Newsome is laying down the tracks for a 2028 POTUS run. Step one for the NoCal-based Governor was to win brownie points with the more populous SoCal voters after Kamala Harris became VPOTUS, he named SoCal-based Alex Padilla as her replacement. the fact that Padilla is the son of Mexican immigrants also helps throw his weight as the Gov to help popular black Congress woman from LA, Karen Bass, to beat her much better financed opponent, billionaire Rick Caruso, a Republican-turned-Democrat, to become the mayor of LA Step two has been to work behind the scenes to expedite the early retirement of the 90-year old US Senator from Calif, Diane Feinstein, and name the NoCal-based black Congress woman Barbara Lee as the replacement.
Age wise he's a better option than the rest of these fossils and he was screwing Republicans since before the MAGA party...lol at Donnie Jr getting Newsom's nasty leftovers.