Posted on 09/14/2026 3:57:17 PM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Gavin Newsom has revealed one factor that could tank his expected presidential bid: fellow Democrat Kamala Harris.
Newsom was asked in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper about his expected White House run, and he didn’t hold back on how the former vice president, his former colleague and rumored frenemy, could change his decision.
“I wouldn’t run if she ran,” Newsom said while fly-fishing with Tapper in Montana.
“I wouldn’t do that to her … I wouldn’t waste anyone’s time,” Newsom explained, calling it “mutually assured destruction.”
The governor, who recently returned from a much-publicized trip to South Carolina — recently named as Democrats’ first presidential primary state — said he wasn’t sure if his fellow California Dem will actually launch a bid.
However, he suggested that the two have extensive “crossover” in their friends and supporters, claiming to Tapper: “I wouldn’t do that to people.”
It would be a “gift from God for everybody else,” if the two California Dems both ran, he said.
Harris, who has unsuccessfully run for president twice already, is leading many early polls of potential Democratic contenders. Newsom’s odds on the prediction market Polymarket fell to 7% last week as possible rivals including Bronx Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff appear to gain traction.
Newsom and Harris’s history dates back decades, when they were respectively mayor and district attorney of San Francisco.
The governor has said previously that he would only run for president if all of his four children, who are between the ages of 10 and 17, agree to it.
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“Kamala Harris is the stronger candidate.”
Depends on how one looks at it, she was hand-selected behind the scenes by the dem bigwigs without a single victory in a primary, it won’t be so easy this time for the drunken nitwit.
Either way it is fun to see this internecine battle taking form.
Heels up might work as VP. If she was the President, too much of her precious time would be spent “taking naps” in the Lincoln Bedroom.
I was waiting for Rip to run through and throw a snake at them.
I think he knows that she won’t be selected.
Great candidates for the ‘Rat party.
They are both crooks and hookers.
ooooooooooo, bombshell??? my gawd can these medias crawl any lower for a Democrat politician? His reason is dumb but oh well. Many of us don’t care.
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