Frenemies Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom at the crossroads

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Three decades ago, thanks to the patronage of the legendary San Francisco politician Willie BrownTwo young, ambitious politicians began careers that took them to the upper strata of American politics.

As a speaker of the State Assembly, Brown appointed Kamala HarrisWith whom he had personal relations, in two well -paid state councils and in 1998 as mayor of San Francisco helped her to work at the District Prosecutor’s Office.

This move in the career led to the fact that he became a district prosecutor in 2004, California’s Attorney General six years later and the US senator six years later. After her four years in the Senate (and the failed President of 2020), Joe Biden made her his vice president, managing a partner in 2020, and finally approved her as his successor in 2024, just to see her to lose to Donald Trump.

It was an extremely quick climb on the political ladder, from a local civil servant to the presidential candidate, but the other protégé of Brown, Gavin NewsomIt also climbed quickly.

In the early 1990s, Newsom founded a business with a restaurant hotel called Plumpjack, the title of opera written by Gordon Getty’s heirwhose personal confidence provided early financial support.

In 1996, Mayor Brown appointed the young businessman to the City Parking and Movement Commission, then in the City Council of Supervisory Authorities, creating a successful Newsom campaign for mayor in 2003.

NEWSOM wanted to run for governor in 2010, but stepped aside when former governor Jerry Brown decided he wanted another crack in California’s rule. NEWSOM, with an apparent reluctance, runs as a lieutenant governor and transferred his time to a powerless office until Brown retires again, allowing Newsom to ask for the Government in 2018.

Now, a year after Harris lost his second presidential offer, the two politicians, whose relationships have always presented elements of both mutual support and rivalry, find themselves at a crossroads.

Harris promotes her book for the presidential campaign, “”107 days“He excavated in other politicians, including Newsom. She wrote that she tried to reach Newsom after Biden’s decision not to seek re -election, but the Newsom answer is” Tourism. “Will call back.”

“He has never done it,” Harris added.

Later, Newsom told reporters that an unknown number on his phone popped up that day and only later realized that he was Harris. “Exactly the same moment worked with my team to make a statement,” he said. “I guess it’s in the book too.”

Harris’s book did not mention Newsom’s approval.

While Harris distributes her book, she rejects running questions again in 2028, but Newsom is no longer hides its ambition To climb the final lane of the nation’s political ladder for three years.

He has already claimed the role of Donald Trump’s most stringent critic, the president’s trolling with Snide, and sometimes vulgar publications on social media, and has denied almost every presidential decree.

NEWSOM also sponsors a vote measure in November, Proposal 50This, if it succeeds, will transfer five California congressional seats from Republicans to Democrats to the thwarted Republican Germanders as parties that oppose the House of Representatives next year.

On Tuesday, Newsom took its crusade in a very friendly place Stephen Colbert’s talk showExposing the questions of the host’s softball and passing through the lithies of Trump’s sins.

“This man is flooding the area, dominating the stories. The facts seem to matter, and the Democrats, to be honest, have had a difficult time to pull away,” Newsom told Colbert.

NEWSOM could not resist a sloping shot in Harris because of his loss of campaign without being named. “As a Democratic Party, we have a lot of work to compensate for our failures in the past,” he said. “In these last elections, they crushed us.”

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