Simply put, the Golden State is a mess. Homelessness, crime and drugs are out of control from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

The state’s unemployment rate is the seventh highest in the country. Its poverty rate is higher than any other state. And Newsom presides over a state with the highest income taxes in America: 13.3 percent.

Citizens and major companies are fleeing for states such as Texas and Utah as a result. Per the Mercury News and a report by moving company United Van Lines:

“In 2018-19, 56 percent of moves in California were families fleeing the state. In 2020-21, that figure jumped to nearly 60 percent. The state that was by far the biggest draw of California residents? It was Texas, the destination for more than 7,500 California families during the four years in the study, perhaps little surprise given that Silicon Valley’s tech giants like Oracle, Tesla and Hewlett Packard Enterprise picked up and moved their headquarters there too.”

No matter: Newsom is infinitely younger and more polished than Biden, and he has much better hair. What’s more, he is willing to fight more aggressively with Republicans such as popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, so perhaps that’s considered good enough.