These times were strange enough. The liberal Democrat — the leader in the headquarters of the Resistance — has taken to singing Trump’s praises, and he even used the Republican president’s campaign slogan Thursday: “Promise made, promise kept,” he said, thanking Trump for sending California testing
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — These times were strange enough. And then California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump started getting along.
It's a odd twist for a relationship that had largely been defined by long-distance combat. But it may prove to be savvy politics as Newsom works to get California's nearly 40 million residents what they need from a president with a history of responding to flattery. Even a state as economically and politically powerful as California — a “nation-state," at Newsom calls it — needs help from the federal government.
“The person who is hit most by this isn’t Newsom, isn't the other governors — it’s Biden,” Groeling said. “It's extremely persuasive, it's extremely credible that saying these things about Trump. It's damaging to the Biden campaign's attempt to set out a contrary narrative.” It's all helped him win praise for his response. California hasn't seen the surge in deaths that other states like New York have faced, and its rate of hospitalizations and infections is flattening.
Plenty of Newsom's counterparts have opted to take a tougher tact. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee recently accused Trump of “fomenting domestic rebellion and spreading lies.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, another Democratic stronghold, said last week that trusting the Trump administration to provide reliable information was a mistake he wouldn’t make twice.
When 2020 began, Newsom appeared prepared for another year of robust jousting with the administration. Last December, he tweeted out a cartoon video depicting himself in a go-kart race with Trump.
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