Gov. Gavin Newsom's final State of the State address. (Photo: gov.ca.gov)
Newsom’s Presidential Ambitions Died in Davos
Newsom has presided over the annihilation of what was once the crown jewel of American prosperity—the Golden State
By Drew Allen, January 23, 2026 7:23 am
California now accounts for roughly one quarter of the nation’s homeless, more than any other state by far. Since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, $37 billion has been spent on homelessness programs—yet the homeless population has grown by roughly 20,000 people, not declined.
At the same time, according to U.S. Census data, California has suffered net domestic population losses every year since 2020—the first sustained population decline in state history. Between 2020 and 2023, more than 430,000 residents left the state, with over 250,000 leaving in 2024 alone, fleeing high taxes, housing costs, crime, and collapsing public services.
California now ranks last in the nation for affordability and opportunity, according to multiple national surveys. Using the federal government’s own Supplemental Poverty Measure, California posts the highest poverty rate in the United States, once cost of living is accounted for. Millions work full-time and still cannot afford rent, food, or utilities.
Even as gas prices fall across the country, Californians pay the highest prices in America—a self-inflicted wound driven by Sacramento’s taxes and regulatory excess.
Electricity costs rank near the top nationally.
Homeownership is out of reach for most young families. California’s median home price is roughly 2.5× the national average. With a median home price near $850,000, Californians now need well over $200,000 a year just to buy a modest home—in a state where the median household income is barely $90,000.
Public schools decline despite lavish spending. Newsom proudly touts California as the world’s fifth-largest economy—yet it ranks 37th out of 50 in K–12 education. And how much longer can Gavin Newsom expect California to remain the fifth largest economy?
As Sacramento flirts with a one-time billionaire wealth tax, high-profile residents and businesses have begun fleeing: Elon Musk moved Tesla and SpaceX operations to Texas, Larry Ellison relocated Oracle to Tennessee, Charles Schwab shifted headquarters to Texas, and investment capital continues to drain east.
Governor Newsom apparently could care less. In the final stretch of his governorship, he boarded a plane, paused his busy podcasting schedule, and traveled to the Swiss Alps to reprise a familiar routine—attacking President Trump on foreign soil at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
While California’s problems deepen at home, Newsom chose an international stage to audition for higher office. But that tone-deaf performance may have cost him his future presidential bid. His Presidential ambitions likely died in Davos.
In Davos, California Governor Gavin Newsom claimed that President Trump has done all he can to destroy 80+ years of alliances and partnerships. “That destruction,” Newsom said “is not strength.”
Prior to Trump, most NATO allies failed to meet even the 2% defense spending benchmark. Trump demanded they meet their obligations, and defense spending surged by hundreds of billions of dollars. Allies have since agreed to spending levels approaching 5% of GDP. How does Gavin Newsom arrive at the conclusion that strengthening NATO is “destruction”?
Trump didn’t weaken the alliance—he restored its credibility by ending decades of European freeloading and demanding shared responsibility.
While Gavin Newsom lectures the world about Trump’s destruction of alliances abroad, the California governor has presided over the annihilation of what was once the crown jewel of American prosperity—the Golden State.
Democrats have long denied that illegal aliens are awarded tax payer funded medicaid benefits. In Davos, Governor Newsom said he was “proud” to be “one of sixteen states to provide care to people regardless of their immigration status.”
Newsom, who asserted that “we’re losing our republic” under President Trump, proudly harbors millions of illegals and equated ICE agents with the Nazi SS.
Meanwhile, back home, California authorities have demonstrated no such restraint when dealing with their own citizens. During the COVID lockdowns, police in Santa Monica arrested solitary paddleboarders for violating emergency health orders—an image that captured the state’s governing philosophy perfectly: compassion without borders for illegal immigrants, and coercion without mercy for law-abiding Californians.
And who can forget Gavin Newsom’s infamous indoor dining spectacle at the French Laundry—one of the most expensive restaurants in the world—where the governor dined maskless with political insiders while his own constituents were barred from eating indoors, lost their livelihoods, and were threatened with fines and arrest for doing exactly what he was doing.
