California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been setting himself up for a presidential run for months now, chasing a higher national profile, even doing things like going to the Munich Security Conference to prop up his "foreign policy credentials."
He should be in California, attending to all the massive problems he left there, but hey, he's only the governor, right? Not like that's all that important.
He hasn't been helping himself lately, though, in his quest. He tried to fire back at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) about the deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, but then exposed in the exchange that he didn't understand what the term "historically illiterate" meant.
That was bad enough. But then he doubled down on dumb with the claim that he lost his birth certificate and didn't know where it was since he was seven. Does anyone believe that? He was making himself sound ridiculous just to argue against the SAVE America Act.
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On top of that, he was then interviewed about running in 2028 by CNN's Dana Bash. He said the metrics that would determine whether he ran were his family. But he explained how his youngest son didn't want him to run. That son was born in 2016.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom told CNN’s Dana Bash that his son opposes a presidential run, texting him, “I’m too young. You need to spend more time with us.” pic.twitter.com/YcFBqwbJJQ
— CNN (@CNN) February 22, 2026
“My son texted me a few months ago when there was some headline that suggested that I made some decision, and he goes, ‘Dad, are you running for president?' I said, 'No, we’ll make this decision as a family.' And he goes, 'You can’t.' And I said, "Why? He goes, 'I’m too young. You need to spend more time with us.'"
Newsom claimed he had screenshot the text. "The point is the point, and so what matters is what matters. Like what matters is what matters." I think he's saying that to show what a caring dad he is.
But he's still out there; he's not foreclosing the idea. So then what does that comment even mean? When he finally has to formally declare, he'll say his family thought it was important to the nation that he run. Why is it still a question now if he says it's dependent on the family?
Newsom's son is all of us who think he shouldn't run. And if Gavin is concerned, why is he running all over the place now, instead of staying in California, doing his job, and being with his family?
But there's another problem too, isn't there? If he lost his birth certificate when he was seven, how can he run if he can't prove he's qualified to run as a natural-born citizen? How did he get a passport if this were true?
California Governor Gavin Newsom is actually claiming he lost his birth certificate when he was seven years old and has no clue how to get a new one.
— Branden Brown (@BrandenBrownSC) February 23, 2026
Are we supposed to be this gullible?
In the real world, here in South Carolina, if you don't have your papers, you don't get a… pic.twitter.com/MjQIS1JEzK
How did Newsom get a passport if he lost his birth certificate when he was 7 and never got a new one? https://t.co/9BVxyPP867 pic.twitter.com/VmJ2ggdRsk
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) February 22, 2026
He went to Munich, so we know he has a passport.
Bottom line, this is nonsense. If he can't figure out how to get a passport, he isn't competent enough to be president. And if he's lying to us now about it, he isn't honest enough, and he's disrespecting our intelligence.
So, in trying to skewer SAVE with the Democratic narrative, Newsom skewered his own credibility even more.
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