{"id":65888,"date":"2026-02-10T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/gavin-newsoms-likely-presidential-bid-is-built-on-broken-promises-gil-duran\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:57:24","slug":"gavin-newsoms-likely-presidential-bid-is-built-on-broken-promises-gil-duran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/gavin-newsoms-likely-presidential-bid-is-built-on-broken-promises-gil-duran\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom\u2019s likely presidential bid is built on broken promises | Gil Dur\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California governor has a record of failed pledges on housing, healthcare and more as he mistakes theatrics for leadership<\/p>\n<p>Gavin Newsom has stumbled upon the perfect slogan for his likely upcoming presidential campaign: \u201cStrong and Wrong.\u201d In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/gavin-newsom-feature\/685410\/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhQe_QhwHrH_NgmaKTtFrDSo&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\">interview<\/a>, California\u2019s governor said Americans prefer crude politicians like Donald Trump over leaders who cling to niceties and norms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the choice \u2026 the American people always support <em>strong and wrong<\/em> versus <em>weak and right<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Gil Dur\u00e1n is a California journalist and author of the forthcoming book<em> <\/em>The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War On Democracy. He was an adviser to several Democratic politicians<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/feb\/10\/gavin-newsom-presidential-candidate-democrats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California governor has a record of failed pledges on housing, healthcare and more as he mistakes theatrics for leadership Gavin Newsom has stumbled upon the perfect slogan for his likely upcoming presidential campaign: \u201cStrong and Wrong.\u201d In a recent interview, California\u2019s governor said Americans prefer crude politicians like Donald Trump over leaders who cling &#8230; <a title=\"Gavin Newsom\u2019s likely presidential bid is built on broken promises | Gil Dur\u00e1n\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/gavin-newsoms-likely-presidential-bid-is-built-on-broken-promises-gil-duran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gavin Newsom\u2019s likely presidential bid is built on broken promises | Gil Dur\u00e1n\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}