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Governor Gavin Newm Long insisted that he was not interested in running for president, despite the tumultuous speculation. He now publicly admits that this is an opportunity.
Get ready, America. After years, he claims, Gavin News finally recognizes his presidential ambitions.
In the last month, the democratic governor, who once insisted that he had an “underground interest” in the White House, began to publicly focus on the idea. In profile Posted in The Wall Street Journal This week, Newsom said he would wait to see if the moment was feeling right.
“I don’t think to run, but it’s the way I could see it unfold,” he said.
The change in tone comes, perhaps happy, since all the looks are again directed at Newsom.
After President Donald Trump has been sending military troops to Los Angeles in recent days to suppress sometimes uneducated protests against immigration attacks, Newsom seized the moment of restores himself as a leader of resistanceS The governor brought a case to stop the unfolds and now makes almost endless circles in the media, accusing Trump of being inserted into authoritarianism. He has sent daily inquiries to his fundraising list mentioning the situation in Los Angeles and The President stands for his arrestS
On Tuesday evening, Newsom gave a brief video addressHe wore live on CNN, which seeks to raise his struggle to national importance, warning that “other countries are next” and unite the public behind him to protect democracy.
“This is for all of us. It’s for you,” Newsom said. “It’s time to stand up.”
Many people already accept that Newsom is in campaign mode. A A poll published last month The UC Berkeley and Los Angeles Times Institute has found that more than half of California’s voters believe Newsom is more focused on strengthening its presidential prospects than governing the state and solving its problems.
But the ability to expand his message beyond California can rebel the voters in the rest of the country to start seeing Newsom as a potential leader, said Larry Sabato, director of the Virginia University Policy Center.
He praised Newsom for directing the growing fear and anger from Trump’s actions in his remarks, which Sabato believes may have changed the opinion of some skeptics that the governor consider as a simple gender with a good hair gel.
“He saw the danger to the US Republic,” Sabato said. “It was a home running.”
Although speculation about a future presidential offer has followed Newsom throughout his career – his family even jokes about it in congratulatory In his college year old – he would never admit that he had a look at the White House even a few years ago.
After winning an attempt at withdrawal in 2021, NEWSOM told NBC’s Chuck Todd that “he has never considered running for president and has” no, no, no, no, “the interest in doing it because” Who needs damn stress? “
During Approval With San Francisco’s chronicle during his campaign to re -elevate California Governor next year, Newsom said he had an “underground interest” to be commander -in -chief and that “not even my radar”. He repeated to CBS This “this is not my ambition” and “I have no interest” to apply.
Issue reappeared repeatedly Last summer, as a frantic Democrats was considering replacing President Joe Biden in the ticket, and Newsom always loyally downloaded it, appearing as perhaps on Biden the strongest surrogate to the bitter endS
Newsom star has risen in recent years
Whether these proclamations were sincere is, of course, another question.
Newsom’s political star broke out with his early coronavirus pandemic rule and he spent years since Burning his national profile – Red to red states to Campaign for fellow Democrats., offering a constitutional amendment to limit the ownership of weapons, Debate the Republican Governor of Florida Ron Roanis of Fox News, Start a podcast to generate disputesS The recent book ”Wrestling: In the most bold battle for the White House“He reports that Newsom is one of the distinguished Democrats who have contacted operating campaigns last summer to study their chances if Biden dropped out.
Newsom representatives did not answer questions why he was talking differently about a potential presidential campaign and whether it was a deliberate strategy. But the switch is remarkable and consistent in recent weeks.
In early May, Newsom told a video podcast Then with Mark Halperin that his decision was to “determine”.
“I could. I don’t know,” he said. “But I have to have a burning” why “and I have to have a convincing vision that differs from anyone else. Without that, without both, I don’t even deserve to be in the conversation. “
On his Own podcast last weekGuest D -Ph Phil asked Newsom if he was running for president in 2028 and the governor did not rule out. “You also don’t rule out anything about your future, so we’ll leave it on,” he said.
If Newsom eventually enters the race, voters are unlikely to be interested in their spinning promises that he would not, Sabato said because it will be so expected.
“If you are the manager of California, the assumption is that you are running for president,” he said.
And the destroyed promises seem to be small in politics, Sabato added: “The only thing Trump did for everyone is to eliminate the question of hypocrisy.”