To kick off his new podcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told conservative activist Charlie Kirk that transgender girls and women should not be allowed to play in women's sports.

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Newsom also called the Trump campaign's "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you" TV ads deeply damaging.

"She didn’t even react to it, which was even more devastating," Newsom told his podcast guest @charliekirk11. "It was a great ad."

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Newsom also mentioned the impact @charliekirk11 had on his 13-year-old son; distanced himself from the use of gender pronouns &amp; Latinx called police defunding “lunacy,” denounced cancel culture and agreed the Black Lives Matter organization had issues.

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Christopher Cadelago

To kick off his new podcast, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) told conservative activist Charlie Kirk that transgender girls and women should not be allowed to play in women's sports. https://x.com/ccadelago/status/1897653616015732765

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The absolutely least surprising of results

Def agree on his intent here, I don't see it working either though.

The majority of the dems wins over last 10 years have been on the backs of the progressive wing, who'd never of gone for him, and the Neo liberal/ neo con wing that the dems have been catering to i think at best would be heavily split on him ( all though this probably did score him major points with them)

Newsom is very savvy in terms of getting his name out there, embracing new media, and seeing where the political winds are blowing, but I think his hope that this kind of triangulating makes him nationally viable is likely a fantasy. He still has to answer for all of California's challenges (housing crisis, cities in disarray, fires), and nuanced but hard-to-explain trans rights legislation he signed.