According to the latest polling from the race, 48% of San Francisco voters plan to vote to remove Boudin from office, while only 38% support keeping him in place.
Those numbers are marginally better for Boudin than the 68%-32% and 57%-22% splits seen in earlier polls, but hardly reassuring for the embattled DA. Nonetheless, Boudin has remained defiant in the face of a resoundingly clear rebuke from residents of his own city.
In an interview with a local San Francisco news outlet, ostensibly to defend his record, Boudin even bragged about being the first DA in city history to charge a police officer with excessive use of force.
In the same interview, when confronted with polling data showing that a majority of Asian Americans and Hispanics in San Francisco - two groups whom Boudin claims his policies are helping the most - support the recall effort, Boudin dismisses the data as simply "Not true." To hear him tell it, the entire recall is being perpetrated by Republican billionaires, and every resident in the city is behind his decisions.
Should Boudin be recalled Tuesday, it would also be a major warning sign for George Gascon, Boudin's progressive counterpart just to the south in LA, who faces a recall of his own.
Bonta has already received endorsements from Gascon and Boudin for his commitment to many of the policies that led to their respective recalls.
One might assume the imminent recall of Gascon and Boudin and the fact that 2022 is on track to be one of California's deadliest years in modern history would give them pause.
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