Gavin Newsom Sounds Like, Looks Like POTUS Candidate, But California Governor Tells Bill Maher There Aren’t “Any Grand Plans” On The Horizon

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“It’s why you’d be a good candidate, you play this game well,” Bill Maher told Gavin Newsom tonight on HBO with the savvy California Governor the latest 2028 contender to appear on Real Time this year. “Your future is not in California, your future is in Iowa,” Maher added later, asking Newsom to “dispense with the bullsh*t” and admit if he is running for President or not. “We need someone who’s going to be the champion.

Are you going to do it or not?” “I can’t stand the bullshit as well, and I mean that,” the two-term Democrat replied with apparent candor before pivoting. “So, look, but it’s not my purpose or passion.

It’s not my meaning. It’s not everything,” Newsom proclaimed. Newsom then pivoted again to make asking the question a case of missing the point. “I deeply respect that the question, but I don’t have any grand plans with respect to that,” the increasingly single-minded Governor told Maher. “I try to do best I can.

I also try to be accountable. By the way, you want things to change, you got to change. And that’s what the podcast is about.