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Gavin Newsom takes direct stand against Trump after election winGavin Newsom

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00:00We have a president-elect, and I'm one of those people,

00:03I mean, I revere the institution.

00:06I revere this country, I revere the presidency,

00:09and I want our president to succeed.

00:13And our job, my job, is not to wake up every single day

00:16and get a crowbar and try to put it in the spokes

00:18of the wheel of the Trump administration.

00:21And so, again, in that spirit of an open hand,

00:24not a closed fist, that's how we want to proceed.

00:29That said, fourth point, I'm not naive either,

00:34and we're pragmatic, and we will stand firm.

00:39I am reminded, there's a great old poem about,

00:43you know, the winds may howl, but I will not be swept away.

00:48This notion that we have to plant our feet.

00:50And I remember, I'm not, you know,

00:53I've been here long enough, you know,

00:54having worked with the previous Trump administration,

00:59I'm not naive about those winds, and they did howl.

01:03We were involved in over 100, well, in fact,

01:06we were involved in specifically 122 lawsuits

01:09with the Trump administration.

01:11We know their playbook, we know what they're going to do.

01:15I talked a lot about the campaign,

01:16and I appreciated Kamala Harris's closing message

01:18about Donald Trump has an enemies list,

01:22and I, she said, have a to-do list.

01:25I said, I would make it a modest addendum to that.

01:27So did Donald Trump.

01:28That to-do list is laid out in a 922 page document

01:32of which there's 270 specific points

01:35that he has publicly supported in that Project 2025 document

01:41which 75% of its authors,

01:43and there's a multitude of authors,

01:45work with the Trump administration.

01:46None of us are naive when he said he knew nothing about it.

01:50That is a to-do list, that is a playbook.

01:52The Heritage Foundation and others backing that playbook.

01:56You build on that, not naive about what to anticipate.