Newsom 'may be in much safer electoral territory than a month earlier, but to his close allies he seems unsettled,' reports gdebenedetti
Gavin Newsom on September 8. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images One week before Election Day, Gavin Newsom strode into a closed-off street in San Francisco’s Mission District, where volunteers for his campaign sat at rows of folding tables, calling voters in at least three languages and imploring them not to recall him as governor of California.
Larry Elder on September 6. Photo: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag Aside from the obvious exception of Trump, Newsom has found himself the subject of COVID’s first major political referendum. He is by far the most prominent state leader to face a vote since the pandemic’s onset last year. For ages, Newsom and his camp dismissed that idea as rubbish. “Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense,” one of his longtime senior advisers said to me in August.
With his plastered-back hair, absurdly well-tailored suits, and catalogue-quality sleeve rolls, the 53-year-old manages to be both adaptable and consequential. A former centrist in the Clinton-era mold, Newsom has shifted ideologically with the vanguard of his party and consistently found himself near the center of its thorniest internal battles — one of its earliest champions of same-sex marriage in 2004 and one of few state executives anywhere promising single-payer health care in 2019.
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