Newsom has repeatedly vowed to “Trump-proof” California even as the President’s policies have proven an objective success for the rest of America.
Axios just reported the lowest murder rate since 1900, down 20% since 2024. The U.S. economy just outperformed forecasts, showing 4.4% growth. More than a decade ago, in 2010, then-President Obama told Americans that the new normal was 2% growth.
Trump-proofing a state is synonymous with sabotaging a state. It means insulating California from falling crime, rising wages, energy abundance, border enforcement, and economic growth—while preserving the very policies that produced homelessness, flight, and decline.
It’s no wonder Gavin Newsom chose to attack President Trump on the world stage. When his own results are this bad at home, distraction becomes strategy. Davos offers applause without accountability, foreign approval without voter judgment, and ideology without consequences—precisely what California’s governor needs as the wreckage of his record becomes impossible to deny.
Davos was a disaster for Gavin Newsom and there his presidential ambitions likely died.
Allen is the author of For Christ and Country: the Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk and the host of 'The Drew Allen Show' podcast.
He is also a publicist for many of the most recognizable names in conservative politics. You can follow him at drewallen.substack.com
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I hope not! We need Gavin to help drag down the liberal democrat brand nationwide!
What I’m personally hoping for is watching him tangle with the DNC and then everything should go up in smoke for the whole bunch.
He is a poster child of liberal policy and government overreach gone bad! It’s going to be so much fun to watch him flame out!
Once the Golden Dome is completed NATO as currently constituted becomes a relic of a bygone era and needs to be ended so that the Europeans will be in charge of defending their own countries borders. America will continue to defend against the ICBM missiles. Governments by their very existence are clumsy and are not receptive to change.
The most significant revelation is Donald Trump is clearly a WEF Claus Schwab deciple.
Aww @Eye, you never disappoint with a keen observation coming from a slanted TDS viewpoint.
President Trump showed strength while Newsom came off unhinged and nervous.
Newsom was there only to antagonize and divide just as the communists commanded.
Eyeinthesky is delusional as always. President Trump was schooling those globalist scumbags on the MAGA agenda. The WEF globalist stooge is your master Hair-gel Hitler Newsom and showed up with his buddy Soros.
Eyeinthesky is a loser who is always whining about President Trump and who has a failed import company in Orange County that relies entirely on imported parts and components instead of domestic ones.
Claus Schwab mandated and secured the contrition of the top dog Trump.
While Trump is distracting you with his command performance at the WEF’s charade the value of the US dollar continues to plummet; now down almost 80% in value gold referenced during the past year to date alone: The US dollar toileting as the currency brokers call it.
No country has ever survived a currency collapse thus it may be appropriate for all to contemplate plan B when the US dollar inverts.
My stance not political rather hard math and facts.
Protect yourselves, your family and Friends.
Eyeinthesky is a dimwit who doesn’t even know that Klaus (not Claus) Schwab is no longer WEF’s Executive Chairman because he had to resign in April 2025 following whistleblower allegations and an internal investigation.
Eyeinthesky’s claim that the U.S. dollar has declined by almost 80% in value against gold over the past year is FALSE. While the dollar has weakened against gold over several years, a 80% decline in one year is NOT supported by the data. Since the abandonment of the gold standard in 1971, ALL global currencies have significantly declined in purchasing power relative to gold. There are NO countries on the planet that operate on a gold standard and no government ties its currency’s value directly to a fixed amount of gold or allows unlimited redemption of paper money for gold.
Many of us have well diversified financial portfolios that include precious metals.
Eyeinthesky would rather blame President Trump instead of taking responsibility for Eyeinthesky’s personal failures.
No, I don’t think Gavin will give up any time soon. He is way too much of an Evil Globalist and egomaniac Narcissist TYRANT to give up any power at all. Don’t underestimate him. He also used to be a Young Global Leader for the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM and if especially SOROS is backing him, don’t expect him to go away.
And when he approves of Minneapolis and calls ICE or anybody trying to arrest and send Illegal Aliens-especially dangerous ones-back to their own nations as nothing but NAZIS and GOONS, we have to be very Wary of this evil man or any else like him.
