In a sign of California’s growing status as a major Democratic political center, Gov. Gavin Newlom said on Sunday he is running for President in 2028 – just a day after US President Kamala Harris made a similar announcement.
NewsOM, the Democt who won national prominence this year breaking the leader of the resistance to President Trump, openly admitted that he has a strong weight for 2028.
In an interview with “CBS News Sunday morning“The subject was asked if he would consider it a “serious thought” after 2026 meters went to the bid for the white house.
“Yes, I used to sleep differently,” he answered matter-of-factly. “I could lie. And I’m not – I can’t do that.”
Harris said this weekend on Interview with the BBC That he expects a woman to be President next year. “It may be,” it may be, it may be.
“I’m not done,” he said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it is in my bones.”
There are more than three years until the November 2028 election, and it’s entirely possible that only two California politicians would throw their hat into the race.
But the story’s first willingness with Harris to publicly consider a White House bid shows that the Golden State is still a major Democratic political hotbed. It also puts the 2028 political race between two California political events.
For years, the New New New New has rejected the wishes of the president. But since Trump defeated Harris in the November 2024 election, the California governor has emerged as a vocal critic of Trump’s health care agenda.
Under Newloom’s leadership, California has filed many lawsuits against Trump – Most notably against the Trump Administration’s deployment of National Guard and Marines in Los Angeles. The governor also became He is very aggressive on social mediait takes from X to TAUTE AND TROLL Trump.
However, New New, whose term ends in January 2027 and who cannot run again with the governor due to term limits, has been warned not to run in the 2028 presidential campaign.
“I don’t know at all,” the newspaper said Sunday that he will decide to run.
After Trump defeated Harris in November, Harris was viewed as a potential candidate for California Governor. But in July he announced that, after “serious consideration” he would not run for California’s highest office.
“For now, my leadership – and public service – will not be in elected office,” the statement said. “I look forward to going back and listening to the American people, helping to elect Democrats across the nation who will fight bravely, and sharing more details in the coming months about my plans.”
Newlom’s interest in the White House raises the stakes to transfer 50 institutions, the voting measure of California has suppressed – in response to the same initiative in Texas – that will allow the state of the Democrats temporarily to change the boundaries of the Democrats. California voters will vote on Prop 50 in a special election next week.
Newlom launched his effort as a response to Trump’s push to redraw Republican maps – states controlled by Republicans to make them more attractive to the GOP.
“I think it’s about our democracy,” Newsyom said in a CBS interview. “It’s about the future of this republic. I think it’s probably, you know, what the founders lived and died for, this idea of the rule of law, not the law of the don.”
If the New Newlom is successful and the 50th nomination interview, the movement can help the democratic voters for the White House democracy.
But either way, both stories and Harris would face high stakes in the battleground states if they ran for President.
Just being a Californian is a liability, some argue, at a time when Republicans are portraying the state as bastions of reformist ideology, high taxes and crime.
While California has the world’s fifth-largest economy and is home to the post-hech howerhouse of Silicon Valley and the cultural epicenter of Hollywood, it has struggled in recent years with high housing costs and massive income inequality. In September, a lesson was learned California is tied with Louisiana for the highest poverty rate.
NewsOM, 58, a former mayor of San Francisco who was born into a wealthy and well-connected San Francisco family, suggested in a CBS interview that he still had some goals. At first, NewAbeSM struggled in school and suffered from dyslexia.
“The idea that the guy who got a 960 on his SAT, he’s going to have to deal with these papers, that was sitting in the back of the class, the idea that you can throw that out, too,” NewsORY said. “Who the hell knows? I’m looking forward to who shows up in 2028 and meets that moment. And that’s the question of the American people.”
Harris, 61, who served as a senator and representative of California before becoming president in 2020 and the Democratic Party nominated in the year 2024 by more than 1.5% of the popular vote. Some Democrats accused him of being an elitist, successful candidate who failed to connect with the people who voted in the battlegrounds who have struggled with the economy in recent years.
But speaking in Los Angeles last month while promoting her new memoir, “107 Days,” Harris appeared to take little responsibility for his 2024 loss.
“I wrote this book for many reasons, but mainly to remind us that there has never been an election like this,” said Harris.
“Think about it. The president who lives in the United States is running for re-election and three and a half months before the election he decided to run for it, and then there is Vice President Perice Montle to run, 107 days to go.”
Newloom has already raised eyebrows this year by going to war-torn elections.
In July, Newloom traveled more than 2,000 miles to South Carolinathe situation on the other side holds the first Southern primary of the president. He said he is working to help the party win the US House of Representatives in 2026. But then there was California’s competitive indoor districts. South Carolina, the last strong state, did not have a single competitive race.
After the New Newloom spoke in South Carolina, James Clyburn, the blackest member of Congress and the Demond Developer Kingmacker who plagiarized the campaign of the former President of Biden 2020, told the times that NewsNem will be a candidate. “
“You’ve shown that time and time again,” Clyburn said, cutting back. “I feel good about his chances.”
But some leading Democrats in South Carolina have expressed doubts that the New New New New Chair can win over working class and college voters.
Richard Harpootlian, a lawyer from South Carolina, former state chairman and chairman of The State Democratic Party, called Nlawloom “A handsome man with big hair.”
“But the party is looking for a candidate from the left who can define blue-collar prospects,” Harpootlian told The Times.
“If he had a record of solving major problems like homelessness, or a social safety net, he would be a romantic partner,” he added. “I think you’re going to have a hard time explaining why there are so many failures in California.”
