Changing his demeanor once again, California Democrat governor Gavin Newsom is now posing as Mr. Tough Guy, threatening Republicans with the following: “We’re gonna punch these sons-of-bitches in the mouth.”
Newsom made his blustering comments while being interviewed on The Siren podcast, which was co-hosted by noted macho man Harry Sisson.
Asked what he was doing regarding redistricting in his home state, Newsom swaggered, “We’re fighting fire with fire; we don’t want to do this, but to your point, your question, rather, we have to do it, at peril(?).”
He briefly launched into a word salad, Kamala Harris-style: “Being judged not only to have lived but to be judged watching democracy slip from right out underneath us.”
“The reality is, it’s not just Texas that Donald Trump believes he’s entitled to five congressional seats; he has sent his vice-president to Indiana; he’s making the case not just to what’s going on up in Ohio but Florida, Missouri, and other states. I imagine it’s just the beginning, what, as we speak, is occurring in real time in Texas,” he continued.
“And so my mindset, our mindset here in California, is one of accountability, responsibility, we have agency, we’re not bystanders. We can shape the future and by taking some responsibility and moving assertively as we have with the California Legislature that just yesterday introduced the special election, a constitutional amendment that will in essence neuter, nullify the five votes that they claim to be picking up in Texas, by asking the voters in a transparent and temporary way to make a determination for themselves to change our maps mid-decade in response to what occurred in Texas on November 4,” he declared.
If we do not act, Democracy will slip through our hands.
That is why California is moving with urgency. pic.twitter.com/Vo8aPHIPQW
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) August 20, 2025
Later in the broadcast, he soared to the heights of he-man bravado and hyperbole, as he threw the obligatory curse word in amidst his display of faux-toughness: “This is radical rigging of a mid-term election. Radical rigging of an election. Destroying, vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law. So, I’m sorry; I know some people’s sensibilities, I respect and appreciate that, but right now, with all due respect, we’re walking down a damn different path. We’re fighting fire with fire, and we’re gonna punch these sons-of-bitches in the mouth.”
Gavin Newsom: “We’re gonna punch these [Republicans] in the mouth”
.@GavinNewsom is promoting violence against Conservatives.
Will any Democrats condemn this? pic.twitter.com/7iGmXXPELW
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 21, 2025