Gavin Newsom's 2028 Plans

called Wisconsin for Trump. And I joke about this because the path is more or less clear for Gavin Newsom to run for president. If Kamala had won, then he wouldn't have been able to run presumably until at least he's twenty thirty two. God knows what Newsom would have done with his time for the for the rest of

that you know, timeframe. God knows he's not very interested even in being our governor right now and now though the path is clear now actually not only is the path clear, but if you think about it, I mean, Democrats don't have a majority in the Senate, they don't have a majority in the House. Who is the most

prominent Democrat in the country. I mean, it's not a crazy thing to think that the governor of California is the most prominent elected official, is the most prominent elected official if you don't have, you know, someone as Leader of the Senate or Leader of the House, Speaker of

the House, anything like that. I mean, Newsom is by default now with Biden Harris gonna go away on January twentieth, I think Newsom is kind of, in some ways almost the default de facto leader of the Democrat Party, and he's clearly trying to position himself that way. Here he is he's calling for a special session of the California State Legislature to come up with ways to combat Donald Trump. It's amazing how the principle of federalism gets discovered when

Trump gets elected president. Now, what are Gavin Newsom's prospects for the next four years? What is Newsom going to be looking at? What's Newsom going to be doing. Newsom has some clear advantages if he wants to run for president in twenty twenty eight. The timing all makes sense for him. It all works out. He will conclude eight years as governor of California in January of twenty twenty seven, perfect timeline for him to start revving his engines for

the Newsom twenty twenty eight campaign. So he's got two more years as governor of California. Maybe he thinks he can put a couple more Trump pelts on the wall. Maybe he thinks he and the state legislation can do a couple of things to block Trump legislative or regulatory moves. Clearly,

he is full bore into resistance mode. One of the things that California did pretty consistently when Trump was first elected, and that was the first two years of that were under Jerry Brown and then the second two years were under Gavin Newsom was then Governors Brown or Newsom and Attorney General Javier Basera were consistently constantly challenging Trump regulatory

moves in court. So basically what would happen, Well, Trump would issue some immigration regulatory policy or this regulatory policy, that regulatory policy that impacts the whole country, and Newsome or really Javiersiah, the attorney general, would sue, and usually he would sue in the Northern District of California. So the federal court system is broken up into regions each, so the district courts are all broken up into regions, So California has a bunch of different regions. A small

state might just be one whole region. So you know, take Wyoming, for example, might be the Federal District Court of Wyoming and it's just all of Wyoming. All the federal cases are heard sort of by one court, one sort of division, one sort of unit of a federal court. The Northern District of California is full of Federal District Court judges who were appointed by Democrats. It is the most consistently left one of the most consistently left wing

courts in the country. And so Jabier Bassera would bring lawsuits against the Trump administration in front of these ultra left wing judges and get a favorable ruling. And what they would try to do is get a nationwide injunction against any Trump policy they were fighting against. Get one of these Federal District Court judges in the Northern District of California to issue a nationwide injunction to stop nationwide

some Trump policy with which they disagreed. Republicans were trying to do similar kinds of law fair things against the Biden administration bringing lawsuits in the Northern District of Texas, which is maybe the most conservative court in the country. I think it only has one judge and he's a super right wing Trump appointee. So Newsom is signaled I'm going to do that again. I'm going to be leading the Democrat resistance. He's doing the special session of the legislature.

It seems like the idea of the special session of the legislature is to give more money to Rob Bonta, the attorney General. Empower Rob Bonta so that he can file more and more and more lawsuits against an incoming Trump administration. Now I read this column that I really want to recommend to you all. I've got to retweet it from my Twitter account Twitter dot com slash Fresno Johnny at Fresno Johnny. And it's written by this guy, David Mastio, whom I hadn't heard of before. I guess

he's really just a newspaper guy. He worked for the Washington Times, and he's the founding editorial page editor for the Washington Examiner. And he he has a really insightful, great column about Newsom. And every so often someone writes a column giving the overview on Newsom that just it's always so devastating, just how terrible things are in California. So I'm going to try to read through this without repeating things too much that you already know. But let's go.

