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Gavin Newsom<\/a>, who delights in using Trump-like trolling tactics, is widely viewed as the Democratic Party\u2019s presidential front-runner.<\/p>\n

He is riding a wave of interviews and podcasts, boosted by a new memoir, and trying to make the case that as California governor he is not as liberal as his record might suggest. Unlike most of his party, for instance, he opposes trans women athletes competing against men.<\/p>\n

NEWSOM SAYS TRUMP IS ONE OF THE ‘MOST DESTRUCTIVE’ PRESIDENT OF HIS LIFETIME: ‘THIS GUY IS RECKLESS’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

But there is a central fact about Newsom that, while it may be known to insiders and to some in his home state, is undoubtedly news to most Americans.<\/p>\n

Gavin Newsom is dyslexic. Seriously dyslexic. And as a new profile in the New Yorker<\/a> makes clear, that affects his life every single day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newsom showed author Nathan Heller a “folder of his printed material, his reading from the previous evening. Almost every word of text was underlined. He flipped through a galley proof of his memoir, in which the underlining covered whole pages\u2013the only way, he said, that he could read any book, even his own. He produced another folder filled with lined paper and covered with his handwriting; he copies all the text he underlines onto writing pads.”<\/p>\n

And then it goes on yellow index cards.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that the governor struggles to do what every working politician needs to routinely do, and that\u2019s deliver speeches. He has to copy each word down and memorize it. On a TelePrompTer, “he sees\u00a0the lines of text \u2026 as a single image, like a Chinese character, which he uses to recall the next line.”<\/p>\n

California congresswoman Lateefah Simon<\/a> says a four-hour podcast is easier for Newsom than a 10-minute speech.<\/p>\n

NEWSOM\u2019S DAVOS DETOUR: 5 CRINGE MOMENTS THAT OVERSHADOWED HIGH-PROFILE SUMMIT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This disability affected his self-image growing up, when Newsom would sometimes fake being sick to be picked up early from school. “He always called himself stupid,” his sister said.<\/p>\n

During the 90-minute commute to Sacramento with his wife, a documentary filmmaker, and their four children, he makes notations that are later transferred to cards and pads.<\/p>\n

So if Newsom were to make it to the Oval Office<\/a>, he would clearly rely heavily on verbal briefings rather than poring over reports and documents.<\/p>\n

The governor describes himself as having a hardscrabble upbringing, getting by on giant bowls of mac and cheese. One former associate told the New Yorker this was Newsom\u2019s “\u2018I was born a poor Black child\u2019 story.”<\/p>\n

In reality, he vacationed with John Paul Getty\u2019s family, thanks to his father\u2019s connections. Newsom\u2019s parents separated when he was three,<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more to the narrative. Newsom\u2019s sister Hilary chided him for continuing to work while their\u00a0mother was engaging in assisted suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NEWSOM LASHES OUT AT TRUMP OVER ‘CARNIVAL OF CHAOS’ AMID MINNESOTA ICE SHOOTING FUROR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Other parts of the life story recounted here are better known. The failure of Newsom\u2019s marriage to Kimberly Guilfoyle, then a left-leaning lawyer in the DA\u2019s office (who later joined Fox News, had an ill-fated engagement to Donald Trump Jr.<\/a> and is now ambassador to Greece). How he had an affair with the city\u2019s appointments secretary, who was married to one of his top aides, and admitted: “Everything that you\u2019ve heard and read is true.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

And most damaging, during the pandemic, when the governor was urging Californians to avoid large gatherings, he dined, maskless, with medical executives and a lobbyist at the super-chic French Laundry. That led to a recall effort, which Newsom trounced by 24 points.<\/p>\n

The governor, who has repeatedly failed to resolve the state\u2019s homelessness problem, is an unusual dude. He worked against a union petition to raise taxes on billionaires, saying it would drive them out of the state. He told President Donald Trump<\/a> that keeping the border sealed was crucial, and he wanted to drop California\u2019s sanctuary-state status.<\/p>\n

On Election Day last year, Newsom met with aides after spending three hours reading about electric vehicle policy.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a hell of a way to start every single day,” he said. “How many books I could have read! Literature! Philosophy!”<\/p>\n

Is America ready for Gavin Newsom, who has a massive social media following,\u00a0as a potential president<\/a>? Are voters ready for him as a person, dyslexia and all, and as a politician, when California is so easily caricatured as a liberal La-La-Land?\u00a0<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know, and I don\u2019t think he does, either. But we may soon find out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/most-unusual-presidential-candidate-newsom-dyslexic-struggles-speeches-rejects-liberal-label <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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