Newsom, who was San Francisco mayor in the 2000s, has long been close with tech leaders. As governor, he counts on the industry's outsized gains to keep a massive state budget balanced. As a possible 2028 presidential contender, he could find Silicon Valley's deep-pocketed donors helpful.

Emerson College's latest polling shows that the proportion of people who would vote for Newsom in the Democratic presidential primaries has increased by 13 points from August to December. While he has not announced a formal run for president, the governor told CBS News in October he would decide after the 2026 midterm elections.

Newsom’s press office took to X Friday to try and deflect from the many masculinity-mocking pol-watchers with a doctored image of the governor in an even more compromising yoga-style pose on stage

An Emerson College poll, released Thursday, revealed that Republican Chad Bianco, a county sheriff, is leading among the field to replace term-limited California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), a staunch critic of President Donald Trump who has emerged in recent months as one of the loudest voices in the Democratic Party.

Calif., commented on his press team mimicking President Donald Trump on X by writing social media posts in all-caps and making jokes.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) thinks Democrats need to rein in some of their cultural politics if they want to win over more voters. “I think there’s a broader narrative that we ought to address,” Newsom said Wednesday at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit. “We have to be more culturally normal. We have to be a little less judgmental.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom made fun of President Donald Trump’s tendency to fall asleep during meetings as well as his controversial Presidential Walk of Fame in a two-for-one meme posted on Thursday evening.

Gov. Newsom filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for the move, which is still being fought in court. Since then, the president has sent troops to other Democratic-led cities across the country, including Portland and Chicago, among others, to crack down on crime and immigration.