Let me go through this. Presido B published this to their credit. I think I think this was probably in the Sunday edition. He writes, Newsom in the Golden State, standing athwart the Trump train tracks yelling stop is about the best news Republicans could get. California is everything that

the nation just voted against in a convenient package. To put things in perspective, Democrats completely dominate the state, from the governor's mansion and the Attorney General's office to supermajorities in the state legislature that run roughshot over the paltry number of Republicans who fight back, and local governments where Trump loyalists are nearly non existent. The state is progressivism in its purest form. Take the top three issues in

the election to start Inflation, immigration, and crime. So he goes through each of these issues one by one. Inflation, California has the nation's most expensive housing because state and local laws make it increasingly impossible to meet growing demand. He gave this stat that blew my mind. The Dallas area of Texas, which I assume means Dallas for Worth Arlington, the Dallas area of Texas builds more housing annually than

the entire state of California. Let me repeat that the Dallas area of Texas builds more housing annually than the entire state of California. Building is so difficult that this year the state legislature had to exempt itself from its own environmental laws to build new offices. That's been going on for a while. So at the state Capitol and Sacramento, they have this very expensive project to renovate the State

Capitol building. Basically, you have the old historic State Capitol building and then they had attached to it all of the Assembly members, state senators' offices, and it was all attached to the old historic building. And it's that attached part that they're redoing, and it's costing a gazillion dollars and they have to pass laws to exempt themselves from normal environmental laws. Probably sequi I'm imagining the California Environmental

Quality Act. Basic. He keeps going. Basic housing for the homeless costs several times as much as an average home in the rest of the country. See this is an This is why the only kinds of housing that builders can actually really afford to build is either high end housing housing that's going to be like high end apartments, high end condos, or quote lower income housing units because if you build the quote lower income housing units registered trademark,

the state gives you a subsidy to do it. But those are the only two things that builders can afford to build. Pretty much. There's very little middle class home new home building because you can't make enough off of it. You can make if it's high end apartments where you're getting high end rent or people pay top dollar for it, or if it's something where the state of California is going to subsidize you, then you can make some money. Other than that, there's no way you can make money.

They continue continuing just with the theme of inflation. California is a top ten oil producer among US states, but has the nation's most expensive gasoline. And by the way, this is a new recent story about the California Air Resources Board, a state regulator. The Air Resources Board is about to impose new climate change rules that will boost the cost of gas another fifty cents a gallon. By its own low estimate, this will cost consumers one hundred

and sixty billion dollars. A previous round of environmental rules passed by the legislature led one of the state's few oil refineries to announce it is shutting down. Perhaps that's because it would cost the company a fortune to comply. Less gas means higher prices. Two other refineries are considering their options. It's unbelievable how expensive gas is going to get going to get on top of how expensive it already is between these new regulations that are going to

make gas fifty cents a gallon more expensive. Plus if more of these oil refineries go away, as Chevron flat out threatened that, like, if you keep passing these insane regulations, we will not keep investing here. It costs US hundreds of millions of dollars to invest keep our refineries here.

And again that's because California is a gas island. We have our own specific blend of California compliant gasoline that's different from gasoline you can sell in Arizona and Nevada and Wyoming and Oklahoma and Texas and Michigan or wherever, so gas companies have to set up a separate refinery system, sort of sort of production chain just for California compliant refined gas. That's why our gas is more expensive. It's that in taxas. It's it's not a it's not some

secret why gas is more expensive here. Everyone understands why. It's environmental regulation that creates this gas island that we have in California. In spite of the fact that we got tons of oil, we could produce gas like the idea, it's this would be like if Saudi Arabia were charging people, you know, eight dollars a gallon for gas or whatever. Saudi Arabia doesn't do that. Gas is cheap in Saudi Arabia. They pump they got it right there, pump it out,

refine it and there you go. But no, we would rather import gas from Saudi Arabia to California than actually produce it here ourselves, because we hate because we hate ourselves and we think that we're helping the environment. There's more stuff in here. You know, I'm gonna save the rest of this piece, but again, this is fantastic piece.

