Earlier this year, as wildfires tore across Southern California, Gavin Newsom confronted what felt to him like the low point of a high-wattage political career\u2014and to others like the possible end of a steady political rise that had long fueled whispers of a White House bid.<\/p>\n
Entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles burned to the ground<\/a>. Fire hydrants ran out of water<\/a>. Visiting the wreckage, Newsom was assailed by angry constituents<\/a> on live TV. And in a surreal twist, the incoming president was blaming him personally for the disaster. \u201cNO MORE EXCUSES FROM THIS INCOMPETENT GOVERNOR,\u201d Donald Trump<\/a> thundered on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year, as wildfires tore across Southern California, Gavin Newsom confronted what felt to him like the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,12419,7,9,8,10555,1525,10554,12418,13,101,4568,564,12420,12417,2805],"class_list":{"0":"post-13885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-businessweek","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-cities","14":"tag-democratic-party","15":"tag-donald-john-trump","16":"tag-paul-getty","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-san-francisco","19":"tag-social-media","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-the-big-take","22":"tag-u-s-democrats","23":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}