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For eight years, Gavin Newsom used the California governor’s office as a prominent platform to fight President Trump and raise his own national profile. On Tuesday night, a Democratic Party tsunami helped buoy his presidential hopes and deliver a rebuke to Trump as Newsom handed the governorship off to his successor with an eye on a bigger prize.

Democrat Xavier Becerra was elected California’s next governor, soundly defeating Trump-backed Republican Steve Hilton, 65% to 35% with 49% of the votes counted. The win keeps the nation’s most populous state in Democratic hands, which was never in real jeopardy despite Becerra’s low-key campaign. It also frees the term-limited Newsom to focus on what nearly everyone in politics already assumes: a 2028 presidential run, buoyed by a Republican drubbing and loss of majority control in both chambers in Congress that will no doubt embolden the party’s progressive wing and is already pushing Newsom’s platform to the left.

“Taking back Congress is only the beginning,” Newsom said Tuesday. “The real test is what we do with the power to deliver for the American people.”

Newsom went on to provide some clues on his presidential campaign’s top priorities, including expanding the Supreme Court and promoting a national minimum wage.

“We do the term-limit reform, which I think is long overdue in this country,” he said. “We start to have the debate around expanding the Supreme Court. We talk about all of these things that we’ve been promoting, including $20 minimum wage.”

“Forgive me for the long-windedness, because it’s so damn important,” he added. “We have to be more effective communicators as we go after the corruption.”

The last point may have been a subtle dig at Kamala Harris, whose 2024 presidential bid after Democratic leaders pushed aside President Joe Biden, was widely panned for her inability to communicate effectively and connect to voters. Or maybe not.

Newsom has said he would defer to fellow Californian Harris and forgo a presidential bid if she jumps in the race. Perhaps that promise is less certain after such a dramatic Democratic midterm rout – and Newsom wasn’t the only one to make it. (Sen. Jon Ossoff, a newly minted Democratic star, also disavowed any interest in the runup to his Georgia Senate victory, a promise that........

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