Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) claimed he is “a 960 SAT guy” to a crowd at a conference in Atlanta; that avowal is becoming more and more evident. While attending a South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, Newsom made the outlandish claim that Florida and Texas, not California, are “the real high-tax states.” This claim, alongside numerous other missteps, is coalescing into a deeply unfavorable public perception of the governor — and for justifiable reasons.

Newsom, who claims he is “burdened by the facts,” seems to be ignoring the most obvious ones in front of him now. Newsom’s assertion appears to draw from an Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy study, an organization known to lean left, which identifies Florida as having the nation’s highest “tax inequality” — a metric measuring the disproportionate tax burden placed on low-income residents compared to the wealthy. 

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Newsom’s claims were met with immediate skepticism, with critics labeling his narrative as a misleading “statistical sleight of hand.” The........

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