Why (California Lt. Gov.) Gavin Newsom should run for president
Opinion by Bill Katovsky, San Francisco Chronicle, April 7 2015
If the Democratic Party really wants to hold on to the White House following President Obama’s exit, it needs to look past Hillary Rodham Clinton. The best hope for victory is California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Newsom hasn’t publicly expressed any interest in running for president in 2016. Instead, his eye is on becoming governor in 2019. Yet, if by some cosmic roll of the dice Newsom does decide to declare his candidacy for president, all this gauzy talk of Clinton’s inevitability and lock on the Democratic nomination will take a huge hit. Dare I say game-changer?
Voters love Clinton in liberal bastions such as the Bay Area, yet it’s doubtful if she will be able to inspire a passionate get-out-to-vote movement elsewhere. Female voters clearly have a strong affinity for Clinton, but younger voters will be leery of someone her age (she’s 67), who isn’t tech savvy and has a queasy relationship with e-mail and computer servers. Her resume is long and distinguished, though it’s wishful thinking to believe Clinton represents the nation’s future in the same sense that the Republican Party’s fresh crop of contenders — Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul — do for the GOP base.
Newsom wrote the book on how citizens can reshape their government in a digital age (“Citizenville” was published in 2013). In 2004, Newsom took a risky, courageous gamble with his political career when, as San Francisco mayor, he directed the city clerk’s office to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in defiance of state law. But Newsom’s political instincts were dead on then. It’s time for him to act boldly again.
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I think Hilary Clinton can win the White House in 2016, so I'm not in agreement with the premise here. But I can see Newsome running in 2024, especially if he serves as California's Governor.
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The Republicans have had many, many years to prepare their battle plans for a Hillary Clinton candidacy. I have no doubt they will pull out all the stops, legal and otherwise, to damage her beyond electability, imho.
Who knows, maybe her so far uncontested nomination fits their strategy and she's the candidate they want to run against.
