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After 6 1/2 years of denial of any interest in running for president, Gavin Newsom He finally gave up.

In the raging of media interviews aimed at demonstrations of Anti-Donald Trump in Los Angeles and elsewhere, Newsom acknowledged What everyone in and around national policy had already assumed – that it was entertaining the White House offer.

The most scent of a few hints was Posted in The Wall Street JournalS In response to a question about his presidential ambitions, Newsom said, “I don’t think to run, but this is the way I could see to unfold.”

This is in accordance with the playing book worn in time who look in the mirror and see a president who stares back. They deviated a naked ambition and presented themselves as reluctantly offered to serve the nation at the time of crisis, whatever it is.

It’s no accident that Newsom, in Live broadcast address from CNNHe warned that Trump’s extensive campaign for arresting undocumented immigrants was such a crisis, saying that “other countries are next.”

“This is for all of us. It’s for you,” Newsom said. “It’s time to stand up.”

Newsom delivered a similar topic in his interview with Wall Street Journal. “I have a responsibility to combine passion with the action, to stand tall and firm, and to defend the values ​​that I think I think the greater part of the Americans is expensive and I stand up at this moral moment,” he said.

Trump’s anti -migrant desire is a political gift for Newsom, providing a springboard for it to fill a vacuum and ask for a guide to Trump’s opposition. The Democratic Party failed in the seven months of the loss of the White House to limit its struggles for domestic power. Neither political media have anointed any of the potential candidates to succeed Trump as a championship.

It would be fair to say that Newsom, which has been growing a national image since the victory of the re -election in 2022, is likely to start before most possible rivals for democratic nomination.

Whether it will end and continue to win the Presidency is another question. The Road to the White House is long and meandering, with many possibilities of stumbling – like Career of another California, Kamala Harris, testifiesS

Assuming that Newsom’s hints mean that he is a candidate, in the last 18 months of his management he will juggle daily work and a side concert, which is likely to reduce his position in California, which is mediocre in the best case.

A A recent poll of the UC-Berkeley State Research Institute They found that with margin 2-1, California voters already believe that Newsom is more focused on the president’s candidacy than in the troubleshooting of the state.

“People look at it as very ambitious,” said survey director Mark Dikamilo for Newsom.

Newsom’s presidential campaign would be something like a referendum on California. Its serious social and economic problems that have not improved significantly during the Newsom Government would be Campaign For democratic rivals and, if he won the nomination, for the Republican candidate.

Videos of Cities in California ” Squalid bearings From homeless robberies to break and pick up and sometimes violent demonstrations against Trump immigration would enhance the acidic image that those in other states already have from California. Choose Newsom, his rivals would say if you want a nation to imitate California.

Being California was one of the burden that Harris could not overcome last year. Advertising with her participation Intercession to give a conversion operation For transsexual prisoners, it was widely true, the most effective place of the campaign.

Saddle up. Earn or Losses, Newsom’s Campaign for the White House would be uneven driving.

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