CA-GOV: Ahead in the governor's race, Gavin Newsom begins bus tour to help other Democrats
Gavin Newsom kicked off a statewide bus tour Monday in the Santa Clarita Valley to bolster fellow Democrats in California’s contested congressional races, saying the party’s efforts to retake control of the House with President Trump in the White House was just as critical to the state as his campaign to become its next governor.
The Democratic front-runner headed first to the Santa Clarita Valley for a tour stop in Stevenson Ranch to support Katie Hill, who is trying to unseat two-term incumbent Rep. Steve Knight (R-Palmdale). A former director of a nonprofit assisting the homeless, Hill was praised by Newsom for providing a “positive alternative agenda to Donald Trump.”
Newsom insisted he wasn’t taking his gubernatorial bid for granted by focusing on down-ballot races — he leads Republican John Cox in the polls and fundraising. And while he groused that the governor’s race was shadowed by daily eruptions in Washington, the lieutenant governor said the future of California and the nation rests largely in the outcome of the midterm congressional elections.
“It would not be much of a victory, from my perspective, winning the governor’s race and continuing the status quo as it relates to Trump,” Newsom said after the rally.
Though the 25th Congressional District — which includes Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Palmdale and a portion of Lancaster — is home to a significant number of Republican voters, Hill said Newsom’s support is essential to motivating Democrats and left-leaning moderates there to vote in November.
“At this point, this is a moral imperative. This is all about voting,” Hill told an enthusiastic crowd packed into her campaign headquarters, noting that Democratic voters now outnumber Republicans in the congressional district by nearly 4 percentage points. “If we vote, we win.”
At the rally, Newsom was introduced by a former Democratic rival in the governor’s race, Antonio Villaraigosa, who finished third in the June primary and later endorsed Newsom. The former Los Angeles mayor said he’s spent the past three decades traveling the country to help Democrats, telling voters each time it was the most critical election of their lifetime.
“This time it actually happens to be true,” Villaraigosa said to laughter from the crowd.
Newsom plans to spend the week traveling the state — visiting the Inland Empire, the Central Valley and Orange County — to help Democrats fighting to unseat or defeat Republicans in some of the state’s most watched congressional and legislative races.
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I thought I heard he was going to Rohrabacher's and Issa's districts but not Nunes's or Hunter's. Maybe he wasn't invited. I wonder if Newsom will be invited, we need to get rid of the four particularly. 
