Amid 2028 speculation, California governor's podcasts with Trump...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Newsom said his choice of podcast guests reflects his interest in knowing more about how Republicans organized in the last election, when Trump swept every battleground state and Republicans locked up majorities in the House and Senate.
48% : He´s trying to remake himself to be acceptable to MAGA," Allison wrote in an email, referring to supporters of Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement.
45% : In an age of rigid partisanship, talking with the other side is "so rarely a part of public discourse it seems like either bravery or lunacy," said Thad Kousser, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.
35% : Ahead of the 2022 midterms, he chastised national Democrats for being too passive in defending abortion rights and same-sex marriage, an issue he championed two decades ago as mayor of San Francisco.
29% : " The governor - who called Trump a threat to American democracy throughout last year´s campaign - has been trying to navigate a tenuous relationship with the White House as the state recovers from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires in January.
27% : Newsom called dismantling police departments "lunacy" and remained silent when Steve Bannon, an architect of President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, falsely said Trump won the 2020 presidential election.

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