When you’re the governor of a state, which is essentially like the president of that particularly territory, you should be a professional when it comes to communication. So should the team you surround yourself with. Apparently, California Gov. Gavin Newsom skipped class that day.
Newsom was set to deliver a primetime address to Californians, but the message almost went unheard after his team failed to make sure he was properly miked. You expect something like that from the new guy on, say, a mayoral team. But not from folks working for the governor.
It’s a testament to the lack of skill and competence of the typical California liberal.
According to a report from Trending Politics News, “Newsom on Tuesday responded angrily to President Donald Trump’s decision to bypass his authority and call up 4,000 members of the California National Guard to quell the riots that have been rocking Los Angeles for nearly a week. The eight-minute speech was ostensibly meant to position the Democrat as a premier state-level opponent to the president, but technical difficulties perforated his appearance as a primetime-ready contender.”
Can you tell Newsom is trying really hard to position himself for a run at the White House in 2028? Seems pretty clear from where I’m sitting. It’s the reason why he’s going all out against Trump during these riots.
Thanks to the inept team Newsom has working for him, the first four minutes of his rant were garbled and difficult to understand. His voice went back-and-forth between static and silence while broadcasters frantically tried to figure out what was going wrong.
“Not sure if that’s on the governor’s end, but we’re working to get that production up and running so you can listen in,” one anchor with CBS Los Angeles stated right after Newsom popped up in front of the camera. “We’re efforting to get the audio of Governor Newsom’s speech.”
On Fox L.A., anchor Elex Michaelson said the feed was similarly spotty, a fact that Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton jumped on in an appearance. “He literally can’t get anything right,” Hilton said, writing on X that Newsom’s address was a “hot, garbled mess.”
“In his eight-minute monologue, Newsom denounced Trump for ‘inflammatory’ actions that he said have contributed to violence in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, Mayor Karen Bass implemented an 8 p.m. curfew, and by Wednesday morning, most of the streets were calm as thousands of National Guardsmen and Marines took up positions around the city,” the report continued.
“This isn’t just about protests here in Los Angeles,” Newsom bloviated. “This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next. Democracy is under assault before our eyes.”
Despite the technical difficulties, it’s clear Newsom is working to shore up the anti-Trump fervor on the left. He was labeled “the leader of the opposition” by the Wall Street Journal following his speech, and liberal media personality Ana Navarro sang his praises in her Tuesday evening appearance on CNN.
“I have been so thirsty for somebody that is not cowardly, bending the knee and selling out to Donald Trump as he does all of this to America,” she stated on air. Did Navarro just say she was thirsty for Newsom? Yikes. I’m not sure she knows what that term means in modern day parlance.
Tensions between Trump and Newsom hit their explosive peak when the president issued a threat to slap cuffs on the governor for interfering with federal immigration raids happening in Los Angeles. Newsom, however, egged President Trump on, remember how good the publicity of being arrested was for him during the 2024 election.
From the White House, aides to Trump took the address seriously. Spokespersons Steven Cheung and Deputy Alex Pfeiffer both condemned Newsom on social media for his address, as did Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. The president’s rapid response account also wrote that Newsom claimed Trump was “traumatizing” communities “by taking criminal illegal immigrant killers, rapists, gangbangers, drug dealers, human traffickers, and domestic abusers off the streets.”
The president may decide to attack the state via their state-federal funding. Trump appears to be looking at potentially severing the state’s federal education funds, along with canceling its nation-leading vehicle emissions standards.
The war is far from over.
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