{"id":2577268,"date":"2026-03-07T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-wont-be-democratic-nominee-for-president-in-2028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:01:51","slug":"newsom-wont-be-democratic-nominee-for-president-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-wont-be-democratic-nominee-for-president-in-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom won&#8217;t be Democratic nominee for president in 2028"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fnewsom-wont-be-democratic-nominee-for-president-in-2028%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=2577268&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>Joe Concha, a Washington Examiner columnist, argues that Gavin Newsom will not be the Democratic nominee in 2028. He labels Newsom a \u201cpathological narcissist\u201d who would say or do anything to become president, likening him to Hillary Clinton and suggesting he\u2019s driven by entitlement rather than public service. Concha contends Newsom has no clear campaign platform beyond opposing Trump and notes that, although Newsom has considered a 2028 bid, he has not officially announced one; he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/probe-finds-ore-state-dem-created-hostile-work-environment\/\" title=\"Probe finds Ore. state Dem created hostile work environment\">recently published<\/a> a memoir and is on a book tour. The article also criticizes Newsom\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >media appearances\u2014calling<\/a> his interview on Hasan piker\u2019s podcast an act of desperation\u2014and uses a series of metaphors to question whether California\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-democrat-senate-majority-now-in-serious-jeopardy\/\" title=\"Analysis: Democrat Senate Majority Now in Serious Jeopardy\">politics provide<\/a> a strong foundation for a national campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Gavin Newsom won&rsquo;t be Democratic nominee for president in 2028: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2522914\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> columnist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> said Gov. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gavin-newsom\/\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> (D-CA) will not be the Democratic nominee for president in 2028, characterizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">governor<\/a> as a &ldquo;pathological narcissist.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He will say or do anything to be president of the United States, and it&rsquo;s not to better the country. It&rsquo;s because he&rsquo;s like <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Hillary-Clinton\/\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>,&rdquo; Concha said Friday on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Jesse Watters Primetime<\/em>. &ldquo;He believes he is entitled to sit behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4484138\/national-symphony-director-kennedy-center-trump\/\">National Symphony director joins Kennedy Center exodus following Trump moves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4483467\/hypocrisy-iran-military-strikes-democrats-joe-concha\/\">&lsquo;Hypocrisy&rsquo; over Iran military strikes from Democrats: Joe Concha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4483354\/dhs-government-shutdown-insane-situation-byron-york\/\">DHS government shutdown is an &#8216;insane situation&#8217;: Byron York<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3415494&amp;userid=11311&amp;usertype=user&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=4115bb129b53ff73525a1d9eca8b1d19\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Newsom has revealed he is considering running for president in 2028, but has not officially announced a campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4483943\/obama-hard-to-hope-trump-era-jesse-jackson-funeral\/\"><strong>OBAMA SAYS IT&rsquo;S &lsquo;HARD TO HOPE&rsquo; IN TRUMP ERA DURING JESSE JACKSON FUNERAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The governor recently published a memoir, <em>Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery<\/em>, about his upbringing and rise in politics. Newsom is currently on a book tour, traveling to various key presidential primary states.<\/p>\n<p>Concha said Newsom has nothing to run a presidential campaign on.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Outside of trolling Trump, what&rsquo;s he running on? It&rsquo;s not his record in California,&rdquo; Concha said. &ldquo;California, let&rsquo;s face it, that is as bad run a state as the Mogadishu that is Minnesota at this point.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So now he is reduced to going on D-list podcasts with Katie Couric,&rdquo; Concha added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concha said that, unlike Trump, Newsom hasn&rsquo;t explicitly outlined the core issue he would focus on during a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4483689\/pelosi-newsom-need-end-ca-circular-firing-squad-midterm-shock\/\"><strong>PELOSI AND NEWSOM MAY NEED TO PUT AN END TO CALIFORNIA&rsquo;S &lsquo;CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD&rsquo; TO AVOID A MIDTERM SHOCK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The problem with Gavin is it&rsquo;s much like <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\">Kamala Harris<\/a>. He&rsquo;s like the Goldschlager of presidential candidates. The more you have, the less you want of it,&rdquo; Concha said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Concha criticized Newsom for going on progressive podcaster Hasan Piker&rsquo;s podcast.<br \/>&ldquo;Talk about desperation because this guy [Hasan Piker], who is bff with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Zohran-Mamdani\/\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, said America deserved 9\/11. Gavin Newsom is proving, quite quickly, that rock bottom does have a basement,&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concha: Newsom won&#8217;t be 2028 Dem nominee; narcissist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2577269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newsom-drops-suit-trump-high-speed-rail.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[41461,33173,32742,35471,32378],"class_list":["post-2577268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-2028-election","tag-democratic-nominee","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-political-speculation","tag-presidential-race"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newsom-drops-suit-trump-high-speed-rail.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577268","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\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2577268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577272,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577268\/revisions\/2577272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2577269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}