'We're at peak influence': Gavin Newsom struts on a global stage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Newsom's 2023 speech excoriating oil companies to the United Nations in New York City was one of his proudest moments of his career.
57% : His aides have dubbed it the remarkably un-sexy "mid-transition": The deadlines to show results are here, they're out of reach -- and in the interim, voters are mad about energy prices.
50% : Later in the day, as Newsom rode up an escalator packed with reporters and international officials on his way to deliver a speech, a bystander shouted: "The escalator's not broken for you!" -- a dig at President Donald Trump, who once had an escalator malfunction on him at the United Nations.
41% : As a result, he's pushed to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and directed billions toward wildfire prevention and clean-energy manufacturing -- but also reversed past positions against nuclear and Big Oil, including extending the life of California's last nuclear power plant, pausing a profit cap on refineries and expanding oil drilling in Kern County.
39% : "But it's not like immigration, it's not like homelessness, it's not like taxes, it's not like inflation, not like the price of a house.
38% : " In his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden prevailed not after embracing -- but rather, distancing himself from -- the "Green New Deal," which Newsom acknowledged this month had become a "pejorative" on the right.
27% : The Trump administration is trying to dismantle climate policies both at home and abroad, and other likely Democratic presidential contenders are absent from the United Nations climate talks.

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