California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), a protege of fabulously wealthy Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), called the 2026 midterm results a "historic rebuke" of Dummkopf Trumpf and said he would decide in Jan 2027 whether or not he would run for POTUS in 2028. The governor of one of the largest economies in the world recently commuted the death sentences of convicts in California, albeit at the end of his second term. One wonders what took Gov Newsom so long to make that easy decision. The face of the Democratic Party and opposition to the Republicans should have been telegenic smooth-talking Gavin Newsom, but somehow that role fell to a newcomer, the principled and handsome Mayor of NYC, Zohran Mamdani (D).

Slickster Gavin Newsom has been described as the "ranking weather vane" of the Democratic Party.