Nobody was more bitter, angry, and appalled by the results of California’s recall election than failed candidate/reality star Caitlyn Jenner, who called the whole thing “a shame” last night.
Voters turned out in force yesterday to vote “no” on the recall effort to oust Gov. Gavin Newsom. Jenner was one of 46 candidates vying to replace him.
The AP called the race within an hour of polls closing after it became abundantly clear that Newsom had won. In the end, Jenner received barely 1 percent of the vote, which is about what pollsters predicted she would get. (Well done, pollsters!)
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Science.
Women’s rights.
Immigrant rights.
The minimum wage.
The environment.
Our future.We rejected cynicism and bigotry and chose hope and progress.
Thank you, California.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 15, 2021
Speaking to reporters after the AP called the race, the 71-year-old reality star slammed Newsom, saying he “didn’t campaign on not one of his successes, because he doesn’t have any.” Then she scolded people who voted against the recall.
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“I can’t believe that this many people actually voted to keep him in office,” she griped. “It’s a shame, honestly. It’s a shame. You kind of get the government you deserve.”
Jenner suggested that she might not be finished with politics just yet… even though politics is clearly finished with her.
“When I decided to do this, I was coming in as an outsider. I’ve been around politics a long time, but never actually running for office,” she said. “And I thought I really needed some great people to surround me, to help me get through this, that know the ins and outs of politics. And I was able to assemble a great team, a great group of people.”
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Unfortunately, they weren’t “great” enough considering how badly Jenner lost, how much debt she racked up during her six month vanity project campaign, and how nobody in her party wants anything to do with her.
Here’s how Twitter is responding to Jenner’s epic defeat…
So Caitlyn Jenner has failed at getting the support of a party she belongs to that hates her? Who could have seen that happen?
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) September 15, 2021
Caitlyn Jenner tried hard to go full MAGA, but at then end it did not work in her favor. pic.twitter.com/mMXitTaw0j
— Chanteezy ??? (@iamchanteezy) September 15, 2021
Everyone in California, careful on the roads tonight.
Caitlyn Jenner will be mad and at large.
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) September 14, 2021
Caitlyn Jenner has officially lost the recall race. All three of her voters are said to be disappointed.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) September 15, 2021
Who are the almost 52000 people who voted for airhead @Caitlyn_Jenner
— Larry Elder's Shiny, Greasy, Crisco Covered Face! (@Geechee4Kamala) September 15, 2021
Caitlyn Jenner finding out the hard way that running for public office is harder than paying $800,000 to get out of your vehicular manslaughter charge in 2015 https://t.co/AdOsKJzdZR
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) September 15, 2021
Remember when Caitlyn Jenner wanted to be governor of California? ???
— Mayo (@MayoIsSpicyy) September 15, 2021
On a much different note, I certainly hope this is the last time Caitlyn Jenner is national news. I will never forgive her for exploiting the pain and trauma experienced by trans children and their families in order to pander to a party that never wanted her in the first place.
— Charlotte Clymer ???? (@cmclymer) September 15, 2021
Check on your friends who voted for @Caitlyn_Jenner. They’re having a rough time this morning.
Thoughts and prayers.
— MaiaMae (@maiamimi) September 15, 2021
The homeless in California no longer have a Caitlyn Jenner problem.
— Mayo (@MayoIsSpicyy) September 15, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Kangol2
Caitlyn Jenner not only lost badly, but her misogynistic, anti-gay/anti-trans GOP compatriot Larry Elder got many multiples the number of votes she did. And Gavin Newsom staved off this inane recall in a blowout. What a farce, all of it, but don’t think it’ll stop either the GOP cult or buffoonish attention seekers like Caitlyn Jenner from trying to overturn the will of the people. Where were all of her gay and trans Republican/conservative supporters? Given all the free press she got CNN, FoxNews and every other outlet that covered her ought to issue the public an apology!
Max
seems the will of the (majority) people are what these so-called Republicans are always trying to ignore or overthrow. and that’s sad that they keep persisting at it.
Mister P
I am actually hoping for the Government we deserve. We certainly didn’t deserve drumpf and certainly not Jenner.
Mr. Stadnick
I was really hoping there would be a run off between Caitlyn and Angelyne!
Timber1313
Me too!!
