SACRAMENTO, California — Gov. Gavin Newsom will journey to Washington on Wednesday to attend a gathering between President Joe Biden and Democratic governors amid the fallout from the president’s disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump.
“Governor Newsom will head to White Home tomorrow to attend the Governors assembly and to face with the President,” a spokesperson for the California Democrat mentioned late Tuesday.
As White Home aides scramble to tamp down fears in regards to the president’s cognitive talents within the wake of Thursday’s shaky debate efficiency, Biden will collect with Democratic governors and congressional leaders Wednesday night. The assembly follows a Monday name when two dozen Democratic governors gathered to debate amongst themselves how they need to reply to the disaster scenario. Newsom, whose identify ceaselessly seems in polls alongside different Democratic surrogates like Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker as potential replacements, was not on the decision.
Newsom is a steadfast Biden supporter and was available in Atlanta final week to attempt to buoy the president from the spin room after the talk that noticed the 81-year-old incumbent showing confused and struggling to reply some questions. Newsom, whereas acknowledging a lackluster efficiency, shortly dismissed requires Biden to step apart, saying that the American public ought to have a look at his file in workplace — not a 90-minute debate.
Newsom has continued providing vocal — and monetary — assist for the Biden marketing campaign within the days for the reason that debate, helping raise several hundred thousand dollars for the president and the Democratic Nationwide Committee within the hours after it aired. In the meantime Newsom did his greatest to disregard intense hypothesis about whether or not he would step in to interchange the president on the Democratic ticket.
