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Gavin Newsom is going low. Is this the future of Democratic campaigns?

@GavinNewsom is the personal, and very active, X account of the governor of California, a presumptive Democratic presidential candidate in 2028. And it has become quite spicy of late.

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“Hahahahahahaha.”

This is a recent comment on X over a reposted Newsweek story headlined “Donald Trump Says His Name May Have Been Planted in Jeffrey Epstein Files.” A few days later, the same account shared this thought about a post by Vice President JD Vance about gerrymandering: “Try again, dumb dumb.”

Shallow, juvenile quips are not atypical for a platform that has devolved into a safe space for bullies and their simpering followers. But the account that produced them is not that of your usual troll.

@GavinNewsom is the personal, and very active, X account of the governor of California, a presumptive Democratic presidential candidate in 2028. And it has become quite spicy of late....

Click here to read the rest of Mariel Garza's op-ed article in the Boston Globe.

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