Many Democrats want to replace Biden with California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Doing so would be a disaster for the nation. Please consider these three key facts, and watch the video below for an overview:
1. Newsom's policies led directly to homelessness increasing by 31% in California, even as it decreased by 18% in the rest of the US from 2010-2020. Homelessness increased another 7.5% between 2022 and 2023.
2. Newsom's policies led directly to skyrocketing crime. One out of four San Francisco residents polled say they were a victim of crime in the last year, and 42% say they were a victim more than once.
3. Rising crime and homelessness, high taxes, and unaffordable housing under Newsom has resulted in people fleeing the state. The state's total population declined by 573,000 from its peak in 2020.
I have interviewed hundreds of homeless people in California. Many, if not most, are from out of state. Many said they came to California so they could be paid to use hard drugs, in many cases to self-medicate severe mental illness. And many are assaulted and left to die, resulting in far higher rates of drug death than other parts of the nation.
Don't believe the hype: Newsom is not compassionate. He only cares about himself, and his policies result in grotesque cruelty.

Newsom demanded that we decriminalize up to $950 in shoplifting and the possession of hard drugs. The result has been an influx of homeless addicts who shoplift to support their deadly habit. Many of us have endorsed a reform of the law (Prop. 47). Leaked emails show that @GavinNewsom tried to undermine the reforms, which voters are likely to pass this November.
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Newsom, and the mainstream news media say there’s been no increase in crime and that crime levels are lower in California than in other states. But that’s a lie.
It's true that the increase in crime isn't just in California. But it's worse here.
California politicians know this. In a single week last April, someone burglarized the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, someone stole the suitcase of Congressman Adam Schiff in the Bay Area, and someone else punched the police officer protecting the mayor of San Jose.
In California, we have the fewest police per capita than at any point since 1991.
Newsom has done more than anyone to implement the policies of George Soros, one of his major funders.
Newsom enables and defends addiction.
“Clean and sober is one of the biggest damn mistakes this country's ever made,” said Newsom. “If you're like me, I've been known to have a glass of wine at night watching some of the nightly news. We all need to self-medicate periodically.”
For Newsom to compare his chardonnay sipping to people smoking fentanyl is grotesque.
Over 100,000 people died last year from hard drugs. People die in San Francisco at far higher rates than the rest of the country.
Yes, the epidemic started with prescription drugs. But Newsom made it worse by making drugs more available and opposing the tough love that addicts and criminals alike need to get their lives together.

I agree that we should avoid mass indiscriminate incarceration. But many addicts, criminals, and homeless peopple need the threat of jail to go to rehab. The alternative, as the 100k+ deaths per year show, is often death.
And whatever your position is on incarceration, you should support increasing the police, since more police are needed to prevent crime.
Why has Newsom done the opposite of what works? Why aren't there enough police on the streets? Why is he allowing criminals, addicts, and untreated mentally ill people to terrorize citizens, assault homeless people, and die on the streets?
Mostly because Newsom is a tool of pathocratic donors like George Soros and because he has, like many progressives, fallen prey to victimhood ideology, which holds that you can divide the world into victims and oppressors and to victims everything should be given and nothing demanded, not even compliance with the law.

Newsom and the media have been lying to you about crime, addiction, and homelessness.
I debunk their lies in my 2021 book, "San Fransicko."
If you want to know why @GavinNewsom would be a disaster for America, please buy and read a copy today!
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@GavinNewsom Los Angeles used to epitomize the American dream. Now, getting your home broken into is the new normal. This occurred thanks to the policies demanded by @GavinNewsom

When the media say "crime is going down," they're spreading misinformation.
Just 32% - 52% of victims say they bother reporting the crimes to the police.

First video above is by @lwoodhouse
Check out his excellent reporting on the ongoing political corruption scandal in Oakland, which is even too much for the SF Chronicle.