In his nakedly shameless bid for the 2028 presidential nomination, California Gov. Gavin Newsom will need all the luck he can muster.

Newsom’s biggest political headache cannot be resolved – it’s Newsom himself. The internet has stored 20 years of his out-of-the-mainstream policy positions, providing his fellow Democratic nomination seekers with a treasure trove of fodder to use against him. And in the unlikely event he can outperform Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, or Maryland’s Wes Moore, Newsom’s two decades of failure will be his undoing.

Whoever survives what promises to be an expensive, bitter Democratic campaign would face an uphill race against Vice President J.D. Vance or Florida Gov. Ron de Santis in 2028.

Newsom’s newly launched podcast “This is Gavin,” which features conservative guests that he often purports to agree with, cannot resolve the formidable challenges he faces from within his own party and against Republican opposition.

Beginning in 2004 when, supported by prominent national Democratic Party partisans that included Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson and California’s most powerful........

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