He’s a product of CA’s famous nepotism system, so he doesn’t really need any skills. The people of CA are such nitwits though that he survived two recall elections, although I’m sure there was some vote manipulation going on.
He was completely tyrannical during the Covid fraud, very harsh on dangerous people like churchgoers, elderly people locked up in isolation in nursing homes, etc. But Californians still loved him. They don’t refer to him as Newsom, btw, but as Gavin, and their voices grow soft and fond when they tell you how much he is “looking out for them.”
maybe the pond scum on the coastal areas, san fran to san diego, but not in the inland parts of calif