How a Party Offends Its Voters

Gavin Newsom won't be the Democrats' 2028 presidential nominee unless he wins a significant share of the African American vote.

So how's he courting it?

Promoting his new memoir in Atlanta, the California governor decided to forge a connection by boasting about his poor SAT scores and difficulty reading.

"I'm like you," he said.

"You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy" and "you've never seen me read a speech. Because I cannot read a speech."

Newsom suffers from dyslexia, but he obviously wasn't assuming he was addressing a room full of voters with the same debility.

He just looked around and concluded this audience wouldn't have high academic aspirations.