Posted on 03/14/2025 6:35:02 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
I had the opportunity to be the very first guest on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new podcast last week. I’m under no illusions about why I was invited: Gavin Newsom wants to run for president in three years, and he thinks that talking conservative figures like me increase his recognition, help him present as a centrist, and cast him as a champion of the left in a time when the left has no real leaders.
….Unsurprisingly, Newsom is charming and friendly in-person. You don’t become governor of 40 million people without having some charisma. But there’s clearly a layer beneath the charm. I saw that Newsom wants to be president more than any living person (and possibly every dead person, too). He is an ambitious man, and his new podcast is clearly a product of that ambition.
… Newsom got a bit irritated when I suggested he was "slick," precisely because it’s so accurate. His show is a charm offensive, a calculated play, a rebrand for a man who knows the Democratic Party took a beating in 2024 and needs a new face. He hopes that by looking moderate on the perfect cocktail of issues, he can both get liberals to back him in a primary and then moderates and Republicans to back him in a general election.
… It might work. One thing I learned in my podcast experience: The governor isn’t a joke. He has a shark’s instincts and is hoping that voters will have a goldfish’s memory.
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I would pay money for PPV to watch Newsome debate Vance. Vance would crush him.
And post the pics of him and Kimberly Guilfoyle on the rug.
“Vance won’t have media help.”
I don’t think Vance would need any help.
Honestly, he constantly comes across as the smartest guy in room regardless of who’s in the room.
The better question to ask is: How much will voter fraud and TDS media play in 2028.
Voter fraud and TDS media elected a lying, corrupt, criminal and senile Joe Biden in 2020. In 2024, Harris received 48% of the popular vote and Harris was an ignorant bumbling idiot. Let's not kid ourselves - Newsom is not a Harris or Biden.
Unctuous.
Well America has before.
And watch out for Beshear.
He has to defend his record in California, especially LA Fires.
The Democrats won't be able to rely on ActBlue and USAID funding in 2028.
So they'll have to beg $$$ from Bill Gates and ex-wives of Billionaires including Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Scott.
Kamala Harris spent nearly $2 Billion and lost. It's unlikely that Gavin Newsom will be able to raise that much money for 2028.
Mookabooker makes used car sales folk look good
That's the precise description.
Insincere and oily, that’s our Gavin.
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