Presidential Ambitions behind Gavin Newsom’s Metamorphosis into a Conservative

What a difference 6 weeks makes! It’s been only 6 weeks since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the launch of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s metamorphosis into a conservative.

Newsom is making a major shift to the political middle in an attempt to appear more moderate for his Presidential run.

Is Newsom a shapeshifter or has he seen the light? We all know the answer; Newsom is a politician. His side just lost a major election, and many Californians voted for Trump.

Is Newsom reading the tea leaves?

Actually, Gavin Newsom is soulless and has no principles, and has shown over many years that he will say and do anything to achieve what he wants – Whether you like it or not:

He’s going to have a lot of leftist political history to overcome, as well as 40 million Californians, some who have very long memories.

Newsom’s latest pivot is on trans-athletes [boys] playing in girls’ sports – the governor has seen the light, or at least that is what he told Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk during the debut podcast episode of “This is Gavin Newsom.”

“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. “I am not wrestling with the fairness issue. I totally agree with you,” Politico reported, in an article lovingly titled: Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports.

That’s good. Welcome to the land of the obvious Gavin. It shouldn’t have taken several years of allowing boys to invade girls locker rooms and bathrooms, and physically harm girls in sports to admit that.

Earlier this week, Gov. Newsom ordered state workers to return-to-the-office, notably 5 years after his original Covid lockdown order in which he locked down the entire state of California for 3 years, destroying the lives of school children, destroying small businesses, and even killing off elderly nursing home residents after he ordered Covid patients into skilled nursing facilities. Never forget despite his latest flattery.

Last Friday, California Assemblyman Carl DeMaio exposed a fraudulent “Covid-19 Workplace Outreach Program” which has been funding far-Left political groups. DeMaio said he and his team pulled all 76 of the contracts for referral to federal investigators, and concluded that Gavin Newsom is laundering $25Million of your state tax dollars through a laughable “Covid outreach” program.

“But when we dug deep to the people you’re giving the money to, to the organizations, these 76 ‘community based organizations’ that you say are expert in reaching out to workers and understanding workplace safety and workplace regulations, they’re political groups,” DeMaio told the representatives from the California Workforce Development agency requesting the $25 million.

By 5:00pm that evening, DeMaio and four other Assembly Republicans learned they have been removed from their committee assignments. California’s Democrat Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas waited until Friday at 5 pm to remove Assembly Republicans from key positions on legislative committees, clearly agitated that Republicans are exposing corruption, negligence and graft in hearings.

This is Gavin Newsom’s California – the state he helped destroy.

As we reported, California’s Governor is so desperate to control the narrative and news surrounding his tenuous job and multiple crises, he admits it:

“We need to change the conversation. And that’s why I’m launching a new podcast,” Newsom said on X Wednesday. “And this is going to be anything but the ordinary ‘politician’ podcast. I’m going to be talking with people I directly disagree with, as well as people I look up to. But more important than anything else, I’ll be talking with you, the listener.”

Newsom is trying to distance himself from himself.

With Gavin Newsom trying desperately to appear more moderate and even pro-American to bolster his standing  as a 2024 Presidential Candidate, it’s more important than ever to understand his real record.

We published the Top 50 Disasters Gov. Gavin Newsom Has Ushered into California in November 2023. The list was long then, and is even longer now that another 15 months has passed.

The list of terribly important California issues, and bad policy decisions is long – Governor Newsom’s California, is reflected in this list of disastrous policy decisions:

