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Gavin Newsom Is Not Running for President in 2024 - By Michelle Obama Just Might: He’s the most promising major Democratic Party politician in America today. Young, articulate, and confident, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom has been rumored to be running a shadow campaign for president in 2024 for months. Finally, after endless speculation, the California governor has put to bed suspicions that he’s planning to replace President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee in 2024. “Not going to happen,” was what Newsom explicitly told NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press recently, when referencing the likelihood of his presidential...

Both Republican and Democratic voters are telling pollsters that they want a politician to fight for them — fight against the other side, for the most part. Being a “strong leader” is now being defined as how cutting your attacks against your opponents are. Ron DeSantis went after the Walt Disney Company, much to the delight of the Republican right. He has also taken on the education establishment in a big way, causing much angst among teachers and their radical supporters. This has elevated him to the number one choice of Republicans for president in 2024 if Donald Trump doesn’t...

When CalMatters’ Emily Hoeven broke the story Tuesday night that California Governor Gavin Newsom was, in fact, where we all thought he was for 4th of July — at his in-laws’ ranch in the Bitterroot Valley in Montana — one of Newsom’s comms staffers went after her for pointing out that the state was now on California’s “no travel” list, meaning that the state could not pay for travel to Montana due to its supposedly anti-LGBTQ laws. Hoeven also pointed out that Newsom recently named Montana as one of the states he believed was likely to institute an abortion ban...