Gavin Newsom: Beyond the Stereotypes

0:00From the Daily News Now Network, this is Corey with UK News Today, brought to you by NordVPN. If you use public, Wi-Fi, or care about your privacy online, NordVPN helps keep you here. Connection. Secure across all your devices. Links in the episode description. Gavin Newsom, California's governor since 2019, often gets pegged as the slick, elite Democrat with movie star looks in a perfect family. But his new memoir paints a different picture, one that busts those stereotypes and positions him as a potential frontrunner for the 20, 28 presidential nomination. Growing up, Newsom hung around the ultra wealthy Getty family through his dad's job, enjoying private jets and fancy trips, yet his own family scraped. Buy, without real riches. Alcoholism and depression plagued relatives, including his mom and grandfather, who struggled after being a prisoner of war. Here dyslexia hit Newsom hard in school, leaving him bullied and feeling dumb, but it forced

1:01him to build grit and emotional smarts. He reads by underlining and rewriting everything, skips, scripts, and speeches for that authentic feel, and outbursts everyone with endless prep. He built a successful wine business called Plum Jack right out of college, then jumped into San Francisco politics, legalizing same-sex marriages as, mayor in 2004, and pushing moderate fixes for homelessness. Finally, his podcast chats with conservatives sparked left-wing backlash, but he won big on a redistricting ballot measure last fall. Newsom mixes fierce anti-Trump fights, with calls to bridge divides. Drawing from personal shifts amid recent clashes like wildfires in National Guard, deployments. Prepared and undefeated, he's eyeing a run if democracy needs a fighter who gets the nuances.