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Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom (born 1967) is an American Democratic politician who has been Governor of California since 2019, after serving as Lieutenant Governor from 2011 to 2019 and Mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.

Born
1967 (58 years), San Francisco
Party
Democratic Party
Office
Governor of California 2019–
Education
Santa Clara University
Website
gavinnewsom.com
Political position

Centre-left · Where sources place the party (Democratic Party)
Wikipedia: centre to centre-left (Democratic Party)
Ideology: liberalism

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He is listed as a potential candidate for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

Career

Newsom sat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1997 to 2004 and was mayor from 2004 to 2011, elected in 2003 and 2007. He was elected lieutenant governor in 2010 and 2014, and governor in 2018 and 2022. In the 2021 recall election 62 percent voted to keep him. In 2025 he developed Proposition 50, a measure responding to Texas's mid-decade redistricting.

Offices held
  1. Governor of California 2019–
  2. Lieutenant Governor of California 2011–2019
  3. Mayor of San Francisco 2004–2011

Source: Wikidata

Positions

Wikipedia describes him as more moderate than almost every Democratic state legislator in California and says he identifies as a centrist Democrat, though some opponents labelled him conservative during his mayoral race.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia

Photo: Charles Ommanney – Office of the Governor of California, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

  1. Gavin Newsom 8%
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Presidential Election Winner 2028

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
JD Vance20%
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezLeft3613%
Jon OssoffCentre-left3910%
Gavin NewsomCentre-left588%
Marco RubioRight556%
Kamala Harris4%
Josh ShapiroCentre-left533%
Ron DeSantisRight483%
Pete ButtigiegCentre-left443%
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson542%
Tucker CarlsonRight572%
Andy Beshear482%

All 54 outcomes

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