ABC News host Jonathan Karl stopped California Democratic Governor Gavin
Newsom on Sunday after he claimed that President Joe Biden had “the best
three-year record of any modern American presidency.”
Newsom said he was working to “lift up the issues, the successes — the
extraordinary successes of the last three years, the Biden-Harris
administration, and then we drive contrast.”
“It’s not even a complicated campaign. We have the receipts,” he said. “We
have the best three-year record of any modern American presidency, period,
full stop. And you look at the issue, issue by issue, they poll
overwhelmingly, the American people support what Biden has done.”
“Except for the big thing, approval,” Karl responded. “Biden’s approval is
historically low. Why is that?”
Newsom dodged answering the question except to say it’s “been hard, globally,
the last six, seven years.”
“The economic strategy, as this president’s put together, were all things
Republicans dreamt of, but never delivered,” he added. “He’s delivered.”
When Karl asked about the historic border crisis that has unfolded under the
Biden administration and what should happen to the millions of illegal aliens
that have flooded into the U.S., Newsom again dodged giving specifics and
blamed Republicans.
“Well, I think you have to deal with the cards that are dealt. You’ve got to
deal with the reality on the ground. And you have to have a comprehensive
conversation around this, across the spectrum, the push and the pull,” he
said. “And that’s around the fundamental issue, immigration reform. It’s not
just border security. The president put out a comprehensive strategy, a
pathway to citizenship along with lines of their former hero, Ronald Reagan,
to address the reality on the ground.”
“That’s what the president of the United States has put up in front of
Congress,” he continued. “And they refuse to act. They’re just promoting an
agenda to disrupt and find a crowbar to put in the spokes of the wheels of
the Biden administration to disrupt any progress on this because they don’t
want progress, period.”
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Let's go Brandon!