{"id":366469,"date":"2025-11-09T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366469\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:36:13","slug":"newsom-appears-onstage-at-texas-rally-to-celebrate-prop-50-victory-take-swipes-at-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366469\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom appears onstage at Texas rally to celebrate Prop. 50 victory, take swipes at Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom strode onstage in Houston on Saturday to a cheering crowd of Texas Democrats, saying Proposition 50\u2019s victory in California on election day<\/a> was a win for the nation and a firm repudiation of President Trump.<\/p>\n

Newsom possessed the air of a politician running for president at the boisterous rally, a possibility the California governor says he is considering \u2014 and the location he chose was not happenstance. <\/p>\n

Newsom accused Trump of pressuring Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to rejigger the state\u2019s congressional districts with the goal of sending more Republicans to Congress, an action that triggered California\u2019s Proposition 50. Newsom successfully pushed for a special election on the ballot measure to counter the efforts in Texas, which the governor said wasan attempt by Trump and the Republicans to \u201crig\u201d the 2026 midterm election.<\/p>\n

Cheers erupted from the friendly, union-hall crowd when Newsom belittled Trump as an \u201cinvasive species\u201d and a \u201chistorically unpopular president.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOn every issue, on the economy, on terrorists, on immigration, on healthcare, [he\u2019s a] historically unpopular president, and he knows it, and he knows it,\u201d Newsom said. \u201cWhy else did he make that call to your governor? Why else did he feel the need to rig the election before even one vote was cast? That\u2019s just weakness, weakness masquerading as strength. That\u2019s Donald Trump, and he had a very bad night on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsom was the main political force <\/a>behind Proposition 50, which California voters overwhelmingly approved in Tuesday\u2019s special election. The statewide ballot measure was an attempt to counter Trump\u2019s push to get Republican-led states, most notably Texas, to redraw their electoral maps to keep Democrats from gaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms and upending his agenda. Newsom and California Democrats hope the change will net an additional five Democrats in California\u2019s congressional delegation, canceling out any gains in Texas. <\/p>\n

Newsom thanked Texas Democrats for putting up a fight against the redistricting effort in their state, saying it inspired an uprising.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s dawning on people, all across the United States of America, what\u2019s at stake,\u201d Newsom told the crowd. \u201cAnd you put a stake in the ground. People are showing up. I don\u2019t believe in crowns, thrones. No kings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsom\u2019s trip to Texas comes as the former San Francisco mayor has been openly flirting with a 2028 run for president. In a recent interview with \u201cCBS News Sunday Morning,\u201d Newsom was asked whether he would give \u201cserious thought\u201d after the 2026 midterms to a White House bid. <\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I\u2019d be lying otherwise,\u201d Newsom replied. \u201cI\u2019d just be lying. And I\u2019m not \u2014 I can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July, Newsom flew to South Carolina, <\/a>a state that traditionally hosts the South\u2019s first presidential primary. He said he wanted to help his party win back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026. But South Carolina is a solidly conservative state and did not appear to have a single competitive race.<\/p>\n

During that trip, South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black member of Congress and renowned Democratic kingmaker, told The Times that Newsom would be \u201ca hell of a candidate.\u201d Newsom received similar praise \u2014 and encouragement \u2014 when he was introduced at the \u201cTake It Back\u201d rally in Houston.<\/p>\n

Newsom now heads to Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, where representatives from 200 nations are gathering to kick off the annual United Nations climate policy summit. For Newsom, it\u2019s a golden opportunity to appear on a world stage and sell himself and California as the antidote to Trump and his attacks on climate change policy.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The Trump administration this year canceled funding for major clean energy projects such as California\u2019s hydrogen hub and moved to revoke the state\u2019s long-held authority to set stricter vehicle emissions standards than the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Gavin Newsom strode onstage in Houston on Saturday to a cheering crowd of Texas Democrats, saying Proposition…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":366470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[276,93619,51,4345,79976,50,3435,177264,1807,115315,3036,290,177265,76449,177263,52,277,3355],"class_list":{"0":"post-366469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-governor","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-midterm-election","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newsom","15":"tag-onstage","16":"tag-president-trump","17":"tag-proposition","18":"tag-south-carolina","19":"tag-state","20":"tag-swipe","21":"tag-texas-democrats","22":"tag-texas-rally","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-trump","25":"tag-victory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115518831542868045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}