Poll: Gavin Newsom leads 2028 Democratic primary field, edges out Trump in head-to-head matchup

[In It to Win It]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/poll-gavin-newsom-leads-2028-democratic-primary-field-edges-out-trump-in-head-to-head-matchup-180307176.html

In recent months, California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has been acting a lot like a presidential candidate-in-waiting. He’s set up fundraising committees. He’s visited key battleground states. He’s hosted national political players on his podcast. He’s mocked President Trump on social media. And he’s convinced the California Legislature to “fight fire with fire” by matching Texas’s partisan redistricting push.

“It’s not about whether we play hardball anymore,” the governor recently told his fellow Democratic officials. “It’s about how we play hardball.”

And now Newsom’s new brand of hardball has coincided with a rise in poll support — and a boost to his own political brand.

According to the latest Yahoo/YouGov poll, Newsom has surged to the front of the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential primary pack, with 21% of registered Democratic voters and registered voters who lean Democratic now picking him as their preferred nominee.

[Dave Bowman]

1. I believe that he can crush the crazy pissed-filled pustule. 👍

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Head To Head Against Trump?

We're already ignoring the 22nd amendment?

[comradebillyboy]

4. Trump can override the Constitution with an executive order

don't you know.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. How'd I Miss That?

And, here I thought an amendment was hard to pass!

[ProfessorGAC]

7. How'd I Miss That?

And, here I thought an amendment was hard to pass!

[PSPS]

3. "edges out Trump?" this is (supposed to be) trump's last term so there will be no such contest.

[Kingofalldems]

5. TRUMP CANNOT LEGALLY RUN.

Why are you posting that crap on DU?