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The governor’s triumph on the gerrymandering measure doesn’t change his biggest liability, being from California.

The road to the White House will only get more challenging from here on, in a way Newsom has never been tested.

A week before California’s special election , Gavin Newsom made news by doing something practically unheard of. He told donors to stop sending money to pass Proposition 50.

It was a man-bites-piranha moment — a politician turning away campaign cash?!? — and amounted to a victory lap by California’s governor even as the balloting was still underway.

On Wednesday, less than 12 hours after the polls closed, Newsom sent another email. This one thanked backer

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