The Inside Game: Gavin Newsom’s Dianne Feinstein problem

Even colleagues on the committee weren’t hearing any real updates — just vague noise about staffers and family members who had tried and failed to persuade her to retire as she recovered in San Francisco. By last fall, he’d reassured both Jill Biden and then–White House chief of staff Ron Klain dire...

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Published in:New York (1968) 2023-04
Main Author: Debenedetti, Gabriel
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Abortion
College students
Committees
Fund raising
Governors
Newsom, Gavin
Political campaigns
Political leadership
Political parties
Presidential elections
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Summary:Even colleagues on the committee weren’t hearing any real updates — just vague noise about staffers and family members who had tried and failed to persuade her to retire as she recovered in San Francisco. By last fall, he’d reassured both Jill Biden and then–White House chief of staff Ron Klain directly that he wanted to help the president get reelected, visiting Klain in person to make sure the message got through. Within days, he visited Arkansas to raise money for local Democrats, saw a Mississippi mayor at war with Republican lawmakers, and hit both Alabama and Florida, where he met with students at a college being taken over by DeSantis allies.
ISSN:0028-7369