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Newsom, Eyeing 2028, Tries to Mess With Texas: ‘Don’t Poke the Bear’
New York Slimes ^ | 11/08/2025 | Nick Corasaniti and Mariano Castillo

Posted on 11/10/2025 11:50:18 AM PST by DFG

Fresh off a resounding victory to gerrymander congressional maps to help Democrats, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California chose to celebrate in the place where the nation’s escalating redistricting fight started: Texas.

“We can shape the future here in Texas,” he said on Saturday at a union hall in Houston packed with cheering Democrats. “We can shape the future here all across the South and across the United States of America. You have that power. You do. Not Donald Trump.”

Against the backdrop of an enormous American flag befitting a national campaign event, Mr. Newsom framed the redistricting battle in historic terms. The rally by the California governor, who grinned as shouts of “2028” echoed out, was yet another signal of his hopes to run for president, a possibility he openly acknowledged last month.

Indeed, one of the warm-up speakers, Representative Al Green of Texas, seemed to all but endorse Mr. Newsom for the nation’s highest office.

“I’m here today because he is a future president of the United States of America,” Mr. Green said.

But for Mr. Newsom, it was also another chapter in an intensifying rivalry between the governors of the country’s two most populous states. He and Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, have for years engaged in schoolyard taunting and showy stunts, with Mr. Abbott sending planes of migrants to Los Angeles in 2023.

“Eat your heart out, Greg Abbott,” Mr. Newsom said as he began his speech on Saturday.

The two states have been on a political collision course ever since word leaked in June that President Trump had urged Texas to help Republicans in the midterm elections by taking the rare step of redrawing its congressional maps in the middle of the decade.

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1 posted on 11/10/2025 11:50:18 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

he can use his faggy pixie dust and maybe get Boner from u2 to come sing about Martin Luther the king and shoot rainbows out of his arse


2 posted on 11/10/2025 11:52:13 AM PST by MarlonRando
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To: DFG

He thinks he’s running against Trump. LOL


3 posted on 11/10/2025 11:53:57 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: DFG

Newsome doesn’t plan on winning the presidency in 2028. He plans on getting tons of campaign donations.


4 posted on 11/10/2025 11:56:18 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Newsome/Pence 2028


5 posted on 11/10/2025 12:13:53 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: DFG

Al Green who got kicked out of the State of Union for yelling and shaking his cane.


6 posted on 11/10/2025 12:22:35 PM PST by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: DFG

He’s just there to visit with the ex-Californians.


7 posted on 11/10/2025 12:23:36 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: DFG

Texas started the redistricting? I’m pretty sure that was California.


8 posted on 11/10/2025 12:48:20 PM PST by woweeitsme
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To: DFG

I wonder HOW MANY STATES WANT TO BE LIKE CALIFORNIA ??

CERTAINLY NIT TEXAS !!!


9 posted on 11/10/2025 1:02:58 PM PST by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-e et !!! H)
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To: Cold Heart

Oh, THAT’s funny. Thanks.


10 posted on 11/10/2025 2:06:55 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: DFG

May god help us if people buy into this clowns lies and duplicity


11 posted on 11/10/2025 2:16:51 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: woweeitsme

We done did ours. Greasy asa is only welcome in the corrupt inner cities of Texas, the minute he leaves that bubble, he find out real quick what people actually think of that polished turd.


12 posted on 11/10/2025 2:19:56 PM PST by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: DFG
I would love to be wrong, however do I observe that Mister Newsom just might, somehow, exhibit some characteristics of an amphetamine user?

Consider staccato speech, lunar logic, an odd concept of reality, skinny, highly animated to the point of inability to be still, and this to the point of nonstop hand gestures that make sense only to him.

How about some frequent and comprehensive drug screening (with multiple-split samples divided among multiple laboratories)?

(Actually, shouldn't all candidates and members of Congress should do this on a routine basis...just to reassure clean blood from those who seek or occupy positions of immense trust?)

Just a guess, of course, contrary opinions invited.

13 posted on 11/10/2025 2:21:00 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: DFG; bitt; Jane Long; Kathy in Alaska; Red Badger; null and void; rodguy911

Greasy NewSCUM Made California Hell On Earth

https://youtu.be/O9KYclG5F50?si=mjCdCZC3bSMQxYLU


14 posted on 11/10/2025 2:37:42 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: DFG

4 Corrupt California Families - Newscum, Brown, Pelosi, & Feinstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJCR8XhmoY


15 posted on 11/10/2025 2:39:00 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: DFG

https://youtu.be/z78gIK6qld8

Gavin, Men don’t want trannies touching their wives. Especially the black Pastor in Edmond, OK.


16 posted on 11/10/2025 3:25:31 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: DFG

The guy literally got a pro democrat plan passed in a state with 2 million more registered Democrats that’s kinda like the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer joins karate class and starts beating up on 10 year olds.


17 posted on 11/10/2025 3:32:26 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: 1ScrappyArmyMom

Help me out: what is “Greasy Asa?”


18 posted on 11/10/2025 3:33:58 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! I’m )
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To: DFG

Gerrymanders for me but not for thee.


19 posted on 11/10/2025 4:35:55 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: DFG

Maybe Newsome should tap Kamala to be his campagn chair?


20 posted on 11/10/2025 4:50:36 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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