Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha suggested that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) will need to rely on voters having a “goldfish memory” to win the presidency in 2028.
Newsom has not announced his 2028 presidential bid, but his latest public events have signaled he could be considering it. Concha appeared on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First a week after Newsom appeared at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“For the most part, Gavin Newsom certainly doesn’t get the kind of scrutiny that he should in terms of his record,” Concha said. “And, when you look at what that record is: highest taxes in the country, highest poverty rate, highest homeless rate, highest unemployment rate, the highest housing costs in the country. California is last out of 50 states in terms of cost of living. Newsom entered office with about an $80 billion surplus. Now he faces somewhere to a $30 to $40 billion deficit.”
“So now he is hoping for what [late Turning Point USA co-founder] Charlie Kirk once said after interviewing Newsom, ‘a goldfish memory’ as far as voters are concerned, and they hope that the legacy media doesn’t analyze that record,” Concha added.
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Meanwhile, large parts of the Los Angeles area have yet to be rebuilt following the fires that occurred a year ago. Newsom blamed President Donald Trump for insufficient federal aid, despite California already facing a budget deficit at the time of his remarks.
Newsom is currently serving his last year as governor of California.