State Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican, says Newsom’s charm and slickness is a thin veneer that barely conceals his “delusions of grandeur.”


The second issue involves Newsom’s support for


an increase in California’s minimum wage for fast- food workers. Business Insider reported two Pizza Hut operators


in California were already eliminating delivery servic- es, laying off all of their 1,200 drivers. Chipotle and McDonald’s have already announced


they will raise menu prices. Others expect more work- ers to be replaced by automated kiosks and perhaps even robots in the future. “This all further reinforces the surveys that show


California is dead last when it comes to having a friendly business climate,” says former California As- semblyman Don Sebastiani, who now operates a wine business in Napa. “This state’s reality is not an advertisement for


Newsom’s policies.” There are also concerns that Newsom operates


like a slick salesman for liberal spending programs he doesn’t fully comprehend or can manage. In early 2023, Newsom bragged about a $97 bil-


lion state budget surplus he said would fi nance a new progressive agenda like single-payer healthcare. Now that surplus has morphed into a stunning $68 billion defi cit, forcing Newsom to scramble to avoid painful budget cuts. All of this means it’s no surprise that Newsom’s wel-


come is wearing out with California voters. Just two-and-a-half years after he crushed an at-


tempted recall campaign against him with 62% of the vote, the latest Los Angeles Times/UC Berkeley poll shows his approval rating at just 44%, down from 55% in February 2023. “The irony is that Newsom’s appeal to Democrat-


ic voters — that he is a more vigorous and articulate leader for the Democratic Party — may be under- mined by the facts,” says Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen. “He may be more popular with Democratic voters


when compared with Biden, but in a general election he may exacerbate the party’s problems in reaching out to independent voters who are angry at the status quo.”


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worse with time. These observations support a potential di- agnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. If that diagnosis is accurate, then this would aff ect his ability to make major decisions. “Another hallmark of this diagnosis is that patients are


often unaware of the level of their defi cits. They downplay their diffi culties and give excuses when they have trouble with a particular task. “It’s possible that he sees himself as fully capable, ready


to take on the challenges of running again. “Only his physician would be qualifi ed to answer that,” he added. Dr. Mollie James, a master of public health fellow and


founder of the James Clinic, agrees that the signs of cogni- tive loss are unmistakable, including, she says, “inconsis- tencies in his personality.” “One minute the president is whispering quietly, and the next he is shouting,” James said. Biden’s increasing sparks of irritation he has displayed


at times to the media are another potential symptom, ac- cording to James. “He gets angry. Anyone who has lived with a family mem-


ber with dementia has become familiar with how someone struggling can get really mad when they don’t have a good grasp over what is going on.” The behavior Biden sometimes exhibits at public events,


where at times he has appeared to attempt shaking hands with thin air or walks in the wrong direction, is another po- tential red fl ag, according to James. “There are some very basic indicators,” said James. However, what troubles James the most isn’t what the


public is seeing at public appearances, but what is going on behind closed doors. “If this is what we are seeing in public, I can’t imagine


what we are being shielded from,” she said. “The little, subtle things we would see in our own families


he has staff to take care of, but the memory things, forgetting people’s names, struggling to fi nd the right words, the long stares, we witness him doing these things all the time.” James added: “If you took this out of the political realm,


it would be obvious to most of us.” Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a practitioner in Texas and


founder of Coalition for Health Freedom, told Newsmax the symptoms of cognitive decline are so overwhelmingly obvious that a close examination is not required to under- stand what is happening. “All you would have to do is watch video of him speaking


two years ago versus now, and without talking to him or do- ing a physical exam, you can see the decline,” Bowden said. “It’s quite obvious.”


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