Gavin Newsom: “Last January, something shifted in me and that was the fires…”

“If I felt that I could differentiate myself, that if I felt that I offered something unique that no one else was offering. Last January, something shifted in me and that was the fires down in LA and how Donald Trump weaponized and Elon Musk weaponized, the lies, the misrepresentation. at a scale I had never experienced. And I was on my heels and I needed to get on my toes. I was experiencing something I was not prepared for.” (32:47–33:01)

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