The Biggest Winner of This Year’s Elections: Gavin Newsom | The American Spectator

Gavin Newsom has his eye on the prize — the American presidency — more than anyone else.
His latest tactic to achieve his lifelong, long-professed goal has been his mission of unrepentant gerrymandering with Proposition 50, dubbed the “Election Rigging Response Act.” The proposition’s adoption by voters on Tuesday means that the California Constitution will be amended so as to replace the current electoral state map that was drawn by a bipartisan commission — and five House seats will be flipped in the Democrats’ favor.
With the proposition’s massive victory — by a vote of 64 percent to 36 percent — Newsom’s reputation as the Democrats’ attack dog against Trump has been sealed.
The aggressive partisanship is the point. Newsom is taking an approach to Trump that satisfies Democrats’ desire for their leaders to show an urgency that “meets the moment,” a moment in which they believe the president is a fascist leading the country down a path toward the elimination of democracy.
With the proposition’s massive victory — by a vote of 64 percent to 36 percent — Newsom’s reputation as the Democrats’ attack dog against Trump has been sealed.
The passage of Proposition 50, Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett told Politico, represents “the rise of Gavin Newsom as a prime political opponent of Donald Trump.” (RELATED: Post Prop. 50, California GOP Needs Reality Check)
To celebrate the passage of Prop. 50, Newsom’s press office posted an AI image of Trump as a baby having a tantrum while Newsom forces him to eat his carrots. Newsom himself said that his victory in California, as well as Democrats’ wins in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, mean that the Democratic Party is “in its ascendancy.”
The sense that Newsom has made himself into the undisputed leader of the Democratic Party, while also putting Trump and the Republican Party into a defensive stance, comes perfectly timed for Newsom’s presidential ambitions. It was only last week that the governor appeared on CBS S…