You can read it int my Twitter account Twitter dot com slash President Johnny uh California special session of the Legislature to fight Trump is a gift to Republicans by David Mastio's published in The President b this weekend. We're going to keep going through it. That's next on the

John Girardi Show. A great column that the President will be published a couple of days ago, great op ed piece written by David Mastio's editorial writer for The Washington Examiner and a number of other conservative outlets talking about Gavin Newsom trying to set up California as Trump's chief foil over the next four years. Newsom calls this special session of the legislature. He's giving more money to Rob Bonto. He's loading up again for California to be the legal

resistance movement to the federal government, to the Trump administration. Basically, if Trump says black, Newsom will say white. If Trump says up, Newsom will say down. They will use the Attorney General's office to fight every Trump regulatory posle, every Trump law, whatever they can tooth and nail. And David Masio is pointing out, what a gift to Republicans because they'll get to see that all this opposition is coming from this state. That is absolutely everything the country voted against.

So he went through inflation, housing costs, gas prices. Now let's go to immigration. While the Biden Harris administration was desperately trying to end a wave of millions of undocumented undocumented immigrants at the southern border, California's legislature was adding

new incentives for them to come. Since it's so hard for poor undocumented immigrants to buy houses at the inflated prices of the Golden State, this year, the legislature made them eligible for six figures worth of taxpayer finance downpayment assistance that might never have to be paid back. A new law allowed state universities to use public funds to hire undocumented immigrants students for jobs at the schools, in

violation of federal law. Delightful crime. The state's crime problem is so bad after passing laws that turned some felonies into rarely prosecuted misdemeanors and opening the doors to state prisons that Newsom had to call out the National Guard to fight drug crime and assist with local prosecutions in multiple cities in one of the nation's most liberal states. An initiative to tough in laws back up specifically for drug crimes and theft pass with over seventy percent of

the votes. So that was Prop thirty six. So again, why does Newsom think that California is a great winning representative of who should be fighting against Gavin Newsom? Maybe let Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania lead this chart. Oh no, we don't want to do that. We don't want Josh Shapiro to run for president in twenty twenty eight. We want Gavin Newsom to run for President's That's maybe what's happening here at Newsom wants see, that's what's going

on here. Newsom is in such a bubble in California, and I think this this is true. I think Harris suffered from this bubble too. All Right, So how do you get elected to state white office in California. The way you get elected to state white office in California is if you have money. You get the money from the big time San Francisco Democrat donors. They anoint you, they decide they like you, sort of the Willie Brown magic circle. They decide that you're their horse that they're

going to back. And with that money, you're able to fund big time ad buys in the Los Angeles market. That's how you win. That gets you the name recognition, that gets you in front of the voters in the primary, you beat out whatever other Democrat you hope that you fight against a Republican in the general election, because then it's going to be just a cake walk. And I think as a result, statewide California politicians aren't very tough.

They don't get exposed, or their personal faults and weaknesses and failures don't really get exposed. Gavin Newsom's only ever had to run in San Francisco, ultra left wing place where he had all the advantages of again Willie Brown and friends money and backing. He ran for lieutenant governor again, a statewide thing where he and that's the thing with with governor's races or senator's races in California. You don't win on the strength of a debate. All right, Adam

