I’m afraid the Democrats are going to put up Newsome.
And don’t think he can’t win - with the media’s complicity, anything’s possible. Look at how they convinced enough useful idiots that a corrupt, demented man who ran a campaign from his basement and never accomplished a thing in 50 years of government service, was a better option that Trump, who had inflation low, an energy surplus, thr lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, and real wages among the lower-income growing for the first time in eons.
Of course, the Dems will need to harvest a lot of ballots, too.