In red California, anti-mask recall effort fizzles and a candidate harassed by election deniers wins

She was an Asian American candidate in a predominantly white rural county who was called “a carpetbagger” in election mailers from her detractors.

She was harassed by 2020 election deniers. And she had to get a restraining order after anti-maskers forced their way into her workplace.

And on Election Night, Natalie Adona won her race for Nevada County clerk-recorder and registrar of voters in a landslide. She had won 70% of the vote as of Thursday.