The Newsom for President Bandwagon struck another rut this week.
A new Times and UC Berkeley survey found that California registered voters believe – by a margin of more than 2 to 1 – the state Governor of the State is more focused on the stimulation of his chances of winning the White House than to solve the multitude of problems that he is confronted here at home.
What is not excellent news if you believe that the best diploma when looking for a new job is a high praise for the one you do.
The people interviewed were definitely mixed on Newsom, with a lukewarm of 46% approving his performance in his second and last mandate. (Probably little, if necessary, listened to the creamy political podcast from Newsom.) The same percentage of registered voters said their professional performance.
It is not a big look compared to other democratic governors swirling about the 2028 gossip factory.
Pennsylvania voters give their director general, Josh Shapiro, a 59% healthy approval rating and Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan obtains favorable notes of 54% of its voters. Andy Beshear, from Kentucky, has an approval rating of 68% positively clairical in its deep red state, the highest of all the country’s democratic governors, according to the national survey of Morning Cons.
Of course, Newsom insists that he is not even thought Regarding the candidacy for the presidency, although a simple application of the duck test – if it is hidden and the charlatans like a duck, you can be reasonably certain of its status as savagine – suggests the opposite.
In a recent interview with Podcaster Mark Halperin video, the governor insisted that he was more undecided by a 2028 race than people think.
“I must have a why, and I must have a convincing vision which distinguishes me from anyone. Without that, without both … I do not even deserve to be in the conversation,” said Newsom.
During all this time, pushing themselves very deliberately in the conversation – which is a bit like someone who undresses, standing in a department store, then asking why everyone looks.
But whatever.
The good news for Newsom is that California voters will probably not have the opportunity to weigh on his presidential candidacy, if he appeared, before the appointment competition. March 7, 2028 – The date currently set for the presidential primary of the State – California will certainly continue its 50 years and more to have very little impact on the result.
Maybe the next century.
The 2028 full political calendar has not yet been determined. In 2024, the Democrats made things happen at the request of President Biden, eliminating their caucus to kick off in Iowa and pushing the South Carolina and Nevada in the foreground. More changes could arrive, although the New Hampshire, which held the first presidential primary for more than a century, could very well hang on to its place at the start, which could not be a bad thing for Newsom.
Jim Demers, a concord lobbyist – the state capital – and a long -standing democratic activist said that the governor of California was as decent as any Democrat who plans to run.
“Whether Gavin Newsom, or (Illinois Gov.) JB Pritzker, or Shapiro or Whitmer or (New Jersey Sen. Cory) Booker – anyone – people are ready to hear them and who want to see who will be ready to take Trump and get up,” said Demers, who is so far in the competition.
Newsom, he said, is “roughly a virgin slate” in New Hampshire. “The average person really doesn’t know much about him, apart from them.”
In addition, Demers does not consider California de Newsom’s return address as necessarily damage.
“You will probably have Republicans who will weigh a Californian candidate as a left -handed liberal,” said Demer. “But I think you have many democrats … who consider many of the policies that have occurred in California and consider them as perhaps progressive, but avant-garde.”
Dick Harpootlian is certainly not republican. He is a former president of the Democratic Party of South Carolina, state senator and veteran of the decades of presidential policy.
His tongue is sharp and spicy, such as the privileged vinegar barbecue sauce in certain parts of his state and – although he too has no early favorite – Harpootlian did not have much to say about the governor of California, or his 2028 prospects.
“I think Gavin Newsom is what we all think about when we think of a smooth and rich Californian playboy type,” said Harpootlian from his Columbia law firm. “I mean, her hair is perfectly styled. Her shoes are brilliant and probably Italian.
“Many of us,” he continued, “remember Covid when he told everyone not to go out and he had a fabulous dinner with French laundry in Napa. I just think it is disconnected from the blue passes we need to put back in the party (Democrat).
Nor of Harpootlian did not suggest California a particularly good place to come from politically. He quoted “the huge population of the State” of the State, its cities of tents, an imminent budgetary deficit and taxes which “are so high”.
“This is not the case,” he said dryly, “a model that the rest of the country wants to follow.”
Iowa has probably lost its privileged place forever on the political calendar after the disastrous caucus of 2020, which took days to give a winner.
However, the Democratic strategist Jeff Link has a eye practiced by the observation of the dozens of presidential candidates has passed over the years. He worked for half a dozen of them.
“I do not think that 2024 helped the cause of California,” said Link about the chances that the Democrats would turn, after Kamala Harris, to another Democrat in San Francisco, as a candidate. “But I don’t think it’s a death sentence.”
Newsom could arrive in iowa totaling luggage. (Assuming that it presents itself as a presidential hope.) But “there is real credibility to govern a state of this magnitude, even if it is considered too liberal and too eccentric,” said Link of monks. “I think people would be open to learning more.”
What suggests an inclination of Newsom to the White House is not entirely eccentric.
Assuming that he first obtains his own house in order.
California Daily Newspapers
