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  I'm a big Newsom fan but I'm pretty confused about why he isn't leaning more into single payer healthcare (which he campaigned on). If he can credibly run on both pragmatism and M4All, he will unite the Biden/Sanders factions almost immediately and I don't see how anyone stops him.
  Seems like he has abandoned the single payer efforts recently, which I find confusing since it would be a huge feather in his cap.
context: California has flourished under Newsom and his predecessor, Jerry Brown. People in other parts of the country mostly don’t understand why California’s economy succeeds as well as it does. 
  Georgia has probably made the best attempt to copy the California game plan. >
  
  I didn’t know this about Georgia! What are they doing that makes you say this about them? >
  
  They have been taping a bunch of movies and shows in Georgia lately >
  
  I think that helped keep Herschel Walker out of office, going on and on about vampires and werewolves. Georgia is a zombie state. >
  
  I see what you did there and I approve... >
  
  He is a corporate Democrat through and through. Numbers don’t lie though, California has done well in most categories under his tenure.
  Unfortunately, the path to the White House goes through the rust belt these days, and he may have trouble connecting with voters there. I’m sure the conservative Super PACs have the French Laundry ads ready to go. >
  
  Yes, but he does look like a cartoon fighter pilot, so he’s got that going for him. >
  
  Nope. We like Newsome in CA. >
  
  What doesn't anger critics?
  Though success, such as Newsom's, angers them the most.
  Newsom is leading Democratic candidate for presidential nomination based on his good work in CA, the worlds sixth largest economy which has record high employment, high wages, leading environmental policies, leading educational polices.   CA is probably the best role model for how we want the US overall to look.
  2022 and Biden's excellent two year record of accomplishments and leadership, has made him the leading candidate if he decides to run.  
  But Newsom is the heir to Biden's moderate Democratic success if Biden decides to not run.