Schiff and Steve Garvey had a debate. They might as well have had it on the moon or something, for all it was worth. Nobody cares what you know, No, nobody really cares about the outcome of that debate. Steve Garvey wasn't going to be in front of the voters. I mean, Brian Dolly, God bless him. When he ran against Gavin Newsom, nobody knew who the guy was. And as a result, I think these California statewide politicians get in this little bubble where no one challenges them. They

never have to actually fight for what they believe. They never take a punch to the mouth. And then when they get on a national stage where they have to sort of reveal themselves a little bit, and their faults and peccadillos could be shown to the world, everyone realizes what a putts they are if they are in fact

the putts. We all saw it with Kamala Harris in twenty nineteen when she was in the Democrat primary debates and Rose Tulci Gabbard absolutely skewered her and roasted her, and she look Harris was very well set up to win that twenty twenty primary process for the Democrats. She had all the money behind her, she had all this enthusiasm.

Everyone was like, oh, she's the next Obama. And she did so badly in the primary, so badly in the debates, especially that her money dried up and everyone was like, nope, she dropped out of the race before they even got

to twenty twenty. Then again, though she gets picked by the donors because she's their favorite child, she was their favorite black woman left after Biden sort of boxed himself in with that stupid pledge, and then in the presidential race, she continues to reveal herself to not be a very adroit politician. I think Gavin Newsom is similar. I think Gavin Newso thinks he's this brilliant politician. I think Gavin

Newso thinks he's like really popular. I think Gavin Newsom thinks that he's really well set up for running in twenty twenty eight and getting this national wave of support against JD Vance. Jady Vans, by the way, the only one of the four people from the two tickets trump Vance, Harris Walls, the only one of the four of them who now has a above water favorability rating after the election.

By the way, I think Newso thinks he's like so beloved, and what he doesn't realize is no, you're not well beloved. You live in a media bubble in California where ninety nine percent of California media doesn't ever criticize you. You're in a state where politically you have no opposition. Really, there's no one to argue with, there's no one to debate. You knew some wishes he had a Republican fight against.

He had to fly all the way to Flipping Florida to go debate Ronda Santis, to define Ronda Santis, to debate him. He's got nobody, He's had no actual reps, if you will, getting ready for a national state. And I think he thinks he's like hot, you know what. And yet he just had seventy percent of the voters demolish his favored positions when it came to criminal law enforcement, seventy percent of the voters. Clearly the state is sort of fed up with what he has wrought for the

last six years his own state. And by the I think the Tim Walls experience shows you you probably shouldn't nominate someone for president whose home state is pretty anemic about him. It's not like Minnesotan's were like ready to crawl over broken glass to vote for their beloved governor Tim Walls. Look, I know Ron de Santis didn't win, but people in Florida love Ron de Santis just as

they love Donald Trump, they love Ron de Santis. I don't think anybody in California feels that way about Gavin Newsom. I don't think Democrats feel that way about him at all. So I'm gonna be very curious to see I'm gonna watch Gavin Newsom the next four years with great curiosity because he's clearly lining things up to run. He's gonna have all that Pelo c, Willie Brown, Kamala Harris money

coming to him. I'm really interested to see his balloon get popped in the next couple of years when we return. Now comes the difficult business of governing. Some ideas and thoughts for the next Trump to next on the John Girardi Show. Trump has won. Now comes the difficult business of governing. It seems as though Trump is keeping a tighter lid, a tighter control, with more sort of hymn

loyalists picking people for the next Trump administration. There's also a lot of there's a lot of infighting right now between the Trump camp and some of the old hardliners for sort of traditional governance in the Senate about the

idea of recess appointments. So basically the problem one of the problems that plague the Trump administration in twenty seventeen was that it took years for the Senate to confirm all of these appointees that Trump nominated for the federal government, and basically Trump wasn't able to get his administration staffed in a very timely way. There were people who waited around two years before they could actually get appointed to

their Trump jobs. And one of the things that Trump people want to do is they want to have the Senate be supportive of recess appointments, so the idea of a recess appointment. Obama did this. Obama did this occasionally, but basically, in the United States, a recess appointment is an appointment. Reading it off Wikipedia for the simple description, is an appointment by the president of a federal office when the US Senate is in recess, so the president

