California Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Sept. 14 that he would not run for president in 2028 if former Vice President Kamala Harris decides to make another presidential bid.
“I don’t know if she runs, but we’ll see,” Newsom, a Democrat, told CNN anchor Jake Tapper in an interview. “I wouldn’t run if she ran.”
Newsom said that running against Harris, who became the Democratic presidential candidate during the 2024 election after then-President Joe Biden withdrew his bid, would be an electoral gift for their political opponents and “waste everyone’s time.”
“First of all, electorally, it’s a gift from God for everybody else. They’d enjoy the hell out of it. Mutual assured destruction. It services no greater good,” the governor said….