Heywood Jablowme
For those keeping score, Caitlyn was in 13th place! Behind all the Krazy Kevins and a bunch of candidates we never heard from. She did, however, beat Angelyne.
Given Caitlyn’s typically “gracious” concession, she’s probably already packing her little plane for Texas or Idaho. No doubt she’ll get a warm welcome from all the trans-loving Trumpers there – snicker, snicker.
AxelDC
Also keep in mind that Newsome asked his voters to skip Question 2, so Jenner’s 1.1% was mainly from Republicans who voted “yes”, just over 1/3 of the vote.
Bengali
Please join me in going to “Caitlyn’s” instagram page and address himher as
Bruce Kardashian. He’s currently bashing the state of California for not election himher or at least Black Trump Larry Elder telling us we got what we deserve. Certainly it’s not someone who loves our great state. Remember – Bruce Kardashian.
bivector
This is gross.
AxelDC
No, I don’t want to make her life any worse than it already is.
SoEndGuyz
I’m amazed Brucie got enough stupid people to vote for it to come in even at #13
bradgpierce
Gross, immature and simple minded. I would say sophomoric but that would insult even their level of intelligence. And, this is coming from someone who welcomes Jenner’s disgraceful departure from decent American discourse. Hurts my heart I was forced to stand up for this total waste of life and space.
MISTERJETT
as stupid as she is, she is Caitlyn Jenner
Tombear
The Republicans handed the taxpayers of California a bill for $275 million in election costs. Everybody knew Newsome would not be recalled a month ago. Republicans are NOT fiscally conservative. Republicans are shid!
AxelDC
Newsome got 5,840,283 votes to stay in office.
Jenner got 55,797 votes to replace him.
Jenner lost to Newsome with only 00.96% of his vote total.
wikidBSTN
I’m amazed she got 55,797 votes!
wikidBSTN
She really is nuts.
JohnMc888
No one deserves her, not even the people who voted for her.
My2CentsWorth
I disagree. Anyone who would vote for her or Elders deserves to have them. The problem is that no one else deserves to be punished by having such an idiot around in any capacity, or position.
GayEGO
I think Caitlyn must have damaged her brain when she was Bruce Jenner!
Jimsie
Agreed. That hair-do says it all.
woodroad34
Forgetting about the hatred of Newsom on the right, their biggest failure was not recognizing their Trumpian approach to the race—a losing prospect that didn’t reach out to moderates or offer intelligent alternatives. Just bashing people in a steroid-raging fashion as Trump, DeSantis, Abbott, Cawthorn, Jordan, Boebart and Greene do is tiring and not helpful. People want to look up to a leader, not be afraid of being bashed
bradgpierce
Well said! As a Democrat I can’t help but be elated that the right continues to follow their flawed and failing “rigged and stolen” playbook. The only votes they are effecting at this point are their own. Why show up to even vote for your Republican candidate if the whole thing is rigged? They surpress their own voters and I’m so here for it!
Openminded
You said it well. Add to that the fact that Republicans don’t realize they are the only one’s currently dying from the current Covid up swell and therefore becoming more of a minority every day. If this trend of refusing to vaccinate and mask continues, the GOP will literally BURY itself, as in dead and in the ground.
davidgaudette
I have a hard time understanding people like Jenner, Milos Yiannopoulos and Log Cabin republicans. They hate what they are, self-loathing to the nth degree not unlike Herman Cain, Ben Carson and other people of color who seem to forget that their own party hates gays and/or people of color. The only use the GOP has for these outliers is a “tools” so they can say to us that they are racist or homophobic. Stupid people like Ms Jenner and Ms Milos and the Ben Carson’s of the world are falling for the shell game.
Cam
Jenner is used to being handed things for doing nothing over the last few decades. She figured if she just signed up they would just hand her the governor’s mansion.
Me2
This is the most accurate analysis of why she had the nerve to run. She did absolutely nothing to earn the respect or confidence of any level headed voter. She expected her name recognition to do all of the work, while she globe trotted and dined on sushi.
James
OH SHUTUP, YOU MEGOLOMANIAC LOSER.
Fahd
Jenner = Loser ; Another example of how celebrity culture produces people with more money than brains. Whatever Californians did they don’t deserve Jenner as Governor.
