California Gov. Gavin Newsom steps up for President Biden amid campaign challenges, rallying Democrats in key states instead of focusing on his own state's woes.
President Biden’s inability to energetically campaign has pushed surrogates such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom into extra work rallying for the president — as he faces mounting pressure from his base to drop out — instead of focusing on his own state's woes.
Our budget's upside down. We have businesses leaving California. You can't afford to live here, and so those are all things that obviously we need to work on here, and he's not here to work on those,' Dahle said. Last month, the state's Democrat-dominated legislature passed a controversial budget package intended to close an estimated $46.8 billion deficit which Republicans say they were largely left out of.
After Biden's lackluster performance during the debate against former President Trump last month, Newsom was present and assured reporters in the spin room that he remained firmly behind Biden. 'I will never turn my back on President Biden,' Newsom said Thursday in a comment that appeared designed to dispel rumors that he's running a shadow campaign. 'I don't know a Democrat in my party that would do so. And especially after tonight, we have his back.
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