Asked if He'd Make a Good President, Governor Kemp Says He Has 'No Idea'
The Governor, whose national travel and fundraising suggest otherwise, allows that others will have to determine his fitness for the office he is visibly seeking
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SACRAMENTO — Asked point-blank whether he would make a good president, Governor Kemp replied that he had no idea, a difficult question, one for others to determine — all delivered from within a schedule that answers it for him several times a week.
Governor Kemp allowed that he had been a pretty good mayor and would like to think he'd be a good president, but was, he stressed, not naive about it, a modesty the Press notes is expensive to maintain across this many out-of-state fundraisers.
The pose is a familiar one: the reluctant giant, hoping only to serve, pulled toward destiny by forces beyond the tour bus he personally chartered. It is bipartisan, timeless, and fools precisely no one, including the person performing it.
The Press's 2028 desk observes that a politician professing uncertainty about a run he is plainly conducting is either endearing humility or an insult to the intelligence of everyone in the room, depending solely on whether he shares your party, and that the other side's identical coyness is always naked ambition.
"That's for others to determine," the Governor said, gesturing past a curtain behind which a very large presidential seal was visibly being inflated.
At press time Governor Kemp had no idea whether he'd be a good president and a very clear idea of where the balloons were kept.
📜 The Receipts
What actually happened: Asked in an interview with 'Detroit Talk City' whether he'd be a good president, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said: 'That's a difficult question to answer. I have no idea. I would like to think I would be, but that's for others to determine,' adding he thought he was 'a pretty good mayor' but is 'not naive about it' — amid growing speculation about a 2028 run.