There has to be some mechanism to make it more difficult to cause the state to have to spend $270 million on a special election. If the Governor does something unconstitutional one can seek redress in the courts. If the Governor does something criminal, there is or should be an impeachment mechanism in place. If the Governor does something you don’t like or disagree with, you should have to wait to the next regular election.
There is a regular election for Governor in California in 2022. The $270 million wasted on this 2021 special election could have been spent on education or any other worthy area. This waste of money on account of a Republican hissy fit designed to try to oust a duly elected governor with a minority of voters is just another big reminder of how cynical, corrupt and irresponsible the Republican party is.
Thank goodness decent people did what was necessary to turn back this cynical effort to usurp power.
Kangol2
Thank you. If Californians had a beef with Newsom’s leadership, they could vote him out next year. Instead, the GOP, allegedly working with rich backers and evangelicals, decided they were going to use a Progressive Era tool–the recall–to oust the sitting governor, as they did with Gray Davis, and this time instead of installing a moderate media personality (Schwarzenegger), they were hoping a extremist fanatic (Elder) would slip in. Thankfully 2/3rds of the voters said No. But the state isn’t going to get that $270 million back. The law should be amended to say that whoever is viewed as the chief author or agent of a recall election “shall be required to pay the cost back in full” if it does not succeed. The same should go for the other two Progressive Era tools, initiatives and referenda. That will quash frivolous stunts like this one, or at least make people think twice about trying them.
ericr_wilson
Bruce is a silly AssClown and needs to have several seats…. Bye, fool.!!!
mcflyer54
At least Caitlyn is now freed up to lobby trump for the Vice President position in his 2024 run.
Consider This
Hmmm…I sorta thought Mike Lindell “Mr. My Pillow” would get the VP nod with Trump in 2024. Either would be perfect with Trump, of course.
sfhairy
Caitlyn, pack your bags and move to Texas. Let’s see how far your trans rights go there.
scotty
“stop snivelling..you’re gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man.” (you already did but stfu anyways)
more apologies to chrissie hynde
Doug
I’m shocked that 48,799 people actually voted for her! I’d be really interested in talking to those people and hearing why they did.
Terrycloth
Too late to see the wizard about a functional brain……
SDR94103
they can build you a vagina but not a brain. idiot.
mz.sam
You got that shit right!
hayesj
Apparently those hormones have worked. He’s now turned into a bitter old hag.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
While I’m certainly no Caitlyn fan she is right in one regard California gets the government they deserve. Sheeps being led by do as i say not as i do newsom and pelosi but hey you nutcases love being told what too do, you love government running your life and get off paying outrageous prices and taxes and rents for everything so continue to enjoy basking in newsom’s hypocrisy.
winemaker
Amen to that. And thanks absolute truth, you’re spot on about newsom and the rest of the liberals or progressives or whatever these idiots call themselves these days. Sadly the thinking among us have to deal with the results of the idiots who gave him more time to destroy the place and screw us deeper into the ground.
Cam
@TheAbsoluteTRUTH @Winemaker
LOL!!! The right wing troll account is STILL addicted to switching screenames to back up its own posts. I LOVE your insecurity.
As for getting the government it deserves. Hmmmm, when Republicans were in charge California ran enormous deficits, Since Democrats gained a super-majority it has run multi-billion dollar surpluses, including a $38 billion dollar surplus last year DURING covid. That is larger than the entire budget for some other states.
Meanwhile Republican ran states like Kansas and Oklahoma went bankrupt.
Oh and also, California is the ONLY state that his been pulled off the condition red for Covid spreading, all other 49 states are worse off than it.
So yeah, California got the government it deserved. Republicans are so anti-American that instead of looking at California’s success and trying to emulate it, they just hope they can lie about it and people won’t notice.
Your trolling is sad and weak.
Chrisk
Why do you bother coming here troll. You literally have to create other names to agree with yourself to make it look like your opinion is popular here. It’s not obviously.
Go back under your bridge.
Michael1500
I keep looking at the endless photographs of Jenner, hoping at last to see just ONE decent one. Don’t get me wrong—- I can’t stand her (either), but I just marvel at how unphotogenic she is. Could it be that it’s not the camera, but the PERSON? I’ll tell you what she needs, desperately—— a consultation with RuPaul or some drag queen on how to do makeup. She always looks like a man wearing a bad wig.
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smudge
I must admit that I have been hesitate to comment on her looks, but you are so right.
