All the tingling chatter about a possible 2028 presidential primary face-off between California’s two marquee Democrats — Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris — begs the next question: Does a California Democrat stand a chance of winning the White House?

No state has been more maligned by Republicans, especially by President Trump, than the golden one. Harris, in an abbreviated campaign where she was painted as a “radical California liberal,” lost to Trump in November by a narrow vote margin, but a sweep of red states.

And with every social media mention of Newsom — especially his acerbic posts mocking Trump — a flood of comments are posted follow blaming him for all of California’s ills, from San Francisco’s stubborn homeless problem to the devastating Los Angeles f

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