California Governor Gavin Newsom tours DC and meets Jill Biden after his ad buy attacked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — but says Joe Biden MUST run for reelection
Newsom had a private meeting with the first lady at the White House on Wednesday
He also received an award and delivered a teaching talk
He answered ‘yes’ when asked if the president should participate again in 2024
He bought an ad days ago slamming DeSantis on Fox News
Comes as the poll showed 2/3 of Democratic voters preferred candidate to Biden
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California Governor Gavin Newsom makes several high-profile stops in Washington after his digs with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, but he still said he supports President Joe Biden in 2024.
Newsom, who reversed a recall last year, sparked new presidential rumors when he made a $105,000 ad purchase on Fox News that hit DeSantis, who has emerged as a top potential rival to former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination.
“I urge you who live in Florida to join the fight — or join us in California, where we still believe in freedom,” Newsom said in the July 4 ad, which feels like a political campaign spot.
On Wednesday, Newsom had a private meeting with First Lady Jill Biden at the White House.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) turned heads when he bought a TV ad criticizing Florida government Ron DeSantis on Fox News
He said the two talked about “everything related to education,” including “what’s going on in many of those red states.”
He also received an award from the Education Commission of the States.
The award comes “in recognition of its coordinated approach to educating all students from kindergarten through post-secondary, with explicit focus on support and services for the whole child, as well as its historic financial investment to ensure educational equality,” the group said.
The state is on track to achieve universal pre-K by 2025.
Newsom, 54, used the platform to carry out GOP attacks on Critical Race Theory, at a time when some Democrats are calling on Biden to confront his critics more forcefully.
‘What happens now – ban books? Suppress speech? The other-ing of our students, teachers, parents? It’s alarming,’ he said†
Newsom had a private meeting with First Lady Jill Biden, pictured at the White House picnic on Tuesday
President Joe Biden criticized a reporter who asked about a poll saying Democrats would prefer another candidate in 2024.
Newsom has run into political trouble with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is considered a major challenger to former President Donald Trump for the GOP nomination
He also said that President Biden should run for reelection.
It comes on a trip where he planned to meet with government officials — with plans to meet Vice President Kamala Harris in DC on Friday.
The trip comes as President Biden is out of the country on a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The trip comes a day after Biden attacked a reporter who put forward a New York Times/Sienna College poll that showed two-thirds of Democrats want someone else to run as party candidates.
‘You are all the same,’ he said, telling his questioner, ‘read the polls, read the polls. They want me to run away.’
He cited another poll question that showed 92 percent of Democrats would vote for him. The poll also found that he narrowly defeated former President Donald Trump.
‘Read the polls. Read the polls, Jack. You are all the same,” Biden said.
“A majority of Democrats say they don’t want you in 2024,” the reporter objected. Biden shot back: “92 percent said I did, they would vote for me.”
In his Independence Day ad, Newsom went straight to DeSantis and national party leaders.
Republican leaders “make voting more difficult, restrict speech in classrooms and even criminalize women and doctors,” he said in his ad.