She does need a RUPaul consult/those dames are damn gorgeous!! At the very least Jenner could use some political advice on her one dimensional facial expression and possibly a political science course at one of the great California schools of higher education (is it still free to attend college in California)?
GayConservMan
Love love love ALLL the ‘support trans people’ BS y’all spout. UNTIL that person votes differently from you.
You guys are full $hit!
Cam
Awwwww, the Republican troll account actually thinks that supporting minorities means you have to support them when they lie or are wrong.
In other words, exactly how Republicans support Trump even though he lies, went bankrupt, stole from veterans, was accused of rape, possibly committed treason.
Yeah, that’s what Republicans do.
Phillip
Typical of her to not have a gracious bone in her plastic body to be able to concede in a gracious manner. It seems as though all Republicans today are like this.
The GOP of old is gone.
winemaker
So true, you get what you vote for. Jenner isn’t the only one pissed that newsom won. Unfortunately we the thinking here in California have to deal with more of his ineptitude, fiscal incompetence, higher taxes, exploding homelessness, unaffordable housing and costs of living and BULLSHIT.. I ask friends both gay and straight this question: Just what has newsom done to improve living conditions here in California? The resounding answer: absolutely NOTHING! This is especially true here here in San Francisco, ( newsom’s former stomping ground that he dumped in order to trot off to Sacramento to be jerry ‘the clown’ brown’s flunky) .the new ‘doo doo’ capital of the USA and the calcutta, mogadishu, nairobi and port au prince of the west coast. Who in their right mind keeps voting for worthless thieving and lying trash like newsom and that pretty much goes for all the so called leaders here in California that are hell bent on running the place in to the ground, making it more untenable and unlivable and sadly in a lot of places they’ve succeeded. The FED’S need to seriously investigate elections here in California for voter fraud as there can’t be that many clueless fools who vote for the continuing destruction of the one time golden state now only golden in the piss and feces littering and stinking up the streets, sidewalks and parks of our cities all while paying some of the highest taxes and costs of living in the USA only to live in what many equate to third world conditions.
Heywood Jablowme
A few months ago you kept saying you were moving out of SF and CA. Did you change your mind? Did things suddenly get better enough to stay?
dannyboi2
We don’t need divisive politics, we are all in this together. California is beautiful with all it’s faults, nothing wrong with the homeless most are from republican states. A lil piss never hurt anyone, same piss we have in Beverly Hills from all the dogs the rich walk…You have higher taxes and awful traffic because to many want to live in California, that’s not Newsome fault. That’s been going on for 50 years…
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
@Dannyboi. The replying away of all his points is what we call rationalization …the epic taxation, the homeless drug issues, stepping on needles, piss and shit in the streets are again all by products of the enabling of those problems. Thanks to groups like the ACLU you can no longer help these people but also you cannot remove them either. The Californians in charge say you must have compassion but also tell everyone they must also pay for it. Speaking out of both sides of their mouth is a trademark of politicians there and has been for decades. And you are correct, California is a beautiful state but the policies and people running it have ruined it..shame
Cam
@winemaker @TheAbsoluteTRUTH
LOL!
Again the right wing troll account switches screenames to come in and back up its own post. LOL!
So let’s see, California is the richest state in the country, with the largest economy in the country, is the only state that has dropped off the red list of covid spreading, ran a $38 billion dollar budget surplus, and has lower crime than large numbers of red states.
The only recourse Republicans have is to lie about California because it is so much more successful than red states.
Chrisk
Cam
Yeah and I just received a $600 check from that surplus yesterday. :-
smudge
Does Ms. Jenner not recall her family suggested she not run? I think it would be interesting to know how they voted. Her statement, “California gets the government they deserve,” sounds a bit grade schooler because the people of that great state chose someone other than her.
Vince
How many shelters would 300 million buy you dumb twat? What a giant waste of tax payer money from the Repigs. They don’t care about helping anyone but themselves and their rich donors.
fredk3
time for leona helmsley in a cheap cher wig to hide away again.
mz.sam
Congrats, Gov. Newsom. I resoundly voted ‘NO’ and in no way would I vote for a fugly chick-with-a-dick harpie for CA Governor. Period.
Tombear
Caitlin Jenner needs to grow a pair.
Cam
I gotta give it to whichever Queerty employee is the one who keeps finding these photos of Jenner, each one is worse than the last. LOL