Governor Newsom has been tacking to the middle, hosting rightwing conservatives on his new podcast, and rather than challenging them, as he said he would, he is instead often agreeing with them, to the point of rewriting his own ideological history. That’s got many Democrats angry and many pundits scratching their heads, wondering if what he’s trying to do is moderate his own image so that he can shed his California liberal label and make himself more palatable to middle America, if he does indeed run for president. Meanwhile, Ro Khanna just went on a tour of 3 California Congressional districts represented by Republicans, places that Donald Trump won handily, to hold large, well-attended town halls in districts where the GOP incumbents are afraid to face their constituents and in fact have been told not to by their party leaders, to go into the lion’s den and position himself as a standard-bearer for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, a position that just a few months ago, Gavin Newsom seemed eager to occupy.
For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart spoke with KCBS Political Reporter Doug Sovern.
