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Margaret Sullivan

Why is Gavin Newsom handing Steve Bannon a megaphone? It’s becoming clear

a man wearing a blue button-down outside air force one
‘Newsom found Bannon worthy of a cordial chat blasted out to his growing podcast audience.’ Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Gavin Newsom’s choice of guests – a parade of rightwingers – on his new podcast might seem baffling.

After all, the California governor is seen as a mostly progressive Democrat from a very blue state whose reputation is that of a coastal elite. That’s the kind of person the American right, and plenty of centrists, love to hate, as we learned once again when Kamala Harris lost the presidential race to Donald Trump. His image is that of a rich, pretty boy who probably thinks jumper cables are just oversized iPhone chargers.

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