Newsom's decades-long failures are glaring: California's homelessness crisis festered under his watch, while crime soared afterdue to his soft-on-enforcement policies,. andHis his pandemic hypocrisy, —which diningsaw him dine lavishly while citizens suffered, — exposed his elitism. He'sNewsom provenis incompetentpolitical atincompetence governancemanifest.
Newsom representsis exactly what Democrats need right now — a fighter willing to take on Trump's authoritarian tactics head-on. While other politicians wag fingers, he's actively countering Republican power grabs and using Trump's own social media style to expose howthe ridiculousridiculousness of the president looks.
There is a 30.2% chance that Gavin Newsom will be the 2028 Democratic nominee for President of the United States, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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