Gavin Newsom says the Democratic party “must fight fire with fire”
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What is Gavin Newsom's current role and political strategy?
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.
It's an extraordinary moment.
He was stumping for Democrats in a county that voted for President Trump in the last two elections.
Donald Trump knows he's going to get crushed. election. He knows he's going.
Newsom says this is the kind of grassroots work that will help Democrats reclaim power.
County races matter. State races matter. You matter. City council members matter. Mayors matter.
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.
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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.
I think it's really important for the Democratic Party not to give up on red states and rural parts of the country. And I've been doing this for years now. I had a PAC that's exclusively focused on Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, where we spend a day or two in the way someplace else and make sure we're supporting local Democratic causes.
You're on book tour right now. Often when people are planning to run for president, they write an autobiography. Your new memoir is out this week. Why does now feel like the right time to be telling everybody your life story?
Well, I appreciate the question. They may write an autobiography, but not like this.
What do you mean? What's different about yours?
This is a little different.
How does Gavin Newsom view grassroots efforts in red states?
I mean, this is pretty self-critical. This is very deeply reflective. And I'm not out of office when I'm writing this. This is not looking back in the rocking chair. But it was an opportunity to talk about my own journey in terms of discovering who I am. It's called Young Man in a Hurry, a memoir of discovery.
One of the things that I learned about you for the first time when I was reading this book was was how you kind of felt like a dork growing up. I mean, you were bullied in high school. You wondered how to remake your image, which led to the whole origin story of your now famous hairstyle.
Oh, gosh, yeah. You read that part.
I read that. You decided.
You should have skipped that.
That's what I want to ask you because you decided you wanted to look like Pierce Brosnan from the TV show Remington Steel. Explain why that was the solution to your teenage problems at the time.
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