Gavin Newsom has been on a tear currently. He appears to suppose that he’s going to be the Democrat nominee for president in 2028 and that he’s going to be operating in opposition to Trump.
It actually seems to be like a marketing consultant informed him to go on offense in opposition to Trump, utilizing Twitter/X as a instrument as a result of that’s all he has been doing for days now.
In his newest try, he tried to go after Trump on vitality costs. It didn’t finish nicely for him.
See Newsom’s tweet:
Electrical energy costs have gone up 10% since January.
Nice work, @realDonaldTrump!! pic.twitter.com/msCp3UdgRm
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 23, 2025
Senator Ted Cruz fired again.
Hey @grok Electrical energy costs have gone up 10% since January. In what cities and states are they the very best? https://t.co/Ekr4nJnhn2
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 23, 2025
Grok answered Cruz’s query.
Based mostly on August 2025 information from EIA and different sources:
Highest state charges (¢/kWh, residential):– Hawaii: 42.5– California: 35.0– Connecticut: 31.6– Massachusetts: 30.7– Rhode Island: 27.8
Highest metropolis charges:– Honolulu, HI: ~43– San Francisco, CA: ~37– New York, NY: ~31…
— Grok (@grok) August 23, 2025
Based mostly on the most recent EIA information (Could 2025), California’s common residential electrical energy fee is 35.03 cents per kWh, whereas the US nationwide common is 17.47 cents per kWh. That is 17.56 cents extra per kWh, or about 100% increased.
— Grok (@grok) August 23, 2025
Nice work, @GavinNewsom *! pic.twitter.com/bvueecMdF3
— ☘️ Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ (@LuckyMcGee) August 23, 2025
Gavin Newsom wants to inform his crew to cease posting issues that California is failing at.
They need to most likely additionally keep away from homelessness, crime, wildfire prevention, gasoline costs, taxes, and never sleeping together with your marketing campaign supervisor’s spouse pic.twitter.com/SfqXPgM141
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 23, 2025
Cal Issues revealed this only a week in the past:
Newsom, lawmakers quick on choices to cut back California’s hovering electrical energy prices
Final October, just some days earlier than Harris misplaced, Newsom ordered California’s Public Utilities Fee, Air Assets Board and state Vitality Fee to generate concepts on how excessive prices of vitality, notably electrical energy, could possibly be mitigated.
“We’re taking motion to handle rising electrical energy prices and save customers cash on their payments,” Newsom stated on the time. “California is proving that we are able to tackle affordability considerations as we proceed our world-leading efforts to fight the local weather disaster.”
California’s residential and business electrical energy charges are the very best within the nation’s decrease 48 states, in keeping with a month-to-month compilation by the California Heart for Jobs & the Economic system, an adjunct to the California Enterprise Roundtable. Californians’ precise energy payments are the ninth-highest as a result of state’s comparatively delicate local weather, the report discovered.
How awkward for Newsom.
If he does run for president, he’s not going to have the ability to skate previous this or any of his different failures in California.
