California: Newsom Roundup -- Can Newsom resign and cancel the recall? Poll out looking good Newsom and more chatter about replacement candidates

Will the Democrats regret not having a top-tier replacement election candidate? (Spoiler alert! No). Will anyone jumping in regret it? Let's look back -- Oh, Oh, yes. 

In the same piece, Alexandra Pelosi floats the idea of Newsom resigning and be replaced by his Lieutenant Governor and the recall being cancelled. That's not how the law works. In some states, you can resign within five days of the recall being approved. Not California -- the recall goes to the ballot whether or not the official resigns. 

A Probolsky Research polls shows Newsom up 53-35% among likely voters (53-46% among all voters). Only 2/3rds of Democrats are in Newsom's camp -- a number he needs to increase, while independents break his way 43-41% (compared to 55% in favor of the recall in the Davis race).

QAnon and other conspiracy theories are unsurprisingly getting involved in the recall effort.