Gavin Newsom Tells Bill Maher ‘the Democratic Brand Is Toxic Right Now’ Because of ‘Cancel Culture’ | Video

10 days aft polls showed that his caller podcast benignant of backfired, Gavin Newsom told Bill Maher “the Democratic marque is toxic right” — due to the fact that of cancel culture.

In his interrogation astatine the apical of Friday’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the California politician besides called for the enactment to rebrand.

Newsom has been connected the antiaircraft since launching “This Is Gavin Newsom” successful precocious February, the archetypal fewer episodes of which featured him having affable conversations with close helping figures similar Charlie Kirk and Steve Banon. He was wide criticized (and mocked) for agreeing with Kirk’s views connected transgender athletes, and not adjacent bothering to propulsion backmost erstwhile Banon yet again lied that the 2020 predetermination was stolen from Donald Trump.

Since then, polls person shown that the podcast really did important harm to Newsom’s popularity, peculiarly with Democrats helium would request to triumph a hypothetical primary. And adjacent Kirk aboriginal dunked connected him implicit that.

Speaking to Maher, Newsom called that absorption “interesting.”

“I mean, this thought that we can’t adjacent person a speech with the different broadside — you person to,” helium said. “They won.”

“That’s it, the bottommost line. And by the way, oregon the conception we conscionable person to proceed to speech to ourselves oregon we’re successful the aforesaid damn echo chamber,” helium continued. “These guys are crushing us. The Democratic marque is toxic close now.”

During that conversation, some men besides agreed with Sen. John Fetterman’s assertion that Democrats volition go a “permanent minority” without superior reform.

Newsom took the accidental to plug his podcast and added that helium believes “having the accidental to dialog with radical I disagree with” is simply a accidental “to effort to find communal crushed and not instrumentality inexpensive shots.” The Democrats, helium continued, “tend to beryllium a small much judgmental than we should be.”

“This conception of cancel culture, you’ve been surviving it, you’ve been connected the receiving extremity of it,” Newsom told Maher. “For years and years and years … Democrats request to ain up to that. They’ve got to mature.”

Watch the clip from “Real Time” successful the video above.

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