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What Next | Does Gavin Newsom Have It All Figured Out?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Everyone assumes the reason Gavin Newsom has had right-wingers like Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast is to burnish his credentials for an imminent presidential run. But no podcast episode is going to make Republican voters forget that he’s a California Democrat. Guest: Marisa Lagos, political correspondent for KQED and co-host of the Political Breakdown podcast. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Ethan Oberman, Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Isabel Angell, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So Marisa, Gavin Newsom is running for president, right?

1:12.9

Well, that's the million-dollar question.

1:19.3

Marisa Lagos is a political correspondent at KQED in San Francisco.

1:24.9

I called her up because I wanted someone to help me figure out what the California governor's

1:30.4

deal is right now.

1:33.3

I mean, I think if you look back at his career and I've been covering him since he was mayor

1:38.1

20 years ago, there's always been a sense that Gavin Newsom is setting himself up for a potential

1:43.2

presidential run, that he has had his eyes on that site.

1:46.8

Was it the Vanity Fair photo spread that really sealed the deal?

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