Gavin 2028
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Heck, I couldn’t provide you any evidence of my summer job forty years ago. That doesn’t mean I didn’t work at McBrides. |
Anonymous
A bunch of skeletons in his closet. This article is from 2018. Newsom has been disliked by many CA Democrats for years. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/marcos-breton/article210409949.html#storylink=cpy "In 2007 Newsom had an affair with his appointments secretary. And she wasn't just his secretary. She was married to one of his top political aides and best friend. After the affair became public, Newsom's lover somehow landed a $10,000 payout in public money from a fund intended for city employees with catastrophic and life-threatening illnesses... But how do you sleep with the wife of your best friend? Where do your mind and soul go when you allow yourself to descend to such a dark place? But it gets better. Newsom told everyone he had a drinking problem. So his grievous betrayal became about substance abuse. He had a problem, right? The narrative became that Newsom was going to rehab. He let everyone believe that he was going into legitimate alcohol rehab. It was all part of the Newsom redemption tour. And then suddenly, as reported by Hart last month, it turned out he didn't. He went to some encounter group meetings run by one of his enablers. But real legitimate alcohol rehab? Nope. Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/marcos-breton/article210409949.html#storylink=cpy |
Anonymous
You can't be serious. This country elected DJT not once, but twice. You think the voters focus on issues like affairs? Those days are long over. |
Anonymous
| I've only known bits and pieces about him until the recent New Yorker article. I'm impressed by the effort he goes to (per the story, and I trust the New Yorker's fact checkers) regarding his dyslexia. After reading it I'm very interested in him as a candidate. |
Anonymous
Apparently when his parents divorced his mom was very strapped financially. |
Anonymous
Democrats lose? Since 2000 we're have: 8 yrs GOP pres 8 years Dem pres 4 years GOP 4 years Dem And now a year and 5 weeks into a GOP pres who can't run in 2028. In terms of presidential elections basically it's 4 to 3 and one of those elections required Sandra O'Connor wanting to retire. |
Anonymous
| Not a single post supporting him here, and yet he leads nationwide polling for the nomination. Just name recognition or is this forum missing something? |
Anonymous
Imagine what the Democratic Party could do if it didn’t spend so much time cleaning up Republican messes. |
Anonymous
| It’s just likely a variation of the old political tactic of telling an “up by yer bootstraps” narrative—only with a look at my cringe inducing SAT score and marvel at my claimed inability to read a speech. Voters: great! We want that! |
Anonymous
| One wonders whether he got an accommodation during the test or whether given his fairly old age those weren’t available back then. |
Anonymous
It's a very thin level of support. And it will disappear once attention moves to the next shiny object. Ever since Obama, the Democratic Party has been a top heavy party. Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden were the anointed leaders by donors and the party establishment. And zero attention was paid to younger generations for nearly twenty years now. Democrats are basically starting from zero. I expect potential nominees will pop and recede for some time. It wasn't that long ago everyone was talking about Gretchen Whitmer. |
Anonymous
If nominations were entirely left up to the people, there is a fear of an anti-capitalist type such as 2020's Sanders or Warren becoming the nominee. This type of nominee would, for obvious reasons, be a deterrent to the mega-donors counted on to write big checks. Quality of candidate is less important than fundraising capability in modern day American politics. Candidates with established, long-standing relationships with the dependable mega-donating entities will have the odds stacked in their favor until something is done to reduce the influence of money in politics. |
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Same old playbook. The dems going with another moderate candidate when what they need is a progressive that gets people excited.
Still Newsome is going to blow whoever the republicans put up. Especially JD Vance. People forget that there are a lot of trump voters who also voted for Obama. Just idiots voting off of Rizz. |
Anonymous
It's Newsom. And while I don't particularly like when politicians take the low road of trading insults, Gavin Newsom is so much better at it than Trump is. |
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Since this thread covered his dyslexia, cultural appropriation, affair etc. Here’s the part that matters.
CNN February 22, 2026 Transcript: DANA BASH: The Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs this week. He's already using different authorities to impose a 15 percent global tariff, vowing to forge ahead even without Congress. What do you do? GAVIN NEWSOM: Well, what does anyone do? You're going to move your factory from overseas and onshore it with a 150-day certainty on a 15 percent tax or tariff? I mean, the whole thing is a farce. I talk about petulance. It was 10 percent two days ago, maybe 20 percent tomorrow. I mean, this is madness. He's flailing. He's a punch-drunk boxer. He's just trying to hit anything, a shadow. And he's a shadow of himself. He's lost a step or two. Under the IEEPA, we were the first state to sue. I was out there in the Central Valley talking about how this is going to impact ranchers and small businesses and farmers, the ag community, in my state larger than any other state in the country. And Justice Roberts, by the way, basically, our arguments were literally laid out in detail in his response. So it was always an illegal act. He needs to return that money. He needs to refund that money with interest. He could do that in a nanosecond. They could do that electronically. DANA BASH: How? GAVIN NEWSOM: They can do it electronically. They have the tariff codes. They have the ability. They do refunds all the time. They have the ability to do that. The problem is, for families, it's been about $1,701 a year. That's a different requirement that I think he has to pay the American people back. I saw Bessent out there almost gleeful. He was gleeful that, no, we won't be doing it. This is dumb and dumber, Trump and Bessent. They have wrecked this economy, 1.4 percent GDP growth in the last quarter, inflation back up to 3 percent, the worst jobs market we have seen since 2013, 2.2 percent GDP for the entire year. He inherited 2.8. It's a wrecking ball presidency. He's wrecking this economy. His entire economic paradigm is mass deportations, tax cuts for billionaires, and tariffs. And he's been exposed. He's a fraud. And, by the way, the tariff, this is a self-dealing operation. This is about his personal portfolio. You know exactly what he did in Vietnam with the tariffs. He used them to get a deal on his golf course to fast-track his development. Connect the dots. This is unprecedented grift happening in real time. That's reflected in what just happened with the tariff decision in the Supreme Court. It was a profound moment for this administration. DANA BASH: I do want to, while we're on the economy, ask about affordability, because, yes, people are struggling all across the country. California has the highest cost of living in the nation. The state's prices are 11 percent higher than the national average. We were actually out to dinner here in Nashville last night. We met a couple from California. They moved out of California because they couldn't afford the rent or even to buy a home and also start a family. GAVIN NEWSOM: Yes, we have had hundreds of thousands of people move into California. The last two, three years, we have seen population growth. As you know, we moved from six to the fourth largest economy in the world. And we dominate now in every key industry, from A.I., quantum, robotics. We dominate in ag. We dominate in forestry. We dominate in manufacturing. DANA BASH: But people are struggling to afford things, like your mom was. GAVIN NEWSOM: And that's why we did $11 insulin, first of its kind in the United States. It's why we have universal health care and the lowest uninsured rate in the country, 6.4 percent. That's why we just subsidized over 300,000 childcare slots, more than any other state in the nation. That's why 65 percent of people graduate from the U.C. and CSU with zero debt. That's why we have the highest minimum wage for health care workers, $25, in the United States, for fast-food workers, $20 minimum wage. So we're looking at it from both sides. That's why we have a parents agenda that expanded paid sick leave and extended to eight weeks of paid family leave, all to support families, to address cost of living and to address the affordability crisis that goes back literally 70 years in California, for one reason. We're as dumb as we want to be on housing, and we haven't been able to get out of our way. It explains more things in more ways and more days of what's wrong with our state. And, finally, we moved forward with historic housing reforms that even our worst critics, including some on the left, like my friend Ezra Klein, acknowledged were the most progressive and perhaps most impactful reforms in a generation to finally address that issue. |