The poll comes as Newsom has taken a more aggressive position in standing up to President Donald Trump.

The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state’s congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.

The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.

  • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works
    512·
    22 hours ago

    God I’ve hated watching the way that this shitshow has turned Newsom into the Dem’s new darling rising star. He’s just more of the same neoliberal shit that got us here in the first place.

    Still, though, I’ll acknowledge that he’s at least publicly fighting back, and the more voices that we have screaming “this isn’t normal, this isn’t okay,” the better imo. I think he’d be a shit president, but in comparison to the situation we have going on now? He’d be a fucking dream.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      329·
      22 hours ago

      I’ll acknowledge that he’s at least publicly fighting back

      He’s not…

      He’s making a lot of noise and saying he’s fighting back. But he got the Texas Dems to return to Texas so their redistricting can happen.

      But Cali isn’t redistricting. Right now it might be something that people can vote if they want it to happen, and even if that vote passes it might not happen.

      We’re losing actual battles because of his lies and misrepresentations about what he is doing in Cali.

      • xyzzy@lemmy.today
        237·
        21 hours ago

        My guy, you know that it’s in the state constitution via the Prop 11 ballot measure in 2008 that redistricting cannot happen outside an independent commission. Voters need to approve side stepping that. Newsom is doing something by quickly putting it to a special vote, but he can’t just overrule the constitution. He’s not the president…

        I don’t like Newsom any more than anyone else here, but when the progressive leaders you imagine are now running the Democratic Party step up publicly and take concrete steps to stop this creeping coup, then we can talk.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1010·
          21 hours ago

          So…

          It’s not guaranteed to happen…

          But because Newsom kept saying it would happen, Texas Dems already returned, and it will happen in Texas…

          But you don’t understand why this is a bad thing?

          You don’t understand that Texas Dems should have never returned?

          • xyzzy@lemmy.today
            186·
            21 hours ago

            You can down vote me every time I point out something you don’t like, but it won’t make you right. The people of California are pissed. LA just had mass protests and Trump called in the US military to silence them. They’ve drawn up a new map and it’s going to a vote. The odds are very good it’ll pass.

            People aren’t going to decamp for over a year away from their families because you demand it. What are you doing?

            • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
              109·
              21 hours ago

              People aren’t going to decamp for over a year away from their families because you demand it.

              Decamp?

              If they don’t have what it takes to fight fascism, why the fuck are they in office?

              People (including their constituents) are being kidnapped and sent to motherfucking concentration camps, but staying in a hotel is too much to ask of them?

              With standards this low, no wonder you like Newsom

              • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
                23·
                13 hours ago

                If you think you would be a better legislator, then go ahead and run for office.

                If you can’t be bothered to run, then you know why they are in office.

      • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        18 hours ago

        Fair. My intention was more to say ‘giving the appearance of fighting back’. My thinking on it was that it is, on net, better to have even an ineffectual example to serve as a reminder that dissent is a choice which both has been and remains available to us all. Your concern about the potentially performative nature of the situation doing damage by muddying the decision making of how that dissent should be handled, however, is extremely valid. Hell, a misunderstanding of what was happening in California even skewed my analysis of the situation until I just looked into it more.

        Either way, though, I still fucking hate the guy. I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised, either; talking a big game and then doing exactly nothing while shit falls apart around you is a textbook Democrat move.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          19 hours ago

          is a textbook Democrat neoliberal move.

          And people are actually doing things. They’re just not neoliberals so billionaire owned media won’t talk about it.

          That’s my whole point…