Gavin Newsom: “They didn't say it when I talked to Charlie Kirk and said…”

“Right wingers and on Twitter and Fox News hosts and some even Republican elected officials have said that's racist. I mean, what goes through your head when you saw that commentary sort of building and bubbling on. Well, They didn't say it when I talked to Charlie Kirk and said the exact same thing or the dozens and dozens of other occasions where I said exactly the same thing. It was a hell of a statement, particularly from people that have been countenance rac racism in their party for decades. The same pundits, Sean Hannity, let's call them out by name, that didn't say one word.” (04:38–04:46)

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