Gavin Newsom is everywhere. Here’s the California governor traveling the length of his state campaigning for Proposition 50, a redistricting measure that could give Democrats five more House seats. Here’s Newsom in Houston, four days after winning big on Prop 50, speaking to a hall packed with cheering union workers. Then Newsom is off to Brazil, appearing at the United Nations Climate Conference and seizing the spotlight abdicated by President Donald Trump.

That ubiquity, in real life and online, is a big reason Newsom is somewhere else too: atop lists to win the next Democratic presidential nomination . All he needs to do is maintain this momentum for nearly three more years—an eternity in modern political life.

Newsom hasn’t officially declared he’s running, saying recently that

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