On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris expressed her support for California Governor Gavin Newsom, with polls indicating that the Democratic state leader was likely to survive a recall vote.

During a recent interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Harris stated that the White House would be “supportive as much as we possibly can” during the recall election campaign in California.

As she stood with Newsom at a water treatment facility in the state, the vice president noted that the Biden administration was “unambiguous” in its support for him.

“I especially want to thank you, governor,” Harris said to reporters during a tour of the Oakland water treatment plant. “He and I have worked together for a long time. We were elected to our first office, same time back in 2003.”

“One of the things I know is that Gavin has always been a champion about what we need to do around our environment, and he and I have had many conversations over the years in particular about preservation of water. And so I’m just so happy that you’ve been able to join us, governor.”

The vice president expressed her support for Governor Gavin Newsom, despite surveys showing that the majority of California voters oppose the recall attempt.

According to a poll done by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) in late March, 56 percent of respondents opposed the recall attempt, while 40 percent backed the drive to remove the Democratic governor.

In addition, 54% of Californians indicated they approved of Newsom’s job performance thus far, a figure that remained largely identical from a poll conducted a few months ago.

Only 40% of California voters stated they would vote yes in a special election to remove Newsom from office if it were held on the same day. A large number of them were Republican voters.

“The share who would now vote to remove the governor is similar to the 38 percent who did not vote for Newsom in the fall of 2018,” PPIC President Mark Baldassare said in a statement with the results.

According to a comparable poll released on March 23 by Probolsky Research, only 34.6 percent of likely recall voters support Newsom’s removal from office, while 52.5 percent reject it.

Early last month, the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign sent a petition to California election officials with more than 2 million signatures. For the recall to proceed forward, over 1.5 million signatures must be valid.