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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. The Sine Qua Non Sequitur is taking the rest of the week off to prepare for a Toblerone eating contest in Newfoundland.
We’ve had a lot of fun picking apart the Democrats’ potential candidates for the 2028 presidential election. At times, it seems as if they’re all trying to see just how early they can implode and disqualify themselves. We are well over a year away from when they should be screwing up in public like this.
Last week, it was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who stuck her foot in her mouth multiple times on the global stage. What made her faux pas so much more ridiculous is that she was trying to prove that she had some foreign policy chops and the gravitas it takes to be the American president. What AOC accomplished was pretty much the opposite — she just let the rest of the world see that she’s the lightweight that we all knew she was.
This week kicked off with California Gov. Gavin Newsom really, really stepping in it. A lot of the most cringe-filled moments from Dem politicians come when their diversity-challenged white people try to bond with black audiences. The pandering goes somewhat nuclear in those situations. My good friend and partner in thought crime, Stephen Green, wrote about it yesterday:
Deny all you like, but yes, as Chad Prather explained, “Gavin Newsom told a black audience that he’s just like them because of his low SAT scores and inability to read.”
Newsom made his “I’m like you… I’m a 960 SAT guy” comments during a book tour stop in Atlanta on Sunday while promoting his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry. In too much of a hurry to stop and consider comparing his mediocre SAT score — which was due to dyslexia — to a largely black audience.
Newsom’s dyslexia is the Joe Biden’s stutter of 2026. We’re hearing a lot about it lately. Dems who can’t play a race card suddenly have childhood problems that they like to brag about having to overcome. In all of Joe Biden’s decades in Washington, I never heard of his boyhood stutter until he started struggling with English during the 2020 presidential campaign. Newsom recently brought his dyslexia front and center in an attempt to dunk on Sen. Ted Cruz on X. That ended up being a huge self-own, but Democrats are incapable of being embarrassed by their own actions anymore. All it seems to have done is prompt Newsom to bust out the dyslexia excuse even more.
It’s stunning how quickly Newsom is running California into the ground, given how little time he spends governing. He spends more time getting in spats on social media and recording podcast episodes than an unemployed actor. Not that that’s a bad thing. The less time a politician spends in the office, the less he or she can screw over constituents.
Very early polling has Gavin Newsom at or near the top of the Democratic field for 2028. That’s a long way off, of course. His problems aren’t going away. His radical left coastal politics probably won’t play well in the heartland. There is also the fact that the Dems are still all in on diversity, and Newsom is whiter than white. They’re also really itchy to break that glass ceiling that President Trump has twice denied them. That’s going to make Newsom’s Great White Hope vibe look less appealing after the Dem primary debates start next year.
Newsom is getting plenty of grief for his idiocy, and it’s causing him to have a bit of a meltdown, which Robert covered. If he keeps falling apart like this, he’s going to need some more childhood struggles to pad his story.
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