees because we’re not allowed in our homeland and [to] live there if we wish to do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elomari says that as his parents’ generation grows older, he and his peers have the responsibility to keep marching and organizing all over the world to demand the liberation and well-being of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely important that we keep our traditions and culture and political identity alive because asserting our existence as Palestinians is the most important act of resistance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leiya Kadah, 18, a high school student who also attended Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, says her drive to support Palestinian organizing is rooted in what her family has taught her about faith and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it,” she said. “If you can stop it with your words, stop it with your words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadah says she has been attending Palestinian solidarity demonstrations with her family since she was in first grade, and has never grown tired of marching. “The least you can do when you see injustice is feel in your heart that this is something that is not right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up his niece on his shoulders at a pro-Palestine rally outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salim Nasser holds his niece Yasmine Twam on his shoulders during a ‘Free Palestine’ rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellen Brotsky, 68, a volunteer with the Bay Area chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, who also participated in Tuesday’s rally, has helped organize Palestinian solidarity efforts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Jewish person, she says, she feels the responsibility to have conversations with Jews from different generations about the importance of standing in solidarity with other oppressed people, and how doing so can actually further, not diminish, Israel’s security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish safety comes not from a settler colonial Zionist state of Israel,” she said. “It comes from being in solidarity with everybody who is oppressed by racism, by settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky says she continues to learn from younger Jewish activists who have had to navigate difficult political conversations with their families on this issue. For her, organizing has become a space in which multiple generations can learn from each other, while expressing care and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to call the Jewish community in. We understand what’s been handed down, the trauma,” she said. “It takes time, it takes patience. It also takes principles. It takes a lot of organizing work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez, Sara Hossaini, NPR’s Merrit Kennedy and The Associated Press contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Wednesday, Biden purportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he expects “a significant de-escalation today on the path to a ceasefire,” according to a statement from the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">unleashed another wave\u003c/a> of airstrikes across Gaza early Thursday, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several others, while Hamas continued firing rockets into Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Thursday, the Israeli Cabinet \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/20/998644377/israels-cabinet-announces-unilateral-cease-fire-in-gaza-conflict\">said they have voted for a cease-fire plan\u003c/a> after 11 days of fighting. Hamas spokesman Hazem Al Qassem said the militant group is open to a cease-fire if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S. insist a ceasefire does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not stop coming out, resisting and raising our voices for Palestinian liberation until Palestine is free from the river to the sea,” said Wassim Hage, 26, a member of the Bay Area chapter of the \u003ca href=\"http://araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a> (AROC), a pro-Palestine group that helped organize Tuesday’s rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874461\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874461\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49060_004_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protester Jahmeih AlJahmi holds a sign that reads, ‘From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free’ during a pro-Palestine rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators filled an intersection in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, chanting in English, Arabic and Spanish for a free Palestine. Many hoisted Palestinian flags and \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh\">wore keffiyehs\u003c/a>, the colorful fabrics standing out against the grey palette of the city’s skyscrapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of San Francisco police officers were deployed in front of the building housing the Israeli Consulate, with a fence blocking the entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Thursday, at least 230 Palestinians, including 65 children, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-caac81bc36fe9be67ac2f7c27000c74b\">had been killed in the now 11-day-old conflict\u003c/a>, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not break the numbers down into fighters and civilians. At least 58,000 Palestinians have fled their homes, as Israeli bombs continue to wreak devastation on the densely populated region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamas, meanwhile, has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, killing at least 12 people, including two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement released during the protest, a representative of the Israeli Consulate said, “Israel remains committed to peace and stability and has made several attempts to de-escalate this crisis only to be met with thousands of Hamas rocket attacks, killing both Israelis and Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite mounting pressure from the U.S., Netanyahu has maintained that Israel \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-israel-palestinian-conflict-health-coronavirus-pandemic-9b59e6d675531576e819b6b948eba99d\">will continue to bombard Gaza\u003c/a> until it has sufficiently disabled Hamas’ military capability and prevented it from firing more rockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s critical that there’s a series of actions over the course of weeks and over the course of time, because the violence and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is something that is not stopping,” Hage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874462 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during a rally in solidarity with Palestine in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49102_024_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A line of police stand in front of the Israeli Consulate during Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The current conflict, the first major flare-up between Palestinians and Israelis since 2014, has also shed renewed light on the vast military aid the U.S. has long funneled to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several prominent U.S. elected officials have strongly condemned Israel’s disproportionate military response. 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Earlier this week, an Israeli-owned shipping company chose not to dock one of its tankers at the Port of Oakland, following pressure from activists in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the result of years of organizing,” said Hage. “It’s a tremendous testament to the organizing that the Palestinian movement around the world has formed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AROC and other organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/palestinianyouthmovement/\">Palestinian Youth Movement\u003c/a> (PYM) have also in recent days produced social media content about the conflict to further awareness among those unfamiliar with the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Palestinians and allies really took to social media full-on to counteract the silence that we’ve seen ever since the Nakba,” said Zeyad Elomari, 27, a member of the Bay Area chapter of PYM, referring to the displacement of about 750,000 Palestinians shortly after the establishment of Israel in 1948.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11874463 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Safa Choudhury holds a Palestinian flag during a rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49099_021_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Safa Choudhury participates in Tuesday’s rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco. Her face is painted with the Palestinian flag over Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elomari says his grandfather was among those displaced from their homes in what is now Israel, and the painful legacy of that lives on in his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born as a refugee, my grandfather was born as a refugee, and his descendants are refugees because we’re not allowed in our homeland and [to] live there if we wish to do so,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elomari says that as his parents’ generation grows older, he and his peers have the responsibility to keep marching and organizing all over the world to demand the liberation and well-being of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely important that we keep our traditions and culture and political identity alive because asserting our existence as Palestinians is the most important act of resistance,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leiya Kadah, 18, a high school student who also attended Tuesday’s rally in San Francisco, says her drive to support Palestinian organizing is rooted in what her family has taught her about faith and justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My parents have always taught me that in Islam, the least you can do if you see injustice: If you can fight against it, then fight it,” she said. “If you can stop it with your words, stop it with your words.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kadah says she has been attending Palestinian solidarity demonstrations with her family since she was in first grade, and has never grown tired of marching. “The least you can do when you see injustice is feel in your heart that this is something that is not right,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874460\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A man holds up his niece on his shoulders at a pro-Palestine rally outside the Israeli consulate in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49069_013_SanFrancisco_PalestineRally_05182021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salim Nasser holds his niece Yasmine Twam on his shoulders during a ‘Free Palestine’ rally outside of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on May 18, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ellen Brotsky, 68, a volunteer with the Bay Area chapter of \u003ca href=\"https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, who also participated in Tuesday’s rally, has helped organize Palestinian solidarity efforts for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Jewish person, she says, she feels the responsibility to have conversations with Jews from different generations about the importance of standing in solidarity with other oppressed people, and how doing so can actually further, not diminish, Israel’s security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish safety comes not from a settler colonial Zionist state of Israel,” she said. “It comes from being in solidarity with everybody who is oppressed by racism, by settler colonialism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brotsky says she continues to learn from younger Jewish activists who have had to navigate difficult political conversations with their families on this issue. 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