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Mark Z. Barabak: Can Gavin Newsom kinda but not really run for president and still do his job as California governor?

Nancy Skinner, D- Berkeley, right– as he speaks before signing a bill at the Capitol on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, aimed at addressing gas price gouging.

He ran TV ads taunting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and raised billboards in seven states telling women that California would defend their access to abortion.

He lashed out at fellow Democrats for being insufficiently incandescent in their rage over the Supreme Court's impending reversal of Roe v. Wade. "Where the hell is my party?" Gavin Newsom demanded.

Then, just last week, California's gallivanting governor announced the formation of a nationally focused political action committee, accompanied by all the trappings of a budding White House bid:

A fundraising blitz.

A launch video ablaze, , — whom Democrats love to loathe.

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