Emily Jashinsky

Harris last week announcing new dates for her book tour promoting 107 days for 2026, including stops in cities with large Black voting populations, a key Dem primary voting bloc including Detroit, Michigan, Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, as well as swing state South Carolina.

Over the weekend, the former VP addressing the Democrat National Committee meeting in L.A., refining the typical meandering rhetoric into a sharper attack against a failing system and both parties.

Meanwhile, more than 20 Democrat operatives telling Axios California Governor Gavin Newsom is the clear frontrunner.

The RealClear polling average showing Newsom in first at 24.6 percent.

Harris following closely behind at 22.2 percent.

Third place, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg trailing at 11.2 percent.

Those sources, some of which work for possible 2028 contenders, telling the outlet, the 58-year-old governor comes with a lot of exploitable baggage.

In 2007, as mayor of San Francisco, Newsom publicly confessing to a prior affair with his campaign manager's wife.

As governor in 2020, Newsom busted having dinner at the fancy French Laundry restaurant as he was telling Californians not to gather for the upcoming holidays amid the COVID pandemic.

Newsom appearing to attempt to get ahead of his past by releasing a strategically timed memoir titled Young Man in a Hurry, A Memoir of Discovery, hitting bookstores in February.

Here, a social media promo.

presidential ambition, that is, the governor telling reporters last week that the memoir may be interpreted as a campaign strategy.

Quote, look, I'm not an idiot.

Everyone's going to see it through a cynical set of eyes.

I mean, it's a politician writing a book.

Let the 2028 games begin.

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