Gavin Newsom has been on a tear these days. He appears to assume that he’s going to be the Democrat nominee for president in 2028 and that he’s going to be working towards Trump.
It actually appears like a marketing consultant instructed him to go on offense towards Trump, utilizing Twitter/X as a device as a result of that’s all he has been doing for days now.
In his newest try, he tried to go after Trump on vitality costs. It didn’t finish nicely for him.
See Newsom’s tweet:
Electrical energy costs have gone up 10% since January.
Nice work, @realDonaldTrump!! pic.twitter.com/msCp3UdgRm
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) August 23, 2025
Senator Ted Cruz fired again.
Hey @grok Electrical energy costs have gone up 10% since January. In what cities and states are they the best? https://t.co/Ekr4nJnhn2
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 23, 2025
Grok answered Cruz’s query.
Based mostly on August 2025 knowledge from EIA and different sources:
Highest state charges (¢/kWh, residential):
– Hawaii: 42.5
– California: 35.0
– Connecticut: 31.6
– Massachusetts: 30.7
– Rhode Island: 27.8Highest metropolis charges:
– Honolulu, HI: ~43
– San Francisco, CA: ~37
– New York, NY: ~31…— Grok (@grok) August 23, 2025
Based mostly on the newest EIA knowledge (Could 2025), California’s common residential electrical energy charge is 35.03 cents per kWh, whereas the US nationwide common is 17.47 cents per kWh. That is 17.56 cents extra per kWh, or about 100% greater.
— Grok (@grok) August 23, 2025
Nice work, @GavinNewsom *! pic.twitter.com/bvueecMdF3
— ☘️ Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ (@LuckyMcGee) August 23, 2025
Gavin Newsom wants to inform his staff to cease posting issues that California is failing at.
They need to in all probability additionally keep away from homelessness, crime, wildfire prevention, gasoline costs, taxes, and never sleeping along with your marketing campaign supervisor’s spouse pic.twitter.com/SfqXPgM141
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 23, 2025
Cal Issues printed this only a week in the past:
Newsom, lawmakers brief on choices to scale back California’s hovering electrical energy prices
Final October, just some days earlier than Harris misplaced, Newsom ordered California’s Public Utilities Fee, Air Sources Board and state Power Fee to generate concepts on how excessive prices of vitality, significantly electrical energy, might be mitigated.
“We’re taking motion to handle rising electrical energy prices and save customers cash on their payments,” Newsom mentioned on the time. “California is proving that we are able to tackle affordability issues as we proceed our world-leading efforts to fight the local weather disaster.”
California’s residential and industrial electrical energy charges are the best within the nation’s decrease 48 states, based on a month-to-month compilation by the California Heart for Jobs & the Financial system, an adjunct to the California Enterprise Roundtable. Californians’ precise energy payments are the ninth-highest as a result of state’s comparatively gentle local weather, the report discovered.
How awkward for Newsom.
If he does run for president, he’s not going to have the ability to skate previous this or any of his different failures in California.
