Don’t tell me the 2028 Presidential Election campaign has NOT started….
In this case?
One guy’s running….
The other isn’t and is less than 3 years from the exit door …
That means his parties hopes are riding on a guy who is NOT even running in 2028 and who whose polling numbers keep going South and gets under his skin…
(California and other Blue state Governor’s ARE going around Trump in certain agreements with other countries)
And Trump just can NOT stop digging himself and ‘his’party deeper in shit……
Gavin Newsom’s efforts to elevate himself as the leading opposition figure to Donald Trump just got an assist from the president himself.
After Newsom’s latest European jaunt provoked a harsh rebuke from Trump on Monday, advisers to the California governor were privately claiming victory. Goading Trump into an outburst about a new clean energy agreement between California and the United Kingdom — while not the official motivation for the governor’s trip — was a bonus.
“The more Trump takes the bait, the more attention you get in return,” said a Newsom adviser granted anonymity to speak about the political considerations of the trip. “But it’s much bigger than that. It’s about bringing attention to the fact that what Trump is doing is out of step and it’s not normal and it’s not the American view. It certainly does not reflect what the American people want.”
In his admonishment of British leaders against cozying up to the California governor — in which Trump, in a brief interview with POLITICO, called Newsom a “loser” who turns everything he touches “to garbage” — the president threw a high-wattage spotlight on Newsom’s recent travels abroad, including this past weekend’s Munich Security Conference. Newsom there had told international leaders that “Trump is temporary,” with a not-so-subtle subtext that the likely 2028 presidential candidate, one of several potential Democratic presidential contenders appearing in Munich, wants to be the next one setting America’s foreign policy.
“Donald Trump is on his knees for coal and Big Oil, selling out America’s future to China,” said Izzy Gardon, the governor’s spokesperson, in a statement. “Governor Newsom will continue to lead in his absence. Foreign leaders are rejecting Trump and choosing California’s vision for the future.”
He added, “We thank the President for his attention to this matter.”…
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Newsom himself has been a driving force behind a recent increase in bilateral pacts, his aides have said, including leading up to and at the United Nations climate talks in Brazil last year. There, he pitched California — and himself — as continuing climate action despite federal rollbacks and signed agreements with Nigeria, Chile and states within Brazil and Germany. While some of the pacts over the years were largely symbolic, others have led to substantial impact, from shared research to the exchange of firefighters to the spread of copycat climate policies across the world….
Note….
The American political system IS being tested by Trump and IS finding ways to confront and get around him….
There IS NO less of a Democracy going on people….
It just changes like everything else in life…
The 2028 Presidential campaign has NOT started.
In FACT Jack?
IT certainly HAS……
Election day is less than 3 years away….
There’s a poll out today showing Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump by 8 points.
Why not include consider that alongside “Newsom vs. Trump?”
2028 Democratic Presidential Nomination
I&I/TIPP
Harris 38, Newsom 13, Buttigieg 5, Ocasio-Cortez 2, Shapiro 4, Kelly 3, Pritzker 3, Booker , Beshear 2, Whitmer 2
Harris
+25
RCP….
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Average as of this date
Harris 30.5
Newsom 21.5
Butigieg 8.6
AOC. 7.5
Shapiro 5.7
Kelly 4.7
RCP
Before the midterms all kinds of highly-credible possibilities (e.g. Colin Powell, John Edwards) can lead the polls; but nothing becomes likely or probable until the Congressional (and gubernatorial) elections are over. By contrast, this early significant candidates (e.g. Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump) are in the low single-digit percentages, if present at all.
Look at the polls for comparable points in previous cycles at places like Gallup or PollingReports.com .
Gallup has ducked out……
Yea it IS Early…..
But I’m seeing Newsom and Harris duking it out right now….
I AM of the view that Harris would be Vance’s Best choice
More so than AOC?
AOC can’t give a straight answer to a foreign affairs question…..
Please..,.
So, you concede Kamala would be a stronger general election choice for Democrats than AOC?
He, he, he…..
AOC IS the Junior Varsity CG…..
The media is riding a Latina on the stage….
She just NOT a serious choice…..
Harris WAS the Vice President for Four years…..
JD Vance IS the Vice President….
They ARE BOTH known names….
Newsom IS actually running and knocking Trump….
We’ll see….
Oh, as Jack and DSD point out?….
Early front runners don’t always stay that way…..
A Trump legacy maybe Democrats having some o0ne with Media appeal ….
THAT plays STRONG to AOC and against most of the Democratric guys