'Newsom has effectively assumed the presidency'

'Gavin Newsom is the de facto president of the United States right now'

Joe Mathews at the San Francisco Chronicle

Gavin Newsom is the "chief executive of America's richest and most populous state," and in "this peculiar moment, that makes him the real president, by default," says Joe Mathews. There's a "guy living in the White House who some people call president. But real presidents swear an oath to execute the laws and to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution." Newsom is "acting like the president...