is empowered to nominate. Usually, the President has to nominate and the Senate has to give their advice and consent, basically, vote for an appointee to some of the top people at various executive agency Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and then several people lower on the totem poll to

like the assistant secretary deputy secretary whatever. So a recess appointment is an alternative method of appointing officials that allows the temporary filling of offices during periods when the Senate is not in session. And there's already sort of a fight between Trump and the Senators of like Trump saying, well, will the Senate support recess appointments to allow me to get my people confirmed more quickly? I think it's kind

of silly. And there's some older like people who are like trying to be protective of the Senate and think that this is a constitutional problem, or like, no, the Senate shouldn't recognize any recis appointment. They should be fighting against this idea of resais appointment. Trump should just nominate as people let the Senate confirm them. I think the

whole argument's kind of silly. Frankly, because the Senate has fifty three Republicans, Trump should be able to get his people confirm much more quickly than in twenty seventeen and twenty seventeen there were only fifty one Republicans in the Senate, and two of them were Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. So with fifty three senators and only really two of them are you know, only really two of them are pretty big libs, Murkowski and Collins. You should be able

to get people confirmed pretty easily. So I'm hopeful that Trump camp can just get everyone confirmed. But that's a really important thing. Trump should get his people in quickly. That needs to happen. There were also Now let's think through other sorts of things that the Trump folks should do, could do, should do. It's still going to be hard

to pass kind of comprehensive immigration legislation. I wonder if Trump, given the mandate he has, and given that there are a lot of Democrat senators who you know, are looking towards their reelection someday. I'm thinking of, you know, Democrat senators who are in Republican states states that Trump just won. I'm thinking of the two senators from Georgia and a number of others. Can Trump actually get some kind of legislative solution to the problems that plague our immigration system?

Because I think one of the problems we see is this ping pong effect. A Republican's in office and all of a sudden we have more strict rules governing regulation how we regulate immigration. A Democrat gets into office and all of a sudden, all the rules change. We like invite a basically, our rules are such that we're inviting these people in, and then Trump comes along and says, no, that was wrong. We need to deport all these people. And I think the thing that makes me upset is

the human beings in the middle of all this. I understand that some conservatives have ill feelings towards people illegally immigrating into the United States, but you have to admit they have been getting some pretty mixed signals over the course of the last ten years, from a fairly porous border under the Obama folks, to the Trump administration shutting the border down largely, to the Biden administration wildly opening up the border, to the Biden administration sort of restricting things,

to now re electing Trump. It's not exactly like the rest of the world has a clear picture of what the United States is going to do, and you know how to solve it. Someone eventually someday has to pass an immigration law, an actual law, a thing that the House passes and the Senate passes and the President votes for. That's what has to happen, because if that happens, then it doesn't become a matter of executive enforcement year in

and year out, administration in and administration out. And I think, you know, Trump has historically been a wheeler dealer. He was not a very successful wheeler dealer negotiator in his first term with Congress. But I do wonder now that he's got he's got more of a mandate now. And what does a mandate mean. I think a mandate just means that people are scared of him because they're scared

for their own reelection chances. Again, as I said, there are Democrat senators in Wisconsin and Michigan and Georgia who all want to get re elected again someday. And they're in states that Donald Trump won. Pennsylvania. John Fetterman A, right, these are states Republicans won. Right. You gotta believe John Fetterman is looking around at Pennsylvania and thinking, well, Trump won. My colleague and the Senate Bob Casey Junior just got

his rear end fired. I'm next unless what do I do? Clearly, my constituent, Clearly my constituents, not all of them are two jazzed about immigration. I really, you know, obviously it's a tall order, and really the tall order is the Senate. Okay, So how do you pass a law in Congress? You need a majority of the House, majority of the Senate, need the President to sign it. But really you need sixty of the one hundred senators for most pieces of legislation.

