…and?Newsom settin plays for '28.... let's be serious here
🚨 Cali Gov Gavin Newsom SPLITS with DEMOCRATS on trans issues & says they wrong WRONG for allowing trans athletes in female sports!
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I maintain MAGA is only for Trump.
Can you be clear and state what you want democrats official position to be on trans athletes?Shut up honke… go focus on picking up a book to learn what the DoE is
I'm talking about the Dems who are mad at Gavin. If Dems draw the line, what they gonna do sit out and let Vance run a train on em for another 8 yrs?
Dems need to use this gap time to shed the baggage. They can do it while Trump is tanking his own support right now. It’s a prime reset time.
Aren't you that honkey that supported closing the DoE which would directly impact black students access to educationaren't you that dipshyt who complains the Dems aren't fighting enough, but can't explain what you actually want them to do
Can you be clear and state how many miles you glid your magic carpet today Hasheesh?
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Jester from Hell
I don't like him because he's a snake. but this is a very smart political move. Doing it 4 years before the next Presidential election means he'll have enough time to legitimize his stances and make it seem he was championing this pivot all along (average voter is an idiot with goldfish memory).
Could end up being bad for Republicans moving forward.
Could end up being bad for Republicans moving forward.
UpAndComing
Veteran
IMO I don't even think Vance would run in 2028. Looks like a career Vice President to me, not President material at all. But who knows. Maybe his wife can pretend that she's black like Kamala did and gain some supporters
we will see, but yeah start now, we don't have time for scrambling come 2027
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Jester from Hell
Aren't you that honkey that supported closing the DoE which would directly impact black students access to education
The DoE is garbage and one of the reasons black children underachieve in this country as a group. You aren't serious if you want them to be around.
This is one of those things that a very LOUD minority of folks are going to complain about, but most of us(even those who identify as liberals) can either get behind or be ambivalent to.
The only people I know in real life who are slamming their first for having Trans folks in the opposite sex sports are way too online so they fit the billing.
The only people I know in real life who are slamming their first for having Trans folks in the opposite sex sports are way too online so they fit the billing.
Vance is young and hand picked by the tech oligarchs, they can have 12yrs of him in the White House and he would still finish only being in his early 50s, so I don't see them positioning him just to be a VP.
Gotta admit i don't want to see the most vulnerable communities and oppressed to get hurt by MAGA, but ill say I have a bit of a schadenfreude seeing smug white liberals lose.
They have been incredibly unreasonable and driven out good people from the party due to their brand of authoritarian morality
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Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports
The Democratic California governor made the stunning remarks in his debut podcast with conservative guest Charlie Kirk.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness — it’s deeply unfair,” Newsom said in his debut podcast episode of “This is Gavin Newsom.” “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you.”
Newsom’s comments on the issue roiling political debates nationwide came in a conversation with influential MAGA-world figure Charlie Kirk, the campus culture warrior who leads the organization Turning Point USA and is a close ally of President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr.
Newsom also agreed that the most politically destructive attack ads from Trump’s campaign featured Kamala Harris’ support for providing taxpayer-funded gender transition-related medical care for detained immigrants and federal prisoners.
“She didn’t even react to it, which was even more devastating,” Newsom said, suggesting upward of 90 percent of Americans disagreed with Harris’ position. “Then you had the video [of Harris] as a validator. Brutal,” Newsom added. “It was a great ad.”
Kirk challenged Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential hopeful, to speak out against AB Hernandez, a transgender high school track star from California whose triple jump event in the women’s competition is drawing fierce backlash from the right. Newsom said he has four children of his own — including two daughters — and noted that both he and his wife participated in college-level sports, she in soccer and he in baseball.
“I revere sports, so the issue of fairness is completely legit,” Newsom said. “And I saw that — the last couple years, boy did I [see] how you guys were able to weaponize that issue at another level.”
Kirk challenged Newsom over his use of the word “weaponize,” and Newsom replaced it with “highlight.”
POLITICO last month was first to report Newsom’s new podcast, with the Democratic governor saying he drew inspiration from the likes of HBO provocateur Bill Maher, who regularly finds common ground with conservative adversaries while taking frequent aim at Democratic dogma, including on youth trans issues.
Newsom’s interview with Kirk was friendly, sometimes exceedingly so. He mentioned the influence Kirk and other MAGA-world figures have had on his 13-year-old son, distanced himself from the use of pronouns and the gender-neutral term “Latinx,” called police defunding “lunacy,” denounced “cancel culture” and agreed that there had been some internal issues in the leadership of the Black Lives Matter organization.
Indeed, the 75-minute interview presented Newsom in the opposite light than he appeared in over recent years when stumping as a surrogate for former President Joe Biden and Harris and sparring with ideological foes like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Newsom in the podcast also was self-deprecating — joking that he only eats meals (including grabbing take-out) at the famed three-Michelin star French Laundry where he got considerable heat for attending a friends’ party during Covid lockdowns and conceding that he should have been celebrating at the everyman eatery Applebee’s.
On youth trans sports Kirk drew out a longer response.
There are relatively few transgender athletes competing at the collegiate level. But Newsom said it was “easy to call out” the unfairness, echoing concerns raised by Republicans in Washington and across the country who argue that banning trans women and girls from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes would ensure fairness.
While Newsom has at times touched on his own concerns about the issue, particularly around youth sports, the remarks on his eponymous new podcast are his most expansive on the topic. He went on to express sympathy for trans people, noting “these poor people” have higher rates of suicide and depression and saying “the way that people talk down to vulnerable communities is an issue that I have a hard time with, as well.”
Yet, Newsom said Kirk was right when he contended that Republicans were capitalizing politically by painting Democrats as out of step with a strong majority of Americans on the issue. Earlier this week, Senate Democrats blocked a GOP-led effort to bar transgender girls from female youth sports.
“I agree with you,” Newsom said. “We’re getting crushed on it. Crushed. Crushed.”
Newsom noted his own leadership on issues of LGBTQ+ rights but he said even some of his friends have privately asked him why he’s not been more vocal about trans athletes.
He said the authority for trans K-12 athletes competing in girls’ and womens’ sports came from a 2014 state law — signed by then-Gov. Jerry Brown — that also allowed students who identified as transgender to use school bathrooms “consistent with their gender identity.”
Newsom compared his position on trans athletes to conservatives who oppose same-sex marriage on principle — saying he values that Kirk and others are not abandoning their opposition now that gay marriages are both legally and socially acceptable by a majority of Americans.
According to another Democrat warhawk of thecoli, transwomen participating in women's sports is a minor issue and hysteria.
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