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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    16 hours ago

    US politics is 2 party, and you primary to move a party in the direction you want. not voting is effectively a vote against the direction you want to go. I don’t like the game, but it’s how it’s played.

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      14 hours ago

      I’m gonna vote in the primaries for whoever is willing to stand up for human rights, which includes trans rights. If my choices in the general are a fascist who’s gonna strip my rights and another fascist who’s gonna stripe my rights but now in blue, then sorry I’m not gonna go.

      I actually have principles and morals so I’m gonna stick to it. It’s not worth deciding what color the wood chipper that’s gonna kill me is. I shouldn’t have to accept that I won’t live to see my thirties, accept that I likely won’t live to see the end of the decade but here I am. That’s the reality I have to accept because of people like you.

      It’s sad that people like you think I should just roll over and give up my rights and accept death. It’s sad that you want to use my people and then toss us aside like a used tissue when we aren’t politically expedient.