“When they go low, we go high” has been an aspirational mantra among Democrats since 2016. “I get it,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in Austin last weekend. But “that’s not the moment we’re living in right now.”
What’s different about Newsom’s model of engagement is that it’s less dismissive, which goes back to an effort to recall him last year that appeared briefly to have a credible chance of succeeding. Over the weekend, Newsom described to me “the low moments of anxiety where polls were coming out that showed it to be a very close race, within the margin of error.”
Newsom said he’d put Biden’s record in his first two years “up against any modern president.” But given that, when I asked what made him think Democrats were losing the messaging battle, he cited “the general vulnerability we feel, for good reason, around rights,” and he ticked through all the setbacks the party had suffered: “was overturned, the EPA was vandalized, gun policy was substantially impacted. They’re going to take down affirmative action.
“It was a masterful expression of the party in play, supporting and elevating the president,” Newsom said. “I think about that when I say I don’t look to Joe Biden to do the job that we should be doing, and that’s bolstering and supporting him.” Newsom and Harris greet supporters during a No on the Recall campaign in 2021 in San Leandro, Calif. This summer, a poll of voters in California found Newsom faring better than the vice president in a test of Democratic and independent voters’ preferences if Biden did not run in 2024. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Imagesin 2024 and Harris does, Newsom might not oppose her. There are practical reasons for that.
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