{"id":397842,"date":"2026-07-14T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397842\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:28:10","slug":"newsom-botches-claim-california-regs-created-tesla-not-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/397842\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom botches claim California regs created Tesla, not Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              Elizabeth MacDonald discusses Gavin Newsom&#8217;s claim that California regulations fostered Tesla&#8217;s success, not Elon Musk&#8217;s genius.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Tiffany Smiley, Endeavor PAC founder, criticizes California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s &#8220;wild new hot take&#8221; that state regulations created Tesla, not Elon Musk. Smiley argues Newsom is desperate for positive news amid California&#8217;s decline due to his policies and taxation, which caused Elon Musk to move Tesla to Texas. She suggests Newsom&#8217;s statements are part of his presidential aspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth MacDonald discusses Gavin Newsom&#8217;s claim that California regulations fostered Tesla&#8217;s success, not Elon Musk&#8217;s genius. Tiffany Smiley,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-397842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397842","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=397842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}