Newsom stays vague on potential 2028 presidential race against Harris
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D-Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom has been vague about whether he believes he and former Vice President Kamala Harris could face each other in the 2028 presidential primary.
On Sunday on “State of the Union,” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Newsom, while promoting his upcoming memoir “Young Man in a Hurry,” about his relationship with Harris, whose political career also began in California.
Bash noted that Newsom wrote about his “parallel careers” and wondered how those careers could potentially “intersect and collide.”
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Governor Gavin Newsom discussed possible presidential primaries in 2028 on CNN’s “State of the Union.” (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
“Well, I’m in San Francisco now,” Newsom joked. “HE [Los Angeles] So we… there’s some distance between the two of us.”
“I’m talking about the whole country running for president in 2028,” Bash said.
“This… will be determined by fate. And I have never stood in the way of his ambition. I haven’t. And I don’t think I will in the future,” Newsom said.
He added: “You can only control what you can control. I think this whole book is that fundamental lesson, and the idea of controlling what you control and taking responsibility for what you control is a big part of what I’m trying to get across in this book.”
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Governor Gavin Newsom (left) and former Vice President Kamala Harris began their political careers in California. (Tayfun Coşkun/Anadolu via Getty Images; Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has reached out to Harris’ office for comment.
Both Harris and Newsom are considered potential candidates for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary and have fueled speculation about the presidential campaign in recent months. However, neither of them has officially announced their intention to run.
A University of New Hampshire Research Center poll released Thursday found that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg He was at the top of the list of potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates.
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Newsom and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tied for second place Harris, the Democrats’ 2024 nominee, and Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona also received 15% of the vote, with 10% each.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris trails Gov. Gavin Newsom as the potential Democratic nominee in polling released Thursday. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Fox News’ Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
