Do you notice something very obviously MISSING in Politico's story by Blake Jones on Thursday about Gavin Newsom's possible political move in the near future? The headline was "Newsom says he’ll decide on presidential run in ‘early January’."
Read the first three sentences and see if you can guess the absurdly MISSING bit of information.
Gavin Newsom says he’ll decide in early January whether to run for president in 2028.
“I’ll make the determination at the beginning of the year,” the California governor said in an interview with Turkish state media. “So we’ll spend the next few weeks with the family and make a decision early January.”
Newsom, a likely presidential contender, previously declined to offer a specific timeline for his decision, but said that buy-in of his four children would be determinative.
By now you should be aware of what is MISSING, not only in the first three sentences but everywhere else in the article, if you have been paying at least a bit of attention to Gavin Newsom the past couple of months. What is MISSING you can see and hear in the highly publicized clip below of a pledge Newsom made to Jake Tapper in September while the two were fishing for trout together in Montana:
NEW 🚨: Gavin Newsom tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that if Kamala Harris runs for President in 2028, he will not be running. Tapper: “If she runs, you will not?” Newsom: “Of course not, why would I? I wouldn’t do that to her.” https://t.co/AR4Ejvcelk
— Anthony Cabassa (@anthonycabassa) September 14, 2026
So despite making making a sacred vow before God, Jake Tapper, and all the trout surrounding them it appears that Gavin Newsom is again about to reinforce his reputation for sleazy mendaciousness by seeming to be on the verge of breaking his pledge. Of course, this was noticed by just about all the news outlets covering this with the exception of Politico despite that periodical highlighting Newsom's promise as highlighted in their September 14 story by Melanie Mason, "Newsom says he won’t run for president if Harris runs again."
Even the Times of India on the other side of the world reported on Friday on Newsom's pledge about Kamala Harris:
In September, he told CNN that he would not contest the Democratic nomination if Harris decided to run.
“I wouldn’t run if she ran,” Newsom said during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper in Montana.
He described a potential contest between the two Democrats as “mutual assured destruction”, citing their overlapping networks of supporters and political allies.
It seems incredible that Blake Jones, the Politico California Playbook co-author, somehow just accidentally overlooked the widely mocked trout fishing pledge that the other publications all seem to have highlighted. A suspicious mind might conclude that the reason for this supposed oversight was to avoid making Newsom appear sleazy yet again by not mentioning another of his many broken promises.
