With Harris down, Newsom’s stock rises again in California and beyond

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political starpower dimmed as Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic party in the months before the 2024 election.

Fewer reporters tracked the California governor’s movements. Talk about his presidential prospects reduced to murmurs about whether he would be relevant in eight years. Some of his own political advisers shifted their attention to…