Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) said he would focus on telling voters about the “extraordinary successes” of President Joe Biden’s administration if he was in the president’s shoes.
The California governor claimed Biden had “the best three-year record” of any modern president, and that Democratic and independent voters needed to be more aware of those successes as the president sees low approval ratings.
“We need to lift up the issues, the successes, the extraordinary successes of the last three years, [of] the Biden-Harris administration,” Newsom told ABC’s This Week on Sunday. “It’s not even a complicated campaign. We have the receipts. We have the best three-year record of any modern American presidency. Period. Full stop.”
When asked directly about the president’s approval rating, Newsom, who is considered a potential successor to Biden, said everybody’s approval ratings were low because times have been tough globally for years.
“Look, it’s been hard globally the last six or seven years. But again, America stands tall with a tentpole over the world economy,” Newsom said. “No peers economically. Again, a master of delivery. The economy is booming, inflation is cooling. And of course, the economic strategies this president put together were all things Republicans dreamt of but never delivered. He’s delivered.”
The president currently has an approval rating of 39.8% for his third year in office, according to a Gallup poll released last week. His total approval rating is 41%.
Newsom is considered a possible Democratic contender for the presidency in 2028, or as a possible last-minute replacement for Biden in 2024, should the president bow out of the race. Newsom has repeatedly denied any interest in the Democratic nomination this year but has not ruled out a run in 2028.
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The comments come as the 2024 election cycle gets underway. Biden is currently expected to win the Democratic nomination this summer, while former President Donald Trump leads in the Republican primary against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
If Trump and Biden win their respective nominations, the election would be a repeat of the 2020 election, in which Biden emerged as the victor. But after four years in office, and with multiple world crises, a tough economy, and an immigration crisis at the southern border, Biden is currently trailing Trump in a theoretical rematch, according to RealClearPolling.