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"Democratic Brand Is TOXIC!" - Newsom SHOCKS Bill Maher By Flipping On Dems & BLASTING Party

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Gavin Newsom claims the Democratic brand is "toxic," yet his record in California tells a different story. As he postures for a 2028 run, critics argue he's a flip-flopping politician who stands for nothing but political survival.


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0:00.0

Newsom says Democratic brand is toxic.

0:03.1

Okay, is this with Bill Maulrop?

0:04.5

Yep.

0:04.8

Okay, go for it.

0:05.5

Play this clip.

0:06.7

These guys are crushing us.

0:08.6

The Democratic brand is toxic right now.

0:10.9

We had a high watermark two weeks ago, and that was a CNN poll at 29% favorability.

0:15.9

It's dropped in the NBC poll down to 27%.

0:19.2

It's one thing to make noise, but you also have to make sense.

0:22.1

And I think with this podcast and having the opportunity to dialogue with people I disagree with,

0:26.3

it's an opportunity to try to find common ground and not take cheap shots. I'm not looking to put a

0:30.8

spoke in the wheel of their, or at least a crowbar in the spokes of their wheel to trip them up to your point.

0:35.7

And I think it's important. Democrats, we tend to be a little more judgmental than we should be.

0:40.6

This notion of cancel culture, you've been living it,

0:43.8

you've been on the receiving end of it.

0:45.0

For years and years and years, that's real.

0:47.0

And Democrats need to own up to that.

0:49.0

Tom.

0:50.0

So I think there's something really dangerous about Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom is running right now, and you'll see if you watch this interview with Bill Maher, Bill Maher asked him, why don't you run? You're capable. You can do it. And he won't answer the question. He won't answer the question and say that he's running, but he is running. And that's what's going on here. And what's interesting,

1:11.1

what's very, very interesting, he said, we own the failed governance in California, but I said

1:18.2

there's a new day last year and that we own the response of reform. You hear that response of reform,

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