Elsa Chang

Gavin Newsom is finishing up his final year as governor of California.

But lately, he's been touring the country to energize voters ahead of the midterm elections.

This week, we caught up with him in rural South Carolina.

He was stumping for Democrats in a county that voted for President Trump in the last two elections.

Newsom says this is the kind of grassroots work that will help Democrats reclaim power.

Now, Gavin Newsom has not officially announced that he's running for president in 2028, but his busy travel schedule certainly resembles that of a presidential hopeful.

And he is, at the moment, widely considered a leading potential candidate.

He's also out with a new memoir called Young Man in a Hurry.

It tells a story of his childhood, his struggles with dyslexia, and his political rise.

Consider this.

Gavin Newsom is one of the loudest voices in the Democratic Party right now.

He's pushing back on President Trump with his policies and his own viral all-cap social media posts.

But what is the California governor's next move?

From NPR, I'm Elsa Chang.

It's Consider This from NPR.

In his final year as governor of California, Gavin Newsom has been spending a lot of time outside of California.

In just the last month, he was in Germany meeting with global leaders at the Munich Security Conference.

After that, he was in the UK signing a new Clean Energy Pact.

And then, over the last few days, he's been touring the American South, talking about his new memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, all while folding in a string of events to rally voters for local Democratic candidates in places like Manning, South Carolina.

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