🧵NEWS The story of the DOJ probing Gavin Newsom and his wife is about California Democrats’ modern-day machine politics. What’s going on is complex, I hope this thread helps break it down. In the wayback machine, it’s like the Richard Daley/Cook Cty Dem machine out of Chicago, the Pendergast Machine in Missouri and of course New York’s Tammany Hall.🧵NEWS The story of the DOJ probing Gavin Newsom and his wife is about California Democrats’ modern-day machine politics. What’s going on is complex, I hope this thread helps break it down. In the wayback machine, it’s like the Richard Daley/Cook Cty Dem machine out of Chicago,…
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) June 16, 2026