California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded for the archetypal clip to President-elect Trump’s triumph implicit Vice President Harris successful the 2024 statesmanlike election, saying he’ll enactment with Trump but not without issuing a warning.
Newsom shared his remarks connected societal media Wednesday, expressing that a second Trump presidency is "not the result we wanted," but the "fight for state and accidental endures."
".@KamalaHarris set retired to combat to support our cardinal freedoms and physique a state that works for everyone. She stood up for moving families, decency, and opportunity," Newsom wrote. "California volition question to enactment with the incoming president – but fto determination beryllium nary mistake, we mean to basal with states crossed our federation to support our Constitution and uphold the regularisation of law."
He continued: "Federalism is the cornerstone of our democracy. It’s the United STATES of America."
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Newsom’s prima powerfulness wrong the Democratic Party is expected to emergence pursuing the decision of Harris, Dan Schnur, a teacher of governmental communications astatine University of Southern California, UC Berkeley and Pepperdine, told the Los Angeles Times.
Newsom said helium would enactment with Trump, though issued a informing to uphold the Constitution. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, File)
"Newsom is going to pb the absorption authorities for the adjacent 2 years arsenic governor, and past aft that, helium is simply a precise salient and nationally recognized enactment leader," Schnur told the newspaper.
Newsom has antecedently been asked astir his ain imaginable statesmanlike prospects during the 2024 predetermination cycle.
President-elect Trump defeated Vice President Harris successful the 2024 statesmanlike election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Voters successful California, however, voted to get pugnacious connected crime, approving Proposition 36 contempt Newsom opposing the ballot initiative.
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Proposition 36 volition ace down connected theft and cause trafficking successful a authorities that has been battered by transgression for years. Ahead of the vote, Newsom said: "Prop 36 takes america backmost to the 1980s, wide incarceration — it promotes a committedness that can’t beryllium delivered."
Newsom's banal successful the Democratic Party is expected to emergence pursuing the decision of Harris, according to experts. (Mario Tama/Getty Images, File)
Voters disagreed arsenic transgression has spiraled successful California successful caller years, astir notably successful 2021 and 2022, erstwhile smash-and-grab crimes deed a fever transportation successful the state. Criminals were repeatedly caught connected camera storming high-end section stores with crowbars and different weapons successful bid to smash show cases earlier stealing merchandise and fleeing.
Fox News Digital's Elizabeh Pritchett and Emma Colton contributed to this report.