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California Governor Gavin Newsom is among the high-profile Democratic figures voicing their nationalist enactment for Vice President Kamala Harris arsenic portion of the Democratic National Convention.
During Tuesday evening's ceremony, Newsom was expected to present California's delegates and formally anoint the Harris arsenic his party's campaigner for the presidency.
In a speech with Nexstar, Newsom described the idiosyncratic narration and agelong past he's shared with Harris, who anterior to becoming Vice President was 1 of California's U.S. Senators, and was the state's lawyer wide nether Newsom's predecessor Jerry Brown.
"I've gotten to cognize Kamala during the champion of times and challenging times, and it's conscionable a constituent of deep, heavy pridefulness to beryllium capable to beryllium present for her and with her connected behalf of this singular delegation from home, the large authorities of California," Newsom told Nikki Laurenzo of KTXL.
While showing enactment for the presumptive Democratic nominee, Newsom besides highlighted the stark differences betwixt his longtime California governmental workfellow and her opponent, erstwhile President Donald Trump.
"I was politician erstwhile helium was President of the United States," Newsom said. "We worked unneurotic done COVID, I dealt with him connected emergencies ample and small, wildfires to droughts and floods. I cognize this man, I cognize his character. It is daylight and darkness, this prime for the American people."
At 1 constituent considered a imaginable campaigner for the White House successful 2028, Newsom brushed disconnected the proposition of a imaginable Cabinet presumption successful a Harris Administration successful the interim. Instead, helium reiterated that his absorption for the clip being is connected his duties successful the Golden State and preventing different Trump term.
"The consequences of falling abbreviated are catastrophic," Newsom said. "Donald Trump, respectfully, successful my humble opinion, is much unhinged than he's ever been, and much unsafe than he's ever been."
In his speech with Nexstar, Newsom described Harris arsenic a "superstar" and assured the nationalist that his enactment was successful harmless hands with her taking the reins from President Joe Biden and starring it into the adjacent generation.
The Democratic National Convention is taking spot successful Chicago done Thursday with Harris expected to code the normal connected Thursday.
"I deliberation connected Thursday night, she'll overgarment a picture, not conscionable astir the arrogant past arsenic relates to narration with Biden and the occurrence of this medication ... but she tin statesman to overgarment a compelling fixture of the adjacent 4 years of her medication connected her terms," Newsom said.
