UPDATED: Watch as Gavin Newsom runs away from questioner on his presidential campaign’s Achilles Heel

But Newsom has a huge problem. He has tied himself to an extreme position on genital mutilation and puberty blockers for underage children who express – at some point in their childhood – a feeling that they are the opposite sex.  

 Thomas Lifson; American Thinker   "Gavin Newsom tried to run away from a questioner pressing him about the young people seeking to “de-transition” from life-altering medical measures taken when they were children and thought for a moment that they were then the opposite sex. He steadfastly kept walking and refused to answer her inquiries:"

Gov. Newsom, do you know what a detransitioner is? ⁦Please hear our stories of medical harm. @CAgovernor⁩ ⁦@DetransAware⁩ ⁦@ChoooCole⁩ ⁦@FunkGodArtist⁩ ⁦@Scott_Wiener⁩ ⁦@MattHaneySF⁩ ⁦@LGBAlliance_USA⁩ pic.twitter.com/u1Ff6qnqdi

— Sasha Aguilar (@SashaAguilar69) June 30, 2023

 . . ."Overwhelming majorities oppose irreversible changes for minors. Opposition to taking away custody of a child from parents who seek to protect their children from these changes must have even higher support.

"The trans lobby ruthlessly attacks anyone who tries to back away from full-throated support of their cause.  For instance,  “Dylan Mulvaney says Bud Light’s backlash response was ‘worse than not hiring a trans person at all’”.

"So, any attempt by Newsom to back away from his position will result in outrage from the trans lobby.

"He’s stuck, which is why he ignored the questions and kept on walking.

"But that won’t work in a presidential debate or on the campaign trail."

Yet California voters chose Newsom over others repeatedly.

 UPDATED: 5pm CST:   Gavin Newsom campaigns for Biden in Idaho and STILL insists he won't enter the 2024 race | Daily Mail Online

"An NBC poll conducted in late April, the same week Biden announced his 2024 run, found that 70 percent of registered voters didn't want him to run. 

"An additional 60 percent said the same thing about former President Donald Trump, who is currently leading the 2024 Republican field. 

"Forty-eight percent of those who said Biden shouldn't run said age was a 'major reason' for them to believe that. 

"The White House quickly acknowledged last week that the president had started using a CPAP machine to treat sleep apnea when marks were seen on his face from the device's mask. 

"The White House was also asked why he's started using the shorter Air Force One stairs more frequently, in the weeks following [his] stumbling over a sandbag on stage at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn't have an answer for that. "