He’s photogenic, has nice hair, and isn’t afraid of lefty Democrats.
No, we aren’t speaking about Gavin Newsom.
In reality, the most recent contender within the congested governor’s race doesn’t even like California’s alpha Dem.
And the sensation is mutual, if Newsom’s rabid X account is to be believed.
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan introduced his run for governor Thursday, slammed Newsom’s attention-hogging Twitter antics in an interview.
“My main focus shouldn’t be going to be on web trolling,” Mahan instructed Politico. “One of the best resistance is delivering outcomes and displaying that states and cities with progressive values can ship security, a top quality of life and financial alternative.”
Newsom sniffed, “I don’t know sufficient about him,” when requested about Mahan’s marketing campaign on the Bloomberg Newsmakers convention Thursday.
It’s not the primary time the average mayor — who has followers in Silicon Valley however is little-known statewide — has feuded with Newsom, who’s juicing his doubtless presidential bid with outrageous tweets and anti-Trump merch just like the $100 kneepads he hawked at Davos.
He traded catty tweets with Newsom’s press group earlier this month over funding for a San Jose “tiny dwelling” village for the homeless — one in all Mahan’s signature initiatives as mayor.
And the 2 Democrats clashed over Prop. 36, a preferred voter initiative that elevated penalties for sure drug and theft crimes. Robust-on-crime Mahan backed the measure, whereas Newsom has prevented funding the prop, which handed with practically 70% of votes.
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Mahan is betting that voters are sick of the Newsom present however keen to roll the cube on a low-profile, average Dem — regardless that it dangers handing the seat to a Republican for the primary time since Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Polling exhibits that two Republicans — Steve Hilton, a former Fox Information host, and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco — are main or close to the highest of the pack as an uninspiring subject of Democrats claw for votes forward of the June main election. On the Democratic aspect, Rep. Eric Swalwell and former congresswoman Katie Porter lead the pack.
If extra Dems don’t drop out within the months to return, the probabilities of them cannibalizing one another’s votes and turning the governor’s mansion purple for the primary time since 2011 would go from as soon as unthinkable to an actual chance.
Larry Gerston, professor emeritus of political science at San José State College, stated that Mahan is sensible to distance himself from “all the candidates who’re to the left” with tough-on-crime insurance policies and a give attention to fixing homelessness.
“The key recipe for Mahan is not only the Democrat voters, it’s the 30% of the state who’re registered as a no political get together,” Gerston stated.
“As a result of the Democrats enable no political get together voters to participate within the main, in contrast to Republicans, they’re much less political, much less dogmatic, they usually might have a look at Mahan as a contemporary face.”
