(The Hill) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said this week that he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t thinking about running for president in 2028.

In an interview taped Thursday, CBS News’s Robert Costa asked Newsom about the prospect of running for president and whether it’s “fair to say, after the 2026 midterms, you're going to give it serious thought.”

"Yeah, I'd be lying otherwise. I'd just be lying. And I'm not — I can't do that,” Newsom said in response.

Costa told Newsom that, when he saw the California governor speaking with potential voters in South Carolina this summer, “I thought, ‘This guy might run for president.’”

Newsom laughed and said, “I have no idea.”

“The idea that a guy who got 960 on his SAT, that still struggles to read scripts, that was always in the back of

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