The gauntlet has been thrown, and California's governor has picked it up with characteristic swagger. When President Donald Trump stood before House Republicans and declared that Gavin Newsom 'couldn't pass' a cognitive test, dismissing him as someone with merely 'a good line of crap,' he likely didn't anticipate the swift and cutting response that would follow.
Within hours, Newsom had fired back with a challenge so pointed it drew over 1.2 million views and 41,000 likes on social media. Yet Trump, for all his public bravado about his own cognitive abilities, has remained conspicuously silent.
