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The clock’s running out for globetrotting Newsom

Gavin Newsom has been criticized for his recent rhetoric at the Munich Security Conference. But it’s his neglect at home that is the real problem.

Newsom has indulged in two European visits in 2026 alone, and expects more travel in the months ahead.

It’s not so much leaving his state that’s a problem (even if Newsom ignores the late Arthur Vanderburg’s counsel that “politics ends at the water’s edge”), as it is Newsom’s lack of follow-up and follow-through with matters back home.

In case you missed it, there’s a pattern to Newsom’s wanderlust: The Golden State’s governor heads elsewhere in America or overseas, thus stoking the presidential buzz in his ongoing game of trolling President Donald Trump, only to return to California and to stage a public display of his commitment to his day job in Sacramento.

It happened in November 2023, not long after a Newsom China tour most memorable for Newsom plowing over a kid on a Beijing basketball court (as in politics, the progressive governor driving hard to the left). On his return, he held a Los Angeles media availability during which the governor informed reporters that a fire that had shut down a portion of 10 Freeway was the work of an arsonist.

The pattern repeated itself this month, on the heels of Newsom’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with the governor showing up in rural Kern County to hail the progress of California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project. (Appropriately for a dumpster fire of a transit plan, a fire broke out at a rail construction site the following day).

Watch for more of the same in the weeks ahead, as Newsom........

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