Gavin Newsom wants to be the new face of the Democrat Party.
But not everyone is on board with his plan.
And Gavin Newsom flew into a fit of rage when a top Democrat gave him this ruthless message.
California is a problem for Democrats
Democrats are trying to figure out what went wrong for the Party in the 2024 election.
One of the early criticisms from some Democrats is that the Party spends too much time focusing on woke extremism and not enough on kitchen table issues.
California was the blueprint that Democrats wanted to use for the rest of the country, but since Vice President Kamala Harris lost, the Party seems to be viewing the state differently.
The Democrat-controlled state has become a warning sign to the rest of the country against allowing Democrats to seize total control.
Los Angeles Times political reporter Seema Mehta noted how often voters in battleground states had a negative reaction to California.
“I can’t count the # of voters who I interviewed in battleground states who said ‘Don’t California my Arizona/Nevada/etc.’ Did this tilt the election?” Mehta wrote on X.
Radical gender ideologies, environmental extremism, soft-on-crime policies, and other items on the Democrat agenda all got their start in California.
Former California Democrat Assemblyman Mike Gatto said Kamala’s loss to President-elect Donald Trump “says something is broken with the vanguard of Democratic policies and Democratic messaging that starts in places like California.”
Kamala was successfully painted as an out-of-touch San Francisco Democrat more focused on identity politics than kitchen table issues.
The Trump campaign hammered her with an ad highlighting her support for taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for criminals and illegal aliens.
“Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you,” the ad stated.
Gavin Newsom’s starring role is hurting Democrats
California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom has positioned his state as the leader on virtually every radical left-wing issue, like climate change, abortion on-demand up until – and often after – the moment of birth, and LGBTQQIP2SAA+ rights.
And he’s generated national headlines fighting with Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and members of the GOP.
Former New Hampshire Republican Party chair turned Never-Trumper Jennifer Horn said the GOP has been successful at “demonizing California as a dangerously liberal state.”
“They have painted California to be so liberal that if we let the rest of the country become like California, the whole operation will collapse,” Horn explained.
Los Angeles-based Democrat consultant John Shallman said that Newsom wasn’t helping his party.
“That was a huge disconnect by the Democratic party and certainly Gavin Newsom and everyone else running around amplifying [left-wing social] positions, which doesn’t do us any good,” Shallman stated. “We just again have to be focused on bread-and-butter, kitchen-table, middle-class issues, and get away from identity politics, get away from the notion of fighting these culture wars.”
Newsom fancies himself as a Presidential contender in 2028, but Kamala’s defeat has Democrats skittish about another California candidate.
He’s already positioning California to fight the incoming Trump administration in an attempt to build his political profile for 2028.
Senator Laphonza Butler (D-CA) had a reality check for Newsom, who appointed her to the Senate.
“I don’t believe Governor Newsom was elected to be the Governor of the resistance,” Butler said. “I don’t believe Senator-elect [Adam] Schiff was elected to be the Senator-elect of the resistance. I hope that the lesson from any of this is a reminder for all of us that we are public servants, that we are here to serve the people who send us, and the governor of California has to be the governor of all of California.”
Gavin Newsom’s Presidential ambitions are already off to a rocky start.
