Slick-haired California Governor Gavin Newsom just showed the entire country exactly what out-of-touch liberal elites really think about minority voters and it is absolutely completely humiliating.
Newsom, whose state is currently drowning in crime and homelessness, decided to leave the disaster he created out West to kick off his nationwide book tour this weekend.
The tour for his new book, laughingably titled ‘Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery,’ started in Nashville on Saturday. But the real trainwreck happened on Sunday during his stop in Atlanta, Georgia.
His so-called “book tour” managed to draw a whole handful of attendees, predominantly a black crowd.
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While sitting down for what was supposed to be a friendly chat with Atlanta’s Democrat Mayor Andre Dickens, Newsom attempted to pander to the audience, a predominantly Black crowd, by bringing up his dyslexia and what he described as his “inability to read written text.”
Instead, he delivered a series of incredibly offensive, cringe-inducing remarks.
Newsom tried to come off as relatable to the people at his book tour by essentially equating their intelligence level with his own.
“I’m not—you know—I’m not trying to impress you (pointing at Mayor Dickens). I’m just trying to impress upon you that I’m like you. I’m no better than you. You know, I’m a 960 SAT guy. And I’m not trying to offend anyone—trying to act all there if you got 940—but literally, a 960 SAT guy.
You’ve never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech. It may be the wrong business to be in.”
WATCH:
Imagine for a single second if a conservative had said this. The mainstream media would be running wall-to-wall coverage demanding their immediate resignation. CNN and MSNBC would be in full meltdown mode. But because it’s the Democrats’ golden boy, they are completely silent.
Newsom is scheduled to drag this disastrous book tour to South Carolina on Monday, followed by stops in New York later in the week, before scurrying back to his liberal safe spaces in San Francisco and Los Angeles at the end of February.
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