{"id":861,"date":"2024-06-28T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=861"},"modified":"2024-06-28T06:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T06:48:25","slug":"newsom-rails-against-unhinged-trump-over-biden-drug-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=861","title":{"rendered":"Newsom rails against \u2018unhinged\u2019 Trump over Biden drug allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is hitting back at former President Trump\u2019s evidence-free innuendo that President Biden might use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4738433-trump-biden-debate-concern-drug-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">performance-enhancing drugs<\/a>\u00a0for tonight\u2019s debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s beneath contempt. It\u2019s a disgraceful tactic,\u201d Newsom told reporters at the media center adjacent to the debate site.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab ad-unit--is-rendered\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__content\">\n<div id=\"acm-ad-tag-mr1_ab-mr1_ab\" class=\"htl-size-300x250\" data-slot=\"{&quot;is_oop&quot;:false,&quot;is_companion&quot;:true,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[[1280,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[1024,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[768,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[641,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]]],&quot;size&quot;:[300,250]}\" data-unit=\"\/5678\/nx.thehill\/news\/campaign\" data-fbonly=\"false\" data-refids=\"\" data-not-refids=\"\" data-targeting=\"{&quot;kw&quot;:&quot;4744525-gavin-newsom-donald-trump-joe-biden-atlanta&quot;,&quot;pos&quot;:&quot;mr1_ab&quot;,&quot;fold&quot;:&quot;atf&quot;,&quot;category&quot;:&quot;campaign&quot;}\" data-google-query-id=\"CJuti8ec_YYDFRXC_QUdnBEJ2g\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5678\/nx.thehill\/news\/campaign_1__container__\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-862 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-28_101745-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-28_101745-300x172.jpg 300w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-28_101745-1024x586.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-28_101745-768x440.jpg 768w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-28_101745-1536x879.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2024-06-28_101745.jpg 1757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Newsom added that the gambit was \u201cjust typical of somebody who\u2019s a bit unhinged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has called for Biden and himself to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4738327-donald-trump-challenges-joe-biden-pre-debate-drug-test\/mlite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">undergo drug tests<\/a>\u00a0in advance of the debate, a request that virtually nobody thought had any serious chance of happening.<\/p>\n<p>At a Saturday campaign rally in Philadelphia, Trump suggested Biden might get \u201ca shot in the ass\u201d before the debate and that he could \u201ccome out all jacked up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked Newsom about the lack of pushback on such allegations from within the GOP, the California governor segued into a broader indictment of Trump\u2019s Republican colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey really drank the Kool-Aid. Speaker Johnson\u2019s just an extension of Trump,\u201d Newsom claimed, going on to reference the collapse of a bipartisan border deal earlier this year after the former president expressed his opposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s embarrassing the lack of character and conviction, lack of backbone \u2026 It\u2019s a character trait that unfortunately has affected most of the party,\u201d Newsom alleged.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab ad-unit--is-rendered\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__content\">\n<div id=\"acm-ad-tag-mr2_ab-mr2_ab\" class=\"htl-size-300x250\" data-slot=\"{&quot;is_oop&quot;:false,&quot;is_companion&quot;:true,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[[1280,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[1024,0],[[300,250],[620,366]]],[[768,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[641,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[325,204],[325,508]]]],&quot;size&quot;:[300,250]}\" data-unit=\"\/5678\/nx.thehill\/news\/campaign\" data-fbonly=\"false\" data-refids=\"\" data-not-refids=\"\" data-targeting=\"{&quot;kw&quot;:&quot;4744525-gavin-newsom-donald-trump-joe-biden-atlanta&quot;,&quot;pos&quot;:&quot;mr2_ab&quot;,&quot;fold&quot;:&quot;atf&quot;,&quot;category&quot;:&quot;campaign&quot;}\" data-google-query-id=\"CJyti8ec_YYDFRXC_QUdnBEJ2g\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5678\/nx.thehill\/news\/campaign_2__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Newsom, who has previously argued that Democrats generally need to be more assertive in making their case, told The Hill he would be in eight states during the week of the July Fourth holiday, making the economic argument for Biden and his party.<\/p>\n<p>But he acknowledged the political damage that had been done to the president by inflation, which reached its highest points in decades in mid-2022 before ebbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economic record is not comparable\u201d between Biden and Trump, Newsom said. \u201cThe challenge is the inflation scars, and none of us are naive about that \u2014 the cumulative effect of inflation, looking backwards, peaking at 9.1 percent.<\/p>\n<div id=\"civsci-id-civsci-id-596708068\" class=\"civic-science-article-container\" data-civicscience-widget=\"3f127ebd-287e-0b64-a901-d55ec286348a\">\n<div class=\"csw-wrapper\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"false\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut the reality today [is] we\u2019ve been taming that, and obviously we have a plan to go forward and tame if further,\u201d Newsom added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is hitting back at former President Trump\u2019s evidence-free innuendo that President Biden might use\u00a0performance-enhancing drugs\u00a0for tonight\u2019s debate. \u201cIt\u2019s beneath contempt. It\u2019s a disgraceful tactic,\u201d Newsom&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,257],"tags":[308],"views":71,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}