We’ve seen people implode when they’ve run for president.
But I don’t think we’ve seen someone who hasn’t even officially declared yet implode as badly as California Gov Gavin Newsom has been doing.
Let’s be frank, he isn’t exactly facing tough questions as he tools around on his book tour, trying to increase his national presence. We even saw Katie Couric asking him about how good-looking he was. Nice suck-up “journalism” there, Katie.
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But that said, he still has trouble answering basic questions.
He got in trouble in Georgia, where he told a black mayor, “I’m just like you,” then went on to say that he had a 960 SAT, and couldn’t read a speech. Then, he lost his mind and cursed at Sean Hannity for asking him a question, and Newsom’s team doubled down by telling a reporter to “f**k off” when she asked about documents for his dyslexia diagnosis.
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He seems to think the way to show he’s “presidential” is to attack President Donald Trump. But that just makes him look desperate.
But when it came down to being asked about his goals as he preps for a possible run for 2028, his answer was a great example of why he isn’t fit for the position. Adam Friedland asks him what his political goal is, what is it that he wants to accomplish. His answer was incredibly vapid.
🚨NEW: Gavin Newsom CAN’T articulate *single* specific policy goal to @AdamFriedland🚨
“I, I, you know, I don’t, I don’t have, like, a brand. I don’t have a tag … I’ve struggled with being able to communicate.”@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/uxODdSL8ma
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) March 5, 2026
He dares to mention Mahatma Gandhi, Vaclav Havel, and Nelson Mandela? Those were guys with specific ideas and goals. Newsom, on the other hand, couldn’t even name one, although I have to say he had about 17 different hand motions in the process of saying nothing. He just wants to name them as though he can float on their “zeitgeist.”
Who would fall for any of this? Newsom just wants us to vote for him for 60s vibes. Why would we do that when we rejected a similar empty-headed answer from Kamala Harris in 2024? Remember, she couldn’t think of what she would do differently from Joe Biden, who the public knew had delivered a spectacularly bad occupation of the White House.
Kamala says she wouldn’t change a thing about the awful policies she & Biden inflicted on all of us
If so
Then the correct action is to resign and apologize
Not ask for a promotionpic.twitter.com/8Dt0gwDEjo— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) October 9, 2024
If we were to go a bit further into the wayback machine, there was this infamous historical example of a bad answer similar to Gavin’s. This tanked Sen. Ted Kennedy badly before he had even declared for the 1980 race.
There was that same question: What would you do differently from Carter? And like Kamala, he couldn’t give a real answer. But at least he wasn’t doing the wild Newsom twisting and hand movements.
That question isn’t supposed to be a hard one — what you want to do should be basic in your DNA. We saw that with Trump — fix the border to help keep people safer, and he did that. When you are focused, you achieve. But if you want America to vote for you because of vibes, they’re going to move past you to someone who can get results. We’ve already seen with Gavin in California, that’s not him.
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