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Gov. Gavin Newsom is launching his first television ad of the general election on Monday, but not in California. The ad will air thousands of miles away, in Florida, further fueling speculation that he wants to run for president — or, at a minimum, to troll the state’s Republican leaders.
In the ad, Newsom contrasts the policies in California and Florida while images flash of former President Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis, potential 2024 presidential candidates.
“Freedom, it’s under attack in your state. Republican leaders, they’re banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms, even criminalizing women and doctors,” Newsom says in the 30-second spot. “I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight, or join us in California, where we still believe in freedom — freedom of speech, freedom to choose, freedom from hate and the freedom to love.”
Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign is spending about $105,000 to air the ad on Fox News stations around the state, according to AdImpact, a firm that tracks political advertisements.
The size of the buy is a pittance for the governor, whose reelection campaign had more than $23 million as of May 21, according to the latest filings with the California secretary of state’s office. Newsom is heavily favored in the fall election over his conservative Republican challenger, state Sen. Brian Dahle.
The move, which was rolled out on CNN on Sunday, appears designed to draw national media attention. After Newsom tweeted the ad and the media began running stories, it had been viewed 1.4 million times on Twitter and 90,000 times on YouTube as of Sunday evening.
Newsom, 54, has denied that he wants to run for president, but many political experts are skeptical, particularly considering the speculation about President Biden’s plans to seek reelection.
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Gavin Newsom may well be the next President with his fabulously insightful and devastatingly effective new TV Ad in favor of:
Freedom, Freedom to Choose, Freedom from Hate, and Freedom to LOVE.
Gavin must have been having a ‘Vulcan Mind-Meld’ with me — because I have been repeatedly commenting here in “these ‘Times’ they are a-changing” progressively, and with my newest democratic socialist demonstration-signs from January of 2022, that the “long arc of history bends” slowly but toward the progressive era that brilliant socialist Henry Wallace, FDR’s VP, tried to start in 1944.
Now, ‘we the American people’ have to catch-up with reality.
My double-sided signs simply say exactly what Gavin Newsom is running on; “Freedom, Freedom to Choose, Freedom from Hate, and Freedom to LOVE.”
LOVE OVER
MONEY, POWER
HATE & EMPIRE
GROW LOVE
END EMPIRE
Gov. Hairdo got a call from Aunt Nancy P. She tells him “look Gavin, we all know President Joe is a failure. I see an opening here. We need you to start trolling the electorate. Start in Florida. It’s a state that is run much better then California. Let’s just lie a whole bunch and see what happens.” There you go, that’s the plan. Hairdo is running because Aunt Nancy secretly knows what we all know. Joe Biden is a huge failure.