"Newsom has a history of being a politician that will adapt to changing circumstances,” Stutzman told The Hill. "I think he's figured out the way forward for a politician like him, if he's going to run for president, is probably to start exploring, will anyone follow him into a lane that is more dismissive, particularly on culture, of where the Democrats have been for the past decade?"
Newsom clearly knows the Democrats' ways the past few cycles did not work.
"It's an opportunity to communicate with people directly," Newsom told reporters this week. "The world's changed. We need to change with it.
"We've got to do things differently, keep iterating."