California Governor Gavin Newsom is trying to make a move in the 2028 presidential election. He has been getting a bump, but he still trails Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg in most polls.
Lacking an ounce of individuality, he has now resorted to mocking Trump with Trump-like posts on social media.
Right now, the race for the Democrat nod appears to be a three-way race between Harris, Buttigieg, and Newsom, with Newsom bringing up the rear.
After the election was over, Harris was staked to a monster lead for the Democrat nod, but that big lead is now gone.
In most of the recent polls, Harris is floating around 26%, with Buttigieg and Newsom close behind.
I believe Harris killed her chances by deciding not to run in the CA gubernatorial election, and I also don’t think that Buttigieg can get enough support nationwide to take the nomination, and Newsom surely knows that.
A few days ago, Newsom started to troll Trump by using Trump’s trademark capital letters in his posts.
Newsom posted to X, "DONALD TRUMP, THE LOWEST POLLING PRESIDENT IN RECENT HISTORY, THIS IS YOUR SECOND-TO-LAST WARNING!!!
"STAND DOWN NOW OR CALIFORNIA WILL COUNTER-STRIKE (LEGALLY!) TO DESTROY YOUR ILLEGAL CROOKED MAPS IN RED STATES."
The warning was about Texas redoing its district maps, with Newsom promising to redo California’s maps, offsetting any gains made.
Newsom kept up the trolling, as well as adding some Trump-like memes to his account, but that appeared to backfire on him a bit, as some liberals who ripped Trump for his memes also hit Newsom.
That, however, did not stop Newsom from keeping up the caps trolling, writing about the Putin meeting, "MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING HE BEGGED PUTIN TO HOLD HIS HANDS (TINY) ON THE WAY OUT. ADMIT IT, DONNIE J… YOU'RE TERRIFIED BECAUSE THIS WAS THE WORST WEEK OF YOUR LIFE BECAUSE OF ME, GAVIN C. NEWSOM. 'THE MAPS' WILL END YOUR PRESIDENCY, RETAKE CONGRESS FOR THE PEOPLE, AND EXPOSE YOUR RIGGED ‘LITTLE GAME.’”
He even tried to replicate Trump’s language, writing, “MY ‘PERFECT MAPS’ ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN ANYTHING IN TRUMP TOWER (WHICH MANY SAY SMELLS WEIRD). @STEVENCHUENG47 — EXPLAIN THIS DISASTER!!! ENJOY YOUR FLIGHT HOME, DONALD — YOU’RE PUTIN’S PROBLEM NOW. I’M AMERICA’S SOLUTION. — GCN."
This is all very childish to me, but it is today’s political world. It is all about social media likes and clicks, as they all spend more time on their social media strategy than they do governing the country. It’s pathetic.