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California Governor Gavin Newsom is having fun with internal polls, and with reliable leftist pollsters.
Last week we were supposed to believe that Newsom’s approval rating jumped 40 points since 2023:
A USA Today/Politico survey conducted July 28–Aug 12 shows Newsom leading Harris 25% to 19%, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at 13%. Separate analysis by election statistician Harry Enten finds 75% of California Democrats now encourage Newsom to run, a 40-point jump since 2023.
Harry Enten is delightful on CNN as a highly entertaining, data-driven reporter, however he cut his teeth as a senior writer and analyst for Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight.
For the first time, I am seriously doubting the veracity of Mr. Enten’s data – as if he may have received an unmarked envelope in the alley behind his building to say that.
Today, Gavin Newsom claims:
“Californians strongly support the Governor’s strategy to create more housing.”
Just who in fresh hell are Newsom’s people polling? Newsom continues:
“A new poll shows a vast majority of Californians — across parties, ages, and communities — strongly support the Governor’s CEQA reforms to accelerate housing and infrastructure.
Californians strongly support the Governor’s recent historic reforms of state housing law, which will make creating more housing easier and faster. The groundbreaking reforms of the California Environmental Quality Act will accelerate new projects and increase affordability for Californians. In a recent poll, a majority of Californians across every voter category expressed agreement with the reforms.”
The poll was conducted by “policy influencers in the state,” an AI platform, The Citrin Center x Politico, POLITICO California, and UC Berkeley’s Citrin Center for Public Opinion. There were 305 Republicans, 630 Democrats, and 351 Independents polled.
Who are these groups? According to the small print below the poll, “This project comprised twin opinion studies of the California electorate and policy influencers in the state, fielded by TrueDot, the AI-accelerated research platform, in collaboration with the Citrin Center and Possibility Lab at UC Berkeley and POLITICO. The public opinion study, made possible in part with generous support from the California Constitution Center, was conducted in the field between July 28 and August 12, 2025. The sample of 1,445 registered voters was selected at random by Verasight, with interviews conducted in English and Spanish. The policy influencer study was conducted from July 30 to August 11, among 512 subscribers to POLITICO Pro.”
Other than TrueDot AI, all roads lead to UC Berkeley – even the California Constitution Center is UC Berkeley Law.
Here are the questions in readable form:
Gavin Newsom said, “There’s no question — Californians are ready for us to build housing and infrastructure now. With this new authority and broad public support, we have real momentum to continue accelerating progress and deliver the results our communities deserve.”
“Us?” Who is “us?” No one wants government housing.
But here is where Governor Newsom goes off the rails patting himself on the back in the same announcement:
“In 2024, while homelessness increased nationally by over 18%, California limited its overall increase to just 3% — a lower rate than in 40 other states.”
Gavin Newsom actually is claiming that California’s homeless population increased less than other states?
Cheese and rice! Holy kamoley! Gadzooks! Holy guacamole! Bollocks!
California is home to one-half of the homeless in the entire country – that is all because of Gov. Gavin Newsom and his policies resulting in a serious homeless grift.
Courtesy of Gov. Gavin Newsom, homelessness in California has exploded. Homelessness in the state increased 15 times faster than the country as a whole. Gov. Newsom has blown $34 billion on homelessness but can’t say where the money was spent. But the results are clear – California’s homelessness problem exploded into a zombie apocalypse. He then vetoed a bipartisan bill to hold him accountable for further spending, yet claims this – the very definition of gaslighting:
The state also held the growth of unsheltered homelessness to just 0.45%, compared to a national increase of nearly 7%. States like Florida, Texas, New York, and Illinois saw larger increases both in percentage and absolute numbers. California also achieved the nation’s largest reduction in veteran homelessness and made meaningful progress in reducing youth homelessness.
Liar liar pants on fire!
This is how much politicians actually care about homeless: In July, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty announced a new policy to prohibit homeless people from sleeping outside City Hall overnight. He argued that the homeless were threatening city employees and guests to City Hall.
Mayor McCarty obviously hadn’t thought this through – or rather, if he was an actual public servant who was sincere in governing, he would have immediately recognized the obvious results – his decision only shoved the homeless out of downtown into the neighborhoods. This is how Democrats “protect” us from the homeless crisis they created.
Congratulations to Gavin Newsom for showing Californians once again just how much he abhors the people of the state.
This is the guy who wants to build more housing.
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Author: Katy Grimes
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