Gavin Newsom: “We became a foster family.”

“You know, she was 19 years old, she's pregnant with me a couple years later, she's raising us on her own. She came from no money, no wealth, she was just hustling. We had roommates all the time. We became a foster family. which I talk about a little bit in the book and how she just made ends meet. And that sense of resiliency and that grit, that hard work, that ethic was the greatest gift.” (03:40–03:43)

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