California Gov. Gavin Newsom is warning that President Donald Trump is planning to “rig the midterm elections.”
According to Newsom, Trump is also supposedly plotting to suspend the 2028 presidential election, Fox News reported.
The Democrat governor made the salacious allegations during an interview on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
However, Newsom did not provide any evidence to support his assertion, and, of course, Colbert did not ask for any.
Trump had a decisive win in the 2024 presidential election, and Democrats are surely looking to the future since they have no talent waiting in the wings.
Newsom seems to have White House aspirations of his own, which is likely why he’s pushing this baseless theory about Trump to whip up their base.
The governor boasted about his work helping Democrats rebuild for the 2026 midterms.
Newsom told Colbert that he’s “raising awareness around how Donald Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections.”
Then Newsom went on to make the most insane claim of all about Trump’s future plans.
He pushed the most patently absurd theory that Trump will somehow make sure that there is no election to replace him, even as the president will be an octogenarian and the U.S. Constitution forbids him from running for reelection.
“I fear that we will not have an election in 2028,” Newsom claimed.
“I really mean that in the core of my soul.
“Unless we wake up to the code red, what’s happening in this country — we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is,” he added.
Colbert’s studio audience heartily cheered over Newsom’s suggestion as the segment ended for a commercial break.
Of course, by the time the 2028 presidential election rolls around, Trump will be 82 years old and will have served a combined eight years as president, which really pushes the bounds of believability.
It’s quite clear that the real motivation for this nonsense from Newsom likely stems from what he said earlier in the interview about his efforts to rehabilitate the Democratic Party and encourage political discussion with some on the right.
“I think it’s important to have those civil engagements,” Newsom said.
“I think it’s important to dialogue.
“It’s important to learn from your opponents, and it’s important to reconcile your weaknesses.
“As a Democratic Party, we have a lot of work to do to make up for our failures in the past.
“We got crushed in this last election, and now we are in a position where we are struggling to communicate, we’re struggling to win back now the majority in the House of Representatives,” Newsom said.
Newsom is correct about the state of the Democratic Party, but rather than solving the root problems, the governor spent time earlier in the interview attacking Trump.
“A lot of anxiety, a lot of stress, a lot of folks that honestly don’t know if we’re going to get our country back, and I get it,” Newsom explained.
“This guy is flooding the zone.
“He’s dominating the narratives,” Newsom added.
“Facts don’t seem to matter, and Democrats, frankly, have had a difficult time pushing back.”
The governor sympathized with Democrats who “feel this weakness that dominates our brand and our party.”
However, Newsom believes the answer to this is more resistance against Trump, which is arguably what has ruined their party, as it has failed to coalesce around any other mission besides opposing the president.
“And I think what people appreciate is that we’re willing to fight and not only fight symbolically by having a little bit of fun but fight substantively.
“We have 41 lawsuits against the son of a b—-,” Newsom bragged, clearly anticipating its effect as an applause line.
“We’re pushing back, and we’re winning.”
Newsom stands out as one of the few politicians who are very ambitious yet terrible in their current job.
His tough talk and warnings about a rigged election sound eerily similar to Trump’s legitimate gripes, but Newsom’s strategy to become Democrats’ Trump will surely backfire once the campaigning becomes serious.
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