LAURA INGRAHAM, FOX NEWS: And I think if California were run well, Mollie, Newsom should be a shoo-in. I mean, it’s a massive state with a giant economy, one of the largest economies in the world of any countries in the world. But of course, the record in California is a nightmare, he’s a nightmare, and so I don’t see how that’s going to fly at all.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, THE FEDERALIST: Well, Laura, the thing that he has to his advantage, that Gavin Newsom has to his advantage is even though he has a horrible track record of governing California, he still has the large institutional media willing to lie about that track record. And that is a serious advantage that most Democrats have. And Gavin Newsom, you know, I actually find Hunter Biden, for all of his problems with the law and corruption, to be kind of an interesting pundit about the Democrat Party.
And he does identify Gavin Newsom as what he thinks is their strongest candidate. Well, there is this thing that Gavin Newsom has where he stands apart even from most politicians who have trouble telling the truth. Gavin Newsom is almost a sociopath in how willing he is to lie from moment to moment about anything in order to gain advantage.
I think that’s actually a strength in politics. It’s not a good thing, nobody should emulate this, but it might help him in a crowded Democrat primary.
