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> He’s categorically denied over and over again that he’s interested

A politician’s denials don’t mean much.

He can easily say that the the polls are showing that most Americans seeing Biden as mentally and physically unfit for President and would even vote for Trump, so he is reluctantly stepping up to save the country from Trump.

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Typically, folks who are running or thinking about running don’t directly answer questions about it.

It’s also very common for inside knowledge on an exploratory committee to be leaked to the press ahead of a run. Serious candidates hire a team to strategize months before making an announcement and it never stays silent because the exploratory committee itself tends to leak in order to gauge the early reaction. We’ve seen neither of these things from Newsom.

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