"For now, it seems that he is losing the progressives — in spite of his extremely progressive record."
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"As Gavin Newsom works to project inevitability as the Democratic frontrunner, progressives are coalescing behind a single conclusion: He is not their man. (RELATED: Newsom Practically Demands to Be the Democratic Candidate)
"Progressive California journalist and political adviser Gil Durán published an op-ed with the Guardian Tuesday harshly titled “Gavin Newsom’s likely presidential bid is built on broken promises.” He makes the case that the California governor has repeatedly failed to deliver on his progressive commitments. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Self-Puffery’ Gets Him in Trouble With David Axelrod)
"Durán portrays the governor as a man entirely motivated by his own ambitions for power who has lost any regard for working-class Americans. Newsom, says Durán, “mistakes theatrics for leadership.” Durán believes Newsom has been “wishy-washy” on pursuing progressive priorities on a number of issues, including public healthcare, homelessness, the death penalty, COVID control measures, and reparations for descendants of slaves, and has aligned himself too closely with his Big Tech billionaire friends.
" Like Trump, Newsom breaks promises, serves billionaire interests, and mistakes social media theatrics for leadership. Is that really what American voters will want in 2028?” said Durán. “Having watched Newsom for two decades, I don’t see why anyone thinks he’s it. He’s not even ‘strong and wrong’ — just highly ambitious, strategically dishonest, and blatantly opportunistic.” (RELATED: Gavin Newsom, ‘King of Fraud’)
"Worryingly for Newsom, Durán is far from alone, as progressives have increasingly spoken out against him. Many progressives now argue that Democrats should rally behind a different candidate, someone who is concerned with their priorities, not self-aggrandizement or appeasing establishment donors and the billionaire class.
"In an interview with Current Affairs last month, California Rep. Ro Khanna came out swinging against the governor of his state, calling Newsom a “cookie-cutter Democrat” and a “Clintonite.” He warned that if someone like Gavin Newsom were chosen as the Democratic nominee in 2028, “[W]e basically are going to see an even more ferocious right-wing populism come back in 2030 or 2032.” Khanna argued that what Democrats instead need is “an FDR-like realignment” and someone who, like him, takes on AIPAC, defense contractors, the Epstein class, and billionaires.
"California state Sen. Caroline Menjivar recently complained, like Durán, that Newsom’s focus on his national ambitions is causing him to turn away from his past progressive priorities" . . .More...
Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. She is the author of . She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover. She is originally from Michigan.
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