Californias two most prominent progressive governors, Gavin Newsom of California and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, have teamed up in a new video that looks less like reflection and more like a soft-focus audition for higher office.
According to Gateway Pundit, the pair sat down to praise their own handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a period many Americans remember for shuttered schools, devastated small businesses, and sweeping government mandates that often seemed arbitrary and heavy-handed. Whitmer has publicly insisted she is not running for president in 2028, but that does not rule out a vice-presidential bid, and the carefully produced exchange has already fueled speculation that this is an early attempt to rehabilitate their records with the Democrat base.
In one clip highlighted by RNC Research, Newsom asks, What did you make of Fauci and all that? and Whitmer responds, I feel bad for him, ya know?people were trying to do the right thing with the information we had The conversation is framed as sober hindsight, yet it glosses over the real-world consequences of policies that stripped citizens of basic freedoms while Democrat leaders routinely carved out exceptions for themselves.
Another segment, also flagged by RNC Research, shows Whitmer doubling down on the lockdowns that crippled families and children, as she insists that she and Newsom did the right thing by locking down their states during COVID. Everyone was so pissed off that I pulled kids out of school, Whitmer concedes, to which Newsom simply replies, Yes, before she adds, We were doing what we thought was the right thing to do at the time.
Voters, however, have not forgotten that while Gavin Newsom was dining maskless at the elite French Laundry restaurant, Gretchen Whitmers administration was busy banning residents from buying seeds to grow their own food. These are not minor footnotes but emblematic moments that reveal how aggressively these governors imposed rules on others that they themselves were unwilling to live under, and their latest media tour looks less like honest accountability and more like an attempt to rewrite history before President Donald Trumps America First record is back on the ballot.
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