Like many Democrats in the Trump era, Newsom aims to harness the alarm of moderates, the rage of progressives, and the widespread yearning for a new politics, Tad Friend writes.
It was four days before the “jungle primary,” a multiparty free-for-all that would advance two gubernatorial candidates from a field of twenty-seven to the general election, in November. Newsom, the state’s lieutenant governor, was far ahead in the polls, and, if his position held, he would come into office with a budget surplus of nearly nine billion dollars.
He still employs Clinton mannerisms on the stump: the bit lip of empathy, the genial head toggle as he adjudicates, the drill-sergeant jaw pop before he wades in. Yet one official who knows both men suggested that their affects differ: “Bill Clinton peers deeply into your soul. Gavin peers deeply into the mirror at himself.” Newsom told me he wanted to personalize the robocalypse the way Clinton personalized the economy in a town-hall-style debate in the 1992 campaign.
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