California governors are spikeping up to the top of the polls as they mimic Trump’s online rants by collecting cash.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom is laughing President Donald Trump on all cap posts.
Nine months after California’s liberals failed to keep Donald Trump and the Maga movement taking Washington, another Golden National Democrat took the national microphone with aggressive delivery.
“This is a new Democrat. This is a new energy across the country and we are going to meet fire and fire,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in response to USA Today during an August 20 conference call with party leaders.
If Democrats are still confidently in crisis as they are garnering popularity through the vote and bleeding voter registrations across the country, someone hasn’t told Newsom, 57.
When asked if Page turned on Democrats who worked with the Trump administration, Newsom said he still respects the presidential position, but he is trying to create a sense of urgency and energize a “new sense of purpose” among the citizens.
“And as I’m not a small, isolated state, as a man who combined the size of the population of 21 states, the fourth largest economy in the world (one),” Newsom said. “We’re going to meet head-on at this moment.”
According to some Democrats, it is an effective game plan in the cautionary media landscape, driven by a major clash with Trump, which has attracted the attention of party opponents.
“Gavin Newsom has done something he wants to do for the Democrats for a long time,” hip-hop radio host Charlamagne Tha God said in an episode of “The Breakfast Club” earlier this month.
“When they go low, you either ignore them or you go to hell. He matches his energy and I like it.”
A day after the Republican-controlled state Capitol in Texas passed plans for a new district at the president’s request, Newsom led the Democratic-run California legislature to approve a similar map decided by voters in his state in the November 4 special election.
In the speculative field of White House candidates in 2028, Newsom emerged as a generation of X-liberal brawler repurposed some of the same online gimmicks in the form of the Magazine movement, surged him in the next Democratic presidential primary that was made to think too much from SOON.
Trump also noticed. “I know Gavin very well,” the president told reporters at an August 22 event in the oval office. “He’s an incompetent man with a good line of bulls —-.”
Other Dems praise Newsom’s aggressive approach
Liberals seem too comfortable with Trump with 2028 potential candidates, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Others are also opening up a more reconciliatory tone with Trump voters. In contrast, Newsom was dressed in a strong, imaginary anti-Trump voice.
The term-limited California governor reportedly won an online donation of $6.2 million in a week during the district battle, which has earned him rave reviews by skeptical Democrats.
This may be the type of energy you desperately need to stop bleeding after a few months of voting and then a vote showing the party’s party in utter with voters. A new analysis by the New York Times this week shows that the GOP has garnered 4.5 million registered voters nationwide compared to the Democrats.
Newsom coincided with a new version of California’s Congressional map, which eliminates five GOP-LEANINE seats, as state legislatures now add more favorable seats to the 2026 mid-term maps of Texas, Ohio and Indiana.
A confrontational counterattack against redrawing the boundaries representing Americans in Congress filled similar staircases with other blue governors of Illinois, New York and Maryland. This is a position that has been approved by party leaders such as DNC Chairman Ken Martin, and is usually a wise man like former President Barack Obama.
“I think (Gavin Newsom) is doing the right thing in California. If these are the new rules that everyone has to play,
Constituencies are becoming a wedge issue that progressives want to fight, but some warning Newsoms have a “dangerous game” in their constituencies given that they can circumvent the Democrats. They ham by having fewer states in their control and stricter rules that make redrawing partisans more difficult.
Brian Sobel, a longtime political analyst based in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Newsom will win the rage of Red-State voters for his move. But Sobel also argued that the governor may have calculated that redrawing the council’s map is not a hot button topic by next year.
In the meantime, Sobel said he was fighting very hard for this issue. Now creates an aura around the governor who gives him a national footprint.
“And that’s exactly what Gavin Newsom wants and that’s exactly where he is,” he said.
Mimicking Trump’s social media rants at the top of the 2028 poll
When the CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond said he was bailing out in California for strict state regulations, Newsom, for example, wasn’t jumping into the policy defense of government policies.
Instead, he applauded with a lightly missed brush.
“Companies that have already gone bankrupt and have closed all stores across the country two years ago are OK,” Newsom said in an August 20th X post that they responded to the company’s chief executive.