In this stuff, at the very least, there's some things that are connected to the budget where you only need fifty votes. Presidential appointments to the Senate or to Executive branch appointments you only need fifty votes. Most other pieces of legislation you need sixty votes in the Senate. Effectively, the Senate can theoretically have debate forever on a given topic. You end debate with a sixty vote with sixty votes, and so effectively you need sixty votes to advance a

piece of legislation. Can Trump get to sixty votes, I don't know if he's got fifty three? Maybe, I mean, you know again, maybe he can get the two Georgia senators. Maybe he can get Rafael Warnock and John Ossuf. Maybe he can get some of these senators from Wisconsin or Michigan or Pennsylvania. That's the effect of a mandate, all right. When fifty one percent of the country votes for a guy who said he wanted mass deportations of illegal aliens. Maybe Democrat senators work with him to get to a

permanent solution, because that's that's the real thing. I don't even mind necessarily some pathway to legal residency, some pathway to whatever for people who came in during the Biden years under illegal or implausibly legal, quasi whatever corridors, anyone who committed a crime out one hundred percent. What's important is locking up the border so it doesn't happen again.

And you don't really lock up the border through executive actions, why because another presidential administration can just come in and undo it. So you need to pass a law. You need to pass a law such that a future presidential administration can't allow all these people in any further. Now, the problem is that Republicans sort of get bamboozled into those kinds of alleged deals. Well, it's okay, we'll we'll let the people here now stay, but we won't let

any more in. And then, of course that latter thing never actually happens. Certainly, I think there's a decent number of people whom we could very legitimately fairly deport people who just came here, who haven't settled down, haven't put down any roots, anyone who's committed any sort of crime, et cetera. I think all that would be consistent with

fairness and justice. And the problem. The problem is, though, and I can hear myself falling into this trap with me saying, you know, look what I don't necessarily care so much about all the deportations. What I care about is securing the border permanently. And securing the border permanently needs a law, a law that has passed. Will Trump

fight for that? I think he's got He's in a better position now than he's than he ever was in his first term to actually accomplish that, because I think he's getting closer to the votes needed in the Senate that he could pursue something positive. I think there are enough Democrat senators in swingy areas who could be willing to work with him. So we will see. Now when we return, I'll give just very quickly my pro life issues priority list for Trump. We'll see how many of

these actually come to pass. Next on the John Girardi Show, what are the things Trump should do that I think, as you know, to write to Life Essential California pro life or what are things I think he should do? Let me give a quick list. First, he should do all the executive branch things that he did at the start of his first administration. He should immediately pass the Mexico City Policy, which is basically an executive branch action.

All the Republican presidents do it, all the Democrat presidents don't. That cuts off federal funding for foreign aid that supports abortion providers. Cut off all that funding. He should cut off funding for the ridiculous program of military abortions that was launched under Lloyd Austin and Joe Biden. Paying for military service members who live in states where abortion is restricted, like Alabama or Texas, to fly them to a state where abortion is legal, give them extra leave, et cetera.

Et cetera. Passes many of these kinds of executive actions limiting abortion. As you can look, why was embryo destructive, stem cell research and fetal tissue research. Why was that going on during the first Trump administration. It was going on in the first Trump administration because Trump didn't fire Francis Collins. You all remember Francis Collins the head of the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci's boss, one of our lead COVID lockdown vaccine mandate tyrants. Trump should have

fired him in twenty seventeen. I was calling for him to fire the guy in twenty seventeen, but he didn't. He didn't fire a lot of those people in twenty seventeen. Trump needs to clean house at the National Institutes of Health,

at the FDA. He needs to clean house, getting rid of all of those pro abortion people who are there, and he needs to immediately work to defund fetal tis issue research using the bodies of aborted children and embryo destructive stem cell research, and then get someone in charge of the FDA who's willing to look seriously at stricter regulations of the abortion pill, which is the single biggest driver of abortion in the country. That would be my wish list. We'll see what he does. That'll do it.

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