Posted on 09/08/2023 9:37:40 AM PDT by packagingguy
California Gov. Gavin Newsom put an end to chatter that he might enter the race for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination during an interview that will air in full Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press."
CHUCK TODD, NBC NEWS: The filing deadlines haven't passed. If President Biden doesn't run, why should we consider you a likely candidate?
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: I think the vice president is naturally the one lined up, and the filing deadlines are quickly coming to pass. And I think we need to move past this notion that he's not going to run. President Biden is going to run and looking forward to getting reelected.
I think there has been so much wallowing in the last few months, and handwringing even, in this respect. But we're gearing up for the campaign. We’re looking forward to it.
TODD: I understand, but you hear these calls, privately. What do you tell these donors who are wallowing?
NEWSOM: It's time to move on. Let's go!
TODD: And am I supposed to interpret that comment about the vice president that if, for some reason, the president chose not to run at this point, everybody rallies around her?
NEWSOM: That's the natural -- it's the Biden-Harris administration, maybe I'm a little old-fashioned.
TODD: You respect that?
NEWSOM: Maybe I'm a little old-fashioned about presidents and vice presidents. I was a lieutenant governor, so I'm a little subjective.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
"Who doesn't love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus? Many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right? It’s part of our experience growing up. It’s part of a nostalgia, a memory of the excitement and joy of going to school to be with your favorite teacher, to be with your best friends and to learn. The school bus takes us there."
--Kamala Harris
“Somebody at the White House has been smoking the devil’s lettuce.”
— Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)
If anything they’re going to use Michelle Obama.
I think that’s a disastrous choice and the Dems are picking someone that’s never run before and frankly doesn’t have the ability to debate or understand how to campaign.
And if, during the campaign, it’s revealed that he is a transgendered person, then our history books will get a complete rewrite.
ROTFL. Gruesome Newsom been havin’ dem wet dreams.
That settles it, Newsom 2024.
The main question is, does anyone really believe him.
What else can he say just now?
This is a political answer, which means it is worthless.
Word salad Harris would be another puppet of the obama deepstate.
Feet of Clay and Cuck Suxton are right now talking to some substack guy about who may run if Biden doesnt.
Hahahaha...we forgot...everything they say is a lie!
He isn’t running - he will be drafted.
It’s important to notice in the video that Newsom’s lips were moving...
Barack Obama said in 2007 he wasn’t running for president. He then later reversed course. Newsom may be playing the same game.
Either the tea leafs are predicting a Republican blowout or he’s lying.
He is not running, no more than DeSantis was before he announced, or no more than any candidate does before they announce. Both politically, and for reporting purposes, that’s an important distinction. As well, I think Newsom would be very happy to not campaign and be anointed the nominee at the convention next year. Let Biden run and drop, let Harris run and fail, then Newsom can be the white night to save the party.
Well, sounds like he defers to Kamala.
We don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes. He can say this now., but if the situation changes then all bets are off.
And I don’t know filing deadlines for running in the primaries makes any difference. The Democrat convention next year is going to pick the nominee. If there are delegates pledgedto Biden, but then Biden is suddenly not a candidate for some reason, all of those delegates are free agents. It could be a wild convention.
good to hear...if true.
honestly he was the one I was most concerned about running. In a society that seems to put feelings, good looks, and every other shallow thing above accomplishments, I could see him getting votes from swooning beta men independents and hallmark- watching soccer moms.
Never was worried about Michelle, no way she could hide her penis that long.
Smarter at politics the Ron DeSantis.
Newsome will run if Biden drops out — meanwhile he will zealously support Biden.
This will pay dividends for him in the future.
This is probably just a smokescreen on Newsom’s part.
“I’m not running, so there’s no need to scrutinize me.”
Then right before the filing deadline:
“Reporting for duty!”
Absolutely a lie. Part of the coy, come and court me strategy.
One time the statement was genuine. (Same with Lyndon B. Johnson who finally gave up.)
This Day in History: “I do not choose to run for president”
On this day in 1927, Calvin Coolidge declines to run for re-election as President. His statement to the press was simple: “I do not choose to run for president in 1928.”
He didn’t actually speak these words. Instead, he had the statement printed on slips of paper. When journalists had finished assembling for the presidential briefing, he simply had the papers distributed. The doors to the room were barred so that no reporter could leave until everyone had received his slip of paper.
Meanwhile, Coolidge himself had nothing more to say. When asked for a comment, he simply responded: “No.”
Apparently, First Lady Grace Coolidge heard the news for the first time later that day. “Isn’t that just like that man,” she remarked. “He never gave me the slightest intimation of his intention. I had no idea.”
From Tara Ross.com
He much later said:
“It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion,” he observed. “They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant.”
Note: He was succeeded by Herbert Hoover.
RE: Kamala “naturally”....
Natural. So are nail fungus, rotting animal carcasses and sciatic nerve pain.
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