"Gavin Newsom has a 30-page file of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. Bounding across his Sacramento office, he starts listing them: incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel-and that's just the letter I. "Yes, too woke," he adds. "Yes, 107 days," referring to the short campaign after Joe Biden's forced withdrawal. But the California governor distills his party's problem down to one word. Weak."
"His idea of strength includes a willingness to fight dirty, going lower than Barack Obama could ever imagine, and so his social-media accounts bristle with memes about Donald Trump's bruised hand and advancing age. "Donald has fallen asleep in his own Cabinet meeting," he recently asserted on X. Some posts are downright cruel, such as the one about Elon Musk's estrangement from his transgender child: "We're sorry your daughter hates you, Elon," it said."
Gavin Newsom compiled a 30-page list of reasons Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election, naming incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel, perceived wokeness, and a shortened campaign after Joe Biden's withdrawal. He identifies the party's central problem as weakness and invokes a Clinton insight that Americans often prefer strong and wrong to weak and right. Newsom is a leading 2028 Democratic contender and a prominent anti-Trump force who embraces aggressive tactics and provocative social-media posts. He backed Proposition 50, a partisan redrawing of California's congressional map, and has a memoir forthcoming.
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