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“When you embrace somebody for the job, you really want to embrace a winner”

June 9, 2026 by Daniel Greenfield 7 Comments

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Ouch.

Willie Brown made Kamala, gave her positions, introduced her to donors and moved her through the political system. It probably helped that Kamala, unlikely presumably Gavin Newsom, was his ‘side piece’.

Now with Kamala polling behind AOC in a hypothetical Dem presidential primary, Willie just dumped her. Politically at any rate.

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, one of California’s top powerbrokers, told ABC News while it’s early to speculate, he believes the most “viable” between his two mentees would be Newsom, “because he would not be the most recent loser.”

“When you embrace somebody for the job, you really want to embrace a winner, and Newsom would be what you would have to say at the moment is a winner,” Brown said.

Brown said he was “surprised” that Harris decided not to run for California governor in 2026.

“I would have advised her to be elected governor, so that she would be in the same identical position, if not better than for electability nationally than Newsom. …. If she was in the category of being on January 8, 2027, the governor of California, the dialogue would be about her candidacy, not about anybody else’s,” Brown said.

ABC News, which I’m sure has no agenda, talks to a bunch of anonymous Kamala fundraisers and donors who basically expressed that they would be likely to use their money to roll joints than to donate to her.

But Willie twisting the dagger has to hurt and he has a point. Kamala could have been governor by just showing up. And plenty of people told her so, I’m sure. Instead she was egotistical enough to go for the brass ring that will never be hers.

Now even Willie, her first supporter, won’t stand with her.