Hmm, what was his own behavior during his own Nazi TYRANNY with the Covid-19 LOCKDOWN?
If anybody was a GOON and TYRANT, he was the absolute epitome of a NAZI GOON and TYRANT.
And I was looking at other websites today and all those who are Hell bent on Protecting Illegal Aliens & Somali Criminals and Robbers on a grand scale and domestic Career Criminals are
DEADLY ENEMIES of the USA and are absolutely determined to DESTROY the USA.
And whether they know it or not,
They are helping the GLOBALISTS get their 1-WORLD-ORDER GOVERNMENT.
If that happens, if they really think ICE and TRUMP and the Right Wing are nothing but NAZI-FASCIST GOONS now, just wait for that GLOBAL GOVERNMENT to fully form. Then, they’ll be RULED by real Nazi-Goon TYRANTS.
Who want 95-98 Percent of Humanity DEAD and the GLOBALISTS will show NO MERCY to anyone.
Is that the world the Leftist fools and useful idiots really want to bring in?
Hmm, GAVIN NEWSOM again: apparently at the WEF (World Economic Forum) Meeting, GAVIN made fun of BOVINO for wearing an SS Style Trench Coat. Gavin also claimed Trump turned the BP into a MASKED SECRET SERVICE and Private Army.
Again, didn’t GAVIN behave just like a NAZI GOON when enforcing his own Covid-19 Lockdown TYRANNY? And look at all the MASKS we were FORCED to Wear. I hated them with a passion.
Yet he had no problem keeping his own business open when he closed down other small businesses.
And he certainly had no issues of Social Distancing and Gatherings at the FRENCH LAUNDRY, the Getty Wedding or other places he wasn’t caught.
If anybody is a NAZI goon TYRANT, a perfect example is GAVIN NEWSOM who should look in the mirror before he accuses anyone else of such behavior.
And for the life of me, I don’t know why George SOROS and his son Alexander who’s behind a lot of ANTIFA and BLM hasn’t had ALL of their NGOs all shut down permanently and they’re NOT in JAIL yet?!!? And all these CHURCHES other organizations that use 501c3 and the like are NOT SHUT DOWN? All these CLERGY-CHURCHES Who support and push ILLEGAL ALIENS should all be in jail! Why on earth to they want to Deliberately ENDANGER their own Fellow USA CITIZENS? I also don’t know why BIDEN who said to SURGE the BORDERS upon MY ELECTION and Kamala Harris is not in prison or the former DHS Head ALEJANDRO MAYORKIS who actually went to PANAMA and the DARIEN GAP to help ILLEGAL ALIENS. If that isn’t TREASON, I don’t know what is. Also what all the BUSINESSES like HOTELS, Restaurants etc who Knowingly HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS! no small wonder they’re giving ICE AGENTS a bad time. These businesses must be shut down and they’re owners IN JAIL and are NEVER ALLOWED to run a business again including being on a board or some Chamber of Commerce somewhere. heck, even a KENNEL WORKER had a sign on a DOG kennel saying ICE OUT and DO NOT FEED. Again, why are these people so Desperate to help ILLEGAL ALIENS and leave our BORDERS Dangerously Wide Open? And a lot of these SANCTUARY CITY and STATE mayors and Governors must be arrested and in JAIL. That includes GAVIN NEWSOM, Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor JACOB FREY! and before I forget, the LAWYERS who defend ILLEGAL ALIENS who should be Deported. Sorry for being so long-winded.
Last comment for the night. For all the dummy WHITE MALES who defend ILLEGAL ALIENS, you should be aware of the PLAN de SAN DIEGO. One of those plans was to KILL every White male 16 and over. There’s also the PLAN de AZTLAN to take back USA Territory from California to Texas and Colorado areas. That’s a huge area. And I don’t know much Spanish, muy Mal, but I did learn this one. POR la RAZA TODO, Fuera de la RAZA NADA. That means, For the Race Everything, For those Outside the Race, NOTHING. hmm, that sounds very RAZA or RACIST to me.