1. Water rationing: How can California have a water crisis when the state borders the Pacific Ocean, and the Sierra Nevada mountain range, 400 miles north-south and 50 miles to 80 miles east–west, drains into more than 15 rivers, 6 lakes, and numerous creeks? The Sierra Nevada snowpack is the major source of water and a significant source of electric power generation in California.
2. Highest taxes in the nation: California Ranks Among 10 Worst in U.S. for High Taxes. Gavin Newsom’s state ranks in the bottom three for worst for individual taxes. Even with the highest taxes in the nation, Newsom and Democrats tried to pass legislation to force successful Californians to pay additional taxes on wealth and income that’s already been taxed – and vowed tax “avoidance” would not be allowed as California would tax them for the next ten years, despite what state they live in.
3. 817,000 Californians left California in just 2022. Thousands of businesses have fled to other states
4. Dramatically increasing crime wave: Gov. Newsom even announced in 2020 he planned to close two state prisons in the coming years, and all three state-run juvenile prisons. He’s also said he planned to increase sentencing credits to allow inmates to leave prison more quickly, shorten parole to a maximum of two years, down from five years for felonies, and let ex-felons earn their way off supervision in just a year, or 18 months for sex offenders.
5. All big cities in California are in decline under Gov. Newsom
6. multiple labor unions striking
7. growing mentally-ill, drug addicted homeless population littering streets with feces and drug needles
8. denied housing vouchers in Los Angeles
9. reparations for descendants of slaves
10. $7.00-per-gallon-gas
11. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a problem with no-bid contracts to favored donors: details of these contracts here. 
12. porn in K-12 curriculum – school books show actual graphic sexual acts, and in cartoon form, clearly targeting kids
13. State mandated secrecy of gender transitioning children from parents
14. Gov. Newsom was the first Governor in the country to declare a COVID emergency, install himself as a virtual dictator by seizing this unilateral power, and completely ignore the democratic process.
15. COVID mandatory vaccine bills
16. Single Payer health coverage – Socialized medicine. Assembly Constitutional Amendment 11 was introduced in 2022 in the California Legislature to enact significant tax increases to fund universal single-payer health care coverage in California
17. public school teachers strikes
18. energy shortage, rolling blackouts by the state utility companies
19. Newsom’s COVID State of Emergency order from March 2020 until the end of February 2023 – he hung on to his emergency powers three years, con scribing the state to a dictatorship.
20. Newsom’s Vaccine mandates for school children, days after opposing one for prison guards
21. AB 5 Newsom signed into law, killing off the state’s independent contractors.
22. Gun control bills overturned by federal judges
23. Rolling power blackouts: during the state’s heatwaves, and record temperatures throughout the state, rolling blackouts hit millions during the very hottest weather. While the governor said he was investigating the power outages, he also said Californians needed to get used to it.
24. $4.5 Million Free Immigration Legal Services Pilot Program 
25. Newsom’s own Ministry of Truth – his new “Commission on the State of Hate,” he created via Executive Order also establishes the state’s first Racial Equity Commission.
26. Gov. Newsom even officially created a new state website, abortion.ca.gov, to assist anyone needing financial assistance from a Red State, with abortion travel plans and financial assistance, to California for an abortion, or to commit infanticide if you’re 9 months along (It’s now legal in California), courtesy of the California taxpayers.
27. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2098 by Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), which will punish physicians and surgeons for “unprofessional conduct” for advocating for the potential benefits of early treatment with off-label drugs, or those who dare to ask questions about COVID vaccine safety – i.e. for “spreading Covid “misinformation.” A judge issued and injunction to halt implementation, and eventually Newsom had to push a bill through the Legislature to officially overturn AB 1098.
28. Gov. Newsom Calls for Tax on ‘Windfall Profits’ on Oil Companies After Abandoning Gas Tax Pause
29. Newsom, in 2021, largely killed hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in California as part of his overall plan to end oil extraction. He also announced his action to halt issuance of fracking permits by 2024.
30. Gov. Newsom signed Senate Bill 1137, gut-and-amend legislation by Democrat Senators Lena Gonzalez and Monique Limón, would require 3,200-foot mandatory setbacks around California oil and gas wells.
31. California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered letting another 76,000 prisoners out of state prisons – on his own authority through Executive Order, as violent crime is spiking in California’s cities.
32. State Capitol staffers told the Globe in February 2022 that elected members of the Assembly and Senate were exempted from COVID vaccine mandates, but Capitol staffers were not, and in fact were required to receive a booster by March 1st, or be fired. Where was the media on this?
33. Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry moment wasn’t confined to dining out – besides multiple vacations out of the country while he locked down Californians, in Feb. 2022 he starred in “MaskGate” at the NFC Championship game in Los Angeles – despite his own face mask mandates. 
34. Gov. Gavin Newsom defied the state’s voters within 6 weeks of being sworn in January 2019 when he announced in March 2019 he was granting reprieves for all death penalty murderers on California’s death row, calling the death penalty “ineffective, irreversible and immoral.”
35. Gov. Newsom signed SB 152 quickly after its passage June 2021, which changed the rules of his own recall election by allowing Lieutenant Governor Kounalakis to set an earlier date for the recall election – exactly what Gavin Newsom decided would be best for Gavin Newsom. State officials bypassed one of the very steps in the recall election certification process they themselves put into law less than four years ago in order to protect a fellow state senator from his own recall defeat.
36. Also by Executive Order, Newsom announced closure of San Quentin State Prison.
37. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 145 by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) which lowers the penalties for adults who have sex with same-sex minors – this means the new law allows a 24 year old to have sex with a 14 year old and escape a felony conviction and requirement to be a registered sex offender.
38. Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs Slew of Marijuana Bills.
39. Governor approved AB 205, income-based utility billing, rather than using an all-of-the-above approach to abundant energy production in California: Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, hydroelectric, solar and wind.
40. While Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the Orange County city of Huntington Beach for failing to provide enough additional “affordable housing,” his own home county of Marin is enjoying a moratorium on affordable housing building requirements until 2028. Coronado and Elk Grove have also been sued by the state.
41. Gov. Newsom announced in 2022 he would be developing the state’s lithium reserves in the Salton Sea region, and create a Lithium Valley Commission. “Proponents of mandating unrealistic policies and tight deadlines to fight climate change are finally having to confront the consequences of those sweeping decisions against a backdrop of an unreliable global supply chain impacting our national security.”
42. Newsom announced state-funded full scope Medi-Cal healthcare to 138,000 illegal immigrants
43. Newsom reinstated the Obamacare individual mandate requiring everyone to buy health insurance or face tax fines
44. Newsom signed an executive order that he would grant reprieves for all 737 death penalty murderers on California’s death row, calling the death penalty “ineffective, irreversible and immoral.”
45. During COVID, Gov. Newsom issued a nine different sets of re-opening plans, moving the state re-opening goalposts over and over again
46. Rampant and large scale pandemic unemployment assistance fraud was exposed November 2020 – upwards of $31 billion dollars in unemployment claims was fraudulently sent to prison inmates in California’s county jails, and state and federal prisons, out of state, and even out of the country, while legitimate claimants were been stiffed for months, or received late payments. Death row inmates, life and life without possibility of parole inmates, rapists, child molesters, human traffickers, and other violent criminals received California unemployment benefits
47. Governor Gavin Newsom’s 58 ‘COVID’ Related Executive Orders from March 4, 2020 to November 2020 – running the state as a dictator (never let a crisis go to waste)
48. Gov. Gavin Newsom Makes Hurried $1 Billion Deal With China’s BYD for Masks
49. In March of 2020, CA Gov. Gavin Newsom Ordered 40 Million Californians to Shelter at Home Over Coronavirus
50. When he was elected, Gov. Newsom, in January 2019, promised the world and a bag of chips to Californians.
    • Newsom’s campaign promises included:

