June 8, 2021Updated: June 8, 2021 4:47p.m.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom listens to questions during a news conference outside a restaurant in San Francisco.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom can raise an unlimited amount of money as he attempts to survive a recall election later this year, and he is pulling in massive sums of money from technology executives.

At the end of May, he pulled in $3 million by far the largest sum of money spent on the recall on either side from Netflix founder Reed Hastings. On Tuesday, a new filing from the California Secretary of State's office showed that he received an additional $300,000 from tech titans.

The governor received $200,000 from Laurene Powell Jobs the widow of Apple CEO Steve Jobs and founder of the Emerson Collective as well as $100,000 from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Powell Jobs has long been a Democratic Party mega-donor, giving $500,000 to President Joe Biden in 2020. She also has donated thousands of dollars to congressional Democrats over the years.

Schmidt has also been active in aiding the Democratic Party, as he once funded a startup that became a major technology vendor for Hillary Clintons presidential campaign in 2016.

Powell Jobs and Schmidt were just two of 75 signatories on a letter from tech executives announcing their opposition to the recall, so more big money contributions could be coming.

The donations were made to Newsom's "Stop the Republican Recall of Governor Newsom" committee. According to CalMatters, the governor's side has raised about $13.5 million to date, while recall supporters have raised $4.7 million.

Eric Ting is the editor of California Issues, SFGATE's politics section. He is an East Bay native who has a Master's degree in journalism from Stanford University. Eric did his undergrad at Pomona College, where he majored in politics and minored in economics. Email: eric.ting@sfgate.com

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