What the People Say: Would You Support Newsom For President?

California Governor Gavin Nuome says he'll be considering the run for president after the midterms. And today Sam Wong was out on the National Mall in DC to hear from the people. >> What are your thoughts on the possibility of Gavin Newsome running for president in 2028? >> I think it'd be a waste of time. I think he his state isn't running very well at all. He kind of ruined that spot. The last thing we need is for America to run like California. >> Do you think people are going to be on board with that? Sadly, there's a lot of crazy people out there, so it's hard to understand. There might be some, but my prayers are that the majority of the people will see through it and um the he won't have a backing. >> I think it's absolutely a possibility. He is preparing for this. This is the momentum and this is where we need to go. We need somebody who's serious and who's competent, who can face all the challenges and actually navigate us through this. >> I would think there's maybe better candidates than him. >> And better like who? Uh like maybe Mayor Pete. Uh wouldn't mind to see a woman in there. Uh Gretchen I think would be a good candidate for a for a female. >> My wife's uh brother lives in Southern California and he's always complaining about Gavin, but I think he's done an all right job. >> I think he's a terrible candidate. Um just in my opinion, I don't think he'd be good for the country. I feel like he messed up California pretty bad. So >> in what way? just whenever they had all those wildfires didn't really contribute too much. >> He's going to see how successful he is, I guess, with the Proposition 50 and then see what shakes out with the midterms and and what makes some sense for him. And of course, if I'm not mistaken, you know, Harris is out there trying to get some feelers and seeing what might be possible for her as well. >> You think she's she's got a chance or >> I have no idea. I Right. I wouldn't even begin to speculate on on how she might make got as a candidate. It would have been nice to have had her go through the proper primary process earlier or at least have had an open convention. I think that was a lot a very significant detriment to the the Democratic party. >> Do you see any other potential candidate for the Democratic party coming up in 2028? >> I don't know. They they need some turns. They need to just my own personal opinion. I haven't seen them stand behind anything that's good like something like yours. Like this is a good thing for Americans. It seems like they stand behind everything that I personally think is awful. >> It's good to have other people and other opinions and diversity of thought, but it's also good to have a united front. And I think that's the time that we're at now where we have to kind of get our stuff together. >> Would you like to see anyone on the Democratic side running for president in 2028? >> Probably Camala Harris. I think it'd be pretty easy to beat her again, so that'd be nice. Yeah.