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California Gov. Gavin Newsom during an event hosted by the South Carolina Democratic Party at the Carter-Sullivan American Legion on Feb. 23, 2026 in Manning, South Carolina. <\/p>\n
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom will be in Miami Friday night in the latest stop on a book tour that has looked a lot like an early campaign for a likely 2028 presidential run.<\/p>\n
Longtime Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos and his daughter Paola Ramos \u2014 a journalist whose latest book interrogates the rise of the Latino far right \u2014 are moderating the conversation at Miami\u2019s Adrienne Arsht Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Ramos pair\u2019s podcast, \u201cThe Moment,\u201d focuses on political analysis from \u201ca unique Latino perspective,\u201d suggesting Newsom could face questions in Miami on how he plans to sell Democratic policies to the South Florida Hispanic voters with whom Donald Trump made inroads in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n His book tour stops thus far have featured interviews with Democratic leaders and prominent progressive voices across Southern states like Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina \u2014 and key campaign states like New Hampshire, the second state to hold its primaries during the presidential election cycle.<\/p>\n Newsom has positioned himself as one of the leaders of Democratic Party messaging, regularly picking public fights with Trump, after the 2024 election left Democrats without the control of the White House, Senate or the House. His book tour across the country is the latest experiment in delivering a Democratic message to voters.<\/p>\n While Newsom\u2019s memoir, \u201cYoung Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery,\u201d focuses on his upbringing, struggles with dyslexia and rise through California politics, the book tour has been defined by the undercurrent of political races yet to come.<\/p>\n The bigger scope is intentional, Newsom senior political adviser Lindsey Cobia told POLITICO<\/a> last month. \u201cThis tour is about more than a book,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s about showing up in rural and red communities ignored by leaders in both parties.\u201d<\/p>\n Newsom has faced blowback for some of his comments on the book tour thus far, however. Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed Newsom for his comments to a crowd in Atlanta last month that \u201cI\u2019m like you, I\u2019m no better than you. I\u2019m a 960 SAT guy.\u201d Republican Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black, called his comments patronizing and \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n Newsom fired back at Hannity over the controversy, writing on social media<\/a>, \u201cYou\u2019re going to call me racist for talking about my lifelong struggle with dyslexia? Spare me your fake f\u2014ing outrage, Sean.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Newsom has been sharing clips from his book tour across social media, teasing at both the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential election.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will not be a fair and free election in the United States of America as we know it, unless we win back the House of Representatives this November,\u201d Newsom told former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison in South Carolina last month.<\/p>\n Trump \u201cwants to flood the zone, but we are capable of doing much more. And I absolutely do believe the next president, particularly if it\u2019s a Democrat, has to prove that as well,\u201d he told a crowd in Nashville.<\/p>\n Newsom\u2019s book presents him as a man who\u2019s overcome struggles, including academic difficulties and the hurdles his single mom faced. He also gives further details into the luxurious aspects of his childhood, including vacationing with the wealthy descendants of the oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, who were friends of his father\u2019s.<\/p>\n In one of the few mentions of Florida in the book, Newsom describes getting custom suits fitted for his \u201clast childhood trip with the Gettys\u201d on their private jet to Spain, describing the formal wear as looking \u201cas if I were about to walk onto the set of Miami Vice.\u201d<\/p>\n Newsom goes on to say his family later returned the pricey suits so his mother could use the credit for their Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n He makes no mention of his COVID-era political rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in the book. DeSantis released his own memoir and launched a book tour before announcing his failed 2024 presidential run. Newsom does mention Trump almost a hundred times.<\/p>\n Florida otherwise gets a pat dismissal in Newsom\u2019s memoir. Late in the book, as he details the emotions after being elected California\u2019s governor seven years ago, he describes California as far more complicated than other large states.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen it came to governance, California was of a magnitude beyond that of New York, Florida, or Texas,\u201d the book reads, describing the widely varied geography of the state.<\/p>\n And Newsom writes in the prologue that California is a place for \u201csaints and scoundrels\u201d who benefit from the state\u2019s resources and take them elsewhere in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cThey tap into our spirit, and hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies, and sometimes they move on to Texas or Florida,\u201d the book reads. \u201cMay their landing places greet them with great fanfare, for it is California they take with them.\u201d<\/p>\n