The Biggest Winner of This Year’s Elections: Gavin Newsom

 Ellie Gardey Holmes   

 "Gavin Newsom just can’t help himself. He can’t quit claiming that he grew up underprivileged and in virtual poverty.

"This is despite the fact that he grew up as the surrogate son of billionaire Gordon Getty. All throughout his 20s, thanks to his bond with Getty, Newsom played the part of a playboy socialite from the upper crust of San Franciscan society. As a young man, Newsom also reaped the full benefits of Getty’s energetic intervention in launching his political career.

"Yet on Saturday, Newsom again trotted out his tale of woe and financial struggle during his childhood — something his political advisers have reportedly told him not to do. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom Plots Memoir to Recast Personal Scandals)

"In an appearance on the All the Smoke podcast, Newsom spoke of how his mother struggled while working several jobs to financially support him and his sister. Newsom has long pointed to his mother’s several jobs to portray himself as coming from a working-class background, even as his father, William Newsom III, worked as an attorney for the Getty family before becoming a state appellate judge. In his work for the Getty family, William Getty managed the Gordon P. Getty Family trust, which had a total value of $2 billion at the time. (Newsom’s parents divorced when he was young.)
" 'My mom was 19, pregnant, and divorced a few years later, with two kids,” Newsom said on the All the Smoke podcast Saturday. “Came from no money and just hustled. You know, worked hard, grinding every single day. Two and a half jobs, no bulls**t.”

"Newsom continued, “It was also about paying the bills, man. It was just like hustling, and so I was out there, kind of raising myself, turning on the TV, just getting obsessed. I was sitting there with the Wonder Bread.”

"Following conservative laughter at Newsom’s comments, a spokesman for the governor told Fox News, “Anyone with more than an inch of curiosity would know that Governor Newsom was raised by his mother after her divorce from his father when he was a toddler. He has talked about moving between two different worlds, but he was raised by a mother who worked three jobs at one point — secretary, waitress, and paralegal.”

"In my book, , I chronicled just how much Newsom’s life was shaped by his privilege, even as his father was apparently disinclined to provide adequate child support to the young mother of his two children." . . . More

The Biggest Winner of This Year’s Elections: Gavin Newsom   

And now, with just three more years to go, he is in his strongest position ever. Come 2028, we may see Gavin Newsom splashed across Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC as the president-elect of the United States.