Gavin Newsom refuses to answer when pushed to act against Biden

California Governor Gavin Newsom has refused to rule out running against Joe Biden in next year’s presidential election.

In a very belligerent interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Newsom brushed off the host’s questions about whether he intended to become the commander in chief.

“I can see where you want to go and no, I’m not answering,” the 55-year-old lawmaker said in a fiery exchange that will air later Monday (June 12) on the Right Network.

New concerns have been raised about Biden’s fitness for office after he tumbled during an Air Force Academy graduation ceremony earlier this month.

If the president is re-elected for a second term in November 2024, he will leave the White House at age 86.

A potential Newsom challenge has long been rumored, but those suggestions have faded since Biden announced his plans to rejoin.

Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of Newsom’s predecessors, suggested a Democratic runoff against the 80-year-old was “a no-brainer.”

So far, only no-hopers Robert F. Kennedy Jr, an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, and self-help author Marianne Williamson have declared their intention to oppose Biden.

But Democratic party apparatchiks are rallying around the incumbent and trying to avoid protracted challenges to his 2024 bid.

Schwarzenegger, himself a former governor of California, called a Newsom challenge against Joe Biden ‘a no-brainer’

The governor of the Golden State, whose term expires in 2027, also declined to directly answer Hannity’s questions about whether the commander-in-chief was suffering from cognitive decline.

Newsom claimed he was in regular contact with Biden and had seen him at work aboard Air Force One, the presidential jet.

The two men also clashed over Ron DeSantis’ so-called “migrant flights” that have irked liberals across the country.

Florida authorities have chartered private jets to boot alleged illegal immigrants from Florida or elsewhere and send them to mostly leftist states in the US

On Tuesday (June 6), officials there acknowledged being behind two such planes that sent 36 migrants to California.

They had not set foot on Florida soil, but were moved from Texas to New Mexico and then flown to Sacramento, the state capital.

Florida’s voluntary move is just that: voluntary. Through verbal and written consent, these volunteers indicated their desire to go to California,” Alecia Collins, a spokesman for emergency management, said last week.

Newsom called DeSantis’ behavior “a stunt” and called the action “embarrassing” and “pathetic.”

“He just wanted to help people out of the goodness of his heart? Give me a break, Sean,” the California governor replied angrily to Hannity’s questions.

In May, DeSantis signed into law a bill allocating up to $12 million for migrant deportation flights.

Florida funded two last year, from the city of San Antonio to the expensive and luxurious island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Barack and Michelle Obama own a $12 million mansion in the celebrity hotspot destination.

DeSantis has cited the issue of illegal migration as a key policy of his campaign, following Donald Trump’s 2016 pledge to build a wall to prevent would-be asylum seekers from entering the United States.

Newsom was astonishingly full of praise for Trump, saying he had a good relationship with the former president because of his Covid policies.

‘It was unbelievable. He… didn’t play politics during Covid with California — didn’t play politics at all — it’s a fact,” he told Fox News.