Commentary
Almost every California governor or senator looks longingly at the White House. According to biographer Ian Halperin, even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did so and was planning a national movement to excise the Constitution’s requirement that the president be born in the United States.
So at this point in his carefully planned career, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s every action is aimed 2,730 miles east—if he drives from his Capitol office in Sacramento on the I-80 freeway in a Tesla to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. He has said he won’t run in 2024 if President Biden seeks reelection. But Biden is old and might not run. And there’s always 2028, when Newsom will be just 61 on Election Day….