Preparing For A Potential President Gavin Newsom (with Jesse Kelly)
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
The First Digital Inc.
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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You were on the board and you wanted to become mayor and then you want to become governor. |
| 0:08.0 | That didn't work, so then you want to become a lieutenant governor. |
| 0:11.0 | And, you know, I suspect you want to be president one day. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, God, no. |
| 0:14.0 | Really? |
| 0:15.0 | So, I mean, I, you know, I... |
| 0:21.6 | Why do they all lie about that? |
| 0:23.8 | It's always so exhausting. |
| 0:25.3 | They all do it. |
| 0:26.1 | Republicans do it too. |
| 0:27.1 | No, I don't want to be president. |
| 0:28.6 | I mean, do you want me to be president? |
| 0:29.9 | Joining me now, host of the wonderful Politics by Faith podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | Someone who knows Gavin Newsom quite well. |
| 0:36.9 | Mike Slater. Mike, it's the line that gets me. |
| 0:40.3 | What's wrong with just saying? I'm an ambitious person. I'm in politics. I want to run for president. |
| 0:46.6 | Why do they all have to do the reluctant public servant thing? I find it exhausting. |
| 0:52.7 | Yeah, Gavin Newsom has wanted to run for president |
| 0:55.4 | since he was a poor black youth |
| 0:57.8 | growing up on the wrong side of the tracks |
| 1:00.3 | in California. |
| 1:01.8 | I think that's what he was doing |
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