{"id":1737362,"date":"2022-11-14T00:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T05:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737362"},"modified":"2022-11-14T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:37:54","slug":"the-hill-explains-how-democrats-could-propel-gavin-newsom-to-the-presidency-no-vote-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-hill-explains-how-democrats-could-propel-gavin-newsom-to-the-presidency-no-vote-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hill Explains How Democrats Could Propel Gavin Newsom To The Presidency, No Vote Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-hill-explains-how-democrats-could-propel-gavin-newsom-to-the-presidency-no-vote-necessary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737362&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Hill published a possible plan that could propel California Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> (D) directly to the presidency, passing by Vice President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, without it ever coming to a vote before the American people.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/3728474-heres-a-game-plan-biden-replaces-harris-with-newsom-and-then-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan<\/a> was outlined by former Pentagon and White House official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/authors\/Douglas-MacKinnon\/75407929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Douglas MacKinnon<\/a> \u2014 who worked under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush in the eighties and early nineties \u2014 and it earned an enthusiastic thumbs down from <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fivethirtyeight<\/a>\u00a0statistician Nate Silver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe competition is fierce but this is a top 5 worst political take of all time,\u201d Silver <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateSilver538\/status\/1591494942244962306\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The plan MacKinnon described was simple: all President Joe Biden had to do was replace VP Harris with Newsom \u2014 after which he could resign, leaving Newsom seated comfortably in the Oval Office less the wear and tear from an actual campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the plan being simple, MacKinnon noted, the situation was quite complicated. First, he argued that the expected \u201cRed Wave\u201d that failed to materialize as a result of Tuesday\u2019s midterms elections was the result of either \u201cTrump fatigue\u201d or plain vanilla hatred of the former president \u2014 but what could have been channeled into massive gains for the Democrats was tempered by the fact that voters just don\u2019t like Biden (or Harris) much either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as [Trump] is still considered a potentially viable candidate for 2024, or a political force by the left, that fatigue and hate will be enough to drive many Americans to the polls to vote against any Republican,\u201d MacKinnon continued, positing that Biden was only as strong as his potential Republican opponent was weak.<\/p>\n<p>But he said that he didn\u2019t believe the former president was likely to run \u2014 although he did expect a fair amount of protracted drama surrounding his potential \u201cannouncement\u201d \u2014 which meant that Democrats would have to be prepared to face a stronger ticket. The ticket MacKinnon thought was likely \u2014 and strong \u2014 included Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and possibly former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Tuesday\u2019s voting demonstrated is that our country is still equally divided and deeply polarized, with no political healing on the horizon,\u201d MacKinnon wrote. \u201cThat reality speaks to the need for a proven vote-getter with lots of money and a logistical machine behind him. In Politics 101, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) meets \u2014\u00a0maybe even exceeds \u2014 those qualifications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon offered two possible routes that Newsom could take to the White House, and neither required him to win a Democratic primary or a general election without the power of White House experience behind him. Not only that, but he argued it would be \u201cpolitical malpractice\u201d for the Democrats to not at least consider this option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one scenario, Biden could ask Harris to resign and replace her with Newsom, who then becomes the heir apparent for 2024. Or Biden could replace Harris with Newsom and then resign himself, making Newsom the president before 2024 and arming him with the full force of the Oval Office,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill published a possible plan that could propel California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) directly to the presidency, passing by Vice President Kamala Harris, without it ever coming to a vote before the American people. The plan was outlined by former Pentagon and White House official Douglas MacKinnon \u2014 who worked under Presidents Ronald Reagan &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1890600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Hill Explains How Democrats Could Propel Gavin Newsom To The Presidency, No Vote Necessary","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"The Hill Explains How Democrats Could Propel Gavin Newsom To The Presidency, No Vote Necessary","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}