Newsom tells Democrats to be in the ‘addition not subtraction’ business with socialists
Politics Newsom tells Democrats to be in the ‘addition not subtraction’ business with socialists By Lindsay Kornick, Fox News Published July 7, 2026, 10:23 p.m. Gavin Newsom was the latest prominent Democratic figure on Sunday to embrace candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as socialists dominate primary elections. Newsom told Jack Cocchiarella during a livestream on his YouTube channel that he rejects the idea that socialist candidates are a “threat” to the party, relating it to facing past “purity tests” while running for mayor of San Francisco in 2003.
- ▪Politics Newsom tells Democrats to be in the ‘addition not subtraction’ business with socialists By Lindsay Kornick, Fox News Published July 7, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
- ▪Gavin Newsom was the latest prominent Democratic figure on Sunday to embrace candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as socialists dominate primary elections.
- ▪Newsom told Jack Cocchiarella during a livestream on his YouTube channel that he rejects the idea that socialist candidates are a “threat” to the party, relating it to facing past “purity tests” while running for mayor of San Francisco in 2
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