He\u2019s the Democratic politician with movie-star looks and a picture-perfect family, dogged by accusations of being a smooth\u2011talking elitist. Can he really unite the American left and win the most powerful office in the world?<\/p>\n
When you think of the politician Donald Trump\u00a0isn\u2019t, when you think of the norm he broke, the archetype he shattered, you might well picture a\u00a0man who looks a\u00a0lot like Gavin Newsom. Tall and handsome, hair coiffed just so, with a blond wife and four photogenic kids at his side, Newsom, who has been the governor of California since 2019 and is often described as the frontrunner to be the Democratic nominee for the White House in 2028<\/a>, looks the way professional politicians, and especially presidential candidates, look in the movies.<\/p>\n It\u2019s dogged Newsom for years, that look of his, perennially suggesting that he is, in the words of one California newspaper, \u201ctoo ambitious, too slickly handsome, and too patrician-seeming\u201d<\/a>, especially for a populist age that cherishes the authentic and has no truck with anything either phoney or \u201celite\u201d. The elite tag especially has hung around Newsom\u2019s neck for decades, thanks to the fact that his ascent to the top of California politics has seemed smooth and unbroken, apparently eased by a childhood spent in the orbit of the Getty family, when that name was a byword for astronomical wealth.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He\u2019s the Democratic politician with movie-star looks and a picture-perfect family, dogged by accusations of being a smooth\u2011talking elitist. Can he really unite the American left and win the most powerful office in the world? When you think of the politician Donald Trump\u00a0isn\u2019t, when you think of the norm he broke, the archetype he shattered, … 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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67591","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=67591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}