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Newsom's pandering history makes him a weak presidential candidate

Gavin Newsom is not an especially viable presidential candidate because his history of pandering to far-left activist interests in California—positions he cannot now disavow—plus the albatross of California's reputation, undermine him, even as his trollish partisan engagement with Trump gains attention.

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Sam Harris

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he's had to pander to things that he might not have fully believed at the time... certainly can't avow now some of the very extremely far left positions

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464 - The Politics Of Pragmatism And The Future Of CaliforniaMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/15/2026, 1:08:00 AM

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