Opinion: Newsom’s odd campaign for influence and the White House
Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent much of the last year tossing figurative tea leaves around where anyone and everyone who’s interested can try reading them.
But it was his early spring tour of the Old South that drew the most attention and speculation. He was variously described as meddling and inspirational, vain and helpful. Newsom’s tone didn’t change much while touring the South, including Florida, where even Democrats chafed at his very direct comparisons between California and the Sunshine State, where DeSantis regularly picks fights with everyone from local officials to his state’s largest private employer, Walt Disney World.He stayed out of Iowa and New Hampshire, usual stomping grounds for early presidential candidates.
Why head to the Old South in this circumstance? Newsom knows there is no major Democratic presence in most of that region. DeSantis demonstrated this last year, when his reelection landslide in Florida included carrying Miami’s surrounding Dade County, the first Republican in a generation to manage that.
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