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Over the weekend, Ron Watkins, who facilitated QAnon’s rise on his website 8kun, posted a series of messages about the California election to his Telegram channel, making baseless allegations that Newsom had deployed a “bot army” in order to “attack you and try to convince you to not go out and vote.”

In another message Watkins wrote: “They hired a bot army to convince you not to vote in the CA recall because they are panicking.”

Another major QAnon influencer, John Sabal, the organizer of the biggest QAnon conference and who is known online as QAnon John, boldly proclaimed that recalling Newsom will trigger the beginning of the “storm.

“DETHRONING Newsom is THE catalyst for the MAIN EVENT,” Sabal wrote on his Telegram channel over the weekend.

It is unclear what bots Watkins is speaking about, but the most recent polling suggests that Republicans are far more likely to actually vote in the election than Democrats. The polls suggest it will be a tight race over whether or not Newsom is recalled, with “No” votes currently having a slender advantage.