So Gavin is a California Democratic party machine baby. Which means that he is essentially a Republican, but used to say he felt bad about having to dispossess the homeless, and won't outright say that trans people need to shut and commit suicide already. And this is besides cozying up to literal techno-fascists.

On the dimly bright-side, the California Democratic party machine is a very different animal (because California is essentially it's own country) than the DNC/DC party machine. For example, while many DNC-based Democrats are very heavy on their China-bad rhetoric, Newsom is not because California thrives off of trade with China. Besides the fact that California is loathed by the populace of almost every other state (for good and bad reasons), that would be the only other reason they wouldn't choose him, because he does have his own independent power base that exists outside of the DNC circle-jerk.