Gavin Newsom: “2025 has been a remarkable year, ending with the success of…”

“Why am I doing it? Why am I working this job for a boss I hate? For wages that are only okay? I'm never gonna get another step It goes without saying, 2025 has been a remarkable year, ending with the success of campaigns for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, the success of Proposition 50, a young, new dynamic mayor in New York City. But it didn't start out that way. The National Guard being federalized, ICE agents, masked men going out in streets all across the United States of America.” (08:40–08:53)

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