text:  And I want to talk to you about the speculation about who could step up, because that's just dominating the headlines as well, right? Regardless of whether that happens, there's a photo from inside the debate spin room in Atlanta of reporters just flocking to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has really just been in the national spotlight over the last year, but repeatedly pushed back against claims that he would join the presidential race. We asked him about this in September when he turned up to the second GOP presidential debate.