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Gavin Newsom

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Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the 40th governor of California, a position he has held since January 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Newsom previously served as the mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and as the lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019. His tenure as governor has been marked by significant policy initiatives, including efforts to address climate change, housing affordability, and healthcare reform.

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Jan 13, 2022

Sirhan, one man with a gun, acting alone, inflicted grievous harm to our country.

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Jan 13, 2022

Sirhan is now 77 years old but he remains a potent symbol of political violence.

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Nov 23, 2021

These people need to be held to account. We need to investigate these crimes, we need to break up these crime rinks. And we need to make an example out of this folks.

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Oct 5, 2021

Well, as governor of California, let me do what apparently Manhattan Beach is unwilling to do and I want to apologize to the Bruce family for the injustice that was done to them a century ago.

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Oct 3, 2021

I have four young kids. I can't take this anymore. I'm like most parents. I want to get this behind us, get this economy moving again.

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Oct 1, 2021

I`m absolutely convinced this will be catalytic. We`re changing the dynamic of the debate in terms of rights and wrongs.

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Sep 30, 2021

I have four young kids. I can't take this anymore. I'm like most parents. I want to get this behind us, get this economy moving again.

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Sep 16, 2021

What I`m saying here is be affirmative. Don`t be timid. Lean in because at the end of the day, it`s not just about the formal authority of setting the tone and tenor on vaccines and masks, but it`s the moral authority that we have, that…

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Sep 15, 2021

I think about just in the last few days, and the former President put out saying this election was rigged. Democracy is not a football. You don’t throw it around. It’s more like, I don’t know, antique vase. You can drop it and it smashes…

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Sep 15, 2021

Democrats, there`s good politics in doing the right thing on public health. It`s a 75 percent issue. Go for it, be tough.

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Sep 15, 2021

Yes, it`s true that we played the Trump card that Larry Elder was caricature bill as he kind of Donald Trump, maybe Donald Trump here in California.

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Sep 14, 2021

I just want to say this, tonight I’m humbled, grateful, but resolved in the spirit of my political hero, Robert Kennedy, to make more gentle the life of this world.

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Sep 14, 2021

I said this many, many times on the campaign trail, you know, we may have defeated Trump, but Trump ism is not dead in this country. The big lie, the January 6 insurrection, all the voting suppression efforts that are happening all across…

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Sep 14, 2021

But no is not the only thing that was expressed tonight. I want to focus on what we said yes to as a state. We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic. We said yes to people’s right to vote without…

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Sep 14, 2021

I have the backs of every Californians, even those who voted for this recall because I care about them.

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Sep 14, 2021

We may have defeated Trump, but Trumpism is not dead in this country.

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Sep 13, 2021

Whether I win or lose, I will accept the results of the election.

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Sep 13, 2021

Full stop, period, whether I win or lose, I will accept the results of the election.

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Sep 13, 2021

We may have defeated Donald Trump but we have not defeated Trumpism. Trumpism is still on the ballot in California. And that’s why it’s so important. Not just for all of us here 40 million Americans strong in the nation’s largest and most…

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Sep 13, 2021

Social Justice is on the ballot tomorrow night. Economic justice is on the ballot tomorrow tonight.

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Sep 13, 2021

We defeated Trump, but we haven`t defeated Trumpism. And I want folks to know that`s what`s really behind this recall.

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Sep 13, 2021

We may have defeated Donald Trump, but we have not defeated Trumpism. Trumpism is still on the ballot in California.

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Sep 13, 2021

Larry Elder who calls it a myth. Larry Elder who says his solution to the climate issue is more offshore oil drilling off the coast of Long Beach.

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Sep 13, 2021

Racial justice is on the ballot tomorrow night. Economic justice is on the ballot tomorrow night. Social justice is on the ballot tomorrow night.

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