Gavin Newsom Supports Joe Biden Amid 2024 Replacement Calls

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was as soon as the topic of significant chatter relating to a attainable however in the end not pursued major problem to President Joe Biden this yr, is throwing his full assist behind the president and his reelection marketing campaign after he delivered a debate efficiency this week that was inflicting a “five-alarm freakout” amongst Democrats in its speedy aftermath.  

After Thursday evening’s debate between Biden and Donald Trump, the place the president had a number of gaffes and stumbles as the talk started, trailed off at factors and blended up and missed phrases, Newsom appeared throughout MSNBC’s post-debate protection whereas on-line — and presumably even behind closed doorways with Democrats — the chatter about him changing Biden on the ticket returned with drive — sufficient to make the governor a trending subject on X (previously Twitter) on Friday. Newsom, nonetheless, rapidly sought to silence speak of this type of eleventh-hour swap, because the governor, whereas talking with Alex Wagner, was unwavering in his assist of the president.

“You don’t flip your again due to one efficiency,” Newsom mentioned, seemingly addressing his fellow Democrats. “What sort of social gathering does that? This president has delivered. We have to ship for him at this second.”

On Friday, Newsom’s X feed appeared nearly akin to an official assault canine account centered solely on Trump, with quite a few clips of the governor slamming Trump within the MSNBC interview and a retweet from the “Biden-Harris HQ” account that includes a spry Biden after the talk slamming the previous president for his quite a few lies on the stage. The tweet reads, “Biden: Trump is a liar. They will be on the market fact-checking the entire issues that he mentioned. I can not consider one factor he mentioned that was true. We’re going to beat this man.”

Within the clips with MSNBC’s Wagner, Newsom goes on to declare that Biden gained Thursday evening’s debate and zeroes in on the shortage of “truthiness” in Trump’s many false claims. In a single tweet with a video clip from the interview, the governor writes: “Donald Trump is a serial liar who’s chargeable for rape victims being pressured to hold their abuser’s youngster to time period.

“He gained the talk. I’m old style, old school. That’s what issues to me,” Newsom advised Wagner within the embedded clip, relating to Biden’s efficiency. In the meantime, Biden himself on Friday appeared to acknowledge his poor debate efficiency, saying, “I don’t debate in addition to I used to. … I understand how to do that job. I understand how to get issues completed.”

Again on MSNBC, he coupled the reward for Biden with a barrage of pictures at Trump.

“I used to be taking notes about all of the lies. I ran out of paper. Donald Trump has no accountability on these lies, speaking down the American financial system, speaking down our democracy. That was alarming,” he advised Wagner in a clip embedded right into a tweet. 

“It is a world we’re dwelling in now that Donald Trump created, the place 13-year-olds should ship the kid of the person who impregnated them,” he added, referring to the Supreme Courtroom majority, together with three Trump-appointed justices, overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional proper to abortion within the U.S. “It is a world that Donald Trump has created. And so, for me, it was daylight and darkness, and I’m very pleased with the president’s document, and I’m very pleased with his imaginative and prescient of the longer term.”