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Feb 11, 2015 · California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will open a campaign account Wednesday for governor in 2018, allowing him to raise money for a wide-open – and far-off – contest to succeed Jerry...
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Nov 5, 2018 · Democrat Gavin Newsom has amassed a massive money pile since starting his campaign more than three years ago. ... Gavin Newsom (D) Lieutenant governor. $58.2 million. John ... 2018 and will be ...
Newsom won in a landslide, with 62% of the vote, the biggest victory in a gubernatorial race in California since Earl Warren won re-election in 1950, and the biggest victory for a non-incumbent since 1930; Newsom received almost eight million votes.
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Feb 12, 2015 · Feb. 11, 2015 10:05 PM PT. In an unusually early announcement of political intentions, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a fundraising committee Wednesday to run for governor in 2018. The...
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Nov 7, 2018 · Gavin Newsom first ran for governor in 2010, an effort he abandoned and then relaunched in 2015 with the long, long campaign that crescendoed tonight. Now that California voters have given the 51-year-old Democrat the job he has sought for eight years, he is about to discover that winning was the easy part.
Feb 12, 2015 · By the time 2018 comes around, California will have changed tremendously since 2009, the last time Newsom campaigned for governor. In some ways, his race, and the way Californians react to it,...
