Republican Candidates For California Governor Make Their Case
California | May 4, 2021
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF/AP) — The two Republicans currently running for governor of California, John Cox and Caitlyn Jenner, released new campaign ads Tuesday, marking a new phase in the pending recall election.
Cox, a perennial political candidate who lost to Newsom in 2018, planned to launch a bus tour alongside a Kodiak bear, which features heavily in his ad depicting himself as “the beast” and Newsom as “the beauty.” He spent $5 million to begin airing a 30-second version on television statewide, his campaign said, a significant amount of money this early in the campaign.
Jenner, meanwhile, released a video that features her speaking about her candidacy for the first time since she announced her run. She calls herself a “compassionate disruptor” in the ad that highlights clips from her Olympic run in 1976, when she won the gold medal in the decathlon.
“I’m running to be governor for all Californians, to reclaim our true identity, to bring back the gold to the Golden State,” Jenner says…
(Excerpts from KPIX 5/CBS)