Sacramento – Since his podcast debuted in March, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has shrouded Democrats who fear that politicians who they consider themselves to be the Liberty Award are turning to wizard-friendly.
Opposing the rap against “This is Gavin News”, the governor opposed trans athletes participating in the women’s sports and rejected the term “Latinx,” which includes gender, and he doesn’t sound like the news they know.
“What happened to Gavin Newsom in the name of God?” asked CNN host Erin Burnett, citing a title that criticized the podcast in a recent clear shift that swept the Governor.
“The country is trying to figure out how he has turned from the progressive hero and governor of the country’s most liberal country to interviewing and spending time with Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk.”
The Democratic governor was also surprised, but was surprised by the response.
“I did what I was going to do. I mean, when I started this issue, I said I was going to go, not debate with people I disagree, I said we would be someone disagree, and agree to have a folk dialogue in this era when this polarization is going to be, and get to know each other in an interview with The Times on Friday.” “And I said I was going to meet with members of the Maga movement in particular. And then we did, and people were shocked.”
One common takeaway from podcasts is that Newsom tries to turn migration into moderate as he tries to run for president after the Democratic 2024 disastrous 2024 election.
Newsom objected to the assumption of “tired”, saying others have attributed to actions over twenty years. The governor made his own criticism of his party to explain why he now sits down as a controversial Republican figure.
“Because our party is kicking our ass,” Newsom said. “Because the Democratic brand is toxic. Because people think we don’t make any sense. They think we make noise. They don’t think we support them. You fill in generics. They think we don’t have their values. They think we’re the values. We think we’re elites. We talk to people. We think we’re just saying we’re smarter than others, we’re smarter than others, that we’re so judged and filled ourselves.”
The governor paused and said he loved his party, but “we were lost” and he hoped people knew he heard it.
“I think you do this by making people you disagree with [on the podcast] Not unpleasant. ”
This is not the first time the governor has disagreed with his Democrats.
Due to speculations last summer’s suitability for then-President Biden’s campaign for president, Newsom called chat in his party endlessly because he encouraged Democrats to support the president, and his own party was “helpless” and “unnecessary.” A year ago, he scolded the Democrats for their passive response to Republicans and for their lack of offensive political scripts.
Newsom, in the premiere of his podcast, had headlines around the country when he told conservative activist and Trump loyalist Kirk that allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports was “very unfair.” Newsom’s comments represent a clear breakthrough for progressives.
The strong rebound on the left is fast. Newsom is accused of abandoning his core LGBTQ+ constituency and flip-flip flip after an old social media post showed that he expressed support for California law signed by former Gov. Jerry Brown that gives transgender students more public school rights in public schools, including competing in sports and prioritizing bathroom use according to their nature.
Newsom’s position is consistent with 66% of U.S. adults February Pew Research Survey Trans athletes should be required to compete with teams of gender assigned at birth.
The governor also hinted in his podcast with Kirk that no one in his office used the term “Latino” to describe Latinos, but no one has criticized it in his podcast with Kirk. A Pew poll in 2024 found only 4% of Latin Americans Describe yourself as a “Latino”.
Newsom’s chief adviser for the 2003 Mayor’s Movement, Eric Jaye, said the governor was a shrewd politician, although he disagreed with his decision on trans athletes.
“San Francisco has produced many extraordinary politicians – Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Willie Brown, Kamala Harris, but Gavin Newsom has a head and shoulders higher than everyone in terms of his ability to adapt to the ever-changing political era and climate.” “He has reached a deep impression on the way the political winds exploded, and so far he has shown extraordinary abilities to unusual political weather.”
“The challenge now is that the question will be, when does it seem that someone has adapted to the changing era and started seemingly unreal, if not totally fake?”
Newsom said Friday that he understands why people might see his podcast as a departure from his free image, largely due to his groundbreaking support for gay marriages as mayor of San Francisco and as an advocate for universal health care.
But the governor said his politics never fit into the “ideological prism.”
He said anyone who knows him remembers when he was a “small business executive” in San Francisco, his anger at the board because he raised fees from business owners and advocated for “care rather than cash,” a policy that is to get benefits checks from homeless people and use savings to pay for treatment options.
“I’m willing to argue,” Newsom said. “I’m interested in the evidence. I’m very valuable. I’m a progressive, but I’m a pragmatic one, and that’s what anyone who follows me knows, and those who don’t know, they know something about it now.”
Despite this, Newsom has been the leading architect of his public image.
He has a wine entrepreneur who has been aligned with the business community, and he ran with a modest attitude and won the mayor’s office against the Green Party candidate in 2003. “Care is not cash” was widely weakened by progressives, but helped him win.
When Newsom turned his eyes to California’s largest political award in the 2018 governor competition, he ran for progressive advocates for single-payer healthcare and promised to build more affordable housing.
However, even if he won the liberal platform, Newsom could not criticize him from his opponent’s position as the Ray House.
Moderate Democrat Antonio Villaragosa, former Los Angeles mayor, accused Newsom of selling “snake oil” in support of single-payer health care to win nurse unions and progressives.
Newsom made some of his campaign promises during his first term as governor. Regardless of immigration status, he has successfully advocated universal preschool and state-funded health insurance for all Californians who are eligible for income. He also suspended the death row inmate.
The governor has a close relationship with the tech industry and counted Google founder Sergey Brin and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff as his friends, who showed more modest sides in the second semester.
He was criticized for truckers’ criticism of their push for more regulations on automatic rigs. Last year, he vetoed a Marquis Act that would require artificial intelligence developers to provide safeguards for the technology. Newsom rejects Hollywood union Denied a bill that would allow workers to receive unemployment benefits During strike.
He held a show this year, saying he would veto a second time a bill that attempts to limit the state prison system’s ability to coordinate with federal immigration authorities trying to deport felony. He also rejected the proposal to allow illegal participation in subsidized housing loan programs in the country and allow undocumented students to work in public universities.
Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Federation of Trade Unions, said she was not shocked to see the news magazine appear more modest on the podcast.
“He has always been a technician in Northern California, the same politics as we think we are political,” Gonzalez said.
Perhaps, she said: “He has played the liberal and now he will be himself.”
Newsom mayor Steve Kawa mocked the idea that Newsom had changed. He said the governor has been interested in talking to people in all aspects of policy thinking. Politicians are like ordinary people, not one-dimensional.
“Maybe he’s gentle on this issue,” Kava said. “Maybe he’s progressive on this issue. I don’t think he’s looking from which column it’s about making public life better, and I can only be in this column.”
Criticizing him seems happy to have a chance to meet with Democrats such as Trump campaign architects Bannon and Kirk and Kirk and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and commentator Ezra Klein, said Newsom said he has been meeting with people he disagreed with. He mentioned the 90 minutes he sat down with Trump in the Oval Office.
“This is life,” Newsom said. “I don’t decide who my friends are based on their politics. I’ve never met Charlie Kirk. I’ve never met Bannon, but I know people who think like them, they’re good parents, they’re good people, they’re good people, I’m strongly against their politics, they’re symbols.”
The kindness he showed to Republicans on his podcast, the one Democrats saw as villain, isn’t surprising to those who are following his career.
David McCuan, a political science professor at Sonoma State University, said: “He sounds fair to people.
“He always lived a fascinating life when it comes to politics, but there was more for him.”
