I have to admit it.
Every time I look at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, I think of the stereotype of the slick car salesman. My colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell refers to him as “Gov. Hair Gel,” and it’s so true. Moreover, the hand motions are worse than those of House Minority Leader, Democrat Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (NY-8). They can truly drive a person to distraction.
I think you see all that, in spades, during his interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press that aired on Sunday.
Welker asked him why he wanted to be president, and Newsom claimed he didn’t.
Newsom: “There is nothing I dislike more than the politician that sits there and lies to you. We all just sit there rolling our eyes.” pic.twitter.com/cg6dupzFG9
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 2, 2025
“I don’t,” Newsom claimed.
“I’m not suggesting I am. It was in response to someone talked about it and I — nothing I dislike more than a politician that sits there and lies to you. And we all just sit there rolling our eyes going, “Give me a break.”
Can I say to that, “Give me a break, Governor?” He’s the guy who doesn’t want to confess he’s going to run, while doing everything to indicate he is. So it’s funny to hear him talking about other politicians lying and rolling their eyes, even as he tries to sell us this and rolls his eyes.
Then he tripped over another question from Welker. She asked if he ever had concerns about Joe Biden’s capacity.
The one exception, as it relates to the interaction I had with him, that gave me pause, one, was the fundraiser in Southern California. And all of us were a little taken aback. But we also were mindful that he had been in Europe twice in about a week, and for the grace of God go any of us with jet lag and being exhausted. That person came back on that debate night and that certainly gave all of us pause.
KRISTEN WELKER: If it gave you pause after the debate why didn’t you sound the alarm then?
Newsom said he did “privately.”
Welker pressed a little more.
Gavin Newsom slithers around in an attempt to explain why he’s defended Joe Biden’s capacity to serve a second term:
Welker: You stood by him till the end. Did you ever have concerns about his capacity to serve another four years?
Newsom: “I never had that.”
Welker: Did you… pic.twitter.com/VwpP06B5RP
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 2, 2025
KRISTEN WELKER: Governor, did you legitimately believe that he was capable of serving as president until January of 2029?
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: Yeah, I think my focus was, frankly, situational. It was making sure Donald Trump didn’t get back into office, to experience everything that we’re experiencing today. And there was no interaction I had that suggested otherwise.
KRISTEN WELKER: What do you say to Americans who feel misled by you and other top Democrats –
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: Misled in what respect? He decided to step down–
KRISTEN WELKER: – about the mental acuity of President Biden, that they wish you’d sounded the alarm sooner, to give way for an open convention.
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: I never experienced – look, I’m not going to substitute myself for someone else or for popular opinion. I’m going to express my relationship to my truth with the former president of the United States, including at the end of his term, quite literally in December, which was a master class of foreign policy and domestic policy, which I will never forget, as we walk through not just the election but we’re walking through the world we’re living in. There was nothing to suggest what you just said or others have suggested in terms of my interaction. That’s all I can be accountable for.
“Situational” – so beating Trump was the thing, not Biden’s acuity? Newsom says there was no interaction with Biden that “suggested otherwise” about Biden being capable, right after Newsom talked about the fundraiser and debate giving him pause. The gobbledegook car salesman rears his head. He wanted to express “his truth” about his relationship with Biden. Sorry, Gavin, there is no “your truth” or “my truth,” only the truth. And it doesn’t reflect well on Democrats.
And then what does it say if we could all see what you are now claiming you didn’t? Any way you slice it, not good.
Then, Welker asked him why he thought Kamala Harris lost. His answer was interesting because he did list some true reasons that people had issues with her. Nice of him to point them all out.
I don’t know. I’m reflecting on it. I think time, we’ll have more of an understanding. We can start with inflation. We can talk with interest rates. We don’t talk about interest rates enough. We could talk about incumbency. We could talk about Israel. We could talk about immigration and the border. We can go through a myriad of lists. We could talk about Joe Rogan. We could talk about woke. We could talk about the 107 days. We could talk about the lack of an open primary. We could talk about “The View.” Again, I’m on page six of the 24 pages. And how you unpack that, how you stack that in terms of everything, I think needs still a little bit more forensics, a little more analysis.
Of course, he did leave out that she was a horrible candidate, coming out of an administration that had been a failure. So that’s a bit of a problem.
Welker asked him about Harris appearing to grouse in her book about him not calling her back when she called for an endorsement after Biden dropped out of the race.
KRISTEN WELKER: In her book, the former vice president writes that she scrambled to reach prominent Democrats hours after President Biden exited the race. And she said that you responded to her call, quote, by saying, “Gavin Newsom: ‘Hiking. Will call back.’ He never did.” Is that what happened?
GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM: 100%. And I sent out an endorsement in a few minutes after that. I was one of her first endorsements, the reason she was calling. I’ve known Kamala all my life. The last person she needs to reach out to is me. So, I learned the news, I wanted to get in touch with the Biden folks. I was out on an actual hike. I was like, “Kamala, you’ve got a million people to call,” and we were literally working as she reached out. It was a voicemail, by the way, unknown number, for the record. And as she was on to her next calls, we were already on to our press release endorsing her. So, I don’t even know why that was even in the book.
Sounds like he was not exactly happy with that being put in the book. However, he said he had known her for years and indicated he wasn’t upset by it.
That’s going to be an interesting interaction if they both jump into the 2028 race.
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