Democrats are having a collective heart attack watching President Joe Biden fall apart before their eyes. As a result, some are looking to California’s seemingly charming and handsome young governor, Gavin Newsom, as the answer to keeping Donald Trump out of the White House.
Here Comes Gavin Newsom?
Gavin Newsom is articulate and able to defend his positions on issues. He already proved he could fend off political foes in the 2021 recall election.
He made himself the Democrats’ point man against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who he accuses of kidnapping migrants and challenges his stances on LGBT issues.
Newsom even went on Fox News last month to take his message to the channel’s largely Republican audience.
“This is on its way to becoming the fourth-largest economy in the world. What are you arguing for? Mississippi’s economic policy?” Newsom asked in response to Sean Hannity’s claim that Democrat economic policies were harming the nation. “Literally, that’s what you’re arguing for. The great Sam Brownback’s Kansas policy? It was a debacle, no economic growth. Seventy-one percent of the GDP in America are [in] blue counties, progressive policies. Seventy-one percent of the country’s wealth. Seven of the top 10 dependent states are your states. We’re subsidizing your states, Sean, because of your policies.”
He even broke ranks with Democrats and professed his admiration of Donald Trump, who he claimed to have had a strong working relationship with during the pandemic.
Polling shows that Newsom would beat both Trump and DeSantis if he were to replace Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Gavin Newsom Hiding from His Record
Democrats should think twice before dumping Biden in favor of Newsom.
In March, Californians surveyed in a Quinnipiac Poll said they did not want to see Newsom run for president. Only 37 percent of Democrats wanted Newsom to run for president and 54 percent said they did not.
Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute, notes that Newsom’s track record in California is hardly one to be proud of.
“Flicking through the mainstream press, one could be forgiven for realising that Newsom has presided over California’s fall from economic pre-eminence: the Golden State is now home to record homelessness, sub-par GDP growth, the nation’s highest poverty rate, a tech downturn fuelled by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and a consistently underperforming public education system. These factors have fuelled a powerful out-migration trend — up 135% in just two years,” Kotkin wrote in a new article on Unherd.com. “Recent polls find upwards of 40% of residents are considering leaving, while the rising tide of wealthy emigrees has already taken away $20 billion in adjusted income since 2018.”
He notes that Newsom’s green-energy policies have proven disastrous for ordinary Californians. They have seen rising energy and housing prices as a result. His effort to eliminate oil drilling in California has resulted in an increase of imported oil from places like Saudi Arabia.
California’s Homelessness Crisis a Gavin Newsom Legacy
Homelessness has flourished in California under Newsom’s leadership as housing prices have skyrocketed.
“People are homeless because their rent is too high. And their options are too few. And they have no cushion,” Dr. Margot Kushel, lead investigator and director of the University of California San Francisco’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative told the Associated Press. “And it really makes you wonder how different things would look if we could solve that underlying problem.”
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Blanco blames the Newsom-favored Proposition 47 for the problems with the state’s housing.
“When we stopped enforcing drug rules and laws,” Bianco told Fox News, “we started seeing a major, major, major increase in what we see now as the severe mental health problems of people that are living on the street.”
Kotkin believes that Newsom’s mismanagement of California would make it hard for him to win if they came under the election spotlight.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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