I just recorded Sean Spicer’s show, and as he always does with his panel, he asked for a winner of the week and a loser.
For the latter, I picked Gavin Newsom, who is on a losing streak.
As he flails around, looking for a way to gain more traction in the race to become the Democrats’ nominee for president, Newsom is trying on a Donald Trump skin suit to see if that will work. Hey! Trump is winning, so why not emulate his style?
Ah, Gavin, this is pathetic. When Pete Buttigieg, Mr. Vanilla, is beating you in the race to become president, you look pretty pathetic.
Newsom’s latest attempt to gain momentum is picking a fight with Trump over gerrymandering. It is the cause du jour for the Democrats, and nothing says Newsom like jumping in front of a parade that has already gathered.
Newsom is pretending that he is saving democracy by taking on Trump, but his case starts out weak–California has half as many Republicans in Congress as Republican voters in the state already–and gets weaker.
Californians don’t like his plan to redistrict the state.
Poll: Newsom’s redistricting gambit complicated by support for independent congressional maps https://t.co/6xxdV9pTop
— POLITICO (@politico) August 14, 2025
Ah, democracy. For Democrats, it means “Democrats always win.” After all, you can’t spell “democracy” without Democrat, right?
Well, no, actually. But Democrats love public schools, and they believe that spelling is racist or something.
LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a major hurdle in his quest to revamp his state’s congressional lines, according to a new poll: Californians’ deep support for its current independent redistricting commission.
By nearly a two-to-one margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state’s House seats, the latest POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found. Just 36 percent of respondents back returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.
“It’s not surprising, in the sense that California has voted twice for this independent review commission not all that long ago,” said Jack Citrin, a veteran political science professor at UC Berkeley and partner on the poll. “And there’s a lot of mistrust and cynicism about politicians and the Legislature. That’s reflected here as well.”
California Democrats are plowing ahead with a high-stakes gambit to redraw the state’s lines to counter a proposed gerrymander by Texas Republicans spurred by President Donald Trump. California officials are expected to unveil newly redrawn maps at the end of this week that would position Democrats to nab five extra seats, neutralizing the Texas redraw.
Gavin Newsom knows how to dress, dance, while speaking as if he is on cocaine, and emulate a political chameleon.
It’s driving him crazy not being able to do the now famous Newsom shimmy. pic.twitter.com/5w3fqTJZn5
— The Great Gats🐝 (@Gardyloo_Alert) April 25, 2025
Ironically, Newsom’s taking unpopular positions has no impact on his political viability. If he becomes the nominee–and if there is one thing I know, it is that Buttigieg is very unlikely to be the ultimate nominee without some serious cheating–Newsom will suddenly become JFK reborn to every Democrat. Democrats rallied around a senile Joe Biden, suddenly discovered that the least popular Vice President in history was “Brat” and “joyful,” and that Tim Walz was a political genius for inventing the word “weird.”
Gavin Newsom threatens to end the Trump presidency just like he did homelessness, and raw sewage from Mexico, and retail theft, and high gas prices, and the housing crisis, and and and and and and and pic.twitter.com/QyXvDQ4vvZ
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 13, 2025
We live in this weird world where Texas Democrats can flee to Illinois, of all places, to fight for fair districts, and a Massachusetts governor who runs a state with ZERO Republicans and gets applause for threatening to gerrymander the state in response to Texas.
A fair, compact California map would give the GOP 20 districts (38% of them, coincidentally which is what Trump received in the state)
But Newsom’s “independent” commission gives the GOP just 9 seats, short-handing them 11
Map source: @RyanGirdusky pic.twitter.com/rPAzVrkeVN
— Red Eagle Politics (@RedEaglePatriot) August 9, 2025
Disconnection from reality is no barrier to success for Democrats. They just have to find the right mood or narrative, and the establishment world comes to their doors to beg them to rule over America.
Yet Newsom’s current strategy is pathetic and demonstrates that he doesn’t understand why Americans are drawn to Trump. It isn’t Trump’s tweeting style or dancing to YMCA that is attractive to people, but his sincerity and love of America.
Until Newsom can learn to fake those characteristics, none of Newsom’s versions of himself will land with anything but a resounding thud.
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