Gavin Newsom is reading the room.
On the California governor’s new podcast, “This Is Gavin Newsom,” which launched earlier this month, Newsom distances himself from some of Democrats’ most controversial ideas like trans-identifying men in women’s sports, tax dollars paying for prisoners’ transgender surgeries, and even the term “Latinx.”
With no context, a listener might never imagine Newsom himself has pushed those very progressive policies on California over his nearly 30 years in elected office.
In his first podcast episode, Newsom shocked his fellow Democrats by calling biological men competing in women’s sports “deeply unfair.”
“Would you say no to men in female sports?” Newsom’s conservative guest, Charlie Kirk, founder of TPUSA, asked him.
“I think it’s an issue of fairness, I completely agree with you on that,” Newsom answered. “It is an issue…
