Here's the original story: Recap: Newsom, Dahle trade barbs in California governor debate

I noticed this pic on the San Jose Mercury News site on election night in a story just after the polls closed, when AP had already called Newsom's big win with 0% of precincts reporting. By the time I got around to posting a few hours later they'd already removed the pic. This is the only other use of it I could find.

Just as a "boots on the ground" note of how phony this particular race was, I will confess that I didn't even know Newsom was up for reelection until I opened up my ballot this afternoon. There are no campaign signs for either of them and no one's talking about the race.

You can compare that to all the coverage of Newsom badmouthing DeSantis, and there was tons of coverage when Newsom was up for recall last summer. This one was a joke and apparently they got a "widow's son" no one's ever heard of to play along.

(If anyone has seen my previous posts regarding Newsom having been executed last January, I still believe that and this latest event fits right in. Why stage a campaign for a dead guy when he's already going to win? No one's even noticed he's dead, so why make more work?)