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Gavin Newsom is a presidential frontrunner in part because he not only talked the talk about fighting Trump, but came up with and executed a plan to actually do it. Other Democrats should take note. Words and stern letters ain’t sufficient.

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I'd really prefer it not be Newsom. He's a much more coherent, younger, effective billionaire puppet. I can't see him doing anything but taking Trumps fascist America and running with it to further the tech bro agenda. Need someone else.

He's a slimy syncophant to the plutocratic system that produced Trump. Gavin Newsom is the good cop of this plutocracy. Do no carry water for him. Do not demoralize the country with more Great Men theories of power. Get a clue and read the room.

people attribute Prop 50 to him, maybe the most impactful dem move during trump 2.0 compared to anything any other democrat has done. Unfortunately he's also a piece of shit

He STANDS UP, and that shakes Trump, which I looooove. He’s smarter, waaaaay better looking, and full of the charisma Trump lacks. He also walks the walk for us every day. 💜

I’m still a Kamala Harris supporter. However, I think Mark Kelly is already being very presidential. I will support whomever the Ds choose as long as there is a promise to prosecute everyone involved in the current mess. Newsom is not perfect, but he does a good job for us. His trans stance is awful

There are something called boundaries. Lack of boundaries has been a huge reason of this disaster. And no "Being better than Trump" is not an acceptable boundary in a deep sea of mediocre and awful.

I’m not anti-Gavin and give him credit for decisive and risky moves that have worked. But not everyone is the governor of California - he has inherent power that many other Dems do not.

Please do not tell other Democrats to be like Gavin Newsome. Fighting Trump is good, but his transphobia, cruelty to the homeless, and "bipartisan outreach" to people like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro are all really bad.

Barring a stronger progressive Democrat to step forward and challenge Newsom in the Democratic presidential primaries, he's who me and mine will vote for. And we're voting for Tom Steyer in the CA gubernatorial primaries. He does not take AIPAC money, and I love his workable ideas.

And yet he's doing podcasts with grifters and misinformation hacks like Shapiro. Unfortunately, he's a candidate who isn't serious about changing anything.

So when I hear the name Gavin Newsom, for some reason a mental image of Kimberly Guilfoyle as she is today pops into my mind and I think maybe Gavin is not such s good judge of character 🤷‍♂️ YMMV

You ever get involved with the wrong woman? Dated or married someone who turned out not to be the right one? Well. Gavin married one, and then divorced her and she ended up with Shithead Jr…..

You may be deluded since you got his nuts on your chin? He mocked trump on twitter he didn't do anything to protect California residents from state initiated violence. Maybe try having a spine thatbstays intact even when the dems are pushing tripe

The Older Democrats live in YESTERYEAR... This is NOT beneficial for us‼️... @Jeffries.senate.gov is not Assertive Enough-- What are his speeches doing to counteract the Terror/Harm/KILLINGS⁉️....WHAAAAT⁉️

We have to pick the person who has the best chances of winning. Who stands a better chance than Newsom? There are plenty I respect way more then Newsom, but can they win?

"Words and stern letters ain’t sufficient" 99% of what Newsom has done has just been words and stern letters, and the one thing he did is mostly not logistically replicatable. I'd also note it's laughable to treat him as walking the walk vs Trump when he's cozied up to multiple of Trump's lackeys.

Gavin provided the model. Now we need somebody better to use it Raise your hand if you really believe Newsom is going to be willing to hold billionaires accountable. If you are a sucker, keep your hand up because he just said he wouldn't.

He is also collaborating with fascists, supporting ICE, attacking the homeless and trans kids. He is yet another phony narcissist and a traitor to his Latino and trans constituents. We don’t need any more people like him in government.

Honestly, if Newsom is on the ticket for the dems, I will still not vote for him. If the dems want my vote, they have to not run people who are okay with state violence against queer and poor people. And especially not people who push for those things. I wouldn't elect him as litter collector.

That guy is terrible. Gets his interns to tweet snarkily while locking up those without homes, kowtowing to billionaires, cozying up to right wingers, and oh yeah, throwing trans folks under the bus at every opportunity.

No matter how hard y’all try to push Newsom forward, it ain’t happening! Keep ignoring the Black base of the Dem Party (92% of Women and 78% of Men) who overwhelmingly voted for Kamala Harris. It’s not wise! Numbers NEVER lie no matter how much people do! He’s not trustworthy…PERIOD!!!

Bull-fucking-shit. Gavin Newsom is a scum bag. He is a target rich environment in terms of mismanagement and corruption. Yes, he pushed for the gerrymandering of CA to counter TX, but his tenure as gov was crap. If THIS is the front runner, Democrats will once again prove they’ve learned nothing.

They aren't the least bit alike. Starmer has actually done some good things & has a truly horrendous fuck up to try to fix. But he lacks decisiveness & fire. Newsom has both in spades. But it is true whoever takes over from Trump will have to reverse an precedented level of stupidity & corruption.

The ongoing legacy of rising authoritarianism caused by the unforgivable stupidity and weakness of 70 million plus voters in the US and a potential shitload in the UK is the real and present danger we're all currently facing. But sure, stir up resentment towards an imagined enemy from 30 years ago.

I'd say whatever. Don't allow good to be enemy to the ideal. That's what happened when folks voted Nader in 2000, and Stein (every four years). Look who we got

People falling for the same nonsense that got Trump elected in this thread I see. The divide and conquer propaganda of MAGA/Russia/Fascism hard at work. I will not engage in defaming or lying about Newsom or any pro-democracy, pro-freedom Democrat.

I’d like to see the choices of front-runners for the Democrats so we can decide who is the best candidate for saving America. Newsom, thus far, has taken many actions within the law to limit ICE and reign in abuse of power by Trump.

He will repeat the same mistakes of Biden and Garland, he has already suggested that. And he is another “Kirk disagreed the right way.” He certainly has some good points and has been strong, but unlike Pritzker who has made clear there must be accountability, I have heard just the opposite from him.

I wonder if skeptics are aware why Shapiro is relevant right now. There's a pretty big split happening right now in the media space, republicans are not okay. Shapiro is probably the single biggest reason for that.

Gavin Newsom is Donald Trump in a more socially acceptable wrapper. His Gestapo won't shoot mothers in the head, but they'll be more then happy to dump a bunch of people without permanent residences in unmarked graves.

TBF Virginia is charging ahead on the same, and other states are exploring it as well. California benefited from having optimal conditions to make the biggest changes. I think a lot of other stuff will sink him, but you're right in that it *does* objectively give him something to point to.

Yeah, he's not the only one. But it's also not clear that Virginia would have done this at all had California not blazed a trail. I do not want Democratic Nominee Gavin Newsom, but Pritzker et al need to step up.

His fighting plan was to write mocking posts which mimicked Trump's. Is that the best plan to handle bullies? By bullying back. 🙄 Think about it. How's that work out on the playground? Cute for about 5 seconds. Maybe. 😬 Sorry, Newsom is not our guy, if that's how he thinks.

He's not the one we want or need, but he's the front-runner nominee. If he's nominated and we refuse to vote for him we will *deserve* another 4 years of this MAGA shit show. It will hurt but it will be our choice. Any Democrat can start fighting, but they don't.

I'm not "running" anyone. Newsom is (probably) running. If people are so brain dead stupid to not vote in their best interest, we will suffer. If you don't want to suffer, vote for the non-fascist, even if you don't like everything they stand for.

Wait, what was this plan and when did he execute it?

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Only 15 days in and we have a strong contender for most embarrassing headline of the year. Ben. Shapiro. The guy who can't get his wife wet. The guy who needs an old person to open the pickle jar for him.