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How Gavin Newsom’s cringe ‘racist’ boast spells trouble for ‘28 Democrats

Gavin Newsom won’t be the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nominee unless he wins a significant share of the African-American vote.

So how’s he courting it?

Promoting his new memoir in Atlanta on Sunday, the California governor decided to form a connection to the largely black city by boasting about his poor SAT scores and difficulty reading.

“I’m like you,” he said — “you know, I’m a 960 SAT guy.”

“You’ve never seen me read a speech,” he added. “Because I cannot read a speech.”

Newsom suffers from dyslexia, but he obviously wasn’t assuming he was addressing a room full of voters with the same debility.

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He just looked around and concluded this audience wouldn’t have high academic aspirations.

“How insulting,” was the response on X from Nina Turner, a former Democratic state senator in battleground Ohio and now a senior fellow with the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy.

The outspoken rapper Nicki Minaj was just as direct: “His way of bonding with black ppl is to tell them how stupid he is & that he can’t read,” she posted.

Even a tactful Democratic consultant said she was “disappointed” by Newsom: “He’s a great wordsmith,........

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