{"id":58746,"date":"2025-07-23T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/swing-state-democratic-strategists-arent-sold-on-gavin-newsom\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T23:30:18","slug":"swing-state-democratic-strategists-arent-sold-on-gavin-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/swing-state-democratic-strategists-arent-sold-on-gavin-newsom\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing state Democratic strategists aren\u2019t sold on Gavin Newsom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom won over South Carolina\u2019s political heavyweights on his buzzy tour of the state this month. But in swing states, his potential presidential candidacy could be more of a liability, Democratic strategists say. \u201cThe thing that the electorate wants right now is authenticity, not necessarily agreement, and that\u2019s what Gavin Newsom is missing,\u201d said Fred Hicks, an Atlanta-based Democratic strategist. \u201cHe does not feel authentic.\u201d South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn praised Newsom on the stump in early July \u2014 in what strategists theorized was an early attempt at shaping the outcome of the 2028 Democratic nomination. Clyburn\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/swing-state-democratic-strategists-arent-sold-on-california-governor-gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom won over South Carolina\u2019s political heavyweights on his buzzy tour of the state this month. But in swing states, his potential presidential candidacy could be more of a liability, Democratic strategists say. \u201cThe thing that the electorate wants right now is authenticity, not necessarily agreement, and that\u2019s what Gavin Newsom is &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}