EXCLUSIVE: One of the leading Republican gubernatorial contenders in this year's California recall election is going up with his first major ad blitz in the campaign to oust embattled Democratic Gov.

NEWSOM THE 'BEAUTY' AND COX THE 'BEAST' IN FIRST MAJOR AD BLITZ IN CALIFORNIA RECALL.

And Faulconer, speaking Spanish to the camera, emphasizes that the Newsom recall effort "poses the greatest opportunity to right what’s wrong in California.

The Faulconer campaign says the spot, shared first nationally with Fox News on Monday, will run statewide in California, which has a whopping 14 media markets.

Another of the major GOP recall candidates, businessman and 2018 gubernatorial nominee John Cox, last month became the first to launch an ad blitz.

Cox made a "beauty and the beast" comparison between himself and Newsom in his ad, with the announcer saying, "recall the beauty.

Faulconer’s commercial seems to take a shot at the Cox ad, with the announcer saying, "Newsom wants you to think that this recall is a circus.

And most public polling conducted in California this spring indicates that if the recall election were held right now, a majority would vote to keep Newsom in office. 

The recall election was expected to be held in November

That means the recall election could be held as early a late August or early September, which had many Republicans crying foul that Democratic state lawmakers were changing the rules to help Newsom