Gavin Newsom (D) said he knew “within seconds” of the start of the consequential debate between President Trump and former President Biden that trouble was ahead for Democrats.  Newsom said during an episode of his podcast with The Hill’s Amie Parnes and NBC News’s Jonathan Allen released Wednesday that he quickly looked around the room on the night of the debate in June and could see others recognizing that something was wrong.

When the stock market fell Wednesday on news that the American economy had gone backward during the first three months of 2025, Trump knew exactly who to blame: Biden. “This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s ,’’ he posted, adding that Biden “left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!’’

President Donald Trump has started vacillating between telling Americans to be patient in the face of bad economic news and blaming his predecessor for it, leaving him vulnerable to losing the support of voters who elected him to improve the nation’s economy.