• • • Universal healthcare for everyone, regardless of ability to pay, including immigrants in the country illegally
    • A “Marshall Plan” for affordable housing production of 3.5 million housing units over the next decade
    • A master plan for aging with dignity
    • A middle-class workforce strategy
    • A cradle-to-college promise
    • Universal pre-school
    • An all-hands approach to ending child poverty
    • “Audacious” and “bold” action on the homelessness crisis

Most recently, 51. While ‘Trump-Proofing’ CA, Gov. Gavin Newsom Asks Congress for $40 Billion in Fire Relief Funds: nearly two weeks after signing legislation to authorize $50 million to fund litigating the Trump administration over California’s un-American and unconstitutional leftist policies and laws, Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter Friday to Congress asking for $40 billion in fire relief funds.

and this: 52. Is California Driving Oil Biz Out of State to Takeover Oil Refineries?

53. Also remember that while the fires were still burning, Gov. Newsom said Jan 13th, on rebuilding Pacific Palisades, he has a team “looking at reimagining L.A. 2.0. We’re just starting to lay out. I mean, we’re still fighting these fires, so we’re already talking to city leaders. We’re already talking to civic leaders. We’re already talking to business leaders, with nonprofits. We’re talking to labor leaders.”

How many campaign promises do you remember? How many have been enacted? Do voters even want what Newsom promised then or promises now?