Gavin Newsom knows the popular image of him is of a smooth talker with slicked-back hair, the wealthy liberal who co-owns a vineyard.

He knows, regarding the presidential ambitions he’s hardly hiding, that the biggest question he would face out of the gate is whether he could sell Americans on wanting California to represent their future rather than seeing it as the place where the wackiest liberal dreams go to run wild.

The redistricting fight that Newsom and the state legislature are launching Monday could, he and his inner circle believe, give him all the rebuttals he needs.

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      17 hours ago

      I voted Harris and I voted in a garbage democratic senator for my state too.

      I’m not a Democrat or a Republican. Party means jack shit to me. I’d rather vote a well meaning republican (hint: there are none left) than a shit Democrat. I have voted third party for my LOCAL clerk because the Democrat was corrupt as shit.

      I will vote most any democrat at this point in the general, but I have my limits. I’m not voting Newsom. I understand the damage of voting third party, but I cannot vote Newsom. Pick someone else