{"id":161902,"date":"2026-03-12T23:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161902\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:14:17","slug":"opinion-the-libbiest-lib-who-ever-libbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161902\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | \u2018The Libbiest Lib Who Ever Libbed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: \u2018The Libbiest Lib Who Ever Libbed\u2019<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Libbiest Lib Who Ever Libbed\u2019Gavin Newsom is more like Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama, and that\u2019s bad news for any presidential aspirations Newsom may have, MS NOW\u2019s Chris Hayes argues on \u201cInteresting Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Tell me what you think about Gavin Newsom. I think Newsom has the Hillary Clinton problem, which is that Hillary Clinton was perceived \u2014 outside the Democratic Party and Democratic coalition \u2014 as the ultimate lib, the libbiest lib who ever lived, and was never actually that much of a lib. And also had a record that was fairly centrist, particularly as a U.S. senator. And that\u2019s the worst uncanny valley for a Democratic politician to be in, where the base doesn\u2019t trust you because you don\u2019t have a kind of organic relationship with the left parts of the party. And then the swing voter just thinks, \u201cThat\u2019s a lib.\u201d You want the inverse. You want the person that has authentic relationships with the left parts of the party and the grass roots and also communicates broadly and is viewed as a not particularly partisan or liberal figure \u2014 Barack Obama being a good example of that. And I just think right now \u2014 and this could change \u2014 Newsom has the opposite set of factors. He has made very clear attempts to show that he\u2019s bipartisan, centrist, independent. There\u2019s some stuff he\u2019s done around the billionaire tax and policy around trans folks that have been actual, substantive things he\u2019s done, but \u2014\u2014 Moves to the center. Yeah, or to the right, some people would say. But I haven\u2019t seen evidence that that comes through. I just think there\u2019s a reputational thing that\u2019s very problem \u2014 also, partly, if you\u2019re just, like, the governor of California, it\u2019s a tough place to get the next Democratic nominee from.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The podcast guest, Chris Hayes \u2014 reproduced in a sepia-tinted photograph.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/12rosspod-hayes-image-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Gavin Newsom is more like Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama, and that\u2019s bad news for any presidential aspirations Newsom may have, MS NOW\u2019s Chris Hayes argues on \u201cInteresting Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Interesting Times<\/p>\n<p>March 12, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: \u2018The Libbiest Lib Who Ever Libbed\u2019 transcript Back transcript \u2018The Libbiest Lib Who Ever Libbed\u2019Gavin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[66763,2132,153,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-161902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-chris-hayes","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}