California Governor Gavin Newsom has admitted that he will consider running for the White House after the 2026 midterm elections.

“I’m looking forward to who presents themselves in 2028 and who meets that moment, and that’s the question to the American people,” Newsom told CBS’s Robert Costa in an exclusive interview on CBS Sunday Morning.

After Costa asked the 58-year-old governor if he was going to give “serious thought” to a presidential run after the midterm elections, Newsom replied, “Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise. I’d just be lying, and I can’t do that.”

The California governor will step down from his position in January 2027 after serving his constitutionally mandated two terms. He has traveled to battleground states, including a July trip to South Carolina taped by CBS, where New

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