OPINION: It's refreshing to see a Democrat take the fight to the GOP. Newsom has smartly framed their attack on democracy as a threat to freedom. He’s right to point out that his party must do a better job of raising the alarm about what’s at stake.
You have to hand it to Gavin Newsom. Last summer, the governor was begging Californians to vote against a recall election that, according to some polls, he had a good chance of losing. This summer, he’s running for president.
— Gavin Newsom July 3, 2022Newsom’s shadow campaign faces some obstacles, such as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Those comments drew a sharp retort from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Yet Newsom’s rant, like his Florida ads, achieved the intended effect. Both earned national media attention, raising his profile. They also enabled him to draw a contrast between himself and other leaders.
Team Harris is on alert. Harris loyalist Bakari Sellers assured Politico’s Chris Cadelago that Newsom is “no threat to the VP for anything she decides or wants to do.” When I worked for Harris in 2013, she viewed Newsom as her chief competition in a future race for governor. Sen. Barbara Boxer’s unexpected resignation upended these plans, however, after Newsom quickly declared he would not run for her seat. His decisive move forced Harris to choose between an easy senate race or a brutal gubernatorial contest against Newsom.
These verbal blunders add to the impression that Harris is ill-prepared for, well, anything. The bigger problem: If Biden’s too unpopular to run again, why would his VP fare any better? As a partner in the administration, she’ll share its failures as well as its successes. Of course, it’s easier to criticize than to lead. Newsom is lucky Biden and Harris can’t hit back at him. California has serious problems — homelessness, inflation, poverty, drought — that the governor has yet to solve. One could easily rebuff Newsom’s pretensions by reminding him that politics is about building the biggest tent, not the biggest tent cities.
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