Gavin Newsom Is Giving the DSA the Mainstream Makeover It Always Wanted

<![CDATA[Lame duck California Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose term ends at the end of this year, is spending his fall stumping for Democrat candidates across the country while still denying that he’s trying to set the stage for a presidential run in 2028. Recently his long-time frenemy and the front-runner among Democrats in polling for that race, former Vice President Kamala Harris, emerged from her Malibu cocoon to do the same. That’s problematic for Newsom, who — perhaps thinking that Kamala’s absence from campaign events over the summer meant that she wasn’t going to run in 2028 – told Jake Tapper in September that if she runs, he won’t. ]]>