PREVIEW: Colleague Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institution will outline the steps Governor Gavin Newsom is taking to prepare for a presidential run in 2028. More details on this to come later in the program.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institution about the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, a very attractive and skillful presenter to his audience in California. |
| 0:14.1 | How does he go nationally given that Bill assumes, and I agree, that the governor is now a presidential candidate for 2028 for the Democratic Party. |
| 0:25.0 | Bill lists the strengths and the lessen strengths for Gavin Newsom as he's on the road. |
| 0:31.9 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:33.2 | Progressive. |
| 0:34.1 | The problem, Joe, John, is he has very mixed feelings with California. |
| 0:37.5 | At least they have mixed feelings with him. He has been underwater for portions of |
| 0:41.0 | 2024, where his unpopularity is larger than his popularity, and this ties to him going out |
| 0:46.1 | and campaigning and endorsing. Give an example of how his cloud is somewhat diminished in California. |
| 0:51.4 | He decided there was a congressional race here in Silicon Valley, John. |
| 0:54.6 | It featured two Democrats running against each other in general election. |
| 0:57.9 | Newsom endorsed one of the Democrats, basically his payback against the other. And the person he endorsed John lost by about 15 points. |
| 1:04.2 | So it's not like the governor puts you over the top in these races. So I think this is just something people outside of California need to study. |
| 1:11.6 | He's going to be talked about the next great thing in politics because, again, his style is so |
| 1:15.6 | much different from Kamala Harris's, but I do think he is an overrated commodity. |
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