Newsom also enjoys the role of eggs against conservative politicians, commentators and celebrities by mimicking all the president’s cap social media rants.
“Amazing! Fox News can’t stop talking about me (Gavin C. Newsom), my favourite governor in America!!! Tonight, their entire primetime lineup was about me!
The August 21 post throws pigeons into a fiery conservative riot over the new cracker barrel logo. The restaurant chain says “You need to maintain your beautiful logo!!! The new one looks like Walmart’s cheap Belveta “cheese”.
The governor’s communications team began using images generated by AI, a favorite of right-footed activists, to blame liberal causes and officials.
One message from Newsom’s Press Office by X’s Newsom’s Press Office, for example, featured an Ai-generated image of Kidrock, a famous Trump ally who dressed up Uncle Sam, who pointed out users.
The singer and rapper denounced in a post on August 18th, saying that the only support he can get from him is “Dee’s Nuts.”
Other conservatives took shots with new online audio from Newsom, including Vice President JD Vance, the heir of Maga, who said in an interview with Fox News on August 20, that he would not imitate Trump because he “ignoring the basic genius” of the president’s credibility. Dana Perino, a former White House press secretary and host of Fox News, cried out how the governor’s message would be rude.
Newsom doesn’t seem confused by the blowback.
“I mean, even the rocks of poor kids, these people, they’re a bit more precious. Isn’t that what they’re doing? The news (news) said in an interview with Siren, a progressive lifespan podcast show on YouTube. “And during that time they sit there reading his tweets every day.”
Newsom’s Summer Swagger appears to be helping him generate buzz, according to an August poll from Echelon Insights, which shows him the second-highest 2028 candidate among the Democrats.
The survey found that Newsom, who holds 4% to 13% support in the same survey in April, holds 13% support. He is second to former vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. He recently chose to run in 2026 to make Newsom successful in California.
In the aftermath of the 2024 election loss, there was a “pinning of many donors” about how the party can get people’s attention, said Democrat strategist Alyssa Cass.
Republicans have a deeper bench of superstars who can do that, but the newspaper as California governor said it would be better to fill that void with the jockey in early 2028.
In January, he had some of the earliest battles between Trump and GOP-controlled Congress over conditions based on federal aid to California amid the catastrophic wildfires of January. About four months later, the president sent thousands of national security guards to Los Angeles in response to the administration’s crackdown on the ouster of the ice state.
In addition to the size of California, previous clashes put Newsom in a “primary position to become a Trump killer” for base Democrats, Cass said.
“Now in the constituency, he’s in the middle of the ring again,” she said. “He’s doing everything he can to turn his back target into a rally post for Democratic voters around the country.”
Other 2028 dem applicants will be careful, but there are few criticisms or solutions
A few weeks before Trump was sworn into his second term, Democrats were battling the amount to confront or cooperate with the returning president.
For much of the year, anyone alongside Trump burned on party bases. In April, some liberals skewed Whitmer after the president signed an executive order after the governor of Michigan unexpectedly appeared in an oval office.
Whitmer’s PAC did not respond to requests for comment on this story.
Asked if other Democrats should follow his communications strategy, Newsom told reporters earlier this week he would not “provide advice,” but he believes the party must evolve.
“It’s another presidency. It requires a different approach than what we’ve seen in the past,” Newsom said in response to a question from USA Today.
Democrat strategists say the party wants fighters and hopes that other 2028 hopefuls will build a brand or have an influential position. Other Democrats in the crowded constellations of possible White House candidates screamed, but traction was limited.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a fundraising juggernaut that is regularly promoted as a candidate for 2028, calling the “even-numbered board” in July.
“If Republicans want to play with these rules, I don’t think there should be a set of one rule: one rule and another,” the 35-year-old lawmaker said.
Not all progressives are on the view of the California governor’s eye.
Some point out that he is accelerating competition to the bottom in terms of partisan gerrymandering. It suggests that it is wrong for Democrats to embrace this strategy as they join the GOP in disenfranchising millions of voters.
“(Senator John) Fetterman had good tweets too,” Nina Turner, former co-chairman of Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential election, said in an August 20 post on X.
If the current events continue, election reformers warn that the democratic strategy of “down” as Newsom is doing could plunge Congress and the country into even more partisan rifts.
