Most California voters do not want Gov. Gavin Newsom to run for president in 2024, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.
The poll — which surveyed 1,091 self-identified registered voters in the state over the past week — found that 70% don’t want the Democratic governor to seek higher office in the upcoming presidential contest, while just 22% said they do.
The numbers are especially damning when you break them down by party affiliation. Only 35% of Democratic voters said they’d like to see Newsom run for president, while a whopping 54% said they wouldn’t. Meanwhile, the sentiment among Republican voters isn’t surprising: 90% said they wouldn’t want to see Newsom make a bid for the White House.
“A resounding thumbs down from the home team as California voters tell the Governor: if you have designs on the big job beyond Sacramento, we’re not on board,” Quinnipiac poll analyst Tim Mallory wrote of the results.
Speculation about a Newsom presidential run abounded last year as Democrats worried about the prospects of nominating 80-year-old President Joe Biden to run for a second term. Newsom repeatedly denied that he would run in 2024 but fueled more speculation by frequently teeing off on prominent Republican governors such as Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas — going so far as to spend campaign funds to attack them in cable and newspaper ads in those states.
Primary Source: SFGate
Factual Confidence: Medium (Multiple sources reporting as the poll is real, It relies on only one poll though)
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