Gavin Newsom\u2019s greatest threat isn\u2019t Donald Trump. It\u2019s 2007.<\/p>\n
Before he was a polished, presidential contender, he was a young<\/p>\n
San Francisco mayor at the center of a scandal so personal, so intimate, it nearly ended his career.<\/p>\n
As Gavin Newsom\u2019s star rises on the national stage, the story he most wants behind him is the one his opponents are most eager to resurrect.<\/p>\n
His affair with Ruby Rippey Gibney, the wife of his close friend and aide Alex Tourk, was not just a<\/p>\n
lapse in judgment; it struck at the core of loyalty, power, and trust inside his own political family.<\/p>\n
Newsom\u2019s public confession and Tourk\u2019s resignation left a scar that time never fully erased\u2014only buried beneath bigger offices and broader ambitions.<\/p>\n
In a post-#MeToo era, that same scandal lands differently.<\/p>\n
What was once framed as a private moral failing now invites questions about workplace power dynamics and character under pressure.<\/p>\n
Layered on top of his more recent incendiary rhetoric, a 2028 run<\/p>\n
would force voters to decide whether they see a flawed man who grew, or a pattern they can\u2019t afford in a president.<\/p>\n
His future may hinge on which story they choose to believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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