And the California Governor is probably looking for early political I.O.U’s already…..
Added to this IS the fact that Newson heads California’s economy, which IS Larger that a good many other nations in total….
Gavin Newsom’s message to world leaders in Munich: It’s time to start thinking about the next president.
“Donald Trump is temporary,” the California governor and likely presidential candidate said during a panel about climate change Friday at the Munich Security Conference. “He’ll be gone in three years.”
Newsom r has long positioned California as a durable counterweight to Trumpism, particularly on climate policies that California has expanded as the White House retreats. He carried a similar banner at an international climate conference in Brazil last year, casting California as America’s premiere climate mover in Trump’s absence.
While it’s not unusual for California governors to wield the state’s economic clout to shape global climate policy, Newsom’s advocacy for the state doubles as a pitch for himself, allowing him to practice his diplomatic acumen, fortify relationships with heads of state, and sharpen his pitch for a post-Trump foreign policy.
He is one of a half dozen potential Democratic presidential contenders offering a contrast to Vice President JD Vance’s scathing criticism of the continent in the same forum last year….
image…AP Photo/Michael Probst
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