SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The Recall Gavin 2020 campaign that aims to remove California Gov. Gavin Newsom from office had over 2.117 million signatures as of the March 17 deadline. The number is expected to be higher, as the total is still being tabulated. “Gavin Newsom brought this upon himself. He didn’t have to lock down 40 million Californians for a year. He chose to do so. He let out the inmates and put us all under house arrest during this pandemic,” Randy Economy, senior advisor for Recall Gavin 2020, told NTD Television. “He created the problem; we’re going to fix the problem. And we’re going to fix it by having an election be held, and we’re going to let the voters decide how they want this thing to end,” he said. The grassroots campaign has over 1.9 million signatures that were pre-verified from an independent third-party vendor. About 1.5 million are …