Authored by Joel Kotkin via UnHerd.com,
Burdened with a decomposing President and a clearly overmatched Vice President, the Democrats are on the hunt for a saviour.
For many in the party, Gavin Newsom , the 54-year-old perfectly coiffed Governor of California, seems like the perfect solution. No doubt, given his recent trolling of Florida’s Republican frontrunner Ron DeSantis, he feels the same.
But Newsom’s ascendency faces some severe challenges. First, to get nominated, he must not only depose Biden, but also see off Vice President Kamala Harris. And she has three things Newsom lacks: she’s a woman, she’s black, and she has Asian Indian ancestry. Newsom, on the other hand, is white, was born into a well-connected San Francisco family, and is married to a film-maker and scion of a very wealthy Bay Area family . Perhaps more importantly, things have not been particularly good for the […]
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