{"id":47180,"date":"2025-10-26T21:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=47180"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:15:37","slug":"gavin-newsom-confirms-he-is-considering-2028-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/10\/26\/gavin-newsom-confirms-he-is-considering-2028-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom confirms he is considering 2028 presidential run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gavin Newsom,\u00a0California\u2019s Democratic governor,\u00a0told\u00a0<\/a>CBS News Sunday Morning he plans to make a decision on whether to run for president in 2028 once the 2026 midterm elections are over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019d be lying otherwise,\u201d Newsom said in response to a question on whether he would give serious thought to a White House bid after the 2026 elections. \u201cI\u2019d just be lying. And I\u2019m not \u2013 I can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom\u2019s term as governor ends in January 2027 and he is not able to run again due to term limits, but cautioned that a decision is years away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFate will determine that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The California governor has emerged<\/a> as a<\/a> high-profile<\/a> critic<\/a> of the Trump administration<\/a> through his social media accounts and push of a ballot measure<\/a> that would increase Democrats\u2019 congressional seats in response to Republican redistricting efforts \u2013 a move that has made him a target for critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump\u2019s secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, accused Newsom of not caring about Californians in an interview with Fox News on Sunday as Duffy revealed plans to pull federal funds from California and threatened to revoke California\u2019s ability to issue commercial driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m about to pull $160m from California,\u201d Duffy said, after US homeland security said earlier this week an undocumented semi truck driver caused a fatal crash in California that killed three people and injured four. Newsom\u2019s office noted<\/a> the federal government reauthorized the driver\u2019s employment multiple times, which allowed him to obtain a commercial drivers license under federal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Duffy already said he was withholding $40m<\/a> from California for not enforcing English language requirements for truck drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFormer D-list reality star, now Secretary of Transportation, still doesn\u2019t understand federal law,\u201d Newsom\u2019s office said in a statement<\/a> last month in response to Duffy threatening to withhold federal funds from the state. \u201cIn the meantime, unlike this clown, we\u2019ll stick to the facts: California commercial driver\u2019s license holders had a fatal crash rate nearly 40% LOWER than the national average. Texas \u2013 the only state with more commercial holders \u2013 has a rate almost 50% higher than California. Facts don\u2019t lie. The Trump administration does.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CBS poll<\/a> conducted earlier this month found 72% of Democrats and 48% of all registered voters said Newsom should run for president in 2028. Since Trump took office, Newsom\u2019s favorability has increased to an average of 33.5% from about 30% and his unfavorability has decreased from an average of over 40% to 38.4%, according to Decision Desk HQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Newsom told CBS<\/a> while on a trip to several battleground states around the US on whether he plans to run in 2028: \u201cI have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted his earlier challenges in life, including being diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe idea that a guy who got 960 on his SAT, that still struggles to read scripts, that was always in the back of the classroom, the idea that you would even throw that out is, in and of itself, extraordinary,\u201d he said. \u201cWho the hell knows? I\u2019m looking forward to who presents themselves in 2028 and who meets that moment. And that\u2019s the question for the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gavin Newsom,\u00a0California\u2019s Democratic governor,\u00a0told\u00a0CBS News Sunday Morning he plans to make a decision on whether to run for president in 2028 once the 2026 midterm elections are over. \u201cYeah, I\u2019d be lying otherwise,\u201d Newsom said in response to a question on whether he would give serious thought to a White House bid after the 2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[11261,9951,6063,2848,8193,5799,913,6576,7583,5927,7712,8254,7782,2264,1444,12773,11111,11493,9515,10342,3805,11377,6944,12350,5655,5349,5355,10220,2485,11980,13182,6348,6571,2982,594],"class_list":["post-47180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-age","tag-battleground","tag-california","tag-crash","tag-democrat","tag-democratic","tag-democrats","tag-driver","tag-drivers","tag-english","tag-fox-news","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-government","tag-hell","tag-increase","tag-injured","tag-interview","tag-killed","tag-law","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-republican","tag-revoke","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-texas","tag-transportation","tag-truck","tag-truck-drivers","tag-trump-administration","tag-us","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47182,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180\/revisions\/47182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}