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As Kamala Harris rises, Gavin Newsom's presidential prospects fall — but only in the short term
The Los Angeles Times | Yahoo ^ | July 12, 2024 | by Taryn Luna

Posted on 07/12/2024 5:31:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As rising stars in the California Democratic Party, Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom dodged a potentially bruising campaign battle in 2015 when she chose to run for U.S. Senate and he announced his candidacy for governor.

This week, Newsom said he would avoid an even bigger potential head-to-head fight with Harris over the White House.

The California governor repeated that he would not run against Harris, standing by a comment he made last year that has new relevance after President Biden's performance in the June presidential debate left many in the party calling for him to leave the race.

Although Biden has vowed to continue his bid for reelection, a decision Newsom has steadfastly supported, Harris and the California governor have been widely mentioned as potential replacements for the Democratic presidential nomination. As vice president, Harris appears to be the front-runner, and has the most legitimate claim given that she's already on the 2024 ticket.

“Of course,” Newsom said when asked whether he would still decline to run against Harris. “Yes.”

If it holds, his decision could save the party and its donors from having to choose between California's two most prominent politicians.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2024; gavin; kamala; kneepads; pelosicrimefamily; tarynluna

1 posted on 07/12/2024 5:31:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“KH RISIS”?! From what?


2 posted on 07/12/2024 5:35:15 AM PDT by albie
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good to see that the LA Times is already conceding the election to Donald Trump. If Kamala ran and won, poor Gavin would be waiting until 2032.


3 posted on 07/12/2024 5:38:01 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Only the Los Angeles Slimes could advance the idea that a Governor who's made such a mess of California should be President.

It's as if instituting leftist policy was so... "Natural" as to bear no accountability for its perpetrator.

4 posted on 07/12/2024 5:39:35 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gavin Newsom likes Huey Lewis and tge news!

https://genius.com/Mary-harron-american-psycho-you-like-huey-lewis-and-the-news-annotated


5 posted on 07/12/2024 5:43:26 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"It's all working just as we planned Nancy"....


6 posted on 07/12/2024 5:56:25 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Expect the long knives to come out for Harris; they won’t want to go to the trouble of forcing Bidumb out just to have him replaced by the Cackler.


7 posted on 07/12/2024 6:07:22 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was gonna say something more explicit about circling the porcelain throne but just won’t go down — but, you get the point.


8 posted on 07/12/2024 6:27:02 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: caww

Three gold diggers meet in a room...........................


9 posted on 07/12/2024 6:27:12 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Willie Brown’s Indo/Caribbean mistress is a RAT “rising star”? The RATS are worse off than we think they are. ROTFL. She’s all they’ve got? What about a Clintoon and Big Mike or Oprah ticket?


10 posted on 07/12/2024 6:32:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If President Trump loses, ALL AMERICANS LOSE. Vote like your life depends upon it. Because it does.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re both losers insofar as the restoration of this Republic is concerned. They booth are highly incompetent socialist morons. Of course, that’s much like the zombie presently using the oval orifice’s potty.

What a gaggle of ugly monsters is the Democrat Party. And what a stupid collection of Junior Democrats are the traitorous RINOs.


11 posted on 07/12/2024 6:42:52 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rlush!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Democrats told him to lay low for now. His turn will come in 2028.

California is a mess b/c of this idiot’s “leadership” - he will bring California’s failed policies nationwide.


12 posted on 07/12/2024 6:46:57 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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