CASTLE SHANNON, Pennsylvania — A little over a year ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) came to western Pennsylvania to stump for then-President Joe Biden on the border of this borough and Mt. Lebanon, one of the wealthiest suburbs of Pittsburgh.
He gave a short speech to quell the efforts to pressure Biden to drop out of the race after his disastrous debate in Atlanta.
I wrote at the time that the visit was oddly constructed. Here was the governor of California, an ambitious man clearly interested in pursuing the office himself one day, sandwiched into a second-floor law office in a strip mall off the beaten path. Worse yet, the crowd was made up of Democrats, people who already would have supported Biden rather than gettable
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