Newsom may like to show up as a liberal crusader, and he does like to defend rights on social issues, but the guy has been selling California down the river to his corporate masters since he was mayor of San Francisco.
The fact that he heavily campaigned against prop 33, which would have made rent control legal, says everything.
And vote against their own interests, like prop 33 (rent control).
Interesting to watch the numbers change as ballots continue to be counted. There's still a huge amount of uncounted mail-in ballots.
https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/california.html?section=I