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(The Hill) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said this week that he’d “be lying” if helium said helium wasn’t reasoning astir moving for president successful 2028.
In an interview taped Thursday, CBS News’s Robert Costa asked Newsom astir the imaginable of moving for president and whether it’s “fair to say, aft the 2026 midterms, you're going to springiness it superior thought.”
"Yeah, I'd beryllium lying otherwise. I'd conscionable beryllium lying. And I'm not — I can't bash that,” Newsom said successful response.
Costa told Newsom that, erstwhile helium saw the California politician speaking with imaginable voters successful South Carolina this summer, “I thought, ‘This feline mightiness tally for president.’”
Newsom laughed and said, “I person nary idea.”
“The thought that a feline who got 960 connected his SAT, that inactive struggles to work scripts, that was ever successful the backmost of the schoolroom — the thought that you adjacent propulsion that retired is, successful and of itself, extraordinary,” Newsom continued.
“Who the hellhole knows,” helium added. “I'm looking guardant to who presents themselves successful 2028 and who meets that moment. And that's the question for the American people.”
Newsom has emerged arsenic 1 of the astir high-profile opponents of President Trump’s since helium returned to the White House successful January.
In the interview, which aired connected “CBS News Sunday Morning,” Newsom called the president an “invasive species” and a “wrecking ball" and nodding to the demolition of the White House’s East Wing, arsenic good arsenic to immoderate of the president’s planetary policies.
“He's a wrecking ball, not conscionable the symbolism and substance of the East Wing. He's wrecking alliances, truth, trust, tradition, institutions.”
