{"id":72045,"date":"2026-04-17T17:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/newsom-pac-bought-thousands-of-memoir-copies-about-his-hardships-juicing-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:55:17","slug":"newsom-pac-bought-thousands-of-memoir-copies-about-his-hardships-juicing-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/newsom-pac-bought-thousands-of-memoir-copies-about-his-hardships-juicing-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom PAC bought thousands of memoir copies about his hardships, juicing sales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>\u2019s political action committee spent more than $1.5 million buying thousands of copies of his new memoir \u2014 accounting for about two-thirds of all copies sold nationwide \u2014 according to campaign finance filings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The PAC spending helped propel Newsom\u2019s memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” onto the New York Times bestseller list and is raising new scrutiny as his national profile builds ahead of a possible 2028 presidential run.<\/a><\/p>\n

In\u00a0November, the Campaign for Democracy Committee launched a book campaign<\/a> asking donors to contribute any amount to the PAC to receive the memoir when it was released on Feb. 24. Newsom spokesperson Nathan Click told the New York Times that the PAC bought about 67,000 copies\u2014representing a substantial portion of the 97,400 total sold.<\/p>\n

“We were thrilled with the response,” Click told the New York Times<\/a>. “Our goal was to deepen the relationship between him and the millions of folks who have already expressed support for Governor Newsom\u2019s work.”<\/p>\n

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The PAC made two payments totaling over $1.5 million to Porchlight Book Company, according to a FEC filing<\/a> posted on Wednesday and reviewed by Fox News Digital. The governor will not receive royalties from the books sold through the campaign, the New York Times reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When asked about the book’s ranking on the best seller list, a New York Times spokesperson explained the outlet places a dagger symbol on the list to indicate when a book’s ranking has been influenced by a bulk purchase.<\/p>\n

“When The Times has reason to believe that sales of a book include a mix of organic and bulk sales, the book’s best-seller ranking is accompanied by a dagger. That’s what we did with the Newsom book,” <\/i>Nicole Taylor, spokesperson for The Times, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Newsom but did not immediately reply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Book promotion is common among politicians, but Newsom\u2019s PAC spending outpaces similar political committee purchases. The Republican National Committee, for example, spent about $100,000 in 2019 purchasing Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s book, the New York Times noted in its report. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Newsom\u2019s memoir is focused on the challenges he faced in his upbringing, addressing his battle with dyslexia and having divorced parents, as well as his political career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newsom’s book tour, which included visiting cities across the nation, drew criticism from conservatives for the Democrat governor allegedly putting himself over leading California.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chairwoman of the California Republican Party<\/a> Corrin Rankin told Fox Digital, in response to the book campaign, she believes Newsom is trying to “rebrand his national image” while abandoning issues at home, as recent data underscores ongoing challenges in the state.<\/p>\n

Social media commenters have not shied away from mocking Newsom over the book sales, including Republican California gubernatorial candidate and former Fox News host Steve Hilton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Gavin Newsom\u2019s \u2018bestseller\u2019 memoir just got the ultimate California treatment: his PAC dropped $1.56 million of donor cash to buy 67,000 free copies and mail them to anyone who donated any amount,” Hilton posted to X on Thursday<\/a>. “That\u2019s two-thirds of all print sales. Nothing says \u2018Young Man in a Hurry\u2019 like rigging your own book numbers with political slush funds while California burns.”<\/p>\n

Newsom is considered a top potential 2028 presidential candidate for the Democrat Party, though he has not confirmed whether he will officially throw his hat in the ring.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s political action committee spent more than $1.5 million buying thousands of copies of his new memoir \u2014 accounting for about two-thirds of all copies sold nationwide \u2014 according to campaign finance filings.\u00a0 The PAC spending helped propel Newsom\u2019s memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry,” onto the New York Times bestseller … 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-72045","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\/72045","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=72045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}