Gavin Newsom says he won't run for president in 2028 if Kamala Harris does

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Gavin Newsom made a surprise announcement that he won't launch a 2028 White House bid if former Vice President Kamala Harris decides to run again. "I wouldn't run if she ran," Newsom told CNN in an interview that aired Monday evening. Newsom said running against Harris, a fellow California Democrat who was the state's attorney general before she became a senator, would be an electoral "gift" for everybody else.

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• There would be no upside whatsoever," said Newsom, who has been considering a White House run.
• Newsom, who has not run for president before, acknowledged that an "approach to the campaign" would be to say Harris, who ran in 2020 and 2024, had had a shot and has previously run for president.
• You know, that's objectively true," Newsom said, adding that the Venn diagram between them had too much crossover.

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