Hi, this is Erica and I'm at the geographic high point of Sacramento County, California.

Shout out to Tim and Scott from your former neck of the woods.

I think there's a view from here, but the Caldor fire is burning nearby and our air quality

is pretty poor, so I'll always see a couple homes a few hundred yards away.

This podcast was recorded at 11.37 am East Coast time on the 8th of September.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this. One thing that won't have changed is how grateful

we Californians are to all the firefighters and other personnel keeping us safe today and in the future.

So here's the show.

That is a very, very California time stamp these days.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.

And I'm Dominican Montenora, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.

There is less than a week left until a recall election that will decide the fate of California

governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat. Vice President Harris, a Californian is in the state today and

President Biden is expected to campaign with Newsom early next week. And with us to sort it all out

as my friend Scott Schaeffer, Senior Political Editor at Member Station KQED in San Francisco

and co-host of the Political Breakdown Podcast. Hey Scott. Hey, good to be with you.

Yeah. It's so excited to have you with us on the pod.

UNI as Californians have lived this recall story before. But please explain to the other 88

percent of Americans what exactly is going on and how a process like this gets started.

Yeah, sure. Well, compared with other states, California has a relatively low bar to qualify.

A recall in fact is crazy as it sounds. There were actually five recall attempts against Gavin

Newsom before this one qualified. They were out on the streets and no one ever heard anything

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